Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Abdel Jalil, head of the opposition council, about deadline tGaddafi's departure.

Tanks in Zawiya are shelling everything, including homes, mosques, and schools.

3:44 PM: @IbnOmar2005 reports that tanks in Zawiya are shelling everything, including homes, mosques, and schools.
3:39 PM: @BBCWorld has posted an impressive and haunting photo gallery of the offensive in Libya. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12679750
3:38 PM: @AJEnglish has posted a video of Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the head of the opposition council, about the deadline that has been set for Gaddafi's departure.
3:36 PM: Antonio Guterres, the UN's refugee chief, told @BBCWorld that the number of people crossing the Tunisian border had "considerably diminished" in the last few days. "One thing is clear, when the Libyan authorities were not in charge, people were coming. As soon as they gained full control of the border the numbers came down. Any interpretation is possible, but the facts speak for themselves."