article_snippet.sent: Now: the palace has lain in ruin for almost four years, after the palace was hastily bulldozed by rebels once rebels took control of the palace in 2011 .
article_snippet.sent: Nowadays, only shabby outbuildings are left on the palace grounds, covered in graffiti and revolutionary slogans, while holes leading to a network of underground tunnels that once ran under the stronghold can still be accessed .
article_snippet.sent: The monument of a gold-coloured fist clenching a US fighter plane was vandalised and sent off to Misrata, a rebel bastion during the revolt which ousted and killed Gaddafi.
article_snippet.sent: Rebels posted for photos in a foreign dignitaries reception room at Bab al-Aziziya when Rebels stormed the building in 2011 .
article_snippet.sent: Rebels hastily bulldozed much of the compound when Rebels captured the compound in August 2011.
article_snippet.sent: A Libyan army soldier patrols the heavily-fortified compound in March 2011, before the beginning of the civil war and fighters took the compound over .
article_snippet.sent: Having taking control of the palace in late 2011, rebels used a crane to remove the statue of the US plane clutched by a fist outside the building .
article_snippet.sent: The walls are splattered with graffiti and revolutionary slogans - some with the names of fighters killed in the battle for the compound.
article_snippet.sent: This place reminds us of a black chapter in us history and many painful memories,' said Ali al-Masrati, a passer-by.