Libya: a walk down Misurata's Tripoli Street

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Source: The Telegraph (UK)

By Ben Farmer, Misurata 9:00PM BST 12 Apr 2011

To venture where shoppers once browsed is to invite a sudden bullet from one of the Gaddafi regime marksmen crouched in office blocks along the road.

The only cars on the main artery through Libya’s third biggest city are burned and twisted, while the shops are sprayed with shrapnel and gutted by fire.

This is what Col Muammar Gaddafi meant when he gave a speech at the start of the uprising threatening to root out his opponents “alleyway by alleyway, room by room”.

Except, after 50 days of defiance, on Tripoli Street the tables have turned.

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