Tuesday, August 23, 2011

The journalists NOT AT the Rixos Hotel that can find a way to bring attention to their peers....

Journalists sit it out in a hallway as gun battles continue around the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli, Libya.(Dario Lopez-Mills / Associated Press / August 23, 2011)




Behind his aviator shades, (click title to entry - thank you) the driver of the silver sedan had that hired-killer stare as he pulled up alongside our minibus. He kept pace as the bus, ferrying 13 journalists away from Libya's crazed capital in June, lurched toward the sanity of post-revolutionary Tunisia. He pointed his rifle directly at us.

We dived for the floor or crouched down in a pathetic bid for cover, but there was no escape: The Kalashnikov rounds would penetrate the bus' skin like hot arrows tearing through papier-mache....

...at the Rixos Hotel would be best to approach some commander or trusted military agent to ask them to please not kill every journalist in the building.  They might ask to negotiate a settlement with TRAPPED loyalists to Kadafi.  The loyalists could be allowed to exist the hotel, unarmed and without retribution so journalists that have supported the rebels can continued to do so.


If the loyalists will fight to the death there is little to no chance they will surrender to be prisoners of war.


BUT.


They might very well kill the hostages.