Dr. Larbi Sadiki discusses a different angle on Libya. Larbi is a Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter, and author of Arab Democratisation: Elections without Democracy, The Search for Arab Democracy, and his forthcoming work, Hamas and the Political Process.

Larbi recently wrote a great article for Al Jazeera English called "The pen versus the sword", in which he looks at how the Gaddafis hired Western publicity company Monitor Group to clean up their tarnished image abroad.

And here's his article

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/03/20113711235230215.html