Anti-Qaddafi fighters burn a flag of the Qaddafi regime that they found during a house search after taking control of the town of Bou Hadi in Sirte on Monday. (Reuters)
By MICHEL COUSINS | ARAB NEWS
Published: Oct 3, 2011 23:28 Updated: Oct 4, 2011 00:16
BENGHAZI: As newspaper editors so often tell their reporters, there is a story on every street, around every corner. Never has that been more so than in Libya at present.
Driving around Benghazi a couple of weeks ago, we (the Arab News correspondent and his invaluable and remarkably well-connected driver Awad) noticed a small group of men being photographed beside a newly planted tree in one of the city’s main squares. Two of the men were in army uniform. Clearly there had to be story there.
We stopped and went over and asked what was happening. A palm tree was being planted in memory of local young men who had been killed in the fight to overthrow strongman Muammar Qaddafi. It was Mohamed Yusif Nabbous’ idea. He runs a popular café in the center of the square called Hud-Hud, after the bird in the Qur'an that took King Solomon’s invitation to Bilqees, queen of Sheba.
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New Libya springs a surprise everywhere you go - Arab News
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