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...design everything around one person or one family or a couple of people, it's not going to work forever.' SEIF AL-ISLAM GADDAFI, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, on the nation's plan to adopt a constitutional democracy at the end of his father's one-man rule...
...getting back into the U.S.'s good graces. "Until now the perpetrators are unknown," Gaddafi told TIME in 2006. The Libyans reiterated their denial of guilt following Thursday's SCCRC report. "We believe that our citizen is innocent and we have nothing to do with Lockerbie," Gaddafi's son, Seif al-Islam, told TIME. But accepting responsibility for Lockerbie in 2003 was a condition of the U.N. lifting sanctions and the U.S. removing Libya from its list of states sponsoring terrorism. The North African state is now a strategic partner for the U.S. in its anti-terrorism efforts...
...images, relayed via the Internet, shocked even human rights activists well aware of such abuses. "The video is very traumatic and powerful," says human rights activist Aida Seif El Dawla, of the Nadeem Center for the management and rehabilitation of victims of violence in Cairo. "You are watching real rape," she adds, explaining that when she started mapping incidents of police torture back in 1993 she realized that the practice was widespread all across the country. "To read and to hear is one thing, but to see is extremely shocking," she says...
...Egyptian authorities are fully responsible and they are going to pay a high price," warns Seif El Dawla. "This is a country of oppressed people and no effective political channels for expressing opposition." The government tightly limits freedom of expression, has weakened the main political parties and has maintained a ban over the popular Muslim Brotherhood opposition group. But under that tight lid, pressure is mounting...
...shock therapy, to destroy everything and build it back up, and to not waste time," he explains. "He is in favor of gradual reform. He is a utopian, leading a state like the wise man of a village. That's where I say, 'Life is more complicated than this.'" Seif al Islam is anxious to end speculation that he'll get his own chance to lead Libya some day. He rules out succeeding his father "100 percent," saying his goal is limited to encouraging a civil society as part of Libya's democratization process. No interest at all? "Zero...