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Protesters chant "Gaddafi you dictator! Your turn has come! Your turn has come!"
Libyan protesters prepare for 'day of rage'
In a country where public dissent is rare, plans for the protests were being circulated by anonymous activists on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and it was not clear if the demonstrations would materialise.
Libya has been tightly controlled for over 40 years by Muammar Gaddafi – who is now Africa's longest-serving leader – but the oil exporter has felt the ripples from the overthrow of long-standing leaders in its neighbours Egypt and Tunisia.
Though some Libyans complain about unemployment, inequality and limits on political freedoms, analysts say an Egypt-style revolt is unlikely because the government can use oil revenues to smooth over most social problems.
Witnesses and local media reported that several hundred people clashed with police and Gaddafi supporters on Tuesday night in the city of Benghazi, about 1,000km (600 miles) east of the Libyan capital.
Late on Wednesday evening, it was impossible to contact witnesses in Benghazi because telephone connections to the city appeared to be out of order.
State media reported there were pro-Gaddafi protests too across the country, with people chanting "We sacrifice our blood and souls for you, our leader!" and "We are a generation built by Muammar and anyone who opposes it will be destroyed!"
People posting messages on opposition website Libya Our Home, which is based outside the country, urged Libyans to protest and drew parallels with the uprising this month that toppled the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak.
"From every square in our beloved country, people should all come together in one city and one square to make this regime and its supporters afraid, and force them to run away because they are cowards," said a post from someone called Mustafa.
A Facebook page dedicated to the planned protest urged followers to "make it a day of rage in Libya".
Gaddafi says Libya does not need to import western concepts of democracy because it is run on his system - known as the Third Universal Theory - under which citizens govern themselves through grassroots institutions called popular committees.
Thursday is the anniversary of clashes on 17 February 2006 in Benghazi, when security forces killed several protesters who were attacking the city's Italian consulate.
Amnesty International voiced concern about a new crackdown. "The Libyan authorities must allow peaceful protests, not try to stifle them with heavy-handed repression," it said in a statement.
@'The Guardian'
Bahrain
nolanjazeera Dan Nolan
WARNING:horrific picRT @joshmull @StateDept @PJCrowley Still dont feel like making statement on Bahrain crackdown?
monaeltahawy Mona Eltahawy
Bahrain authorities launch surprise attack on protesters
Security forces in tiny but strategic Bahrain launched a brutal assault early Thursday against at least 1,000 defiant anti-government protesters, including children, camped out in tents in the capital's Pearl Square. At least two were killed and 50 hurt.
A barrage of tear gas canisters thundered across the square about 3 a.m. as dozens of police cars, armored security vehicles and ambulances converged on a makeshift tent city in the center of Manama that was beginning to resemble a smaller version of Tahrir Square in Cairo, where Egyptian protesters this month were successful in overthrowing their president.After a peaceful, festive evening, most of the protesters in Pearl Square were asleep when the attack began, witnesses said, noting that no steps had been taken to guard the area against the security forces, even though two people had been killed in clashes with them earlier in the week.
"They told us we had three days in the square," said one man as he ran from the scene. "And then they attack us on the second day."
As flashing blue police car lights cast an eerie strobe effect down side streets and a helicopter swooped overhead, packs of young men with bandannas covering their faces to thwart billowing clouds of gas fled the area, flashing V signs while shouting slogans and warnings...
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