Colonel Muammar Qadaffy... dictator of Libya since 1969. From 1972, when he relinquished the title of prime minister, he has been accorded the honorifics
Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriyaor
Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution. With the death of Omar Bongo of Gabon on 8 June 2009, he became the longest serving of all current non-royal national leaders. He is also the longest-serving ruler of Libya since Tripoli became an Ottoman province in 1551. When Chairman Mao was all the rage and millions of people were flashing his Little Red Book, Qadaffy came out with his own Little Green Book, which didn't do as well. Qadaffy's instability has been an inspiration to the Arab world and to Africa, which he would like to rule...
in the city of Misrata 200 km east of Tripoli, according to an AFP photographer, as part of a group of people led by authorities.
"There is an intensive exchange of fire with small arms, rockets and heavy artillery between the rebels and the military regime," the photographer said that journalists have advanced up to 5 km inside this city that spans some thirty miles.
Before the city hospital specializing in the analysis of blood, where the authorities have taken journalists to see the victims of the festivities, a military officer who was escorting the group was slightly maimed by sniper fire.
"We're thrown to the ground, before turning back," added the journalist.