Thursday, October 20, 2011

Muammar Gaddafi dead as Libya celebrates end of a tyrant

Gaddafi dead
1.46pm: With Gaddafi dead, what next for the Arab Spring uprising? Latrobe University international relations lecturer Luca Anceschi writes while the movement has been effective in bringing down unwanted regimes, it has failed to translate the basic claims of different uprisings into new political order. With the death of Gaddafi, the future of the 2011 Arab uprising is at a crossroad.

1.12pm: From his all-female bodyguards to his eccentric outfits to his golden gun, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was every bit the James Bond villain. Read how the boy born to Bedouins in 1942 rose to become one of the most feared, and powerful, figures in the Middle East.

12.55pm: Gaddafi, Qaddafi, Gadhafi, Qazzafi, Qadhdhafi, Qaththafi, Gadhdhafi, Khadafy? The ex-Libyan dictator has long been a Google search nightmare, due to the seemingly countless ways you can spell his name .

According to the Associated Press, it seems no one can pin down the spelling of his surname using the English alphabet. It's not just media organisations: Even official Libyan government documents vary widely in rendering his name in Latin letters.

Fairfax Media and Australian Associated Press use Gaddafi, while the Agence France-Presse style is Kadhafi and the US Associated Press goes with Gadhafi.

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