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By Peter Beaumont and Martin Chulov, guardian.co.uk, February 19, 2011
....The pro-government Al-Zahf al-Akhdar newspaper warned that the government would "violently and thunderously respond" to the protests, and said those opposing the regime risked "suicide".
William Hague, the UK's foreign secretary, condemned the violence as "unacceptable and horrifying", even as the Libyan regime's special forces, backed by African mercenaries, launched a dawn attack on a protest camp in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi.
Britain is scrambling to extricate itself from its recently cosy relationship with Gaddafi...
Also see
since there ain't much to do with journalism being allowed there right now; it's currently running at about 50 tweets per minute.
Comments
Chilling--warning of death via twitter:
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 4:25pm
Gaddafi won't go gently. Power in Libya is even more concentrated than it was in Egypt. Gaddafi has vast amounts of money to fund a crackdown, and a much smaller population that he has to cow into submission. Using mercenaries with no affinity or links to the Libyan people, he is deliberately demonstrating how ruthless he can be. The news blackout makes it hard to predict who'll ultimately win. But, either way, it's going to be very bloody.
by acanuck on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 5:01pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 02/21/2011 - 4:06pm
Heard some guy on bbc last night (sorry, name long gone...) saying that Q. is out within 36 hours. I thought him oddly specific, and perhaps over optimistic, but we're now 12 hours into the 36, so, let's see...
by jollyroger on Mon, 02/21/2011 - 5:02pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 02/21/2011 - 5:13pm
deputy ambassador to the United Nations...leave as soon as possible
Well daaamn, there you go...Maybe that guy had an inside line...
by jollyroger on Mon, 02/21/2011 - 5:34pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 3:08pm