"This is not same blood!" the escort broke to the Group of journalists, a gesture with his hands as a compression tube. "I told them, ' Nobody will believe this."?"He has said, such as Elizabeth Palmer, correspondent for CBS News, more later recalled.
Its name was chosen for his protection.
For more than 100 cloistered international journalists here at the invitation of the Government Qathafi, its management - or, rather, staged - public relations has provided a singular inside to see how this autocracy works in times of crisis.
As shown in the incident of fake blood, relate more honest Government Qathafi may be its lack of pretext to the credibility or legitimacy. It is, but it does not attempt to be convincing or even coherent.
Often, government officials insisted that journalists look grisly images of public beheading, presented to the State television as scenes of Benghazi bound to rebels, even if the authorities certainly knew what all the organizations main news had correspondents in Benghazi confirming that there is no execution does.
The family members perpetuate from colonel Muammar el-Gaddafi, who lead the country barely argue their authority to rely on his "Jamahiriya" impotent and inapplicable - the hierarchy of the popular committees, he called direct democracy.
And as some of son of Colonel Gaddafi now trying to persuade allies NATO trust their promises on a ceasefire or sharing power, the opaque democratic reforms and therefore clearly displayed in the system inconsistent foreign journalists here may come back to haunt them.
Twenty-six journalists received a lesson in first hand in decision-making style of Government Qathafi late Wednesday afternoon. All have been suddenly ordered, without explanation or reason, to leave the Libya the next day. At the end of the night, many had negotiated individual exemptions.
Then, at breakfast the next morning, another official announced that the exemptions were no good, a bus arrives to empty journalists in Tunisia, and that it was time to go. But by 1100 hours, it was finally clear that no there is no bus to the border at all. Which, in the Government insisted on evictions, which could have stopped their is impossible to determine.
"It's just chaos do not have institutions of the country," said a businessman who has worked closely with the Qathafi family and the Government, speaking on condition of anonymity. "Where a decision is taken, is not always a truth decision." No one is really in charge, and decisions are made on the whim and caprice. ?
The idea to invite foreign media in the capital closed seems to come from Seif al-Islam el-Gaddafi, who has announced that it on television. He spent to pre-eminence in the family in part by obtaining an influence on the investment fund of the Libyan Government, Western businessmen who have worked with him say. He doled out the opportunities for investment in the Libya for businessmen and officials in the West in exchange for aid to repair its relations with European and American Governments.
Seif el-Qathafi sought to a reformist face to the media information and West of the project during the crisis, two of his brothers led the repression against the rebels. Khamis el-Qathafi leads the most formidable brigade now believed to be responsible for the headquarters of Misurata held the rebels. And Mutassim el-Qathafi is an advisor to national security with a private militia believed now to direct the fighting against the rebels in the East.
When four journalists from the New York Times were captured by pro-Qathafi militias in the East, Seif el-Qathafi and his staff in Tripoli immediately pledged to protect, and his Chief of staff, Mohamed Ismail, has said Seif el-Qathafi deserved credit for their release of engineering. But journalists were eyes blindfolded and beaten for several days before Mr. Ismail said he could find, and they said that during this time they had heard the soldiers on the orders of the "Dr. Mutassim."
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