Alleged rape in Libya: "My life is in danger"

Eman al-Obeidy crashed into a hotel in Tripoli, Libya, on 26 March and journalists said they were raped by nepotism loyalists.New: Eman al Obeidy says men used guns on their sodomizeNEW: she says she tried to leave Libya, but authorities have thwarted their attemptsNEW: her father asks the international community to come to his daughter aidAl Obeidy says she was interrogated for 72 hours after an interview with Eman al-Obeidy of a HotelWatch is drawn, the woman who claimed she was raped by forces loyal to the Libyan leader nepotism, on "Hurwitz customer", tonight at 10 pm ET.

(CNN) --Eman al-Obeidy, the woman, telling journalists in a hotel in Tripoli, you was beaten and raped by, forces loyal to the Libyan leader Moammar nepotism last month, is no longer in custody, but says that she still feared for their lives.

In two telephone interviews with CNN's "hurkunde," al-Obeidy spoke about her alleged abuse. Sometimes in tears, reminds alcohol defiant at other times, her men casting their eyes and repeated rifles, their sodomize. Said Al-Obeidy has since Libya left and, having nightmares attempts been stopped.

"My life is in danger, and I urge all human rights organisation... the truth and let me now leave." Am I here is hostages, "she said." "they have with me the death threat and I said never again me, prison, will leave if I go the journalists or parts you them something in Tripoli events."

Al-Obeidy, said they spent 72 hours under interrogation after the Tripoli hotel where she tried their alleged abuse journalists tell drawn is.

Interrogators poured water over her face and threw food during the relentless questioning, which ended only after it to prove, by a physician they have been raped, said al-Obeidy, was examined. "And when the test came, it ensures that I raped and tortured... then I was released."

She said the public statements made by a State TV anchor and Government officials, which first mentally ill her drunk and a prostitute, ruin their reputation. Al-Obeidy, said their spirits and morale is low and that she now has nightmares.

"them not me give a chance to respond," she said.

The attempt to discredit al-Obeidy as a promiscuous, un Islamic woman is based on the idea of sexual shame in a conservative Muslim society, where it is generally assumed that a woman who was raped has lost her honour, Mona Eltahawy said, Columnist in Arab and Muslim issues.

For a woman in such a society to submit to claim they were who raped no small thing is.

"No one would do that, if they have been raped, and in particular in a conservative society," said Eltahawy CNN.

Al-Obeidy broke into the Rixos while international journalists there breakfast had hotel in Tripoli on 26 March.

They told reporters that they had been taken by a checkpoint East of Tripoli, against their will for two days held and raped man of 15.

"they had tied my hands behind me, and they had tied my legs, and she would hit me while I was bound and bite me in my body." And she would pouring alcohol in my eyes, so I won't be able to see and sodomize you would me with their rifles, and she would go not let us to the bathroom. We were not allowed to eat or to drink, "she told CNN's" hurkunde, "speaking through a translator."

"A man would leave, and a different type." "He would to end and then another man come", said al-Obeidy.

She said another woman held captive, binding their hands and feet, could so to escape al-Obeidy.

She saw in March as CNN, al-Obeidy were broken legs and face and they had blood on their right inner of thigh. Their visible injuries appeared to support their claims, but CNN could not independently verify their history.

Government officials tried to subdue her, gerangelt with reporters in the process, and finally they dragged away.

Al-Obeidy said, it is no longer in prison, Government, and spent time with her sister. But she said that she can leave the House, where she is he as officials from the police or army pursued her.

She said if she tries to leave the House, officials hunt and take them to a police station. But police do not know what to do, since it is charged with no crime, and it is released with it.

It has abducted by nepotism been al-Obeidy said forces three painting-for the first time from the hotel, the second time, when she tried to escape, according to Tunisia last week and a third time on Sunday. She said the kidnapping Sunday and were accompanying threats try a police unit prevents their complaints, investigations.

Despite the danger, al-Obeidy said that the most important is her, that her voice reached the world.

"I want a Word to all of the locked in America, that we a peaceful people and we are not members of al-Qaeda to draw." We are a simple people and moderate Muslime--not extremism - and we need not expect for our freedom and would for something and "she said the most basic human rights that are denied to us."

Her father said Monday he has spoken with his daughter and asked the international community to get their help.

"It is what wrong." What can I do? I have no power to do. I call for the human rights and all international humanitarian movements to get involved and help us, "said Atiq Al-Obeidy."

CNN's "Hurwitz customer" spoke with al-Obeidy Sunday and Monday. CNN led a third phone interview with her Monday.CNN Saad Abedine contributed to this report.See Anderson Cooper 360 ° evenings 10 pm ET. Click here for the latest from hurkunde °.

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NATO Airstrike Kills alleged rebels in Libya

The deaths underlined the challenge, the Western allies and the rebels in default priority that reduce air attacks the forces of Colonel Muammar el-Gaddafi as the two sides mix in the combat zone along the front.

Perhaps in response to the Western air strikes, Gaddafi forces increasingly similar crashes which in combat in devices are what the rebels use, especially pickup trucks with machine guns or rockets mounted. The move makes it difficult even the fighters to distinguish a group from the other at the first glance.

"It is a mistake," said Abdul Hafidh Ghoga, the rebel main speaker. "Has nothing changed."

A rebel fighter was wounded in the airstrike, colleagues said rebels had thrown in the air moments before the attack.

"I knows why not," the rebel, Ali Abdullah Abubaker, said later from a hospital in Benghazi. "Maybe he had."

Later, Mr Abubaker is one of the aircraft seconds. "I saw something white," he said. "There was no sound."

His white pickup truck was set on fire, and he said that three of the four other men in the car were killed. Mr Abubaker, a college student studying political science, had burns on his face and was in his car, in the explosion ignited by balls hit.

A NATO spokesman in Brussels said the Alliance was reported and investigated.

"NATO reports of civilian casualties very seriously," said the spokesman. "But details are difficult to verify because we have no reliable sources on the ground for us."

The spokesman, who identified according to NATO policy, be added, "If someone is thrown when one of our aircraft, they have the right to defend themselves."

NATO said that it had conducted operations 148 airstrike in the last 24 hours.

The strike occurred after dark on Friday as rebels retake continued their efforts to Brega. The Gaddafi had to beat forward observers in artillery the desert outside of the city overlooking the street, enabling the crews superior in Brega, the rebel forces, as they tried to approach positioned.

A group of about four rebel trucks entered a no. Mans had land the close fight between the lines of the two websites, where she mixed with similar truck of militia Qadhafi. Several Allied strikes at the front were heard at 8:30 am.

Mr Abubaker said that the rebels had told me to search the area.

The men stopped for prayers to a section of road between Ajdabiya and Brega. Few seconds before the bombing, rebels drive a Mitsubishi truck with a machine gun mounted on the back retired in close to the Group and one - a man, Mr Abubaker knew - started the rebels throw the weapon into the air.

A rebel ambulance driver who arrived at the scene said about an hour later, he found only the blackened remains of the four vehicles and eight or nine are so badly burned and mangled by the explosion, that he could not determine the exact number.

"I saw the fire, and the body, eight or nine bodies," said the driver, Ahmed al-Ginashi. "they were completely burnt."

In the Hospital of Benghazi's said Brahim Fahim al-Oraybey, a 19-year-old rebel fighters, he was wounded in the explosion. His right leg was amputated below the knee, and he was burned hard shoulders and hands over his face, back.

He said, there were six vehicles, including an ambulance, to him in a convoy when the explosion struck. He was in a white pickup truck with a machine gun mounted on the back favorite combat configuration the rebels as well as Colonel Qadhafi forces riding. He said he saw a local shepherd who lost both arms in the explosion, but his fate was unclear.

Speculated to the scene of the bombing rebel fighters that Colonel Qadhafi infiltrated forces the rebel lines and fired on the aircraft had, or that celebrates rebels shoot that allies had drawn to fire weapons into the air.

Kareem Fahim reported from Benghazi and C. j. Chivers of Brega, Libya. David D. Kirkpatrick contributed reporting from Tripoli.

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