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I doubt it... In Egypt I would full well expect it to be about a bribe, but Libya is a totally different world... never once did I hear the word baksheesh (i.e. tip or bribe). They probably did think I was a spy... even the normal people there had a bit of dictatorially instilled paranoia. It's funny how the paranoia in the American public is the same one can see in the Libyan or Syrian public. And funnily, I would say that even in Iran they are much less likely to be paranoid than in the US, and they have reason to be paranoid. Welcome to the land of the free and the brave.

This calls for a bot that just follows as many links as possible, filling up the logs with absolute nonsense.

Kinda reminds me when I was in that other bastion of freedom, Libya. I happened to be snapping photos of a university in the evening. Some cops showed up and told me it wasn't allowed to take photos after sunset... they detained me in the back of the police car while progressively higher ranking officials showed up, clueless as to what to do with me. Finally someone high up enough in intelligence to be wearing plain clothes and just laughed at the whole thing. I even offered to delete the photo and he said that won't be necessary and then he proceeded to curse off the dozen or so uniformed cops that had congregated at the scene and then said I was free to leave... I indicated one of the cops still had my camera... so that cop got a good lecture on how a university is not a military installation and that he should just hand me back my camera, which he then did.
Looks like America is going down the road of dictatorial paranoia.

God help us if they ever figure out that most Western money has trace amounts of cocaine and other controlled drugs.