Bizarre: Rebels show off the album featuring former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, found in Colonel Gaddafi's residence, Bab Al Aziziya(dailymail.co.uk)

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A bizarrephotograph album filled page to page with pictures of Condoleezza Rice has been found at the compound of Colonel Gaddafi.

As citizens ransackedthe sprawling lair, a number of unusual items have been looted.

Perhaps the most surprising, however, was the album, filled with glossypictures of America's former Secretary of State.

Colonel Gaddafi had previously hinted at a serious admiration for Rice.

In an interview with Al-Jazeera television in 2007, he hinted that then-President George W. Bush's top diplomat wieldedconsiderable influence in the Arab world.

'I support my darling black African woman,' he said at the time. 'I admire and am very proud of the way she leans back and gives orders to the Arab leaders. ... Leezza, Leezza, Leezza. ... I love her very much. I admire her, and I'm proud of her, because she's a black woman of African origin.'

The following year, Gaddafi and Rice had an opportunity to meet when the secretary of state paid a historic visit to Libya - one that made steps toward normalising relations after the United States went decades without an ambassador in Tripoli.