In the Thick of Libya's Brutal Fighting: Tyler Hicks Describes One of the Toughest Battles He's Ever Photographed – NYTimes.com

In the Thick of Libya’s Brutal Fighting

Tyler Hicks has covered Kosovo, Chechnya, Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan, Iraq and Afghanistan. He said the battling Wednesday in Libya ranked among the worst he has seen.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/in-the-thick-of-libyas-brutal-fighting/

When Tyler Hicks says that he has just witnessed what may have been the “thickest fighting in a single day” that he has ever experienced, with the “most firepower — coming and going,” he is describing extraordinary hostilities.