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Was not MoamarGaddafi a moderate?
Reader comment on item: There Are No Moderates: Dealing with Fundamentalist Islam
Submitted by sammy (Argentina), Feb 27, 2014 at 00:31
He hated al Qaeda and terrorists and he was a moderate- look what happened to him
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Daniel Pipes replies:
Whatever you might call Qaddafi, "moderate" is not it. He was a hideous dictator.
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