Although Moammar Gadhafi’s military compound in Tripoli may have been an icon of palatial luxury in the North African country at some point, now, after the Libyan rebel fighters have had their way, it is a tattered, graffiti-covered mess.

Take a tour of the Bab al-Azizia compound with Al-Jazeera correspondent Andrew Simmons below. See Gadhafi’s bedroom, a conference room and an odd collection of rubble he saved to memorialize the 1986 U.S. raid on the compound. –BF

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