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Article: Frontline: TRIPOLI - The Col Gaddafi guide to women and wrestling
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 10, 1999
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IT WAS the moment we had all been waiting for. Colonel Muammar
Gaddafi, resplendent in pink, stepped on to the podium of Tripoli's
Hall of the People, a crutch in one hand and the hand of the Chadian
President, Idriss Deby, in the other.
Journalists had been flown from Cairo at Libya's expense for an
"historic" celebration of Libya's friendship with its southern
neighbour, although, in true Libyan style, we only found out the
reason for our visit when we arrived. Officials with us seemed as
much in the dark as we were.
Despite the crutch - the result, officials say, of a hip injury
sustained while doing his daily exercises last year - the colonel
looked well. It was not our first sighting ...