There is little reason for observers to be shocked by the fate that finally caught up with him, killed in an operation that remains murky even now. Herodotus’s old saying, ‘Out of Libya, always something new’, was never a promise of wonder. Rather, it was a warning about a land where chaos renews itself endlessly. The ‘new’ emerging from Libya today is merely a repetition of the same tragedy. His death is not the surprise; the real surprise is that he survived at all after the killing of his father, Muammar Gaddafi, his brother Mutassim, and the flight of the rest of the family. Since 2011, Libya has witnessed the predictable outcome of a society that was deliberately dismantled and […]
