Congratulations Gaddafi

Some questions are hard to answer...

120 fatalities reported in Benghazi

(ISTANBUL) - Nearly 25 years ago, U.S. air strikes on Libya killed 41 people in Tripoli and Benghazi,

Plane used in air strike on Libya, 1986.

including the adopted daughter of Muammar Gaddafi, in what Noam Chomsky has referred to as the “major single terrorist act” of 1986.

In 2009, Gaddafi himself posed the question:

"What’s the difference between the U.S. airstrikes on our homes and [Osama] bin Laden’s actions?”

Congratulations to Gaddafi for thus far outperforming the U.S. by a factor of 3 in Benghazi alone.

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