(Foreign Policy) Douglas Farah - Gaddafi's World Revolutionary Center (WRC) near Benghazi became, as scholar Stephen Ellis noted in his classic 2001 book The Mask of Anarchy, the "Harvard and Yale of a whole generation of African revolutionaries," many of them the continent's most notorious tyrants. There, recruits from different countries were given training in weapons and intelligence techniques, with some doses of ideological training based on Gaddafi's Green Book. In addition to African contingents, Gaddafi's cadres trained the Sandinistas from Nicaragua, along with other Latin American revolutionary movements. Its alumni still in power include Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso and Idriss Deby of Chad.
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