Gadhafi's Condi Rice fixation and 5 other despot revelations

When the rebels seized control of Moammar Gadhafi's Tripoli compound, they found no shortage of bizarre and disturbing artifacts

Condoleezza Rice smiles during a news conference in Tripoli in 2008: Moammar Gadhafi met the US Secretary only once, but had an apparent fixation on her.
(Image credit: REUTERS)

"For decades, Libyans could only imagine what it was like behind the heavily fortified walls and green gate of Bab al-Aziziya" (Splendid Gate), Moammar Gadhafi's sprawling central compound in Tripoli, says Borzou Daragahi in the Los Angeles Times. This week, after anti-Gadhafi rebels seized the complex from loyalists, Libyans finally got to scrutinize Gadhafi's "Michael Jackson–style Neverland park," with its palaces, bunkers, zoo, and carnival rides. "Then they decided to take a lot of it home," says Daragahi. Here's a catalog of some of the garish, bizarre, and disturbing discoveries:

1. Condi fan book

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