after 30 years in exile due to the gaddafi regime, my father returned to libya ;)

i've been really absorbed with watching any news on libya as well as the internet that i have forgotten about my blog.

recently my parents came back from turkey after visiting the wounded and injured from misrata and benghazi, they where both amazed and proud of the youth they met, they came back with there heads high proud of what the youth have achieved.

many of the injured they spoke to where praising turkey and its hospitality, there has been some negative press on turkey's treatment of libyan patients, but i would say that over all the treatment has been very good to the extent that turks are now demanding that they receive the same level of treatment and care.

many of the these amazing men vowed that once they where better they would go back to liberate libya, and if injured again then they will heal and fight again and again and again, may god keep them safe these brave men of libya who have made us all proud and who have allowed the world to see the true libya.

will share some photos:this women had extensive operations on her legs and hips after she was crushed by a tank in her car trying to escape from ajdabeya

this little boy was injured with his father
this young boy lost an arm and an eye coincidently my dad met his friends son who was being treated for a gun shot wound in his stomach this little baby has had major injuries to his jaw, his parents where also victims of gaddafis regime burns victim

this brave man is from ajdabeya

this boy is itching to get back to libya to re-join the revoloution,

dad with this brave boy who showed my dad a photo of hisself with prime minister erdogan when he visited the injured

this young man has a bullet wedged in his spine and is paralysed waist down.

the cast proudly says misrata libya ;)

many of the patients despite there situation had high morals and my mum many times was crying and they would tell her to be happy and not cry, very brave people

what is up with the Algerian leader?

does he not realise what goes around comes around?

sending merceneries, tanks, fuel trucks, weapons and god knows what else to libya is by far one of the stupidest moves an arab leader has decided on.

and to send someone who will plan benghazi's destruction was not a wise move.

if he thought he would not be found out then who is he kidding?

helping gaddafi, the man is deluded, gaddafi will end and so will bu tifleega, the Algerians will turn on him soon if not now then later, the land of a million martyer.

and those Algerian merceneries coming into Libya, how dare they, how dare they kill the Libyans, there neighbours and fellow brethern, those captured should be dealt with severely.

with the events happening inside of Libya, my heart pounds a thousand times a minute with every emerging news concerning Libya, i sleep the news and i wake the news and everything in between is the news.

I'm constantly on facebook, twitter, google, aljazeera both arabic and english, and any other news outlet.

one minute we are celebrating news that the freedom fighters have taken this place, have destroyed gaddafi forces, etc... the next minute we are biting our nails when news emerges that gaddafi forces have surrounded this place, have killed this many freedom fighters etc...

with all this tension and stress one cant help but feel dismay and sadness, yet when you call people inside of Libya, you hear a totally different story, there spirits are high, they are full of hope and faith and by the end of the call you feel convinced that freedom is round the corner.

i have such admiration for these people whom i have come to call my hero's, for they are making history and they are changing regimes and they are the true libyans.

every time we make contact with libyans, our batteries are charged once again....

misrata

my original home town.

one that i may not be able to visit as it may not exist anymore due to gaddafi forces bombarding it constantly.

its a city that is full of memories for my father, he has always had the wish that he would one day return and bring those memories back to life, but will this be possible, will he even recognise it if he was to return?

the name misrata has gone down in history as a city full of angels, a city full of hero's, a city that stood up to forces that appear much stronger but have yet to break misrata.

the people in misrata are fighting for freedom, for there rights that we here in the west take for granted, and they are rewarded by turkey ignoring there plights (occasionally sending a ship) and NATO turning a blind eye, and others claiming al-qaida exists in Libya!

freedom fighters makes up misrata, backgrounds made up of business men, teachers, doctors, nurses, mechanics, not soldiers, or agents or al-qaida.

how dare the world point the finger at a people who have always been peaceful even to a leader who tormented them for 42 years.

when they decided enough was enough they expected the world to stand by them, the west has always claimed they are pro-democracy and freedom, but when push comes to shove they are no advocate of democracy instead its a case of 'what benefits us more'.

misrata walahi you are not forgotten, we will fight for your plight, we will spread the word, and place pressure on those who have the ability to change your situation, but more than that we will pray for you misrata...

i am so proud of the Libyan men, they have proven to the world that they are indeed lions of the dessert, the men of benghazi, bayda, derna, tobrok, breyga, ras lanuf, ajdabeeya, the men of zawia, zintan and misrata.

standing in only there sandals and in many cases, there fists in front of tanks, missiles, RPG's and the latest in weapons, so that Libya will be free is courageous and this courage has not been seen in a long time.

Gaddafi had literally made Libya invisible from the world but these men who are backed by glorious women have made Libya re-appear and it will never disappear, the true colours of Libya where shadowed and erased by gaddafi and his son's but since the 17th February, Libya's colours have grown brighter and brighter and the shadow that is gaddafi is quickly disappearing.

the soul of Libya is emerging once again, it hasn't been easy, thousands have died in order to cleanse Libya and there deaths have not gone in vain, the mothers of these martyrs can hold there heads up high for there sons are hero's.

long live Libya and may victory come very soon to the Libyans, my people....

yesterday was mothers day in the Arab world, and in Manchester we gathered together as women and children to stand in solidarity and remembrance of the martyrs and there mothers.

manchester protests in solidarity with Libya