Groups opposed to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi say they are in control of most of the eastern part of the country and plan to keep pushing until the current government is gone. The opposition says there is no room for compromise.
The uprising that is sweeping Libya began in the east. After days of violence, the region is now trying to restore some sort of order for itself. Among those helping is Rabie el Mahdi Majid, a former policeman who switched sides to protest the government crackdown.
Majid says the government is not here, only national committees. He says the organizers of this new, non-Gadhafi-led region “represent discipline for us and for the state.”
In Musaid, near Libya’s border with Egypt, civilians have taken up arms to create what they hope will be an alternate to the state created in 1969 by Mr. Gadhafi. This young man, dressed in a hoodie and carrying a Kalishnikov rifle, argues that if the man known as the brother-leader had allowed peaceful demonstrations, this would never have happened.
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