Gadhafi's Libya faces similar MI6/CIA invasion as per Henry Kissinger/Rothschild
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Gadhafi's Libya faces its 1st Egypt-style protests
Report: 14 hurt as crowd armed with Molotov cocktails clashes with police, government loyalists
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Libya Wednesday in the first sign that the unrest which toppled governments in neighboring Tunisia and Egypt has spread to the North African nation.
Witnesses said protesters in the eastern port city of Benghazi chanted slogans demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi.
The Associated Press said that the crowds did not appear to direct their anger at Moammar Gadhafi, who is Africa's longest-serving leader. He has ruled for 41 years.
However, Dubai-based television news service Al-Jazeera reported that sources said the demonstrators chanted slogans against the "corrupt rulers of the country."
Al-Jazeera said the protesters had called on citizens to observe Thursday as a "Day of Rage," hoping to emulate the popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia and end Gadhafi's regime.
As in the previous uprisings, Libyan activists were using social networking websites including Facebook.
Rioting is unusual in oil exporter Libya, where Gadhafi keeps a tight grip on political life.
Libya's official news agency did not carry any word of Wednesday's anti-government protests.
It reported only that supporters of Gadhafi were holding pro-government demonstrations in Tripoli, Benghazi and other cities.
However, the online edition of Libya's privately-owned Quryna newspaper, which is based in Benghazi, said the crowd were armed with Molotov cocktails and threw stones.
'A bad night'
It said they protested outside a local government office to demand the release of the human rights activist, and then went to the city's Shajara square where they clashed with police and government supporters.
The paper that government supporters had taken over the square. Fourteen people were injured including 10 police officers, but none of the injuries were serious, the newspaper added.
A Benghazi resident contacted by Reuters said the people involved in the clashes were relatives of inmates in Tripoli's Abu Salim jail, where militant Islamists and government opponents have traditionally been held.
Some were relatives of inmates killed at the prison in June 1996, when more than 1,000 prisoners were shot dead.
"Last night was a bad night," said the witness, who did not want to be identified.
"There were about 500 or 600 people involved. They went to the revolutionary committee (local government headquarters) in Sabri district, and they tried to go to the central revolutionary committee ... They threw stones," he said. "It is calm now."
Following the rioting, a local human rights activist, Mohamed Ternish, told Reuters that the government was to release 110 prisoners jailed for membership of the banned Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.
The prisoners are the last members of the group still being held, he added.
On Monday, several opposition groups in exile called for the overthrow of Gadhafi and for a peaceful transition of power in Libya.
Full Story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41615596/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/
No2NWO:
Democracy Protests Reach Libya, But Gaddafi Feels Secure
Wedged between Tunisia and Egypt, it was only a matter of time before the seismic shocks of the region-wide democratic rebellion were felt in Libya. Overnight Tuesday, the oil-rich country's second city, Benghazi, was rocked by an explosion of protest rare in the 41 years of iron fisted rule by Muammar Gaddafi. Protesters and police clashed on several major streets, and about 150 demonstrators stormed into the streets on Wednesday demanding the release of jailed human-rights lawyer Fathi Terbil. "I'm really scared!" shouted one activist, Idris al-Mesmari, down the telephone to Al Jazeera Television, shortly before the police arrested him too. "They are using water cannons."
Videos shot on mobile phones and posted on YouTube show panicked crowds trying to flee a police assault against a protest. Then there is a short burst of gunfire, and shouts off-camera from those who appear to be injured. After dark, protesters can be seen gathering outside the Benghazi offices of the security police — which has widespread powers to detain people without trial — chanting for Gaddafi's removal. "They hit some of the protesters and some were injured," a demonstrator, Fakhor Alhaj, told Al Jazeera. "The security forces arrested the injured."
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2049665,00.html
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Cloak and Daggar Boogie....Libya
No2NWO:
Protests Spread to Libya as Unrest Roils Bahrain, Yemen
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-02-16/protests-spread-to-libya-as-unrest-roils-bahrain-yemen.html
Suriel:
Clashes erupt as Libya braces for ‘Day of Anger’
By Agence France-Presse
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 -- 9:04 pm
TRIPOLI – Dozens of people were injured in clashes in Benghazi, a hospital in Libya's second city said, on the eve of a nationwide "Day of Anger" called by cyber-activists in a bid to emulate revolts in neighbouring Egypt and Tunisia.
The director of the eastern city's Al-Jala hospital, Abdelkarim Gubeaili, told AFP that 38 people were treated for light injuries.
read more @ http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/16/clashes-erupt-as-libya-braces-for-day-of-anger/
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