1 Apr 2011

Journalists Taken On Tour Of Gaddafi's Tripoli Compound

Journalists covering the Libya crisis have been taken on a late-night tour of Muammar Gaddafi's heavily fortified compound in the capital, Tripoli. The tour was organised on the day that the British government confirmed the resignation and defection of Libya's foreign minister Musa Kusa. Crowds of Gaddafi supporters gather every night at the Bab al Aziziyah complex to form a human shield to protect him from air strikes.

Sky's chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay was among the photographers and journalists who went on the tour, apparently organised to show how people still love Colonel Gaddafi.

He described the media event as "very odd" and said it was unclear why reporters had been taken there. A Libyan government spokesman had earlier said that Col Gaddafi and all his sons would stay on "until the end".

Sky News