Libya, 2011 — rebel coup

Coup Atlas' coded date (2011-02-17) corresponds to the very start of the uprising -- the Benghazi-centered "Day of Anger" protests. The sources fetched this session show the broader conflict this triggered did not conclude until Gaddafi's capture/death near Sirte on October 20, 2011, and the NTC's formal "liberation" declaration on October 23, 2011 -- roughly eight months after the coded date. The "successful" outcome in the dataset appears to refer to this eventual overthrow, not a single-day event. Sources explicitly disagree on how Gaddafi died: Libya's interim PM described death in crossfire during transport, an NTC official said there was no fight, and the UN human rights chief called for an investigation into an apparent summary execution -- this is stated plainly rather than resolved. Access note: the WebFetch tool was heavily rate-limited/intermittently unavailable (HTTP 429/503) for a large portion of this research session; roughly 20 fetch attempts failed before service recovered, after which HRW, an Atlantic Council/NATO statement page, an Al Jazeera article, and a Wikipedia page were successfully fetched and used per the sourcing standard above. Two direct Britannica fetches succeeded but returned only page metadata/navigation with no usable body text, so Britannica could not be used as a source despite being reachable. | Fetched all 5 source_urls behind VERIFIED facts plus the CHAIN fact's Wikipedia page. All held up under adversarial review: 1. HRW "Day of Anger" article (fact 1): confirmed live at hrw.org, confirms protests in Baida, Benghazy, Zenten, Derna, Ajdabiya, and Tripoli on Feb 17 2011, confirms "at least 24 protesters" killed by live ammunition. Quote matches verbatim. 2. Same HRW article (fact 2): confirmed the Whitson quote verbatim, and on a targeted re-fetch also confirmed the parenthetical chant detail not given as the pulled quote -- article literally reads "chanting, 'Down with the regime' and 'Get out Muammar Gaddafi'" -- and confirmed Whitson's title as HRW's Middle East and North Africa director. 3. Atlantic Council/NATO statement (fact 3): confirmed live, confirms NATO did not know Gaddafi was in the convoy at time of the Oct 20 2011 strike and later learned it "likely contributed to his capture" -- quote matches verbatim. 4. Al Jazeera NTC liberation article (fact 4): confirmed live, confirms Oct 23 2011 Benghazi declaration and the "liberated our beloved country..." quote verbatim. 5. Same Al Jazeera article (fact 5): confirmed all three disputed-death claims -- Jibril's crossfire account, Burshan's "no fight" quote (verbatim match), and Navi Pillay/UN call for investigation into apparent summary execution. 6. Wikipedia "Killing of Muammar Gaddafi" (CHAIN fact): page exists, covers the Oct 20 2011 capture/killing, and -- checked specifically because the fact claims "contemporaneous" sourcing while its own source_name only lists a 2012 retrospective Chulov piece -- the underlying article does also cite genuinely contemporaneous Oct 2011 Reuters and Guardian (Beaumont/Stephen, Oct 22-23 2011) pieces, so the "contemporaneous Guardian and Reuters reporting" characterization is accurate even though not the single citation named. target_leader: same HRW source as fact 1/2, independently confirmed; "head of state since 1969" is standard/uncontested and consistent with the summary's "42-year rule" and "four-decade rule" language. Summary check: every specific claim in the summary maps to a verified fact. The one loosely-sourced phrase is "escalated into a full civil war ... backed by NATO air power" -- not a direct quote from any single fetched source, but a reasonable synthesis given the entry's own NATO airstrike fact (fact 3) and uncontested historical framing of the event type itself; not treated as a fabrication. No quotes were found to be fabricated, no dead links, no unsupported figures. Nothing warranted downgrade or removal.