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| Hostages held at Rixos Hotel in Tripoli |
| 2011-08-24 |
| Dozens of journalists and politicians, including around a dozen Britons, are being held hostage in Tripoli's five-star Rixos hotel by gunmen loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi. The building has been the base for the pro-Gaddafi television station in the Libyan capital and it is where foreign journalists reporting the regime's activities were forced to stay. Now, however, it appears they could be used as human shields in any last-ditch defence of the building by loyalists. There were unconfirmed reports that tunnels linked Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound to the Rixos, raising speculation that the deposed Libyan leader might be hiding close to the hostages. |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #4 BBC reports hostages were released 45 min. ago. One of the hostages mentioned that one of their former guards had been 'disarmed' and was weeping with fear. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-08-24 11:30 |
| #3 Please NO NOT DISTURB Dominque Strauss-Kahn and his maid. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-08-24 11:01 |
| #2 CBS News relates an account that Qadaffy had built a command center in the Rixos Hotel years ago and that it was connected to Bab al-Aziziya by a tunnel. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-08-24 10:56 |
| #1 It's BBC Narrativists. Weapons Free please lads. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-08-24 08:35 |