Libya: Massacres, Qaddafis 'turned away' & thousands of mercenaries ...

"... As many as 1,000 people have been killed in since the revolt began around a week ago, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said as world leaders scrambled to evacuate their citizens and disagreed on how to end the turmoil.
Also abandoning Gaddafi's realm have been officials and diplomats previously loyal to the veteran leader. A small Libyan airliner turned away from Malta on Wednesday was carrying a daughter of Gaddafi, Al Jazeera said from the European island....
An air force officer, Major Rajib Faytouni, said in Benghazi, the cradle of the revolt, that he had witnessed up to 4,000 mercenaries arrive on Libyan transport planes over three days starting from February 14, London's Guardian newspaper said.
"That's why we turned against the government. That and the fact there was an order to use planes to attack the people," he told the newspaper in Benghazi..."