Correspondent for The New York Times, Robert Worth reports from a free zone in eastern Libya. Witnesses there say that early Wednesday morning, mercenaries attacked people on the ground and while forces also used airstrikes on unarmed Libyans. “There is a lot of anger,” says Worth. He describes the pro-Democracy fighters as a “rag tag blend of ordinary people and soldiers.”
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