two Libya worries

Things seem to be going basically better in Libya for the anti-Qaddafi forces, but here are two worrisome notes.

1731: Libya’s former Interior Minster Gen Abdel Fattah Younes al-Abidi, who defected last week, has told Al-Arabiyah that a “massive” pro-Gaddafi army convoy is heading towards Misrata. The town has no means to defend itself, he says, warning of a “real massacre”.

And this:

1733: More on the plight of sub-Saharan Africans in Libya, (see 1205 entry). William Guariento in Glasgow, UK writes: “I spent a month in Misurata, Libya in November. I was struck by the number of sub-Saharan Africans. Since hearing the many stories of ‘African mercenaries’, I have worried about these people. Who will protect them? If they don’t speak Arabic, who will be able to distinguish them from the foreign soldiers that Colonel Gaddafi is said to be employing to shore up his regime?”

I’m very worried about this too. A massacre of innocent Sub-Saharan Africans would do much to bring instant discredit upon an otherwise admirable revolution.