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There were maggots coming out of my head (September 30th)

Shweyga Mullah the 30 year old Ethiopian nanny to Hannibal Gaddafi (son of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi) and his wife Aline Skaf has told of how boiling water was poured over her head after she had refused to physically discipline their misbehaving daughter. Mullah was found in a room of the families abandoned luxury villa on the seaside of western Tripoli, her body covered in weeping scabs from not having received satisfactory medical attention. Aline Skaf allegedly lost her temper at Mullah three months earlier when the daughter would not crying, she forced Mullah into a bathroom where she bound her hands and feet, taped her mouth, then poured boiling water onto her head. Without medical attention over the three months the wounds are described as a grotesque patchwork of mottled weeping scars.

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Mustafa Abdul Jalil the 58 year old former Minister of Justice under the Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi regime and Chairman of the National Transitional Council based in Benghazi, which controls much of the country in opposition to Gaddafi in Tripoli, has called for the imposition of a no-fly zone over Libya. The National Transitional Council wrote in a letter to the U.N. General Assembly for the transitional council to be recognized as “the sole representative of all Libya”. As this is the most formal request to date to the international community to provide assistance, the request carries significant weight. Jalil’s request is for immediate action on a no-fly zone to minimize further blood-shed of innocent citizens and those assisting to over throw the Gaddafi regime.

Inspired by CNN’s Ben Wedeman, Whitney Hurst, Nic Robertson, Chris Lawrence, Arwa Damon, Salma Abdelaziz, Jomana Karadsheh and Caroline Faraj ow.ly/4eJx0 image source Tara Todras-Whitehill of AP ow.ly/4fxuq