Gaddafi of Libya in the east has largely verln the power, security forces have fled. Citizen militias controlling cities such as Tobruk and the main roads. But their joy is mixed with fear of retaliation against a tumbling regime. The journey into the shadowy realm of Muammar al-Gaddafi begins uncomfortable.
Just behind the fleeing Egyptian border crossing to the desert state, on the morning thousands of Egyptian workers, bag and baggage, we are stopped by a group of young men. All are wrapped up with blankets, some wearing uniforms of the army, under the jackets stuck pistols and AK-47 assault rifles.
One of them leans into the car. But instead of yelling, he grins broadly. "Welcome to Libya," he says. "Finally you come to report the truth about our country." Another swing of the group at the front of the passenger seat of the bus and encourages the driver to give vigorous gas. It goes past the power of symbols of a regime that seems to have disappeared here in the east of the country already.
Gigantic, like all symbols of power of the eccentric Libyan dictator still a majestic archway stands at the border with Egypt, decorated with the outline of the Gaddafi Empire in bright green and a greeting from Gaddafi himself. The young man in the driver's seat is on the archway. "Soon we will tear down the symbols, soon will fall even Gaddafi," he exclaims, "now at last the people will be the master of Libya - and not a crazed colonel." Always right on the sea along the bus races further into Libya.
Hundreds of cars, completely overloaded with everything that could draw what people torturing them in the direction of the border. The country itself runs almost no one except a few journalists who want to try to break the news blackout enforced by Gaddafi. You want to finally gain a picture of the conditions in this country marked by chaos.
Benghazi after the reporters can not yet - too dangerous to Benghazi, one of the centers of resistance against Gaddafi, can not you still have to understand the young insurgents. There is still much too dangerous. Tonight, he could only take us so to Tobruk, some 150 kilometers west of the border with Egypt.
Almost completely the revolt Eastern Libya appear to have taken over. Every few kilometers, they have established checkpoints and control traffic. Saddam, a beefy and also masked 19-year-old is one of the many roadblocks. From an army barracks, he told that he had stolen with other young people the uniform he now wears.
He proudly pulls a piece of the jacket to side, a gun appears. "We are now well armed," he boasted, "and we will fight against Gaddafi, his security forces and also against the brutal mercenaries to the last man." About the checkpoint, perhaps 50 kilometers inland blows since the acquisition of territory by the opponents of the symbol of their rebellion - the red-black-green flag of Libya's Kingdom, which Gaddafi has fallen with its revolution in the 1960s.
Now is the flag of a new Libya, from which no one knows quite how it should look. First of all, Gaddafi would be overthrown and killed himself, says Saddam, then we could see further. Only burn the gas flares of the refineries, like most here is not one of young people to the intellectual elite of the country.
Saddam is a simple worker, carried along by the dynamics of resistance - and also of the new power that the vigilantes have suddenly. Beyond the checkpoint, on the coast to the Mediterranean, the towers of the oil refinery project into the sky. Here in the east are many of the main oil ports in the country earned on that Gaddafi and his cronies for decades billion.
Still burn on the towers the gas flame of the refineries. However, it is believed the gunmen, at least the ports, which will be shipped out of the coveted commodity abroad, largely in their hands. With their power over the most important source of income, the hope at any rate so far mostly uncoordinated groups and militias, they will be the dictator in the far Tripoli to its knees.
Around two-hour drive to Tobruk, a port city with a few hundred thousand inhabitants. In the afternoon, thousands have come together, a car convoy pushed through the inner city. Most teenagers and young men sit packed together on the roofs of cars. Here, too, they wave the flag of the Kingdom, which also flies from the burned and looted government buildings and police stations in the breeze.
For days, demonstrators were fighting against the security forces, there were dozens of deaths, but two days ago, soldiers and police suddenly vanished. They celebrate as if the despot already defeated and so the crowd celebrating almost as if the victory was achieved against the tyrant.
They immediately surround journalists, foreigners with cameras. "The people want to kill Gaddafi," they cry. "He has to atone for the past 40 years." Almost all, even young kid with peach fuzz on the lip wear, guns or knives pose for the photographers. Further back in the convoy shots are heard, allegedly fired demonstrators from joy in the air, but that's what nobody knows in this mixture of joy celebration and the anarchic chaos of a revolution that is used by Gaddafi in the west of the country has fought with extreme violence and brutality .
As the march moves on, the news agencies report a new dramatic high point of the escalation in Libya. Would have allegedly Libyan jet fighter pilots, who should bombard the behest of the tumbling regime targets in the city of Benghazi, catapulted to eject safely from the aircraft and Sun refused the order to attack on its own people.
A little later, shrill sirens and Tobruk, but no one can say whether there is an air raid or a different signal. The convoy in any event continues through the city, even in this night, the newly won freedom to be celebrated. The situation in Tobruk is unreal. So fast that its security forces have withdrawn from the east of the country, the regime could quickly hit back again.
Even if leader Gaddafi appears battered and confused, so he gave his speech on Tuesday at more than determined to massacre the uprising brutally. Still it seems to be a part of the military loyal. Moreover, no one knows is how many foreign leaders has tarnished the militiamen into the country and now that the rebellion gets out of control, nor can recruit with his millionaire.
So far there are only rumors, but said the regime has tried before days to have flown more African mercenaries to Tobruk to shoot down the rebellion in the east. Yet if we believe the militia, defeated the opponents of the attackers around the airport with clubs and captured weapons. Supposedly this will many mercenaries have been captured.
Just behind the fleeing Egyptian border crossing to the desert state, on the morning thousands of Egyptian workers, bag and baggage, we are stopped by a group of young men. All are wrapped up with blankets, some wearing uniforms of the army, under the jackets stuck pistols and AK-47 assault rifles.
One of them leans into the car. But instead of yelling, he grins broadly. "Welcome to Libya," he says. "Finally you come to report the truth about our country." Another swing of the group at the front of the passenger seat of the bus and encourages the driver to give vigorous gas. It goes past the power of symbols of a regime that seems to have disappeared here in the east of the country already.
Gigantic, like all symbols of power of the eccentric Libyan dictator still a majestic archway stands at the border with Egypt, decorated with the outline of the Gaddafi Empire in bright green and a greeting from Gaddafi himself. The young man in the driver's seat is on the archway. "Soon we will tear down the symbols, soon will fall even Gaddafi," he exclaims, "now at last the people will be the master of Libya - and not a crazed colonel." Always right on the sea along the bus races further into Libya.
Hundreds of cars, completely overloaded with everything that could draw what people torturing them in the direction of the border. The country itself runs almost no one except a few journalists who want to try to break the news blackout enforced by Gaddafi. You want to finally gain a picture of the conditions in this country marked by chaos.
Benghazi after the reporters can not yet - too dangerous to Benghazi, one of the centers of resistance against Gaddafi, can not you still have to understand the young insurgents. There is still much too dangerous. Tonight, he could only take us so to Tobruk, some 150 kilometers west of the border with Egypt.
Almost completely the revolt Eastern Libya appear to have taken over. Every few kilometers, they have established checkpoints and control traffic. Saddam, a beefy and also masked 19-year-old is one of the many roadblocks. From an army barracks, he told that he had stolen with other young people the uniform he now wears.
He proudly pulls a piece of the jacket to side, a gun appears. "We are now well armed," he boasted, "and we will fight against Gaddafi, his security forces and also against the brutal mercenaries to the last man." About the checkpoint, perhaps 50 kilometers inland blows since the acquisition of territory by the opponents of the symbol of their rebellion - the red-black-green flag of Libya's Kingdom, which Gaddafi has fallen with its revolution in the 1960s.
Now is the flag of a new Libya, from which no one knows quite how it should look. First of all, Gaddafi would be overthrown and killed himself, says Saddam, then we could see further. Only burn the gas flares of the refineries, like most here is not one of young people to the intellectual elite of the country.
Saddam is a simple worker, carried along by the dynamics of resistance - and also of the new power that the vigilantes have suddenly. Beyond the checkpoint, on the coast to the Mediterranean, the towers of the oil refinery project into the sky. Here in the east are many of the main oil ports in the country earned on that Gaddafi and his cronies for decades billion.
Still burn on the towers the gas flame of the refineries. However, it is believed the gunmen, at least the ports, which will be shipped out of the coveted commodity abroad, largely in their hands. With their power over the most important source of income, the hope at any rate so far mostly uncoordinated groups and militias, they will be the dictator in the far Tripoli to its knees.
Around two-hour drive to Tobruk, a port city with a few hundred thousand inhabitants. In the afternoon, thousands have come together, a car convoy pushed through the inner city. Most teenagers and young men sit packed together on the roofs of cars. Here, too, they wave the flag of the Kingdom, which also flies from the burned and looted government buildings and police stations in the breeze.
For days, demonstrators were fighting against the security forces, there were dozens of deaths, but two days ago, soldiers and police suddenly vanished. They celebrate as if the despot already defeated and so the crowd celebrating almost as if the victory was achieved against the tyrant.
They immediately surround journalists, foreigners with cameras. "The people want to kill Gaddafi," they cry. "He has to atone for the past 40 years." Almost all, even young kid with peach fuzz on the lip wear, guns or knives pose for the photographers. Further back in the convoy shots are heard, allegedly fired demonstrators from joy in the air, but that's what nobody knows in this mixture of joy celebration and the anarchic chaos of a revolution that is used by Gaddafi in the west of the country has fought with extreme violence and brutality .
As the march moves on, the news agencies report a new dramatic high point of the escalation in Libya. Would have allegedly Libyan jet fighter pilots, who should bombard the behest of the tumbling regime targets in the city of Benghazi, catapulted to eject safely from the aircraft and Sun refused the order to attack on its own people.
A little later, shrill sirens and Tobruk, but no one can say whether there is an air raid or a different signal. The convoy in any event continues through the city, even in this night, the newly won freedom to be celebrated. The situation in Tobruk is unreal. So fast that its security forces have withdrawn from the east of the country, the regime could quickly hit back again.
Even if leader Gaddafi appears battered and confused, so he gave his speech on Tuesday at more than determined to massacre the uprising brutally. Still it seems to be a part of the military loyal. Moreover, no one knows is how many foreign leaders has tarnished the militiamen into the country and now that the rebellion gets out of control, nor can recruit with his millionaire.
So far there are only rumors, but said the regime has tried before days to have flown more African mercenaries to Tobruk to shoot down the rebellion in the east. Yet if we believe the militia, defeated the opponents of the attackers around the airport with clubs and captured weapons. Supposedly this will many mercenaries have been captured.
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