Cameron’s talking to the wrong Libyan government. He should call my old driver

When I covered Libya’s revolution in 2011, I had a driver named Mashallah. Mashallah was a decent and stoical man with an interesting propensity for malapropisms. He was regarded with fondness by us journalists — so when I decided to return to Libya recently, I sent him an email: did he want to work for me again?

Unfortunately, replied Mashallah, he was in Paris.

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TaggedImmigration, Isis, Islamic State, Islamism, Libya, Libya Dawn, Middle East, migration, refugees, UK foreign policy

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