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He is young, southeast asia current events opinionated and in broken English, we learn that he lived in London for a year to al-Jazeera southeast asia current events and lying to Tripoli is one of the most peaceful cities.
Said is a tour guide for our small group of journalists, coming out of Libya - through Ras Ajdir border post on the Libyan-Tunisian southeast asia current events border - after weeks on the regimen Rixos Hotel in the Libyan capital.
Said sit beside the driver southeast asia current events as in 120-130 knobs bus with very small margins during overtaking receiving the British Reuters photographer in front of me pretending brake with your feet and hug chair back.
Whoever ends up has not always with political sympathies to do. Unless Said had an apartment, a social network and a good job as a television reporter in Tripoli, he had probably with the same emphasis defended rebel thing in Benghazi instead Kadaffiregimens - today ahead bored Western journalists, to say the least ungrateful audience sick of Kadaffiregimens propaganda .
The right to the road to the border is open, even in the city of Zawiya, where battles between rebels and government forces southeast asia current events were reported on Saturday. Then shut down the road and all the cars were redirected into the small sandy paths between the olive groves of nervous soldiers. But failure to Said tries to make us believe that everything is normal again just because the road is open.
Nothing along the road between Tripoli and the Ras Ajdir is normal. Roadblocks are much more than when we went in a week ago, empty tank trailers stand here and there and everywhere policemen and soldiers. The queues at petrol stations is pathetic southeast asia current events and out of the sand flies building cranes in half-finished construction projects.
He wants me to say that Tripoli is a miracle of normalcy - in comparison. I do to please him and for the first time, smiles Said a satisfied and sincere smile. A moment later, we finally arrived at the border. Reuters photographer southeast asia current events lights a cigarette and says:
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