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Article: Cracks begin to appear in Libya's wall of silence Col Gaddafi is applauded for agreeing to give up his WMD, but - in the first report from Tripoli since the deal - ordinary Libyans speak out about the hardships
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- December 28, 2003
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LIBYA'S MAVERICK leader earned international plaudits for giving
up weapons of mass destruction but on the dusty streets of Tripoli
his long-suffering people were - not for the first time - left
bemused.
The owner of a clothes store in the souk was outspoken in his
criticism of Col Muammar Gaddafi, a man who goes by the unassuming
title of Guide of the Revolution in the Great Socialist Peoples'
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
"First he refused to surrender the Lockerbie suspects for a fair
trial, turning all the world against us," the shopkeeper complained.
"Then he went as far as declaring that we were on the verge of
developing nuclear weapons but would dismantle them to please the
world. I ...