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Misurata Libya: Mohamed Saad

Lonely Desert Dept: Everybody is leaving, said Mohamed Saad, 28, a lean, curly-haired construction worker who had spent roughly 12 hours on the road through northern Libya on an overnight drive from Benghazi, Libya s second largest city, according to The Star. Anti-government forces, a mix of demonstrators and mutinous army personnel, have taken reportedly control of Benghazi and Misurata, Libya s second and third largest cities, but Gadhafi supporters still rule the streets of the capital Tripoli and oN THE EGYPT-LIBYA BORDER Tens of thousands of fearful Egyptians streamed into this lonely desert border post Tuesday, fleeing violence in Libya and carrying whatever they could manage. More than 1 million Egyptians live and work in Libya, and tens of thousands have fled the country overland in the past three days by far the largest component of a mounting exodus of foreign nationals from the country, where dictator Muammar Gadhafi is fighting to hold on to power in the face of huge public resistance. As reported in the news.
@t muammar gadhafi, benghazi libya