Last night Anderson Cooper spoke by phone with a Libyan woman trapped in her home in Tripoli last night.
It's pretty terrifying.
The woman describes the arrival of Muammar Qaddafi's hired African mercenaries, the protesters getting shot "in the head, in the heart," and Qaddafi's speech, in which he "speaks like a crazy person," and issues an ultimatum:
He'll "go to each house" of the people who resist.
The woman, says she was speaking to CNN at great risk to herself and her family — and that her despair and desire to be heard were much more important.
"I don't care," she said. "We cannot believe, we don't know how many people died. I just keep hearing names, and we can't even get the bodies....we cannot move, we cannot do anything."
She begs Cooper and the world to "come see what he is doing," and to show how little Qaddafi cares for Libyans and for Tripoli itself.
Countries and companies scramble to get citizens out of Libya
(CNN) -- Governments and companies around the world were making a run to get their citizens out of volatile Libya Friday. Here is a country-by-country breakdown:
UNITED STATES
A U.S. charter aircraft departed Libya for Istanbul, Turkey, on Friday, carrying American and international citizens, the U.S. State Department said.
A U.S.-chartered ferry carrying about 338 passengers, including 183 Americans, arrived Friday night in Malta. Bad weather delayed its departure from Tripoli.
The State Department recommended Thursday that any U.S. citizens in Libya "depart immediately due to the potential for ongoing unrest."
BRITAIN
The British Foreign Office said it has helped about 600 British nationals leave Libya. It has taken more than 1,000 calls since Thursday evening from British nationals wanting to leave Libya as well from their families and colleagues in Britain.
A charter flight from Tripoli landed at London's Gatwick Airport early Friday with 130 people aboard, including 53 Britons, the Foreign Office said. A second charter flight departed Tripoli for Gatwick on Friday afternoon with expatriates, including 34 British nationals.
The HMS Cumberland departed Benghazi carrying 207 passengers, about 68 of them British, the Foreign Office said. The ship was scheduled to arrive Friday in Valletta, Malta. Another 49 British nationals were aboard the U.S. ferry that departed Tripoli, it said.
INDIA
India plans to evacuate its citizens from Libya by air and sea. Government officials said they have chartered a ferry with the capacity to seat 1,200 people. The ship will reach Benghazi by Saturday and is expected to arrive in Egypt with the evacuees by Tuesday.
CHINA
China had evacuated 12,000 of its nationals from Libya as of Friday morning, according to the nation's foreign affairs ministry. The state-run Xinhua news agency reported that more than 4,300 Chinese citizens left Benghazi on two large passengers liners rented by Beijing. Another 4,900 boarded ships in the eastern Libyan city, ready to set sail. About 3,000 more had gone to neighboring Tunisia and Egypt by land.
Most of the evacuees are employees of Chinese companies with businesses in Libya. Many have gone to neighboring countries -- including Greece, Egypt, and Tunisia -- via ocean liners, airplanes or coaches, according to China's Foreign Ministry.
LEBANON
Libya refused to let a Middle East Airlines plane land to pick up stranded Lebanese nationals, the official Lebanese news agency said Friday.
Two days earlier, Lebanon refused landing rights to a Libyan plane that was "said to be carrying members of (Libyan leader Moammar) Gadhafi's family," said Ali Hamdan, foreign relations adviser to Lebanon's parliamentary speaker, Nabih Berri.
TURKEY
At least 8,360 Turkish citizens have been evacuated from Libya so far, the prime minister's office said Friday. Turkey said it plans to send 12 planes to Libya on Friday. In addition, a Turkish navy ship with a 1,500-passenger capacity is expected to leave Benghazi on Friday.
THE NETHERLANDS
The Dutch government said a military plane and a Dutch frigate would help evacuate its nationals in Libya.
PRIVATE EFFORTS
A ferry carrying more than 300 people, including 200 employees of Schlumberger (prono: schlum bur ZHAY) and their families arrived Friday in Malta from Tripoli. A spokeswoman for the oil and gas technology company said the evacuees included an unspecified number of Americans and people of other nationalities. Schlumberger is headquartered in Paris with an additional corporate office in Texas.
CNN's Diana Magnay, Tim Lister, Jill Dougherty, Carol Jordan, Diana Magnay, Michael Zippori, Jonathan Wald, Alan Silverleib, Adam Levine, and journalists Ian Lee and Yesim Comert contributed to this report.
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