http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/24/libya.trapped.journalists/ There's a video at the link.. Looks like the Khadifi loyalists are leaving.. Captive journalists walk free from Tripoli hotel Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Dozens of international journalists trapped in one of Tripoli's most glittering hotels for five days walked free Wednesday, ending what some were beginning to fear was a hostage situation. CNN Senior International Correspondent Matthew Chance called the experience a "nightmare" and "very frightening" after he got out of the Rixos Hotel. He said the journalists had been held "by crazy gunmen" waving Gadhafi flags and brandishing automatic weapons. Journalists wept with relief as they got out, he said from a car driving away from the hotel. All of the journalists were free, and none were injured, he said. The journalists crammed into four cars provided by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the BBC, he said. The "die-hard Gadhafi loyalists" who held them thought they were NATO spies, he said. On Tuesday, one shouted "I suppose you're happy now that they're killing Libyans," he recalled. The Rixos Hotel was one of the last pockets of Gadhafi control in Libya, Chance said. He described on Twitter the process of going free, piling into a car with other journalists, and driving away from the hotel that had become a virtual prison. "I can see the NTC rebels. We are nearly there!" he wrote, followed a moment later by: "Rixos crisis ends. All journalists are out!" http://edition.cnn.com/video/bestoftv/2011/08/24/exp.nr.chance.hotel.release.cnn.640x360.jpg
Foreign journalists are receiving front page coverage. One cant help thinking abt the thousands on thousands , Libyan civilians , who must be going through hell , trying to cope without running water , electricity, with families - children - elderly, unable to carry on with their daily lives for fear of crazy gunmen shooting at each other . Fathers, unable to go to work , do shopping to feed their children. I heard one man , near tears, tellling how difficult it is to carry on with his life under the present donditions. According to some reports , the majority of Iraqis today, say that life was better during Saddam's dictatorship, than under the american imposed "Democracy". - the damage to most Iraqis cannot be undone. Sad. ...
Well.. the journalists are there to tell the world what is happening in Libya.. Keeping them confined at gunpoint at the Rixos hotel is dirty pool.
