The Libyan Crisis From The Libyan Perspective
Libya is unlike Tunisia or Egypt where peaceful demonstrations caused Ben Ali and Mubarak to step down. Calls for demonstrations in Libya on 02/17/2011 on Facebook, but also calls for stability, including by the families of those killed on the same day in 2006 during a protest against Islamophobic cartoons in the European press.
Detailed description of demonstrations, counter demonstrations, violence and extremist militants becoming involved from 02/15/2011 onwards.