Libya

January 2007 | Risk Summary

Colonel Qadhafi's son Seif al-Islam's departure certainly displeased those rooting for speedy political and economic reforms within Libya. Indeed, his criticisms of the regime at a rally this year were the harshest yet from an individual so close to the top leadership. It was this and the conservative 'old guard's' resistance to reform that has been blamed for his departure, which is more than plausible, at least to help give his father some breathing space and to manage any change without endangering his own position. Seif's visit to the Moroccan king and the Yemeni president since the announcement of his

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