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From Our Own Correspondent

22 Oct 2011

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2011

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Gabriel Gatehouse describes the scenes at that infamous sewer pipe, where Colonel Gaddafi was found. Kevin Connolly wonders if Gaddafi will be the last of the "grotesque, blood-stained buffoon dictators." Peter Day is in Argentina, which famously defaulted on its massive foreign debts but now appears to be flourishing - could this be a lesson for Greece? Jamie Coomarasamy visits the campaign headquarters of Marine Le Pen, the head of France's far-right Front National; and Jon Silverman is with Africa's real Number One detectives, in Botswana.

Transcript

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0:17.0

But now with the addition broadcast on Radio 4, here's Kate Adi.

0:21.8

Today an aging bewildered man asks, what have I ever done to you?

0:26.9

And we hear about Colonel Gaddafi's many public faces, from Motown backing vocalist to

0:32.4

Desert Mystic.

0:34.0

Away from Libya, can Argentina which defaulted on its own huge debts,

0:39.0

serve as an example to the likes of Greece.

0:42.0

There's much black and white on display around

0:44.7

Marine Le Penh of France's foreign national and we're with Africa's real number one

0:51.0

detectives.

0:53.0

Another week, another dictator gone.

0:56.0

Colonel Gaddafi's end was messy, confusing and grisly, much in common with his rule, perhaps.

1:02.0

The setting, the garrison town of Sit, was full of plush

1:05.1

villas and well-equipped military bunkers, for a dictator needs a loyal army living in

1:09.8

comfort to discourage it from plotting a coup the way he'd seized power 42 years ago.

1:16.0

I once meant one of his cousins, a general in the mansion there, full of over-stuffed Italian

1:21.8

at furniture and bottles of Scotch.

1:23.7

The general lived in the lap of luxury

1:26.3

and was quite terrified of his cousin.

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