Libyan protesters defy crackdown

Despite state-organised rallies in support of Muammar Gaddaffi, thousands of pro-democracy protesters defy a security crackdown to demand an end to his 42-year rule.

Videos posted online claim to show demonstrators setting fire to the police headquarters in the eastern city of Benghazi.

Al Jazeera speaks to an eyewitness who describes seeing protesters shot dead by Gaddaffi loyalists.

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[fzs12]

@eflip1 what ever made you think that? he is a dictator, and he is pretty brutal especially back in the 80's. he has hanged his own people for going against the government, and has tortured and killed many political prisoners in prisons. there is a reason Reagan called him the "mad dog of the Middle East". he makes Mubarak (egypt) and Ben Ali (tunisia) look like saints.

[kobadelhi]

hmm.. it's never a really big crowd of the rebel group. makes me wonder if it's staged

[iRentallyMetarded]

@zzukizzz

another american that believes the lies of the government

[Andrewx51]

They will fall, Libya will be green again

[MEGIDIOT]

this is when it all started. God bless the revolutionaries

[12TabulaRasa12]

interesting topic

[yaraavell]

@redhat123456789 how come?

[footiebeanz]

Bloody load of crap and al jazeera are pathetic shills

[butter2506]

nobody is admiring this FIASCO !!

[worldwidewobble]

Maybe you satanical Pislamicals need to get it together & have big major worldwide religious revolution once n for all!!!!!

Is not just that Micky Mubarak & Qaddaffy~duck you stupid fuckwits need to overthrow...but that bag of pigshitty old allah the fake moongod & his child molesting prophet mohammad should also be sacked on the spot before they get you into anymore trouble by dragging all your sick n sorry brainwashed souls down into depths of hellsfire!

[JDubs878]

These people are dying for nothing. You can bet your ass that they are simply trading one dictator for another. Its going to be like kicking out Hitler and welcoming a Stalin.