THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Libya is to be hit by a "Day of Anger" on Thursday as protests mount against the rule of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the latest leader to be engulfed by a wave of unrest spreading across the Middle East.Security forces in Libya's second city, Benghazi, were confirmed to have clashed with protesters who staged a sit-in to highlight the arrest of a lawyer. One hospital said 38 people were injured, none seriously.
The lawyer, Fethi Tarbel, represented some of the families of inmates killed in a notorious prison massacre in which more than 1,000 men died 15 years ago.
But the protest came shortly before a demonstration already announced on Facebook to commemorate the fifth anniversary of another incident, when 14 people were killed in a rally by Islamists, also in Benghazi.
According to one page, the day has been named "The February 17 Intifada: A Day of Strikes in Libya". According to another, it is a "Day of Anger" akin to ones which have already convulsed Egypt and Bahrain.
It is being publicised inside and outside the country, including by an internet rapper known as Ibn Thabit, whose YouTube video calls for an end to the "ignorant colonel". >>> Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent | Wednesday, February 16, 2011
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