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Western intervention in Libya would be disastrous – John Rees on BBC news and Russia Today

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1 March 2011
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The lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan are that western intervention, such as now being advocated for Libya, will have disastrous consequences, not least for the Libyan people and could be the prelude to yet another war, John Rees from Stop the War Coalition tells BBC News.

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