Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Snipers Loyal To Gaddafi Bring Terror And Horror To A City Under Seige

Wounded men – evacuated from Misrata – on board an aid ship bound for Turkey. One doctor said 160 people had been killed in Misrata in the past week, with many hundreds more injured. Photograph: Reuters

Libyans In Misrata Describe Terror Inflicted By Gaddafi's Snipers -- The Guardian

'We are afraid to step into the street. You can just be shot', say Libyans in Misrata, as assault by regime enters sixth week

There has been much to terrorise the people of Misrata over the past weeks of bloody siege. Tank shells and mortars have fallen at random in the heart of the rebel-held Libyan city, with little warning bar the final whistle of the explosive flying through the air. Muammar Gaddafi's planes have periodically bombed the revolutionary enclave in the west of the country.

But residents say there has been nothing like the snipers.

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My Comment: And look who supplied Gaddafi's snipers with the rifles that they are now using to kill and main innocent civilians.

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