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Summary Angelina Jolie visited Libyan city of Misrata to show solidarity with Libyan people.
U.S. Actress and UN Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie on Wednesday (October 12) praised Libyans extraordinary participation in their homegrown revolution, and said she stood in solidarity with the country as it sought to become a nation of laws.Jolie arrived in Libya on Tuesday (October 11) and toured destruction in Misrata, the city captured by rebels over several weeks of heavy fighting as rebels pushed to depose Libyan leader Muammur Gaddafi earlier this year.Speaking in the lobby of a hotel in the city, she praised the extraordinary participation of ordinary Libyans both in the rebel army and transitional authorities, as they sought to forge a new nation.Whats extraordinary is that a lot of the people who are part of the solution and are working in positions of even military, and you find that just before the revolution they had retired, or were running restaurants or were selling baby clothes and theyve all quit their jobs and they are all working here now on behalf of their country, Jolie told Reuters Television.They have all lost family members, theyve suffered casualties themselves, theyve lost limbs themselves and yet theyre all really fighting for something they believe in, and for the future of the country for their children, so its quite moving, she added.
