AJDABYA - With a bright smile and honest eyes, his face a hero's got. A few days ago, Rafa Saad, 28, has also championed the scars of the revolution. Last Monday, with the rifle butt of a militiaman's Colonel Gaddafi has cracked a cheekbone, now repaired and incerottato, while still on his hands is red a dozen bloody stigmata, which he got in an attempt to fend off stabbing of soldiers.
"I was lucky - he says - now I'm ready to die for freedom in Libya." In the up and incoherent anarchy of the days of liberation, each in Cyrenaica was proclaimed leader of the revolt. Yesterday, however, the insurgents in Benghazi have finally given birth to the "National Council", is intended to govern the area of Eastern Libya and give a face to the country during the transition period.
The Council does not have its own president and its members, elected at this time, members will be freed of all cities. The spokesman, Hafiz Ghoga, explained that the office is Benghazi, Libya, and here comes the future, because Tripoli has not yet been released. When we ask how does the infant body Rafa, he shrugs.
He adds: "I'm happy, but the work began on Feb. 17 has not yet been completed. So I'm reaching my brothers already fighting around Sirte. Now our priority is to kill the Monster." It 'a long way to Sirte, around which, as we reported in Benghazi, on the days of young insurgents massed troops ready to launch an offensive against the birthplace and stronghold of the Colonel.
Because of injuries to fingers, Rafa has left the wheel of his Toyota to the young cousin, who is not even off the accelerator when we cross a Ajaj, a sandstorm, mistakenly convinced on that car are all ready to sacrifice himself for The Libyan case. "When, last Monday, we approached a sniper who fired on civilians near Librag, he's got in the car and it came on," says Rafa.
"We have invested, before killing my two friends with a bullet in the forehead. When struck me with the butt of his Kalashnikov, I fainted. I was taken inside the airport, with his hands tied by a string of iron "he adds, touching the deep red streaks that mark the wrists. Resumed the young rebel: "I was seated next to a dozen hostages.
Every fifteen minutes, it did raise a militia and a standing shot in the head. When I re-passed out, have believed me dead, because I whole face covered with blood. I woke up on two corpses. " Rafa tells this terrible and bloody episodes with the serenity of those who have already mentally digested, as if they happened years ago, when everything goes back to last week.
"My fortune and one of the few surviving hostages has been the arrival of hundreds of rebels, which surrounded the airport began to shoot wildly. There was a bloody battle, during which died about seventy people. In the end, the commander of the militia has run surrendered. " Rafa was discharged after two days in the hospital, leaving a bed free for those who have been injured more seriously than he.
Yesterday morning, with the cheek stitched up the wounds of the hands is not yet healed and the eyebrow arch encrusted with blood, hath been re-introduced to one of the leaders of the revolt, which sent it to Sirte. Ajdabya to stop, because he now has become dark. Here, too, albeit less than in Benghazi, in recent days has run fought furiously.
Let's go to the hospital, to count the wounded and tell us their stories, which follow the same feats of bravery carried out by thousands of people in this part of Libya. The surgeon Mohammed Giuma invites us to dinner in the dining hall of the hospital. He says he never had as much work in recent days, but that does not work is never weighed.
"Everything happened so fast," he says. "Ten days ago, none of us could even imagine how it would go forward, that we could get rid of the Colonel so fast." We ask him to translate what sends Al Jazeera: "He says the new National Council, a Libyan who has just formed a sort of Benghazi is Libya's first government free.
The Council rejects any offer of dialogue by the Gaddafi regime and intended to govern the regions liberated from the regime in Tripoli. The TV also said that opponents of the regime of Colonel oppose any foreign intervention in the country and say they do not have contact with governments of other nations.
As for me, however, I think Americans and Europeans should give us a hand to wipe out the Colonel and his loyalists from Tripoli and Sirte. Rafa eats in silence. On the back of his right hand has run just made free tattoo the flag of Libya. We ask him what he will do tomorrow. "I'm ready to die," he says, kissing the flag of your country. 
"I was lucky - he says - now I'm ready to die for freedom in Libya." In the up and incoherent anarchy of the days of liberation, each in Cyrenaica was proclaimed leader of the revolt. Yesterday, however, the insurgents in Benghazi have finally given birth to the "National Council", is intended to govern the area of Eastern Libya and give a face to the country during the transition period.
The Council does not have its own president and its members, elected at this time, members will be freed of all cities. The spokesman, Hafiz Ghoga, explained that the office is Benghazi, Libya, and here comes the future, because Tripoli has not yet been released. When we ask how does the infant body Rafa, he shrugs.
He adds: "I'm happy, but the work began on Feb. 17 has not yet been completed. So I'm reaching my brothers already fighting around Sirte. Now our priority is to kill the Monster." It 'a long way to Sirte, around which, as we reported in Benghazi, on the days of young insurgents massed troops ready to launch an offensive against the birthplace and stronghold of the Colonel.
Because of injuries to fingers, Rafa has left the wheel of his Toyota to the young cousin, who is not even off the accelerator when we cross a Ajaj, a sandstorm, mistakenly convinced on that car are all ready to sacrifice himself for The Libyan case. "When, last Monday, we approached a sniper who fired on civilians near Librag, he's got in the car and it came on," says Rafa.
"We have invested, before killing my two friends with a bullet in the forehead. When struck me with the butt of his Kalashnikov, I fainted. I was taken inside the airport, with his hands tied by a string of iron "he adds, touching the deep red streaks that mark the wrists. Resumed the young rebel: "I was seated next to a dozen hostages.
Every fifteen minutes, it did raise a militia and a standing shot in the head. When I re-passed out, have believed me dead, because I whole face covered with blood. I woke up on two corpses. " Rafa tells this terrible and bloody episodes with the serenity of those who have already mentally digested, as if they happened years ago, when everything goes back to last week.
"My fortune and one of the few surviving hostages has been the arrival of hundreds of rebels, which surrounded the airport began to shoot wildly. There was a bloody battle, during which died about seventy people. In the end, the commander of the militia has run surrendered. " Rafa was discharged after two days in the hospital, leaving a bed free for those who have been injured more seriously than he.
Yesterday morning, with the cheek stitched up the wounds of the hands is not yet healed and the eyebrow arch encrusted with blood, hath been re-introduced to one of the leaders of the revolt, which sent it to Sirte. Ajdabya to stop, because he now has become dark. Here, too, albeit less than in Benghazi, in recent days has run fought furiously.
Let's go to the hospital, to count the wounded and tell us their stories, which follow the same feats of bravery carried out by thousands of people in this part of Libya. The surgeon Mohammed Giuma invites us to dinner in the dining hall of the hospital. He says he never had as much work in recent days, but that does not work is never weighed.
"Everything happened so fast," he says. "Ten days ago, none of us could even imagine how it would go forward, that we could get rid of the Colonel so fast." We ask him to translate what sends Al Jazeera: "He says the new National Council, a Libyan who has just formed a sort of Benghazi is Libya's first government free.
The Council rejects any offer of dialogue by the Gaddafi regime and intended to govern the regions liberated from the regime in Tripoli. The TV also said that opponents of the regime of Colonel oppose any foreign intervention in the country and say they do not have contact with governments of other nations.
As for me, however, I think Americans and Europeans should give us a hand to wipe out the Colonel and his loyalists from Tripoli and Sirte. Rafa eats in silence. On the back of his right hand has run just made free tattoo the flag of Libya. We ask him what he will do tomorrow. "I'm ready to die," he says, kissing the flag of your country.
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