IN BANGHAZI, Libya, peering in an underground prison, Adil Gnaybor shuddered with fear. Rusted prison bars once were covered with Earth now available, dug up by rebels, the secret labyrinth of cells had discovered. The room was too small for Gnaybor's 5-foot frame, and a white tube provided the only source of air.
"If I go, maybe I die," said Gnaybor, staring into the hole.
Thousands of Libyans have arrived were a complex of palatial homes, known as the Katiba El Fadil bu Omar, where this port city remained while Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi visits. It is here that Gaddafi had also an underground prison.
The connection is perhaps the most vibrant symbol in East Libya of triumph over Gaddafi regime. Its houses have torched and looted. His regime to condemn graffiti is sprayed onto almost any wall. To tell "Libya will be free."
But in the midst of the faded opulence, Libyans was expressed fear that their revolution lost ground on two fronts and could be reversed.
For many visitors, the underground jails were not only a chilling reminder of the brutality of Gaddafi's Government. You indicated the terror, which can cause in the future, the Gaddafi if his troops the city recapture Libya's second largest.
"I feel nervous." Look what happened in Zawiya and Ras Lanuf, Gnaybor, 50, said refers to two cities - the first in the West, have the second in the East - in the last two days that Gaddafi's forces recaptured. "Everywhere we lose a lot of people."
Al-Badri, a 62, who came with his three daughters, said: "I expect nothing from Gaddafi." "He could bomb Benghazi, even with chemical weapons." He declined to give his full name, he would fear that targeted when Gaddafi returned.
He went on "what is America waiting?". "Managed to Gaddafi kill all Libyan people?"
Concerns in Benghazi
All cities that have revoltierte against Gaddafi, who expect most Libyans who will bear the full brunt of his wrath if he maintains his grip on power is Benghazi. Libya's three-week-old populist revolution was born here, and it managed to reach the threshold of Gaddafi's nexus of power in western Libya with short taking over the Zawiyah, 30 km from the capital Tripoli.
Benghazi is also the seat of the Libyan national Council, a 31 body that will replace the Gaddafi regime.
1996 Prisoners who had protested Gaddafi's rule were killed an estimated 1200 in the prison of Abu Salim's Tripoli. Many were from Benghazi. Such memories of savagery helped trigger the uprising.
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