Hundreds of angry Libyans violently stormed the transitional government’s headquarters in the eastern city of Benghazi on Saturday, looting office supplies as the country’s interim leader was trapped in the building.
Protesters broke through the gates at the National Transitional Council’s headquarters by throwing hand grenades and storming the grounds of the building, banging on doors and demanding to speak to government officials.
The NTC chief Mustafa Abdul-Jalil tried to calm the mob by addressing the crowd from a second-floor window, but protesters threw botttles at him and then torched his armored Land Cruiser and broke into the headquarters, smashing windows and carting off furniture and electronics.
Protests in Benghazi have been on the rise in recent weeks as people have expressed disdain for a new set of laws drafted without consulting the public. “The election laws have not been approved by thousands of Libyans and do not honor those who died for our freedom,” said Tamer al-Jahani, a lawyer taking part in the protest. “We don’t want to replace one tyrant with another.”
The protests are another example of the failure of the interim government to get control over the country. Disparate groups of militias that remain organized in independent and defiant brigades throughout the country have been attacking each other and demanding top roles in government.
One protester on Saturday told the Associated Press that the NTC has ignored the fighters who helped ousted Gadhafi and added “It seems to us that these people are no different than Gadhafi and they only speak the language of force.”
…and if this Libyan "government" is overthrown, the Banksters will buy the next guy (or his lieutenants) and you'll still have more of the same. That's what history tells us. At any rate, until we here at the seat of the empire are living and breathing the conditions the power elite have perpetrated upon the rest of the world, nothing will change. You have to cut the arteries of blood money that are pumped from The Fed, then get far out of the way as Leviathan thrashes about in its final death throes.
It'll be ugly, not that it has to be, but I expect it.
Can we expect the "humanitarian interventionists", with their supposed aim of bringing "democracy", to support the new people's rising?
It will not be long, the libyans will miss Kadhafi's Libya..
liveload: No. This time, the public seems to do the overthrowing – not foreign forces. That is where real revolution begins.
So, the Libyans are already fed up with the "liberating" regime change? They should have thought much more carefully about the Devil's bargain peddled by NATO before they signed on, because that contract, in all its non-liberating aspects, will be enforced and shoved down their throats. They are no longer the masters of their destiny.
Maybe it was the ones in power now that had invited NATO? Thought they'd pull a fast one on all the grunts on the ground. Just a thought…
”It seems to us that these people are no different than Gadhafi and they only speak the language of force.”
Ha ha ha ha. You thought the bankers, the U.S. and NATO cared about you, representative democracy or liberty? Ha ha ha ha.
You wanted to rely on the IFM, World Bank and the US Federal Reserve and now they own you. I mean own you as in you are now their slaves.
Now you will find out how much worse than Gadaffi the Zionists elements are that now hold the Libyan peoples' lives in their hands without any respect to sovereignty.
They ought to execute any individual committing treason against the people of Libya.
I would not be surprised if libya is soon run by another ghadaffi
the idiots in europe and USA basically wrecked the country