LIBYA CIVIL WAR SEES ACCOUNTANTS FLEEING TERROR AND FIGHTING FOR REBELS
July 1st, 2011
BY SERAJ ELALEM and BRIAN CONLEY
AS REBEL forces take over Tripoli, a Libyan PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) accountant has told how he fled Tripoli to return home to Benghazi early this February, because he knew a rebellion was coming and he wanted to be with his family when it broke out. He made the right choice - some PwC colleagues from Benghazi stayed behind and they were arrested by the feared security forces of deposed tyrant Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
Speaking in the temporary capital of free Libya, PwC staffer Anas Beitelmal told Accountancy Age he had seen ...
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