What you should NOTE as you read through my postings in here is that THINGS ARE JUST CHANGING SOOO FAST WITH THE PROTESTS IN LIBYA THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A minute to minute following may not be enough either!!!!!!!!!!!1!
Reuters has filed a story corroborating our report on the Libyan armed forces attacking parts of Tripoli (see 5.07pm). The news agency reported that military aircraft attacked crowds of anti-government protesters in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Monday, according to al-Jazeera:
A Libyan man, Soula al-Balaazi, who said he was an opposition activist, told the network by telephone that Libyan air force war planes had bombed "some locations in Tripoli".
He said he was talking from a suburb of Tripoli.
No independent verification of the report was immediately available.
An analyst for London-based consultancy Control Risks said the use of military aircraft on his own people indicated the end was approaching for Muammar Gaddafi.
"These really seem to be last, desperate acts. If you're bombing your own capital, it's really hard to see how you can survive," said Julien Barnes-Dacey, Control Risks' Middle East analyst.
"But I think Gaddafi is going to put up a fight. I think the rumours of him fleeing to Venezuela are going to prove wide of the mark. In Libya more than any other country in the region, there is the prospect of serious violence and outright conflict."
Live ammunitions sprayed indiscriminately on protesters by a number of the-sky-hovering military planes from different towns that are now under people power commands.
Salem Gnan, a London-based spokesman for the National Front for the Salvation of Libya, told Al Jazeera that eyewitnesses in Tripoli have told him the navy has opened fire on parts of the capital.
He also says:
People were travelling to Tripoli from across the west of Libya for a "final showdown."
"..have had calls from people in towns and cities all across Libya. Those in the east can not get out but those in towns and cities in western Libya, everybody is saying: "We are going to Tripoli." The plan is to come from everywhere and go to Tripoli to sack the city, for the finish.
Death toll number as by last night stands at 233; only for the bodies taken to hospitals, says a human rights lady in Libya (name will be provided later).
She (Ms Moraya) adds that outside that number at hand, it is feared that major MASSACRES may have committed yet again by last night especially in Tripoli the capital city of Libya. The casualties there may be unbearable, she adds.
"Journalists from newspapers and broadcasters across the world, including ITV News and the New York Times, are descending on the Libyan border as anti-government protests intensify against Muammar Gaddafi's regime.
A blanket ban on foreign journalists entering Libya has meant that facts are increasingly hard to verify.
The BBC is among the only international news organisations with a correspondent in Libya's capital, Tripoli, where government and state television buildings came under attack on Monday.
Many western news organisations – including the Associated Press, the Daily Telegraph, and the Guardian – have been restricted to reporting from neighbouring countries, most commonly Egypt and Bahrain.
However, the world's media was today preparing for the "floodgates to open" on Egypt's western border as the uprising threatens to engulf Gaddafi's 41-year rule in Libya
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