Reply #123: Every time I see a report from Tripoli they always mention the minders that are restricting them

[Turborama]

I guess you can't have watched or read any reports from Tripoli?

Here's a really good example:

The State of Play in Libya - Gaddafi Style
Sunday 24 April 2011
5:00 pm

To break the monotony of our enforced confinement in Tripoli’s Rixos al-Nasr Hotel, the Channel 4 News crew decided it was important to indulge, once a day, in some proper escapism. For six nights, we watched episodes of the old BBC series “State of Play” – a pacey conspiracy thriller about journalists.

It was a cruel choice. We all got hooked on a story about investigative reporters. We, on the other hand, were being herded around like goats all day by our government minders and force fed Libyan government propaganda all night in the confines of our hotel. We decided we had to do some proper digging of our own.

So that night, we hatched an escape plan.

Getting past the phalanx of armed guards at the gates of the Rixos sans government minder is hard, but we’d obtained a contact who claimed to be a rebel fighter in the heart of the capital and we were determined to meet him. If he was prepared to take the risk, so were we.

Full article & video report: http://blogs.channel4.com/world-news-blog/the-state-of-play-in-gaddafi%E2%80%99s-libya/15910