Ghadafi’s Lair Becomes Libyan Tourist Spot
On a breezy Friday, the Muslim day of rest, carloads of families pushed to get through a bottleneck at the walled entrance of a place that once, they’d never dare enter.
“Looking for Frizzhead?” cracked a taxi driver, using a nickname for Moammar Gaddafi, who used to live here. “Right this way!”
After taking Tripoli, rebel fighters target Moammar Gaddafi’s last bastions of support.Inside the tree-shaded compound of Bab al-Aziziya, abandoned by the Libyan leader as rebels closed in last month, the families cruised around slowly, gawking at blackened, looted buildings like tourists on safari. The golden rifles and Gaddafi family photos are gone, but the sprawling labyrinth of homes and offices still attracts Libyans from around the country, eager to glimpse the inner chambers of a fallen empire.
