A Tale Of Two Libyans

- Forbes Note: The Libyan democratic dissident described below, Fathi Eljahmi, died in Jordan today -- just hours after this column came out last night. Fathi Eljahmi gave his life for the cause of freedom. He spent most of the past seven years stifled, abused, isolated and deprived of vital medical care inside Gaddafi's prison system in Libya. Part of that time, he was confined in a Libyan psychiatric hospital. According to his brother, Mohamed Eljahmi, a naturalized U.S. citizen living in America, Fathi was in a coma when Libyan authorities finally sent him to Jordan for medical treatment earlier this month; and even in Jordan, comatose in the days before his death, he was monitored by Libyan security.