Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's history. Can you believe it has been 10 years this

month since the assassination of the murder of Kellagogy, President Gaddafi in the streets

of Libya? I don't believe. On this episode, I want to talk about Libya, Britain and the

International Community's relationships, Libya's stretching back hundreds of years, and

also the regime of Gaddafi himself. I'm very happy to be talking to Rupert Wheelock, he

was a senior British military commander in the Arab Spring, he's just written a book on

liberating Libya, and he's the man to talk to you about the deeper history and the more

recent history of this part of the world. If you've ever listened to other podcasts about

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In the meantime, there folks, here's Rupert Wheelock talking about Libya. Enjoy. Rupert,

thank you very much for coming on the podcast. It's a great pleasure to join you. Now this

is always very exciting for me, someone who has not just studied history but has been

through it and shaped it and lived it as well. Where were you when you found out that a

Tunisian man set himself on fire? I was actually at Cambridge. I was involved in the Middle East

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