Gaddafi’s son assassinated: Libya’s Rubicon crossed

The man I walked with in the desert just weeks ago was not the ‘war criminal’ described in The Hague’s warrants

The assassination of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi in Zintan on February 3 is the final, bloody exclamation point on the catastrophe of the 2011 NATO intervention. For 15 years, the West dismissed Saif’s early warnings of ‘rivers of blood’ and a ‘darker page’ as the desperate rhetoric of a dying regime; today, those words read like a precise architectural blueprint of Libya’s ruin.