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| Gaddafi's police fired on Libyan demonstrators |
| 2011-02-19 |
| [Ennahar] Clashes between police and anti-regime demonstrators in different parts of Libya have caused many casualties among the protesters who demanded the departure of the regime. According to Libyan opposition websites, in addition to Arab and Western media, not less than 50 victims fell under the bullets of security forces. Witnesses report that the Libyan authorities have appealed to African mercenary forces, loyal to Saadi Qadaffy, son of Libyan leader. In the town of El-Beida, the same sources report that elements of Homeland Security allegedly attacked protesters during the Asr prayer (afternoon), although the demonstrators had previously informed the police that their march was peaceful: "peaceful, peaceful," they shouted before police starts shooting at them, injuring several people. The same sources added that three people, including a child, were killed and several others were maimed. In the same city, thirty people were killed until yesterday afternoon in different neighborhoods. Reinforcements were dispatched at dawn in the town of El Beida in two planes. According to the daily "Libya El Youm" (Libya Today), citing informed sources, a helicopter would have unloaded weapons and ammunition to African mercenaries, before flying over the protesters and disperse them. The newspaper adds that African mercenaries, from the group "Khemis el Qadaffy," came in bloody festivities with protesters in the city of El Beida. According to the same sources, five African mercenaries were killed in these festivities; the body of a mercenary was hanged before the hospital. Two other mercenaries were nabbed. The nabbed African mercenaries, the newspaper reported, acknowledged to have received promises, from the son of Qadaffy, to receive $ 10,000 for every protester killed. In Benghazi, Libyan city where the first protests began, the atmosphere was very tense on the third day of violence. The angry protesters set fire to the headquarters of several public institutions, the revolutionary committees and the radio. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Judging by the constant question marks likes it's some movie skit, I'd say just here. Talking like that in reality is bound to get somebody punched in the face after awhile. |
| Posted by: Charles 2011-02-19 19:39 |
| #6 You with me on this? Do you think you would pause for even five seconds to regret the loss of a Journalist? Yeah? Are you really a mouth-breathing idiot, or is this merely the persona you adopt when commenting at Rantburg? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-02-19 16:54 |
| #5 Bad journalism also feeds the 'Burg, for without it we'd be unable to entertain ourselves with pithy and righteous fisking of our credentialed self appointed ruling caste. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-02-19 09:59 |
| #4 There are indeed, Deacon. I might also point out to Dribble that Rantburg depends on journalism. We wouldn't exist without it. We don't have our own people reporting from Tehran, Cairo, Baghdad and Berkeley. Good journalism helps Rantburg. Fred and the mods understand that. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2011-02-19 09:43 |
| #3 Actually, I would pause over the loss of a true journalist. There are some out there that do a very good job. Don't paint with such a wide brush. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2011-02-19 08:46 |
| #2 If I were the son of Kadaffy Duck(great title for a movie) I would offer $10,000 for every foreign Journalist killed. I mean who would do anything about it? Its just more news and you could walk scot free after you did it anyway. Nobody is going to bust a hump to remember a dead Journalist. Or investigate his death either, for that matter. I mean, who really loves a Journalist. Even their own mothers? You with me on this? Do you think you would pause for even five seconds to regret the loss of a Journalist? Yeah? |
| Posted by: Dribble2716 2011-02-19 08:30 |
| #1 I expect this will lead the news on CBS, ABC, and NBC? They have their anchors in place for on-the-spot interviews with protesters? *crickets* |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-02-19 07:50 |