Messages from Libya via a friend/Feb 24, 2011

This is an account that was passed on to me by a friend’s friend.

Please help get this published/share/circulate. This person said it best: Talk to your friends, family, colleagues, neighbors, facebook friends and everyone else, about what is going on.

A friend of mine lives in Libya and has been in the center of the area where Gaddafi’s regime is brutally cracking down on protesters against the government. There are reports of hundreds, maybe thousands, of casualties. I’m going to post here excerpts from his emails from the last few days:

Please note, his identity is confidential as he is living with his family in a very dangerous situation – in a place where govt hired mercenaries are all over the streets shooting in the head and neck anyone and everyone they see, often randomly.

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