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8/24 - 8/27 From a Good Source
Extensive Twitter Logs and Other Contacts
August 26th - 27th FGS logs will be available on the weekend
SUMMARY AUGUST 24th 2011
8/24/11
8.24.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/DPlt6
Nato’s “key hits” for 23 August:
“In the vicinity of Tripoli: 2 armoured fighting vehicles, 2 military heavy equipment truck, 3 surface-to-air missile system, 1 radar; In the vicinity of Ras Lanouf: 3 armed vehicles, 3 multiple rocket launchers; In the vicinity of Zuwara: 2 tanks, 3 armed vehicles, 2 military trucks, 1 military facility.”
LPC #Tripoli 6am: Men and boys, armed, chanting pro-Gaddafi slogans seen in streets of Hai Dubai, next to Salah el Din G. holdout area
LPC #Tripoli: caller ‘trapped’ at home, says some of the men recognized as neighbors. Believed to have stockpiled regime-supplied weapons
Yaman
“I was like oh my God am in Gaddafi’s room OH MY GOD but then this ting happened I found this I was like OH MY GOODNES!!” – Gaddafi hat man
Hiba_El_G Hiba El-Gamaty
GUYS – they found Gaddafi & Saif! facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…
Tweeting Tripoli
Any country that give shelter to a rapist mass murderer will prove it has nothing to do
with democracy
This morning my son told me he wanted to write “Thank You NATO” on a balloon and release it in the air fir the pilots to see
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI WATER IS #NOT POISONED expert on Toxics Dr: Process of poisoning large quantities of water requires huge amounts of poison
TomSkyNews
New doormat at the Libyan Embassy in London
twitpic.com/6ajuj4
robcrilly Rob Crilly
Lots of rebel troops and artilery moving up road to Ras Lanuf in direction of Sirte
simmjazeera andrew simmons
by LibyaInMe
Pockets of GF resistannce persist in Tripoli and outskirts.
NATO in action overnight in Tripoli. One very loud explosion.
Triplino
Most of the prisoners have been freed the only 2 prisons left are in abo salim area
Aisha
“@stuartdhughes: Just sent pics of journalists trapped in the #rixos in #tripoli – here’s the first ow.ly/i/gcAQ” #Libya
Second picture of journalists inside the #rixos hotel in #tripoli ow.ly/i/gcAV” #Libya
The BBC’s Matthew Price and producer Annie Phrommayon inside the #rixos hotel in #tripoli ow.ly/i/gcAZ” #Libya
4th and final picture of journalists inside the #rixos hotel in #tripoli ow.ly/i/gcB5” #Libya
Enhlish libya tv
NTC spokesman: Doesnt matter if Gaddafi located, Half the NTC will be in Tripoli today
A spokesman for the revolutionary National Transitional Council said it did not matter that Muammar Gaddafi had yet to be located late last night.
“It doesn’t matter,” Mahmoud Shammam, the NTC’s information minister, told CNN, adding that revolutionary forces controlled 90% of the country.
“In a few hours, maximum a few days, we have a new Libya, a new, liberated Libya,” Shammam said.
He told CNN that fighting yesterday was not confined to Tripoli, but raged in several cities.
“We’re fighting in three or four fronts right now,” he said, adding, “our troops are limited.”
Work was underway to move the revolutionaries base from Benghazi to Tripoli.
“Half of the government will be in Tripoli tomorrow morning,” he said, including the ministries of oil, communications, interior, defense and health. “They will take care of their jobs immediately.”
A stabilization team will ensure that the city is supplied with electricity and clean water, Shammam said.
In addition, the Zawiyah refinery is working.
“The whole situation is not so bad,” he said from Libya’s border with Tunisia. “Things are going to get better every day.” But, he added, the work is daunting. Gaddafi left behind no institutions, no political parties, no civil society. “We have to build things from scratch.”
Critical to the revolutionaries ultimate success, he said, will be the release of money that has been frozen in international banks. “We need to provide ourselves with a lot of necessities and we cannot do this without money,” he said.
But the revolutionary’s immediate needs are puny compared to what they have lacked for years, he said.
“Please, please, please, let the international community know — we are hungry for freedom, we are hungry for democracy, we are hungry for a state of law and order and
we would like everybody, everybody everywhere in Arab countries and in the international community to support us and help us to get that.”
The NTC gained legitimacy yesterday as a number of holdout governments and coalitions recognized it, including Egypt and the Arab League. The NTC prime minster Mahmoud Jibril is expected to meet with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Milan tomorrow.
Short URL: english.libya.tv/?p=10357
NTC: Gaddafi must face trial in Libya first
Muammar Gaddafi must face trial in Libya before being transferred to the International Criminal Court (ICC), said Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, spokesman for the National Transitional Council yesterday.
Ghoga told Egyptian state television that Gaddafi, who was indicted by the ICC in May for war crimes, was still in Libya and there was no chance that he will escape.
“Gaddafi is still in Libya, if not in Tripoli, then he may have sneaked to the centre (of the country) or the south,” Ghoga said.
“We are keen to capture Gaddafi and to try him in Libya before he is tried in the criminal court,” he added.
Libyan revolutionaries were searching for the Libyan dictator who ruled the North African Arab country for 42 years after they stormed his headquarters in Tripoli yesterday.
Asked if the revolutionaries would allow Gaddafi an escape route, Ghoga said: “This is impossible. There is no chance for him to escape at all. Gaddafi has no choice.”
Short URL: english.libya.tv/?p=10360
mchancecnn Matthew Chance
Check out the reporters without Borders press release on how journalists in the Rixos are being held at the hotel.
Clashes outside the hotel. Rixos4 hunkered down.
Aljazeera
Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, a spokesman for the rebel National Transitional Council, told Egyptian state television that Muammar Gaddafi must face trial in Libya before being transferred to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Gaddafi, who was indicted by the ICC in May for war crimes, is still in LIbya and there is “no chance” for rebels to would allow him an escape route, Ghoga said.
Gaddafi is still in Libya, if not in Tripoli, then he may have sneaked to the centre of the country or the south. We are keen to capture Gaddafi and to try him in Libya before he is tried in the criminal court.
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Neighbourhoods in Tripoli are being encouraged to have their own sons/FF guard their areas. Already happening in many free areas
Having local fighters guard their own streets areas dramatically decreases any risks of Gdfi forces sneaking into areas or harming FF #libya
Khalifa
Libyana now works in #Tripoli. Just called family there. They are talking freely and very very happy. It’s like talking to different people.
Yefreni
Just now heard loud gunfire and explosion #rixos
gunfire from rixos hotel side #tripoli #libya
Freedom Fighter
May i ask the weapons experts whats the deal with that golden gun? James Bond related? :-D
Reuters: Revolutionaries believe Gaddafi is hiding somewhere in Tripoli clashes now
on going in southern Tripoli where he is believed to be
AJE
Libya – reports of in-fighting in #Tripoli’s Bouslim neighbourhood” #Libya
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Benghazi: 400+ #FF have signed up to sail to #Tripoli. some managed to get on a tug boat last night
Driving to brega to see if ff are really in control
Ajdabiya def no gads here just a lonely looking solitary ff guard on west gate
Now outside brega 1000s of spent grad rockets on ground.
Now at Area 40. Rebel controlled. This a special tweet for gc1
Thick black smoke from burning oil tanks fills the sky as we enter brega.
Bishr. Ff are fishing petrol from ground tanks of petrol station.
Reuters:
FLASH: Libyan rebels believe Muammar Gaddafi is in hiding somewhere in Tripoli – rebel official”
SkyNewsBreak:
Hague: Britain will continue to be highly engaged with NATO to protect civilians”
Viia Guardian Blog
AP’s Dario Lopez-Mills filed this dispatch from the hotel last night:
Fighting intensified Tuesday and the smell of gunpowder hangs in the thick heat, along with sweat and a little fear. When the shooting is most intense, we take refuge in the hotel’s basement conference rooms.
Two satellite telephones set up on a balcony were destroyed by gunfire, so we’ve stopped transmitting our material. We wait and worry the gunmen could turn hostile at any moment.
There is no power and no running water. On Monday we ate bread and butter. On Tuesday, the cook made French fries. Bottled water is running low.
We don’t know when it’s going to end, and we see little of what happens. We weren’t there when Bab al-Aziziya was captured less than 24 hours after Saif al-Islam Gaddafi took us there. He hasn’t been seen publicly since then.
So I can tell a story about trapped journalists, but the real story about what is happening to Libya is just out there.
Unfortunately, we can’t cover it.
The BBC’s Matthew Price, one of 35 foreign nationals trapped in the Rixos
He described it as “day five of the siege of the Rixos hotel”, sayingd: “We believe there are still snipers on the roof of the hotel … The ITN man just had an AK47 pulled on him.”
Libyan rebels say 400 people died and more than 2,000 people were injured in the battle for Tripoli.
Channel 4 News’s Lindsey Hilsum just met the British-educated brother of one the victims. She tweets:
Just met a man who studied in Northampton in Bab al-Aziziya compound. Brother killed yesterday, but says it was worth the sacrifice. #Tripoli
There is no shortage of advice on what to do now in Libya to restore law and order and avoid the mistakes of Iraq.
The Economist argues that international peacekeepers may be necessary:
At a minimum, if Libya finds itself welcoming teams of international aid workers,
engineers or advisers on reconstruction, and if the post-Gaddafi situation looks “semi-permissive” (ie dangerous but not lethal), such foreigners will need protecting. If, in a worst-case scenario, fighters from Benghazi start taking revenge on tribes that were previously loyal to Colonel Gaddafi, then the question of peacekeepers arises.
The Libyan army and police should be retained as much as possible and the deployment of foreign troops should be avoided, argues the Middle East analyst Juan Cole in his 10-point plan on how to avoid the mistakes of Iraq.
A Libya working group set up by the foreign affairs thinktank Chatham House says Libyans should be offered rewards for handing in weapons.
Russia continues to insists that Gaddafi has influence in Libya but says it will recognise the NTC if it bring stability.
President Dmitry Medvedev is quoted by the Russia news agency Ria Novosti as saying:
If the rebels have the power and spirit and opportunity to unite the country on a new democratic basis, then of course we will consider establishing relations with them … For now, the situation hasn’t changed. Basically, there are two governing powers in the country, and, despite the rebels’ success in Tripoli, Gaddafi and his loyalists retain influence and military potential.
The Guardian’s Luke Harding has been rifling through the papers of Libya’s departed prime minister.
I’m standing in the courtyard of the office of Libya’s prime minister, or ex-prime minister as we have to call him, Dr Al Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, who has scarpered off to Tunisia. I have just been sifting through the prime minister’s correspondence. There was an attache case there with various petitions. There was a report about investment in Libya written by Ernst and Young. “Quality in everything we do” was the slogan of the accountancy firm. I found a wedding invitation. I don’t know whether he
got to the wedding or not. There is all the diplomatic legacy of a defunct regime which no longer exists.
Luke also gave a harrowing account of a visit to a hospital where dead and wounded have been taken.
The other place I went to this morning was Tripoli’s Italian-built central hospital where they have treating the dead and the wounded and it is a pretty ghastly scene. On the left as you come in there is a room full of dead fighters, who have been shot – terrible smell. The doctors weren’t sure how many they brought in yesterday but it is dozens … The hospital is lacking all sorts of medical supplies.
The press freedom campaign Reporters Without Borders urged the National Transitional Council to secure the journalists’ safety.
The hotel is surrounded by Gaddafi loyalists who are preventing the journalists from leaving. They are held hostage on the hotel’s first floor, the prisoners of a dying regime that refuses to lay down its arms. There are frequent cuts in the power and water supply. Their situation is very worrying.
Reporters Without Borders urges all the parties involved to ensure the safety of journalists, both Libyan and foreign, who are covering developments in Libya. The National Transitional Council, which has been recognized by many countries as Libya’s provisional government, must do everything in its power to allow journalists to cover the fighting freely and safely.
Reuters is reporting the sound of “heavy gunfire” – small-arms fire and anti-aircraft guns – coming from the area around the hotel.
One of the 35 people stuck in the hotel is former US congressman Walter Fauntroy. The Daily Telegraph quotes him saying: “Right now we are in a precarious situation with some of our friends from the media, because we fear that unless we are able to relocate, we may all be in danger.”
Nick Clegg, the British deputy prime minister, has been speaking to the media. He said the international community should “quickly engage with the opposition forces to help them rebuild their country”. Clegg said:
We are seeing the final stages of the last stand of the remnants of pro-Gaddafi forces … We are going to see the birth of a new Libya. We, Britain, the EU, need
to work with these very brave people … to create a new country and create new institutions from scratch … I don’t think it’s going to be smooth … We need to help them with this very important project to rebuild Libya.
He said the NTC’s leaders “have learned very fully from the mistakes of Iraq: there shouldn’t be venegeance … you need to keep some of the existing institutions in order … and the move to a new, democratic, freer future has to embrace all Libya.”
Clegg said he had met some of the leaders of the NTC and he was “very impressed with their absolute commitment to learning from the mistakes of elsewhere”.
The deputy PM was also asked where Muammar Gaddafi was. He said:
We don’t know where Gaddafi is … It will only be a matter of time before he is located.
But that was “principally a matter for those on the ground” and that was the Libyans, not Nato.
Sky News has just been reporting on today’s meeting of Britain’s national security council at Downing Street, which took place this morning at 9am and was chaired by William Hague. Sky said three topics were covered:
There was an update on the situation on the ground. Nobody was any clearer on the location of Muammar Gaddafi, but there was discussion of whether he might be in Sirte, his home town. There were still pockets of resistance in Tripoli and elsewhere, Sky said the meeting was told.
The NSC discussed stability, with ministers welcoming the increased leadership being shown by the rebel National Transitional Council, although concerns were raised about the humanitarian situation in Tripoli and how medical supplies were getting to hospitals there.
Ministers also discussed working with the UN to unfreeze Libyan assets to help the NTC financially.
William Hague, the British foreign secretary, is giving a press conference in London. He says “we are witnessing the death throes of the Gaddafi regime in Libya” and tells Muammar Gaddafi to stop issuing “delusional statements”.
Hague says this will remain a difficult situation with much to do for weeks and months.
Hague says no one knows where Gaddafi is. He is going to great lengths to make sure of that. He casts doubt on Gaddafi’s claim that it was a “tactical move” for him to leave his compound.
Asked about the foreigners trapped in the Rixos hotel, Hague says he is monitoring the situation closely and is concerned about their safety. He are doing what we can to help by talking to the NTC although they are not in control of that area, he says.
The rebels of Misrata are meanwhile pushing columns of men, artillery and ammunition up the road to Tripoli, with more than 2,000 fighters now taking control of eastern parts of the Libyan capital.
Coming the other way are prisoners: the Guardian saw a pick-up truck entering Misrata last night with what appeared to be black African mercenaries in uniforms huddled together on the flatbed of the truck receiving occasional kicks from their guards.
There is huge resentment in this rebel city about the appearance of mercenaries from Chad who have been captured in recent weeks, though it is unclear whether it is these forces, rather than Libyan government soldiers, who are responsible for the atrocities and destruction inflicted on this city.
Libyan rebels are advancing on Sirte, the last major stronghold of pro-Gaddafi forces, reports Chris Stephen from Misrata, with opposition columns now 35 miles west of the city. He also has news about the Scud missiles being fired from Sirte towards Misrata. Chris writes:
Misrata Military Council reported only sporadic resistance as rebel units pushed down the main coastal highway that runs east, with spearheads now at the town of Al-Washka. One commander told the Guardian that they hoped to effect a link-up south of the city with rebels advancing from the other direction, after reports that opposition forces have overrun the strategic oil towns of Brega and Ras Lanuf.
“We can unite with the other forces from the eastern front said Anwar Sarwan, a Misrata rebel logistics officer. “We are making good progress.”
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
ICRC spokesman: assistance has been delivered to 3 hospitals IN Tripoli #Libya
AJE:
The EU said they will send a team to appraise the needs of #Libya
Patriots of Misratah – وطنيو مصراته
The UK will also continue to provide humanitarian aid to Libya and is involved in diplomatic negotiations at the UN to unfreeze Libyan assets “which ultimately belong to the Libyan people”, says Mr Hague
AJE:
Pockets of resistance in and around Abu Saleem area #Tripoli
Aljazeera
Muammar Gaddafi is still somewhere in Tripoli and clashes were under way in a southern area of the city where he may be hiding, a rebel official told the Reuters news agency.
“We think Gaddafi is still hiding somewhere in Tripoli. He is likely to be in the al-Hadhba al-Khadra area,” the official in Tripoli, who gave his name as Abdulrahman, told Reuters by telephone. “There is fighting in the al-Hadhba al-Khadra area.”
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
4 days of blood, sweat, elation, pride, tears, courage, takbeer, comradery, providence,rumours, fear, exhaustion & martyrdom
christineromans
Middle East scholar Ajami says these moments in #Libya are chaotic but Gadhafi no longer matters. “It is the first day for Libya.”
Bensasi II
Please spread the word Dr.Hajjaji has opened a home hospital in Hay Alandalus #tripoli anyone injured cal for Call 0912139236
Paolo
Libya seemed horrible & hopeless, I never thought we’d see Libyans rise up and free themselves from tyranny
Fiona
One of my students spent 18 years in jail for not liking Gaddafi; he was one of the gentlest men you’ve ever met !
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
As promised, tweeting this once again. Libya is no Iraq – this revolution is the real deal shabablibya.org/news/libya-is-… #Libya
Gem M
To Gadaffi family Libya was a private ATM that gave them unlimited $£
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Iraq recognises the Libyan Transitional National council
Aiman
Remember that ALL LIBYANS contributed to this revolution. We will never let this newfound freedom slip away.
I expect gradual stabilisation & return to law and order over the next few months such as what happened in the East
It will be a challenge no doubt. However, I honestly cannot see things getting any worse than #Libya under #Gaddafi.
No single faction will dare think of autocratic control in #Libya. We now know what people power tastes like.
I expect a lot of trial & error in the immediate post #Gaddafi era as this new democracy explores its potentials
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Freedom Fighters are now trying to surround the Rixos hotel #Libya #Tripoli
Clashes South of Tripoli where gaddafi may be hiding: FF official #Libya #Tripoli
RICH J
I think Libya can been a shining beacon in the Arab world.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
It is pretty clear there are some very important Gaddafi people in and around the Rixos
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
FF say this is where he is Gaddafi has a farm south of #Tripoli
Tweeting Tripoli
I am Libyan and I am proud to be a “RAT”. Running After Tyrants :p
I know many doctors who fled to Tunisia after they were targeted by the goons. they must be on their way home
Just back from a quick tour around my area. People are very happy but still alert. My first search FF checkpoint for. Were very polite.
They told me they confiscate weapons from people who have no signed letter from the Local FF committee. Very relieved to know that.
FF now have to have a license to walk around with a rifle. They told me they confiscated a grenade half an hour ago from a car.
Asking people to point out Gaddafi Goons who had weapons before 20th of August. They said they question them, take their weapons and release
A make shift checkpoint. Only manned at Night. yfrog.com/khxs0wlj
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Representatives of the National Council of Libya are in Qatar for funding summit later on today #Libya #Qatar
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Map of West Libya as of 24th August v @4Adam facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… #Libya
The Dictator
Okay, I hate Nick #Clegg, but he definitely gets brownie points for saying “Free #Libya forces” rather than rebels..
feb17libya Feb17Libya
AudioBoo: Tripoli: woman who climbed to the roof to help spot snipers. bit.ly/oFWC4V
Image Gallery: Libyans storm Gaddafi Compound bit.ly/p6Q7JF
Video: Libya rebels destroy symbols of Kadafi’s power bit.ly/qmUmVx #libya
LIVE Libya Unrest: August 24,2011 bit.ly/qG3vZV #libya
paul
I get pissed off at US media claiming this that or the other thing & that Libya won’t have a free democratic govt
Khiria
“gallek ye7ko mara fi wa7ed essma m3ammer zman g3ed 42 sana”-my mom being sarcastic in the morning pretending #Gaddafi has been dead for yrs
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI #RIXOS HOTELFoxNews producer speaking from the hotel now on Skynews #Libya Many armed Gaddafi goons melted away Just few left
#Eni PaoloScaroni in Contact #NTC since April3 NOT worried #OIL CONTRACT oil production contracts till 2042 #Gas contracts 2047
#TRIPOLI Ex #IAEA official: #Tajoura stocks large quantities of Radioisotopes, Radioactive waste and low-enriched URANIUM fuel
Yonhap News Agency
S. Korean ambassador’s residence in Libya attacked by armed robbers
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Yonhap) — A gang of armed robbers attacked the South Korean ambassador’s residence in Tripoli and stole televisions and other gadgets, but no one was hurt during the rioting, a diplomatic source in Seoul said Wednesday.
About 30 rioters stormed the residence building in the Libyan capital on Tuesday evening (local time), where two or three local employees were working at the time, but no one was injured in the looting, the source said on the condition of anonymity.
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI More then 100 G Troops were captured inside Bab Al #Azizyah
#Battle for #TRIPOLI Mustafa #Jalil: 400 dead 2,000 Injured of which 600 are pro Gaddafi
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Libya’s Tamoil cuts links with Gaddafi state investor. af.reuters.com/article/libyaN…
Channel New Asia
Pro-Gaddafi forces fire Scud rockets at Misrata
BENGHAZI, Libya: Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi fired several Scud missiles from the regime’s bastion of Sirte at rebel-held Misrata further up the coast late Tuesday, a rebel source said.
“Scuds launched from Sirte towards Misrata, loud explosions heard,” the media centre of the Misrata military council said in a statement.
There were no further details and the report was not confirmed by any independent source.
On Tuesday NATO officials said one of the unguided rockets had been fired at Misrata from the neighbourhood of Sirte, Gaddafi’s birthplace, the previous day.
It “landed in the coastal area of Misrata, most likely in the sea or on the shore,” chief NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said, adding “we are not aware of damage or casualties.”
More and source:
www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_wor...
FromJoanne Joanne
FF are advancing on SIRTE from east and west Negotiations began Tuesday with local tribes in bid 2secure Peaceful surrender #Libya #AFP
The First Post
Qatari special forces led Libyan attack on compound
While Foreign Secretary William Hague and former British Army chief Gen Sir Michael Jackson were busily promoting the argument that the Libyan people had taken Tripoli on their own, it has emerged that foreign forces played a significant role in yesterday’s
storming of Col Gaddafi’s compound.
At one stage, Nato commanders had to ask the rebels to hold back from the compound while the RAF launched a final missile attack on Gaddafi’s HQ.
And, according to The First Post’s defence expert Robert Fox, members of the Qatari special forces, trained by Britain, could be seen clearly directing the final assault on the compound.
The Arab emirate of Qatar has already emerged as a major supporter of the new Libya, arming the rebels over recent months and playing host today to an international conference which will see a billion-dollar-plus fund started towards the rebuilding of war-torn Libya.
The conference comes as members of the National Transitional Council head from Benghazi to Tripoli, pledging to make Libya a “united, civil and democratic nation”.
More and source:
www.thefirstpost.co.uk/83509,news-comme...
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI @NATO Hit 2 Gaddafi Forces targets early wednesday morning
LibyanTweet
I called my neighbor & he confirmed poisoned cases, they can poison the area by area as water reservoirs are spreaded
FromJoanne Joanne
This is very very important that they r 100% sure its the water and NOT food poisoning since much food has fgone off ! #Libya
Expert Toxics DR says same untrue rumours were in Benghazi It isnt possible 2poison Huge tanks with huge volumes water
evanchill Evan Hill
Just left the Bab al-Aziziya. Sniper fire first, then rockets landed behind, in front and then 20 meters from me as I lay on the ground.
LibyanTweet
They are talking about 8 poisoning cases at the central hospital of #Tripoli
FromJoanne Joanne
CentralHospital got no medication no drs apart from handful stressedout overworked drs
Also many were kidnapped especially females I hope they are I know there is group of DRS on way from Spain
UK forces & NATO maintain Presence over #Tripoli & other areas of potential conflict in #Libya ready to take further action under UNSCR1973
France + UN working on DraftResolution 2enable #Libya Assets to be Unfrozen + Sanctions Unlocked in coming days Talks in #NY #Qatar
Tuesday night there was fighting in the deep south desert town of #Sabha #Libya Another place Gaddafi + clan thought to be
#TRIPOLI Hundreds of FF are on their way by boat reaching capital by via sea from #benghazi to helpp FF clear Tripoli of GF
FLASH #TRIPOLI Fighting in Bab Al #Azizyah and Al #Hadbah al Khadra area GF hiding around airport road
Max
Where is Gaddafi ?? ygreck.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c5dd653e... HAHA :)
Military.com
Libya’s Deadliest Weapons Not Yet Corralled
WASHINGTON — No one can be sure who controls the Libyan government’s weapons stockpiles, a stew of deadly chemicals, raw nuclear material and some 30,000 shoulder-fired rockets that officials fear could fall into terrorists’ hands in the chaos of
Moammar Gadhafi’s downfall or afterward.
One immediate worry, U.S. intelligence and military officials say, is that Gadhafi might use the weapons to make a last stand. But officials also face the troubling prospect that the material, which was left under Gadhafi’s control by a U.S.-backed disarmament pact, could be obtained by al-Qaida or other militants even after a rebel victory is secured.
The main stockpile of mustard gas and other chemicals, stored in corroding drums, is at a site southeast of Tripoli. Mustard gas can cause severe blistering and death. A cache of hundreds of tons of raw uranium yellowcake is stored at a small nuclear facility east of the capital.
Read full story:
www.military.com/news/article/libyas-de...
BBC
Libya Crisis: Inside the Rixos Hotel
A “desperate situation” is developing at Tripoli’s Rixos hotel, according to BBC correspondent Matthew Price, who is now trapped there along with some 35 other journalists and foreign nationals
Audio:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-14648330
LisaatSky
Fighting around airportroad The area is called Al Hadbah al Khadra where I lived its not far from Rixos edge Nasr forest #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI There are foreign #Intelligence personnel on the ground in Tripoli to advice FF with combat strategies
#TRIPOLI Sue Turton in Bab Al Azizyah today SNIPERS in trees of School area youtube.com/watch?v=qAW0kc… #libya #GaddafiCrimes
Aljazeera
Libyan rebels: Snipers inside Gaddafi compound
Al Jazeera’s Sue Turton, reporting live from the Libyan capital, Tripoli, said there has been “phonetic activity” inside Muammar Gaddafi’s compound in Bab al-Aziziya.
“What we are hearing is that in the school in the compound … that there have been snipers, we think, in those trees.
“That is what the rebel soldiers are telling us and they have sent as much artillery in there as they possibly can … to try and take those snipers out,” she said.
Watch our correspondent’s live report from inside the centre of Gaddafi’s compound.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAW0kcuX12k&fea...
FromJoanne Joanne
BREAKING Blood Center Over run with ppl :) DONATING BLOOD IN #TRIPOLI ~youtube.com/watch?v=Hv4oVz… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv4oVz99GxQ&fea...
Gaddafi claims he walked around last night disguised but its BS ofcourse #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
BabAlAziziyah+AlMansoura area + another area nr Rixos hv come under attack of GF Most bombardment coming from AbuSalim area #reuters
#Tripoli ’s Main azZawiyah Hospital entrance overwhelmed with injured ppl arriving by car taxi ambulance ad carried in2 makeshift triageUnit
Channel 4 News
At Tripoli’s main Al Zawiya Hospital, everything is overwhelmed by incoming casualties – not least the mortuary. I stopped counting after 37 bodies – all in civilian clothing – strewn about the corridors and room which were never meant for this purpose. Almost all the bodies I examined appeared to have died from gunshot wounds. Officials here have confirmed most were killed by snipers in the past two days. One said at least 400 people had been killed.
More:
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FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH #RIXOS Jounos are in contact with Journos who r with FF they have the sense something is about to Happen
AJE
G forces in Abu Salim rptd attacking pro-FF ppl in area, Military Council keen on taking swift action to eliminate pblm
Joanne
#BREAKING Freedom Fighters are offering #Amnesty to Anyone who Capturers or KILLS #GADDAFI
#BREAKING #IOM Boat waiting Off Shore to evacuate up to 400 people from #Tripoli larger ship ( cap. 1000 ppl ) will arriv in fewdays #Libya
firasshaari
I dedicate our victory #to my late father Dr.Wanis Shaari who lost 18Yrs of his Life in #Busaleem prison #Libya
Jon
The wife of a NTC official was carjacked in broad daylight yesterday in Benghazi by two armed men. She thought they were rebels.
Freedom Fighter
I have news that one of the bbc reporters escaped from the rixos, i’m looking for him.
The journalists don’t have electricity in the rixos so they turned off thier phones to save power.
BBC reporter Matthew Price says cameraman trying to leave #Rixos yelled at & stopped by Gaddafi guard pointing an AK47 at him
feb17libya Feb17Libya
NTC chairman Mustafa Abdul Jalil says they are offering amnesty for anyone who captures or kills Muammar #Gaddafi
AJE: Sue Thorton in Tripoli: Abu Sleem neighborhood is still under Gaddafi loyalists control -
AJE Sue Thorton in Tripoli: The revolutionary military council in #Tripoli are getting together to plan a form of attack at Abu Sleem
Channel 4 Alex Thompson in Tripoli: At Tripoli’s main Al Zawiya Hospital, everything is overwhelmed by incoming casualties
Channel 4 Alex Thompson in Tripoli: “I stopped counting after 37 bodies, all in civilian clothing”
Channel 4 Alex Thompson in #Tripoli: The bodies I examined appeared to all have died from gunshot wounds.
Official #Gaddafi Bounty – Wanted Dead or Alive – $2 Million Libyan Dinars (1.6USD) + Amnesty
Via Shabab
France, partners prepare new Libya UN resolution
PARIS (Reuters) – France and its partners at the United Nations are working on a draft resolution aimed at unfreezing Libyan assets and unlocking sanctions, a French diplomatic source said on Wednesday.
The resolution is still in the preliminary stages and will be worked out in the next few days during talks in Qatar, Turkey and New York, the source said, without giving a timeframe.
“It is difficult to be precise on the details of the resolution,” he said, adding that it would look at the issue of sanctions and frozen assets now that rebel forces appear to be on the brink of ousting Muammar Gaddafi.
The foreign ministry did not refer specifically to a new resolution, but spokesman Bernard Valero said the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) must be handed control of its country’s resources.
“The NTC must have the financial resources that were frozen by the U.N. Security Council resolutions,” he said.
Read more:
shabablibya.org/news/france-partners-pr...
LPG reaches Benghazi from Italian refinery-AIS
LONDON Aug 24 (Reuters) – Rebels in Benghazi received a cargo of LPG from Italy’s Milazzo refinery this week, according to AIS satellite tracking information.
The cargo arrived aboard the Warwick, which sailed from the plant jointly owned by Kuwait Petroleum Corp (KPC) and Eni on Sunday. LPG is widely used for heating and cooking.
Source:
shabablibya.org/news/lpg-reaches-bengha...
schreibfieber
Libya is my love. Its inside of me and SLEEPS since I was born in 1969 AND NOW FINALLY AWAKES! Must cry writing this.
SOME TRUTHS:
Miss B
The world learnt who you are as you wrote history :). No one will ever ask “Libya? Where’s that?” again.
Ess
The media is playing a catch up game and if it wasn’t for social media, we wouldn’t be where we are 2day
Libyan rebels advance on Gaddafi’s home town
Libyan rebels are advancing from east and west on Muammar Gaddafi‘s home town of Sirte, with some units within 35 miles of the city, the last major stronghold of loyalist forces.
The Misrata military council reported only sporadic resistance as rebel units push down the main coastal highway towards the desert city.
Gaddafi has not been seen in public in Tripoli for weeks, and speculation has grown that he may have fled to his birthplace. But rebel forces are unlikely to attempt to fight their way into Sirte, and are expected to surround the city.
Read full story:
shabablibya.org/news/libyan-rebels-adva...
Muhammad Al Gaddafi’s diplomatic passport found www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4g_8zBdwzk&fea... #Libya #Tripoli
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4g_8zBdwzk&fea...
Sirtawi
Libyan State TV b4 it went down: footage from #Sirte of the ranch NATO bombed. Clearly no families were there. #FAIL youtube.com/watch?v=Oso01_…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oso01_YUkOo&fea...
malik L
now I can have a reunion dinner in Benghazi this evening. my whole body is broken. i barely celebrated las few days. See u soon
Mustafa Abdel Jalil NTC Chairman: Libyan businessmen are offering the reward for Gaddafi bounty
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Director of the Turkish cnstrctn company that designed &built the Rixos flatly denied rumours that it was connected by tunnels Bab Aziziya
Strong Enough – Farid Alhadi feat malik L (Free Libya Version)
For the women raped, who lost husbands, sons, brothers, daughters, fathers – who are part of the movement, supporting the movement. You are Strong Enough.
Video Produced by Esma Saleh
Instrumental by Farid Alhadi
Written and Performed by Farid Alhadi and malik L
Arranged and Produced by Farid Alhadi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SImWfyYF0Zk&fea...
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
3 ambulances with blue lights on speeding past us heading back towards benghazi
Ugayla town. This is the furthest i have been west. this point all way to misrata was pro gad when here last.
Fighting ahead. Bin jawwad 1 ff killed and 5 injured.
We are now filling up with petrol in ras lanuf. Fuel is free here.
Ff called abdul told me: when i catch gadaffi i will not kill him instead i will put him in monkey cage at benghazi zoo
The ff here say we are the first film crew to visit them for months
Sirtawi
Reports that #Gaddafi addressed ppl in #Sirte via local cable channel to fight #FF coming from east and west.
#Gaddafi’s msg is said to have been transmitted through a large screen in one of #Sirte’s squares.
#Gaddafi’s msg to ppl in #Sirte was filled with hatred towards #FF and urged locals to break their fasting and fight them
#Sirte locals terrified by huge number of mercenaries retreating to the city from eastern/western front lines
Check points have multiplied in #Sirte in the past few days, mostly monitored by people from Gadadfa tribe
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
Saadi Gaddafi tells us he wants to negotiate ceasefire to avoid further bloodshed and that he has the authority to do so.
Yefreni
I took this video one hour ago in front of my house to prove that there is gunfire bit.ly/nTyxXq and the big building in the video is the school #tripoli #libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi—JdzYf0I
FromJoanne Joanne
#BREAKING #TRIPOLI #Rixos Journalists are OUT now
#TRIPOLI #RIXOS4 @mchancecnn Congrats to all Glad u r all safe and if u hurry u can just make the #IOM boat waiting off shore :)
AL ALRABIYA : SAIF is in abu salim street
in other areas of tripoli the life is almost normal
Rebel tv:
Prisoners freed from Abu Salim prison
mchancecnn Matthew Chance
5 journos enter #rixos from outside, but kicked out by Gadhafi loyalists at gunpoint. We still not allowed to leave
All puzzled as to why we are being kept in #rixos. Any ideas?
Special forces from Britain, France, Jordan n Qatar in Libya stepped up operations in Tripoli n other cities in recent days- NATO official
Rixos crisis ends. All journalists are out! #rixos
CNN and other journos team have left #rixos hotel
Here is timeline of events that have happened in the last hour at the #Rixos……
330p local time: Negotiating with guards for our release. They said we can leave, but in small groups. #rixos
We are expecting the ICRC and Chinese embassy to send cars to pick us up. Fingers crossed.
4:00p local time: Pandemonium in lobby of hotel, all going back upstairs. Another anti- climax?
410p local time: After a heart to heart with Arab speaking journos, two Gadhafi guards disarmed
415p local time: This feels like the end game in this dramatic and unpleasant situation
Running across upper floors of hotel to find a flag with TV written on it. They want to put it on the car
These tweets are a timeline of the last hour at the #rixos
Getting flags with “TV” on them ready for when we are released. Which we hope is soon
BBC cars arrives at #rixos, BBC crew is leaving the hotel.
436pm local time: BBC has left the hotel
437pm local time: ICRC cars have arrived at the hotel.
438pm local time: Now pulling out of #rixos hotel after 6 days of a complete nightmare. Still dodgy situation
439pm local time: Crammed with other journos in the car. Reuters, other cameramen, FOX, and AP #rixos
We have been holed up together for what seems like an eternity. We could finally get out freedom!!! #rixos
I can see the NTC rebels. We are nearly there!
#Rixos crisis ends. All journalists are out! #rixos
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
There is NO water in #Siyahiya. #Gaddafi filth have damaged water turbines
#Freedomfighters are at the 40km gate E. of #Sirte waiting for permission of #NTC to enter the city.
Tripoli: Journalists at Rixos FREED. Rixos Hotel needs to be Bunker Buster bombed RIGHT NOW, VALID REASONS
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “KURUOGLU 3” remains anchored just outside port #Tripoli
#Togo “Wing In Ground” ship “TASUCU” now anchored just outside port #Tripol
#Liberia OIL TANKER “DELOS” now arriving to Western #Libya. #Feb17
#Tripoli: Unconfirmed: Reports that Seif #Gaddafi in #AbuSaleam area & #Gaddafi & one of his sons in #Gasir #BinGhashear. #Libya #Feb17
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Very different experience crossing border on the rebel side than it was when I went in to tripoli,journalists welcomed with smiles this time
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Tweeting from Tripoli… Libya is free… Allahu Akbar
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Gaddafi forces in Tripoli zoo/Rixos trying to push forward to International Airport… is someone trying to flee?
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Hathba and Busleem are 80% under control except 2 or 3 buildings and apartment blocks that need clearing & de-snipering ;)
English Libya tv
From prison break to party – revolutionaries’ ride into Tripoli
Our drive to Tripoli started with news of a prison break and ended with a party. Around noon Sunday, we were waiting at a checkpoint manned by revolutionaries in the coastal town of Jedaim, on the main road to the Libyan capital, the main stronghold of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
All morning, trucks with mounted guns and revolutionary fighters had been rushing forward to clash with Gaddafi’s forces somewhere in the 40 kilometres between us and the capital. Ambulances occasionally came screaming back, giving us an unclear picture of the revolutionaries’ progress toward what could be the final stage in the six-month revolutionary struggle to chase Gaddafi from power.
Then we saw a barefoot man with black bags under his eyes and ratty clothes get out of a car. Cheering revolutionaries surrounded him, firing their rifles in the air. Some told us the man had been a prisoner in a notorious army base run by one of Gaddafi’s sons outside Tripoli. Revolutionaries had stormed the base, releasing hundreds of prisoners, they said.
Other prisoners arrived, climbing out of cars, buses and trucks. Friends who hadn’t seen them since they’d been locked up months ago rushed over to embrace them.
That was our first sign of a breakthrough. If revolutionaries had stormed the base, they
would likely push for Tripoli.
We raced down the coastal road to the base to find the revolutionary tri-colour flag hanging over the main gate. Revolutionaries were everywhere, driving in and out and cheering for the hugely symbolic victory.
The base’s fall won the revolutionaries more than glory. Inside the grounds, filled with towering eucalyptus trees, they found huge crates of munitions, which they cracked open and loaded into their trucks.
Much will serve them in the fight for Tripoli: rockets, belts of ammunition, hand grenades. One man walked off cradling two mortars like a baby.
The value of other booty was less obvious. Groups of teenagers carried off tear gas guns. Asked how they planned to use crowd-control tools in combat, one said only, “We took them from Gaddafi.” That seemed to be all that mattered to him.
Elsewhere, revolutionaries found a large metal safe, which they tried to open by shooting at it with rifles – unsuccessfully. Another group carted off an entire living room set.
While many of the trucks headed off to collect munitions, others drove straight for Tripoli. We followed them and soon found ourselves in a two-lane parade of vehicles stretching as far as we could see.
The mass of cars was like a rolling celebration, with revolutionaries chanting, singing and firing their guns in the air. The caravan met little resistance for huge stretches of road, pulling through towns whose names we had only seen on maps because they had until that day remained in Gaddafi’s grip.
Jubilant residents lined the road to cheer the passing trucks, many watching in disbelief as the fighters rolled by.
Gunfire – this time not celebratory – erupted in front of our car as we neared the town of Janzour, a suburb just 10 kilometres west of Tripoli. We fell back, and a local family invited us into their home, where they served us juice and fired up their generator so we could have electricity to use our computers and charge our phones.
We wanted to enter the city, but the situation inside remained murky. Telephone lines had been bad all day, but our driver managed to reach his wife in Tripoli. She said the house was surrounded with gunfire, but she had seen revolutionaries in the streets from her window flying tri-colour flags on their cars. Other reports emerged that the revolutionaries had seized the city’s central Green Square – best known as the site of sprawling pro-Gaddafi rallies.
We decided the chance to see for ourselves if revolutionaries had taken the square was too great to miss. It was well past midnight, and most streets were eerily deserted when we arrived. Few of the cars we did see flew tri-colour flags, making us worry that they could belong to Gaddafi supporters who would stop us – or worse.
We eventually hit checkpoints manned by revolutionaries, though their disorganization
made it clear they had only been set up hours before and the revolutionaries were still unsure of their roles.
As we progressed through narrow streets lined with young men and armedrevolutionaries , the mood rose. We turned onto a tree-lined boulevard and our driver soon announced: “This is it. We have reached the square.”
It was vast and well lit, lined with banks and offices, with date palms in the center plaza. It was both familiar and strange; we had both seen it before, but in very different circumstances. Ben had seen it often on Libyan state TV, whether for pro-government rallies or speeches by the ‘Leader of the Revolution’ himself. Karin had driven through it on an earlier trip, escorted by a Gaddafi government minder who prevented her from asking anyone what they thought.
But now it boiled in celebration. Car horns blared, revolutionaries fired their guns overhead and chanted that the blood of the martyrs was not shed in vain. Amid the noise, two revolutionaries lay side by side in one corner on a row of steps. They and their colleagues had been fighting for months, and they commemorated their arrival in the capital with a nap.
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Written by Ben Hubbard and Karin Laub, AP; with editing by Libya TV
Short URL: english.libya.tv/?p=9981
Ali Habibi
Following #Qaddafi’s non logical reasoning, he might capture himself to gain amnesty for himself! ;-)
Libya Outreach
Need specific lists from specific hospitals & clinics on priority medicine and aid. Looking for top 5-10 items needed.
Juhina
emotional phone call on libya alahrar about zwara, ended up crying at the end. Zwara is still under attack, our people are still dying!
csn0
“The world didn’t know Libyans,” said Al Wakidi Mohamed, a journalist and rebel fighter “They knew Qaddafi.”
Tweeting Tripoli
Many still held hostages in the Notorious AbuSleem prison. FF will not burst into the prison or else risk deaths.
More graffiti after freeing an area… pic.twitter.com/t12PEvz
Another makeshift checkpoint with sand dunes to slow down cars. pic.twitter.com/IKJjIcA
FF occupy these checkpoints just before darkness… pic.twitter.com/hnupDQa
The Russian politicians are so dump. Medvedev says FF should negotiate with Gaddafi. I tell him: Where the hell is he? And we’ll negotiate!
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
A foreign journalist held inside Rixos hotel: Qaddafi forces have withdrawn from the hotel #alarabiya #Libya #Qaddafi
Aljazeera
AJE: Zeina Khodr reports from Tripoli
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr gives an overview of the latest developments in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTRF1WSDAAA
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Muammar Gaddafi’s daughter says Libyans must unite against NATO, foreign interference – Loyalist TV channel Al-Orouba – reuters
Libyan NTC calls on oil workers in Brega and Ras Lanuf to return to work.
Jordan
BBC are now referring to the FFs as “Transitional National Council (TNC) forces”, not rebels.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gaddafi filth bombarding #Zuwara w/ GRAD rockets at this time.
Tripoli: Many reports Abu Baker Younis residence on Airport road full of #Gaddafi mercenaries
( FYI: Min. of Defence)
Sirtawi
Trying really hard to arrange Satellite Phone connections with #Sirte. If only people would let go of the fear factor.
Freedom Fighter
I remember when pro gaddafi’s were chanting in the streets we were inside leaving them in peace, now when we chant they start shooting.
Gunshooting and bullets comes tward my house from azizia side
NicRobertsonCNN
Saadi Gaddafi Email: “I’m trying to do something to safe Tripoli soon it will be sea of blood and dead days everywhere.”
Hayat
Basically from the last #Tripoli call #Hadhba is so-so #Abusleem is a massacre also most #Tripoli prisoners are there, #GFs kill from cars.
BintLibya
They found psychological records on #Gaddafi and his sons in the Fawzi Zulmat residence Those have got to be some interesting records #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli #Rixos4 and rest of Journos are now moved to 10 yr old 5star #Corinthia Hotel
Danya
URGENT ! The matter is very urgent and important ! The Tunisian borders refuse to let any Libyan ambulance enter, they stop at the Tunisian border and carry the injured (Leg & arm) to a Tunisian military ambulance and wait from 35 till 40 hrs until the no. of injured reaches 4. This long waiting leads to death or amputitions, which could have been prevented if transfering the injured Freedom fighters from Libya was instant. Pls, Kindly SPREAD WIDELY, Contact whom it may concern and ACT FAST ! So that Tunisian authorities takes action. For more details Kindly call Dr. Imad 0021693686478
Reuters
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday called on Muammar Gaddafi and Libya’s rebels to stop fighting and sit down for talks.
“We would like (the fighting) to stop as soon as possible and for them to sit down at the negotiating table and reach an agreement on Libya’s future.”
Reuters
Libyan rebel leader Mahmoud Jibril will meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris on Wednesday to discuss prospects for a political transition in a post-Muammar Gaddafi era. France spearheaded the West’s military intervention in Libya with Sarkozy taking a personal gamble less than a year from a presidential election by becoming the first foreign leader to formally support the rebels.
AP
Even after rebels stormed into the capital and overwhelmed his residence, Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi has plenty of places to hide. Underground, for example. The man who ruled Libya for 42 years is known to have deep bunkers under his Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli, which rebel fighters seized Tuesday. Some former officials say the compound is connected by long tunnels to far-flung parts of Tripoli in a hidden network that would provide a quick escape route.
Reuters
A Libyan rebel government would honour all the oil contracts granted during the Muammar Gaddafi era, including those of Chinese companies, Ahmed Jehani, a senior rebel representative for reconstruction told Reuters in an interview.
AP
Libyan diplomats and students smashed portraits of Moammar Gadhafi, shouted “Game over!” and raised the rebel flag at their Manila embassy Wednesday as part of defections against the leader at Libya’s missions worldwide.
WSJ
Libya’s rebel leaders are expected to meet with United Nations’ representatives this week to discuss stabilization plans for the country, as part of the rebels’ efforts to solicit international financial and political aid to Libya following the collapse of Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s regime.
pdanahar
Rebels trying to outflank & surround the #Gaddafi forces still holding in his compound. Heavy gunfire going on.
Al Jazeera correspondent in Tripoli reporting that “Bab Al-Aziziya compound is being hit by tank fire from the nearby area of Abu Selim.”
ICRC
The ICRC has been able to visit a few local clinics and hospitals and can see that some of them have been overwhelmed by the numbers of patients. Robert Waudo of the ICRC says that as well as a lack of supplies, many medical personnel are unable to get to their places of work to help casualties because of the security situation.
Aljazeera
Al Jazeera’s Sue Turton reports from Tripoli: We are seeing plumes of smoke in various areas .. in the Abu Salim neighbourhood, that is still under the control of Gaddafi loyalists, there have been attacks there on people who have said they are rebels.. The military council are getting together to decide how to form a plan of attack. The military council is very keen to do something quite quickly and bring down the pockets of resistance that are still present..
Channel 4 news
At Tripoli’s main Al Zawiya Hospital, everything is overwhelmed by incoming casualties – not least the mortuary. Channel 4 reporter Alex Thompson stopped counting after 37 bodies – all in civilian clothing. Almost all the bodies she examined appeared to have died from gunshot wounds. Officials here have confirmed most were killed by snipers in the past two days. One said at least 400 people had been killed.
Tunisia
Talks are under way between rebels and pro-Gaddafi forces over Ras Jadir, the main crossing on the Libya-Tunisia border, BBC Monitoring reports, quoting rebel radio. It says Tunisian authorities are trying to mediate a peaceful handover of the crossing, still under the control of Gaddafi loyalists.
British officials say UN Security Council diplomats could vote on a plan for releasing frozen Libyan assets before the end of the week
BBC Matthew Price:
“We drove out of the hotel compound into a completely different city than the one we had seen seven days earlier.”
sarasidnerCNN Sara Sidner
Social media helping journalists held in Rixos hotel deal with situation
Aiman
Apparently, the #Rixos journalists were freed by one of the ‘older’ #Gaddafi guards who was persuaded to drop his weapon and swap sides.
ThisisKhaledM
#Gaddafi loyalists at #Rixos hotel believed Musa Ibrahim story about “armed gangs, al Qaeda” etc
lol Matthew Chance is shocked at the jubilation in #Tripoli streets..yall were staying with gov officials, did u believe their story?
Souffian Tripoli
stop shooting in the air !!!!! #Tripoli #Libya Stop shooting in the Air
AJA A large convey of FFs from Misrata advancing to AbuSlim neighborhood in Tripoli to eliminate the remaining of Gaddafi’s loyalists
BBC journalist describes release from Rixos hotel
A group of foreign journalists who had been forced to stay inside Tripoli’s Rixos hotel, under armed guard, have now been allowed to leave.
Dozens of journalists had been trapped inside the hotel for five days as gunmen loyal to Col Gaddafi roamed hallways restricting their movements.
The BBC’s Matthew Price was one of those trapped in the hotel. He said there were times when journalists feared the worst.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14654958
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Tripoli doctor on Libya free TV confirms water poisoning rumours are indeed not true.
ProudLibyan
I’m so proud of Libyan women during this revolution, they were an essential part of its success. They will be also essential 4 rebuilding.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
AJA: The FF in the East have liberated Brega Ras Lanuf, Sidra & Bin Jawad, They are currently in Wadi AlAhmar neighbouring Sirte
Libya FF take control of Mazraq al-Shams army base from Gaddafi troops in Zuara -Arabiya TV
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Moldova CARGO SHIP “HAJ-SAYED” now en route to dest. #Tobruq #Libya. ETA: 2011-08-27 12:00 (UTC). #Feb17
Turkey “Unspecified” Ship “KAZIM GENC” en route from #Mersin to dest. #Tripoli #Libya ETA: 2011-08-28 11:00 (UTC). #Feb17
#Turkey CARGO SHIPS “ILKE METE”, “SEREN AYANOGLU” & :“BANU GENC” remain anchored just outside port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#Turkey CARGO SHIPS “KURUOGLU 3” & “ARON” & #Togo Wing In Ground Ship “TASUCU” remain anchored just outside port #Tripoli
BREAKING: Libya Al Ahrar TV: The area of Abu Slim and Abu Slim Prison has been liberated fully
عاجل ليبيا أخبار: ليبيا الاحرار: تم تحرير كامل منطقة بوسليم و سجن بوسليم
BREAKING: We are now getting reports of renewed fighting in abu Salim area NOW in Tripoli
BREAKING: Tripoli: A large convey of Misrata Freedom fighters are advancing to Abu Slim to eliminate the remaining of Gaddafi forces.
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: طرابلس: عدد كبير جدا من ثوار مصراته يتوجهون الى بوسليم للقضاء على فلول المهزوم هناك
SaeedCNN Saeed Ahmed
BREAKING: Rebel Commander Mukhtar Al-Akhbar says 4 rebel fighters were found bound and executed Tripoli Airport
Brit & French Special Forces are on ground at Tripoli Airport coord’ing rebel efforts to open airport.
Tripolitano
In calls to #tripoli: airport secured all the way to the steel bridge where pro G thugs have some elements. A lot of fighting busleem heard
Libiya_min_Hollanda
URGENT ppl in Qaser ben gashir (tripoli airport area) are SCREAMING for help, alot of houses fell down pls pls PLS translate and RT
The Star
Scattered battles have flared across Tripoli, with pro-regime snipers cutting off the road to the airport and attacking captured Gaddafi HQ
The Sunday Indian
Rebels battle Libyan forces near Gaddafi compound
Pro-regime snipers cut off the road to Tripoli’s airport on Wednesday and fired at motorists near the capital’s port. They also launched repeated attacks on Gaddafi’s sprawling government compound.
The opposition fighters still claimed they now control most of Tripoli. Streets were largely deserted, scattered with debris, broken glass and other remnants of fighting, while rebels manned checkpoints every few hundred yards.
But there were intense clashes in the Abu Salim neighbourhood next to Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziya compound as Gaddafi loyalists fired shells and assault rifles at fighters who captured the compound on Tuesday.
Abu Salim is home to a notorious prison and thought to be one of the last remaining regime strongholds within the capital.
Rebels stormed Gaddafi’s compound on Tuesday but found no sign of the longtime leader.
Still the conquest effectively signalled the end of the regime, even though the opposition may face pockets of stiff resistance for some time to come.
And rebels know they cannot really proclaim victory until Gaddafi is captured.
On Wednesday morning, rebel fighters claimed to have taken control of Bab al-Aziziya but not all of it. They are now using Bab al-Aziziya as staging area for their operations, loading huge trucks with ammunition.
About 20 rebels were taking cover behind a wall of the compound and firing rifles and rocket-propelled grenades toward Gaddafi’s snipers in tall buildings in nearby Abu Salim. They came under heavy incoming fire.
“There are also civilians in those buildings who support Gaddafi and they too are firing on us,” said Mohammed Amin, a rebel fighter.
He said the rebels have been unable to push into Abu Salim but have surrounded it. Amin added that one rebel was killed in the area when they took up positions in the morning and four were kidnapped by Gaddafi troops while on patrol nearby.
The rebels claim they control the Tripoli airport but are still clashing with Gaddafi
forces around it. AP reporters said the road leading to the airport is closed because of heavy fire from regime snipers.
Khalil Mabrouk, a 37-year-old rebel fighter, said he had just come from the airport and the rebels have been inside since Monday.
Most of the area near the airpor was cleared off by Gaddafi troops, he said. But in the southern part of it, Gaddafi’s forces are firing rockets and shelling rebel positions inside the airport.
CNN: Speculation rife that #Gaddafi is hiding near the airport in Tripoli.
Tripoli airport now in control of opposition fighters twitpic.com/6anwy1 Libya
Speculation that Gaddafi and or #Gaddafi family members are either in Abuslim or near airport of #Tripoli #libya
pic of makeshift clinic inside the airport in Tripoli twitpic.com/6ant4z Libya Aug 24
LA Times
Libyan rebels battle lingering resistance; Kadafi still in hiding
Reporting from Tripoli, Libya
Libyan rebels continued to fight for control of the country Wednesday, clashing with supporters of Moammar Kadafi near the airport with the help of foreign special forces as journalists won their release from a hotel in the capital.
Several rockets landed near Tripoli International Airport, one apparently on the runway, and rebel commander Mukhtar Al Akhbar told CNN that four rebel fighters had been found bound and executed nearby.
NATO jets roared overhead amid explosions and automatic gunfire.
Rebels controlled the airport Wednesday but were struggling to capture an area to the east, according to CNN. Rebel leaders told the network they believed Kadafi loyalists were trying to clear a route for the 69-year-old leader to escape.
Full story:
www.latimes.com/news/la-fg-libya-fighti...
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
barrage of artillery just fired at #tripoli airport, rebel fighters say #ghadafi forces firing from villages
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING: Press conferience LIVE with Mahmoud Jabril عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: مؤتمر صحفي مباشر لساراكوزي ومحمود… fb.me/DYMB4Lfu
BREAKING: AJ Source: Heavy fighting in Abu Salim area and REPORTS of Saif Al Islam being present there
عاجل: مصادر للجزيرة: اشتباكات عنيفة فى حى بو سليم وأنباء عن تواجد سيف الإسلام
هناك
BREAKING: Al Arabiya TV reports rebels have taken army base at Zuara, west of Tripoli
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Driving around Tripoli today left no doubt which way city tilts. Rebel flag everywhere. Rebels claim only Abu Salim area still disputed
Skyman64 Ian Woods
Filmed at Gaddafi compound first thing this morning when it was deserted. Eerie.
Soon filled up with rebels wanting to fire guns there.
BREAKING: Sarkozy: Military operations against Gaddafi regime when there is no more threat against the Libyan people
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: ساركوزي : العمليات العسكرية ستتوقف عندما يكف القذافي وكتائبه عن تهديد الشعب الليبي
BREAKING: Sarkozy: There are no French special forces on Libyan Soil
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: ساركوزي : ليس هناك قوات خاصة فرنسية على الأرض في ليبيا
BREAKING: Reports that electricity has been cut in Tripoli NOW
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: أنباء عن انقطـاع الكـهرباء عن طرابلس الآن
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: Confirmed: Thousands of #AbuSleem prisoners have just been released over last few hours.
#Freedomfighters now in #WadiAhmar after securing all coastal cities before #Sirte
#Brega: 4 oil storage tanks have been burning for 6 days, still going. Fire suppression system currently down.
BREAKING: Misurata FFs have NOW entered Abu Salim area of Tripoli and heavy fighting is taking place there
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار:طلائع ثوارنا الابطال دخلوا الى حي ابوسليم وتدور الان اشتياكات عنيقة
AlassemaMedia
Call from Tripoli informs; Abosleam, Airport road and khalet alFerjan steal not liberated.
Cnn
Pro-Gadhafi forces try to halt rebels’ momentum
Libyan rebels weathered resistance from pro-Moammar Gadhafi forces in several volatile pockets across Tripoli on Wednesday, and a few dozen journalists kept hostage for days by the strongman’s armed supporters dramatically won their freedom.
Rebels worked to topple remnants of the Gadhafi military apparatus as special forces from Britain, France, Jordan and Qatar — which are on the ground in Libya — have stepped up operations in Tripoli and other cities in recent days to help them.
Two Arabic networks aired an audio message purportedly from Gadhafi in which he called upon all Libyans “to clear the city of Tripoli and eliminate the criminals, traitors and rats.”
“They are hiding between the families and inside the civilian houses,” the speaker said. “It’s your duty to enter these houses and take them out.”
CNN cannot confirm the authenticity of the message.
Read full story:
edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/24...
BREAKING: Libya’s deputy intelligence chief tells Al Arabiya that he has relinquished his post
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: نائب مدير المخابرات الليبية يعلن عبر العربية تخليه عن منصبه
BREAKING: “Mahmoud Jibril: France will provide logistical support to make sure the new school year begins in #Libya this September
BREAKING: REPORTS that our FFs and Free Libyan Army and on the move NOW from east of Sirte towards the city.
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: انباء عن تحرك ثورنا وجيشنا الوطنى من الشرق بتجاة سرت
BREAKING: Guma Gumaty: FFs control the area of Abu Salim
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: القماطي: الثوار سيطروا على منطقة ابو سليم التي تواجدت بها قوات القذاف
BREAKING: Guma Gumaty: Prsioners of Abu Salim have been liberated
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: القماطي: سجن بو سليم تم اقتحامه وتم تحرير جميع النشطاء
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Video: Tearing the green flag in front of Rixos hotel youtu.be/cMogn8vphV4
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMogn8vphV4&fea...
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
The ff hold the coast road as far west as sidrah. Brega ugaylah and ras lanuf are all #ff
Rowley
Electricity & communications in #Sirte & other #Gaddafi cities are reportedly off to prevent the people from knowing the truth
Raw Video: Journalists Freed From Tripoli Hotel
International journalists were freed from the Rixos Hotel on Wednesday after being held for five days by armed men loyal to Moammar Gadhafi. (Aug. 24)
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH_ilZC_P_g&fea...
Gavin
Hatem, a #Libyan in Holland tells BBC News that his cousin, a journalist from Benghazi who disappeared on 18 March, has been released today
Skyman64 Ian Woods
Staying for a second night in safe neighbourhood in western Tripoli. Unbelievable generosity and help offered by ordinary Libyans.
Sound advice here:
little_bytes
Libya is the new Rock Star – dont sign anything too fast, get a good lawyer, take your time
Gershom
I wonder when my country, #Zambia will recognise the NTC. Is the delay because of the LAPGreen investment in telecoms? #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Italian journalists were kidnapped this morning near Zawiya by Gaddafi loyalists
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Burkina Faso and Chad join list of countries recognising the rebels’ NTC as #Libya’s sole authority. Both previously received Gaddafi money
Italian news agency ANSA: Four Italian journalists kidnapped in Libya
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Filmed a battery of grad rocket launchers attacking pro gad troops on horizon. Ff hit a vehicle that started billowing black smoke.
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Burkina Faso says it will offer #Gaddafi exile if he requests it. -
Burkina Faso and #Chad, two nations which received large amounts of aid from #Libya under #Gaddafi. – #Feb17
Majority of mercenaries used by #Gaddafi in the crackdown against Libyans have come from #Chad
Burkina Faso recognizes the National Transitional Council
Chad recognizes the National Transitional Council
s2m2s ياسمين
From Gaddafi latest phone call 4:11 you can clearly hear sound of train tracks, there is no trains in #Libya Gadaffi might be In Algeria
Aljazeera
Muammar Gaddafi is still somewhere in Tripoli and clashes were under way in a southern area of the city where he may be hiding, a rebel official told the Reuters news agency.
“We think Gaddafi is still hiding somewhere in Tripoli. He is likely to be in the al-Hadhba al-Khadra area,” the official in Tripoli, who gave his name as Abdulrahman, told Reuters by telephone. “There is fighting in the al-Hadhba al-Khadra area.”
FromJoanne Joanne
#NEW #Cairo is CELEBRATING what the freedom Fighters have achieved so far ! youtube.com/watch?v=dl825L… #HappyScenes
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl825Lmfqsk&fea...
#ITALY Journos KIDNAPPED Journos working4 CorrieredellaSera and La Stampa and Chatholic Avvenire this Morn nr Zawiyah Driver Killed #Libya
OH My Goodness ;(( @baysontheroad Tripoli CentralHospital. Wounded incl 11yr old girl shot by sniper +1of hosp’s own doctors now brain dead
Freedom Fighter
Damashq area close to rixos just got sweeped of snipers! Allah is the greatest!
When r we going to stop deviding ourselves? FFs of certain areas have some ego issues! Remember this is libya pls do not devide it.
Tweeting Tripoli
We will lead the Arab world in democracy and prosperity, you’ll see.
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA One of doctors has given me list of medicines and other hospital equipment they urgently need. We will post on #AJE website.
Noor
Spoke 2 an aunt who lives near the airport in Tripoli. She said the situation in the neighbourhoods is fine and they’re cooking 4 rebels :)
plemochoe
#rixos #libya #tripoli Walter Fauntroy to Louis Farrakhan: “Man, the rebels sprung us, #gaddafi woulda HUNG us. So shut the FUCK up.”
evanchill Evan Hill
Sitting across the street from #Tripoli hospital. Injured have been arriving around every 15-20 minutes. Men of fighting age mostly.
Jude Burrows Sky:
Rixos – Moussa Ibrahim Gadaffi apparently ordered their detention
plemochoe
#rixos #libya #tripoli MOUSSA ordered the Rixos 34 to be held hostages? Sweet li’l ole MOUSSA? Now ask the journos how they like him.
Aiman
Apparently, the #Rixos journalists were freed by one of the ‘older’ #Gaddafi guards who was persuaded to drop his weapon and swap sides.
BBC
BBC foreign editor defends Libya coverage
News chief admits corporation was scooped by Sky’s Alex Crawford in race to Tripoli, but says ‘war is not a competition’
Jon Williams, the BBC’s foreign editor, has defended the corporation’s coverage of the battle for Tripoli after it was beaten into the Libyan capital at the weekend by Sky News, saying war reporting was a combination of “luck and judgment”.
The BBC was criticised after it was scooped by Sky reporter Alex Crawford, who rode with a rebel convoy as it made its way into the heart of the Libyan capital on Sunday.
Williams applauded Crawford but said the BBC News team had made a judgment that it was not safe to travel with the convoy, while another of its reporters, Matthew Price, was holed up in the Rixos Hotel.
Williams told Steve Hewlett on BBC Radio 4’s The Media Show on Wednesday that many more people tuned into the news bulletins on BBC1 and the BBC News channel than watched the BSkyB-owned service. Williams later tweeted: “War not a competition.”
More:
www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/24/bb...
Some reactions:
Very disappointing reporting from major networks and newspapers during this whole episode:(
Best reporting: Aljazeera, Sky News and Al Arabiya by far:)
#libya REaally getting tired of Western Media pundits “who are #libya rebels” schtick When They Haven’t Bothered to Find Out!
Everybody is fed up with the western media, their “experts” and their “opinions”.
Misinformation, inaccurate reporting and scaremongering!
Proper info with up to date reporting? Do they even know what that is?
Lot of absolute rubbish in most of the press
They had already formed their opinion, before the NFZ was in place, and they were sticking with it, no matter what. If you believed press, Gaddafi had won 25 x over
Acc to press rebels never stood a chance, always throwing terrorism and extremists in the mix., the editors added: stalemate, stalemate and more stalemate in every other sentence.
Tripoli heavy clashes now south of the airport via free Libya FB
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Al Madar cell phone network back up in #Misrata, w/ users going to Tripoli St Subscriber office to activate. #Libya #Feb17
#NTC says rebels are on the outskirts of #Sirte; road from #Benghazi has been mostly cleared of #Gaddafi filth.
AP
Italy: 4 Italian journalists abducted in Libya
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The Moroccan government has recognized the Libyan NTC as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
no power or water where we are in tripoli. rebels about to break their fast
Driving around Tripoli today left no doubt which way city tilts. Rebel flag everywhere. Rebels claim only Abu Salim area still disputed
‘Give us two days and everything will be finished’ one rebel fighter told me in Tripoli’s Martyrs Sq, ex Green Sq
Yansoon
Gaddafi the Closet Imperialist
As Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s power reaches its final hour, Libyans and Arabs around the world celebrate. With the fall of Tunisia’s Ben Ali, followed by Egypt’s Mubarak, and now Gaddafi, the imagination of Arabs everywhere has been captured once again. The unraveling of decades of repressive dictatorship has inspired and empowered the Arab masses to see what they are capable of accomplishing.
But some outside of the Arab world are not happy about the toppling of Gaddafi. NATO’s intervention, combined with Gaddafi’s anti-imperialist sentiment, has given way to support of the Libyan dictator among certain leftist circles who have painted him as some archetypal “anti-imperialist” hero.
Read more here:
yansoon.net/2011/08/23/gaddafi-the-clos...
Abdel Azim Mohamed Al Jazeera reporter direct from Tripoli – Misurata FFs declared their intention to encircle Abu Slim tonight
Can you stomach it?:
CNN
Gadhafi son, Saadi Gaddafi, offers to broker Libya cease-fire
The businessman son of embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi appears to be
out of rebel hands and says he wants to negotiate a cease-fire to save Tripoli from “a sea of blood.”
In an e-mail exchange with CNN Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson, Saadi Gadhafi — whose capture had been announced by the rebel leadership on Sunday — said he had the authority to negotiate and wanted to discuss a cease-fire with U.S. and NATO officials.
“I will try to save my city Tripoli and 2 millions of people living there … otherwise Tripoli will be lost forever like Somalia,” he wrote. Without a cease-fire, he added, “Soon it will be a sea of blood.”
Read more and watch video:
feb17.info/news/gadhafi-son-saadi-gadda...
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Bulgaria misses golden opportunity to establish good ties with Libyan rebels: focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n…
4Adam Adam Libya
Zwara and their fellow revolutionaries from Nafusa, Sabratha, and Zawiya defeated GF. Retreated GF regrouping in Regdaleen #Libya
SAS
British special forces are on the ground in Libya helping to spearhead the hunt for Col Muammar Gaddafi
22 SAS Regiment began guiding rebel soldiers after being ordered in by David Cameron
SAS soldiers, have been dressed in Arab civilian clothing and carrying the same weapons as the rebels
The New Republic
Letter From Libya: The Rebel Fleet Prepares For Its Final Battle
Off the coast of Misrata—On the dark blue sea of the Mediterranean, Libyan rebels are planning their final offensive to bring down Muammar Qaddafi. More than a hundred fighters set out from Benghazi Tuesday, transforming two tugboats into the
official rebel fleet.
The passengers are aware that Qaddafi’s military barracks have fallen to the opposition. The rebels, most of whom are observing the Ramadan fast, pass their time reading the Koran and quietly celebrating their victory. All are relieved that their campaign against Qaddafi is close to ending.
Full art.:
www.tnr.com/article/world/94138/tripoli...
Feb17
Brother in law just made it home after 3 months in jail for refusing to put q’s picture in his hospital operating room. Praying for others
RasmusTantholdt Rasmus Tantholdt TV2
Travelled around the world for eight years as a correspondent. Never experienced hospitallity and kindness like right now in #Tripoli
fpleitgenCNN Frederik Pleitgen
Camel Taxi en route to Brega. Never seen this before. twitpic.com/6aq05n
NUMBER NOW KNOWN:
TRIPOLI:
72.000 prisoners have been released from Abu Saleem prison
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Audio recording from #Tripoli says 72,000 prisoners have been released from Abu Saleem Prison. Allahu Akbar feb17.info/live-libya-unr… #Libya
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
plane burning on tarmac at #tripoli international airport, still hearing & feeling explosions from artillery fire
Reuters
UAE: Up $700 mln in Libya assets could be released
af.reuters.com/article/investingNews/id...
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AlArabaya: Ahmed Bany, Nat’l Army Spokesman says Abu Slim under opposition control. Fighters engaging last pockets of resistance there.
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
Venezuelan Embassy in #Tripoli has been “assaulted and totally sacked”. acc to President Hugo Chavez, who’s a staunch supporter of #Gaddafi
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Scores of dead bodies belonging to protesters were discovered near Bab al-Azizia in Tripoli 3 weeks ago #alarabiya #Libya #Qaddafi
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Arab League recognizes #NTC & offers #Libya’s seat to them. RECOMMENDATION: REFUSE THE #AU & STAY FAR AWAY FROM THESE THINGS.
BBCBarbaraPlett Barbara Plett
#SouthAfrica accepts unfreezing $500 million of #Libya assets in #US for humanitarian aid, but #US says must be a $1.5bn pkg
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Libya: #Jalil has stated will put himself up 4 prosecution 4 the 4 years he worked for #Gaddafi. I call 4 amnesty 4 this gentleman. #Feb17
mchancecnn Matthew Chance
I’m in #Tripoli. Thank you everybody for all your support during this difficult period. The #rixos4 are so glad about this positive outcome.
Crisis ended when #rixos gunmen realised that #Libya outside of hotel doors was no longer Libya of old. Handed us their guns & said “sorry.”
Will stick around in Tripoli for a few more days and think about next move – Really want to get back and see family.
in the end – felt sorry for guards. All they knew was Gadhafi’s regime. Took them a while to realise it had crumbled. Remarkable transition.
Inquirer news
Gadhafi forces fight back, as reward offered for strongman
TRIPOLI—Fighting raged Wednesday as Moammar Gadhafi troops fought back near his Tripoli compound a day after it was captured, while rebels offered a $1.7 million reward for the elusive strongman, dead or alive.
As the United Nations called a meeting to discuss the unlocking by backers of the insurgency of billions of dollars of Libyan assets, France said it invited “friends of Libya” to a forum in September on the country’s future.
Meanwhile, Washington said Libya’s stockpile of weapons of mass destruction had been secured and that it was confident the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) could set up governing structures after overruning Tripoli.
As a group of mostly foreign journalists who had been confined to Tripoli’s Rixos Hotel were freed, Italian media said four Italian journalists were kidnapped in Libya and two French journalists were wounded in Tripoli.
newsinfo.inquirer.net/47335/gadhafi-for...
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Heavy fighting at a ranch that houses Qaddafi’s chief of staff #alarabiya #Libya #Qaddafi
According to BBC Monitoring, pro-Gaddafi television network al-Urubah is broadcasting again
I_Love__Libya:
10:00 pm Libya time
Truck loads of bodies r arriving to Metaga Airport Hospital #Tripoli, 2-3 days old, press on ground should investigate
cmonsense A
Mercenaries in Tripoli desperate to take Tripoli Airport.If caught they loose their money. Same interest of Gaddafi family
Tweeting Tripoli
What was Gaddafi doing with this car? Never seen him driving around Tripoli. yfrog.com/hs90ftsj
Must read. Clay Claiborne’s latest article about Libya: www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/24/10099... #feb17 #Tripoli #Libya
NATO did a good job and still doing a great job. We can never thank them enough.
Sirtawi
#FF came under fire from snipers as they reached Bin Jawad last night & had 2 take position in Ras Lanouf awaiting orders from #NTC & #NATO.
#FF & #NATO shall proceed with their attacks on Gaddafi Briggades in the vicinity of #Sirte if they do not cooperate peacefully.
BEAUTIFUL PHOTO’S
News Observer
PHOTO GALLERY
www.newsobserver.com/2011/08/24/1427708...
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Zuwarah: Fighting has started again, #Freedomfighters asking for assistance
#Tripoli: #Freedomfighters requesting assistance w/ fighting in #GaserBenGasher
#Gaddafi CARGO SHIP “FARWA” 35.2877˚/13.95566˚ en route from #Iskederun to #Sfax #Tunisia reported carrying weapons shipment. #Libya @NATO
Moldova PASSENGER SHIP “AZZURRA” now en route to dest. #Benghazi #Libya ETA: 2011-08-25 10:00 (UTC). #Feb17
OmarAmer
So NTC hoping to get oil back to 1.6 mil barrels in 9 months if everything goes to plan. That sounds very promising Inshala
lindseyhilsum Lindsey Hilsum
by LibyaInMe
We found tunnels under #ghaddafi compound in Ben Ashour. Full hospital in there!
Juweira
Oh Allah grant the ppl of #Libya complete Victory in this fight and end Gaddafi’s life Ameen!
Guardian
Libyan hotel journalists emerge into a ‘new, happy Tripoli’
They checked in under the rule of Muammar Gaddafi and walked out into a completely changed Libya. A group of more than 30 journalists and dignitaries trapped inside Tripoli’s five-star Rixos hotel since the weekend were freed on Wednesday afternoon
after being held at gun point by “die hard” pro-Gaddafi gunmen.
As the foreign nationals emerged into the light, many were taken aback by the speed with which opposition forces had swept through dictator’s stronghold. They remarked on how everywhere the green flags of Gaddafi’s 42-year rule had been supplanted by rebel tricolours.
“It’s a new Tripoli, a happy Tripoli, very different than the one I saw a week ago,” said
Jomana Karadsheh, a CNN producer who was among the journalists for BBC, Sky News, Fox and other broadcasters held captive at the hotel.
More:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/24/li...
Please read:
Via Shabab
Libya: Gaddafi’s Fleeing Mercenaries Describe the Collapse of the Regime
Right from the start, Mario, an ethnic Croatian artillery specialist from Bosnia, suspected it was a lost cause.
“My men were mainly from the south of Libya and Chad, and there were a few others from countries south of Libya,” said Mario, who spoke on condition that his last name not be published. A veteran of the wars of the former Yugoslavia, he had been hired by the Gaddafi regime to help fight the rebels and, later, NATO. “Discipline was bad, and they were too stupid to learn anything. But things were O.K. until the air strikes commenced. The other side was equally bad, if not worse. Muammar Gaddafi would have smashed the rebels had the West not intervened.”(See pictures of the lengthy battle for Libya.)
By early July, Mario said, more than 30% of the men under his command had deserted or defected to the rebel side. NATO missiles scored several direct hits on his forces, causing “significant casualties.” At that point in the war, he said, “military hardware stopped having the role it once did. We had to use camouflage and avoid open spaces.”
Away from the front, at the heart of the regime, mistrust and excess further undermined Gaddafi’s hold on power, Mario said. “Life in Gaddafi’s compound and shelters was so surreal, with partying, women, alcohol and drugs,” said Mario, 41. “One of the relatives of Gaddafi took me to one of his villas where they offered me anything I wanted. I heard stories about people being shot for fun and forced to play Russian roulette while spectators were making bets, like in the movies.”
Source-Jovo Martinovic for Time World
shabablibya.org/news/libya-ex-gaddafi-m...
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: Fighting continues in #HaIslami, #AbuSaleem & #BabAlAziziya. #Libya #Feb17
benghazi’s bunny♥
A Journalist who escaped from Rixos: “we were looked after by Libyans who showed the best of this country & the best of humanity” #Libya
Libya In Me
what drove me nuts is the AJA report that Saif and Khamis were “spotted”. REALLY?? SHOOT THEM FOR GOD’S SAKES!!!
mchancecnn Matthew Chance
Just weighed myself. Astonishingly I actually put on weight during the #Rixos ordeal!
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI NOW FIERCE FIGHTING at Farm of Regime Chief of Staff Commander Abdul Rahman Al #Sayd who is inside the house
Sirtawi
Just got a name of one of Abu Sleem’s detainees from #Sirte: Hisham AbdelRazaq Al-Fitouri.
Hisham from #Sirte was released today from Abu Sleem in #Tripoli
Ibn
confirmed horrific tale from #tripoli #libya: family went out a couple of days ago, thinking tripoli was completely free, and wanted to head to martyr’s square. the children in the car had the new flag painted on their face. they ended up driving through the bu salim district of tripoli, which had a gaddafi checkpoint. when they were
stopped and gaddafi’s soldiers saw what was painted on the childrens faces, they started shooting at the car. one of the girls ended up getting killed
Chrleston Gazette
Family member says Charleston doctor is free in Libya
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Dr. Rida Mazagri, a Charleston neurosurgeon who was abducted by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in March, is now free and safe, according to a family member.
“We just got word from a family member in Tripoli that Dr. Mazagri is safe and free and is by one of our families home,” his sister-in-law Sharon Mazagri posted on the Facebook group called Prayers for Dr. Mazagri. “Thank you everyone for all of the prayers. We will keep everyone informed on all new information. Thank you all again.”
Mazagri was released from prison Wednesday afternoon. Family members were not sure when he would be returning home to Charleston.
Full story:
wvgazette.com/News/201108240758#.TlVeKf...
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Al Arabiya is reporting Unconfirmed reports aboput the killing of Qaddafi’s son, Mohammed
Channel 4 News
“It’s Over For Gaddafi” Says his Foreign Minister Abdul Ati al-Obeidi
Mr Obeidi told Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller that Gaddafi’s 42-year grip on the country “was over” after rebels stormed the capital, Tripoli, and breached the Libyan leader’s compound.
Mr Obeidi also said he was not in contact with other ministers in the regime, and confirmed that the prime minister had defected to Tunisia.
He added that if he were commanding forces loyal to Gaddafi, he would tell them to stop their resistance.
“If I was in charge, I would tell them to lay down their arms,” he said.
Speaking from a house in Tripoli, where he is with his son and grandchildren, Mr
Obeidi said that it now appeared that Gaddafi had exhausted all the options available to him. Gaddafi had previously been assured by the international community that he would be guaranteed safe passage out of Libya, if he chose to accept it.
Video: “It’s Over For Gaddafi” bit.ly/qp1KUZ #libya
Channel 4 News
Video: Inside Gaddafi’s Compound
Tripoli is still ringing to the sound of gunfire – most of it celebration but there is also heavy fighting to the south, as forces loyal to Gaddafi refuse to give up.
Video:
feb17.info/media/video-inside-gaddafis-...
Aljazeera
The mother of a Baltimore writer missing since March in Libya says she has spoken with her son and that he said he had escaped from a Tripoli prison.
Sharon VanDyke says her 32-year-old son, Matthew, called her on Wednesday afternoon to tell her he had escaped.
VanDyke told his mother he had been held in solitary confinement in Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, but fellow prisoners helped him escape to a compound where he borrowed a phone.
Reuters
Bursts of gunfire rang out near the Corinthia Hotel in central Tripoli late on Wednesday and a column of smoke rose from the direction of the shooting, a Reuters correspondent at the hotel said.
Earlier, a group of heavily armed rebels arrived at the hotel, saying they had heard Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saadi was inside and that they would search every room for him.
A Reuters reporter saw about half a dozen rebels arrive in the hotel forecourt in a truck
mounted with an anti-aircraft gun. The men ran into the hotel and blocked off access to the elevators as they prepared to search the building room by room.
Aljazeera
Video: Rebels make steady gains in Tripoli
Rebels in Tripoli are using Muammar Gaddaf’s compound as a staging area to plan operations and discuss deployments.
Elsewhere, leaders from Libya’s National Transitional Council are moving one by one from Benghazi to the capital.
The rebels have had great success in taking control of large parts of Tripoli. But there are still parts that they can’t even enter, and the area is not completely safe.
Al Jazeera’s Zein Basravi reports.
feb17.info/media/video-rebels-make-stea...
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA the list of medical items urgently needed by Tripoli Central hospital is on #AJE website blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/Libya
Telegraph
Libya: journalists freed from Rixos Hotel siege
Mr Price said their captors were left in tears and in fear for their lives once they realised the regime had ended. Journalists gave one guard ‘safe passage’ through rebel-held territory to his family home, he said.
“We had two gunmen loyal to Colonel Gaddafi and who still believed the city could be won by Colonel Gaddafi’s forces. They said they had been ordered by his son, Saif al-Islam, to keep us safe. It was remarkable they still believed all of that despite what was happening in the city around them,” he said.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
FromJoanne Joanne
#BENGHAZI Italian consul Guido DeSanctis spoke wth1of Italian Kidnapped journos They r fine & Given food and drink after sunset #libya
#Italia KIDNAPPED journalists #ElisabettaRosaspina + #GiuseppeSarcina #DomenicoQuirico #ClaudioMonici Held in Flat in #TRIPOLI #libya
NYT
Libyan Rebels Used Tiny Canadian-Made Drone
OTTAWA — Libyan rebels have been coordinating their attacks using a Canadian-made, unmanned surveillance aircraft, the drone’s manufacturer announced Tuesday.
The drone is extremely compact — the company says that it weighs about three pounds and fits into a backpack — and its operator does not need any knowledge of flight. Mr. Kroetsch said such factors were crucial for the rebels. The device is simply controlled by tracing flight paths on maps displayed on a touch screen display. Its base price is $120,000.
Ultimately, the drone was purchased on behalf of the transitional council by a private security company based in Ottawa, Zariba Security, which has provided training and operational support for other Aeryon customers.
Full art.:
www.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/world/africa...
FromJoanne Joanne
Expect more rubbish from the mouths of the Gadddafi ’s Television network al-Urubah
#FLASH Unconfirmed Reports aboput the killing of Qaddafi’s son, Mohammed @AlArabiya_Eng
Libiya_min_Hollanda
PPL R SCREAMING 4 HELP #Tripoli GASR BEN GASHER close to airport FIERCE fighting #Media Pls contact @Ebnat_Alislaam #Libya Ppl DYING
Just got info that FF from swani ben yadem are on there way 2 help Gaser Ben Gashir, I hope they get there fast!
farms are of Bashir Salah he has 3 farms there, one next 2 gadafis farm, it has a very high wall of 4 meter
the second one on the weat of the airport also with a 4 m high wall, 3 one the east side of the airport road, without a wall
the one behind the center is the same one next 2 gadafis farm its about 10 hactare big
also from a school called the school of Omran berabha in the center of gbg next 2 the school of Kmies Gadafi boys school
the 3th farm is on the east side of the airport brige
there has 2 be someth there even the comander of zintan FF said they noticed a mercides convoy near airport area
the woman of my relatives left there homes and went more 2 the east, they r scared of the merc whom r everyw
he Clashes are getting tuffer right now alot of injured civilians are at alafya clinc in GBG…..
grad rockets figherd on civilian houses, they are fireing from the south!!!!
Alafya clinic in gaser ben gashir is getting full of injured and dead civilians, doc there said he saw #Abdallah Mansoor GL
Pls ppl let the world know what is happening in Gaser ben Gashir!!!!!
the clashes are on the manara road, galet alferjan and next 2 the farm of #Gadafi
BREAKING NEWS Gaser Ben Gashir has been liberated just reseaved a call from there!!!!! RT I will confirm later on again.
FF from GBG, swani, zintan and misrata Thxxxxxxxxxxxx
Joanne
They need take photos RT @Ebnat_Alislaam Just heard #hannibal the son of Gadafi has been killed in Gaser ben Gashir not confirmed #Libya
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
One thing about #Gaddafi family members: they broke records in number of times they died!
Picture: #Gaddafi TV studio found in the Rixos hotel, the one used by Youssef Shakeer #Libya #Feb17 pic.twitter.com/fk3krgz
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Nato will not put troops on ground in Libya bit.ly/rn3Rvw #libya
Al Arabiyah: Mohamad Hajazee, Health minister of #Gaddafi regime “defects”
AP – The Moroccan government has recognized the Libyan opposition as the legitimate representative of the North African country’s people.
The official MAP news agency says Morocco’s foreign minister, Taib Fassi Fihri, on Wednesday met with the president of the National Transitional Council.
Fassi Fihiri arrived Tuesday in the rebel capital of Benghazi, with a message from the Moroccan king, congratulating the rebels on their progress toward “realising the legitimate aspirations of the Libyan people”
Mahmoud Jibril used an nice example yesterday: #Libya needs new hardware (infrastructure), and also new software (democratic/civil culture).
TRIPOLI:
opposition forces might consider a gun buy-back program. Young men would rather have money. We hope.
LPC #Tripoli: civilians including very young men with captured weapons…security and rapid disarming are critical. #Libya
Audio boo:
audioboo.fm/boos/449469-lpc-tripoli-civ...
Wapo
Homes of Gadhafi family _ symbols of rulers’ excesses _ ransacked by rebels, crowds
goo.gl/VsC9P
MAQAM
Breaking News from #Libya: #Gaddafi forces attempting to retake #Tripoli airport. Gaddafi may be planning an escape.
feb17voices:
LPC #Tripoli: Airport road area reports some clashes, with several families forced to leave homes to escape intense fighting this PM #Libya
SUMMARY AUGUST 25th 2011
8/25/11
8.25.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/KMdqw
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Abu Sleem Prison is the location where the Gaddafi regime has placed his political prisoners for over 40 years
It is the location of the Abu Sleem massacre – In which Gaddafi forces killed 1,200 political prisoners in ONE day
Recently, Abu Sleem is where 1000s of captured FFs & protesters have been kept since the beginning of the revolution
The only crime these individuals were guilty of was speaking out against the regime
Even a prisoner at Abu Sleem from #Egypt was freed
The prisoners came from all parts of Libya – East, West, North, South, even other countries
Watch the moment of freedom:
www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2695...
The moment when some of the prisoners from AbuSleem arrived in Benghazi Airport #Feb17 #Libya youtu.be/cetMpwhI7yA
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cetMpwhI7yA&fea...
feb17libya Feb17Libya
This simply amazing video comes from our freedom fighters in Zliten where they took hold of 450 (yes four hundred fifty!) tanks in Majer weapon depot
Video:
feb17.info/media/video-amazing-freedom-...
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Heavy shelling from #Gaddafi filth push #Freedomfighters back 20km along coastal road from #BinJawad. #Libya #Feb17
4 brigades from #Benghazi on their way to #Tripoli to aid Freedomfighters. Total from Benghazi in Tripoli estimated at 3000.
PLEASE RT: 50 Cars full of #Gaddafi mercs left #BaniWalid en route to #Sabha via #Alnahar Rd 30 minutes ago. #Libya #Feb17 @NATO
CamboDonut
Just in from Misrata mil council:“We have found possible mass murder in Tripoli prison. We believe event happen 4 days ago”
From Misrata military council:“Drs at main Tripoli Hospital know more.Prisoners locked up, grenades thrown into their rooms.”
Frm Misrata military council:“So far only retrieved13 bodies. All badly burnt. Trying to get understanding from city morgue”
Rowley
#Panama OIL TANKER “GAZ FAREAST” now en route to #Benghazi #Libya ETA: 2011-08-25 23:00 (UTC). #Feb17
#Moldova FERRY “FEHIM BEY” en route to #Misrata from #Benghazi #Libya. #Feb17
Tweeting Tripoli
BREAKING AJA: Italian journos who were kidnapped by Gaddafi thugs freed and all well.
Correction: All 4 journos are freed and in good health, however, sadly their Libyan driver was killed by the Gaddafi thugs.
IMPORTANT NOTE: NATO and & west r still enforcing the UN resolution. To save civilians. Gaddafi & his maniac son still at large & dangerous.
Phone from BaniWalid: State-Radio announced that Gaddafi forces have liberated Tripoli apart from few pockets of crusader infidels.
URGNT: Pls don’t RT news about anchor Hamza (AK47) capture. It’s not true. He’s the Guy who said BabAzizia was fake. Saif’ll use it soon.
Phone call frm Abosleem: Pro-G still shooting at houses indiscriminately. Could hear gun fire & Mortar thuds on phone. Terrifying sounds.
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Defence Secretary Liam Fox confirms NATO is providing intelligence & assets to help track down Colonel Gaddafi.
Sky correspondent: Heavy fighting near the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli
Reuters: Four Italian journalists kidnapped in Libya have been freed
Free Libya Daily is out! bit.ly/kgc2jf ▸ Top stories today
NATO Partnership in Libya Serves as Model, Panetta Says
MONTEREY, Calif., Aug. 23, 2011 – Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta today called U.S. support for the NATO mission that’s helping opposition forces make progress against Moammar Gadhafi’s regime Libya an example of the international cooperation that will be critical in the future.
“It is a good indication of the kind of partnership and alliances that we need to have for the future if we are going to deal with the threats that we confront in today’s world,” Panetta told students during addresses at both the Naval Postgraduate School and Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center.
Panetta said he is particularly proud of the mission the United States performed as a NATO partner in Libya, including the establishment of a no-fly zone to help protect the Libyan people.
“It is a credit to the great job of nations working together on a common mission – something that is absolutely essential if we are to provide security in the future,” he said.
This support and assistance, he said, has been “part of the key in being able to help the opposition forces there ultimately be able to succeed.”
Panetta expressed hope that the opposition will succeed and NATO will have completed its mission. “It’s clear that the opposition has made significant gains. It’s clear that the regime forces are collapsing and that Gadhafi’s days are numbered,” he said.
Read more:
goo.gl/GtKwE
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
The #Libyan #FF I am meeting on road to #sirte are a different army to the one I met in April. Far more organised disciplined
heading back to front now. will drive as far as we can and let you know
Our fixer has just visited his house in brega for first time in months and found everything looted. Really feel for him
SecularLibya
Heinz: Not many airstrike targets left. So the Apache and Tigers can concentrate on Sirte. They better give up.
Heinz: Many Daffi troops have no communication what has happened elsewhere and keep fighting. They will hear it in a few days.
Heinz: It is simple to flush rats out from the underground bunkers. Pour some jetfuel down and they will all surface.
Heinz: Thermo-explosives that can even eat through a 1m thick steel door has arrived in Tripoli.
Heinz: Helis are working on Daffis near the airport. Jets going to Sabha. 48 hr. ultimatum given to Sirte.
Ghazi
I am so happy that our friend Libyan poet and journalist is free and returned to our beloved city #Zawiya #Libya is proud of you my friend
plemochoe
I see this as a proverb in Libya for centuries: “As full of shit as Moussa Ibrahim”
Telegraph
Libya: In Tripoli’s hospitals they die on the beds and die on the floors
The doctors at Tripoli Central Hospital knew there would be heavy casualties; but they had no idea how bad it was going to be
As battle raged in the Tripoli’s streets hundreds of casualties were brought in, rebel fighters, Gaddafi’s soldiers, and unlucky civilians, laying next to each other in bed and even on a floor awash with blood, screaming or moaning in agony. Many died before they could be treated.
“There were hundreds coming in within the first few hours: "said Dr Mahjoub Rishi, Professor of Surgery at the hospital. “It was like a vision of hell. Missile injuries were the worst. The damage they do to the human body is shocking to see, even for someone like me who is used to dealing with injuries.”
Read full article:
goo.gl/vDTa8
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
So, I just heard that someone I know drove around Tripoli in a Lamborghini that used to belong to Saif or Saadi… jealous!
Sirtawi
Reports that a captured mercenary on #Sirte’s western front line says #Gadaffi’s son Mutassim is in #Sirte
#Sirte’s rep, Hassan Drouy, on Alaan Tv (Arabic) giving same updates we tweeted last night. #Feb17 #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=lbJTNH…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbJTNHTFnss
Power cut over #Sirte, #Sabha etc is not in favor of those who possess Sat phones. Batteries are running low!
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
A 13 year old girl from Benghazi, will be meeting her father for the 1st time in her living memory later today Inshala. Was in Buslim prison
Aljazeera
Four Italian journalists who were abducted near Az Zawiyah in Libya on Wednesday have been freed, Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported on its web site.
Two of the journalists worked for Corriere della Sera, while the others were reporters for La Stampa and Avvenire newspapers.
The Italian consul in Benghazi, Guido de Sanctis, said after the kidnap that they were being held in an apartment in Tripoli.
He said their driver was killed during the abduction and they were believed to have been held by gunmen loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Mohammed Ali Abdallah-NFSL: Story of 1 prisoner who tells of how G forces attempted to lynch him in #Tawargha S. of #Misrata; marks on neck
MUST READ
Via Shabab
Why Libya sceptics were proved badly wrong
Let us do a thought experiment. Imagine the UN did not vote to authorise theuse of force in Libya in March. Nato did nothing; Colonel Muammer Gaddafi over-ran Benghazi; the US stood by; the Libyan opposition was reduced to sporadic uprisings, quickly crushed. The regimes in Yemen and Syria took note, and put down their own uprisings with greater vigour. The west let brutality and oppression triumph again in the Middle East.
This is the scenario many wise heads were effectively arguing for with their strong stands against intervention to stop Col Gaddafi. Over the months those analysts have reminded us of their views, calling Libya a quagmire. This week one of the leading proponents of that position, my friend and colleague Richard Haass, shifted gears – but only to remind us just how hard the road ahead in Libya is likely to be.
I do not know anyone, regardless of the side they took in the initial debate, who thinks this task will be easy; indeed, the battle against Col Gaddafi is not yet won. But not so fast. Before we focus on what must happen next, let us pause for a minute and reflect on that initial debate and the lessons to be learnt.
The first is that, against the sceptics, it clearly can be in the US and the west’s strategic interest to help social revolutions fighting for the values we espouse and proclaim. The strategic interest inhelping the Libyan opposition came from supporting
democracy and human rights, but also being seen to live up to those values by the 60 per cent majority of Middle Eastern populations who are under 30 and increasingly determined to hold their governments to account. This value-based argument was inextricable from the interest-based argument. So enough with the accusations of bleeding heart liberals seeking to intervene for strictly moral reasons.
We also now know how different intervention looks when we help forces who want to
be helped. East Timor, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Libya – all cases where force evened out odds between a brutal government and a widespread and legitimate social or national movement. It is difficult to know when a state has failed in its responsibility to protect its people, particularly when secession is involved. This is why international authorisation is both required and difficult to obtain. But the contrast with Iraq and Afghanistan, where external invasion saw the US often labelled as an enemy, is enormous.
Another clear lesson: the depiction of America as “leading from behind” makes no sense. In a multi-power world with problems that are too great for any state to take on alone, effective leadership must come from the centre. Central players mobilise others and create the conditions and coalitions for action – just as President Barack Obama described America’s role in this conflict. In truth, US diplomacy has been adroit in enabling action from other powers in the region, and then knowing when to step out of the way.
That said, we must not focus just on states, because Libya also shows that social forces are increasingly powerful drivers of foreign policy. Those forces have now pushed both the west and Arab governments into taking a much harder line than simply geostrategic logic would dictate against Bashar al-Assad’s brutality in Syria, and even (albeit timidly) against torture and killings by the Bahraini government. Social movements are also beginning to reshape politics in Israel and India.
Looking forward, it is really not up to the west, much less the US, to plan Libya’s transition. It is a relief to see so many articles and statements reflecting lessons learnt from Iraq. But the Libyans are far ahead of where the US was when the initial fighting ended in Iraq. The National Transitional Council has a draft constitutional charter that is impressive in scope, aspirations and detail – including 37 articles on rights, freedoms and governance arrangements.
The sceptics’ response to all this, of course, is that it is too early to tell. In a year, or a decade, Libya could disintegrate into tribal conflict or Islamist insurgency, or split apart or lurch from one strongman to another. But the question for those who opposed the intervention is whether any of those things is worse than Col Gaddafi staying on by increasingly brutal means for many more years. Instability and worse would follow when he died, even had he orchestrated a transition.
The sceptics must now admit that the real choice in Libya was between temporary stability and the illusion of control, or fluidity and the ability to influence events driven
by much larger forces. Welcome to the tough choices of foreign policy in the 21st century. Libya proves the west can make those choices wisely after all.
The writer is a former director of policy planning for the US state department
Source- Anne-Marie Slaughter for FT
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
AJE: Libyan Freedom Fighters explore Gaddafis bunker
Al Jazeera has gained access to part of an underground tunnel network beneath Muammar Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli.
Fighting for overall control of the area around Bab al-Aziziyah is still going on.
Our correspondent Andrew Simmons and cameraman Justin Okines, joined rebel fighters as they combed Gaddafi’s underground hideouts.
AJE: Libyan Freedom Fighters explore #Gaddafi’s bunker goo.gl/8HTZA #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes #Tripoli
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo1Pl-lkRWA
Aisha Gaddafi’s Bathroom Complete with Jacuzzi, Sauna, and Pool Table
Gaddafi Family Squander Libyan Money
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFOGKf22gxc&NR=1
Reuters:
Libya freedom fighters battle to root out Gaddafi diehards
As a volley of shell fire broke the morning calm in Tripoli, rebels said they were confident they could mop up soldiers clinging to a leader now on the run and presumed to be in hiding in the country he ruled for four decades.
“The end will only come when he’s captured, dead or alive,” said Mustafa Abdel Jalil, head of the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC), who offered amnesty to any of Gaddafi’s entourage who killed him and announced a reward worth more than $1 million for his capture.
Read more:
shabablibya.org/news/libya-rebels-battl...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
@WMCLibya-More then 350 bodies have been discovered now at one of #Gaddafis security compounds. #Tripoli hospitals warning of epidemics….
due to excessive body count in temperatures over 35C with the lack of electricity, supplies and medical staff.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Renewed attacks by the Freedom Fighters on the Busleem area of Tripoli still holding loyalists to Gaddafi
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA found another prisoner witness to shooting who says Gaddafi troops sprayed their cell with bullets as Bab al Aziziya was falling.
Omar
Freedom Fighters will now start to move onto Sirte…… Rabi yansoorhum uw ya7fathum inshala
Gaddafi loyalists and mercenaries prepare for battle with the Freedom Fighters heading toward the city.
DerekStoffelCBC Derek Stoffel
The Radisson hotet in Tripoli where we are staying was apparently used by Gadhaffi forces until Sunday, when they fled.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Gaddafi underground prison at Matiga airbase 25 8 11 youtube.com/watch?v=Az01wn… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az01wnqd3KQ
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Jibril and Berlusconi currently giving a press conference in Milan, Italy #Libya #Italy
FromJoanne Joanne
Saleh he is from Sirte now in Misrata says this is the general believe among them 25% civilians pro G in Sirte
Gaddafi seen:
#Tripoli FF claim they have seen #gaddafi in convoy of 4×4 cars driving today #Libya Stuart Ramsey on @SkyNews
#NTC Head Mustafa Abdel Jalil CALLS FOR ALL LIBYANS in Gaddafi controlled hotspots TO JOIN REVOLUTION
FromJoanne Joanne
KIDNAPPERS were nervous Angry with Bloodshot Eyes accused (now freed #Italy) journos of being part of #NATO campaign 2bomb kill #Libya ns
Reuters
Gaddafi nearly captured on Wednesday: report
(Reuters) -
PARIS, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Libyan commandos fighting Muammar Gaddaficame close to capturing the toppled leader on Wednesday when they raided a private home in Tripoli where he appeared to have been hiding, Paris Match magazine said on Thursday.
More:
shabablibya.org/news/gaddafi-nearly-cap...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Freedom Fighters on the Eastern front are now heading toward Sirte as attempts to negotiate with G hardcore loyalists in the area broke down
Jibril: Major destabilising element, is failing to provide the salaries
Jibril says he should be in his country due to the situation,but due to lack of funds the situation is very grave, hence the meetings
Berlusconi: Ialy has begun to unfreeze Libyan assets
Berlusconi says Italy has begun to unfreeze Libyan assets worth 350 million euros in Italian banks
Via Feb 17 info
Aljazeera
Maram Wafa, a resident of Tripoli, spoke to Al Jazeera earlier and urged everyone in the city to “please remain [at] home, remain safe because the city is full of snipers”.
“The city is really not safe, even if it is under our control still it is really not safe, we really have to be careful,” she told Al Jazeera.
“Everyone is staying indoors, everyone is staying indoors and we have to because we will make things more difficult, more complicated for the freedom fighters on the streets. They will not be able to completely focus on what is going on around them
because they will automatically want to protect us.
“So believe me, stay indoors, it will be much safer first and second of all you will be doing a favour to these fighters.”
NATO
The NATO military alliance is giving intelligence and reconnaissance assistance to Libyan rebels hunting Muammar Gaddafi and his sons, British defence minister Liam Fox said on Thursday.
“I can confirm that NATO is providing intelligence and reconnaissance assets to the NTC (National Transitional Council) to help them track down Colonel Gaddafi and other remnants of the regime,” he told Sky News.
He declined to comment on a report in Britain’s Daily Telegraph that British special forces were on the ground in Libya assisting with the hunt.
Reuters
Muammar Gaddafi will try to sell part of Libya’s gold reserves to pay for his protection and sow chaos among tribes in the north African country, said his former central bank governor Farhat Bengdara.
Bengdara, who has allied himself with the Libyan rebels, told the Italian daily, Corriere della Sera, that an ally of Gaddafi had offered 25 tonnes of gold to his friend “a little time ago”.
“My friend referred it to me and I suggested that he refuse and my friend immediately rejected the approach. But it is a clear indication,” Bengdara said in the interview published on Thursday. He said his friend was not Libyan but gave no further details.
There are gold reserves worth $10 billion in Tripoli and Gaddafi could have taken some of that amount, he said.
Bengdara said he believed that Gaddafi had fled Tripoli and could be heading towards the Algerian border. Read full story here.
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI Heavy gunfire heard Gunfire was returned from apartment buidlings FF R surrounding now believed 2 harbour G and sons #Libya
#TRIPOLI districts that had seemed calm last couple days suddenly fierce gunfights
broke out again proving town is still volatile #
#Tripoli #BabalAziziya is being fired at from AbuSalim area by GF + Nasr woods around zoo and Rixos Wood = teeming with snipers #Libya
#TRIPOLI Many more armed FF in Trucks continue to arrive near G trapped apartemnt blocks seen arriving #Libya
TRIPOLI Imam of #Hamaan Mosque @Center of #GaserBenGashir (close to airport said he had seen #KHAMIS Gaddafi
#TRIPOLI Gaddafi clan trapped in apartment blocks Huge FIREFIGHT taking place now #libya abt 1000 FF surrendering buildings
GF Executed 170 detainess in #Alyarmook MilitaryBase only 4 detainees Escaped 2 from #AzZwayia 2 from #Hey #Alforjan #Libya
Plus 1 another: My uncle (from Alziziyah) who escaped from Yarmook CONFIRMS this, he said at least 150 massacred.
Scott Heidler
Aljazeera correspondent on the ground in Benghazi
“As all eyes are on Tripoli,fighting continues to the east.Rebel forces advancing toward Gaddafi hometown Sirte pushed back 20km by shelling.”
CNN
The bodies of 17 rebels killed Tuesday by Gadhafi forces near the longtime leader’s compound were taken Wednesday to a hospital in eastern Tripoli, a doctor there told CNN. As the Gadhafi forces began to execute them, rebel forces began storming Bab al-Azizia, a doctor said. The resulting confusion gave some of the captives the chance to escape, he said.
AP
The head of Libya’s rebel Cabinet arrives in Italy for a meeting with Premier Silvio Berlusconi on a European diplomatic tour aimed at security the release of billions of dollars in frozen Libyan assets.
AP
Analysts are split about how fast Libya’s oil production could return to its prewar levels of about 1.5 million barrels a day from its current 60,000. Some expect output to fully recover by next year while others worry political instability and damaged infrastructure could stymie the oil industry for several years.
AP
The U.N. cultural agency is warning Libyans to guard against looting of cultural heritage amid the country’s current turmoil.
The director of UNESCO is also cautioning the international art and antiquities trade to be “particularly wary of objects from Libya in the present circumstances” because they might be stolen.
Reuters
Jordanian group Hikma Pharmaceuticals expects to resume normal business in Libya by the end of the year as the country becomes the latest in the region to recover from political turmoil.
China
China’s initial hostility toward the uprising against Moammar Gadhafi and its belated outreach to Libya’s rebels could mean that Chinese firms eager to return to the country after the conflict will be at the back of the line.
Reuters
Libya’s new masters are keen to forge ahead and secure the funds they need to bring relief to war-battered towns and rebuild the oil sector on which the economy depends. NTC diplomats meet their Western backers in Turkey on Thursday.
After talks with Arab and Western allies in Qatar on Wednesday, a senior rebel leader said the NTC would seek to have $5 billion in frozen assets released to jump-start the economy and provide vital relief to its citizens. The United States has also submitted a draft resolution to the U.N Security Council to unfreeze $1.5 billion in Libyan assets.
AP
The International Organization for Migration says a ship chartered to rescue hundreds of foreigners from Tripoli has managed to dock in the Libyan capital’s port after waiting offshore for days due to fighting.
An IOM spokeswoman says the security situation in the port has improved sufficiently for the vessel to dock.
Andrew Simmons
“Driving around Tripoli and its suburbs not getting any easier, Suspicion at so many check points increasing”
Reuters
Four Italian journalists who were abducted near Zawiya in Libya on Wednesday have been freed, Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported on its web site.
Two of the journalists worked for Corriere della Sera, while the others were reporters for La Stampa and Avvenire newspapers.
The Italian consul in Benghazi, Guido de Sanctis, said after the kidnap that they were being held in an apartment in Tripoli.
He said their driver was killed during the abduction and they were believed to have been held by gunmen loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.
Al Jazeera Arabic reports: rebels are about to attack Abu Salem neighbourhood.
Aljazeera
The Arab League has given its full backing to the NTC as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people and said it was time for Libya to take back its permanent seat on the League’s council. The NTC’s representative at the League, Abdelmoneim el-Houni, said Libya would resume its League membership at a meeting of Arab ministers on Saturday
Reuters
The Arab League gave its full backing to Libya’s rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people on Thursday and said it was time for Libya to take back its permanent seat on the League’s council.
Daily Mail
A U.S. writer who had been held captive in Libya after being captured in the early months of the conflict has escaped from prison, his mother said. Matthew VanDyke, 32, travelled from his home in Maryland after seeing the battles unfold on TV when unrest began in February.
He was captured and held in solitary confinement in Abu Salim prison in Tripoli with his relatives at home fearing that he might not be released.
Aljazeera
Sue Turton, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Tripoli, said locals are very worried that there are going to be attacks by pro-Gaddafi supporters across the city. ”There are checkpoints popping up all over the city. Locals are managing to get hold of weapons to police their streets,” said.
AP
The Libyan Embassy in Pakistan has raised the rebel flag above its compound in Islamabad following the fall of Moammar Gadhafi’s 42-year autocratic regime.
Reuters
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said the UN should play the central role in rebuilding Libya following violence that has continued since rebels drove Muammer Gaddafi from Tripoli. ”We proceed from the position that work in the post-conflict development of Libya must be carried out exclusively under the aegis of the U.N. Security Council,” said spokesman Alexander Lukashevich.
Italy
Italy has begun unfreezing 350 million euros of Libyan funds in Italian banks in an effort to unblock all of the country’s assets in this country, Silvio Berlusconi said. Italian oil and gas group Eni, the biggest foreign oil operator in Libya, is expected to sign a deal to supply a “large” amount of gas and petrol without payment to serve the immediate needs of Libyans
BBC
Four Italian journalists kidnapped and held by suspected loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi have been freed, according to Italy’s foreign ministry. The journalists were reportedly freed during a raid on the house in Tripoli in which they were being held.
SKY NEWS
Doctor Sees Victims Of ‘Mass Execution’
A doctor in Libya has told Sky News how he witnessed the bloody aftermath of an alleged mass execution by Colonel Gaddafi’s troops.
Dr Moez said he was working in a hospital on the Matiga airbase, in east Tripoli, when a truck full of bullet-riddled bodies turned up outside.
He said one of the survivors told them that they had been captured by Col Gaddafi’s troops, held in a school for several days and then executed.
If the allegations are true, evidence of the injuries collected by Dr Moez and his colleagues could be used in any war crimes trial, if Col Gaddafi is ever found and brought to court.
Dr Moez said: “Around dusk time a large truck with an open back turned up unexpectedly and I could hear people crying and wailing.
“I went out to have a look what was in the truck and even before I got to the truck the stench was quite overwhelming.
“As I looked inside there was possibly 16 or 17 bodies that were riddled with bullets from head to toe. A lot of them had been shot in the head but they had bullets all over.
“Later we found out what had happened: these were all people that had been held by Gaddafi loyalists over the past few days and they were possibly captured over the past week or two, kidnapped if you like, and they were held in a school quite close to the city centre.
“What had happened was as the Gaddafi loyalists retreated they went into this room and executed all these people.
“One… of the victims… was shot in the leg and they failed to execute him so he told us everything that happened.”
Dr Moez said he and other doctors spent about three hours photographing all the victims’ injuries in detail.
“These are the kind of things that are going to be required to prosecute Gaddafi in the international criminal courts.
“These are the war crimes we are talking about and I am sure this has been replicated in many parts of the city and even in the country as well,” he added.
Source: Sky News
feb17libya Feb17Libya
FACTBOX-“Defections” from Gaddafi’s Libya bit.ly/npHfBU #libya
Next few tweets will be from the Jibril press conference in Milan
Jibril: Priority these next few weeks is to bring stability to the country, and building our national army which requires collecting weapons
Jibril: We must provide urgent care for the wounded even the ones abroad
Jibril: All of our priorities can’t be carried out by the NTC without immediately having the money to carry them out #Libya #Feb17
Jibril: International community helped protect our civilians, now we need them to help provide for them #Libya #Feb17
Berlusconi said that Italy has begun to unfreeze Libyan assets worth 350 million euros
WSJ
South Africa has declined to release frozen assets to Libya’s rebel-backed government ahead of formal recognition from the UN, a South African foreign ministry spokesman said, underscoring African concerns about the political situation after the collapse of Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s regime.
Libiya_min_Hollanda
Confirmed apache is still busy in Gaser ben Gashir
The name of the close friend of Gadhadi is Ali or Jimma Alayeb he is know in Gaser Ben Gashir has alot of camels
The G forces whom are causing problems in Gaser Ben Gashir are from Werfellah
Where is #Mahmud Elwerfelli!!!! Not telling his tribe 2 leave the ppl if Gaser Ben Gashir alone!!
Just spoke 2 my aunt, rocket fire everywhere, dead ppl on the streats, hospitals full of civilians #Gaser ben Gashir
She is hearing Nato plains but she doesnt know if they targeted anything.
When speaking 2 my aunt hearing loud explosions at the back ground. Alot of fires in diff places smoke evefywhere!!!
Alot of childeren have been injured by the grad shrapnels DAM Where is the #WORLDMEDIA
#NTC where are ya? Celibrating in Tripoli when ppl are dying in Gaser Ben Gashir.
Danya
More than 50 bodies were found underground in #Gaddafi ’s compound..They were executed. Just because they stood up against #GaddafiCrimes
CNN
As fighting intensifies around Tripoli’s airport, some wonder if Moammar Gadhafi is near the site. CNN’s Arwa Damon reports.
goo.gl/JTbTB
SA Dancer
Please support the protection of women’s rights in the new Libyan constitution. This is important and affects many lives.
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI #Abusleem GF still indiscriminately shooting @houses Gun fire & Mortar thuds heard on phone Terrifying sounds
#NTC #Tripoli residents say they need hotline to report security issues ASAP #Libya
#TRIPOLI FF are sending reinforcement groups to Abu Saleem area Fierce Fighting now
#TRIPOLI HOSPITALS inundated with Patients brought by taxi &cars ambulances & carried .. youtube.com/watch?v=5fNcU1… #libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fNcU1JtR7c&fea...
#TRIPOLI PRISONS MAP orientate yourself : goo.gl/xtCvA #Libya
TRIPOLI Prisoners released Nato hit prisoner walls then FF hacked down Doors from #Jdaida #AynZara #Abusalim #Alhofra #Mitiga #Libya
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: Group of rebels besieging buildings near Bab Al-Aziziyah compound of Muammar Gaddafi said they believe the Colonel is inside
#TRIPOLI Fighting around Corinthia Hotel quiet down FF confused and were firing at eachother Hotel damaged by bullets
Freedom Fighter
I had 2 friends (Ziad Labib & Housam Abuzied) in abusalim prision. What a scary story they have! but they both fine and recovering.
A bomb by nato twards salah eddin side 6:07am local
septimius_sever septimius severus
Graphic FF found a container full of dead FF in Sreem District of #Tripoli ! #Feb17 #Tripoli twitpic.com/6avqx8
arwaCNN:
as #tripoli airport was getting pounded last night young rebel fighter marvels at the artillery still in #ghadafi loyalist hands”
FB page: “Most Pro-democracy locals in #Sirte r Ferjan, Misurata, Madaan & ppl from Houn. (contact via Thuraya )”
BBC World Update:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00jm7hg
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
written on the wall at #tripoli airport “we are paying the price for staying silent for 40 years”
Sirtawi
Just to clear things. We are a group from #Sirte based in the UK. There’s no net or phone connections so far with anyone in #Sirte…
Our contacts in #Sirte with Sat phones do not master the English language, but we’re trying to get in touch with someone who does ASAP.
Tweeting Tripoli
Phone from BaniWalid: State-Radio announced that Gaddafi forces have liberated Tripoli apart from few pockets of crusader infidels. #feb17
Wish it was a joke. It’s true. Half the city believe Christian invaders in collaboration with NTC are here to convert them.
Phone from BenWalid: We look at Tripoli’s celebrations and we think, damn you armed Gaddafi thugs, you robbed our pleasure of celebration.
Via Phone: Armed Gaddafi thugs still patrolling city of BaniWalid shooting with anti-AA houses suspected having an anti-Gaddafi. Hostages.
URGENT: BaniWalid needs urgent NATO and FF attention. Civilians are being shot at as I type
We need a huge study to analyze how can grownups be so easily brainwashed. Libyan/international psychologists start now.
Anonymous Watcher
Four Words: Mass Induced Stockholm Syndrome
Tweeting Tripoli
Yes Gaddafi should get a FAIR trial, after what he has done and still doing to Libya. We drown him in FAIR & LOVELY skin lotion tank.
WAPO
Missing journalist from Baltimore emerges from Tripoli prison
Matthew VanDyke, a freelance journalist from Baltimore who had been missing in Libya since March, was released from Tripoli’s notorious Abu Salim prison on Wednesday, according to his mother, whom he talked to on a borrowed Libyan cellphone.
By Wednesday afternoon, “all U.S. citizens who were known to be detained in Libya have been released,” State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland said.
A State Department official said four Americans had been released Wednesday and a fifth earlier in the week, and added that U.S. officials will work with the government of Hungary, which has represented U.S. interests in Libya, to help get them out.
Read more here:
www.washingtonpost.com/local/missing-jo...
aloys
For your OWN humanity u should give him a fair trial, G’s thinking & being isn’t important anymore.
Sami
we should plan the first Libyan space program and send gaddafi and his sons to the sun :) FREE LIBYA!!
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: #Venezuela Embassy was assaulted & looted yesterday by #Gaddafi filth, everything destroyed & stolen
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “FEYZA GENC” remains anchored at #Tripoli
PLEASE RT : #Libya #NTC offers 2 MILLION DINARS & FULL AMNESTY for Muammar #Gaddafi,DEAD OR ALIVE. #Feb17
#Freedomfighters saying that they are surrounding #Gaddafi and family in #BabAlAziziya. #Libya #Feb17
WHO ARE THE “REBELS” ?
ALJAZEERA
Opposition fighters against Gaddafi’s regime are sometimes referred to as ‘rebels’. This can be viewed negatively and so the correct term for the ‘rebels’ is freedom fighters.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h90OaGFOr9w&fea...
Reuters
Libyan rebels say Muammar Gaddafi surrounded
A group of rebels besieging a cluster of apartment buildings near the compound of Muammar Gaddafi said they believed the man who led Libya for four decades was hiding in the buildings with some of his sons.
www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/25/us-l...
DerekStoffelCBC Derek Stoffel
Still searching for a driver who speaks a little bit of English, and/or a fixer/translator in Tripoli. Anyone know anyone here, let me know.
sophie
Gaddafi’s glasses? Our correspondent @karimhakiki found them at his Bab al-Aziziya compound earlier this week… #Libya pic.twitter.com/N8jnrsc
#AJE ZeinaKhodr Thuwar pinned down near BabAlAziziyah. Can’t advance any further because of sniper. Trying to take him out.
Mawadda Elmabruk
My friend’s brother was executed last #Satuarday and they found him in a refrigerated truck on #Monday in #SidiKhalifa #Tripoli #Libya :-(
Weekly Standard
Qaddafi Loyalists Take Stand in Zwara
Zwara, Libya—The coastal city of Zwara, near the Libya-Tunisia border, is under siege by pro-Qaddafi forces who continue to shell the city and appear to be the last of Qaddafi’s forces still fighting in Libya.
The area between Zwara and Sabratha was the under control of revolutionary forces as of yesterday evening, including an important gas plant that supplies electricity to the region. Qaddafi’s forces have destroyed the Zwara water treatment plant, and continue to attack civilian targets. Four people were killed yesterday, and 2 rebel fighters and an unknown number of civilians have been killed today.
Rebel fighters in Zwara have been reinforced by 160 Zwara men who were in exile in Tunisia until returning by sea yesterday.
Full art.:
www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/qaddafi-s-...
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: Just went to 3 different Tunis hospitals w/ a Misrata friend (injured FF) for his physical therapy. He’s now given up for the day.
hominoid555 whitewakbar
More than 10,000 people have crossed from both sides since the beginning of a rebel push into Tripoli on Saturday. asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2…
Mustafa Abduljalil now:Cannot comment on claimed beseiging of #Gaddafi and sons right now on #Tripoli #Libya
Jalil: In #Tripoli theres a stockpile of food supplies enough for a city 2x its size.& a years supply of medicine enuf 4Tripoli &all Libya
Jalil: There will be no more obstacles to food, gas & medicine. Gaddafi intentionally
prevented Libyans 4rm getting these supplies.
Jalil said that there is a great quantity of gas & fuel in #Zawiyah refinery- enough for entire Libya
Jalil: There are friendly negotiations btwn ppl of Sirte and their council and we have hope there will be a peaceful solution.
Jalil: I can confirm that our martyrs exceed 20,000
Jalil:Countries that spent money protecting civillians in #Libya will have priority in projects to rebuild #
Jalil:We r fair&countyries will be treated in proportion to their support for #Libya
Jalil:The first beneficiary of new #Libya will be the Libyans.Then the countries who helped us
Jalil: I can confirm that our martyrs exceed 20,000
Jalil:Countries that spent money protecting civillians in #Libya will have priority in projects to rebuild #
Jalil:We r fair&countyries will be treated in proportion to their support for #Libya
Jalil:The first beneficiary of new #Libya will be the Libyans.Then the countries who helped us
Jalil press conference over
FromJoanne Joanne
#SIRTE FF are building up forces on either way of town abt 1000 GF believed to be there 25% of Citizens believed 2b Loyal to G #Libya
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: Libya rebel council head Abdel Jalil urges Libyans in areas still under Gaddafi control to “join the revolution”
david_bachmann_ AC Tripolis
Thuwar in center of #Tripoli VERY friendly @checkpoint apologizing for stopping cars and checking IDs
NTC leader #Abdel #Jalil says national wealth will be distributed equally among the population.
Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
Earlier were shown a huge ammunition dump in the grounds of Rixos hotel. At least 6 deep pits full of bullets, bombs and rockets. #tripoli
Teams from Sky News now arriving at Bab-Al-Azzizia to see whether rumours of Gaddafi being surrounded are true
Sky News Alex Crawford: There is definitely a gun battle around the apartment buildings, but it is unclear who is inside them
Zlitniya
Is it just me or does Mustafa Abduljalil look happy and pleased today?? hoping its cos there r #goodthingstocome
dovenews Libyan™
Turkish FM Ahmet Davutoglu said on Thursday NATO must continue operations until the North African country was fully secured. #Libya
Reuters
Thirty Gaddafi fighters found dead at Tripoli camp
TRIPOLI Aug 25 (Reuters) – More than 30 men believed to be fighters loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have been killed at a military encampment in central Tripoli and at least two were bound with plastic handcuffs, indicating they had been executed.
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
JeffreyKofman:
As we drive through #Tripoli, impressive 2 see virtually no looting. No police, but so far order prevails" God bless #Libya
Sky News only confirms activity, but cannot independently verify Reuters claim that #Gaddafi and his sons are inside buildings
cheisalif bassit shagman
Just been near libyan embassy in moscow was attacked by russian police and gaddafi supporters couldnt stand with new flag
Mail Online
Gaddafi’s Neverland:
Fairground rides, a zoo and a shrine to his dead daughter… inside the tyrant’s bizarre lair
One group of young men chose to tour the Bab al-Aziziya compound in the dictator’s preferred mode of transport – the very same electric golf buggy he rode in to rest his 72-year-old legs.
Even as they made their way through the shattered buildings, they could see for themselves sufficient remnants of the bizarre Michael Jackson-style Neverland park, complete with fairground and zoo, that Gaddafi constructed in the heart of the capital city.
First there were the creature comforts.
In one of his palaces, expensive murals and art work hung from the walls and rooms were filled with replica 14th century furniture.
Read more:
goo.gl/2smg2
Nurses & Medical staffs #Tripoli needs your help ,,, All expenses paid. call : Dr. Ibrahim Momen: +1-416-999-1038 for details. #Libya #Feb17
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Tripoli: Smoke plume rising to south near zoo yfrog.com/h3kj0cij
South Africa asks ICC to probe #NATO #Libya role bitly.com/n2yxMj
Irish Times
‘Raise your head up high, you are a free Libyan’
“Raise your head up high – you are a free Libyan,” the rebels chanted, as cheering bystanders sang along. The air rang with the sound of gunfire as the fighters, some just out of their teens, shot into the sky in celebration. Others yelled the names of the “martyrs” who had been killed in recent days, prompting shouts of Allahu Akbar.
“Give us two days, and it will be all over,” said Firaj Bulifa, who had taken part in the storming of Col Gadafy’s compound, Bab al-Azizia, earlier this week. The rebels continued to hold the complex yesterday despite heavy bombardment by regime forces. “It is very bad there today, but we will prevail,” he added.
Read more:
www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/...
Robin
Useful interview on #Libya oil restoration; relatively optimistic & contains facts rather than speculation insider.thomsonreuters.com/link.html?cn=s…
BBC getting worse by the minute:
Apparently BBC doesn’t know the difference between Libya and India
Libya / Incredible media lies – BBC shows “Green Square” in INDIA, 24 August 2011
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_-lzI8I0_0&fea...
PJBWells Patrick Wells
Just received the sad news that Feras, incredibly brave paramedic from Misrata and star of my film, was killed on Sunday by a sniper.
Palm Maple
Lessons from Iraq & Afghanistan:
Gaddafi Forces are trying to use insurgency & guerrilla tactics in Tripoli. The main aim is not to recover the city, but to sow chaos & insecurity in order to shake the population trust in the NTC and to spread fear that Gaddafi can still punish civilians if they try to bring the city back to normal functioning. The result; doctors & nurses don’t show up at hospitals, engineers & technicians don’t go to electricity or water plants, bakeries don’t open, etc.
After prolonged failures, US forces learned few lessons about how to counter such a type of insurgency in Iraq & Afghanistan. These counter-insurgency measures proved effective whenever they were applied at the LOCAL level. They were never fully successful country-wide mainly because US troops were not endogenous to the population (but this is irrelevant here).
To secure a specific Town/Area:
1. Fill the area with an overwhelming number of security troops (the surge).
2. Work on winning Heart & Mind of the locals
3. Start combing the area bit by bit in a systematic way.
For areas in Tripoli that have been liberated by FF, but still has Gaddafi activities like Hit & Run, Ambushes (of cars) and Snipers, the following need to be considered (one Local area after another);
1. FF need to move an overwhelming number of troops to the area in question (this call for a higher overall number of FF in the whole city that is not currently available; especially with large number of FF tied up in the fight south of the city. This could be helped by ferrying-in more FF from the East Tobruk-Benghazi Sector. However, when working locally, FF from the East should be distributed within units originating from Tripoli itself).
2. Heart & Mind of the local population has to be fully won. Most of the local population do trust FF intentions, but might not trust their ability to provide Security, Services & Emergency Help. Communication with the local population on these issues and how FF can help should be established immediately. FF can’t claim to be too busy with the fight to the degree of not helping the locals. Taking the time to send a small escort with a mother taking her child to a local clinic will go long way in re-assuring the whole community. Additionally, communities should be assured that the presence of FF will protect them from being robbed by normal criminal bandits. Even people who might have been brainwashed/sympathetic to Gaddafi should be assured that FF will protect them from local retribution. If any one of them was accused of a big-scale crime, then, this is a matter for a legal process later; or, in extreme cases, some of these people could be arrested.
3. After FF establish an over whelming number and after establishing good lines of communication with the locals, a building by building and street by street security check / combing of the area should be conducted. It is important that this street by
street combing is done with the help and cooperation of the locals (preferably; watched by them if safe to do so).
4. After the local area is judged to be clean and after the local population is assured, few check points could be left behind, while the bulk of the force should move to repeat the same process, but ONLY in an adjacent section of the city (not to allow Gaddafi units to slip back from nearby points).
septimius_sever septimius severus
While #NATO help was important, this was a victory of the #Libya. They did the heavy lifting & the dying dailykos.com/story/2011/08/… by @clayclai
if you are looking for a libya expert through the “private” eyes of Gaddafi carry on interviewing @NabilaRamdani a class mate of Saif in LSE
Funny how @NabilaRamdani carry on asking #Gaddafi even when there’s no time for other people questions!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFTwnskNmh8&fea... .. #Libya
Russia
The counsellor of #Libya embassy in #Moscow, #Russia made a statement in support of #NTC. The green flag is removed
MSF_southafrica MSF South Africa
Speaking from Tripoli, Jonathan Whittall, MSF Emergency Coordinator, describes the situation on the ground. An MSF… fb.me/Wh5xUkd7
PJBWells Patrick Wells
Does anyone have contact information for Ahmed Fakroun the Libyan singer? i really need to contact him urgently. please retweet
MSF_uk MSF UK
Hospitals in #Tripoli lacking staff and supplies struggle to cope with the wounded. #MSF HoM reports from the ground msf.me/r8p3Ll
septimius_sever septimius severus
Dear @BBC, note that @nabilaramdani Qualifications on #Libya: 1. was #Saif classmate in LSE, 2. visited Libya (with #Saif) & 3. Brown skin
Dear @BBC, you are not helping urself by insisting on having @nabilaramdani on every programme about #Libya
Dear @BBC, and while you are at it, why dont you stick @jfjbowen and @nabilaramdani in same programme?
jkirchick Jamie Kirchick
scariest moment thus far in #tripoli: when our driver brought us to the Rixos instead of the Radisson. #lostintranslation
Ceedat
Crazy Stuff..
In a 2007 interview with al-Jazeera television, Gadhafi spoke of Rice in glowing terms. “I support my darling black African woman,” he said. “I admire and am very proud of the way she leans back and gives orders to the Arab leaders … Leezza, Leezza, Leezza. … I love her very much. I admire her and I’m proud of her because she’s a black woman of African origin.”
Qaddafi kept a photo album full of Condi Rice pics. on.msnbc.com/pvncQx // Um…
septimius_sever septimius severus
I can’t get through to anybody in #Zuwarah (#Zwara) today, anybody managed to get through ?
#Libya: destroyed Libyan aircraft at #Tripoli airport twitpic.com/6b0kj6 via @khalidkhan787
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Tarik
Half an hour ago in #Moscow by #Libya embassy visualrian.ru/ru/images/zoom…
Time World
Libyan Rebels and NATO Target Gaddafi’s Hometown, but How Long Can Muammar Hide Out?
The hunt for Muammar Gaddafi intensified on Thursday as rebel fighters tried to shoot their way into the leader’s home town of Sirte 300 miles east of Tripoli, as they also waged fierce battles in the southern neighborhoods of the capital itself. As the full challenge of crushing the last remnants of Gaddafi’s forces became clear, questions emerged over just how deeply involved Western countries were in hunting down the fugitive leader.
Full art.:
www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,...
AlArabiya
Libyan rebels take army base west of Tripoli as Pentagon says WMD ‘secure’
Libyan rebels fighting to overthrow Muammar Qaddafi have taken control of an army base west of Tripoli in Zuara, Al Arabiya reported on Wednesday, as the Pentagon said Libya’s stockpile of chemical weapons were “secure.”
The military installation was called Mazraq al-Shams, Al Arabiya said.
The rebels swept into Tripoli at the weekend and have been fighting pockets of fighters loyal to Gaddafi in and around Tripoli.
A rebel spokesman said in comments broadcast on Al Arabiya that Libyan rebels fought a fierce battle with Qaddafi’s top military commander at his farm in Tripoli on Wednesday.
Abdel Salam Abu Zaakouk said that heavy fighting was under way in a farm belonging to the chief of staff of the Libyan armed forces, Abdul Rahman al-Sayed.
“He (Sayed) is leading the battle with the rebels and he is still inside the farm,” Abu Zaakouk told Al Arabiya without giving further details.
Meanwhile, the second in command of Libya’s intelligence services declared his allegiance to rebel forces fighting Qaddafi in an interview aired on Al Arabiya.
“I put myself in the service of the nation and call on generals and soldiers who are the sons of Libya to join the 17th February revolution,” Gen. Khalifah Mohammed Ali said.
According to Al Arabiya the general had relinquished his post.
The Pentagon, meanwhile, said that Libya’s stockpile of chemical weapons are “secure” but that an arsenal of thousands of shoulder-launched missiles remained cause for concern.
Asked if sites containing chemical weapons, including over 10 tons of mustard gas, were safe, spokesman Colonel Dave Lapan said: “Yes.”
But he declined to offer more details, only saying that “clearly those are dangerous
agents and weapons … we continue to monitor that.”
There were no plans to send US troops in to secure the chemical weapons sites, he told reporters, according to AFP.
Although Qaddafi’s regime retained the mustard gas, it lacked the military means to launch an attack with the chemical, according to arms control experts.
Qaddafi’s joined the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in 2004 after renouncing weapons of mass destruction in December 2003, but still had to eliminate 11.25 tons of mustard gas when the uprising to remove him from power began in February.
All 3,563 munitions – such as bombs, shells and missiles – that could serve as a carrier to distribute mustard gas have been destroyed, according to the OPCW.
Lapan said the United States was also concerned about a plethora of conventional arms and ammunition, including shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles.
The shoulder-launched missiles in particular posed a potential danger, he said.
“They remain a concern, because of their portability.”
Source:
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/...
DerekStoffelCBC Derek Stoffel
Still searching for a driver who speaks a little bit of English, and/or a fixer/translator in Tripoli. Anyone know anyone here, let me know.
septimius_sever septimius severus
Map of Gaddafi’s influence on Africa theglobeandmail.com/news/world/afr… … #Libya
#Libya : the latest on fighting and an updated satellite image of Gaddafi’s compound: apne.ws/qGgKSS -EC
Mohammad
Video: of Libyan flag raised in the #Libya n embassy in #Riyadh youtube.com/watch?v=WGIRx2… amazing! #Feb17 see how happy are they
FlashNewsPlus
Pentagon: Strong indication that Col. #Gaddafi is still in #Tripoli. #Libya
simondenyer Simon Denyer
Rebel commanders say fierce resistance from Abu Salem neighborhood makes them think #Gaddafi or his sons could be there.
H
#Gadafi needs to stop saying he’s going to fight to the death, and start saying he’s going to hide till the death.
septimius_sever septimius severus
anybody told him its not a hide&seek game?
BREAKING: Gaddafi is reported to be in Bab alzizya, AbuSalim and near the airport! Which means he is either in Sebha or Sirte !
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Thousands of migrant African workers stranded in Libya are terrified they will be mistaken for Gadhafi mercenaries and attacked or detained
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Fighting in 4 areas, not controlled by rebels in #tripoli so far: #Bouslim, #Hadba, Airport road, #Akwakh neighborhood.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
PASS THE WORD: PLEASE RT: Alfedous Clinic near #Gurgi / #KaryetSalah is safe, equipped and ready for injured. #Libya #Feb17
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Saw several long queues at the few bakeries open today in Tripoli
Leon
Good move. Libya swap hosting 2013 African Nations Cup with South Africa. Libya will now host in 2017; which had been awarded to SA.
Leading the army of reinforcements into Tripoli were seasoned combatants from the city of Misrata
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
I saw 6 dead bodies next to #Abusaleem area, Rebels tell us they were civilians killed by #Gaddafi men cos they didn’t support them, #Libya
Libya, Fierce clashes as rebels trying to push into #AbuSaleem, #Gaddafi forces slowing their advance using snipers, #Babaziziyah, #Tripoli
robcrilly Rob Crilly
just passed group of opposition fighters trying to move a camel from the road. It doesn’t want to get up. Doesn’t bode well for Sirte attack
Free Libya
Some bittersweet news, found out that my uncle from my mum’s side has escaped from the Yarmook Military camp prison, badly tortured:( #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
by hominoid555
Tripoli 120 Freed #AbuSalim prisoners on boat bound for #benghazi now #Saladin #Libya
Free Libya
Allahu akbar, my family in Hadba are all free :) The FF came and liberated them completely last night:) Allahu Akbar
robcrilly Rob Crilly
rebels have tanks dug in now to defend the town of Ras Lanuf. They’re going to need them
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
rebels say they made it to #ghadafi farm 15mins away from #tripoli airport, just drove back with what they say is his mobile home
SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Breaking Al Jazeera: Libyan revolutionaries say they are surrounding Gaddafi & a number of his relatives near Bab Al Azizia #Libya
Anaya
ALERT: Source from Moscow: when an embassy worker tried to raise the new #Libya flag, a mob of RUSSIAN supporters attacked.Police didnt help
Freedom Fighter
Big clashes in abusalim right now 3:45pm local
dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi forces executed 170 detainess in #Alyarmook military base, only 4 detainees mangd 2 escape 2 from #AzZwayia & 2 from #Hey #Alforjan
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Sky says they’ve seen “quite a few bodies of black African men” around the Gaddafi compound.
Hayat
#TripoliPrisoners Massacred. I don’t know how many but I can confirm #Gaddafi forces took them out before #FFs got to them.
Russia not invited to Paris talks on Libya. ha ha ha ha !
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Sky’s Alex Crawford says rebels have “clearly overrun a whole encampment of Gaddafi forces… trail of dead soldiers”
Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
Rebel brigade from Misrata continuing assault south of Rixos against remaining Gaddafi forces – arms dump find will prove extremely useful
Earlier were shown a huge ammunition dump in the grounds of Rixos hotel. At least 6 deep pits full of bullets, bombs and rockets. #tripoli
RobNisbetSky RobertNisbet
International Organisation of Migration has begun boarding 200 foreign nationals fleeing fighting in #tripoli. Boat will go to Benghazi
hominoid555 whitewakbar
A group of rebels besieging a cluster of apartment buildings near the compound of Muammar Gaddafi
said they believed the man who led Libya for four decades was hiding in the buildings with some of his sons.
“They are together. They are in a small hole,” said one of the fighters involved in the battle, Muhammad Gomaa. “Today we finish.
Libya: Serbia has ‘no information’ on Serbs held by rebels www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Polit...
Libya crisis: It’s unfortunate Ghana has chosen to sit on the fence !! squawk squawk squawk squawkkkkkkk
Tripoli, rebels said they were confident they could mop up soldiers clinging to a leader now on the run
#AJE
Thwuar in #Tripoli are using anti-aircraft guns and RPGS to target snipers #Libya
Hawas brigade, the first rebel fighting group to be sent from Benghazi, arrived in Tripoli by ship on Thursday.
robcrilly Rob Crilly
Rebels have now renamed Bin Jawad as Bin Gawad – “son of a snitch” after an ambush there earlier this year.
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Libya – Report in the closest clinic in the front line against Gaddafi l… youtube.com/watch?v=7Vahq4… via @youtube
Gaddafi’s last stand may be tale of two cities | Reuters reut.rs/p5IrHd via @reuters
Turkey – Libya: Senior diplomats meet in Istanbul to discuss Libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX-U6xrzAes&fea... via @youtube
The UNHCR estimates there are tens of thousands of migrant workers still in Libya, some have made risky attempts to escape to Europe by sea
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
AbuSleem has a group of Gaddafi thugs looting and attacking homes. They killed 2 families on a main road 3 days ago.
flyingbirdies أكرم
Statements coming from Russia exactly the same from Gadaffi .. useless & nothing bt S*t
2011-08-23 : معركة تحرير باب العزيزية Battle for Bab Al-Aziziyah
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFGJehXigK4
UK viewers: complaints form for BBC Please ask for credible ‘experts’ to appear in discussions about Libya bbc.co.uk/complaints/for…
or:
www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
In Gadafy’s compound 2day, man sidled up to me + claimed 80percent Libyans w/ G but afraid of armed rebels. Says he fears for future anarchy
septimius_sever septimius severus
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@MaryFitzgerldIT did he have a receding hairline line & a goatee? very annoying type with PhD in media communication?
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
We are at sidar the new front line.After a few hours of stalemate ff have started pounding gad positions in bin jawwad
Dozens of rebel rockets now coming from behind us flying over our heads.
No nato activity here for days say fighters on front.
so hard sending tweets with rockets going over your head and dust everywhere.
single rocket fire 1 2 3 4 then a barrage of maybe a dozen in quick succession. hard to tell when fire is so quick. deafening noise
thick black smoke towers in to the sky over pro-gad positions. the #FF have hit something that is burning in distance
#gaddafi troops are countering with mortars. They are aiming for a rebel tank that has been pounding him every 3 minutes or so.
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: Rebel leader Abdul Jalil says he welcomes “any negotiation” with groups in Gaddafi-held areas to avoid more killing
AP: Gaddafi’s spokesman says leader is in Libya and leading fight against rebels
Reuters: International Monetary Fund would recognise new Libyan government with support of member countries
AP: Gaddafi’s spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, says leader is in Libya, is leading fight against rebels and is safe, healthy & his morale is high
Al-Orouba TV broadcast: Gaddafi tells women to purify Tripoli and urges Libyans to fight and destroy rebels
Qaddafi says Libyans must “fight and destroy” rebels in Tripoli For once he got it right, he and his sons are now the rebels
The Atlantic
Scenes From the Fall of Libya’s Infamous Abu Salim Prison
NALUT, Libya — The above video purports to show yesterday’s prison break from Tripoli’s notorious Abu Salim prison, which fell on Wednesday. Anti-government forces in Nalut are circulating it this morning, hanging it on the local militia’s Arabic facebook page. Watching sections of the 11-minute video with a translator appears to confirm the video’s authenticity; the narrator makes several references to the location, to Qaddafi, and to thuwar, or revolutionaries, the Libyan anti-government forces’ usual term for themselves. If it’s a staged job or a voice-over scam, it would have to be an awfully artful one, done quickly overnight.
www.theatlantic.com/international/archi...
One4All4One
AlAan intvw w/NTC rep frm Zuara Othman Bensasi (Arabc w/English summry) re situation in Zuara. Pls RT! youtube.com/watch?v=DYI6GG…
LibyaUnited1944
Gadafi is sounding a bit like a parrot…enough with the calls 2 rally ur supporters, they’re not real they only exist in ur head! #Libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Gaddafi is apparently barking again. No one in Tripoli or Libya is listening
Photo
Gaddafi Gun
inscription “Specially made for Col. Muammar Gaddafi”
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1954537...
ksnavarra:
Malta deployed evacuation ship to #Tripoli returns to #Valletta as mission is aborted due to risk
bbclysedoucet lyse doucet
more shops starting to open in Tripoli.even saw a paint shop. next priority – repainting ubiquitous green doors and shutters?
plemochoe
I don’t know who Heinz is but it would have been good if he had replaced every reporter in LIbya
blakehounshell:
Sky correspondent says context of Reuters report is that reporter asked ff “What are you firing at?” he said “Gaddafi.”
AJA PROMO MUST WATCH:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPqpR3_QRPI&fea...
libyanandproud
other thing i know is Saadi is devastated for losing Gay porn DVD’s
NASA : Fireworks spotted in Saturn believed to be celebrations for the safe return of citizen #Gaddafi ! LOL (FB)
ahmed:
Gaddafi new audio message included all his greatest hits: zanga zanga, rats, forward forward forward…
MoKoussa Moussa Koussa
Please RT if you agree. I want this to get to the deaf ears of CNN: bit.ly/p7HU7v thanks
To Free Libya, August 24, 2011
Today your eyes that never blinked are free,
Exhausted, bleeding Tripoli,
And now that you’re free, by God,
Your every breath paid full in blood,
Armchair pundits who at every chance,
Rehashed the “ragtag rebels” “slow advance”,
Tribal partition and stalemate,
Now want decide Free Libya’s fate!
ENOUGH!
Who paid in blood for every stride?!
So Libya does not divide?!
Whose unslept eyes beam out with pride?!
FREE LIBYA = LIBYANS’ TO DECIDE!
ALibyanEuphoria
Now that Gaddafi TV is off air, our next target should be the BBC! Not only are their reports boring & late but they also love Nabila Ramdani!
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gaddafi snipers near the looted Al Fateh Tower in #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#Misrata #Freedomfighters continuing assault south of Rixos against remaining #Gaddafi filth
#Tripoli: Heavy fighting reported near Corinthia Bab Africa Hotel, 1.5km from Martyrs Square
#Freedomfighters currently cleansing #Nasr Forest of large encampments of #Gaddafi filth.
Huge ammo dump found on the grounds of Rixos hotel. At least 6 deep pits full of bullets, bombs and rockets
Boat to #Malta leaving tomorrow morning (instead of today). Meeting point #Corinthia hotel 10AM. Priority #EU nationals
#Tripoli: Huge numbers of #Gaddafi mercenaries being arrested/killed across Tripoli yesterday and today.
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “ARON” remains anchored at #Tripoli #Libya after having resupplied #Gaddafi sometime ago. #Feb17
#SouthAfrica defends refusal to unfreeze #Libya assets guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug… #Zuma a huge #Gaddafi backer. #Libya #Feb17
#SouthAfrica positions on #Libya not helping its case for perm #UNSC seat nor regional leadership. #Feb17
Rowley
#Gaddafi filth executed 170 detainees at #AlYarmook military base. #Libya #Feb17
#Tripoli: #IOM ship “Tasuka” docked today, now evacuating 220 people, mostly Egyptians, Philippinos & westerners
#Sirte: Fierce fighting reported.
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “KAZIM GENC” now en route to dest. #Tripoli #Libya ETA: 2011-08-28 11:00 (UTC). #Feb17
Map of Khamis & Seif al-Islam #Gaddafi’s location the night of 8/24/11 goo.gl/lPh22 #Libya #Feb17
#SouthAfrica Blocks £1bn #Libya Assets Release (Criminals further supporting the terrorist #Gaddafi) news.sky.com/home/article/1… #Feb17
Rowley
Malta CARGO SHIP “PURKI” now en route to dest. #Tripoli #Libya ETA: 2011-08-28 10:00 (UTC). #Feb17
#Tripoli: Fighting continues on the Airport road & in #Akwakh, #Bouslim & #Hadba
#Libya: Reports several international mil./intel agencies including NATO, EU Forces, U.S Spl. ops now involved in hunting # Gaddafi.
OPEN FOR BUSINESS: PLEASE RT: Alfedous Clinic near #Gurgi / #KaryetSalah is safe, equipped and ready for injured. #Libya #Feb17
Nurses & Medical staff #Tripoli need your help. All expenses paid. Call: Dr. Ibrahim Momen: +1-416-999-1038 for details.
Reports that Hannibal #Gaddafi is being hidden by his wife in #Lebanon.
#Libya #NTC offers 2 MILLION DINARS & FULL AMNESTY for Muammar #Gaddafi, DEAD OR ALIVE. #Feb17
#Gaddafi filth shelling the #Tripoli airport now
#Moscow, #Russia: Anti #Gaddafi protest at #Libya Embassy attacked by police & PRO Gaddafi supporters.
Libya should refuse to recognize the Criminal government of Algeria and heavily mine the border/cut roads with them
Alarabiya:
Algeria announces that it refuses to recognise the National Transitional Council.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
#Gaddafi forces shelled the airport yesterday using Grad missiles, today’s shelling involved smaller missiles coming from #Gasr #Benghasheer
Reports Sheikh Werfali has said that there was “going to be a surprise tonight in Martyrs Square which will shock #Gaddafi”.
jamesmatesitv James Mates
Just done intv with man just freed by rebels from one of Gaddafi’s jails. Tortured and beaten. Reunited today with 4 yr old daughter
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Libya: #ICRC surgical team on its way to #Tripoli. goo.gl/p8dJ8
Alarabiya correspondent:
Gaddafi forces firing from east of Tripoli airport from a residential area, but airport grounds are fully secured.
MyFreeLibya Rubicon
“We oppose the East to the West, the tribes to the state. But to reduce Libya to that is to insult Libya and the Libyans.”
No Death greater than Martyrdom…No Life greater than Freedom…#Epitaph
Libya In Me
Inside Saadi’s home. The view is dreamy. pic.twitter.com/OSQDXms
FFs cleaning the streets of Tripoli pic.twitter.com/a1BQ76j
AJE:
Diplomats of the Contact Group have agreed to speed up release of ~ $2.5 bn dollars in frozen Libyan assets by the middle of next week
Intense battle erupted between ~1,000 FFs around 2 buildings filled with Gaddafi’s men in the neighborhood next to captured compound.
NTC leader Abdul Jalil warned on Thurs. of dangerous destabilisation in the country without urgent financial aid from the West
Aljazeera
Evidence of ‘mass execution’ in Tripoli
Al Jazeera correspondent finds bodies of men reportedly killed by Gaddafi forces just as rebels closed in on capital
Al Jazeera has found evidence of a possible mass execution of political activists in Libya.
Read full art. and watch video:
goo.gl/TTt6G
Knott Daffy
Russia claims re-building of Libya should be under exclusive control of UN SecCncl (where Russia has perm seat & veto power over)
LIBYA TRIPOLI
#Libya is a beautiful country with kind and hospitable people, #Gaddafi wanted to ruin but failed. We are still the same
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Water situation in Tripoli: source located between Ben Ashour & Fashloum reports a neighbourhood using a local well as water supply
Water situation in Tripoli: Soug Al Jumaa currently have water. Hai Al Andalus report having water although the pressure is v weak.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
NTC Head, Jalil: We have began moving the entire NTC to #Tripoli.
NTC Head, Abdul Jalil says he welcomes “any negotiation” with groups in Gaddafi-held areas to avoid more killing
NTC Head Jalil says countries that helped protect civilians in Libya will have first pick at development projects in Libya.
Jalil: we do not have confirmed number of martyrs as of yet, but the number has exceeded 20,000.
FromJoanne Joanne
FLASH #Libya Contact Group Urged #Gaddafi to Turn Mimself in to avoid further bloodshed in 14-point statement after meeting in #Istanbul
dovenews
The planes were purposely attacked by Gaddafi forces, one burned & 1 was hit.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Sky says the area S of the Rixos hotel & the zoo grounds are still held by #Gaddafi loyalists; FFs moving N. from airport
SKY BREAKING – Correspondent Stuart Ramsey & cameraman lock off camera & take cover from mortars & RPG’s in live shot from #Tripoli #Libya
#Berlusconi #Italy’s Eni to sign deal next wk with #Libya opposition leadership to supply oil products to help meet countrys immediate needs
BBC: Al-Aruba broadcasting G speaking asking for Libyans must fight & destroy FFs in #Tripoli & bring women & children to purify country…
FromJoanne Joanne
#BREAKING OIL MInister Ali #Tarhouni hopes to restart crude exports 500,000 to 600,000 barrels within two weeks !
MUST READ:
Daily Mail-Inside Gaddafi’s secret tunnels:
FFs break into labyrinth for 1st time-claim that leader & sons cornered
Tyrant is surrounded in an apartment building, rebels claim
Dictator’s spokesman says he has high morale and is moving around
Rebels raid safe-house where Gaddafi ‘stayed overnight’
Gunmen defending Rixos Hotel to prevent access to tunnels
Gaddafi ‘disguised himself as woman’ to flee compound
goo.gl/um4eH
FromJoanne Joanne
DONATE to; @LibyanAID Currently building Team of Irish specialist doctors nurses to send to #Libya hospitals #Benghazi #Tripoli
Reuters Reuters Top News
Muammar Gaddafi calls his supporters the “sweeping majority”, says there will be no safe place for rebels.
Reuters
Libya’s southern neighbors brace for post-Gaddafi
As Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s rule crumbles, fears over the whereabouts of his remaining weapons, especially surface-to-air missiles, are topping the fears of neighboring nations in the Sahel region he had for long held sway over.
Read more:
goo.gl/VnmPb
FromJoanne Joanne
LiamFox said #SouthAfrica should remember fight against apartheid stand with #Libya people Unfreeze $1.5 billion assets goo.gl/07s6D
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
AFP: Libyan National Transitional Council says half its leadership has arrived in Tripoli
Reuters: Libyan rebels say they have found large stockpiles of food, medicine and fuel hoarded by Gaddafi regime
Jalil says there will be no more shortages of medicine, food, or fuel after discovering regime stockpiles.”
libyanproud libyanandproud
Tripoli : Airport : FF found plane full of 14.5 Ammo, Containers 14.5 and 108 ammo, 3 Grad launchers and truck load of Grads
it was a Libyan Passenger jet , it seems he was storing ammo inside so NATO doesn’t bomb, also buried containers full
Free Libya Now
Zwara shelling have subsided today, hospital destroyed, no aid to city. City is shelled from Jmail by Warshafana tribe volunteers.
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
The fuel stockpiles they found were apparently in Zawiya.
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
NTC says it found enough food to feed 4 million people in Gaddafi stockpiles.
Gem M
Zwara abandoned to the ethnic cleansers DISGRACEFUL #Zwara
Reuters reports that FF have found very large stockpiles of food and medicine in #Tripoli. Will be very useful
dovenews Libyan™
eye witness: Serbian security helped Mohammed Gaddafi to escape in 4 armored hummers. Al Arabya
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Lot of ‘Gaddafi’ doormats in Benghazi, ppl step constantly on his face.
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Perhaps a wee overestimate? That’s between 750000 and 1M tons of food. How can that even be hidden?
Free Libya Now
All Militias that was pushed from Nafousa Mountains were pushed down to Ajilat & Jmail are & now attacking Zwara, we need help for Zwara
@acs_aircharter Air Charter Service
Watch the video made by Air Charter Service of the last British evacuation flight from Tripoli 6 months ago. youtube.com/watch?v=GfmREb…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfmREbvFo4o&fea...
VIDEO’S:
septimius_sever septimius severus
Albousifi ( #GaddafiTV presenter) arrested in #Tripoli القبص علي الجرذ البوسيفي مقدم برنامج علي المكشوف youtube.com/watch?v=wOW8Mg… via @youtube
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOW8MguX1s8&fea...
A truck full of merc. arrested in Soug Aljouma #Tripoli القبض على المرتزقة فى سوق الجمعة www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYhuSJiw2Xg&fea... … #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYhuSJiw2Xg&fea...
#Misrata starts its own satellites channel RT “@AhmadBlog: شباب مصراته يطلقون 3 قنوات فضائية wp.me/p1lOj-pk” #Libya
ibn
Fighters in #Misrata made their own tank, combining an American M113 APC with a Russian BMP-1 turret on top. #libya twitpic.com/6b214m
Guardian
Tripoli: hardened rebels and new recruits keep a wary peace
On a black tar road near Tripoli’s deserted port, a young militiaman stepped gingerly through a glittering layer of gold, which he scooped up and thrust towards the sky.
“This is why we won,” he said, as dozens of shell casings – cast-offs from fired ammunition – fell from his hand and tinkled on the baking street. “It was because of the people in neighbourhoods like this that Gaddafi’s security men ran away. We were waiting for him, not the other way around.”
Read more:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/24/tr...
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
I attended funeral of 6 rebels, died when attacking #BabelAziziya. Rebels cry as #tripoli burries the dead: youtube.com/watch?v=JU_oIl… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_oIlTWUxQ
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: Libyan rebels storm Abu Salim district of Tripoli after NATO air strike on building in the area
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
the grad firing i’ve seen is just as good as any other army of the world. very disciplined.
have come to our fixers brother’s house in Ras Lanuf. Also been looted. mess everywhere windows smashed but still has power
#FF Grad rockets being fired over my head at Sadra audioboo.fm/boos/450225-ff…
I spoke to a commander on the front who I had interviewed in April but he no longer wanted to be on camera because of Gaddafi assassins.
hominoid555 whitewakbar
FFs hammered at least 10 buildings at Muammar Qaddafi’s compound sheltering loyalist fighters today.
As anti-aircraft guns battered the buildings, there were huge explosions, and the air was clogged with smoke. three buildings were burning.
The SA Football Association (SAFA) revealed on Thursday that Libya had made the request to swap the hosting of the next two Africa Cup
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
AJA is reporting in a chyron that rebel forces have arrested a number of Gaddafi fighters in Abu Slim (area south of Bab al-Aziziya)
BBC_WHYS World Have Your Say
Journalist Matthew Van Dyke told WHYS about his six months of solitary confinement in Libya. “I heard people being whipped, it was horrible”
Tweeting Tripoli
The Rat with Diamond Gun! yfrog.com/khhlnjcj
BREAKING: Abosleem district is now also free from Gaddafi thugs. Yay!
CNNinterviews CNNInterviews
#LISTEN: Can the #NTC make a smooth transition to power in #Libya? @BeckyCNN interviews @Guma_El_Gamaty. on.cnn.com/naNpYZ #CTW
robcrilly Rob Crilly
So should we still be calling them rebels? I see I’ve been getting some stick for that
Mohammad
“@BBCWorld: #Libya’s former state TV station now showing image of rebel flag, having been off air for three days bbc.in/q0eLjb #feb17
Sky News
Tunnels are reinforced. Go on for miles and have not been fully explored yet. No one knows what lies beyond.
Caller to Libya TV, Clothes market in Abu saleem is on fire. He was asking for urgent help.
AJA reporter: AbuSleem neighbourhood now free of any snipers and any g forces
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
just back from #tripoli airport tarmac, plane burning, artillery incoming so powerful shook watchtower & bc of sniper we had 2 crouch 2 film
BREAKING: East Sirte / Tanks of FF are now shelling Qaddafi’s troops who responds with mortars only
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: جوني هالام شرق سرت / دبابات الثوار تقصف في كتائب القذافي الآن و التي ترد بقذائف الهاون فقط
Photo of Aisha’s Gaddafi’s house after FFs took it , no longer urs baby
عاجل ليبيا أخبار: حوش عائشة المسمومة , ماعادش حوشك توا يا بطة
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=234542&i...
Photo of a brand new Afriqiyah Airbus aircraft destroyed by #Gaddafi forces in the battle for #Tripoli airport
عاجل ليبيا أخبار : طائرة الخطوط الافريقية التى تعرضت لقصف المرتزقة فى مطار طرابلس
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=234544&i...
BREAKING: Al Arabiyah TV: Gaddafi forces are shelling Tripoli international Airport
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: العربية: الكتائب تقصف مطار طرابلس الدولي
BREAKING: Al Ararbiyah TV: Gaddafi forces are shelling the city of Zawara, west of Tripoli
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: العربية: قصف من قبل الكتائب على زوارة
BREAKING: Reuters: Libyan rebels storm Abu Salim district of Tripoli after NATO air strike on building in the area
BREAKING: #Gaddafi TV station Al-Jamahiriya is now broadcasting the Independance flag #Libya #
IMPORTANT:
Number plates of the cars in Tripoli wh drive by and shoot at the civilinas of Tripoli
ارقام السيارات التي تطلق الرصاص على الناس في طرابلس:
لانصر رصـاصى17_5_808462
لانصر أبيـض 27_5_803091
لانصر رصـاصى25_5_809803
…شفروليـه أبيـض 4_5_809304
شفروليـه أبيـض8_5_809291
شفروليـه أزرق 4_5_794195
شفروليـه أبيـض17_5_809300
شفروليـه أزرق2_5_794192
شفروليـه أبيـض9_5_809292
شفروليـه أسـود13_5_794194
شفروليـه أسـود 6_5_794190
BREAKING: Libya Al Ahrar TV reporter in Tripoli Suliman Al-Bayuwthy has been injured,, may he make a swift recovery
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: إصابة مراسل قناة ليبيا “سليمان البيوضي” في طرابلس
BREAKING: AJ Reporter: FFs have stormed Abu Salim in Tripoli and control the area as well as arresting a number of Gaddafi forces
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: الجزيرة :: الثوار يقتحمون حي ابوسليم ويسيطرون عليه ويعتقلون عدد من افراد كتائب القذافي
Libya Al Ahrar TV: FFs are combing the area of Abu Salim in Tripoli after liberating most of it
قناة ليبيا الفضائية: مصدر مباشر: الثوار يمشطون حي بوسليم بعد سيطرتهم على معظم المنطق
Zawara: The city is controlled by the FFs, but it is surronded by Gaddafi forces: they are shelling it heavily and indiscriminately
BREAKING: Sheikh Sadaq Al-Gheryani has arrived to the city of Benghazi
عـــــــــــاجل:عاجل ليبيا أخبار: وصول الشيخ صادق الغرياني لمدينة بنغازي
BBC Correspondent near Sirte : The grad firing ( by FFs ) i’ve seen is just as good as any other army of the world. very disciplined.
عاجل ليبيا أخبار: جوني هالام بالقرب من سرت : طريقة القصف (بواسطة الثوار ) الذي رايتها كانت مثل أي جيش قوي آخر في العالم. منضبطة جدا
4Adam Adam Libya
There was very intense fighting today’s afternoon at the hotel though.
MyFreeLibya Rubicon
Need to set up an archive of the deeds of our #Feb17 Heroes..I for one am very ignorant of any characters in too many places of brave Libya
I spent 5 months in Zintan during #Feb17 and still don’t even know half to the stories or remember hardly any of their names..
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
The NTC found enough medicine, food stockpiles and fuel in Zawiya/Tripoli to keep Libya going for a year. Gaddafi was starving us on purpose
Amazing how things change. Corinthia hotel in #Tripoli only had 10-20 customers a week ago. Now it’s fully booked with journalists
Corinthia was attacked yesterday by a small group of Gaddafi thugs. Small arms fire on hotel windows & 20 cars in carpark burnt
However the #NTC and #Tripoli’s FF security room has now dedicated a large group of fighters to permanently guard the Corinthia & Marriott
Freedom Fighter
bab ben ghashier does not have water since 23rd
FromJoanne Joanne
Former Regime PM AbdelSalam Jalloud: Gaddafi may attempt flee #Libya disguised as woman "He has only four people left around him
Marcus
Ship with 70k euros of medicine left malta on way to libya
Gerrie
To be clear, ALL the people on the ground are behind the FF’s’! Our leader Zuma is an embarresment to us. God bless Libya!
Anthony
Not all #SouthAfricans agree with our governments stance on the situation in #Tripoli.
FromJoanne Joanne
#HELP Fam of @Ebnat_Alislaam Lives in GaserBenGasher nrAirport FIGHTING CONT. 8daysNO POWER PPL Slaughtered FF need 2HELP This AREA
Libiya_min_Hollanda
@FromJoanne finaly my bro called me, he is stressed out they do t have any elect for more then 8 days now, he is SCREAMING for help and….
they dont know what happend in Tripoli, he told me now its mainly street fights
out of fear he spoke 2 me in Dutch not even knowing that Gadafi cant control the lines anymore
BBC Video: The battle on the road to Sirte bit.ly/pK3Ccx #libya
Business Week
Libyan rebels pressed toward Muammar Qaddafi’s coastal hometown of Sirte as his opponents offered a reward for anyone who hands him over dead or alive. “The only thing left is for Qaddafi to be captured or killed at the hands of the revolutionaries,” Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, vice chairman of the rebel National Transitional Council, said. “The revolution has won.”
AP
Reporters staying in the Corinthia Hotel saw about a dozen rebels with machine guns and an anti-aircraft gun mounted on the back of a pickup truck battling Thursday afternoon outside the hotel entrance with gunmen loyal to Moammar Gadhafi shooting from high-rise buildings nearby.
Aljazeera
A group of rebels besieging a cluster of apartment buildings near the compound of Muammar Gaddafi said they believed the man who led Libya for four decades was hiding in the buildings with some of his sons. Rebels were exchanging fire with Gaddafi loyalists inside the buildings. They did not say why they believed Gaddafi and his sons were inside.
Reuters
The head of Libya’s rebel government warned on Thursday of dangerous destabilisation in the country without urgent financial aid from the West to restore services to the population.
Aljazeera
Libya’s National Transitional Council has stated that the assassination of Abdel Fatah Younes was illegitimate, and they have identified his killer.
Rebel fighters take up positions during gunfight with sniper loyal to Muammar Gaddafi near the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli. Fierce fighting erupted in central Tripoli on Thursday, with heavy exchanges of machinegun fire between rebel forces and soldiers loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.
Wapo
French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged China on Thursday to join Western nations in building a free Libya. Sarkozy said he explained that it was important for the international community to have a common vision for Libya, and that they would like China to participate in next week’s Paris international conference on Libya’s future.
Turkey
Turkey-Libyan Business Council Chairman Hüseyin Ersin Takla said they expected to commence talks with Libya’s National Transitional Council for the repayment of completed projects with a total value of $1.4 billion following the end of Eid-al Fitr.
Reuters
The International Monetary Fund would be able to recognize a new Libyan government if such a move were supported by its 187 member countries, a spokesman said. ”When there is a clear, broad-based, international recognition of a new government in Libya, it is at that point the Fund could or would move towards recognition.”
Bloomberg
Western powers are working to unblock even a fraction of the $165 billion in Libyan government assets that have been frozen worldwide. The UN Security Council has scheduled a vote today at 3 p.m. on permission to release $1.5 billion in frozen Libyan assets in the U.S. to help the NTC deliver aid and basic services to the residents in the war-torn nation.
Gaddafi
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi called on his supporters on Thursday to march on Tripoli and “purify” the capital of rebels, who he denounced as “rats, crusaders and unbelievers”.
In a short audio speech broadcast on loyalist TV channels, Gaddafi called on all Libya’s tribes to rally and expel what he called foreign agents from the country. ”Libya is for the Libyan people and not for the agents, not for imperialism, not for France, not for Sarkozy, not for Italy,” he said. “Tripoli is for you, not for those who rely on NATO”.
Aljazeera
An intense battle has erupted between about 1,000 rebels surrounding two buildings filled with Moammar Gadhafi loyalists in the neighborhood next to the Libyan leader’s captured compound.
Algeria
Algeria will not yet recognise Libyan rebels as the new leadership of its neighbour state and wants them to make a strong commitment to fighting al Qaeda in North Africa.
Reuters
The Libya Contact Group of international powers on Thursday urged Muammar Gaddafi to turn himself in to avoid further bloodshed in the North African nation. The group, representing senior diplomats opposed to Gaddafi’s campaign to crush the rebellion and members of Libya’s National Transitional Council, issued a 14-point statement after meeting in Istanbul.
Aljazeera
Diplomats of the Contact Group on Libya have agreed to speed up release of some $2.5 bn dollars in frozen Libyan assets by the middle of next week. “There are not
promises but there is something on the ground moving. We will get about 2.5 bn before the end of the month,” Fathi Baja, the head of the rebel political affairs committee said after the meeting in Istanbul.
Sirtawi
Gaddafi splashed money on his own ppl in #Sirte and on projects that serve their direct needs. The simple ppl don’t even know these exist!
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gaddafi TV, Al Ouraba says #NATO is bombing #Sirte tonight. No other confirmation. Ouraba is based in #Syria, paid for by G. #Libya #Feb17
#SouthAfrica finally agreed on releasing 1.5billion $ to #Libya aid. Didn’t want to be world outcast. #Feb17
#Gaddafi mercs found w/ no #Libya stamp on passport; last stamp from country they were flown in from: #Algeria.
#Malta CARGO SHIP “CMA CGM RABAT” has departed port #Misrata #Libya. #Feb17
You have to watch this:
ALEX AND FF, BRILLIANT
Gaddafi’s Hat – Noy Alooshe (Freedom Fighters Remix)
New remix by the guy who made the “Zenga Zenga Song”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzGMug7RMvQ&fea...
jkirchick Jamie Kirchick
i can still hear sporadic gunfire around #tripoli
ALBA condemns attacks to Venezuelan embassy to Libya
www.eluniversal.com/2011/08/25/alba-con...
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
The Economist says loyalist brigades retreated from Bab al-Aziziya to Sebha and Jufra economist.com/node/21526959?… #Libya
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
#Zawiya hospital staff is so friendly. They insist journos get food every day. They gave me rice just like the one my mom cooks.
Libyans Revolt
Huge battle happening in south of #Tripoli close to airport and Benghasheer area. A doctor had his car window shot earlier #libya #feb17
SkyNewsPix Ed Bayliss
Busy day in Tripoli today – heavy fighting between rebel factions and African Mercs STILL fighting for Gadhafi, or their lives? #Libya
nqabamatshazi:
Zimbabwe expels #Libya’s ambassador to Harare for defecting to NTC, is Zimbabwe swimming against the tide?
pdanahar Paul Danahar
7 dead Gov troops south of #Gaddafi compound. 2 with their hands bound behind their backs. Not recently killed
3 young prisoners driven by me held by NTC forces. Looked well treated though unsurprisingly very scared.
Tonight #Tripoli starting to return to normal. Some shops opening. Kids riding bikes in streets. Lot more relaxed
septimius_sever septimius severus
Daffy Qaddafi “Malice In Wonderland” a scathing political satire1984 thighswideshut.org/tag/qaddafi-du… …. #Libya
4Adam Adam Libya
#Gaddafi Time Magazine Cover – by Tim O’Brien. 8.25.11 twitpic.com/6b3usq #Libya #Tripoli
septimius_sever septimius severus
Daffy Qaddafi “Malice In Wonderland” a scathing political satire1984 thighswideshut.org/tag/qaddafi-du… …. #Libya
libyanandproud
#Tripoli doctor : We need orthopedic doctors/surgeons to report to duty at Tripoli Medical Center and Zawiya St #
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Freedomfighters take #AlWyg on #Chad #Niger border. #Libya #Feb17
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: Report that #Gaddafi Comedy TV Shakir arrested by #Freedomfighters. #Libya #Feb17
news just now from @HomelandYouth & Liberty4Libya. Great news Shakir & Hala ManCow under arrest : )
HomelandYouth
Friends obtained important papers of G relatives. bank transitions and such…. will be delivered to TNC asap.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
AI: #Libya: Pursuing Al- #Gaddafi: The legal questions answered: goo.gl/Hn6AU #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Volunteer Dr #Muad #Pensasi describes injuries of wounded & killed FFs brought to field hospital in #Tripoli: goo.gl/mBWA4 #libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Facebook Page of Canadian Libyan martyred in #Libya. RIP #Nader #Al #Mabrouk #Bin #Raween. Please like: goo.gl/yqYBP
feb17voices Feb 17 voices AJA: Ali al-Tarhouni : we expect to start exporting oil within 2 weeks.
Video Libyan Dissident shouts for joy, prepares to return home after 17 years of exile. Igoaid aid ship leaving Malta bit.ly/rdv4Kv
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Battle for #Tripoli Airport. Photos: goo.gl/J4aBe #libya #feb17
AJA: Ali al-Tarhouni : we expect to start exporting oil within 2 weeks.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Khaled M talks about his passion for the anti-#Gaddafi movement. Very talented #Libyan-American artist goo.gl/DSQnD
AJA reporter in #Tripoli: opposition in full control of Abu slim. 3 brigades participated: 17th feb, Misrata, and Martyrs
Matthew Vandyke’s mother and fiancé describe hearing from him after his escape from a Libyan prison.
feb17.info/media/cnn-video-american-fre...
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli Good Video of Underground Fortress of Gaddafi BabAlAzizyah and Batlle in Abu Salim area bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr… #Libya
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Just 5 days since FF entered Tripoli, electricity is restored (only one power failure) and most importantly the Internet is back.
IsaMadesclaire Isabelle Madesclaire
the art @lemondefr said that also : no looting generally, by en ex-proG journo! @2011feb17 lemonde.fr/libye/article/…
Tweeting Tripoli
Proud to let you know that General Looting is non-existent. Few looters, understandably, ransacked Gaddafi’s compounds and houses only.
Tweeting Tripoli
BREAKING: Hadaba is a proud free district of Tripoli. Just called my sister who is a resident there.
Tweeting Tripoli
Gaddafi actually chose this guy from 6 million Libyans to represent us as a Foreign Minster, can you believe it?: youtube.com/watch?v=q1ynbz… #feb17
AJE:
Cracking #Gaddafi’s intelligence base goo.gl/lw2Fr #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes #tripoli fb.me/15l68izn2
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NcpDa1ZwDQ
MahirZeynalov:
Turkish FM Davutoglu to rebels: Enter Tripoli as how Prophet Muhammad entered into Mecca. Pardon all pro-Gaddafi loyalist
norskeaviser Norske Aviser
NRK: Kontroll over nok et Gaddafi-område: Etter intense kamper har opprørsstyrkene fått kontroll over enda et om… bit.ly/q8WOJA
MelbLiveNews Melbourne News
Elusive Gaddafi takes to the airwaves (Herald Sun) dlvr.it/hqVs1
Frank
At least Muammar al-Gaddafi will go knowing he left the Libyan people with no financial debt for the country to take care of #LIBYA
Mohamed
RIP – Cameraman AKRAM Shallouf died in #Bouslim #libya after being hit while filming with @akhbar stringer. RIP Ahmad. #Tripoli #Libya.
libyanandproud
Libyan Telecom and Technology is FREE and tweeting :P →
#US & South Africa have reached a deal to allow the #UN to release $1.5bn in frozen Libyan assets for humanitarian needs #BBC #Libya #Feb17
septimius_sever septimius severus
Gaddafi finds a new home blogs.voanews.com/russia-watch/f… ….. #Libya
A guard painted a Libyan flag on a sign at a checkpoint in #Jadu …. #Libya pic.twitter.com/ozE5vWW
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli #GERMAN #Bil-finger_Berger known as #MediteraneanSeaEngineering&Construction in #Libya BUILD BUNKERS
#TRIPOLI From Aug26 on #NTC will hold a Daily News Briefing at noon #Libya
#TRIPOLI HORRENDOUS story 25Civilianprisoners were Excuted without MERCY Tuesday Babalaziyah By Gaddafi Goons 1Surviver goo.gl/xRBnI
#FLASH #SouthAfrica and the #AfricanUnion have NOT recognised #NTC though more than 40 countries have
#Gaddafi ex right-hand man AbdelSalam #Jalloud Thursday Plans to Form a Secular Political Party with an eye towards future #Libya elections
#FLASH #NTC has Moved from Benghazi to the Capital of #Libya #TRIPOLI
#TRIPOLI #NTC press conference from Tripoli on Libya AlAhrar now
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Ali Tarhuni speaking now on Libya Al a7rar with #NTC first press conference in #Tripoli #feb17
NTC Oil & Finance Minister #Ali #Tarhuna: 30,000 tons of fuel is heading to #AzZawyia refinery to supply the western cities & #Tripoli
NTC Oil & Finance Minister #Ali #Tarhuna: I am proud to be a Libyan.
Ali Tarhuni: There is no one that we should fear now except Allah
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
NTC: Jibril still carrying out work outisde Libya but will be in Tripoli soon #Libya
#Gaddafi’s custom made FIAT. Photos: goo.gl/jLMvE #libya #feb17
CNN:
TNC has established the new government in #Tripoli. Formal announcement soon; TNC is on the ground in #Tripoli & ready for business.
Heartfelt Tribute to the brave #Muhannad #BenSadik American Libyan Freedom Fighters-died fighting for freedom RIP goo.gl/QNKwz RT!
Nisreen
Cameraman Ahmed Shaloof killed after being hit while filming with Alaan’s stringer in Abu Sleem area Tripoli
May his soul rest in peace.. Ahmed Shalloof from Misrata. Killed in Abu Sleem
HomelandYouth Shabbab Al Watan
Friends obtained important papers of G relatives. bank transitions and such…. will be delivered to TNC asap.
Sirtawi
News that Bani Waleed (South of #Sirte) local radio station has been shut down.
( by ff’s)
Unconfirmed news that Saadi and Saif Gaddafi have been spotted in Bani Waleed.
Bani Waleed has also provided #Feb17 revolution with Freedom Fighters. PICS
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1813692...
#Sabha: Electricity’s back and Manshia #FFs capture 6 #Gaddafi mercenaries.
Linda
Someone in the early days said, hey, it’s easy to write Libya in Arabic—it’s wow in English-a WOW kind of nation-
No Comment! yfrog.com/h77r5fej
Hayat
If had hammer, I’d hammer #Gaddafi I’d hammer #Saif and #Aisha – All over #Libya I’d hammer the beard-head I’d hammer his sister~~
LibyaTT Libya Telecom
LIBYA IS BETTER WITHOUT GADDAFI.
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Italy journos: ‘Our driver asked us to look after his father and mother before #Gaddafi loyalists killed him’
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Moldova CARGO SHIP “YAHIA STAR” w/ dest. of #Tripoli #Libya now anchored 55.1 NM outside of port. #Feb17
30,000 tons of fuel which was on its way to #Benghazi has now arrived in #AzZawiyah.
Just so no one forgets: Government of #Algeria provided & transported mercenaries for #Gaddafi. #NTC, tell Algeria to GET STUFFED! #Libya
#Turkey CARGO SHIPS “SEREN AYANOGLU” & “ARON” remain anchored just outside port #Tripoli #Libya after last resupplying #Gaddafi. #Feb17
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Nato jet over ras lanuf.
DerekStoffelCBC Derek Stoffel
Rebels now say they’re in control of Abu Salim. Reports that 2 opposition fighters killed in battle there 2day. Central Tripoli quiet 2night
AJA – #Tripoli, freedom fighters control the whole city after they liberated Abu Salim district and secured the airport.
feb17voices Feb 17 voices
OppContact: Computer business belonging to Mossab, son of Mustafa al-Kharubi (Revolutionary Council), has been ransacked. #Libya
OppContact: some businesses associated with the sons of prominent officials have been attacked by civilians
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Fierce battles rock Tripoli neighborhood thenews.com.pk/NewsDetail.asp… via @thenews_intl
Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
Spoke to a Libyan today who grew up in Manchester. He flew back to Tripoli in Feb and was immediately detained – claims he witnessed torture
Scene down at Bab-al-Azzizia compound today was v chaotic. Rumour that Gaddafi was there probably false – but it provoked a major fire fight
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Abu Salim, FFs managed to push out the majority of the loyalist fighters from the flashpoint area.
Abu Salim is under control. Kadhafi people are now in Mashrur, an adjacent neighborhood," said Mohammed Sayed Gargab,
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Muammar Qaddafi either in southern Tripoli or fled to desert, says former top aide goo.gl/aDk3A
Mushu
Azmi Bshara on AJA:Foreign intervention is theoretically speaking wrong, but in #Libya’s case it was a must, else #Gaddafi 1/3
Azmi Bshara on AJA:would’ve literally killed the #Feb17 revolution BUT were it not for the #Freedomfighters the #Feb17 revolution 2/3
Azmi Bshara on AJA: would have failed even with the foreign intervention. It was the Libyans who made #Feb17.
pdanahar Paul Danahar
TV report BBC’s Orla Guerin in #Gaddafi underground fortress. Cameraman is Darren Conway one of best in the biz #Tripoli tinyurl.com/3bonmd3
SUMMARY AUGUST 26th 2011
8/26/11
8.26.11
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya - goo.gl/6L2Ob
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Thu am: RAF aircraft located & destroyed one of Qadhafi’s few remaining long range surface to air missile systems, near Al Watiyah. #Libya
Thu pm: RAF aircraft destroyed a command and control node that remained in former regime hands on the road south from Tripoli to the Airport
Thu midnight: Tornado GR4s fired Storm Shadow precision guided missiles against a large headquarters bunker in Qadhafi’s home town of Sirte.
DefenceHQ Ministry of Defence
by UKMilOps
IMAGE: II(AC)Sqn Tornado troops addressed as they hand over to 9(B)Sqn after 5 months in Italy as part of Op ELLAMY: yfrog.com/kiqtmufj
MOD UK
A Military Operations news article RAF Tornado GR4s struck a military facility located on the southern outskirts of
Tripoli yesterday morning, as UK Armed Forces continue to contribute to NATO's patrols over Libya to enforce United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1973.
The military facility was severely damaged by Paveway guided bombs.
And yesterday evening RAF aircraft successfully destroyed three Scud ballistic missile support vehicles near Sirte, from where recent firings have been attempted by the former regime against the city of Misurata.
As events in Tripoli continue to unfold, with reports of fighting continuing, as well as members of Libya's National Transitional Council beginning to move into the city, it has been announced that an international conference
chaired by the UK's Prime Minister and the French President will be held in Paris next week.
The meeting's aims will be to help the National Transitional Council on the path to establishing a free, democratic and inclusive Libya.
Speaking on Monday, David Cameron said the transition to a free and democratic Libya should be a Libyan-led and Libyan-owned process, adding:
"Our task now is to do all we can to support the will of the Libyan people which is for an effective transition to a free, democratic and inclusive Libya."
The Prime Minister also said that the Government would establish a 'diplomatic presence' in Tripoli as soon as it was safe to do so and said the UK could be proud of its role in helping the uprising against Gaddafi.
The wider NATO mission in Libya to protect civilians will continue as long as it is needed and Mr Cameron said the focus was now on the urgent work that needs to be done on providing medical and humanitarian aid, diplomatic support, and through the UN Security Council.
UK missions over Libya are undertaken as part of NATO's Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR to enforce UNSCR 1973 and protect Libyan civilians at risk of attack.
Tweeting Tripoli
Confirmed: Albosaify, one of Gaddafi propaganda goons who ordered ordinary people to kill each other got caught: youtube.com/watch?v=WAfMQU…
Libiya_min_Hollanda
HELP the cousin of my dad has been kidnapped from his house today in Gaser Ben Gashir!
feb17libya Feb17Libya
BBC Video: Tripoli survivors tell of Gaddafi regime torture and Mass Killing bit.ly/p2bVwx #libya
AJE: UAE will release $700 million of frozen Libyan assets to the NTC #Libya #Feb17
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Source in #Janzour reports: Pro-G's driving 10 cars, Chevrolet, blue & white in color all ending w/license plate: 8079 shooting in #Janzour
#Tripoli watch live: goo.gl/2a1zL can hear gunfire in the distance & see smoke in the air. #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes RT
Children 'among 180 slaughtered' http://shabablibya.org/?p=5788 #Libya
Revolutionaries ransack symbols of Gaddafi family’s wealth http://shabablibya.org/news/revolutionaries-ransack-symbols-of-gaddafi-familys-wealth #Libya
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Sky Correspondent: NATO jets overhead in Libya's capital Tripoli
One4All4One
Tonight, #Zwara is completely free and safe. THANK YOU everyone who helped with this. #LIBYA TRULY IS ONE.
feb17voices Feb 17 voices
AJA: Tripoli rep in NTC: the only threat on Tripoli now is loyalist forces hiding in farms around #Tripoli. #Libya
Despite AJA report of opposition control of Airport road, LPC describes skirmishes as flaring up in the area now.
LPC #Tripoli: Airport Road area, describes observing small arms, AAA fire (says: can see tracer rounds) "small explosions" now
Zlitniya
by ShababLibya
#Zliten :Atiyya AlSada3i was a car mechanic in Suq Al Thalath.He pretended to be a #Gaddafi loyalist and was given a car mounted with guns
When he got the chance he killed more than 30 mercenaries &traitors before being martyred
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Fight 'the rats,' Gaddafi urges as Freedom Fighters push on shabablibya.org/?p=5794 #Libya
Obituary of #Izz #al #Arab #Matar Written by #Hisham #Matar RIP http://goo.gl/UAUGE #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Sirtawi
A dead man identified by his folks after pic circulated via facebook. Body was found Aug 21in Tripoli #gaddaficrimes facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
A Double Agent in #Gaddafi Camp goo.gl/BKl6v #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Sky News: #Gaddafi Hometown of #Sirte Target for Eastern FFs http://goo.gl/ugMs0 #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
I have heard NATO jets in the skies over last two hours. I have not heard the sound of bombing
#LIBYA Wrote this a couple of days ago, and forgot to post link here. I think my assessment still stands: bit.ly/n85gMs
Tripoli_Latest Ahmed Shreef
FGMovement will be starting some projects to help with the stabilisation of the city and help with civil services. Stay tuned.
This is Niz and the rest of the FGMovement founders on a roof top in Free Tripoli setting up HQ. Will be resuming updates soon.
Not all roses yet in Tripoli my friends. We still have power cuts and we still have no water. We need a TNC statement on both, SOON #Tripoli
Some rumbles on the ground here in Tripoli over the water issue and mainly why there hasnt been an announcement regarding rumours #Tripoli
Rumours being that water system has been poisoned. Problem is that water has been cut for days!!
We just need to hear that someone is working on the issue #Tripoli
Tripoli coming close to being 100% liberated. Still skirmishes in some areas. Sitll snipers. My cousin was shot in chest today. Recovering.
Independence flags and speakers playing the anthem all over Tripoli. Anthem blaring over Ben Ashour as we speak... Wow!
Will soon be returning to @Niz_FGM account so be sure to add that account for further developments
FGMovement will be starting some projects to help with the stabilisation of the city and help with civil services. Stay tuned.
weighing up possibility of calling for a massive rally in Martyrs Square to show our unity. What do people think of the 2nd day of Eid?
Ok...back to setting up the HQ....updates will resume from Tomorrow inshallah. Great to see everyone here. God Bless Libya
SecularLibya
FFs should secure former intelligence headquarters. If personal data falls into the wrong hands, many lives will be in danger
Leftist UFO & conspiracy-believing US Congressman Dennis Kucinich was to visit Qadafi at Libya expense. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8723533/Libya-Col-Gaddafi-feared-full-US-invasion.html
Leftwing crazed pro-Qadafi Congressman Kucinish too scared to go to Libya due to personal security. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/25/libya-letters-gaddafi-nato-obama
#Sufyan #Omeish, an anti-Israel filmmaker & leftist was advising Qadafi on how to defend his rule & defeat NATO. #Libya guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug…
Heinz: Most likely Qadafi will be executed by members of his own tribe so the tribe can save face and regain lost respect.
Heinz: The reason Daffis R attacking the airport is because of fuel there they need,
and also Euro and gold of Q wife hidden.
Heinz: French Tiger helis attacked the Daffis to the east of airport last night. Much weaker today.
Heinz: FFs have obtained plans to the tunnel system and with their equipment will flush out the Daffis.
Heinz: The plans for the tunnel system was held by the former East Germany Stasi. NATO has them now.
Heinz: Apaches are hammering the retreating Daffis, and Benghazi FFs should reach outskirt of #Sirte by evening or tomorrow.
Heinz: If all goes well, most of #Sirte should uprise by tomorrow, but there will be a pocket of die hards.
Heinz: The Serb & Croat generals working for Qadafi said they had lost the war a month ago. But Qadafi was in denial mode
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Saw 2 women, w/ hands bound, brought into rebel base last night. Rebels said they were foreign mercenaries caught shooting on Tripoli street
simmjazeera andrew simmons
Returned last night from what was a truly horrific visit to a hospital in Tripoli. Compiling a report.
in case you didn't see earlier report on compound fighting and secret tunnels http://bit.ly/qKeR8O
Just finished editing a disturbing report on Tripoli's Abu Salim Trauma Hospital. Bodies lie outside and inside.
Abu Salim Trauma Hospital -- cut off from any outside help. Seven medics, only 2 docs trying to cope with 21 seriously ill.
Say their mortuary is full and bodies have to lie in a side ward and outside. We counted 29. Docs say more than 100 in total.
Some are civilians. Eye witness tells me GF shot them dead insicriminately.
Abu Salem - eye witness, a restaurant owner says the killings were on Sunday.
Abu Salem - Horrific pictures in Trauma Hospital. Trail of dry blood leads to makeshift morgue. Stench all over hospital.
Abu Salim Hospital - Drs appeal for outside help. Two dead in 2 days because no power for ventilator. Man with bullet in spine CPR x3.
Abu Salim Hosp - Investigation needed re war crimes. And immediate action. Humanitarian emergency.
Abu Salim Hosp: Report will air on AJE this morning. Warning on graphic content.
mchancecnn Matthew Chance
Popped back to #rixos yesterday to get my stuff. Won't be staying there again!
Took 10 hour drive out of #Libya thru Western Mountains. Graffiti on roadside read "Thank you USA, France and England"
Now holed up in Tunisia hotel with many former #rixos inmates. I left them about 0100 still feasting. Just couldn't take pace.
just deleted 22 thousand twitter notification emails from my inbox.
StateDept StateDept
#SecClinton: The Libyan people made this revolution and they will lead the way forward, but they deserve our help. go.usa.gov/kGi
#SecClinton: It is clear that the Qadhafi era is coming to an end, opening the way for a new era in #Libya. go.usa.gov/kGi
Tweeting Tripoli
.@StateDept Don't u worry Mrs Clinton. We will look to the TNC to ensure #Libya stands against extremism. Or else, we'll topple it too.
Khiria
I bet Condoleezza Rice is having nightmares tonight.
Freedom Fighter
It's a bit normal outside, celebration shooting from time to time which is i see it as a wasted ammunition. I hope Libyans stop it
pdanahar Paul Danahar
I am just off Green, now Martyrs square in #Tripoli .It's 8am & the city is silent. You'd never know a war just been fought for it. #Libya
We'll know the #Libyan war is over if the umpteenth resignation of a #Japanese PM knocks it off as lead story.
OnlyOneLibya ProudLibyan
Gaddafi as we speak is a fugitive being hunted bayt bayt, zenga, zenga! No sleep, extreme stress, no appetite, pretty tough for a 70 yr old!
Tweeting Tripoli
I think officers and commanders from NATO will get a nice home-cooked dinner when they visit #tripoli” oh yes sure :)
sueturtonaje Sue Turton
Woken up in Tripoli to sound of rebel reinforcements chanting as they sailed into the harbour
Sarah_Libya
Mustafa Abduljalel have said that they have reports that she and her daughter Aisha have been in Tunisia Since last month
Tweeting Tripoli
LOL Gaddafi's TokTok (minus the white Umbrella). #feb17 #Libya #Tripoli #TokTok yfrog.com/ke59388810j
JeffreyKofman:
As we drive through Tripoli, impressive to see virtually no looting. No police, but so far order prevails.”
sarasidnerCNN Sara Sidner
Tripoli residents have been handing us water as we have been reporting all these days. Kindness in chaos is touching
pdanahar Paul Danahar
by 2011feb17
#NATO hit 29 #Gaddafi forces vehicles in #Sirte yesterday. I'd expect NTC forces to push forward soon. #Libya goo.gl/6L2Ob
Tweeting Tripoli
Confirmed: Gaddafi era police force (not Gaddafi's brutal militia) have started coming back to restore Law & Order. I witnessed that myself.
Two policemen from my neighborhood just seen them drive off in full Police uniform. They told me they are looking forward to a new Libya.
Gaddafi almost got caught. He was in AbuSleem Prison all the time. LOL http://pic.twitter.com/Htw3sO9
Mike
by 2011feb17
Sprung! New evidence strongly suggests Hana Gaddafi survived 1986 #Tripoli bombing bitly.com/qTYypT check out all pics
Tweeting Tripoli
Gaddafi made learning/using English lang illegal since 1975, yet his folks were taught English all the time. pic.twitter.com/Y66aHXO
This is me (well my hands only) and my Flag factory :-) http://pic.twitter.com/HPksg7d
My products. Well now that it's almost over. Any bids? Handmade original flags? :-) http://pic.twitter.com/C9oUqhP
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Sky sources: Government troops staged counter-attack near Rixos hotel and Gaddafi compound early this morning.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
BBC News - Libya uprising: The battle on the road to Sirte bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…
Croatian Daily Vecernji: #Gaddafi might seek asylum in Croatia
Nato jet over ras lanuf.
All along road to #sirte 100s of km of power lines are down. How long will they take to repair?
simondenyer Simon Denyer
Rebels seem to have control of most of Abu Salem neighborhood in #Tripoli after Thursday's clashes but admitted it was not completely safe.
Free Libya Daily is out! http://bit.ly/kgc2jf ▸ Top stories today
ForcesNews British Forces News
RAF jets target Gaddafi's bunker bfbs.com/news/worldwide…
1 hour ago
robcrilly Rob Crilly
Not heading to Ras Lanuf today. Rebels will be stuck there for a day or two, I'd say, as they reinforce. Meetings in Benghazi instead
Borzou
Food becoming problem in Tripoli. Residents scrambling 2 stock up from dwindling supplies. Vital resupply line 2 Tunisia cut
inglesi Piers Scholfield
"everywhere seems to be running out of water" - BBC News - #Libya fighting bbc.in/mXMHGx
robcrilly Rob Crilly
eastern rebels want their place in history too. my latest tinyurl.com/3qcobym via @Telegraph #libya #sirte
Mohamed
Libyan poet @ElhabibAlamin realised from Gaddafi prison. Welcome bk my friend, can't help my tears pic.twitter.com/QjqEE3m
plemochoe
#libya Jesus, the G trolls are worse than mosquitoes. Offshore wannabe commies. I guess the electronic deposits re-started
@TheEconomist Boy was your article a meaningless pastiche of rumors, tales, stereotypes and racist assumptions
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Gaddafi is slowly but SURELY fading #Libya twitpic.com/6bc8fq
2 Nigerian women were arrested last night for having explosives in benashour via @Tripliano https://twitter.com/tripliano/status/106895816744120320
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
The daughter Gadafy claimed was killed in 1986 US bombing studied English at British Council in Libya in '07. My story: bit.ly/pHJMu0
evanchill Evan Hill
Hana Muammar Gaddafi, said to have died in 1986 Bab al-Aziziya airstrike, appears to be alive. Or someone using her name http://ow.ly/6dmlq
Freedom Fighter
everyone in libya knows that was a cheap play, she did not die in 1986.
SL0wZEr
Fireworks in Martyr's Square #Tripoli #Libya #Feb17 [25/08/2011] flic.kr/p/agpkY7
Ibn
i cant get over it. to be the guy who ended up in #gaddafi's room. that feeling must have been amazing. #libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
phones/landlines and electricity still shoddy all over the western part of libya and will take a while to fully sort! khums = wFF
leptis magna is in khums and khums is fully liberated
BentBenghazi G
Man from underground prison in #Tripoli said I havent seen the sun for 6 years, a freedom fighter replies : we havent seen the sun for 42yrs
Freedom Fighter
I just realized that Gaddafi's regime did not do/say absolutly anything but lies during the past 42 years.
k_thos k kim
#Tripoli Prisons map: twitpic.com/5hfsq9/full (from 6/26/11) #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
AU *finally* ready to recognize #NTC as legitimate government of Libya as early(debatable)as Friday goo.gl/9W3Oz #DontBeScared
#Libyas new man in Ottawa is former regime envoy as part of strategy to have qualified diplomats run vacated missions. goo.gl/aUyGt
Ian Lee
The road to Ras Lanuf is littered with destroyed tanks. #Libya yfrog.com/h74mvewqj
feb17libya Feb17Libya
The African Union says it is ready to recognize #Libya's NTC and could recognize them as early as Friday feb17.info/news/libya-liv… #Feb17
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
The world after #Gaddafi. Photo: goo.gl/S0uKQ #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Forgotten casualties testify to #Tripoli's chaos. #gaddaficrimes #feb17 #Libya http://goo.gl/duFQm
THerwees
article-#Libya as I know it. "We are #Libyans. And #Libya belongs to us." Well said!! goo.gl/wej7r #gaddaficrimes #feb17
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
#Gaddafi's desperate bid to save regime revealed- Full lobbying operation to stop NATO from assisting #Libyans. goo.gl/EyiTp #feb17
Freelancers First hand accounts of the Libyan revolution from Canadian & Italian freelance documentary producers http://goo.gl/UJDPf #libya
Latest Developments in #Libya; August 25, 2011 http://goo.gl/edWgQ #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes #Tripoli
German Press Agency: #Libya rebels advance as #Gaddafi speaks; UN unfreezes money http://goo.gl/zUqNP #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
NATO says it will focus it's strikes in the vicinity of #Sirte
Battles erupt near #Bab Al-Aziziya compound. #Tripoli #Libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes http://goo.gl/xOJIH
ღ.¸¸Libeeya¸¸.ღ
Prayers for #Yemen #Syria #Libya in Benghazi :) #Ameen
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Friday prayers in Benghazi, the Imam prays for all the cities in #Libya, also prays for #Syria & #Yemen
Fighting continues west of Ras Lanuf as some Gaddafi loyalists refuse to lay down
arms believing G has a way back
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Rebels in east now appear well organised, structered supply lines and command centres. #Libya,but no NATO air support at the moment
Freedom Fighter
Our imam mentioned how Nicolas Sarkozy said Mustafa Abdul Jalil is the first person I have met that asks to be excused for prayer!
feb17libya Feb17Libya
AJE: UAE will release $700 million of frozen Libyan assets to the NTC #Libya #Feb17
Video: Bodies found in Tripoli hospital **Graphic** http://bit.ly/osJBOy #libya
Gaddafi's desperate bid to save regime revealed http://bit.ly/pFs9pT #libya
BBC Video: Gaddafi regime atrocities revealed http://bit.ly/nX1q5F #libya
Italian oil & gas facilities in #Libya weren't damaged during conflict & can restart soon as security conditions permit http://feb17.info/news/libya-live-unrest-august-26-2011/
HRW and Amnesty International have published statements that say all sides must protect vulnerable sites http://feb17.info/news/libya-live-unrest-august-26-2011/ #Libya #Feb17
#NTC announces its move from #Beghazi to #Tripoli to begin governing the country feb17.info/news/libya-liv… #Libya #Feb17
The African Union says it is ready to recognize #Libya's NTC and could recognize them as early as Friday http://feb17.info/news/libya-live-unrest-august-26-2011/ #Feb17
#NTC said on Friday they will seek a seat at the United Nations next month feb17.info/news/libya-liv… #Libya #Feb17
Children 'among 180 slaughtered' in Tripoli http://bit.ly/qUNiz0 #libya
Italy has proof Gaddafi planned to turn Lampedusa into “inferno” by sending thousands of African migrants there by boat http://feb17.info/news/libya-live-unrest-august-26-2011/
"We have terrible messages [from Gaddafi] (in our possession) and they will be made public soon," Frattini said http://feb17.info/news/libya-live-unrest-august-26-2011/ #Libya
NATO said it is focusing its airstrikes on the region around #Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte http://feb17.info/news/libya-live-unrest-august-26-2011/ #Libya
The new Libyan oil minister's secret weapon: transparency http://bit.ly/n7DBfA #libya
#Libya’s NTC now has an official representative at Canada's embassy in Ottawa feb17.info/news/libya-liv… #Feb17
libyatv Libya TV
Second rescue vessel sets sail to Tripoli english.libya.tv/2011/08/26/sec… #Libya #Tripoli
Libiya_min_Hollanda
Urgent pls RT well known families in Gasee Ben Gashir started 2 take revenge of one and other not knowing if there are any injured or dead!
hamzamu:
Libya : Video showing more than 200 unknown bodies killed by Gaddafi youtu.be/iTuQNXjfa_M ( @hamzamu )”
Libiya_min_Hollanda
The center of Gaser Ben Gashir is full off merc. Alot came from the south and the once fleeing from Tripoli this is Confirmed
BREAKING NEWS 5 planes are hit till now at the Tripoli airport!!!!
Khalifa
It's just amazing to call #Tripoli and curse #Gadhafi as much as you want.
FromJoanne Joanne
#Discovered: In Empty Deserted 4 story #Tripoli Hospital PILES of 50 Dead Bodies lay Rotting on Friday Morning goo.gl/p9BMo #Libya
#FLASH #TRIPOLI #MADAR Tel. Comm. just been Turned on Connection is much better then #Libyana Try all ppl u couldnt reach NOW
#Living in Gaddafi Regime #Libya was like living in La la land Smoke and Mirrors A lie we long knew about= abt #Hannah goo.gl/sa7OZ
Libya NFSL
Vote on whether you think Gaddafi regime men should participate in leading the new Libya facebook.com/questions/2527…
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI HUGE Underground Weapons Stores found in #Nasr Forest (where Rixos and Zoo are ) #Libya
White House wants #NATO to hunt for WMD http://goo.gl/oXETH #AP #Libya prices MANPAD Missiles falling on regionalBlackMarket
#TRIPOLI small Officers CIA teams backed by priv. US contractors with special OperationsExperience help guide #Libya FF goo.gl/f8Gyi
World in general had NO idea abt Gaddafi deviousness 9Yrs ago it started Dawn on #UKintelligence AllWasnotwhatItSeemed #Libya
JeffreyKofman Jeffrey Kofman
Finally got into a hotel. Looking 4ward 2 life with electricity and water. But no water. Apparently no water in all of Tripoli. Big problem
FromJoanne Joanne
#AddisAbeba #AU MEETING on #Libya Now AU expected 2recognize #NTC main stumble block is Zuma 's hurt ego #SouthAfrica #Libya
simondenyer
A lot of dead bodies rotting in the heat in #Tripoli today. A sad way to start the day. #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#Lest One Forgets. Frozen ASSETS actually BELONG to #Libya and its People STOLEN by Gaddafi and his Clan Should be Returned without DELAY !
#NATO Tornados bombs 'large headquarters bunker' in #Sirte last night bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr… #Libya
Sirte:
25 % of citizens thought to be Pro Gaddafi acc. 2pop.poll Very few citizens left in town mostly Gaddafi forces now #Libya
Freedom Fighter
It's a bit normal outside, celebration shooting from time to time which is i see it as a wasted ammunition. I hope Libyans stop it.
We spent 42 years under Gaddafi's bad education system, i consider myself very lucky since my big father encourages us to read books.
most libyans don't read unless they have too. So the first trouble we will face in any issue in new libya is education.
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
15 doctors on their way to #Tripoli hospital by sea from #Malta arriving today
Freedom Fighter
For the first time i hear a friday prayer speech worth listening! The freedom tastes better than honey!
Our imam was waiting for this moment since years.
What should libyans do to bab alazizia in future? Let the ideas race begin!!
he is talking about how the system were corrupted and named few people such as Hala, Shakeer also addressed other things.
Our imam comparing between gaddafi and mustafa abduljaleel and how one hates god and the other worships god.
People going out from the mosqou screaming: Allah is the greatest.
The imam encouraging people to gather weapons and open the shops and talking about how to fix the water issue.
Tarik
#Libya embassy #Moscow- approx 15 pro #Gaddafi Russians are flocking around.Extra police presence, inc. special police squas # Feb17
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Hidden tunnels and bunkers under Gaddafi compound give hints of how he lived, ruled shabablibya.org/news/hidden-tu… #Libya
Reuters
Reuters Italian oil and gas facilities in Libya were not damaged during the conflict and can restart as soon as security conditions permit, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told Italian radio on Friday.
Sirtawi
Sirtawis on east front line to #Sirte fear that majority of #FF r there for revenge, hence the decision to let only #Sirte #FFs enter first.
Tweeting Tripoli
Hala (pistol holding anchor) was caught too apparently: youtube.com/watch?v=bErWrF…
Saja
She escaped from Hay Alandalus and they caught her again in Soug Eljomaa yesterday beside my house..
Tasbeeh
The more ex-regime people we have in our new government, the more credibility we lose. Not about "revenge", it's abt diplomacy as well.
Tweeting Tripoli
we don't have parks in Tripoli. The only park situated behind the Rixos is owned by and exclusive to you know who.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Gaddafi's hat facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… #Libya
Mushu
At least we now know one thing for sure - #Gaddafi doesn't suffer from claustrophobia. #whoistheratnow
nytjim Jim Roberts
Emerging story line in #Libya: Increasing reports of abandoned bodies in & summary executions in #Tripoli. nyti.ms/p6MHMz
Nasr
It's just a matter of few days before #Tripoli is completely under control, then the big clean up begins, a monumental task no doubt.
AJEnglish Al Jazeera English
by hominoid555
Video: Trauma at Tripoli's Abu Salim hospital aje.me/oce894
elpasolibre elpasolibre
#Tripoli Airport is under the control of Freedom Fighters 25-8-2011 youtube.com/watch?v=d5oWKF… via @youtube #Libya #Libye #Libia #feb17
pdanahar Paul Danahar
Pic I took yesterday of two bound men. Couldn't get closer when tried to sniper shot at me. See white tie on one #Libya yfrog.com/keqp0igj
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA checking out reports of bombardment of Tripoli airport by Gaddafi forces.
LIBYA Water off in parts of Tripoli, raising all sorts of suspicious.
Shakeeb
Tonight is the holiest night of Ramadan. It's called the "Night of Revelation" and this year it occurs on a Friday.
Anand
Downtown Zawiyah a ghost town this morning, but for teams of boys quietly picking up the debris from the ravaged town square
bbclysedoucet lyse doucet
Water shortages Tripoli. On one street, residents r filling buckets from water tanker provided by a kind local businessman #Libya
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Thick smoke rises from Abu Salim region of Tripoli as libya rebels 'clos... youtube.com/watch?v=SZceXK… via @youtube
TheyCallMeSof Sofyan Amry
Breaking: According to govt, #Gaddafi is now protected "guest" of Mugabe in Zimbabwe! IS it true?!Source:http://j.mp/qDX345
hominoid555 whitewakbar
British Tornado jets fired cruise missiles overnight at a headquarters in the town of Sirte
bbclysedoucet lyse doucet
by hominoid555
Checkpost Tripoli, rebel manning it used to live London, says "cheers." #Liverpool fan drives up, shouts "you'll never walk alone" #Libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
In Malta... ships full of humanitarian supplies for #Tripoli are leaving regularly however flights remain a huge problem.. Mitiga/TIP unsafe
ReutersIndia Reuters India
by hominoid555
FLASH: Rebels and Gaddafi forces battle at Ras Ajdir on Libya's border with Tunisia - Al Jazeera
HomelandYouth Shabbab Al Watan
Clashes between rev. and g forces happening in Ayn Zara right now.
AlArabiya_Eng
#British planes fired missiles at a bunker in search for the Libyan leader Muammar #Gaddafi in his home town of #Sirte
simondenyer Simon Denyer
by Zlitniya
Rebels seem to have control of most of Abu Salem neighborhood in #Tripoli after Thursday's clashes but admitted it was not completely safe.
Zlitniya
@
@simondenyer plz note- Libyans don't appreciate being referred to as 'rebels'.call as NTC forces/NTC army/NTC supporters.or just antiG force
BreakingNews Breaking News
Gadhafi loyalists bombarding Tripoli airport, damage plane - Al Arabiya TV via Reuters
Mushu
It's Friday, and one of the last ten days of Ramadan. Please make lots of du'a during this blessed day. #Libya is NOT free yet! :'( #Feb17
Also, please do not forget to pray for #Syria and #Palestine and all the oppressed as well.United we stand,divided we fall. #UNITY#Ramadan
hominoid555 whitewakbar
As the detainees barged through the hangar gates, two other guards opened fire amnesty.org/en/news-and-up…
alextomo alex thomson
Whole place filled with stench, flies and maggots all over the abandoned hospital. Not very good really.
Most fighting age males but 2 women, 3 children at least. Counted 78 bodies here.
Gimme an hour and we'll have Abu Salim online 4 u at channel4.com/news #c4news
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Saw a confession by a high ranking #Gaddafi regime official today. When #Tripoli fell, got 2 orders: Kill all prisoners, burn all airplanes
Mitiga is mch safer than #Tripoli International Airport however Mitiga has smaller jets - easier to evacuate. Big expensive planes in danger
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Critical to get that border opened. RT @Reuters: Rebels and Gaddafi forces battle at Ras Ajdir on Libya's border with Tunisia - Al Jazeera
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
My mother thinks that #Gaddafi's tunnels could be turned into an underground train network similar to that of London... lol
Transport nd finding safe places to store food for distribution is still a problem + 2 big areas Busleem&Hadba still unsafe
robcrilly Rob Crilly
British tornadoes bombing Sirte. I'd say that's the best chance eastern rebels have of advancing quickly tinyurl.com/3j7hn5p
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Dedicated to the amazing women of #Libya. goo.gl/qyhO4 You all are "Strong Enough" goo.gl/qyhO4
feb17libya Feb17Libya
With fall of Gaddafi, Libyans dare to hope bit.ly/nKUKaM #libya
zati44444
african countries will will recognise NTC. Their aid from europe and america depends on it. #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#Istanbul Jibril: We need 2collect Weapons Create National Army+Police Force This needs a lot of money #CurrentPoliceForceNotTrusted
Freedom Fighter
Our fatour yesterday! twitpic.com/6bg467
Libya17Feb Tripoli Youth
A plane will be setting out from #Benghazi for Doctors & nurses to help at #Tripoli Hospitals, If Interested please ask ur hospital for info
The battle for #Zuwarah is on, now that forces from #Sabrata & #Zintan have joined!! by @annmarlowe .... http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/fight-zwara-and-liberty_591380.html .. #Libya
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
17yro fighter wants 2 B ambassador, says 1st thing when this is over "i want to see my mother & get rid of this (gun) in my hands"
FromJoanne Joanne
#CONFIRMED G organized illegal migration #GADDAFI; Turn #Lampedusa BLACK Use PPL asHumanBombs +/_1000 people died goo.gl/UlsIL Libya
martinchulov Martin Chulov
Met a ward full of wounded #Gaddafi men. Asked; 'why did u fight'?. Answer; 'He wasn't the man we thought he was'.
Two Africans with bullet wounds among #Gaddafi men. 1 from Niger, 1 from Senegal. Both accused by doctors of being hired guns. #Libya
dovenews Libyan™
Disturbing: #AbuSalim trauma hospital, only 2 Drs, 5 nurses, 100 decomposing bodies, bodies on st. int'l help is needed goo.gl/9Q7Om
Max_Fisher Max Fisher
Pretty surprised UK jets are bombing Qaddafi's compound in Surte. I'm guessing that means he isn't there. bbc.in/qVUgkC
ANSA ITALY
Gaddafi used refugees as 'human bombs' Strongman wanted 'inferno' on Lampedusa, says Frattini Rome, August 26 - Besieged Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi diverted massive amounts of migrants to Italy as an attempted reprisal for Italy's involvement in NATO-led air strikes in Libya, Italian Foreign Minister and the Libyan ambassador to Italy said on Friday.
"I confirm that Gaddafi himself organized this flow of illegal migration," said Abdulhafed Gaddur on Italian radio. "He was the one who gave the orders".
Since the start of the year, some 50,000 migrants and refugees from North Africa, first from Tunisia and then from Libya, have arrived on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, which quickly overburdened local facilities.
"[Gaddafi] said he wanted to turn Lampedusa black," said Gaddur, referring to the fact that many of the exiles were migrants to Libya from Sub-Saharan Africa. Gaddafi said
he wanted to use them as "human bombs," Gaddur added.
Read more:
http://ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2011/08/26/visualizza_new.html_731645543.html
acarvin Andy Carvin
Marat: the Libyan revolution is almost miraculous, against a regime that is limitless in violence, while the people kept persistence & honor
sueturtonaje Sue Turton
Inside Tripoli's notorious Abu Salim prison...empty and eerie. If only the walls could talk
Just seen wreckage of plane hit today at tripoli airport. Gaddafi forces still within striking distance...snipers positioned out to the east
Khalifa
must be kept out of any positions in the new Libya and they must return all the money they stole.
acarvin Andy Carvin
Matar: when the rebels entered the compound, it was astonishing and eerie. Bullets sniping them, but not the faces of the regime.
Mohammad
Free Libya will not recognize a union of dictators (i.e. AU) Without #libya $, union is useless
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
NATO has been active in the vicinity of Sirte already this afternoon, bombing some targets in the area using British Tornado jets
jamesmatesitv James Mates
Man shot in neck cdn't be evacuated - without power in special ambulance life support machines wd fail. Doctors not hopeful.
Abu Salem hospital finally evacuated this morning. Watched last few patients taken out. Stench of death, hundreds of rotting bodies
Big gun battle around our hotel this afternoon. Gave the international press a taste of what ordinary Libyans are living with every day
Zlitniya
#Zliten Harsh female pro Gs were sent in to homes in #AlBaza (pro #Feb17 area) &stole all money &gold(including wt women were wearing)
#Zliten These pro G 'women' also forced the women in the homes to disclose where other gold&money was hidden.1man hd 100k stolen 4bein antiG
live2Tripoli
We need independence flags in #Tripoli. Everywhere I go people ask me if they could have the one I carry. Want to send something, send flags
Omar
The two aircraft destroyed at Tripoli airport were thankfully the2older A300 aircraft and not the A330 originally thought. 2 others were hit
In fact the Afriqiyah A300 destroyed was the one made famous by bringing back Al Magrahi from Glasgow, it was a presidential plane
libyatv Libya TV
UN Rights Office: "Gaddafi should be captured alive" english.libya.tv/2011/08/26/un-… #Libya
A Message to the Libyan women suffering Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duCsXushXIk&feature=share
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Filmed round a looted house in brega. Found a land mine hidden at doorway left by retreating gads. Trap for people returning home?
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Afriqiyah A300 shelled by #Gaddafi filth at Tripoli Airport was one that brought #Lockerbie bomber Al Magrahi from Glasgow. #Libya #Feb17
Fighting continues at #RasAjdir between #freedomfighters & #Gaddafi filth.
Dennis #Kucinich held hour-long telephone conversation with Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi #Gadhafi Prime Minster http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/25/libya-letters-gaddafi-nato-obama?CMP=twt_gu #Libya
#NATO jets targeted 29 armed #Gaddafi vehicles near #Sirte. #Libya #Feb17
Sirtawi
Now that Libya State TV's out of the way, one can think straight...
FromJoanne Joanne
#BREAKING CNN Just found GADDAFI RATHOLE wth ROWS of RECORDED Gaddafi MSGES Tapes Deep in Bunker #BabAlAziyah
Freedom Fighter
These are the apartments in the beginning of abusalim, big fight is happening there twitpic.com/6bgo7e
I have to turn off my cellular and UPS to save energy, i will keep u posted if somthing happen. Until now it's normal day... without power!
Today my father and mother in law visited us from ben ashur we congratulated each other and had a nice talk, tripoli is recovering quickly.
Aiden
The African Union is like a drinking club for corrupt dictators. You don't really want their endorsement, frankly.
libyatv Libya TV
AU Officials: 20 AU Nations officially recognise NTC as legitimate government of #Libya
'Gaddafi has been planning his escape for quite a long time. He loves life, lets others fight for him' - Libyan ambassador to Italy
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
PICTURES: Two A300s destroyed in Tripoli conflict shabablibya.org/news/pictures-… #Libya
ThoughtsAboveClouds
The NTC in 5 months has more credibility than Gaddafi ever had and more than a lot of AU members. New Libya does not need them
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
U.S. distances itself and NATO from Gaddafi manhunt shabablibya.org/?p=5848 #Libya
MOD: "a formation of Tornado GR4s... fired a salvo of Storm Shadow precision-guided missiles against a large headquarters bunker" in Sirte.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
The Libyan National Army in the East send forward heavy artillery in preparation for the liberation of Sirte, Pro G's remain defiant #Libya
plans in place, heavy artillery moving to the front now
Reuters: Arabian Gulf Oil Company says fields in eastern Libya are "now secure"
NTC Say they do not want a bloodbath they will be sending in FF who are from the town of Sirte first. Hoping to liberate #Sirte peacefully
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Council believes Gaddafi trapped south of Tripoli shabablibya.org/?p=5854 #Libya
AJE: Freedom Fighters control the AbuSleem area of Tripoli however they are now sweeping for any remaining snipers
sarasidnerCNN Sara Sidner
Just went down some of the tunnels Gadhafi had built under his compound. Unreal. Rumours of a massive underground tunnel complex r true.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Desperately seeking Gaddadi's brigade of bodyguards shabablibya.org/?p=5857 #Libya
WARNING: If you get a DM that says " your pic is all over the net" or "You look so silly in this pic!", DONT OPEN > It's a virus >>> RETWEET
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya Freedom Fighters, Gaddafi forces battle at Tunisia Libya border shabablibya.org/?p=5864 #Libya
Libiya_min_Hollanda
NOW HEAVY GUNFIRE IN GASER BEN GASHIR, may God be with our FF's !!! RT
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
With fall of Gaddafi, Libyans dare to hope shabablibya.org/news/with-fall… #Libya
feb17libya Feb17Libya
British Tornado jets fired cruise missiles at a bunker in #Gaddafi's home town of #Sirte. feb17.info/news/libya-liv… #Libya #Feb17
#Norway is ready to release $370m in frozen #Libya's assets held in Norwegian banks as soon as the UN gives the go-ahead feb17.info/news/libya-liv…
Libiya_min_Hollanda
Ppl pls help me my relatives are screaming on the phone rockets fulling om them gunfire everywhere pls help !!!!!!!!!!!
HELPPPPPPPPPPPP civiliiana Re being killed now my relatives nowwwwwwwww
they are in soug asibet in my aunts farm all woman and childeren screaming and running!!!!!
im telling ppl 2 help and they say FF will go but nothing till now!!!!!
Ita between gaser ben gashir and soog alkhmies
Why is South Africa spoiling things for the Free Libyan people? http://shabablibya.org/news/south-africas-libya-policy-reflects-past-loyalties #Libya
Turkey FM: The flying of the new flag, int'l recognition & financial support are the three pillars for a sovereign Libya & must be enforced.
Desperately seeking Gaddadi’s brigade of bodyguards When the rebels stormed into Muammar Qaddafi’s fortress of Bab al-Aziziya they expected to find more people than just the stalwart leader and his family. But it appears that Qaddafi’s famed bodyguards too have vanished into thin air.
There is no trace of Qaddafi’s female bodyguards, once estimated to be around 400 beautiful women.
The Libyan leader first began to appear with his female guards in the 1990s; his previous guards were from the former East Germany.
According to media reports, in the past 20 years Qaddafi employed as many as 400 “Revolutionary Nuns,” as the female guards came to be known. They were also referred to as “The Amazonians.”
The guards were reported to have taken a vow of chastity before beginning the job of guarding the Libyan leader; in addition, they took a pledge to sacrifice their lives to protect him. The guards also underwent extensive firearm and martial arts training in the Women’s Police Academy in Tripoli.
Qaddafi required that his guards be virgins; he renamed them all after his only daughter, Aisha.
Qaddafi’s female guards always appeared by his side immaculately groomed and dressed in high heels their long hair left loose.
During Qaddafi’s visit to Italy in 2009, photographs appeared of one of his guards, an elegantly dressed woman, who seemed to catch Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s eye – so much so that he breached protocol and went to shake hands with the guard.
Berlusconi’s handshake was met with a rather harsh glare from the guard, a fact not lost on the media.
The loyalty that Qaddafi’s guards showed the leader is well known. In 1988, the head of Qaddafi’s guards was killed and seven others wounded when a convoy was attacked, allegedly by Islamic fundamentalists. Then, a female guard threw herself on Qaddafi to save him and died from bullet wounds.
In 2003, during an Arab summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egyptian security prevented Qaddafi’s guards from entering the hotel with the Libyan leader, which resulted in a scuffle between the ladies and security officials.
In 1984, Ethiopian security guards also clashed with Qaddafi’s guards when they tried to enter, fully armed, the Organization of African Unity in Addis Ababa, where a summit was being held. Officials were able to take away their weapons, but not without an altercation.
A similar scene was witnessed at another summit in Nigeria during which organizers refused to grant Qaddafi’s guards access unless they disarmed. It was only when the Nigerian president personally intervened that the matter was resolved.
An Arab writer said once that Qaddafi was the luckiest of all Arab leaders because he was surrounded by gorgeous guards. However, the guards and the secrets they keep have vanished from Qaddafi’s Bab al-Azizia compound.
Since the guards are believed to never leave Qaddafi’s side, one wonders whether they have accompanied him to his hideout. Does he still consider them to be the most competent and trustworthy guards to protect his life?
Source Al Arabiyah
Sirtawi
Interrogation with Hala Misrati youtube.com/watch?v=5vZTrY…
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: In accord w/ #Gaddafi address of yesterday, reports of PRO Gaddafi women robbing homes at gunpoint.
#Tarhouna is reported as completely free of #Gaddafi filth
Clashes between #Freedomfighters & #Gaddafi filth now in #AinZara. Mercs captured there have been found with Khamis ID's.
Last night RAF destroyed three Scud missile support vehicles near #Sirte
#Freedomfighters in #Sebha stormed military secret service HQ & liberated #AlKarda & #AlManschija.
libyanandproud
Libyans do not recognize Jacob Zuma as the legitimate representative of the South African people !
HomelandYouth Shabbab Al Watan
Radio is ran by the revolutionaries now in Tripoli
Omar
Trouble between Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte as some want to surrender others believe G has a way back. It seems G loyalists worship him
AFP
Freedom fighters Liberated Aboukammesh town & chemical plant west of zwara near Tunisian border
Imad
The Embassy of #Libya in #London has two flags today, Syrian flag next to the new Libyan Flag, amazing lockerz.com/s/132860561
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: Injured Surman FF Aboujillah Jwade. Broken leg in August 11 car accident, then shot in waist by #Gaddafi forces. twitpic.com/6bhp3n
Aljazeera
Rebels and forces loyal to fallen Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi battled at Ras Jdir on Libya's coastal border with Tunisia on Friday, a witness in the area said.
Tunisian officials said the army had closed the frontier area, an important crossing point for humanitarian aid and other supplies destined for Libya.
"Clashes are starting between large numbers of rebels and forces loyal to Gaddafi for control of the border," said local resident Fathi Chandol.
"The army asked us to stay away from the area," he told Reuters. "The area has been declared a closed military zone."
The Libyan rebels are keen to control the crossing because it will allow them to bring in supplies of food, water and other essentials from Tunisia.
LPC:
Zalla is still under q control. This desert city is in the midlle of 4-5 oil fields.
In the courtyard where Gaddafi once made speeches locals are playing Bob Marley and whirling round, dancing. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8716240/Libya-Live.html
FF's on the road to Ras Jdir took Bou Kammesh
Libya: Uganda explains stand. http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/763689
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Freedomfighters in #Sebha stormed military secret service HQ & liberated #AlKarda & #AlManschija.
Paris to provide Libya with $3 billion in aid http://en.rian.ru/world/20110826/166208486.html via @ria_novosti
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: Arabian Gulf Oil Company says fields in eastern Libya are "now secure"
Raw | 22-08-2011 | Capturing Gaddafi' mercenaries in Al-Brega http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElehA3Js-5s&feature=player_detailpage
Sheila
Don't the mercenaries shooting Libyan children in the head have kids of their own? How low can humanity stoop.
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#France secret service sources say #Gaddafi is in #Sirte
hominoid555 whitewakbar
al-Gaddafi imposed a news blackout in Sirte to prevent its people from interacting with the FFs
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
artillery, gunfire &NATO jets over us @ #tripoli int'l airport. rebel commanders here still believe #gadhafi in east area they dont control.
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
South Africa president Jacob Zuma says African Union cannot recognise National Transitional Council while fighting continues in Libya
A MUST READ:
The horror of Abu Salim They say there are still snipers around the Abu Salim district so best not to simply drive to the hospital there.
Our driver left us on the main road running by the hospital building. We’d done a recce and seen a hole in the fence.
We split up to present less of a target – myself, cameraman Stuart Webb and our security adviser, a former Royal Marine best left unnamed – and we legged it across the empty dual carriageway and hit that hole in the fence.
We’d arranged to RV with our van under a nearby flyover in one hour precisely.
Fifty yards from the main entrance something was wrong.
Very wrong.
Four Red Cross ambulances lined up and staff hurriedly stretchered out the last few injured men.
“Conditions in there are dreadful – just dreadful,” said Red Cross worker Bridget Comninos, “we are just trying to assist doctors here.”
In one ambulance a man, almost incoherent with fear, just kept saying: “Al Hamdillulah” – thank God.
Three young children sat near him almost beatifically calm in their shock.
Ten feet away, outside the main door, a dead man’s corpse hummed with clouds of flies.
Piles of surgical dressings, bloody sheets and half-empty blood bags were all around us, oozing fluids onto the ground.
Another body, inflated with decomposition, lies 20 yards away in the sun. Male, fighting age, half the head missing.
Source Chan4 Blog
http://blogs.channel4.com/world-news-blog/the-horror-of-abu-salim/18014
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Pools of blood all over the main Abu Salim street. Heavy shooting, dead bodies on road, and one man was shot in front of me.
Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
Big rebel push towards Saladin neighbourhood going on. Claim they're trying to take Khamis Brigade base. Heavy firefight when we were there
Have a look:
The Economist
End-game in Libya Going, going…
The fall of Muammar Qaddafi will transform Libya, the Middle East and NATO THE climax of Libya’s six-month-old revolt was not only televised via satellite but also text-messaged. Shortly after armed rebels captured the state telecoms company during their entry into the capital, Tripoli, on August 21st they sent a note to millions of mobile-phone users saying “Long live free Libya”. Then they added the equivalent of $40 to all accounts and restored the country’s internet connection, which had been cut at the start of the rebellion.
http://www.economist.com/node/21526892
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “ARON” remains anchored just outside #Tripoli #Libya after last having supplied #Gaddafi regime.
Another aircraft takes has taken a hit by #Gaddafi filth in Tripoli international Airport.
#Panama PASSENGER SHIP "PALM BEACH PRINCESS" now en route to #Benghazi
#Moldova CARGO SHIP "HAJ-SAYED" now en route to #Tobruq #Libya ETA: 2011-08-27 15:00 (UTC). #Feb17
#Panama CARGO SHIP "KIBRIS GUNESI" now en route to dest. #Benghazi #Libya. #Feb17
Reports of #Gaddafi filth slaughtering civilians in #GasherBenGashir.
#Zuma says #UN has undermined #AU in regards #Libya. Actually #SouthAfrica & member states of criminal AU have undermined themselves. #Feb17
#Tripoli: #ICRC have now evacuated #AbuSaleem Trauma Hospital. 21 seriously needing surgery been transferred.
#Tripoli: #GasrBenGhashir needs IMMEDIATE help! Khamis brigade along w/ #Gaddafi mercs causing chaos.
#Libya: Please remember that #Turkey has since Feb 17 MASSIVELY supplied #Gaddafi w/ material support including fuel. Do NOT trust them.
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Libyan rebel oil firm AGOCO said on Friday it has placed a "small army" at its fields in the country's east to guarantee security
lindseyhilsum Lindsey Hilsum
They're clearing the bodies on the roundabout between #babalaziziyah and #abusalim #tripoli.@channel4news
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Trading house Gunvor supplied a cargo of gasoil that loaded at the Russian port of Novorossiisk and is bound for Libyan rebels in Benghazi
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Went to visit the Abu Salim hospital today in #Tripoli. Was a horrifying & eery building with no doctors or nurses..just rotting dead bodies
At the Abu Salim prison, the cells were small with a tiny squat bathroom for the
prisoners sharing the cells
It's obvious that the prisoners in Abu Salim prison lived in horrific circumstances
Also a pile of dead bodied outside the hospital. All the bodies _ 41 of them _ were dark skinned and in late stages of decay
The hospital's been deserted for 5days. Walked thru the empty corridors; blood all over the gurneys, floors.Glass shattered on doors
Hafed
#libya-- STATEMENT BY SENATOR JOHN McCAIN ON LIBYA’S DEMOCRATIC FUTURE – mccain.senate.gov
N_Benghazi ن
Where were the non-Libyans who are so concerned about the 'looting rebels' when Gaddafi was killing, torturing, and stealing from them?
Libya FFs called in support from NATO jets to stop a counteroffensive by loyalist troops in Tripoli in the early hours of Friday, ...
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Water and food are in short supply. Even Zawiyah, a city of 200,000 50km west of Tripoli, was largely shut down.
Tripoli heavy fighting in the Salah alDin area
Nasr
In a very positive report by @ZeinakhodrAljaz she state that our FFs have made major gains on the ground in #Tripoli in the past 24 hrs
Sky - Heavy artillery exchange between G + FF at the Eastern front.
Bosnia and Serbia recognize Libyan rebels
The Netherlands accepts the NTC as the representative of the STATE of #Libya
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Some $2.9bn (£1.8bn) is missing from the accounts of the Libyan sovereign wealth fund,
Rebels fight for Gaddafi-held neighbourhood Rebels continue to battle Gaddafi's men in their stronghold in Tripoli's Abu Salim where snipers positioned outside the district, have slowed their advance.
The area is where the leader enjoys support and is also believed to be where he and members of his family may be hiding.
And though the strongman may have disappeared; it is he who now defines the struggle for the capital.
Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports from Tripoli.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kURJCoGGPZY&feature=channel_video_title
libyanandproud
I confirm Qasr Ben Ghasher been attacked past 48hrs, has been reported, outskirts of tripoli r farms being swept slowly
Netherlands widens recognition of Libyan NTC The Netherlands not only considers the National Transition Council to be the representative of the Libyan people, it has also accepted the NTC as the representative of the state for the first time.
The shift in status, now that Muammar Gaddafi no longer appears in control of the country, means that Libya's frozen assets can be released to the NTC. The Dutch authorities say they are pleased to give the NTC full recognition. The move was
confirmed in a statement by a contact group comprising the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium.
The Netherlands says the NTC has to ensure a "stable and safe future for the Libyan people". It needs to change Libya into a free and democratic country which holds human rights to be the basis for a healthy economy. This should be achieved with the help of the international community, and the United Nations in particular.
The Netherlands is prepared to help the new Libya "in any way it can".
Source:
http://www.rnw.nl/africa/bulletin/netherlands-widens-recognition-libyan-ntc
( FYI: Population of Netherlands is 16,531,294)
Aljazeera
VERY GRAPHIC
Trauma at Abu Salim hospital The Abu Salim trauma hospital in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, has been cut off to most of the outside world due to fighting in the area.
Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons managed to reach the hospital this week, where he found bodies with gunshot wounds lying in and outside of the building.
He sent this report on the status of a hospital that is severely understaffed and cut off from medical supplies, with a warning that some of the images in the video may be disturbing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znMYDsbkwRw&feature=youtu.be
MSNBC
Libya rebel minister says Gaddafi, aides surrounded TRIPOLI— A minister in Libya's National Transitional Council said on Friday rebel forces were surrounding an area of Tripoli where Muammar Gaddafi and his entourage were hiding and were monitoring their presence before attempting to
capture them.
"The area where he is now is under siege," Justice Minister Mohammed al-Alagi told Reuters. "The rebels are monitoring the area and they are dealing with it."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44288427/ns/world_news-africa/t/libya-rebel-minister-says-gaddafi-aides-surrounded/#.TlfM2JLiDyI.twitter
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Dictator chic - the most predictable thing about Gaddafi? gold, murals, objects in their image - Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews…
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Made in Libya.... #libya fb.me/1a3K5SsiT
david_bachmann_ AC Tripolis
My former driver just called me. Didn't hear from him for 4mths. Was fighting in Zawia,got shot in the leg. He s in a GREAT mood.
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya sovereign wealth fund 'missing $2.9bn' bbc.in/npGFm6
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Libya #NTC offers 2 MILLION DINARS & FULL AMNESTY for Muammar #Gaddafi, DEAD OR ALIVE. #Feb17
Libiya_min_Hollanda
World wake up, civillians being slautherd in Gaser Ben Gashir woman and childern #URGENT #Libya RT
Where is the NTC, there job is 2 protect the civilians WALLAAHI people Are dying now!!!
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
BBC: Unesco warning over #Libya looting goo.gl/xD658 #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
sarasidnerCNN Sara Sidner
CNN about to run video of inside Gadhafi's tunnels.
I have to admit we were spooked in there. So dark and went on forever
Gadhafi tunnel video will apear on CNN.com!
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
The hostile position of the #AU towards #Libya #NTC is led by #SouthAfrica’s #Zuma & #Algeria's #Butaflika. #Libya #Feb17
Regardless of monies paid to #NTC, #Turkey violated UN 1973 & continued fuel and material support to #Gaddafi daily
Video: Correspondent in #Tripoli takes us inside one of the #Gaddafi's bunkers http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/inside-a-gaddafi-bunker/2011/08/25/gIQAxDyteJ_video.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost #Libya
#SouthAfrica’s #Zuma, has recently recommended Seif al-Islam & Moussa Ibrahim be included in new Libyan gov. #ZumaIsAMoron
#Libya: Despite what Hala Misrati NOW says, please remember 2 days before capture she was shooting civilians from State TV building.
#Tripoli: #Gaddafi filth have destroyed another airplane at TIA. This is the 4th civilian airplane Gaddafi has destroyed.
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya: Drawings on the wall of a cell inside the Abu Salim prison in #Tripoli pic.twitter.com/Bgems1U
"#Gaddafi green rags: they will fall one by one" #Libya http://pic.twitter.com/T712T3Q
#FF protect pro-Gaddafi from angry onlookers as he is brought in for medical attention to the Hospital #Tripoli #Libya pic.twitter.com/xfkJLiz
AliveInLibya
Dissident from Kikla Recounts His Time as a Regime Prisoner is.gd/bvgb4D (Aug 26)
Have a laugh:
LibyaLiberty Hunting the Beard
#GaddafisLoveLettersToCondi
"You maybe da Seckratary uv iState,but yoo are alsoo da Seckratary uv my hart."
#GaddafisLoveLettersToCondi "Bleez come to visit me.We will drive my tuk tuk into the sunset forever."
#GaddafisLoveLettersToCondi "Ya conda leeZa,you put the "Z" in babalaZiziya"
#GaddafisLoveLettersToCondi "Hey baby,are you an African mercenary?Beecuz yoo jest shot me in da hart like a luv sniber."
#GaddafisLoveLettersToCondi "Leebyins love only macaroni,but for you,Condoleeza,I will only love rice from now on"
#GaddafisLoveLettersToCondi "Lets switch clothes for Haloween:U look like nubian princess in my African dress,& I'll look normal in ur suit"
andrewquinn:
Libyan rebels to get fuel from #Russia (which wasn't so hot on the TNC, but hey things change) bit.ly/oPzUTu" #Libya
AP report from #Tripoli's streets to see how fighting has taken its toll on Libyans: http://apne.ws/qjFmmh -EC ... #Libya
icrc_english ICRC in English
by septimius_sever
#Libya: #ICRC helps evacuate 17 wounded patients from Abu Salim Trauma Hospital to another #Tripoli hospital. For more: goo.gl/p8dJ8
Tweeting Tripoli
People in Tripoli please print and spread to friends and relatives. We don't want military bases in the city anymore. pic.twitter.com/ezZbr0f
ProudLibyan
Many well known Gaddafi goons (be it ministers or others) phoning NOW to declare support for Feb17, they don't even apologise! #Libya
TRIPOLI (AFP)--Libyan rebels control 95% of the capital Tripoli, a local military chief told AFP Friday
corinthia hotel tripoli http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztzmr2Bud5o&feature=share via @youtube
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Heavy shooting infront of Corinthia hotel in #tripoli #Libya now. #BREAKING
#breaking: I see 9 rebels trying to get into bldg facing #Corinthia hotel to catch the guy shooting.
#Breaking: Shooting continues infront of #corinthia hotel #tripoli #Libya. I am with group of journalists watching it from balcony.
Ok One rebel is running with RPG. He is trying to determine where to shoot it to.
Shooting continues. I see rebels pointing at a certain direction. plumes of smoke in horizon
Number of rebels increasing now. Around 20. I see smoke. Can't determine what is happening. RPG guy didn't shoot yet.
I can see rebels runing in the street with their guns trying to..... heavy heavy shotting now. VERY HEAVY.
We are hiding here. Ducked down. Shooting continues. We here rebels shouting but I can't make out what they say.
Ok this was not shooting now. One heavy sound, maybe explosion.
Shooting stopped now. I hear nothing anymore. Watch the video footage I shot tonight Will post it online later.
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
rebel commander @ #tripoli airport says pushed #gadhafi forces back, but they R still using civilian pop 4 cover. artillery strikes ongoing
Never Forget
Liberation of Abu Salim, #Tripoli. 5th minute mark for the emotional reactions + gratitude, youtu.be/zSuLvzxhpLE #Libya”
BBCWorld BBC Global News
#Gaddafi's troops killed 150 prisoners in 'mass murder' as they fled rebel advance on #Tripoli, rebel chief tells AFP bbc.in/n5BCnC
Fighters claim to control most of Tripoli : http://www.presstv.ir/detail/195927.html
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Qaddafi, aids surrounded and monitored in Tripoli: Libya rebel minister english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/…
BBC
Libya: Hundreds of bodies found at Tripoli hospital More than 200 decomposing bodies have been found abandoned at a hospital in a district of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, that has seen fierce fighting
A BBC correspondent found corpses of men, women and children on beds and in the corridors of Abu Salim's hospital.
Doctors and nurses fled after clashes erupted nearby between rebel forces and those loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi.
Some residents accused the regime of murdering those at the hospital, but it is not yet clear how exactly they died.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14687658
ProudLibyan
I for one, we all will not keep quiet when we see previous Gaddafi supporteres/minsters crawl out of woodwork 2 try to take advantage! NEVER
Michael
The resourcefulness & ingenuity shown by the Libyans in their struggle can launch a new economy in free #Libya.
Tweeting Tripoli
Sorry to let u know Dr Darat who was kidnapped by Gaddafi thugs found dead (torture signs) few days ago: youtube.com/watch?v=omjy1r… Capture video.
Or:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omjy1r80ExQ&feature=related
The African Union will not explicitly recognise Libya's NTC, Reuters quotes a western diplomat as saying
عاجل ليبيا أخبار :رويترز نقلت عن دبلوماسي غربي : ان الاتحاد الافريقي لن يعترف صراحة بالمجلس الوطني الانتقالي
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: Major fighting continues in front of Corinthia hotel against #Gaddafi filth.
#Gaddafi filth still present in #Zalla, desert city in middle of 4-5 oil fields.
WAPO
Libya policy a balancing act for China as Moammar Gaddafi’s rule collapses HONG KONG — In a February speech in which he vowed to wipe out rebels like “cockroaches,” Moammar Gaddafi held up China’s 1989 military assault on Tiananmen Square as an example of how to deal with popular unrest.
“Students in Beijing protested for days near a Coca-Cola sign,” he said. “Then the tanks came and crushed them.”
Today, the fortified Tripoli compound where Gaddafi made his defiant speech is overrun by rebels. Now, Beijing is scrambling to distance itself from a leader who lauded its approach to dissent and awarded Chinese companies billions of dollars in contracts — but who has for years also embarrassed, unsettled and sometimes defied the Chinese leadership.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/libya-policy-a-balancing-act-for-china-as-moammar-gaddafis-rule-collapses/2011/08/26/gIQAnlKKgJ_story.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost
CNN:
Fred Pleitgen on the Eastern Frontlines in #Ras #Lanuf Before #Sirte. Video: http://goo.gl/6HF6L
or:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb0PdnxUnOM
Freedom Fighter
These are the apartments in the beginning of abusalim, big fight is happening there twitpic.com/6bgo7e
helena
amazing moment it was all the flags out in Benghazi in feb. My thought was woow people had them all the time hidden
Khalifa
#Gadhafi tunnels perfect for a future mass transit in #Tripoli (subway). Bab Alzizia makes a great Park (Central Park of Tripoli).
Reuters
Libyan rebels claimed to be close to capturing Muammar Gaddafi on Friday. They were surrounding an area where Gaddafi and his entourage are reportedly hiding. “The area where he is now is under siege,” Justice Minister Mohammed al-Alagi told Reuters. “The rebels are monitoring the
area and they are dealing with it.”
Libya Al-Ahrar TV: Marine tractor 'Salahuddin' will arrive today to Benghazi carrying 107 of the prisoners of Abu Salim, some of whom thought they were killed before.
ليبيا الاحرار / ستصل اليوم القاطرة البحرية صلاح الدين إلى بنغازي حاملة ١٠٧ من سجناء أبوسليم وبعضهم ممن ظن أهاليهم أنهم قتلوا من قبل القاطرة هي التي قامت بأول إنزال بحري يوم ٢٠ في طرابلس قادمة من بنغازي
Libya Breaking news:
List of names of the prisoners released from the Abu Salim prison who are arriving Benghazi today August 26, 2011. at 9 PM Libya time
1. Ahmad Abdal-Razaq Al-Mansuwry - Darna
2. Sulyman Al-Malah - Darna
3. Mohammed Abdel-Hamid Mohammed - Egypt
4. Az-Aldeen Abdel-Azez Marwass - Benghazi
5. Salim Bashir Bozribe - Benghazi
6. Hussein Mohamed Hussein - Sudan
7. Sadiq Albuaiche - Benghazi
8. Mohamed ALamari - Benghazi
9. Abdullah Fathi Al-Circassian - Benghazi
10. Mohammad Sharif Al-Ashaba - Benghazi
11. Ahmed Alqtani - Benghazi
12. Jafar Azzouz - Benghazi
13. Fathi birthday Alkuafa - Benghazi
14. Ahmed Abu Bakr Darsi - Benghazi
15. Amjad Ahmad Misrati - Benghazi
16. Khaled Saad Thurs - Benghazi
17. Salam Hadar - Benghazi
18. Ayad Abdul Hameed Ali - Benghazi
19. Attia El-Siwi - Benghazi
20. Mohammed Abdullah Al Ghaith - Benghazi
21. Nasser Saleh Al-Mahdi - Abyar
22. Billah Ali - Abyar
23. Mustafa Bin Ali Al Salem - dirt
24. Fathallah Younis Porras - dirt
25. Ahmed Abdullah Ali - Brega
26. Juma Juma Idriss - Brega
27. Nizar M'Hamed Alaukih - dirt
28. Ahmed Juma Bozekok - Benghazi
29. Salam Azzouz - dirt
30. Ezzat Farag Mohammed Ali Al-Ras - Benghazi
31. Salam Ahmed Sharif - Benghazi
32. Tawfiq Abdullah Mohammed - Benghazi
33. Moataz precordial Gabriel - Benghazi
34. Moataz Abdullah Ali Shlouq - Benghazi
35. Khalid Mohammed Ali Saifi - Benghazi
36. Salam Ammar Khuwaildi - Benghazi
37. Hatem comfortable exile - Benghazi
38. Nasser comfortable exile - Benghazi
39. Arab senile - Benghazi
40. Abuzeid Alchloi - dirt
41. Faraj Hassi - dirt
42. Jibril Abdel Karim - dirt
43. Tawfiq Gabriel - dirt
44. Ahmed Alchloi - dirt
45. Masood Khalid Amari - Benghazi
46. Saleh Sassi - Benghazi
47. Salem Abaao - Benghazi
48. Mohammed Oraibi - Benghazi
49. Faraj Aujali - Benghazi
50. Mohammed Aujali - Benghazi
51. Nasser Al-tar - Benghazi
52. Imad Al Shaibani - Benghazi
53. Support Boukran - Benghazi
54. Tawfiq Almqhob - Benghazi
55. Abdallah Azouz - dirt
56. Farouk Altarhuni - Benghazi
57. Ahmed Said - Tobruk
58. Salam Marian - Tobruk
59. Abbas warming - Tobruk
60. Essam Omar bellies - dirt
61. Hatem Abdel Salam Ahmed - dirt
62. Hamdi Abdul Rahman Mansour - dirt
63. Masoud Musa Altarhuni - Benghazi
64. SE Badr - dirt
65. Mahmoud coastal - Benghazi
66. Coastal Khaled - Benghazi
67. SE Nayhoum - Benghazi
68. Mohammed Abdul Karim Drissi - Benghazi
69. Ali Khafifi - Benghazi
70. Successful Makhlouf - Benghazi
71. Abdullah Jehani - Benghazi
72. Osama Abdel Salam Almsheeti - Benghazi
73. Mguetah Nico - dirt
74. Hamza Ashaba - Benghazi
75. Ali Alillaa - Benghazi
76. Mohammed Dawi - dirt
77. Abdel Moneim Al-Ghazali - Benghazi
78. Omar Mami - Benghazi
79. Radwan Ali Alhsada - dirt
80. Agfer Mansour Alhsada - dirt
81. Salah Abdel-Sayyed - dirt
82. Hashim Alchloi - dirt
83. Abdullah Abel - dirt
84. Abdul Baset poetic - dirt
85. Galal Osman Bashir - Benghazi
86. Ramadan Abdullah Bin Omran - dirt
87. Hatem Gomaa Acroh d - dirt
88. Mohamed Moncef Alaclai - dirt
89. Fadel Shahat Friendship - dirt
90. Issam Hanib - dirt
91. Osama al-Zaidi - Benghazi
92. Key Ghuwayl - dirt
93. Mohamed Aoun, Milad - dirt
94. Rami Hussein - Benghazi
95. Joseph Safarx - dirt
96. Mr. Bernah - dirt
97. Belaid, Abdel-Sayyed - dirt
98. Nasser Gabes - dirt
99. Hussain Saeed Mohammed - Benghazi
100. Abdulkadir Ali Al Hashimi - Benghazi
101. Fathallah Khafifi - Benghazi
102. Nabil Hasnawi - Benghazi
103. Walid Warfali - Benghazi
104. Khaled al-Sharif - Benghazi
105. Motasem Ashour Sharif - Benghazi
106. Lafi Mahdi Alsukna - Alqzeron
107. Doma Zayed Ali – Alqtron
A military source: The number of battalions who have been involved in the fighting in Brega had reached to 6000 troops at one point whome of which only 1000 are left now and those are being attacked by FF on the way to Serte
مصدر عسكري : عدد أفراد الكتائب الذين زج بهم الزاحف الأوحد في البريقة وصل إلى 6000جندي و لم يتبق منهم الآن سوى 1000جندي و بعض المتطوعين و هم الذين يهاجمهم الثوار الآن على الطريق باتجاه سرت ( لا حول و لا قوة إلا بالله قريب 5000من عيالهم ماتو في سبيل الشيطان القذافي
Clashes took place earlier today between FF and the Qaddafi's battalion located in Ras Ijdeer
Al-Arabiyah TV Source: FFs control the city of Gadames on the Libyan - Algeria
مصادر العربية: الثوار يسيطرون على مدينة غدامس على الحدود الليبية الجزائرية
Amnesty International
Both sides to the ongoing conflict in Libya must ensure that detainees in their custody are not tortured or otherwise ill-treated Amnesty International said today. The call followed reports from Amnesty International’s delegation in Libya on Tuesday, which has gathered powerful testimonies from survivors of abuse at the hands of both pro-Gaddafi soldiers and rebel forces, in and around the town of Az-Zawiya.
Mohammad
Video: FF sailing toward #Tripoli, Date: 20 Aug 2011 goo.gl/hB2IP That is the spirit! #feb17 #libya
Reuters
Italy has proof that Muammar Gaddafi planned to turn its tiny island of Lampedusa into an “inferno” by sending thousands of desperate African migrants there by boat, Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said. “We have terrible messages (in our possession) and they will be made public soon,” Frattini said in an interview with Avvenire, the Italian bishops’ newspaper.
“We have proof of orders given by Gaddafi’s government to transform Lampedusa into an inferno: ‘Put thousands of desperate people on boats and throw the island into chaos.’ We have proof and we can’t ignore it.”
ثوار ليبيا طريق البحر طرابلس Libya Tripoli/ 2011.08.20 The process of landing the rebels in Tripoli by sea, the bride Tripoli 20. 8. 2011.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK0yT9r5gQ8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Does Libya Video Finally Reveal How to Spell Gadhafi’s Name http://www.theblaze.com/stories/does-libya-video-finally-reveal-how-to-spell-qaddafis-khadafys-gadhafis-name/ via @theblaze
ProudLibyan
The other challenge is finding Gaddafi/sons, just as long they R still out there, they will influence goons to continue to kill
AJELive AJELive
Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr in #Tripoli: The hunt for Gaddafi is continuing, though it's unknown if he's still in #Libya's capital
Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr in #Tripoli: Rebels faced "stiff resistance" in Abu Salim, but now have control of the Tripoli neighbourhood.
Mohammad
In #Benghazi a 14 year old girl will see her father tonight for the first time in her life.He was freed from abu sleem prison by FF!
libyanandproud
RassIjdayr border crossing now in Freedom Fighter control . Note : Road between RassIjdayr and Zolton is Still G controlled.
Please listen to the audio.
BBC
Groups of dead bodies found in Tripoli
Rebel fighters are continuing their struggle to secure Tripoli against forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi.
Sidney Kwiram, from the campaign group Human Rights Watch, said she found
groups of dead bodies near Col Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound and evidence of executions in the capital.
"What we're looking at is a scene in Tripoli right now where we are finding groups of bodies, dead [sic] and some kinds of executions," she said.
"Obviously there is a lot of fighting as well so we can't rule that out as a possibility in some of these cases which is why it is important to look at the wounds and talk to witnesses to figure out exactly what's going on."
Audio:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14680857
KhiriaE:
Libyans! We have to start working on our money and make it look like something like this: #Libya #Feb17 pic.twitter.com/XS6Zcp4"
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya EXCLUSIVE: Retreating #Gaddafi forces massacre detainees at two sites - Washington Times: wtim.es/n0AG7S
MUST READ:
Washington Times
EXCLUSIVE: Retreating Gadhafi forces massacre detainees at two sites Troops loyal to longtime Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi massacred more than 180 prisoners at two locations south of Tripoli this week, according to eyewitnesses and a survivor.
Eyewitnesses and a survivor told The Washington Times that pro-Gadhafi troops lobbed grenades and shot the prisoners.
A day earlier, at another site in a military camp in Khilit al-Ferjan in southwestern Tripoli, guards lobbed grenades at around 200 prisoners. Eyewitnesses said 182 people had died in that incident.
Please read full art.:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/26/gadhafi-forces-massacre-detainees-two-sites/#.TlfsTHc9SiM.twitter
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya conflicts - Gaddafi regime atrocities revealed youtube.com/watch?v=AVovA_… by John Simpson from #Tripoli
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Assaba: Reports clashes between #Freedomfighters and #Gaddafi filth have continued as of this afternoon.
4Adam Adam
[Map] The situation in west Libya as of Aug. 26th, 2011 - 1800GMT twitpic.com/6bky27/full #Tripoli #Libya #Feb17
WMCLibya WMCLibya
The @WMCLibya team has just left #London en route to #Tripoli, we wish them best of luck with delivering medical aid, pics 2 follow #Libya
http://youtu.be/bsbjsYsz1Qw @WMCLibya 's very own Ghassan Atiga speaks to #BBCNews about tomorrows convoy of medical aid to #Tripoli #Libya
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Filipinos coming home from Libya happy and sad globalnation.inquirer.net/10503/filipino…
Tribulusterr Brunnan de Coucy
At #Tripoli Central Hospital, report on how doctors prepared f regime fall: nyti.ms/mT0NMQ - by NYT's David Kirkpatrick, Kareem Fahim
sarasidnerCNN Sara Sidner
Tripoli has gone dark. Lights out across the city.
hominoid555 whitewakbar
The arrival of the ship with 500 tons of food at the port of Tripoli given by the State of Qatar, they are on the right side of history !
Ghamal
EVERYBODY LOVES QATAR THEY DID A WONDERFUL JOB!!!!!!!
SO MUCH SUPPORT AND HELP FROM THEM:)
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
THANK U for all the msgs!!! Appreciating freedom &what life has to offer.. but thinking of many Libyan friends still in #Tripoli #Libya
BBCBarbaraPlett Barbara Plett
#Britain is seeking #UN approval to release about 1 billion pounds in frozen #Libya funds to meet urgent humanitarian needs
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
A big thank you to @icrc for evacuating us from the #Rixos - those guys went over & beyond their job description!
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Zuma of #SA nothing but a fat, filthy criminal pig, owes everything he has to war criminal #Gaddafi. Treat him as the pig he is.
librev2011
by hominoid555
BREAKING: #RasEjdir gate on Libyan-Tunisia border is free #Libya عاجل تم تحرير بوابة رأس اجدير
Q:
Source? Not doubting, but G-forces keep launching counter attacks!
A:
Direct source sent me an sms, called him now, and he got informed by Zwara military council ;-) Confirmed
Wonderful, thx:)
Mohammad
I love this report! #Tripoli residents visit Aysha #Gaddafi luxurious house! See for ur self youtube.com/watch?v=GnDS9B… #feb17 #libya Heheheehehe
or:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnDS9BOgozg&feature=player_embedded
Jade
What are they thinking at the BBC? Their reporting is unbelievable, I didn't know they could be so untrustworthy! And btw, that is an understatement.
Anthony
BBC reporting is unacceptable!
septimius_sever septimius severus
Great work #BBC with ur unbiassed " #Libya experts", if its not Abdelbari Atwan its Nabila Ramadani ... are they on shifts or something?
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Still stuck at Ras Lanuf. FF line has not moved at all since yesterday.
At Ras Lanuf checkpoint with 20 #FF soldiers watching AJA on at tiny TV. They keep cheering the reports of FF victories.
Le Parisien reporting: 'Gaddafi has been located in #Sirte according to French Presidents office.'
Ambulances coming back from the front line now at speed. trying to find out what happened
Alex
#Libya refused admission 2 African Dictators Club - by SA's own #Mugabe - ex rape & corruption indictee #Zuma - BOO F**k*N HOO! #Tripoli #AU
AJELive AJELive
Al Jazeera's Scott Heidler in #Benghazi: Tripoli "murky" - hard to tell how many Gaddafi loyalists remain in #Libya's capital
DerekStoffelCBC Derek Stoffel
Also shortages of bottled water, fresh fruit, cooking oil and gasoline. One woman tells me she is not worried, "it's the price of freedom."
Benghazi : Freedom SQ - Si si Mr. Sarkozy ya quand même des gens qui vous aime. OnlyInLibya
http://twitpic.com/6bfv4m
Aeryon Scout UAV in use with the Libyan Rebels While NATO countries fly unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) high above Libya, none of these UAVs, or the vital intelligence they provide, was available to the Libyans fighting
to free their country -- they were fighting blind. So, they got one of their own. The Libyan rebels have been using the Aeryon Scout Micro UAV to acquire intelligence on enemy positions and to coordinate their resistance efforts. This video gives sample photos and video from both the Scout's daylight and thermal payloads.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uox3E0dEvB8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
danieljerivers Dan Rivers
no power and no water in Tripoli tonight. Gaddafi's forces seem to have been pushed out of Abu Salim area. We visited prison there ...grim.
LibyaNewMedia
There are still pockets of Gaddafi forces at road east of border crossing, so Tunisia-Tripoli road not safe yet.
evanchill Evan Hill
Most of #Tripoli appears to be undergoing a blackout tonight. Our hotel flickers in and out.
Tasbeeh شرقاوية
If you wanna talk orientalism... Why are all Western news outlets so preoccupied w/ perpetuating #Libya's tribal war fallacy?
THIS IS A MUST READ:
The short life and cruel death of Libyan freedom fighter Izz al-Arab Matar My cousin Izz al-Arab Matar, a 22-year-old final-year student in engineering, was shot in Bab al-Aziziya, Muammar Gaddafi's fortified compound in Tripoli, at 4.30pm on Tuesday 23 August 2011.
Every time his mother would ask him not to leave. He would reply by jokingly quoting
from Gaddafi's defiant, savage speech, made a few days after the rebellion began: "Forward, forward."
She once asked him: "Forward until when? When will you stop fighting?"
"When we reach Bab al-Aziziya," he told her.
Please read full article here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2011/aug/26/libya-death-izz-al-arab-matar
TRIPOLI:
BREAKING: AJA: FF have full control of #Tripoli
Alex
#Libya #NTC “constitutional charter is impressive in scope, aspirations & detail – including 37 articles on rights, freedoms & governance”.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/18cb7f14-ce3c-11e0-99ec-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1WAYoPbHR
"Imagine the #UN did not vote to authorize the use of force in #Libya in March. #Nato did nothing; Colonel #Muammer #Gaddafi over-ran #Benghazi; the #US stood by; the #Libyan opposition was reduced to sporadic uprisings, quickly crushed.
The regimes in #Yemen and #Syria took note, and put down their own uprisings with greater vigour.
The west let brutality and oppression triumph again in the Middle East.
This is the scenario many wise heads were effectively arguing for with their strong stands against intervention to stop Col Gaddafi."
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/18cb7f14-ce3c-11e0-99ec-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1WAZybJr8
Hisham Matar, Author
Libyan revolution has made democracy real and tangible idea, says novelist gu.com/p/3xfjp/tw via @guardian
LPC #Tripoli: Power outages widespread today in Tripoli [FYI: This will again influence ability to place calls into city.]
Tasbeeh شرقاوية
News networks deign to bring Libyans to speak for themselves, instd choose "experts" who'll perpetuate "tribal war" bs.
K_H_Jordan Keith Jordan
"What we need now is free speech and free thought." gu.com/p/3xfkn/tw Guardian article on Tripoli people's desires for #Libya
Telegraph
Libya: bodies found at emergency hospital in Tripoli Numerous bodies have been found inside and outside an emergency hospital in central Tripoli. Video:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8726164/Libya-bodies-found-at-emergency-hospital-in-Tripoli.html
libyanandproud
#Tripoli : Qasr BenGhasheer is still being shelled and controlled by #Gaddafi forces.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
#UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will speak to the press on #Libya in 5 minutes at 4:00p.m. EST (Live on Ch. 2).
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI FF got head shot #BabalAzizyah below left Ear Yesterday Friend took him 2 #London via #Tunisia Today he heard he will b fine #Libya
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
#Brega crude oil tank on Fire. Pro-Gads ignited it as they retreated. No time for FF to put it out while fighting. pic.twitter.com/mEpafxO
mattholehouse
French believe Gaddafi in #Sirte; Cameron and Sarkozy plan visit to #Misurata and #Benghazi, Le Parisien report #libya
alextomo alex thomson
#c4news #Libya. Abu Salim hosp - some of the worst things I ever saw - untransmittable horror
Filmed last injured screaming as Red X evacuated...
Piles of rotting people outside, inside, in corridors, offices -all over
Got fighter to shoot off door if basement - stuffed with bodies from previous fighting
Whole place filled with stench, flies and maggots all over the abandoned hospital. Not very good really.
Most fighting age males but 2 women, 3 children at least. Counted 78 bodies here.
Gimme an hour and we'll have Abu Salim online 4 u at channel4.com/news #c4news. #Libya
50 or so bodies on ground floor and heaped outside entrance are from A Salim fighting
At least another 30 rotting in basement are from previous fighting said doc
My blog on Abu Salim Hospital but be warned it's not that uplifting http://bit.ly/9EX8Lm
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
#NATO planes flying over #tripoli now, I see tracers in sky. Heavy machnegun. No electricity. Dont know what is happenning out there.
Alex
"The strategic interest in helping the #Libya n opposition came from supporting democracy and human rights, but also being seen to live up to those values by the 60 per cent majority of Middle Eastern populations who are under 30 and increasingly determined to hold their governments to account.
This value-based argument was inextricable from the interest-based argument.
So enough with the accusations of bleeding heart liberals seeking to intervene for strictly moral reasons."
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/18cb7f14-ce3c-11e0-99ec-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1WAb1tBZi
Mopping up op - is proceeding well- #Tripoli is about 95% liberated - #Ajeilat free again - #Sirte under pressure - WE R ALMOST THERE #Libya
#Condi to #Muammar "Drop dead dreamer - I don't dig dictators" #Gaddafi #Libya
DOCKED:
Sarah LFFR
Direct source : A boat carrying ~200 prisoner released from #AbuSleem prison just docked in #Benghazi . Most of them are from #Derna #Libya
SkyNewsBreak:
Sky Correspondent: Celebratory gunfire in Tripoli after restoration of electricity” Thanks to #Misrata technicians
Emo
Almost confirmed. FFs have liberated #Ajeilat from G filth. Some jubilation going on.
libyanandproud
#Tripoli : Local councils are creating hotlines !
hominoid555 whitewakbar
RAS AJDEER the handover of the terminal was in a peaceful manner a number of G troops gave up to FFs while some others fled to the sea Nalut
FunGuerillaz
I'm hearing reports about 'executions by both sides' (also on AJE). It is important to know that I have so far not seen a single confirmed instance of this perpetrated by the FFs in Tripoli. The one instance that has been mentioned (I think at the Bab) were most probably regime soldiers / loyalists / mercenaries unwilling to fight on that were executed by their own side. Remember, the same happened at the Katiba in Benghazi and in a number of other instances (and have thus been reported) while we always see regime forces being driven away as prisoners of war. I'm not going to say that nothing criminal ever happened on behalf of the FFs but by and large, there seems
to be a HUGE difference between the way the regime treats its enemies & how the FFs threat theirs. This can also be seen in the treatment of the dead by either side. The regime lets the dead disappear or rot, the FFs bury them properly (even the
enemy).
Again: The press needs to report more carefully on these instances of alleged executions by the FFs instead of just creating rumours.
According to the press, Tripoli is descending into chaos & anarchy. Sounds better U know. #WhoCaresAboutTheTruthIfYouCanTellAStory
The most mind-boggling thing about the poor journalism we see is that it's not bad will or sloppiness but rather that many journalists
seem to be in love with a certain storyline that has a narrative & follows its own (predefined) dramaturgy
instead of investigating & questioning their own preconceptions, many journalists just follow the predefined script of their storyline
and of course they often just copy-paste 'facts' or whole narratives from their colleagues (like 'rag-tag rebels', 'civil war' etc.).
Most importantly many journalist are not stationary but are just being flown in 4 the breaking event. So of course they don't know jack..
when they arrive on scene and just improvise it without any pre-existing deeper knowledge of the country and situation they report on
So they are in a huge city & see a gunfight in their area and conclude that the whole city still is a war zone just because they lack.
oversight. I'm telling you, most journalists are like ignorant package tourists that only read a travel guide once their on place.
O.K. Rant over
robcrilly Rob Crilly
Was getting 1.55 dinars to the dollar. Then US says it is releasing $1.5bn in frozen Libyan assets. Now 1.29 dinars. Economics in action
Via Septimius severus
People of #Tripoli pick up the pieces - Africa - Al Jazeera English http://english.aljazeera.net//news/africa/2011/08/2011826153127184768.html via @ajenglish
'Oh, freedom!' cry Libyans in #Tripoli - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: trib.me/rhFNQn#.TlgEfR… via @AddThis
C4NForeign Sarah Corp
Local checkpoint near our #Tripoli office now manned by a blue flashing light police car (covered in Feb17 graffiti of course though)
FromJoanne Joanne
Lest 1 Forgets Who = the Rapist of #Libya Listen to the woman who calls herself "Libya " an ExNun Gaddafi ' s Bodyguard goo.gl/Tjyca
#Tripoli I am in tears now youtube.com/watch?v=6IRPyv… Parents find 10 yr old son in hospital after 5 days missing #Libya #HappyEnding
OmarAmer AlBarghathi
Prayers for Abdulrahman al keesh, an airline pilot who was fighting at bab al azizia and shot in the head. He is doing well now in London
LPC #Tripoli: Shortages of food, medecine also reported at the Orphanage for the Abu Hrieda District.
Representative from the military council, #Bilhaj press conference on AJA announces the complete liberation of #Tripoli.
Alex
On #Gaddafi prisoners found killed in #Tripoli with hands bound - Don't rush 2 judgement @amnesty - most likely executed by Regime hardliners - for refusing to keep fighting.
To date there has been no probative evidence of any 'rebel' executions - whereas #Gaddafi executions of 'rebel' prisoners & his own hands bound troops refusing to commit war crimes - has been documented since the early days of the #Benghazi uprising:
EVIDENCE:
"GRAPHIC: Footage of soldiers executed by Gaddafi forces for refusing to shoot protesters:"
http://www.libyafeb17.com/2011/03/graphic-footage-of-soldiers-executed-by-gaddafi-forces-for-refusing-to-shoot-protesters/
"Executed by Gaddafi's forces" [Countless dead with hands bound]#Libya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMJZkKJlViA&has_verified=1&skipcontrinter=1
"Gaddafi forces killed prisoners, says Amnesty"
http://english.libya.tv/2011/08/26/gaddafi-forces-killed-prisoners-says-amnesty/
Aljazeera
Al Jazeera English TV reporting crews covering the Libyan conflict were caught up in a gun battle on Friday, as fighting broke out around Tripoli’s Corinthia Hotel where they were based.
Journalists said their rooftop location had been hit by incoming small arms fire, according to Reuters.
Rebel fighters in the area could be seen firing and maneuvering towards a block of flats opposite the hotel.
Reuters
Revolutionaries drove soldiers loyal to Muammar Gaddafi from the Ras Jdir border post with Tunisia on Friday after nightfall and hoisted the green, red and black flag, two witnesses said.
Irish Journo
Irish journalists have uncovered documents that show that Gaddafi’s adopted daughter Hana did not die in the 1986 bombing as was claimed. A room belonging to Hana Muammar Gadafy in the section of the Bab al-Azizia compound where the Gadafy family lived contained several documents that appear to indicate she grew up to study medicine in Tripoli and took English classes at the British Council in the Libyan capital.
English libya TV
Gaddafi forces killed prisoners, says Amnesty Amnesty International said today it had uncovered evidence that Muammar Gaddafi’s forces killed several detainees being held at two camps in Tripoli.
It said eyewitness testimony from escaped prisoners described how Gaddafi troops used grenades and gunfire on scores of detainees at one camp this week, while guards at the other shot dead five people being held in solitary confinement.
“Loyalist forces in Libya must immediately stop such killings of captives, and both sides must commit to ensuring no harm comes to prisoners in their custody,” Amnesty said in a statement.
“Even as Colonel Gaddafi is cornered, with an International Criminal Court warrant active for his arrest on charges of crimes against humanity, his troops continue their flagrant disregard for human life and international humanitarian law.”
Amnesty noted that it is a war crime for any party to a conflict to kill or torture prisoners.
It said the first incident took place on Tuesday at a military camp in Khilit al-Ferjan in southwestern Tripoli when some 160 detainees began to flee after guards told them the gates were unlocked.
“As the detainees barged through the hangar gates, two other guards opened fire and threw five hand grenades at the group,” Amnesty said.
It was unclear how many survived, it added, but at least 23 detainees managed to escape, including four who received medical treatment at a Tripoli hospital.
The second incident took place five km (three miles) away at Qasr Ben Ghashir military camp on Wednesday when loyalist guards shot dead five prisoners being held in solitary confinement.
Former detainees later told Amnesty they had heard guards opening five of the cells before gunshots were fired shortly afterwards.
“Detainees panicked and broke out of their cells fearing they were about to be
executed. By the time they got out, the five guards on duty had fled the scene, leaving behind the five victims’ bodies,” the Amnesty statement said.
Both camps were reportedly used by the Khamis Katiba brigade, headed by Khamis Gaddafi, a son of the fallen dictator, it added.
Short URL: http://english.libya.tv/?p=10868
feb17voices Feb 17 voices
AJA Live: Abdulhakim Belhaj says: All #Tripoli's security will be consolidated under 1 military unit
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Gaddafi may not be in rebel clutches, but he is now, unquestionably, a joke: guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/… #feb17 #Libya
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Rebels have shown us mines which they say were removed from the area around a clinic in Brega
RasmusTantholdt Rasmus Tantholdt TV2
by septimius_sever
Watch the new warriors. A dentist from #Tripoli with a gun in his hand for the first time. Ready to die for freedom. nyhederne.tv2.dk/video/index/id…
Libya Front Moves to Gadhafi Town http://on.wsj.com/oSMzHI via @WSJ
4Adam Adam
#Zuwara #FF to Tunisian radio 'we took control of Ras Ijdar and the road from border to Tripoli is controlled by Anti Gaddafi forces' #Libya
After Friday prayers ppl demonstrated against Gadhafi's rule at mosque in cent Tripoli. http://twitpic.com/6bnr9o via @twitpic @4Adam
Ibn
CONFIRMED: #Pikachu has joined the revolution. #Libya #Feb17 #Pokemon yfrog.com/h0s72np
bcsolomon Ben Solomon
Small fighting still around, but #tripoli has calmed a bit. Stores have opened back up, traffic returns to the street.
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Mahdi al-Harati, the Irish-Libyan leader of main rebel unit in Tripoli, tells me he estimates it will take 6 weeks to completely clear city
bungdan Dan Murphy
Reuters article on Abdel Karim Belhadj release from jail (brokered, i think, by seif al-islam) in 2009. reuters.com/article/2009/0…
septimius_sever septimius severus
Rebels find #Gaddafi arms cache in hotel grounds | euronews, world news: bit.ly/oE17Xb #Libya
septimius_sever septimius severus
Playboy luxury of the #Gaddafis bit.ly/pItyZ8 #Tripoli #Libya (great photos)
Have a break and a smile:
Rebels Fan Across Libya Dressed as Condoleezza Rice Foolproof Plan, Rebel Commanders Say TRIPOLI (The Borowitz Report) – In an all-out effort to capture Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, rebels fanned out across the country today dressed as former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Donning bright pink pantsuits and black pumps, the fifteen thousand rebels blanketed the Middle Eastern nation, hoping to create a honey trap of sorts for Mr. Gaddafi, whose unrequited crush on Secretary Rice has come to light in recent days.
Read more:
http://www.borowitzreport.com/2011/08/26/rebels-fan-across-libya-dressed-as-condoleezza-rice/
khalid
Anyone who gives himself a title like "King of Kings of Africa" should not be allowed out of the Nut house or #babaziziya as it was called
EH
There r still isolated pockets of snipers stuck in buildings in Tripoli taking potshots at ppl
There's an air of euphoria in #Tripoli ppl seem happy. But Bo sleem area and the area behind it r still not 100% under control
Greenies use hit and run tactics, shooting at roadblocks in #Tripoli
We caught 2 mercs in bin Ashur #tripoli yesterday, unarmed but when searched we found 2 bullets in there bag
A lot of areas of #tripoli don't have any power, petrol costs 140 dinar for 20 litres
20 litres cost 45 dinar in #zintan & 50 dinars in #Yefren it increased in price when the
tunis border closed
#NATO has been hitting the outskirts of #tripoli earlier in the evening, around 3'alit alforgan #Libya
bin Ashur is completely under FF control. Shara3 binashur, jraba, dol all have multpile checkpoints. All locals
there r hundreds of captured mercs in an undisclosed location ;-) in #Tripoli
water is cut off in bin Ashur, gorgi, gharghour(personally)I heard rumors of poisoning
most #tripoli neighborhoods have roadblocks. Guns everywhere, but FF mostly polite when searching cars
FF r not allowed to take any weapons from one area to another except with a FF ID
Went to bab alaziziya, Senossi house & gaddafi house in gargour. Loads of looting, but papers left untouched
Freedom Fighter
Tajura's FFs found a guy with a bomb was going to Murad Agha mosquo. he is secured. Do you understand how bloody is this regime?
Power is back! 11:50pm the entire area around me screamed Allah is the greatest when it came!
Abdussalam Jalloud, please shut the $&@# up and leave libya in peace.
I don't like it and i believe this is wasted ammunition but this is how they celebrate on 23rd http://twitvid.com/RLRRW
During the past months we used to fill the back of the car with supplies whenever we had money and fuel http://twitpic.com/6bo2tu
We used to play football at the evening infront of my house to kill some time during the past months http://twitpic.com/6bo46i
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
compared to the artillery that was pounding the #tripoli airport since we got here monday, tonight has been pretty quiet so far...
MORE SCARE TACTICS:
Libiya_min_Hollanda calls family in Gaser Ben Gashir and tweets:
Ppl pls help me my relatives are screaming on the phone rockets falling om them gunfire everywhere pls help !!!!!!!!!!!and heard in my aunts farm all woman and childeren screaming and running!!!!!
Later in the day we found out:
Guys it was a tape we called after that 2 times we heard the same screaming........
my causin just called us and said they didnt scream or anything and that they didnt reseave any call from us
It looks like G regime is doing this 2 scare ppl or something, if i hear it again I will record.
JeffreyKofman Jeffrey Kofman
It's 1 a.m. in Tripoli and the fireworks haven't stopped all nite. O wait. Those r guns & mortars. Kids firing them 4 fun. Gun amnesty time?
Still no running water in much of Tripoli. Power is intermittent. Send civil & electrical engineers fast!
Our driver, 25, tells me until now has made living smuggling Libyan gas 2 Tunisia. Very dangerous, illegal. Has accountg degree. But no jobs
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Been told Sheikh Ali Salabi,an influential Doha-based Libyan cleric, is now in Tripoli. If anyone is spiritual guide of revolution, it's him
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Reports that Yusuf #Shakeer, host of Libyan State TV, has set up a private TV Channel in Bani Walid that can currently be seen in
New Republic: Liberation Not Just A Libyan Victory http://bit.ly/pJ8QAd
Omar
The aircraft at Tripoli International have now been moved to a safer part of the airport thank god.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Tripoli Airport Video: Libyan Airlines A300 burning disintegrates youtube.com/watch?v=mgWdxb… #Libya #Tripoli
AND HERE WE GO AGAIN, CNN SCAREMONGERING WITHOUT ANY PROOF:
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Very Dubious report by @CNN Pro-al Qaeda militants among prisoners freed from Libyan jail goo.gl/qmcN3 #doyourresearch
Noit
We expected more investigative reporting from Nic Robertson and Paul Cruickshank, CNN.
Get the facts straight in the future, please!
HRW constantly accompanied by government minders, was not given free access to all prisons.
The government minders decided where HRW could visit AND to whom they could talk!
HRW asked G regime who the prisoners were, so G regime told them what they thought would scare HRW and the West.
Let's throw in some Al Qaeda lies, that will make the West afraid too, pepper it with extreem Islamists and voila: a CNN report, as the above one, appears.
Typical G scare tactics, surprises me that Nic fell for that one, shame on you for this article!
NickClarkAlJaz Nick Clark
#LIBYA REBEL GROUPS HAVE BEEN MERGED UNDER THE COMMAND OF THE REBEL MILITARY COUNCIL - TOP REBEL COMMANDER IN TRIPOLI REUTERS
LibyaAlHurraTV LibyaAlHurra
Syrians take to the streets to congratulate Libya - security forces respond by shooting / killing protestors
bbcnewsworld BBC news world
VIDEO: Nato aids Sirtre rebel offensive: British Tornado jets fired precision-guided missiles at a large bunker ... bbc.in/mXm0Zx
SUMMARY AUGUST 27th 2011
8/27/11
8.27.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya - goo.gl/N1xIW
MUST READ:
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
The neighbour’s wall has had a recent makeover, with the new flag – the pre-Gaddafi monarchy flag – painted on it, and a message stating that “Libya is Free”.
Six nights ago, that would have been white-washed by the state and many a home would have been raided to track down “the rat” who did it.
I have been reporting for the BBC from Libya for seven long years, but have been “off air” for six, much slower, months.
BBC News: 'Tripoli witness' recounts life in hiding: goo.gl/3ICw1
A Tribute to #Libya, a poem by #Ray #Butler an ex-505 squadron, South African Air Force http://goo.gl/8Alsy
The Times: #Libya: tribe pledges to arrest culprits it believes were behind murder of opposition military commander http://goo.gl/uqTCP
AI: #Libya: Detainees Killed by Al-Gaddafi Loyalists http://goo.gl/5DZdN
Guardian: #Gaddafi's desperate bid to save regime revealed http://goo.gl/hzOVE
Independent: Watch out for looted Libyan artefacts, UN warns auction houses http://goo.gl/X69Ew
Telegraph: Libya: Man suspected of killing Pc #Yvonne #Fletcher identified http://goo.gl/5Y6bA
Libyans find freedom at Moammar #Gaddafi’s Abu Salim prison in #Tripoli http://goo.gl/LnF8p
AliveinLibya: http://goo.gl/er2Vg (translation found in the description)
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
TOTAL BS: Dictator's wife and daughter flee to Europe to claim asylum thisislondon.co.uk/standard/artic… Can we say ICC Warrants for both?
Now that most of the fighting is over & the work of building a nation is started I wonder, am I the only one feeling kind of strange?
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
#Misrata FF caught 12 of ousted tyrant's soldiers, heading2 BaniWalid from #Sirte, on recon mission, in bus full of small arms&ammo #Libya
#Freedomfighters now in complete control of #Tarhouna, city free of #Gaddafi forces. #Libya #Feb17
Rowley
5 #Misrata #Freedomfighters were slightly wounded near #Madjer, after bombing by remnants of #Gaddafi's brigades near #BaniWalid #Libya
#Misrata engineers trying to connect Internet, & reconnect #Misrata to #Tripoli & rest of world. Wires were cut during fighting.
#London Evening Standard report Aisha & Safia #Gaddafi sounds fishy. Out of #Libya 2 months? Arent all #EU countries answerable to ICC?
That whole story is off. No way Aisha and Safia out of Tripoli for 2 months + all #EU countries would have to honor warrants
Libya & Libyans can count on me for anything
I'll be here, watching & trying to help Libya in any way I can, Twitter & real world both
SecularLibya
According to Heinz, 1- gold & Euro stashed by G at airport, 2- gasoline & diesel that the GF's need to escape.
AJE: Jamal Elshayyal reports from Tripoli on Friday's events A street-by-street rebel onslaught has pushed the remnants of Muammar Gaddafi's army to the southern outskirts of the Tripoli, securing nearly all of the capital and closing in on victory.
Al Jazeera's Jamal Elshayyal reports from Tripoli on Friday's events
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jih79jcXGck
Maze of bunkers holds essentials - and Versace outfits http://goo.gl/DFpMY
AJE: AU refrains from recognising #Libya's NTC http://goo.gl/xmK2T
Aljazeera
AJE: Fighting continues in Libya's capital
Libya's rebels say they are close to fully controlling Tripoli but there is still no sign of their prime target, Muammar Gaddafi.
Security remains the most pressing concern as the National Transitional Council is ordering all rebels to join one, united national army.
But for now, the capital is littered with the casualties of the conflict- and families left with nowhere to live.
Al Jazeera's Sue Turton reports from Tripoli.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mluoidSpOso
4Adam Adam
Detainees in Abu Salim prison gain freedom as Libyan leader they opposed remains on the run. english.aljazeera.net/video/africa/2… #Benghazi #Libya #Tripoli
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
UK announces release of 3.4 Billion Euros in frozen assets to the Free Libyan people #libya #uk
Malaysia recognises the National Council as a representative of the Free Libyan people
How far the #Libyan people have come. This was released Feb5 by malik L when revolution was just a dream http://goo.gl/mwFtW
#Libya: The hunt for #Gaddafi-live blog goo.gl/qgpwi #feb17
#Libyan author Hisham Matar discusses how revolution made democracy a real and tangible idea. goo.gl/vTefY #feb17
Libya_Awake_United
Water supply is a major problem in some neighborhoods in #tripoli ... If you have a drinkable well water share it today.
Fethon
As a westerner I'm extremely happy you got rid off the despot and taking charge of your destiny
Triplino
Alantisar ship arrived today at #Tripoli port caring medical aid ,to anyone who is wondering if it's ok 2 send anything by port , yes it is
LibyaTT Libya Telecom
jeedar.com/33.png نرجو الاستخدام كخلفية لسطح المكتب
Tweeting Tripoli
Phone call from Benghazi: A large group of Benghazi Werfalla armed and angry, just left to liberate Bani Walid.
Mike
From The Telegraph: #Gaddafi's regime was planning to proclaim him King of #Libya once its forces had gained the upper hand, documents show
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Ramadam on eastern front. Many FF are drinking water in daytime as they are running around fighting a war in the desert in August. sensible.
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Libya: Man suspected of killing Pc Yvonne Fletcher identified tgr.ph/oBe2xz
Mike
Scotland Yard plans to send officers to #Libya as the The Daily Telegraph names the suspected killer of WPc Yvonne Fletcher 27 yr ago
ROFL:
Mike
Ride the Ghost Train thru #Tripoli tunnels - Don't miss the Saadi loop. After that you'll be so confused you won't know what sex you are
SecularLibya MargBar Khamenei
Huge #Misrata FF convoy entering and liberating #Tarhuna 2011-8-23. #Libya #Feb17 youtube.com/watch?v=5fDlhN…
Tweeting Tripoli
BaniWalid next. I shouldn't be surprised if they caught many high profile fugitives there.
A young saif Al-Islam, who said he was brought up a civilian? http://pic.twitter.com/bfPUfgT
You see we had two Shafshofas. Abo-Shafshoofa & Om-Shafshoofa. http://pic.twitter.com/4iBiUpN
My son made a straw flag for his toy soldier, he said this is the new Libyan soldier. http://pic.twitter.com/y9u8XEC
Well, he used his dad's computer and printer. But he asked first ;)
Note to NTC, please hurry make celebratory gun fire illegal. People will feel safer that way.
What goes up must come down, that specifically applies to bullets. Stop celebratory gun fire. It is also a waste of Ammo.
Tweeting Tripoli
Our car 3 months ago, when Gaddafi state-TV announced fake taking over of Benghazi. Goons celebratory fire aftermathl. pic.twitter.com/yxvnVFw
LIBYA TRIPOLI
Reports coming from #Tripoli saying that TV & Radio in #Tripoli will operate tomorrow. No more #Gaddafi TV (Ganfood). #Libya
Souffian Tripoli
We r now in a transition phase from freeing to protecting #libya this can be turbulent We have to stay alert! And protect what we struggle4
To Ban Ki-moon: we we have enough police force. We only need time to get rid of the terrorist rebels (Gaddafi & Thugs). http://www.skynews.com.au/world/article.aspx?id=654847&vId=
Did you know NATO pilots wore Libyan independence flag over their shoulders? Touching! http://pic.twitter.com/5DrMgPl
Freedom Fighter
your support and concern were like a light to me when i got cut off from u all and lived in the dark for months. I can't thank you enough!
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Six armored Mercedes cars enter #Algeria from #Libya
Teresa
Ok! 1st Convoy Joke..So in America,A Run for the Border is Taco Bells actual slogan,But with 6 mercedes,THATS A BEER RUN!
Merry
So happy to read of victory you have all achieved and to find you eating peanut butter sandwiches. Hooray for good people!!!
KOSOVO has officially recognised NTC as solely representative of Lybian people/asking estabilishing diplomatic relations
DerekStoffelCBC Derek Stoffel
We're hearing that the NTC is working on fixing water and electrical issues in #Tripoli. In contact with a water expert who's hard at work.
Freedom Fighter
I LIBYA !
CNN Video: Ex-prisoners, including Matthew Van Dyke, return to Libya's fearsome Abu Salim prison http://bit.ly/pljzLO #libya
Survivor tells of mass killing, hardest evidence yet of Gaddafi War Crimes http://bit.ly/oTbmJv #libya
Reuters
A convoy of six Mercedes cars have crossed from Libya into Algeria, Egypt’s state MENA news agency reported on Saturday, quoting a rebel source.
It was impossible to verify the report and it was not immediately clear who might have been in any convoy, but MENA quoted the source as speculating that senior Libyan officials or Muammar Gaddafi himself and his sons may have fled the country.
“It is believed that these vehicles were carrying senior Libyan officials, and possibly Gaddafi and his sons,” MENA quoted the source as saying.
Algerian officials were not immediately reachable for comment.
Reuters
Reuters has reported that rebels took control of the Ras Jdir border post on Loibya’s frontier with Tunisia on Friday, after clashes with soldiers loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.
Fighters hoisted the green, red and black rebel flag over official buildings at the crossing, which lies along a key coastal resupply route from Tunisia to Tripoli.
“We can see the flag,” a local resident Fathi Chandol said.
Aljazeera
Riad Kahwaji, security analyst and founder of the Institute for Near East & Gulf Military Analysis, told Al Jazeera:
“As far as the control on the ground it is mostly in favour of the rebels only two strongholds Sirte and Saba are not under their control, and both are very much besieged.”
“The role of the rebels now is to really organise themselves and pinpoint the locations of Gaddafi forces to get them to surrender.”
NATO
The AFP news agency reports that NATO is keeping up pressure on Muammar Gaddafi forces in the Libyan leader’s hometown of Sirte, bombing 15 vehicles and four other ground targets in the last 24 hours, the alliance said.
As rebels prepared to launch an offensive on the town, NATO said in its daily operational update that it had destroyed 11 vehicles mounted with weapons, three logistic military vehicles and one armoured fighting vehicle.
It also struck two military shelters, a military observation point and a military engineer asset in Sirte, 360 km east of Tripoli.
The strikes follow a bombing raid by British warplanes against a large headquarters bunker in Sirte late Thursday.
Aljazeera
There has been fighting in the oil port of Ras Lanuf, with reports of pro-Gaddafi snipers based in the town, which is slowing and hindering the ability of rebel fighters to mover further. Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reporting from the Ras Lanuf said: ”It is a hard fought battle in Ras Lanuf, but it is not over yet.”
However, negotiations between rebel fighters and pro-Gaddafi fighters are taking place as ”rebels say they are very keen to end the conflict without any more bloodshed, as for as their concerned for Gaddafi it is game over,” Rowland said.
The rebels are still moving heavy weapons and troops forward.
One rebel colonel told Rowland, “We want the negotiations to succeed, but we are moving the weapons forward to show that if it cannot be resolved by talking it will be resolved by force.”
UK
Britain has donated £3 million to the Red Cross to spend on urgent humanitarian aid in Libya, the Department for International Development (DfID) said on Saturday.
“The aid package will help with basic services, particularly providing food for just under 700,000 people but also providing very strong medical support for 5,000 who have been wounded,” said International Development Minister Andrew Mitchell.
“We’ve seen the most terrible scenes from Tripoli hospitals and we are moving directly now to assist the International Red Cross in tackling that,” he told BBC television.
A DfID spokesman told AFP the money would be used to buy medicine and food and send teams to conflict areas in need across Libya as rebels battle to free the country from the grip of leader Moamer Kadhafi.
AP
Libyan rebels claimed victory over a suburb near Tripoli’s airport Saturday after an overnight battle as the opposition moves to solidify its hold on the capital while fighting Moammar Gadhafi loyalists in other parts of the country.
Residents of Qasr bin Ghashir, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) south of the capital, celebrated by firing guns and anti-aircraft weapons into the air and beating portraits of the toppled leader with their shoes. Regime troops had been shelling the airport from the area.
“You can say that bin Ghashir has been liberated from Gadhafi soldiers,” said Omar al-Ghuzayl, a 45-year-old rebel field commander now in charge of forces at Tripoli’s airport. “We’ve been able to push them completely outside Tripoli.”
Time
East Joins West: On a Rebel Ship to Tripoli “Everybody up!,” shouted Anwar al-Muqrayaf, a rebel commander leading about a hundred fighters from the rebel stronghold of Benghazi to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s capital of Tripoli, on a slow-chugging tugboat. “Prepare your weapons. We are heading into a battle!” His ragtag group of fighters hastily rose from mattresses laid out on the deck of the al-Sameeda, cocked their rifles, and donned their ammunition vests. Though exhausted from the 25-hour boat ride, they were eager to marshal their ranks for the final battle to topple Gaddafi.
http://feb17.info/news/east-joins-west-on-a-rebel-ship-to-tripoli/
RawyaRageh Rawya Rageh
Meeting tonight will mark 1st time #Libya's green, red, & black flag will b hoisted in the Arab League, replacing #Gaddafi's green banner
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli #TIP Overview of airport from Control Tower and Burning plane #Libya goo.gl/c3lJt
TELEPHONE Comm. #ALMadar Team ; #Misrata can call #Benghazi + VisaVersa Dial +218 9 91x Working Hard Now 2 Connect 2 #TRIPOLI #Libya
#TRIPOLI Tuesday Battle4 #BabalAzizyah Abelrahman Shot inHead 13hr drive2 #Tunisia Flight2 London @Stone_SkyNews goo.gl/c3lJt #Libya
How DID FF Take #Tripoli So Fast ? General Sir #RichardDannett Explains : http://goo.gl/eEOl1 #Libya
#Breaking #Bin Jawad has been Taken by FF ! Libya FF have been advancing from #RasLanuf #Libya @SkyNews
#Tripoli Khamis Gaddafi 32 Brigade Compound a organised MURDER Took Place on #Aug23 estimated 55 bodies counted so far #Libya #Gaddaficrimes
#Tripoli BenGashir #KhamisGaddafi 32Brigade on Aug 23 Innocent Civilians were MASSACRED bc GF heard #Nato jets & knew they had lost #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: WIMAX internet has returned
SecularLibya
Huge #Misrata FF convoy entering and liberating #Tarhuna 2011-8-23. #Libya #Feb17 youtube.com/watch?v=5fDlhN…
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Number plates of the cars in Tripoli who drive by and shoot at the civilinas of Tripoli ارقام السيارات التي تطلق... fb.me/16bfa1X0P
or:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=236848&l=4fcaf62f74&id=119666044789936
Number plates of the cars in Tripoli who drive by and shoot at the civilinas of Tripoli
ارقام السيارات التي تطلق الرصاص على الناس في طرابلس
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=236851&l=3c83420ebc&id=119666044789936
Malta based negotiations between NTC and pro Gaddafi tribes in Sirte underway in bid to avoid bloodbath
هناك مفاوضات تجري في مالطا بين المجلس الإنتقالي وشيوخ القبائل في سرت للتسليم وتفادي إراقة الدماء
Libya: Col Gaddafi was secretly plotting to make himself king القذافي كان يستعد لتنصيب نفسه ملكاً لليبيا إذا... http://fb.me/1f2NYIE5z
Malaysia recognises the Libyan National Transitional Council
ماليزيا تعترف بالمجلس الوطني الانتقالي في ليبيا
FFs tell Sky News almost all of greater Tripoli is under their control. Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar, wa lilah alhad
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Libyan assets to be unfrozen, including £1bn worth of dinar banknotes بريطانيا تبحث إمكانية الإفراج عما يساوي... fb.me/1fHMoB7b1
There has been fighting in the oil port of Ras Lanuf, with reports of pro-Gaddafi snipers based in the town, which is slowing and hindering the ability of rebel fighters to mover further. Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reporting from the Ras Lanuf said: ”It is a hard fought battle in Ras Lanuf, but it is not over yet
Reports coming from #Tripoli saying that TV & Radio in #Tripoli will operate tomorrow. No more #Gaddafi TV (Ganfood).
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Britain has donated £3 million to the Red Cross to spend on urgent humanitarian aid in Libya, the Department for... fb.me/QTFoq59k
Libyan rebels claimed victory over a suburb near Tripoli’s airport Saturday after an overnight battle as the opposition moves to solidify its hold on the capital while fighting Moammar Gadhafi loyalists in other parts of the country.Residents of Qasr bin Ghashir, about 20 miles south of the capital, celebrated by firing guns and anti-aircraft weapons into the air and beating portraits of the toppled leader with their shoes. Regime troops had been shelling the airport from the area.
RAW, LIbya, Libyan state TV presenter Hala Misrati apologizes to rebels in front of camera Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6im7t_LoR5k
BREAKING: KOSOVO has officially recognised NTC as the only representative of Libyan people/asking estabilishing diplomatic relations
http://indeksonline.net/?page=1%2C2%2C7137
TRIPOLI UPDATE:
Water is still cut in #Tripoli. will be fixed soon Insha Allah.
Reports that the TV channel in Tripoli will open tomorrow
Return_of_libya ليبيا تعــــــود
I posted 14 photos on Facebook in the album "Mo'atasem Gadafi's House منزل معتصم القردافى" fb.me/16AFN8wNY
dαηiﻉl bﻉllo
Thousands of proGadaffi fighters from Mali, Chad & Niger (Mercenaries) hired to kill Libyans were seen crossing into Niger border. #Libya
Gaddafi 'seen in Zimbabwe on Mugabe's private jet' as Libya rebels march on dictator's home town. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2030782/Gaddafi-seen-Zimbabwe-Mugabes-private-jet-Libya-rebels-march-dictators-home-town.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli #NTC is considering asking help of surrounding #arab countries to help policing #Libya
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#NTC distributes 120,000 litres of fuel in #Tripoli
NATO Attacks Pro-Gadhafi Forces Near Sirte British warplanes struck a large bunker Friday in Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte, his largest remaining stronghold, as NATO turned its attention to loyalist forces battling advancing Libyan rebels in the area. (Aug. 26)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGONKtj0h-A&feature=player_embedded
Libyan Freedom fighters claimed victory in Bin Ghashir Saturday after an overnight battle with pro-Gaddafi forces http://feb17.info/news/libya-live-unrest-august-27-2011/ #Libya
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
Water supplies and medical supplies are being promised by the NTC in the next few days.
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Still near Ras Lanuf with rebel forces, no sound of any heavy artillery this morning
Deputy Commander of Rebel forces told @Kileysky they are considering going round Sirte & surrounding it to stop Gaddafi splitting Libya in 2
Sky Correspondent Sees Mass Grave In Libya Where As Many As 150 Executed IRN | World News | Sky News http://news.sky.com/home/article/16057724
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#FF's have launched an attack on #Khamis #Gaddafi compound
Tripoli You can say that bin Ghashir has been liberated from Gadhafi soldiers," said Omar al-Ghuzayl
alextomo alex thomson
#c4news #Libya wild celebrations as rebels push last govt forces from town s of Tripoli
grafixel guess what
The events of the #Libya revolution will hopefully put most ideologies were they belong to: the trashcan of history. #ByeBye
hominoid555 whitewakbar
How Pilot Became Rebel With A Cause news.sky.com/home/video/160…
FFs are fighting for control of a key lifeline for supplies into Tripoli The road between Ras Ajdir and Tripoli is an important supply line
As search intensifies, will Gadhafi pull a Saddam ?
MachahirNews Machahir123
Reports: Qatar sending stabilisation team to fix water and electricity in Tripoli . #Libya #Qatar #Tripoli #Doha
libyanandproud
this account is Fraud -> @ MachahirNews
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
Rebels tell us Gaddafi loyalists still control town of Al Ajaylat close to vital coast highway. Rebels say going to fight for the town.
#Jalil says #NTC may consider inviting police from Arab or Muslim countries to help with security in Libya.
robcrilly Rob Crilly
Rebels say they have Bin Jawad. Also say they are fighting on eastern edge. So let's not get overexcited. Give em 24hr and see
they have claimed every town on that road as soon as their forces reach the edge. Then have taken 24hr or longer to take.
alextomo alex thomson
Our hotel taking incoming fire this afternoon. It appears one journalist injured. #c4news #libya
I witnessed two journalists lying flat out in the live position, then dragged to safety by security guard with AK47 #c4news #libya
Libya17Feb Tripoli Youth
#Tripoli - There are still some snipers in Dareq al Saree (The Highway), No one uses the road
alextomo alex thomson
#c4news see Libyan women talking and celebrating s of Tripoli 6.35 tonight
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Gaddafi's fall "interesting" independent.co.ug/cover-story/45…
Gaddafi Financed Darfur Broad-front Rebels in Uganda: Government. http://news.sudanvisiondaily.com/details.html?rsnpid=198601
danieljerivers:
Rebels claim water cut either due to lack of power at pumping station or deliberate sabotage by Gaddafi loyalists #Libya
TristanAJE:
AJE's @jackyaljaz on the outskirts of Bin Jawwad - she says the town is liberated of Gadaffi forces #Libya.
robcrilly Rob Crilly
Al jazeera reporting that rebels have taken bin Jawad. Nonsense. Utter. #libya
CNN's Dan Rivers with ex-prisoners return to Libya's fearsome Abu Salim ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g76UJ4jmNyg&feature=share via @youtube
Libya rebels take prime minister's home town, JMAYL
danieljerivers Dan Rivers
Reports of Italian journo being shot at our hotel while outside doing live cross. Gather he was hit in the leg. Grim news if true...
hominoid555 whitewakbar
US filmmaker held alone 6 months in Libya. google.com/hostednews/ap/…
Bin Jawad again under full control of FFs, reports AJE.
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#NTC arrests Emar Al Shamama, director of #Tripoli Medical Centre, allegedly tortured doctors opposing #Gaddafi regime
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Hometown ablaze, but Gaddafi may have fled country. t.co/0OxuVeT
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
Back in Zuwara now. Rebel leaders here say also they have also taken key strategic loyalist holdout Al Ajaylat.
Rebel leaders also say town of Al Zaltan on highway to Tunisia still in hands of G forces. Small but safe detour needed to reach border.
English Libya tv:
‘Mass grave’ found in Tripoli The bodies of around 53 people have been found in a warehouse in Tripoli after apparently being executed earlier this week, Britain’s Sky News reported today.
Sky News’s correspondent, Stuart Ramsay, said he had counted the bodies in a burned-out warehouse in southern Tripoli, and estimated there were 53.
“It is a scene of mass murder,” he said, reporting from the scene.
Ramsay quoted witnesses as saying that 150 people were murdered at the site on Aug. 23 and 24 as opposition forces fought to take control of Tripoli from troops loyal to leader Muammar Gaddafi.
A local resident told Sky that the victims were mostly civilians and said they had been killed by Gaddafi’s forces.
hominoid555 whitewakbar
A ship operated by a Malta-based NGO docked in Tripoli yesterday to deliver much-needed medical and food supplies to the Libyan capital.
Libyan FFs have said they were closing in on fugitive strongman Gaddafi and would merge their fighters in the capital under one command ...
Libya: a second ship of the IOM from Benghazi to Tripoli Friday. http://www.ennaharonline.com/en/international/7125.html
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
Al Jamil, town of several thousand, was controlld by G forces, threatening main highway betwn Tripoli & Tunisia border. Now in rebel hands.
In center of Al Jamil, euphoria. Rebels pumping rounds in the air celebrating their victory over Gaddafi forces.
Red Crescent blood donation campaign also in Sfax, Sousse, Gafsa, Gabes and Jendouba.
hominoid555 whitewakbar
No one answered the door Saturday at the Lockerbie bomber's Tripoli villa,hidden behind tall walls in an upscale neighborhood of the capital
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
rebels now control town & surrounding sprawling farmlands areas east of #tripoli airport, say gadhafi forces fled to tarhouna, 1.5 hrs 2 SE
residents say #gadhafi forces prevented them from leaving, were using the area 2 shell airport
they kept hearing about all the "liberated" areas, but today was the first time they could celebrate freedom
little girl was carrying paper w/rebel flag she just painted this am, paint hadnt even dried yet, old men hugging, women singing
:Disgraceful
WIKILEAKS:
Min. Shalgam and wife strip searched at JFK:
JFK Airport security allegedly mistreated Libyan UN Perm Rep & wife, put in room & subjected to "strip searches"
A visibly angry Musa Kusa summoned the Ambassador
(accompanied by P/E Chief) on October 26 to express very strong
Libyan anger, including that of the Libyan Leader, regarding the
reported treatment UN Permanent Representative Abdulrahman
Shalgam had received recently during security processing at John
F. Kennedy Airport in New York. Kusa said Shalgam and his wife
were put in a room and subjected to "strip searches and rude
behavior as if they were criminals." The trauma had affected
Shalgam's wife so deeply that, according to Kusa, she is
currently under hospital care.
Kusa called the incident unjustified and immoral:
"Morally speaking, Shalgam is a guest in your country. If he
had done something wrong or was a security threat, then that
would have been a different story. How would you like it if
your diplomats were treated by us in such a manner?" He argued
that if a high level diplomat such as Shalgam -- a former
foreign minister -- could experience such treatment by U.S.
officials, then other Libyan diplomats or average Libyan
travelers were probably facing even worse treatment. Kusa
stated that the GOL was considering withdrawing Shalgam from his
post as a result of the incident.
Read more:
http://j.mp/q7eu2d #wlfind
Sirtawi
Gaddafi's Coordinator of Social Events, Omar Shkaal, has been spreading rumors in #Sirte that Gaddafi's doing well
Shkaal's msg is being repeated/transmitted via big screen in center of #Sirte, operated by #Gaddafi loyalists
Emo
Breaking: Official: Finally #Ajeilat is liberated for real after several battles back and forth between FFs and G brigades.
National Guard troops begin deploying to NYC, LI http://on.wsj.com/ptln3V via @WSJ
shadihamid Shadi Hamid
For those who missed it, here's my NY Times piece on how #Libya could be the first "true" Arab revolution: nyti.ms/pUS8gu
Tweeting Tripoli
Gaddafi could be disguised. Be careful everybody. pic.twitter.com/0NgPlCT
THIS IS A MUST READ :
ODE TO ALEX CRAWFORD
Wonderfully put together by Alexblx:
ODE TO ALEX:
Media icon of the #Libya people’s revolution - the voice of truth & empathy - who kept the wavering west onside: @AlexCrawfordSky
http://alexblx.posterous.com/ode-to-alex
RexBrynen Rex Brynen
I can show this now its over: Jordanian personnel (political? SOF?) deplaning in Benghazi, July t.co/f2kOT13
Septimius
#Tripoli: brave euronews report on the assault on a barracks of the elite Khamis brigade bit.ly/pJKvI3 ... #Libya
Pictures from #Zuwarah celebration after it liberation! http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.225219004192412.50147.224694334244879& ... #Libya
A tour in Gaddafi "dead" daughter private wing in #Tripoli Hospital http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzlqGIVrKLQ&feature=share ..... #Libya
Asma
A must see video-Parents of missing boy find him in #AbuSalim: bit.ly/r71rYq #Feb17 #Libya
English Libya tv:
Revolutionaries take Tunisia border post Revolutionaries took control of the Ras Jdir border post on Libya’s frontier with Tunisia yesterday after clashes with Muammar Gaddafi’s soldiers, witnesses said.
Fighters hoisted the green, red and black revolutionary flag over official buildings at the crossing, which lies along a key coastal resupply route from Tunisia to Tripoli.
“We can see the flag,” local resident Fathi Chandol said. A second witness said he could also see the flag and added it was clear the post had been taken.
Clashes between “large numbers” of revolutionary and Gaddafi soldiers occupying the border crossing had erupted earlier in the day, Chandol said.
Security sources in Tunisia said negotiations had been taking place between Tunisian officials and Gaddafi representatives to hand over control of the Ras Jdir crossing to the revolutionaries in an attempt to avoid violence.
Tunisian state television later reported that some Gaddafi soldiers had turned themselves over to the Tunisian mililtary, but gave no further details.
Revolutionaries are keen to control the crossing because it will allow them to bring in supplies of food, water and other essentials from Tunisia, and potentially seal off an escape route for Gaddafi and his entourage.
They already control the Wazen Dhehiba crossing further to the south.
Dozens of pro-Gaddafi Tunisians from the border town of Ben Guerdane had earlier assaulted Libyan refugees near the frontier who were seeking to help the revolutionaries, punching and insulting them, a resident told Reuters.
“These were pro-Gaddafi Tunisians, likely smugglers who were profiting under Gaddafi’s regime,” the resident said, adding there were no serious injuries.
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
4 million gallons of water will be docking into #Tripoli imminently to help with the severe water shortage, acc NTC #Libya
Libyan Exile ( فتحي فضل ) Returning Home After 30 Years: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/08/23/libyan-exile-returning-home-after-30-years/#.TlkjEI6L28h.twitter via @AddThis
Lest we forget: http://feb17martyrs.com/ via @LibyaInMe
Walid
Hello my dear tweeps am safe and sound thanks for all of u miss twitter and u stay they will never shut me
Well my worst night ever is when they arrested me and hand cuff me and took me in camp in woods and beated me with guns on my head
Every second of that i was thinking that it could be the last time was very long my back still hurt a little but am fine
Second day they took to town called al jmail to police station we were 52 men in just 2 small rooms with no lights no running water
First day cant sit because of my back and can't hear well because of the slapping with no idea what will happen to me reading the walls
Worst position they got me in is when they hand cuffed me from the back and made me stand over chair to hang me over steel door
My shoulders were in extrem pain the only good point is i was lucky to escape the worst
i was freed 2 weeks ago don't how its just my good luck glad to be alive
OmarAmer
Libya is probably the only full revolution in the arab world this year. Once we get G we start from complete scratch....
So with Bin Jawad firmly in the hands of the Free Libyans, the prospect of a 'battle for Sirte' hangs in the balance, still not looking good
thing is Sirte rose up in this rev but were crushed, we can't say Sirte is pro G but that its full of Gfs
my uncle is back in Benghazi having moved the planes in Tripoli so I can confirm all details tonight god willing.
Gaddafi used Sirte as an important strategic base for his forces. The civilians must not suffer and they won't Inshala.
I don't think it is worth risking more deaths in bani walid. With Sirte and Tripoli the regime is over. GFs in sebha will srnder
Many GFs have retreated to sirte from diff fronts, so there's a few. Airbase too.
I heard they are divided in Sirte some want to give up some simply can't due to their past record
Plus its sort of a cult. G is everything to them, many will die for him. G knows that hence radio
Stone_SkyNews Mark Stone
A Libyan airline pilot, shot in head in Tripoli on Tuesday, tells me why he picked up a gun & why it's worth it. news.sky.com/home/video/160… #Libya
lindseyhilsum Lindsey Hilsum
Saw a uniformed policeman and traffic cop working with rebels on a checkpoint in #tripoli. Sign of normality returning. @channel4news
Tweeting Tripoli
Can you believe it? This thing almost ruled over us? Phewww! Close call. pic.twitter.com/EztH1O8
Khalifa
Not sinking in yet, the nightmare that's #Gadhafi and his terror machine is OVER. #Libya United and Free.
No good stories from #Rixos Journos in regards to their months in captivity.
BBC News: "African troops recruited by Colonel Gaddafi are now facing increasing hostility from Libyans". IT"S ABOUT TIME....
BBC News: "Western sources suggest that up to 10,000 Africans were recruited from countries including Sudan, Chad, Mali and Niger."
If you come to #Libya with hostile intentions, getting in is easy, getting out alive NOW THAT'S A PROBLEM. #GadhafiMerecenaries
captures mercenaries are well treated. The ones that are still fighting will get hammered until eliminated or give up.
My problems is with some news organizations the UN and AU suggesting that the captured are not well treated, which is a lie.
martinchulov Martin Chulov
#Tripoli's big day out - drive thru Bab al-Azizia. Saw families looting Seif al-Islam's house. White Prada coat had no takers
Libya: Gaddafi's defeated forces face up to a new reality http://gu.com/p/3xfy3/tw via @guardian
Fissa82
المكان الذي كان يتكلم منه القذافي و يهدد بالزحف The place Where Gaddafi spoke and threatened to crawl all over Libya fb.me/LGNptgZj
Sky News:
Nato Using Hi-Tech Kit To Track Down #Gaddafi http://goo.gl/ZCrvI #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes #Tripoli
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
At least one Gaddafi loyalist was rescued from angry mob by rebels and bundled off at speed
Rebels firmly in control at Ras Ashdar crossing at Libya border w/Tunisia.No traffic crossing yet.
Border closed to civilian traffic, rebel cmmndrs hope to open next few days, get much needed supplies in to Tripoli
Rebels have control now of Zaltan, last remaining Gaddafi stronghold on highway to border. Just driving thru, jubilation on streets
Libya In Me
"It was the dark abyss that religious and political men disappeared into, often never to be heard from again." t.co/Q9ec64m #Libya
Fact: Libyan women snipers in Tripoli http://t.co/DKhlnhR #Libya
MUST WATCH: Ex-prisoners return to Libya's fearsome Abu Salim prison with CNN's Dan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g76UJ4jmNyg #Libya
Reuters: Bodies of around 53 people have been found in a warehouse in Tripoli after apparently being executed earlier this week.
Name: Malik Tarsin. Born in 1985. Recent dentistry graduate. Was guarding Mohammed Gaddafi's house when he was killed http://Feb17Martyrs.com/?p=557
Name: Nader Benrewin. 25yr old Libyan/Canadian, killed by a sniper in Bab Al-Aziziya, Tripoli. Inspirational story http://Feb17Martyrs.com/?p=561
If you have stories of revolutionary heroes martyred in Tripoli or anywhere in Libya please submit them here http://feb17martyrs.com/?page_id=16
Ougadogou
Tripoli residents can clean water in 6 hours from bakteria infections using sunlight !! sodis.ch/index_EN
Zwara celebrates it's freedom #Libya http://pic.twitter.com/NlcjJ1P
This has become our iconic representation of freedom & victory...#Zwara http://pic.twitter.com/sfZhw28
Reuters
FLASH: Libyan rebels still negotiating with Gaddafi loyalists for peaceful handover of town of Sirte - rebel council chairman
Sirtawi
#FF: "Some G-Men don't even make it to #Sirte,they're killing each other. Executions took place in Bishr." #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=deekvw…!
Or:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deekvw9Xf6w&feature=player_embedded#
Now that connections are back in #Tripoli, many there have confirmed that a large number of #Gaddafi officials have fled to #Sirte. #Feb17
Personally... we were quite shocked this even existed in #Sirte. PICS: Diyafa Guest Resort :| #Libya #Feb17 http://tamimi.own0.com/t26807-topic
Don't Blame Sirte Twice (article in standard Arabic... google translate?) http://www.libya-alyoum.com/news/index.php?id=21&textid=7276 $Libya #Feb17
robcrilly Rob Crilly
Rebel spokesman says Gaddafi unlikely to be in Sirte. Tripoli or close to Algerian border is more likely #libya
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
Inspiring to see first #Amazigh letters written in public in #Zwara in 42 years! Sadly many do not know how to read the 2000 year old script
LibyanDictator فاطمة الزهراء
Aisha Gaddafi's had her portrait engraved on pure gold. Utter.. #AllahumaInniSaaima pic.twitter.com/HG40wza
lindseyhilsum Lindsey Hilsum
More cars, shoppers and women on the streets of #tripoli today. And far less gunfire. @channel4news
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
"They (Gadaffi forces) tried to poison it" and "many people got sick" NTC spokesman on why they have shut off the water supply in #Tripoli
Technicians in #Tripoli now cleaning out the main water tanks + reviving the wells that were shut down due to contamination.
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
"This (#Libya war) is first time Muslims + Christians have fought together" - Hisham Idrisi, US educated #Zwara solid state physicist, 8/26
Ali Tweel
Libyan revolution is a living proof that there is no "impossible" in life. Doctors, students, engineers, teachers, bakers turned into heros.
he is enjoying his first freedom coffee in tripoli! > “@Monirly: وقت الـ كافيه لاتيه من حبّهان كافيه .. مع حُبّي http://twitpic.com/3b3xf5”
all the mercs we captured in Bab ben ghashier were africans, 16 in total, all r snipers.
I can spot a lier, Hala Almosrati is still lieing her way out of her deep hole. Don't listen to her and keep her in prision.
she brained washed youth to go and kill other libyans, how come no crime?? It doesn't need you to shoot by gun to commit a crime.
shakeer and hamza are away, they have been spoken in arrai tv @ nilesat 11316 v 27500 3/4, last tv station for gaddafi.
I'm afraid that she will escape and then continue to throw egg on us via other tv channels like arrai tv!
The celebratory firing in tripoli is remarkebly reduced, at leaset in 4 km circle around me.
Mike
The job after being heroes of a revolution is to become the heroes of a viable civilisation. The toughest job there is...
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
rebels now control town & surrounding sprawling farmlands areas east of #tripoli airport, say gadhafi forces fled to tarhouna, 1.5 hrs 2 SE
residents say #gadhafi forces prevented them from leaving, were using the area 2 shell airport
Yefreni
The number of LTT employees who came today is more than I expected, and they are working hard to restore the internet connection as soon as possible, But many of them did not come because lack of petrol
dovenews Libyan™
Images of Burned bodies reported by skynews
Khalifa
For 6 months Gadhafi Mercenaries (Africans & Libyans) kept #Tripoli in a state of terror. Now the city is the hands of it's free inhabitants
Nothing gets my blood boiling more than the discovery of mass graves.
Tweeting Tripoli
Sunset in Tripoli few minutes ago... pic.twitter.com/CCuldLD
Mahdi Nazemroaya & Lizzie Phelan safe, currently in Greek territory, then heading to Malta, then Europe, then home. (via Stephen Lendman)
Inside a Moutasim Gaddafi bunker - The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/inside-a-gaddafi-bunker/2011/08/25/gIQAxDyteJ_video.html ... #Libya
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Sirte is being hit with "Kruz missiles" from the sea.
AJELive AJELive
Al Jazeera's Sue Turton on the Libyan / Tunisian border: No sign yet of the humanitarian aid #Libyans hope will flow from here.
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Also some tunnels bombed in near BabAz RT @RexBrynen: In several cases it seems rebels haven't managed to get passed locked blast doors yet
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA just spent day out in Tripoli. Our report soon on #AJE. Quieter in general, but water a big problem.
hominoid555 whitewakbar
dawn assault on the base of 32 Brigade "captured" khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle…
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
NTC's spokesman can't confirm what "poison" it was, that "chemical tests are ongoing" he adds there 'were many sickness cases" #Libya water
Sunny
If contaminated #Tripoli water supply news is true, couldn't it just be dead bodies? Quite likely esp given the heat
Ahmed
I remember being about maybe twelve years old being forced to draw "Free Megrahi" posters by the Libyan school in London. SHAME ON YOU.
Britain to pursue Libyan suspects in 1984 killing: http://www.kasa.com/dpps/news/international/britian-to-pursue-libyan-murder-suspects_3925285#.Tlkw6Gwueg4.twitter via @AddThis
Hafed
#libya #tripoli -- Unconfirmed reports that the Embassy of Vietnam was looted and diplomats threatened
Gaddafi’s African ‘mercenaries’ leaving Libya African troops recruited by Colonel Gaddafi are now facing increasing hostility from Libyans
The United Nations has called on all sides in the Libyan conflict to prevent acts of revenge.
It follows reports both of killings by pro-Gaddafi forces and of attacks on African troops who fought on the government side.
Full art.:
http://shabablibya.org/news/gaddafis-african-mercenaries-leaving-libya
4Adam Adam
Now, Mr. Jalloud is about to form a political party, Hmm, you people who expecting him to apologize to Libyans, good lock with that. #Libya
Aljazeera
Riad Kahwaji, security analyst and founder of the Institute for Near East & Gulf Military Analysis, told Al Jazeera:
“As far as the control on the ground it is mostly in favour of the rebels only two strongholds Sirte and Saba are not under their control, and both are very much besieged.”
“The role of the rebels now is to really organise themselves and pinpoint the locations of Gaddafi forces to get them to surrender.”
FunGuerillaz FunGuerilla No.1
The pratice of regime forces to bind the hands of unwilling comrads & to execute them has been first documented when Benghazi's Katiba..
.was stormed in late February. This practice has since been observed in a number of instances in all parts of Libya in the last 6 months.
Also: FFs usually don't tie up their POWs (I don't remember having seen this)...
And: Why would the FFs carry out an execution in the middle of the battle field on a position where they are exposed to enemy bullets...
.and where there might be eyewitnesses to the crime from surrounding houses. THE STORY SIMPLY DOESN'T ADD UP.
The explanation that these regime soldiers were executed before the Bab was stormed makes more sense, especially when U keep in mind that.
the regime had political prisoners in several of Tripoli's prisons executed. Somebody central must have given the order for this and...
.it is possible that the executions near the Bab were a part of this. Of course I might be wrong & this MIGHT have been some rouge Ffs.
..but its simply important to note that this is by no means a typical behaviour for the FFs but something the regime typically would do.
FunGuerilla No.1
For your map: places liberated since yesterday: Ras Ajdir, Al Jamil, Qasir Ben Ghashir, Tarhuna, Assaba. - t.co/KMIm0ZO
Updated list of towns confirmed liberated since Friday Ras Ajdir, Al Jamil, Al Ajaylat, Abu Salim, Qasir Ben Ghashir, Tarhuna, Assaba
If you think food realted goods from the Mid East and North Africa are hard to get in Switzerland, think again; I just bought me a Tajine..
and I'm going to make a victory couscous next week. But today its for TexMex food. Cooking a chilli con carne right now
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Rebels also showed us a warehouse full of hundreds of boxed land mines of a variety of different types which were left by Gaddafi's forces
The warehouse also stored a large number of missiles,white phosphorous mortars & documents-one was an order for guided missiles from Russia
BREAKING: 50 charred skeletons found near military base of Gaddafi criminals: AFP
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
All towns on the highway from Ras Ajdir to Tripoli are now in freedom fighter hands. Border crossing should be secured & open soon. #libya
Libya Breaknews:
Breaking Libya News: BREAKING: #FFs have just liberated Al Jamil south of the city of #Zwara
SkyNews: Tripoli: 53 bodies were found today in a warehouse in Tripoli apparently killed one week ago by Gaddafi's forces
Head of NTC Mustafa Jalil says: We will not accept foreign police in Libya
Gaddafi's green flag has been brought down at the Arab League
Did you know NATO pilots wore Libyan independence flag over their shoulders? Touching!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=237158&l=9d6fddc701&id=119666044789936
TRIPOLI UPDATE:
Cleaning the streets today in #Benashoor, and some people have also started to repaint, Incredible feeling to see everyone helping. #Tripoli via @libya17feb
English Libya TV
Revolutionaries take town west of capital Revolutionaries swept into the town of Jmayl today, consolidating their grip on areas to the west of Tripoli after Muammar Gaddafi’s troops fled the home base of their former prime minister.
After a five-day standoff with Gaddafi forces in the town, about 100 revolutionary fighters in pick-up trucks drove in, firing their guns wildly in the air in celebration and flashing V-for-victory signs.
“We were in Zuwarah and we have been trying to get here for five days,” Shukri Zuwareh, a 42-year-old fighter, told Reuters, referring to a nearby town already taken.
Walls in Jmayl were daubed with the slogan “Only God and Muammar”.
Gaddafi supporters are understood to have fled to the town as opposition forces rolled up areas to the south in Libya’s western Nafusa mountains in a campaign that eventually took them all the way to Tripoli.
Jmayl was one of a number of pockets of Gaddafi loyalists that remain in parts of Libya despite the revolutionary advance.
The two sides had been negotiating for days in an attempt to end the stand-off over Jmayl and arrange prisoner swaps, but talks had foundered in an atmosphere of mistrust.
“There were soldiers in the town and supporters of Gaddafi. We spread a rumour three days ago during the talks that we would free Jmayl today,” Zuwareh said.
Revolutionaries said Jmayl had been a stronghold for Gaddafi loyalists in the west and was the hometown of former prime minister Al Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, who recently left the country and was seen five days ago on the southern Tunisian island of Djerba.
The revolutionaries said the Gaddafi loyalists had fled Jmayl, a small dusty desert settlement whose inhabitants welcomed the fighters with V-for-victory signs.
At the town hospital, two wounded fighters were brought in for treatment, along with one man who had been held prisoner by the Gaddafi forces before they left.
One fighter described the climate of suspicion that clouded negotiations.
“Yesterday there was a Gaddafi loyalist in his car ahead of us. We shouted at him to stop and put down his weapon,” said Mohammed al-Mansouri, a 23-year-old fighter.
“He got out and made like he was putting it down, then he suddenly picked it up and sprayed us with gunfire.
“So we had to shoot him dead.”
TRIPOLI UPDATE:
--Cleaning the streets today in #Benashoor, and some people have also started to repaint, Incredible feeling to see everyone helping. #Tripoli
--#Tripoli - There are still some snipers in Dareq al Saree (The Highway), No one uses the road
--There is a Freedom Fighter Battalion named #Safwat #elZayat, #Libyans will never forget your support and hard work Maj Gen Safwat el Zayat
--High spirits in #Tripoli even while clearing the streets, singing and chanting, everyone helping hand in hand
via @libya17feb
AJE:
The oil refinary in Zawiyah will return to work as of tomorow to contribute to reducing the fuel crisis in Libya
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Home made Grenada, It is a water pipeline. Was drawn and detailed in order to divided into several fragments... fb.me/RaaThuK0
LIVE on Al-Abrabiyah the youth are busy cleaning Abu Salim Hospital! Allah Akbar
BREAKING: FFs liberate Abu Salim Hospital and found dozens of dead bodies within
Monatov - منى توف: Monatov - GaddafiLeaks قذافى ليكس http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQrlS77WHRs&feature=player_embedded#!
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#NTC #Jibril says: Reports of #Gaddafi escape to #Algeria not confirmed.
#Gaddafi's green flag has been brought down at the Arab League #Libya.
#Freedomfighters say #Gaddafi filth still control town of #AlAjaylat. #Libya
West of #Zuwara, #Freedomfighters say they now control coastal highway to #Tunisia
#AfricanUnion Has Failed #Libya mathaba.net/news/?x=628334 #Ghana supported #Gaddafi now scared of oil loss.
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “DERIN” now anchored in port #Tripoli
#Moldova CARGO SHIP “MAR BIANCO” remains anchored in port #Tripoli #Libya.
#Greece SHIP (Unspecified Type) “ILION” now anchored in port #Tripoli
Malta OIL TANKER “ÏNTISAR” now anchored #Tripoli
Turkey CARGO SHIP “ARON” remains anchored just outside port #Tripoli
Turkey CARGO SHIP “HACI MEHMET KAPTAN” remains anchored just outside port #Tripoli
Moldova PASSENGER SHIP “AZZURRA” now departing #Tripoli #Libya.
Turkey CARGO SHIP “EFENDI BABA” now en route to dest. #Benghazi #Libya ETA: 2011-08-28 20:00 (UTC).
Malta CARGO SHIP “PURKI” now en route to dest. #Tripoli #Libya ETA: 2011-08-28 10:00 (UTC)
Moldova FERRY “FEHIM BEY” now anchored in port #Misrata #Libya. Next stop: #Benghazi.
Turkey CARGO SHIP “CENK SENER” now en route to dest. #Tripoli #Libya ETA: 2011-08-28 10:00 (UTC).
Turkey CARGO SHIP “SEREN AYANOGLU” remains anchored just outside port #Tripoli
Syria CARGO SHIP “LADY SEHAM” remains anchored in port #Tripoli
Ajeilat reported just a moment ago as liberated by #Freedomfighters after several back & forth battles with #Gaddafi filth.
Libya: If you are able to provide food for #Freedomfighters or those injured in hospital please call 0913088827. #Feb17
You can send a get well card to the Libyan patients using this P.O.Box: “Postcards for Libya” Ennasr1 Code... http://fb.me/1gY2YdK9x
AU sent mercenaries to kill us and doesn't want to give us our money back - no wonder why they don't recognise NTC!
#Tripoli: #Freedomfighters now control Airport & surrounding farms E. of there. #Gaddafi filth fled towards #Tarhouna.
PLEASE RT: Red Crescent Tunisia: 8/27 after 8:30pm blood donations for #Libya. 13 Rue Djebel Lakhdhar - Bab Saadoun, 1006 #Tunis, #Tunisia
#Libya #NTC offers 2 MILLION DINARS & FULL AMNESTY for Muammar #Gaddafi, DEAD OR ALIVE. #Feb17
al Madar mobiles not working in #Zwara or #Sabratha or #Tripoli but "western Libyana" working. SIM 50 dinars
#StVincentGrenadines CARGO SHIP "LADY HALUOM" now departing #Malta for dest. #Benghazi #Libya ETA: 2011-08-29 04:00 (UTC)
#Sirte: Unconfirmed: Number of #Gaddafi filth estimated 1500-3000. #Libya #Feb17
#Freedomfighters have just liberated #AlJamil south of #Zuwara. #Libya #Feb17
#NTC arrests Emar Al Shamama, director of #Tripoli Medical Centre, tortured doctors opposing #Gaddafi. #Libya #Feb17
#NTC leader #Jalil says #Tripoli facing humanitarian emergency. #Libya #Feb17
98.5% of Black Africans in Libya are criminals, rapists, murderers brought in by Gaddafi..
#Tripoli: Uniformed police seen around city today, more traffic, women out & about, more shops open. People cleaning & painting. #Libya
#Gaddafi's #African 'mercenaries' leaving #Libya bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr… #Feb17
'Mass Killing' Evidence Found In #Libya http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16057724 #Feb17
Oil refinery in #Zawiya will return to work as of tomorrow to contribute to reducing the fuel crisis in #Libya
Comoros CARGO SHIP "HADIA K" now anchored in port #Tobruq #Libya. #Feb17
#Gaddafi OIL TANKER "AL AGAILA" remains anchored in #Singapore where it has now been for a couple of months.
Nouri Balroin, #NTC oil minister: #Libya to produce 1.6 million barrels of oil within 15 months.
#Gaddafi OIL TANKER “SAMRAA_ALKHALEEJ” remains anchored off coast of #Malta where it has been for several months. #Libya #Feb17
PLEASE RT: I call on the @UN to recognize the #Libya #NTC as the legitimate government of the Nation of Libya. #Feb17
#SA govt says #Libya future must include #Gaddafi regime timeslive.co.za/africa/2011/08… NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! #Feb17
#freedomfighters have control now of Zaltan, last remaining #Gaddafi stronghold on highway to border. #Libya #Feb17
#Algeria government recruited & facilitated the transfer of #Polisario mercenaries to #Gaddafi in #Libya. #Feb17
4th rate shithole #Zimbabwe orders rebel-backing Libyan envoy to leave, calls #NTC illegal.
#Tripoli: those who are able to provide food for the wounded in the hospitals and to #Freedomfighters please call 0913088827.
#Greece HUMANITARIAN AID SHIP "ILION" now departing #Tripoli #Libya, apparent dest. #Benghazi. Thank you Greece & sponsors! #Feb17
LIBYA : ALGERIAN MERCENARY CAPTURED BY LIBYAN CNT REGARDEZ BIEN SON PANTALON C'EST UN TREILLIS MILITAIRE PROUVANT SA CONDITION DE MERCENAIRE DE KHADAFFI LE GRAND AMI DU F.L.N ALGERIEN.
EN EFFET: UN CIVIL ALGERIEN VIVANT EN LIBYE CONNAISSANT LES ACCUSATIONS LIBYENNES DE SOUTIENT DE L'ALGERIE A KHADDAFI SERAIT IL ASSEZ FOU POUR SE BALADER EN TENUE MILITAIRE????????
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E8vfc3_hL0&feature=share
SteveMcCluskey Stephen McCluskey
Syrian Al-Ra'y TV is financially supported by Gaddafi; don't rely on its reports. citiadr.idmanagedsolutions.com/news/global_st…
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
"They (Gadaffi forces) tried to poison it" and "many people got sick" NTC spokesman on why they have shut off the water supply in #Tripoli
NTC say great man made river has been contaminated by #Gaddafi filth, unsure of the chemical used #Libya #Feb17
Tripoli Youth
High spirits in #Tripoli even while clearing the streets, singing and chanting, everyone helping hand in hand
libyatv Libya TV
a resident in #Tripoli: “People will start celebrating when Gaddafi is caught. That will be our Eid.
Chairman of #NTC Mustafa Abdel Jalil says he has no hard info abut location of Gaddafi & his sons
English Libya TV
Tripoli “free of Gaddafi forces” Opposition forces claimed victory over a suburb near Tripoli’s airport today after an overnight battle as the opposition moves to solidify its hold on the capital while fighting Gaddafi loyalists in other parts of the country.
Residents of Qasr bin Ghashir, about 30 kilometers south of the capital, celebrated by firing guns and anti-aircraft weapons into the air and beating portraits of the toppled leader with their shoes. Regime troops had been shelling the airport from the area. An opposition field commander said the capital was “free of Gaddafi’s forces.”
“You can say that bin Ghashir has been liberated from Gaddafi soldiers,” said Omar al-Ghuzayl, a 45-year-old field commander now in charge of forces at Tripoli’s airport. “We’ve been able to push them completely outside Tripoli.”
The celebration reflected the revolutionaries optimism after days of fierce fighting in the capital, which now appears to be largely under opposition control.
Gaddafi’s whereabouts remain unknown. NATO and opposition forces are focusing on his hometown of Sirte, his last major bastion of support.
But while fighting has died down, much of the capital remained without electricity and water. Streets are strewn with torched cars and stinking garbage. Corpses crowd abandoned hospitals. Stores are closed. Bombed planes sit on the Tripoli’s airport runway.
Outside of Tripoli, an oil refinery in Brega was targeted today by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. Field workers and opposition forces sprayed the tanks with water to calm the blaze and save Libya’s most valuable export.
“We have a huge shortage of gas,” Tripoli resident Osama Shallouf said.
The shortages have made it difficult to bake the traditional pastries and buy new clothes to prepare for next week’s Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that caps the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
“People will start celebrating when Gaddafi is caught,” he said. “That will be our Eid.”
The leader of the NTC said yesterday they’ll establish a new interim government in the capital within 30 days, moving their headquarters from the eastern city of Benghazi, which fell into opposition hands early in the six-month war.
Today an oil refinery in Brega was targeted by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. Field workers and opposition forces sprayed the tanks with water to calm the blaze and save Libya’s most valuable export.
English Libya TV
Capital calmer as Gaddafi’s men forced out Tripoli has begun to retain some normalcy over the past few days. Residents claim it to be the calmest it has been in the capital since Gaddafi’s opponents swept in nearly a week ago. Some even celebrated in the streets, marching and chanting, “Hold your head high! You are a free Libyan.”
There were still occasional gunbattles yesterday, but nothing like the bloody firefight on Thursday in which opposition forces drove loyalists from a neighborhood close to Gaddafi’s captured compound.
As the fighting waned, the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva expressed concern about treatment of detainees on both sides. The ICRC has been able to visit some prisoners, but “there are hundreds more probably,” spokesman Steven Anderson said.
Dozens of decomposing bodies were piled up in and near an abandoned hospital next to the Gaddafi compound, revealing some of the war’s brutality. One hospital room had 21 bodies lying on gurneys. The floors were covered with shattered glass and bloodstains, and medical equipment was strewn about.
It was unclear when the men died or who killed them, but they had darker skin than most Libyans. Gadhafi had recruited fighters from sub-Saharan Africa to fight in return for promise of Libyan citizenship.
In a new advance for the opposition forces yesterday, fighters took control of the main border crossing with Tunisia after battling Gaddafi loyalists who had held out there, Tunisia’s official news agency reported. Opposition forces control other posts along the border, but Ras Ajdir is the primary crossing between the two countries and would allow them to more easily bring supplies into Libya.
In Tripoli, some residents emerged gingerly from homes where they had taken cover for days. They looked upon a shattered city, largely without power or water and stinking with garbage, but also with no sign of the man who had ruled their lives for the past 42 years. Gaddafi’s whereabouts were unknown. His portraits have been trampled, his green flags shredded and replaced with the original red, black and green.
Umm Yahya, who limped on a cane through Tripoli’s shuttered downtown, leaning on her daughter for help, said her family had been surviving for days on pasta and tomato paste, but the fear and suffering in six months of civil war were worth it to taste freedom.
“We can speak freely now. We can talk on the phone,” she said with a tired smile. “People are comfortable now spiritually and with that, anything is possible.”
Opposition forces were pushing Gaddafi fighters to Tripoli’s outskirts. Abdul Majid
Mgleta, a revolutionary military chief, said there were still some pockets of resistance, but he hoped to take full control over the capital and capture Gaddafi within days.
Still, Tripoli’s opposition military commander was confident enough to declare the capital liberated.
“Libya is now free with dignity,” Abdel-Hakim Belhaj told reporters last night. He added that hundreds of Gaddafi fighters had surrendered in the past two days.
Opposition forces and NATO turned their attention 400 kilometers east to Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, his last major bastion of support. British warplanes struck a large bunker there, while local opposition force commander Fadl-Allah Haron said that if city residents don’t surrender fast, “a battle will be waiting for them there.”
In the five-day battle over Tripoli, at least 230 people were killed and hundreds more wounded, according to doctors at three major hospitals. With bodies still in the streets, the real toll is likely far higher.
In the Abu Salim neighborhood, the scene of Thursday’s ferocious clashes, there was massive destruction along the main road, including torched cars.
Three charred bodies lay on the ground floor of a bombed-out firehouse where eight wounded men, apparently Gaddafi supporters, had been abandoned.
Abu Baker Amin, his right leg broken by a grenade, said he had not received food or water for two days. An emaciated man lay on the floor, pleading for water. Another man appeared to be in too much pain to speak.
In the parking lot, opposition forces kept guard over four injured men they said were Gaddafi loyalists. Opposition forces in the area said there were no hospitals available or cars to take the men for treatment, and that in any case they wanted to interrogate them first.
“These are from the Gaddafi brigades!” a neighbor exclaimed.
Eventually, a soldier of the opposition took all the wounded he could fit in his pickup truck to a hospital. He was stopped repeatedly at checkpoints, where the guards kicked the prisoners, spat on them and tried to stop their transfer.
The abandoned hospital where the bodies were found is near the firehouse. Nearly 50 bodies were stacked in three areas — a parking lot, a ward and in the basement.
Another 15 decomposing corpses lay in a grassy area surrounding a traffic roundabout on the outskirts of Abu Salim. Five of the dead were in a tent hospital; one appeared to have been killed while resting on a mattress.
Opposition forces often suspect people from sub-Saharan Africa of being mercenaries, though many are simply migrant workers.
One of the injured men in the firehouse said he was from Niger. Asked why he was in Libya, he said, “I really don’t know.”
Mohammed al-Egely, the NTC justice minister, said he has visited detained Gaddafi fighters and they were being treated according to international humanitarian law. He said opposition forces are doing the best they can.
“We are in a state of war — the airport hasn’t even been liberated yet,” he said. “Do you expect the fighters to bring them (prisoners) flowers? They are all fighting — and so there will be victims from each side.”
Hundreds of people marched in celebration of Gaddafi’s defeat after noon prayers in a mosque near the city’s central square. They chanted, “Hold your head high! You are a free Libyan” — borrowing a cry heard in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in the days after Hosni Mubarak was ousted in the Egyptian uprising.
In the afternoon, shots were fired at the roof terrace of the Corinthia hotel, where scores of journalists were working. The shots came from nearby high-rise buildings. A revolutionary dressed in fatigues crossed the terrace to the fence and began shooting randomly at the buildings. At one point, revolutionaries also fired anti-aircraft guns and a large explosion was heard. There has been fighting around the hotel for several days now.
In a rural area between the neighborhood and Tripoli’s airport, opposition forces detained seven men and a woman and loaded them into a pickup truck, saying Gaddafi fighters might try to blend in with civilians.
“Things are still not stable and we are arresting anybody we find suspicious and taking them to the military council,” said field commander Fathi Shneibi.
Opposition leaders said they will establish a new interim government in the capital within 30 days, as part of a move from the eastern city of Benghazi, which fell into opposition hands early in the war.
The new interim government will likely include some who worked in the Gaddafi regime, but were sympathetic to the revolutionaries, said Mahmoud Shammam, information minister for the National Transitional Council.
“The only people we are going to exclude are the people who killed others and stole money,” Shammam said.
The council may get some badly needed cash soon. Britain is seeking approval to release about $1.6 billion in seized Libyan bank notes to help pay public sector workers.
NATO, meanwhile, said its warplanes targeted 29 vehicles mounted with weapons near Sirte, a city of 150,000. Opposition forces are trying to advance toward Sirte but expect fierce resistance from Gaddafi loyalists.
The two main tribes in Sirte rejected the oppositions offers to negotiate a peaceful surrender.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Horrifying stories are coming out of #Tripoli as the truth is slowly being uncovered - #Libya #Feb17
Ali Tweel
A hero from Misurata: Muammar, your entire life is a mistake but the biggest mistake you did is to enter Misurata!!
septimius_sever septimius severus
after 14 years in #AbuSalim prison, he was amazed by novelties such as mobile phones and satellite dishes.
NickClarkAlJaz Nick Clark
#Libya : Reports of charred skeletons of 50 found in prison abandoned by Kadhafi elite troops in S #Tripoli
Tweeting Tripoli
Once there was a dispute between 1 person and 6 million people. African Union decided to stand by 1 person and ignored the 6 million people.
Bab Al-Azyzia taught us the terrible, hideous (and very long, 42yrs) lesson. We will scoop it out and throw it in the waste bin.
Updated:
Battle for Tripoli International Airport. By Libyan Youth Movement
Photo's:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.195526397179851.52217.133738650025293
Inside Abu-Sleem Prison. By Libyan Youth Movement ·
Cannot imagine what went on here; terrible
Photos: http://goo.gl/kPmgJ
or:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.196409227091568.52373.133738650025293
MUST READ:
Ann Marlowe:
Weekly Standard: Democracy in Libya
http://goo.gl/5c6c1 #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
ProudLibyan
Misrata literally broke Gaddafi's back. His best brigades were destroyed there. He thought it was going to be a walk in the park, how wrong!
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Atlantic Source: White House wants NATO partners to hunt for #Gaddafi’s rockets and WMD goo.gl/As4Qs #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Times of Malta: Opposition’s security adviser holds #Malta meetings http://goo.gl/Njq39 #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Updated: #Malta strips #Gaddafi of his honours http://goo.gl/M7Fn9 #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Khaled
Let's Thank NATO For Protecting Libyan Citizens. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lets-Thank-NATO-For-Protecting-Libyan-Citizens/221264594571880
FromJoanne Joanne
Audioboo of General Richard Dannat How Freedom Fighters were able to Liberate #Tripoli so fast #Libya goo.gl/eEOl1
Meanwhile Tripolitans are using #Gaddafi s families swimmingpool for a bath http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFpfyO3lhyw&feature=player_embedded #Libya #Tripoli
#TRIPOLI #AbuSalim Hospital the reality and prove of massacre still lie in their beds youtube.com/user/AlJazeera… Inside Story #Libya #Aljazeera
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI The calmest day since FF advanced 7 days ago Ppl celebrated chanting “Hold your head high! You are a free #Libyan ! ” #Libya
Its a great surprise #BinJawad is FF controlled FF pushing on to #Sirte now #Libya
#FLASH #Algeria Foreign Ministry Saturday DENIES Mena media report a convoy 6 Mercedes cars crossed Border from #Libya #FleeingGadafiClan
#FLASH #AGOCO All 5 of Libya refineries some in BAD shape R OFFLINE due2 lack of #Crude #oil production and damage to facilities
Hayat
I'm going to the mosque inshAllah and I am going to pray there all night with my friends! AlHamduLilah!! Allah Akbar! #Ramadan 27th :D
Tweeting Tripoli
Ok so according to Libyan/Algerian standard that is a confirmation he got safely to Algeria. Damn it, we were too late!
FromJoanne Joanne
#Shammam #NTC says FF already control most of the Road between #Tunisia > #Tripoli but Gaddafi Forces R shelling road nr #Zwara #Libya
Skyman64
As of today Sky has taken decision to stop using "govt" and "rebels" in reports. "Pro and anti Gaddafi" only... @SkyNews #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
Tripoli hospital turned into 'mass morgue' Warning: story contains details disturbing to some readers goo.gl/vmxtU #Libya
SKY NEWS:
#WARCRIMES Evidence Video of still smoldering bodies 150 Civilians Massacred in camp of Khamis Gadafi 32Brigade
Article and videos:
goo.gl/EnRa7 #Libya
or:
http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16057724
Joanne
TRIPOLI local residents say ther R many more bodies buried in th BenGashir Khamis Brigade32 compound or in nearby warehouse+buildings #Libya
#TRIPOLI #QasrBenGashir Fridaynight 70GF cars sped2 #BaniWalid Crowds Gathered Satmorning Celebrating Liberation while FF combed area #Libya
#TARHUNAH Violent clashes broke out since yesterday #Libya g.co/maps/vxjb
BRILLIANT IDEA:
Egypt and Libya to hold joint seminars between the youth of #Egypt #Libya and #Tunisia to identify their vision for building the future
FromJoanne Joanne
Shortages in Tripoli have worsened even though #NTC Jalil said Thursd his forces discovered huge stockpiles of food and medicine #Libya
Today: Ferry #Azzurra Int. Org. 4Migration hired Delivered food water and medical supplies 2 #TRIPOLI + will evacuate 1200 foreigners
#Baltimore writer filmmaker #MatthewVanDyke #Baltimore spend6Mnths SOLITAIRY confinement #AbuSalim FF Released Now #CORINTHIA Hotel #TRIPOLI
#NTC HEAD Jibril + former #Libya FM #AbdulRahmanShalgam met #Egypt FM #MohammedKamelAmr @Egyptian foreign ministry #Cairo Today
UK donated £3 million to Red Cross to spend on urgent humanitarian aid in #Libya today 2b spend on Food Med aid = Medical Teams
SMILE:
CONFIRMED. Now the cheapest paint in Tripoli is Green paint They cant give it away .
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Times of Malta: Updated: Logistical preparations for #Tripoli humanitarian aid gear up: goo.gl/VvXU8 Video: goo.gl/71vSD
PHOTO'S:
Battle for Abu-Sleem District in #Tripoli. Photos: http://goo.gl/FCUyS #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Malta HUMANITARIAN AID SHIP “MAE YEMANJA” now departing #Tripoli #Libya for dest. Malta. #Feb17
#Benin, #Niger & #Togo have all formally recognized #NTC
#Libya: Have faith in the #NTC but don’t wait on them
#Libya: To plagiarize Kennedy; don’t ask what your country can do for you rather ask what you can do for your country.
Another criminal act by a 4th rate cesspool country: #Mugabe throws out defected #Libya envoy http://www.africareview.com/News/-/979180/1226070/-/h7d6s5z/-/ #Feb17
FunGuerillaz FunGuerilla No.1
They should create a monument at Mohamed Bouazizis grave & decorate it with flags of all countries that were liberated in the Arab Spring...
so far that would make three flags (Tunesia, Egypt, Libya) and hopefully at least two more very soon (Yemen, Syria).
LibyaAlHurraTV LibyaAlHurra
How the Libyan rebels bought a miniature drone on the Internet news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/li…
FunGuerillaz FunGuerilla No.1
Cut out the middle man: Libyan FFs used a surveillance drone of their own in Misrata: nyti.ms/pXLlmN
It takes time to get it perfect:)
bbclysedoucet lyse doucet
New sign Martyrs' Sq from #Tripoli Brigade warns - don't fire weapons in the air, & put lives at risk ow.ly/i/gnue #Libya
Gettting it right in new #Libya: fixing misspelt word on new sign warning against gunfire in Martyrs' Sq http://ow.ly/i/gnvO
DerekStoffelCBC Derek Stoffel
That time of the night, it seems -- major power outage in central #Tripoli. City plunged into darkness.
Libyan_Republic Omar Mukhtar
Mahmoud Jibril gets a standing ovation at the #arableague. I am loving this guy.
Video: Gaddafi fighter recounts her nightmare war One 19 year-old woman was a sniper. Now she is to stand trial for executing 16 rebel prisoners.
She also shot two rebels dead in the heat of battle when the rebels stormed Gaddafi’s compund. She was captured when she ran out of ammunition and fled, breaking her legs in a two-story leap to escape.
She claims that she was forced by her family to leave her hometown of Zawiah and join up a year ago. She adds she had worked in an office until only recently. Then the nightmare began. The killing, and the rape by three officers she identified by name, including a General.
Now she can only hope for forgiveness from the victims’ families, or she could face a death penalty.
Video:
http://feb17.info/media/video-gaddafi-fighter-recounts-her-nightmare-war/
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
regime loyalists who were tweeting from the #rixos when we were there- didnt realize we knew v well who they were
jonjensen Jon Jensen
A rebel in Ajdabiya said NATO has been dropping these fake dinar bills near the front to deter pro-Gaddafi mercs yfrog.com/kfmeq1j #libya
4Adam Adam
Scenes of jubilation in the streets of Qasir Ben Ghisheer after the liberation - South #Tripoli youtube.com/watch?v=_J6Nrj… (CH4news) #Libya
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
Saw #Zwara man came 2day fr #Tunisia- by boat, land route dangerous. FFs need 2 control #Jumayl. Where's #Benghazi help? Int'l frontier!
Ali Tweel
10:05pm power is out :( (Tripoli)
Ahmed
Broke my fast today with the Belhaj family, 16 members of which were in prison since March. All are back home safe and sound Alhamdulillah.
Very important announcement from our families in Free Tripoli 2 all Libyan fam in Ben Ashour, Fashloum & Dahra: (1/2)”
who r able 2 provide food 4 wounded in the hospitals & our FF pls call this number 0913088827.Spread this 2 all urgently
Tripoli buries dead as battle toll emerges A week after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, residents of Tripoli ventured out to begin the grim work of burying the dead in mass graves today, as evidence emerged of widespread summary killings during the battle for the Libyan capital.
Full story:
http://english.libya.tv/2011/08/27/tripoli-buries-dead-as-battle-toll-emerges/
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI Gargour Villa of #AbdullahSenussi Gaddafi’s brother-in-law and close confidant has been pillaged
No self-respecting dictator can bear 2b without a bunker but is life worth living scurrying like arat underground http://goo.gl/2snOo Libya
#TRIPOLI in some neighborhoods FF organiced garbage collection and many residents are helping to clean up
#TRIPOLI in #SouqalJuma'a a former polic lieutenant Shukri Dernawi is organizing a local police force #Libya
#TRIPOLI SouqJumaa Dernawi the new local policechief said he hasn't had any reports of feuds/revenge being settled with guns #Libya
#TRIPOLI A security committee with all main FF factions represented has already been formed #Libya
#NATO strikes heard north west of #Tripoli now #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
(23.00 hrs)
Its good to see #NTC #Shamman in #Tripoli where there is a shortage of food He needs to loose weight
Haitham
G's forces try to reach #BaniWalid through #Tarhuna. FF are stopping them from doing that.
Joanne
TRIPOLI Residents carried empty containers 2mosques which often have wells in their courtyards hoping to fill up Some already ranout #Libya
Washington Post: Libyans find freedom at Moammar #Gaddafi’s #Abu #Salim prison in #Tripoli http://goo.gl/tkmyE #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
#Zuara after it's liberation, celebrations! Photos: goo.gl/Uznst #libya
HELP NEEDED:
abu sleem hospital & zawyat al dehmany hospital r n urgent need f volunteers,those who liv in d area r asked 2 head there(its safe)
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
NTC's Mahmoud Jibril speaking at the Arab Sumit now in Cairo on AJA
Inside Rixos room where info minister Moussa Ibrahim had been staying-Looks like a bit of messy guy http://twitpic.com/6c56y5 via @DerekStoffelCBC
Libya In Me
This has become our iconic representation of freedom & victory...#Zwara pic.twitter.com/sfZhw28
Sky sources: Series of NATO air strikes heard north-west of Libyan capital, Tripoli
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Freedom fighters report that they are cleaning up the Rixos for reopening.
NPR: Is #Libya The First 'True Arab Revolution'? http://goo.gl/SDYWd #feb17 #gaddaficrimes #libya
Tweeting Tripoli
BREAKING: The real Libyan flag is up in the sky--> Arab League. yfrog.com/h4tznisj
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Just heard Dr Mahmud jibril speaking to the Arab League. Finally, the true Libyan flag is being represented by smart, hardworking people.
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Staying at a rebel compound tonight, rebels really buzzing from taking Bin Jawad, celebrating with drumming and dancing outside #Libya
Mustafa Abdul #Jalil: National Transitional Council opposes the idea of having an international police to maintain security
libyanandproud
Happiest guy at the Arab League is the person who only wrote Libya instead of Jamahirya bla bla bla bla bla on the plaque . #Feb17 #Libya
WISE WORDS:
Armchair Arab
Libyans, yes we do have oil, but the real key to our future economic success will be our ingenuity and entrepreneurship.
Smiffysmate Smiffy's Wife
Oh I could cry. Go away green rag: “@2011feb17: BREAKING: The real Libyan flag is up in the sky--> Arab League. yfrog.com/h4tznisj”
English Libya TV
NTC say no firm information on Gaddafi location Revolutionaries have no concrete information on the location of Muammar Gaddafi or his sons, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, chairman of the National Transitional Council (NTC), said today.
Revolutionary fighters who took control of the Libyan capital this week say Gaddafi and his sons are in hiding and have offered a $1.3 million reward and amnesty from prosecution for anyone who kills or captures him.
Egypt’s state news agency sparked a new round of speculation about his whereabouts when it quoted a Libyan source as saying a convoy of six armoured Mercedes cars which crossed from Libya into Algeria may have been carrying Gaddafi.
Officials and fighters affiliated with the revolutionaries have said on several occasions they know where he is and have him cornered, but those assertions have later turned out to be wrong.
“We have no factual report about the whereabouts of Gaddafi and his sons,” Abdel Jalil said.
Speaking at a news conference, he said the council might consider inviting police officers from Arab or Muslim states to Libya to held with security, but did not want a police presence from any other nations.
He also said that anyone who had worked in a senior posiiton for Gaddafi and had not defected by now to the revolutionary cause “will not be allowed to have a place in the future Libya, politically speaking.”
Revolutionary commanders are still negotiating with Gaddafi loyalists to try to persuade them to surrender control over the city of Sirte, Gaddafi’s home town about 500 km (310 miles) east of Tripoli, Abdel Jalil said.
HUNT FOR GADDAFI
A spokesman for the NTC dampened speculation that Gaddafi might be holed up in Sirte.
“He probably won’t be in Sirte because Sirte is landlocked from three sides and (there is) the sea from the other. There is no way for him to get away,” said the spokesman, Shamsiddin Abdulmolah.
“There is a possibility he is still in the Tripoli area. But if not he’s more likely to be near the Algerian border because Algeria has still not recognised the NTC.”
The council is under pressure to establish its authority in Tripoli quickly and deal with a breakdown of public services that followed the collapse of Gaddafi’s rule.
Corpses are rotting outside hospitals, garbage is piled up in the streets, and many
people have no water.
Asked when the NTC would move to the capital from its base in Benghazi, eastern Libya, Abdulmolah said: “Most of the executive committee is already over there now in Tripoli.
But he said the question of when Abdel Jalil, a former justice minister under Gaddafi, would transfer to Tripoli, would depend on security considerations.
libyatv Libya TV
#NTC Mahmud Jibril takes part in Arab League Council mtg to discuss Syria- marks the first time the NTC is represented there. #Libya #feb17
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Mustafa AbdulJalil: #NTC opposes the idea of having an international police to maintain security. GOOD!
#Libya: If absolutely necessary I have a feeling most would not be too upset if #Gaddafi's #Sirte where bombarded into dust.
#Libya MUST NOW BE STRONG! After all #Gaddafi's rape, murder & etc his last stronghold must be broken, enemies of Libya cut out like cancer.
#Libya: Nations still fighting you, still standing for #Gaddafi MUST be taught a lesson, cut out of your future and blacklisted worldwide!
#Libya: Nations still fighting you should have NO embassies, NO contracts recognized, NO oil (#Russia, #Algeria, #SA, #Ghana, #Zimbabwe)
#Libya: For 42 years U & your children have paid 4 this, paid 4 freedom w/ your blood, w/ your families, your children, let NO 1 drag U down
Arab League gives new #Libya govt a standing ovation; African Union won't recognize it yet. #AU still in #Gaddafi's pocket.
Must See Video: #Libya #Freedomfighters claim victory in #BinJawad http://youtu.be/7n5-l9GIq9s #Feb17
#Libya: Even if Seif & #Gaddafi escape #Libya, they will have to hide every day of their lives, NO place safe in the world for them.
Whatever the cost, #Gaddafi CANNOT be allowed to hold out indefinitely OR split #Libya. Reports of thousands of his filth there
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Witnessed very organised artillery fire from the rebel forces today on outskirts of bin Jawad #Libya
Via Aljazeera
A ship carrying ammunition for the Libyan rebels fighting for control of the coastal road, west of Tripoli to the Tunisian border, blew up on Saturday at Zuwara port.
A huge plume of smoke could be seen rising over the town and smoke was billowing from the burning ship behind a sea breakwater at the port. - Reuters
One4All4One
I'm told it was an accident, thankfully, there were no injuries.
Telegraph
Human slaughterhouse discovered in Tripoli Rebel forces mopping up the last remnants of Gaddafi regime resistance in Tripoli have discovered a warehouse containing the charred skeletons of scores of prisoners killed and burned as troops fled. Residents who live nearby the site, near the southern Tripoli headquarters of Libya's most feared military unit, the Khamis Brigade, loyal to Col Gaddafi's youngest son, say they heard the sounds of shooting and explosions on Tuesday evening.
They were unable to leave their homes to investigate while fighting in the area continued, but on Friday night rebel forces captured the base and drove out the remaining fighters. Yesterday morning, residents and rebel forces moved in to discover the still-warm remains of at least 53 people.
Full art.:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8727498/Human-slaughterhouse-discovered-in-Tripoli.html
Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
Managed to liberate the Sky News equipment from the #Rixos today, with a little help from colleagues at CBS - very weird being back there
The #Rixos is now being run by a group of rebels - nothing of note has been damaged, they claim it is being cleaned up ready to be reopened
SHAKIR'S CAR AGAINST TREE!!
Yousef Shakir was the key mouthpiece on Libyan State TV - here's a pic of his car crashed outside the liberated #Rixos
http://twitpic.com/6c72po
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Rebels have set up extra check points to check for any pro Gaddafi supporters leaving Bin Jawad
hominoid555 whitewakbar
30 Ugandan pilots missing in Libya. sundayvision.co.ug/detail.php?mai…
Lanka-Libya company sacks workers. http://www.sundaytimes.lk/110828/News/nws_06.html
sharifkouddous Sharif Kouddous
Applause and cheers from some spectators as NTC is recognized as new representing Libya. Revolutionary flag goes up #Arableague
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Why this is the moment Libya's Islamic extremists have prayed for, Who writes these headlines !
Noit
Non-Libyans of course!
Why would we want to replace one dictator with another?
Western press should know better by now!
We want democracy and peace, we are very moderate people, we always have been.
We want to rebuild our country together into a democratic Libya where we all can live without fear. No place for extremists here.
jamesmatesitv James Mates
Street sweeping and refuse collection on streets of #Tripoli this evening. Combined with lack of looting, great signs of civic pride
RichardJSpencer Richard Spencer
Saw 53 charred skeletons in a shed, 3 shot bodies outside, 18 more being bagged a few miles away, in #Tripoli #Libya. Khamis's last revenge.
WMCLibya WMCLibya
the @WMCLibya team arrived in #Tunisia last night en-route 2 #Tripoli, #Libya with huge pallet of medical consumables 2 help with crisis 1/3
In Tunis they spent all of today finalising purchases of extrernal fixators, anaesthetic agents & pain killers #Tripoli #Libya #Tunisia 2/3
There is also a pallet of medication ready 4 transport in #Tunisia in addition to 2 vascular sets which r desperately needed in #tripoli 3/3
we aim to deliver these goods by tomorrow to #Tripoli, thank you 4 ur continued support u can donate by going to is.gd/nkuUD8 #Libya
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
Defaced poster from Gaddafi 40th anniversary. 42nd Anniversary of his coup would have been in few days yfrog.com/h2zr5sgvj ##LIBYA
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
Filling up with water in Tripoli yfrog.com/meow4j ##LIBYA
TheElephantAnne Matt
Any Arabic speakers looking for adventure? I am off to tripoli to sort out gaddafi zoo and need a translator!
septimius_sever septimius severus
Among the Loyalists: Despite Defeat, Admiration for #Gaddafi ti.me/r2V3LW .... #Libya
Libya: Fewer abuses in #Zuwara, under opposition control : Bikya Masr | Independent news for the world: http://bikyamasr.com/28805/libya-fewer-abuses-in-zuwara-under-opposition-control/#.TllkuwUT2wE.twitter ... #Libya
NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
Libyans were kicked around by Qaddafi for so long, AU should say "enough!"
CS MONITOR
Libyan boy starts his own news agency, elbowing past foreign correspondents Malik Mohamed, a slight boy armed with an official press pass, pushes his way through hordes of experienced foreign correspondents to interview rebel officials for the Brega News Agency. Since the uprising began in Libya six months ago, hundreds of foreign reporters have descended on the rebel capital in the east. In the midst of them, at nearly every press conference held by the opposition council, one can find Malik Mohamed, a slight 14-year-old who has started his own news agency.
Malik looks much younger than his age, but he holds his own amid all the experienced foreign correspondents, wearing his official press pass and pushing his way through hordes of journalists to get photos and ask questions of rebel officials. After a recent press conference by the rebels’ military spokesman, Malik followed him down the hall,
where the official put his arm on the youth’s shoulders and engaged him in a private chat.
Full story:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2011/0826/Libyan-boy-starts-his-own-news-agency-elbowing-past-foreign-correspondents
A Libyan Freedom Fighter hands the Syrian flag in Bab al-Aziziya on August 25, 2011. #Libya #Syria http://twitpic.com/6c6upc via @bunbunbunnyy
septimius_sever septimius severus
Libyan Rebels Pursue Gaddafi Loyalists Believed to Be Hiding in Beni Walid bloom.bg/puE7OL .... #Libya
#Libya moves forward as fighting subsides news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-…
#AbuSalim Carpet's market burned !! youtube.com/watch?v=Ni6G-T… ... #Libya
A man paints the Libyan flag on a door in #Zuwarah, West Libya, yesterday | View photo - Yahoo! http://yhoo.it/qDZ5Us (AFP) #Libya
#Tripoli, #Libya .. A boy rode a bicycle through the cell blocks of the #AbuSalim Prison by @bdentonphoto pic.twitter.com/589fqkI
Libya_Awake_United
Its over, don't wait what NTC will provide for you, this mentality has to change, act now help with the most you can. You help the NTC!
OmarAmer
Sirte: Gaddafi loyalists control the local radio, the civilians have 2 deal with electrical cuts etc 2 limit what they see on tv etc #Libya
libyanandproud
Libyans do not recognize Jacob Zuma as the legitimate representative of the South African people !
Jeel
AU = Bitter, party of one. Their sugar daddy just got ousted. Id be pissed too
Omar Mukhtar
Hassan Tatanaki was Saif's boy. Way to go bro.....good 180 degrees.
Alex
#NTC r distributing cooking gas in #Tripoli - & have ordered bulk fuel supplies 2 power water pumps - & get water pipes working again #Libya
“There will never be a movie made - about liberation of #Tripoli - that does not feature @AlexCrawfordSky ”
KING #Muammar THE MORONIC & PRINCE #Saif THE PSYCHO: “At a suitable time all the tribal leaders and high ranking figures should come together to salute #Gaddafi and make him king or emperor.”
Such a plan would have allowed the 69-year old dictator, who overthrew King Idris in 1969 in a military coup, to handover power to one of his seven sons within a constitutional framework.”
OMG “ KING GADDAFI”, can you imagine that? EWWWWWWW!
http://shabablibya.org/news/libya-col-gaddafi-was-secretly-plotting-to-make-himself-king
MERCENARIES GET THE MESSAGE - & leave #Libya - some cross over border in 10 truck convoys - carrying nicked heli parts" http://shabablibya.org/news/gaddafis-african-mercenaries-leaving-libya
Alex
#Sabha FALLING BEFORE #Sirte: It seems that most districts of #Sebha r now controlled by #FF – and although there have been talks seeking a resolution between the #NTC and #Sabha leaders - for the #FF to takeover the city without a fight – this has not been finalized – and the discussion has not stopped #Gaddafi units stationed outside the city – from firing grads into the city – as happened in #Zwara last week & #Misrata from March until early this month.
The Sabha Garrison is located outside the city – but the local Sabha people – have been involved in many past uprisings and protests against the Regime – and always maintained a strong #FF presence since #17Feb
A report was posed this afternoon stating that the #Sabha #FF had “captured 3 female snipers from #Sebha! And one of them is pregnant!”
Other reports said #FF “captured 6 mercenaries – and had restored electricity to the city”
Information is sparse – but restoring utilities – probably taken out by the Regime – implies that the #FF are able to safely control major districts if not most of the city - & that for now the Garrison officers are content to remain safely ensconced in their sanctuary outside the city - regardless of what the #maddog may prefer.
#Libya #Hun, #Ghar, #AlQatrun, #Awbari, #Adiri
#Sirte not yet sorted - East #Libya #FF r not far away - but Sirte has moved the front eastwards up the coast road.
Rubbish cleared - Police on duty -Shops opening- Gun signs up - #Tripoli ple show same commitment to civil government as #Benghazi - #Libya
Alex
RANT FOR THE REGIME: Like the dictator of her country of origin - #Algeria - she habitually insults the #Libya people – with the #AlQueda slander – suggesting as recently as last week on SKY – as #Tripoli was falling - to the overwhelming acclaim of the citizenry - that the revolution was controlled by #AlQueda
Like all Gaddafi loyalists - she opposed the #UN intervention in Libya – and in fact she is on record for consistently supporting almost all regime positions on the revolution:
Art. and video:
http://alexblx.posterous.com/rant-for-the-regime
Alex
I predicted that #Gaddafi would execute #TripoliPrisoners - once #Tripoli was falling - But reality shocks. #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=LLbO9Z…
or:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLbO9ZrIk-0&feature=youtu.be
“Saif received me in a private suite in Mayfair's Connaught Hotel” - PASS THE VOMIT BAG - @NabilaRamdani SUCKS UP TO #Saif:
“Saif's Anglophile views should not be discounted as a stunt cooked up by his newly hired PR firm. It was only last year that he completed his doctorate in Governance at London School of Economics.
He is imbued with unremittingly liberal ideas about the future of his country and the redistribution of its estimated £65bn in energy-wealth profits.
A desire to turn Libya into a modern democracy based on the rule of law is expressed at every opportunity, with Saif always highlighting economic progress over dogma.
Saif's reforming record to date is certainly impressive.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/10/saif-al-islam-gaddafi-libya #Libya
This #Rixos minder - captured by #Tripoli #FF 2day - was actually much less violent to #EmanObeidi than others - http://twitpic.com/6c7lfg
Libya In Me
One of Misrata's weaponry inventions used in the fall of Bab Al-Aziziyah :) youtube.com/watch?v=teo7Ho… #Epic #Libya
or:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teo7HozJUuQ
ROFL:
robcrilly Rob Crilly
sign of the times: Benghazi hotel gift shop now sells Thuraya chargers
Sirtawi
Hassan Drouy: There's a great possibility that #Juffra will be liberated b4 #Sirte creating a southern front line to the city. #Libya #Feb17
TalentCoop
respect for the'Rebels' and Libyan people grows daily. God bless them in their quest for freedom - total respect.
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
!!!!! The Libyan telecom & technology website ltt.ly is now flying the freedom flag :) New chapter inshallah! #libya
MUST READ:
Skyman64
Alex Crawford's Edinburgh Q&A Session In Full Below is the full transcript of Sky News special correspondent Alex Crawford's question and answer session at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh Television Festival. I’m joined on the stage now by Alex’s body double, the international editor of Sky News and she is here just in case the line to Tripoli goes down. My nightmare for this session is that Colonel Gaddafi is found when we’re on air because then Sky will take back their dish and I will find myself in the slightly uncomfortable position of saying ladies and gentlemen, let’s go live now to Sky News which for a BBC [man] will be a slightly odd experience. But let us go live now to Tripoli to the three times and surely four times RTS winner, Sky News’ Special Correspondent Alex Crawford. Alex, hi, how are you.
Please read more:
http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16058071
sarasidnerCNN Sara Sidner
Leaving Tripoli along the coastal road and up through Zintan. Clearly the opposition has full control of those roads. Easy journey
DerekStoffelCBC Derek Stoffel
Amazing 2 go out and talk to ordinary Libyans. So generous and genuinely excited 2 talk 2 foreign reporters - couldn't do so before. #Libya
Khalifa
Nice to see a sane person representing #Libya. #Jibril at the AL meeting.
#Jibril: We thank the countries that helped us and we understand and forgive the ones that did not.
#Libya Alahrar TV: #Gadhafi is the main source of support for Alshabab terrorist organization in Somalia.Alshabab is affiliated with alqaeda
NOIT
The Libyan people hate Al Qaeda!
It was the Gaddafi clan that supported Al Qaeda, with the money they stole from our people!
Libyan people are peaceful people who want to live in a free Libya.
Tarek
We want open borders w/ Tunisia, Libya and any other country that overthrows its regime. Travel, Trade, etc youthfriday
LibyaInMe Libya In Me
Look at all these kids enjoying Aisha Gaddafi's pool like they should ;) youtube.com/watch?v=gkbU4J… #Libya
N_Benghazi ن
EW. on another note, is it not the weirdest thing that Gaddafi SWIMS? it's like he's a real human or something...
MISSING: Dr. Tareq Salem Sherif. Born 1972. Missing since June 3/11. If you have any info please call 00218926911775 http://pic.twitter.com/1b3Y1qp
#NTC spokesman #ShamsiddinAbdulmolah: They've identified 2 ppl who actually carried out #Younis assassination but cant find them #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#Benghazi A family member said #Younes' grave had to be guarded and sealed with cement after an attempt to dig up the corpse
LPC #Tripoli A number of snipers caught today on Jumahurya Street.
Rockets, gunfire and the kindness of strangers - Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8727419/Rockets-gunfire-and-the-kindness-of-strangers.html .... #Libya
Libya: celebrations in Al-Jamil http://twitpic.com/6c8r0t http://twitpic.com/6c8r17 western Libya
Bullet proof car of Gaddafi damanged in fighting in Bab al-Aziziya, #Tripoli Aug 27 #Libya http://twitpic.com/6c1c2p via @twitpic
Libya rebels from Benghazi embarking http://twitpic.com/6c1d55 http://twitpic.com/6c1d7w to reinforce in capital Tripoli Aug 27
FromJoanne Joanne
#Nato bombed the Head quarters bunker of Gaddafi in #Sirte
Tripoli while FF are still fighting Gaddafi Goons in #Gargour traffic is flowing and life slowly goes back to normal #Libya
#FF Commander Fawzi Bukatif: We are waiting for the people in #Sirte to come out and talk but we've got no answer up to now
libyanandproud
#Tripoli : BenAshour : Spoke to 1 of my neighbors that escaped from AbuSleem, he was arrested with 3 brothers and 9 relatives. #Feb17 #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI Looting appears to be confined to the mansions and armories of the Gaddafi Family Most homes + businesses hv been unscathed #Libya
#LIBYA MAP updated Aug 27 : twitpic.com/6c8iwr/full by @Libyamap
#Tripoli #NTC Farage sayeh : NTC Preparing rehabilitation and reconciliation program to get flood of weapons off the streets #Libya
#NTC Farage Sayeh : Problem with #TRIPOLI ElectricalPowerSupply= Technicians approaching central control room came under gunfire #Libya
#TRIPOLI Weather forecast for tomorrow 37 °C No Water some areas No Power #Libya goo.gl/uCUHC
#URGENT Qualified #DOCTORS able 2 go 2 #Libya plz EMAIL libyanemergencyaid@gmail.com w/CV & availability ASAP #Sponsorship #Available PLZ RT
During her interrogation Hala Misrati said that from Febr 2 June she had been forced 2sleep @TV cont; tl.gd/cmo9ih
Tripoli_Latest
Hearing more and more #Tripoli residents speaking of desire to abandon weapons and start cleaning/building....
Electricty just returned to shouts of joy and singing "Ma3leshi (too bad)...shafshoofa".... #Tripoli.
walked all the way from soug al joma to martyrs square.... i didnt see a single damaged ATM. #Tripoli
Government buildings and regime locations have been ransacked. But no private property or homes have been looted in #Tripoli to my knowledge
Most people displeased by the ransacking of government buildings. Appears to be a minority doing the looting. #Tripoli
Residents still waiting for public announcement on water issue. Wondering why the NTC is running slow..... #Tripoli
Residents wondering where the transitional police force is that was supposed to take to the streets post regime fall. #Tripoli
NGOs have brought people to tripoli from bengazi. They may take people out if on route to tunisia.
"Victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be" Winston Curchill
SUMMARY AUGUST 24th 2011
8/24/11
8.24.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/DPlt6
Nato’s “key hits” for 23 August:
“In the vicinity of Tripoli: 2 armoured fighting vehicles, 2 military heavy equipment truck, 3 surface-to-air missile system, 1 radar; In the vicinity of Ras Lanouf: 3 armed vehicles, 3 multiple rocket launchers; In the vicinity of Zuwara: 2 tanks, 3 armed vehicles, 2 military trucks, 1 military facility.”
LPC #Tripoli 6am: Men and boys, armed, chanting pro-Gaddafi slogans seen in streets of Hai Dubai, next to Salah el Din G. holdout area
LPC #Tripoli: caller ‘trapped’ at home, says some of the men recognized as neighbors. Believed to have stockpiled regime-supplied weapons
Yaman
“I was like oh my God am in Gaddafi’s room OH MY GOD but then this ting happened I found this I was like OH MY GOODNES!!” – Gaddafi hat man
Hiba_El_G Hiba El-Gamaty
GUYS – they found Gaddafi & Saif! facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…
Tweeting Tripoli
Any country that give shelter to a rapist mass murderer will prove it has nothing to do
with democracy
This morning my son told me he wanted to write “Thank You NATO” on a balloon and release it in the air fir the pilots to see
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI WATER IS #NOT POISONED expert on Toxics Dr: Process of poisoning large quantities of water requires huge amounts of poison
TomSkyNews
New doormat at the Libyan Embassy in London
twitpic.com/6ajuj4
robcrilly Rob Crilly
Lots of rebel troops and artilery moving up road to Ras Lanuf in direction of Sirte
simmjazeera andrew simmons
by LibyaInMe
Pockets of GF resistannce persist in Tripoli and outskirts.
NATO in action overnight in Tripoli. One very loud explosion.
Triplino
Most of the prisoners have been freed the only 2 prisons left are in abo salim area
Aisha
“@stuartdhughes: Just sent pics of journalists trapped in the #rixos in #tripoli – here’s the first ow.ly/i/gcAQ” #Libya
Second picture of journalists inside the #rixos hotel in #tripoli ow.ly/i/gcAV” #Libya
The BBC’s Matthew Price and producer Annie Phrommayon inside the #rixos hotel in #tripoli ow.ly/i/gcAZ” #Libya
4th and final picture of journalists inside the #rixos hotel in #tripoli ow.ly/i/gcB5” #Libya
Enhlish libya tv
NTC spokesman: Doesnt matter if Gaddafi located, Half the NTC will be in Tripoli today
A spokesman for the revolutionary National Transitional Council said it did not matter that Muammar Gaddafi had yet to be located late last night.
“It doesn’t matter,” Mahmoud Shammam, the NTC’s information minister, told CNN, adding that revolutionary forces controlled 90% of the country.
“In a few hours, maximum a few days, we have a new Libya, a new, liberated Libya,” Shammam said.
He told CNN that fighting yesterday was not confined to Tripoli, but raged in several cities.
“We’re fighting in three or four fronts right now,” he said, adding, “our troops are limited.”
Work was underway to move the revolutionaries base from Benghazi to Tripoli.
“Half of the government will be in Tripoli tomorrow morning,” he said, including the ministries of oil, communications, interior, defense and health. “They will take care of their jobs immediately.”
A stabilization team will ensure that the city is supplied with electricity and clean water, Shammam said.
In addition, the Zawiyah refinery is working.
“The whole situation is not so bad,” he said from Libya’s border with Tunisia. “Things are going to get better every day.” But, he added, the work is daunting. Gaddafi left behind no institutions, no political parties, no civil society. “We have to build things from scratch.”
Critical to the revolutionaries ultimate success, he said, will be the release of money that has been frozen in international banks. “We need to provide ourselves with a lot of necessities and we cannot do this without money,” he said.
But the revolutionary’s immediate needs are puny compared to what they have lacked for years, he said.
“Please, please, please, let the international community know — we are hungry for freedom, we are hungry for democracy, we are hungry for a state of law and order and
we would like everybody, everybody everywhere in Arab countries and in the international community to support us and help us to get that.”
The NTC gained legitimacy yesterday as a number of holdout governments and coalitions recognized it, including Egypt and the Arab League. The NTC prime minster Mahmoud Jibril is expected to meet with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Milan tomorrow.
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NTC: Gaddafi must face trial in Libya first
Muammar Gaddafi must face trial in Libya before being transferred to the International Criminal Court (ICC), said Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, spokesman for the National Transitional Council yesterday.
Ghoga told Egyptian state television that Gaddafi, who was indicted by the ICC in May for war crimes, was still in Libya and there was no chance that he will escape.
“Gaddafi is still in Libya, if not in Tripoli, then he may have sneaked to the centre (of the country) or the south,” Ghoga said.
“We are keen to capture Gaddafi and to try him in Libya before he is tried in the criminal court,” he added.
Libyan revolutionaries were searching for the Libyan dictator who ruled the North African Arab country for 42 years after they stormed his headquarters in Tripoli yesterday.
Asked if the revolutionaries would allow Gaddafi an escape route, Ghoga said: “This is impossible. There is no chance for him to escape at all. Gaddafi has no choice.”
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mchancecnn Matthew Chance
Check out the reporters without Borders press release on how journalists in the Rixos are being held at the hotel.
Clashes outside the hotel. Rixos4 hunkered down.
Aljazeera
Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, a spokesman for the rebel National Transitional Council, told Egyptian state television that Muammar Gaddafi must face trial in Libya before being transferred to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Gaddafi, who was indicted by the ICC in May for war crimes, is still in LIbya and there is “no chance” for rebels to would allow him an escape route, Ghoga said.
Gaddafi is still in Libya, if not in Tripoli, then he may have sneaked to the centre of the country or the south. We are keen to capture Gaddafi and to try him in Libya before he is tried in the criminal court.
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Neighbourhoods in Tripoli are being encouraged to have their own sons/FF guard their areas. Already happening in many free areas
Having local fighters guard their own streets areas dramatically decreases any risks of Gdfi forces sneaking into areas or harming FF #libya
Khalifa
Libyana now works in #Tripoli. Just called family there. They are talking freely and very very happy. It’s like talking to different people.
Yefreni
Just now heard loud gunfire and explosion #rixos
gunfire from rixos hotel side #tripoli #libya
Freedom Fighter
May i ask the weapons experts whats the deal with that golden gun? James Bond related? :-D
Reuters: Revolutionaries believe Gaddafi is hiding somewhere in Tripoli clashes now
on going in southern Tripoli where he is believed to be
AJE
Libya – reports of in-fighting in #Tripoli’s Bouslim neighbourhood” #Libya
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Benghazi: 400+ #FF have signed up to sail to #Tripoli. some managed to get on a tug boat last night
Driving to brega to see if ff are really in control
Ajdabiya def no gads here just a lonely looking solitary ff guard on west gate
Now outside brega 1000s of spent grad rockets on ground.
Now at Area 40. Rebel controlled. This a special tweet for gc1
Thick black smoke from burning oil tanks fills the sky as we enter brega.
Bishr. Ff are fishing petrol from ground tanks of petrol station.
Reuters:
FLASH: Libyan rebels believe Muammar Gaddafi is in hiding somewhere in Tripoli – rebel official”
SkyNewsBreak:
Hague: Britain will continue to be highly engaged with NATO to protect civilians”
Viia Guardian Blog
AP’s Dario Lopez-Mills filed this dispatch from the hotel last night:
Fighting intensified Tuesday and the smell of gunpowder hangs in the thick heat, along with sweat and a little fear. When the shooting is most intense, we take refuge in the hotel’s basement conference rooms.
Two satellite telephones set up on a balcony were destroyed by gunfire, so we’ve stopped transmitting our material. We wait and worry the gunmen could turn hostile at any moment.
There is no power and no running water. On Monday we ate bread and butter. On Tuesday, the cook made French fries. Bottled water is running low.
We don’t know when it’s going to end, and we see little of what happens. We weren’t there when Bab al-Aziziya was captured less than 24 hours after Saif al-Islam Gaddafi took us there. He hasn’t been seen publicly since then.
So I can tell a story about trapped journalists, but the real story about what is happening to Libya is just out there.
Unfortunately, we can’t cover it.
The BBC’s Matthew Price, one of 35 foreign nationals trapped in the Rixos
He described it as “day five of the siege of the Rixos hotel”, sayingd: “We believe there are still snipers on the roof of the hotel … The ITN man just had an AK47 pulled on him.”
Libyan rebels say 400 people died and more than 2,000 people were injured in the battle for Tripoli.
Channel 4 News’s Lindsey Hilsum just met the British-educated brother of one the victims. She tweets:
Just met a man who studied in Northampton in Bab al-Aziziya compound. Brother killed yesterday, but says it was worth the sacrifice. #Tripoli
There is no shortage of advice on what to do now in Libya to restore law and order and avoid the mistakes of Iraq.
The Economist argues that international peacekeepers may be necessary:
At a minimum, if Libya finds itself welcoming teams of international aid workers,
engineers or advisers on reconstruction, and if the post-Gaddafi situation looks “semi-permissive” (ie dangerous but not lethal), such foreigners will need protecting. If, in a worst-case scenario, fighters from Benghazi start taking revenge on tribes that were previously loyal to Colonel Gaddafi, then the question of peacekeepers arises.
The Libyan army and police should be retained as much as possible and the deployment of foreign troops should be avoided, argues the Middle East analyst Juan Cole in his 10-point plan on how to avoid the mistakes of Iraq.
A Libya working group set up by the foreign affairs thinktank Chatham House says Libyans should be offered rewards for handing in weapons.
Russia continues to insists that Gaddafi has influence in Libya but says it will recognise the NTC if it bring stability.
President Dmitry Medvedev is quoted by the Russia news agency Ria Novosti as saying:
If the rebels have the power and spirit and opportunity to unite the country on a new democratic basis, then of course we will consider establishing relations with them … For now, the situation hasn’t changed. Basically, there are two governing powers in the country, and, despite the rebels’ success in Tripoli, Gaddafi and his loyalists retain influence and military potential.
The Guardian’s Luke Harding has been rifling through the papers of Libya’s departed prime minister.
I’m standing in the courtyard of the office of Libya’s prime minister, or ex-prime minister as we have to call him, Dr Al Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, who has scarpered off to Tunisia. I have just been sifting through the prime minister’s correspondence. There was an attache case there with various petitions. There was a report about investment in Libya written by Ernst and Young. “Quality in everything we do” was the slogan of the accountancy firm. I found a wedding invitation. I don’t know whether he
got to the wedding or not. There is all the diplomatic legacy of a defunct regime which no longer exists.
Luke also gave a harrowing account of a visit to a hospital where dead and wounded have been taken.
The other place I went to this morning was Tripoli’s Italian-built central hospital where they have treating the dead and the wounded and it is a pretty ghastly scene. On the left as you come in there is a room full of dead fighters, who have been shot – terrible smell. The doctors weren’t sure how many they brought in yesterday but it is dozens … The hospital is lacking all sorts of medical supplies.
The press freedom campaign Reporters Without Borders urged the National Transitional Council to secure the journalists’ safety.
The hotel is surrounded by Gaddafi loyalists who are preventing the journalists from leaving. They are held hostage on the hotel’s first floor, the prisoners of a dying regime that refuses to lay down its arms. There are frequent cuts in the power and water supply. Their situation is very worrying.
Reporters Without Borders urges all the parties involved to ensure the safety of journalists, both Libyan and foreign, who are covering developments in Libya. The National Transitional Council, which has been recognized by many countries as Libya’s provisional government, must do everything in its power to allow journalists to cover the fighting freely and safely.
Reuters is reporting the sound of “heavy gunfire” – small-arms fire and anti-aircraft guns – coming from the area around the hotel.
One of the 35 people stuck in the hotel is former US congressman Walter Fauntroy. The Daily Telegraph quotes him saying: “Right now we are in a precarious situation with some of our friends from the media, because we fear that unless we are able to relocate, we may all be in danger.”
Nick Clegg, the British deputy prime minister, has been speaking to the media. He said the international community should “quickly engage with the opposition forces to help them rebuild their country”. Clegg said:
We are seeing the final stages of the last stand of the remnants of pro-Gaddafi forces … We are going to see the birth of a new Libya. We, Britain, the EU, need
to work with these very brave people … to create a new country and create new institutions from scratch … I don’t think it’s going to be smooth … We need to help them with this very important project to rebuild Libya.
He said the NTC’s leaders “have learned very fully from the mistakes of Iraq: there shouldn’t be venegeance … you need to keep some of the existing institutions in order … and the move to a new, democratic, freer future has to embrace all Libya.”
Clegg said he had met some of the leaders of the NTC and he was “very impressed with their absolute commitment to learning from the mistakes of elsewhere”.
The deputy PM was also asked where Muammar Gaddafi was. He said:
We don’t know where Gaddafi is … It will only be a matter of time before he is located.
But that was “principally a matter for those on the ground” and that was the Libyans, not Nato.
Sky News has just been reporting on today’s meeting of Britain’s national security council at Downing Street, which took place this morning at 9am and was chaired by William Hague. Sky said three topics were covered:
There was an update on the situation on the ground. Nobody was any clearer on the location of Muammar Gaddafi, but there was discussion of whether he might be in Sirte, his home town. There were still pockets of resistance in Tripoli and elsewhere, Sky said the meeting was told.
The NSC discussed stability, with ministers welcoming the increased leadership being shown by the rebel National Transitional Council, although concerns were raised about the humanitarian situation in Tripoli and how medical supplies were getting to hospitals there.
Ministers also discussed working with the UN to unfreeze Libyan assets to help the NTC financially.
William Hague, the British foreign secretary, is giving a press conference in London. He says “we are witnessing the death throes of the Gaddafi regime in Libya” and tells Muammar Gaddafi to stop issuing “delusional statements”.
Hague says this will remain a difficult situation with much to do for weeks and months.
Hague says no one knows where Gaddafi is. He is going to great lengths to make sure of that. He casts doubt on Gaddafi’s claim that it was a “tactical move” for him to leave his compound.
Asked about the foreigners trapped in the Rixos hotel, Hague says he is monitoring the situation closely and is concerned about their safety. He are doing what we can to help by talking to the NTC although they are not in control of that area, he says.
The rebels of Misrata are meanwhile pushing columns of men, artillery and ammunition up the road to Tripoli, with more than 2,000 fighters now taking control of eastern parts of the Libyan capital.
Coming the other way are prisoners: the Guardian saw a pick-up truck entering Misrata last night with what appeared to be black African mercenaries in uniforms huddled together on the flatbed of the truck receiving occasional kicks from their guards.
There is huge resentment in this rebel city about the appearance of mercenaries from Chad who have been captured in recent weeks, though it is unclear whether it is these forces, rather than Libyan government soldiers, who are responsible for the atrocities and destruction inflicted on this city.
Libyan rebels are advancing on Sirte, the last major stronghold of pro-Gaddafi forces, reports Chris Stephen from Misrata, with opposition columns now 35 miles west of the city. He also has news about the Scud missiles being fired from Sirte towards Misrata. Chris writes:
Misrata Military Council reported only sporadic resistance as rebel units pushed down the main coastal highway that runs east, with spearheads now at the town of Al-Washka. One commander told the Guardian that they hoped to effect a link-up south of the city with rebels advancing from the other direction, after reports that opposition forces have overrun the strategic oil towns of Brega and Ras Lanuf.
“We can unite with the other forces from the eastern front said Anwar Sarwan, a Misrata rebel logistics officer. “We are making good progress.”
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
ICRC spokesman: assistance has been delivered to 3 hospitals IN Tripoli #Libya
AJE:
The EU said they will send a team to appraise the needs of #Libya
Patriots of Misratah – وطنيو مصراته
The UK will also continue to provide humanitarian aid to Libya and is involved in diplomatic negotiations at the UN to unfreeze Libyan assets “which ultimately belong to the Libyan people”, says Mr Hague
AJE:
Pockets of resistance in and around Abu Saleem area #Tripoli
Aljazeera
Muammar Gaddafi is still somewhere in Tripoli and clashes were under way in a southern area of the city where he may be hiding, a rebel official told the Reuters news agency.
“We think Gaddafi is still hiding somewhere in Tripoli. He is likely to be in the al-Hadhba al-Khadra area,” the official in Tripoli, who gave his name as Abdulrahman, told Reuters by telephone. “There is fighting in the al-Hadhba al-Khadra area.”
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
4 days of blood, sweat, elation, pride, tears, courage, takbeer, comradery, providence,rumours, fear, exhaustion & martyrdom
christineromans
Middle East scholar Ajami says these moments in #Libya are chaotic but Gadhafi no longer matters. “It is the first day for Libya.”
Bensasi II
Please spread the word Dr.Hajjaji has opened a home hospital in Hay Alandalus #tripoli anyone injured cal for Call 0912139236
Paolo
Libya seemed horrible & hopeless, I never thought we’d see Libyans rise up and free themselves from tyranny
Fiona
One of my students spent 18 years in jail for not liking Gaddafi; he was one of the gentlest men you’ve ever met !
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
As promised, tweeting this once again. Libya is no Iraq – this revolution is the real deal shabablibya.org/news/libya-is-… #Libya
Gem M
To Gadaffi family Libya was a private ATM that gave them unlimited $£
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Iraq recognises the Libyan Transitional National council
Aiman
Remember that ALL LIBYANS contributed to this revolution. We will never let this newfound freedom slip away.
I expect gradual stabilisation & return to law and order over the next few months such as what happened in the East
It will be a challenge no doubt. However, I honestly cannot see things getting any worse than #Libya under #Gaddafi.
No single faction will dare think of autocratic control in #Libya. We now know what people power tastes like.
I expect a lot of trial & error in the immediate post #Gaddafi era as this new democracy explores its potentials
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Freedom Fighters are now trying to surround the Rixos hotel #Libya #Tripoli
Clashes South of Tripoli where gaddafi may be hiding: FF official #Libya #Tripoli
RICH J
I think Libya can been a shining beacon in the Arab world.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
It is pretty clear there are some very important Gaddafi people in and around the Rixos
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
FF say this is where he is Gaddafi has a farm south of #Tripoli
Tweeting Tripoli
I am Libyan and I am proud to be a “RAT”. Running After Tyrants :p
I know many doctors who fled to Tunisia after they were targeted by the goons. they must be on their way home
Just back from a quick tour around my area. People are very happy but still alert. My first search FF checkpoint for. Were very polite.
They told me they confiscate weapons from people who have no signed letter from the Local FF committee. Very relieved to know that.
FF now have to have a license to walk around with a rifle. They told me they confiscated a grenade half an hour ago from a car.
Asking people to point out Gaddafi Goons who had weapons before 20th of August. They said they question them, take their weapons and release
A make shift checkpoint. Only manned at Night. yfrog.com/khxs0wlj
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Representatives of the National Council of Libya are in Qatar for funding summit later on today #Libya #Qatar
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Map of West Libya as of 24th August v @4Adam facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… #Libya
The Dictator
Okay, I hate Nick #Clegg, but he definitely gets brownie points for saying “Free #Libya forces” rather than rebels..
feb17libya Feb17Libya
AudioBoo: Tripoli: woman who climbed to the roof to help spot snipers. bit.ly/oFWC4V
Image Gallery: Libyans storm Gaddafi Compound bit.ly/p6Q7JF
Video: Libya rebels destroy symbols of Kadafi’s power bit.ly/qmUmVx #libya
LIVE Libya Unrest: August 24,2011 bit.ly/qG3vZV #libya
paul
I get pissed off at US media claiming this that or the other thing & that Libya won’t have a free democratic govt
Khiria
“gallek ye7ko mara fi wa7ed essma m3ammer zman g3ed 42 sana”-my mom being sarcastic in the morning pretending #Gaddafi has been dead for yrs
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI #RIXOS HOTELFoxNews producer speaking from the hotel now on Skynews #Libya Many armed Gaddafi goons melted away Just few left
#Eni PaoloScaroni in Contact #NTC since April3 NOT worried #OIL CONTRACT oil production contracts till 2042 #Gas contracts 2047
#TRIPOLI Ex #IAEA official: #Tajoura stocks large quantities of Radioisotopes, Radioactive waste and low-enriched URANIUM fuel
Yonhap News Agency
S. Korean ambassador’s residence in Libya attacked by armed robbers
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Yonhap) — A gang of armed robbers attacked the South Korean ambassador’s residence in Tripoli and stole televisions and other gadgets, but no one was hurt during the rioting, a diplomatic source in Seoul said Wednesday.
About 30 rioters stormed the residence building in the Libyan capital on Tuesday evening (local time), where two or three local employees were working at the time, but no one was injured in the looting, the source said on the condition of anonymity.
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI More then 100 G Troops were captured inside Bab Al #Azizyah
#Battle for #TRIPOLI Mustafa #Jalil: 400 dead 2,000 Injured of which 600 are pro Gaddafi
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Libya’s Tamoil cuts links with Gaddafi state investor. af.reuters.com/article/libyaN…
Channel New Asia
Pro-Gaddafi forces fire Scud rockets at Misrata
BENGHAZI, Libya: Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi fired several Scud missiles from the regime’s bastion of Sirte at rebel-held Misrata further up the coast late Tuesday, a rebel source said.
“Scuds launched from Sirte towards Misrata, loud explosions heard,” the media centre of the Misrata military council said in a statement.
There were no further details and the report was not confirmed by any independent source.
On Tuesday NATO officials said one of the unguided rockets had been fired at Misrata from the neighbourhood of Sirte, Gaddafi’s birthplace, the previous day.
It “landed in the coastal area of Misrata, most likely in the sea or on the shore,” chief NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said, adding “we are not aware of damage or casualties.”
More and source:
www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_wor...
FromJoanne Joanne
FF are advancing on SIRTE from east and west Negotiations began Tuesday with local tribes in bid 2secure Peaceful surrender #Libya #AFP
The First Post
Qatari special forces led Libyan attack on compound
While Foreign Secretary William Hague and former British Army chief Gen Sir Michael Jackson were busily promoting the argument that the Libyan people had taken Tripoli on their own, it has emerged that foreign forces played a significant role in yesterday’s
storming of Col Gaddafi’s compound.
At one stage, Nato commanders had to ask the rebels to hold back from the compound while the RAF launched a final missile attack on Gaddafi’s HQ.
And, according to The First Post’s defence expert Robert Fox, members of the Qatari special forces, trained by Britain, could be seen clearly directing the final assault on the compound.
The Arab emirate of Qatar has already emerged as a major supporter of the new Libya, arming the rebels over recent months and playing host today to an international conference which will see a billion-dollar-plus fund started towards the rebuilding of war-torn Libya.
The conference comes as members of the National Transitional Council head from Benghazi to Tripoli, pledging to make Libya a “united, civil and democratic nation”.
More and source:
www.thefirstpost.co.uk/83509,news-comme...
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI @NATO Hit 2 Gaddafi Forces targets early wednesday morning
LibyanTweet
I called my neighbor & he confirmed poisoned cases, they can poison the area by area as water reservoirs are spreaded
FromJoanne Joanne
This is very very important that they r 100% sure its the water and NOT food poisoning since much food has fgone off ! #Libya
Expert Toxics DR says same untrue rumours were in Benghazi It isnt possible 2poison Huge tanks with huge volumes water
evanchill Evan Hill
Just left the Bab al-Aziziya. Sniper fire first, then rockets landed behind, in front and then 20 meters from me as I lay on the ground.
LibyanTweet
They are talking about 8 poisoning cases at the central hospital of #Tripoli
FromJoanne Joanne
CentralHospital got no medication no drs apart from handful stressedout overworked drs
Also many were kidnapped especially females I hope they are I know there is group of DRS on way from Spain
UK forces & NATO maintain Presence over #Tripoli & other areas of potential conflict in #Libya ready to take further action under UNSCR1973
France + UN working on DraftResolution 2enable #Libya Assets to be Unfrozen + Sanctions Unlocked in coming days Talks in #NY #Qatar
Tuesday night there was fighting in the deep south desert town of #Sabha #Libya Another place Gaddafi + clan thought to be
#TRIPOLI Hundreds of FF are on their way by boat reaching capital by via sea from #benghazi to helpp FF clear Tripoli of GF
FLASH #TRIPOLI Fighting in Bab Al #Azizyah and Al #Hadbah al Khadra area GF hiding around airport road
Max
Where is Gaddafi ?? ygreck.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c5dd653e... HAHA :)
Military.com
Libya’s Deadliest Weapons Not Yet Corralled
WASHINGTON — No one can be sure who controls the Libyan government’s weapons stockpiles, a stew of deadly chemicals, raw nuclear material and some 30,000 shoulder-fired rockets that officials fear could fall into terrorists’ hands in the chaos of
Moammar Gadhafi’s downfall or afterward.
One immediate worry, U.S. intelligence and military officials say, is that Gadhafi might use the weapons to make a last stand. But officials also face the troubling prospect that the material, which was left under Gadhafi’s control by a U.S.-backed disarmament pact, could be obtained by al-Qaida or other militants even after a rebel victory is secured.
The main stockpile of mustard gas and other chemicals, stored in corroding drums, is at a site southeast of Tripoli. Mustard gas can cause severe blistering and death. A cache of hundreds of tons of raw uranium yellowcake is stored at a small nuclear facility east of the capital.
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BBC
Libya Crisis: Inside the Rixos Hotel
A “desperate situation” is developing at Tripoli’s Rixos hotel, according to BBC correspondent Matthew Price, who is now trapped there along with some 35 other journalists and foreign nationals
Audio:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-14648330
LisaatSky
Fighting around airportroad The area is called Al Hadbah al Khadra where I lived its not far from Rixos edge Nasr forest #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI There are foreign #Intelligence personnel on the ground in Tripoli to advice FF with combat strategies
#TRIPOLI Sue Turton in Bab Al Azizyah today SNIPERS in trees of School area youtube.com/watch?v=qAW0kc… #libya #GaddafiCrimes
Aljazeera
Libyan rebels: Snipers inside Gaddafi compound
Al Jazeera’s Sue Turton, reporting live from the Libyan capital, Tripoli, said there has been “phonetic activity” inside Muammar Gaddafi’s compound in Bab al-Aziziya.
“What we are hearing is that in the school in the compound … that there have been snipers, we think, in those trees.
“That is what the rebel soldiers are telling us and they have sent as much artillery in there as they possibly can … to try and take those snipers out,” she said.
Watch our correspondent’s live report from inside the centre of Gaddafi’s compound.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAW0kcuX12k&fea...
FromJoanne Joanne
BREAKING Blood Center Over run with ppl :) DONATING BLOOD IN #TRIPOLI ~youtube.com/watch?v=Hv4oVz… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv4oVz99GxQ&fea...
Gaddafi claims he walked around last night disguised but its BS ofcourse #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
BabAlAziziyah+AlMansoura area + another area nr Rixos hv come under attack of GF Most bombardment coming from AbuSalim area #reuters
#Tripoli ’s Main azZawiyah Hospital entrance overwhelmed with injured ppl arriving by car taxi ambulance ad carried in2 makeshift triageUnit
Channel 4 News
At Tripoli’s main Al Zawiya Hospital, everything is overwhelmed by incoming casualties – not least the mortuary. I stopped counting after 37 bodies – all in civilian clothing – strewn about the corridors and room which were never meant for this purpose. Almost all the bodies I examined appeared to have died from gunshot wounds. Officials here have confirmed most were killed by snipers in the past two days. One said at least 400 people had been killed.
More:
blogs.channel4.com/world-news-blog/trip...
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH #RIXOS Jounos are in contact with Journos who r with FF they have the sense something is about to Happen
AJE
G forces in Abu Salim rptd attacking pro-FF ppl in area, Military Council keen on taking swift action to eliminate pblm
Joanne
#BREAKING Freedom Fighters are offering #Amnesty to Anyone who Capturers or KILLS #GADDAFI
#BREAKING #IOM Boat waiting Off Shore to evacuate up to 400 people from #Tripoli larger ship ( cap. 1000 ppl ) will arriv in fewdays #Libya
firasshaari
I dedicate our victory #to my late father Dr.Wanis Shaari who lost 18Yrs of his Life in #Busaleem prison #Libya
Jon
The wife of a NTC official was carjacked in broad daylight yesterday in Benghazi by two armed men. She thought they were rebels.
Freedom Fighter
I have news that one of the bbc reporters escaped from the rixos, i’m looking for him.
The journalists don’t have electricity in the rixos so they turned off thier phones to save power.
BBC reporter Matthew Price says cameraman trying to leave #Rixos yelled at & stopped by Gaddafi guard pointing an AK47 at him
feb17libya Feb17Libya
NTC chairman Mustafa Abdul Jalil says they are offering amnesty for anyone who captures or kills Muammar #Gaddafi
AJE: Sue Thorton in Tripoli: Abu Sleem neighborhood is still under Gaddafi loyalists control -
AJE Sue Thorton in Tripoli: The revolutionary military council in #Tripoli are getting together to plan a form of attack at Abu Sleem
Channel 4 Alex Thompson in Tripoli: At Tripoli’s main Al Zawiya Hospital, everything is overwhelmed by incoming casualties
Channel 4 Alex Thompson in Tripoli: “I stopped counting after 37 bodies, all in civilian clothing”
Channel 4 Alex Thompson in #Tripoli: The bodies I examined appeared to all have died from gunshot wounds.
Official #Gaddafi Bounty – Wanted Dead or Alive – $2 Million Libyan Dinars (1.6USD) + Amnesty
Via Shabab
France, partners prepare new Libya UN resolution
PARIS (Reuters) – France and its partners at the United Nations are working on a draft resolution aimed at unfreezing Libyan assets and unlocking sanctions, a French diplomatic source said on Wednesday.
The resolution is still in the preliminary stages and will be worked out in the next few days during talks in Qatar, Turkey and New York, the source said, without giving a timeframe.
“It is difficult to be precise on the details of the resolution,” he said, adding that it would look at the issue of sanctions and frozen assets now that rebel forces appear to be on the brink of ousting Muammar Gaddafi.
The foreign ministry did not refer specifically to a new resolution, but spokesman Bernard Valero said the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) must be handed control of its country’s resources.
“The NTC must have the financial resources that were frozen by the U.N. Security Council resolutions,” he said.
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LPG reaches Benghazi from Italian refinery-AIS
LONDON Aug 24 (Reuters) – Rebels in Benghazi received a cargo of LPG from Italy’s Milazzo refinery this week, according to AIS satellite tracking information.
The cargo arrived aboard the Warwick, which sailed from the plant jointly owned by Kuwait Petroleum Corp (KPC) and Eni on Sunday. LPG is widely used for heating and cooking.
Source:
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schreibfieber
Libya is my love. Its inside of me and SLEEPS since I was born in 1969 AND NOW FINALLY AWAKES! Must cry writing this.
SOME TRUTHS:
Miss B
The world learnt who you are as you wrote history :). No one will ever ask “Libya? Where’s that?” again.
Ess
The media is playing a catch up game and if it wasn’t for social media, we wouldn’t be where we are 2day
Libyan rebels advance on Gaddafi’s home town
Libyan rebels are advancing from east and west on Muammar Gaddafi‘s home town of Sirte, with some units within 35 miles of the city, the last major stronghold of loyalist forces.
The Misrata military council reported only sporadic resistance as rebel units push down the main coastal highway towards the desert city.
Gaddafi has not been seen in public in Tripoli for weeks, and speculation has grown that he may have fled to his birthplace. But rebel forces are unlikely to attempt to fight their way into Sirte, and are expected to surround the city.
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Muhammad Al Gaddafi’s diplomatic passport found www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4g_8zBdwzk&fea... #Libya #Tripoli
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Sirtawi
Libyan State TV b4 it went down: footage from #Sirte of the ranch NATO bombed. Clearly no families were there. #FAIL youtube.com/watch?v=Oso01_…
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malik L
now I can have a reunion dinner in Benghazi this evening. my whole body is broken. i barely celebrated las few days. See u soon
Mustafa Abdel Jalil NTC Chairman: Libyan businessmen are offering the reward for Gaddafi bounty
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Director of the Turkish cnstrctn company that designed &built the Rixos flatly denied rumours that it was connected by tunnels Bab Aziziya
Strong Enough – Farid Alhadi feat malik L (Free Libya Version)
For the women raped, who lost husbands, sons, brothers, daughters, fathers – who are part of the movement, supporting the movement. You are Strong Enough.
Video Produced by Esma Saleh
Instrumental by Farid Alhadi
Written and Performed by Farid Alhadi and malik L
Arranged and Produced by Farid Alhadi
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Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
3 ambulances with blue lights on speeding past us heading back towards benghazi
Ugayla town. This is the furthest i have been west. this point all way to misrata was pro gad when here last.
Fighting ahead. Bin jawwad 1 ff killed and 5 injured.
We are now filling up with petrol in ras lanuf. Fuel is free here.
Ff called abdul told me: when i catch gadaffi i will not kill him instead i will put him in monkey cage at benghazi zoo
The ff here say we are the first film crew to visit them for months
Sirtawi
Reports that #Gaddafi addressed ppl in #Sirte via local cable channel to fight #FF coming from east and west.
#Gaddafi’s msg is said to have been transmitted through a large screen in one of #Sirte’s squares.
#Gaddafi’s msg to ppl in #Sirte was filled with hatred towards #FF and urged locals to break their fasting and fight them
#Sirte locals terrified by huge number of mercenaries retreating to the city from eastern/western front lines
Check points have multiplied in #Sirte in the past few days, mostly monitored by people from Gadadfa tribe
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
Saadi Gaddafi tells us he wants to negotiate ceasefire to avoid further bloodshed and that he has the authority to do so.
Yefreni
I took this video one hour ago in front of my house to prove that there is gunfire bit.ly/nTyxXq and the big building in the video is the school #tripoli #libya
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FromJoanne Joanne
#BREAKING #TRIPOLI #Rixos Journalists are OUT now
#TRIPOLI #RIXOS4 @mchancecnn Congrats to all Glad u r all safe and if u hurry u can just make the #IOM boat waiting off shore :)
AL ALRABIYA : SAIF is in abu salim street
in other areas of tripoli the life is almost normal
Rebel tv:
Prisoners freed from Abu Salim prison
mchancecnn Matthew Chance
5 journos enter #rixos from outside, but kicked out by Gadhafi loyalists at gunpoint. We still not allowed to leave
All puzzled as to why we are being kept in #rixos. Any ideas?
Special forces from Britain, France, Jordan n Qatar in Libya stepped up operations in Tripoli n other cities in recent days- NATO official
Rixos crisis ends. All journalists are out! #rixos
CNN and other journos team have left #rixos hotel
Here is timeline of events that have happened in the last hour at the #Rixos……
330p local time: Negotiating with guards for our release. They said we can leave, but in small groups. #rixos
We are expecting the ICRC and Chinese embassy to send cars to pick us up. Fingers crossed.
4:00p local time: Pandemonium in lobby of hotel, all going back upstairs. Another anti- climax?
410p local time: After a heart to heart with Arab speaking journos, two Gadhafi guards disarmed
415p local time: This feels like the end game in this dramatic and unpleasant situation
Running across upper floors of hotel to find a flag with TV written on it. They want to put it on the car
These tweets are a timeline of the last hour at the #rixos
Getting flags with “TV” on them ready for when we are released. Which we hope is soon
BBC cars arrives at #rixos, BBC crew is leaving the hotel.
436pm local time: BBC has left the hotel
437pm local time: ICRC cars have arrived at the hotel.
438pm local time: Now pulling out of #rixos hotel after 6 days of a complete nightmare. Still dodgy situation
439pm local time: Crammed with other journos in the car. Reuters, other cameramen, FOX, and AP #rixos
We have been holed up together for what seems like an eternity. We could finally get out freedom!!! #rixos
I can see the NTC rebels. We are nearly there!
#Rixos crisis ends. All journalists are out! #rixos
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
There is NO water in #Siyahiya. #Gaddafi filth have damaged water turbines
#Freedomfighters are at the 40km gate E. of #Sirte waiting for permission of #NTC to enter the city.
Tripoli: Journalists at Rixos FREED. Rixos Hotel needs to be Bunker Buster bombed RIGHT NOW, VALID REASONS
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “KURUOGLU 3” remains anchored just outside port #Tripoli
#Togo “Wing In Ground” ship “TASUCU” now anchored just outside port #Tripol
#Liberia OIL TANKER “DELOS” now arriving to Western #Libya. #Feb17
#Tripoli: Unconfirmed: Reports that Seif #Gaddafi in #AbuSaleam area & #Gaddafi & one of his sons in #Gasir #BinGhashear. #Libya #Feb17
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Very different experience crossing border on the rebel side than it was when I went in to tripoli,journalists welcomed with smiles this time
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Tweeting from Tripoli… Libya is free… Allahu Akbar
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Gaddafi forces in Tripoli zoo/Rixos trying to push forward to International Airport… is someone trying to flee?
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Hathba and Busleem are 80% under control except 2 or 3 buildings and apartment blocks that need clearing & de-snipering ;)
English Libya tv
From prison break to party – revolutionaries’ ride into Tripoli
Our drive to Tripoli started with news of a prison break and ended with a party. Around noon Sunday, we were waiting at a checkpoint manned by revolutionaries in the coastal town of Jedaim, on the main road to the Libyan capital, the main stronghold of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
All morning, trucks with mounted guns and revolutionary fighters had been rushing forward to clash with Gaddafi’s forces somewhere in the 40 kilometres between us and the capital. Ambulances occasionally came screaming back, giving us an unclear picture of the revolutionaries’ progress toward what could be the final stage in the six-month revolutionary struggle to chase Gaddafi from power.
Then we saw a barefoot man with black bags under his eyes and ratty clothes get out of a car. Cheering revolutionaries surrounded him, firing their rifles in the air. Some told us the man had been a prisoner in a notorious army base run by one of Gaddafi’s sons outside Tripoli. Revolutionaries had stormed the base, releasing hundreds of prisoners, they said.
Other prisoners arrived, climbing out of cars, buses and trucks. Friends who hadn’t seen them since they’d been locked up months ago rushed over to embrace them.
That was our first sign of a breakthrough. If revolutionaries had stormed the base, they
would likely push for Tripoli.
We raced down the coastal road to the base to find the revolutionary tri-colour flag hanging over the main gate. Revolutionaries were everywhere, driving in and out and cheering for the hugely symbolic victory.
The base’s fall won the revolutionaries more than glory. Inside the grounds, filled with towering eucalyptus trees, they found huge crates of munitions, which they cracked open and loaded into their trucks.
Much will serve them in the fight for Tripoli: rockets, belts of ammunition, hand grenades. One man walked off cradling two mortars like a baby.
The value of other booty was less obvious. Groups of teenagers carried off tear gas guns. Asked how they planned to use crowd-control tools in combat, one said only, “We took them from Gaddafi.” That seemed to be all that mattered to him.
Elsewhere, revolutionaries found a large metal safe, which they tried to open by shooting at it with rifles – unsuccessfully. Another group carted off an entire living room set.
While many of the trucks headed off to collect munitions, others drove straight for Tripoli. We followed them and soon found ourselves in a two-lane parade of vehicles stretching as far as we could see.
The mass of cars was like a rolling celebration, with revolutionaries chanting, singing and firing their guns in the air. The caravan met little resistance for huge stretches of road, pulling through towns whose names we had only seen on maps because they had until that day remained in Gaddafi’s grip.
Jubilant residents lined the road to cheer the passing trucks, many watching in disbelief as the fighters rolled by.
Gunfire – this time not celebratory – erupted in front of our car as we neared the town of Janzour, a suburb just 10 kilometres west of Tripoli. We fell back, and a local family invited us into their home, where they served us juice and fired up their generator so we could have electricity to use our computers and charge our phones.
We wanted to enter the city, but the situation inside remained murky. Telephone lines had been bad all day, but our driver managed to reach his wife in Tripoli. She said the house was surrounded with gunfire, but she had seen revolutionaries in the streets from her window flying tri-colour flags on their cars. Other reports emerged that the revolutionaries had seized the city’s central Green Square – best known as the site of sprawling pro-Gaddafi rallies.
We decided the chance to see for ourselves if revolutionaries had taken the square was too great to miss. It was well past midnight, and most streets were eerily deserted when we arrived. Few of the cars we did see flew tri-colour flags, making us worry that they could belong to Gaddafi supporters who would stop us – or worse.
We eventually hit checkpoints manned by revolutionaries, though their disorganization
made it clear they had only been set up hours before and the revolutionaries were still unsure of their roles.
As we progressed through narrow streets lined with young men and armedrevolutionaries , the mood rose. We turned onto a tree-lined boulevard and our driver soon announced: “This is it. We have reached the square.”
It was vast and well lit, lined with banks and offices, with date palms in the center plaza. It was both familiar and strange; we had both seen it before, but in very different circumstances. Ben had seen it often on Libyan state TV, whether for pro-government rallies or speeches by the ‘Leader of the Revolution’ himself. Karin had driven through it on an earlier trip, escorted by a Gaddafi government minder who prevented her from asking anyone what they thought.
But now it boiled in celebration. Car horns blared, revolutionaries fired their guns overhead and chanted that the blood of the martyrs was not shed in vain. Amid the noise, two revolutionaries lay side by side in one corner on a row of steps. They and their colleagues had been fighting for months, and they commemorated their arrival in the capital with a nap.
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Written by Ben Hubbard and Karin Laub, AP; with editing by Libya TV
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Ali Habibi
Following #Qaddafi’s non logical reasoning, he might capture himself to gain amnesty for himself! ;-)
Libya Outreach
Need specific lists from specific hospitals & clinics on priority medicine and aid. Looking for top 5-10 items needed.
Juhina
emotional phone call on libya alahrar about zwara, ended up crying at the end. Zwara is still under attack, our people are still dying!
csn0
“The world didn’t know Libyans,” said Al Wakidi Mohamed, a journalist and rebel fighter “They knew Qaddafi.”
Tweeting Tripoli
Many still held hostages in the Notorious AbuSleem prison. FF will not burst into the prison or else risk deaths.
More graffiti after freeing an area… pic.twitter.com/t12PEvz
Another makeshift checkpoint with sand dunes to slow down cars. pic.twitter.com/IKJjIcA
FF occupy these checkpoints just before darkness… pic.twitter.com/hnupDQa
The Russian politicians are so dump. Medvedev says FF should negotiate with Gaddafi. I tell him: Where the hell is he? And we’ll negotiate!
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
A foreign journalist held inside Rixos hotel: Qaddafi forces have withdrawn from the hotel #alarabiya #Libya #Qaddafi
Aljazeera
AJE: Zeina Khodr reports from Tripoli
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr gives an overview of the latest developments in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTRF1WSDAAA
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Muammar Gaddafi’s daughter says Libyans must unite against NATO, foreign interference – Loyalist TV channel Al-Orouba – reuters
Libyan NTC calls on oil workers in Brega and Ras Lanuf to return to work.
Jordan
BBC are now referring to the FFs as “Transitional National Council (TNC) forces”, not rebels.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gaddafi filth bombarding #Zuwara w/ GRAD rockets at this time.
Tripoli: Many reports Abu Baker Younis residence on Airport road full of #Gaddafi mercenaries
( FYI: Min. of Defence)
Sirtawi
Trying really hard to arrange Satellite Phone connections with #Sirte. If only people would let go of the fear factor.
Freedom Fighter
I remember when pro gaddafi’s were chanting in the streets we were inside leaving them in peace, now when we chant they start shooting.
Gunshooting and bullets comes tward my house from azizia side
NicRobertsonCNN
Saadi Gaddafi Email: “I’m trying to do something to safe Tripoli soon it will be sea of blood and dead days everywhere.”
Hayat
Basically from the last #Tripoli call #Hadhba is so-so #Abusleem is a massacre also most #Tripoli prisoners are there, #GFs kill from cars.
BintLibya
They found psychological records on #Gaddafi and his sons in the Fawzi Zulmat residence Those have got to be some interesting records #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli #Rixos4 and rest of Journos are now moved to 10 yr old 5star #Corinthia Hotel
Danya
URGENT ! The matter is very urgent and important ! The Tunisian borders refuse to let any Libyan ambulance enter, they stop at the Tunisian border and carry the injured (Leg & arm) to a Tunisian military ambulance and wait from 35 till 40 hrs until the no. of injured reaches 4. This long waiting leads to death or amputitions, which could have been prevented if transfering the injured Freedom fighters from Libya was instant. Pls, Kindly SPREAD WIDELY, Contact whom it may concern and ACT FAST ! So that Tunisian authorities takes action. For more details Kindly call Dr. Imad 0021693686478
Reuters
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday called on Muammar Gaddafi and Libya’s rebels to stop fighting and sit down for talks.
“We would like (the fighting) to stop as soon as possible and for them to sit down at the negotiating table and reach an agreement on Libya’s future.”
Reuters
Libyan rebel leader Mahmoud Jibril will meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris on Wednesday to discuss prospects for a political transition in a post-Muammar Gaddafi era. France spearheaded the West’s military intervention in Libya with Sarkozy taking a personal gamble less than a year from a presidential election by becoming the first foreign leader to formally support the rebels.
AP
Even after rebels stormed into the capital and overwhelmed his residence, Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi has plenty of places to hide. Underground, for example. The man who ruled Libya for 42 years is known to have deep bunkers under his Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli, which rebel fighters seized Tuesday. Some former officials say the compound is connected by long tunnels to far-flung parts of Tripoli in a hidden network that would provide a quick escape route.
Reuters
A Libyan rebel government would honour all the oil contracts granted during the Muammar Gaddafi era, including those of Chinese companies, Ahmed Jehani, a senior rebel representative for reconstruction told Reuters in an interview.
AP
Libyan diplomats and students smashed portraits of Moammar Gadhafi, shouted “Game over!” and raised the rebel flag at their Manila embassy Wednesday as part of defections against the leader at Libya’s missions worldwide.
WSJ
Libya’s rebel leaders are expected to meet with United Nations’ representatives this week to discuss stabilization plans for the country, as part of the rebels’ efforts to solicit international financial and political aid to Libya following the collapse of Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s regime.
pdanahar
Rebels trying to outflank & surround the #Gaddafi forces still holding in his compound. Heavy gunfire going on.
Al Jazeera correspondent in Tripoli reporting that “Bab Al-Aziziya compound is being hit by tank fire from the nearby area of Abu Selim.”
ICRC
The ICRC has been able to visit a few local clinics and hospitals and can see that some of them have been overwhelmed by the numbers of patients. Robert Waudo of the ICRC says that as well as a lack of supplies, many medical personnel are unable to get to their places of work to help casualties because of the security situation.
Aljazeera
Al Jazeera’s Sue Turton reports from Tripoli: We are seeing plumes of smoke in various areas .. in the Abu Salim neighbourhood, that is still under the control of Gaddafi loyalists, there have been attacks there on people who have said they are rebels.. The military council are getting together to decide how to form a plan of attack. The military council is very keen to do something quite quickly and bring down the pockets of resistance that are still present..
Channel 4 news
At Tripoli’s main Al Zawiya Hospital, everything is overwhelmed by incoming casualties – not least the mortuary. Channel 4 reporter Alex Thompson stopped counting after 37 bodies – all in civilian clothing. Almost all the bodies she examined appeared to have died from gunshot wounds. Officials here have confirmed most were killed by snipers in the past two days. One said at least 400 people had been killed.
Tunisia
Talks are under way between rebels and pro-Gaddafi forces over Ras Jadir, the main crossing on the Libya-Tunisia border, BBC Monitoring reports, quoting rebel radio. It says Tunisian authorities are trying to mediate a peaceful handover of the crossing, still under the control of Gaddafi loyalists.
British officials say UN Security Council diplomats could vote on a plan for releasing frozen Libyan assets before the end of the week
BBC Matthew Price:
“We drove out of the hotel compound into a completely different city than the one we had seen seven days earlier.”
sarasidnerCNN Sara Sidner
Social media helping journalists held in Rixos hotel deal with situation
Aiman
Apparently, the #Rixos journalists were freed by one of the ‘older’ #Gaddafi guards who was persuaded to drop his weapon and swap sides.
ThisisKhaledM
#Gaddafi loyalists at #Rixos hotel believed Musa Ibrahim story about “armed gangs, al Qaeda” etc
lol Matthew Chance is shocked at the jubilation in #Tripoli streets..yall were staying with gov officials, did u believe their story?
Souffian Tripoli
stop shooting in the air !!!!! #Tripoli #Libya Stop shooting in the Air
AJA A large convey of FFs from Misrata advancing to AbuSlim neighborhood in Tripoli to eliminate the remaining of Gaddafi’s loyalists
BBC journalist describes release from Rixos hotel
A group of foreign journalists who had been forced to stay inside Tripoli’s Rixos hotel, under armed guard, have now been allowed to leave.
Dozens of journalists had been trapped inside the hotel for five days as gunmen loyal to Col Gaddafi roamed hallways restricting their movements.
The BBC’s Matthew Price was one of those trapped in the hotel. He said there were times when journalists feared the worst.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14654958
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Tripoli doctor on Libya free TV confirms water poisoning rumours are indeed not true.
ProudLibyan
I’m so proud of Libyan women during this revolution, they were an essential part of its success. They will be also essential 4 rebuilding.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
AJA: The FF in the East have liberated Brega Ras Lanuf, Sidra & Bin Jawad, They are currently in Wadi AlAhmar neighbouring Sirte
Libya FF take control of Mazraq al-Shams army base from Gaddafi troops in Zuara -Arabiya TV
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Moldova CARGO SHIP “HAJ-SAYED” now en route to dest. #Tobruq #Libya. ETA: 2011-08-27 12:00 (UTC). #Feb17
Turkey “Unspecified” Ship “KAZIM GENC” en route from #Mersin to dest. #Tripoli #Libya ETA: 2011-08-28 11:00 (UTC). #Feb17
#Turkey CARGO SHIPS “ILKE METE”, “SEREN AYANOGLU” & :“BANU GENC” remain anchored just outside port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#Turkey CARGO SHIPS “KURUOGLU 3” & “ARON” & #Togo Wing In Ground Ship “TASUCU” remain anchored just outside port #Tripoli
BREAKING: Libya Al Ahrar TV: The area of Abu Slim and Abu Slim Prison has been liberated fully
عاجل ليبيا أخبار: ليبيا الاحرار: تم تحرير كامل منطقة بوسليم و سجن بوسليم
BREAKING: We are now getting reports of renewed fighting in abu Salim area NOW in Tripoli
BREAKING: Tripoli: A large convey of Misrata Freedom fighters are advancing to Abu Slim to eliminate the remaining of Gaddafi forces.
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: طرابلس: عدد كبير جدا من ثوار مصراته يتوجهون الى بوسليم للقضاء على فلول المهزوم هناك
SaeedCNN Saeed Ahmed
BREAKING: Rebel Commander Mukhtar Al-Akhbar says 4 rebel fighters were found bound and executed Tripoli Airport
Brit & French Special Forces are on ground at Tripoli Airport coord’ing rebel efforts to open airport.
Tripolitano
In calls to #tripoli: airport secured all the way to the steel bridge where pro G thugs have some elements. A lot of fighting busleem heard
Libiya_min_Hollanda
URGENT ppl in Qaser ben gashir (tripoli airport area) are SCREAMING for help, alot of houses fell down pls pls PLS translate and RT
The Star
Scattered battles have flared across Tripoli, with pro-regime snipers cutting off the road to the airport and attacking captured Gaddafi HQ
The Sunday Indian
Rebels battle Libyan forces near Gaddafi compound
Pro-regime snipers cut off the road to Tripoli’s airport on Wednesday and fired at motorists near the capital’s port. They also launched repeated attacks on Gaddafi’s sprawling government compound.
The opposition fighters still claimed they now control most of Tripoli. Streets were largely deserted, scattered with debris, broken glass and other remnants of fighting, while rebels manned checkpoints every few hundred yards.
But there were intense clashes in the Abu Salim neighbourhood next to Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziya compound as Gaddafi loyalists fired shells and assault rifles at fighters who captured the compound on Tuesday.
Abu Salim is home to a notorious prison and thought to be one of the last remaining regime strongholds within the capital.
Rebels stormed Gaddafi’s compound on Tuesday but found no sign of the longtime leader.
Still the conquest effectively signalled the end of the regime, even though the opposition may face pockets of stiff resistance for some time to come.
And rebels know they cannot really proclaim victory until Gaddafi is captured.
On Wednesday morning, rebel fighters claimed to have taken control of Bab al-Aziziya but not all of it. They are now using Bab al-Aziziya as staging area for their operations, loading huge trucks with ammunition.
About 20 rebels were taking cover behind a wall of the compound and firing rifles and rocket-propelled grenades toward Gaddafi’s snipers in tall buildings in nearby Abu Salim. They came under heavy incoming fire.
“There are also civilians in those buildings who support Gaddafi and they too are firing on us,” said Mohammed Amin, a rebel fighter.
He said the rebels have been unable to push into Abu Salim but have surrounded it. Amin added that one rebel was killed in the area when they took up positions in the morning and four were kidnapped by Gaddafi troops while on patrol nearby.
The rebels claim they control the Tripoli airport but are still clashing with Gaddafi
forces around it. AP reporters said the road leading to the airport is closed because of heavy fire from regime snipers.
Khalil Mabrouk, a 37-year-old rebel fighter, said he had just come from the airport and the rebels have been inside since Monday.
Most of the area near the airpor was cleared off by Gaddafi troops, he said. But in the southern part of it, Gaddafi’s forces are firing rockets and shelling rebel positions inside the airport.
CNN: Speculation rife that #Gaddafi is hiding near the airport in Tripoli.
Tripoli airport now in control of opposition fighters twitpic.com/6anwy1 Libya
Speculation that Gaddafi and or #Gaddafi family members are either in Abuslim or near airport of #Tripoli #libya
pic of makeshift clinic inside the airport in Tripoli twitpic.com/6ant4z Libya Aug 24
LA Times
Libyan rebels battle lingering resistance; Kadafi still in hiding
Reporting from Tripoli, Libya
Libyan rebels continued to fight for control of the country Wednesday, clashing with supporters of Moammar Kadafi near the airport with the help of foreign special forces as journalists won their release from a hotel in the capital.
Several rockets landed near Tripoli International Airport, one apparently on the runway, and rebel commander Mukhtar Al Akhbar told CNN that four rebel fighters had been found bound and executed nearby.
NATO jets roared overhead amid explosions and automatic gunfire.
Rebels controlled the airport Wednesday but were struggling to capture an area to the east, according to CNN. Rebel leaders told the network they believed Kadafi loyalists were trying to clear a route for the 69-year-old leader to escape.
Full story:
www.latimes.com/news/la-fg-libya-fighti...
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
barrage of artillery just fired at #tripoli airport, rebel fighters say #ghadafi forces firing from villages
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING: Press conferience LIVE with Mahmoud Jabril عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: مؤتمر صحفي مباشر لساراكوزي ومحمود… fb.me/DYMB4Lfu
BREAKING: AJ Source: Heavy fighting in Abu Salim area and REPORTS of Saif Al Islam being present there
عاجل: مصادر للجزيرة: اشتباكات عنيفة فى حى بو سليم وأنباء عن تواجد سيف الإسلام
هناك
BREAKING: Al Arabiya TV reports rebels have taken army base at Zuara, west of Tripoli
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Driving around Tripoli today left no doubt which way city tilts. Rebel flag everywhere. Rebels claim only Abu Salim area still disputed
Skyman64 Ian Woods
Filmed at Gaddafi compound first thing this morning when it was deserted. Eerie.
Soon filled up with rebels wanting to fire guns there.
BREAKING: Sarkozy: Military operations against Gaddafi regime when there is no more threat against the Libyan people
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: ساركوزي : العمليات العسكرية ستتوقف عندما يكف القذافي وكتائبه عن تهديد الشعب الليبي
BREAKING: Sarkozy: There are no French special forces on Libyan Soil
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: ساركوزي : ليس هناك قوات خاصة فرنسية على الأرض في ليبيا
BREAKING: Reports that electricity has been cut in Tripoli NOW
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: أنباء عن انقطـاع الكـهرباء عن طرابلس الآن
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: Confirmed: Thousands of #AbuSleem prisoners have just been released over last few hours.
#Freedomfighters now in #WadiAhmar after securing all coastal cities before #Sirte
#Brega: 4 oil storage tanks have been burning for 6 days, still going. Fire suppression system currently down.
BREAKING: Misurata FFs have NOW entered Abu Salim area of Tripoli and heavy fighting is taking place there
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار:طلائع ثوارنا الابطال دخلوا الى حي ابوسليم وتدور الان اشتياكات عنيقة
AlassemaMedia
Call from Tripoli informs; Abosleam, Airport road and khalet alFerjan steal not liberated.
Cnn
Pro-Gadhafi forces try to halt rebels’ momentum
Libyan rebels weathered resistance from pro-Moammar Gadhafi forces in several volatile pockets across Tripoli on Wednesday, and a few dozen journalists kept hostage for days by the strongman’s armed supporters dramatically won their freedom.
Rebels worked to topple remnants of the Gadhafi military apparatus as special forces from Britain, France, Jordan and Qatar — which are on the ground in Libya — have stepped up operations in Tripoli and other cities in recent days to help them.
Two Arabic networks aired an audio message purportedly from Gadhafi in which he called upon all Libyans “to clear the city of Tripoli and eliminate the criminals, traitors and rats.”
“They are hiding between the families and inside the civilian houses,” the speaker said. “It’s your duty to enter these houses and take them out.”
CNN cannot confirm the authenticity of the message.
Read full story:
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BREAKING: Libya’s deputy intelligence chief tells Al Arabiya that he has relinquished his post
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: نائب مدير المخابرات الليبية يعلن عبر العربية تخليه عن منصبه
BREAKING: “Mahmoud Jibril: France will provide logistical support to make sure the new school year begins in #Libya this September
BREAKING: REPORTS that our FFs and Free Libyan Army and on the move NOW from east of Sirte towards the city.
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: انباء عن تحرك ثورنا وجيشنا الوطنى من الشرق بتجاة سرت
BREAKING: Guma Gumaty: FFs control the area of Abu Salim
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: القماطي: الثوار سيطروا على منطقة ابو سليم التي تواجدت بها قوات القذاف
BREAKING: Guma Gumaty: Prsioners of Abu Salim have been liberated
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: القماطي: سجن بو سليم تم اقتحامه وتم تحرير جميع النشطاء
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Video: Tearing the green flag in front of Rixos hotel youtu.be/cMogn8vphV4
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMogn8vphV4&fea...
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
The ff hold the coast road as far west as sidrah. Brega ugaylah and ras lanuf are all #ff
Rowley
Electricity & communications in #Sirte & other #Gaddafi cities are reportedly off to prevent the people from knowing the truth
Raw Video: Journalists Freed From Tripoli Hotel
International journalists were freed from the Rixos Hotel on Wednesday after being held for five days by armed men loyal to Moammar Gadhafi. (Aug. 24)
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH_ilZC_P_g&fea...
Gavin
Hatem, a #Libyan in Holland tells BBC News that his cousin, a journalist from Benghazi who disappeared on 18 March, has been released today
Skyman64 Ian Woods
Staying for a second night in safe neighbourhood in western Tripoli. Unbelievable generosity and help offered by ordinary Libyans.
Sound advice here:
little_bytes
Libya is the new Rock Star – dont sign anything too fast, get a good lawyer, take your time
Gershom
I wonder when my country, #Zambia will recognise the NTC. Is the delay because of the LAPGreen investment in telecoms? #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Italian journalists were kidnapped this morning near Zawiya by Gaddafi loyalists
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Burkina Faso and Chad join list of countries recognising the rebels’ NTC as #Libya’s sole authority. Both previously received Gaddafi money
Italian news agency ANSA: Four Italian journalists kidnapped in Libya
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Filmed a battery of grad rocket launchers attacking pro gad troops on horizon. Ff hit a vehicle that started billowing black smoke.
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Burkina Faso says it will offer #Gaddafi exile if he requests it. -
Burkina Faso and #Chad, two nations which received large amounts of aid from #Libya under #Gaddafi. – #Feb17
Majority of mercenaries used by #Gaddafi in the crackdown against Libyans have come from #Chad
Burkina Faso recognizes the National Transitional Council
Chad recognizes the National Transitional Council
s2m2s ياسمين
From Gaddafi latest phone call 4:11 you can clearly hear sound of train tracks, there is no trains in #Libya Gadaffi might be In Algeria
Aljazeera
Muammar Gaddafi is still somewhere in Tripoli and clashes were under way in a southern area of the city where he may be hiding, a rebel official told the Reuters news agency.
“We think Gaddafi is still hiding somewhere in Tripoli. He is likely to be in the al-Hadhba al-Khadra area,” the official in Tripoli, who gave his name as Abdulrahman, told Reuters by telephone. “There is fighting in the al-Hadhba al-Khadra area.”
FromJoanne Joanne
#NEW #Cairo is CELEBRATING what the freedom Fighters have achieved so far ! youtube.com/watch?v=dl825L… #HappyScenes
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl825Lmfqsk&fea...
#ITALY Journos KIDNAPPED Journos working4 CorrieredellaSera and La Stampa and Chatholic Avvenire this Morn nr Zawiyah Driver Killed #Libya
OH My Goodness ;(( @baysontheroad Tripoli CentralHospital. Wounded incl 11yr old girl shot by sniper +1of hosp’s own doctors now brain dead
Freedom Fighter
Damashq area close to rixos just got sweeped of snipers! Allah is the greatest!
When r we going to stop deviding ourselves? FFs of certain areas have some ego issues! Remember this is libya pls do not devide it.
Tweeting Tripoli
We will lead the Arab world in democracy and prosperity, you’ll see.
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA One of doctors has given me list of medicines and other hospital equipment they urgently need. We will post on #AJE website.
Noor
Spoke 2 an aunt who lives near the airport in Tripoli. She said the situation in the neighbourhoods is fine and they’re cooking 4 rebels :)
plemochoe
#rixos #libya #tripoli Walter Fauntroy to Louis Farrakhan: “Man, the rebels sprung us, #gaddafi woulda HUNG us. So shut the FUCK up.”
evanchill Evan Hill
Sitting across the street from #Tripoli hospital. Injured have been arriving around every 15-20 minutes. Men of fighting age mostly.
Jude Burrows Sky:
Rixos – Moussa Ibrahim Gadaffi apparently ordered their detention
plemochoe
#rixos #libya #tripoli MOUSSA ordered the Rixos 34 to be held hostages? Sweet li’l ole MOUSSA? Now ask the journos how they like him.
Aiman
Apparently, the #Rixos journalists were freed by one of the ‘older’ #Gaddafi guards who was persuaded to drop his weapon and swap sides.
BBC
BBC foreign editor defends Libya coverage
News chief admits corporation was scooped by Sky’s Alex Crawford in race to Tripoli, but says ‘war is not a competition’
Jon Williams, the BBC’s foreign editor, has defended the corporation’s coverage of the battle for Tripoli after it was beaten into the Libyan capital at the weekend by Sky News, saying war reporting was a combination of “luck and judgment”.
The BBC was criticised after it was scooped by Sky reporter Alex Crawford, who rode with a rebel convoy as it made its way into the heart of the Libyan capital on Sunday.
Williams applauded Crawford but said the BBC News team had made a judgment that it was not safe to travel with the convoy, while another of its reporters, Matthew Price, was holed up in the Rixos Hotel.
Williams told Steve Hewlett on BBC Radio 4’s The Media Show on Wednesday that many more people tuned into the news bulletins on BBC1 and the BBC News channel than watched the BSkyB-owned service. Williams later tweeted: “War not a competition.”
More:
www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/24/bb...
Some reactions:
Very disappointing reporting from major networks and newspapers during this whole episode:(
Best reporting: Aljazeera, Sky News and Al Arabiya by far:)
#libya REaally getting tired of Western Media pundits “who are #libya rebels” schtick When They Haven’t Bothered to Find Out!
Everybody is fed up with the western media, their “experts” and their “opinions”.
Misinformation, inaccurate reporting and scaremongering!
Proper info with up to date reporting? Do they even know what that is?
Lot of absolute rubbish in most of the press
They had already formed their opinion, before the NFZ was in place, and they were sticking with it, no matter what. If you believed press, Gaddafi had won 25 x over
Acc to press rebels never stood a chance, always throwing terrorism and extremists in the mix., the editors added: stalemate, stalemate and more stalemate in every other sentence.
Tripoli heavy clashes now south of the airport via free Libya FB
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Al Madar cell phone network back up in #Misrata, w/ users going to Tripoli St Subscriber office to activate. #Libya #Feb17
#NTC says rebels are on the outskirts of #Sirte; road from #Benghazi has been mostly cleared of #Gaddafi filth.
AP
Italy: 4 Italian journalists abducted in Libya
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The Moroccan government has recognized the Libyan NTC as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
no power or water where we are in tripoli. rebels about to break their fast
Driving around Tripoli today left no doubt which way city tilts. Rebel flag everywhere. Rebels claim only Abu Salim area still disputed
‘Give us two days and everything will be finished’ one rebel fighter told me in Tripoli’s Martyrs Sq, ex Green Sq
Yansoon
Gaddafi the Closet Imperialist
As Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s power reaches its final hour, Libyans and Arabs around the world celebrate. With the fall of Tunisia’s Ben Ali, followed by Egypt’s Mubarak, and now Gaddafi, the imagination of Arabs everywhere has been captured once again. The unraveling of decades of repressive dictatorship has inspired and empowered the Arab masses to see what they are capable of accomplishing.
But some outside of the Arab world are not happy about the toppling of Gaddafi. NATO’s intervention, combined with Gaddafi’s anti-imperialist sentiment, has given way to support of the Libyan dictator among certain leftist circles who have painted him as some archetypal “anti-imperialist” hero.
Read more here:
yansoon.net/2011/08/23/gaddafi-the-clos...
Abdel Azim Mohamed Al Jazeera reporter direct from Tripoli – Misurata FFs declared their intention to encircle Abu Slim tonight
Can you stomach it?:
CNN
Gadhafi son, Saadi Gaddafi, offers to broker Libya cease-fire
The businessman son of embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi appears to be
out of rebel hands and says he wants to negotiate a cease-fire to save Tripoli from “a sea of blood.”
In an e-mail exchange with CNN Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson, Saadi Gadhafi — whose capture had been announced by the rebel leadership on Sunday — said he had the authority to negotiate and wanted to discuss a cease-fire with U.S. and NATO officials.
“I will try to save my city Tripoli and 2 millions of people living there … otherwise Tripoli will be lost forever like Somalia,” he wrote. Without a cease-fire, he added, “Soon it will be a sea of blood.”
Read more and watch video:
feb17.info/news/gadhafi-son-saadi-gadda...
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Bulgaria misses golden opportunity to establish good ties with Libyan rebels: focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n…
4Adam Adam Libya
Zwara and their fellow revolutionaries from Nafusa, Sabratha, and Zawiya defeated GF. Retreated GF regrouping in Regdaleen #Libya
SAS
British special forces are on the ground in Libya helping to spearhead the hunt for Col Muammar Gaddafi
22 SAS Regiment began guiding rebel soldiers after being ordered in by David Cameron
SAS soldiers, have been dressed in Arab civilian clothing and carrying the same weapons as the rebels
The New Republic
Letter From Libya: The Rebel Fleet Prepares For Its Final Battle
Off the coast of Misrata—On the dark blue sea of the Mediterranean, Libyan rebels are planning their final offensive to bring down Muammar Qaddafi. More than a hundred fighters set out from Benghazi Tuesday, transforming two tugboats into the
official rebel fleet.
The passengers are aware that Qaddafi’s military barracks have fallen to the opposition. The rebels, most of whom are observing the Ramadan fast, pass their time reading the Koran and quietly celebrating their victory. All are relieved that their campaign against Qaddafi is close to ending.
Full art.:
www.tnr.com/article/world/94138/tripoli...
Feb17
Brother in law just made it home after 3 months in jail for refusing to put q’s picture in his hospital operating room. Praying for others
RasmusTantholdt Rasmus Tantholdt TV2
Travelled around the world for eight years as a correspondent. Never experienced hospitallity and kindness like right now in #Tripoli
fpleitgenCNN Frederik Pleitgen
Camel Taxi en route to Brega. Never seen this before. twitpic.com/6aq05n
NUMBER NOW KNOWN:
TRIPOLI:
72.000 prisoners have been released from Abu Saleem prison
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Audio recording from #Tripoli says 72,000 prisoners have been released from Abu Saleem Prison. Allahu Akbar feb17.info/live-libya-unr… #Libya
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
plane burning on tarmac at #tripoli international airport, still hearing & feeling explosions from artillery fire
Reuters
UAE: Up $700 mln in Libya assets could be released
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AlArabaya: Ahmed Bany, Nat’l Army Spokesman says Abu Slim under opposition control. Fighters engaging last pockets of resistance there.
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
Venezuelan Embassy in #Tripoli has been “assaulted and totally sacked”. acc to President Hugo Chavez, who’s a staunch supporter of #Gaddafi
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Scores of dead bodies belonging to protesters were discovered near Bab al-Azizia in Tripoli 3 weeks ago #alarabiya #Libya #Qaddafi
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Arab League recognizes #NTC & offers #Libya’s seat to them. RECOMMENDATION: REFUSE THE #AU & STAY FAR AWAY FROM THESE THINGS.
BBCBarbaraPlett Barbara Plett
#SouthAfrica accepts unfreezing $500 million of #Libya assets in #US for humanitarian aid, but #US says must be a $1.5bn pkg
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Libya: #Jalil has stated will put himself up 4 prosecution 4 the 4 years he worked for #Gaddafi. I call 4 amnesty 4 this gentleman. #Feb17
mchancecnn Matthew Chance
I’m in #Tripoli. Thank you everybody for all your support during this difficult period. The #rixos4 are so glad about this positive outcome.
Crisis ended when #rixos gunmen realised that #Libya outside of hotel doors was no longer Libya of old. Handed us their guns & said “sorry.”
Will stick around in Tripoli for a few more days and think about next move – Really want to get back and see family.
in the end – felt sorry for guards. All they knew was Gadhafi’s regime. Took them a while to realise it had crumbled. Remarkable transition.
Inquirer news
Gadhafi forces fight back, as reward offered for strongman
TRIPOLI—Fighting raged Wednesday as Moammar Gadhafi troops fought back near his Tripoli compound a day after it was captured, while rebels offered a $1.7 million reward for the elusive strongman, dead or alive.
As the United Nations called a meeting to discuss the unlocking by backers of the insurgency of billions of dollars of Libyan assets, France said it invited “friends of Libya” to a forum in September on the country’s future.
Meanwhile, Washington said Libya’s stockpile of weapons of mass destruction had been secured and that it was confident the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) could set up governing structures after overruning Tripoli.
As a group of mostly foreign journalists who had been confined to Tripoli’s Rixos Hotel were freed, Italian media said four Italian journalists were kidnapped in Libya and two French journalists were wounded in Tripoli.
newsinfo.inquirer.net/47335/gadhafi-for...
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Heavy fighting at a ranch that houses Qaddafi’s chief of staff #alarabiya #Libya #Qaddafi
According to BBC Monitoring, pro-Gaddafi television network al-Urubah is broadcasting again
I_Love__Libya:
10:00 pm Libya time
Truck loads of bodies r arriving to Metaga Airport Hospital #Tripoli, 2-3 days old, press on ground should investigate
cmonsense A
Mercenaries in Tripoli desperate to take Tripoli Airport.If caught they loose their money. Same interest of Gaddafi family
Tweeting Tripoli
What was Gaddafi doing with this car? Never seen him driving around Tripoli. yfrog.com/hs90ftsj
Must read. Clay Claiborne’s latest article about Libya: www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/24/10099... #feb17 #Tripoli #Libya
NATO did a good job and still doing a great job. We can never thank them enough.
Sirtawi
#FF came under fire from snipers as they reached Bin Jawad last night & had 2 take position in Ras Lanouf awaiting orders from #NTC & #NATO.
#FF & #NATO shall proceed with their attacks on Gaddafi Briggades in the vicinity of #Sirte if they do not cooperate peacefully.
BEAUTIFUL PHOTO’S
News Observer
PHOTO GALLERY
www.newsobserver.com/2011/08/24/1427708...
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Zuwarah: Fighting has started again, #Freedomfighters asking for assistance
#Tripoli: #Freedomfighters requesting assistance w/ fighting in #GaserBenGasher
#Gaddafi CARGO SHIP “FARWA” 35.2877˚/13.95566˚ en route from #Iskederun to #Sfax #Tunisia reported carrying weapons shipment. #Libya @NATO
Moldova PASSENGER SHIP “AZZURRA” now en route to dest. #Benghazi #Libya ETA: 2011-08-25 10:00 (UTC). #Feb17
OmarAmer
So NTC hoping to get oil back to 1.6 mil barrels in 9 months if everything goes to plan. That sounds very promising Inshala
lindseyhilsum Lindsey Hilsum
by LibyaInMe
We found tunnels under #ghaddafi compound in Ben Ashour. Full hospital in there!
Juweira
Oh Allah grant the ppl of #Libya complete Victory in this fight and end Gaddafi’s life Ameen!
Guardian
Libyan hotel journalists emerge into a ‘new, happy Tripoli’
They checked in under the rule of Muammar Gaddafi and walked out into a completely changed Libya. A group of more than 30 journalists and dignitaries trapped inside Tripoli’s five-star Rixos hotel since the weekend were freed on Wednesday afternoon
after being held at gun point by “die hard” pro-Gaddafi gunmen.
As the foreign nationals emerged into the light, many were taken aback by the speed with which opposition forces had swept through dictator’s stronghold. They remarked on how everywhere the green flags of Gaddafi’s 42-year rule had been supplanted by rebel tricolours.
“It’s a new Tripoli, a happy Tripoli, very different than the one I saw a week ago,” said
Jomana Karadsheh, a CNN producer who was among the journalists for BBC, Sky News, Fox and other broadcasters held captive at the hotel.
More:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/24/li...
Please read:
Via Shabab
Libya: Gaddafi’s Fleeing Mercenaries Describe the Collapse of the Regime
Right from the start, Mario, an ethnic Croatian artillery specialist from Bosnia, suspected it was a lost cause.
“My men were mainly from the south of Libya and Chad, and there were a few others from countries south of Libya,” said Mario, who spoke on condition that his last name not be published. A veteran of the wars of the former Yugoslavia, he had been hired by the Gaddafi regime to help fight the rebels and, later, NATO. “Discipline was bad, and they were too stupid to learn anything. But things were O.K. until the air strikes commenced. The other side was equally bad, if not worse. Muammar Gaddafi would have smashed the rebels had the West not intervened.”(See pictures of the lengthy battle for Libya.)
By early July, Mario said, more than 30% of the men under his command had deserted or defected to the rebel side. NATO missiles scored several direct hits on his forces, causing “significant casualties.” At that point in the war, he said, “military hardware stopped having the role it once did. We had to use camouflage and avoid open spaces.”
Away from the front, at the heart of the regime, mistrust and excess further undermined Gaddafi’s hold on power, Mario said. “Life in Gaddafi’s compound and shelters was so surreal, with partying, women, alcohol and drugs,” said Mario, 41. “One of the relatives of Gaddafi took me to one of his villas where they offered me anything I wanted. I heard stories about people being shot for fun and forced to play Russian roulette while spectators were making bets, like in the movies.”
Source-Jovo Martinovic for Time World
shabablibya.org/news/libya-ex-gaddafi-m...
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: Fighting continues in #HaIslami, #AbuSaleem & #BabAlAziziya. #Libya #Feb17
benghazi’s bunny♥
A Journalist who escaped from Rixos: “we were looked after by Libyans who showed the best of this country & the best of humanity” #Libya
Libya In Me
what drove me nuts is the AJA report that Saif and Khamis were “spotted”. REALLY?? SHOOT THEM FOR GOD’S SAKES!!!
mchancecnn Matthew Chance
Just weighed myself. Astonishingly I actually put on weight during the #Rixos ordeal!
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI NOW FIERCE FIGHTING at Farm of Regime Chief of Staff Commander Abdul Rahman Al #Sayd who is inside the house
Sirtawi
Just got a name of one of Abu Sleem’s detainees from #Sirte: Hisham AbdelRazaq Al-Fitouri.
Hisham from #Sirte was released today from Abu Sleem in #Tripoli
Ibn
confirmed horrific tale from #tripoli #libya: family went out a couple of days ago, thinking tripoli was completely free, and wanted to head to martyr’s square. the children in the car had the new flag painted on their face. they ended up driving through the bu salim district of tripoli, which had a gaddafi checkpoint. when they were
stopped and gaddafi’s soldiers saw what was painted on the childrens faces, they started shooting at the car. one of the girls ended up getting killed
Chrleston Gazette
Family member says Charleston doctor is free in Libya
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Dr. Rida Mazagri, a Charleston neurosurgeon who was abducted by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in March, is now free and safe, according to a family member.
“We just got word from a family member in Tripoli that Dr. Mazagri is safe and free and is by one of our families home,” his sister-in-law Sharon Mazagri posted on the Facebook group called Prayers for Dr. Mazagri. “Thank you everyone for all of the prayers. We will keep everyone informed on all new information. Thank you all again.”
Mazagri was released from prison Wednesday afternoon. Family members were not sure when he would be returning home to Charleston.
Full story:
wvgazette.com/News/201108240758#.TlVeKf...
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Al Arabiya is reporting Unconfirmed reports aboput the killing of Qaddafi’s son, Mohammed
Channel 4 News
“It’s Over For Gaddafi” Says his Foreign Minister Abdul Ati al-Obeidi
Mr Obeidi told Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller that Gaddafi’s 42-year grip on the country “was over” after rebels stormed the capital, Tripoli, and breached the Libyan leader’s compound.
Mr Obeidi also said he was not in contact with other ministers in the regime, and confirmed that the prime minister had defected to Tunisia.
He added that if he were commanding forces loyal to Gaddafi, he would tell them to stop their resistance.
“If I was in charge, I would tell them to lay down their arms,” he said.
Speaking from a house in Tripoli, where he is with his son and grandchildren, Mr
Obeidi said that it now appeared that Gaddafi had exhausted all the options available to him. Gaddafi had previously been assured by the international community that he would be guaranteed safe passage out of Libya, if he chose to accept it.
Video: “It’s Over For Gaddafi” bit.ly/qp1KUZ #libya
Channel 4 News
Video: Inside Gaddafi’s Compound
Tripoli is still ringing to the sound of gunfire – most of it celebration but there is also heavy fighting to the south, as forces loyal to Gaddafi refuse to give up.
Video:
feb17.info/media/video-inside-gaddafis-...
Aljazeera
The mother of a Baltimore writer missing since March in Libya says she has spoken with her son and that he said he had escaped from a Tripoli prison.
Sharon VanDyke says her 32-year-old son, Matthew, called her on Wednesday afternoon to tell her he had escaped.
VanDyke told his mother he had been held in solitary confinement in Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, but fellow prisoners helped him escape to a compound where he borrowed a phone.
Reuters
Bursts of gunfire rang out near the Corinthia Hotel in central Tripoli late on Wednesday and a column of smoke rose from the direction of the shooting, a Reuters correspondent at the hotel said.
Earlier, a group of heavily armed rebels arrived at the hotel, saying they had heard Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saadi was inside and that they would search every room for him.
A Reuters reporter saw about half a dozen rebels arrive in the hotel forecourt in a truck
mounted with an anti-aircraft gun. The men ran into the hotel and blocked off access to the elevators as they prepared to search the building room by room.
Aljazeera
Video: Rebels make steady gains in Tripoli
Rebels in Tripoli are using Muammar Gaddaf’s compound as a staging area to plan operations and discuss deployments.
Elsewhere, leaders from Libya’s National Transitional Council are moving one by one from Benghazi to the capital.
The rebels have had great success in taking control of large parts of Tripoli. But there are still parts that they can’t even enter, and the area is not completely safe.
Al Jazeera’s Zein Basravi reports.
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baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA the list of medical items urgently needed by Tripoli Central hospital is on #AJE website blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/Libya
Telegraph
Libya: journalists freed from Rixos Hotel siege
Mr Price said their captors were left in tears and in fear for their lives once they realised the regime had ended. Journalists gave one guard ‘safe passage’ through rebel-held territory to his family home, he said.
“We had two gunmen loyal to Colonel Gaddafi and who still believed the city could be won by Colonel Gaddafi’s forces. They said they had been ordered by his son, Saif al-Islam, to keep us safe. It was remarkable they still believed all of that despite what was happening in the city around them,” he said.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
FromJoanne Joanne
#BENGHAZI Italian consul Guido DeSanctis spoke wth1of Italian Kidnapped journos They r fine & Given food and drink after sunset #libya
#Italia KIDNAPPED journalists #ElisabettaRosaspina + #GiuseppeSarcina #DomenicoQuirico #ClaudioMonici Held in Flat in #TRIPOLI #libya
NYT
Libyan Rebels Used Tiny Canadian-Made Drone
OTTAWA — Libyan rebels have been coordinating their attacks using a Canadian-made, unmanned surveillance aircraft, the drone’s manufacturer announced Tuesday.
The drone is extremely compact — the company says that it weighs about three pounds and fits into a backpack — and its operator does not need any knowledge of flight. Mr. Kroetsch said such factors were crucial for the rebels. The device is simply controlled by tracing flight paths on maps displayed on a touch screen display. Its base price is $120,000.
Ultimately, the drone was purchased on behalf of the transitional council by a private security company based in Ottawa, Zariba Security, which has provided training and operational support for other Aeryon customers.
Full art.:
www.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/world/africa...
FromJoanne Joanne
Expect more rubbish from the mouths of the Gadddafi ’s Television network al-Urubah
#FLASH Unconfirmed Reports aboput the killing of Qaddafi’s son, Mohammed @AlArabiya_Eng
Libiya_min_Hollanda
PPL R SCREAMING 4 HELP #Tripoli GASR BEN GASHER close to airport FIERCE fighting #Media Pls contact @Ebnat_Alislaam #Libya Ppl DYING
Just got info that FF from swani ben yadem are on there way 2 help Gaser Ben Gashir, I hope they get there fast!
farms are of Bashir Salah he has 3 farms there, one next 2 gadafis farm, it has a very high wall of 4 meter
the second one on the weat of the airport also with a 4 m high wall, 3 one the east side of the airport road, without a wall
the one behind the center is the same one next 2 gadafis farm its about 10 hactare big
also from a school called the school of Omran berabha in the center of gbg next 2 the school of Kmies Gadafi boys school
the 3th farm is on the east side of the airport brige
there has 2 be someth there even the comander of zintan FF said they noticed a mercides convoy near airport area
the woman of my relatives left there homes and went more 2 the east, they r scared of the merc whom r everyw
he Clashes are getting tuffer right now alot of injured civilians are at alafya clinc in GBG…..
grad rockets figherd on civilian houses, they are fireing from the south!!!!
Alafya clinic in gaser ben gashir is getting full of injured and dead civilians, doc there said he saw #Abdallah Mansoor GL
Pls ppl let the world know what is happening in Gaser ben Gashir!!!!!
the clashes are on the manara road, galet alferjan and next 2 the farm of #Gadafi
BREAKING NEWS Gaser Ben Gashir has been liberated just reseaved a call from there!!!!! RT I will confirm later on again.
FF from GBG, swani, zintan and misrata Thxxxxxxxxxxxx
Joanne
They need take photos RT @Ebnat_Alislaam Just heard #hannibal the son of Gadafi has been killed in Gaser ben Gashir not confirmed #Libya
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
One thing about #Gaddafi family members: they broke records in number of times they died!
Picture: #Gaddafi TV studio found in the Rixos hotel, the one used by Youssef Shakeer #Libya #Feb17 pic.twitter.com/fk3krgz
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Nato will not put troops on ground in Libya bit.ly/rn3Rvw #libya
Al Arabiyah: Mohamad Hajazee, Health minister of #Gaddafi regime “defects”
AP – The Moroccan government has recognized the Libyan opposition as the legitimate representative of the North African country’s people.
The official MAP news agency says Morocco’s foreign minister, Taib Fassi Fihri, on Wednesday met with the president of the National Transitional Council.
Fassi Fihiri arrived Tuesday in the rebel capital of Benghazi, with a message from the Moroccan king, congratulating the rebels on their progress toward “realising the legitimate aspirations of the Libyan people”
Mahmoud Jibril used an nice example yesterday: #Libya needs new hardware (infrastructure), and also new software (democratic/civil culture).
TRIPOLI:
opposition forces might consider a gun buy-back program. Young men would rather have money. We hope.
LPC #Tripoli: civilians including very young men with captured weapons…security and rapid disarming are critical. #Libya
Audio boo:
audioboo.fm/boos/449469-lpc-tripoli-civ...
Wapo
Homes of Gadhafi family _ symbols of rulers’ excesses _ ransacked by rebels, crowds
goo.gl/VsC9P
MAQAM
Breaking News from #Libya: #Gaddafi forces attempting to retake #Tripoli airport. Gaddafi may be planning an escape.
feb17voices:
LPC #Tripoli: Airport road area reports some clashes, with several families forced to leave homes to escape intense fighting this PM #Libya
SUMMARY AUGUST 25th 2011
8/25/11
8.25.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/KMdqw
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Abu Sleem Prison is the location where the Gaddafi regime has placed his political prisoners for over 40 years
It is the location of the Abu Sleem massacre – In which Gaddafi forces killed 1,200 political prisoners in ONE day
Recently, Abu Sleem is where 1000s of captured FFs & protesters have been kept since the beginning of the revolution
The only crime these individuals were guilty of was speaking out against the regime
Even a prisoner at Abu Sleem from #Egypt was freed
The prisoners came from all parts of Libya – East, West, North, South, even other countries
Watch the moment of freedom:
www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2695...
The moment when some of the prisoners from AbuSleem arrived in Benghazi Airport #Feb17 #Libya youtu.be/cetMpwhI7yA
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cetMpwhI7yA&fea...
feb17libya Feb17Libya
This simply amazing video comes from our freedom fighters in Zliten where they took hold of 450 (yes four hundred fifty!) tanks in Majer weapon depot
Video:
feb17.info/media/video-amazing-freedom-...
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Heavy shelling from #Gaddafi filth push #Freedomfighters back 20km along coastal road from #BinJawad. #Libya #Feb17
4 brigades from #Benghazi on their way to #Tripoli to aid Freedomfighters. Total from Benghazi in Tripoli estimated at 3000.
PLEASE RT: 50 Cars full of #Gaddafi mercs left #BaniWalid en route to #Sabha via #Alnahar Rd 30 minutes ago. #Libya #Feb17 @NATO
CamboDonut
Just in from Misrata mil council:“We have found possible mass murder in Tripoli prison. We believe event happen 4 days ago”
From Misrata military council:“Drs at main Tripoli Hospital know more.Prisoners locked up, grenades thrown into their rooms.”
Frm Misrata military council:“So far only retrieved13 bodies. All badly burnt. Trying to get understanding from city morgue”
Rowley
#Panama OIL TANKER “GAZ FAREAST” now en route to #Benghazi #Libya ETA: 2011-08-25 23:00 (UTC). #Feb17
#Moldova FERRY “FEHIM BEY” en route to #Misrata from #Benghazi #Libya. #Feb17
Tweeting Tripoli
BREAKING AJA: Italian journos who were kidnapped by Gaddafi thugs freed and all well.
Correction: All 4 journos are freed and in good health, however, sadly their Libyan driver was killed by the Gaddafi thugs.
IMPORTANT NOTE: NATO and & west r still enforcing the UN resolution. To save civilians. Gaddafi & his maniac son still at large & dangerous.
Phone from BaniWalid: State-Radio announced that Gaddafi forces have liberated Tripoli apart from few pockets of crusader infidels.
URGNT: Pls don’t RT news about anchor Hamza (AK47) capture. It’s not true. He’s the Guy who said BabAzizia was fake. Saif’ll use it soon.
Phone call frm Abosleem: Pro-G still shooting at houses indiscriminately. Could hear gun fire & Mortar thuds on phone. Terrifying sounds.
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Defence Secretary Liam Fox confirms NATO is providing intelligence & assets to help track down Colonel Gaddafi.
Sky correspondent: Heavy fighting near the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli
Reuters: Four Italian journalists kidnapped in Libya have been freed
Free Libya Daily is out! bit.ly/kgc2jf ▸ Top stories today
NATO Partnership in Libya Serves as Model, Panetta Says
MONTEREY, Calif., Aug. 23, 2011 – Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta today called U.S. support for the NATO mission that’s helping opposition forces make progress against Moammar Gadhafi’s regime Libya an example of the international cooperation that will be critical in the future.
“It is a good indication of the kind of partnership and alliances that we need to have for the future if we are going to deal with the threats that we confront in today’s world,” Panetta told students during addresses at both the Naval Postgraduate School and Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center.
Panetta said he is particularly proud of the mission the United States performed as a NATO partner in Libya, including the establishment of a no-fly zone to help protect the Libyan people.
“It is a credit to the great job of nations working together on a common mission – something that is absolutely essential if we are to provide security in the future,” he said.
This support and assistance, he said, has been “part of the key in being able to help the opposition forces there ultimately be able to succeed.”
Panetta expressed hope that the opposition will succeed and NATO will have completed its mission. “It’s clear that the opposition has made significant gains. It’s clear that the regime forces are collapsing and that Gadhafi’s days are numbered,” he said.
Read more:
goo.gl/GtKwE
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
The #Libyan #FF I am meeting on road to #sirte are a different army to the one I met in April. Far more organised disciplined
heading back to front now. will drive as far as we can and let you know
Our fixer has just visited his house in brega for first time in months and found everything looted. Really feel for him
SecularLibya
Heinz: Not many airstrike targets left. So the Apache and Tigers can concentrate on Sirte. They better give up.
Heinz: Many Daffi troops have no communication what has happened elsewhere and keep fighting. They will hear it in a few days.
Heinz: It is simple to flush rats out from the underground bunkers. Pour some jetfuel down and they will all surface.
Heinz: Thermo-explosives that can even eat through a 1m thick steel door has arrived in Tripoli.
Heinz: Helis are working on Daffis near the airport. Jets going to Sabha. 48 hr. ultimatum given to Sirte.
Ghazi
I am so happy that our friend Libyan poet and journalist is free and returned to our beloved city #Zawiya #Libya is proud of you my friend
plemochoe
I see this as a proverb in Libya for centuries: “As full of shit as Moussa Ibrahim”
Telegraph
Libya: In Tripoli’s hospitals they die on the beds and die on the floors
The doctors at Tripoli Central Hospital knew there would be heavy casualties; but they had no idea how bad it was going to be
As battle raged in the Tripoli’s streets hundreds of casualties were brought in, rebel fighters, Gaddafi’s soldiers, and unlucky civilians, laying next to each other in bed and even on a floor awash with blood, screaming or moaning in agony. Many died before they could be treated.
“There were hundreds coming in within the first few hours: "said Dr Mahjoub Rishi, Professor of Surgery at the hospital. “It was like a vision of hell. Missile injuries were the worst. The damage they do to the human body is shocking to see, even for someone like me who is used to dealing with injuries.”
Read full article:
goo.gl/vDTa8
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
So, I just heard that someone I know drove around Tripoli in a Lamborghini that used to belong to Saif or Saadi… jealous!
Sirtawi
Reports that a captured mercenary on #Sirte’s western front line says #Gadaffi’s son Mutassim is in #Sirte
#Sirte’s rep, Hassan Drouy, on Alaan Tv (Arabic) giving same updates we tweeted last night. #Feb17 #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=lbJTNH…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbJTNHTFnss
Power cut over #Sirte, #Sabha etc is not in favor of those who possess Sat phones. Batteries are running low!
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
A 13 year old girl from Benghazi, will be meeting her father for the 1st time in her living memory later today Inshala. Was in Buslim prison
Aljazeera
Four Italian journalists who were abducted near Az Zawiyah in Libya on Wednesday have been freed, Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported on its web site.
Two of the journalists worked for Corriere della Sera, while the others were reporters for La Stampa and Avvenire newspapers.
The Italian consul in Benghazi, Guido de Sanctis, said after the kidnap that they were being held in an apartment in Tripoli.
He said their driver was killed during the abduction and they were believed to have been held by gunmen loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Mohammed Ali Abdallah-NFSL: Story of 1 prisoner who tells of how G forces attempted to lynch him in #Tawargha S. of #Misrata; marks on neck
MUST READ
Via Shabab
Why Libya sceptics were proved badly wrong
Let us do a thought experiment. Imagine the UN did not vote to authorise theuse of force in Libya in March. Nato did nothing; Colonel Muammer Gaddafi over-ran Benghazi; the US stood by; the Libyan opposition was reduced to sporadic uprisings, quickly crushed. The regimes in Yemen and Syria took note, and put down their own uprisings with greater vigour. The west let brutality and oppression triumph again in the Middle East.
This is the scenario many wise heads were effectively arguing for with their strong stands against intervention to stop Col Gaddafi. Over the months those analysts have reminded us of their views, calling Libya a quagmire. This week one of the leading proponents of that position, my friend and colleague Richard Haass, shifted gears – but only to remind us just how hard the road ahead in Libya is likely to be.
I do not know anyone, regardless of the side they took in the initial debate, who thinks this task will be easy; indeed, the battle against Col Gaddafi is not yet won. But not so fast. Before we focus on what must happen next, let us pause for a minute and reflect on that initial debate and the lessons to be learnt.
The first is that, against the sceptics, it clearly can be in the US and the west’s strategic interest to help social revolutions fighting for the values we espouse and proclaim. The strategic interest inhelping the Libyan opposition came from supporting
democracy and human rights, but also being seen to live up to those values by the 60 per cent majority of Middle Eastern populations who are under 30 and increasingly determined to hold their governments to account. This value-based argument was inextricable from the interest-based argument. So enough with the accusations of bleeding heart liberals seeking to intervene for strictly moral reasons.
We also now know how different intervention looks when we help forces who want to
be helped. East Timor, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Libya – all cases where force evened out odds between a brutal government and a widespread and legitimate social or national movement. It is difficult to know when a state has failed in its responsibility to protect its people, particularly when secession is involved. This is why international authorisation is both required and difficult to obtain. But the contrast with Iraq and Afghanistan, where external invasion saw the US often labelled as an enemy, is enormous.
Another clear lesson: the depiction of America as “leading from behind” makes no sense. In a multi-power world with problems that are too great for any state to take on alone, effective leadership must come from the centre. Central players mobilise others and create the conditions and coalitions for action – just as President Barack Obama described America’s role in this conflict. In truth, US diplomacy has been adroit in enabling action from other powers in the region, and then knowing when to step out of the way.
That said, we must not focus just on states, because Libya also shows that social forces are increasingly powerful drivers of foreign policy. Those forces have now pushed both the west and Arab governments into taking a much harder line than simply geostrategic logic would dictate against Bashar al-Assad’s brutality in Syria, and even (albeit timidly) against torture and killings by the Bahraini government. Social movements are also beginning to reshape politics in Israel and India.
Looking forward, it is really not up to the west, much less the US, to plan Libya’s transition. It is a relief to see so many articles and statements reflecting lessons learnt from Iraq. But the Libyans are far ahead of where the US was when the initial fighting ended in Iraq. The National Transitional Council has a draft constitutional charter that is impressive in scope, aspirations and detail – including 37 articles on rights, freedoms and governance arrangements.
The sceptics’ response to all this, of course, is that it is too early to tell. In a year, or a decade, Libya could disintegrate into tribal conflict or Islamist insurgency, or split apart or lurch from one strongman to another. But the question for those who opposed the intervention is whether any of those things is worse than Col Gaddafi staying on by increasingly brutal means for many more years. Instability and worse would follow when he died, even had he orchestrated a transition.
The sceptics must now admit that the real choice in Libya was between temporary stability and the illusion of control, or fluidity and the ability to influence events driven
by much larger forces. Welcome to the tough choices of foreign policy in the 21st century. Libya proves the west can make those choices wisely after all.
The writer is a former director of policy planning for the US state department
Source- Anne-Marie Slaughter for FT
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
AJE: Libyan Freedom Fighters explore Gaddafis bunker
Al Jazeera has gained access to part of an underground tunnel network beneath Muammar Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli.
Fighting for overall control of the area around Bab al-Aziziyah is still going on.
Our correspondent Andrew Simmons and cameraman Justin Okines, joined rebel fighters as they combed Gaddafi’s underground hideouts.
AJE: Libyan Freedom Fighters explore #Gaddafi’s bunker goo.gl/8HTZA #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes #Tripoli
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo1Pl-lkRWA
Aisha Gaddafi’s Bathroom Complete with Jacuzzi, Sauna, and Pool Table
Gaddafi Family Squander Libyan Money
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFOGKf22gxc&NR=1
Reuters:
Libya freedom fighters battle to root out Gaddafi diehards
- Rebels say Gaddafi forces fight on, think Gaddafi in Tripoli
- Rebels: End will come when Gaddafi captured, dead or alive
- U.S. submits draft U.N. resolution on frozen assets (Adds details of rebel forces)
TRIPOLI, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Rebel forces began to purge Tripoli’s streets of diehard gunmen still loyal to fugitive Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday in the final phase of the
As a volley of shell fire broke the morning calm in Tripoli, rebels said they were confident they could mop up soldiers clinging to a leader now on the run and presumed to be in hiding in the country he ruled for four decades.
“The end will only come when he’s captured, dead or alive,” said Mustafa Abdel Jalil, head of the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC), who offered amnesty to any of Gaddafi’s entourage who killed him and announced a reward worth more than $1 million for his capture.
Read more:
shabablibya.org/news/libya-rebels-battl...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
@WMCLibya-More then 350 bodies have been discovered now at one of #Gaddafis security compounds. #Tripoli hospitals warning of epidemics….
due to excessive body count in temperatures over 35C with the lack of electricity, supplies and medical staff.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Renewed attacks by the Freedom Fighters on the Busleem area of Tripoli still holding loyalists to Gaddafi
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA found another prisoner witness to shooting who says Gaddafi troops sprayed their cell with bullets as Bab al Aziziya was falling.
Omar
Freedom Fighters will now start to move onto Sirte…… Rabi yansoorhum uw ya7fathum inshala
Gaddafi loyalists and mercenaries prepare for battle with the Freedom Fighters heading toward the city.
DerekStoffelCBC Derek Stoffel
The Radisson hotet in Tripoli where we are staying was apparently used by Gadhaffi forces until Sunday, when they fled.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Gaddafi underground prison at Matiga airbase 25 8 11 youtube.com/watch?v=Az01wn… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az01wnqd3KQ
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Jibril and Berlusconi currently giving a press conference in Milan, Italy #Libya #Italy
FromJoanne Joanne
Saleh he is from Sirte now in Misrata says this is the general believe among them 25% civilians pro G in Sirte
Gaddafi seen:
#Tripoli FF claim they have seen #gaddafi in convoy of 4×4 cars driving today #Libya Stuart Ramsey on @SkyNews
#NTC Head Mustafa Abdel Jalil CALLS FOR ALL LIBYANS in Gaddafi controlled hotspots TO JOIN REVOLUTION
FromJoanne Joanne
KIDNAPPERS were nervous Angry with Bloodshot Eyes accused (now freed #Italy) journos of being part of #NATO campaign 2bomb kill #Libya ns
Reuters
Gaddafi nearly captured on Wednesday: report
(Reuters) -
PARIS, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Libyan commandos fighting Muammar Gaddaficame close to capturing the toppled leader on Wednesday when they raided a private home in Tripoli where he appeared to have been hiding, Paris Match magazine said on Thursday.
More:
shabablibya.org/news/gaddafi-nearly-cap...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Freedom Fighters on the Eastern front are now heading toward Sirte as attempts to negotiate with G hardcore loyalists in the area broke down
Jibril: Major destabilising element, is failing to provide the salaries
Jibril says he should be in his country due to the situation,but due to lack of funds the situation is very grave, hence the meetings
Berlusconi: Ialy has begun to unfreeze Libyan assets
Berlusconi says Italy has begun to unfreeze Libyan assets worth 350 million euros in Italian banks
Via Feb 17 info
Aljazeera
Maram Wafa, a resident of Tripoli, spoke to Al Jazeera earlier and urged everyone in the city to “please remain [at] home, remain safe because the city is full of snipers”.
“The city is really not safe, even if it is under our control still it is really not safe, we really have to be careful,” she told Al Jazeera.
“Everyone is staying indoors, everyone is staying indoors and we have to because we will make things more difficult, more complicated for the freedom fighters on the streets. They will not be able to completely focus on what is going on around them
because they will automatically want to protect us.
“So believe me, stay indoors, it will be much safer first and second of all you will be doing a favour to these fighters.”
NATO
The NATO military alliance is giving intelligence and reconnaissance assistance to Libyan rebels hunting Muammar Gaddafi and his sons, British defence minister Liam Fox said on Thursday.
“I can confirm that NATO is providing intelligence and reconnaissance assets to the NTC (National Transitional Council) to help them track down Colonel Gaddafi and other remnants of the regime,” he told Sky News.
He declined to comment on a report in Britain’s Daily Telegraph that British special forces were on the ground in Libya assisting with the hunt.
Reuters
Muammar Gaddafi will try to sell part of Libya’s gold reserves to pay for his protection and sow chaos among tribes in the north African country, said his former central bank governor Farhat Bengdara.
Bengdara, who has allied himself with the Libyan rebels, told the Italian daily, Corriere della Sera, that an ally of Gaddafi had offered 25 tonnes of gold to his friend “a little time ago”.
“My friend referred it to me and I suggested that he refuse and my friend immediately rejected the approach. But it is a clear indication,” Bengdara said in the interview published on Thursday. He said his friend was not Libyan but gave no further details.
There are gold reserves worth $10 billion in Tripoli and Gaddafi could have taken some of that amount, he said.
Bengdara said he believed that Gaddafi had fled Tripoli and could be heading towards the Algerian border. Read full story here.
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI Heavy gunfire heard Gunfire was returned from apartment buidlings FF R surrounding now believed 2 harbour G and sons #Libya
#TRIPOLI districts that had seemed calm last couple days suddenly fierce gunfights
broke out again proving town is still volatile #
#Tripoli #BabalAziziya is being fired at from AbuSalim area by GF + Nasr woods around zoo and Rixos Wood = teeming with snipers #Libya
#TRIPOLI Many more armed FF in Trucks continue to arrive near G trapped apartemnt blocks seen arriving #Libya
TRIPOLI Imam of #Hamaan Mosque @Center of #GaserBenGashir (close to airport said he had seen #KHAMIS Gaddafi
#TRIPOLI Gaddafi clan trapped in apartment blocks Huge FIREFIGHT taking place now #libya abt 1000 FF surrendering buildings
GF Executed 170 detainess in #Alyarmook MilitaryBase only 4 detainees Escaped 2 from #AzZwayia 2 from #Hey #Alforjan #Libya
Plus 1 another: My uncle (from Alziziyah) who escaped from Yarmook CONFIRMS this, he said at least 150 massacred.
Scott Heidler
Aljazeera correspondent on the ground in Benghazi
“As all eyes are on Tripoli,fighting continues to the east.Rebel forces advancing toward Gaddafi hometown Sirte pushed back 20km by shelling.”
CNN
The bodies of 17 rebels killed Tuesday by Gadhafi forces near the longtime leader’s compound were taken Wednesday to a hospital in eastern Tripoli, a doctor there told CNN. As the Gadhafi forces began to execute them, rebel forces began storming Bab al-Azizia, a doctor said. The resulting confusion gave some of the captives the chance to escape, he said.
AP
The head of Libya’s rebel Cabinet arrives in Italy for a meeting with Premier Silvio Berlusconi on a European diplomatic tour aimed at security the release of billions of dollars in frozen Libyan assets.
AP
Analysts are split about how fast Libya’s oil production could return to its prewar levels of about 1.5 million barrels a day from its current 60,000. Some expect output to fully recover by next year while others worry political instability and damaged infrastructure could stymie the oil industry for several years.
AP
The U.N. cultural agency is warning Libyans to guard against looting of cultural heritage amid the country’s current turmoil.
The director of UNESCO is also cautioning the international art and antiquities trade to be “particularly wary of objects from Libya in the present circumstances” because they might be stolen.
Reuters
Jordanian group Hikma Pharmaceuticals expects to resume normal business in Libya by the end of the year as the country becomes the latest in the region to recover from political turmoil.
China
China’s initial hostility toward the uprising against Moammar Gadhafi and its belated outreach to Libya’s rebels could mean that Chinese firms eager to return to the country after the conflict will be at the back of the line.
Reuters
Libya’s new masters are keen to forge ahead and secure the funds they need to bring relief to war-battered towns and rebuild the oil sector on which the economy depends. NTC diplomats meet their Western backers in Turkey on Thursday.
After talks with Arab and Western allies in Qatar on Wednesday, a senior rebel leader said the NTC would seek to have $5 billion in frozen assets released to jump-start the economy and provide vital relief to its citizens. The United States has also submitted a draft resolution to the U.N Security Council to unfreeze $1.5 billion in Libyan assets.
AP
The International Organization for Migration says a ship chartered to rescue hundreds of foreigners from Tripoli has managed to dock in the Libyan capital’s port after waiting offshore for days due to fighting.
An IOM spokeswoman says the security situation in the port has improved sufficiently for the vessel to dock.
Andrew Simmons
“Driving around Tripoli and its suburbs not getting any easier, Suspicion at so many check points increasing”
Reuters
Four Italian journalists who were abducted near Zawiya in Libya on Wednesday have been freed, Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported on its web site.
Two of the journalists worked for Corriere della Sera, while the others were reporters for La Stampa and Avvenire newspapers.
The Italian consul in Benghazi, Guido de Sanctis, said after the kidnap that they were being held in an apartment in Tripoli.
He said their driver was killed during the abduction and they were believed to have been held by gunmen loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.
Al Jazeera Arabic reports: rebels are about to attack Abu Salem neighbourhood.
Aljazeera
The Arab League has given its full backing to the NTC as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people and said it was time for Libya to take back its permanent seat on the League’s council. The NTC’s representative at the League, Abdelmoneim el-Houni, said Libya would resume its League membership at a meeting of Arab ministers on Saturday
Reuters
The Arab League gave its full backing to Libya’s rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people on Thursday and said it was time for Libya to take back its permanent seat on the League’s council.
Daily Mail
A U.S. writer who had been held captive in Libya after being captured in the early months of the conflict has escaped from prison, his mother said. Matthew VanDyke, 32, travelled from his home in Maryland after seeing the battles unfold on TV when unrest began in February.
He was captured and held in solitary confinement in Abu Salim prison in Tripoli with his relatives at home fearing that he might not be released.
Aljazeera
Sue Turton, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Tripoli, said locals are very worried that there are going to be attacks by pro-Gaddafi supporters across the city. ”There are checkpoints popping up all over the city. Locals are managing to get hold of weapons to police their streets,” said.
AP
The Libyan Embassy in Pakistan has raised the rebel flag above its compound in Islamabad following the fall of Moammar Gadhafi’s 42-year autocratic regime.
Reuters
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said the UN should play the central role in rebuilding Libya following violence that has continued since rebels drove Muammer Gaddafi from Tripoli. ”We proceed from the position that work in the post-conflict development of Libya must be carried out exclusively under the aegis of the U.N. Security Council,” said spokesman Alexander Lukashevich.
Italy
Italy has begun unfreezing 350 million euros of Libyan funds in Italian banks in an effort to unblock all of the country’s assets in this country, Silvio Berlusconi said. Italian oil and gas group Eni, the biggest foreign oil operator in Libya, is expected to sign a deal to supply a “large” amount of gas and petrol without payment to serve the immediate needs of Libyans
BBC
Four Italian journalists kidnapped and held by suspected loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi have been freed, according to Italy’s foreign ministry. The journalists were reportedly freed during a raid on the house in Tripoli in which they were being held.
SKY NEWS
Doctor Sees Victims Of ‘Mass Execution’
A doctor in Libya has told Sky News how he witnessed the bloody aftermath of an alleged mass execution by Colonel Gaddafi’s troops.
Dr Moez said he was working in a hospital on the Matiga airbase, in east Tripoli, when a truck full of bullet-riddled bodies turned up outside.
He said one of the survivors told them that they had been captured by Col Gaddafi’s troops, held in a school for several days and then executed.
If the allegations are true, evidence of the injuries collected by Dr Moez and his colleagues could be used in any war crimes trial, if Col Gaddafi is ever found and brought to court.
Dr Moez said: “Around dusk time a large truck with an open back turned up unexpectedly and I could hear people crying and wailing.
“I went out to have a look what was in the truck and even before I got to the truck the stench was quite overwhelming.
“As I looked inside there was possibly 16 or 17 bodies that were riddled with bullets from head to toe. A lot of them had been shot in the head but they had bullets all over.
“Later we found out what had happened: these were all people that had been held by Gaddafi loyalists over the past few days and they were possibly captured over the past week or two, kidnapped if you like, and they were held in a school quite close to the city centre.
“What had happened was as the Gaddafi loyalists retreated they went into this room and executed all these people.
“One… of the victims… was shot in the leg and they failed to execute him so he told us everything that happened.”
Dr Moez said he and other doctors spent about three hours photographing all the victims’ injuries in detail.
“These are the kind of things that are going to be required to prosecute Gaddafi in the international criminal courts.
“These are the war crimes we are talking about and I am sure this has been replicated in many parts of the city and even in the country as well,” he added.
Source: Sky News
feb17libya Feb17Libya
FACTBOX-“Defections” from Gaddafi’s Libya bit.ly/npHfBU #libya
Next few tweets will be from the Jibril press conference in Milan
Jibril: Priority these next few weeks is to bring stability to the country, and building our national army which requires collecting weapons
Jibril: We must provide urgent care for the wounded even the ones abroad
Jibril: All of our priorities can’t be carried out by the NTC without immediately having the money to carry them out #Libya #Feb17
Jibril: International community helped protect our civilians, now we need them to help provide for them #Libya #Feb17
Berlusconi said that Italy has begun to unfreeze Libyan assets worth 350 million euros
WSJ
South Africa has declined to release frozen assets to Libya’s rebel-backed government ahead of formal recognition from the UN, a South African foreign ministry spokesman said, underscoring African concerns about the political situation after the collapse of Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s regime.
Libiya_min_Hollanda
Confirmed apache is still busy in Gaser ben Gashir
The name of the close friend of Gadhadi is Ali or Jimma Alayeb he is know in Gaser Ben Gashir has alot of camels
The G forces whom are causing problems in Gaser Ben Gashir are from Werfellah
Where is #Mahmud Elwerfelli!!!! Not telling his tribe 2 leave the ppl if Gaser Ben Gashir alone!!
Just spoke 2 my aunt, rocket fire everywhere, dead ppl on the streats, hospitals full of civilians #Gaser ben Gashir
She is hearing Nato plains but she doesnt know if they targeted anything.
When speaking 2 my aunt hearing loud explosions at the back ground. Alot of fires in diff places smoke evefywhere!!!
Alot of childeren have been injured by the grad shrapnels DAM Where is the #WORLDMEDIA
#NTC where are ya? Celibrating in Tripoli when ppl are dying in Gaser Ben Gashir.
Danya
More than 50 bodies were found underground in #Gaddafi ’s compound..They were executed. Just because they stood up against #GaddafiCrimes
CNN
As fighting intensifies around Tripoli’s airport, some wonder if Moammar Gadhafi is near the site. CNN’s Arwa Damon reports.
goo.gl/JTbTB
SA Dancer
Please support the protection of women’s rights in the new Libyan constitution. This is important and affects many lives.
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI #Abusleem GF still indiscriminately shooting @houses Gun fire & Mortar thuds heard on phone Terrifying sounds
#NTC #Tripoli residents say they need hotline to report security issues ASAP #Libya
#TRIPOLI FF are sending reinforcement groups to Abu Saleem area Fierce Fighting now
#TRIPOLI HOSPITALS inundated with Patients brought by taxi &cars ambulances & carried .. youtube.com/watch?v=5fNcU1… #libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fNcU1JtR7c&fea...
#TRIPOLI PRISONS MAP orientate yourself : goo.gl/xtCvA #Libya
TRIPOLI Prisoners released Nato hit prisoner walls then FF hacked down Doors from #Jdaida #AynZara #Abusalim #Alhofra #Mitiga #Libya
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: Group of rebels besieging buildings near Bab Al-Aziziyah compound of Muammar Gaddafi said they believe the Colonel is inside
#TRIPOLI Fighting around Corinthia Hotel quiet down FF confused and were firing at eachother Hotel damaged by bullets
Freedom Fighter
I had 2 friends (Ziad Labib & Housam Abuzied) in abusalim prision. What a scary story they have! but they both fine and recovering.
A bomb by nato twards salah eddin side 6:07am local
septimius_sever septimius severus
Graphic FF found a container full of dead FF in Sreem District of #Tripoli ! #Feb17 #Tripoli twitpic.com/6avqx8
arwaCNN:
as #tripoli airport was getting pounded last night young rebel fighter marvels at the artillery still in #ghadafi loyalist hands”
FB page: “Most Pro-democracy locals in #Sirte r Ferjan, Misurata, Madaan & ppl from Houn. (contact via Thuraya )”
BBC World Update:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00jm7hg
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
written on the wall at #tripoli airport “we are paying the price for staying silent for 40 years”
Sirtawi
Just to clear things. We are a group from #Sirte based in the UK. There’s no net or phone connections so far with anyone in #Sirte…
Our contacts in #Sirte with Sat phones do not master the English language, but we’re trying to get in touch with someone who does ASAP.
Tweeting Tripoli
Phone from BaniWalid: State-Radio announced that Gaddafi forces have liberated Tripoli apart from few pockets of crusader infidels. #feb17
Wish it was a joke. It’s true. Half the city believe Christian invaders in collaboration with NTC are here to convert them.
Phone from BenWalid: We look at Tripoli’s celebrations and we think, damn you armed Gaddafi thugs, you robbed our pleasure of celebration.
Via Phone: Armed Gaddafi thugs still patrolling city of BaniWalid shooting with anti-AA houses suspected having an anti-Gaddafi. Hostages.
URGENT: BaniWalid needs urgent NATO and FF attention. Civilians are being shot at as I type
We need a huge study to analyze how can grownups be so easily brainwashed. Libyan/international psychologists start now.
Anonymous Watcher
Four Words: Mass Induced Stockholm Syndrome
Tweeting Tripoli
Yes Gaddafi should get a FAIR trial, after what he has done and still doing to Libya. We drown him in FAIR & LOVELY skin lotion tank.
WAPO
Missing journalist from Baltimore emerges from Tripoli prison
Matthew VanDyke, a freelance journalist from Baltimore who had been missing in Libya since March, was released from Tripoli’s notorious Abu Salim prison on Wednesday, according to his mother, whom he talked to on a borrowed Libyan cellphone.
By Wednesday afternoon, “all U.S. citizens who were known to be detained in Libya have been released,” State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland said.
A State Department official said four Americans had been released Wednesday and a fifth earlier in the week, and added that U.S. officials will work with the government of Hungary, which has represented U.S. interests in Libya, to help get them out.
Read more here:
www.washingtonpost.com/local/missing-jo...
aloys
For your OWN humanity u should give him a fair trial, G’s thinking & being isn’t important anymore.
Sami
we should plan the first Libyan space program and send gaddafi and his sons to the sun :) FREE LIBYA!!
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: #Venezuela Embassy was assaulted & looted yesterday by #Gaddafi filth, everything destroyed & stolen
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “FEYZA GENC” remains anchored at #Tripoli
PLEASE RT : #Libya #NTC offers 2 MILLION DINARS & FULL AMNESTY for Muammar #Gaddafi,DEAD OR ALIVE. #Feb17
#Freedomfighters saying that they are surrounding #Gaddafi and family in #BabAlAziziya. #Libya #Feb17
WHO ARE THE “REBELS” ?
ALJAZEERA
Opposition fighters against Gaddafi’s regime are sometimes referred to as ‘rebels’. This can be viewed negatively and so the correct term for the ‘rebels’ is freedom fighters.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h90OaGFOr9w&fea...
Reuters
Libyan rebels say Muammar Gaddafi surrounded
A group of rebels besieging a cluster of apartment buildings near the compound of Muammar Gaddafi said they believed the man who led Libya for four decades was hiding in the buildings with some of his sons.
www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/25/us-l...
DerekStoffelCBC Derek Stoffel
Still searching for a driver who speaks a little bit of English, and/or a fixer/translator in Tripoli. Anyone know anyone here, let me know.
sophie
Gaddafi’s glasses? Our correspondent @karimhakiki found them at his Bab al-Aziziya compound earlier this week… #Libya pic.twitter.com/N8jnrsc
#AJE ZeinaKhodr Thuwar pinned down near BabAlAziziyah. Can’t advance any further because of sniper. Trying to take him out.
Mawadda Elmabruk
My friend’s brother was executed last #Satuarday and they found him in a refrigerated truck on #Monday in #SidiKhalifa #Tripoli #Libya :-(
Weekly Standard
Qaddafi Loyalists Take Stand in Zwara
Zwara, Libya—The coastal city of Zwara, near the Libya-Tunisia border, is under siege by pro-Qaddafi forces who continue to shell the city and appear to be the last of Qaddafi’s forces still fighting in Libya.
The area between Zwara and Sabratha was the under control of revolutionary forces as of yesterday evening, including an important gas plant that supplies electricity to the region. Qaddafi’s forces have destroyed the Zwara water treatment plant, and continue to attack civilian targets. Four people were killed yesterday, and 2 rebel fighters and an unknown number of civilians have been killed today.
Rebel fighters in Zwara have been reinforced by 160 Zwara men who were in exile in Tunisia until returning by sea yesterday.
Full art.:
www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/qaddafi-s-...
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: Just went to 3 different Tunis hospitals w/ a Misrata friend (injured FF) for his physical therapy. He’s now given up for the day.
hominoid555 whitewakbar
More than 10,000 people have crossed from both sides since the beginning of a rebel push into Tripoli on Saturday. asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2…
Mustafa Abduljalil now:Cannot comment on claimed beseiging of #Gaddafi and sons right now on #Tripoli #Libya
Jalil: In #Tripoli theres a stockpile of food supplies enough for a city 2x its size.& a years supply of medicine enuf 4Tripoli &all Libya
Jalil: There will be no more obstacles to food, gas & medicine. Gaddafi intentionally
prevented Libyans 4rm getting these supplies.
Jalil said that there is a great quantity of gas & fuel in #Zawiyah refinery- enough for entire Libya
Jalil: There are friendly negotiations btwn ppl of Sirte and their council and we have hope there will be a peaceful solution.
Jalil: I can confirm that our martyrs exceed 20,000
Jalil:Countries that spent money protecting civillians in #Libya will have priority in projects to rebuild #
Jalil:We r fair&countyries will be treated in proportion to their support for #Libya
Jalil:The first beneficiary of new #Libya will be the Libyans.Then the countries who helped us
Jalil: I can confirm that our martyrs exceed 20,000
Jalil:Countries that spent money protecting civillians in #Libya will have priority in projects to rebuild #
Jalil:We r fair&countyries will be treated in proportion to their support for #Libya
Jalil:The first beneficiary of new #Libya will be the Libyans.Then the countries who helped us
Jalil press conference over
FromJoanne Joanne
#SIRTE FF are building up forces on either way of town abt 1000 GF believed to be there 25% of Citizens believed 2b Loyal to G #Libya
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: Libya rebel council head Abdel Jalil urges Libyans in areas still under Gaddafi control to “join the revolution”
david_bachmann_ AC Tripolis
Thuwar in center of #Tripoli VERY friendly @checkpoint apologizing for stopping cars and checking IDs
NTC leader #Abdel #Jalil says national wealth will be distributed equally among the population.
Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
Earlier were shown a huge ammunition dump in the grounds of Rixos hotel. At least 6 deep pits full of bullets, bombs and rockets. #tripoli
Teams from Sky News now arriving at Bab-Al-Azzizia to see whether rumours of Gaddafi being surrounded are true
Sky News Alex Crawford: There is definitely a gun battle around the apartment buildings, but it is unclear who is inside them
Zlitniya
Is it just me or does Mustafa Abduljalil look happy and pleased today?? hoping its cos there r #goodthingstocome
dovenews Libyan™
Turkish FM Ahmet Davutoglu said on Thursday NATO must continue operations until the North African country was fully secured. #Libya
Reuters
Thirty Gaddafi fighters found dead at Tripoli camp
TRIPOLI Aug 25 (Reuters) – More than 30 men believed to be fighters loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have been killed at a military encampment in central Tripoli and at least two were bound with plastic handcuffs, indicating they had been executed.
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
JeffreyKofman:
As we drive through #Tripoli, impressive 2 see virtually no looting. No police, but so far order prevails" God bless #Libya
Sky News only confirms activity, but cannot independently verify Reuters claim that #Gaddafi and his sons are inside buildings
cheisalif bassit shagman
Just been near libyan embassy in moscow was attacked by russian police and gaddafi supporters couldnt stand with new flag
Mail Online
Gaddafi’s Neverland:
Fairground rides, a zoo and a shrine to his dead daughter… inside the tyrant’s bizarre lair
One group of young men chose to tour the Bab al-Aziziya compound in the dictator’s preferred mode of transport – the very same electric golf buggy he rode in to rest his 72-year-old legs.
Even as they made their way through the shattered buildings, they could see for themselves sufficient remnants of the bizarre Michael Jackson-style Neverland park, complete with fairground and zoo, that Gaddafi constructed in the heart of the capital city.
First there were the creature comforts.
In one of his palaces, expensive murals and art work hung from the walls and rooms were filled with replica 14th century furniture.
Read more:
goo.gl/2smg2
Nurses & Medical staffs #Tripoli needs your help ,,, All expenses paid. call : Dr. Ibrahim Momen: +1-416-999-1038 for details. #Libya #Feb17
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Tripoli: Smoke plume rising to south near zoo yfrog.com/h3kj0cij
South Africa asks ICC to probe #NATO #Libya role bitly.com/n2yxMj
Irish Times
‘Raise your head up high, you are a free Libyan’
“Raise your head up high – you are a free Libyan,” the rebels chanted, as cheering bystanders sang along. The air rang with the sound of gunfire as the fighters, some just out of their teens, shot into the sky in celebration. Others yelled the names of the “martyrs” who had been killed in recent days, prompting shouts of Allahu Akbar.
“Give us two days, and it will be all over,” said Firaj Bulifa, who had taken part in the storming of Col Gadafy’s compound, Bab al-Azizia, earlier this week. The rebels continued to hold the complex yesterday despite heavy bombardment by regime forces. “It is very bad there today, but we will prevail,” he added.
Read more:
www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/...
Robin
Useful interview on #Libya oil restoration; relatively optimistic & contains facts rather than speculation insider.thomsonreuters.com/link.html?cn=s…
BBC getting worse by the minute:
Apparently BBC doesn’t know the difference between Libya and India
Libya / Incredible media lies – BBC shows “Green Square” in INDIA, 24 August 2011
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_-lzI8I0_0&fea...
PJBWells Patrick Wells
Just received the sad news that Feras, incredibly brave paramedic from Misrata and star of my film, was killed on Sunday by a sniper.
Palm Maple
Lessons from Iraq & Afghanistan:
Gaddafi Forces are trying to use insurgency & guerrilla tactics in Tripoli. The main aim is not to recover the city, but to sow chaos & insecurity in order to shake the population trust in the NTC and to spread fear that Gaddafi can still punish civilians if they try to bring the city back to normal functioning. The result; doctors & nurses don’t show up at hospitals, engineers & technicians don’t go to electricity or water plants, bakeries don’t open, etc.
After prolonged failures, US forces learned few lessons about how to counter such a type of insurgency in Iraq & Afghanistan. These counter-insurgency measures proved effective whenever they were applied at the LOCAL level. They were never fully successful country-wide mainly because US troops were not endogenous to the population (but this is irrelevant here).
To secure a specific Town/Area:
1. Fill the area with an overwhelming number of security troops (the surge).
2. Work on winning Heart & Mind of the locals
3. Start combing the area bit by bit in a systematic way.
For areas in Tripoli that have been liberated by FF, but still has Gaddafi activities like Hit & Run, Ambushes (of cars) and Snipers, the following need to be considered (one Local area after another);
1. FF need to move an overwhelming number of troops to the area in question (this call for a higher overall number of FF in the whole city that is not currently available; especially with large number of FF tied up in the fight south of the city. This could be helped by ferrying-in more FF from the East Tobruk-Benghazi Sector. However, when working locally, FF from the East should be distributed within units originating from Tripoli itself).
2. Heart & Mind of the local population has to be fully won. Most of the local population do trust FF intentions, but might not trust their ability to provide Security, Services & Emergency Help. Communication with the local population on these issues and how FF can help should be established immediately. FF can’t claim to be too busy with the fight to the degree of not helping the locals. Taking the time to send a small escort with a mother taking her child to a local clinic will go long way in re-assuring the whole community. Additionally, communities should be assured that the presence of FF will protect them from being robbed by normal criminal bandits. Even people who might have been brainwashed/sympathetic to Gaddafi should be assured that FF will protect them from local retribution. If any one of them was accused of a big-scale crime, then, this is a matter for a legal process later; or, in extreme cases, some of these people could be arrested.
3. After FF establish an over whelming number and after establishing good lines of communication with the locals, a building by building and street by street security check / combing of the area should be conducted. It is important that this street by
street combing is done with the help and cooperation of the locals (preferably; watched by them if safe to do so).
4. After the local area is judged to be clean and after the local population is assured, few check points could be left behind, while the bulk of the force should move to repeat the same process, but ONLY in an adjacent section of the city (not to allow Gaddafi units to slip back from nearby points).
septimius_sever septimius severus
While #NATO help was important, this was a victory of the #Libya. They did the heavy lifting & the dying dailykos.com/story/2011/08/… by @clayclai
if you are looking for a libya expert through the “private” eyes of Gaddafi carry on interviewing @NabilaRamdani a class mate of Saif in LSE
Funny how @NabilaRamdani carry on asking #Gaddafi even when there’s no time for other people questions!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFTwnskNmh8&fea... .. #Libya
Russia
The counsellor of #Libya embassy in #Moscow, #Russia made a statement in support of #NTC. The green flag is removed
MSF_southafrica MSF South Africa
Speaking from Tripoli, Jonathan Whittall, MSF Emergency Coordinator, describes the situation on the ground. An MSF… fb.me/Wh5xUkd7
PJBWells Patrick Wells
Does anyone have contact information for Ahmed Fakroun the Libyan singer? i really need to contact him urgently. please retweet
MSF_uk MSF UK
Hospitals in #Tripoli lacking staff and supplies struggle to cope with the wounded. #MSF HoM reports from the ground msf.me/r8p3Ll
septimius_sever septimius severus
Dear @BBC, note that @nabilaramdani Qualifications on #Libya: 1. was #Saif classmate in LSE, 2. visited Libya (with #Saif) & 3. Brown skin
Dear @BBC, you are not helping urself by insisting on having @nabilaramdani on every programme about #Libya
Dear @BBC, and while you are at it, why dont you stick @jfjbowen and @nabilaramdani in same programme?
jkirchick Jamie Kirchick
scariest moment thus far in #tripoli: when our driver brought us to the Rixos instead of the Radisson. #lostintranslation
Ceedat
Crazy Stuff..
In a 2007 interview with al-Jazeera television, Gadhafi spoke of Rice in glowing terms. “I support my darling black African woman,” he said. “I admire and am very proud of the way she leans back and gives orders to the Arab leaders … Leezza, Leezza, Leezza. … I love her very much. I admire her and I’m proud of her because she’s a black woman of African origin.”
Qaddafi kept a photo album full of Condi Rice pics. on.msnbc.com/pvncQx // Um…
septimius_sever septimius severus
I can’t get through to anybody in #Zuwarah (#Zwara) today, anybody managed to get through ?
#Libya: destroyed Libyan aircraft at #Tripoli airport twitpic.com/6b0kj6 via @khalidkhan787
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Tarik
Half an hour ago in #Moscow by #Libya embassy visualrian.ru/ru/images/zoom…
Time World
Libyan Rebels and NATO Target Gaddafi’s Hometown, but How Long Can Muammar Hide Out?
The hunt for Muammar Gaddafi intensified on Thursday as rebel fighters tried to shoot their way into the leader’s home town of Sirte 300 miles east of Tripoli, as they also waged fierce battles in the southern neighborhoods of the capital itself. As the full challenge of crushing the last remnants of Gaddafi’s forces became clear, questions emerged over just how deeply involved Western countries were in hunting down the fugitive leader.
Full art.:
www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,...
AlArabiya
Libyan rebels take army base west of Tripoli as Pentagon says WMD ‘secure’
Libyan rebels fighting to overthrow Muammar Qaddafi have taken control of an army base west of Tripoli in Zuara, Al Arabiya reported on Wednesday, as the Pentagon said Libya’s stockpile of chemical weapons were “secure.”
The military installation was called Mazraq al-Shams, Al Arabiya said.
The rebels swept into Tripoli at the weekend and have been fighting pockets of fighters loyal to Gaddafi in and around Tripoli.
A rebel spokesman said in comments broadcast on Al Arabiya that Libyan rebels fought a fierce battle with Qaddafi’s top military commander at his farm in Tripoli on Wednesday.
Abdel Salam Abu Zaakouk said that heavy fighting was under way in a farm belonging to the chief of staff of the Libyan armed forces, Abdul Rahman al-Sayed.
“He (Sayed) is leading the battle with the rebels and he is still inside the farm,” Abu Zaakouk told Al Arabiya without giving further details.
Meanwhile, the second in command of Libya’s intelligence services declared his allegiance to rebel forces fighting Qaddafi in an interview aired on Al Arabiya.
“I put myself in the service of the nation and call on generals and soldiers who are the sons of Libya to join the 17th February revolution,” Gen. Khalifah Mohammed Ali said.
According to Al Arabiya the general had relinquished his post.
The Pentagon, meanwhile, said that Libya’s stockpile of chemical weapons are “secure” but that an arsenal of thousands of shoulder-launched missiles remained cause for concern.
Asked if sites containing chemical weapons, including over 10 tons of mustard gas, were safe, spokesman Colonel Dave Lapan said: “Yes.”
But he declined to offer more details, only saying that “clearly those are dangerous
agents and weapons … we continue to monitor that.”
There were no plans to send US troops in to secure the chemical weapons sites, he told reporters, according to AFP.
Although Qaddafi’s regime retained the mustard gas, it lacked the military means to launch an attack with the chemical, according to arms control experts.
Qaddafi’s joined the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in 2004 after renouncing weapons of mass destruction in December 2003, but still had to eliminate 11.25 tons of mustard gas when the uprising to remove him from power began in February.
All 3,563 munitions – such as bombs, shells and missiles – that could serve as a carrier to distribute mustard gas have been destroyed, according to the OPCW.
Lapan said the United States was also concerned about a plethora of conventional arms and ammunition, including shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles.
The shoulder-launched missiles in particular posed a potential danger, he said.
“They remain a concern, because of their portability.”
Source:
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/08/...
DerekStoffelCBC Derek Stoffel
Still searching for a driver who speaks a little bit of English, and/or a fixer/translator in Tripoli. Anyone know anyone here, let me know.
septimius_sever septimius severus
Map of Gaddafi’s influence on Africa theglobeandmail.com/news/world/afr… … #Libya
#Libya : the latest on fighting and an updated satellite image of Gaddafi’s compound: apne.ws/qGgKSS -EC
Mohammad
Video: of Libyan flag raised in the #Libya n embassy in #Riyadh youtube.com/watch?v=WGIRx2… amazing! #Feb17 see how happy are they
FlashNewsPlus
Pentagon: Strong indication that Col. #Gaddafi is still in #Tripoli. #Libya
simondenyer Simon Denyer
Rebel commanders say fierce resistance from Abu Salem neighborhood makes them think #Gaddafi or his sons could be there.
H
#Gadafi needs to stop saying he’s going to fight to the death, and start saying he’s going to hide till the death.
septimius_sever septimius severus
anybody told him its not a hide&seek game?
BREAKING: Gaddafi is reported to be in Bab alzizya, AbuSalim and near the airport! Which means he is either in Sebha or Sirte !
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Thousands of migrant African workers stranded in Libya are terrified they will be mistaken for Gadhafi mercenaries and attacked or detained
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Fighting in 4 areas, not controlled by rebels in #tripoli so far: #Bouslim, #Hadba, Airport road, #Akwakh neighborhood.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
PASS THE WORD: PLEASE RT: Alfedous Clinic near #Gurgi / #KaryetSalah is safe, equipped and ready for injured. #Libya #Feb17
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Saw several long queues at the few bakeries open today in Tripoli
Leon
Good move. Libya swap hosting 2013 African Nations Cup with South Africa. Libya will now host in 2017; which had been awarded to SA.
Leading the army of reinforcements into Tripoli were seasoned combatants from the city of Misrata
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
I saw 6 dead bodies next to #Abusaleem area, Rebels tell us they were civilians killed by #Gaddafi men cos they didn’t support them, #Libya
Libya, Fierce clashes as rebels trying to push into #AbuSaleem, #Gaddafi forces slowing their advance using snipers, #Babaziziyah, #Tripoli
robcrilly Rob Crilly
just passed group of opposition fighters trying to move a camel from the road. It doesn’t want to get up. Doesn’t bode well for Sirte attack
Free Libya
Some bittersweet news, found out that my uncle from my mum’s side has escaped from the Yarmook Military camp prison, badly tortured:( #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
by hominoid555
Tripoli 120 Freed #AbuSalim prisoners on boat bound for #benghazi now #Saladin #Libya
Free Libya
Allahu akbar, my family in Hadba are all free :) The FF came and liberated them completely last night:) Allahu Akbar
robcrilly Rob Crilly
rebels have tanks dug in now to defend the town of Ras Lanuf. They’re going to need them
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
rebels say they made it to #ghadafi farm 15mins away from #tripoli airport, just drove back with what they say is his mobile home
SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Breaking Al Jazeera: Libyan revolutionaries say they are surrounding Gaddafi & a number of his relatives near Bab Al Azizia #Libya
Anaya
ALERT: Source from Moscow: when an embassy worker tried to raise the new #Libya flag, a mob of RUSSIAN supporters attacked.Police didnt help
Freedom Fighter
Big clashes in abusalim right now 3:45pm local
dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi forces executed 170 detainess in #Alyarmook military base, only 4 detainees mangd 2 escape 2 from #AzZwayia & 2 from #Hey #Alforjan
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Sky says they’ve seen “quite a few bodies of black African men” around the Gaddafi compound.
Hayat
#TripoliPrisoners Massacred. I don’t know how many but I can confirm #Gaddafi forces took them out before #FFs got to them.
Russia not invited to Paris talks on Libya. ha ha ha ha !
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Sky’s Alex Crawford says rebels have “clearly overrun a whole encampment of Gaddafi forces… trail of dead soldiers”
Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
Rebel brigade from Misrata continuing assault south of Rixos against remaining Gaddafi forces – arms dump find will prove extremely useful
Earlier were shown a huge ammunition dump in the grounds of Rixos hotel. At least 6 deep pits full of bullets, bombs and rockets. #tripoli
RobNisbetSky RobertNisbet
International Organisation of Migration has begun boarding 200 foreign nationals fleeing fighting in #tripoli. Boat will go to Benghazi
hominoid555 whitewakbar
A group of rebels besieging a cluster of apartment buildings near the compound of Muammar Gaddafi
said they believed the man who led Libya for four decades was hiding in the buildings with some of his sons.
“They are together. They are in a small hole,” said one of the fighters involved in the battle, Muhammad Gomaa. “Today we finish.
Libya: Serbia has ‘no information’ on Serbs held by rebels www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Polit...
Libya crisis: It’s unfortunate Ghana has chosen to sit on the fence !! squawk squawk squawk squawkkkkkkk
Tripoli, rebels said they were confident they could mop up soldiers clinging to a leader now on the run
#AJE
Thwuar in #Tripoli are using anti-aircraft guns and RPGS to target snipers #Libya
Hawas brigade, the first rebel fighting group to be sent from Benghazi, arrived in Tripoli by ship on Thursday.
robcrilly Rob Crilly
Rebels have now renamed Bin Jawad as Bin Gawad – “son of a snitch” after an ambush there earlier this year.
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Libya – Report in the closest clinic in the front line against Gaddafi l… youtube.com/watch?v=7Vahq4… via @youtube
Gaddafi’s last stand may be tale of two cities | Reuters reut.rs/p5IrHd via @reuters
Turkey – Libya: Senior diplomats meet in Istanbul to discuss Libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX-U6xrzAes&fea... via @youtube
The UNHCR estimates there are tens of thousands of migrant workers still in Libya, some have made risky attempts to escape to Europe by sea
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
AbuSleem has a group of Gaddafi thugs looting and attacking homes. They killed 2 families on a main road 3 days ago.
flyingbirdies أكرم
Statements coming from Russia exactly the same from Gadaffi .. useless & nothing bt S*t
2011-08-23 : معركة تحرير باب العزيزية Battle for Bab Al-Aziziyah
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFGJehXigK4
UK viewers: complaints form for BBC Please ask for credible ‘experts’ to appear in discussions about Libya bbc.co.uk/complaints/for…
or:
www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
In Gadafy’s compound 2day, man sidled up to me + claimed 80percent Libyans w/ G but afraid of armed rebels. Says he fears for future anarchy
septimius_sever septimius severus
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@MaryFitzgerldIT did he have a receding hairline line & a goatee? very annoying type with PhD in media communication?
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
We are at sidar the new front line.After a few hours of stalemate ff have started pounding gad positions in bin jawwad
Dozens of rebel rockets now coming from behind us flying over our heads.
No nato activity here for days say fighters on front.
so hard sending tweets with rockets going over your head and dust everywhere.
single rocket fire 1 2 3 4 then a barrage of maybe a dozen in quick succession. hard to tell when fire is so quick. deafening noise
thick black smoke towers in to the sky over pro-gad positions. the #FF have hit something that is burning in distance
#gaddafi troops are countering with mortars. They are aiming for a rebel tank that has been pounding him every 3 minutes or so.
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: Rebel leader Abdul Jalil says he welcomes “any negotiation” with groups in Gaddafi-held areas to avoid more killing
AP: Gaddafi’s spokesman says leader is in Libya and leading fight against rebels
Reuters: International Monetary Fund would recognise new Libyan government with support of member countries
AP: Gaddafi’s spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, says leader is in Libya, is leading fight against rebels and is safe, healthy & his morale is high
Al-Orouba TV broadcast: Gaddafi tells women to purify Tripoli and urges Libyans to fight and destroy rebels
Qaddafi says Libyans must “fight and destroy” rebels in Tripoli For once he got it right, he and his sons are now the rebels
The Atlantic
Scenes From the Fall of Libya’s Infamous Abu Salim Prison
NALUT, Libya — The above video purports to show yesterday’s prison break from Tripoli’s notorious Abu Salim prison, which fell on Wednesday. Anti-government forces in Nalut are circulating it this morning, hanging it on the local militia’s Arabic facebook page. Watching sections of the 11-minute video with a translator appears to confirm the video’s authenticity; the narrator makes several references to the location, to Qaddafi, and to thuwar, or revolutionaries, the Libyan anti-government forces’ usual term for themselves. If it’s a staged job or a voice-over scam, it would have to be an awfully artful one, done quickly overnight.
www.theatlantic.com/international/archi...
One4All4One
AlAan intvw w/NTC rep frm Zuara Othman Bensasi (Arabc w/English summry) re situation in Zuara. Pls RT! youtube.com/watch?v=DYI6GG…
LibyaUnited1944
Gadafi is sounding a bit like a parrot…enough with the calls 2 rally ur supporters, they’re not real they only exist in ur head! #Libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Gaddafi is apparently barking again. No one in Tripoli or Libya is listening
Photo
Gaddafi Gun
inscription “Specially made for Col. Muammar Gaddafi”
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1954537...
ksnavarra:
Malta deployed evacuation ship to #Tripoli returns to #Valletta as mission is aborted due to risk
bbclysedoucet lyse doucet
more shops starting to open in Tripoli.even saw a paint shop. next priority – repainting ubiquitous green doors and shutters?
plemochoe
I don’t know who Heinz is but it would have been good if he had replaced every reporter in LIbya
blakehounshell:
Sky correspondent says context of Reuters report is that reporter asked ff “What are you firing at?” he said “Gaddafi.”
AJA PROMO MUST WATCH:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPqpR3_QRPI&fea...
libyanandproud
other thing i know is Saadi is devastated for losing Gay porn DVD’s
NASA : Fireworks spotted in Saturn believed to be celebrations for the safe return of citizen #Gaddafi ! LOL (FB)
ahmed:
Gaddafi new audio message included all his greatest hits: zanga zanga, rats, forward forward forward…
MoKoussa Moussa Koussa
Please RT if you agree. I want this to get to the deaf ears of CNN: bit.ly/p7HU7v thanks
To Free Libya, August 24, 2011
Today your eyes that never blinked are free,
Exhausted, bleeding Tripoli,
And now that you’re free, by God,
Your every breath paid full in blood,
Armchair pundits who at every chance,
Rehashed the “ragtag rebels” “slow advance”,
Tribal partition and stalemate,
Now want decide Free Libya’s fate!
ENOUGH!
Who paid in blood for every stride?!
So Libya does not divide?!
Whose unslept eyes beam out with pride?!
FREE LIBYA = LIBYANS’ TO DECIDE!
ALibyanEuphoria
Now that Gaddafi TV is off air, our next target should be the BBC! Not only are their reports boring & late but they also love Nabila Ramdani!
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gaddafi snipers near the looted Al Fateh Tower in #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#Misrata #Freedomfighters continuing assault south of Rixos against remaining #Gaddafi filth
#Tripoli: Heavy fighting reported near Corinthia Bab Africa Hotel, 1.5km from Martyrs Square
#Freedomfighters currently cleansing #Nasr Forest of large encampments of #Gaddafi filth.
Huge ammo dump found on the grounds of Rixos hotel. At least 6 deep pits full of bullets, bombs and rockets
Boat to #Malta leaving tomorrow morning (instead of today). Meeting point #Corinthia hotel 10AM. Priority #EU nationals
#Tripoli: Huge numbers of #Gaddafi mercenaries being arrested/killed across Tripoli yesterday and today.
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “ARON” remains anchored at #Tripoli #Libya after having resupplied #Gaddafi sometime ago. #Feb17
#SouthAfrica defends refusal to unfreeze #Libya assets guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug… #Zuma a huge #Gaddafi backer. #Libya #Feb17
#SouthAfrica positions on #Libya not helping its case for perm #UNSC seat nor regional leadership. #Feb17
Rowley
#Gaddafi filth executed 170 detainees at #AlYarmook military base. #Libya #Feb17
#Tripoli: #IOM ship “Tasuka” docked today, now evacuating 220 people, mostly Egyptians, Philippinos & westerners
#Sirte: Fierce fighting reported.
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “KAZIM GENC” now en route to dest. #Tripoli #Libya ETA: 2011-08-28 11:00 (UTC). #Feb17
Map of Khamis & Seif al-Islam #Gaddafi’s location the night of 8/24/11 goo.gl/lPh22 #Libya #Feb17
#SouthAfrica Blocks £1bn #Libya Assets Release (Criminals further supporting the terrorist #Gaddafi) news.sky.com/home/article/1… #Feb17
Rowley
Malta CARGO SHIP “PURKI” now en route to dest. #Tripoli #Libya ETA: 2011-08-28 10:00 (UTC). #Feb17
#Tripoli: Fighting continues on the Airport road & in #Akwakh, #Bouslim & #Hadba
#Libya: Reports several international mil./intel agencies including NATO, EU Forces, U.S Spl. ops now involved in hunting # Gaddafi.
OPEN FOR BUSINESS: PLEASE RT: Alfedous Clinic near #Gurgi / #KaryetSalah is safe, equipped and ready for injured. #Libya #Feb17
Nurses & Medical staff #Tripoli need your help. All expenses paid. Call: Dr. Ibrahim Momen: +1-416-999-1038 for details.
Reports that Hannibal #Gaddafi is being hidden by his wife in #Lebanon.
#Libya #NTC offers 2 MILLION DINARS & FULL AMNESTY for Muammar #Gaddafi, DEAD OR ALIVE. #Feb17
#Gaddafi filth shelling the #Tripoli airport now
#Moscow, #Russia: Anti #Gaddafi protest at #Libya Embassy attacked by police & PRO Gaddafi supporters.
Libya should refuse to recognize the Criminal government of Algeria and heavily mine the border/cut roads with them
Alarabiya:
Algeria announces that it refuses to recognise the National Transitional Council.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
#Gaddafi forces shelled the airport yesterday using Grad missiles, today’s shelling involved smaller missiles coming from #Gasr #Benghasheer
Reports Sheikh Werfali has said that there was “going to be a surprise tonight in Martyrs Square which will shock #Gaddafi”.
jamesmatesitv James Mates
Just done intv with man just freed by rebels from one of Gaddafi’s jails. Tortured and beaten. Reunited today with 4 yr old daughter
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Libya: #ICRC surgical team on its way to #Tripoli. goo.gl/p8dJ8
Alarabiya correspondent:
Gaddafi forces firing from east of Tripoli airport from a residential area, but airport grounds are fully secured.
MyFreeLibya Rubicon
“We oppose the East to the West, the tribes to the state. But to reduce Libya to that is to insult Libya and the Libyans.”
No Death greater than Martyrdom…No Life greater than Freedom…#Epitaph
Libya In Me
Inside Saadi’s home. The view is dreamy. pic.twitter.com/OSQDXms
FFs cleaning the streets of Tripoli pic.twitter.com/a1BQ76j
AJE:
Diplomats of the Contact Group have agreed to speed up release of ~ $2.5 bn dollars in frozen Libyan assets by the middle of next week
Intense battle erupted between ~1,000 FFs around 2 buildings filled with Gaddafi’s men in the neighborhood next to captured compound.
NTC leader Abdul Jalil warned on Thurs. of dangerous destabilisation in the country without urgent financial aid from the West
Aljazeera
Evidence of ‘mass execution’ in Tripoli
Al Jazeera correspondent finds bodies of men reportedly killed by Gaddafi forces just as rebels closed in on capital
Al Jazeera has found evidence of a possible mass execution of political activists in Libya.
Read full art. and watch video:
goo.gl/TTt6G
Knott Daffy
Russia claims re-building of Libya should be under exclusive control of UN SecCncl (where Russia has perm seat & veto power over)
LIBYA TRIPOLI
#Libya is a beautiful country with kind and hospitable people, #Gaddafi wanted to ruin but failed. We are still the same
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Water situation in Tripoli: source located between Ben Ashour & Fashloum reports a neighbourhood using a local well as water supply
Water situation in Tripoli: Soug Al Jumaa currently have water. Hai Al Andalus report having water although the pressure is v weak.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
NTC Head, Jalil: We have began moving the entire NTC to #Tripoli.
NTC Head, Abdul Jalil says he welcomes “any negotiation” with groups in Gaddafi-held areas to avoid more killing
NTC Head Jalil says countries that helped protect civilians in Libya will have first pick at development projects in Libya.
Jalil: we do not have confirmed number of martyrs as of yet, but the number has exceeded 20,000.
FromJoanne Joanne
FLASH #Libya Contact Group Urged #Gaddafi to Turn Mimself in to avoid further bloodshed in 14-point statement after meeting in #Istanbul
dovenews
The planes were purposely attacked by Gaddafi forces, one burned & 1 was hit.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Sky says the area S of the Rixos hotel & the zoo grounds are still held by #Gaddafi loyalists; FFs moving N. from airport
SKY BREAKING – Correspondent Stuart Ramsey & cameraman lock off camera & take cover from mortars & RPG’s in live shot from #Tripoli #Libya
#Berlusconi #Italy’s Eni to sign deal next wk with #Libya opposition leadership to supply oil products to help meet countrys immediate needs
BBC: Al-Aruba broadcasting G speaking asking for Libyans must fight & destroy FFs in #Tripoli & bring women & children to purify country…
FromJoanne Joanne
#BREAKING OIL MInister Ali #Tarhouni hopes to restart crude exports 500,000 to 600,000 barrels within two weeks !
MUST READ:
Daily Mail-Inside Gaddafi’s secret tunnels:
FFs break into labyrinth for 1st time-claim that leader & sons cornered
Tyrant is surrounded in an apartment building, rebels claim
Dictator’s spokesman says he has high morale and is moving around
Rebels raid safe-house where Gaddafi ‘stayed overnight’
Gunmen defending Rixos Hotel to prevent access to tunnels
Gaddafi ‘disguised himself as woman’ to flee compound
goo.gl/um4eH
FromJoanne Joanne
DONATE to; @LibyanAID Currently building Team of Irish specialist doctors nurses to send to #Libya hospitals #Benghazi #Tripoli
Reuters Reuters Top News
Muammar Gaddafi calls his supporters the “sweeping majority”, says there will be no safe place for rebels.
Reuters
Libya’s southern neighbors brace for post-Gaddafi
As Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s rule crumbles, fears over the whereabouts of his remaining weapons, especially surface-to-air missiles, are topping the fears of neighboring nations in the Sahel region he had for long held sway over.
Read more:
goo.gl/VnmPb
FromJoanne Joanne
LiamFox said #SouthAfrica should remember fight against apartheid stand with #Libya people Unfreeze $1.5 billion assets goo.gl/07s6D
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
AFP: Libyan National Transitional Council says half its leadership has arrived in Tripoli
Reuters: Libyan rebels say they have found large stockpiles of food, medicine and fuel hoarded by Gaddafi regime
Jalil says there will be no more shortages of medicine, food, or fuel after discovering regime stockpiles.”
libyanproud libyanandproud
Tripoli : Airport : FF found plane full of 14.5 Ammo, Containers 14.5 and 108 ammo, 3 Grad launchers and truck load of Grads
it was a Libyan Passenger jet , it seems he was storing ammo inside so NATO doesn’t bomb, also buried containers full
Free Libya Now
Zwara shelling have subsided today, hospital destroyed, no aid to city. City is shelled from Jmail by Warshafana tribe volunteers.
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
The fuel stockpiles they found were apparently in Zawiya.
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
NTC says it found enough food to feed 4 million people in Gaddafi stockpiles.
Gem M
Zwara abandoned to the ethnic cleansers DISGRACEFUL #Zwara
Reuters reports that FF have found very large stockpiles of food and medicine in #Tripoli. Will be very useful
dovenews Libyan™
eye witness: Serbian security helped Mohammed Gaddafi to escape in 4 armored hummers. Al Arabya
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Lot of ‘Gaddafi’ doormats in Benghazi, ppl step constantly on his face.
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Perhaps a wee overestimate? That’s between 750000 and 1M tons of food. How can that even be hidden?
Free Libya Now
All Militias that was pushed from Nafousa Mountains were pushed down to Ajilat & Jmail are & now attacking Zwara, we need help for Zwara
@acs_aircharter Air Charter Service
Watch the video made by Air Charter Service of the last British evacuation flight from Tripoli 6 months ago. youtube.com/watch?v=GfmREb…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfmREbvFo4o&fea...
VIDEO’S:
septimius_sever septimius severus
Albousifi ( #GaddafiTV presenter) arrested in #Tripoli القبص علي الجرذ البوسيفي مقدم برنامج علي المكشوف youtube.com/watch?v=wOW8Mg… via @youtube
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOW8MguX1s8&fea...
A truck full of merc. arrested in Soug Aljouma #Tripoli القبض على المرتزقة فى سوق الجمعة www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYhuSJiw2Xg&fea... … #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYhuSJiw2Xg&fea...
#Misrata starts its own satellites channel RT “@AhmadBlog: شباب مصراته يطلقون 3 قنوات فضائية wp.me/p1lOj-pk” #Libya
ibn
Fighters in #Misrata made their own tank, combining an American M113 APC with a Russian BMP-1 turret on top. #libya twitpic.com/6b214m
Guardian
Tripoli: hardened rebels and new recruits keep a wary peace
On a black tar road near Tripoli’s deserted port, a young militiaman stepped gingerly through a glittering layer of gold, which he scooped up and thrust towards the sky.
“This is why we won,” he said, as dozens of shell casings – cast-offs from fired ammunition – fell from his hand and tinkled on the baking street. “It was because of the people in neighbourhoods like this that Gaddafi’s security men ran away. We were waiting for him, not the other way around.”
Read more:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/24/tr...
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
I attended funeral of 6 rebels, died when attacking #BabelAziziya. Rebels cry as #tripoli burries the dead: youtube.com/watch?v=JU_oIl… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_oIlTWUxQ
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: Libyan rebels storm Abu Salim district of Tripoli after NATO air strike on building in the area
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
the grad firing i’ve seen is just as good as any other army of the world. very disciplined.
have come to our fixers brother’s house in Ras Lanuf. Also been looted. mess everywhere windows smashed but still has power
#FF Grad rockets being fired over my head at Sadra audioboo.fm/boos/450225-ff…
I spoke to a commander on the front who I had interviewed in April but he no longer wanted to be on camera because of Gaddafi assassins.
hominoid555 whitewakbar
FFs hammered at least 10 buildings at Muammar Qaddafi’s compound sheltering loyalist fighters today.
As anti-aircraft guns battered the buildings, there were huge explosions, and the air was clogged with smoke. three buildings were burning.
The SA Football Association (SAFA) revealed on Thursday that Libya had made the request to swap the hosting of the next two Africa Cup
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
AJA is reporting in a chyron that rebel forces have arrested a number of Gaddafi fighters in Abu Slim (area south of Bab al-Aziziya)
BBC_WHYS World Have Your Say
Journalist Matthew Van Dyke told WHYS about his six months of solitary confinement in Libya. “I heard people being whipped, it was horrible”
Tweeting Tripoli
The Rat with Diamond Gun! yfrog.com/khhlnjcj
BREAKING: Abosleem district is now also free from Gaddafi thugs. Yay!
CNNinterviews CNNInterviews
#LISTEN: Can the #NTC make a smooth transition to power in #Libya? @BeckyCNN interviews @Guma_El_Gamaty. on.cnn.com/naNpYZ #CTW
robcrilly Rob Crilly
So should we still be calling them rebels? I see I’ve been getting some stick for that
Mohammad
“@BBCWorld: #Libya’s former state TV station now showing image of rebel flag, having been off air for three days bbc.in/q0eLjb #feb17
Sky News
Tunnels are reinforced. Go on for miles and have not been fully explored yet. No one knows what lies beyond.
Caller to Libya TV, Clothes market in Abu saleem is on fire. He was asking for urgent help.
AJA reporter: AbuSleem neighbourhood now free of any snipers and any g forces
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
just back from #tripoli airport tarmac, plane burning, artillery incoming so powerful shook watchtower & bc of sniper we had 2 crouch 2 film
BREAKING: East Sirte / Tanks of FF are now shelling Qaddafi’s troops who responds with mortars only
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: جوني هالام شرق سرت / دبابات الثوار تقصف في كتائب القذافي الآن و التي ترد بقذائف الهاون فقط
Photo of Aisha’s Gaddafi’s house after FFs took it , no longer urs baby
عاجل ليبيا أخبار: حوش عائشة المسمومة , ماعادش حوشك توا يا بطة
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=234542&i...
Photo of a brand new Afriqiyah Airbus aircraft destroyed by #Gaddafi forces in the battle for #Tripoli airport
عاجل ليبيا أخبار : طائرة الخطوط الافريقية التى تعرضت لقصف المرتزقة فى مطار طرابلس
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=234544&i...
BREAKING: Al Arabiyah TV: Gaddafi forces are shelling Tripoli international Airport
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: العربية: الكتائب تقصف مطار طرابلس الدولي
BREAKING: Al Ararbiyah TV: Gaddafi forces are shelling the city of Zawara, west of Tripoli
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: العربية: قصف من قبل الكتائب على زوارة
BREAKING: Reuters: Libyan rebels storm Abu Salim district of Tripoli after NATO air strike on building in the area
BREAKING: #Gaddafi TV station Al-Jamahiriya is now broadcasting the Independance flag #Libya #
IMPORTANT:
Number plates of the cars in Tripoli wh drive by and shoot at the civilinas of Tripoli
ارقام السيارات التي تطلق الرصاص على الناس في طرابلس:
لانصر رصـاصى17_5_808462
لانصر أبيـض 27_5_803091
لانصر رصـاصى25_5_809803
…شفروليـه أبيـض 4_5_809304
شفروليـه أبيـض8_5_809291
شفروليـه أزرق 4_5_794195
شفروليـه أبيـض17_5_809300
شفروليـه أزرق2_5_794192
شفروليـه أبيـض9_5_809292
شفروليـه أسـود13_5_794194
شفروليـه أسـود 6_5_794190
BREAKING: Libya Al Ahrar TV reporter in Tripoli Suliman Al-Bayuwthy has been injured,, may he make a swift recovery
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: إصابة مراسل قناة ليبيا “سليمان البيوضي” في طرابلس
BREAKING: AJ Reporter: FFs have stormed Abu Salim in Tripoli and control the area as well as arresting a number of Gaddafi forces
عاجل : عاجل ليبيا أخبار: الجزيرة :: الثوار يقتحمون حي ابوسليم ويسيطرون عليه ويعتقلون عدد من افراد كتائب القذافي
Libya Al Ahrar TV: FFs are combing the area of Abu Salim in Tripoli after liberating most of it
قناة ليبيا الفضائية: مصدر مباشر: الثوار يمشطون حي بوسليم بعد سيطرتهم على معظم المنطق
Zawara: The city is controlled by the FFs, but it is surronded by Gaddafi forces: they are shelling it heavily and indiscriminately
BREAKING: Sheikh Sadaq Al-Gheryani has arrived to the city of Benghazi
عـــــــــــاجل:عاجل ليبيا أخبار: وصول الشيخ صادق الغرياني لمدينة بنغازي
BBC Correspondent near Sirte : The grad firing ( by FFs ) i’ve seen is just as good as any other army of the world. very disciplined.
عاجل ليبيا أخبار: جوني هالام بالقرب من سرت : طريقة القصف (بواسطة الثوار ) الذي رايتها كانت مثل أي جيش قوي آخر في العالم. منضبطة جدا
4Adam Adam Libya
There was very intense fighting today’s afternoon at the hotel though.
MyFreeLibya Rubicon
Need to set up an archive of the deeds of our #Feb17 Heroes..I for one am very ignorant of any characters in too many places of brave Libya
I spent 5 months in Zintan during #Feb17 and still don’t even know half to the stories or remember hardly any of their names..
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
The NTC found enough medicine, food stockpiles and fuel in Zawiya/Tripoli to keep Libya going for a year. Gaddafi was starving us on purpose
Amazing how things change. Corinthia hotel in #Tripoli only had 10-20 customers a week ago. Now it’s fully booked with journalists
Corinthia was attacked yesterday by a small group of Gaddafi thugs. Small arms fire on hotel windows & 20 cars in carpark burnt
However the #NTC and #Tripoli’s FF security room has now dedicated a large group of fighters to permanently guard the Corinthia & Marriott
Freedom Fighter
bab ben ghashier does not have water since 23rd
FromJoanne Joanne
Former Regime PM AbdelSalam Jalloud: Gaddafi may attempt flee #Libya disguised as woman "He has only four people left around him
Marcus
Ship with 70k euros of medicine left malta on way to libya
Gerrie
To be clear, ALL the people on the ground are behind the FF’s’! Our leader Zuma is an embarresment to us. God bless Libya!
Anthony
Not all #SouthAfricans agree with our governments stance on the situation in #Tripoli.
FromJoanne Joanne
#HELP Fam of @Ebnat_Alislaam Lives in GaserBenGasher nrAirport FIGHTING CONT. 8daysNO POWER PPL Slaughtered FF need 2HELP This AREA
Libiya_min_Hollanda
@FromJoanne finaly my bro called me, he is stressed out they do t have any elect for more then 8 days now, he is SCREAMING for help and….
they dont know what happend in Tripoli, he told me now its mainly street fights
out of fear he spoke 2 me in Dutch not even knowing that Gadafi cant control the lines anymore
BBC Video: The battle on the road to Sirte bit.ly/pK3Ccx #libya
Business Week
Libyan rebels pressed toward Muammar Qaddafi’s coastal hometown of Sirte as his opponents offered a reward for anyone who hands him over dead or alive. “The only thing left is for Qaddafi to be captured or killed at the hands of the revolutionaries,” Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, vice chairman of the rebel National Transitional Council, said. “The revolution has won.”
AP
Reporters staying in the Corinthia Hotel saw about a dozen rebels with machine guns and an anti-aircraft gun mounted on the back of a pickup truck battling Thursday afternoon outside the hotel entrance with gunmen loyal to Moammar Gadhafi shooting from high-rise buildings nearby.
Aljazeera
A group of rebels besieging a cluster of apartment buildings near the compound of Muammar Gaddafi said they believed the man who led Libya for four decades was hiding in the buildings with some of his sons. Rebels were exchanging fire with Gaddafi loyalists inside the buildings. They did not say why they believed Gaddafi and his sons were inside.
Reuters
The head of Libya’s rebel government warned on Thursday of dangerous destabilisation in the country without urgent financial aid from the West to restore services to the population.
Aljazeera
Libya’s National Transitional Council has stated that the assassination of Abdel Fatah Younes was illegitimate, and they have identified his killer.
Rebel fighters take up positions during gunfight with sniper loyal to Muammar Gaddafi near the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli. Fierce fighting erupted in central Tripoli on Thursday, with heavy exchanges of machinegun fire between rebel forces and soldiers loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.
Wapo
French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged China on Thursday to join Western nations in building a free Libya. Sarkozy said he explained that it was important for the international community to have a common vision for Libya, and that they would like China to participate in next week’s Paris international conference on Libya’s future.
Turkey
Turkey-Libyan Business Council Chairman Hüseyin Ersin Takla said they expected to commence talks with Libya’s National Transitional Council for the repayment of completed projects with a total value of $1.4 billion following the end of Eid-al Fitr.
Reuters
The International Monetary Fund would be able to recognize a new Libyan government if such a move were supported by its 187 member countries, a spokesman said. ”When there is a clear, broad-based, international recognition of a new government in Libya, it is at that point the Fund could or would move towards recognition.”
Bloomberg
Western powers are working to unblock even a fraction of the $165 billion in Libyan government assets that have been frozen worldwide. The UN Security Council has scheduled a vote today at 3 p.m. on permission to release $1.5 billion in frozen Libyan assets in the U.S. to help the NTC deliver aid and basic services to the residents in the war-torn nation.
Gaddafi
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi called on his supporters on Thursday to march on Tripoli and “purify” the capital of rebels, who he denounced as “rats, crusaders and unbelievers”.
In a short audio speech broadcast on loyalist TV channels, Gaddafi called on all Libya’s tribes to rally and expel what he called foreign agents from the country. ”Libya is for the Libyan people and not for the agents, not for imperialism, not for France, not for Sarkozy, not for Italy,” he said. “Tripoli is for you, not for those who rely on NATO”.
Aljazeera
An intense battle has erupted between about 1,000 rebels surrounding two buildings filled with Moammar Gadhafi loyalists in the neighborhood next to the Libyan leader’s captured compound.
Algeria
Algeria will not yet recognise Libyan rebels as the new leadership of its neighbour state and wants them to make a strong commitment to fighting al Qaeda in North Africa.
Reuters
The Libya Contact Group of international powers on Thursday urged Muammar Gaddafi to turn himself in to avoid further bloodshed in the North African nation. The group, representing senior diplomats opposed to Gaddafi’s campaign to crush the rebellion and members of Libya’s National Transitional Council, issued a 14-point statement after meeting in Istanbul.
Aljazeera
Diplomats of the Contact Group on Libya have agreed to speed up release of some $2.5 bn dollars in frozen Libyan assets by the middle of next week. “There are not
promises but there is something on the ground moving. We will get about 2.5 bn before the end of the month,” Fathi Baja, the head of the rebel political affairs committee said after the meeting in Istanbul.
Sirtawi
Gaddafi splashed money on his own ppl in #Sirte and on projects that serve their direct needs. The simple ppl don’t even know these exist!
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gaddafi TV, Al Ouraba says #NATO is bombing #Sirte tonight. No other confirmation. Ouraba is based in #Syria, paid for by G. #Libya #Feb17
#SouthAfrica finally agreed on releasing 1.5billion $ to #Libya aid. Didn’t want to be world outcast. #Feb17
#Gaddafi mercs found w/ no #Libya stamp on passport; last stamp from country they were flown in from: #Algeria.
#Malta CARGO SHIP “CMA CGM RABAT” has departed port #Misrata #Libya. #Feb17
You have to watch this:
ALEX AND FF, BRILLIANT
Gaddafi’s Hat – Noy Alooshe (Freedom Fighters Remix)
New remix by the guy who made the “Zenga Zenga Song”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzGMug7RMvQ&fea...
jkirchick Jamie Kirchick
i can still hear sporadic gunfire around #tripoli
ALBA condemns attacks to Venezuelan embassy to Libya
www.eluniversal.com/2011/08/25/alba-con...
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
The Economist says loyalist brigades retreated from Bab al-Aziziya to Sebha and Jufra economist.com/node/21526959?… #Libya
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
#Zawiya hospital staff is so friendly. They insist journos get food every day. They gave me rice just like the one my mom cooks.
Libyans Revolt
Huge battle happening in south of #Tripoli close to airport and Benghasheer area. A doctor had his car window shot earlier #libya #feb17
SkyNewsPix Ed Bayliss
Busy day in Tripoli today – heavy fighting between rebel factions and African Mercs STILL fighting for Gadhafi, or their lives? #Libya
nqabamatshazi:
Zimbabwe expels #Libya’s ambassador to Harare for defecting to NTC, is Zimbabwe swimming against the tide?
pdanahar Paul Danahar
7 dead Gov troops south of #Gaddafi compound. 2 with their hands bound behind their backs. Not recently killed
3 young prisoners driven by me held by NTC forces. Looked well treated though unsurprisingly very scared.
Tonight #Tripoli starting to return to normal. Some shops opening. Kids riding bikes in streets. Lot more relaxed
septimius_sever septimius severus
Daffy Qaddafi “Malice In Wonderland” a scathing political satire1984 thighswideshut.org/tag/qaddafi-du… …. #Libya
4Adam Adam Libya
#Gaddafi Time Magazine Cover – by Tim O’Brien. 8.25.11 twitpic.com/6b3usq #Libya #Tripoli
septimius_sever septimius severus
Daffy Qaddafi “Malice In Wonderland” a scathing political satire1984 thighswideshut.org/tag/qaddafi-du… …. #Libya
libyanandproud
#Tripoli doctor : We need orthopedic doctors/surgeons to report to duty at Tripoli Medical Center and Zawiya St #
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Freedomfighters take #AlWyg on #Chad #Niger border. #Libya #Feb17
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: Report that #Gaddafi Comedy TV Shakir arrested by #Freedomfighters. #Libya #Feb17
news just now from @HomelandYouth & Liberty4Libya. Great news Shakir & Hala ManCow under arrest : )
HomelandYouth
Friends obtained important papers of G relatives. bank transitions and such…. will be delivered to TNC asap.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
AI: #Libya: Pursuing Al- #Gaddafi: The legal questions answered: goo.gl/Hn6AU #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Volunteer Dr #Muad #Pensasi describes injuries of wounded & killed FFs brought to field hospital in #Tripoli: goo.gl/mBWA4 #libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Facebook Page of Canadian Libyan martyred in #Libya. RIP #Nader #Al #Mabrouk #Bin #Raween. Please like: goo.gl/yqYBP
feb17voices Feb 17 voices AJA: Ali al-Tarhouni : we expect to start exporting oil within 2 weeks.
Video Libyan Dissident shouts for joy, prepares to return home after 17 years of exile. Igoaid aid ship leaving Malta bit.ly/rdv4Kv
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Battle for #Tripoli Airport. Photos: goo.gl/J4aBe #libya #feb17
AJA: Ali al-Tarhouni : we expect to start exporting oil within 2 weeks.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Khaled M talks about his passion for the anti-#Gaddafi movement. Very talented #Libyan-American artist goo.gl/DSQnD
AJA reporter in #Tripoli: opposition in full control of Abu slim. 3 brigades participated: 17th feb, Misrata, and Martyrs
Matthew Vandyke’s mother and fiancé describe hearing from him after his escape from a Libyan prison.
feb17.info/media/cnn-video-american-fre...
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli Good Video of Underground Fortress of Gaddafi BabAlAzizyah and Batlle in Abu Salim area bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr… #Libya
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Just 5 days since FF entered Tripoli, electricity is restored (only one power failure) and most importantly the Internet is back.
IsaMadesclaire Isabelle Madesclaire
the art @lemondefr said that also : no looting generally, by en ex-proG journo! @2011feb17 lemonde.fr/libye/article/…
Tweeting Tripoli
Proud to let you know that General Looting is non-existent. Few looters, understandably, ransacked Gaddafi’s compounds and houses only.
Tweeting Tripoli
BREAKING: Hadaba is a proud free district of Tripoli. Just called my sister who is a resident there.
Tweeting Tripoli
Gaddafi actually chose this guy from 6 million Libyans to represent us as a Foreign Minster, can you believe it?: youtube.com/watch?v=q1ynbz… #feb17
AJE:
Cracking #Gaddafi’s intelligence base goo.gl/lw2Fr #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes #tripoli fb.me/15l68izn2
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NcpDa1ZwDQ
MahirZeynalov:
Turkish FM Davutoglu to rebels: Enter Tripoli as how Prophet Muhammad entered into Mecca. Pardon all pro-Gaddafi loyalist
norskeaviser Norske Aviser
NRK: Kontroll over nok et Gaddafi-område: Etter intense kamper har opprørsstyrkene fått kontroll over enda et om… bit.ly/q8WOJA
MelbLiveNews Melbourne News
Elusive Gaddafi takes to the airwaves (Herald Sun) dlvr.it/hqVs1
Frank
At least Muammar al-Gaddafi will go knowing he left the Libyan people with no financial debt for the country to take care of #LIBYA
Mohamed
RIP – Cameraman AKRAM Shallouf died in #Bouslim #libya after being hit while filming with @akhbar stringer. RIP Ahmad. #Tripoli #Libya.
libyanandproud
Libyan Telecom and Technology is FREE and tweeting :P →
#US & South Africa have reached a deal to allow the #UN to release $1.5bn in frozen Libyan assets for humanitarian needs #BBC #Libya #Feb17
septimius_sever septimius severus
Gaddafi finds a new home blogs.voanews.com/russia-watch/f… ….. #Libya
A guard painted a Libyan flag on a sign at a checkpoint in #Jadu …. #Libya pic.twitter.com/ozE5vWW
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli #GERMAN #Bil-finger_Berger known as #MediteraneanSeaEngineering&Construction in #Libya BUILD BUNKERS
#TRIPOLI From Aug26 on #NTC will hold a Daily News Briefing at noon #Libya
#TRIPOLI HORRENDOUS story 25Civilianprisoners were Excuted without MERCY Tuesday Babalaziyah By Gaddafi Goons 1Surviver goo.gl/xRBnI
#FLASH #SouthAfrica and the #AfricanUnion have NOT recognised #NTC though more than 40 countries have
#Gaddafi ex right-hand man AbdelSalam #Jalloud Thursday Plans to Form a Secular Political Party with an eye towards future #Libya elections
#FLASH #NTC has Moved from Benghazi to the Capital of #Libya #TRIPOLI
#TRIPOLI #NTC press conference from Tripoli on Libya AlAhrar now
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Ali Tarhuni speaking now on Libya Al a7rar with #NTC first press conference in #Tripoli #feb17
NTC Oil & Finance Minister #Ali #Tarhuna: 30,000 tons of fuel is heading to #AzZawyia refinery to supply the western cities & #Tripoli
NTC Oil & Finance Minister #Ali #Tarhuna: I am proud to be a Libyan.
Ali Tarhuni: There is no one that we should fear now except Allah
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
NTC: Jibril still carrying out work outisde Libya but will be in Tripoli soon #Libya
#Gaddafi’s custom made FIAT. Photos: goo.gl/jLMvE #libya #feb17
CNN:
TNC has established the new government in #Tripoli. Formal announcement soon; TNC is on the ground in #Tripoli & ready for business.
Heartfelt Tribute to the brave #Muhannad #BenSadik American Libyan Freedom Fighters-died fighting for freedom RIP goo.gl/QNKwz RT!
Nisreen
Cameraman Ahmed Shaloof killed after being hit while filming with Alaan’s stringer in Abu Sleem area Tripoli
May his soul rest in peace.. Ahmed Shalloof from Misrata. Killed in Abu Sleem
HomelandYouth Shabbab Al Watan
Friends obtained important papers of G relatives. bank transitions and such…. will be delivered to TNC asap.
Sirtawi
News that Bani Waleed (South of #Sirte) local radio station has been shut down.
( by ff’s)
Unconfirmed news that Saadi and Saif Gaddafi have been spotted in Bani Waleed.
Bani Waleed has also provided #Feb17 revolution with Freedom Fighters. PICS
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1813692...
#Sabha: Electricity’s back and Manshia #FFs capture 6 #Gaddafi mercenaries.
Linda
Someone in the early days said, hey, it’s easy to write Libya in Arabic—it’s wow in English-a WOW kind of nation-
No Comment! yfrog.com/h77r5fej
Hayat
If had hammer, I’d hammer #Gaddafi I’d hammer #Saif and #Aisha – All over #Libya I’d hammer the beard-head I’d hammer his sister~~
LibyaTT Libya Telecom
LIBYA IS BETTER WITHOUT GADDAFI.
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Italy journos: ‘Our driver asked us to look after his father and mother before #Gaddafi loyalists killed him’
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Moldova CARGO SHIP “YAHIA STAR” w/ dest. of #Tripoli #Libya now anchored 55.1 NM outside of port. #Feb17
30,000 tons of fuel which was on its way to #Benghazi has now arrived in #AzZawiyah.
Just so no one forgets: Government of #Algeria provided & transported mercenaries for #Gaddafi. #NTC, tell Algeria to GET STUFFED! #Libya
#Turkey CARGO SHIPS “SEREN AYANOGLU” & “ARON” remain anchored just outside port #Tripoli #Libya after last resupplying #Gaddafi. #Feb17
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Nato jet over ras lanuf.
DerekStoffelCBC Derek Stoffel
Rebels now say they’re in control of Abu Salim. Reports that 2 opposition fighters killed in battle there 2day. Central Tripoli quiet 2night
AJA – #Tripoli, freedom fighters control the whole city after they liberated Abu Salim district and secured the airport.
feb17voices Feb 17 voices
OppContact: Computer business belonging to Mossab, son of Mustafa al-Kharubi (Revolutionary Council), has been ransacked. #Libya
OppContact: some businesses associated with the sons of prominent officials have been attacked by civilians
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Fierce battles rock Tripoli neighborhood thenews.com.pk/NewsDetail.asp… via @thenews_intl
Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
Spoke to a Libyan today who grew up in Manchester. He flew back to Tripoli in Feb and was immediately detained – claims he witnessed torture
Scene down at Bab-al-Azzizia compound today was v chaotic. Rumour that Gaddafi was there probably false – but it provoked a major fire fight
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Abu Salim, FFs managed to push out the majority of the loyalist fighters from the flashpoint area.
Abu Salim is under control. Kadhafi people are now in Mashrur, an adjacent neighborhood," said Mohammed Sayed Gargab,
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Muammar Qaddafi either in southern Tripoli or fled to desert, says former top aide goo.gl/aDk3A
Mushu
Azmi Bshara on AJA:Foreign intervention is theoretically speaking wrong, but in #Libya’s case it was a must, else #Gaddafi 1/3
Azmi Bshara on AJA:would’ve literally killed the #Feb17 revolution BUT were it not for the #Freedomfighters the #Feb17 revolution 2/3
Azmi Bshara on AJA: would have failed even with the foreign intervention. It was the Libyans who made #Feb17.
pdanahar Paul Danahar
TV report BBC’s Orla Guerin in #Gaddafi underground fortress. Cameraman is Darren Conway one of best in the biz #Tripoli tinyurl.com/3bonmd3
SUMMARY AUGUST 26th 2011
8/26/11
8.26.11
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya - goo.gl/6L2Ob
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Thu am: RAF aircraft located & destroyed one of Qadhafi’s few remaining long range surface to air missile systems, near Al Watiyah. #Libya
Thu pm: RAF aircraft destroyed a command and control node that remained in former regime hands on the road south from Tripoli to the Airport
Thu midnight: Tornado GR4s fired Storm Shadow precision guided missiles against a large headquarters bunker in Qadhafi’s home town of Sirte.
DefenceHQ Ministry of Defence
by UKMilOps
IMAGE: II(AC)Sqn Tornado troops addressed as they hand over to 9(B)Sqn after 5 months in Italy as part of Op ELLAMY: yfrog.com/kiqtmufj
MOD UK
A Military Operations news article RAF Tornado GR4s struck a military facility located on the southern outskirts of
Tripoli yesterday morning, as UK Armed Forces continue to contribute to NATO's patrols over Libya to enforce United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1973.
The military facility was severely damaged by Paveway guided bombs.
And yesterday evening RAF aircraft successfully destroyed three Scud ballistic missile support vehicles near Sirte, from where recent firings have been attempted by the former regime against the city of Misurata.
As events in Tripoli continue to unfold, with reports of fighting continuing, as well as members of Libya's National Transitional Council beginning to move into the city, it has been announced that an international conference
chaired by the UK's Prime Minister and the French President will be held in Paris next week.
The meeting's aims will be to help the National Transitional Council on the path to establishing a free, democratic and inclusive Libya.
Speaking on Monday, David Cameron said the transition to a free and democratic Libya should be a Libyan-led and Libyan-owned process, adding:
"Our task now is to do all we can to support the will of the Libyan people which is for an effective transition to a free, democratic and inclusive Libya."
The Prime Minister also said that the Government would establish a 'diplomatic presence' in Tripoli as soon as it was safe to do so and said the UK could be proud of its role in helping the uprising against Gaddafi.
The wider NATO mission in Libya to protect civilians will continue as long as it is needed and Mr Cameron said the focus was now on the urgent work that needs to be done on providing medical and humanitarian aid, diplomatic support, and through the UN Security Council.
UK missions over Libya are undertaken as part of NATO's Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR to enforce UNSCR 1973 and protect Libyan civilians at risk of attack.
Tweeting Tripoli
Confirmed: Albosaify, one of Gaddafi propaganda goons who ordered ordinary people to kill each other got caught: youtube.com/watch?v=WAfMQU…
Libiya_min_Hollanda
HELP the cousin of my dad has been kidnapped from his house today in Gaser Ben Gashir!
feb17libya Feb17Libya
BBC Video: Tripoli survivors tell of Gaddafi regime torture and Mass Killing bit.ly/p2bVwx #libya
AJE: UAE will release $700 million of frozen Libyan assets to the NTC #Libya #Feb17
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Source in #Janzour reports: Pro-G's driving 10 cars, Chevrolet, blue & white in color all ending w/license plate: 8079 shooting in #Janzour
#Tripoli watch live: goo.gl/2a1zL can hear gunfire in the distance & see smoke in the air. #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes RT
Children 'among 180 slaughtered' http://shabablibya.org/?p=5788 #Libya
Revolutionaries ransack symbols of Gaddafi family’s wealth http://shabablibya.org/news/revolutionaries-ransack-symbols-of-gaddafi-familys-wealth #Libya
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Sky Correspondent: NATO jets overhead in Libya's capital Tripoli
One4All4One
Tonight, #Zwara is completely free and safe. THANK YOU everyone who helped with this. #LIBYA TRULY IS ONE.
feb17voices Feb 17 voices
AJA: Tripoli rep in NTC: the only threat on Tripoli now is loyalist forces hiding in farms around #Tripoli. #Libya
Despite AJA report of opposition control of Airport road, LPC describes skirmishes as flaring up in the area now.
LPC #Tripoli: Airport Road area, describes observing small arms, AAA fire (says: can see tracer rounds) "small explosions" now
Zlitniya
by ShababLibya
#Zliten :Atiyya AlSada3i was a car mechanic in Suq Al Thalath.He pretended to be a #Gaddafi loyalist and was given a car mounted with guns
When he got the chance he killed more than 30 mercenaries &traitors before being martyred
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Fight 'the rats,' Gaddafi urges as Freedom Fighters push on shabablibya.org/?p=5794 #Libya
Obituary of #Izz #al #Arab #Matar Written by #Hisham #Matar RIP http://goo.gl/UAUGE #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Sirtawi
A dead man identified by his folks after pic circulated via facebook. Body was found Aug 21in Tripoli #gaddaficrimes facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
A Double Agent in #Gaddafi Camp goo.gl/BKl6v #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Sky News: #Gaddafi Hometown of #Sirte Target for Eastern FFs http://goo.gl/ugMs0 #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
I have heard NATO jets in the skies over last two hours. I have not heard the sound of bombing
#LIBYA Wrote this a couple of days ago, and forgot to post link here. I think my assessment still stands: bit.ly/n85gMs
Tripoli_Latest Ahmed Shreef
FGMovement will be starting some projects to help with the stabilisation of the city and help with civil services. Stay tuned.
This is Niz and the rest of the FGMovement founders on a roof top in Free Tripoli setting up HQ. Will be resuming updates soon.
Not all roses yet in Tripoli my friends. We still have power cuts and we still have no water. We need a TNC statement on both, SOON #Tripoli
Some rumbles on the ground here in Tripoli over the water issue and mainly why there hasnt been an announcement regarding rumours #Tripoli
Rumours being that water system has been poisoned. Problem is that water has been cut for days!!
We just need to hear that someone is working on the issue #Tripoli
Tripoli coming close to being 100% liberated. Still skirmishes in some areas. Sitll snipers. My cousin was shot in chest today. Recovering.
Independence flags and speakers playing the anthem all over Tripoli. Anthem blaring over Ben Ashour as we speak... Wow!
Will soon be returning to @Niz_FGM account so be sure to add that account for further developments
FGMovement will be starting some projects to help with the stabilisation of the city and help with civil services. Stay tuned.
weighing up possibility of calling for a massive rally in Martyrs Square to show our unity. What do people think of the 2nd day of Eid?
Ok...back to setting up the HQ....updates will resume from Tomorrow inshallah. Great to see everyone here. God Bless Libya
SecularLibya
FFs should secure former intelligence headquarters. If personal data falls into the wrong hands, many lives will be in danger
Leftist UFO & conspiracy-believing US Congressman Dennis Kucinich was to visit Qadafi at Libya expense. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8723533/Libya-Col-Gaddafi-feared-full-US-invasion.html
Leftwing crazed pro-Qadafi Congressman Kucinish too scared to go to Libya due to personal security. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/25/libya-letters-gaddafi-nato-obama
#Sufyan #Omeish, an anti-Israel filmmaker & leftist was advising Qadafi on how to defend his rule & defeat NATO. #Libya guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug…
Heinz: Most likely Qadafi will be executed by members of his own tribe so the tribe can save face and regain lost respect.
Heinz: The reason Daffis R attacking the airport is because of fuel there they need,
and also Euro and gold of Q wife hidden.
Heinz: French Tiger helis attacked the Daffis to the east of airport last night. Much weaker today.
Heinz: FFs have obtained plans to the tunnel system and with their equipment will flush out the Daffis.
Heinz: The plans for the tunnel system was held by the former East Germany Stasi. NATO has them now.
Heinz: Apaches are hammering the retreating Daffis, and Benghazi FFs should reach outskirt of #Sirte by evening or tomorrow.
Heinz: If all goes well, most of #Sirte should uprise by tomorrow, but there will be a pocket of die hards.
Heinz: The Serb & Croat generals working for Qadafi said they had lost the war a month ago. But Qadafi was in denial mode
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Saw 2 women, w/ hands bound, brought into rebel base last night. Rebels said they were foreign mercenaries caught shooting on Tripoli street
simmjazeera andrew simmons
Returned last night from what was a truly horrific visit to a hospital in Tripoli. Compiling a report.
in case you didn't see earlier report on compound fighting and secret tunnels http://bit.ly/qKeR8O
Just finished editing a disturbing report on Tripoli's Abu Salim Trauma Hospital. Bodies lie outside and inside.
Abu Salim Trauma Hospital -- cut off from any outside help. Seven medics, only 2 docs trying to cope with 21 seriously ill.
Say their mortuary is full and bodies have to lie in a side ward and outside. We counted 29. Docs say more than 100 in total.
Some are civilians. Eye witness tells me GF shot them dead insicriminately.
Abu Salem - eye witness, a restaurant owner says the killings were on Sunday.
Abu Salem - Horrific pictures in Trauma Hospital. Trail of dry blood leads to makeshift morgue. Stench all over hospital.
Abu Salim Hospital - Drs appeal for outside help. Two dead in 2 days because no power for ventilator. Man with bullet in spine CPR x3.
Abu Salim Hosp - Investigation needed re war crimes. And immediate action. Humanitarian emergency.
Abu Salim Hosp: Report will air on AJE this morning. Warning on graphic content.
mchancecnn Matthew Chance
Popped back to #rixos yesterday to get my stuff. Won't be staying there again!
Took 10 hour drive out of #Libya thru Western Mountains. Graffiti on roadside read "Thank you USA, France and England"
Now holed up in Tunisia hotel with many former #rixos inmates. I left them about 0100 still feasting. Just couldn't take pace.
just deleted 22 thousand twitter notification emails from my inbox.
StateDept StateDept
#SecClinton: The Libyan people made this revolution and they will lead the way forward, but they deserve our help. go.usa.gov/kGi
#SecClinton: It is clear that the Qadhafi era is coming to an end, opening the way for a new era in #Libya. go.usa.gov/kGi
Tweeting Tripoli
.@StateDept Don't u worry Mrs Clinton. We will look to the TNC to ensure #Libya stands against extremism. Or else, we'll topple it too.
Khiria
I bet Condoleezza Rice is having nightmares tonight.
Freedom Fighter
It's a bit normal outside, celebration shooting from time to time which is i see it as a wasted ammunition. I hope Libyans stop it
pdanahar Paul Danahar
I am just off Green, now Martyrs square in #Tripoli .It's 8am & the city is silent. You'd never know a war just been fought for it. #Libya
We'll know the #Libyan war is over if the umpteenth resignation of a #Japanese PM knocks it off as lead story.
OnlyOneLibya ProudLibyan
Gaddafi as we speak is a fugitive being hunted bayt bayt, zenga, zenga! No sleep, extreme stress, no appetite, pretty tough for a 70 yr old!
Tweeting Tripoli
I think officers and commanders from NATO will get a nice home-cooked dinner when they visit #tripoli” oh yes sure :)
sueturtonaje Sue Turton
Woken up in Tripoli to sound of rebel reinforcements chanting as they sailed into the harbour
Sarah_Libya
Mustafa Abduljalel have said that they have reports that she and her daughter Aisha have been in Tunisia Since last month
Tweeting Tripoli
LOL Gaddafi's TokTok (minus the white Umbrella). #feb17 #Libya #Tripoli #TokTok yfrog.com/ke59388810j
JeffreyKofman:
As we drive through Tripoli, impressive to see virtually no looting. No police, but so far order prevails.”
sarasidnerCNN Sara Sidner
Tripoli residents have been handing us water as we have been reporting all these days. Kindness in chaos is touching
pdanahar Paul Danahar
by 2011feb17
#NATO hit 29 #Gaddafi forces vehicles in #Sirte yesterday. I'd expect NTC forces to push forward soon. #Libya goo.gl/6L2Ob
Tweeting Tripoli
Confirmed: Gaddafi era police force (not Gaddafi's brutal militia) have started coming back to restore Law & Order. I witnessed that myself.
Two policemen from my neighborhood just seen them drive off in full Police uniform. They told me they are looking forward to a new Libya.
Gaddafi almost got caught. He was in AbuSleem Prison all the time. LOL http://pic.twitter.com/Htw3sO9
Mike
by 2011feb17
Sprung! New evidence strongly suggests Hana Gaddafi survived 1986 #Tripoli bombing bitly.com/qTYypT check out all pics
Tweeting Tripoli
Gaddafi made learning/using English lang illegal since 1975, yet his folks were taught English all the time. pic.twitter.com/Y66aHXO
This is me (well my hands only) and my Flag factory :-) http://pic.twitter.com/HPksg7d
My products. Well now that it's almost over. Any bids? Handmade original flags? :-) http://pic.twitter.com/C9oUqhP
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Sky sources: Government troops staged counter-attack near Rixos hotel and Gaddafi compound early this morning.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
BBC News - Libya uprising: The battle on the road to Sirte bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…
Croatian Daily Vecernji: #Gaddafi might seek asylum in Croatia
Nato jet over ras lanuf.
All along road to #sirte 100s of km of power lines are down. How long will they take to repair?
simondenyer Simon Denyer
Rebels seem to have control of most of Abu Salem neighborhood in #Tripoli after Thursday's clashes but admitted it was not completely safe.
Free Libya Daily is out! http://bit.ly/kgc2jf ▸ Top stories today
ForcesNews British Forces News
RAF jets target Gaddafi's bunker bfbs.com/news/worldwide…
1 hour ago
robcrilly Rob Crilly
Not heading to Ras Lanuf today. Rebels will be stuck there for a day or two, I'd say, as they reinforce. Meetings in Benghazi instead
Borzou
Food becoming problem in Tripoli. Residents scrambling 2 stock up from dwindling supplies. Vital resupply line 2 Tunisia cut
inglesi Piers Scholfield
"everywhere seems to be running out of water" - BBC News - #Libya fighting bbc.in/mXMHGx
robcrilly Rob Crilly
eastern rebels want their place in history too. my latest tinyurl.com/3qcobym via @Telegraph #libya #sirte
Mohamed
Libyan poet @ElhabibAlamin realised from Gaddafi prison. Welcome bk my friend, can't help my tears pic.twitter.com/QjqEE3m
plemochoe
#libya Jesus, the G trolls are worse than mosquitoes. Offshore wannabe commies. I guess the electronic deposits re-started
@TheEconomist Boy was your article a meaningless pastiche of rumors, tales, stereotypes and racist assumptions
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Gaddafi is slowly but SURELY fading #Libya twitpic.com/6bc8fq
2 Nigerian women were arrested last night for having explosives in benashour via @Tripliano https://twitter.com/tripliano/status/106895816744120320
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
The daughter Gadafy claimed was killed in 1986 US bombing studied English at British Council in Libya in '07. My story: bit.ly/pHJMu0
evanchill Evan Hill
Hana Muammar Gaddafi, said to have died in 1986 Bab al-Aziziya airstrike, appears to be alive. Or someone using her name http://ow.ly/6dmlq
Freedom Fighter
everyone in libya knows that was a cheap play, she did not die in 1986.
SL0wZEr
Fireworks in Martyr's Square #Tripoli #Libya #Feb17 [25/08/2011] flic.kr/p/agpkY7
Ibn
i cant get over it. to be the guy who ended up in #gaddafi's room. that feeling must have been amazing. #libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
phones/landlines and electricity still shoddy all over the western part of libya and will take a while to fully sort! khums = wFF
leptis magna is in khums and khums is fully liberated
BentBenghazi G
Man from underground prison in #Tripoli said I havent seen the sun for 6 years, a freedom fighter replies : we havent seen the sun for 42yrs
Freedom Fighter
I just realized that Gaddafi's regime did not do/say absolutly anything but lies during the past 42 years.
k_thos k kim
#Tripoli Prisons map: twitpic.com/5hfsq9/full (from 6/26/11) #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
AU *finally* ready to recognize #NTC as legitimate government of Libya as early(debatable)as Friday goo.gl/9W3Oz #DontBeScared
#Libyas new man in Ottawa is former regime envoy as part of strategy to have qualified diplomats run vacated missions. goo.gl/aUyGt
Ian Lee
The road to Ras Lanuf is littered with destroyed tanks. #Libya yfrog.com/h74mvewqj
feb17libya Feb17Libya
The African Union says it is ready to recognize #Libya's NTC and could recognize them as early as Friday feb17.info/news/libya-liv… #Feb17
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
The world after #Gaddafi. Photo: goo.gl/S0uKQ #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Forgotten casualties testify to #Tripoli's chaos. #gaddaficrimes #feb17 #Libya http://goo.gl/duFQm
THerwees
article-#Libya as I know it. "We are #Libyans. And #Libya belongs to us." Well said!! goo.gl/wej7r #gaddaficrimes #feb17
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
#Gaddafi's desperate bid to save regime revealed- Full lobbying operation to stop NATO from assisting #Libyans. goo.gl/EyiTp #feb17
Freelancers First hand accounts of the Libyan revolution from Canadian & Italian freelance documentary producers http://goo.gl/UJDPf #libya
Latest Developments in #Libya; August 25, 2011 http://goo.gl/edWgQ #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes #Tripoli
German Press Agency: #Libya rebels advance as #Gaddafi speaks; UN unfreezes money http://goo.gl/zUqNP #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
NATO says it will focus it's strikes in the vicinity of #Sirte
Battles erupt near #Bab Al-Aziziya compound. #Tripoli #Libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes http://goo.gl/xOJIH
ღ.¸¸Libeeya¸¸.ღ
Prayers for #Yemen #Syria #Libya in Benghazi :) #Ameen
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Friday prayers in Benghazi, the Imam prays for all the cities in #Libya, also prays for #Syria & #Yemen
Fighting continues west of Ras Lanuf as some Gaddafi loyalists refuse to lay down
arms believing G has a way back
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Rebels in east now appear well organised, structered supply lines and command centres. #Libya,but no NATO air support at the moment
Freedom Fighter
Our imam mentioned how Nicolas Sarkozy said Mustafa Abdul Jalil is the first person I have met that asks to be excused for prayer!
feb17libya Feb17Libya
AJE: UAE will release $700 million of frozen Libyan assets to the NTC #Libya #Feb17
Video: Bodies found in Tripoli hospital **Graphic** http://bit.ly/osJBOy #libya
Gaddafi's desperate bid to save regime revealed http://bit.ly/pFs9pT #libya
BBC Video: Gaddafi regime atrocities revealed http://bit.ly/nX1q5F #libya
Italian oil & gas facilities in #Libya weren't damaged during conflict & can restart soon as security conditions permit http://feb17.info/news/libya-live-unrest-august-26-2011/
HRW and Amnesty International have published statements that say all sides must protect vulnerable sites http://feb17.info/news/libya-live-unrest-august-26-2011/ #Libya #Feb17
#NTC announces its move from #Beghazi to #Tripoli to begin governing the country feb17.info/news/libya-liv… #Libya #Feb17
The African Union says it is ready to recognize #Libya's NTC and could recognize them as early as Friday http://feb17.info/news/libya-live-unrest-august-26-2011/ #Feb17
#NTC said on Friday they will seek a seat at the United Nations next month feb17.info/news/libya-liv… #Libya #Feb17
Children 'among 180 slaughtered' in Tripoli http://bit.ly/qUNiz0 #libya
Italy has proof Gaddafi planned to turn Lampedusa into “inferno” by sending thousands of African migrants there by boat http://feb17.info/news/libya-live-unrest-august-26-2011/
"We have terrible messages [from Gaddafi] (in our possession) and they will be made public soon," Frattini said http://feb17.info/news/libya-live-unrest-august-26-2011/ #Libya
NATO said it is focusing its airstrikes on the region around #Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte http://feb17.info/news/libya-live-unrest-august-26-2011/ #Libya
The new Libyan oil minister's secret weapon: transparency http://bit.ly/n7DBfA #libya
#Libya’s NTC now has an official representative at Canada's embassy in Ottawa feb17.info/news/libya-liv… #Feb17
libyatv Libya TV
Second rescue vessel sets sail to Tripoli english.libya.tv/2011/08/26/sec… #Libya #Tripoli
Libiya_min_Hollanda
Urgent pls RT well known families in Gasee Ben Gashir started 2 take revenge of one and other not knowing if there are any injured or dead!
hamzamu:
Libya : Video showing more than 200 unknown bodies killed by Gaddafi youtu.be/iTuQNXjfa_M ( @hamzamu )”
Libiya_min_Hollanda
The center of Gaser Ben Gashir is full off merc. Alot came from the south and the once fleeing from Tripoli this is Confirmed
BREAKING NEWS 5 planes are hit till now at the Tripoli airport!!!!
Khalifa
It's just amazing to call #Tripoli and curse #Gadhafi as much as you want.
FromJoanne Joanne
#Discovered: In Empty Deserted 4 story #Tripoli Hospital PILES of 50 Dead Bodies lay Rotting on Friday Morning goo.gl/p9BMo #Libya
#FLASH #TRIPOLI #MADAR Tel. Comm. just been Turned on Connection is much better then #Libyana Try all ppl u couldnt reach NOW
#Living in Gaddafi Regime #Libya was like living in La la land Smoke and Mirrors A lie we long knew about= abt #Hannah goo.gl/sa7OZ
Libya NFSL
Vote on whether you think Gaddafi regime men should participate in leading the new Libya facebook.com/questions/2527…
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI HUGE Underground Weapons Stores found in #Nasr Forest (where Rixos and Zoo are ) #Libya
White House wants #NATO to hunt for WMD http://goo.gl/oXETH #AP #Libya prices MANPAD Missiles falling on regionalBlackMarket
#TRIPOLI small Officers CIA teams backed by priv. US contractors with special OperationsExperience help guide #Libya FF goo.gl/f8Gyi
World in general had NO idea abt Gaddafi deviousness 9Yrs ago it started Dawn on #UKintelligence AllWasnotwhatItSeemed #Libya
JeffreyKofman Jeffrey Kofman
Finally got into a hotel. Looking 4ward 2 life with electricity and water. But no water. Apparently no water in all of Tripoli. Big problem
FromJoanne Joanne
#AddisAbeba #AU MEETING on #Libya Now AU expected 2recognize #NTC main stumble block is Zuma 's hurt ego #SouthAfrica #Libya
simondenyer
A lot of dead bodies rotting in the heat in #Tripoli today. A sad way to start the day. #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#Lest One Forgets. Frozen ASSETS actually BELONG to #Libya and its People STOLEN by Gaddafi and his Clan Should be Returned without DELAY !
#NATO Tornados bombs 'large headquarters bunker' in #Sirte last night bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr… #Libya
Sirte:
25 % of citizens thought to be Pro Gaddafi acc. 2pop.poll Very few citizens left in town mostly Gaddafi forces now #Libya
Freedom Fighter
It's a bit normal outside, celebration shooting from time to time which is i see it as a wasted ammunition. I hope Libyans stop it.
We spent 42 years under Gaddafi's bad education system, i consider myself very lucky since my big father encourages us to read books.
most libyans don't read unless they have too. So the first trouble we will face in any issue in new libya is education.
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
15 doctors on their way to #Tripoli hospital by sea from #Malta arriving today
Freedom Fighter
For the first time i hear a friday prayer speech worth listening! The freedom tastes better than honey!
Our imam was waiting for this moment since years.
What should libyans do to bab alazizia in future? Let the ideas race begin!!
he is talking about how the system were corrupted and named few people such as Hala, Shakeer also addressed other things.
Our imam comparing between gaddafi and mustafa abduljaleel and how one hates god and the other worships god.
People going out from the mosqou screaming: Allah is the greatest.
The imam encouraging people to gather weapons and open the shops and talking about how to fix the water issue.
Tarik
#Libya embassy #Moscow- approx 15 pro #Gaddafi Russians are flocking around.Extra police presence, inc. special police squas # Feb17
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Hidden tunnels and bunkers under Gaddafi compound give hints of how he lived, ruled shabablibya.org/news/hidden-tu… #Libya
Reuters
Reuters Italian oil and gas facilities in Libya were not damaged during the conflict and can restart as soon as security conditions permit, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told Italian radio on Friday.
Sirtawi
Sirtawis on east front line to #Sirte fear that majority of #FF r there for revenge, hence the decision to let only #Sirte #FFs enter first.
Tweeting Tripoli
Hala (pistol holding anchor) was caught too apparently: youtube.com/watch?v=bErWrF…
Saja
She escaped from Hay Alandalus and they caught her again in Soug Eljomaa yesterday beside my house..
Tasbeeh
The more ex-regime people we have in our new government, the more credibility we lose. Not about "revenge", it's abt diplomacy as well.
Tweeting Tripoli
we don't have parks in Tripoli. The only park situated behind the Rixos is owned by and exclusive to you know who.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Gaddafi's hat facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… #Libya
Mushu
At least we now know one thing for sure - #Gaddafi doesn't suffer from claustrophobia. #whoistheratnow
nytjim Jim Roberts
Emerging story line in #Libya: Increasing reports of abandoned bodies in & summary executions in #Tripoli. nyti.ms/p6MHMz
Nasr
It's just a matter of few days before #Tripoli is completely under control, then the big clean up begins, a monumental task no doubt.
AJEnglish Al Jazeera English
by hominoid555
Video: Trauma at Tripoli's Abu Salim hospital aje.me/oce894
elpasolibre elpasolibre
#Tripoli Airport is under the control of Freedom Fighters 25-8-2011 youtube.com/watch?v=d5oWKF… via @youtube #Libya #Libye #Libia #feb17
pdanahar Paul Danahar
Pic I took yesterday of two bound men. Couldn't get closer when tried to sniper shot at me. See white tie on one #Libya yfrog.com/keqp0igj
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA checking out reports of bombardment of Tripoli airport by Gaddafi forces.
LIBYA Water off in parts of Tripoli, raising all sorts of suspicious.
Shakeeb
Tonight is the holiest night of Ramadan. It's called the "Night of Revelation" and this year it occurs on a Friday.
Anand
Downtown Zawiyah a ghost town this morning, but for teams of boys quietly picking up the debris from the ravaged town square
bbclysedoucet lyse doucet
Water shortages Tripoli. On one street, residents r filling buckets from water tanker provided by a kind local businessman #Libya
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Thick smoke rises from Abu Salim region of Tripoli as libya rebels 'clos... youtube.com/watch?v=SZceXK… via @youtube
TheyCallMeSof Sofyan Amry
Breaking: According to govt, #Gaddafi is now protected "guest" of Mugabe in Zimbabwe! IS it true?!Source:http://j.mp/qDX345
hominoid555 whitewakbar
British Tornado jets fired cruise missiles overnight at a headquarters in the town of Sirte
bbclysedoucet lyse doucet
by hominoid555
Checkpost Tripoli, rebel manning it used to live London, says "cheers." #Liverpool fan drives up, shouts "you'll never walk alone" #Libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
In Malta... ships full of humanitarian supplies for #Tripoli are leaving regularly however flights remain a huge problem.. Mitiga/TIP unsafe
ReutersIndia Reuters India
by hominoid555
FLASH: Rebels and Gaddafi forces battle at Ras Ajdir on Libya's border with Tunisia - Al Jazeera
HomelandYouth Shabbab Al Watan
Clashes between rev. and g forces happening in Ayn Zara right now.
AlArabiya_Eng
#British planes fired missiles at a bunker in search for the Libyan leader Muammar #Gaddafi in his home town of #Sirte
simondenyer Simon Denyer
by Zlitniya
Rebels seem to have control of most of Abu Salem neighborhood in #Tripoli after Thursday's clashes but admitted it was not completely safe.
Zlitniya
@
@simondenyer plz note- Libyans don't appreciate being referred to as 'rebels'.call as NTC forces/NTC army/NTC supporters.or just antiG force
BreakingNews Breaking News
Gadhafi loyalists bombarding Tripoli airport, damage plane - Al Arabiya TV via Reuters
Mushu
It's Friday, and one of the last ten days of Ramadan. Please make lots of du'a during this blessed day. #Libya is NOT free yet! :'( #Feb17
Also, please do not forget to pray for #Syria and #Palestine and all the oppressed as well.United we stand,divided we fall. #UNITY#Ramadan
hominoid555 whitewakbar
As the detainees barged through the hangar gates, two other guards opened fire amnesty.org/en/news-and-up…
alextomo alex thomson
Whole place filled with stench, flies and maggots all over the abandoned hospital. Not very good really.
Most fighting age males but 2 women, 3 children at least. Counted 78 bodies here.
Gimme an hour and we'll have Abu Salim online 4 u at channel4.com/news #c4news
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Saw a confession by a high ranking #Gaddafi regime official today. When #Tripoli fell, got 2 orders: Kill all prisoners, burn all airplanes
Mitiga is mch safer than #Tripoli International Airport however Mitiga has smaller jets - easier to evacuate. Big expensive planes in danger
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Critical to get that border opened. RT @Reuters: Rebels and Gaddafi forces battle at Ras Ajdir on Libya's border with Tunisia - Al Jazeera
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
My mother thinks that #Gaddafi's tunnels could be turned into an underground train network similar to that of London... lol
Transport nd finding safe places to store food for distribution is still a problem + 2 big areas Busleem&Hadba still unsafe
robcrilly Rob Crilly
British tornadoes bombing Sirte. I'd say that's the best chance eastern rebels have of advancing quickly tinyurl.com/3j7hn5p
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Dedicated to the amazing women of #Libya. goo.gl/qyhO4 You all are "Strong Enough" goo.gl/qyhO4
feb17libya Feb17Libya
With fall of Gaddafi, Libyans dare to hope bit.ly/nKUKaM #libya
zati44444
african countries will will recognise NTC. Their aid from europe and america depends on it. #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#Istanbul Jibril: We need 2collect Weapons Create National Army+Police Force This needs a lot of money #CurrentPoliceForceNotTrusted
Freedom Fighter
Our fatour yesterday! twitpic.com/6bg467
Libya17Feb Tripoli Youth
A plane will be setting out from #Benghazi for Doctors & nurses to help at #Tripoli Hospitals, If Interested please ask ur hospital for info
The battle for #Zuwarah is on, now that forces from #Sabrata & #Zintan have joined!! by @annmarlowe .... http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/fight-zwara-and-liberty_591380.html .. #Libya
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
17yro fighter wants 2 B ambassador, says 1st thing when this is over "i want to see my mother & get rid of this (gun) in my hands"
FromJoanne Joanne
#CONFIRMED G organized illegal migration #GADDAFI; Turn #Lampedusa BLACK Use PPL asHumanBombs +/_1000 people died goo.gl/UlsIL Libya
martinchulov Martin Chulov
Met a ward full of wounded #Gaddafi men. Asked; 'why did u fight'?. Answer; 'He wasn't the man we thought he was'.
Two Africans with bullet wounds among #Gaddafi men. 1 from Niger, 1 from Senegal. Both accused by doctors of being hired guns. #Libya
dovenews Libyan™
Disturbing: #AbuSalim trauma hospital, only 2 Drs, 5 nurses, 100 decomposing bodies, bodies on st. int'l help is needed goo.gl/9Q7Om
Max_Fisher Max Fisher
Pretty surprised UK jets are bombing Qaddafi's compound in Surte. I'm guessing that means he isn't there. bbc.in/qVUgkC
ANSA ITALY
Gaddafi used refugees as 'human bombs' Strongman wanted 'inferno' on Lampedusa, says Frattini Rome, August 26 - Besieged Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi diverted massive amounts of migrants to Italy as an attempted reprisal for Italy's involvement in NATO-led air strikes in Libya, Italian Foreign Minister and the Libyan ambassador to Italy said on Friday.
"I confirm that Gaddafi himself organized this flow of illegal migration," said Abdulhafed Gaddur on Italian radio. "He was the one who gave the orders".
Since the start of the year, some 50,000 migrants and refugees from North Africa, first from Tunisia and then from Libya, have arrived on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, which quickly overburdened local facilities.
"[Gaddafi] said he wanted to turn Lampedusa black," said Gaddur, referring to the fact that many of the exiles were migrants to Libya from Sub-Saharan Africa. Gaddafi said
he wanted to use them as "human bombs," Gaddur added.
Read more:
http://ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2011/08/26/visualizza_new.html_731645543.html
acarvin Andy Carvin
Marat: the Libyan revolution is almost miraculous, against a regime that is limitless in violence, while the people kept persistence & honor
sueturtonaje Sue Turton
Inside Tripoli's notorious Abu Salim prison...empty and eerie. If only the walls could talk
Just seen wreckage of plane hit today at tripoli airport. Gaddafi forces still within striking distance...snipers positioned out to the east
Khalifa
must be kept out of any positions in the new Libya and they must return all the money they stole.
acarvin Andy Carvin
Matar: when the rebels entered the compound, it was astonishing and eerie. Bullets sniping them, but not the faces of the regime.
Mohammad
Free Libya will not recognize a union of dictators (i.e. AU) Without #libya $, union is useless
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
NATO has been active in the vicinity of Sirte already this afternoon, bombing some targets in the area using British Tornado jets
jamesmatesitv James Mates
Man shot in neck cdn't be evacuated - without power in special ambulance life support machines wd fail. Doctors not hopeful.
Abu Salem hospital finally evacuated this morning. Watched last few patients taken out. Stench of death, hundreds of rotting bodies
Big gun battle around our hotel this afternoon. Gave the international press a taste of what ordinary Libyans are living with every day
Zlitniya
#Zliten Harsh female pro Gs were sent in to homes in #AlBaza (pro #Feb17 area) &stole all money &gold(including wt women were wearing)
#Zliten These pro G 'women' also forced the women in the homes to disclose where other gold&money was hidden.1man hd 100k stolen 4bein antiG
live2Tripoli
We need independence flags in #Tripoli. Everywhere I go people ask me if they could have the one I carry. Want to send something, send flags
Omar
The two aircraft destroyed at Tripoli airport were thankfully the2older A300 aircraft and not the A330 originally thought. 2 others were hit
In fact the Afriqiyah A300 destroyed was the one made famous by bringing back Al Magrahi from Glasgow, it was a presidential plane
libyatv Libya TV
UN Rights Office: "Gaddafi should be captured alive" english.libya.tv/2011/08/26/un-… #Libya
A Message to the Libyan women suffering Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duCsXushXIk&feature=share
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Filmed round a looted house in brega. Found a land mine hidden at doorway left by retreating gads. Trap for people returning home?
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Afriqiyah A300 shelled by #Gaddafi filth at Tripoli Airport was one that brought #Lockerbie bomber Al Magrahi from Glasgow. #Libya #Feb17
Fighting continues at #RasAjdir between #freedomfighters & #Gaddafi filth.
Dennis #Kucinich held hour-long telephone conversation with Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi #Gadhafi Prime Minster http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/25/libya-letters-gaddafi-nato-obama?CMP=twt_gu #Libya
#NATO jets targeted 29 armed #Gaddafi vehicles near #Sirte. #Libya #Feb17
Sirtawi
Now that Libya State TV's out of the way, one can think straight...
FromJoanne Joanne
#BREAKING CNN Just found GADDAFI RATHOLE wth ROWS of RECORDED Gaddafi MSGES Tapes Deep in Bunker #BabAlAziyah
Freedom Fighter
These are the apartments in the beginning of abusalim, big fight is happening there twitpic.com/6bgo7e
I have to turn off my cellular and UPS to save energy, i will keep u posted if somthing happen. Until now it's normal day... without power!
Today my father and mother in law visited us from ben ashur we congratulated each other and had a nice talk, tripoli is recovering quickly.
Aiden
The African Union is like a drinking club for corrupt dictators. You don't really want their endorsement, frankly.
libyatv Libya TV
AU Officials: 20 AU Nations officially recognise NTC as legitimate government of #Libya
'Gaddafi has been planning his escape for quite a long time. He loves life, lets others fight for him' - Libyan ambassador to Italy
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
PICTURES: Two A300s destroyed in Tripoli conflict shabablibya.org/news/pictures-… #Libya
ThoughtsAboveClouds
The NTC in 5 months has more credibility than Gaddafi ever had and more than a lot of AU members. New Libya does not need them
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
U.S. distances itself and NATO from Gaddafi manhunt shabablibya.org/?p=5848 #Libya
MOD: "a formation of Tornado GR4s... fired a salvo of Storm Shadow precision-guided missiles against a large headquarters bunker" in Sirte.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
The Libyan National Army in the East send forward heavy artillery in preparation for the liberation of Sirte, Pro G's remain defiant #Libya
plans in place, heavy artillery moving to the front now
Reuters: Arabian Gulf Oil Company says fields in eastern Libya are "now secure"
NTC Say they do not want a bloodbath they will be sending in FF who are from the town of Sirte first. Hoping to liberate #Sirte peacefully
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Council believes Gaddafi trapped south of Tripoli shabablibya.org/?p=5854 #Libya
AJE: Freedom Fighters control the AbuSleem area of Tripoli however they are now sweeping for any remaining snipers
sarasidnerCNN Sara Sidner
Just went down some of the tunnels Gadhafi had built under his compound. Unreal. Rumours of a massive underground tunnel complex r true.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Desperately seeking Gaddadi's brigade of bodyguards shabablibya.org/?p=5857 #Libya
WARNING: If you get a DM that says " your pic is all over the net" or "You look so silly in this pic!", DONT OPEN > It's a virus >>> RETWEET
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya Freedom Fighters, Gaddafi forces battle at Tunisia Libya border shabablibya.org/?p=5864 #Libya
Libiya_min_Hollanda
NOW HEAVY GUNFIRE IN GASER BEN GASHIR, may God be with our FF's !!! RT
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
With fall of Gaddafi, Libyans dare to hope shabablibya.org/news/with-fall… #Libya
feb17libya Feb17Libya
British Tornado jets fired cruise missiles at a bunker in #Gaddafi's home town of #Sirte. feb17.info/news/libya-liv… #Libya #Feb17
#Norway is ready to release $370m in frozen #Libya's assets held in Norwegian banks as soon as the UN gives the go-ahead feb17.info/news/libya-liv…
Libiya_min_Hollanda
Ppl pls help me my relatives are screaming on the phone rockets fulling om them gunfire everywhere pls help !!!!!!!!!!!
HELPPPPPPPPPPPP civiliiana Re being killed now my relatives nowwwwwwwww
they are in soug asibet in my aunts farm all woman and childeren screaming and running!!!!!
im telling ppl 2 help and they say FF will go but nothing till now!!!!!
Ita between gaser ben gashir and soog alkhmies
Why is South Africa spoiling things for the Free Libyan people? http://shabablibya.org/news/south-africas-libya-policy-reflects-past-loyalties #Libya
Turkey FM: The flying of the new flag, int'l recognition & financial support are the three pillars for a sovereign Libya & must be enforced.
Desperately seeking Gaddadi’s brigade of bodyguards When the rebels stormed into Muammar Qaddafi’s fortress of Bab al-Aziziya they expected to find more people than just the stalwart leader and his family. But it appears that Qaddafi’s famed bodyguards too have vanished into thin air.
There is no trace of Qaddafi’s female bodyguards, once estimated to be around 400 beautiful women.
The Libyan leader first began to appear with his female guards in the 1990s; his previous guards were from the former East Germany.
According to media reports, in the past 20 years Qaddafi employed as many as 400 “Revolutionary Nuns,” as the female guards came to be known. They were also referred to as “The Amazonians.”
The guards were reported to have taken a vow of chastity before beginning the job of guarding the Libyan leader; in addition, they took a pledge to sacrifice their lives to protect him. The guards also underwent extensive firearm and martial arts training in the Women’s Police Academy in Tripoli.
Qaddafi required that his guards be virgins; he renamed them all after his only daughter, Aisha.
Qaddafi’s female guards always appeared by his side immaculately groomed and dressed in high heels their long hair left loose.
During Qaddafi’s visit to Italy in 2009, photographs appeared of one of his guards, an elegantly dressed woman, who seemed to catch Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s eye – so much so that he breached protocol and went to shake hands with the guard.
Berlusconi’s handshake was met with a rather harsh glare from the guard, a fact not lost on the media.
The loyalty that Qaddafi’s guards showed the leader is well known. In 1988, the head of Qaddafi’s guards was killed and seven others wounded when a convoy was attacked, allegedly by Islamic fundamentalists. Then, a female guard threw herself on Qaddafi to save him and died from bullet wounds.
In 2003, during an Arab summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egyptian security prevented Qaddafi’s guards from entering the hotel with the Libyan leader, which resulted in a scuffle between the ladies and security officials.
In 1984, Ethiopian security guards also clashed with Qaddafi’s guards when they tried to enter, fully armed, the Organization of African Unity in Addis Ababa, where a summit was being held. Officials were able to take away their weapons, but not without an altercation.
A similar scene was witnessed at another summit in Nigeria during which organizers refused to grant Qaddafi’s guards access unless they disarmed. It was only when the Nigerian president personally intervened that the matter was resolved.
An Arab writer said once that Qaddafi was the luckiest of all Arab leaders because he was surrounded by gorgeous guards. However, the guards and the secrets they keep have vanished from Qaddafi’s Bab al-Azizia compound.
Since the guards are believed to never leave Qaddafi’s side, one wonders whether they have accompanied him to his hideout. Does he still consider them to be the most competent and trustworthy guards to protect his life?
Source Al Arabiyah
Sirtawi
Interrogation with Hala Misrati youtube.com/watch?v=5vZTrY…
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: In accord w/ #Gaddafi address of yesterday, reports of PRO Gaddafi women robbing homes at gunpoint.
#Tarhouna is reported as completely free of #Gaddafi filth
Clashes between #Freedomfighters & #Gaddafi filth now in #AinZara. Mercs captured there have been found with Khamis ID's.
Last night RAF destroyed three Scud missile support vehicles near #Sirte
#Freedomfighters in #Sebha stormed military secret service HQ & liberated #AlKarda & #AlManschija.
libyanandproud
Libyans do not recognize Jacob Zuma as the legitimate representative of the South African people !
HomelandYouth Shabbab Al Watan
Radio is ran by the revolutionaries now in Tripoli
Omar
Trouble between Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte as some want to surrender others believe G has a way back. It seems G loyalists worship him
AFP
Freedom fighters Liberated Aboukammesh town & chemical plant west of zwara near Tunisian border
Imad
The Embassy of #Libya in #London has two flags today, Syrian flag next to the new Libyan Flag, amazing lockerz.com/s/132860561
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: Injured Surman FF Aboujillah Jwade. Broken leg in August 11 car accident, then shot in waist by #Gaddafi forces. twitpic.com/6bhp3n
Aljazeera
Rebels and forces loyal to fallen Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi battled at Ras Jdir on Libya's coastal border with Tunisia on Friday, a witness in the area said.
Tunisian officials said the army had closed the frontier area, an important crossing point for humanitarian aid and other supplies destined for Libya.
"Clashes are starting between large numbers of rebels and forces loyal to Gaddafi for control of the border," said local resident Fathi Chandol.
"The army asked us to stay away from the area," he told Reuters. "The area has been declared a closed military zone."
The Libyan rebels are keen to control the crossing because it will allow them to bring in supplies of food, water and other essentials from Tunisia.
LPC:
Zalla is still under q control. This desert city is in the midlle of 4-5 oil fields.
In the courtyard where Gaddafi once made speeches locals are playing Bob Marley and whirling round, dancing. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8716240/Libya-Live.html
FF's on the road to Ras Jdir took Bou Kammesh
Libya: Uganda explains stand. http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/763689
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Freedomfighters in #Sebha stormed military secret service HQ & liberated #AlKarda & #AlManschija.
Paris to provide Libya with $3 billion in aid http://en.rian.ru/world/20110826/166208486.html via @ria_novosti
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: Arabian Gulf Oil Company says fields in eastern Libya are "now secure"
Raw | 22-08-2011 | Capturing Gaddafi' mercenaries in Al-Brega http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElehA3Js-5s&feature=player_detailpage
Sheila
Don't the mercenaries shooting Libyan children in the head have kids of their own? How low can humanity stoop.
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#France secret service sources say #Gaddafi is in #Sirte
hominoid555 whitewakbar
al-Gaddafi imposed a news blackout in Sirte to prevent its people from interacting with the FFs
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
artillery, gunfire &NATO jets over us @ #tripoli int'l airport. rebel commanders here still believe #gadhafi in east area they dont control.
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
South Africa president Jacob Zuma says African Union cannot recognise National Transitional Council while fighting continues in Libya
A MUST READ:
The horror of Abu Salim They say there are still snipers around the Abu Salim district so best not to simply drive to the hospital there.
Our driver left us on the main road running by the hospital building. We’d done a recce and seen a hole in the fence.
We split up to present less of a target – myself, cameraman Stuart Webb and our security adviser, a former Royal Marine best left unnamed – and we legged it across the empty dual carriageway and hit that hole in the fence.
We’d arranged to RV with our van under a nearby flyover in one hour precisely.
Fifty yards from the main entrance something was wrong.
Very wrong.
Four Red Cross ambulances lined up and staff hurriedly stretchered out the last few injured men.
“Conditions in there are dreadful – just dreadful,” said Red Cross worker Bridget Comninos, “we are just trying to assist doctors here.”
In one ambulance a man, almost incoherent with fear, just kept saying: “Al Hamdillulah” – thank God.
Three young children sat near him almost beatifically calm in their shock.
Ten feet away, outside the main door, a dead man’s corpse hummed with clouds of flies.
Piles of surgical dressings, bloody sheets and half-empty blood bags were all around us, oozing fluids onto the ground.
Another body, inflated with decomposition, lies 20 yards away in the sun. Male, fighting age, half the head missing.
Source Chan4 Blog
http://blogs.channel4.com/world-news-blog/the-horror-of-abu-salim/18014
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Pools of blood all over the main Abu Salim street. Heavy shooting, dead bodies on road, and one man was shot in front of me.
Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
Big rebel push towards Saladin neighbourhood going on. Claim they're trying to take Khamis Brigade base. Heavy firefight when we were there
Have a look:
The Economist
End-game in Libya Going, going…
The fall of Muammar Qaddafi will transform Libya, the Middle East and NATO THE climax of Libya’s six-month-old revolt was not only televised via satellite but also text-messaged. Shortly after armed rebels captured the state telecoms company during their entry into the capital, Tripoli, on August 21st they sent a note to millions of mobile-phone users saying “Long live free Libya”. Then they added the equivalent of $40 to all accounts and restored the country’s internet connection, which had been cut at the start of the rebellion.
http://www.economist.com/node/21526892
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “ARON” remains anchored just outside #Tripoli #Libya after last having supplied #Gaddafi regime.
Another aircraft takes has taken a hit by #Gaddafi filth in Tripoli international Airport.
#Panama PASSENGER SHIP "PALM BEACH PRINCESS" now en route to #Benghazi
#Moldova CARGO SHIP "HAJ-SAYED" now en route to #Tobruq #Libya ETA: 2011-08-27 15:00 (UTC). #Feb17
#Panama CARGO SHIP "KIBRIS GUNESI" now en route to dest. #Benghazi #Libya. #Feb17
Reports of #Gaddafi filth slaughtering civilians in #GasherBenGashir.
#Zuma says #UN has undermined #AU in regards #Libya. Actually #SouthAfrica & member states of criminal AU have undermined themselves. #Feb17
#Tripoli: #ICRC have now evacuated #AbuSaleem Trauma Hospital. 21 seriously needing surgery been transferred.
#Tripoli: #GasrBenGhashir needs IMMEDIATE help! Khamis brigade along w/ #Gaddafi mercs causing chaos.
#Libya: Please remember that #Turkey has since Feb 17 MASSIVELY supplied #Gaddafi w/ material support including fuel. Do NOT trust them.
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Libyan rebel oil firm AGOCO said on Friday it has placed a "small army" at its fields in the country's east to guarantee security
lindseyhilsum Lindsey Hilsum
They're clearing the bodies on the roundabout between #babalaziziyah and #abusalim #tripoli.@channel4news
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Trading house Gunvor supplied a cargo of gasoil that loaded at the Russian port of Novorossiisk and is bound for Libyan rebels in Benghazi
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Went to visit the Abu Salim hospital today in #Tripoli. Was a horrifying & eery building with no doctors or nurses..just rotting dead bodies
At the Abu Salim prison, the cells were small with a tiny squat bathroom for the
prisoners sharing the cells
It's obvious that the prisoners in Abu Salim prison lived in horrific circumstances
Also a pile of dead bodied outside the hospital. All the bodies _ 41 of them _ were dark skinned and in late stages of decay
The hospital's been deserted for 5days. Walked thru the empty corridors; blood all over the gurneys, floors.Glass shattered on doors
Hafed
#libya-- STATEMENT BY SENATOR JOHN McCAIN ON LIBYA’S DEMOCRATIC FUTURE – mccain.senate.gov
N_Benghazi ن
Where were the non-Libyans who are so concerned about the 'looting rebels' when Gaddafi was killing, torturing, and stealing from them?
Libya FFs called in support from NATO jets to stop a counteroffensive by loyalist troops in Tripoli in the early hours of Friday, ...
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Water and food are in short supply. Even Zawiyah, a city of 200,000 50km west of Tripoli, was largely shut down.
Tripoli heavy fighting in the Salah alDin area
Nasr
In a very positive report by @ZeinakhodrAljaz she state that our FFs have made major gains on the ground in #Tripoli in the past 24 hrs
Sky - Heavy artillery exchange between G + FF at the Eastern front.
Bosnia and Serbia recognize Libyan rebels
The Netherlands accepts the NTC as the representative of the STATE of #Libya
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Some $2.9bn (£1.8bn) is missing from the accounts of the Libyan sovereign wealth fund,
Rebels fight for Gaddafi-held neighbourhood Rebels continue to battle Gaddafi's men in their stronghold in Tripoli's Abu Salim where snipers positioned outside the district, have slowed their advance.
The area is where the leader enjoys support and is also believed to be where he and members of his family may be hiding.
And though the strongman may have disappeared; it is he who now defines the struggle for the capital.
Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports from Tripoli.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kURJCoGGPZY&feature=channel_video_title
libyanandproud
I confirm Qasr Ben Ghasher been attacked past 48hrs, has been reported, outskirts of tripoli r farms being swept slowly
Netherlands widens recognition of Libyan NTC The Netherlands not only considers the National Transition Council to be the representative of the Libyan people, it has also accepted the NTC as the representative of the state for the first time.
The shift in status, now that Muammar Gaddafi no longer appears in control of the country, means that Libya's frozen assets can be released to the NTC. The Dutch authorities say they are pleased to give the NTC full recognition. The move was
confirmed in a statement by a contact group comprising the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium.
The Netherlands says the NTC has to ensure a "stable and safe future for the Libyan people". It needs to change Libya into a free and democratic country which holds human rights to be the basis for a healthy economy. This should be achieved with the help of the international community, and the United Nations in particular.
The Netherlands is prepared to help the new Libya "in any way it can".
Source:
http://www.rnw.nl/africa/bulletin/netherlands-widens-recognition-libyan-ntc
( FYI: Population of Netherlands is 16,531,294)
Aljazeera
VERY GRAPHIC
Trauma at Abu Salim hospital The Abu Salim trauma hospital in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, has been cut off to most of the outside world due to fighting in the area.
Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons managed to reach the hospital this week, where he found bodies with gunshot wounds lying in and outside of the building.
He sent this report on the status of a hospital that is severely understaffed and cut off from medical supplies, with a warning that some of the images in the video may be disturbing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znMYDsbkwRw&feature=youtu.be
MSNBC
Libya rebel minister says Gaddafi, aides surrounded TRIPOLI— A minister in Libya's National Transitional Council said on Friday rebel forces were surrounding an area of Tripoli where Muammar Gaddafi and his entourage were hiding and were monitoring their presence before attempting to
capture them.
"The area where he is now is under siege," Justice Minister Mohammed al-Alagi told Reuters. "The rebels are monitoring the area and they are dealing with it."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44288427/ns/world_news-africa/t/libya-rebel-minister-says-gaddafi-aides-surrounded/#.TlfM2JLiDyI.twitter
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Dictator chic - the most predictable thing about Gaddafi? gold, murals, objects in their image - Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews…
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Made in Libya.... #libya fb.me/1a3K5SsiT
david_bachmann_ AC Tripolis
My former driver just called me. Didn't hear from him for 4mths. Was fighting in Zawia,got shot in the leg. He s in a GREAT mood.
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya sovereign wealth fund 'missing $2.9bn' bbc.in/npGFm6
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Libya #NTC offers 2 MILLION DINARS & FULL AMNESTY for Muammar #Gaddafi, DEAD OR ALIVE. #Feb17
Libiya_min_Hollanda
World wake up, civillians being slautherd in Gaser Ben Gashir woman and childern #URGENT #Libya RT
Where is the NTC, there job is 2 protect the civilians WALLAAHI people Are dying now!!!
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
BBC: Unesco warning over #Libya looting goo.gl/xD658 #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
sarasidnerCNN Sara Sidner
CNN about to run video of inside Gadhafi's tunnels.
I have to admit we were spooked in there. So dark and went on forever
Gadhafi tunnel video will apear on CNN.com!
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
The hostile position of the #AU towards #Libya #NTC is led by #SouthAfrica’s #Zuma & #Algeria's #Butaflika. #Libya #Feb17
Regardless of monies paid to #NTC, #Turkey violated UN 1973 & continued fuel and material support to #Gaddafi daily
Video: Correspondent in #Tripoli takes us inside one of the #Gaddafi's bunkers http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/inside-a-gaddafi-bunker/2011/08/25/gIQAxDyteJ_video.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost #Libya
#SouthAfrica’s #Zuma, has recently recommended Seif al-Islam & Moussa Ibrahim be included in new Libyan gov. #ZumaIsAMoron
#Libya: Despite what Hala Misrati NOW says, please remember 2 days before capture she was shooting civilians from State TV building.
#Tripoli: #Gaddafi filth have destroyed another airplane at TIA. This is the 4th civilian airplane Gaddafi has destroyed.
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya: Drawings on the wall of a cell inside the Abu Salim prison in #Tripoli pic.twitter.com/Bgems1U
"#Gaddafi green rags: they will fall one by one" #Libya http://pic.twitter.com/T712T3Q
#FF protect pro-Gaddafi from angry onlookers as he is brought in for medical attention to the Hospital #Tripoli #Libya pic.twitter.com/xfkJLiz
AliveInLibya
Dissident from Kikla Recounts His Time as a Regime Prisoner is.gd/bvgb4D (Aug 26)
Have a laugh:
LibyaLiberty Hunting the Beard
#GaddafisLoveLettersToCondi
"You maybe da Seckratary uv iState,but yoo are alsoo da Seckratary uv my hart."
#GaddafisLoveLettersToCondi "Bleez come to visit me.We will drive my tuk tuk into the sunset forever."
#GaddafisLoveLettersToCondi "Ya conda leeZa,you put the "Z" in babalaZiziya"
#GaddafisLoveLettersToCondi "Hey baby,are you an African mercenary?Beecuz yoo jest shot me in da hart like a luv sniber."
#GaddafisLoveLettersToCondi "Leebyins love only macaroni,but for you,Condoleeza,I will only love rice from now on"
#GaddafisLoveLettersToCondi "Lets switch clothes for Haloween:U look like nubian princess in my African dress,& I'll look normal in ur suit"
andrewquinn:
Libyan rebels to get fuel from #Russia (which wasn't so hot on the TNC, but hey things change) bit.ly/oPzUTu" #Libya
AP report from #Tripoli's streets to see how fighting has taken its toll on Libyans: http://apne.ws/qjFmmh -EC ... #Libya
icrc_english ICRC in English
by septimius_sever
#Libya: #ICRC helps evacuate 17 wounded patients from Abu Salim Trauma Hospital to another #Tripoli hospital. For more: goo.gl/p8dJ8
Tweeting Tripoli
People in Tripoli please print and spread to friends and relatives. We don't want military bases in the city anymore. pic.twitter.com/ezZbr0f
ProudLibyan
Many well known Gaddafi goons (be it ministers or others) phoning NOW to declare support for Feb17, they don't even apologise! #Libya
TRIPOLI (AFP)--Libyan rebels control 95% of the capital Tripoli, a local military chief told AFP Friday
corinthia hotel tripoli http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztzmr2Bud5o&feature=share via @youtube
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Heavy shooting infront of Corinthia hotel in #tripoli #Libya now. #BREAKING
#breaking: I see 9 rebels trying to get into bldg facing #Corinthia hotel to catch the guy shooting.
#Breaking: Shooting continues infront of #corinthia hotel #tripoli #Libya. I am with group of journalists watching it from balcony.
Ok One rebel is running with RPG. He is trying to determine where to shoot it to.
Shooting continues. I see rebels pointing at a certain direction. plumes of smoke in horizon
Number of rebels increasing now. Around 20. I see smoke. Can't determine what is happening. RPG guy didn't shoot yet.
I can see rebels runing in the street with their guns trying to..... heavy heavy shotting now. VERY HEAVY.
We are hiding here. Ducked down. Shooting continues. We here rebels shouting but I can't make out what they say.
Ok this was not shooting now. One heavy sound, maybe explosion.
Shooting stopped now. I hear nothing anymore. Watch the video footage I shot tonight Will post it online later.
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
rebel commander @ #tripoli airport says pushed #gadhafi forces back, but they R still using civilian pop 4 cover. artillery strikes ongoing
Never Forget
Liberation of Abu Salim, #Tripoli. 5th minute mark for the emotional reactions + gratitude, youtu.be/zSuLvzxhpLE #Libya”
BBCWorld BBC Global News
#Gaddafi's troops killed 150 prisoners in 'mass murder' as they fled rebel advance on #Tripoli, rebel chief tells AFP bbc.in/n5BCnC
Fighters claim to control most of Tripoli : http://www.presstv.ir/detail/195927.html
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Qaddafi, aids surrounded and monitored in Tripoli: Libya rebel minister english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/…
BBC
Libya: Hundreds of bodies found at Tripoli hospital More than 200 decomposing bodies have been found abandoned at a hospital in a district of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, that has seen fierce fighting
A BBC correspondent found corpses of men, women and children on beds and in the corridors of Abu Salim's hospital.
Doctors and nurses fled after clashes erupted nearby between rebel forces and those loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi.
Some residents accused the regime of murdering those at the hospital, but it is not yet clear how exactly they died.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14687658
ProudLibyan
I for one, we all will not keep quiet when we see previous Gaddafi supporteres/minsters crawl out of woodwork 2 try to take advantage! NEVER
Michael
The resourcefulness & ingenuity shown by the Libyans in their struggle can launch a new economy in free #Libya.
Tweeting Tripoli
Sorry to let u know Dr Darat who was kidnapped by Gaddafi thugs found dead (torture signs) few days ago: youtube.com/watch?v=omjy1r… Capture video.
Or:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omjy1r80ExQ&feature=related
The African Union will not explicitly recognise Libya's NTC, Reuters quotes a western diplomat as saying
عاجل ليبيا أخبار :رويترز نقلت عن دبلوماسي غربي : ان الاتحاد الافريقي لن يعترف صراحة بالمجلس الوطني الانتقالي
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: Major fighting continues in front of Corinthia hotel against #Gaddafi filth.
#Gaddafi filth still present in #Zalla, desert city in middle of 4-5 oil fields.
WAPO
Libya policy a balancing act for China as Moammar Gaddafi’s rule collapses HONG KONG — In a February speech in which he vowed to wipe out rebels like “cockroaches,” Moammar Gaddafi held up China’s 1989 military assault on Tiananmen Square as an example of how to deal with popular unrest.
“Students in Beijing protested for days near a Coca-Cola sign,” he said. “Then the tanks came and crushed them.”
Today, the fortified Tripoli compound where Gaddafi made his defiant speech is overrun by rebels. Now, Beijing is scrambling to distance itself from a leader who lauded its approach to dissent and awarded Chinese companies billions of dollars in contracts — but who has for years also embarrassed, unsettled and sometimes defied the Chinese leadership.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/libya-policy-a-balancing-act-for-china-as-moammar-gaddafis-rule-collapses/2011/08/26/gIQAnlKKgJ_story.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost
CNN:
Fred Pleitgen on the Eastern Frontlines in #Ras #Lanuf Before #Sirte. Video: http://goo.gl/6HF6L
or:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb0PdnxUnOM
Freedom Fighter
These are the apartments in the beginning of abusalim, big fight is happening there twitpic.com/6bgo7e
helena
amazing moment it was all the flags out in Benghazi in feb. My thought was woow people had them all the time hidden
Khalifa
#Gadhafi tunnels perfect for a future mass transit in #Tripoli (subway). Bab Alzizia makes a great Park (Central Park of Tripoli).
Reuters
Libyan rebels claimed to be close to capturing Muammar Gaddafi on Friday. They were surrounding an area where Gaddafi and his entourage are reportedly hiding. “The area where he is now is under siege,” Justice Minister Mohammed al-Alagi told Reuters. “The rebels are monitoring the
area and they are dealing with it.”
Libya Al-Ahrar TV: Marine tractor 'Salahuddin' will arrive today to Benghazi carrying 107 of the prisoners of Abu Salim, some of whom thought they were killed before.
ليبيا الاحرار / ستصل اليوم القاطرة البحرية صلاح الدين إلى بنغازي حاملة ١٠٧ من سجناء أبوسليم وبعضهم ممن ظن أهاليهم أنهم قتلوا من قبل القاطرة هي التي قامت بأول إنزال بحري يوم ٢٠ في طرابلس قادمة من بنغازي
Libya Breaking news:
List of names of the prisoners released from the Abu Salim prison who are arriving Benghazi today August 26, 2011. at 9 PM Libya time
1. Ahmad Abdal-Razaq Al-Mansuwry - Darna
2. Sulyman Al-Malah - Darna
3. Mohammed Abdel-Hamid Mohammed - Egypt
4. Az-Aldeen Abdel-Azez Marwass - Benghazi
5. Salim Bashir Bozribe - Benghazi
6. Hussein Mohamed Hussein - Sudan
7. Sadiq Albuaiche - Benghazi
8. Mohamed ALamari - Benghazi
9. Abdullah Fathi Al-Circassian - Benghazi
10. Mohammad Sharif Al-Ashaba - Benghazi
11. Ahmed Alqtani - Benghazi
12. Jafar Azzouz - Benghazi
13. Fathi birthday Alkuafa - Benghazi
14. Ahmed Abu Bakr Darsi - Benghazi
15. Amjad Ahmad Misrati - Benghazi
16. Khaled Saad Thurs - Benghazi
17. Salam Hadar - Benghazi
18. Ayad Abdul Hameed Ali - Benghazi
19. Attia El-Siwi - Benghazi
20. Mohammed Abdullah Al Ghaith - Benghazi
21. Nasser Saleh Al-Mahdi - Abyar
22. Billah Ali - Abyar
23. Mustafa Bin Ali Al Salem - dirt
24. Fathallah Younis Porras - dirt
25. Ahmed Abdullah Ali - Brega
26. Juma Juma Idriss - Brega
27. Nizar M'Hamed Alaukih - dirt
28. Ahmed Juma Bozekok - Benghazi
29. Salam Azzouz - dirt
30. Ezzat Farag Mohammed Ali Al-Ras - Benghazi
31. Salam Ahmed Sharif - Benghazi
32. Tawfiq Abdullah Mohammed - Benghazi
33. Moataz precordial Gabriel - Benghazi
34. Moataz Abdullah Ali Shlouq - Benghazi
35. Khalid Mohammed Ali Saifi - Benghazi
36. Salam Ammar Khuwaildi - Benghazi
37. Hatem comfortable exile - Benghazi
38. Nasser comfortable exile - Benghazi
39. Arab senile - Benghazi
40. Abuzeid Alchloi - dirt
41. Faraj Hassi - dirt
42. Jibril Abdel Karim - dirt
43. Tawfiq Gabriel - dirt
44. Ahmed Alchloi - dirt
45. Masood Khalid Amari - Benghazi
46. Saleh Sassi - Benghazi
47. Salem Abaao - Benghazi
48. Mohammed Oraibi - Benghazi
49. Faraj Aujali - Benghazi
50. Mohammed Aujali - Benghazi
51. Nasser Al-tar - Benghazi
52. Imad Al Shaibani - Benghazi
53. Support Boukran - Benghazi
54. Tawfiq Almqhob - Benghazi
55. Abdallah Azouz - dirt
56. Farouk Altarhuni - Benghazi
57. Ahmed Said - Tobruk
58. Salam Marian - Tobruk
59. Abbas warming - Tobruk
60. Essam Omar bellies - dirt
61. Hatem Abdel Salam Ahmed - dirt
62. Hamdi Abdul Rahman Mansour - dirt
63. Masoud Musa Altarhuni - Benghazi
64. SE Badr - dirt
65. Mahmoud coastal - Benghazi
66. Coastal Khaled - Benghazi
67. SE Nayhoum - Benghazi
68. Mohammed Abdul Karim Drissi - Benghazi
69. Ali Khafifi - Benghazi
70. Successful Makhlouf - Benghazi
71. Abdullah Jehani - Benghazi
72. Osama Abdel Salam Almsheeti - Benghazi
73. Mguetah Nico - dirt
74. Hamza Ashaba - Benghazi
75. Ali Alillaa - Benghazi
76. Mohammed Dawi - dirt
77. Abdel Moneim Al-Ghazali - Benghazi
78. Omar Mami - Benghazi
79. Radwan Ali Alhsada - dirt
80. Agfer Mansour Alhsada - dirt
81. Salah Abdel-Sayyed - dirt
82. Hashim Alchloi - dirt
83. Abdullah Abel - dirt
84. Abdul Baset poetic - dirt
85. Galal Osman Bashir - Benghazi
86. Ramadan Abdullah Bin Omran - dirt
87. Hatem Gomaa Acroh d - dirt
88. Mohamed Moncef Alaclai - dirt
89. Fadel Shahat Friendship - dirt
90. Issam Hanib - dirt
91. Osama al-Zaidi - Benghazi
92. Key Ghuwayl - dirt
93. Mohamed Aoun, Milad - dirt
94. Rami Hussein - Benghazi
95. Joseph Safarx - dirt
96. Mr. Bernah - dirt
97. Belaid, Abdel-Sayyed - dirt
98. Nasser Gabes - dirt
99. Hussain Saeed Mohammed - Benghazi
100. Abdulkadir Ali Al Hashimi - Benghazi
101. Fathallah Khafifi - Benghazi
102. Nabil Hasnawi - Benghazi
103. Walid Warfali - Benghazi
104. Khaled al-Sharif - Benghazi
105. Motasem Ashour Sharif - Benghazi
106. Lafi Mahdi Alsukna - Alqzeron
107. Doma Zayed Ali – Alqtron
A military source: The number of battalions who have been involved in the fighting in Brega had reached to 6000 troops at one point whome of which only 1000 are left now and those are being attacked by FF on the way to Serte
مصدر عسكري : عدد أفراد الكتائب الذين زج بهم الزاحف الأوحد في البريقة وصل إلى 6000جندي و لم يتبق منهم الآن سوى 1000جندي و بعض المتطوعين و هم الذين يهاجمهم الثوار الآن على الطريق باتجاه سرت ( لا حول و لا قوة إلا بالله قريب 5000من عيالهم ماتو في سبيل الشيطان القذافي
Clashes took place earlier today between FF and the Qaddafi's battalion located in Ras Ijdeer
Al-Arabiyah TV Source: FFs control the city of Gadames on the Libyan - Algeria
مصادر العربية: الثوار يسيطرون على مدينة غدامس على الحدود الليبية الجزائرية
Amnesty International
Both sides to the ongoing conflict in Libya must ensure that detainees in their custody are not tortured or otherwise ill-treated Amnesty International said today. The call followed reports from Amnesty International’s delegation in Libya on Tuesday, which has gathered powerful testimonies from survivors of abuse at the hands of both pro-Gaddafi soldiers and rebel forces, in and around the town of Az-Zawiya.
Mohammad
Video: FF sailing toward #Tripoli, Date: 20 Aug 2011 goo.gl/hB2IP That is the spirit! #feb17 #libya
Reuters
Italy has proof that Muammar Gaddafi planned to turn its tiny island of Lampedusa into an “inferno” by sending thousands of desperate African migrants there by boat, Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said. “We have terrible messages (in our possession) and they will be made public soon,” Frattini said in an interview with Avvenire, the Italian bishops’ newspaper.
“We have proof of orders given by Gaddafi’s government to transform Lampedusa into an inferno: ‘Put thousands of desperate people on boats and throw the island into chaos.’ We have proof and we can’t ignore it.”
ثوار ليبيا طريق البحر طرابلس Libya Tripoli/ 2011.08.20 The process of landing the rebels in Tripoli by sea, the bride Tripoli 20. 8. 2011.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK0yT9r5gQ8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Does Libya Video Finally Reveal How to Spell Gadhafi’s Name http://www.theblaze.com/stories/does-libya-video-finally-reveal-how-to-spell-qaddafis-khadafys-gadhafis-name/ via @theblaze
ProudLibyan
The other challenge is finding Gaddafi/sons, just as long they R still out there, they will influence goons to continue to kill
AJELive AJELive
Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr in #Tripoli: The hunt for Gaddafi is continuing, though it's unknown if he's still in #Libya's capital
Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr in #Tripoli: Rebels faced "stiff resistance" in Abu Salim, but now have control of the Tripoli neighbourhood.
Mohammad
In #Benghazi a 14 year old girl will see her father tonight for the first time in her life.He was freed from abu sleem prison by FF!
libyanandproud
RassIjdayr border crossing now in Freedom Fighter control . Note : Road between RassIjdayr and Zolton is Still G controlled.
Please listen to the audio.
BBC
Groups of dead bodies found in Tripoli
Rebel fighters are continuing their struggle to secure Tripoli against forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi.
Sidney Kwiram, from the campaign group Human Rights Watch, said she found
groups of dead bodies near Col Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound and evidence of executions in the capital.
"What we're looking at is a scene in Tripoli right now where we are finding groups of bodies, dead [sic] and some kinds of executions," she said.
"Obviously there is a lot of fighting as well so we can't rule that out as a possibility in some of these cases which is why it is important to look at the wounds and talk to witnesses to figure out exactly what's going on."
Audio:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14680857
KhiriaE:
Libyans! We have to start working on our money and make it look like something like this: #Libya #Feb17 pic.twitter.com/XS6Zcp4"
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya EXCLUSIVE: Retreating #Gaddafi forces massacre detainees at two sites - Washington Times: wtim.es/n0AG7S
MUST READ:
Washington Times
EXCLUSIVE: Retreating Gadhafi forces massacre detainees at two sites Troops loyal to longtime Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi massacred more than 180 prisoners at two locations south of Tripoli this week, according to eyewitnesses and a survivor.
Eyewitnesses and a survivor told The Washington Times that pro-Gadhafi troops lobbed grenades and shot the prisoners.
A day earlier, at another site in a military camp in Khilit al-Ferjan in southwestern Tripoli, guards lobbed grenades at around 200 prisoners. Eyewitnesses said 182 people had died in that incident.
Please read full art.:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/26/gadhafi-forces-massacre-detainees-two-sites/#.TlfsTHc9SiM.twitter
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya conflicts - Gaddafi regime atrocities revealed youtube.com/watch?v=AVovA_… by John Simpson from #Tripoli
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Assaba: Reports clashes between #Freedomfighters and #Gaddafi filth have continued as of this afternoon.
4Adam Adam
[Map] The situation in west Libya as of Aug. 26th, 2011 - 1800GMT twitpic.com/6bky27/full #Tripoli #Libya #Feb17
WMCLibya WMCLibya
The @WMCLibya team has just left #London en route to #Tripoli, we wish them best of luck with delivering medical aid, pics 2 follow #Libya
http://youtu.be/bsbjsYsz1Qw @WMCLibya 's very own Ghassan Atiga speaks to #BBCNews about tomorrows convoy of medical aid to #Tripoli #Libya
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Filipinos coming home from Libya happy and sad globalnation.inquirer.net/10503/filipino…
Tribulusterr Brunnan de Coucy
At #Tripoli Central Hospital, report on how doctors prepared f regime fall: nyti.ms/mT0NMQ - by NYT's David Kirkpatrick, Kareem Fahim
sarasidnerCNN Sara Sidner
Tripoli has gone dark. Lights out across the city.
hominoid555 whitewakbar
The arrival of the ship with 500 tons of food at the port of Tripoli given by the State of Qatar, they are on the right side of history !
Ghamal
EVERYBODY LOVES QATAR THEY DID A WONDERFUL JOB!!!!!!!
SO MUCH SUPPORT AND HELP FROM THEM:)
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
THANK U for all the msgs!!! Appreciating freedom &what life has to offer.. but thinking of many Libyan friends still in #Tripoli #Libya
BBCBarbaraPlett Barbara Plett
#Britain is seeking #UN approval to release about 1 billion pounds in frozen #Libya funds to meet urgent humanitarian needs
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
A big thank you to @icrc for evacuating us from the #Rixos - those guys went over & beyond their job description!
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Zuma of #SA nothing but a fat, filthy criminal pig, owes everything he has to war criminal #Gaddafi. Treat him as the pig he is.
librev2011
by hominoid555
BREAKING: #RasEjdir gate on Libyan-Tunisia border is free #Libya عاجل تم تحرير بوابة رأس اجدير
Q:
Source? Not doubting, but G-forces keep launching counter attacks!
A:
Direct source sent me an sms, called him now, and he got informed by Zwara military council ;-) Confirmed
Wonderful, thx:)
Mohammad
I love this report! #Tripoli residents visit Aysha #Gaddafi luxurious house! See for ur self youtube.com/watch?v=GnDS9B… #feb17 #libya Heheheehehe
or:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnDS9BOgozg&feature=player_embedded
Jade
What are they thinking at the BBC? Their reporting is unbelievable, I didn't know they could be so untrustworthy! And btw, that is an understatement.
Anthony
BBC reporting is unacceptable!
septimius_sever septimius severus
Great work #BBC with ur unbiassed " #Libya experts", if its not Abdelbari Atwan its Nabila Ramadani ... are they on shifts or something?
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Still stuck at Ras Lanuf. FF line has not moved at all since yesterday.
At Ras Lanuf checkpoint with 20 #FF soldiers watching AJA on at tiny TV. They keep cheering the reports of FF victories.
Le Parisien reporting: 'Gaddafi has been located in #Sirte according to French Presidents office.'
Ambulances coming back from the front line now at speed. trying to find out what happened
Alex
#Libya refused admission 2 African Dictators Club - by SA's own #Mugabe - ex rape & corruption indictee #Zuma - BOO F**k*N HOO! #Tripoli #AU
AJELive AJELive
Al Jazeera's Scott Heidler in #Benghazi: Tripoli "murky" - hard to tell how many Gaddafi loyalists remain in #Libya's capital
DerekStoffelCBC Derek Stoffel
Also shortages of bottled water, fresh fruit, cooking oil and gasoline. One woman tells me she is not worried, "it's the price of freedom."
Benghazi : Freedom SQ - Si si Mr. Sarkozy ya quand même des gens qui vous aime. OnlyInLibya
http://twitpic.com/6bfv4m
Aeryon Scout UAV in use with the Libyan Rebels While NATO countries fly unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) high above Libya, none of these UAVs, or the vital intelligence they provide, was available to the Libyans fighting
to free their country -- they were fighting blind. So, they got one of their own. The Libyan rebels have been using the Aeryon Scout Micro UAV to acquire intelligence on enemy positions and to coordinate their resistance efforts. This video gives sample photos and video from both the Scout's daylight and thermal payloads.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uox3E0dEvB8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
danieljerivers Dan Rivers
no power and no water in Tripoli tonight. Gaddafi's forces seem to have been pushed out of Abu Salim area. We visited prison there ...grim.
LibyaNewMedia
There are still pockets of Gaddafi forces at road east of border crossing, so Tunisia-Tripoli road not safe yet.
evanchill Evan Hill
Most of #Tripoli appears to be undergoing a blackout tonight. Our hotel flickers in and out.
Tasbeeh شرقاوية
If you wanna talk orientalism... Why are all Western news outlets so preoccupied w/ perpetuating #Libya's tribal war fallacy?
THIS IS A MUST READ:
The short life and cruel death of Libyan freedom fighter Izz al-Arab Matar My cousin Izz al-Arab Matar, a 22-year-old final-year student in engineering, was shot in Bab al-Aziziya, Muammar Gaddafi's fortified compound in Tripoli, at 4.30pm on Tuesday 23 August 2011.
Every time his mother would ask him not to leave. He would reply by jokingly quoting
from Gaddafi's defiant, savage speech, made a few days after the rebellion began: "Forward, forward."
She once asked him: "Forward until when? When will you stop fighting?"
"When we reach Bab al-Aziziya," he told her.
Please read full article here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2011/aug/26/libya-death-izz-al-arab-matar
TRIPOLI:
BREAKING: AJA: FF have full control of #Tripoli
Alex
#Libya #NTC “constitutional charter is impressive in scope, aspirations & detail – including 37 articles on rights, freedoms & governance”.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/18cb7f14-ce3c-11e0-99ec-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1WAYoPbHR
"Imagine the #UN did not vote to authorize the use of force in #Libya in March. #Nato did nothing; Colonel #Muammer #Gaddafi over-ran #Benghazi; the #US stood by; the #Libyan opposition was reduced to sporadic uprisings, quickly crushed.
The regimes in #Yemen and #Syria took note, and put down their own uprisings with greater vigour.
The west let brutality and oppression triumph again in the Middle East.
This is the scenario many wise heads were effectively arguing for with their strong stands against intervention to stop Col Gaddafi."
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/18cb7f14-ce3c-11e0-99ec-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1WAZybJr8
Hisham Matar, Author
Libyan revolution has made democracy real and tangible idea, says novelist gu.com/p/3xfjp/tw via @guardian
LPC #Tripoli: Power outages widespread today in Tripoli [FYI: This will again influence ability to place calls into city.]
Tasbeeh شرقاوية
News networks deign to bring Libyans to speak for themselves, instd choose "experts" who'll perpetuate "tribal war" bs.
K_H_Jordan Keith Jordan
"What we need now is free speech and free thought." gu.com/p/3xfkn/tw Guardian article on Tripoli people's desires for #Libya
Telegraph
Libya: bodies found at emergency hospital in Tripoli Numerous bodies have been found inside and outside an emergency hospital in central Tripoli. Video:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8726164/Libya-bodies-found-at-emergency-hospital-in-Tripoli.html
libyanandproud
#Tripoli : Qasr BenGhasheer is still being shelled and controlled by #Gaddafi forces.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
#UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will speak to the press on #Libya in 5 minutes at 4:00p.m. EST (Live on Ch. 2).
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI FF got head shot #BabalAzizyah below left Ear Yesterday Friend took him 2 #London via #Tunisia Today he heard he will b fine #Libya
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
#Brega crude oil tank on Fire. Pro-Gads ignited it as they retreated. No time for FF to put it out while fighting. pic.twitter.com/mEpafxO
mattholehouse
French believe Gaddafi in #Sirte; Cameron and Sarkozy plan visit to #Misurata and #Benghazi, Le Parisien report #libya
alextomo alex thomson
#c4news #Libya. Abu Salim hosp - some of the worst things I ever saw - untransmittable horror
Filmed last injured screaming as Red X evacuated...
Piles of rotting people outside, inside, in corridors, offices -all over
Got fighter to shoot off door if basement - stuffed with bodies from previous fighting
Whole place filled with stench, flies and maggots all over the abandoned hospital. Not very good really.
Most fighting age males but 2 women, 3 children at least. Counted 78 bodies here.
Gimme an hour and we'll have Abu Salim online 4 u at channel4.com/news #c4news. #Libya
50 or so bodies on ground floor and heaped outside entrance are from A Salim fighting
At least another 30 rotting in basement are from previous fighting said doc
My blog on Abu Salim Hospital but be warned it's not that uplifting http://bit.ly/9EX8Lm
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
#NATO planes flying over #tripoli now, I see tracers in sky. Heavy machnegun. No electricity. Dont know what is happenning out there.
Alex
"The strategic interest in helping the #Libya n opposition came from supporting democracy and human rights, but also being seen to live up to those values by the 60 per cent majority of Middle Eastern populations who are under 30 and increasingly determined to hold their governments to account.
This value-based argument was inextricable from the interest-based argument.
So enough with the accusations of bleeding heart liberals seeking to intervene for strictly moral reasons."
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/18cb7f14-ce3c-11e0-99ec-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1WAb1tBZi
Mopping up op - is proceeding well- #Tripoli is about 95% liberated - #Ajeilat free again - #Sirte under pressure - WE R ALMOST THERE #Libya
#Condi to #Muammar "Drop dead dreamer - I don't dig dictators" #Gaddafi #Libya
DOCKED:
Sarah LFFR
Direct source : A boat carrying ~200 prisoner released from #AbuSleem prison just docked in #Benghazi . Most of them are from #Derna #Libya
SkyNewsBreak:
Sky Correspondent: Celebratory gunfire in Tripoli after restoration of electricity” Thanks to #Misrata technicians
Emo
Almost confirmed. FFs have liberated #Ajeilat from G filth. Some jubilation going on.
libyanandproud
#Tripoli : Local councils are creating hotlines !
hominoid555 whitewakbar
RAS AJDEER the handover of the terminal was in a peaceful manner a number of G troops gave up to FFs while some others fled to the sea Nalut
FunGuerillaz
I'm hearing reports about 'executions by both sides' (also on AJE). It is important to know that I have so far not seen a single confirmed instance of this perpetrated by the FFs in Tripoli. The one instance that has been mentioned (I think at the Bab) were most probably regime soldiers / loyalists / mercenaries unwilling to fight on that were executed by their own side. Remember, the same happened at the Katiba in Benghazi and in a number of other instances (and have thus been reported) while we always see regime forces being driven away as prisoners of war. I'm not going to say that nothing criminal ever happened on behalf of the FFs but by and large, there seems
to be a HUGE difference between the way the regime treats its enemies & how the FFs threat theirs. This can also be seen in the treatment of the dead by either side. The regime lets the dead disappear or rot, the FFs bury them properly (even the
enemy).
Again: The press needs to report more carefully on these instances of alleged executions by the FFs instead of just creating rumours.
According to the press, Tripoli is descending into chaos & anarchy. Sounds better U know. #WhoCaresAboutTheTruthIfYouCanTellAStory
The most mind-boggling thing about the poor journalism we see is that it's not bad will or sloppiness but rather that many journalists
seem to be in love with a certain storyline that has a narrative & follows its own (predefined) dramaturgy
instead of investigating & questioning their own preconceptions, many journalists just follow the predefined script of their storyline
and of course they often just copy-paste 'facts' or whole narratives from their colleagues (like 'rag-tag rebels', 'civil war' etc.).
Most importantly many journalist are not stationary but are just being flown in 4 the breaking event. So of course they don't know jack..
when they arrive on scene and just improvise it without any pre-existing deeper knowledge of the country and situation they report on
So they are in a huge city & see a gunfight in their area and conclude that the whole city still is a war zone just because they lack.
oversight. I'm telling you, most journalists are like ignorant package tourists that only read a travel guide once their on place.
O.K. Rant over
robcrilly Rob Crilly
Was getting 1.55 dinars to the dollar. Then US says it is releasing $1.5bn in frozen Libyan assets. Now 1.29 dinars. Economics in action
Via Septimius severus
People of #Tripoli pick up the pieces - Africa - Al Jazeera English http://english.aljazeera.net//news/africa/2011/08/2011826153127184768.html via @ajenglish
'Oh, freedom!' cry Libyans in #Tripoli - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: trib.me/rhFNQn#.TlgEfR… via @AddThis
C4NForeign Sarah Corp
Local checkpoint near our #Tripoli office now manned by a blue flashing light police car (covered in Feb17 graffiti of course though)
FromJoanne Joanne
Lest 1 Forgets Who = the Rapist of #Libya Listen to the woman who calls herself "Libya " an ExNun Gaddafi ' s Bodyguard goo.gl/Tjyca
#Tripoli I am in tears now youtube.com/watch?v=6IRPyv… Parents find 10 yr old son in hospital after 5 days missing #Libya #HappyEnding
OmarAmer AlBarghathi
Prayers for Abdulrahman al keesh, an airline pilot who was fighting at bab al azizia and shot in the head. He is doing well now in London
LPC #Tripoli: Shortages of food, medecine also reported at the Orphanage for the Abu Hrieda District.
Representative from the military council, #Bilhaj press conference on AJA announces the complete liberation of #Tripoli.
Alex
On #Gaddafi prisoners found killed in #Tripoli with hands bound - Don't rush 2 judgement @amnesty - most likely executed by Regime hardliners - for refusing to keep fighting.
To date there has been no probative evidence of any 'rebel' executions - whereas #Gaddafi executions of 'rebel' prisoners & his own hands bound troops refusing to commit war crimes - has been documented since the early days of the #Benghazi uprising:
EVIDENCE:
"GRAPHIC: Footage of soldiers executed by Gaddafi forces for refusing to shoot protesters:"
http://www.libyafeb17.com/2011/03/graphic-footage-of-soldiers-executed-by-gaddafi-forces-for-refusing-to-shoot-protesters/
"Executed by Gaddafi's forces" [Countless dead with hands bound]#Libya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMJZkKJlViA&has_verified=1&skipcontrinter=1
"Gaddafi forces killed prisoners, says Amnesty"
http://english.libya.tv/2011/08/26/gaddafi-forces-killed-prisoners-says-amnesty/
Aljazeera
Al Jazeera English TV reporting crews covering the Libyan conflict were caught up in a gun battle on Friday, as fighting broke out around Tripoli’s Corinthia Hotel where they were based.
Journalists said their rooftop location had been hit by incoming small arms fire, according to Reuters.
Rebel fighters in the area could be seen firing and maneuvering towards a block of flats opposite the hotel.
Reuters
Revolutionaries drove soldiers loyal to Muammar Gaddafi from the Ras Jdir border post with Tunisia on Friday after nightfall and hoisted the green, red and black flag, two witnesses said.
Irish Journo
Irish journalists have uncovered documents that show that Gaddafi’s adopted daughter Hana did not die in the 1986 bombing as was claimed. A room belonging to Hana Muammar Gadafy in the section of the Bab al-Azizia compound where the Gadafy family lived contained several documents that appear to indicate she grew up to study medicine in Tripoli and took English classes at the British Council in the Libyan capital.
English libya TV
Gaddafi forces killed prisoners, says Amnesty Amnesty International said today it had uncovered evidence that Muammar Gaddafi’s forces killed several detainees being held at two camps in Tripoli.
It said eyewitness testimony from escaped prisoners described how Gaddafi troops used grenades and gunfire on scores of detainees at one camp this week, while guards at the other shot dead five people being held in solitary confinement.
“Loyalist forces in Libya must immediately stop such killings of captives, and both sides must commit to ensuring no harm comes to prisoners in their custody,” Amnesty said in a statement.
“Even as Colonel Gaddafi is cornered, with an International Criminal Court warrant active for his arrest on charges of crimes against humanity, his troops continue their flagrant disregard for human life and international humanitarian law.”
Amnesty noted that it is a war crime for any party to a conflict to kill or torture prisoners.
It said the first incident took place on Tuesday at a military camp in Khilit al-Ferjan in southwestern Tripoli when some 160 detainees began to flee after guards told them the gates were unlocked.
“As the detainees barged through the hangar gates, two other guards opened fire and threw five hand grenades at the group,” Amnesty said.
It was unclear how many survived, it added, but at least 23 detainees managed to escape, including four who received medical treatment at a Tripoli hospital.
The second incident took place five km (three miles) away at Qasr Ben Ghashir military camp on Wednesday when loyalist guards shot dead five prisoners being held in solitary confinement.
Former detainees later told Amnesty they had heard guards opening five of the cells before gunshots were fired shortly afterwards.
“Detainees panicked and broke out of their cells fearing they were about to be
executed. By the time they got out, the five guards on duty had fled the scene, leaving behind the five victims’ bodies,” the Amnesty statement said.
Both camps were reportedly used by the Khamis Katiba brigade, headed by Khamis Gaddafi, a son of the fallen dictator, it added.
Short URL: http://english.libya.tv/?p=10868
feb17voices Feb 17 voices
AJA Live: Abdulhakim Belhaj says: All #Tripoli's security will be consolidated under 1 military unit
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Gaddafi may not be in rebel clutches, but he is now, unquestionably, a joke: guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/… #feb17 #Libya
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Rebels have shown us mines which they say were removed from the area around a clinic in Brega
RasmusTantholdt Rasmus Tantholdt TV2
by septimius_sever
Watch the new warriors. A dentist from #Tripoli with a gun in his hand for the first time. Ready to die for freedom. nyhederne.tv2.dk/video/index/id…
Libya Front Moves to Gadhafi Town http://on.wsj.com/oSMzHI via @WSJ
4Adam Adam
#Zuwara #FF to Tunisian radio 'we took control of Ras Ijdar and the road from border to Tripoli is controlled by Anti Gaddafi forces' #Libya
After Friday prayers ppl demonstrated against Gadhafi's rule at mosque in cent Tripoli. http://twitpic.com/6bnr9o via @twitpic @4Adam
Ibn
CONFIRMED: #Pikachu has joined the revolution. #Libya #Feb17 #Pokemon yfrog.com/h0s72np
bcsolomon Ben Solomon
Small fighting still around, but #tripoli has calmed a bit. Stores have opened back up, traffic returns to the street.
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Mahdi al-Harati, the Irish-Libyan leader of main rebel unit in Tripoli, tells me he estimates it will take 6 weeks to completely clear city
bungdan Dan Murphy
Reuters article on Abdel Karim Belhadj release from jail (brokered, i think, by seif al-islam) in 2009. reuters.com/article/2009/0…
septimius_sever septimius severus
Rebels find #Gaddafi arms cache in hotel grounds | euronews, world news: bit.ly/oE17Xb #Libya
septimius_sever septimius severus
Playboy luxury of the #Gaddafis bit.ly/pItyZ8 #Tripoli #Libya (great photos)
Have a break and a smile:
Rebels Fan Across Libya Dressed as Condoleezza Rice Foolproof Plan, Rebel Commanders Say TRIPOLI (The Borowitz Report) – In an all-out effort to capture Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, rebels fanned out across the country today dressed as former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Donning bright pink pantsuits and black pumps, the fifteen thousand rebels blanketed the Middle Eastern nation, hoping to create a honey trap of sorts for Mr. Gaddafi, whose unrequited crush on Secretary Rice has come to light in recent days.
Read more:
http://www.borowitzreport.com/2011/08/26/rebels-fan-across-libya-dressed-as-condoleezza-rice/
khalid
Anyone who gives himself a title like "King of Kings of Africa" should not be allowed out of the Nut house or #babaziziya as it was called
EH
There r still isolated pockets of snipers stuck in buildings in Tripoli taking potshots at ppl
There's an air of euphoria in #Tripoli ppl seem happy. But Bo sleem area and the area behind it r still not 100% under control
Greenies use hit and run tactics, shooting at roadblocks in #Tripoli
We caught 2 mercs in bin Ashur #tripoli yesterday, unarmed but when searched we found 2 bullets in there bag
A lot of areas of #tripoli don't have any power, petrol costs 140 dinar for 20 litres
20 litres cost 45 dinar in #zintan & 50 dinars in #Yefren it increased in price when the
tunis border closed
#NATO has been hitting the outskirts of #tripoli earlier in the evening, around 3'alit alforgan #Libya
bin Ashur is completely under FF control. Shara3 binashur, jraba, dol all have multpile checkpoints. All locals
there r hundreds of captured mercs in an undisclosed location ;-) in #Tripoli
water is cut off in bin Ashur, gorgi, gharghour(personally)I heard rumors of poisoning
most #tripoli neighborhoods have roadblocks. Guns everywhere, but FF mostly polite when searching cars
FF r not allowed to take any weapons from one area to another except with a FF ID
Went to bab alaziziya, Senossi house & gaddafi house in gargour. Loads of looting, but papers left untouched
Freedom Fighter
Tajura's FFs found a guy with a bomb was going to Murad Agha mosquo. he is secured. Do you understand how bloody is this regime?
Power is back! 11:50pm the entire area around me screamed Allah is the greatest when it came!
Abdussalam Jalloud, please shut the $&@# up and leave libya in peace.
I don't like it and i believe this is wasted ammunition but this is how they celebrate on 23rd http://twitvid.com/RLRRW
During the past months we used to fill the back of the car with supplies whenever we had money and fuel http://twitpic.com/6bo2tu
We used to play football at the evening infront of my house to kill some time during the past months http://twitpic.com/6bo46i
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
compared to the artillery that was pounding the #tripoli airport since we got here monday, tonight has been pretty quiet so far...
MORE SCARE TACTICS:
Libiya_min_Hollanda calls family in Gaser Ben Gashir and tweets:
Ppl pls help me my relatives are screaming on the phone rockets falling om them gunfire everywhere pls help !!!!!!!!!!!and heard in my aunts farm all woman and childeren screaming and running!!!!!
Later in the day we found out:
Guys it was a tape we called after that 2 times we heard the same screaming........
my causin just called us and said they didnt scream or anything and that they didnt reseave any call from us
It looks like G regime is doing this 2 scare ppl or something, if i hear it again I will record.
JeffreyKofman Jeffrey Kofman
It's 1 a.m. in Tripoli and the fireworks haven't stopped all nite. O wait. Those r guns & mortars. Kids firing them 4 fun. Gun amnesty time?
Still no running water in much of Tripoli. Power is intermittent. Send civil & electrical engineers fast!
Our driver, 25, tells me until now has made living smuggling Libyan gas 2 Tunisia. Very dangerous, illegal. Has accountg degree. But no jobs
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Been told Sheikh Ali Salabi,an influential Doha-based Libyan cleric, is now in Tripoli. If anyone is spiritual guide of revolution, it's him
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Reports that Yusuf #Shakeer, host of Libyan State TV, has set up a private TV Channel in Bani Walid that can currently be seen in
New Republic: Liberation Not Just A Libyan Victory http://bit.ly/pJ8QAd
Omar
The aircraft at Tripoli International have now been moved to a safer part of the airport thank god.
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Tripoli Airport Video: Libyan Airlines A300 burning disintegrates youtube.com/watch?v=mgWdxb… #Libya #Tripoli
AND HERE WE GO AGAIN, CNN SCAREMONGERING WITHOUT ANY PROOF:
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Very Dubious report by @CNN Pro-al Qaeda militants among prisoners freed from Libyan jail goo.gl/qmcN3 #doyourresearch
Noit
We expected more investigative reporting from Nic Robertson and Paul Cruickshank, CNN.
Get the facts straight in the future, please!
HRW constantly accompanied by government minders, was not given free access to all prisons.
The government minders decided where HRW could visit AND to whom they could talk!
HRW asked G regime who the prisoners were, so G regime told them what they thought would scare HRW and the West.
Let's throw in some Al Qaeda lies, that will make the West afraid too, pepper it with extreem Islamists and voila: a CNN report, as the above one, appears.
Typical G scare tactics, surprises me that Nic fell for that one, shame on you for this article!
NickClarkAlJaz Nick Clark
#LIBYA REBEL GROUPS HAVE BEEN MERGED UNDER THE COMMAND OF THE REBEL MILITARY COUNCIL - TOP REBEL COMMANDER IN TRIPOLI REUTERS
LibyaAlHurraTV LibyaAlHurra
Syrians take to the streets to congratulate Libya - security forces respond by shooting / killing protestors
bbcnewsworld BBC news world
VIDEO: Nato aids Sirtre rebel offensive: British Tornado jets fired precision-guided missiles at a large bunker ... bbc.in/mXm0Zx
SUMMARY AUGUST 27th 2011
8/27/11
8.27.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya - goo.gl/N1xIW
MUST READ:
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
The neighbour’s wall has had a recent makeover, with the new flag – the pre-Gaddafi monarchy flag – painted on it, and a message stating that “Libya is Free”.
Six nights ago, that would have been white-washed by the state and many a home would have been raided to track down “the rat” who did it.
I have been reporting for the BBC from Libya for seven long years, but have been “off air” for six, much slower, months.
BBC News: 'Tripoli witness' recounts life in hiding: goo.gl/3ICw1
A Tribute to #Libya, a poem by #Ray #Butler an ex-505 squadron, South African Air Force http://goo.gl/8Alsy
The Times: #Libya: tribe pledges to arrest culprits it believes were behind murder of opposition military commander http://goo.gl/uqTCP
AI: #Libya: Detainees Killed by Al-Gaddafi Loyalists http://goo.gl/5DZdN
Guardian: #Gaddafi's desperate bid to save regime revealed http://goo.gl/hzOVE
Independent: Watch out for looted Libyan artefacts, UN warns auction houses http://goo.gl/X69Ew
Telegraph: Libya: Man suspected of killing Pc #Yvonne #Fletcher identified http://goo.gl/5Y6bA
Libyans find freedom at Moammar #Gaddafi’s Abu Salim prison in #Tripoli http://goo.gl/LnF8p
AliveinLibya: http://goo.gl/er2Vg (translation found in the description)
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
TOTAL BS: Dictator's wife and daughter flee to Europe to claim asylum thisislondon.co.uk/standard/artic… Can we say ICC Warrants for both?
Now that most of the fighting is over & the work of building a nation is started I wonder, am I the only one feeling kind of strange?
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
#Misrata FF caught 12 of ousted tyrant's soldiers, heading2 BaniWalid from #Sirte, on recon mission, in bus full of small arms&ammo #Libya
#Freedomfighters now in complete control of #Tarhouna, city free of #Gaddafi forces. #Libya #Feb17
Rowley
5 #Misrata #Freedomfighters were slightly wounded near #Madjer, after bombing by remnants of #Gaddafi's brigades near #BaniWalid #Libya
#Misrata engineers trying to connect Internet, & reconnect #Misrata to #Tripoli & rest of world. Wires were cut during fighting.
#London Evening Standard report Aisha & Safia #Gaddafi sounds fishy. Out of #Libya 2 months? Arent all #EU countries answerable to ICC?
That whole story is off. No way Aisha and Safia out of Tripoli for 2 months + all #EU countries would have to honor warrants
Libya & Libyans can count on me for anything
I'll be here, watching & trying to help Libya in any way I can, Twitter & real world both
SecularLibya
According to Heinz, 1- gold & Euro stashed by G at airport, 2- gasoline & diesel that the GF's need to escape.
AJE: Jamal Elshayyal reports from Tripoli on Friday's events A street-by-street rebel onslaught has pushed the remnants of Muammar Gaddafi's army to the southern outskirts of the Tripoli, securing nearly all of the capital and closing in on victory.
Al Jazeera's Jamal Elshayyal reports from Tripoli on Friday's events
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jih79jcXGck
Maze of bunkers holds essentials - and Versace outfits http://goo.gl/DFpMY
AJE: AU refrains from recognising #Libya's NTC http://goo.gl/xmK2T
Aljazeera
AJE: Fighting continues in Libya's capital
Libya's rebels say they are close to fully controlling Tripoli but there is still no sign of their prime target, Muammar Gaddafi.
Security remains the most pressing concern as the National Transitional Council is ordering all rebels to join one, united national army.
But for now, the capital is littered with the casualties of the conflict- and families left with nowhere to live.
Al Jazeera's Sue Turton reports from Tripoli.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mluoidSpOso
4Adam Adam
Detainees in Abu Salim prison gain freedom as Libyan leader they opposed remains on the run. english.aljazeera.net/video/africa/2… #Benghazi #Libya #Tripoli
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
UK announces release of 3.4 Billion Euros in frozen assets to the Free Libyan people #libya #uk
Malaysia recognises the National Council as a representative of the Free Libyan people
How far the #Libyan people have come. This was released Feb5 by malik L when revolution was just a dream http://goo.gl/mwFtW
#Libya: The hunt for #Gaddafi-live blog goo.gl/qgpwi #feb17
#Libyan author Hisham Matar discusses how revolution made democracy a real and tangible idea. goo.gl/vTefY #feb17
Libya_Awake_United
Water supply is a major problem in some neighborhoods in #tripoli ... If you have a drinkable well water share it today.
Fethon
As a westerner I'm extremely happy you got rid off the despot and taking charge of your destiny
Triplino
Alantisar ship arrived today at #Tripoli port caring medical aid ,to anyone who is wondering if it's ok 2 send anything by port , yes it is
LibyaTT Libya Telecom
jeedar.com/33.png نرجو الاستخدام كخلفية لسطح المكتب
Tweeting Tripoli
Phone call from Benghazi: A large group of Benghazi Werfalla armed and angry, just left to liberate Bani Walid.
Mike
From The Telegraph: #Gaddafi's regime was planning to proclaim him King of #Libya once its forces had gained the upper hand, documents show
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Ramadam on eastern front. Many FF are drinking water in daytime as they are running around fighting a war in the desert in August. sensible.
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Libya: Man suspected of killing Pc Yvonne Fletcher identified tgr.ph/oBe2xz
Mike
Scotland Yard plans to send officers to #Libya as the The Daily Telegraph names the suspected killer of WPc Yvonne Fletcher 27 yr ago
ROFL:
Mike
Ride the Ghost Train thru #Tripoli tunnels - Don't miss the Saadi loop. After that you'll be so confused you won't know what sex you are
SecularLibya MargBar Khamenei
Huge #Misrata FF convoy entering and liberating #Tarhuna 2011-8-23. #Libya #Feb17 youtube.com/watch?v=5fDlhN…
Tweeting Tripoli
BaniWalid next. I shouldn't be surprised if they caught many high profile fugitives there.
A young saif Al-Islam, who said he was brought up a civilian? http://pic.twitter.com/bfPUfgT
You see we had two Shafshofas. Abo-Shafshoofa & Om-Shafshoofa. http://pic.twitter.com/4iBiUpN
My son made a straw flag for his toy soldier, he said this is the new Libyan soldier. http://pic.twitter.com/y9u8XEC
Well, he used his dad's computer and printer. But he asked first ;)
Note to NTC, please hurry make celebratory gun fire illegal. People will feel safer that way.
What goes up must come down, that specifically applies to bullets. Stop celebratory gun fire. It is also a waste of Ammo.
Tweeting Tripoli
Our car 3 months ago, when Gaddafi state-TV announced fake taking over of Benghazi. Goons celebratory fire aftermathl. pic.twitter.com/yxvnVFw
LIBYA TRIPOLI
Reports coming from #Tripoli saying that TV & Radio in #Tripoli will operate tomorrow. No more #Gaddafi TV (Ganfood). #Libya
Souffian Tripoli
We r now in a transition phase from freeing to protecting #libya this can be turbulent We have to stay alert! And protect what we struggle4
To Ban Ki-moon: we we have enough police force. We only need time to get rid of the terrorist rebels (Gaddafi & Thugs). http://www.skynews.com.au/world/article.aspx?id=654847&vId=
Did you know NATO pilots wore Libyan independence flag over their shoulders? Touching! http://pic.twitter.com/5DrMgPl
Freedom Fighter
your support and concern were like a light to me when i got cut off from u all and lived in the dark for months. I can't thank you enough!
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Six armored Mercedes cars enter #Algeria from #Libya
Teresa
Ok! 1st Convoy Joke..So in America,A Run for the Border is Taco Bells actual slogan,But with 6 mercedes,THATS A BEER RUN!
Merry
So happy to read of victory you have all achieved and to find you eating peanut butter sandwiches. Hooray for good people!!!
KOSOVO has officially recognised NTC as solely representative of Lybian people/asking estabilishing diplomatic relations
DerekStoffelCBC Derek Stoffel
We're hearing that the NTC is working on fixing water and electrical issues in #Tripoli. In contact with a water expert who's hard at work.
Freedom Fighter
I LIBYA !
CNN Video: Ex-prisoners, including Matthew Van Dyke, return to Libya's fearsome Abu Salim prison http://bit.ly/pljzLO #libya
Survivor tells of mass killing, hardest evidence yet of Gaddafi War Crimes http://bit.ly/oTbmJv #libya
Reuters
A convoy of six Mercedes cars have crossed from Libya into Algeria, Egypt’s state MENA news agency reported on Saturday, quoting a rebel source.
It was impossible to verify the report and it was not immediately clear who might have been in any convoy, but MENA quoted the source as speculating that senior Libyan officials or Muammar Gaddafi himself and his sons may have fled the country.
“It is believed that these vehicles were carrying senior Libyan officials, and possibly Gaddafi and his sons,” MENA quoted the source as saying.
Algerian officials were not immediately reachable for comment.
Reuters
Reuters has reported that rebels took control of the Ras Jdir border post on Loibya’s frontier with Tunisia on Friday, after clashes with soldiers loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.
Fighters hoisted the green, red and black rebel flag over official buildings at the crossing, which lies along a key coastal resupply route from Tunisia to Tripoli.
“We can see the flag,” a local resident Fathi Chandol said.
Aljazeera
Riad Kahwaji, security analyst and founder of the Institute for Near East & Gulf Military Analysis, told Al Jazeera:
“As far as the control on the ground it is mostly in favour of the rebels only two strongholds Sirte and Saba are not under their control, and both are very much besieged.”
“The role of the rebels now is to really organise themselves and pinpoint the locations of Gaddafi forces to get them to surrender.”
NATO
The AFP news agency reports that NATO is keeping up pressure on Muammar Gaddafi forces in the Libyan leader’s hometown of Sirte, bombing 15 vehicles and four other ground targets in the last 24 hours, the alliance said.
As rebels prepared to launch an offensive on the town, NATO said in its daily operational update that it had destroyed 11 vehicles mounted with weapons, three logistic military vehicles and one armoured fighting vehicle.
It also struck two military shelters, a military observation point and a military engineer asset in Sirte, 360 km east of Tripoli.
The strikes follow a bombing raid by British warplanes against a large headquarters bunker in Sirte late Thursday.
Aljazeera
There has been fighting in the oil port of Ras Lanuf, with reports of pro-Gaddafi snipers based in the town, which is slowing and hindering the ability of rebel fighters to mover further. Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reporting from the Ras Lanuf said: ”It is a hard fought battle in Ras Lanuf, but it is not over yet.”
However, negotiations between rebel fighters and pro-Gaddafi fighters are taking place as ”rebels say they are very keen to end the conflict without any more bloodshed, as for as their concerned for Gaddafi it is game over,” Rowland said.
The rebels are still moving heavy weapons and troops forward.
One rebel colonel told Rowland, “We want the negotiations to succeed, but we are moving the weapons forward to show that if it cannot be resolved by talking it will be resolved by force.”
UK
Britain has donated £3 million to the Red Cross to spend on urgent humanitarian aid in Libya, the Department for International Development (DfID) said on Saturday.
“The aid package will help with basic services, particularly providing food for just under 700,000 people but also providing very strong medical support for 5,000 who have been wounded,” said International Development Minister Andrew Mitchell.
“We’ve seen the most terrible scenes from Tripoli hospitals and we are moving directly now to assist the International Red Cross in tackling that,” he told BBC television.
A DfID spokesman told AFP the money would be used to buy medicine and food and send teams to conflict areas in need across Libya as rebels battle to free the country from the grip of leader Moamer Kadhafi.
AP
Libyan rebels claimed victory over a suburb near Tripoli’s airport Saturday after an overnight battle as the opposition moves to solidify its hold on the capital while fighting Moammar Gadhafi loyalists in other parts of the country.
Residents of Qasr bin Ghashir, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) south of the capital, celebrated by firing guns and anti-aircraft weapons into the air and beating portraits of the toppled leader with their shoes. Regime troops had been shelling the airport from the area.
“You can say that bin Ghashir has been liberated from Gadhafi soldiers,” said Omar al-Ghuzayl, a 45-year-old rebel field commander now in charge of forces at Tripoli’s airport. “We’ve been able to push them completely outside Tripoli.”
Time
East Joins West: On a Rebel Ship to Tripoli “Everybody up!,” shouted Anwar al-Muqrayaf, a rebel commander leading about a hundred fighters from the rebel stronghold of Benghazi to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s capital of Tripoli, on a slow-chugging tugboat. “Prepare your weapons. We are heading into a battle!” His ragtag group of fighters hastily rose from mattresses laid out on the deck of the al-Sameeda, cocked their rifles, and donned their ammunition vests. Though exhausted from the 25-hour boat ride, they were eager to marshal their ranks for the final battle to topple Gaddafi.
http://feb17.info/news/east-joins-west-on-a-rebel-ship-to-tripoli/
RawyaRageh Rawya Rageh
Meeting tonight will mark 1st time #Libya's green, red, & black flag will b hoisted in the Arab League, replacing #Gaddafi's green banner
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli #TIP Overview of airport from Control Tower and Burning plane #Libya goo.gl/c3lJt
TELEPHONE Comm. #ALMadar Team ; #Misrata can call #Benghazi + VisaVersa Dial +218 9 91x Working Hard Now 2 Connect 2 #TRIPOLI #Libya
#TRIPOLI Tuesday Battle4 #BabalAzizyah Abelrahman Shot inHead 13hr drive2 #Tunisia Flight2 London @Stone_SkyNews goo.gl/c3lJt #Libya
How DID FF Take #Tripoli So Fast ? General Sir #RichardDannett Explains : http://goo.gl/eEOl1 #Libya
#Breaking #Bin Jawad has been Taken by FF ! Libya FF have been advancing from #RasLanuf #Libya @SkyNews
#Tripoli Khamis Gaddafi 32 Brigade Compound a organised MURDER Took Place on #Aug23 estimated 55 bodies counted so far #Libya #Gaddaficrimes
#Tripoli BenGashir #KhamisGaddafi 32Brigade on Aug 23 Innocent Civilians were MASSACRED bc GF heard #Nato jets & knew they had lost #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: WIMAX internet has returned
SecularLibya
Huge #Misrata FF convoy entering and liberating #Tarhuna 2011-8-23. #Libya #Feb17 youtube.com/watch?v=5fDlhN…
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Number plates of the cars in Tripoli who drive by and shoot at the civilinas of Tripoli ارقام السيارات التي تطلق... fb.me/16bfa1X0P
or:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=236848&l=4fcaf62f74&id=119666044789936
Number plates of the cars in Tripoli who drive by and shoot at the civilinas of Tripoli
ارقام السيارات التي تطلق الرصاص على الناس في طرابلس
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=236851&l=3c83420ebc&id=119666044789936
Malta based negotiations between NTC and pro Gaddafi tribes in Sirte underway in bid to avoid bloodbath
هناك مفاوضات تجري في مالطا بين المجلس الإنتقالي وشيوخ القبائل في سرت للتسليم وتفادي إراقة الدماء
Libya: Col Gaddafi was secretly plotting to make himself king القذافي كان يستعد لتنصيب نفسه ملكاً لليبيا إذا... http://fb.me/1f2NYIE5z
Malaysia recognises the Libyan National Transitional Council
ماليزيا تعترف بالمجلس الوطني الانتقالي في ليبيا
FFs tell Sky News almost all of greater Tripoli is under their control. Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar, wa lilah alhad
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Libyan assets to be unfrozen, including £1bn worth of dinar banknotes بريطانيا تبحث إمكانية الإفراج عما يساوي... fb.me/1fHMoB7b1
There has been fighting in the oil port of Ras Lanuf, with reports of pro-Gaddafi snipers based in the town, which is slowing and hindering the ability of rebel fighters to mover further. Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reporting from the Ras Lanuf said: ”It is a hard fought battle in Ras Lanuf, but it is not over yet
Reports coming from #Tripoli saying that TV & Radio in #Tripoli will operate tomorrow. No more #Gaddafi TV (Ganfood).
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Britain has donated £3 million to the Red Cross to spend on urgent humanitarian aid in Libya, the Department for... fb.me/QTFoq59k
Libyan rebels claimed victory over a suburb near Tripoli’s airport Saturday after an overnight battle as the opposition moves to solidify its hold on the capital while fighting Moammar Gadhafi loyalists in other parts of the country.Residents of Qasr bin Ghashir, about 20 miles south of the capital, celebrated by firing guns and anti-aircraft weapons into the air and beating portraits of the toppled leader with their shoes. Regime troops had been shelling the airport from the area.
RAW, LIbya, Libyan state TV presenter Hala Misrati apologizes to rebels in front of camera Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6im7t_LoR5k
BREAKING: KOSOVO has officially recognised NTC as the only representative of Libyan people/asking estabilishing diplomatic relations
http://indeksonline.net/?page=1%2C2%2C7137
TRIPOLI UPDATE:
Water is still cut in #Tripoli. will be fixed soon Insha Allah.
Reports that the TV channel in Tripoli will open tomorrow
Return_of_libya ليبيا تعــــــود
I posted 14 photos on Facebook in the album "Mo'atasem Gadafi's House منزل معتصم القردافى" fb.me/16AFN8wNY
dαηiﻉl bﻉllo
Thousands of proGadaffi fighters from Mali, Chad & Niger (Mercenaries) hired to kill Libyans were seen crossing into Niger border. #Libya
Gaddafi 'seen in Zimbabwe on Mugabe's private jet' as Libya rebels march on dictator's home town. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2030782/Gaddafi-seen-Zimbabwe-Mugabes-private-jet-Libya-rebels-march-dictators-home-town.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli #NTC is considering asking help of surrounding #arab countries to help policing #Libya
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#NTC distributes 120,000 litres of fuel in #Tripoli
NATO Attacks Pro-Gadhafi Forces Near Sirte British warplanes struck a large bunker Friday in Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte, his largest remaining stronghold, as NATO turned its attention to loyalist forces battling advancing Libyan rebels in the area. (Aug. 26)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGONKtj0h-A&feature=player_embedded
Libyan Freedom fighters claimed victory in Bin Ghashir Saturday after an overnight battle with pro-Gaddafi forces http://feb17.info/news/libya-live-unrest-august-27-2011/ #Libya
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
Water supplies and medical supplies are being promised by the NTC in the next few days.
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Still near Ras Lanuf with rebel forces, no sound of any heavy artillery this morning
Deputy Commander of Rebel forces told @Kileysky they are considering going round Sirte & surrounding it to stop Gaddafi splitting Libya in 2
Sky Correspondent Sees Mass Grave In Libya Where As Many As 150 Executed IRN | World News | Sky News http://news.sky.com/home/article/16057724
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#FF's have launched an attack on #Khamis #Gaddafi compound
Tripoli You can say that bin Ghashir has been liberated from Gadhafi soldiers," said Omar al-Ghuzayl
alextomo alex thomson
#c4news #Libya wild celebrations as rebels push last govt forces from town s of Tripoli
grafixel guess what
The events of the #Libya revolution will hopefully put most ideologies were they belong to: the trashcan of history. #ByeBye
hominoid555 whitewakbar
How Pilot Became Rebel With A Cause news.sky.com/home/video/160…
FFs are fighting for control of a key lifeline for supplies into Tripoli The road between Ras Ajdir and Tripoli is an important supply line
As search intensifies, will Gadhafi pull a Saddam ?
MachahirNews Machahir123
Reports: Qatar sending stabilisation team to fix water and electricity in Tripoli . #Libya #Qatar #Tripoli #Doha
libyanandproud
this account is Fraud -> @ MachahirNews
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
Rebels tell us Gaddafi loyalists still control town of Al Ajaylat close to vital coast highway. Rebels say going to fight for the town.
#Jalil says #NTC may consider inviting police from Arab or Muslim countries to help with security in Libya.
robcrilly Rob Crilly
Rebels say they have Bin Jawad. Also say they are fighting on eastern edge. So let's not get overexcited. Give em 24hr and see
they have claimed every town on that road as soon as their forces reach the edge. Then have taken 24hr or longer to take.
alextomo alex thomson
Our hotel taking incoming fire this afternoon. It appears one journalist injured. #c4news #libya
I witnessed two journalists lying flat out in the live position, then dragged to safety by security guard with AK47 #c4news #libya
Libya17Feb Tripoli Youth
#Tripoli - There are still some snipers in Dareq al Saree (The Highway), No one uses the road
alextomo alex thomson
#c4news see Libyan women talking and celebrating s of Tripoli 6.35 tonight
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Gaddafi's fall "interesting" independent.co.ug/cover-story/45…
Gaddafi Financed Darfur Broad-front Rebels in Uganda: Government. http://news.sudanvisiondaily.com/details.html?rsnpid=198601
danieljerivers:
Rebels claim water cut either due to lack of power at pumping station or deliberate sabotage by Gaddafi loyalists #Libya
TristanAJE:
AJE's @jackyaljaz on the outskirts of Bin Jawwad - she says the town is liberated of Gadaffi forces #Libya.
robcrilly Rob Crilly
Al jazeera reporting that rebels have taken bin Jawad. Nonsense. Utter. #libya
CNN's Dan Rivers with ex-prisoners return to Libya's fearsome Abu Salim ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g76UJ4jmNyg&feature=share via @youtube
Libya rebels take prime minister's home town, JMAYL
danieljerivers Dan Rivers
Reports of Italian journo being shot at our hotel while outside doing live cross. Gather he was hit in the leg. Grim news if true...
hominoid555 whitewakbar
US filmmaker held alone 6 months in Libya. google.com/hostednews/ap/…
Bin Jawad again under full control of FFs, reports AJE.
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#NTC arrests Emar Al Shamama, director of #Tripoli Medical Centre, allegedly tortured doctors opposing #Gaddafi regime
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Hometown ablaze, but Gaddafi may have fled country. t.co/0OxuVeT
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
Back in Zuwara now. Rebel leaders here say also they have also taken key strategic loyalist holdout Al Ajaylat.
Rebel leaders also say town of Al Zaltan on highway to Tunisia still in hands of G forces. Small but safe detour needed to reach border.
English Libya tv:
‘Mass grave’ found in Tripoli The bodies of around 53 people have been found in a warehouse in Tripoli after apparently being executed earlier this week, Britain’s Sky News reported today.
Sky News’s correspondent, Stuart Ramsay, said he had counted the bodies in a burned-out warehouse in southern Tripoli, and estimated there were 53.
“It is a scene of mass murder,” he said, reporting from the scene.
Ramsay quoted witnesses as saying that 150 people were murdered at the site on Aug. 23 and 24 as opposition forces fought to take control of Tripoli from troops loyal to leader Muammar Gaddafi.
A local resident told Sky that the victims were mostly civilians and said they had been killed by Gaddafi’s forces.
hominoid555 whitewakbar
A ship operated by a Malta-based NGO docked in Tripoli yesterday to deliver much-needed medical and food supplies to the Libyan capital.
Libyan FFs have said they were closing in on fugitive strongman Gaddafi and would merge their fighters in the capital under one command ...
Libya: a second ship of the IOM from Benghazi to Tripoli Friday. http://www.ennaharonline.com/en/international/7125.html
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
Al Jamil, town of several thousand, was controlld by G forces, threatening main highway betwn Tripoli & Tunisia border. Now in rebel hands.
In center of Al Jamil, euphoria. Rebels pumping rounds in the air celebrating their victory over Gaddafi forces.
Red Crescent blood donation campaign also in Sfax, Sousse, Gafsa, Gabes and Jendouba.
hominoid555 whitewakbar
No one answered the door Saturday at the Lockerbie bomber's Tripoli villa,hidden behind tall walls in an upscale neighborhood of the capital
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
rebels now control town & surrounding sprawling farmlands areas east of #tripoli airport, say gadhafi forces fled to tarhouna, 1.5 hrs 2 SE
residents say #gadhafi forces prevented them from leaving, were using the area 2 shell airport
they kept hearing about all the "liberated" areas, but today was the first time they could celebrate freedom
little girl was carrying paper w/rebel flag she just painted this am, paint hadnt even dried yet, old men hugging, women singing
:Disgraceful
WIKILEAKS:
Min. Shalgam and wife strip searched at JFK:
JFK Airport security allegedly mistreated Libyan UN Perm Rep & wife, put in room & subjected to "strip searches"
A visibly angry Musa Kusa summoned the Ambassador
(accompanied by P/E Chief) on October 26 to express very strong
Libyan anger, including that of the Libyan Leader, regarding the
reported treatment UN Permanent Representative Abdulrahman
Shalgam had received recently during security processing at John
F. Kennedy Airport in New York. Kusa said Shalgam and his wife
were put in a room and subjected to "strip searches and rude
behavior as if they were criminals." The trauma had affected
Shalgam's wife so deeply that, according to Kusa, she is
currently under hospital care.
Kusa called the incident unjustified and immoral:
"Morally speaking, Shalgam is a guest in your country. If he
had done something wrong or was a security threat, then that
would have been a different story. How would you like it if
your diplomats were treated by us in such a manner?" He argued
that if a high level diplomat such as Shalgam -- a former
foreign minister -- could experience such treatment by U.S.
officials, then other Libyan diplomats or average Libyan
travelers were probably facing even worse treatment. Kusa
stated that the GOL was considering withdrawing Shalgam from his
post as a result of the incident.
Read more:
http://j.mp/q7eu2d #wlfind
Sirtawi
Gaddafi's Coordinator of Social Events, Omar Shkaal, has been spreading rumors in #Sirte that Gaddafi's doing well
Shkaal's msg is being repeated/transmitted via big screen in center of #Sirte, operated by #Gaddafi loyalists
Emo
Breaking: Official: Finally #Ajeilat is liberated for real after several battles back and forth between FFs and G brigades.
National Guard troops begin deploying to NYC, LI http://on.wsj.com/ptln3V via @WSJ
shadihamid Shadi Hamid
For those who missed it, here's my NY Times piece on how #Libya could be the first "true" Arab revolution: nyti.ms/pUS8gu
Tweeting Tripoli
Gaddafi could be disguised. Be careful everybody. pic.twitter.com/0NgPlCT
THIS IS A MUST READ :
ODE TO ALEX CRAWFORD
Wonderfully put together by Alexblx:
ODE TO ALEX:
Media icon of the #Libya people’s revolution - the voice of truth & empathy - who kept the wavering west onside: @AlexCrawfordSky
http://alexblx.posterous.com/ode-to-alex
RexBrynen Rex Brynen
I can show this now its over: Jordanian personnel (political? SOF?) deplaning in Benghazi, July t.co/f2kOT13
Septimius
#Tripoli: brave euronews report on the assault on a barracks of the elite Khamis brigade bit.ly/pJKvI3 ... #Libya
Pictures from #Zuwarah celebration after it liberation! http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.225219004192412.50147.224694334244879& ... #Libya
A tour in Gaddafi "dead" daughter private wing in #Tripoli Hospital http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzlqGIVrKLQ&feature=share ..... #Libya
Asma
A must see video-Parents of missing boy find him in #AbuSalim: bit.ly/r71rYq #Feb17 #Libya
English Libya tv:
Revolutionaries take Tunisia border post Revolutionaries took control of the Ras Jdir border post on Libya’s frontier with Tunisia yesterday after clashes with Muammar Gaddafi’s soldiers, witnesses said.
Fighters hoisted the green, red and black revolutionary flag over official buildings at the crossing, which lies along a key coastal resupply route from Tunisia to Tripoli.
“We can see the flag,” local resident Fathi Chandol said. A second witness said he could also see the flag and added it was clear the post had been taken.
Clashes between “large numbers” of revolutionary and Gaddafi soldiers occupying the border crossing had erupted earlier in the day, Chandol said.
Security sources in Tunisia said negotiations had been taking place between Tunisian officials and Gaddafi representatives to hand over control of the Ras Jdir crossing to the revolutionaries in an attempt to avoid violence.
Tunisian state television later reported that some Gaddafi soldiers had turned themselves over to the Tunisian mililtary, but gave no further details.
Revolutionaries are keen to control the crossing because it will allow them to bring in supplies of food, water and other essentials from Tunisia, and potentially seal off an escape route for Gaddafi and his entourage.
They already control the Wazen Dhehiba crossing further to the south.
Dozens of pro-Gaddafi Tunisians from the border town of Ben Guerdane had earlier assaulted Libyan refugees near the frontier who were seeking to help the revolutionaries, punching and insulting them, a resident told Reuters.
“These were pro-Gaddafi Tunisians, likely smugglers who were profiting under Gaddafi’s regime,” the resident said, adding there were no serious injuries.
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
4 million gallons of water will be docking into #Tripoli imminently to help with the severe water shortage, acc NTC #Libya
Libyan Exile ( فتحي فضل ) Returning Home After 30 Years: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/08/23/libyan-exile-returning-home-after-30-years/#.TlkjEI6L28h.twitter via @AddThis
Lest we forget: http://feb17martyrs.com/ via @LibyaInMe
Walid
Hello my dear tweeps am safe and sound thanks for all of u miss twitter and u stay they will never shut me
Well my worst night ever is when they arrested me and hand cuff me and took me in camp in woods and beated me with guns on my head
Every second of that i was thinking that it could be the last time was very long my back still hurt a little but am fine
Second day they took to town called al jmail to police station we were 52 men in just 2 small rooms with no lights no running water
First day cant sit because of my back and can't hear well because of the slapping with no idea what will happen to me reading the walls
Worst position they got me in is when they hand cuffed me from the back and made me stand over chair to hang me over steel door
My shoulders were in extrem pain the only good point is i was lucky to escape the worst
i was freed 2 weeks ago don't how its just my good luck glad to be alive
OmarAmer
Libya is probably the only full revolution in the arab world this year. Once we get G we start from complete scratch....
So with Bin Jawad firmly in the hands of the Free Libyans, the prospect of a 'battle for Sirte' hangs in the balance, still not looking good
thing is Sirte rose up in this rev but were crushed, we can't say Sirte is pro G but that its full of Gfs
my uncle is back in Benghazi having moved the planes in Tripoli so I can confirm all details tonight god willing.
Gaddafi used Sirte as an important strategic base for his forces. The civilians must not suffer and they won't Inshala.
I don't think it is worth risking more deaths in bani walid. With Sirte and Tripoli the regime is over. GFs in sebha will srnder
Many GFs have retreated to sirte from diff fronts, so there's a few. Airbase too.
I heard they are divided in Sirte some want to give up some simply can't due to their past record
Plus its sort of a cult. G is everything to them, many will die for him. G knows that hence radio
Stone_SkyNews Mark Stone
A Libyan airline pilot, shot in head in Tripoli on Tuesday, tells me why he picked up a gun & why it's worth it. news.sky.com/home/video/160… #Libya
lindseyhilsum Lindsey Hilsum
Saw a uniformed policeman and traffic cop working with rebels on a checkpoint in #tripoli. Sign of normality returning. @channel4news
Tweeting Tripoli
Can you believe it? This thing almost ruled over us? Phewww! Close call. pic.twitter.com/EztH1O8
Khalifa
Not sinking in yet, the nightmare that's #Gadhafi and his terror machine is OVER. #Libya United and Free.
No good stories from #Rixos Journos in regards to their months in captivity.
BBC News: "African troops recruited by Colonel Gaddafi are now facing increasing hostility from Libyans". IT"S ABOUT TIME....
BBC News: "Western sources suggest that up to 10,000 Africans were recruited from countries including Sudan, Chad, Mali and Niger."
If you come to #Libya with hostile intentions, getting in is easy, getting out alive NOW THAT'S A PROBLEM. #GadhafiMerecenaries
captures mercenaries are well treated. The ones that are still fighting will get hammered until eliminated or give up.
My problems is with some news organizations the UN and AU suggesting that the captured are not well treated, which is a lie.
martinchulov Martin Chulov
#Tripoli's big day out - drive thru Bab al-Azizia. Saw families looting Seif al-Islam's house. White Prada coat had no takers
Libya: Gaddafi's defeated forces face up to a new reality http://gu.com/p/3xfy3/tw via @guardian
Fissa82
المكان الذي كان يتكلم منه القذافي و يهدد بالزحف The place Where Gaddafi spoke and threatened to crawl all over Libya fb.me/LGNptgZj
Sky News:
Nato Using Hi-Tech Kit To Track Down #Gaddafi http://goo.gl/ZCrvI #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes #Tripoli
NicRobertsonCNN Nic Robertson
At least one Gaddafi loyalist was rescued from angry mob by rebels and bundled off at speed
Rebels firmly in control at Ras Ashdar crossing at Libya border w/Tunisia.No traffic crossing yet.
Border closed to civilian traffic, rebel cmmndrs hope to open next few days, get much needed supplies in to Tripoli
Rebels have control now of Zaltan, last remaining Gaddafi stronghold on highway to border. Just driving thru, jubilation on streets
Libya In Me
"It was the dark abyss that religious and political men disappeared into, often never to be heard from again." t.co/Q9ec64m #Libya
Fact: Libyan women snipers in Tripoli http://t.co/DKhlnhR #Libya
MUST WATCH: Ex-prisoners return to Libya's fearsome Abu Salim prison with CNN's Dan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g76UJ4jmNyg #Libya
Reuters: Bodies of around 53 people have been found in a warehouse in Tripoli after apparently being executed earlier this week.
Name: Malik Tarsin. Born in 1985. Recent dentistry graduate. Was guarding Mohammed Gaddafi's house when he was killed http://Feb17Martyrs.com/?p=557
Name: Nader Benrewin. 25yr old Libyan/Canadian, killed by a sniper in Bab Al-Aziziya, Tripoli. Inspirational story http://Feb17Martyrs.com/?p=561
If you have stories of revolutionary heroes martyred in Tripoli or anywhere in Libya please submit them here http://feb17martyrs.com/?page_id=16
Ougadogou
Tripoli residents can clean water in 6 hours from bakteria infections using sunlight !! sodis.ch/index_EN
Zwara celebrates it's freedom #Libya http://pic.twitter.com/NlcjJ1P
This has become our iconic representation of freedom & victory...#Zwara http://pic.twitter.com/sfZhw28
Reuters
FLASH: Libyan rebels still negotiating with Gaddafi loyalists for peaceful handover of town of Sirte - rebel council chairman
Sirtawi
#FF: "Some G-Men don't even make it to #Sirte,they're killing each other. Executions took place in Bishr." #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=deekvw…!
Or:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deekvw9Xf6w&feature=player_embedded#
Now that connections are back in #Tripoli, many there have confirmed that a large number of #Gaddafi officials have fled to #Sirte. #Feb17
Personally... we were quite shocked this even existed in #Sirte. PICS: Diyafa Guest Resort :| #Libya #Feb17 http://tamimi.own0.com/t26807-topic
Don't Blame Sirte Twice (article in standard Arabic... google translate?) http://www.libya-alyoum.com/news/index.php?id=21&textid=7276 $Libya #Feb17
robcrilly Rob Crilly
Rebel spokesman says Gaddafi unlikely to be in Sirte. Tripoli or close to Algerian border is more likely #libya
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
Inspiring to see first #Amazigh letters written in public in #Zwara in 42 years! Sadly many do not know how to read the 2000 year old script
LibyanDictator فاطمة الزهراء
Aisha Gaddafi's had her portrait engraved on pure gold. Utter.. #AllahumaInniSaaima pic.twitter.com/HG40wza
lindseyhilsum Lindsey Hilsum
More cars, shoppers and women on the streets of #tripoli today. And far less gunfire. @channel4news
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
"They (Gadaffi forces) tried to poison it" and "many people got sick" NTC spokesman on why they have shut off the water supply in #Tripoli
Technicians in #Tripoli now cleaning out the main water tanks + reviving the wells that were shut down due to contamination.
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
"This (#Libya war) is first time Muslims + Christians have fought together" - Hisham Idrisi, US educated #Zwara solid state physicist, 8/26
Ali Tweel
Libyan revolution is a living proof that there is no "impossible" in life. Doctors, students, engineers, teachers, bakers turned into heros.
he is enjoying his first freedom coffee in tripoli! > “@Monirly: وقت الـ كافيه لاتيه من حبّهان كافيه .. مع حُبّي http://twitpic.com/3b3xf5”
all the mercs we captured in Bab ben ghashier were africans, 16 in total, all r snipers.
I can spot a lier, Hala Almosrati is still lieing her way out of her deep hole. Don't listen to her and keep her in prision.
she brained washed youth to go and kill other libyans, how come no crime?? It doesn't need you to shoot by gun to commit a crime.
shakeer and hamza are away, they have been spoken in arrai tv @ nilesat 11316 v 27500 3/4, last tv station for gaddafi.
I'm afraid that she will escape and then continue to throw egg on us via other tv channels like arrai tv!
The celebratory firing in tripoli is remarkebly reduced, at leaset in 4 km circle around me.
Mike
The job after being heroes of a revolution is to become the heroes of a viable civilisation. The toughest job there is...
arwaCNN Arwa Damon
rebels now control town & surrounding sprawling farmlands areas east of #tripoli airport, say gadhafi forces fled to tarhouna, 1.5 hrs 2 SE
residents say #gadhafi forces prevented them from leaving, were using the area 2 shell airport
Yefreni
The number of LTT employees who came today is more than I expected, and they are working hard to restore the internet connection as soon as possible, But many of them did not come because lack of petrol
dovenews Libyan™
Images of Burned bodies reported by skynews
Khalifa
For 6 months Gadhafi Mercenaries (Africans & Libyans) kept #Tripoli in a state of terror. Now the city is the hands of it's free inhabitants
Nothing gets my blood boiling more than the discovery of mass graves.
Tweeting Tripoli
Sunset in Tripoli few minutes ago... pic.twitter.com/CCuldLD
Mahdi Nazemroaya & Lizzie Phelan safe, currently in Greek territory, then heading to Malta, then Europe, then home. (via Stephen Lendman)
Inside a Moutasim Gaddafi bunker - The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/inside-a-gaddafi-bunker/2011/08/25/gIQAxDyteJ_video.html ... #Libya
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Sirte is being hit with "Kruz missiles" from the sea.
AJELive AJELive
Al Jazeera's Sue Turton on the Libyan / Tunisian border: No sign yet of the humanitarian aid #Libyans hope will flow from here.
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Also some tunnels bombed in near BabAz RT @RexBrynen: In several cases it seems rebels haven't managed to get passed locked blast doors yet
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA just spent day out in Tripoli. Our report soon on #AJE. Quieter in general, but water a big problem.
hominoid555 whitewakbar
dawn assault on the base of 32 Brigade "captured" khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle…
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
NTC's spokesman can't confirm what "poison" it was, that "chemical tests are ongoing" he adds there 'were many sickness cases" #Libya water
Sunny
If contaminated #Tripoli water supply news is true, couldn't it just be dead bodies? Quite likely esp given the heat
Ahmed
I remember being about maybe twelve years old being forced to draw "Free Megrahi" posters by the Libyan school in London. SHAME ON YOU.
Britain to pursue Libyan suspects in 1984 killing: http://www.kasa.com/dpps/news/international/britian-to-pursue-libyan-murder-suspects_3925285#.Tlkw6Gwueg4.twitter via @AddThis
Hafed
#libya #tripoli -- Unconfirmed reports that the Embassy of Vietnam was looted and diplomats threatened
Gaddafi’s African ‘mercenaries’ leaving Libya African troops recruited by Colonel Gaddafi are now facing increasing hostility from Libyans
The United Nations has called on all sides in the Libyan conflict to prevent acts of revenge.
It follows reports both of killings by pro-Gaddafi forces and of attacks on African troops who fought on the government side.
Full art.:
http://shabablibya.org/news/gaddafis-african-mercenaries-leaving-libya
4Adam Adam
Now, Mr. Jalloud is about to form a political party, Hmm, you people who expecting him to apologize to Libyans, good lock with that. #Libya
Aljazeera
Riad Kahwaji, security analyst and founder of the Institute for Near East & Gulf Military Analysis, told Al Jazeera:
“As far as the control on the ground it is mostly in favour of the rebels only two strongholds Sirte and Saba are not under their control, and both are very much besieged.”
“The role of the rebels now is to really organise themselves and pinpoint the locations of Gaddafi forces to get them to surrender.”
FunGuerillaz FunGuerilla No.1
The pratice of regime forces to bind the hands of unwilling comrads & to execute them has been first documented when Benghazi's Katiba..
.was stormed in late February. This practice has since been observed in a number of instances in all parts of Libya in the last 6 months.
Also: FFs usually don't tie up their POWs (I don't remember having seen this)...
And: Why would the FFs carry out an execution in the middle of the battle field on a position where they are exposed to enemy bullets...
.and where there might be eyewitnesses to the crime from surrounding houses. THE STORY SIMPLY DOESN'T ADD UP.
The explanation that these regime soldiers were executed before the Bab was stormed makes more sense, especially when U keep in mind that.
the regime had political prisoners in several of Tripoli's prisons executed. Somebody central must have given the order for this and...
.it is possible that the executions near the Bab were a part of this. Of course I might be wrong & this MIGHT have been some rouge Ffs.
..but its simply important to note that this is by no means a typical behaviour for the FFs but something the regime typically would do.
FunGuerilla No.1
For your map: places liberated since yesterday: Ras Ajdir, Al Jamil, Qasir Ben Ghashir, Tarhuna, Assaba. - t.co/KMIm0ZO
Updated list of towns confirmed liberated since Friday Ras Ajdir, Al Jamil, Al Ajaylat, Abu Salim, Qasir Ben Ghashir, Tarhuna, Assaba
If you think food realted goods from the Mid East and North Africa are hard to get in Switzerland, think again; I just bought me a Tajine..
and I'm going to make a victory couscous next week. But today its for TexMex food. Cooking a chilli con carne right now
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Rebels also showed us a warehouse full of hundreds of boxed land mines of a variety of different types which were left by Gaddafi's forces
The warehouse also stored a large number of missiles,white phosphorous mortars & documents-one was an order for guided missiles from Russia
BREAKING: 50 charred skeletons found near military base of Gaddafi criminals: AFP
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
All towns on the highway from Ras Ajdir to Tripoli are now in freedom fighter hands. Border crossing should be secured & open soon. #libya
Libya Breaknews:
Breaking Libya News: BREAKING: #FFs have just liberated Al Jamil south of the city of #Zwara
SkyNews: Tripoli: 53 bodies were found today in a warehouse in Tripoli apparently killed one week ago by Gaddafi's forces
Head of NTC Mustafa Jalil says: We will not accept foreign police in Libya
Gaddafi's green flag has been brought down at the Arab League
Did you know NATO pilots wore Libyan independence flag over their shoulders? Touching!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=237158&l=9d6fddc701&id=119666044789936
TRIPOLI UPDATE:
Cleaning the streets today in #Benashoor, and some people have also started to repaint, Incredible feeling to see everyone helping. #Tripoli via @libya17feb
English Libya TV
Revolutionaries take town west of capital Revolutionaries swept into the town of Jmayl today, consolidating their grip on areas to the west of Tripoli after Muammar Gaddafi’s troops fled the home base of their former prime minister.
After a five-day standoff with Gaddafi forces in the town, about 100 revolutionary fighters in pick-up trucks drove in, firing their guns wildly in the air in celebration and flashing V-for-victory signs.
“We were in Zuwarah and we have been trying to get here for five days,” Shukri Zuwareh, a 42-year-old fighter, told Reuters, referring to a nearby town already taken.
Walls in Jmayl were daubed with the slogan “Only God and Muammar”.
Gaddafi supporters are understood to have fled to the town as opposition forces rolled up areas to the south in Libya’s western Nafusa mountains in a campaign that eventually took them all the way to Tripoli.
Jmayl was one of a number of pockets of Gaddafi loyalists that remain in parts of Libya despite the revolutionary advance.
The two sides had been negotiating for days in an attempt to end the stand-off over Jmayl and arrange prisoner swaps, but talks had foundered in an atmosphere of mistrust.
“There were soldiers in the town and supporters of Gaddafi. We spread a rumour three days ago during the talks that we would free Jmayl today,” Zuwareh said.
Revolutionaries said Jmayl had been a stronghold for Gaddafi loyalists in the west and was the hometown of former prime minister Al Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, who recently left the country and was seen five days ago on the southern Tunisian island of Djerba.
The revolutionaries said the Gaddafi loyalists had fled Jmayl, a small dusty desert settlement whose inhabitants welcomed the fighters with V-for-victory signs.
At the town hospital, two wounded fighters were brought in for treatment, along with one man who had been held prisoner by the Gaddafi forces before they left.
One fighter described the climate of suspicion that clouded negotiations.
“Yesterday there was a Gaddafi loyalist in his car ahead of us. We shouted at him to stop and put down his weapon,” said Mohammed al-Mansouri, a 23-year-old fighter.
“He got out and made like he was putting it down, then he suddenly picked it up and sprayed us with gunfire.
“So we had to shoot him dead.”
TRIPOLI UPDATE:
--Cleaning the streets today in #Benashoor, and some people have also started to repaint, Incredible feeling to see everyone helping. #Tripoli
--#Tripoli - There are still some snipers in Dareq al Saree (The Highway), No one uses the road
--There is a Freedom Fighter Battalion named #Safwat #elZayat, #Libyans will never forget your support and hard work Maj Gen Safwat el Zayat
--High spirits in #Tripoli even while clearing the streets, singing and chanting, everyone helping hand in hand
via @libya17feb
AJE:
The oil refinary in Zawiyah will return to work as of tomorow to contribute to reducing the fuel crisis in Libya
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Home made Grenada, It is a water pipeline. Was drawn and detailed in order to divided into several fragments... fb.me/RaaThuK0
LIVE on Al-Abrabiyah the youth are busy cleaning Abu Salim Hospital! Allah Akbar
BREAKING: FFs liberate Abu Salim Hospital and found dozens of dead bodies within
Monatov - منى توف: Monatov - GaddafiLeaks قذافى ليكس http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQrlS77WHRs&feature=player_embedded#!
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#NTC #Jibril says: Reports of #Gaddafi escape to #Algeria not confirmed.
#Gaddafi's green flag has been brought down at the Arab League #Libya.
#Freedomfighters say #Gaddafi filth still control town of #AlAjaylat. #Libya
West of #Zuwara, #Freedomfighters say they now control coastal highway to #Tunisia
#AfricanUnion Has Failed #Libya mathaba.net/news/?x=628334 #Ghana supported #Gaddafi now scared of oil loss.
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “DERIN” now anchored in port #Tripoli
#Moldova CARGO SHIP “MAR BIANCO” remains anchored in port #Tripoli #Libya.
#Greece SHIP (Unspecified Type) “ILION” now anchored in port #Tripoli
Malta OIL TANKER “ÏNTISAR” now anchored #Tripoli
Turkey CARGO SHIP “ARON” remains anchored just outside port #Tripoli
Turkey CARGO SHIP “HACI MEHMET KAPTAN” remains anchored just outside port #Tripoli
Moldova PASSENGER SHIP “AZZURRA” now departing #Tripoli #Libya.
Turkey CARGO SHIP “EFENDI BABA” now en route to dest. #Benghazi #Libya ETA: 2011-08-28 20:00 (UTC).
Malta CARGO SHIP “PURKI” now en route to dest. #Tripoli #Libya ETA: 2011-08-28 10:00 (UTC)
Moldova FERRY “FEHIM BEY” now anchored in port #Misrata #Libya. Next stop: #Benghazi.
Turkey CARGO SHIP “CENK SENER” now en route to dest. #Tripoli #Libya ETA: 2011-08-28 10:00 (UTC).
Turkey CARGO SHIP “SEREN AYANOGLU” remains anchored just outside port #Tripoli
Syria CARGO SHIP “LADY SEHAM” remains anchored in port #Tripoli
Ajeilat reported just a moment ago as liberated by #Freedomfighters after several back & forth battles with #Gaddafi filth.
Libya: If you are able to provide food for #Freedomfighters or those injured in hospital please call 0913088827. #Feb17
You can send a get well card to the Libyan patients using this P.O.Box: “Postcards for Libya” Ennasr1 Code... http://fb.me/1gY2YdK9x
AU sent mercenaries to kill us and doesn't want to give us our money back - no wonder why they don't recognise NTC!
#Tripoli: #Freedomfighters now control Airport & surrounding farms E. of there. #Gaddafi filth fled towards #Tarhouna.
PLEASE RT: Red Crescent Tunisia: 8/27 after 8:30pm blood donations for #Libya. 13 Rue Djebel Lakhdhar - Bab Saadoun, 1006 #Tunis, #Tunisia
#Libya #NTC offers 2 MILLION DINARS & FULL AMNESTY for Muammar #Gaddafi, DEAD OR ALIVE. #Feb17
al Madar mobiles not working in #Zwara or #Sabratha or #Tripoli but "western Libyana" working. SIM 50 dinars
#StVincentGrenadines CARGO SHIP "LADY HALUOM" now departing #Malta for dest. #Benghazi #Libya ETA: 2011-08-29 04:00 (UTC)
#Sirte: Unconfirmed: Number of #Gaddafi filth estimated 1500-3000. #Libya #Feb17
#Freedomfighters have just liberated #AlJamil south of #Zuwara. #Libya #Feb17
#NTC arrests Emar Al Shamama, director of #Tripoli Medical Centre, tortured doctors opposing #Gaddafi. #Libya #Feb17
#NTC leader #Jalil says #Tripoli facing humanitarian emergency. #Libya #Feb17
98.5% of Black Africans in Libya are criminals, rapists, murderers brought in by Gaddafi..
#Tripoli: Uniformed police seen around city today, more traffic, women out & about, more shops open. People cleaning & painting. #Libya
#Gaddafi's #African 'mercenaries' leaving #Libya bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr… #Feb17
'Mass Killing' Evidence Found In #Libya http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16057724 #Feb17
Oil refinery in #Zawiya will return to work as of tomorrow to contribute to reducing the fuel crisis in #Libya
Comoros CARGO SHIP "HADIA K" now anchored in port #Tobruq #Libya. #Feb17
#Gaddafi OIL TANKER "AL AGAILA" remains anchored in #Singapore where it has now been for a couple of months.
Nouri Balroin, #NTC oil minister: #Libya to produce 1.6 million barrels of oil within 15 months.
#Gaddafi OIL TANKER “SAMRAA_ALKHALEEJ” remains anchored off coast of #Malta where it has been for several months. #Libya #Feb17
PLEASE RT: I call on the @UN to recognize the #Libya #NTC as the legitimate government of the Nation of Libya. #Feb17
#SA govt says #Libya future must include #Gaddafi regime timeslive.co.za/africa/2011/08… NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! #Feb17
#freedomfighters have control now of Zaltan, last remaining #Gaddafi stronghold on highway to border. #Libya #Feb17
#Algeria government recruited & facilitated the transfer of #Polisario mercenaries to #Gaddafi in #Libya. #Feb17
4th rate shithole #Zimbabwe orders rebel-backing Libyan envoy to leave, calls #NTC illegal.
#Tripoli: those who are able to provide food for the wounded in the hospitals and to #Freedomfighters please call 0913088827.
#Greece HUMANITARIAN AID SHIP "ILION" now departing #Tripoli #Libya, apparent dest. #Benghazi. Thank you Greece & sponsors! #Feb17
LIBYA : ALGERIAN MERCENARY CAPTURED BY LIBYAN CNT REGARDEZ BIEN SON PANTALON C'EST UN TREILLIS MILITAIRE PROUVANT SA CONDITION DE MERCENAIRE DE KHADAFFI LE GRAND AMI DU F.L.N ALGERIEN.
EN EFFET: UN CIVIL ALGERIEN VIVANT EN LIBYE CONNAISSANT LES ACCUSATIONS LIBYENNES DE SOUTIENT DE L'ALGERIE A KHADDAFI SERAIT IL ASSEZ FOU POUR SE BALADER EN TENUE MILITAIRE????????
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E8vfc3_hL0&feature=share
SteveMcCluskey Stephen McCluskey
Syrian Al-Ra'y TV is financially supported by Gaddafi; don't rely on its reports. citiadr.idmanagedsolutions.com/news/global_st…
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
"They (Gadaffi forces) tried to poison it" and "many people got sick" NTC spokesman on why they have shut off the water supply in #Tripoli
NTC say great man made river has been contaminated by #Gaddafi filth, unsure of the chemical used #Libya #Feb17
Tripoli Youth
High spirits in #Tripoli even while clearing the streets, singing and chanting, everyone helping hand in hand
libyatv Libya TV
a resident in #Tripoli: “People will start celebrating when Gaddafi is caught. That will be our Eid.
Chairman of #NTC Mustafa Abdel Jalil says he has no hard info abut location of Gaddafi & his sons
English Libya TV
Tripoli “free of Gaddafi forces” Opposition forces claimed victory over a suburb near Tripoli’s airport today after an overnight battle as the opposition moves to solidify its hold on the capital while fighting Gaddafi loyalists in other parts of the country.
Residents of Qasr bin Ghashir, about 30 kilometers south of the capital, celebrated by firing guns and anti-aircraft weapons into the air and beating portraits of the toppled leader with their shoes. Regime troops had been shelling the airport from the area. An opposition field commander said the capital was “free of Gaddafi’s forces.”
“You can say that bin Ghashir has been liberated from Gaddafi soldiers,” said Omar al-Ghuzayl, a 45-year-old field commander now in charge of forces at Tripoli’s airport. “We’ve been able to push them completely outside Tripoli.”
The celebration reflected the revolutionaries optimism after days of fierce fighting in the capital, which now appears to be largely under opposition control.
Gaddafi’s whereabouts remain unknown. NATO and opposition forces are focusing on his hometown of Sirte, his last major bastion of support.
But while fighting has died down, much of the capital remained without electricity and water. Streets are strewn with torched cars and stinking garbage. Corpses crowd abandoned hospitals. Stores are closed. Bombed planes sit on the Tripoli’s airport runway.
Outside of Tripoli, an oil refinery in Brega was targeted today by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. Field workers and opposition forces sprayed the tanks with water to calm the blaze and save Libya’s most valuable export.
“We have a huge shortage of gas,” Tripoli resident Osama Shallouf said.
The shortages have made it difficult to bake the traditional pastries and buy new clothes to prepare for next week’s Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that caps the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
“People will start celebrating when Gaddafi is caught,” he said. “That will be our Eid.”
The leader of the NTC said yesterday they’ll establish a new interim government in the capital within 30 days, moving their headquarters from the eastern city of Benghazi, which fell into opposition hands early in the six-month war.
Today an oil refinery in Brega was targeted by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. Field workers and opposition forces sprayed the tanks with water to calm the blaze and save Libya’s most valuable export.
English Libya TV
Capital calmer as Gaddafi’s men forced out Tripoli has begun to retain some normalcy over the past few days. Residents claim it to be the calmest it has been in the capital since Gaddafi’s opponents swept in nearly a week ago. Some even celebrated in the streets, marching and chanting, “Hold your head high! You are a free Libyan.”
There were still occasional gunbattles yesterday, but nothing like the bloody firefight on Thursday in which opposition forces drove loyalists from a neighborhood close to Gaddafi’s captured compound.
As the fighting waned, the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva expressed concern about treatment of detainees on both sides. The ICRC has been able to visit some prisoners, but “there are hundreds more probably,” spokesman Steven Anderson said.
Dozens of decomposing bodies were piled up in and near an abandoned hospital next to the Gaddafi compound, revealing some of the war’s brutality. One hospital room had 21 bodies lying on gurneys. The floors were covered with shattered glass and bloodstains, and medical equipment was strewn about.
It was unclear when the men died or who killed them, but they had darker skin than most Libyans. Gadhafi had recruited fighters from sub-Saharan Africa to fight in return for promise of Libyan citizenship.
In a new advance for the opposition forces yesterday, fighters took control of the main border crossing with Tunisia after battling Gaddafi loyalists who had held out there, Tunisia’s official news agency reported. Opposition forces control other posts along the border, but Ras Ajdir is the primary crossing between the two countries and would allow them to more easily bring supplies into Libya.
In Tripoli, some residents emerged gingerly from homes where they had taken cover for days. They looked upon a shattered city, largely without power or water and stinking with garbage, but also with no sign of the man who had ruled their lives for the past 42 years. Gaddafi’s whereabouts were unknown. His portraits have been trampled, his green flags shredded and replaced with the original red, black and green.
Umm Yahya, who limped on a cane through Tripoli’s shuttered downtown, leaning on her daughter for help, said her family had been surviving for days on pasta and tomato paste, but the fear and suffering in six months of civil war were worth it to taste freedom.
“We can speak freely now. We can talk on the phone,” she said with a tired smile. “People are comfortable now spiritually and with that, anything is possible.”
Opposition forces were pushing Gaddafi fighters to Tripoli’s outskirts. Abdul Majid
Mgleta, a revolutionary military chief, said there were still some pockets of resistance, but he hoped to take full control over the capital and capture Gaddafi within days.
Still, Tripoli’s opposition military commander was confident enough to declare the capital liberated.
“Libya is now free with dignity,” Abdel-Hakim Belhaj told reporters last night. He added that hundreds of Gaddafi fighters had surrendered in the past two days.
Opposition forces and NATO turned their attention 400 kilometers east to Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, his last major bastion of support. British warplanes struck a large bunker there, while local opposition force commander Fadl-Allah Haron said that if city residents don’t surrender fast, “a battle will be waiting for them there.”
In the five-day battle over Tripoli, at least 230 people were killed and hundreds more wounded, according to doctors at three major hospitals. With bodies still in the streets, the real toll is likely far higher.
In the Abu Salim neighborhood, the scene of Thursday’s ferocious clashes, there was massive destruction along the main road, including torched cars.
Three charred bodies lay on the ground floor of a bombed-out firehouse where eight wounded men, apparently Gaddafi supporters, had been abandoned.
Abu Baker Amin, his right leg broken by a grenade, said he had not received food or water for two days. An emaciated man lay on the floor, pleading for water. Another man appeared to be in too much pain to speak.
In the parking lot, opposition forces kept guard over four injured men they said were Gaddafi loyalists. Opposition forces in the area said there were no hospitals available or cars to take the men for treatment, and that in any case they wanted to interrogate them first.
“These are from the Gaddafi brigades!” a neighbor exclaimed.
Eventually, a soldier of the opposition took all the wounded he could fit in his pickup truck to a hospital. He was stopped repeatedly at checkpoints, where the guards kicked the prisoners, spat on them and tried to stop their transfer.
The abandoned hospital where the bodies were found is near the firehouse. Nearly 50 bodies were stacked in three areas — a parking lot, a ward and in the basement.
Another 15 decomposing corpses lay in a grassy area surrounding a traffic roundabout on the outskirts of Abu Salim. Five of the dead were in a tent hospital; one appeared to have been killed while resting on a mattress.
Opposition forces often suspect people from sub-Saharan Africa of being mercenaries, though many are simply migrant workers.
One of the injured men in the firehouse said he was from Niger. Asked why he was in Libya, he said, “I really don’t know.”
Mohammed al-Egely, the NTC justice minister, said he has visited detained Gaddafi fighters and they were being treated according to international humanitarian law. He said opposition forces are doing the best they can.
“We are in a state of war — the airport hasn’t even been liberated yet,” he said. “Do you expect the fighters to bring them (prisoners) flowers? They are all fighting — and so there will be victims from each side.”
Hundreds of people marched in celebration of Gaddafi’s defeat after noon prayers in a mosque near the city’s central square. They chanted, “Hold your head high! You are a free Libyan” — borrowing a cry heard in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in the days after Hosni Mubarak was ousted in the Egyptian uprising.
In the afternoon, shots were fired at the roof terrace of the Corinthia hotel, where scores of journalists were working. The shots came from nearby high-rise buildings. A revolutionary dressed in fatigues crossed the terrace to the fence and began shooting randomly at the buildings. At one point, revolutionaries also fired anti-aircraft guns and a large explosion was heard. There has been fighting around the hotel for several days now.
In a rural area between the neighborhood and Tripoli’s airport, opposition forces detained seven men and a woman and loaded them into a pickup truck, saying Gaddafi fighters might try to blend in with civilians.
“Things are still not stable and we are arresting anybody we find suspicious and taking them to the military council,” said field commander Fathi Shneibi.
Opposition leaders said they will establish a new interim government in the capital within 30 days, as part of a move from the eastern city of Benghazi, which fell into opposition hands early in the war.
The new interim government will likely include some who worked in the Gaddafi regime, but were sympathetic to the revolutionaries, said Mahmoud Shammam, information minister for the National Transitional Council.
“The only people we are going to exclude are the people who killed others and stole money,” Shammam said.
The council may get some badly needed cash soon. Britain is seeking approval to release about $1.6 billion in seized Libyan bank notes to help pay public sector workers.
NATO, meanwhile, said its warplanes targeted 29 vehicles mounted with weapons near Sirte, a city of 150,000. Opposition forces are trying to advance toward Sirte but expect fierce resistance from Gaddafi loyalists.
The two main tribes in Sirte rejected the oppositions offers to negotiate a peaceful surrender.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Horrifying stories are coming out of #Tripoli as the truth is slowly being uncovered - #Libya #Feb17
Ali Tweel
A hero from Misurata: Muammar, your entire life is a mistake but the biggest mistake you did is to enter Misurata!!
septimius_sever septimius severus
after 14 years in #AbuSalim prison, he was amazed by novelties such as mobile phones and satellite dishes.
NickClarkAlJaz Nick Clark
#Libya : Reports of charred skeletons of 50 found in prison abandoned by Kadhafi elite troops in S #Tripoli
Tweeting Tripoli
Once there was a dispute between 1 person and 6 million people. African Union decided to stand by 1 person and ignored the 6 million people.
Bab Al-Azyzia taught us the terrible, hideous (and very long, 42yrs) lesson. We will scoop it out and throw it in the waste bin.
Updated:
Battle for Tripoli International Airport. By Libyan Youth Movement
Photo's:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.195526397179851.52217.133738650025293
Inside Abu-Sleem Prison. By Libyan Youth Movement ·
Cannot imagine what went on here; terrible
Photos: http://goo.gl/kPmgJ
or:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.196409227091568.52373.133738650025293
MUST READ:
Ann Marlowe:
Weekly Standard: Democracy in Libya
http://goo.gl/5c6c1 #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
ProudLibyan
Misrata literally broke Gaddafi's back. His best brigades were destroyed there. He thought it was going to be a walk in the park, how wrong!
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Atlantic Source: White House wants NATO partners to hunt for #Gaddafi’s rockets and WMD goo.gl/As4Qs #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Times of Malta: Opposition’s security adviser holds #Malta meetings http://goo.gl/Njq39 #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Updated: #Malta strips #Gaddafi of his honours http://goo.gl/M7Fn9 #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Khaled
Let's Thank NATO For Protecting Libyan Citizens. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lets-Thank-NATO-For-Protecting-Libyan-Citizens/221264594571880
FromJoanne Joanne
Audioboo of General Richard Dannat How Freedom Fighters were able to Liberate #Tripoli so fast #Libya goo.gl/eEOl1
Meanwhile Tripolitans are using #Gaddafi s families swimmingpool for a bath http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFpfyO3lhyw&feature=player_embedded #Libya #Tripoli
#TRIPOLI #AbuSalim Hospital the reality and prove of massacre still lie in their beds youtube.com/user/AlJazeera… Inside Story #Libya #Aljazeera
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI The calmest day since FF advanced 7 days ago Ppl celebrated chanting “Hold your head high! You are a free #Libyan ! ” #Libya
Its a great surprise #BinJawad is FF controlled FF pushing on to #Sirte now #Libya
#FLASH #Algeria Foreign Ministry Saturday DENIES Mena media report a convoy 6 Mercedes cars crossed Border from #Libya #FleeingGadafiClan
#FLASH #AGOCO All 5 of Libya refineries some in BAD shape R OFFLINE due2 lack of #Crude #oil production and damage to facilities
Hayat
I'm going to the mosque inshAllah and I am going to pray there all night with my friends! AlHamduLilah!! Allah Akbar! #Ramadan 27th :D
Tweeting Tripoli
Ok so according to Libyan/Algerian standard that is a confirmation he got safely to Algeria. Damn it, we were too late!
FromJoanne Joanne
#Shammam #NTC says FF already control most of the Road between #Tunisia > #Tripoli but Gaddafi Forces R shelling road nr #Zwara #Libya
Skyman64
As of today Sky has taken decision to stop using "govt" and "rebels" in reports. "Pro and anti Gaddafi" only... @SkyNews #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
Tripoli hospital turned into 'mass morgue' Warning: story contains details disturbing to some readers goo.gl/vmxtU #Libya
SKY NEWS:
#WARCRIMES Evidence Video of still smoldering bodies 150 Civilians Massacred in camp of Khamis Gadafi 32Brigade
Article and videos:
goo.gl/EnRa7 #Libya
or:
http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16057724
Joanne
TRIPOLI local residents say ther R many more bodies buried in th BenGashir Khamis Brigade32 compound or in nearby warehouse+buildings #Libya
#TRIPOLI #QasrBenGashir Fridaynight 70GF cars sped2 #BaniWalid Crowds Gathered Satmorning Celebrating Liberation while FF combed area #Libya
#TARHUNAH Violent clashes broke out since yesterday #Libya g.co/maps/vxjb
BRILLIANT IDEA:
Egypt and Libya to hold joint seminars between the youth of #Egypt #Libya and #Tunisia to identify their vision for building the future
FromJoanne Joanne
Shortages in Tripoli have worsened even though #NTC Jalil said Thursd his forces discovered huge stockpiles of food and medicine #Libya
Today: Ferry #Azzurra Int. Org. 4Migration hired Delivered food water and medical supplies 2 #TRIPOLI + will evacuate 1200 foreigners
#Baltimore writer filmmaker #MatthewVanDyke #Baltimore spend6Mnths SOLITAIRY confinement #AbuSalim FF Released Now #CORINTHIA Hotel #TRIPOLI
#NTC HEAD Jibril + former #Libya FM #AbdulRahmanShalgam met #Egypt FM #MohammedKamelAmr @Egyptian foreign ministry #Cairo Today
UK donated £3 million to Red Cross to spend on urgent humanitarian aid in #Libya today 2b spend on Food Med aid = Medical Teams
SMILE:
CONFIRMED. Now the cheapest paint in Tripoli is Green paint They cant give it away .
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Times of Malta: Updated: Logistical preparations for #Tripoli humanitarian aid gear up: goo.gl/VvXU8 Video: goo.gl/71vSD
PHOTO'S:
Battle for Abu-Sleem District in #Tripoli. Photos: http://goo.gl/FCUyS #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Malta HUMANITARIAN AID SHIP “MAE YEMANJA” now departing #Tripoli #Libya for dest. Malta. #Feb17
#Benin, #Niger & #Togo have all formally recognized #NTC
#Libya: Have faith in the #NTC but don’t wait on them
#Libya: To plagiarize Kennedy; don’t ask what your country can do for you rather ask what you can do for your country.
Another criminal act by a 4th rate cesspool country: #Mugabe throws out defected #Libya envoy http://www.africareview.com/News/-/979180/1226070/-/h7d6s5z/-/ #Feb17
FunGuerillaz FunGuerilla No.1
They should create a monument at Mohamed Bouazizis grave & decorate it with flags of all countries that were liberated in the Arab Spring...
so far that would make three flags (Tunesia, Egypt, Libya) and hopefully at least two more very soon (Yemen, Syria).
LibyaAlHurraTV LibyaAlHurra
How the Libyan rebels bought a miniature drone on the Internet news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/li…
FunGuerillaz FunGuerilla No.1
Cut out the middle man: Libyan FFs used a surveillance drone of their own in Misrata: nyti.ms/pXLlmN
It takes time to get it perfect:)
bbclysedoucet lyse doucet
New sign Martyrs' Sq from #Tripoli Brigade warns - don't fire weapons in the air, & put lives at risk ow.ly/i/gnue #Libya
Gettting it right in new #Libya: fixing misspelt word on new sign warning against gunfire in Martyrs' Sq http://ow.ly/i/gnvO
DerekStoffelCBC Derek Stoffel
That time of the night, it seems -- major power outage in central #Tripoli. City plunged into darkness.
Libyan_Republic Omar Mukhtar
Mahmoud Jibril gets a standing ovation at the #arableague. I am loving this guy.
Video: Gaddafi fighter recounts her nightmare war One 19 year-old woman was a sniper. Now she is to stand trial for executing 16 rebel prisoners.
She also shot two rebels dead in the heat of battle when the rebels stormed Gaddafi’s compund. She was captured when she ran out of ammunition and fled, breaking her legs in a two-story leap to escape.
She claims that she was forced by her family to leave her hometown of Zawiah and join up a year ago. She adds she had worked in an office until only recently. Then the nightmare began. The killing, and the rape by three officers she identified by name, including a General.
Now she can only hope for forgiveness from the victims’ families, or she could face a death penalty.
Video:
http://feb17.info/media/video-gaddafi-fighter-recounts-her-nightmare-war/
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
regime loyalists who were tweeting from the #rixos when we were there- didnt realize we knew v well who they were
jonjensen Jon Jensen
A rebel in Ajdabiya said NATO has been dropping these fake dinar bills near the front to deter pro-Gaddafi mercs yfrog.com/kfmeq1j #libya
4Adam Adam
Scenes of jubilation in the streets of Qasir Ben Ghisheer after the liberation - South #Tripoli youtube.com/watch?v=_J6Nrj… (CH4news) #Libya
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
Saw #Zwara man came 2day fr #Tunisia- by boat, land route dangerous. FFs need 2 control #Jumayl. Where's #Benghazi help? Int'l frontier!
Ali Tweel
10:05pm power is out :( (Tripoli)
Ahmed
Broke my fast today with the Belhaj family, 16 members of which were in prison since March. All are back home safe and sound Alhamdulillah.
Very important announcement from our families in Free Tripoli 2 all Libyan fam in Ben Ashour, Fashloum & Dahra: (1/2)”
who r able 2 provide food 4 wounded in the hospitals & our FF pls call this number 0913088827.Spread this 2 all urgently
Tripoli buries dead as battle toll emerges A week after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, residents of Tripoli ventured out to begin the grim work of burying the dead in mass graves today, as evidence emerged of widespread summary killings during the battle for the Libyan capital.
Full story:
http://english.libya.tv/2011/08/27/tripoli-buries-dead-as-battle-toll-emerges/
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI Gargour Villa of #AbdullahSenussi Gaddafi’s brother-in-law and close confidant has been pillaged
No self-respecting dictator can bear 2b without a bunker but is life worth living scurrying like arat underground http://goo.gl/2snOo Libya
#TRIPOLI in some neighborhoods FF organiced garbage collection and many residents are helping to clean up
#TRIPOLI in #SouqalJuma'a a former polic lieutenant Shukri Dernawi is organizing a local police force #Libya
#TRIPOLI SouqJumaa Dernawi the new local policechief said he hasn't had any reports of feuds/revenge being settled with guns #Libya
#TRIPOLI A security committee with all main FF factions represented has already been formed #Libya
#NATO strikes heard north west of #Tripoli now #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
(23.00 hrs)
Its good to see #NTC #Shamman in #Tripoli where there is a shortage of food He needs to loose weight
Haitham
G's forces try to reach #BaniWalid through #Tarhuna. FF are stopping them from doing that.
Joanne
TRIPOLI Residents carried empty containers 2mosques which often have wells in their courtyards hoping to fill up Some already ranout #Libya
Washington Post: Libyans find freedom at Moammar #Gaddafi’s #Abu #Salim prison in #Tripoli http://goo.gl/tkmyE #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
#Zuara after it's liberation, celebrations! Photos: goo.gl/Uznst #libya
HELP NEEDED:
abu sleem hospital & zawyat al dehmany hospital r n urgent need f volunteers,those who liv in d area r asked 2 head there(its safe)
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
NTC's Mahmoud Jibril speaking at the Arab Sumit now in Cairo on AJA
Inside Rixos room where info minister Moussa Ibrahim had been staying-Looks like a bit of messy guy http://twitpic.com/6c56y5 via @DerekStoffelCBC
Libya In Me
This has become our iconic representation of freedom & victory...#Zwara pic.twitter.com/sfZhw28
Sky sources: Series of NATO air strikes heard north-west of Libyan capital, Tripoli
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Freedom fighters report that they are cleaning up the Rixos for reopening.
NPR: Is #Libya The First 'True Arab Revolution'? http://goo.gl/SDYWd #feb17 #gaddaficrimes #libya
Tweeting Tripoli
BREAKING: The real Libyan flag is up in the sky--> Arab League. yfrog.com/h4tznisj
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Just heard Dr Mahmud jibril speaking to the Arab League. Finally, the true Libyan flag is being represented by smart, hardworking people.
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Staying at a rebel compound tonight, rebels really buzzing from taking Bin Jawad, celebrating with drumming and dancing outside #Libya
Mustafa Abdul #Jalil: National Transitional Council opposes the idea of having an international police to maintain security
libyanandproud
Happiest guy at the Arab League is the person who only wrote Libya instead of Jamahirya bla bla bla bla bla on the plaque . #Feb17 #Libya
WISE WORDS:
Armchair Arab
Libyans, yes we do have oil, but the real key to our future economic success will be our ingenuity and entrepreneurship.
Smiffysmate Smiffy's Wife
Oh I could cry. Go away green rag: “@2011feb17: BREAKING: The real Libyan flag is up in the sky--> Arab League. yfrog.com/h4tznisj”
English Libya TV
NTC say no firm information on Gaddafi location Revolutionaries have no concrete information on the location of Muammar Gaddafi or his sons, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, chairman of the National Transitional Council (NTC), said today.
Revolutionary fighters who took control of the Libyan capital this week say Gaddafi and his sons are in hiding and have offered a $1.3 million reward and amnesty from prosecution for anyone who kills or captures him.
Egypt’s state news agency sparked a new round of speculation about his whereabouts when it quoted a Libyan source as saying a convoy of six armoured Mercedes cars which crossed from Libya into Algeria may have been carrying Gaddafi.
Officials and fighters affiliated with the revolutionaries have said on several occasions they know where he is and have him cornered, but those assertions have later turned out to be wrong.
“We have no factual report about the whereabouts of Gaddafi and his sons,” Abdel Jalil said.
Speaking at a news conference, he said the council might consider inviting police officers from Arab or Muslim states to Libya to held with security, but did not want a police presence from any other nations.
He also said that anyone who had worked in a senior posiiton for Gaddafi and had not defected by now to the revolutionary cause “will not be allowed to have a place in the future Libya, politically speaking.”
Revolutionary commanders are still negotiating with Gaddafi loyalists to try to persuade them to surrender control over the city of Sirte, Gaddafi’s home town about 500 km (310 miles) east of Tripoli, Abdel Jalil said.
HUNT FOR GADDAFI
A spokesman for the NTC dampened speculation that Gaddafi might be holed up in Sirte.
“He probably won’t be in Sirte because Sirte is landlocked from three sides and (there is) the sea from the other. There is no way for him to get away,” said the spokesman, Shamsiddin Abdulmolah.
“There is a possibility he is still in the Tripoli area. But if not he’s more likely to be near the Algerian border because Algeria has still not recognised the NTC.”
The council is under pressure to establish its authority in Tripoli quickly and deal with a breakdown of public services that followed the collapse of Gaddafi’s rule.
Corpses are rotting outside hospitals, garbage is piled up in the streets, and many
people have no water.
Asked when the NTC would move to the capital from its base in Benghazi, eastern Libya, Abdulmolah said: “Most of the executive committee is already over there now in Tripoli.
But he said the question of when Abdel Jalil, a former justice minister under Gaddafi, would transfer to Tripoli, would depend on security considerations.
libyatv Libya TV
#NTC Mahmud Jibril takes part in Arab League Council mtg to discuss Syria- marks the first time the NTC is represented there. #Libya #feb17
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Mustafa AbdulJalil: #NTC opposes the idea of having an international police to maintain security. GOOD!
#Libya: If absolutely necessary I have a feeling most would not be too upset if #Gaddafi's #Sirte where bombarded into dust.
#Libya MUST NOW BE STRONG! After all #Gaddafi's rape, murder & etc his last stronghold must be broken, enemies of Libya cut out like cancer.
#Libya: Nations still fighting you, still standing for #Gaddafi MUST be taught a lesson, cut out of your future and blacklisted worldwide!
#Libya: Nations still fighting you should have NO embassies, NO contracts recognized, NO oil (#Russia, #Algeria, #SA, #Ghana, #Zimbabwe)
#Libya: For 42 years U & your children have paid 4 this, paid 4 freedom w/ your blood, w/ your families, your children, let NO 1 drag U down
Arab League gives new #Libya govt a standing ovation; African Union won't recognize it yet. #AU still in #Gaddafi's pocket.
Must See Video: #Libya #Freedomfighters claim victory in #BinJawad http://youtu.be/7n5-l9GIq9s #Feb17
#Libya: Even if Seif & #Gaddafi escape #Libya, they will have to hide every day of their lives, NO place safe in the world for them.
Whatever the cost, #Gaddafi CANNOT be allowed to hold out indefinitely OR split #Libya. Reports of thousands of his filth there
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Witnessed very organised artillery fire from the rebel forces today on outskirts of bin Jawad #Libya
Via Aljazeera
A ship carrying ammunition for the Libyan rebels fighting for control of the coastal road, west of Tripoli to the Tunisian border, blew up on Saturday at Zuwara port.
A huge plume of smoke could be seen rising over the town and smoke was billowing from the burning ship behind a sea breakwater at the port. - Reuters
One4All4One
I'm told it was an accident, thankfully, there were no injuries.
Telegraph
Human slaughterhouse discovered in Tripoli Rebel forces mopping up the last remnants of Gaddafi regime resistance in Tripoli have discovered a warehouse containing the charred skeletons of scores of prisoners killed and burned as troops fled. Residents who live nearby the site, near the southern Tripoli headquarters of Libya's most feared military unit, the Khamis Brigade, loyal to Col Gaddafi's youngest son, say they heard the sounds of shooting and explosions on Tuesday evening.
They were unable to leave their homes to investigate while fighting in the area continued, but on Friday night rebel forces captured the base and drove out the remaining fighters. Yesterday morning, residents and rebel forces moved in to discover the still-warm remains of at least 53 people.
Full art.:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8727498/Human-slaughterhouse-discovered-in-Tripoli.html
Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
Managed to liberate the Sky News equipment from the #Rixos today, with a little help from colleagues at CBS - very weird being back there
The #Rixos is now being run by a group of rebels - nothing of note has been damaged, they claim it is being cleaned up ready to be reopened
SHAKIR'S CAR AGAINST TREE!!
Yousef Shakir was the key mouthpiece on Libyan State TV - here's a pic of his car crashed outside the liberated #Rixos
http://twitpic.com/6c72po
fieldproducer Neal Mann
Rebels have set up extra check points to check for any pro Gaddafi supporters leaving Bin Jawad
hominoid555 whitewakbar
30 Ugandan pilots missing in Libya. sundayvision.co.ug/detail.php?mai…
Lanka-Libya company sacks workers. http://www.sundaytimes.lk/110828/News/nws_06.html
sharifkouddous Sharif Kouddous
Applause and cheers from some spectators as NTC is recognized as new representing Libya. Revolutionary flag goes up #Arableague
hominoid555 whitewakbar
Why this is the moment Libya's Islamic extremists have prayed for, Who writes these headlines !
Noit
Non-Libyans of course!
Why would we want to replace one dictator with another?
Western press should know better by now!
We want democracy and peace, we are very moderate people, we always have been.
We want to rebuild our country together into a democratic Libya where we all can live without fear. No place for extremists here.
jamesmatesitv James Mates
Street sweeping and refuse collection on streets of #Tripoli this evening. Combined with lack of looting, great signs of civic pride
RichardJSpencer Richard Spencer
Saw 53 charred skeletons in a shed, 3 shot bodies outside, 18 more being bagged a few miles away, in #Tripoli #Libya. Khamis's last revenge.
WMCLibya WMCLibya
the @WMCLibya team arrived in #Tunisia last night en-route 2 #Tripoli, #Libya with huge pallet of medical consumables 2 help with crisis 1/3
In Tunis they spent all of today finalising purchases of extrernal fixators, anaesthetic agents & pain killers #Tripoli #Libya #Tunisia 2/3
There is also a pallet of medication ready 4 transport in #Tunisia in addition to 2 vascular sets which r desperately needed in #tripoli 3/3
we aim to deliver these goods by tomorrow to #Tripoli, thank you 4 ur continued support u can donate by going to is.gd/nkuUD8 #Libya
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
Defaced poster from Gaddafi 40th anniversary. 42nd Anniversary of his coup would have been in few days yfrog.com/h2zr5sgvj ##LIBYA
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
Filling up with water in Tripoli yfrog.com/meow4j ##LIBYA
TheElephantAnne Matt
Any Arabic speakers looking for adventure? I am off to tripoli to sort out gaddafi zoo and need a translator!
septimius_sever septimius severus
Among the Loyalists: Despite Defeat, Admiration for #Gaddafi ti.me/r2V3LW .... #Libya
Libya: Fewer abuses in #Zuwara, under opposition control : Bikya Masr | Independent news for the world: http://bikyamasr.com/28805/libya-fewer-abuses-in-zuwara-under-opposition-control/#.TllkuwUT2wE.twitter ... #Libya
NickKristof Nicholas Kristof
Libyans were kicked around by Qaddafi for so long, AU should say "enough!"
CS MONITOR
Libyan boy starts his own news agency, elbowing past foreign correspondents Malik Mohamed, a slight boy armed with an official press pass, pushes his way through hordes of experienced foreign correspondents to interview rebel officials for the Brega News Agency. Since the uprising began in Libya six months ago, hundreds of foreign reporters have descended on the rebel capital in the east. In the midst of them, at nearly every press conference held by the opposition council, one can find Malik Mohamed, a slight 14-year-old who has started his own news agency.
Malik looks much younger than his age, but he holds his own amid all the experienced foreign correspondents, wearing his official press pass and pushing his way through hordes of journalists to get photos and ask questions of rebel officials. After a recent press conference by the rebels’ military spokesman, Malik followed him down the hall,
where the official put his arm on the youth’s shoulders and engaged him in a private chat.
Full story:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2011/0826/Libyan-boy-starts-his-own-news-agency-elbowing-past-foreign-correspondents
A Libyan Freedom Fighter hands the Syrian flag in Bab al-Aziziya on August 25, 2011. #Libya #Syria http://twitpic.com/6c6upc via @bunbunbunnyy
septimius_sever septimius severus
Libyan Rebels Pursue Gaddafi Loyalists Believed to Be Hiding in Beni Walid bloom.bg/puE7OL .... #Libya
#Libya moves forward as fighting subsides news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-…
#AbuSalim Carpet's market burned !! youtube.com/watch?v=Ni6G-T… ... #Libya
A man paints the Libyan flag on a door in #Zuwarah, West Libya, yesterday | View photo - Yahoo! http://yhoo.it/qDZ5Us (AFP) #Libya
#Tripoli, #Libya .. A boy rode a bicycle through the cell blocks of the #AbuSalim Prison by @bdentonphoto pic.twitter.com/589fqkI
Libya_Awake_United
Its over, don't wait what NTC will provide for you, this mentality has to change, act now help with the most you can. You help the NTC!
OmarAmer
Sirte: Gaddafi loyalists control the local radio, the civilians have 2 deal with electrical cuts etc 2 limit what they see on tv etc #Libya
libyanandproud
Libyans do not recognize Jacob Zuma as the legitimate representative of the South African people !
Jeel
AU = Bitter, party of one. Their sugar daddy just got ousted. Id be pissed too
Omar Mukhtar
Hassan Tatanaki was Saif's boy. Way to go bro.....good 180 degrees.
Alex
#NTC r distributing cooking gas in #Tripoli - & have ordered bulk fuel supplies 2 power water pumps - & get water pipes working again #Libya
“There will never be a movie made - about liberation of #Tripoli - that does not feature @AlexCrawfordSky ”
KING #Muammar THE MORONIC & PRINCE #Saif THE PSYCHO: “At a suitable time all the tribal leaders and high ranking figures should come together to salute #Gaddafi and make him king or emperor.”
Such a plan would have allowed the 69-year old dictator, who overthrew King Idris in 1969 in a military coup, to handover power to one of his seven sons within a constitutional framework.”
OMG “ KING GADDAFI”, can you imagine that? EWWWWWWW!
http://shabablibya.org/news/libya-col-gaddafi-was-secretly-plotting-to-make-himself-king
MERCENARIES GET THE MESSAGE - & leave #Libya - some cross over border in 10 truck convoys - carrying nicked heli parts" http://shabablibya.org/news/gaddafis-african-mercenaries-leaving-libya
Alex
#Sabha FALLING BEFORE #Sirte: It seems that most districts of #Sebha r now controlled by #FF – and although there have been talks seeking a resolution between the #NTC and #Sabha leaders - for the #FF to takeover the city without a fight – this has not been finalized – and the discussion has not stopped #Gaddafi units stationed outside the city – from firing grads into the city – as happened in #Zwara last week & #Misrata from March until early this month.
The Sabha Garrison is located outside the city – but the local Sabha people – have been involved in many past uprisings and protests against the Regime – and always maintained a strong #FF presence since #17Feb
A report was posed this afternoon stating that the #Sabha #FF had “captured 3 female snipers from #Sebha! And one of them is pregnant!”
Other reports said #FF “captured 6 mercenaries – and had restored electricity to the city”
Information is sparse – but restoring utilities – probably taken out by the Regime – implies that the #FF are able to safely control major districts if not most of the city - & that for now the Garrison officers are content to remain safely ensconced in their sanctuary outside the city - regardless of what the #maddog may prefer.
#Libya #Hun, #Ghar, #AlQatrun, #Awbari, #Adiri
#Sirte not yet sorted - East #Libya #FF r not far away - but Sirte has moved the front eastwards up the coast road.
Rubbish cleared - Police on duty -Shops opening- Gun signs up - #Tripoli ple show same commitment to civil government as #Benghazi - #Libya
Alex
RANT FOR THE REGIME: Like the dictator of her country of origin - #Algeria - she habitually insults the #Libya people – with the #AlQueda slander – suggesting as recently as last week on SKY – as #Tripoli was falling - to the overwhelming acclaim of the citizenry - that the revolution was controlled by #AlQueda
Like all Gaddafi loyalists - she opposed the #UN intervention in Libya – and in fact she is on record for consistently supporting almost all regime positions on the revolution:
Art. and video:
http://alexblx.posterous.com/rant-for-the-regime
Alex
I predicted that #Gaddafi would execute #TripoliPrisoners - once #Tripoli was falling - But reality shocks. #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=LLbO9Z…
or:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLbO9ZrIk-0&feature=youtu.be
“Saif received me in a private suite in Mayfair's Connaught Hotel” - PASS THE VOMIT BAG - @NabilaRamdani SUCKS UP TO #Saif:
“Saif's Anglophile views should not be discounted as a stunt cooked up by his newly hired PR firm. It was only last year that he completed his doctorate in Governance at London School of Economics.
He is imbued with unremittingly liberal ideas about the future of his country and the redistribution of its estimated £65bn in energy-wealth profits.
A desire to turn Libya into a modern democracy based on the rule of law is expressed at every opportunity, with Saif always highlighting economic progress over dogma.
Saif's reforming record to date is certainly impressive.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/10/saif-al-islam-gaddafi-libya #Libya
This #Rixos minder - captured by #Tripoli #FF 2day - was actually much less violent to #EmanObeidi than others - http://twitpic.com/6c7lfg
Libya In Me
One of Misrata's weaponry inventions used in the fall of Bab Al-Aziziyah :) youtube.com/watch?v=teo7Ho… #Epic #Libya
or:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teo7HozJUuQ
ROFL:
robcrilly Rob Crilly
sign of the times: Benghazi hotel gift shop now sells Thuraya chargers
Sirtawi
Hassan Drouy: There's a great possibility that #Juffra will be liberated b4 #Sirte creating a southern front line to the city. #Libya #Feb17
TalentCoop
respect for the'Rebels' and Libyan people grows daily. God bless them in their quest for freedom - total respect.
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
!!!!! The Libyan telecom & technology website ltt.ly is now flying the freedom flag :) New chapter inshallah! #libya
MUST READ:
Skyman64
Alex Crawford's Edinburgh Q&A Session In Full Below is the full transcript of Sky News special correspondent Alex Crawford's question and answer session at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh Television Festival. I’m joined on the stage now by Alex’s body double, the international editor of Sky News and she is here just in case the line to Tripoli goes down. My nightmare for this session is that Colonel Gaddafi is found when we’re on air because then Sky will take back their dish and I will find myself in the slightly uncomfortable position of saying ladies and gentlemen, let’s go live now to Sky News which for a BBC [man] will be a slightly odd experience. But let us go live now to Tripoli to the three times and surely four times RTS winner, Sky News’ Special Correspondent Alex Crawford. Alex, hi, how are you.
Please read more:
http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16058071
sarasidnerCNN Sara Sidner
Leaving Tripoli along the coastal road and up through Zintan. Clearly the opposition has full control of those roads. Easy journey
DerekStoffelCBC Derek Stoffel
Amazing 2 go out and talk to ordinary Libyans. So generous and genuinely excited 2 talk 2 foreign reporters - couldn't do so before. #Libya
Khalifa
Nice to see a sane person representing #Libya. #Jibril at the AL meeting.
#Jibril: We thank the countries that helped us and we understand and forgive the ones that did not.
#Libya Alahrar TV: #Gadhafi is the main source of support for Alshabab terrorist organization in Somalia.Alshabab is affiliated with alqaeda
NOIT
The Libyan people hate Al Qaeda!
It was the Gaddafi clan that supported Al Qaeda, with the money they stole from our people!
Libyan people are peaceful people who want to live in a free Libya.
Tarek
We want open borders w/ Tunisia, Libya and any other country that overthrows its regime. Travel, Trade, etc youthfriday
LibyaInMe Libya In Me
Look at all these kids enjoying Aisha Gaddafi's pool like they should ;) youtube.com/watch?v=gkbU4J… #Libya
N_Benghazi ن
EW. on another note, is it not the weirdest thing that Gaddafi SWIMS? it's like he's a real human or something...
MISSING: Dr. Tareq Salem Sherif. Born 1972. Missing since June 3/11. If you have any info please call 00218926911775 http://pic.twitter.com/1b3Y1qp
#NTC spokesman #ShamsiddinAbdulmolah: They've identified 2 ppl who actually carried out #Younis assassination but cant find them #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#Benghazi A family member said #Younes' grave had to be guarded and sealed with cement after an attempt to dig up the corpse
LPC #Tripoli A number of snipers caught today on Jumahurya Street.
Rockets, gunfire and the kindness of strangers - Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8727419/Rockets-gunfire-and-the-kindness-of-strangers.html .... #Libya
Libya: celebrations in Al-Jamil http://twitpic.com/6c8r0t http://twitpic.com/6c8r17 western Libya
Bullet proof car of Gaddafi damanged in fighting in Bab al-Aziziya, #Tripoli Aug 27 #Libya http://twitpic.com/6c1c2p via @twitpic
Libya rebels from Benghazi embarking http://twitpic.com/6c1d55 http://twitpic.com/6c1d7w to reinforce in capital Tripoli Aug 27
FromJoanne Joanne
#Nato bombed the Head quarters bunker of Gaddafi in #Sirte
Tripoli while FF are still fighting Gaddafi Goons in #Gargour traffic is flowing and life slowly goes back to normal #Libya
#FF Commander Fawzi Bukatif: We are waiting for the people in #Sirte to come out and talk but we've got no answer up to now
libyanandproud
#Tripoli : BenAshour : Spoke to 1 of my neighbors that escaped from AbuSleem, he was arrested with 3 brothers and 9 relatives. #Feb17 #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI Looting appears to be confined to the mansions and armories of the Gaddafi Family Most homes + businesses hv been unscathed #Libya
#LIBYA MAP updated Aug 27 : twitpic.com/6c8iwr/full by @Libyamap
#Tripoli #NTC Farage sayeh : NTC Preparing rehabilitation and reconciliation program to get flood of weapons off the streets #Libya
#NTC Farage Sayeh : Problem with #TRIPOLI ElectricalPowerSupply= Technicians approaching central control room came under gunfire #Libya
#TRIPOLI Weather forecast for tomorrow 37 °C No Water some areas No Power #Libya goo.gl/uCUHC
#URGENT Qualified #DOCTORS able 2 go 2 #Libya plz EMAIL libyanemergencyaid@gmail.com w/CV & availability ASAP #Sponsorship #Available PLZ RT
During her interrogation Hala Misrati said that from Febr 2 June she had been forced 2sleep @TV cont; tl.gd/cmo9ih
Tripoli_Latest
Hearing more and more #Tripoli residents speaking of desire to abandon weapons and start cleaning/building....
Electricty just returned to shouts of joy and singing "Ma3leshi (too bad)...shafshoofa".... #Tripoli.
walked all the way from soug al joma to martyrs square.... i didnt see a single damaged ATM. #Tripoli
Government buildings and regime locations have been ransacked. But no private property or homes have been looted in #Tripoli to my knowledge
Most people displeased by the ransacking of government buildings. Appears to be a minority doing the looting. #Tripoli
Residents still waiting for public announcement on water issue. Wondering why the NTC is running slow..... #Tripoli
Residents wondering where the transitional police force is that was supposed to take to the streets post regime fall. #Tripoli
NGOs have brought people to tripoli from bengazi. They may take people out if on route to tunisia.
"Victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be" Winston Curchill