Fear grows as Mummar Gaddafi hangs on

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Scores of young men who felt able to protest a few days earlier when he had looked vulnerable were arrested in night-time raids. Parents have not been told where their sons are held.

"We were all in our beds sleeping when the secret police broke through our door," said Ali, a mechanical engineer, whose sons, aged 17 and 19, were taken at night with other young men from the Tajura district in eastern Tripoli.

He described how a dozen pickup trucks and 4WDs had swarmed into his street at 1am. His teenagers had been blindfolded and led into the darkness. "We do not know what prison they are in," he said. "We hear they are probably with the intelligence force."

Secret police raided homes in Tajura and Fashloom almost nightly last week, residents said. Both working-class areas have been hotbeds of rebellion. After Friday prayers on February 25, five people were shot and killed in Tajura and two in Fashloom.


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