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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/gaddafi-bids-to-quell-libya-unrest.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Moammar Gaddafi has sent forces on the streets of Libya in a bid to calm unrest amid protests calling for his ejection (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-gaddafi-bids-to-quell-libya-unrest.jpg" alt="Moammar Gaddafi has sent forces on the streets of Libya in a bid to calm unrest amid protests calling for his ejection (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Moammar Gaddafi&#8217;s regime in Libya has deployed security forces throughout the country and warned citizens against joining the unrest in which dozens of protesters have been killed.</p>
<p>Demonstrations against Gaddafi&#8217;s rule have erupted in several Libyan cities this week, especially in the east of the country, and the US-based Human Rights Watch said that 24 people have died in the unrest.</p>
<p>The wave of pro-democracy protest that has swept across the Middle East has brought unprecedented pressure on leaders like Gaddafi, who have held virtually unchecked power for decades.</p>
<p>The man who has controlled Libya since 1969 rode in a motorcade through the capital Tripoli on Thursday and, according to eyewitnesses, also sent out forces across the country.</p>
<p>Witnesses in Beyida and Zentan, 75 miles south of Tripoli, said &#8220;special militia&#8221; units called Khamis Brigades were deployed in their cities.</p>
<p>In Beyida, local police &#8211; who are in the same tribe as residents &#8211; allied with protesters and prevented attacks from the militia, according to a witness and Mohammed Ali Abdullah, deputy leader of the exiled National Front for the Salvation of Libya.</p>
<p>In Zentan, a female eyewitness said a Khamis Brigades unit attacked the city after protesters set fire to police stations and sprayed graffiti on the walls that read: &#8220;Down with Gaddafi.&#8221;</p>
<p>Residents of Tripoli, where small protests took place in central districts, said they received a text message to their mobile phones which warned people &#8220;who dare to violate the four red lines&#8221; &#8211; which include Gaddafi himself, national security, oil and Libyan territory, one woman who received the message said.</p>
<p>Armoured vehicles roamed the streets chasing protesters, according to the local eyewitness, while helicopters hovered low over demonstrators&#8217; heads.</p>
<p>And an editorial in the Az-Zahf Al-Akhdar newspaper, regarded as a Gaddafi mouthpiece, also threatened demonstrators, saying: &#8220;Whoever tries to violate them or touch them will be committing suicide and playing with fire.&#8221;</p>
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