By Katy Watson Business Reporter, BBC News, Tripoli
Abdel Aziz is 23 and gave up studying to fight but is still on the streets to protect Tripoli
It is a sunny winter afternoon in downtown Tripoli. Martyrs’ Square – known as Green Square under Gaddafi rule – is bustling again.
Libyans are returning to their daily lives after a brutal year of fighting and watching over them is twenty-three-year old Abdul Aziz Masood.
Sat in the driver’s seat of his battered pick-up truck, he’s armed with a 20-year-old sniper rifle.
Life for Abdul Aziz has changed dramatically. This time last year he was a student. But now he’s taken on a new job – he says he needs to protect Libya until stability returns. read more
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