4:01am UK, Thursday September 15, 2011
Lisa Holland, foreign affairs correspondent, in Tripoli Souk al Juma is a Tripoli suburb which formed part of the backbone of the underground opposition - a place where Colonel Gaddafi tried to brutally suppress the uprising.
Two months ago when I was last in Souk al Juma, Gaddafi was still in power.
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The group told us if they went and protested against Gaddafi they would be arrested and shot.
We also spoke at the time to an old man called Abdulmola Teani who bravely told us what he thought of Colonel Gaddafi - until the arrival of someone claiming to be a shopkeeper interested in what we were doing.
We suspected at the time, but we have now learned that this man was part of the hated secret police spying on the community for Gaddafi.
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