What is going down - updates here please

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/20 … middleeast

Let me explain:
The whole reason I am posting is to give information "as accurately as I can make" to fellow members of this forum because I would hate to think they are are left in the dark because they are stuck indoors with no communication tools.

the internet service "wimax" is still on albeit throttled but none the less possible

the information I give is what i think is plausible.

If fellow members especially the ones that i am familiar with and have followed for the past year or so ask me to stop giving out information I am more than happy to stop
I would like to stress that I am putting myself at risk for doiig this because there is still a risk I can be tracked down? maybe? but I dont care I want to help.

Please be safe

Libyan embassador to Uk resigns and joins the protesters outside - Confirmed

Hi there;
I m a journalist here at RFI Radio France Internationale in Paris, the Spanish Newsroom, I m trying to talk with someone there in Tripoli or Bengazi about the situation there. Idealy in spanish but in english might work also, anyone would like to answer a few questions? Thanx a lot to everyone and take care

Mariano Melamed

ExpatLibyan wrote:

If fellow members especially the ones that i am familiar with and have followed for the past year or so ask me to stop giving out information I am more than happy to stop

I, for one, appreciate your efforts.  It is very unnerving for those of us with friends & loved ones in Libya to feel so cut off from everyone and unable to help.

Hello guys,

hope you are save. We are out of tripoli since this morning. The airport was working very slow and getting more and more crowded.

Austrian embassy is evacuating everybody. Tomorrow at 17.00 is the next flight with a hercules from Tripoli airport. Try to contact sutrian embassy.+218-21-4443-379
+218-21-4443-393
4000 turkish labor keep waiting in Benghazi Hugo chavez stadium. Similar situation in Beyda, Al jula, Tajoura.
Turkish goverment send to ferry boats and 1 fregatte as escort for evacuation 1200 people. Frequently add flights to istanbul are organised.

Hi,

I work for the Irish television programme Prime Time.  We are very interested in talking to any Irish people still in Libya or anyone who can upload current video footage to our youtube site. 

My email address is [email protected]

Thank you and best wishes,

Ronan
00447752 600948

Very high caliber gunshots must be from a tank or navy vessel near the coast around horse racing stadium.

try this site.. updates of what is happening are posted here: http://www.libyafeb17.com/

keep safe everyone... may God be with us all..

My co. have gathered staff at one location. We all try to leave tomorrow to various locations.

I hope we're all back here soon just to bitch about the traffic.

On on.

I wish you all safe travel!

Two libyan fighter jets have defected to Malta  both pilots have refused to bomb Tripoli.   Confirmed by pictures and eye witnesses,   

Libyan diplomats also coming out condeming all this.

To all forumers stay inside and keep safe, hopefully this will soon be over.

The area between Ben Ashour and the cost line is a complete warzone right now. The sky is surrounded by tracer bullets. We can hear bullets flying over our roof in Ben Ashour area.

People do not go on roofs outside in this area, lost bullets might hit you!

Be safe everyone who's still here.

The Deputy Libyan ambassador  at the UN has demanded the colonel to step down,

It seems that the army has the order to bomb Benghazi in 2 hours!

I m hearing shot from somewhere. I dont know where is the place exactly but people do not stay close the windows.

Libyan airspace has been closed! An Austrian airplane is waiting to depart but has no permission.

We are living in absolute terror tonight, as we hear of massacres being carried out across most districts of tripoli and we have no way of contacting family and friends. Tripoli in under psychological seige

To Expat Libyan,

With the greatest respect  I suggest you do not post like this based on heresay etc. it is not thing to to do. if you want to give such information give it to tv type chanells.

This thread is  for all people just now in libya and there friends and families  outside.

Only post confirmed facts that will give the people sitting in there houses advice on developments.   

This is a time for cool calm  posts,   that can give comfort and help for the people.  To keep everybody in the loop with factual information and advice on events so it helps them

So for all folks in libya keep safe you are in all our thoughts who are not there.

To Scots Lad
I am so sorry my posts have upset you.
I thought I was very careful not to be alarmist but there you go.
I must be imagining the terror currently felt by every child, woman and man in my neighbourhood expecially when we keep hearing gun fire not to mention the pictures we see on our screens from the past few days.
btw I have conciously not posted 95% of the heresay stories i hear and rightly so.

To expats currently in Libya

Please don't be too alarmed as long as you stick to the advice given by your embassies and use common sense. If you need supplies I would suggest you get help from your libyan contacts as things might get tense over the coming days.

Be safe everyone

The Justice minister has just resigned.
Libya closed air space
Gaddafi is going to speak shortly

ExpatLibyan wrote:

The Justice minister has just resigned.
Libya closed air space
Gaddafi is going to speak shortly

I have not seen much of untrue things posted by expatlibyan. Please keep on posting.
we are all very much concerned.
be safe folks whatever that means

To expat libyan,

I been through something similar in baku & Tbilisi, ie happening right under my apartment,  so what is needed is calm precise posts,  for the many people of this forum in there homes just now.

Also for there families and friends outside libya.  I to have friends inside Tripoli just now, and am in the process of moving there.

So thats why I ask.

We have a guy in the Al-Waddan who we can skype with from time to time.  Apparently the regime has hired African mercenaries to shoot people indiscriminately.  He saw them on the streets in Tripoli.  Presumably to distance the shooters from the government.

I hear you scots Lad.
btw it has been raining in Tripoli for the past 2 hrs

According to the BBC, Gaddafi has just appeared briefly, wearing a stupid hat and holding an umbrella whilst sitting in a car with a huge mic in it.
All he said was i am not in venzeuala i am in tripoli.
Bizarre

alpha-q wrote:

...expat libyan is giving a very accurate report, why the phuck do you have to interupt or criticize the effort of a libyan national doing his best to keep the others informed ( not just you ) ?!? so sit tight, and if you don't like what you read, go on to some other forum to entratain yourself, or better yet, step outside !!!

I am grateful to expatlibyan...please keep on posting.
How about the airstrikes over Tripoli (as reported in NYtimes), is it true? or is it only in Bengazi?
Also another question, since you were kindly translating seyf's speech yesterday: did he say anything negative about Turks (as reported in Turkish media)?
Please continue,
and now that we lost all contact with my husband, thank you indeed

Please.  We have a Canadian loved one living and working in Tripoli who we have not heard from in 18 hours.  The Canadian gov't emergency # is not answering.  Does anyone have suggestions/information/tips on how I can get information?  Anything would help.  Thank you.

I need info on the situation... Anone on line or reachable by phone?

I am in Janzour, the phones are working for local calls intermittently and everyone is ringing around checking on each other. Everyone seems safe, I have not heard of any expats being hurt.
We have not heard any bombings but we did hear brief spurts of gunfire last night.

Driving around during the day doesn't seem to be a problem.

There are thousands of workers stuck in the desert, I've spoken to a couple and they are staying put for now. There is major looting of equipment going on but the workers seem fine.

The Radisson in Tripoli centre was attacked last night but nobody was hurt.

The airport is chaotic and nobody knows if the planes will come in today.

Sandman6 wrote:

rensei wrote:

i have many friends over in Libya, especially tripoli, who i am unable to get in contact with because of the black out, internet and phone, but yet he is able to post?

Many of the larger western companies have their own VSAT based communications systems which are unaffected by the regime's black-out of LTT etc. Perhaps he has access to one of these?

Not true, even the VSAT systems are intermittent confirmed!

To Expat Libyan:

I have just arrived back from Tripoli.

If you want to give accurate information to people, please go out to the street and then report. Stop spreading panic here as many people have their friends and families in Libya. They should be safe as long as they are inside their houses. Hope evacuation will take place for everyone soon.

Are there any updates on the airport at Tripoli or is there any way to get any information?  Are any flights going out today?

Hi

if someone there knows what is happening or is witnessing first hand pls write news about it on user news site www.tvinx.com

If you add some photos or videos, even better. Let us know what is happening

To rubyroo,

Scots lass,  The information although not clear is tripoli airport is still open.  suggest you sit tight in your house your company / embassy contact you.

No outgoing flights. Thousands of people standing outside in front of closed doors. Our people are there too. This was the situation 30 mins ago. Hard to get connection with them.

Scots Lad

Thanks for that, I'm in Scotland, my husband was due to fly out from Tripoli this morning, but looks like his flight was cancelled, unable to make any contact...

Rubyroo, 

dont worry everything will be ok,  Shipwrecked has posted on the airport just now.

Latest update!
Our people past customs and are waiting to board. Flight do depart but with delay.
Airport is open!