Huge Rally in Benghazi, Libya (2.24.11)

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Run time: 01:57 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgP0Gro52c8   Posted on YouTube: February 24, 2011 By YouTube Member: ScarceMedia Views on YouTube: 303   Posted on DU: February 24, 2011 By DU Member: Catherina Views on DU: 517

 
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WOWWW! Singing libya's old anthem :') and celebrating: http://youtu.be/hgP0Gro52c8 !!!!! #libya #feb17
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CNN's Ben Wedeman gives a firsthand account from a rally in Benghazi, Libya.

WOW IS RIGHT!

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1. Wonderful to see --

Brave and beautiful people --

Wow!

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2. Ben Wedeman has been outstanding on this story, throughout the whole

several weeks of revolutions, even challenging his own network on their own early reporting on the Egyptian revolution.

He was greeted in Libya like a liberator when he became the first Western journalist to manage to cross the border there this week.

This video is awe-inspiring!

Libyan store owners are refusing to take money from him and other journalists for food etc they are so thrilled to see them there.

The people there have already set up a provisional government and are treating captured mercs and other pro-Qaddafi captives humanely, preventing any kind of revenge being taken on them.

These people are awesome and Ben Wedeman has become a hero to them for bringing their story to the world.

Everyone should watch this video.