The Europeans should be able to find him. After all, it was European firms that apparently built this massive tunnel system for him. From the UK’s Telegraph:
Go ahead, try to find me…
Obsessed by his own security, the Libyan dictator oversaw the construction of hundreds of miles of tunnels and bomb proof bunkers that connect many of his compounds and key buildings.
Criss-crossing beneath Tripoli, Gaddafi and his trusted aides were able to move around the city undetected even from the air.
During the Nato bombing raids, Gaddafi was able to hide out in his well-stocked bunkers while maintaining communication with his family and government.
But beyond his warren of personal passages beneath Tripoli is a vast complex of tunnels stretching out under the desert and connecting many of the key towns and cities.
In 1984, concerned about the threat to his regime from an increasingly hostile West, Gaddafi ordered the construction of thousands of miles of what were described as ‘irrigation tunnels’
The project, which cost a staggering 15 billion was titled the Great Man Made River and promised to bring water from the Saharan aquifer in the south of the country to the major cities of Tripoli and Benghazi.
But built from 75 ton sections of reinforced concrete that are laid as deep as 600ft in places, the 13ft tunnels also provide a handy way of avoiding detection and hostile attack.
The full story is here.
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