"There's never been anything like this before." That's what I heard a Libyan ex-pat named Ahmed say when he called into the BBC radio program "World Have Your Say" today. And indeed, in the 40+ years that Moammar Gadhafi has been in power in Libya, the BBC reports there has never been an uprising against the Gadhafi regime like the one going on now.
The news breaking out of Libya right now is really, really powerful stuff. It seems the pilots of two Libyan jets who were ordered to fire upon protesters defected to Malta, rather than kill their fellow Libyans. The Los Angeles Times reports:
According to the L.A. Times, the two pilots were high-ranking colonels in the Libyan military. Does this mean Gadhafi's stranglehold on power is slipping?
