At the time , many of them told CNN stories of being robbed at gunpoint by Libyan security forces who took their cell phones , laptops and money . ` ` The damage is colossal , '' says Ali Hassan , Libya 's planning and development minister . The suspension of oil and gas exports accounted for a huge chunk of that , he says . Mammoth construction projects , now abandoned , still dot the Libyan landscape .
` ` The damage is colossal , '' says Ali Hassan , Libya 's planning and development minister . The suspension of oil and gas exports accounted for a huge chunk of that , he says . Mammoth construction projects , now abandoned , still dot the Libyan landscape .