Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, Through Rebel Artists’ Eyes.
A devil, a snake, a chicken. A bandit, an inmate, a bum. Whatever you think of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, for Libyan street artists, he’s proved to be a delight. In areas where rebels have gained strength, political art has erupted and the colonel is Character No. 1. During our months in Libya, we’ve been collecting images of anti-Qaddafi graffiti from cities, front-line positions and places in between. They capture some of the feelings about the colonel among those who have been fighting him in a war soon to enter its sixth bloody month.
It’s quiet tonight here in Zintan, which gives a chance to put up a few pics on the tumblr now. I will try to get many more up on the NYT’s At War blog soon, with a brief essay.
First, then, the sample. This one is along the road just short of Bir Ayad, a lowland front just beneath the Nafusa mountains’ northern edge.
And this one is in the center of Zintan.
This was on the wall at a public building in Kikla, where fighting groups from Kikla and Gharyan gathered about ten days ago before the first big attack on Qawalish.
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