Flying Qaddafi Air
TRIPOLI, Libya — My translator, Ahmed, is flooring it down an airport runway, giddy with enthusiasm. He keeps talking about how he’s always wanted to push this hard on the gas, how he never thought he’d be driving his car on this vast flat asphalt. But in Free Libya anything is possible. Including a visit ...
TRIPOLI, Libya — My translator, Ahmed, is flooring it down an airport runway, giddy with enthusiasm. He keeps talking about how he's always wanted to push this hard on the gas, how he never thought he'd be driving his car on this vast flat asphalt.
But in Free Libya anything is possible. Including a visit to Muammar Qaddafi's personal plane.
TRIPOLI, Libya — My translator, Ahmed, is flooring it down an airport runway, giddy with enthusiasm. He keeps talking about how he’s always wanted to push this hard on the gas, how he never thought he’d be driving his car on this vast flat asphalt.
But in Free Libya anything is possible. Including a visit to Muammar Qaddafi’s personal plane.
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