Jesús Cuevas Peña

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Qaddafi Postage Stamps

This week in the magazine, Jon Lee Anderson reports on the strange and destructive world created by Muammar Qaddafi during his reign as President of Libya. Anderson writes that, in the days following Qaddafi’s death, “rebels dramatized their triumph by removing the visible symbols of Qaddafi’s power wherever they found them.” Libyan postage stamps, like the ones in the photoset above, are among the symbols left over.

Click through to see more of the stamps: http://nyr.kr/rtjADu