7:56pm: Al Jazeera Arabic is speaking to a political activist in Tripoli, who tells us there are airstrikes "all over Tripoli".
"There is death, fear - and women are crying everywhere. The strikes are concentrated against areas that sent large number of protestors to the streets and there are cars full of foreign fighters firing on people."
He says at least 250 people were killed in the past 24 hours alone and is calling for international help. He tells us Tripoli is "under siege by foreign fighters" - that water and electricity have been cut and there is a shortage of food and medical supplies. "It is a genocide," he says.
7:45pm: The defected pilots reportedly tell Maltese officials they were based in Tripoli and ordered to attack protesters on the ground in Benghazi. After seeing their fellow pilots begin the airstrikes, they diverted course toward Malta. If substantiated, this would appear to confirm the use of airstrikes against civilian protesters in cities around the country.
12:26 p.m. ET - Ibrahim Dabbashi, Libya's deputy ambassador to the United Nations, told reporters that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has declared war on the Libyan people and is committing genocide.
Immer wieder dringen Meldungen von desertierten Soldaten, Piloten und sogar Botschaftern nach außen. Die Tage des brutalen Gaddafi Regimes scheinen gezählt zu sein - hoffentlich. Gerüchten zu Folge sei Gaddafi auf den Weg nach Venezuela.
- Daily Mail - Dictator on the run: Gaddafi has fled Libya and may be heading for Venezuela, says Foreign Secretary William Hague
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