Eyewitness Account: The Battle for Gaddafi's Capital -- Time Magazine
On Tuesday, Feb. 22, I woke up to the scrap-metal sound of a Kalashnikov outside my window. I looked at the clock. It was four in the morning. For three years, I lived in Libya as the only accredited western journalist in the country. By Wednesday, I would leave a city that was no longer itself.
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AFRICA
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EUROPE
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