Ordinary citizens have for the first time discovered the opulence of the Colonel Muammar Gadhafi living after rebels entered the complex in Tripoli where he lived, reports the Daily Mail, in the electronic edition, on Thursday.
A group of young people chose to visit the Bab al-Aziziya with the preferred means of transportation of the dictator, an electric golf car. On their way to the building complex, they could see, strangely enough, remains of a park, similar to Michael Jackson’s Neverland, complete with a zoo, which Gadhafi has built in the downtown of Libyan capital.
In one of his palaces, there were found hanging artwork on the walls and replicas of furniture from the fourteenth century. In the central area, the “House of resistance” is located, the former residence of Gadhafi, which was partially destroyed in an U.S. air raid in 1986. Currently, it is a mausoleum with furniture kept untouched for 25 years, protected by glass as a reminder of the attack.
A trace of regret to Gadhafi is inspired by his adopted daughter’s Hana ghostly bedroom, who was only a few months when she was killed during the raid. There is here a kind of sanctuary in honor of the girl – a series of missiles, suspended from the ceiling, similar to those launched by the U.S. planes.
Not far from the buildings used by Gadhafi family to sleep is a cinema where he would be watching the latest Western films.
Moreover, Gadhafi would have spent over 300 billion euro to build a zoo full of animals received from various African dictators.
The rebels at the gate begged those who came in not to plunder and not to destroy the palace, saying that it should be kept for the Libyan people. But they did not resist and took everything they could carry, including a home cinema, jewelry, linens and a gold plated gun.
They entered the dictator’s Bedouin tent, where he would be sleeping in the hot summer nights before the NATO bombing started.