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Gold Guns And James Bond Fantasies: Photos From Inside Gaddafi’s Tripoli Compound

by | 25th, August 2011

PHOTOS of the rebels in inside Colonel Gaddafi’s Tripoli compound reveal something about the despot’s life and living standards. He liked gold. All despots like gold. It’s in The Despot’s Handbook, between “girls” and “guns”. Gaddafi had no golden girl but he did have a golden gun. Like most priapic men, he fancied himself as a James Bond type. Want to look around..?

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Rebel fighters seen inside the main Moammar Gadhafi compound in Bab al-Aziziya in Tripoli, Libya, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. A defiant Moammar Gadhafi vowed Wednesday to fight on "until victory or martyrdom," as rebel fighters tried to end scattered attacks by regime loyalists in the nervous capital. Writing in Arabic on wall: 'Allah is Great'. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

 



Posted: 25th, August 2011 | In: Politicians Comment | TrackBack | Permalink