1. E are now at the edge of Libyan Desert.

2. We are now at the edge of Libyan Desert.

3. Upper Egypt is to the south from the Libyan desert down to just past Abu Simbel.

4. To the west you can see the Libyan Desert, and to the east you can see the green Nile Valley and the modern city of Cairo.

5. Born a tent in the Libyan desert , Qaddafi was the son of a Bedouin farmer.

6. Qaddafi is most often seen sporting long, flowing, brown robes that represent his hometown of Sirte, a Bedouin village in the middle of the Libyan Desert.

7. Al Atrib went on to tell journalists that Seif al-Islam was captured in the vicinity of the town of Obari in the southern Libyan desert, 170 kilometers south of the oasis town of Sabha.

8. Two British military transport aircraft have rescued about 150 oil workers, Britons and other foreign nationals who've been stranded in the Libyan desert by the unrest in the country.