Want gold watches with Gaddafi's face?

Tue, 05 April 2011

17:27

Here's why Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is still popular. Nurses and staff loyal to the Libyan leader revealed they were rewarded each year with gold watches with his picture on them.

Oksana Balynskaya, one of five nurses on his personal medical team who left the oil-rich country when violent protests began against the regime in February, said that Gaddafi or "Papa" as they used to call him, presented them with Italian gold watches every year on the date when he assumed power.

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