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Involved with this? >> well, i had just inadvertently walked back into the dining room and i found myself ten yards behind her as she stopped and brought the whole place to a halt. there was an electrifying silence as people just stopped what they were doing. most were just eating breakfast, a group of journalists, government minders and they turned around and stared at this woman. i think some feared at first she might be a suicide bomber. she shrieked out and was drawing up her coat and exposed a gash on her leg, a long deep scratch. and what she was screaming in arabic was "look what gadhaf...

Serving us coffee and cold drinks were suddenly trying to silence this woman and within minutes, when the cameras began to arrive, pushing them out of the way, and so a number of journalists realized what was going on and we became quite irate at the way which these serving staff intervened. but by then, the government minders had arrived. >> you got punched in the face, right? >> i did, yes. i wasn't the only one, though. i watched as a fellow british correspondent was dragged away. he lashed out and said "leave her alone, let us hear her story." it was like a barroom brawl. i've seen nothing...