More independent voices about what's going on in Libya.
http://sonsofmalcolm.blogspot.com/2011/09/one-of-very-few-independent-reports.html
Amidst all the media furor about the fall of Tripoli from the grasp of the Libyan government, it's not easy to get a clear picture of what things look like under their new rulers. Upon being released from five days of entrapment in the Rixos hotel with 35 other foreign journalists, it was hard to believe that the streets I was driving through were the same ones I had become familiar with during the month I had spent in the capital.
The previously bustling roads with families rushing around toing and froing from the beach and getting ready for the meal to break the fast were empty, the green flags replaced by rebel ones, and the sparse checkpoints previously run by male and female volunteers, ie residents with Kalashnikovs, had been replaced by checkpoints every 100 or so meters, manned by tanks and exclusively male fighters holding sophisticated weapons supplied by the world's most powerful military force, NATO.
The proud young black Libyans protecting their neighbourhoods were gone. Later we would see the images of them being rounded up and put on pickup trucks, a sight that in the previous months had been confined to places like Benghazi and Misrata. These are the victims of the claim that Gaddafi had hired mercenaries from the African continent, a claim which has been profusely rejected by human rights organisations as lacking any evidence. But in the new Libya they are some of the first - along with those from the largest tribes, Wafalla, Washafana, Zlitan and Tarhouna - suspected to be supporting the Muammar Gaddafi, a crime punishable by death and much worse.
The Red Cross convoy transporting us pulled into the Corinthia hotel. When I had stayed there on a previous trip just a month before, just two or three armed guards manned the entrance. This time it was overrun with men wielding weapons sent from NATO and Qatar and just a handful of swamped and exhausted staff remained.
http://sonsofmalcolm.blogspot.com/2011/09/excellent-radio-interview-with-great.html
EXCELLENT RADIO INTERVIEW WITH THE GREAT REVOLUTIONARY MIND OF MOHAMED HASSAN
Hassan says African Immigrants are in Libya because of free healthcare, school systems and land. Also says that 40% of Libyans are Black.
