Besides fiction and idol, there are still some true elements in this book and this foreignness results in dualism which reveals the basic characteristic and rules of foreign image building.

Libyan state TV rebroadcast his image and suggested that he was a foreign fighter, evidence for Qaddafi's allegations that the opposition was a mob of pill-popping al Qaeda extremists.

He seems to have grasped that he has an image problem. He has hired a new, affable spokesman and is courting foreign journalists for the first time.