Misrata under siege

Packed with humanitarian aid, food, weapons, ammunition and rebels soon to be on the front line, a small Libyan fishing vessel sailed away from the eastern port of Benghazi last month, making its way west. “Qadhafi’s destroying buildings and shooting innocent people like women and children,” said 28-year-old Walid al-Fitouri as he sat in the captain’s wheelhouse. Like dozens of others on board, he was going to help his comrades in Misrata, Libya’s third largest city, which has been under siege by Colonel Muammar Qadhafi’s troops for two months.  Caught in a crossfire and faced with heavy bombing and economic devastation, the city’s residents are facing countless struggles as rebels battle regime forces to keep hold of their western bastion; Executive was in Misrata to document the siege.     Indiscriminate targeting For weeks, rocket propelled grenades and bullets have whizzed down the city’s central frontline of Tripoli Street, which runs from the