Russian Gaddafi groupie girl triggers attack on embassy in Libya

While in Libya Ekaterina Uztyuzhaninova gained notoriety as a  political activist. Using the pen name Katya Cyaegha she became  one of the most vocal and passionate members of the online  community supporting Col. Gaddafi.

Ustyuzhaninova is known to have been an accomplished weight  lifter and won a number of competitions in Russia and  participated in several international events.

“She is not a bad person, but she wasn’t completely stable  since some tragic events in her life,” Dmitry Ershov, who met  her when he was looking for people to work as journalists in  wartime Libya. He told Life News. “She wanted to go to Libya,  but not for journalistic work. She supported the image of Muammar  Gaddafi. Not his regime, but his image.”

At the peak of the Libyan  conflict, ‘Cyaegha’ raised money to fund her one-woman  expeditionary force. She travelled to Libya through Tunisia,  saying that her goal was “to help Gaddafi or die for  him”.

She managed to publish a number of reports of her exploits in  Tripoli, which by that time was taken by the ‘rats’ – the  derogatory name she used for the opposition forces. The messages  were full of disdain for Gaddafi’s enemies and showed Cyaegha’s  disregard for her personal safety.

“Some guy threatened me with an assault rifle and even shot in  the ground next to my feet. But when he saw that I’m not afraid  and have a knife, he ran away with his ass forward,” one of  her first reports said.

“Cthulhian brain-f*ckedness beats Arab effrontery,” it  added in a reference to Cyaegha’s nickname, which is borrowed  from a deity feathered in horror fiction of Cthulhu Mythos.