End of certainties in the Arab world

The vicious and violent killing of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi brings to an end the first and most significant phase of the so-called Arab Spring that began nearly a year ago with the uprising in tiny Tunisia against strongman Zine el Abidine Ben Ali. It thereafter progressed through Egypt, heralding the fall of Hosni Mubarak, engulfed Yemen in flames, sparked a bloody strife in Syria and eventually wound its way to the armed conflict in Libya, that has finally resulted in the outright victory of a motley group of anti-Gaddafi agitators.

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