As we fought with the Egyptian border authorities to get to Libya as the first medical convoy, Libyans treated us as heroes, especially when they found out from the media that we suffered to get to them, they have been generous, kind and warm to us .

We “The first medical convoy” visited Albidaa City first , which had seen several clashes between protesters and the security and guardian units of Gaddafi. That was Feb22, 3:20 am. There the hospital was very active at that time, doctors and nurses were on their feet the whole day. The hospital management organized a tour for us. The ICU (Intensive Care Units) was fully loaded with patients wounded with gun shot injuries, most of them were in coma. I noticed that most of the gun shots was targeting the head, the chest and the abdomen. I saw 2 kids, 15 and 17 year olds, also a handicap “who lost his right arm in an accident years ago” who had been shot in the chest .

I had a chat with Dr.Mahmoud ………….. who is the hospital assistant manager. He showed me other types of gun shot wounds, “rounded , clean, inlet, and destructive outlet, destroying the bone, tissue and organs soon as the bullet penetrates the body”.

At the hospital Hall of Albidaa city, I met with a young Libyan army officer who joined the protesters and was now taking part in guarding the hospital. He showed me the different types of bullets that had been used against the un-armed peaceful protesters, which as he said ” those 2 types of bullets I know and we use, but this one is different. It penetrates, burns and then explodes inside the body, and it is -as he claims- forbidden in war. He also revealed a huge slug the locals call 14.5” which is meant for cars and vehicles .

We left Albidaa hospital after i gathered some medical information about what they need from specialists and medical supplies. As I also gave them advice to empower their Infection Control policies to be more restrictive. As I saw many of victims’ relatives waiting with their loved ones in ICU rooms as well.

We arrived at Banigazi at 6:40 am, Algalaa “Shohadaa – the martyrs” Hospital, and met with the doctors there. We took a quick tour around the hospital units, the emergency department which was very small but crowded with victims. The doctors, nurses and medical personnel there looked very tired and exhausted. I visited many victims in different departments starting with the ICU. many patients comatose, and similar to what I saw in Albidaa hospital bullets didn’t differentiate by age or sex and they (the bullets) were targeting heads, chests, abdomens and thighs. I spoke with Dr. Karem ……. who was there since the first day of the bloody clashes. He told us terrifying stories about victims that came in with no legs or no hands. Unlike Albidaa city hospital this time, he says “the photos / videos can’t describe what i have seen during the first days” As he told us about anti tank and anti craft weapons the Gaddfai units were using against the protesters .

Later i understood why his face had turned pale when he was talking about what he had seen, I have seen only upper half of a man and pieces of a man. It was a brutal inhuman massacre , they used RPGs which meant to stop tanks against unarmed protesters in a peaceful protest “. I have seen burned buddied of officers of the Gaddafi units who refused to obey orders to shot and kill the protesters. Their Command told them to surrender their weapons and leave the camp, and as soon as they surrendered their weapons he ordered that their hands be tied to their backs. Their commander then placed them on the ground on their faces and shot them in the back of their heads then burnt their bodies. I have seen the bodies and still i can’t get those images out of my heads.

At Algalaa” Shohadda ” hospital we had our breakfast. Dr. Ahmed Hamd, the team head, lead the conference with the Hospital Manager, Dr. Abdulkreem M …….. , to etablish what they need, of medical supplies, and medical / surgical specialists.

We later left for the higher court of Banigazi, which is in the lead center of this revolution, I decided to start making a different plan. To gather and collect, videos / photos for the past missing days, and then to go back to Egypt – Salloum city at the Egyptian-Libyan border to upload the material. Me and my friend Amer Farag from RNN collected more than 50 GB videos and photos then we rented a car to Sallom border few hours later. I also took along the photocopies of XRays and CT-scans for the victims, as well as many pictures for the people in the morgue as I recorded a video for the burned officers’ bodies …

At Salloum city in Egypt we slept for 3 hours then we went to the Internet cafe there to upload the data i which were many videos and photos. Most importantly I focused on getting a copy of those videos and photos to every press, media team, journalist, TV team we met. At sunset , another friend joined us with his car. After late lunch we tried to get to the border. The Egyptian army denied us entry back to the customs for unknown reasons. Later we found out that there was a war in some Libyan cities such as Misrata and Alzawyia.
The next day -Friday- we drove back again, then it took us just 30 minutes to get to the Libyan side, thank God.

We arrived to Banigazi about 8:30 pm, back to the high court of the north of Banigazi. I found that they are finally had an Internet connection via Satellite. I joined the revolution web team, and helped their team to plan and organize dissemination of materials to launch another team … Yet I am also planning to launch several web services from there to support the revolution.

I am staying at the house of one of the Website team members. He has so far been very generous , and also smart. A genius IT Geek … daily we arrive home very exhausted, and we sleep a few hours then get back up again.

I will start collecting doctors’ testimonies about victims and what happened in those missing days of the bloody clashes between the protesters and the Gaddiafi units and his mercenaries .

I also spread a call between egyptian doctors to capture cases of victims who will see, their names, locations, status and progress with their medical record to make a comprehensive medical archive for what happened. As I requested a copy of statistics of the victims from Albaida hospital and Banigazi hospital as a document to index in my archive about what happened. I also started making mini databases for those brave doctors who cross the border to aid and support victims and patients in such a crisis, to be able to communicate with them as soon as everything returns to normal, hopefully soon .. Yet there is still no organized team for information. Those I am seeking and yet most of the teams are not organized here, so am suffering collecting data and information, starting to lose weight but i will manage in the next few days hopefully ……