Gallery: Jamming Tripoli: Inside Moammar Gadhafi's Secret Surveillance Network

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    Photos from the "Heretics House," the intelligence building on Sikka Street, taken in September 2011. *Photo: Michael Christopher Brown*
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    At the fall of Tripoli, the spy center was abandoned in a rush. *Photo: Michael Christopher Brown*
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    *Photo: Michael Christopher Brown*
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    Shelves of pink folders held thousands of case files, transcripts of phone calls, and printouts of emails. *Photo: Michael Christopher Brown*
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    Jumbled piles of computer equipment and shredded documents were left behind. *Photo: Michael Christopher Brown*
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    *Photo: Michael Christopher Brown*
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