Als ze de zenders dan meteen ff meegeven aan de Marine…
Maar goed, da’s allemaal fantasie.
Dit vond ik op de site van CNBC:
BENGHAZI, Libya - When Muammar Gaddafi demanded to make a speech in the middle of the night, engineers at Benghazi’s state radio station were terrified. If a hastily arranged broadcast had problems it could cost them their lives.
Since anti-Gaddafi forces shook off the “Brother Leader’s” four-decade rule in the eastern third of the country, broadcasters in Libya’s second city have been euphoric at the chance to say what they want for the first time.
The station—renamed “Voice of Free Libya” by the broadcasters—is now trying to counter remaining state media by spreading word of the revolt to their countrymen and playing songs about freedom to keep spirits high.
“They (Gaddafi’s men) would call you by telephone and tell you ‘Come now’ at 3:00 or 4:00 a.m.—anytime. ‘Come by car, leave your house’. If there were any problems in the studio, maybe you wouldn’t see the light of day again,” said Abubakr Boukhatallah, the station’s chief engineer.
“We worked here with so much fear,” he said. “Now there is freedom, I can say anything I want.”
Posters advertising the aims of the “17th of February Revolution” line the walls of the station. Medium-wave transmitters, some dating back to the 1960s, now broadcast revolutionary “communiqués” and the songs of Egyptian icon Umm Kalthoum as far as Algeria and Syria.
The state has tried to jam the station’s signal by broadcasting on the same frequency and has bombarded Libyans with propaganda denouncing the popular uprising, the broadcasters said.
Hmm…
“back to the 60’s”..
