Libyan Revolution Tweets, Day 4, Part 4 (... to the shores of Tripoli)

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Libyan Revolution Tweets, Day 4, Part 4 (... to the shores of Tripoli)

Libyan Revolution Tweets, Day 4, Part 4

Previous threads from today: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Occasionally, since the people I follow cover Bahrain, Yemen and Jordan also, if I see something really important about those countries, I'll post it here but I plan to mostly focus on Libya because they're having the hardest time getting the word out and Qaddafi's brutality is more systematic and I believe the scale exceeds the brutality in the other country.

They're also the country with the most propagandists on Twitter.

To make sure the Army doesn't swing the revolution to the people, Qaddafi has brought in thousands of mercenaries from Pakistan, Bangladesh and other North African coutries, specifically Chad. There's a Facebook video of a captured mercenary from Chad http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1036972563772... (Youtube link here) Their confessions are that they've been offered between $12,000 - $30,000 each.

AlanFisher Alan Fisher
by najeebk
At least 104 people killed in #Libya since anti-government protests erupted on Wednesday, the campaign group Human Rights Watch says.
3 hours ago

A conservative estimate, based on reports, is that the figure is over 500 already.

Libya protests: 'Terror and bribery are blunt tools now'
Author Hisham Matar pleads with Muammar Gaddafi to hold his troops back

Hisham Matar
guardian.co.uk, Friday 18 February 2011 20.50 GMT

...

The regime became nervous, promising students a large number of generous scholarships abroad. Then it vowed to increase salaries.

...

On the 16th, a day before the planned protests, Libyan's could no longer wait. They went out in Benghazi. There was a palpable fear that the hot-blooded second city was going it alone, that the few thousand protesters were lambs going to slaughter. Their courage seemed unimaginable.

Late that night one of the Benghazi protestors posted a video on YouTube. He looked tired. His voice was hoarse.

"To my brothers in Tripoli," he said, "we can't do this alone."

...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2011/feb/18/libya-prot...

MAP of Protests across the Middle East

Please rec if you read these so I know if the effort here is worth it.

- could blackwater-xe be "security" for BP's wells?	Catherina	Feb-20-11 01:59 PM	#1
- dare we say "duh"?	bobbolink	Feb-20-11 02:01 PM	#2
- AFP: Libyan envoy to the Arab League has quit 'joins revolution'	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:01 PM	#3
- This is getting a little spooky!	pinboy3niner	Feb-20-11 02:02 PM	#4
- Thank you. Love you for it! n/t	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:03 PM	#6
- Reports that another tribe, the Hasawna, have abandoned #Gaddafi and joined the protesters. First tr	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:03 PM	#5
- the tribal confederation that kept #Gaddafi in power is crumbling	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:10 PM	#13
- Warfallah tribe = more than 1 million ppl, that's 1/6th of population of #Libya	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:15 PM	#17
- #Tripoli is moving #Tripoli is roaring	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:04 PM	#7
- BREAKING: Heavy heavy GUNFIRE in Tripoli RIGHT NOW!	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:04 PM	#8
- Glad our government decided to say some very harsh things in response to massacres.	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:05 PM	#9
- Tweeted this morning, soldiers who refused to participate	sabrina 1	Feb-20-11 02:08 PM	#10
- I was but not anymore. They have the tribes with them now. Fearlessness w\ RAGE	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:13 PM	#14
- Love the video!	MedleyMisty	Feb-20-11 02:35 PM	#34
- Thank you, I had not seen that. They are so brave!	sabrina 1	Feb-20-11 04:24 PM	#56
- #Egypt sending medical troops to #Libya	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:08 PM	#11
- "#Benghazi is free! I'm standing on a tank right now! #Benghazi is free!!"	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:09 PM	#12
- 1000s heading for Gaddafi's compound in #Libya, determined to burn it down	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:14 PM	#15
- A Q souvlakia isn't going to smell very good.	bobbolink	Feb-20-11 02:36 PM	#35
- Lobbyists for Libya?: The Livingston Group	Iterate	Feb-20-11 02:14 PM	#16
- Reuters: From medical sources: 50 (protesters) killed in Benghazi from this afternoon alone	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:15 PM	#18
- Gaddafi's #US partners in crime:Midrex (Charlotte NC): 3 iron&steel plants in #Libya	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:16 PM	#19
- Europeans! Use this website to ask your representatives to help stop the slaughter	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:18 PM	#20
- Not impressed by US response	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:22 PM	#21
- must all focus on the city of #Tripoli, this is where they are telling us all heavy gunfire is	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:24 PM	#22
- Werfella tribe of Bani Walid are out in force, one of biggest tribes, have arms to fight!!	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:26 PM	#23
- Unconfirmed: African mercenaries in #Tripoli driving around on Toyota pick-ups - protests continue	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:27 PM	#24
- Omg. Security minister has joined protesters.	EFerrari	Feb-20-11 02:28 PM	#25
- Exciting stuff isn't it? Like watching IRL n/t	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:41 PM	#41
- watching Libyan State TV news: Several African leaders + leaders of Algeria & Mauritania called Qadd	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:29 PM	#26
- huge protest in front of the UN building in New York 11am EST-	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:30 PM	#27
- Foreign Secretary @WilliamJHague has spoken to the Head of the Qadhafi #HumanRights Society	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:31 PM	#28
- Any confirmation on Ghadaffi's location?	pinboy3niner	Feb-20-11 02:32 PM	#29
- None. n/t	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:36 PM	#36
- Thx. nt	pinboy3niner	Feb-20-11 02:39 PM	#39
- "maybe they will find gadaffi hiding in a cave, or the beauty parlor."	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:41 PM	#43
- LOL! nt	pinboy3niner	Feb-20-11 02:56 PM	#53
- Obama advisor Susan Rice says Obama has no info/intel/insight on Libya other than what media reports	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:32 PM	#30
- What do you expect Susan to know... she's a "leftist".	bobbolink	Feb-20-11 02:41 PM	#42
- BBC. Army joins protesters,	EFerrari	Feb-20-11 02:32 PM	#31
- ## PLEASE DONATE TO DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND! ##	DU GrovelBot	Feb-20-11 02:34 PM	#
- extreme caution: UNCONFIRMED Reports of a coup against Qaddafi	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:34 PM	#32
- We're witnessing the sinking of the old order	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:35 PM	#33
- Doctor tells @AJEnglish that mercenaries have reached Tripoli. "protesters are being massacred"	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:37 PM	#37
- adds that the protests are spreading but the violence is also intensifying in Tripoli	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:42 PM	#44
- State TV: Government has uncovered HUGE plot by the ENTIRE world to destabilize #Libya!	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:39 PM	#38
- hundreds Tunisians rushing 2 #Libya some help provided at border(bus),per #UGGT local trade unionist	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:40 PM	#40
- AJE shows footage of mercenaries attacking civilians	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:44 PM	#45
- BREAKING: Protesters have burned down Regime's HQ in BIN ASHOUR!	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:44 PM	#46
- sounds of rounds being fired in Bab Alazizeya barrack.	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:47 PM	#47
- HEAVY GUNFIRE AT AZIZIA CAMP #GADDAFI'S PERSONAL RESIDENC	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:49 PM	#48
- tripoli chanting: Tonight The REGIME FALLS!	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:50 PM	#49
- Al-Ghriyani declares: FARDH 3ayn for every libyan to come out in protest! obligatory for everyone!	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:52 PM	#50
- CONFIRMED: many foreigners have left their businesses to Libyan management, most closed down.	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:54 PM	#51
- "The protesters are young and old ... and they are heading towards the city centre"	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:55 PM	#52
- Part 5 here	Catherina	Feb-20-11 02:58 PM	#54
- This is getting serious	malaise	Feb-20-11 03:06 PM	#55
- No Gaddafi will be allowed to stay in power.	roamer65	Feb-20-11 04:48 PM	#57