Brothers in Gaddafi's war

Colin Freeman (The Telegraph): The doctors at Benghazi's Al Hawari hospital have no real idea how to prepare Ali Senusi for the news that awaits him when he is finally brought out of sedation in Bed No 2 of the intensive care unit.

First, the 26-year-old Libyan will be told that he has lost his left leg, the result of an emergency amputation after it was shredded by a shell during Colonel Gaddafi's siege of the nearby town of Ajdabiyah.

Then, depending on how he copes, will come the rest of the story, which will put his own plight into grim perspective.

Lying over in Bed 8, he will learn, is his brother Abdelbaset, 19, who has lost not one leg but two.

Up on floor three, meanwhile, is his brother, Illafy, 23, who has lost an arm.

Finally, he will be told about his other brothers Ezzat, 33, and Saif, 29, who rest not in hospital beds but in a morgue.

-eddie