Where is gaddafi female bodyguards

In , one died and two were injured when Gaddafi was attacked. Decked in s-style camouflage, nail polish, thick mascara, and Nancy Sinatra warboots, the nuns flank this flamboyant world leader who packs Bedouin tents and home-tailored boubous whenever he travels abroad.

But as is often the case with Gaddafi, there might be a certain shrewd self-preservation behind the madness. Whether he was under siege or on the offensive, Muammar Gaddafi is always surrounded by his female bodyguards. The female bodyguards are not just to add some style to the dictators entourage.

In , one died and two were injured when Gaddafi was attacked. Critics have found no rational explanation for Gaddafi wanting female body guards. Colonel Gaddafi is followed by his bodyguard as he leaves the closing session of the 17th Arab Summit in Algiers 23 March Muammar Gaddafi surrounded by his female bodyguards, attends a meeting with female personalities, 12 December in Paris.

Muammar Gaddafi's female bodyguards, called the "Amazons" are seen during his visit to the Louvre museum. Libyan soldiers, members of the Revolutionary Guard and bodyguards of former Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi present arms in a five-hour military parade to mark the 30th anniversary of the Libyan coup d'etat that brought Gaddafi to power. In the next a black bra is strewn under a Mickey Mouse cutout and a blue high heel has been crushed by a timber. Further along the corridor the lighting improves, courtesy of a Nato missile that has crashed through the ceiling, and dusty wedding photos jut from a layer of concrete dust.

Down a crumbling staircase, packets of pasta spill from another ransacked room, which is now home to a cat and kittens.

The building has a long-ago feel, until the last door on the left, where the reality of life in this place is both stark and recent. This is the room of the commandant, a vehement Gaddafi loyalist named Fatima Baroud, who hasn't been seen for several months. Women who served in this unit had an abiding fear of Baroud, but were even more terrified of the small room with the rank blue carpet to the side.

We knew what would happen. Several empty ointment packets lie strewn on the floor along with lentils and half eaten baguettes. Nisrine says she was assaulted here by Gaddafi's former head of internal security, Mansour Dhao, who this week fled to Niger.

But now she is facing a different plight. On the night of 20 August, as Tripoli burned, she says she was ordered by a male Gaddafi soldier to shoot dead three rebels. She said she did as she was told in order to save her own life.