CAIRO — Libyan demonstrators battled security forces Wednesday in a rare public outpouring of anger at the nation’s longtime dictator, Moammar Khadafy.
The tumult in Bengazi, Libya’s second- largest city, erupted late Tuesday after the arrest of a prominent human-rights lawyer and raged past dawn Wednesday, according to news reports and accounts and videos posted online. There were also reports of security forces using live ammunition and water cannons, and of numerous injured protesters.
The Libyan protesters called for a “day of anger” today.
The unrest doesn’t appear to immediately threaten Khadafy’s rule, and the regime mobilized large pro-government crowds to counter the demonstrations. Khadafy was among a group of junior army officers who staged a bloodless 1969 coup against the monarchy. McClatchy Newspapers
