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Libya: Lessons and Prospects

On Sept. 19, The Fares Center hosted a roundtable discussion about events in Libya, featuring Fletcher professors William Rugh and Ibrahim Warde.

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    We're here at @FletcherSchool to learn about "Libya: Lessons and Prospects" with Professors William Rugh and Ibrahim Warde.
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    Rugh: We don't know where Khaddafy is and when/whether he will be found and brought to justice in Libya.
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    Rugh: We found Saddam Hussein in Iraq in nine months with thousands of US troops looking. Libya is larger, with no US troops on the hunt.
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    Rugh: Khaddafy must be considering the fate of other fallen Middle East leaders, such as Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.
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    Rugh is the Edward R. Murrow Visiting Professor Public Diplomacy and Visiting Scholar at the Fares Center on Eastern Mediterranean Studies.
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    Rugh: Current leadership is transitional, not long term, unless they complete in a more free electoral system.
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    Rugh: Are leaders like Libyan National Transitional Council Chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil tainted by prior association with Khaddafy?
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    Rugh calls current Libyan transitional leadership "interesting" - some are Western educated and understand Western political systems.
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    Rugh: How will new leadership treat the old guard? Will they be allowed to retire peacefully, or put on trial? Too early to tell.
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    What of Islam and the future of Libya? Asst. Sec of State Jeff Feldman visited Libya recently and commented on Islamist involvement. 1/2
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    Rugh: Feldman said it seems to him leadership and rank and file of people who made the revolution are in very small % true Islamist.
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    Rugh: Feldman also observed few women in transitional leadership and noted that U.S. looks to Libya to include women going forward.
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    Rugh: Libya has indicated that women would become part of leadership, and Libyan women will surely look for this promise to be kept.
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    Rugh: I don't think U.S. will play a major role in Libya. Won't be like Iraq or Afghanistan. No nation-building, no boots on the ground.
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    Rugh hands it over to Ibrahim Warde, Adjunct Professor of International Business at @FletcherSchool.
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    Warde recalls previously being blacklisted from travel in Libya. He had been writing about terrorist financing.
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    There was a 2003 incident involving Libya and a planned assassination of then-Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia that Warde wrote about.
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    Warde: U.S. was skeptic on Libya until 2003. Other countries had been more willing to negage with Khaddafy on grounds that he had changed.
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