Just two posts away I said:This AM John Simpson, the BBC's Chief Foreign Correspondent, was on the radio from Tripoli:There is relatively little reporting on Libya....No TV footage yet:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-33673034The main airport has been destroyed, all the main embassies have been closed down, the big international hotels all stand empty. There are long and frequent power cuts. And yet Tripoli appears entirely calm.
It is quiet because the city has been carved up by two rival warlords, and their forces are so finely balanced that it is not in the interests of either of them to attack the other. And directly you look below the surface, you start to find the problems that afflict people here.
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