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This is not how I pictured the monopoly of violence would arise in North Africa…

…but it warms my heart.

Exasperated by the interim government’s failure to curb the militia brigades, thousands of civilians swarmed into the headquarters of several of them in Benghazi on Friday and forced their fighters to scatter — in effect, an angry mob demanding law and order.

The country is Libya. Full story.

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