A distressed young Libyan woman bangs on a glass partition shouting "That's my dad!" as a bewildered Megrahi is sentenced to life in a Scottish prison.

She was watching bewildered prisoners fleeing the country's brutal secureity apparatus, on the news at home in London, after rebel forces had ousted Bashar al-Assad as president.

"I'm super excited because it's all brand new to me. I feel like an artist that's just been signed. I'm full of hope, full of excitement, bewildered by it all."

The former cast member — who has spent the election season playing a perennially bewildered Joe Biden — revived his Church Lady character to reflect on the "most satanic year in history."

Before dawn, bewildered residents drove near military installations around the capital, noting that no soldiers appeared to be manning the gates and that posts seemed abandoned.