Reason?
"Out of fear that what they witnessed -- a full-blown popular rebellion against Qaddafi's dictatorship -- could lead to a copycat rebellion back home," according to a story in Foreign Policy. "The fear was obviously that these 200 would have a kind of a viral effect, bringing news and information about what was happening in Libya."
Here's the full article, and here an NPR segment on the story.
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