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Live Phone Call #Tripoli with @Niz_FGM :Current situation in the city http://bit.ly/oafhxB (New) via @feb17voices
Some of what was said in audio
Security has increased in Tripoli, more raids, increase in cride tactics. Arbitrary arrests, seems to be security after the Free Liberation or other activists groups. Almost randomly picking up people claiming they are a part of a group. Security forces are going into hot spot areas, and just so they don't look bad to their superiors. Sometimes they come out with people, sometimes they don't. They arrest, or kidnap family members without telling anyone, not letting them make phone calls, or not letting them know how long they would be held in prison.
Tripoli has 1.6M people and thousands of people are unaccounted for, and this is keeping people stay quiet. It is slowing the FF movement, but they cannot stop the inevitable, at least to the caller he feels it seems inevitable. Everyday economy gets worse, every day the NTC gets more support, every day the FFs are getting closer towards Tripoli. It would take someone super human to resist this pressure indefinately. It would seem like one day the regime is going to crack..
Security seems to be getting worse, less organized, but deception is very high, so hard to know for sure. Security structure is falling apart, insiders say this is true. Check points are patially army, and partially civillians. Alot of different people maning checkpoints with different accents from other places, not Teipoli. Tripoli has alot of pressure about oil, very strange tension. There is an percieved normality if someone came from outside of Tripoli, but there is NO FUEL, people are abondoning their cars, long lines of empty cars. People jsut left their cars and come back each day, find no fuel, and then they go back home.
The University is basically emptied. There is jsut no one there anymore. Limit on banks is 1000 but when people go to the bank they are turned away. There is very little hard cash in the capital, everyone is pretty much waiting waiting to play their role later on. Jornalists dont see anything more than their minders want them to see and or here. Alot is happening in Tripoli but its covert, but its constant, its every ay, and its growing, but its not being covered in Tripoli. They need reporters out in Tripoli that can go out and report.... but that hasnt happened for 53yrs and dont expect it to happen now. Everyone is making alot of acrifices getting the truth out, but ther eis nowhere to hide. Great work done by Rueters, BBS and CNN, but just not enough.
Some of the news that does get out to world news, does get our into Tripoli very fast, and it gets peoples moral in Tripoli up, and ennoys the G-security forces. Alot of this is not publisized. Very few people in tripoli know exactly what is happening, they hear gunfire, they hear bombing but no one knows whats really happening.
Nato activity in Tripoli has been very decreased for the last month, moral has dropped because of this Nato dicreased activities is probably for good reason. Opposition forces in Tripoli is very much positive. The fall of the regime is coming. Every day there is more and more pressure against the regime. Regime doesnt seem to be getting much stronger. It is inevitable as far as they are concerned. A mini exodus, alot of families leaving Tripoli right now, they are afraid that there will be a violent bloody ending in Tripoli soon.. They fear it wont be a pleasant ending.
