Tripoli Running Out of Gas as Sanctions Squeeze Qaddafi

Mohammed leans his bicycle against the wall of a café on Tripoli’s Green Square, opposite the city’s red-stone museum and Roman walls. Six months ago, he would have left his Volkswagen Passat for valet parking.

“The boys would take it and wash it while I was here,” he says. The oil-company engineer asked to be identified by one name because of the security situation.