As relatives buried their dead, they fell victim to a mixture of special commandos, foreign mercenaries and Gadhafi loyalists armed with knives, Kalashnikovs and even anti-aircraft missiles trying to quell the demonstrations, witnesses said.

libya is probably the very most problematic regime and the most problematic situation now. it's already a bloodbath, and could become kind of unimaginable. the protesters are begging for foreign intervention. were i nato or something, i believe i might try to give it to them, or at any rate express a direct threat to gadhafi.

“We are expecting a massacre,” Ali Abdallah said. “We are sending an SOS to the international community to step in.” Without international efforts to hold back Qaddafi, “there were be a bloodbath in Libya in the next 48 hours.”

you know, now's a little chance for david cameron and hillary clinton to throw down a little payback for that al-megrahi fiasco, to say nothing of the lockerbie bombing itself.