Never-before-seen photos from the Qaddafi files

Today, FP is featuring a never-before-seen collection of photos of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi and his family, taken from the late libyan leader’s private homes and state ministries. The photos feature young images of the man himself, and his sons, along with meetings with world leaders like Saddam Hussein and Gamel Abdel Nasser. They were collected ...

By , a former associate editor at Foreign Policy.
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Today, FP is featuring a never-before-seen collection of photos of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi and his family, taken from the late libyan leader's private homes and state ministries. The photos feature young images of the man himself, and his sons, along with meetings with world leaders like Saddam Hussein and Gamel Abdel Nasser. They were collected and re-photographed in Libya by  Human Rights Watch emergencies director Peter Bouckaert and freelance photojournalist Michael Brown. Bouchaert tells the story of how he found the images here

Today, FP is featuring a never-before-seen collection of photos of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi and his family, taken from the late libyan leader’s private homes and state ministries. The photos feature young images of the man himself, and his sons, along with meetings with world leaders like Saddam Hussein and Gamel Abdel Nasser. They were collected and re-photographed in Libya by  Human Rights Watch emergencies director Peter Bouckaert and freelance photojournalist Michael Brown. Bouchaert tells the story of how he found the images here

Joshua Keating is a former associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating

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