“They are specifically targeting the areas where international journalists are, to sow panic here. NATO has done all the heavy work.  This is a NATO war. They heavily bombed cities west of [Tripoli], they’ve bombed all night, without even 10 seconds of stopping.  They have bombed this entire city and NATO landed the insurgents on the coast of Tripoli.”-Mahdi Nazemroaya, independent journalist

The reporter was giving a live report for the Russian media, he said he and all the journalists staying at the Nixos hotel were being shot at by NATO and rebel forces.  Gunshots could be heard in his live report from the hotel.

Pro-Gaddafi hotel staff grabbed guns and fought off the rebels: “More members of the hotel staff have returned with guns.  Obviously they have been fighting.  These are volunteers, not soldiers.  They returned with a picture which is not a picture of loss and they are confident.”

Nazemroaya says he and other journalists were told by U.S. and other Pro-western news organizations, like CNN and al Jazeara, not to mention al-Qaeda, or they would be killed.  He says many of the “western” journalists are not true journalists, but ‘security guards’ working to intimidate independent journalists.