A decade on, Kadhafi’s cousin sees Arab Spring as Western plot

From his lavish Cairo apartment overlooking the Nile, Ahmed Kadhaf al-Dam reminisces fondly about the iron-fisted rule of Libya by his cousin Moamer Kadhafi, nearly a decade after his ouster. With his dark, bushy hair, Kadhaf al-Dam cuts an uncannily similar figure to the late dictator, who rose to power in a 1969 military coup. As if echoing Kadhafi’s words beyond the grave, the 68-year-old maintains that the Arab Spring was a hoax, engineered…