Stimmen aus Libyien

Ein paar Stimmen aus Libyen, kopiert aus dem BBC-Ticker (21.03.11) (GMT)

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1320: Farid, who has family in Tripoli, writes: “All my friends and family I have contacted in Libya feel more protected since the air strikes. They feel they are being cared for by the international community. Gaddafi was just taking revenge and punishing everyone, but people on the streets are happy the allied forces are weakening the regime. Tripoli is run by fear – there are a lot of arrests and killings by Gaddafi forces. There were demonstrations there last week. The air strike on Gaddafi headquarters is huge. It is a huge military fortress. It is good it has been hit.”

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1058: Salah, a Tripoli resident, tells the BBC that Col Gaddafi is a symbol of safety and security. He says he does not want to be ruled by the east of the country, and instead there should be negotiations. “Three days ago I could have told you about different opinions in Tripoli. But now we all stand for Libya. It’s not about Gaddafi, it’s a war between Libya and France, the US and UK. We haven’t seen anything like this for many years. Things have been calm and secure 40 years – though I still remember the 1986 bombing of Libya by the United States when I was six-years-old. The bombing of Libya is a stupid decision – there is no guarantee that the western nations will not hit civilians. For example, the army camps are very close to the city centre.

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1213: More from the Libyan rebels: they say their aim is still to capture the Libyan capital, Tripoli, but that they want to achieve that without foreign offensive action, the rebel spokesman has told a news conference in Benghazi.

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1211: The Libyan rebels have been speaking: a spokesman in Benghazi has said they welcome more air strikes by foreign forces, but do not want foreign ground troops to intervene in the war.

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1024: The BBC’s Kevin Connolly in Benghazi says there are dangers as well as opportunities in the use of air power in Libya. Our correspondent says: “The rebels still want a united and free Libya without Col Gaddafi with Tripoli as its capital. If it comes to be the case that people in western Libya who have been under attack from the West (as they would see it) begin to associate the rebel movement with those air attacks, begin to blame the rebels for those attacks – then it might make any process of eventual reunification rather difficult.”

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0952: The rebel spokesman also says that pro-Gaddafi forces are now bringing civilians from nearby towns to Misrata to use them as a human shield.

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1041: @libi4ever tweets: “if we let Qadfi bomb Zintan and Misrata today, tomorrow they will disappear from #libya map.”