Video: Protesters topple statue of Qaddafi's Green Book

Posted By Joshua Keating Friday, February 18, 2011 - 1:34 PM Share

Here's a dramatic video out of Libya (via the Guardian and Bill Easterly) showing a crowd in Tobruk bringing down a statue of Muammar Qaddafi's famous Green Book. 

The Green Book lays out the Colonel's governing philosophy, including his thoughts on democracy and economics and his "third universal theory," an alternative model to capitalism and communism rooted in the Quran. 

 

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