Blood runs thicker than wateron Libyan frontline focus 03/10/2011

Blood runs thicker than wateron Libyan frontline

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03/10/2011
RAS LANUF — Doctor Salem Langhi slices open the blood-soaked camouflage trousers of a wounded Libyan rebel and starts tending to a gaping red hole in the man’s leg.

Colleagues rush two persons into the emergency room on stretchers as ambulance sirens blare outside. One is unconscious with an apparent bullet wound to the head while the other is bleeding from the stomach.

Life and death are all in an afternoon’s work for the volunteer doctors at the hospital in Ras Lanuf, where a team of volunteers from rebel-held eastern Libya has braved the violence just a few kilometers (miles) away.

“We are spreading the love message. We’re volunteers and we’re with the same cause as these guys,” says Langhi, who in his normal life is an orthopaedic surgeon in Benghazi, the eastern Libyan town where the rebels are based..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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