Ain’t no party like a Qaddafi party

Student Sara Perugini, 19, who was at the event, said: ‘Colonel Gaddafi was very pleasant and charming. He spoke to us about Islam and the Koran and he gave all of us a copy.

‘He told us that we should convert to Islam and that Mohammad was the last of the prophets. Three women did go through what he described as a spontaneous conversion.