Alleged mercenaries deployed by Gaddafi in the capital of Tripoli.
As the uprising in Libya enters its ninth day, we keep you updated on the developing situation from our headquarters in Doha, Qatar.
February 22
11:17 am An intriguing story out of Bangladesh: A. H. Elimam, Libya's ambassador to that country, has dropped out of sight and communication following his resignation late last night. Nicolas Haque, our correspondent there, says that he last spoke to Elimam at around 9 am local time and that there was "a sense of panic" in his voice. Elimam told Haque that he might not be able to do an interview they had scheduled for later today and gave him an email address to use if he turned off his phone.
The Bangladesh foreign ministry and other diplomats in the country say they can't confirm Elimam's whereabouts. Sources have told Haque that Elimam felt threatened by an intelligence officer in the Libyan embassy - one of the four staffers there and a man who apparently came from the same village as Muammar Gaddafi. Elimam was also concerned about the safety of his family in Libya, Haque said.
11:09 am Former British Foreign Minister Lord David Owen tells us that he believes a "military intervention" in the form of a no-fly zone is an immediate necessicity in Libya.
10:50 am Carlos Latuff, a provocative cartoonist who often focuses on Arab and Arab-Israeli politics, has come out with this, a reference to the treatment of protesters in the past 24 hours:
10:21 am Andrew Solomon, a journalist who has written on Libya previously, published a new piece in the New Yorker magazine called "How Qaddafi Lost Libya". Some selections from Solomon's analysis of Gaddafi's "strategic errors":
-Retreating from his son's "plans for reform". Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was an asbolute failure at introducing progress on the economy and communications infrastructure, but the plans gave people hope.
-Hoarding the wealth. Despite Libya's oil-fed prosperity and small population (six million), Gaddafi failed to fulfill "even the most basic government obligations".
-Ignoring the youth bulge. A third of the population is under 15, but Gaddafi made no effort to reach out to them or ameliorate youth unemployment.
10:09 amAl Jazeera's Nazanine Moshiri files our first report from the border with Libya:
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