ABC journalist and Mallee boy Ben Knight covered the bloody civil war in Libya and the overthrow of dictator Muammar Gaddafi. He tells senior journalist LAURA TURNER what it was like being in a war zone, and its personal aftermath.

WHEN a rebel fighter raised his AK47 and pointed it in the face of Ben Knight, the ABC journalist hardly flinched.

He watched as this man's eyes rolled back in his he...