Huge news today:
- The defection and subsequent escape of Abdel-Salam Jalood el Megrahi, one of the biggest figures in the former Gedaffi government. It was common knowledge that Jalood defected at the start of the revolution, but 3 previous escape attempts from Tripoli were unsuccessful and he was put under house arrest for 6 months now. Today he escaped Tripoli via Nafusa mountains and is now in Zintan.
- Most of Zliten has been liberated by both Misrata and Zliten rebels. There are only a few more areas in Zliten for it to be fully liberated. Khoms city which is next to Zliten already started rebelling against Gedaffi forces already in anticipation of Zliten and Misrata rebels joining them.
- The biggest news is that there are reports of Abu Slim prison being liberated and all the prisoners let out. Abu Slim prison is the worst prison in Libya, it is also the prison where the infamous Abu Slim massacre happened in 1996. Prisoners in Abu Slim are mostly prisoners of opinion, ie they are people who were opposed to the Gedaffi regime. This is huge news, not only because of its significance and not only because its the largest and worst prison in Libya, but also personally for me, because i have very close relatives that have been there for years. They've been treated the worst treatment ever, my family is over the moon about this news, but there is no way to make sure if my relatives escaped as well or not, because Gedaffi's regime has cut off all communications in Tripoli for almost a month now.
The end is very near. Today, i along with over 500 other Libyans went to the Libyan consulate and put up the independence flag. The Libyan ambassador in the UAE is now officially appointed by the Transitional National Council of Benghazi. For the first time Libyans go to the consulate voluntarily, during Gedaffi time, it was used to spy on Libyans abroad, there was too much bureucracy etc. Things are changing to the better already for Libyans
