Libya: At least 200 dead in Libya

BENGHAZI: A doctor in the Libyan city of Benghazi speaks his hospital has seen the dead body of at least 200 protesters killed by Moammar Gadhafi's forces over the last few days. The official spoke on condition of secrecy because he worries retaliation.

Witnesses told The Associated Press a mix of special commandos, foreign mercenaries and Gadhafi loyalists beaten demonstrators on Saturday with blade physical attack ransack and heavy weapons. Those protesters were interring 35 marchers who were slain Friday by government forces.

Benghazi has been a center of a six-day rebellion by Libyans enthused by uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia and aggravated by Gadhafi's more than 40 years of authoritarian rule.

The doctor said the hospital, one of two in Libya's second-largest city, is out of provisions and cannot treat more than 70 wounded who were hit in the attacks and need concentration.

"I am crying," the doctor said. "Why is the world not pay attention

Getting concrete details about the protests in Libya has been not easy because journalists cannot work liberally inside the country. Information about the uprising has come through telephone interviews, along with videos and messages posted online, and through resistance activist in banish.

The U.S.-based Arbor Networks reported another Internet service outage in Libya just before midnight Saturday night. The company says online transfer ceased in Libya about 2 a.m. Saturday, was restored at abridged levels several hours later, only to be cut off again that night.

People in Libya also said they can no longer make telephone calls on their land lines.

According to several accounts, police in Benghazi at first followed orders Saturday to act against the protesters, but later joined with them because they be in the right place to the same tribe and saw foreign mercenaries taking part in the killings.

"People are disobedient here and they are ready to die," said a women on the phone from Benghazi. She spoke on condition of secrecy for fear of reprisal, as did other witnesses.

Before Saturday's violence, Human Rights Watch estimated at least 84 people had been murder in anti-Gadhafi turbulence.

Abdullah said minor protests were staged Saturday night on the outskirts of the capital Tripoli, a stronghold of hold up for Gadhafi, but demonstrators were rapidly discrete by security men. Besides Tripoli and Benghazi, the nation's second-largest city, the U.S. State Department in a travel caution to American citizens listed five other cities that have seen demonstrations.