Libya protests: 'Now we've seen the blood our fears have gone'

Mercenary attacks fail to deter anti-Gaddafi protests as people tell of bloodshed despite the news blackout

A police station on fire in Tripoli’s Friday market square. Anti-Gaddafi demonstrators were said to have taken over parts of the Libyan capital yesterday. Photograph: YouTube

As determined demonstrators against Gaddafi headed to the vast, palm-tree fringed Green Square in central Tripoli on Monday, protesters talked of the gathering as the "new Tahrir Square".

Inspired by Egypt's revolution, they vowed to sleep out in the centre of Libyan's Mediterranean port capital there until "the job was done" and the Libyan dictator had fled.

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