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Misrata has been under siege for two months now. Check out the video below and you'll see why:

And then there's this, from the NY Times Lede Blog covering the Libyan civil war:

While much of the international community’s attention has been focused recently on the dire situation for opponents of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in the besieged city of Misurata, his forces continue to attack protesters turned rebels in another city in western Libya, Zintan.

While some journalists and aid workers have been able to reach Misurata by boat to document the frequently deadly attacks there, Zintan, in the western Nafusa Mountains, has been largely cut off, forcing residents of the city to find ways to report on their own struggle.

One of those ways has been through a group Twitter account, OperationLibya, maintained by a group of Zintan’s revolutionaries. On Tuesday, the group’s only English-speaking member, Khalid Ahmed Alghirani, who wrote as Kalid Zalitin, reported that he had been seriously wounded:

These are and could be my last tweet. I am using sat net from Zintan hospital. Was injured in battle today. We have very few medicine.

We will not give up nor give in, its not about life anymore, its about human dignity and rights. All our followers.

All tweets will b in Arabic if I can’t make it. As am only English speaker here ATM. #freedom4libya #freedom4zintan #freedom4all

Several hours later, one of the blogger's colleagues announced that he had died.

And lastly, this video is from Syria, taken just as the shooting starts. It shows what it's like to run from the spray of gunfire as your government is trying to mow you down with machine gun fire. You can literally hear the whiz of the bullets as they fly by the running videographer:

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