Zawiya - There are too many stories, there is too much history in this Sunday, February 27 not to begin to understand something. Suddenly it's like turning on a beacon, a torch in the night. Thanks to the Libyan government, which wanted to make a propaganda tour of reporters invited to Tripoli, we entered Zawiya, the city released closer to the Libyan capital gheddafiana.
When after 45 miles of military checkpoints and the militia present ourselves in front of the last barrier before Zawiya, we do not believe our eyes. The press office of Gaddafi is leading us into the lair of the rebels closer to the bunker of the colonel wanted to show us that they are all militants of Al Qaeda, fundamentalists and drug addicts.
Then he would take us to see the real people of Libya, two manifestations of supporters of Gaddafi, "camel troops" deployed around Zawiya besieged by tanks and supporters of the colonel, who are still in Tripoli and many believe they can fight still their leader. We advance along the main road in disbelief main city on the right and devastated a police station burnt, makeshift barriers everywhere to block the return of the militias.
At checkpoints and on the roofs boys with Kalashnikovs, old fathers and grandparents with hunting rifles, soldiers who deserted at the controls of six tanks and antiaircraft batteries. Adil Oman is the "maintenance manager" of an oil company, the Harouga Oil Company. For eight days here in the streets, day and night, along with thousands of third-Zawiya that control the city center.
"Eight days ago we took to the streets unarmed, together, we started to scream and chant slogans against the regime, against Gaddafi, for freedom. The police first fired tear gas, we have not stopped, and suddenly they're back returned to the office, shooting with Kalashnikov rifles. The first wounded, two or three deaths, but we night we stayed in the square, we have created the first barriers, we burned their police station.
" Gradually the rebels have been strengthened, "we have opened a dispensary for use as a hospital, and they sent us a warning: a police major who pretended to be a doctor, cared and took the names of all those who came: we've discovered, we read the messages of his comrades on the phone, telling him "go out, go away because we're going to attack." They returned to the attack, this time with heavy machine guns and RPG: from the way a bullet Rpg flew high up over the mosque, but we stayed here.
" The third day was the most ferocious: "The militia of Gaddafi have advanced on foot, firing wildly, with heavy machine guns fired on the mosque, you are facing the entrance, firing into the temple. We have dispersed, they have fled, we're back. "Why did you do this, because you want this for?" Because what they did in Benghazi us angry because we are angry for 40 years, the violence of this regime, the lack of freedom, the falsity of Appeals for the honor and dignity of the people of Libya made by a group of criminals who massacred the people it claims to defend.
For years we did nothing, now we will do everything. "Some say that the regime has also tried a bombing, but from that moment on, the regime has tried to deal with:" They offered us $ 2 million to leave, we have rejected: the 'army has left the weapons and was made by many officers and soldiers are here with us.
"In addition to the engineer Adil is an old man, broken and trembling: it has a gray coat, a video camera in his left hand dancing to the rhythm of his emotion. "I am Professor Malud, am a professor of physics at university, I have a master's degree at the University of Athens, Ohio. I have not participated in the battles, but they are here because we're all here.
Libya will be divided? We want it united, not want a fundamentalist emirate, we want a normal, peaceful, democratic. The fundamentalists win? But have you heard Gaddafi in his speeches? Threat only death and destruction to his people, his people. " We enter the mosque, the courtyard is a young man, Ahmed Abelkasser, sitting at a console with a microphone and speakers.
Are taking other water bottles, food, blankets, pens and placards. Four bearded fundamentalist face and disappear immediately: "Yes, there are also religious, but you also have the priests, the cardinals, the most extreme, less extreme, we also want to experience the life we want to build our lives." Zawiya is not all free: only the center of the city is occupied by the rebels around the checkpoints gheddafiane militias.
The men of the press we extract from the center to bring in two manifestations of the regime's supporters. The head is a woman, Souad Abu Traba: "We will fight." There are many, and the military around Zawiya are armed for war. The future may be a civil war, but one thing is clear: these rebels will infiltrate in Tripoli, do not move in columns for "free" capital.
Because the rebels were already in the city of Tripoli, hidden, locked and frozen by the fear of a civil war. Libya close to the other brothers who live in the same city but still believe the colonel. 
When after 45 miles of military checkpoints and the militia present ourselves in front of the last barrier before Zawiya, we do not believe our eyes. The press office of Gaddafi is leading us into the lair of the rebels closer to the bunker of the colonel wanted to show us that they are all militants of Al Qaeda, fundamentalists and drug addicts.
Then he would take us to see the real people of Libya, two manifestations of supporters of Gaddafi, "camel troops" deployed around Zawiya besieged by tanks and supporters of the colonel, who are still in Tripoli and many believe they can fight still their leader. We advance along the main road in disbelief main city on the right and devastated a police station burnt, makeshift barriers everywhere to block the return of the militias.
At checkpoints and on the roofs boys with Kalashnikovs, old fathers and grandparents with hunting rifles, soldiers who deserted at the controls of six tanks and antiaircraft batteries. Adil Oman is the "maintenance manager" of an oil company, the Harouga Oil Company. For eight days here in the streets, day and night, along with thousands of third-Zawiya that control the city center.
"Eight days ago we took to the streets unarmed, together, we started to scream and chant slogans against the regime, against Gaddafi, for freedom. The police first fired tear gas, we have not stopped, and suddenly they're back returned to the office, shooting with Kalashnikov rifles. The first wounded, two or three deaths, but we night we stayed in the square, we have created the first barriers, we burned their police station.
" Gradually the rebels have been strengthened, "we have opened a dispensary for use as a hospital, and they sent us a warning: a police major who pretended to be a doctor, cared and took the names of all those who came: we've discovered, we read the messages of his comrades on the phone, telling him "go out, go away because we're going to attack." They returned to the attack, this time with heavy machine guns and RPG: from the way a bullet Rpg flew high up over the mosque, but we stayed here.
" The third day was the most ferocious: "The militia of Gaddafi have advanced on foot, firing wildly, with heavy machine guns fired on the mosque, you are facing the entrance, firing into the temple. We have dispersed, they have fled, we're back. "Why did you do this, because you want this for?" Because what they did in Benghazi us angry because we are angry for 40 years, the violence of this regime, the lack of freedom, the falsity of Appeals for the honor and dignity of the people of Libya made by a group of criminals who massacred the people it claims to defend.
For years we did nothing, now we will do everything. "Some say that the regime has also tried a bombing, but from that moment on, the regime has tried to deal with:" They offered us $ 2 million to leave, we have rejected: the 'army has left the weapons and was made by many officers and soldiers are here with us.
"In addition to the engineer Adil is an old man, broken and trembling: it has a gray coat, a video camera in his left hand dancing to the rhythm of his emotion. "I am Professor Malud, am a professor of physics at university, I have a master's degree at the University of Athens, Ohio. I have not participated in the battles, but they are here because we're all here.
Libya will be divided? We want it united, not want a fundamentalist emirate, we want a normal, peaceful, democratic. The fundamentalists win? But have you heard Gaddafi in his speeches? Threat only death and destruction to his people, his people. " We enter the mosque, the courtyard is a young man, Ahmed Abelkasser, sitting at a console with a microphone and speakers.
Are taking other water bottles, food, blankets, pens and placards. Four bearded fundamentalist face and disappear immediately: "Yes, there are also religious, but you also have the priests, the cardinals, the most extreme, less extreme, we also want to experience the life we want to build our lives." Zawiya is not all free: only the center of the city is occupied by the rebels around the checkpoints gheddafiane militias.
The men of the press we extract from the center to bring in two manifestations of the regime's supporters. The head is a woman, Souad Abu Traba: "We will fight." There are many, and the military around Zawiya are armed for war. The future may be a civil war, but one thing is clear: these rebels will infiltrate in Tripoli, do not move in columns for "free" capital.
Because the rebels were already in the city of Tripoli, hidden, locked and frozen by the fear of a civil war. Libya close to the other brothers who live in the same city but still believe the colonel.
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