BREAKING LIBYA PROTESTS

@ShababLibya: yup confirmed, protesters have a huge upper hand over the pro #gaddafi thugs in the city center #Feb17 #Libya
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@treeoflife23: it's getting dirty in libya, SNIPERS ATOP BLDGS shooting while power and water have been shut off in some parts. #libya #feb17 #jan25 ... - More »
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@ShababLibya: unconfirmed reports, journalist Hind elhoni has been detained #Feb17 #Libya
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Yikes!

@ShababLibya: ... Derna got in on the act a city located in east #Libya #Feb17

@Jnoubiyeh: #Libya UPDATE: 2 protesters are confirmed dead after being shot by police east of #Benghazi and several #Libyans have been wounded. #Feb17
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not allowing reporters in is sure as hell working for gadddafi -- very very little coverage

Libya’s Gaddafi faces ‘Day of Anger’

[link to www.theworld.org]

: #Libya workers who lack labor union rights promise to join tech-savvy youth in Libya to bring down Gaddafi on #Feb17
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@ShababLibya: reports coming from the ground: benghazi is now a war zone, fire everywhere rocks flying all over #Libya #Feb17
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@FreeLibya: Anyone who has been interviewed over the phone in #Benghazi has been arrested and/or threatened. we need freedom of speech in #Libya!
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@Libya17Feb: Confirmed: 13 Dead in #Bayda #Libya
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Yup. He doesn't want US doing it.

14:08 Gaddafi supporters counter Libya's 'day of rage'

[link to www.haaretz.com]

Libyan protesters killed by snipers


An unconfirmed number of people were killed and scores wounded as anti-government protesters declared a Day of Rage in Libya, officials said.

The Human Rights Solidarity based in Geneva, Switzerland, quoted witnesses in Libya saying as many as 13 protesters had been killed by rooftop snipers and scores injured in clashes with security forces on Thursday.

The Libya al-Youm Web site said four protesters were killed by live ammunition in demonstrations in al- Beyida, west of Benghazi.

The New York Times said one protester was killed, quoting the Human Rights Watch organization as its source.



Read more: [link to www.upi.com]

'Day of rage' kicks off in Libya

Protesters have reportedly taken to the streets in four cities despite a crackdown, heeding to calls for mass protests

Protesters in Libya have defied a security crackdown and taken to the streets in four cities for a "day of rage," inspired by uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, reports say.

Several hundred supporters of Muammar Gaddafi, the country's longtime leader, have also reportedly gathered in the capital on Thursday to counter online calls for anti-government protests.

New York-based Human Rights Watch said that Libyan authorities had detained 14 activists, writers and protesters who had been preparing the anti-government protests.

Libya has been tightly controlled for over 40 years by Gaddafi, who is now Africa's longest-serving leader.

According to reports on Twitter, the microblogging site, Libya's regime had been sending text messages to people warning them that live bullets will be fired if they join today's protests.

Thursday is the anniversary of clashes that took place on February 17, 2006, in the country's second largest city of Benghazi when security forces killed several protesters who were attacking the city's Italian consulate.

[link to english.aljazeera.net]

amtfoto‎ it's 2pm in #Tripoli and people are expecting it to spread there soon. Starting from Benghazi to Bayda to Darna to Zantan. #Libya #Feb17
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As ‘day of rage' tests Gadhafi, Libya's future rests in military's hands

The Arab uprising sweeping across North Africa will meet its most unpredictable challenge on Thursday as Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi faces the first major anti-regime protest in his country’s recent history.

The way Mr. Gadhafi responds Thursday to the “day of rage,” organized largely on Facebook, could determine the future of his distinctively personal style of socialist, oil-funded authoritarianism. Libyans have very high rates of computer ownership by North African standards, and until recently had fairly free access to the Internet. But Mr. Gadhafi has aggressively imprisoned, tortured or killed most anti-regime opposition figures, whether democratic or Islamist

[link to www.theglobeandmail.com]

Gaddafi was trying to get the Palestinians to protest!!! LOL Karma!

Libya protests: Activists call for 'day of anger'

[link to www.bbc.co.uk]

At Least One Dead, 14 Wounded in Libyan Unrest, Reports Say

[link to www.nytimes.com]

LIBYA: Videos show violent and chaotic scenes at protests- activists call for "Day of Rage"

Videos are trickling in from the anti-government protests that were ramping up to a "Day of Rage" Thursday in Libya. Demonstrations a day earlier reportedly resulted in the death of at least one person and more than a dozen injuries when security forces clashed with protesters.

The amateur footage above claims to show a fire truck menacing demonstrators in the city of Benghazi in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

According to US-based rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW), 14 people were arrested ahead of the planned protests Thursday and media reports said hundreds of supporters of Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi had taken to the streets of the Libyan capital in a bid to counteract activist calls for an anti-government rally. The Libyan opposition site "Enough Ghaddafi" appears to have been hacked and is currently inaccessible.

Below, more amateur video footage purportedly shows a demonstration outside a police station in Libya on Tuesday. As crowds appear to try to approach the station, shots are fired and tumult break out.

[link to latimesblogs.latimes.com]

@ChangeInLibya Libya Youngsters fight off security men with stones and release their friend. Security in Benghazi is collapsing
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@LibyanDictator: @amnesty URGENT! Shortage of medical supplies in Al Bayda hospital, calling on ALL int'l health organizations to help #feb17 #Libya
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@ShababLibya anyone following or connections to #aid organisers, the city of al #BAYDA in need of urgent foreign attention #Libya #Feb17
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Qaddafi supporters counter Libya’s 'day of rage'

TRIPOLI: Several hundred supporters of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi gathered in the capital on Thursday to counteract online calls for an anti-government “day or rage” inspired by uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.

[link to arabnews.com]

@EnoughGaddafi: SMS sent to Libyans threatening them with live amunition if they demonstrate confirmed #feb17 #libya
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@shergawia: CONFIRMED Doctors in Bayda, east of #Benghazi , #Libya being threatened, warned against talking to media #Feb17
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@shabablibya: Confirmed from #Benghazi: 6 ppl killed today. #Libya #Feb17 & news still show pro #gaddafi protests. shocking
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