#Libya: Benghazi holds first post-Gadhafi vote for a local council Saturday in the city's first elections

Libya: Benghazi holds first post-Gadhafi vote

Seattle Post Intelligencer  -  4:19 PM

RAMI AL-SHAHEIBI, AP BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Residents of the eastern Libyan city that served as the cradle of the uprising that toppled Moammar Gadhafi voted for a local council Saturday in the city's first elections since the longtime dictator's capture and killing last year.

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Libya: Inside Gadhafi's secret surveillance network »

An excellent long read in the new Wired magazine: Jamming Tripoli: Inside Moammar Gadhafi's Secret Surveillance Network. Matthieu Aikins examines how activists suffered "greatly at the hands of Gadhafi’s spy service, whose own capabilities had been heightened by 21st-century technology." By now, it’s well known that the Arab Spring showed the promise of the Internet as a crucible for democratic activism. But, in the shadows, a second narrative u...

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