Libya protests: ‘foreign mercenaries using heavy weapons against at demonstrators’

Nabila Ramdani
London Telegraph
Feb 20, 2011

Heavy weapons, including anti-aircraft missiles, are being used to murder scores of pro-democracy campaigners in Colonel Gaddafi’s Libya with the death toll already “well into three figures”, it has emerged.

As the violence in the Arab dictatorship continued, a regional medical coordinator in the eastern city of Benghazi said bodies were piling up in hospitals.

“We must be talking at least 150 dead since the start of thedemonstrations last week, with many more seriously injured,” he said.

“Tanks and helicopter gunships full of foreign mercenaries are fighting gangs of demonstrators. At least one dead man had been hit by an anti-aircraft missile, while other bodies are riddled with heavy machine gun fire.”

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