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Gaddafi's death a victory to the people

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KYW News Radio

Folks around the world are reacting to the death of Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi. Temple political scientist Sean Yom says this was a dictator with a lot of blood on his hands: "Liquidations of thousands of prisoners in a very famous massacre, assassinations of well-known opposition figures and a climate of domestic fear in which any sort of dissent was rewarded by arrest, torture or death." And Yom says it's a victory to the people: "The idea that in less than a year of protests that he would not only lose his country but also his military and his life has taken everyone by surprise."