![A medic treats a wounded rebel at a hospital in Ajdabiyah April 7, 2011. NATO said on Thursday it was looking into the details of an air strike on a column of tanks near the oil town of Brega, in which Libyan rebel fighters and a hospital nurse said five people had been killed. A Reuters reporter saw bloodstained stretchers being brought out of the hospital in Ajdabiyah, where those wounded in the air and rocket attacks were being treated. REUTERS/Esam al-Fetori (LIBYA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST IMAGES](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/02/RTR2KXQA.jpg/RTR2KXQA.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=PZ44d-Li)
Mustafa Fetouri is an independent Libyan academic and an award-winning journalist. He can be reached at mustafafetouri@hotmail.com. On Twitter: @MFetouri
![A medic treats a wounded rebel at a hospital in Ajdabiyah April 7, 2011. NATO said on Thursday it was looking into the details of an air strike on a column of tanks near the oil town of Brega, in which Libyan rebel fighters and a hospital nurse said five people had been killed. A Reuters reporter saw bloodstained stretchers being brought out of the hospital in Ajdabiyah, where those wounded in the air and rocket attacks were being treated. REUTERS/Esam al-Fetori (LIBYA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST IMAGES](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/02/RTR2KXQA.jpg/RTR2KXQA.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=PZ44d-Li)
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![Hannan Bachir, candidate for the Justice and Construction Party, the political arm of the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood, walks during her election campaign in a suburb of Tripoli July 4, 2012. Libyans head to the polls on July 7 to elect a national assembly in the nation's first election in a generation almost a year after ousting Muammar Gaddafi in a NATO-backed rebellion. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra (LIBYA - Tags: ELECTIONS POLITICS)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2012/q3/Libya%20Elections%20%282%29.jpg/Libya%20Elections%20%282%29.jpg?itok=jY2owhiN)
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![Former spy chief in Muammar Gaddafi's government, Bouzaid Dorda, sits behind bars in the dock during a court session in Tripoli June 26, 2012. Dorda, who was arrested last September in Tripoli, is the first senior Gaddafi official put on trial in Libya since a popular revolution ousted the former government last year. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny (LIBYA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2012/q2/Libya%20prison%20gaddafi.jpg/Libya%20prison%20gaddafi.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=vLJH_Hwh)
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![Families of imprisoned Gaddafi loyalists gather outside a prison in the Tajura area of Tripoli November 3, 2011. The families are calling for the release of their family members. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny (LIBYA - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW SOCIETY)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2012/q2/Libya%20Prison.jpg/Libya%20Prison.jpg?itok=ysftA6VO)
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![Men set fire to sponge dolls, representing the demonstrators' rejection of the current allocation of seats in the elections for Libya's National Congress, during a protest in Benghazi June 9, 2012. The words on the doll on the right read: "For justice will be burned". REUTERS/Esam Al-Fetori (LIBYA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY ELECTIONS)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2012/q2/RTR33D4P.jpg/RTR33D4P.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=ke35EBhT)
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![People carrying banners demand that the Libyan National Transitional Council apply Islamic sharia rule in the country and declare Islam the state religion, in Benghazi January 20, 2012. Hundreds of Libyan Islamists rallied on Friday to demand that Muslim sharia law inspire legislation in what organisers called a response to the emergence of secular political parties after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi's dictatorship last year. REUTERS/Esam Al-Fetori (LIBYA - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2012/q1/RTR2WLJX.jpg/RTR2WLJX.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=yNy282nk)
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