The end of Gaddafi is welcome. But it does not justify the means | Simon Jenkins

We may all applaud Gaddafi's downfall, but it remains the case that Britain's intervention in Libya was wrong

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The downfall of a dictator is always welcome. Especially welcome is the downfall of Gaddafi of Libya. He was not the worst of his genre, but for 42 years was the beneficiary of the crassest western intervention, veering between ineffective sanctions and ostracism and Tony Blair's cringing, oil-drenched "friendship". More...