Election results #Libya expected to be announced by the end of next week. Baby steps. Fingers crossed

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Election results from Libya expected to be announced by the end of next week.  Baby steps. Fingers crossed...

Here is my interview with the delightful +Amira Gadoura in Tripoli the day after Muammar Ghadafi was killed.

Having lived as a child in dictatorships I can tell you that this is a very exciting day for Libya.

From CNN: Libyans turn out big, then celebrate historic election:http://goo.gl/dulOz

Live from Tripoli, Libya the day after the death of Ghadafi

Dan McDermott speaks with Amira Gadoura, who has lived in Tripoli for 20 years. Amira is an architectural student and discusses witnessing the revolution, what it was like to live under the Ghadafi regime for two decades and how she felt when she heard the news that the former dictator was dead. Dan is on Google+ here: http://danmcdermott.net

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US President Barack Obama has hailed Libya's first free election in decades, calling it another milestone in the country's transition to democracy. In a written statement late Saturday, Obama extended his congratulations to Libya on behalf of the American people. US Secretary of State Hillary ...

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Libyan plan to build parliament on ruins of Gaddafi's compound

The Guardian  -  2:32 PM

It was once Libya's most forbidding place, the sprawling family compound where Muammar Gaddafi and senior regime figures lived behind impenetrable concrete walls. The Bab al-Aziziya complex in the centre of Tripoli was a city within a city, housing a network of underground tunnels, barracks and ...

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