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KoKo

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Sun Feb 28, 2016, 01:17 PM Feb 2016

Hillary Clinton,‘Smart Power’and a Dictator’s Fall--NYT Investigative Report: Parts 1 & 2

The Libya Gamble: An examination of the American intervention in Libya and Hillary Clinton’s role in it.

Hillary Clinton,‘Smart Power’and a Dictator’s Fall

By JO BECKER and SCOTT SHANE
FEB. 27, 2016

The president was wary. The secretary of state was persuasive. But the ouster of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi left Libya a failed state and a terrorist haven.

Part 1

Hillary Clinton, ‘Smart Power’ and a Dictator’s Fall


Part 2

A New Libya, With ‘Very Little Time Left’


(This is a very long investigative read with video, photos--but, well worth it)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/hillary-clinton-libya.html?_r=0


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