MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Libyan begs NATO to save his small town
By artappraiser on Sat, 05/21/2011 - 9:37pm |By Nic Robertson, CNN, May 21, 2011
The man in front of me clasping a new satellite telephone tells me he has an urgent message. He's just received a call from his hometown warning him Moammar Gadhafi's forces are on the verge of overrunning it and he's desperate for NATO to do something about it. Mohammed, as he wants to be known, is a middle-aged, middle-class professional.
He says he walked out of al Galaa, population 16,000, under cover of darkness three weeks ago on a harrowing two-night trek to break the siege and bring word of their suffering. It's been his mission ever since, and tonight is no exception....
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Gadhafi has switched to more effective rockets, man says
- Town's water poisoned, people used as shields, man says
- NATO, he says, "could end the siege in two hours"
URL:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/05/21/libya.small.towns/
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