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Colonel Gaddafi’s Kicking: Libya’s Graffiti Artists Celebrate His Death

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Colonel Gaddafi’s Kicking: Libya’s Graffiti Artists Celebrate His Death

TO Libya, land of tribal murder and naked tabloid revenge. The artists have been having their say on Gaddafi’s killing:

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In this Monday, July 4, 2011 photo, a caricature of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi seen on the wall in the rebel-held Benghazi, Libya, Monday, July 4, 2011. The graffiti, in Arabic, reads, "the unfair Libyan regime is falling down." Moammar Gadhafi is loved in Libya's rebel capital _ as a subject for street artists to mock. Caricatures of the embattled Libyan leader dot walls and buildings across Benghazi in renderings that range from crude sketches to elaborate satire such as Gadhafi being knocked around by a rebel-colored boot or depicted with a Nazi swastika. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

 

Posted: 23rd, October 2011 | In: Reviews | Comment