Benghazi, Libya Peering in an underground prison, Adil Gnaybor frissonné with fear. Rusty prison bars covered with Earth were now exposed, dug up by rebels who had discovered the secret labyrinth of cells. The space is too small to 5 feet of Gnaybor framework, and a white tube provided the only source of air.
"If I go inside there, perhaps I will die," Gnaybor said, looking at gazes into the hole.
Thousands of Libyans have been arriving here in a complex of magnificent houses known as the bu Katiba El Fadil Omar, where leader Libya of Muammar Gaddafi remained during the visits in this port city. It is here that Gaddafi has also had an underground prison.
The compound is perhaps the most vivid symbol in eastern Libya of the triumph on the Gaddafi regime. Its houses were burned and looted. Graffiti denouncing his regime is therefore on virtually every wall. It was said, "Libya be free."
But in the middle of the faded opulence, Libyan expressed fear that their revolution has been losing ground on two fronts and could be reversed.
For many visitors, the underground dungeons were not only a chilling reminder of the brutality of the Gaddafi Government. They also foreshadows the terror that Gaddafi is able to impose in the future if his forces take the city, the second much more Libya.
"I feel nervous." Look what has happened in Zawiyah and Ras Lanuf, "said Gnaybor, 50, referring to two towns - the first in the West, the second in the east - forces that Gaddafi resumed in the last two days." "Everywhere we lose many people."
Al-Badri, 62 years old who came with her three daughters, said: "I expect anything of Gaddafi." He could bomb Benghazi, same use of chemical weapons. He refused to give his full name, for fear that it would fall if returned Gaddafi.
"What is America waiting for?" he continued. "Until that Gaddafi manages to kill the Libyan people?"
Concerns of Benghazi
Of all the cities who have rebelled against Gaddafi, Libyan Benghazi is more waiting will pay the full made his anger if he maintains his grip on power. Populist revolution three weeks of the Libya was born here, and he managed to reach the threshold of power Gaddafi nexus in the West of the Libya with his brief resumption of Zawiyah, 30 km from the capital, Tripoli.
Benghazi is also the headquarters of the Libyan National Council, a 31-member body which seeks to replace the Gaddafi regime.
In 1996, prisoners estimated 1,200 who had protested Qaddafi rule were killed in Tripoli's Abu Salim prison. Many were Benghazi. These memories of savagery has helped trigger the revolt.
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