NY Times: “Libya’s Bloody Road to Freedom”

Azza Kamel Maghur writes in The New York Times on the situation in Libya on Saturday, specifically on what was happening in Al Sarim Street in Tripoli, which is located between Nasr Street and Al Jumhuriyya Street.

A typically calm street, Maghur writes that last Saturday “the call to prayer began from the minarets of the Ben Nabi and Buhmeira mosques after sundown and continued to ring out for longer than usual– a signal to take to the streets.”  As men ran out of their houses, they chanted, “God is great, God is great, thanks be to God,” Maghur says.

In regards to the situation in Libya last weekend as rebels advanced into Tripoli, Maghur writes, “Last weekend, all along Al Sarim Street, martyrs fell victim to the bullets of cowardly snipers hiding on the roofs of buildings, fighting for their freedom tooth and nail as they broke their city’s humiliating blockade. They fell on the street right in front of their mothers and fathers, who stood on balconies and doorsteps, bidding them farewell with cries and prayers.”