The official position in Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya is that the foreign Press is free to report on what we like.
The reality is very different, and when reporting from the government side we have to work under extremely restrictive conditions.
Even when we are taken out beyond the confines of our luxury hotel complex by government minders to see the aftermath of Nato bombing raids, what we are presented with is impossible to verify and, frankly, sometimes difficult to believe.