Michael Buchanan is in Libya and will report from there tonight.
He sends these words and pictures:
"Libya, during Ramadan, is a country turned on its head. The main square is dead at midday but thriving at midnight. Business and leisure is conducted at night - this football game was being played at 2am the other night.
Day or night, pictures of the Big Man are everywhere. My hotel reception has 5 of the them including a huge one that would appear in your eyeline as you descended the escalator. If the escalator actually worked.
A few days ago, he celebrated the 39th anniversary of the revolution. A quite extraordinary event in Benghazi where hundreds of women in military fatigues sang their way around a stadium while thousands of men waved rifles in the air as they filed past the Colonel.
Most of Tripoli is a construction site as multi-national companies pour billions into the country. But there is a charming and shaded old city where the pace of life is less hectic, the dollar has not yet become king (if indeed its reached these people) and old trades and customs still exist
Finally, an apology folks for the quality of these pictures. In essence my camera is knackered but I'll try and post a few more when I find someone to help me!"
Listen to PM
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Michael, no need to apologise at all. The photos create an evocative view on this former pariah state.
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Indeed -- photos are very interesting and the quality's not bad at all. Thanks Michael.
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What's wrong with the photos? The quality may not seem too high at full resolution, but when they've been resized down to blog proportions, they appear fine!
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Gadaffi must be very proud. It's not every duck that becomes President.
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Good pictures.
Please can we see more of people going about their daily lives just as we do. Anything like this helps to dispel the myth that all middle eastern people are monsters. Which is what our politicians want us to believe.
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Er (5) "Which is what our politicians want us to believe." I think you mean our (tabloid) press.
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There's a building like that going up outside Gloucester. Do they know something we don't?
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Tbird, It was Gaddafi's adopted daughter that was killed by US bombing, not his daughter.
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