For American hiding in Libya, ‘It feels like a war zone’

In Libya a young American woman is trying to deal with the recent uprising and protests that surround her each day. Iman is staying at her in-laws house when all of these events started to happen. Some nights gunfire consumes the night while other nights red balls of fire shoot through the dark sky. She says that it feels like a war zone each and every day. The Libyan government has been using scare tactics to keep the citizens of Libya in a constant state of fear. Rumors swirl through the country about what some people think is happening. One day a rumor was spread that Gadhafi had been taken over by protesters, but that rumor was quickly put to rest as more and more rumors were started of air raids and warnings for people to stay inside. Because of all this tension people are taking their own measures to protect each other by arming themselves with knives and pipes. Each day more and more people are shot because they are protesting Gadhafi and his ways. Iman says that she has no idea was Gadhafi will do next because he is so unstable. And because of this she is not planning on leaving her home country until this is all over.

The situations all over the world of countries trying to overthrow their government have consumed the news these past few weeks. It seems so unreal that there are nations that are basically going through a revolution, because not much of this have really happened in my lifetime. What I really want to know is what set all of these nations off all of a sudden? I mean, just in the past 3 weeks 6 countries have started protesting their government and one has managed to overthrow their leader. Will the unrest continue until all the governments are overthrown? What will happen if the rest of the governments are not overthrown? I really think that this could be bad for these nations. They have been run by these rulers for so many years and there is no way that these rulers are going to give up their post without a fight. And because they have so much power these rulers probably won't ever give up their post and the country will basically end up in a civil war between the people and the government. I believe that this situation will change dramatically within the next few weeks and I really hope its not a war.

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