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SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 26th 2011
9/26/11
9.26.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/L763S
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Sat Night: RAF aircraft struck a command & control installation, a psychological warfare centre & 3 firing points & staging posts. #Libya
In 1 case an inert Paveway bomb with concrete replacing the explosive charge, was used to destroy a target without risking collateral damage
Sun pm: A staging post, known from NATO surveillance analysis to be used by mercenary forces, was attacked by a formation of Tornado GR4s.
Given current situation in Libya, NATO & UK have agreed that HMS Ocean & her helicopter detachment can be released from Op Unified Protector
HMS Ocean is offloading equipment in Souda Bay and in due course will proceed through the Suez Canal en route to the Red Sea.
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
My photo at Bani Walid front line with the commander of the Zintan fighters/revolutionaries
yfrog.com/h799f6j #Libya #Feb17
Libyans debate future, but after being stifled so long, words don’t come easily – The National
shar.es/HLufH #Libya #Feb17
FromJoanne Joanne
Mahmoud #Jibril There are 50,000 ppl Injured incl 1,700 amputees #Libya Need pay bills? Call +216 71 9650 38 /40 /44 /49 Contact @TFMLibya
derek_brower Derek Brower
Idea for Tripoli’s youth: how about you leave the trigger on your Kalashnikov alone for a while?
LibyanBentBladi Asma Magariaf
Alj report on discovery of #Abu Salim bodies shows one guard of site unearthing remains w/ bare hands.. where is the NTC??this is not right!
EgyptAir to resume flights to #Libya next week Reuters
bit.ly/qUV412 via @addthis
architarik:
LNot surprised many theoretic doubters of #Feb17 rev r frm vry comfortabl Western democracies. Never faced oppression!
Le Figaro
Libye:exactions de mercenaires à Syrte
Des mercenaires africains menaient des exactions à Syrte en représailles à l’assaut lancé hier par les combattants du nouveau régime libyen contre un des derniers bastions de Mouammar Kadhafi, a déclaré un habitant qui a fui la ville.
“Il y a des mercenaires africains qui errent dans le ville. Ils tirent sur les habitations avec des armes anti-aériennes dans le premier district”, en bordure ouest de la ville, a-t-il déclaré à l’AFP par téléphone, tout en refusant de donner son nom par peur de représailles contre sa famille restée à Syrte. “Je pense qu’ils se vengent”, a-t-il ajouté, soulignant que 80% des habitants de Syrte sont originaires de Misrata (est).
Full art.:
www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2011/09/25/9...
4Adam Adam
Interview with the Libyan pilots who refused Gaddafi orders to bomb Benghazi and fled with their jets to Malta
youtube.com/watch?v=OkNnrv… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkNnrvus7KM
Anaya
Réponse d’un Libyen à #Sarkozy après résultats Sénat RT @libyans_revolt whatever!! Sarko, u’ll never walk alone.. Libyan FFs r with you. :)
NATO
NATO strikes shield civilians in Sirte
In the last twenty-four hours, NATO aircraft, as part of Operation Unified Protector struck a series of targets Qadhafi forces used in order to threaten the civilian population of Sirte. Among the targets were: an ammunition storage facility, an anti aircraft gun, a command and control node, and two armed vehicles.
NATO has employed careful planning and precision munitions as we have done throughout the campaign.
In recent days some open-source and intelligence and dozens of eyewitness accounts in Sirte have described worsening conditions precipitated by Qadhafi forces. The brutal nature of their acts, signify a defunct regime in its final days.
Among the reports emerging from Sirte are executions, hostage-taking, and the calculated targeting of individuals, families, and communities within the city. Hundreds of families are being prevented from their desired evacuation by the absence of safety and fuel. Other resources required for survival including water, medicine, and food are in short supply or denied to civilians. Mercenaries roam the streets and civilians lack access to outside information. These conditions have persisted for days while Qadhafi forces maintain control likely resulting in a severe situation.
NATO Operation Unified Protector commenced in order to protect civilians and civilian-populated areas under United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973.
Libyan NTC fighters wounded in Sirte battle
Fighters for Libya’s new rulers tightened their stranglehold on Sirte after thrusting into the centre of Moamer Kadhafi’s hometown, and one of his last bastions, backed by NATO strikes. As they rolled in, ambulances sped out carrying those wounded in small arms firefights.Duration: 00:35
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rfq3czodyE&fea...
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte looks to become like #Misrata already all buildings in main street are damaged #Libya
Mass grave Abu Saleem
Moez
Libyan forensics team highly skilled and working to exhume according to international standards with international observers
they’re not digging this particular grave yet. We do have expertise – PHR visit said exceptional team
the forensic lab team from #tripoli are there. They are considerably capable of dealing with it appropriately
I know forensics team were definitely there. Should have made site secure
FromJoanne Joanne
I also read that family members are picking through the sand actually picking up bones #Libya #AbuSalim
Free Libya ♔☾✰
Muatassim #Gaddafi Command Center in #Sirte was in basement of main hospital. #libya
Joanne
#Mahmoud #Jibril (Mahmoud Gebril ElWarfally) longtime friend Close associate of #OMAG goo.gl/8bhlw owns 6% in US InvestmentComp
Hayat
#Ghadames was under attack by #Gaddafi leftover forces, really well armed. Guess why? Treatcherous #Algeria striked again! DUH! #Feb17
Tell me, who is really loved here?
Anaya
This is another poor man, dominated by a woman, treated like a common beast of burden. This woman has no consideration!
lefigaro.fr/medias/2011/09…
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
My photo with the Zintan fighters on the Bani Walid front line “Revolution Continues” yfrog.com/h8wgj3j #Libya #Feb17
My photo with another Libyan revolutionary brigade on the front line of Bani Walid yfrog.com/h7xfg5j
In Tripoli- Love your city, very nice straight up people. Yalla waiting for you.
Huge Libyan independence flag waives yfrog.com/o0b0ggj on the Bani Walid front line- " Hoping the best to the free Libyans"
Reuters:
members of #Libya’s #NTC are leaning towards putting plans for a new caretaker gov on hold because they cannot agree on a line-up.
Hana S.
My cousins left in two cars from #Sirte earlier today. Due to bombing they parted ways. No word of their whereabouts yet. #SirteCrisis
Gihan Badi
Reuters: EgyptAir will resume flights 2 #Libya next week, 7mnths after the airline suspended operations to its #Arab neighbour #Libya #feb17
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Revolutionary fighters around Bani Walid are in high spirits- yet the town is extremely loyal to Gadafi according to them
4Adam Adam
The ppl who restored electricity and water to the capital were Tripoli’s patriots. Plz, give the credit to them and stop glorifying the NTC.
libyanfsl
Ali Sussi passed away yesterday, spent several years in AbuSleem prison, was freed last month, died in car accident on way to battle front
Libya_United Libya_
The idea of Dictatorship still stuck in ppl’s mind, Otherwise it wouldn’t be that much struggle for chairs in the transitional Government
Hussein Massoud chairman of #EgyptAir said First Flight from #Cairo 2 #Benghazi would fly on Sunday Oct.2
Libya goo.gl/gT7dE
khalidalbaih khalid
Dear NATO, #AliSalih is as bad as Gaddafi but we have no oil. Can you please come help us. Yours, #Yemen people
S K
#libya is officially libya now not libya arab jumbalaya :p :) #feb17
Rubicon
Some amazing stories of Libyan pilots salvaging the airplanes at Tripoli Airport #Libya
Apparently they had to keep the fuel in them at 30% and turn the engine on every 2 weeks to reset the computers and such #Libya
The senior captain here is an old face who I’ve always had convos with, such an epic guy…is currently heading the assessment for airports
said the Libyan fleet based in Tripoli is 64 planes, though some of them are stuck at Toulouse and Hamburg.
in Toulouse thru some loophole are nt actually registered as Libyan planes, are getting them back, while hamburg ones r frozen assets
There are issues with Libyan pilots licenses, since they expire if you don’t fly for 6 months, they got some contract with Turkey to help
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Emotional day for many in Libya w/ discovery of mass grave believed 2 hold remains of 1200 inmates killed by guards @ Abu Salim jail in 1996
The 1996 Abu Salim prison massacre looms large in the Libyan imagination. Today’s discovery part of Libya’s painful reckoning with its past
Sirtawi
#FFs closing in on #Sirte as hundreds of families have fled the city.
Number 1 and 2 residential areas said to have been liberated today after heavy fighting. Reports of clashes now near #Sirte harbour.
Please read:
Abu Saleem horrific story:
Derek Brower
“I took gifts to my brother in Abu Salim for nine years and then they told me he’d been dead all along”
Libyans today starting digging up a mass grave underneath Tripoli’s Abu Salim prison, scene of one of Gaddafi’s most notorious acts: the massacre in 1996 of 1,700 inmates, many of them dissidents.
The picture above (taken today by Eric Kampherbeek, the photographer I’m in Libya with right now) is of Abdel Hakim Gheit, who was 28 when he was shot dead inside the jail.
Gheit was sent to Abu Salim, his brother Abdul Basset told me, because he took a trip to Dubai and came back wearing a beard. Like that other crazy autocrat, Russia’s Peter the Great, colonel Gaddafi didn’t like beards, because they signified someone’s religiosity. (Not surprisingly, you see a lot of rebels sporting beards in Libya these days.)
Read more:
derekbrower.tumblr.com/post/10656594470...
bunbunbunnyyy ارنوبة بنغازي ♥
Benghazi’s Talented Street Artists: #Benghazi is buzzing.It feels like a city waking up from years of repression kelvinbrownimages.com/benghazis-tale… #Libya
HRIMark HRI Mark
Hospital interrogation:
youtube.com/watch?v=SLQNsP… #libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLQNsPbG7kY
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Reports of Mass Grave to be Investigated
alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… Video #Libya #NTC #UN
Please read:
Imtidad
Prison Tales (By: Omar Abulqasem al-Kikli)
Omar al-Kikli is a prominent Libyan short story writer, from a generation of Libyan writer that suffered greatly under Gaddafi regime. He was one of a new generation of Libyan writers in the early in 1970’s that came onto the literary scene full of hope and new styles and ideas, only to be imprisoned for a decade, accused of plotting to topple the Gaddafi regime.
These are a sample of a collection of short stories named (Sejneyat), written to commemorate two decades of his release from prison in 1988; they are a testament of the years he spent with fellow Libyan writers and intellectuals in different Gaddafi prisons.
www.imtidad-blog.com/2011/09/prison-tal...
IbnOmar2005
linktumi.deviantart.com/art/libya-2569… beautiful photograph of the arch of marcus aurelius in #tripoli #libya
LOOOOL #Gaddafi #Libya
pic.twitter.com/koAAEdy3
Nouvel Observateur
Libye: les volontaires désertent le front de Bani Walid
WADI DINAR, Libye (AP) — La lassitude gagne les combattants de la révolution libyenne restés combattre à Bani Walid, l’un des derniers bastions des fidèles de Moammar Kadhafi. Confrontés à une résistance farouche, de plus en plus de volontaires quittent le front, découragés par la désorganisation et le manque de munitions dans leurs propres rangs.
Plusieurs semaines après la chute de Tripoli, Bani Walid, à environ 140km au sud-est de la capitale, reste imprenable. Les forces du Conseil national de transition (CNT) se sont heurtées aux défenses naturelles de cette ville de 100.000 habitants, située en travers d’une vallée montagneuse. Mais depuis près d’un mois, le siège a surtout confirmé le désarroi des troupes révolutionnaires, qui mêlent des militaires relativement organisés et des légions de volontaires sous-entraînés.
Full art.:
tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualite/monde...
Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
Kudos to the Libyan women.. Check out Libyan Female Doctors Association facebook.com/pages/Libyan-F… v @Hend_ElSherif
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Blogs: Arab Revolts and the Western role goo.gl/I9UxM
#Libya conflict may cost #UK £1.75bn
gu.com/p/326cz/tw
Lisa
#FreeLibya #PrayforFreedomFighters #prayforlibya #prayforSirte!! Almost there #Libya :) Stay safe everyone! #Feb17
Ghazi Gheblawi
Petition for greater representation of Libyan women in the #NTC and future governmental institutions
bit.ly/ovt58z #Libya #Feb17
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Italy’s ENI, an Italian multinational oil and gas company, says is resuming oil production in #Libya
Libyan4life
Finding the mass grave of Abu Sleem will answer so many questions and break so many hearts. #Libya #Gaddaficrimes
Libyan4life
#YouKnowYoureLibyanWhen You go grocery shopping and come back with: Tomato paste, Tuna, Macaroni, Figs and bunches of parsley&cilantro
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
UK prosecutors ask Libya’s NTC for #Lockerbie help
Nigerian Tribune
Immigration arrests 100 suspected mercenaries from Libya
THE Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), in Kaduna, has arrested over 100 suspected mercenaries from Libya.
They were suspected to have fled the country and arrived in Kaduna through the Niger-Nigeria border at the weekend, after the fall of the regime of Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi.
The suspects, according to an eyewitness, arrived in the state at about 2.00 p.m. on Friday looking exhausted and unkempt.
According to the eyewitness, “as they filed through heavily armed Immigration officials at the Kaduna zonal office of the Nigerian Immigration Service(NIS),they were made to sit on the ground on the premises right in front of the office of the Zonal Comptroller under the watch of heavily armed officials while documentation procedure went on.”
The suspects were said to be with some members of their families, including children, and were conveyed in two luxury buses.
“One of the suspects, who craved for anonymity, said that they had been wandering in the desert for the past three weeks before they were apprehended by the Immigration officials at the Niger-Nigeria border. He said they left Libya and wandered in the desert before their arrest and subsequent conveyance to Kaduna from the Niger-Nigeria border.
However, newsmen were told that the command needed to obtain clearance from Abuja and liaise with other relevant security agencies, particularly, the State Security Service(SSS), Police and the Army before speaking with the press.
Source:
tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-new...
Pan Armenian
Russian mercenaries fight for Muammar Gaddafi?
In a press conference in New York, within the frames of the 66th regular session of the General Assembly, UN, Libya’s TNC head Mahmoud Jibril announced that Muammar Gaddafi regime fighters include mercenaries from Russia.
UN press service broadcasted Jibril’s speech. “We have everything from Africa, from Arab countries, Serbia, Ukraine, Russia. Gadaffi still has a lot of money, and he has bought a lot of mercenaries,” according to Jibril. He added that he cannot say the exact number of foreign mercenaries fighting for the Jamahiriya leader.
Earlier media repeatedly reported of mercenaries from Ukraine, Belarus fighting for Libya’s leader. However, there were no such reports of Russians. In Septemeber 2011 Russia’s FM stated that TNC detained two Russian citizens, suspected of repairing tanks in Gadaffi’s army.
Source:
www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/79118
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Anti-Qaddafi fighters encircle Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte from the east, south and west. #NATO warplanes pound the city for a 3rd day
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
Reuters #Scottish prosecutors ve contacted #Libya #NTC 4help in tracking down info which could lead 2others charged over #Lockerbie bombing
Reuters #Tripoli Univ asking #LondonSchool of Economics to return money pledged by #SaifAslam #Gaddafi & investigate other similar cases
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
#CNN Gadhafi graffiti appears in Libya tiny.cc/hf541 #Shafshofa #Feb17
Hana S.
G loyalists are by far the only ppl who r left there that didn’t want to leave or lay down their weapons. #Sirte
JohnDelaGuardia John D. Dela Guardia
Saw a long queue of vehicles leaving the town of #Sirte…
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
doing business with our ex friend Gaddafi Tony Blair #Libya bit.ly/qpiNPJ
FromJoanne Joanne
#ITV Documentary tonight shows how #Gaddafi send $2 million 2Terrorist groups believed 2b used2 attack UK #CreateUnrest goo.gl/Mru0A
#Nato went 2 town yesterday They Hit 8 #Gaddafi terrorist Targets yesterday after ordering #NTC fighters 2 withdraw from #Sirte #Libya
Col #Bani says they Intercepted Call between #Mutasim Gaddafi organising the fighting inside #Sirte and #Saif alIslam in #BaniWalid #Libya
#Libya Conflict may cost UK £1.75 bn goo.gl/AR1gD almost 7 times more then Government estimated #Libya
#London conference this morning on Future 4UK businesses in #Libya #NTC delegation will b there #Guma #elGamaty 2deliver keynote Speech
#Sirte NTC fighters are regrouping Preparing for new attack after #Nato softened up Hit various sites in #Sirte
reut.rs/qyXqlp #Libya
In #Sirte a DR Accused #NTC Fighters of making civilians suffer Dr was using the mobile telephone of #Gaddafi spokesman Musa Ibrahim #Libya
The Dr might hv been forced by Musa Ibrahim to make that call #Libya #Sirte
its likely DR in #Sirte was forced by Musa Ibrahim to make call otherwise he would have used his own phone #Libya
#NTC cannot begin process of holding elections Wrangling over ministerial portfolios prevented them from forming caretaker government #Libya
#REAL #NEWS a well kept secret ; Musa #Ibrahim says #Gaddafi is Poor and Honest goo.gl/LvaHQ #Libya
#Tripoli University asked #London #SchoolofEconomics 2 return Stolen £££ from #Libya ppl ) The money pledged by Saif alIslam #Gaddafi #Libya
Inside a Gaddafi compound in Tripoli
Muammar Gaddafi, the toppled Libyan leader, left behind numerous houses and compounds in Tripoli, Libya’s capital, after being ousted from the city by a popular uprising.
In this Al Jazeera exclusive, Sue Turton explores the insides of a hidden compound once owned by Gaddafi in Tripoli.
Sue Turton
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuAYeZE-b2U&fea...
FromJoanne Joanne
#Scotland prosecutors askd #NTC 2help Crown find Documentary Evidence & Witnesses which could assist in ongoing #Lockerbie enquiries #Libya
#Reports now that hundreds of cars Streaming out of #Sirte Ppl say Gaddafi forces try 2prevent them many escaped through farmland #Libya
#Sirte residents who were completely cutoff from world due2 no communications and managed to escape are in shock to hear most of #Libya free
#Qatar #Airways to Resume Flights on October 24 to #Libya
NTC fighters pull back from Sirte
NATO warplanes are backing up Libyan fighters who are trying to capture Muammar Gaddafi’s home city of Sirte.
For a few hours on Saturday – anti Gaddafi forces were within touching distance of the city centre.
But they were driven back by heavy fire from snipers, mortars and artillery.
Zeina Khodr reports from outside Sirte.Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBq_XYKSFfg&...
FromJoanne Joanne
#BREGA Gaddafi’s troops planted 6,000 mines on local popular beach #NTC captured officer Incl his maps so they roughly able 2track locations
The Seattle Times
Oil workers saved key parts of Libya’s lifeblood
BREGA, Libya — When Moammar Gadhafi’s loyalists fled this sprawling refinery and petrochemical complex in late August, shortly after Tripoli fell, they left behind lethal “forget-me-nots” for the revolutionaries who unseated him.
There were 40,000 mines, both anti-personnel and anti-tank. A minefield still surrounds the town, and 6,000 mines were planted on what had been a popular beach. The grounds are littered with shells filled with explosives, plant officials said.
Read more:
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationwo...
CBS News
Mass grave reveals 1996 Libyan massacre
TRIPOLI, Libya — A bone wrapped with rope and skull fragments scattered over a cactus-covered desert field are grim testament to a 1996 massacre of more than 1,200 prisoners by Muammar Qaddafi’s regime.
Libyan officials announced Sunday they have found the site of a mass grave believed to hold the remains of the victims after capturing former security guards who revealed its location as well as receiving witness accounts.
Excavation has not begun in the field outside the white walls of the notorious Abu Salim prison, although several bone fragments and pieces of clothing already have been found in the top soil.
Read more:
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/25/5013...
PHOTOS of #Abu #Salim Mass Grave 1270 former detainees executed in 1996 by #Khalid #Khan plus.google.com/106121822900970376050/p... #Libya
Brown Moses
abu salim bones
i.imgur.com/GhOlz.jpg bovine scapula
i.imgur.com/9p9eG.jpg
FromJoanne Joanne
alFarjani of Military Council #Sirte say Muattasim Gaddafi who is TRAPPED encouraged his men & several of his relatives 2 fight #Libya
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Revolutionaries say they’re fighting near the port of Sirte, in the very centre of the city. #Libya #Sirte #Gaddafi #NTC
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
ONtv: Egypt Air will start flights to Libya from coming sunday.
Regine
#Libya – I Listen now to Libyan women speaking on radio from Tripoli about womens rights in Libya and what they did to help the revolution.
FromJoanne Joanne
alFarjani of Military Council #Sirte say Muattasim Gaddafi who is TRAPPED encouraged his men & several of his relatives 2 fight #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli Expo and a chance to see the beautiful ladies of #Libya :) youtube.com/watch?v=SBUU_H…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBUU_HYWUYI&fea...
Paulo
This is impressive, the first time I saw Libyan youth doing something that has meaning for them, the excitement is in the eyes
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
There are leaflets being spread in Tripoli asking for the resignation of Mahmoud Jibril…while others are dying to liberate other cities.
Tweeting Tripoli
If you had any doubt our Revolution started peacefully then watch this (Benghazi, Feb 15): youtube.com/watch?v=CdXg8r…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdXg8rqFcTs&fea...
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Algeria has been complaining for months about ‘potential unrest’, then allows Gaddafi forces to use its territory to attack Libya. #Libya
I have a feeling it will take months, not weeks, before NTC has terrritorial control. Armed attacks by Gaddafi might continue for years.
More than 2000 Misrata fighters for treatment in Tunisia, 600 of whom in critical condition. They need treatment in Europe, however…
slow visa procedures prevent them from quickly going to France or Germany to receive the necessary treatment. #Libya #Tunisia #Misrata
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya NATO continuing to hit trysts in #Sirte
#Libya NATO continuing to hit targets in #Sirte
#libya Anti gaddafi fighters holding their positions at the west and south of #Sirte
#libya Hundreds of cars streaming out of west #Sirte, families fleeing … Many say they drove through farmlands to avoid gaddafi’s forces
malonebarry Barry Malone
Libya’s NTC readies new push into Sirte | Reuters reut.rs/mSdxzv #Libya
Quiet at Bani Walid again so far today, our team say. Expectation that Sirte will continue to be the focus of NTC military effort #Libya
Our reporters there: NATO planes over Sirte. NTC hitting it with tanks on west side. Advance from east is within about 10kms now #Libya
Sirtawi
4th aid convoy laden with food supplies reached #Sirte today. #FFs managed to pass in aid to some of the liberated areas in city. #FreeSirte
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli #Germany Embassy opened its doors again Functions in the embassy will be restored over time #Rainer #Eberle new Ambassador 2 #Libya
#BREGA #NTC Finance & #oil Trahouni: Gaddafi troops destroyed small businesses and killed all livestock but OilRefinery was protected #Libya
Generating station in #Brega employees said they ate slept lived there just 2make sure no one else could take it over #Libya
AP The Associated Press
#NATO pounds targets around #Gadhafi’s hometown as it’s besieged by #Libyan revolutionary forces.apne.ws/idMWwt -MM
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
#CNN Thousands abandon Libyan town tiny.cc/gwupx #Twergans #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
#Libyan former PM Al-Mahmudi, arrested in Tunisia & jailed for 6 months for illegal entry, will go to appeal on Tuesday: Justice Ministry
Aljazeera:
Libya has resumed oil production for the first time since the revolution, tapping 15 wells and producing some 31,900 barrels per day, Italian energy giant Eni said Monday.
Eni said production had resumed at the Abu-Attifel fields, about 300km south of the city of Benghazi. Other wells would be reactivated soon to reach the “required volumes to fill the pipeline” between the Abu-Attifel field and the Zuetina port.
The operations are being conducted by Mellitah Oil & Gas, a partnership between Eni and Libya’s state-run National Oil Corp.
Before the protests against Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi in mid-February morphed into a full-scale civil war, Eni was producing 273,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in Libya. The country sits atop Africa’s largest proven reserves of conventional crude.
With a small population of only 6mn, Libya raked in $40bn last year from oil and gas exports. Experts say it could take about a year or more to get back to its pre-war production of 1.6mn barrels a day.
Earlier this month, Eni CEO Paolo Scaroni visited Tripoli to lay the groundwork for relaunching gas exports to Italy via the Greenstream pipeline, which can carry roughly 10bn cubic meters of natural gas per year. It hasn’t been operational since late February.
Scaroni has set October 15 as an optimistic deadline to restart the gas flow.
NYT
Former Rebels’ Rivalries Hold Up Governing in Libya
TRIPOLI, Libya — When the fighters who ousted Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi find caches of weapons from his arsenals, they do not entrust them to Libya’s new provisional government. Instead, they haul them back to their hometowns, like Misurata, Zintan, Yafran or Rujban. And when they capture members of the Qaddafi government, the fighters say, they cart them home as well.
Full art.:
www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/world/africa...=all?src=tp
Lisa
#FreeLibya Kenya formally recognizes #NTC….took them long enough! #Feb17 #PrayforFreedomFighters
Anti-T
Gaddafi ordered murder of 1,700 prisoners and acid poured on their bodies. If he is sentenced to hang, perhaps rebels will skip the hanging and go straight to the acid bath.
hominoid555 Russell
FFs from Gheryan find ammunition in the vally of Jafra
youtube.com/watch?v=EzN4Ak…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzN4AkKGkvY&fea...
#Kenya Formally Recognizes #Libya’s NTC:
allafrica.com/c/-4FJG2
DougSaunders Doug Saunders
“5 ridiculous things you probably believe about Islam:” This is not the Cracked Magazine I grew up with.
is.gd/rCLwUX
Reuters
INTERVIEW-Without my men, Tripoli will destabilise-officer
Provincial militia says must stay in Tripoli to keep order
Longer the war goes on, more crime will grow – commander
Zintan force works for conciliation, collects guns
Read more here:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...=RSS&feedName=libyaNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:reuters/AfricaLibyaNews%28News+/Africa/+Libya+News%29&utm_content=Google+Reader&sp=true
Sarah
#Libye : AFP – Les Thuwar resserrent l’étau sur #Syrte, encerclant par l’est et par l’ouest les partisans de Kadhafi dans cette ville.
BFBS
Libya conflict could cost Britain £1.75 billion
The true cost of Britain’s involvement in the Libya conflict could be as high as 1.75 billion pounds; almost seven times more than government estimates.
That’s according to new research by defence analyst Francis Tusa.
It says RAF air strikes against forces remaining loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have continued at an exceptionally high rate, depleting stockpiles of expensive precision weapons the Ministry of Defence will want to replace, which will add to the overall bill.
AJA:
(undated) Members of Ma’dan tribe have handed in their weapons 20km S of #Sirte saying they were given to them by Gaddafi forces.
Malik
just saw a video of a girl being raped by Gforces in front of her dad, she asked her dad to look away he jumped from the balcony, #Libya
Gihan
ملقاة في الصحراء… مخزونات القذافي للكيك الاصفر الصفراء Dumped in the desert .#Gaddafi’s yellowcake stockpile
tgr.ph/pbbc32
The State
Misrata demand for leading role in transition roiling Libya’s politics
BENGHAZI, Libya — Few Libyans dispute that the western city of Misrata suffered devastation and fielded the best fighters in the battle to topple Moammar Gadhafi’s regime, but how those sacrifices are rewarded is one of the main debates stalling the next phase of an interim government.
Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the head of the National Transitional Council, the interim ruling authority, on Saturday stressed that hardship and loss of life during the uprising wouldn’t be a measure for inclusion in the government.
While Abdul Jalil didn’t mention Misrata by name, there was no mistaking the intended target.
Read more:
www.thestate.com/2011/09/24/1984621/bat...
Guysen News
8 membres de la famille Kadhafi auraient trouvé refuge en Egypte Huit membres de la famille du dictateur libyen déchu, Mouammar Kadhafi, ont quitté l’Algérie pour l’Egypte, affirme le journal algérien Al-Khabar. Ils auraient fui la Libye il y a un mois pour se réfugier en Algérie, mais ne se sont finalement pas sentis assez en sécurité, semble-t-il, et ont décidé de passer en Egypte samedi dernier. Aïsha Kadhafi, la fille du raïs libyen, ferait partie du groupe.
English Ahram
Airport security officials deny Gaddafi family arrived in Egypt
Security officials at the Cairo Airport deny Algerian media reports that eight members
of Gaddafi’s family landed in Cairo from Algeria or anywhere else
Security officials in the Cairo Airport have denied Algerian media reports that eight family members of Libya’s ousted leader, Gaddafi, arrived in Egypt with plans to settle down.
“There is no truth to the reports circulated by Algerian media and no one from the Gaddafi family has arrived in Cairo; neither from Algeria nor other countries,” the source said. “Airlines have been given strict instructions that all Libyans entering Egypt should have visas and get security approval from Egyptian embassies before they arrive in the country.”
Algerian media had reported this morning that eight members of the Gaddafi family arrived In Cairo after residing in Algeria during the last period. The Gaddafi family members had allegedly crossed the Libyan border into Algeria after the revolution started.
derek_brower Derek Brower
Just back from #AbuSalim prison and the mass grave outside it. Truly devastating couple of hours. Hope to write something later. #Libya
Sirtawi
PIC: School destroyed in #Zliten. It is said that around 25 schools have been damaged there due to war. #LibyanCrisis pic.twitter.com/qdgSkPeX
CBC
NATO strikes Gadhafi’s hometown in Libya
NATO says warplanes have struck several military targets in Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte as Libyan revolutionary forces besiege the area in an attempt to wear down Gadhafi supporters of the fugitive leader who are holed up inside.
The alliance said Monday that it hit eight targets around Sirte the previous day, including an ammunition and vehicle storage facility, a multiple rocket launcher and
other military sites.
Source:
www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/09/26/...
AmmarParis Ammar ABD RABBO
#Amazigh demand that new name of #Libya does not bear the mention #Arab as in “Libyan Arab Republic” or similar… #Tripoli
Armchair Arab
Jalil is the only one who’s repeatedly mentioned that NTC won’t be allowed to run.
#AJA :
Des milliers de familles quittent la ville de #Syrte due à d’intense combat entre les Thuwar et les forces de #Gaddadfi. #Libye
#AJA Reporter live from Sirte : The Freedom Fighters are ~ at 10kms from the city center. #Libya #Sirte
NATO
Libya: Protecting Tripoli with care and precision
‘’In my opinion the man who built it decided to put it beside the hospital to prevent the security building from being attacked,’’ says Mahnoud the manager of the Al-Hourok Hospital, which specialises in treating burns, in the Tripoli suburb of Cidi Khaleffa.
From behind his neatly organised desk he can peer out and see a scene of destruction. Fifty metres across the road lies the smashed remains of a building which used to be one of Qadhafi’s intelligence centres, reduced to a ruin by a NATO air strike during one dark June night.
Across Tripoli military installations were interspersed throughout the civilian population. Intelligence headquarters and command centres nestled amongst schools and mosques in the patchwork of concrete buildings that make up the capital’s skyline.
This policy of human shielding writ large didn’t count on the accuracy of modern weaponry.
Calm after the storm
Fallen panels from the hospital’s suspended ceiling attest to the violence of the event that the building was subject to, but aside from some broken glass and a few bent door hinges it escaped any serious damage. It’s testament to the skill with which NATO aircraft were able to pinpoint a military target in a sea of civilian buildings.
As peace has returned to Tripoli’s streets it’s given an opportunity to assess the effects of the bombing campaign that the city endured since March. As you talk to civilians who witnessed the bombings their opinions are quite surprising.
“We were very happy,” says Omah now a guard at the hospital for the National Transitional Council (NTC) forces. “This building was the second most important place used to torture, to kill, and hit the people who have been arrested. This is the second most important place after Bab al-Aziziya (Qadhafi’s compound), which is the centre of evil,” he explains.
Weapons dump
Nadia, a psychology teacher who lives in the area of Ain Zara, tells me that there was appreciation for the way that the strike was carried out. “The strike wasn’t done in a heavy-handed way,” she says. “The first strike gave a warning to the residents, so automatically they left their houses. The result, there is no accidents.”
The residential suburb in the southeast of the city was targeted because of the large weapons dump that Qadafi had established in the area. One of many set up under the old regime to house the glut of munitions and arms on which the oil revenues of the country were squandered.
The air strike in Ain Zara resulted in a large secondary explosion throwing shrapnel out into surrounding shops. Yet despite this the locals don’t feel the blame lies with the Alliance. “I blame the government, I don’t blame NATO,” says 52 year-old Yunis. “NATO was striking military targets so our government should have informed us that this location was a target,” he tells us.
Of course there is widespread acknowledgement of the fear that the bombings brought. Nobody wants their neighbourhood to be subject to such actions. “The
children were terrified from the sound of bombing, it was very loud,” says Mahmoud a local resident. “Really this is nothing,” he adds, “as NATO was acting in a positive way to stop Qadhafi’s forces, who were actually bombing the civilians.”
Minimising Collateral Damage
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has spoken of this being the most accurate and careful bombing campaign of its kind ever. Pilots have sought to use the smallest possible weapon to achieve the desired effect and a rigorous chain of command has been put in place to ensure mistakes are not made.
The use of precision and accuracy of modern weapons guided by laser and satellite has proved critical to minimise collateral damage, in some cases only targeting the most threatening sections of military infrastructures.
Mission on track
Of course any war brings with its mistakes, and the claims of the Qadhafi regime of civilian casualties, although widely acknowledged to be extremely unreliable, have to be carefully looked at. NATO acknowledged back in June that a weapons system failure might have caused a bomb to go astray. Yet, NATO’s actions seem to have widespread support amongst the people of Tripoli.
The NATO mission to protect civilians in Libya goes on, and was recently extended by up to 90 days by the North Atlantic Council. The Alliance will look to continue the careful use of military power as the NTC battles for the towns of Sirte and Bani Walid , whose population remains under the threat of the Qadhafi forces .
Sirtawi
Hassan Drouy: Our biggest fear is for families stuck east and south of #Sirte as they might be subject to harm from Gaddafi thugs. #Feb17
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: NATO says HMS Ocean and her helicopter detachment will shortly end their role off coast of Libya
#Libya : NATO says air strikes over Sirte have continued; targets include command
and control base and psychological warfare centre
#Libya : NATO says explosive in one bomb dropped on Sirte replaced with concrete, to destroy target but avoid collateral damage
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Egypt Air will NOT resume its flights to Libya next Sunday or Oct 2 as mentioned in several news agencies.“Will resume shortly though”
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Faez Gebril: wouldnt be a smart choice of Gaddafi family members to go to 25Jan Egypt, Syria d be a better choice if they d leave Algeria
Faez Gebril: Muammar Gaddafi, Saif and Mutasim pay the price now of their foolishness to not have accepted a safe way out a few months ago..
Defected Libyan gen Gebril: We re now very happy that they didn’t accept it. they could have left us with an incomplete Revolution.
liveTripoli
Masha’Allah the streets of #Tripoli are really clean. Not 100% but its quite noticeable. #Libya
AU The West
Foreign embassies opened in Libya
Here are details of foreign embassies that have re-opened in Libya or will soon:
BRITAIN – Britain re-established a full diplomatic presence in the Libyan capital on September 5, seven months after closing its embassy in Tripoli.
CANADA – Canada has re-established its diplomatic mission in Tripoli, government officials said on September 13. Ottawa hoped reopening the mission would help Canadian businesses win contracts as Libya rebuilds.
FRANCE – France opened its embassy in Tripoli on August 29 after a gap of six months.
GERMANY – Germany’s embassy in Libya reopened on September 25. It had closed on March 3 as unrest grew. Germany has had a liaison office in Benghazi since May.
IRAN – Ali Asghar Naseri, the Islamic Republic’s ambassador to Libya, has returned to Tripoli, the foreign ministry said on September 14.
ITALY – Italy reopened its embassy in Libya from September 2, the foreign ministry said.
POLAND – Poland says it reopened its embassy in Tripoli on September 15. It had operated from a temporary location in Benghazi.
ROMANIA – Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi said Romania has received approval from the new authorities in Libya to open an embassy in Tripoli. Romania will at first name a charge d’affaires and then an ambassador, when Libya has a legal government in place.
SOUTH KOREA – South Korea on September 8 reopened its embassy in Tripoli, an official said.
TURKEY – Turkey said on September 2 it has reopened its embassy in the Tripoli and appointed Ali Kemal Aydin as its new ambassador.
UNITED STATES: U.S. ambassador to Libya Gene Cretz pledged support for the transitional government as he returned to work on September 22, raising the U.S. flag over a re-opened embassy.
Source:
au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/103...
Danya ☪
A young man just fired his gun randomdly down street.they arrested &took him to neighborhoods council. #waytogo! #celebullets #Libya #Tripoli
Libyans fear Gadaffi leading a guerilla war from Algeria:
Frykter Gaddafi fører geriljakrig fra Algerie
(VG Nett) Frykten sprer seg for at diktatorens styrker planlegger en geriljakrig fra Algerie.
Åtte soldater tilhørende det libyske overgangsrådet som har tatt makten i Libya ble lørdag drept av eks-diktatoren Muammar al-Gaddafis styrker nær grensen til Algerie.
Nå sprer frykten seg for at diktatorens styrker planlegger en langvarig geriljakrig fra ørkenlandet i vest. Angrepet viser at styrker lojale mot Gaddafi har klart å flykte og gjøre seg klar for nye angrep, skriver nyhetsbyrået
Full art.:
www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/libya/artikk...
Gaddafi spox
Muammar Gaddafi’s chief spokesman said on Sunday the deposed Libyan leader and his family had not helped themselves to Libya’s oil wealth and that they were “among the poorest citizens”.
Speaking to Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location, Moussa Ibrahim said no one had been able to show that Gaddafi or his family had assets or accounts.
“That is more proof of the honesty and transparency of this family and that they are an ordinary Libyan family,” said Ibrahim, who usually acts as Gaddafi’s contact with the international media.
“The leader of the revolution and his family are among the poorest citizens,” Ibrahim said. “All the wealth of Libya is traceable to functioning companies and institutions”.
Ghadames via Feb17
Gaddafi loyalists launched an attack on the desert oasis town of Ghadames on Sunday, where they plan to re-group and re-arm, NTC officials said. The attack underlined the fragility of the NTC’s grip even on parts of the country nominally under its control. The town, about 600km southwest of Tripoli, is near a border crossing that pro-Gaddafi Libyans have used to flee into Algeria. Its old town, an intricate maze of mud walls, is a UNESCO world heritage site.
“These militias have attacked our people in Ghadames city,” the NTC’s Bani told a news conference, adding that NTC fighters expected to be in full control of the area in “a matter of days”.
Scotland
Scottish prosecutors have contacted Libya’s interim rulers for help in tracking down information which could lead to others being charged over the 1988 bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner over Lockerbie in Scotland.
“In particular we have asked the NTC (National Transitional Council) to make available to the Crown any documentary evidence and witnesses which could assist in the ongoing enquiries,” a spokeswoman for the Scottish Crown Office said.
Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, a former Libyan agent who was convicted of the bombing which killed 270 people, was released on compassionate grounds in 2009, but the Crown Office said his trial court had accepted he had not acted alone.
Via Feb17
Money back from LSE:
Tripoli University says it is asking the London School of Economics (LSE) to return money pledged by Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and investigate other similar cases as it prepares to re-open later this academic year, allowing its students who have been on the battlefronts to rehabilitate before returning to class.
Gaddafi, who earned his PhD at LSE, pledged $2.3mn to the institution.
University officials say the money offered was stolen from the Libyan people and should be either reimbursed or used to fund scholarships for Libyans studying in the UK.
Ava
gaddafi&family: i hope u choke to death on your filthy lies #libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Qaddafi relatives have reportedly left Algeria and are now in Egypt
Egyptian sources deny Algerian reports Qaddafi’s relatives are now in Egypt goo.gl/gYoyL
More reports coming in that Gaddafi family fled, no conformation yet, just denial from Egypt at present:
Malaysian Digest:
Eight Gaddafi Family Members Left Algeria for Egypt
ALGIERS, 26 SEPTEMBER, 2011:
Eight members of Muammar Gaddafi’s family, probably including his daughter Aisha, would have left Algeria and reached Cairo, the capital of Egypt, Algeria’s Arabic- language daily El Khabar reported Monday.
Quoting a well-informed source, the report said the eight family members of Gaddafi left Algeria for Cairo Saturday via Houari Boumediene International Airport in Algiers, Xinhua news agency said.
Egypt denies the arrival of members of the #Gaddafi family in Egypt via Deutsche Welle | AR
bit.ly/rbrCW2
or:
www.dw-world.de/dw/article/9799/0,,1541...
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Today’s News in Pictures: September 26th, 2011
goo.gl/6K5AC #Libya #Yemen #Sanaa
Freedom_7uriyah ღ.¸¸Esra¸¸.ღ
Isn’t the colour of ppl of Tawergha irrelevant? isn’t the reason for tensions the crimes they committed against the ppl of #Misrata?
Proudlibyandoc
The International community recognised #Libya #NTC because the Libyan people recognised it and showed the determination to overthrow Ghadafi
Enough of the talk about not creating Sedition (fitnah) and enough idolatry and worshiping mortals!! No mortal is immune from Satan’s whispers. The right to speak out against what is wrong is not only a right, but it is also a civic obligation!!! We need to speak up BEFORE the wrong gets so deep into the fabric of our society and our government when it would be too late to extract it just like how Q’s regime penetrated our society and remained in power for 42 years and took the lives of tens of thousands of men and women to remove it.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
BRK: Libya sovereign wealth fund probing “big losses” in $5 bln Africa portfolio: acting CEO
FFs have entered Sirte from the eastern side, residents flooding out relieved that they have not been killed by the FFs as G had told them.
Reuters
UN says cannot get supplies into Libya stronghold
Food and medical supplies outside Sirte, cannot be given out
Says no water or electricity inside Gaddafi bastions
Conflict prevents U.N. distributing warehouses full of food
Read more here:
af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/id...
BBC
Libya: Net closes in on pro-Gaddafi stonghold of Sirte
Armed forces loyal to Libya’s National Transitional Council have surrounded Colonel Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte, one of the fugitive leader’s few remaining strongholds.
The pro-NTC soldiers launched a surprise attack on the city at the weekend.
The BBC’s Alastair Leithead, who is travelling with the NTC forces, reports from inside the boundary of Sirte.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-1506729...
JohnDelaGuardia John D. Dela Guardia
heading back to #Misrata… Hundreds of people continue to leave #Sirte. Long queue on checkpoints…
Al Arabiya
Martyrs Funerals in Libya
Hatem Hussein Al-Hamidi was only 23 years old when he was killed in Sirte.
You rarely meet a family in Benghazi which has not lost one of its members in the war. Mothers and women are bereaved, widows mourn the death of a son, a husband or a family member.
Oum Ahmad and Abu Ahmad are still grief stricken by the death of their son on the front line of Rass Lanuf.
Oum Ahmed said,“Whenever we asked him if he was thinking about getting married, he used to reply that he will commit to someone unless Muammar Qaddafi is overthrown. He didn’t want his children to suffer a life like he did.”
His death however has not ended his struggle. His family has established a foundation in his name and says they will carry the torch of freedom.
For the family of Murad Al Arabi, all that is left are certificates of merit. Murad had only one year left to finish his studies in law school but he was tragically killed. His parents don’t want his death to be in vain.
Murad Al Arabi’s father said, “Why were my son and others martyred? They died for the freedom of this country not to establish a dictatorship.”
Another house has another story to tell. Hassan Abdul Fatah was killed on Brega
frontline more than two months ago and his mother’s tears have yet to dry.
Since his death, his family continues to struggle. Some of his brothers are still fighting on the frontline and one is injured. However, they all refuse to return home until they fulfill their brother’s dream of freedom — even if freedom comes at a bloody price.
Speakers:
Oum Ahmed, Murad Al Arabi’s fatehr.
Voice:
Nadia Idriss Mayen
Mustapha Ajbaili
Adaptation:
Sara Sifer
Video:
www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/26/1...
Abduljalil to Alarabiya:
It’s possible Jibril will not be prime minister..the result of Monday’s meeting will be in #Libya’s best interest.
#Jibril at #SecurityCouncil re revenge killings in #Libya:
“It’s just a few cases here and there” and not limited to Sub-Saharan Africans.
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
I attended private. organised business conference in London today on business opportunities in Libya Tomorrow will attend gov. organised one
Reuters:
Tanks manned by #NTC fighters shelled #Gaddafi loyalists in #Sirte & NATO jets circled overhead, ready to renew air strikes #Sirte
NalutFeb17:
Nalut military council decided to send special forces to the city of #Ghadames to support freedom fighters there #Libya #feb17
Al Arabiya
Deadly Currency for Africans and Black Libyans
As Libya turns a new chapter in its history and moves towards creating a democratic state that has the support of Western nations, African migrants and black Libyans have expressed fears about their future.
While most Libyans have celebrated their country’s new era since the capital, Tripoli was seized last month, African laborers and those identified as Muammar Qaddafi’s foreign soldiers have faced a difficult time.
Race has been a divisive issue in Libya, like in some other North African states, where Africans say they are treated dismissively.
However the violence towards black mercenaries and black Libyans during the uprising has lent the race issue a new and deadly currency.
Read more and video here:
www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/26/1...
Sirtawi
I like how Aljazeera correspondent (Tamer Mas-hal) described life in #Sirte as “paralysed”. Very precise. #SirteCrisis #Libya #Feb17
AJA:
Ongoing talks btwn #FF & G forces/ armed families inside #Sirte to lay down their weapons peacefully & stop bloodshed. #SirteCrisis
FFs find abandoned ammo in a valley in Sokina south of #Libya. youtube.com/watch?v=5Rbfhk…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rbfhk8CUOU&fea...
Tweeting Tripoli
Never underestimate Twitter. It can expose a dictator. yfrog.com/kl9f7wbj
Gaddafi’s rule never was legitimate. The 1969 coup overthrown the legitimate government and killed Libyans ever since.
FreeBenghazi
#Nalut fighters martyred liberating #Sabha, Ehab Mohamed AlKhamaisi(top), Nassim Mayouf (bottom) in spirit of 1 #Libya
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2935443...
People of #Gheryan in Nafusa Mt, send food to aid of their brothers in #Sabha #Libya
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2297379...
BenghaziChron
My new #Benghazi #Libya pictures
benghazichronicles.tumblr.com – check them out and RT for support!:)
BenghaziChron
My new #Benghazi #Libya pictures
- check them out and RT for support!:)
benghazichronicles.tumblr.com
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Gebril: Mutasim and Saif will die, Muamar is on the run in the desert, with a few around him. Not with a convoy, it d be detected by Nato.
frankentele Sean Carberry
Feels weird not to be in Libya anymore. Hope to go back soon.
FromJoanne Joanne
Today was Emergency Conference " #Libya The Future" at the QEII #London but More 2 come get info here
libya-conference.co.uk
#AlGamaty @London Conference; $170bn worth of #Libya gov. assets R Set aside to Reconstruct+ Repair houses + Offices in various cities
BBC
Libya seeks partners for rebuilding
Libya will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on reconstruction over the next decade, according to the UK representative for the National Transitional Council.
But British companies should not count on getting “easy business”.
Speaking at the Libya – The Future conference in London to business leaders interested in working in his country, Guma al-Gamaty said: “There will be huge changes in everything – in the oil and gas sectors, in education and with the creation of new industrial sectors. But it’s not a guaranteed market for you.”
Read more:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15061084
malonebarry Barry Malone
Moussa Ibrahim gave our office a bell again. Claims he was in Sirte on Sunday, outlined dire conditions, in common with UN, Red Cross #Libya
Joanne
#elGumaty says #Libya #oil exports stands 2 recover in next 6 mnths to 1.3 mil. barrels a day adding $40bn to $50bn a yr to National Income
Hana S.
Amazing how some ppl tend to think. They claim they’re anti-war/bloodshed, but their thoughts are so… bloody!! #realmoftheweird
Iman
If 1 mre person cmes up 2 me and starts preaching about how they’re disappointed in libyans and its going to be a new iraq I will BLAST them
Tripoli Jalil on satellite Arab information Colonel Gaddafi was hiding in the border triangle between Niger & Algeria & Libya
BBC
Libyan NTC fighters breach Gaddafi city Sirte from east
Anti-Gaddafi fighters have breached the former Libya leader’s hometown of Sirte from the east for the first time, as their three-day long assault continues.
Soldiers traded rocket fire with Gaddafi loyalists as they edged from the eastern suburbs into the city.
The advance comes two days after the soldiers, loyal to the National Transitional Council, attacked from the west before retreating again.
Sirte is one of the last remaining strongholds of Gaddafi loyalists.
Read full story here:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-1506546...
Proudlibyandoc
If #Jibreel under performed and didn’t create proper gov in the past 7 months. There is no reason for him to remain in position.
#Jibreel can be replaced with someone more able. This will not destabilise the NTC.
If we don’t aim to create institutions that are not reliant on individuals, then we don’t know what a civil democratic society/state is.
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
#Tripoli’s sky is stunning. Indeed the whole city is very pretty. But it’s sky is really breathtaking.
FraCicardi Francesca Cicardi
But may be #Italy Eni will be better positioned…#Libya #NTC proposes ex-Eni executive for oil minister reut.rs/qGx8Ow vía @reuters
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
The Tripoli Brigade, led by Irish-Libyan Mahdi Harati,first revolutionary brigade to have its own official Facebook page in Arabic + English
plemochoe
With all due respect. I don’t think there’s any problem regarding Sirte or Bani Walid. Letting it drag on saves lives
NLA has breached #Sirte perimeter by taking Tiyush, Suwawah, Zahiyah, and have taken the roundabout at entrance, splitting off QasrAbuHadi
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
More civilians escaped Sirte today while heavy fighting continued & NATO planes flying overhead. Some progress in the east. #Libya #Sirte
VOA
Libyan NTC Chief Warns Gadhafi Must Be Caught
The head of Libya’s National Transitional Council appealed directly to the U.N. Security Council Monday, asking it to lift the remaining sanctions on Libya so the country could rebuild. Mahmoud Jibril also warned that the stability of Libya will be at risk as long as former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is on the loose.
“We must not only fight against a despotic regime, but the Libyan people are counting on the capacity of the NTC to be able to provide the basic needs of the citizens," he said. "The inability of the NTC or provisional government to provide these kinds of services because of a lack of funding, could affect the very foundations of this council that you have recognized.”
Read more:
www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Lib...
Tweeting Tripoli
FIFA recognizes NTC… yfrog.com/ntyw7ej
Osama
1/2 Yesterday a meeting took place between the elders of #Wershiffana and #Azzawiya under the auspices of the elders of #Zintan
2/2 issues of contentions were discussed and the nuisance raids by #Azzawiya thugs have now stopped according to on the spot eyewitnesses !
CBS
Civilians flee Gadhafi loyalist stronghold Sirte
Hundreds of civilians fled Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown Monday to escape growing shortages of food and medicine and escalating fears that their homes will be struck during fighting between revolutionary forces and regime loyalists.
Anti-Gadhafi fighters launched their offensive against Sirte nearly two weeks ago, but have faced fierce resistance from loyalists holed up inside the city. After a bloody push into Sirte again over the weekend, revolutionary fighters say they have pulled back to plan their assault and allow civilians more time to flee.
Full art.:
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/26/ap/m...
Karybdamoid Karybdis
#Libya I think at this point, my suggestion for finding #Gaddafi is this: youtube.com/watch?v=MtkK3e…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtkK3eijBso
Aljazeera Update: FF now consolidating positions on East Sirte 17.15GMT …
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e74g28wUAo&fea...
Zlitniya Zlitniya
Many pupils&teachers unable to return to school in #Zliten as more than 25 schools were destroyed in #Feb17 rev #Libya
yfrog.com/nwey0dj
Sirtawi
Confirmed news that Gaddafi’s nephew, AbdelRahman AbdelHamid, was killed in #Sirte recently by G men from Gadadfa tribe. #Lib
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Anyone know when the Wimax in Tripoli will be working again?
Niz_FGM Niz
by hominoid555
In Tunis. Strange to be out of Libya. Lots of Libyan solidarity here. Spent some time reflecting in Zawiyah on the way….. video to follow
FFs are two kilometers away from the center of Sirt, I think that is from the eastern side !
Karybdis
Looks like the final battle for #Sirte is approaching. Being hit from all 3 sides now with local FF saying they control half the centre.
hindhassan:
Approximately 8,000 combat aircraft missions over #Libya since NATO began intervention.
LibyaNewMedia
More civilians escaped Sirte today while heavy fighting continued & NATO planes flying overhead. Some progress in the east. #Libya #Sirte
Guardian
Ian Black
Libyans reclaim their streets
Freed from the ‘old frizzyhead’ dictatorship of Gaddafi, an infectious sense of goodwill is giving birth to a vibrant new civil society
Omar al-Mukhtar street does not quite live up to its promise as the most elegant boulevard in Tripoli. Tall, Italianate colonial-era arcades and a few spindly palm trees provide shade, but the buildings are rundown and the pavements dirty and neglected.
Still, Khawla, Asma, Aya and friends are sprucing things up. With a few dozen other teenagers – looking purposeful in 17 February revolutionary T-shirts – they are sweeping and cleaning, and even painting the kerbstones in precise yellow and black segments.
“Now we must help look after our city,” said Khawla, a beaming 18-year-old with her hair covered in a scarf topped by a baseball cap bearing the crescent and star emblem
of Libya’s revolution. “We want to do something for our country,” Aya chimes in.
Full story here:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/26/li...
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli today saw the First National #Libyan #Amazigh #Congress in the #RIXOS Hotel # Libya Photos goo.gl/ySeyJ
#Tripoli Mass Grave Authorities believe bodies were kept in #AbuSalim prison b4 buried in the year 2000 just outside building’s walls #Libya
Building #Business Bridges with #Libya Website: www.lbbc.org.uk/events_programme.php
#Benghazi; Today was the second day of the 3 day #meeting in #Benghazi to form an Interim Government #Libya
#Blog of the remarkable #NAFISSA #ASSED Daugther of a #Libyan Martyr GrandDaughter of former #Libya Prime Minister
goo.gl/GfFDt
Osama
all of #wershiffana areas , incl #aziziya and #an-nasiriya have never been G supporters and were never armed by G!
their “fall” was not a resultant of armed conflict but a natural peaceful support for change!
hat is the reason why there was NO fighting on #wershiffana held territory and not a single life was lost during that time!
ff never attacked the region because they knew there was no military need for it! But now some parties r raiding #wershiffana
they raid #wershiffana because #wershiffa are passive by nature but they have finally decided to take arms for self defence!
devilsavocato
PLS CALL #ICRC Benghazi, Deeba Fakhr tel. +218 9 923 304 560 & ASK them TO SEND SOME WATER TO #SIRTE & bany waleed: Every call counts #libya
TunisianAmazigh
#Amazigh language in #Tunisia was spoken in most of areas of country until 3-4generations ago. Then we had the most cruel cultural genocide
Imazighen living in Holland(mostly from Morocco and Algeria) marching in solidarity with Libyan Imazighen fb.me/10yI7iPM5
Euronews
Gaddafi strongholds proving difficult for NTC
www.euronews.net One of the last strongholds of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is coming under renewed attack from the forces of the new National Transitional Council. Over the weekend, the interim government’s fighters pushed towards Sirte, before withdrawing on Sunday to allow NATO airstrikes to pave the way
Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz3QV1LKW6E
libya_H
Watching panorama on #bbc 1 now about #syria, wow its like a copy-paste of #Libya.. Deja-vu, I pray syria is free of this killer bashar soon
Times of Malta
‘We had to free our country… even at the cost of our own lives’
Much has been said about the freedom fighters during the Libya uprising. But what could be referred to as freedom flights also played a major role in the revolution. Capt. Ali Sanusi risked his life several times to fly his BAe 146 into the battlefield. Fiona Galea Debono caught up with the heroic commercial pilot on the runway of the Malta International Airshow.
Capt. Ali Sanusi told his wife it was “either me, or Muammar Gaddafi” when he started flying civilian aircraft into the west of Libya, landing precariously on normal roads to transport rebels, weapons and supplies and build a lifeline that linked it to the east.
But even though he was risking his life, he never thought twice, and since that first trip on the BAe 146 to the battlefield in June, he clocked up 32 flights – each one equally dangerous.
“We were landing behind the Gaddafi forces, with no protection. They would be no more than 30 kilometres away.”
Full story:
www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011...
First day back at school in Benghazi singing the Libyan Anthem
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lprvso9sG1M&fea...
Sirtawi
#Sirte #FFs report that there are hundreds of bodies of detainees from all over Libya being kept in large mobile freezers at Sirte Harbour.
ZEE News
Libyan forces close on Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte
Sirte: Libyan provisional government forces backed by NATO warplanes raced through the eastern outskirts of Sirte on Monday, closing in on Muammar Gaddafi loyalists holed up in one of the last two bastions of the deposed leader.
Thick, black smoke billowed into the air as National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters battled loyalist troops at a roundabout about 2 km (1.2 mile) from the center of Gaddafi’s home town, Reuters journalists said.
The thud of large explosions could be heard as NATO aircraft roared overhead. NTC fighters said the jets were striking the positions of Gaddafi loyalists.
Read more:
zeenews.india.com/news/world/libyan-for...
The British trade minister said Monday that his country’s businesses are eager to take part in the rebuilding of Libya.
hominoid555 Russell
Libya’s justice minister says he will disband the bodies that sentenced opponents of the old regime to prison.
Humanitarian organizations have raised the alarm over conditions for civilians cut off in Sirte and in Bani Walid to the south.
Sirtawi
Palestinian family managed to escape #Sirte, saying life was hard & ppl had to drink dirty water. Dead bodies lying on the streets.
Libya orders state security courts abolished
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya’s transitional justice minister says he has approved a measure to abolish the country’s state security prosecution and courts.
Mohammed al-Alagi, part of Libya’s new leadership after the ouster of Moammar Gadhafi, said Monday he has signed a document that will disband the bodies that sentenced opponents of the old regime to prison.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.
Read more:
hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_LIBY...
Reuters Reuters Top News
Lockerbie case shut, Libya says, after UK seeks help
reut.rs/olA8vO
Nigerian Tribune
Immigration arrests 100 suspected mercenaries from Libya
THE Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), in Kaduna, has arrested over 100 suspected mercenaries from Libya.
They were suspected to have fled the country and arrived in Kaduna through the Niger-Nigeria border at the weekend, after the fall of the regime of Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi.
The suspects, according to an eyewitness, arrived in the state at about 2.00 p.m. on Friday looking exhausted and unkempt.
According to the eyewitness, “as they filed through heavily armed Immigration officials at the Kaduna zonal office of the Nigerian Immigration Service(NIS),they were made to sit on the ground on the premises right in front of the office of the Zonal Comptroller under the watch of heavily armed officials while documentation procedure went on.”
The suspects were said to be with some members of their families, including children, and were conveyed in two luxury buses.
“One of the suspects, who craved for anonymity, said that they had been wandering in the desert for the past three weeks before they were apprehended by the Immigration officials at the Niger-Nigeria border. He said they left Libya and wandered in the desert before their arrest and subsequent conveyance to Kaduna from the Niger-Nigeria border.
However, newsmen were told that the command needed to obtain clearance from Abuja and liaise with other relevant security agencies, particularly, the State Security Service(SSS), Police and the Army before speaking with the press.
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya: No wonder nobody could find #Gaddafi & #Saif , they have not looked in the maternity ward! twitpic.com/6qtiqh
Security Council Meeting (English): The situation in #Libya bit.ly/nWW08A #un #webcast #video rt @Unwebcast
Sirtawi
Confirmed news that Moussa Ibrahim’s brother (Faraj Ibrahim) was killed in #Sirte as well as other Gaddafi thugs working under Jamal Karami.
SMH
Dictator sent $2m to fund Irish terrorists, documentary claims
MUAMMAR GADDAFI, the deposed Libyan leader, resumed his funding of Irish republican terrorist groups shortly before he was forced into hiding by NATO bombing raids, it has been claimed.
A Libyan government courier flew into London in June with $US2 million ($2.04 million) in cash during a stopover while on route to the Irish Republic, a documentary to be screened in Britain tonight says.
The cash was said to be on its way to a businessman, believed to be a supporter of one of the dissident republican terrorist groups responsible for attacks against police in Northern Ireland.
Exposure, a new documentary series, says Colonel Gaddafi, who sent large quantities of weapons to the IRA in the 1970s, wants to exploit the growing unrest in Northern Ireland as a means of attacking Britain for supporting the overthrowing of his regime.
Full story:
www.smh.com.au/world/dictator-sent-2m-t...
#Libya is requiring visas now. Many aid workers and doctors canceled plans to travel there because of no information on how to obtain visas
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
today in Jufra Hun 1 of the cities there revolted on 19th people fought with AK against Gaddafi followers #Libya
huge bombs may be more 1.5 tonnes just abandoned on the road #Jufra #Libya
photo first NTC fighter dead in the battle for #Sirte #Libya last saturday yfrog.com/kf5yterj
photo bombs abandoned by Gaddafi forces near by Waddan #Jufra #Libya yfrog.com/nybuvltj
Tweeting Tripoli
American embassy in Tripoli…
yfrog.com/nxwrtvj
4Adam Adam
#Libya Amazigh demand recognition in new constitution reut.rs/oNvQE5 #Tripoli
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
I was in the arm depot where Gaddafi forces kept their mustard gas NTC fighters waiting for UN to help them to secure it #Waddan #Libya
people in the area worry about the future of all those chemical materials #Waddan
all #Jufra under the control of NTC fighters but Gaddafi forces in the desert around #Libya
‘Woman in Tripoli hoping to find remains of her son who was killed in AbuSalim prison massacre’ @IbnOmar2005 goo.gl/oICkG
#Libya: Volunteers collected pieces of what they said were human bones in site of mass grave at #AbuSalim Prison pic.twitter.com/g44m9ic1
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
There are some unfair mudahamat happening. PPl that worked at afriqiyah, libyan airlines, gov etc.. get raided at home & jailed
they get released later on but the mudahama itself is extremely humiliating. 20+ cars come to your house and drag you out
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
#sirte resident said gaddafi command in control room is under hospital, only major gov’t. building not hit by NATO
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
NTC Fighters in #Libya have taken control of the border with Algeria near Ghdamis
NTC Fighters in #Libya.13 fighters injured and one passed away in Sirt today.
Free Libya ♔☾✰
1 martyred (Mustafa Muftah Al-Dermeesh) & 13 injured in #Sirte frontlines today. #libya
fieldproducer Neal Mann
UK Foreign Office says it has spoken to NTC about Lockerbie & understands that the new Libyan authorities will still co-operate with the UK
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 27th 2011
9/27/11
9.27.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – t.co/RBcqGu7l
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Mon: In Sirte, a formation of Tornado GR4s attacked ammunition stores, destroying their targets with Paveway guided bombs. #Libya
Mon: At Bani Walid a psychological warfare centre & firing position used by Qadhafi’s troops were subjected to precision strikes by GR4s.
libyanfsl
Now this is a TRUE leader in Misrata, Col. Salem Juha speaking to his fellow Misratans
youtu.be/6_8p3H7znMM #Feb17 #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_8p3H7znMM&fea...
4Adam Adam
Who allowed those “volunteers” to dig for bones at the Abu Salim grave site. Is the NTC involved? This site must be protected asap!
AlanFisher Alan Fisher
Fighters supporting #Libya’s interim government are fighting street-to-street battles with #Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte
Libyan ‘prison massacre grave’ revives painful memories
The discovery of what is believed to be a mass grave for more than 1,200 prisoners killed at Tripoli’s Abu Salim jail in 1996 has evoked painful memories for those who have waited years to learn the fate of loved ones, says the BBC’s Rana Jawad in Tripoli.
The site is a massive, arid plot of land scattered with dry shrubs that stretches out behind the outer concrete walls of Tripoli’s Abu Salim prison – a place long associated with the horrors of incarceration.
Some recently uncovered bone fragments are strewn in several locations.
It is here that officials think some 1,270 prisoners were buried after what is known as the Abu Salim massacre, one of the darkest chapters of Col Gaddafi’s rule.
Full art.:
shabablibya.org/news/libyan-prison-mass...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
On sunday the main column of the liberation army coming in from the East arrived to Sirte and have liberated the Eastern gates #Libya
The liberation army has a front which attacked from the south last week and liberated the airbase, Sirte is now completely surrounded
The 3 fronts on Sirte are pushing into the town and will try to corner Gaddafi loyalists in one area #Libya #Sirte
Sirte is in between Western front line and liberation army
Hamza
CuteLibyan Girl partying in #Benghazi the day #Tripoli was being freed. #Libya
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHgVOEqq0fg&fea...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
David Cameron in #Libya: ‘#Benghazi is an inspiration to the world’ They chose freedom. goo.gl/zlARl #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
The 24 4×4 Police cars in Tripoli streets sent from the UAE still carry the DUBAI Police website sticker advertisement on the bumper #Libya
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
AFP: #UN is expected to end its emergency humanitarian operations in #Libya at the end of Nov, #UN Humanit Coordinator 4 #Libya said on Mon
#NTC Fighters raced into east outskirts #Sirte backed by #NATO &fighting street-2-street battles with Gaddafi loyalists bit.ly/qyaP9V
VID: #CNN report: #Fashlom, #Triploi, the wall graphic of 17Feb revolution, funny drawings of Deposed #Gaddafi bit.ly/npGQlm
#Amazigh, minority in #Libya r demanding that the country’s new rulers recognise them & their lang in any new constitution, Reuters #Libya
LibyaUnited1944 Walid وليد
BILLIONS have been unfrozen..what’s 50M to give our #FF the best medical care the World has to offer! Without them we would b nothing #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
#Libyan interim leaders say #Lockerbie case closed, no new evidence will be released goo.gl/hkBGg #AlArabiya
Stephen Morgan
#Libya With NTC forces using heavy artillery to indiscriminately shell Bani Walid+Sirte, what is NATO going to do to protect the civilians?
#Libya Knives drawn by Misrata and the Mountains as the NTC struggles to form a government nyti.ms/npgi6Y
#Libya Associated Press article on people fleeing Sirte. Doctor says it no longer has anything to do with Gaddafi
bit.ly/nbhMrM
#Libya “We’re going to punish even those that supported Moammar with words” said fighter as Sirte refugees are stopped
on.wsj.com/pF9qJu
#Libya UK military expert says only 2 ways to take Bani Walid – "flatten the place with high explosive or starve them "
bit.ly/o3dXMz
88simon88 simon
Some impressive PHOTOS of the FF artillery during the siege of SYRTE parismatch.com/Actu-Match/Mon…
or:
www.parismatch.com/Actu-Match/Monde/Pho...
Canada
CBCAlerts:
Parliament votes to extend Libya mission by 3 months . Mission now extended to December 2011 #Libya #NATO
This will be the first ever announcement to the Libyan people of what they own… Reuters bit.ly/nYiTOG via @addthis
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Procès en appel demain pour l’ex-PM libyen al-#Mahmoudi condamné à 6 mois de prison pour entrée en illégale en #Tunisie google.com/hostednews/afp…
Hamza
changing the flag on the back of a fighter jet in #libya
pic.twitter.com/SsEdecBF
perfectsliders perfectsliders
#Libya #Feb17 Monday – 3 fronts on Sirte are pushing into the town, trying to corner Gaddafi loyalists goo.gl/fb/si4rz
Hayat
Especially since women STARTED this #feb17 #revolution!! We will kick anyone depriving us of our rights OUT!
Demoqrateya
“Surprisingly” it barely took 2 weeks for oil majors Eni (Italy) & Total (France) to come back to #Libya bit.ly/nyJUNJ #Oil
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
La #Libye demande l’extradition de son ancien Premier ministre magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xht…
Carol Viana
Goosebumps!
Libya first day of school in Benghazi
First day back at school in Benghazi singing the Libyan Anthem
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lprvso9sG1M&fea...
CNN
Thawing Libya’s frozen assets
Libya’s National Transitional Council is moving swiftly to get access to much needed funds in anticipation of taking full control of the country. There is an intense level of shuttle diplomacy underway in countries that backed the rebel movement early on — Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Italy and France.
At the core of this effort is the desire to avoid an “Iraq-like” situation where the country collapses and the Libyan rebel movement is without funds to pay government salaries, provide urgent medical care and food — the staples of day-to-day living.
Article and video:
edition.cnn.com/2011/BUSINESS/08/25/lib...
20 minutes
Libye: Le CNT en faveur de la poursuite des raids de l’Otan
Mahmoud Djibril, numéro 2 du Conseil national de transition (CNT), a plaidé ce lundi en faveur d’une poursuite des raids de l’Otan tant que les forces loyales à Mouammar Kadhafi continueraient à tuer des civils libyens. Il a également mis en garde contre le degré de nuisance du Guide déchu, qui court toujours, pour la stabilité de l’ensemble de la région sahélienne.
Full art.:
www.20minutes.fr/ledirect/794742/libye-...
Libyan4life
Was just thinking today how in the early weeks of our revolution I couldnt believe that 300 had died. Little did I know 10’s of 1000s would.
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
“Non favorables à la créat° de partis amazighs, nous voulons dire au CNT que les Amazighs constituent l’une des composantes politiques”
Anaya
People in #Sirte under propaganda: don’t believe #Tripoli is free & expect to find English and French lying in wait to attack them. #Libya
Sarah LFFR
was the same for many people in BW
Anaya
Indeed! He tried to do the same thing in Tripoli but didnt succeed.
LIBYAN
Expectation is what will make us far behind the schedule. #Libya
Ali Tweel
The shops today..
twitpic.com/6qx2y3
twitpic.com/6qx34i
twitpic.com/6qx34o
twitpic.com/6r4omu
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
A Tripoli, une conférence berbère s’est ouverte sous le slogan “Officialisation de la langue amazigh et soutien à l’unité nationale”
Algerian gov’t unhappy with Aisha Gaddafi’s radio remarks. bit.ly/mT0iYz via @PicoBee ~ Shut up or get out? Wud be nice.
Libyans request hospital, school from #Turkey www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/newsDetail_... via @todayszamancom #Libya
Michael
NATO hammered 20km ahead of FF on E frnt frm Gate allowing FF to join w S frnt at round-about visible. C if stay?
twitpic.com/6r55v6
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Les autorités aéroportuaires égyptiennes ont nié l’arrivée de membres de la famille Kadhafi au Caire afriquinfos.com/articles/2011/…
Sue Turton updates on the latest from Sirte (eastern front line) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Fga6g0QjQ&fea... via @youtube
Tribulusterr
looking for stories of #feb17 martyrs- @LibyaInMe If..want to submit story…do so here.Arabic, English accepted
feb17martyrs.com/submit/ #Libya
osama
many say we should forget the past re: #libya. i disagree. if we don’t retrace our steps, we may be doomed to follow the same path.
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
#Libye: Le CNT compte abolir les cours de sûreté de l’Etat afreekelection.com/journal/item/8… qui servaient à emprisonner opposants politiques de kadhafi
Triploli scream
I posted a new photo to Facebook fb.me/1a7DppyJG
Karybdis
Sept 27 #Gaddafi control- 20% of #BaniWalid, 50% of #Sirte, QasrAbuHadi (surrounded), Fuqaha (contested), Ma’tan As Sarah (contested) #Libya
From spring into summer: key peacebuilding actions for #Libya www.opendemocracy.net/erwin-van-veen/fr...
Former #Libya PM Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi to contest any extradition-lawyer reut.rs/rpgpKo via @reuters
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Texte intégral en fr de l’intervention d’ Aïcha Kadhafi
la colère des autorités algériennes
Vendredi une itw d’ #Aïcha #Kadhafi depuis son lieu d’exil en Algérie, a été diffusée sur ArraïTV : colère des autorités algériennes 1/2
2/2 Texte intégral en fr de l’intervention d’ #Aïcha #Kadhafi www.rue89.com/2011/09/26/dans-la-famill...,
la colère des autorités algériennes www.dna-algerie.com/interieure/alger-ju...
Tribulusterr:
Libye : Selon l’ONU, quelque 24.000 personnes ont fui #BaniWalid et près de 2.000 ont quitté #Syrte.
Libya In Me
A HUGE crowd in Gheryan celebrating w/ singer Adel Msheti & other Benghazi reps youtube.com/watch?v=UUo_UC… #Gheryan #Benghazi
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUo_UCFZwLs
Kety
One day I’ll eat bazeen in Tripoli; I’ll have coffee in Benghazi; I’ll walk around Misrata and shake the hands of FFs.
RichardRothCNN Richard Roth
Libyan Prime Minister tells Security Council Gaddafi ’arrest is imperative". M. Jibril says since he is on loose could destabilize situation
Karybdis
Sept 27 #BaniWalid map. This is the last available status for the city. It is unknown how much lines changed lately.
pic.twitter.com/BmZOACM9
Loyalist forces are thought to be concentrated at the Congress hall and hospital of #Sirte, with a separate 1000 fighters in #QasrAbuHadi
Loyalist forces in #BaniWalid are concentrated in 5 districts around the centre, with the main forces being in the downtown core and souk
Sept 27 #Sirte map. Thanks to NATO/BBC/Aljazeera and mainly @Sirte_Feb17 who named most areas and their status.
pic.twitter.com/sYuB3CHD
AP’s @hadeelalsh w dets of proposed closure of G-era state security courts,prosecution service
abcn.ws/oJ7Z1m #Libya
Hamza
We should always remember it was the mothers of the Abu Salim massacre victims that kick started #Libya’s revolt. Never cross angry moms.
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
Have the official list from the #ntc and #baniwalid council of the martyred and injured on the #baniwalid front upto Sep 20.
up until sept 20, its 35 dead and I think 159 injured. The numbers are much less than media hype claims.
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Had good seafood in a restaurant in Tajoura. What other good restaurants around Tripoli?
Resignation of the Libyan Ambassador by France
A source familiar with the Libyan ambassador in France Mansour Seif El-Nasr presentedhis resignation to the Interim Council on 14 Sept. justified for health reasons.
The source noted that the transition was not broadcast on the resignationand the source speculated that resignation may be due to reasons other than that made by the ambassador, and noted that Seif El-Nasr made great efforts to persuade Algeria to recognize the Transitional Council as representative of the Libyan people.
He also states that Libyan Ambassador by France, played a major Abdoulaye Wade to come to Libya during the early months of the revolution.
Source:
www.libyaalhura.net/eng/?p=3035
abeneihum Abe Neihum
We finished the 40ft container today. Empty 20ft container coming in tomorrow. #MedAid
pic.twitter.com/JnkeT9bl
FromJoanne Joanne
Money you can donate to :
t.co/6B8EWm8r
#Egypt airport authorities denied on Monday reports that members of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s family arrived in #Cairo from #Algeria #Libya
Report said 8 Gaddafi family members incl Aisha left #Algeria for #Cairo Saturday via #Houari #Boumediene Int Airport in #Algiers #Libya
CNN
Libyan anti-Gadhafi forces take over port in Sirte
Fighters for Libya’s new leadership managed to take over the port in Sirte on Tuesday morning, a senior military commander in Tripoli said.
The seizure followed fierce clashes with forces loyal to ousted Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi in Sirte, Gadhafi’s hometown. The number and extent of casualties were not immediately known, the commander said.
The port of Sirte, on the northern edge of Libya, has exchanged hands of power recently. Anti-Gadhafi fighters have previously taken the port during the day and have pulled back at night.
Read more:
edition.cnn.com/2011/09/27/world/africa...
It is estimated that around 24,000 people have left #BaniWalid and 1,700 fled #Sirte since fighting intensified in mid-August.#Libya
BBC
Libya: Fierce fighting in Gaddafi stronghold Sirte
There has been heavy fighting in the Libyan city of Sirte, where armed supporters of the transitional authorities are facing strong resistance from Gaddafi loyalists.
A BBC correspondent on the outskirts of the city says the two sides have been exchanging machinegun fire, rockets and artillery shells.
Many thousands of civilians remain in Sirte, east of the capital, Tripoli.
Read more:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-1507515...
FromJoanne Joanne
@NATO needs 2 drop #LEAFLETS over #Sirte 2Tell Residents the TRUTH They hv No Idea Most of #Libya is FREE No need 2Fear #NTC Fighters #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Anti-Qaddafi fighters overrun strategic Sirte port: commander #alarabiya #Libya #Qaddafi
Al Arabiya
NTC commander says troops seized Sirte’s port as civilians flee Qaddafi’s hometown
Troops of Libya’s new rulers seized control of the port in Sirte, Muammar Qaddafi’s birthplace, in fighting with the ousted leader’s diehards during the night, a commander told AFP on Tuesday, as hundreds of terrified civilians poured out of the Mediterranean coastal city.
“There were clashes in the night and we now are controlling the port,” said Commander Mustafa bin Dardef of the Zintan brigade, which is attached to the National Transitional Council (NTC), the new ruling body of Libya.
The capture of the port, located in eastern Sirte, marks a strategic victory for the anti-Qaddafi forces as they battle for control of Sirte, one of Qaddafi’s last remaining strongholds.
The fight for the Mediterranean city has intensified in the past few days with NATO carrying out raids for the third consecutive day on Monday.
NTC fighters have besieged the city from the east, west and south and were on Tuesday cleaning and oiling their weapons for what they said would be a thrust towards the centre, site of Qaddafi’s compound and military bunkers.
“As we move closer to the city center, it’s going to be face-to-face street fighting and we are preparing for it,” said one fighter, Ali Zaidi.
Fleeing residents spoke of dwindling supplies of food and water and said Qaddafi forces had attempted to stop people leaving, while doctors warned of a growing humanitarian crisis.
Fighters loyal to the new government also pounded Muammar Qaddafi’s forces in the desert city of Bani Walid, southeast of the capital Tripoli, the only other significant stronghold left to his loyalists.
Very “critical situation”
Earlier, NTC troops advancing from the east said they had pushed 10 kilometers (six miles) inside Sirte’s outskirts but were still 15 kilometers from the center of the sprawling city.
On Monday, NTC fighters captured a large weapons cache from loyalist forces including Grad rockets and machine gun ammunition.
Crates of grenades were loaded aboard more than a dozen pick-ups and hauled to a base by dozens of fighters shouting “Allahu akbar!” (God is greater), flashing victory signs and firing in the air.
Hundreds of fearful residents fled the looming offensive, arriving at NTC checkpoints on the front lines both east and west.
“The situation in the city is very critical,” said Muftah Mohammed, leaving in a convoy of seven vehicles.
“There is no food, no water, no petrol and no electricity. This has been going on for nearly two months now as Qaddafi forces would not allow us to leave.
“Children are in a particularly bad condition.”
The collapse of the mains supply has left residents without access to clean drinking water, triggering an epidemic of water-borne diseases.
An AFP correspondent saw dozens of children receiving treatment at a clinic in the town of Harawa, 40 kilometers east of Sirte.
“We have medicines but no nurses to treat the constant flow of patients, mainly children, suffering from vomiting and gastrointestinal diseases,” said Dr Valentina Rybakova, a Ukrainian working in Libya for eight years.
“Since morning I saw nearly 120 patients and 70 percent of them were children. They are coming from some outskirts of Sirte and nearby villages,” she said.
“This is a big humanitarian crisis. We are trying to get help from everybody but the main problem is that these people have no access to clean drinking water.”
Facing “heavy resistance”
NATO said Monday its aircraft had multiple military targets in Sirte. Britain however said it had agreed with the alliance to withdraw the five Apache helicopters it has in service over Libya, a clear sign the NATO air mission is winding down.
There have been repeated reports that one of Qaddafi’s sons — Mutassim — is holed up in Sirte’s southern outskirts.
NTC forces believe Qaddafi’s most prominent son, Seif al-Islam, is in the other major
enclave still in the hands of loyalist forces, the desert city of Bani Walid.
Troops massed at Bani Walid’s northern gates pounded Qaddafi positions with artillery, tanks and anti-aircraft guns.
“We are facing heavy resistance, that’s why we are using the heavy artillery and not sending in any infantry for now,” Commander Mohamed al-Seddiq told AFP.
The NTC is keen to put Qaddafi, whose whereabouts are unknown, and top members of his former regime on trial for what they say were widespread human rights abuses committed during his 42-year rule.
NTC number two Mahmoud Jibril, the interim premier, told the U.N. Security Council Qaddafi was a growing international terrorist threat.
“The simple fact that he is free and has at his disposal such wealth means that he is still able to destabilize the situation not only within my country but also in the Sahel and Sahara region,” Jibril told the council.
Even outside Africa, Qaddafi “could return to his terrorist practices by providing arms” to militant groups, he added.
The gruesome find in a mass grave of the remains of prisoners executed at Tripoli’s notorious Abu Salim jail was yet further proof of “criminal acts” by Qaddafi’s regime, said Khalid Sharif, spokesman for the NTC’s military council.
Sharif, who announced the find on Sunday, said the grave was believed to hold the remains of more than 1,700 people.
The uprising that finally ousted Qaddafi last month erupted in Benghazi in February, when families of Abu Salim victims called for protests against the arrest of their lawyer.
Calm situation
In the remote oasis town of Ghadames, on Libya’s western border with Algeria, funerals were held for eight NTC soldiers killed in a dawn raid by around 100 pro-Qaddafi fighters on Sunday.
“The situation is calm now after we managed to defeat the attackers, but there are unconfirmed reports that they are reorganizing to attack the town again,” municipal council number two Sirajeddin Muwaffaq said.
Scottish prosecutors, meanwhile, called on the NTC for help in their continuing investigation into the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over the town of Lockerbie in
which 270 people died.
The only person convicted of the bombing, Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, was released on compassionate grounds in 2009.
But Scottish prosecutors said it had asked the NTC to make available “any documentary evidence and witnesses which could assist in the ongoing enquiries.”
Later, Britain’s Foreign Office said the NTC had promised it would help the investigation despite comments from Libya’s justice minister earlier Monday that the case was closed.
Italian oil giant ENI, Libya’s top foreign producer before the uprising brought output to a near standstill, announced that it had resumed production, pumping 31,900 barrels per day from 15 wells in the Abu Attifel field.
On Friday, French oil giant Total said it had restarted production from an offshore oil platform.
Report on Islamaphobia in the U.S. raises some important questions
A much heralded, arguably misleading report on Islamophobia, “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America”, from the Center for American Progress, a liberal think-tank with close ties to the Obama administration, warrants our attention.
The scapegoating of Arabs and Muslims that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the subsequent U.S.-declared war on terror, which conflated external and internal threats, helped generate what Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was the national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter, described as a “culture of fear” in America, with “Islamic terror” raised to a specter, in the service of a broad, neo-conservative agenda, assisted by a complicit corporate media.
A much heralded, arguably misleading report on Islamophobia, “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America”, from the Center for American Progress, a liberal think-tank with close ties to the Obama administration, warrants our attention.
The scapegoating of Arabs and Muslims that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the subsequent U.S.-declared war on terror, which conflated external and internal
threats, helped generate what Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was the national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter, described as a “culture of fear” in America, with “Islamic terror” raised to a specter, in the service of a broad, neo-conservative agenda, assisted by a complicit corporate media.
Full art.:
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/...
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libyan interim government commander near Sirte says he was contacted by elder from Qaddafi tribe seeking truce #alarabiya #Libya #Qaddafi
In Libya’s new politics, localism may trump tribes
“No To Tribalism,” declare the now tattered posters put up by rebels who overthrew Muammar Qaddafi, a defiant riposte to an Arab autocrat who magnified tribal cleavages with a policy of divide and rule.
But rebels also daubs walls with the place names “Misrata” “Zintan” and “Zawiya,” suggesting that loyalty to hometown will be a far more potent force than kinship in post-Qaddafi Libya.
Nursing bitter memories of tribal manipulation, Qaddafi’s immediate successors are working to give a technocratic gloss to their caretaker administration and minimize the influence of ancient kinship ties in the emerging political landscape.
Libyans, diplomats and political analysts say this effort may be pushing at an open door. The country’s scores of tribes carry weight in Libyan society, but less so in its politics, an activity dominated by an urban elite more attuned to provincial roots than blood relations.
Please read more here:
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/...
GRAFIXEL
Estimated number of Tuareg in Gaddafis brigades: up to 15,000
NZZ ( German)
Tuareg als unwillige Helfer Ghadhafis
Libyens abgesetzter Diktator Ghadhafi hat für seine Machtpolitik Angehörige der Tuareg-Nomaden benutzt. Nach dem Sturz des Regimes suchen ihre Vertreter Stabilität.
Markus M. Haefliger, Nairobi
Im Norden Nigers, der Heimat der Tuareg, hört man keinen Irrtum so häufig wie jenen, dass Ghadhafi ein Freund des Nomadenvolks gewesen sei. «Wir konnten nach Libyen reisen, sooft uns der Sinn danach stand», sagt Mohammed Ahmed, ein eher mittelloser Bijoutier in Agadez. An der Grenze hätten libysche Soldaten Leute wie ihn, die gehandelt oder in den Erdölzentren eine Anstellung gesucht hätten, ohne Aufhebens durchgelassen. Ghadhafi sei den Tuareg wie ein Bruder gewesen.
Full story:
www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/politik/internat...
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Alarabia, military representative: ‘Truce in Sirte to guarantee departure of families from Gaddafi’s tribe.
Sky News
Anti-Gaddafi Forces Capture Sirte’s Port
Libya’s anti-Gaddafi fighters have captured the port of Sirte in their battle for control of Colonel Gaddafi’s hometown.
The forces have been stepping-up their siege on the town, after they were forced back from the coastal town over the weekend.
On Sunday, they pushed within a few hundred metres of the Sirte’s centre but drew back their attack while Nato aircrafts bombed targets in the area.
Art. and video:
news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16...
BBC
Sailors who served in Libya among Royal Navy job cuts
Sailors who took part in the Libya campaign will be among hundreds of Royal Navy personnel to learn they are being made redundant later this week.
Dozens of sailors from HMS Cumberland, which rescued Britons from Libya in February, could be affected, along with those on other ships that took part.
Personnel not on or preparing for deployment are eligible for redundancy.
Up to 400 compulsory redundancies are expected in the Ministry of Defence’s first round of 1,100 navy job losses.
Art.:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15070911
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Asharq alAwsat: ‘rebel’ sources: Gaddafi fighters are moving around in the southern desert and plan a war of exhaustion.
LibyaVoluntDocs Libyan Doctors
Please can you help us spread the word about our Libyan doctor #volunteer project. Thank you. t.co/WxCmSMzm #Libya #Tripoli
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Mohamed Bubleen,17feb Youth Union, at eastern front of Sirte: ‘a lot of defections of Gaddafi tribe fighters in Sirte’, in Asharq alAwsat
gahgeer
Libyan transitional council recognizes its Syrian counterpart as “legitimate representative” of Syrian people (Libya al-Hurra TV)
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, Families continue to leave#Sirte from the western side of the coastal city#Gaddafi
#Libya, Families leaving #Sirte say #Gaddafi has a lot of snipers inside the city, his forces have hidden their weapons in civilian areas
Niz_FGM Niz
My visit to Zawiyah…. Sad, yet uplifting.So much hope for the future amidst so much destruction from the past. ARABIC
t.co/oWZumnTk
HRW
Libya: Transitional Government Should Support Victims
(New York) − The National Transitional Council (NTC), the de facto authority that controls most of Libya, should investigate allegations of sexual violence perpetrated during the Libyan armed conflict and provide medical services, treatment, and support for survivors, Human Rights Watch said today.
Heads of state from the group of countries who have pledged to support Libya as it moves toward democratization – the so-called Friends of Libya – are gathering this week at the United Nations to discuss the future of the country. They should put dealing with sexual violence high on the list of priorities, Human Rights Watch said.
“The NTC has a duty to investigate allegations of sexual assault and to ensure that these claims are not buried,” said Liesl Gerntholtz, women’s rights director at Human Rights Watch. “Some brave women and men have come forward and talked to us, despite the stigma of rape in Libya. They and others deserve to see justice served.”
The full extent of sexual violence during the conflict remains unknown, due in part to the stigma surrounding rape in Libya and the dangers that survivors may face when they make crimes public. Human Rights Watch has documented nine cases of apparent gang rapes and sexual assault at the hands of Gaddafi forces, and one at the hands of unidentified perpetrators, committed between February and May 2011. The assaults were mainly in territory controlled by Gaddafi forces at the time.
The cases documented by Human Rights Watch involve three men and seven women, ranging in age from 22 to 41 years old. All of the victims allege gang rape, with one case involving at least seven perpetrators.
One survivor was unable to describe the perpetrators, but the other nine identified their tormenters as “soldiers,” “men in uniforms, ” and “men in camo shirts.”
Survivors described being abducted from their homes or arrested on the streets. They all described being raped and beaten. Some also told Human Rights Watch that they had been stabbed or had their hair pulled and cut off. Several people said perpetrators penetrated them with objects, including guns and a broomstick.
S.A., a 34-year-old woman, described how three uniformed men broke into her apartment in February:
They took me to the bedroom; I was alone at home… They were beating me,” she said. “Then two of them started to rape me. I was crying and telling them, ‘please stop, I am a mother, I have two children.’ They raped me together… I was bleeding, there was blood everywhere.
A.G., a 39-year-old woman, said she was raped alongside her younger sister in April. She told Human Rights Watch that Gaddafi soldiers came to her home to look for her brother:
We were screaming because we were so afraid, and they were pushing weapons against us. After they destroyed everything, they got each of us in a room. They got into the room, they got on top of me, I was screaming, I heard my sister screaming. There were many of them, and they were taking turns… There were four or five of them… After he was done, he took the knife from the Kalashnikov and scratched my body and thighs, cutting them. After I lost a lot of blood, I fainted. After I woke up I didn’t know how long I had been unconscious. I found my body all cut and scratched. My sister was in the same shape.
N.H., a 23-year-old woman, said she was abducted from her home and gang raped in May. She told Human Rights Watch how a “military guy” punched her on the face and dragged her into a car:
When I tried to move, they hit me. I couldn’t scream, I couldn’t yell, I couldn’t move, so I gave up. I was wearing jeans and a t-shirt. They tore these and took my bra off. They tore off my trousers. They raped me. Four of them were taking turns. It was like someone pulled me and someone scratched me. Everyone did something in a disgusting way. I was a virgin. I got faint. They didn’t even stop. I felt blood all over me.
M.G., a 39-year-old man, said he was sexually assaulted in April along with his brother who is 28 years old. Five men “in military uniforms” abducted them from their home, he said, and took them to a place used by Gadaffi’s military. M.G. said the men anally raped and tortured him. He told Human Rights Watch:
There was a torture room… They would use electricity. They would hang us by the hands… I was raped with some wood sticks, bottles, and weapons. They used the caliber barrel of a Kalashnikov. They would shoot with it so that it is hot and put it in my bottom. They also raped my brother.
Another male survivor, a 22-year-old former soldier for the Gaddafi government, described being tortured for three days and sexually assaulted after he was arrested on February 17 after participating in a demonstration and burning a picture of Gadaffi.
Human Rights Watch could not confirm claims of mass or systematic rape by Gaddafi forces. But the stigma for victims, their fear of reprisal, and the lack of available services for victims of sexual violence may lead to underreporting, Human Rights Watch said.
“It has been extremely difficult to gather evidence about sexual violence in Libya,” said Gerntholtz. “It is a complex environment, with a high level of stigma and taboo, which makes victims reluctant to speak.”
Human Rights Watch urged the NTC, with the support of the Friends of Libya, to begin providing services immediately for the victims of sexual assault. These services must place a high priority on victims’ confidentiality and privacy and should include treatment for physical injuries, medication for sexually transmitted infections and abortion-related services, Human Rights Watch said. Survivors also require urgent access to counseling and social support services, Human Rights Watch said.
Human Rights Watch recommended that, given the stigma attached to rape in Libya, care for survivors should be discreetly inserted into other health services, including sexual, reproductive, and antenatal care.
“Special care should be taken not to further stigmatize survivors by offering them health care that identifies them as survivors of sexual violence,” Gerntholtz said.
Health care providers should receive training to help them screen patients for sexual assault, Human Rights Watch said. Where possible, survivors of sexual violence should be involved in the design and delivery of these services.
The NTC should also ensure that survivors of sexual violence have access to protection where they need it, Human Rights Watch said. Some women interviewed by Human Rights Watch expressed concerns about their safety when their families found out that they had been raped. S.A., for example, told Human Rights Watch that she had been threatened by her brother-in-law after her husband took her to see a doctor:
I went back to my family’s home and stayed in a room alone – they would bring me a tray of food and leave. My brother-in-law came then and told me, “Either you commit suicide, or we kill you and make it look like a suicide, or an accident will happen, someone will clean a weapon and will kill you, accidentally.”
“The victims we spoke to are urgently in need of medical treatment and other services that will help them deal with what happened and ensure their safety, and for sure there are more victims we have not met,” Gerntholtz said. It is critical that the NTC and the international community focus on this very vulnerable group, and that appropriate services are developed to meet their needs.”
ZAWIYAH – BATTLE SCARS AND MARTYRS STORIES – 26/09/2011
Upon leaving Tripoli for the first time in 7 months, i visited Zawiyah to pay tribute to their efforts of resistance and to reflect on the many lives lost and the many wounds to heal.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fasjENLleQ&fea...
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Malta entrepreneurs in talks with #Silverstone and #Libya company to rebuild #Mallaha Lake motor racing circuit with €120m investment
Photo’s
septimius_sever septimius severus
Hanibal #Gaddafi & his wife ‘private’ collection! I will not comment any further. t.co/eZ0pjK3M …. #Libya
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
fphoto of #Waddan arm depot where Gaddafi kept it’s chemical and forbidden material as mustard gas #Libya
yfrog.com/kkym8fqj
Lockerbie bombing: Libyans asked for help by Scottish prosecutors #libya bit.ly/qIKVG4
Libyans reclaim their streets #libya
bit.ly/pBAc9U
Libyan women train for military, hope for equality
Women were at the forefront of the protests that launched the anti-Gadhafi uprising in February, demanding democracy for the country and justice for loved ones who had been killed. Many women now hope the revolution will herald full equality.
“We should be equal and we’re fighting for the same goal, so why should the men have to carry the burdens of this fight while we sit and watch?” said Amal al-Obeidi, 35, who teaches business management at a high school in Benghazi.
“The least we can do is learn to protect ourselves so the men can focus on fighting Gadhafi on the front lines knowing that we have their back,” added al-Obeidi, who wore a headscarf and was brimming with enthusiasm.
She said Islam doesn’t forbid women from fighting alongside the men.
Full art.:
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/AL...
Huffington Post
Libyan fighters try to free civilians from town
SIRTE, Libya — A brigade commander of Libyan revolutionary fighters says his forces are communicating with families stuck inside of Moammar Gadhafi’s besieged hometown to try to secure them a way out.
Al-Tohami Abu Zayan said Tuesday that revolutionary forces can take the city “whenever we choose,” but are holding back to protect civilians.
For nearly two weeks, revolutionary forces have regularly fired mortars, Grad rockets and tanks shells into the city.
More:
www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20110...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
The liberation forces have taken over the seaport in the town of Sirte, one of the last 2 Gaddafi held towns #Libya #Sirte
Reuters
WRAPUP 2-Snipers hold up push into Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte
UN concerned for civilians trapped in Gaddafi’s home town
NATO warplanes strike the city
Advance by anti-Gaddafi units stalled near city centre (Updates with new details of fighting)
Snipers defending Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte held off an advance on Tuesday by interim government forces into the centre of the city, one of the last bastions of supporters of the ousted Libyan leader.
Read art.:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
(Video filmed March, 2011) 4:02min “Libyan aircraft transporting mercenaries to #Tripoli & #Benghazi” #Libya t.co/jRXccvf3
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ2_DKQvu-4
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
we ALL need to stand together to make sure that this phenomenal revolution succeeds.no one can do it alone
we will all help in the best way we can.
SumayyahG
Gaddafi’s mess took 42 years to create, We’d be naive to think all the problems will be solved in a few weeks. Have patience. #Libya
AJA:
Freedom Fighters are suspending their attack on Sirte City Centre to allow civilians to evacuate. City is under complete siege
AJA corrresp at northeastern front Sirte:
Fieldcommander ‘rebels’ killed by bullet of sniper.’
Flights between Egypt and Libya resume.
t.co/MXMCpODD
Reuters
Snipers hold up push into Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte
Snipers defending Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte held off an advance on Tuesday by interim government forces into the centre of the city, one of the last bastions of supporters of the ousted Libyan leader.
Forces of Libya’s new rulers, the National Transitional Council (NTC), broke weeks of resistance from Gaddafi loyalists to enter Sirte in recent days, but heavy gunfire has prevented them from reaching the city centre.
Read more here:
in.reuters.com/article/2011/09/27/idINI...
WNYC News
With Hope and Fear, Libyan Students Meet New Leaders in New York
Along the blocks surrounding United Nations headquarters, there have been plenty of sour faces the past week – angry protesters and frustrated neighbors trying to weave through the blue barricades. But the faces of one group of visitors to the UN were full of joy: Libyans.
Even a group of Libyan students who had been slated to become part of ousted President Moammar Gadhafi’s regime were smiling as they waited to meet Libya’s interim president at the country’s Mission to the UN last week.
Libya’s population is smaller than that of New York City and Gadhafi ruled for more than four decades.
But 28-year old Michigan State University student Mohammed Gibril said, during all his years in Libya, he never saw the man in person.
“You don’t see officials in Libya before,” Gibril said. “I mean, you hear about them but you don’t want to meet them, you don’t want to see them, you stay away from them,” he said.
He added: “We drove all the way from East Lansing, Michigan, here just to see the new leadership of Libya.”
Art.:
www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2011/se...
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
I think Amazigh people can better spend their time educating Arab Libyans instead of getting angry & blaming them. #Libya #Amazigh
The Amazigh are justified in their demands & I support them. :)
Khiria
Just to clear things up: #Gaddafi is not our president! He never was! He was just a crazy man holding us hostage. #Libya #ScrewGaddafi
Mohammed
@LouisFarrakhan #Usher, Nelly #Furtado, #Beyonce, Mariah #Carey all have returned #Libya money, when will you? #AskFarrakhan
The Freedom Group Daily is out! t.co/IxtCXFgS
Ben CNN
Photo: brothers reunited, al-Asfar, al-Shati, #libya. one had been fighting for 6 months. Their father died 2 weeks ago
yfrog.com/nufqpstj
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Apparently Gaddafi has spoken and claimed that he is inside Libya. #Libya #gaddafi
Please read:
A Kabyle professor from Paris joined the rebels in Adrar Inefusen, Nalut, Zwara, Yefren, Douiret, etc
Tamazgha. fr
Un voyage de rêve en pays amazigh
Aller en Libye était quelque chose d’inenvisageable pour moi. Oui, comment visiter un territoire sous domination du système de Kadhafi ? Même en Kabylie pourtant mon
pays natal, cela fait dix-huit ans que je n’y suis pas allé. En effet, pourquoi me rendre en terre kabyle sous régence quasi coloniale, voire purement colonisée? M’y rendre serait en effet pour moi, quelque part, l’acceptation du fait accompli, à savoir vivre dans son propre pays l’humiliation au quotidien…
Mais, ce lundi 25 juillet, tout a été enfin possible pour moi sous un autre ciel berbère. Oui, j’ai atterri sur un territoire amazigh débarrassé de la colonisation, un pays sous contrôle total d’Amazighs… Croisons les doigts pour que ce le soit pour toujours.
Read more here:
www.tamazgha.fr/Un-voyage-de-reve-en-pa...
Telegraph
British Government ‘not interested in finding Libyan killer of Yvonne Fletcher’
The colleague present at the murder of WPc Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan embassy in London has accused the British government of hampering the quest to find her kille
Retired police officer John Murray, who vowed to the dying WPc Fletcher that he would bring her murderers to justice when she was shot during a1984 demonstration, said the failure to resolve her case was linked to politics between Libya and Britain.
“It is a very embarrassing situation for the Metropolitan police. The rank and file want the murderer charged, but they have been prevented by political reasons. There is no doubt about that,” said Murray.
Full story:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
Background:
Murder of Yvonne Fletcher
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yvonne_...
flyingbirdies أكرم
German Embassy in #Tripoli will officially open it’s doors 2morrow after being closed 4 over 7 months, ONLY medical cases will be excepted.
Reuters:
Libya Amazigh demand recognition in new #constitution t.co/nJ3FLpv6 #
Berbers t.co/wZ8QHwyJ
t.co/wAVF6pY0
IMC_Worldwide Intl Medical Corps
War wounds aren’t just physical: we’re providing Psychological First Aid trainings to support mental health needs in #Libya.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libya postpones formation of new Govt
malonebarry Barry Malone
Developing: NTC commander at Sirte is saying they’ve been contacted by elders from inside the town who want to negotiate a truce #Libya
FreeBenghazi
(Video filmed March, 2011) 4:02min “Libyan aircraft transporting mercenaries to #Tripoli & #Benghazi” #Libya
t.co/jRXccvf3
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ2_DKQvu-4
Defense News
Britain Pulls Apache Helos from Libya Mission
LONDON – Britain said Sept. 26 it has agreed with NATO to withdraw the five Apache helicopters that it has in service over Libya, in a major sign that the alliance’s air mission is winding down.
Britain deployed the army attack helicopters in June to support forces fighting then-leader Moammar Gadhafi. The choppers were based on the Royal Navy carrier HMS Ocean, which has been based in the Mediterranean Sea.
“Given the current situation in Libya, NATO has agreed with the U.K. that HMS Ocean and her helicopter detachment can be released from Operation Unified Protector,” said Major Gen. Nick Pope, spokesman for Britain’s Chief of Defence Staff.
“The vessel is offloading equipment in Souda Bay and in due course will proceed through the Suez Canal en route to the Red Sea,” Pope said in a statement.
British warplanes continued their mission on Sept. 26, attacking a series of targets in Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte on Sept. 25, including a command-and-control installation and a psychological warfare center, added Pope.
On Sept. 21, British Defence Minister Liam Fox had said that the “good progress made to date” would allow the country to bring home four Typhoon fast jets and three Apaches.
NATO allies on the same day decided to extend their air campaign in Libya by another 90 days but said the mission would remain under constant review following the toppling of Gadhafi earlier this month.
The United Nations Security Council unanimously agreed last week to maintain the no-fly zone, which has been used to justify NATO air strikes against Gadhafi targets and came into force in March.
Musa Ibrahim & Gaddafi Electronic Army ( It would be nice to put a face to the (tweep) Name ! #Libya
pic.twitter.com/3aRFxT7c
Al Alrabiya,
military representative: ‘Truce in Sirte to guarantee departure of families from Gaddafi’s tribe.
HaraldDoornbos Harald Doornbos
#TalithaVanZon gearresteerd in NL, liefje #Moutassim in belegerd Stalingrad…eh…Sirt. Dat was vorig jaar toch een leukere zomer…
Please read ( Dutch):
RTL
Ex-model Talitha van Zon opgepakt
Voormalig fotomodel Talitha van Zon is vanochtend door de Marechaussee opgepakt op Schiphol. Ze wordt verdacht van mensenhandel. Het ex-model werd bekend nadat ze in Libië gewond was geraakt.
De Telegraaf meldt dat het Nederlandse model (39) in voorlopige hechtenis zou zijn genomen, nadat zij was verhoord over het meelokken van een vriendin naar Libië, eerder dit jaar. Die vriendin verklaarde later verkracht te zijn door de zoon van de voormalige leider Khadaffi. De vrouw deed bij terugkomst in Nederland aangifte tegen Talitha van Zon.
Ineens wereldnieuws
Van Zon werd ineens wereldnieuws toen ze in augustus uit een raam was gevallen van een hotel in Tripoli en daarbij in coma zijn geraakt. Later werd dat verhaal door haarzelf genuanceerd. Zij sprong zelf het hotel uit omdat zij bang was dat zij door Libische rebellen zou worden gestraft voor haar banden met de zoon van Muammar Khadaffi, Mutassim. Ze raakte niet in coma, maar brak slechts haar arm.
Internationaal escortbureau
Van Zon vluchtte weg uit Libië, maar daarmee was de kous nog niet af. Zij werd gezien als callgirl van Mutassim Khadaffi en werd ervan verdacht een internationaal escortbureau op te willen zetten. Ook zou ze dus haar vriendin naar Libië hebben gelokt.
Moszkowicz staat vriendin bij
Advocaat Bram Moszkowicz, die de vriendin bijstaat, heeft de Marechaussee een paar weken geleden verzocht om de vrouw op te pakken, meldt De Telegraaf. Diverse betrokkenen zijn sindsdien gehoord op Schiphol over Talitha van Zon.
Hulp aan alzheimerpatiënten
Van Zon wees later in het AD alle beschuldigingen van de hand. Zij was in Libië om een stichting voor alzheimerpatienten op te zetten, zei ze. Ook wilde zij in een vluchtelingenkamp gaan werken aan de Tunesische grens.
Source:
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Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
by ChangeInLibya
نم قرير العين… فانت في اعظم عبادة… ثائر ليبي #libya #feb17 FF having little nap, what a seen…Can #Gaddafi do it?
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Commander Salem Juha’s message on behalf of freedom fighters of Misrata.
Juha:“Been talk about #Misrata thuwar which shouldn’t happen. Defending nation & answering call of mistreated” #Libya
Juha:“Misrata thuwar support NTC. Not pressuring them into making decisions about appointment of ministers” #
Juha:“Impossible 4 #Misrata 2 exploit their won blood or step over martyrs’ bodies2 gain position in ministry”
Juha:“Urge Misratis who r qualified/seek positions, 2 give opportunity2 other cities in this transition period”
t.co/QydNAu3q
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_8p3H7znMM
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
NTC Fighters in #Libya announce that they have full control of the Sirt port after fierce battles throughout the night.
NTC Fighters in #Libya enter Sirt from the East and clash with Gadaffi forces
NTC Fighters in #Libya have said that they now have control of the East part of Sirt.
AP
Italian and French energy companies have resumed some oil production in Libya, the Associated Press reports Eni, the Italian energy giant, announced on Monday that it had resumed oil production after months of interruption, with 15 wells being tapped. Production stood at about 31,900 barrels per day. Total, a French energy company, said that it had restarted production last week.
AFP
Troops of Libya’s new rulers seized control of the port in Sirte, Moamer Kadhafi’s birthplace, in fighting with the ousted leader’s diehards during the night, a commander said.
“There were clashes in the night and we now are controlling the port,” said Commander Mustafa bin Dardef of the Zintan brigade, which is attached to the National Transitional Council (NTC), the new ruling body of Libya.
The capture of the port, located in eastern Sirte, marks a strategic victory for the anti-Gaddafi forces as they battle for control of Sirte, one of Gaddafi ‘s last remaining strongholds.
AP
A brigade commander of Libyan revolutionary fighters says his forces are communicating with families stuck inside of Moammar Gadhafi’s besieged hometown to try to secure them a way out.
Al-Tohami Abu Zayan said Tuesday that revolutionary forces can take the city “whenever we choose,” but are holding back to protect civilians. More than one month
after seizing Tripoli and ending Gadhafi’s rule, revolutionary forces still face fierce resistance from Gadhafi loyalists in the towns of Sirte, Bani Walid and in pockets in the country’s desert south.
Early Tuesday, forces outside Sirte were preparing to fire rockets at the town when at least four mortars exploded near them. No one was injured.
Sirte
BBC
There has been heavy fighting in the Libyan city of Sirte, where hundreds of armed supporters of the new government continue to face strong resistance from forces loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi. A BBC correspondent on the outskirts of the city says the two sides have been exchanging machinegun fire, rockets and artillery shells.
Sirte
Reuters
A local military commander with Libya’s interim government said on Tuesday he was in talks about a truce with an elder from Muammar Gaddafi’s tribe inside the besieged city of Sirte.
Touhami Zayani, commander of the El-Farouk brigade outside Sirte, told Reuters the elder had contacted him and asked for safe passage for members of the tribe out of the city. Zayani said he agreed to allow families to leave and was still in negotiations on a way for armed Gaddafi loyalists to lay down their arms and leave Sirte.
Apaches UK
Britain said on Monday it has agreed with Nato to withdraw the five Apache helicopters that it has in service over Libya, in a major sign that the alliance’s air mission is winding down.
Anthem Olympics
Interesting fact:
The recording of the 205 national anthems for next year’s London Olympics has finally been wrapped up however the Libyan anthem remained the same old Gaddafi anthem. With Libya’s anthem already replaced by the country’s National Transitional Council (NTC), Olympics director believes he will be back in the studio soon.
Malta
One of the 16 patients who were flown to Malta from Libya for treatment last Tuesday passed away early yesterday afternoon, the government said in a statement.
UK
Britain’s help in overthrowing Muammar Gaddafi will never be forgotten and British companies can expect to play an instrumental role in rebuilding Libya, a senior diplomat told British executives on Tuesday. “I can assure you that British businesses have a role to play and hope you will work with us to build the future Libya,” Nacua, charge d’affaires at the country’s embassy in London told the meeting, attended by about 100 executives and closed to media other than Reuters.
Aljazeera
More than a hundred employees of Libya’s National Oil Company (NOC) protested outside its offices in Tripoli on Tuesday against what they said was a failure by managers to make a clean break with the past. “This is a new era, a new revolution. We paid a lot of blood. We are looking for a huge change,” said Haifa Mohammed, who said she worked in the company’s sustainable development department. “We expected this change to happen. But what we are seeing is the old people are still there, the bad people, the managers.
hominoid555 Russell
Khadafy says he is still in Libya, ready for martyrdom, well let’s face it he will probably get it !
aleithead Alastair Leithead
Coast road near #Sirte centre crazy. Just got caught up in a battle. And shelling on main road. Gaddafi people mounting strong defence
Karybdis
Qasr Abu Hadi #Sirte still appears to be under loyalist control as of 23 Sept. They had barricaded escape routes from the village that day.
Sirte
It has been confirmed on more than one occasion that 700 complex is ANTIG.
AP:
A brigade com of Libyan FFS says his forces are communicating with families stuck inside besieged #Sirte & try 2 secure them a way out.
#Libyan fighters try to free families stuck inside the besieged city #Sirte bit.ly/n9zdnB
Misrata Recovering 4m #Libya’s Bloody Battles, shops r opening & people are trying to resume something like normal life
n.pr/o1tc4w
BBC:
There has been heavy fighting in city of S#irte, where 100s of armed #NTC forces continue to face strong resistance from #Gaddafi forces
AJA
#FF’s entering #sirte from the east and are now clashing with #Gaddafi’s gangs .
Alj:
NTC Fighters controlled the eastern portion of #Sirte, the hometown of deposed Gaddafi and one of the last bastions supporting him
Reuters
Libya #NTC taken full control of the stockpile of chemical weapons & nuclear material 4m Gaddafi forces. #NATO officials said
iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
If the #ArabSpring was a movie, you’ve just seen the first 5 minutes.
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
1 dead, 12 injured as Benghazi and Misrata revolutionary fighters take control of sea port in Sirte from the Eastern front #Libya
hominoid555 Russell
7 Sea King Airborne Surveillance and Control helicopters, crews flew almost 100 operational sorties over Libya, returned home too soon.
felixkuehn Felix Kuehn
saw a truckload today so not all are missing RT @DaveedGR: estimated 20,000 surface-to-air missiles missing in Libya
t.co/K1wx9ybG
LosPlanez Walter
Teacher : “There are alot of immigrants from Libya in Minnesota.” Student: “Libya?” Teacher: “Yea..like f****** Africa…”
MUST READ
CNN
Witnessing lengthy battle for Libyan city
We were told to be awake and ready to move at 4 a.m. The National Transitional Council fighters we were with were planning to launch a dawn assault on the Saharan city of Sabha.
All predictions indicated it would be one of the bloodiest battles yet. NTC officials said loyalist forces would use weaponry they hadn’t used before. They didn’t go into detail but it sounded ominous. Western intelligence sources told CNN the fighters in Sabha still loyal to Libya’s ousted leader, Moammar Gadhafi, had heavy artillery and would likely use it.
Read full art.:
www.cnn.com/2011/09/27/world/africa/bat...
Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا” t.co/jlNRyLz4
BBC
Red Cross ‘concern’ at Libya
Gaddafi loyalists are holding out in Libya. The BBC’s Peter Biles reports from the front line at Bani Walid and the Red Cross’s Dibeh Sakhr outlines concerns about the humanitarian situation in parts of the country.
Audio:
news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_95...
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Photo Album from the First Libyan National Amazigh Congress in Tripoli: t.co/yAeItV9y #Libya #Amazigh
Reuters
WRAPUP 4-Gaddafi loyalists “ask for truce” in besieged city
Commander near Sirte said offered Gaddafi’s tribe safe passage
Fierce fighting still going on in east of city
Libya exports first crude oil shipment in months
Tension in Tripoli between regional militias (Updates throughout)
Read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/27/liby...
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
“This is one of the greatest stockpiles of these weapons that has ever gone on the loose.” t.co/LrXlF73a (via @ABC)
FromJoanne Joanne
#Gaddafi spoke on Tuesday and claimed on Local Radio in #Bani #Walid that the #NTC would get “An Unexpected shock” #Libya
Osama
Why do ppl see the gain of a seat in powerful positions as a trophy rather than a heavy responsibility? Skewed morals perhaps??
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Main Eastern gate of Sirte 26-09-2011 Youtube -
t.co/tI1jbnR9 #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xzJuVDV3hQ
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli #NOC Employees PROTEST They want #Gaddafi Regime Managers Removed from their position “Yes 2 justice No to favoritism” #Libya #Oil
alexrossiSKY alex rossi
Another mortar is launched into the centre of #Sirte. #Libya #Feb17 pic.twitter.com/rXNHYdTf
hominoid555 Russell
NATO says about 200,000 Libyan civilians are still threatened by forces loyal to the country’s former regime and 22,457,763 in Syria
N_Benghazi ن
When Libyans heard Emirati’s calling Sheikh Zayed “Zayed alKhair” they started calling Gaddafi “Naagis al Khair.”
GRAFIXEL
“Threats have been sent to television channels, warning that women should not appear on the small screen” #Tripoli #Libya #Fatwas
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH #GoodNEWS 1st crude #oil 381,000 barrels cargo Ship sailed from Marsa elHariga #Libya Sept.25 bound for #Italy
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Huge pro-amazigh rights rallies today all over Tripoli – martyr’s square especially #libya #Amazigh #feb17
malonebarry Barry Malone
Tunisian appeal court decides to free former Libyan PM Al Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi who was jailed for 6 months last week, lawyer says #Libya
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
day of shelling in the western front of #Sirte NTC fighters not advancing they closed entrance to the city with containers #Libya
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
NTC Fighters in #Libya in the Eastern region push closer to Sirt and lose a main commander who was shot by a sniper
just spoken to friends there,they havent entered Sirt yet but are getting closer
FromJoanne Joanne
#Libya s Marine Ports are Safe Since 3 weeks #NTC fighters stepped up security they set up checkpoints at all entrances
#Gaddafi tribe elder is negotiating via SatellitePhone with ElFarouk brigade Commander Safe passage 4families +Militias Out of #Sirte
AJEnglish television station reported that #NTC fighters had taken control of the eastern portion of #Sirte #Libya
#FLASH #NTC officials on Tuesday asked FIGHTERS from Other Regions to LEAVE #Tripoli warning their presence could Destabilize #Libya
#Trident #Hope tanker sailed from #Mellitah #Libya on Tuesday with 1st cargo of #Condensate ( condensate is In between Gas and Crude Oil)
(fyi: Melittah = port on the west coast)
Colonel #Bani : Armed Presence is unhealthy I ask kata’iba (brigades) which r concerned for the future of #Libya to exit capital #Tripoli
BREAKING The #Tunisia Appeal Court released the #Libya former prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi via #AlArabiya
#NTC Mustafa #alHuni on Tuesday: Consultations have led to a decision to POSTPONE the Formation of Government until after liberation #Libya
Tunisian court frees former Libya prime minister
Read more:
shabablibya.org/news/tunisian-court-fre...
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Poor healthcare in Libya
Medical staff at a hospital in Sabha in Libya spoke on Saturday about the struggles they face in meeting the needs of their patients due to difficult living conditions. They also faced difficulties in their work during the rule of Muammar Qaddafi and have been under intense pressure since the start of the conflict.
a doctor at the hospital said, “Sabha Hospital is like any other hospital in Libya. All hospitals in the country have collapsed. Unfortunately the former regime did not care for law and order so if a hospital couldn’t function in normal circumstances how can it expected to do so in a war?”
Injured fighters in Libya’s conflict are among those being treated in the wards alongside innocent civilians including newborns.
The United Nations has identified healthcare as a priority for Libya’s interim authorities as they seek to restore stability.
U.N. Under-Secretary-General B. Lynn Pascoe drew attention to four key challenges facing the National Transitional Council, beginning with addressing national reconciliation, unity and ensuring that all military groups are brought under a unified command and the political authority of the NTC is carried out quickly.
Local authorities have indicated an urgent need for health items, food, water and other assistance.
Meanwhile, troops of Libya’s new rulers seized control of the port in Sirte, Qaddafi’s birthplace, in fighting with the ousted leader’s troops.
The capture of the port, located in eastern Sirte, marks a strategic victory for the anti-Qaddafi forces as they battle for control of Sirte, one of Qaddafi’s last remaining strongholds.
Speaker:
a doctor at the hospital
Voice:
Mustapha Ajbaili
Video:
www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/27/1...
Karybdis
East Front #Sirte . Fighters have moved north and taken the port from the main front on the highway. A #gadhadhfa elder is negotiating w NTC
Michael
E #Sirte #Libya frnt xtend up to Port frm circle. 1st time G has to do other than point arty E & infantry W.
t.co/SA3DgSeL
Reuters
Exclusive: First Libya crude cargo bound for Italy
Libya’s first crude oil cargo to be shipped in months sailed from the eastern port of Marsa el Hariga on September 25 bound for Italy, Libya’s port authority chief told Reuters on Tuesday.
Full story:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/27/us-l...
LibyaLiberty Hend Bashir Amry
If they say on ‘humanitarian’ grounds, I’m gonna scream. RT@ShababLibya Reuters: Tunisian court frees former Libya prime minister
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: Reporter went to #Misrata today & asked me for help contacting local military leaders. But they are leading the fight at Sirte.
#Sirte:
Street to street fighting happening now reported by #Freedomfighter commander. #Libye
LA Times
Returned U.S. envoy to Libya doesn’t see long-term insurgency
Reporting from Tripoli, Libya — Fugitive leader Moammar Kadafi remains a danger and Libya faces “stubborn resistance” from former regime loyalists, but the U.S. ambassador to Libya said Thursday that he did not envision a long-term insurgency against the nation’s fledgling government.
“I don’t think the Libyan people, after all the blood that has been shed in the last six months, are going to let their revolution be hijacked,” Ambassador Gene Cretz said after a flag-raising ceremony at the ambassador’s residence, now the site of the U.S. Embassy.
Full story:
articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/23/world/...
Tweeting Tripoli
ITV used video games footage in documentary about Libya and the IRA: t.co/VMjul2VX LOL, it’s so obvious it’s fake!!!
Aljazeera
Libya
A Tunisian court Tuesday dismissed an illegal entry conviction against Muammar Gaddafi’s ex-prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi who had fled Libya to the neighbouring north African country, AFP news agency reports.
“It’s a dismissal. Mr Mahmudi and his two co-accused have been acquitted by the appeals court in Tozeur,” the lawyer Aref Rouiss told AFP.
Prime minister until the last days of Gaddafi’s regime, Mahmudi was arrested last week with two others near Tamaghza on the south-western border with Algeria. His lawyer said the co-accused were his nephew Karim al-Mahmudi and Libyan car dealer Fethi Hamel.
Swiftly tried by a court in Tozeur, some 450km from the capital Tunis, he was sentenced to six months in prison for illegal entry into Tunisia.
His lawyers appealed that decision which was overruled Tuesday by a higher court.
The dismissal was later confirmed to AFP by a spokesman for Tunisian Justice Minister Chokri Nafti.
According to Reuters news agency, Libya’s interm rulers have not asked Tunisia to extradite Mahmudi.
“He is a free man,” said source from the justice ministery.
News Republic
Anti-Kadhafi fighters capture hometown port
Anti-Kadhafi fighters overran the port of Sirte early Tuesday, scoring a strategic victory in their battle for control of the defeated Libyan leader’s birthplace, his loyalists’ most important bastion.
Hundreds of fearful civilians have fled the Mediterranean coastal city in recent days as the new regime’s forces have closed in from east, south and west.
But as the National Transitional Council troops zero in on the centre of the sprawling city where Kadhafi diehards are believed to be holed up, the threat of destructive urban warfare street-by-street hangs over the remaining residents.
“There were clashes in the night and we now are controlling the port,” said
Commander Mustafa bin Dardef of the NTC’s Zintan Brigade.
The port lies on the north side of the city but it is the city centre that Kadhafi’s compound and military bunkers lie and NTC fighters said they expected his remaining loyalists to put up fierce resistance.
“As we move closer to the city centre, it’s going to be face-to-face street fighting and we are preparing for it,” said one fighter, Ali Zaidi.
Full story:
www.news-republic.com/Web/ArticleWeb.as...
(Reuters)
Algeria’s govt has ordered members of Gaddafi’s family in exile on its territory to stop making political pronouncements.
LIBYAN
someone have to be held accountable for not requesting to deport #AlBaghdadi #AlMahmodi from #Tunis. #Libya
libertad
#Algerie demande a Aïcha Kadhafi de ne pas faire de la politique pendant son séjour dans le pays #Libye #Libya #feb17
Iman
its as though the only thing worse than Ghadaffi is a female Ghadaffi
Aljazeera
Algeria’s government has ordered members of Muammar Gaddafi’s family in exile on its territory to stop making political pronouncements, after Gaddafi’s daughter Aisha angered the new Libyan government by telling the media her father was still fighting to hold on to power.
“It is clear that the message has been passed on to Aisha and the other members of the family that they should, from now on, respect their status as guests in Algeria and remove themselves completely from any political action,” Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci was quoted as saying by Algeria’s official APS news agency. – Reuters
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
Apparently the two times the #baniwalid FF retreated from the front was orders by ntc, although civillian areas were being hit.
Also, the ntc went behind the backs of FF and thuwar on the frontlines and was doing its own negotiations with Gaddafi forces.
wheelertweets James Wheeler
by LibyaNewMedia
#Libya: Interim government now trying to get 400 injured fighters to go from Tunis to Jordan. Doctors & injured anxious & upset. Me too.
Naharnet
Gadhafi Says Still in Libya, Ready for Martyrdom
Fugitive Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi has told his supporters that he is still fighting on the ground and is ready to die a martyr, a loyalist website reported on Tuesday.
“Heroes have resisted and fallen as martyrs and we too are awaiting martyrdom,” the website of the defunct Allibiya state television channel quoted Gadhafi as saying in a speech broadcast on local radio in Bani Walid, one of his last remaining bastions.
The toppled despot hailed the fierce resistance put up by his loyalists in Bani Walid, a desert city, 170 kilometers southeast of Tripoli, which has resisted a bloody siege by forces of the National Transitional Council for several weeks.
The region’s Warfalla tribe was a major source of recruitment for the elite troops of Gadhafi’s regime and the strongman told its members that they were continuing in that martial tradition.
“Through your jihad, you are imitating the exploits of your ancestors,” he said.
“You should know that I am on the ground with you. They lie when they say Gadhafi is in Venezuela or Gadhafi is in Niger. I am among my people and an unexpected shock awaits this clique of agents in the coming days.”
Source Agence France Presse
4Adam
Confirmed by #South #Africa Football Association that SA will host the 2013 #Africa #Cup of #Nations replacing #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#SIRTE Gaddafi Men R TRAPPED #NTC fighters R South East and West To the north is the sea #NATO Navy is blocking escape from North #Libya
#SIRTE Gaddafi Militia and supporters cant escape anymore All entrances are b#ocked with Containers & Checkpoints #Libya
#FLASH #Syria TV station shows Saif al Islam #Gaddafi rallying forces Urging them to retake #Tripoli #Libya
ITV have Apologised for using #Arma2 video game footage in its documentary on #Gaddafi supporting the #IRA thetim.es/qPiykh
Mahmud Nacua #Libya envoy wants African states to prevent #Gaddafi sabotage goo.gl/K1uIo #Libya
Vanguard
Libya envoy wants African states to prevent Gaddafi sabotage
London – The international community must put pressure on African countries backing Muammar Gaddafi to ensure he and his family do not sabotage the country’s fight for freedom, a Libyan diplomat said.
“At political level I think Libya will need support from the international community to put pressure on those African countries who still support Gaddafi and benefit from his money,” Mahmud Nacua, charge d’affaires at the Libyan embassy in London, told Reuters in London on Tuesday.
“The international community has a vital role to stop any sabotage from Gaddafi, his sons and his supporters, especially in the south near the border,”
Read more:
www.vanguardngr.com/2011/09/libya-envoy...
Tweeting Tripoli
NTC, apparently, did not request extradition of Baghdadi. If true, I will remove “I support NTC” from my profile. That’s it.
you should see how much people are furious here in Tripoli. This is a fatal mistake. Baghdadi is as wanted as Gaddafi.
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
I posted 4 photos on Facebook in the album “Wounded fighters, September 26, 2011” fb.me/14Ty6POOn
I posted 8 photos on Facebook in the album “Families flee Sirte (September 26, 2011)”
fb.me/K09YGU0t
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
Saif al Islam l hijo de Gadafi aparece n unas imágenes arengando a sus seguidores a recapturar #Trípoli #Libia
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
NTC didnt aske the Tunisian Government to hand over Al Baghdadi Al Mahmoudi. What is going on ?
NTC Fighters in #Libya in the west & south sides of Sirt give the G loyalists some time to hand over weapons and allow families to leave.
Families coming out of Sirt and Sabha in #Libya dont even know that Tripoli has fallen.
Tripolitanian Libyan
#NTC have yet to ask for extradition of #Gaddafi officials, are they waiting for them to die of old age first? #Libya
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Today I met Libya’s pilots Abdulla Salhi & Ali El Rabti-defected to Malta Feb 21 & refused orders to bomb civilians yfrog.com/nycu2hj
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
good to see #FF on front line using eye protection and body armour. allvoices.com/contributed-ne…
Photos of Hannibal Gaddafi and his wife Aline Kaff Dear Alin poured Boiling Water over Nanny #Shweyga #Mullah
goo.gl/8nZuE #Libya
#Fighters found Photos of Hannibal and his evil wife Aline Skaff on Hannibal’s laptop
goo.gl/VuNh9 #Libya
ianbirrell ianbirrell
The revolution belongs to all Libyans, secular or not – interesting article by Abdel Hakim Belhaj bit.ly/oRY7Ey
Tripolitanian Libyan
#NTC have yet to form a unified security force for maintaining peace and security in #Tripoli. #Libya
FreeBenghazi
“There is a state of chaos in #Sabha with looting, theft & worse.” #Libya v #SabhaMediaCentre
“There lots of climbers. Those who ystrday called thuwar ‘rats’ & killed innocent #Libya’ns, are now ‘thuwar’.” v #SabhaMediaCentre
JohnDelaGuardia John D. Dela Guardia
#Sirte → #Tripoli – to de-rig and rig the SNG equipment. I need a more reliable vehicle (Land Cruiser, Tundra, 4×4)
MilitantNews Stephen Morgan
#Libya Islamists warn NTC of “huge risks… or the serious … reaction” if they are excluded from a share of power
gu.com/p/327nx/tw
FreeBenghazi
“(Opportunist who claim to be thuwar) pose great danger to Feb17 bcos they don’t have any principles” #Libya v #SabhaMediaCentre
Libyan
#NTC still has no control over various armed revolutionary groups in #Libya.
#NTC has still not provided funding for injured revolutionaries being treated outside of #Libya.
liveTripoli
It takes time, effort and tons of patience for rebuilding. So know, we are facing difficulties we will continue to do so, because we want.
…change…good change
At the same time let’s keep it balanced. Keep the new government on its feet. Now the government works for the people not vice versa..!
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Sirte is now available as a clickable city on our Libya video archive map bit.ly/pfUeiK #libya
Tripolitanian Libyan
I don’t understand why Islamists like #Sallabi and #Belhaj insist on playing political games now, we’re in transition, calm down. #Libya
#NTC’s Jalil has already said Islam will be integrated into #Libyan law, why does #Belhaj insist on forcing Islamists into politics?
Abdel Hakim Belhaj claims that #Libya’s Islamists are being marginalized, when will he get it? #Libya should be a secular state.
Tweeting Tripoli
“NTC failed to ask for Baghdadi. If true,…………….” go on say what will you do?
Reuters
Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam shown rallying Libyans-TV
A television station broadcast footage on Tuesday of what it said was Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam dated Sept. 20, apparently rallying his forces in one of the last strongholds of the Libyan leader, now surrounded by rebels.
“This land is the land of your forefathers. Don’t hand it over,” Saif al-Islam, shouted to a crowd of followers, according to the footage broadcast by Arrai TV.
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
Guardian
British trade mission seeks to make most of Libyan goodwill
Britain has moved quickly to explore opportunities for boosting business in Libya, hoping to build on the goodwill of its support for the administration that has overthrown
Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
Lord Green, minister for trade and investment, led a UK delegation including representatives of BP and Shell for talks in Tripoli on Monday with the National Transitional Council (NTC) ministers dealing with the economy, transport, education and communications. “This is not about signing contracts, it’s a dialogue where we need to understand Libyan priorities for economic development and construction,” he said.
Read more:
www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/sep/26...
zaidbenjamin Zaid Benjamin
It seems that we (Me and Reuters) were victims of an old video by Saif al-Islam which was shown on al-Rai TV today. pic.twitter.com/xpcnSIdw
The video shown on al-Rai TV today was presented as an evidence to ICC against Saif #Gaddafi. It was posted on Youtube last February #Libya
“Exposure” Gaddafi and the IRA on ITV itv.com/itvplayer/vide… @itvplayer #Libya via @Abssi
She would scare the daylight out of me 2 wake up next to this 1 goo.gl/smTau Aline Skaff Wife Hannibal Gadafi via @septimius_sever
Guardian
Libyan Islamists must have share in power, warns leader
Libya’s Islamist groups “will not allow” secular politicians to exclude or marginalise them in the intensifying battle for power in the post-Gaddafi era, the country’s most powerful Islamist leader has said.
Abdel Hakim Belhaj, head of the Tripoli Military Council and founder of a jihadi group
that was later disbanded, appears to be firing a shot across the bows of liberal, western-backed rivals after negotiations over broadening the rebel administration foundered.
Read more:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/27/li...
Guardian
The revolution belongs to all Libyans, secular or not
It was 20 years ago that I left my hometown, Tripoli, in search of refuge. Colonel Gaddafi’s security apparatus had the country in an iron grip; the eyes of its agents were everywhere. No one was safe. I have lived in many countries since, dedicating all my efforts to one objective: the overthrow of the dictatorship in order to bring about real change in our country. A change that would guarantee a dignified life, freedom and justice.
Full art.:
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/s...
FromJoanne Joanne
#SIRTE Port + University lie on northeast side Gaddafi compound +Military Bunkers lie in Center #GaddafiMen #NowFighting #InCivilianClothes
#Zintan Brigade discovered MASSIVE Amount all kind WEAPONS in abt 100 VillageHouses even in Hospital several Km S of #Sirte via #AFP #Libya
Jumana
I trust #Libyans in deciding their govt institutions. Diverse ideology is not bad,if not violent/repressive.And I’m ‘secular’:-)
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
they said Hun was shelled on the 20th from those groups not a big number but 1 commander told me not to drive at night
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
hundreds of families leave everyday. there will be no fighting for a few days to let more leave.
Heba
another Musa Ebrahim rumor,this time he’s been reportedly caught wearing women’s clothes n #Heesha west of #Sirte . ooh I’d love that xD
Tweeting Tripoli
LOL, loved Suliman Dogha’s observation on Libya-TV: Gaddafi was fair & just in distributing death equally between the Arabs & the Amazighs.
Alex_Ogle:
Fantastic timing captures Libyan rebels firing rocket, by Reuters’ Goran Tomasevic near Sirte >>
i.imgur.com/ejAaF.jpg
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Having mbakbaka with the tripoli brigade. Checkpoint duty and some fun in martyrs square later #libya #feb17 #Tripoli
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 28th 2011
9/28/11
9.28.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya –
goo.gl/JhnQW
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Tue: Tornado GR4s conducted strikes on large ammunition & vehicle storage depot serving as one of main bases for Qadhafi’s garrison in Sirte
Six guided Paveway bombs were dropped, scoring direct hits which destroyed multiple military facilities within depot inc. storage bunkers.
HMS Bangor is providing security to merchant shipping by conducting precautionary mine counter-measure surveys. #Libya
Aljazeera summary of Sept. 27
What you need to know:
- At least seven anti-Gaddafi fighters have been killed, and more than 40 wounded, as the NTC’s push into Sirte continued today. There were fierce clashes in the east of the city, even as an NTC commander outside the western side of the city said that he was in talks with a tribal elder in the city regarding a possible truce. A humanitarian crisis appears to be brewing inside the city, which is Gaddafi’s hometown.
- A new video of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has emerged, showing him whipping up support amongst followers.
- Algeria has told off Gaddafi family members who are in the country seeking refuge
for taking part in political activities.
- A Tunisian appeals court has freed the former prime minister of Libya under Gaddafi, Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahdoudi.
NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
Musa Ibrahim arrested between Gates 30 & 50 in #Sirte, disguised as a woman wearing a veil. Inshallah its true & not another rumor #libya
WefaqLibya: the one who was arrested is not #MoussaIbrahim but a well-known traitor Hmed Ghuma حمد غومة
www.facebook.com/WefaqLibyaAr #Libya
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
moussa ibrahim’s brother lays in misrata prison, a bullet in his back and partially paralyzed, said #Sirte won’t surrender
some families won’t surrender b/c think rebels will rape their women, that’s what Motassim has apparently been saying #sirte
Jonny_Hallam reported by #WefaqLibyaAr FB page from #Misrata cc @Abdullah_SH #Mousa Ibrahim arrested #Libya
Omar
I will only open my bottle of champagne when Gaddafi is caught. I have it in the fridge since last February.
Sirtawi
News coming in from #Sirte that the son of late AbdelSalam AlZadma has executed his own uncle Ali AlZadma under mysterious circumstances.
BenedictMPWhite Benedict White
Well, for the most part #gaddafi was fair! he was evil to most people.
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
Three reported cases of gunfire aimed at ambulances leaving #baniwalid inside #tarhuna by unidentified pockets of G forces.
FreeBenghazi
Relative calm on Sirte’s western front, all. Fighters reinforcing their positions & helping families flee #Sirte. #Libya
Clashes between fighters & Gaddafi mercenaries on Sirte’s eastern front. Fighters have gained control of the port
Gaddafi forces shelled fighters with mortars & GRAD rockets today. There no were injuries as a result of shelling
SIRTE
Video of wounded & martyred being brought in from front-lines. (0:46min Fighter is from #Sirte)
www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1741219026...
FromJoanne Joanne
That would b a #STUNNING Feat I might celebrate tomorrow if its true ! FF ARRESTED #Mussa #Ibrahim #Gaddafi near #Sirte #Libya
United4Libya
I trust #WefaqLibyaAr FB page from #Misrata: FF have arrested #Mussa #Ibrahim #Gaddafi near #Sirt. he is #Gaddafi’s spokesperson and cousin.
FromJoanne Joanne
#MISRATA Wants AbdulRahman #alSwehli 2get interim Prime Minister post Tribal leaders warned exclusion unacceptable goo.gl/pZfdx
Nah…
RT @NadineFarkash Musa Ibrahim arrested between Gates 30 & 50 #Sirte disguised as veiled woman Inshallah its true #libya
#FLASH NTC Ali #AlTarhouni on 1st Flight delivered 20 boxes of 20-dinar notes($16 million)Tuesday to #Sabha Bank goo.gl/arLsM #Libya
Tripolitano
he was one of the first in Benghazi, then Misurata, then Martyr sq in Tripoli. Now Sebha. Respect for AlTarhouni, regardless!
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
its so cold now in Libya that Saif is wearing a fur collar-this video has been around for months
youtube.com/watch?v=K9ru5F… via @youtube
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9ru5FEQVG4&fea...
Osama
What is it with these gaddafis keep spawning, after being “killed”, like a bad garden weed! Someone spray some herbicide on them plse!:)
gaddafi wants to b a martyr daddy style! NEVER FIGHT & die of OLD AGE!
Hana S.
Talked to my uncle’s wife today. They fled #Sirte yesterday and are now in #Tripoli. She told me horrific stories of their suffering there.
My uncle’s wife said my cousins & uncle were harassed in #Sirte just bcoz my dad didn’t leave #Misrata since #Feb17, called him a traitor.
My uncle’s family came under severe pressure from relatives loyal to G especially after dad came on tv in Misrata condemning #gaddaficrimes
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Malta’s Independence Day commemorated in Benghazi is.gd/V7xIge #Libya #Benghazi
‘Who will control #Libya’s new media?’
goo.gl/AWuCY #feb17 #gaddaficrimes #Libya
#NATO official says #Libya operations remain fluid. Committed to protecting the population as long as needed.
goo.gl/Ah4QQ #feb17
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
Go on this group (Arabic) to find a list of the martyred and injured on the #baniwalid front upto sept 20.
bit.ly/rpXJw3
derek_brower Derek Brower
The world must help with Abu Salim, quickly – It was a disturbing introduction to Tripoli. A mass grave had…
tumblr.com/xdo4xixsq6
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
Daw Salheen Aljedik, arrested from Oct 93- Aug ’11, for the 93 attempted coup. Head of military tactics in #baniwalid, martyred tonight.
Daw Salheen Aljedik, arrested from Oct 93- Aug ’11, for the 93 attempted coup. Head of military tactics in #baniwalid was martyred tonight.
Four deaths today in #baniwalid in one family: Aljedik. Their first martyr was in 1997, executed by Gaddafi. May they RIP. Allah yarhamhom.
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
#US is working closely with Libya’s #NTC to secure all arms stockpiles, amid concerns over weapons proliferation #WhiteHouse said Tues
A plane carrying the injured from Misurata to Jordan after a malfunction in one of its engines had to turn back.
Breaking: Ahrar TV: Ghat liberated after G Forces surrendered and arrival of reinforcements of Cabao & Ubari FFs #feb17 #Libya Allah Akbar
#Libya BBC Fears grow for 200,000 civilians caught in fierce fighting
bbc.in/noFSLD
#Libya After the “news” of how easily Sabha fell to NTC forces, it is crisscrossed by checkpoints where ppl can enter NTC or loyalist areas
Libya To gain support NTC gives $16M to Sabha, but continues to face stiff resistance www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-eas...
#Libya Humanitarian crisis in Sirte worsens as lack of clean water is causing an"epidemic of water-borne diseases" especially among children
#Libya After repelling the attack by 100 pro-Gaddafi fighters on Ghadames, local leaders report they are reorganizing for another attack
#Libya UN aid coordinator also says 24,000 have fled Bani Walid, which is 1 in 4 and most went south, not to Tripoli
Libya UN aid coordinator says 1,700 people have fled from Sirte so far – it has a population of 100,000
Gheblawi Ghazi Gheblawi
More Photos of last night 27/9/2011 Libyan #Amazigh rally in #Tripoli (Yefren Media Center)
on.fb.me/nBJzrF
on.fb.me/n1bfzT
wheelertweets James Wheeler
An injured FF friend just told me, calmly but firmly, that when all of #Libya is free, they’ll need another revolution to fix the NTC.
LibyaInMe حنين ~ Hanin
Salah Bader. Born in 1991. Tripoli hero who along w/ his friends would secretly obtain & give FFs Gaddafi units’ mov’ts feb17martyrs.com/?p=839
NATO NATO
In 2 hours (14:00 Brussels) follow the live streaming of the press briefing on #Libya goo.gl/DAPPb #NATO
WyreDavies Wyre Davies
Re #Reuters flash. Suddenly everyone in #Libya seems to know where #Gaddafi and his sons are. Why now and why so certain?
Comprehensive report of latest developments #Libyaupdates, via @al_omari #Libya Sep27
Libya, Sep 27, 2011
By Hussein Al-Omari on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 6:31pm
(Sources: Aljazeera)
1. Gaddafi spoke via a recorded message aired by Bani Walid radio station promising fighting till martyrdom.
2. Gaddafi speech was directed at his supporters from Warfelleh who are fighting in Bani Walid and Sirte calling it “Jihad”
3. Gaddafi added that the oil of Libya belongs to the Libyan people and not to NATO countries.
4. The revolutionary fighters are now controlling the port of Sirte. East of the city.
5. Negotiations are under way with elders of the Gaddafi tribe to lay down weapns and surrender peacefully.
6. The local front leader of the revolutionary fighters agreed to secure a safe passage.
7. The revolutionary fighters entered Sirte from the easter front.
8. Fighting erupted in he city and tens of the revolutionary fighters are injured.
9. One of the local leaders of the revolutionary fighters was killed by snipers fire.
10. The revolutionary fighters control Dawran Island in Sirte connecting east wit west.
aleithead Alastair Leithead
Watching battle for #Sirte from E overview. NATO bombing, rockets firing in & out. More #Libya civilians leaving town
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libyans wait, and worry, as government delays forming cabinet is.gd/Q2Whur #Libya
EXCLUSIVE: Sharara field ready for exports within two weeks – petroleum economist www.petroleum-economist.com/Article/290... #Libya
Reuters: Libya’s Gaddafi hiding near Algeria border: NTC official is.gd/IGrN0n #Libya
AJE:
Radio active material discovered in Libya
The discovery of a large quantity of so called yellowcake in the Libyan town of Sabha has shocked observers.
The radioactive chemical which can be used in the production of nuclear weapons was found unguarded.
Tony Birtley toured the warehouse where the milled powder is stored.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7LkuH2FOCE
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
#Feb17Jokes #Gaddafi says in his Green Book. A Man is a Male and a Lady is a Female. Now only a genius could figure that out. #Libya
There R indications that #Gaddafi is hiding among the Tuareq ppl around Ghadames near the #Algeria n border
Tweeting Tripoli
Large quantities of petrol found hidden under desert sand. Gaddafi was a mad man for sure!!!
yfrog.com/nzpd2rdj
yfrog.com/hsx1thuij
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Alarabia: Mousa alKouni, Touareg, NTC member: ‘It isn’’t possible that Gaddafi is in Ghadames area, he is in the far south, protected from..
Touaregs from Niger. The group that has been fighting last sunday in Ghadames is a group of Gaddafi fighters’. There is an old division
.between different Touaregs.’ fmr gen Gebril: ‘It s a group of Gad officers that tries to escape to Algeria, therefore the fight sunday.’
So different NTC officials come with different versions about Gaddafi whereabouts…is it unexperience? psychological warfare?
Alarabia: Commander of ‘rebels’ at northern Bani Walid front killed.
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
#Qaddafi’s son Sail al-Islam believed to be in Bani Walid, other son Mutassem in Sirte: NTC official #AlArabiya
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi fighters launching an assault to take control of #Sirte airport
#Libya, a few hundred fighters taking part in operation aimed at securing southern flank of #Sirte where airport is located
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi fighters firing rockets at #Sirte airport
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi forces still haven’t advanced towards #Sirte airport but they are pounding it with #katyusha rockets
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi forces encircling #Sirte from the east, west and south but #Gaddafi loyalists still not refusing to surrender
Gaddafi battalions in Ghat surrendered to #FF after the arrival of reinforcements fr Awbari and Kabaw. They say “border area under control”
Hamza Malek
Young girl wearing a traditional #Libyan outfit during an #Amazigh festival in #Tripoli #Libya
pic.twitter.com/FAKPKs5u
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
This #Saif footage that Al-Ra’y TV are claiming is “new” is in reality so old that the #BBC put it in a news pkge in March!
Al-Ra’y TV is putting out video of #Saif #Gaddafi from Feb11 www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9ru5FEQVG4&fea... and claiming it is NEW from 20.09.11. #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9ru5FEQVG4&fea...
BREAKING: Red Cross to set up field hospital in #Malta for 200 #Libyans in urgent need of medical care via @ksnavarra #libya #feb17
malonebarry Barry Malone
Gaddafi believed hiding in Ghadamis, near Algerian border, protected by Tuareg tribesmen, NTC official tells Reuters #Libya
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Malta PM ‘looks forward’ to oil exploration talks with #Libya, ‘but at the proper time’ | Oil exp is ‘black chapter’ in relations
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
As Thousands Leave #Libya, and Jobs, #Niger Feels Impact
nyti.ms/pY7l4c
Peter Clifford
FIERCE FIGHTING CONTINUES IN SIRTE – 2 NTC COMMANDERS SHOT DEAD BY SNIPERS:
SAIF GADDAFI ISSUES VIDEO RALLYING CRY VIA AL-RAI TV BUT MOSTLY OLD FOOTAGE:
“YELLOWCAKE” SITE AT SABHA REVEALS OLD MISSILES AND MYSTERIOUS SEALED CONTAINERS:
TEENAGERS VOLUNTEER TO CLEAN STREETS AND ISLAMISTS SUPPORT DEMOCRACY IN A NEW LIBYA
Fierce fighting continued in Sirte yesterday, particularly around the port area, the university and the Mahari hotel to the north-east, with 6 NTC fighters killed and 45 wounded.
Included among the dead, Tuesday, were 2 NTC commanders shot by snipers.
Al Arabiya
Libya’s NTC official says Qaddafi hiding near Algeria border
Muammar Qaddafi is believed to be hiding near the western town of Ghadamis near the Algerian border under the protection of Touareg tribesmen, a senior Libyan military official said.
“One tribe, the Touareg, is still supporting him and he is believed to be in the Ghadamis area in the south,” Hisham Buhagiar, a senior military official of the Libya’s new leadership, told Reuters by telephone late on Tuesday.
Buhagiar, coordinator of the hunt for Qaddafi, said the ousted Libyan leader was believed to have been in the southern town of Samnu a week ago before moving to Ghadamis, which lies 550 km (345 miles) southwest of Tripoli.
He said Qaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam was in Bani Walid and another son, Mutassem, was in Sirte, the family’s home town.
“They are both thinking about leaving Libya maybe to Niger,” Buhagiar added.
Sirte, one of the last bastions of support for Qaddafi, is encircled by forces of Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) and under bombardment from NATO warplanes.
Taking Sirte, 450 km east of Tripoli, would bring the NTC closer to gaining control of the whole country, a goal that has eluded it more than a month after its fighters seized
the capital.
Buhagiar said most tribes in the south were against Qaddafi except for the Touareg, who still supported him.
“There has been a fight between Touareg tribesmen who are loyal to Qaddafi and Arabs living there (in the south). We are negotiating. The Qaddafi search is taking a different course,” Buhagiar said, without elaborating.
Qaddafi’s daughter Aisha, her brothers Hannibal and Mohammed, their mother Safia and several other family members fled to Algeria in August and have lived there since.
Fleeing civilians
Anti-Qaddafi forces overran Sirte’s port on Tuesday, but in the other stronghold of supporters of the ousted Libyan leader, the new regime’s fighters were beaten back by fierce resistance.
On the political front, a member of Libya’s new ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) said formation of a transitional government, already delayed by disputes over power-sharing, had been postponed until they had won control of the entire country.
Capturing the port at Sirte marked a key victory in the battle for control of Qaddafi’s birthplace, but intense fighting carried on inside the city.
Hundreds of fearful civilians have fled Sirte, a sprawling Mediterranean city, as the new regime’s forces close in from east, south and west.
NTC fighter Fateh Marimri, who drove out of Sirte’s eastern gate in what he said was a captured Qaddafi 4X4, reported fierce fighting around the Mahari Hotel.
“They are using heavy weapons but we are not, as we want to cause minimum damage to civilians,” Marimri told AFP.
“They are now fighting us in civilian clothes and there are African mercenaries everywhere in Sirte.”
Qaddafi’s radio message
Al-Rai TV station has been broadcasting audio speeches by Qaddafi, reported on
Tuesday that the toppled leader had addressed his supporters and urged them to fight in a speech broadcast on a local radio station in Bani Walid.
“You should know that I am on the ground with you,” he said. “Through your jihad, you are imitating the exploits of your ancestors.”
“Heroes have resisted and fallen as martyrs and we too are awaiting martyrdom,” Qaddafi said.
The report by Arrai television could not be independently verified.
Arrai also broadcast footage of what it said was Qaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam, dated Sept. 20, rallying his forces at an unidentified location.
“This land is the land of your forefathers. Don’t hand it over,” Saif al-Islam, shouted to a crowd of followers.
NTC forces said the fierce resistance of Qaddafi loyalists had stalled their offensive in Bani Walid.
“NTC fighters pulled out from some areas they control in Bani Walid due to the intensity of fire,” said Abdallah Kenshil, the new government’s chief negotiator in abortive efforts to broker the town’s surrender.
In Benghazi, NTC member Mustafa al-Huni said Libya’s new rulers had decided to postpone the formation of a transitional government until they had won control of the entire country.
NATO meanwhile urged Libya’s new regime to make plans to destroy stockpiles of chemical weapons and nuclear-related agents amassed by Qaddafi. Washington said Tuesday it was working closely with the new regime to secure all arms stockpiles.
In a letter to the U.N. General Assembly meanwhile, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a staunch supporter of Qaddafi, said the Libyan conflict marked “a new cycle of colonial wars… with the sinister goal of refreshing the capitalist global system.”
Meanwhile, Libya’s transitional government delivered 20 million dinars ($16 million) Tuesday to Sabha, a remote southern city beset by Qaddafi loyalists, hoping to bolster support for revolutionary forces.
Tweeting Tripoli
Do you guys know if this documentary is available with English subtitles?
Abuslim massacre story by Aljazeera (Arabic).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-1n0tvT16A
Change In Libya
A chemical/injection found along with gas masks inside Bab Al Aziziya #libya #feb17 #tripoli
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=356326&l...
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Just bumped into one of my minders at the #Rixos in #Tripoli.. he claims he was always anti-#Gadhafi.
Tweeting Tripoli
Its raining and raining and raining here in #Tripoli today #Libya
It’s so weird, although it shouldn’t be…this happiness we feel when it rains… Thank god!
Kids enjoying September rain in Tripoli…
yfrog.com/j2meqemj
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Another amazing wall painting in Tripoli… this one is in Fashloom #libya #tripoli #feb17
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=356329&l...
Gaddafi’s missiles in the middle of a residential area. Fornaj/As-saba3 #libya #feb17 #tripoli
fb.me/LpxkEXZW
A poster in #Tripoli – “Lord, make this country safe” رب اجعل هذا البلد آمنا fb.me/15BAHRsYK
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
I’m going to post all my #Tripoli pictures including chemicals, weapons, mercenary living quarters & other things I found in a flickr album
Got a call this morning from my friend in #Sirte he told me that the ppl are confused and surrenderd but the extrme loyalests are fighting.
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
NTC Fighters in the east of #Libya reach the presidential palace in Sirt and lose 11 fighters and many others are injured
Bullets that poison you are being used by snipers in Sirt in #Libya.One fighter reported poisoned.
An NTC Fighter shot in the arm by a sniper.News is that the snipers are using poisoned bullet
AFP:
anti-Gaddafi fighters appealed 4 help 4m #NATO after being blasted by rockets fired by #Gaddafi troops in #BaniWalid #Libya
Libya’s state owned oil tanker fleet is set to be back in business within a month, with some vessels ready for trading in the next two weeks
alexrossiSKY alex rossi
by hominoid555
A little boy waits for his food at a take-away restaurant in #Misrata. #Libya #Feb17 pic.twitter.com/dhw7CxVe
Nasr
Many Libyan-American travelers have reported loss of their luggage in #Cairo airport. #Egypt.
DougSaunders Doug Saunders
The fact that VW can name a vehicle the Tuareg shows how marginalized they are. I mean, would you have a Chrysler Kurd or a Toyota Jew?
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Check out my Facebook page for some recent Tripoli photos
www.facebook.com/changeinlibya17
Albums:
www.facebook.com/changeinlibya17?sk=photos
live2Tripoli liveTripoli
Can’t recall a rainbow in #Tripoli before. Times have changed. Even nature has been affected by #Muammar’s absence.
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Oh my god, it just started POURING over here in Tripoli… Alhamdullilah :D
‘behind the scenes of the first serious time lapse’ #Tripoli #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7YIW3NU1FU&edi...
Ali Tweel
it’s raining in Tripoli at the moment _
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Rain.. pouring in Tripoli a few minutes ago #libya #feb17 fb.me/12qhxx9EI
AmmarParis Ammar ABD RABBO
Mustapha Abdel Jalil is back in #Tripoli now #Libya #NTC and heavy rains over the city since this morning !!! (these news are related ??)
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
All this talk about #Gadaffi’s whereabouts.Honestly we dont care where he is.We just want him arrested.If you know where he is CAPTURE him!!
Its pouring down with rain in Tripoli.Lets pray that this rain brings good luck to all our Freedom Fighters all around #Libya !!
libyanproud libyanandproud
Jalil is in town :P
Kety
Hopefully the rain is a good omen in Libya and will shower this amazing ppl with good fortune.
iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
We only revolted because we realized we’re still under occupation – not by foreigners but by tyrants of our very own skin. #ArabSpring
Sky News
‘Mass Grave’ Found Close To Libyan Hotel
The new Libyan authorities claim to have discovered another “mass grave” in Tripoli – close to a hotel at which Western journalists had been forced to stay.
The National Transitional Council (NTC) say the latest site is being unearthed near the Rixos Hotel, where 37 foreign journalists were trapped by the Gaddafi government during the fall of Tripoli.
A total of eight corpses have so far been uncovered although no evidence has yet
been made available linking it to the previous regime.
The discovery was made after a soldier saw blood on the ground and what looked like broken limbs.
The military spokesman for the armed forces of the NTC, Radwan Elbuzedi, says “the bloody behaviour is typical of the style of the Gaddafi government”.
It is thought the alleged victims died within the past five months and the NTC is speculating that they could be local civilians.
Read more and video:
news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16...
blabeen
Waiting for a flight to Tunisia , tomorrow a taxi to Libya Libya Libya , ya beladi ya beladi .
live2Tripoli liveTripoli
ok people, rain is nice….but it’s going to flood if it isn’t already… no where for the rain water to go, so some streets flood completely!
AND SOME THUNDER! #Tripoli
Reuters Reuters Top News
Gaddafi said to be hiding near Algeria border, according to a senior Libyan military official reut.rs/pUqCue
Orla
I used to love the first rain fall after the long hot summer I used to stand out in it to get wet #Libya
Zainab
Libya after Gadafi is just everything “Beautiful” means <3
MSF
MSF on the frontline in Libya
Interviews with MSF staff working on the frontline in Libya during the recent conflict. MSF runs a mobile surgery as well as providing medical care across the country.
Video:
vimeo.com/29718395
malonebarry Barry Malone
More detail here on “Gaddafi hiding near Algeria border” theory as told to Reuters by NTC reut.rs/pUqCue #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
A good thing I discovered today; My kids used to be afraid of Thunders. Now they are not. Did NATO bombings act like a vaccine? Hmmmm!!
Free Libya
Gaddafi goes and everything becomes good…….sometimes it feels as simple as that! He was the blight on everything:/ #Libya
LOL, if the rain in Tripoli floods the sewers as it usually does, poor G might drown in his hidey hole with his rat companions :) #
WEELULE
itsn’t just Tripoli it is across the whole coast, is forecasted to last till early next week,ur going 2 need boats 2 get around
flyingbirdies أكرم
this afternoon, #Tripoli #Photo
flic.kr/p/araZBE
FreeedomGroup
A cargo plane, not intended for passengers, is being used to transported the wounded fighters from Misrata. Has the level of neglect of our wounded fighters who fought to liberate and defend their country reached to this extent?
Who is responsible for this tragic situation? Where the local council Misurata? Where are the promises that Khalifa Al-Zawawi made for the care of our wounded?
Libyans dozen FFs were killed in heavy fighting with al-Gaddafi in Sirte, near a hotel which was taken over by the FFs in the city
malonebarry Barry Malone
Analysis – Gaddafi hometown a hazardous prize for #Libya’s NTC | Reuters reut.rs/pC3AIf
LibyaLiberty
Anything #Gaddafi is, by definition, #hazardous. RT@malonebarry Analysis – Gaddafi hometown a hazardous prize for #Libya’s NTC
MisrataPatriots PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
Reuters #Agoco oil firm in #Benghazi is planning restarts at 3 more Libyan oilfields in east & west Libya by… fb.me/1e1knHOjU
UKUN_NewYork UKUN_NewYork
#UN SecCouncil expected to refer #Palestinian membership application to standing membership committee LIVE at bit.ly/99mUrW 9.30am ET
flyingbirdies أكرم
After rainy morning, Old city view from parking lot inside Cornthia commercial center #photo
www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbirds/61915...
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
150 Tripoli revolutionary fighters just boarded a plane heading to Ghadamis were Gadafi is expected to be hiding #Libya
TawarghaFree Tawargha Free
The whole members of the local council of Taweagha in Tripoli have been arrested by Misrata rebels on September the 24.
thedailybeast The Daily Beast
Libyan Missiles Go Missing: Thousands of surface-to-air unaccounted for. thebea.st/qz4mV9 #cheatsheet
Skytwitius Tim Marshall
#Libya NTC fighters are shelling built up area of Sirte where there are civilians. Perhaps NATO will reread UN Res 1973 ‘protect civilians’.
iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
I will believe we have freedom progress in an #ArabSpring government when they declare there’s no such thing as a ministry of information.
Aljazeera
The AFP news agency reports that anti-Gaddafi fighters Wednesday appealed for help from NATO after being blasted by rockets fired by loyalist troops in Bani Walid, one of the ousted Libyan leader’s last bastions.
Among 11 National Transitional Council fighters killed in the barrage was senior commander Daou al-Salhine al-Jadak, whose car was struck by a rocket as he headed towards the front late on Tuesday, NTC chief negotiator Abdullah Kenshil told AFP.
NTC field commander Captain Walid Khaimej said, meanwhile, that the fierce resistance of Muammar Gaddafi’s loyalists had stalled the advance by NTC fighters in the desert town, some 170 km (100 miles) from Tripoli.
“There is always incoming missile and artillery fire. We are returning fire with heavy weapons but we are not sending in infantry. We are waiting for reinforcements to come from Tripoli and Zawiyah,” said Khaimej.
“NATO is here but is not doing enough. They take out the rocket launchers firing at us, but they are immediately replaced. We need more help from NATO,” he added.
The Western military alliance has under a UN mandate being giving air support to a popular revolt against Gaddafi launched in February which saw the veteran strongman toppled from power after 42 years by NTC forces last month.
Gaddafi has gone into hiding since Tripoli was overrun on August 23 but he and some of his sons are still believed by the NTC to be in Libya, possibly even in Bani Walid or in his birthplace Sirte, where his last remaining forces are putting up fierce resistance.
Jadak was one of the highest ranking NTC military commanders in Bani Walid and hails from the oasis town itself.
Two days before he was killed, he told AFP he had been imprisoned for more than 18
years for helping organise a rebellion against Gaddafi in 1993.AFP
Hana S.
Today I saw my aunt and her kids v webcam 4 the first time in almost 9 months!! They fled #Sirte 2 days ago. Everybody looks so…different.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Pro-NTC TV: Mass #grave discovered near #Rixos #Tripoli containing the remains of 100s of individuals executed by #Gaddafi.
Mass grave discovered in Misrata near the Air force Academy base
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CBrTwmz8-g
VICE:
Vid 5
“There is not a country in the world that Gaddafi’s evil didn’t reach” tinyurl.com/3v5j77v #Libya #Feb17
Gaddafi’s forces send us an aerial “welcome to Misrata” – The Rebels of Libya, Pt. 4 bit.ly/reum29
Ahmed
Here’s a story: yesterday a Tawarghan was caught in Tripoli and brought back to Misrata…
CNN
Libyans claim Gadhafi hiding near western border town
Ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is believed to be hiding out near the town of Ghadamis under the protection of the Tuareg tribe, an interim government military spokesman told CNN Tuesday.
“We have reliable information that Gadhafi is protected by the Tuareg tribe located between Niger, Algeria, and Ghadamis town in Libya,” said Col. Abdul Basit.
More:
news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/28/libyans-c...
Bloomberg
Libya’s Bourse to Resume Trading by February, Chairman Says
Trading on the Libyan Stock Exchange will resume in January or February after an armed rebellion against the regime of Muammar Qaddafi forced it to close, Chairman Ahmed Karoud said today.
Karoud hopes the leadership change in the North African nation would introduce fresh regulations and help attract foreign investors to the five-year-old exchange. Foreigners own less than 1 percent of the shares listed on the bourse, Karoud said in an interview in Tripoli.
Full story:
www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-28/libya...
malonebarry Barry Malone
Our summary of #Libya events so far today – Gaddafi hunt, latest fighting for Sirte, terrified civilians
reut.rs/pUqCue
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, #Gaddafi forces hit #NTC fighters position near #Sirte airport with #grad rockets … No casualties but we had to evacuate
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi fighters say they are engaging in skirmishes with gaddafi forces at #Sirte airport
#Libya, #Gaddafi fighters putting ip fierce resistance against anti gaddafi forces as they try to take xonteol of #Sirte airport
iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Seems mass graves are found almost daily these days in #Libya. Wonder how many will be found in #Syria.
NYT
Beautiful photo’s:
The Battle for Libya
www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/afric...
M & C
Libyan rebel commander killed as fighting for Gaddafi towns rages
Cairo- A Libyan rebel commander was killed in an attack by loyalists of fugitive leader Moamer Gaddafi on the northern front of the unruly town of Bani Walid, the pro-rebel Free Liba TV reported Wednesday.
Daw al-Salheen was killed Tuesday night when a rocket was fired at his car as he drove to an area where fighting was taking place near his hometown, Bani Walid, according to the report.
He had been jailed for 18 years by the Gaddafi government and was released in February this year.
Full story:
www.monstersandcritics.com/news/africa/...
Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا” goo.gl/aM65o
farahabushwesha
Ireland’s youth media org wants young Libyans 2 write about views on #Libya, life as young person E ruairi@spunout.ie
SerajElalem Seraj Elalem
Yeah I’m still in #Tripoli, I heard it’s raining hard in #Benghazi too
OmarAlMukhtar Omar Al Mukhtar
Cartoon Movement – #Libyan #Resistance #Hero @OmarAlMukhtar cartoonmovement.com/cartoon/1608
iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
This is the most #Epic out of all epic #Libya men: bit.ly/n8e96R
Sky News
Libya: Maimed Boy in Hospital
A father tells Sky News how his son lies injured and untreated in a desperately overcrowded Tripoli hospital. Contains disturbing images.
goo.gl/NdDPv
FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
Wounded fighter in need of further treatment says Council asked for endless documents when he approached them. #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=7gyEzZ…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gyEzZxidtI
Bloomberg
Citi Sees Libya October Daily Oil Output at 400,000 Barrels
Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) — Libyan crude production may reach 400,000 barrels a day next month as fields and ports resume operations after armed conflict blocked output and exports for much of the year, Citigroup Inc. analysts said.
The country’s transitional government is seeking to speed up production, and the good condition of its wells and transportation links may help, analysts including Edward Morse, the bank’s global commodities research head, said today.
Full story:
www.businessweek.com/news/2011-09-28/ci...
TawarghaFree Tawargha Free
Misrata rebels arrested Mr. Mohamed Mahjube and Mr. Moamer Husian on 27 of September in Tripoli.
Misrata rebels came to Al Ahlee Bank and took them to unknown place.
Mr. Mohamed & Mr. Husian were only trying to give the Tawarghian customers their salaries as they were also working in Tawargha branch.
MSNBC
No Libya request to extradite Gaddafi’s ex-PM: source
Tunisia has not received any request from Libya’s interim rulers to extradite Muammar Gaddafi’s former Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, who was freed by a court of appeal on Tuesday, a source at the Justice Ministry told Reuters.
Full story:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44698365/ns/world_...
Tweeting Tripoli
Did you know, prime minster of Libya from September 4th 1968 till August 31st 1969 was “Wanis Gaddafi”?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanis_al-…
The West AU
Libya’s battered NTC forces urge more NATO strikes
BANI WALID, Libya (AFP) – Anti-Kadhafi forces Wednesday urged NATO to intensify its air war as they took heavy losses in a push on the ousted despot’s birthplace of Sirte and his other remaining bastion, Bani Walid.
In a radio message, meanwhile, Moamer Kadhafi hailed the resistance put up in Bani Walid, where the NTC said 11 of their fighters were killed Tuesday by a hail of rockets fired by forces loyal to the former strongman.
Among those killed in the barrage was senior commander Daou al-Salhine al-Jadak, whose car was struck by a rocket as he headed towards the front late in the day, NTC chief negotiator Abdullah Kenshil told AFP.
Full report:
au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/103...
plemochoe plemochoe
#libya Moussa Ibrahim has a family to protect. Now he has to protect them by switching sides and cooperating fully with the Revolution
#sirte #libya You can almost tell how many days left till Sirte falls by the fact that they tried to get Moussa Ibrahim out ahead of time
#libya Just as a matter of guesses: I guess Saif is in Bani Walid, Mutassim in Sirte, Khamis is really dead and Muammar is outside Libya
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING: Benghazi: Demonstration will take place today 28/09/2011 in-front of Tebesti Hotel at 5 pm to support the injured and against minster of health
IbnOmar2005 Hamza Malek
LOL I don’t know where this pic was taken, but it shows Arab businesses should never use Google translate yfrog.com/nyi6rbj
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
These are SMS Messages sent by Al-Madar phone network introducing the Amazigh languages: ليبيا تادرفت، توكدوت….. fb.me/ICKKvRR4
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Col. Bani, MoD spox said that the tribe was trying to make the Zintan rebels look bad
NTC troops encircle Sirte
Video:
goo.gl/qT3GY
CBS
Anti-Gadhafi commander killed in loyalist bastion
An anti-Gadhafi field commander says the top military official for revolutionary forces fighting loyalists in a key regime stronghold has been killed in a rocket attack.
Osama al-Fasi says the commander, Daw Saleheen, was killed Wednesday by a heat-seeking rocket while fighting in Bani Walid, southeast of Tripoli.
Full art.:
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/28/ap/m...
GRAFIXEL guess what
When reading about chemical weapons,radioactiv stuff,looted missile stores etc in #Libya.where did all the people guarding the stuff go…?
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Al-Aan is posting an EXCLUSIVE recorded call between Gaddafi and one of his associates. They speak about blowing up airports #libya #feb17
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
#BaniWalid military commander Daw Saleheen died in a rocket attack Tuesday night.
I spoke and interviewed Daw Saleheen so many times when I was at the #BaniWalid front line. Am stunned at the news of his death. #Libya
WafaFt wafa
LOL “zomeeta, aseeda, jow ba, jow ba” | UCLA math major, Chris Jeon, on his trip to LIbya youtube.com/watch?v=irZOhJ…!
Or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=irZOhJq5Dvo&fea...
When did a woman’s hijab become other people’s concern? This is btw her & Allah, so unless you are her, you have no say in the matter.
Hijab is an internal struggle that is apparent to every1 & cuz it is, people feel like they have a right cont
To make judgmental remarks that they patronizingly pass on as “friendly advice”
Ultimately, its a collective effort and inshallah we will all take part in the rebuilding of the new #Libya in some way.
Hajer
i think its hotter in the UK today than in Libya aswell lool
HRW
Canada: Intelligence Service Accused of Libya Interrogations
(New York) – A Libyan-Canadian citizen who was imprisoned for eight years by the Muammar Gaddafi government says that agents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) were among foreign agents who interrogated him while he was in Libyan custody for suspected terrorist ties, Human Rights Watch said today.
The former prisoner, Mustafa Krer, 46, was detained in Libya from 2002 to 2010 for alleged ties to the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. He told Human Rights Watch that Canadian interrogators visited him about three times between 2003 and 2005, although he could not recall the exact number of Canadian interrogations or the dates. Once, he said, CSIS agents interrogated him jointly with a team of Libyans in the room. Krer did not allege mistreatment during any of the CSIS interrogations. But he said that his Libyan captors beat him repeatedly between the time of his arrest in May 2002 and mid-2004.
“Canada’s apparent decision to interrogate a suspect in the custody of Gaddafi’s forces is deeply troubling,” said Andrea Prasow, senior counterterrorism counsel at Human Rights Watch. “CSIS did not torture Krer, but they must have known that the Libyans probably did.”
Human Rights Watch called on CSIS to clarify whether it had interrogated Krer in Libya, and if so, under what circumstances. CSIS did not respond to a request from Human Rights Watch for comment about the case.
In addition to alleged interrogations by CSIS, Krer said that agents of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) interrogated him in Libya about seven times starting in 2005, and that the United Kingdom’s MI6 intelligence agency interrogated him once in 2007. He said he was not mistreated during these interrogations.
Krer alleged that Libyan interrogators beat him repeatedly with sticks, cables, and kicks to the face, sometimes while he was blindfolded. One beating required him to get stitches on the face. On one occasion Krer said he was forced to stay in what he called a “steel box” for five days with limited food and water.
Krer told Human Rights Watch that agents who identified themselves as being from CSIS interrogated him about three times. After interrogations by four governments over eight years he could not remember exactly how many times CSIS agents had questioned him.
During one interrogation, he said, a team of Canadians and Libyans questioned him
together for more than seven hours. “I was at the head of the table,” he said. “Left and right there was a line – seven Canadians and seven Libyans. I was there, and they did it together. It was an interrogation, many, many questions.”
Krer said the Canadians had knowledge about specific phone calls he had made while living in Canada and they showed him surveillance photos of him in public places in Canada.
After the fall of Tripoli to rebel forces in late August 2011, Human Rights Watch discovered a cache of documents in a Libyan External Security building revealing details of close cooperation between the US, the UK, and other governments with the Libyan intelligence agency. One of those documents, which appears to be from the CIA, requests that the Libyans ask Krer a set of 89 questions. In an interview with Human Rights Watch following the fall of Gaddafi, Krer confirmed that he was asked those questions by the Libyans and the CIA. He said he was also asked some of those questions by CSIS. Prior to this interview with Human Rights Watch, the role of CSIS in Krer’s interrogation was not known.
Human Rights Watch also interviewed Krer in 2005 while he was still in Libyan custody, meeting him privately in an office at Abu Salim prison. He did not mention torture or interrogations by foreign agents at that time, but he was clearly uncomfortable talking about matters that might put him in danger. At one point he asked to write a note in the interviewer’s notebook, apparently afraid to speak out loud. “I’m not happy with what’s happening with me,” he wrote.
In both interviews Krer said that he had returned to Libya from Canada, via Malta, in May 2002, after getting guarantees from Libyan authorities that he would not face prosecution for past opposition activity, including involvement in the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), which had been fighting since the late 1990s to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi. Libyan security forces arrested him at the Tripoli airport upon his return, he said. Krer was eventually sentenced to life in prison after a trial where, he said, his lawyers were not allowed to speak. He was released in January 2010 after the intervention of Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam, who mediated the release of a few hundred prisoners, including members of the LIFG.
Krer said that he was held in various facilities during his eight years in custody and that he endured repeated torture during the first two-and-a-half years. At the Internal Security Agency office on al-Sikka Street in Tripoli, he said, he was held for five days in August heat in what he called a “steel box” with limited food and water. The box was 1.5 by 2 meters, and too small for a person to stand, he said.
Krer said interrogators at the internal security facility on al-Sikka Street subjected him and fellow prisoners to beatings on the soles of their feet with a thick cable. “There’s a stick that they wind your legs around, two guys hold you, and another hits your feet with an electric cable,” he said. “But they don’t care where they hit.”
Krer also said that he did not receive a consular visit from Canada until 2005. Starting that year, he received a total of five visits until his release in 2010, from Canadian
diplomats who were helpful, he said.
In May 2005, Human Rights Watch interviewed the head of Libya’s Internal Security Agency, Col. Tohamy Khaled, and asked him about Krer’s case. Krer is “one of the terrorists,” Khaled said – something that, he said, is “also known to the Canadians.”
Libya’s record of torture under Gaddafi is well documented. The US State Department Report on Human Rights Practices, a reference consulted by many governments, stated in its 2004 edition on Libya, “Security personnel reportedly routinely tortured prisoners during interrogations or as punishment.” Some of the reported methods of torture, according to the State Department, included chaining prisoners to a wall for hours; clubbing; applying electric shock; applying corkscrews to the back; pouring lemon juice in open wounds; breaking fingers and allowing the joints to heal without medical care; suffocating with plastic bags; deprivation of food and water; hanging by the wrists; suspension from a pole inserted between the knees and elbows; cigarette burns; threats of being attacked by dogs; and beating on the soles of the feet.
In December 2004, just prior to the visit to Libya by Paul Martin, Prime Minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006, Human Rights Watch sent Martin a list of human rights concerns. “Prolonged incommunicado detention is common, as are confessions extracted by means of torture,” the Human Rights Watch memo to Martin said.
“There is no justification for CSIS agents joining in the interrogation of a prisoner by agents of a government well-known for torturing prisoners,” Prasow said. “CSIS should explain what it knows about Krer’s case.”
BREAKING:
AJ Reporter: Free Libyan Army is shelling Gaddafi forces in the centre of the city of Sirte with heavy weapons
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
It’s hard to know who to believe: who was always silently pro-#Feb17, or just switched after revolution’s success was imminent. #Libya
My story on al-Meshashya tribe being raided by rebels: apne.ws/qV9LE3 #Libya #tribalrifts @AP
AP visited the al-Meshashya tribe which says has been attacked by Zintan briagde rev forces for harboring #Gadhafi loyalists.
Computers in a lab were destroyed, bullet marks in the walls.
Col. Bani, MoD spox said that the tribe was trying to make the Zintan rebels look bad
Bani also said that anyone who stirs tribal division will be treated as an enemy of #Libya
Sirtawi
PIC of Al-Gurdabiya Hotel in #Sirte where fighting is going on. Location is near Sirte sea port. #SirteCrisis #Feb17 pic.twitter.com/ZpVWfxZO
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
The vast majority of Dutch Parliament has agreed to extend the Nato mission in Libya for three more months.
Ajazeera
FF in control of the airport in Sirte
Tribulusterr Brunnan de Coucy
Col Bani’s response to this evidence ( apne.ws/qV9LE3) inadequate – can’t just put head in sand, deny these things happening #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Video: Smuggled Weapons Uncovered in Libya english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… #Libya #Sirte #SmuggledWeapons #AlArabiya
AliveIn Alive.In
Injuries at Meitega Hospital
l.alive.in/ur (Sep 28) #feb17
Warning bells sound over Tripoli zoo
www.iol.co.za/news/africa/warning-bells...
Foreign Affairs
Behind Qatar’s Intervention In Libya
Among the many countries that supported Libya’s rebels in their fight to unseat Muammar al-Qaddafi, Qatar was a particularly enthusiastic partner. The Arab emirate of just 1.6 million people, rich in oil and gas, was the first Arab country to recognize the rebel government, the Transitional National Council. It sold Libyan oil on behalf of the rebels to avoid sanctions and supplied them with gas, diesel, and millions of dollars in aid. And Al Jazeera, the satellite broadcaster based in Doha, covered the struggle of the Libyan rebels in even greater detail and depth than it has the Arab world’s other revolutionary movements.
Full art.:
www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/68302/d...
Proudlibyandoc Hussam Muntasser
Proposal to make the next gov seats made out of Tefal. It will even make the French happy.
Who owns Zimbabwe house in London?
The deeds to the Embassy were reportedly handed over to Gaddafi by Mugabe, in 2002.
www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/news/zimbabwe/5...
SMILE:
First it’s one little white lie. Then they get easier & easier to tell. Next thing you know, you’re a lawyer
BBC
Migrants return home from Libya
Many migrants who left their countries for Libya have returned home after fleeing the conflict there.
Violence has been meted out in Libya to people accused of being mercenaries working for ex-leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The desert town of Agadez in Northern Niger has been the last stop for sub-Saharan Africans making their way to the promise of a better life, but now sees many passing back the other way.
Thomas Fessy reports.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15086101
alanboswell Alan Boswell
my piece from Agadez, Niger finally live on @TIME – ti.me/r6kHrk – Did war in Libya play into hands of region’s al-Qaeda?
still writing up more on Tuareg’s future in all this
BreakingNews Breaking News
Libyan justice minister: Ready to work with Scottish authorities to probe possible role by others in Lockerbie bombing – @Reuters
libyansrevolt Moez
Chillaxing, relaxing and acting all cool on the front line #Libya #feb17 twitpic.com/6ry9me
Al Arabiya
OPEC says Libya NOC chief to head country’s delegation
Libya’s delegation to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries will be headed by the new chief of its National Oil Corporation, OPEC’s website said.
A recent update of the website lists the head of Libya’s delegation to OPEC as Nouri Berouin, the head of the NOC. The Libyan official said in August, soon after being appointed, that he expected to attend OPEC’s next meeting.
OPEC Secretary General Abdullah al-Badri said earlier this month the producer group, which Libya joined in 1962, had recognized Libya’s National Transitional Council as the country’s OPEC representative.
Read more:
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/...
At UN, Libya’s new leaders seek support to thwart terrorist threat
WASHINGTON – Libya’s interim government may be this year’s darling of the international community, reaping praise from world leaders, including President Obama, at the United Nations’ annual gathering in New York.
But Libya’s new leaders say they are not getting the support of key African countries for their efforts to stabilize their country. Indeed, they worry that some African leaders in Zimbabwe, Algeria, and elsewhere still root for the deposed Muammar Qaddafi, who is on the run but still issuing defiant statements of resistance.
“Libya will need support from the international community to put pressure on those African countries who still support Qaddafi and benefit from his money,” said Mahmoud Nacua, charge d’affaires at the Libyan embassy in London, in an interview Tuesday with Reuters
Full story:
old.news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20110927/ts_cs...
Moez
Just saw a #Libyan airline jet (A320) leave #mitiga airport – are they up and running? #Libya
#Libya’s last tourist
travelmag.co.uk/?p=5110
The North Africa Daily is out!
bit.ly/dRzwj9
NCE.CO UK
Arup examines Libya’s infrastructure needs
Subscr. only:
www.nce.co.uk/news/international/arup-e...
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi fighters in control of #Sirte airport they now pushed #Gaddafi ’s men from southern outskirts of city, #LIbya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli About to post a few pictures I took when I was driving randomly.. just to show serbs/russians/idiots how G’s infrastructure is
I loved the weather today. the sunset was absolutely beautiful.. managed to snap a few pics… u ma tansash et-takbeer :D
I posted 13 photos on Facebook in the album “Tripoli: Gaddafi’s infrastructure after 20mins of rain”
fb.me/17ohUtCHr
AFP
Libya issues arrest warrant for Colonel Gaddafi’s former prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi, who fled to Tunisia
live2Tripoli liveTripoli
Driving around #Tripoli the other day trying a different angle of shooting. Using hands as a tripod youtube.com/user/live2Trip… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/user/live2Tripoli?featu...
Some how, after visiting some flood sites, they’re not as severe as they use to be. Its rare that we see people clearing the sewage. we did!
tweets4peace ♡ Freedom ✌ Syria ♡
Got this msg from a guy in #Libya – a thayer :) “all Libyans are waiting to enter #Syria, all you gotta do is free a city…we’ll all be in”
Tweeting Tripoli
Gaddafi in Gaddames, Saif in BW, Mutasim in Sirte…. Why do I have the feeling no one knows where any of the Gaddafis are?
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
#Libya promises UK companies a main part in the re-development of the Country.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
#Libya issues arrest warrant for #Gaddafi’s ex-PM: NTC minister
Standpoint
“At last, I feel proud to be Libyan”
At the Mellitah Oil and Gas complex, a vast city of pipes and gas-flaring chimneys about 90 minutes west of Tripoli, Dr Ali Tarhuni is being mobbed by crowds of well-wishers. He’s here on behalf of the National Transitional Council (NTC) to take back control of the facility from rebel forces from the Zintan Brigade who secured it in late August as they swept down from the Nafusa mountains towards Tripoli. The atmosphere is jubilant.
“We’re here to show the world that the revolutionaries are not only capable of conquering Gaddafi and liberating our dear land, but also of protecting our institutions and of managing our own country,” says Tarhuni, the oil and finance minister. “It’s a great day to see the country getting back to normal-gradually but surely.”
Read more:
www.standpointmag.co.uk/dispatches-octo...
Who will control Libya’s new media www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/afri... via @globeandmail
Janes.com
UK withdraws Sea Kings from Libya
www.janes.com/products/janes/defence-se...
Triploli scream
I posted a new photo to Facebook fb.me/UABwgAPr
Free Libya
Happy to see companies like Arup are going to work in Libya, no Chinese/ Turkish/ Indian/ Brazilian 2nd rate rubbish Gaddafi liked.
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Que st devenus les 20 000 missiles à têtes chercheuses entreposés en Libye avt la Revolution? Une part a disparu… atlantico.fr/pepites/millie…
USA Today
Gadhafi loyalists empty entire cities in fear of rebels
Tawargha, which was once home to around 30,000 people, is now deserted. Like a number of other towns in Libya that supported toppled former leader Moammar Gadhafi, the former residents have fled and rebels have looted the town.
“He gave them money and apartments,” said Ismail Ali Zoubi, one of the rebel fighters who took the town in a two-day battle in August. “He spoiled them so that they would protect him in a day like this day.”
Read more:
www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-...
AFP
More than 10 fighters of Libya’s new rulers were killed on Tuesday in fierce street fighting with forces of Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte, a commander told AFP.
“More than 10 of our fighters have been killed today in face-to-face fighting near Mahari hotel” in eastern Sirte, said the commander who asked not to be named as the information was sensitive. The fighters of the National Transitional Council (NTC), Libya’s new ruling body, had taken control of the hotel on Monday. The NTC fighters and Gaddafi’s diehards clashed “in street fights and shot at each other from close range with Kalashnikovs and rocket-propelled-grenades” on Tuesday, the commander said.
Reuters
Muammar Gaddafi is believed to be hiding near the western town of Ghadamis near the Algerian border under the protection of Touareg tribesmen, a senior Libyan military official said. “One tribe, the Touareg, is still supporting him and he is believed to be in the Ghadamis area in the south,” Hisham Buhagiar, a senior military official of the Libya’s new leadership, told Reuters by telephone late on Tuesday. Buhagiar, coordinator of the hunt for Gaddafi, said the ousted Libyan leader was believed to have been in the southern town of Samnu a week ago before moving to Ghadamis, which lies 550 km (345 miles) southwest of Tripoli.
Agoco
Benghazi-based oil firm Agoco said it planned restarts at three more Libyan oilfields in east and west Libya by mid-October, boosting output to 350,000 barrels per day (bpd).
NTC
Libya’s interim justice minister Mohammed al-Alagi said on Wednesday he was ready to work with Scottish authorities to probe the possible involvement of others in the
Lockerbie bombing apart from the sole Libyan convicted for the attack. His remark at news conference reversed a position he took only on Monday, when he said that as far as Libya was concerned the case of the bombing of the U.S.-bound airliner over the Scottish village of Lockerbie with the loss of 270 lives was closed.
Zimbabwe’s embassy London
Who owns Zimbabwe’s embassy in London? Who other than Muammar Gaddafi. The transaction was said to have been personally facilitated by Mugabe, after his ZANU PF government’s failure to pay for oil supplied by the Libyan state company Tamoil.
Aljazeera
Forces loyal to Libya’s interim government say they have captured the airport in Sirte, the birthplace of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Fighters belonging to National Transitional Council said on Wednesday they were in control of the airport after intense fighting in the coastal city, one of the last of two bastions of support for the deposed Libyan leader.
Singing national anthem in amazigh in Tripoli
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PIGv9AVh1M&fea...
Atlantico.fr
Des missiles libyens portés disparus
L’histoire ressemble à un mauvais film, et pourtant… En Libye, des entrepôts de missiles mal gardés ont été pillés. Des missiles dont on ne sait plus rien, si ce n’est qu’ils sont peut-être tombés dans les mauvaises mains.
La première à avoir lancé l’alerte sur le sujet, c’est l’ONG Human Rights Watch, il y a six mois. L’un de ses responsables, Peter Bouckaert, a assisté à l’un de ces vols de missiles et en a pris des photos.“J’aurai même pu en emporter plusieurs centaines si je le voulais”, a-t-il ajouté."
Il s’agit de missiles SA-24 à têtes chercheuses thermiques, de fabrication russe,et pouvant abattre un avion volant à 11 000 pieds. La Libye en possédait 20 000 avant le début de la guerre. Aujourd’hui, on ne sait pas exactement combien ont disparu.
De leur côté, les Etats-Unis affirment avoir étendu leur programme pour sécuriser et détruire les stocks restants. “Associer un terroriste avec un missile lancé à l’épaule, c’est notre pire cauchemard”, a résumé Barbara Boxer, sénatrice démocrate de Californie.
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Senior NTC commander Daou Al- Salhine Al Jadak was killed on Tuesday in Bani Walid when a rocket struck his truck close to front line #Libya
Global Post
Why they fight for Muammar Gaddafi
GlobalPost goes inside the mind of a Gaddafi loyalist to find out why, with no hope of winning, they continue to fight.
MISRATA, Libya — Omar Matug was a reluctant soldier, fighting for his leader, Muammar Gaddafi.
His hometown, Tarhouna, was known as a bastion of loyalist support, located on the outskirts of the rebellious and now world-famous city of Misrata. And so when the conflict began earlier this year, Matug was called to serve.
More here:
www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/region...
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
US Senators John McCaine and Joe Liberman address the world from Tripoli tomorrow #Libya
khadijateri khadijateri
Rain in Tripoli. This afternoon on the Ain Zara road near Fornaj. twitpic.com/6rze9h
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
More Mass graves discovered. One in Rixos Hotel, one in Gergaresh w/ 200 bodies & one in Zerat w/ 10 bodies so far & new one in Qalaa
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Al-Ahrar TV: NTC Fighters have found another mass grave in the area of Al-Qal’ah. #Libya (I make that 3 different sites today)
Al-Ahrar TV: #NTC Army have found a mass #grave in Wadi Zarat #Libya, from which they have excavated 10 bodies. #Feb17
Foreign embassies opened in #Libya reut.rs/qgusB5 via @reuters
French ambassador’s visit to #Zintan bit.ly/ogv1R5 via Zintan Media FB #Feb17 #Libya
portia_walker Portia Walker
Back in #Tripoli after a week in Sirte. Seeing even more shops open and people in the street. Shame about the rain though. #Libya
ahauslohner Abigail Hauslohner
Another mass grave found in #nafusa mts a few days ago- 9 bodies. ID-ed in #Qala. To be buried fri
Some of those found in new #Qala grave r relatives of those in earlier mass grave #libya #nafusa
MilitantNews Stephen Morgan
#Libya Why Gaddafi should advertise his whereabouts by atacking Ghadames is a mystery I’m afraid its a diversion from the stalemate in Sirte
#Libya Gaddafi could be near the Algerian border, but then the desert areas of southern Algeria, Libya+Niger are equal to the size of India.
#Syria Rebel army holds out for 2nd day against huge attack. This really marks a qualitative change in the revolution
reut.rs/mWJJI3
FreeLeebeya فاطمة
#Libya Situational Map as of Sept 27 feb17.info/images/map-lib… via @Feb17Libya #Feb17
NATOSource NATOSource
Libya showed that the Europeans “successfully took on more responsibility through NATO, not the EU”
nblo.gs/nIlQz
Noha
it seems that #libya has become one massive mass grave site
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
Niger Feels Economic Impact of Qaddafi’s Downfall in Libya: nyti.ms/qZdOW1
fcukruna مصراتية
The #Gaddafi family are the LITERAL definition of #FILTYrich.
Guardian
Aqim escalates the violence in Algeria – helped by Libya’s war
Chaos in Libya is threatening Algeria’s stability by fuelling jihadism, while popular discontent adds to internal tensions
A sharp surge in terrorist attacks, attributed to al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim), is threatening pro-western Algeria’s political stability even as it struggles to defuse popular discontent sparked by the Arab spring, according to a new study. The rising violence is partly linked to the Nato-led war in next-door Libya, which appears to have fuelled jihadist sentiment and activity and increased the availability of weapons.
Read more:
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/s...
SMILE:
The people you lose sleep over don’t lose sleep over you. So, help out and call them at 3AM.
Catch up on the latest news:
Reuters
Factbox: Latest developments in Libyan conflict
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/28/us-n...
via sept 17
Guardian
The revolution belongs to all Libyans, secular or not
It was 20 years ago that I left my hometown, Tripoli, in search of refuge. Colonel Gaddafi’s security apparatus had the country in an iron grip; the eyes of its agents were everywhere. No one was safe. I have lived in many countries since, dedicating all my efforts to one objective: the overthrow of the dictatorship in order to bring about real change in our country. A change that would guarantee a dignified life, freedom and justice.
Please read more here:
feb17.info/news/the-revolution-belongs-...
Missing in #Libya – مفقود في ليبيا – View and Submit Missing People. www.mafqood.org
Hamza
massive demonstration in #tripoli #libya. seems they have these daily now pic.twitter.com/lX8Vu1VB
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
i’ve just shown my mum twitter for the first time. she says she will start following me now.
Bloomberg
Libya Cabinet Talks End Without Agreement as Fighters Wait for Ammunition
Libya’s new rulers ended talks with no agreement on an interim Cabinet, as their fighters halted an offensive on Muammar Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte to allow civilians to flee and for ammunition to arrive.
Senior members of the National Transitional Council ended negotiations on a new Cabinet in the eastern city of Benghazi yesterday without announcing an agreement.
Read more:
www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-28/libya...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya: exodus from Sirte as thousands flee rebel offensive shabablibya.org/news/libya-exo… #Libya
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
my mum has just told me i have an unhealthy relationship with #Libya and need to see a counsellor.
live2Tripoli liveTripoli
#Epic sunset in #Tripoli today. #Libya twitpic.com/6s109r
Today’s sunset in #Tripoli #Libya twitpic.com/6s0wzq
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 29th 2011
9/29/11
9.29.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/KeD45
NATO
Key Hits September 28, 2011:
In the vicinity of Sirte: 1 ammunition / vehicle storage facility, 1 staging and firing location, 1 command and control node and staging area, 2 ammunition and missile facilities, 1 tank.
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Wed am: RAF aircraft struck military targets at large ammunition & vehicle storage depot supporting Qadhafi’s troops within Sirte. #Libya
Wed: RAF aircraft conducted precision strikes on buildings identified as HQ & staging post for former regime forces.
RFA Fort Rosalie, which has provided support to the RN patrols off Libya, completed replenishment of HMS Liverpool & is now on passage to UK
Darreg Zoomtick
hahaha Gaddafi’s paychecks must have stopped coming: dignity.ning.com/main/index/dis… Cynthia McKinney’s conspiracy site has an overdue bill
Prisoner from Gaddafiforces reveals location of grave of two thuwar,
Prisoner saw them buried by Gaddafiforces. They’d been sentenced2 death in prison for POW at Airforce Academy
Misrata AirForce Academy #Libya v @free_misurata
youtube.com/watch?v=1CBrTw…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CBrTwmz8-g
Karybdis
Abu Hadi near #Sirte still under loyalist control (28 September). Confirmed by AJE correspondent – says NTC worried about ppl trapped there
They have seized it at least 4 times that I can think of. They pull back at night so far.
As for Sokna, I think it fell under the category of locals declaring it NTC oriented, and G forces in the city not agreeing
Alielehmer Ali El-Ehmer
Qatar and UAE to benefit from #Libyan revolution | ConstructionWeekOnline.com: bit.ly/pYGYJS via @AddThis
OPEC says #Libya NOC chief to head country’s delegation english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/...
A reporter in #Libya wonders about lessons of war – KansasCity.com: bit.ly/n1lDRE via @AddThis
Call for Pakistan to rename its “Gaddafi Stadium” – Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia... via @Telegraph
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
camels are dangerous! they’re really really dumb and walk in the road when libyans are driving back from the front at high speeds.
#camelhazards camels are dangerous! dumbly sauntering in the road, don’t they know libyans are driving back from the front at high speeds!
Heba
‘(Gaddaf’s PM) still under custody in Tunisia, there’s an arrest warrant 4 him by us &Interpol -he’ll b turned to us’ NTC’s Fouzi Taher says
FreeBenghazi
Nalut RedCrescent have been busy doing great work. Follow them on @NalutLRC and Facebook
facebook.com/pages/Libyan-R… #Libya @merlinuk
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli Council : Elementary and junior high schools have already started this month High school will open its doors on October 2 #Libya
#BaniWalid FieldCommander: We r not sending in troops we r waiting 4reinforcements 2come from #Tripoli and #Zawiyah #Nato needs 2help more
E Sirte"More than 10 fighters killed Tuesday in face-to-face fighting near #Mahari Hotel another 5 injured and 1 killed yesterday
Telegraph
Libya: Extraordinary argument captured during fresh Sirte assault
As National Transitional Council forces launch a fresh assault on the Col Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, cameras pick up a war of words between a pro-Gaddafi soldier and a NTC fighter.
Anti-Gaddafi fighters have renewed the battle to capture Sirte with one soldier attempting to use psychological warfare to undermine forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.
Away from the battlefield’s mix of rocket fire, he took to the airwaves on an intercepted radio frequency to urge pro-Gaddafi fighters in the city to surrender.
As the war of words began………
Read, watch and listen here:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9nPJUo48rI
#FLASH Col. Bani: NTC fighters now control #Sirte port #airport #airbase + north of the city + Fighters advanced some kms from east #Libya
#Bani Walid NTC fighters plea 4 more #Nato help but #Nato spokesman colonel Lavoie says NATO has NOT Reduced its Activity in #Libya
#NTC Hisham Buhagiar : #Gaddafi is believed to be protected by Tuareg tribesmen and hiding nr #Ghadamis an #UNESCO WorldHeritageSite #Libya
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
@Twitter says they closed the verification process to the public but FOUR crazy #Gadhafi impersonators is enuf reason to make an exception
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
The video of Khamis that has surfaced is very old. I saw it ages ago.#feb17 #libya
Khamis Gaddafi video that surfaced today is old. I am surprised no one has mentioned this. G trolls still at work. #libya #feb17
No doubt there are those who wish #feb17 fails. 2 words to them … ALLAHU AKBAR #libya
Sarah
Video:
Libyans chanting Anti-Gaddafi slogans inside the Katiba in Benghazi.
BenghaziFree tumblr.com/xew4ybnfk2
or:
libyafromfrance.tumblr.com/post/1078254...
Hana S.
My cousin martyred this morning in #Sirte. He came all the way from his home in #Tripoli. May Allah bless his soul and grant him Paradise…
Cousin Tareq Trabilsi came all the way from #Tripoli to be on #Sirte’s front line. I called his mom… she tried hard to take it easy. #RIP
The Libyan pilots who defied Gaddafi – CNN
Video is.gd/vuHEfB #Libya
or:
shabablibya.org/news/the-libyan-pilots-...
Think about it:
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.” – Barry Goldwater
Ali El-Ehmer
Reading the course of events the person whose name is Mahmoud Jibril, a source of concern for a large segment of the Libyan people, why this insistence and hang on and impose himself on the Libyan people, although his presence threatens the unity and stability of the country. He can prove his patriotism to remove himself from the political scene for the time being until the creation of political parties and yet he can present himself in the election battle. What we ’need at the present time to the figures agreed upon by the majority of Libyans
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Tripoli yesterday… wow!
facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… #libya
Nalut RedCrescent have been busy doing great work. Follow them on @NalutLRC and Facebook
www.facebook.com/pages/Libyan-Red-Cresc... #Libya @merlinuk
LRCNalut LRCNalut
This will be the Libyan Red Crescent Nalut Branch account on twitter هذا سيكون حساب الهلال الأحمر الليبي فرع نالوت على التويتر
Lisa
#FreeLibya is in my prayers..always :) #PrayforFreedomFighters who still face danger daily! #Feb17 #Libya
Armchair Arab
Muslim vs liberal, arab vs. amazigh, western vs eastern, northern vs. southern = threats to #Feb17
Hamza
“The leader of the revolution and his family are among the poorest citizens” -Mossa Ibrahim.
Saadi’s ferrari:
youtube.com/watch?v=XsA-P5… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsA-P566-Qc
Kathleen
So sad G & thugs r still finding people willing 2 take their “blood” money, in exchange 4 air time! #Peace4AllLibya
A Bani Walid, les combattants du CNT préparent une offensive
Les combattants du nouveau régime ont appelé mercredi l’Otan à intensifier ses frappes pour rompre la résistance des forces loyales à Mouammar Kadhafi à Syrte et Bani Walid. Sur la vaste oasis de Bani Walid, à 170 km au sud de Tripoli, les forces des nouvelles autorités se préparaient à lancer une nouvelle offensive au lendemain d’accrochages qui ont fait onze morts dans leurs rangs. Images.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ywU3FBJ01M
omar
Interpol has issued arrest warrant for #Gaddafi’s son #Saadi – #Alarabiya #libya #feb17 #GetGaddafis
#Libye : Interpol a demandé l’arrestation de Saadi Kadhafi, un des fils de Mouammar Kadhafi, à la demande des autorités libyennes – #BFMTV
Libyan fighters ‘capture Sirte airport’
Fighters supporting Libya’s National Transitional Council say they they are now in control of the airport in Sirte, Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown.
The city is one of the last battlegrounds in the NTC’s push to take over the country.
Sirte is Gaddafi’s birthplace, and has been a stronghold for him throughout the seven months of conflict in Libya.
Al Jazeera Zeina Khodr reports Sirte, Libya.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU3m7HezJZI&fea...
ANSA IT
Libia:mandato arresto Interpol per Saadi
Figlio Gheddafi avvisato per l’ultima volta in Niger
L’Interpol ha spiccato un mandato d’arresto per Saadi Gheddafi su richiesta delle nuove autorita’ libiche. Il figlio del rais, si troverebbe in Niger ‘’dove e’ stato visto per l’ultima volta’’. Saadi e’ ricercato per ‘’presunta appropriazione indebita tramite la forza e l’intimidazione armata quando era a capo della Federazione di calcio’’ e ‘’in quanto comandante di unita’ militari sospettate di coinvolgimento nella repressione di manifestazioni durante la rivolta in Libia.(ANSA).
Source:
www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/topnew...
#NATO jets hit targets in #sirte for the second time today. – ALJA
On the medical frontline of Libya’s uprising
I arrived in Tataouine, a desert town in southern Tunisia, on an oven baked 113 degrees day. Sand filled the air. It was the end of August and still Ramadan – the Muslim month of fasting.
There is something ‘otherworldly’ about this stark landscape. This may explain why George Lucas chose it as the setting of Luke Skywalker’s home planet. But I was not visiting as a Star Wars groupie. I’d come to work with a group of Libyan volunteer doctors who had left their Tripoli homes to care for the war-wounded being evacuated out of Libya into Tunisia.
Read more:
www.latitudenews.com/story/on-the-medic...
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
Interpol have issued a Red Notice for Saadi Gaddafi after request by Libya’s Transitional National Council”
BBC
Libya conflict: Nato hits Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte
Nato planes have bombed targets in one of the last pro-Gaddafi strongholds, Sirte, as government forces continue their assault on the city.
Soldiers of the National Transitional Council (NTC) have been facing fierce resistance and deployed tanks to fend off sniper fire by Gaddafi loyalists.
Read more:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15095594
BBC Global News
Interpol issues arrest notice for Saadi Gaddafi for alleged crimes during time as head of Libyan Football Federation
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Two days of gorgeous rain in #Tripoli. The temperature is so beautiful and tha rain makes things clean and fresh #lovely
FromJoanne Joanne
##FLASH #Interpol issues Arrest Warrant; for #Saadi #Gaddafi 4 Alleged #crimes during time as head of #Libya #Football
AP News
Destroyed school raises questions for Libyans
oAL-SHEGAIGA, Libya (AP) – Textbooks are strewn across the floor of the computer and math lab. Pages of science homework are stamped with footprints. A cupboard has been smashed. Bullet holes puncture computer screens and frame door locks.
The Tareq Abu Zeyad middle school lies in ruins.
Full story:
m.apnews.com/ap/db_16026/contentdetail....
freedom4libya
1sided AP Bull Shit Why they did not interview anyone from #Zintan for this story?
Khalifa
The school was destroyed by #Gadhafi forces while fleeing the city. The ones interviewed for the story some by phone were known Gadhafi thugs and wanted for crimes against their own people.
#SIRTE 3 #NTC fighters were killed in “Friendly Fire” Wednesday when they were shelled by tank positioned behind them #Libya
AP
Interpol puts Gadhafi son on most-wanted list
PARIS (AP) — Interpol put ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s son al-Saadi on the equivalent of its most-wanted list on Thursday, and said he was last seen in Niger.
nterpol says the notice was based on accusations that al-Saadi Gadhafi, 38, misappropriated property and engaged in “armed intimidation” when he headed the Libyan Football Federation.
He was also a special forces commander and is the subject of U.N. sanctions for commanding military units involved in repression of demonstrations.
Read more:
hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_INTE...
Daily Star Lebanon
Photos reveal party life of Hannibal Gadhafi and his Lebanese wife
TRIPOLI: Photographs obtained by AFP in Libya reveal how Moammar Gadhafi’s son Hannibal and his lingerie model wife lived a high-flying party lifestyle during his father’s brutal rule.
In the dozens of photographs, found on a laptop belonging to Gadhafi’s son and made available by former Libyan rebels to AFP, Hannibal, 36, and his Lebanese wife Aline Skaff are shown partying in European capitals, on a private jet and on a yacht off the Egyptian coast.
Read more:
www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2...
FromJoanne Joanne
Mustapha Abdel #Jalil has returned to #Tripoli #Libya #NTC
#Benghazi
Demonstration Demanding Removal of Health Minister Barakat youtube.com/watch?v=7wGd9B… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wGd9BgOuEM
#TRIPOLI 4 US Lawmakers #JohnMcCain #MarkKirk #LindseyGraham #MarcoRubio to meet #NTC and hold Presser in Martyr Square later today #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
This is no joke: Free-Libya TV Channel recognizes the Syrian NTC as the sole representative of ppl in #Syria. Via @M_akbik
Irish Times
Girlfriend of Gadafy’s son investigated over alleged trafficking of ‘escorts’
A 39-YEAR-OLD Dutch former Playboy model is under investigation by police in the Netherlands over allegations she was involved in the trafficking of women as “escorts” to members of the Gadafy regime in Libya.
Talitha van Zon, who met Muammar Gadafy’s son Mutassim in an Italian nightclub in 2004 and became his girlfriend, has gone on Dutch radio to deny the allegations. Last month she jumped from a hotel balcony in Tripoli and escaped the country in a last-minute evacuation arranged by the Hungarian embassy.
The charges were filed in Amsterdam by a former girlfriend of Ms van Zon’s who travelled with her on that last trip to Tripoli just as the Gadafy stranglehold began to crumble. The girlfriend claims she was raped there by Mutassim Gadafy and reported the alleged rape to the Dutch police. She subsequently filed the people-trafficking charges against Ms van Zon, claiming she had been the most recent in a long line of women brought to Tripoli to fund the former centrefold’s luxury lifestyle.
Read full story:
www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011...
Tweeting Tripoli
One strange thing about Libyan, Syrian & Yemeni revolutions! How can a president convince thousands of Army members to kill fellow citizen?
In the Libyan case, Gaddafi’s “mercenaries” can explain part of the puzzle. But can’t understand it with the Syrian case!!!
Hiba El-Gamaty
They brainwash them! It’s quite freaky, they become literally brainwashed. Thinking they’re serving their country
Fadwa
soldiers r somehow ignorant & hv been brainwashed. they convince them its 4 their own good & if thy dnt kill, they’ll b killed
Tweeting Tripoli
Wish scientists could study cases like Gaddafi, Bashar & Saleh (shame about Hitler, Saddam, Pol Pot, Bin Laden… they’re dead now).
Imagine scientists can link brutal dictators to a certain gene? Nice! Attention all presidential candidates, show ur genetic profile please!
in Gaddafi’s case, I have little or no doubt that he may have serial killers genetic profile. He’s been killing libyans since 1969.
Hussam
one article suggested atrophy of limbic area in the brain, this happens due to diminishing levels of stress hormone,
Jean-Paul
Because presidents not alone but with extensive network of ppl / army sharing same interests.
Carol
Great use 4 tyrants & their aides: experimental subjects! Scientists could test all sorts on ’em, finally b some use to humanity
Tweeting Tripoli
Yeah, Dear Scientists feel free to experiment with lots and lots of needle pricking pleeeease! Muahhhhaahhaa
Malta_News Malta News
Interpol wants Saadi Gaddafi for ‘football crimes’
bit.ly/ne4swZ #Malta
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Aaaand it’s raining again in Tripoli :) #imlovingthis
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
ONtv: Musa Ibrahim, official spokesman of Gaddafi, is arrested when trying to leave Sirte.
Alarabia: ‘Interpol issues an arrestwarrant for Sa’di Gaddafi’.
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
AJA Ahmad Mansour asks his guest: ‘What are the real reasons behind the postponement of the new Libyan (Crisis) Government?’..
AJA: This is getting interesting, even tv host Ahmad Mansour (mb) is attacking Ali Tarhouni’s position…
Richard
Today is the anniversary of the invasion of Libya….by Italy, in 1911. Start of countdown to World War I. First aerial bombing in history.
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Libyan Embassy in #Jordan has been opened with the new flag on the top of it.
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Mate this is such a beauty. Have a look at the Gadaffi families old photos. Such a laugh.
facebook.com/pages/%D8%B9%D…
Vice President of Sudan visits #Libya to holda talks with the NTC.
The NTC in #Libya do officially send in a request to Tunisia to hand over AlBaghdadi AlMahmoudi
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
News that the #Interpol has issued a warrant to arrest Al Saadi Gadaffi #Libya
Sara
This is confirmed news.. here is the link to it
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB5TBB3U86w
BBC
‘Urban warfare’ in Sirte
The coverage of the war in Libya has decreased in recent weeks, but fighting goes on with civilians still in danger.
Alastair Leithead reports from the town of Sirte, where the violence is continuing.
Audio:
news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_96...
Moez
Glad to hear Musa ibrahim captured on attempting to escape #Sirte – anyone got any link to any pics? #libya
I just heard it as confirmed news on local Libyan radio in #tripoli – usually they have military sources etc here…maybe not then?
Clarification: Musa ibrahim news I just heard on local #tripoli radio – wait on other sources before you start celebrating…. #libya
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
#Amazighs are rallying 2 seek recognition of their language and other rights, thanks to the country’s revolution
bit.ly/okvHm8 #Libya
AFP
Libya has issued a summons for #Gaddafi’s former MP #BaghdadiAlMahmudi, who fled the country 2 Tunisia, #NTC justice minister said Wed
Skynews:
Interpol has issued an arrest notice for #Saadi #Gaddafi for alleged crimes during his time at head of #Libya football federation
Reuters #Tunisian prosecutors keeping #AlBaghdadiAlMahmoudi in jail after received a request 4m #NTC 2 extradite the former PM #Libya #feb17
Patrick_Baz patrickbaz
Tens of Thousands crowd Ras Jdair border post on their way to #Tunisia #Libya
Via Feb17
AFP
Libya has issued a summons for Muammar Qaddafi’s former Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi, who fled the country for neighboring Tunisia, the interim justice minister said Wednesday.
“The prosecutor general has issued a summons for former Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi,” the minister, Mohammed al-Alagi, told a news conference in Tripoli.
Mahmudi, Libya’s prime minister until the last days of Qaddafi’s regime, was arrested last week on Tunisia’s southwestern border with Algeria. A Tunisian court swiftly sentenced him to six months in prison after finding him guilty of illegal entry, but that decision was overruled on Tuesday by a higher court following an appeal by his lawyers.
Mahmudi’s arrest was the second in Tunisia of a senior Libyan official since the fall of the regime run by Qaddafi, who has been on the run since Libyan rebels took the capital Tripoli on August 23.
Sky News
World police body Interpol has issued an arrest notice for Saadi Gaddafi for alleged crimes during his time at the head of Libya’s football federation. Libyan rebel authorities requested the notice against the fallen Libyan leader’s son, believed to be in Niger, ‘for allegedly misappropriating properties through force and armed intimidation when he headed the Libyan Football Federation,’ Interpol said in a statement on Thursday.
AP
Four Republican senators traveled to Libya on Thursday to meet with the nation’s new rulers, the highest-profile American delegation to visit the country since the ouster of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi.
The four lawmakers — John McCain of Arizona, Mark Kirk of Illinois, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Marco Rubio of Florida — planned to meet with members of the National Transitional Council, which is now governing Libya after the rebels forced Gadhafi from power. Gadhafi’s whereabouts remain unknown, but the new leaders suspect he is hiding in the southern desert of the North African nation.
The senators, whose brief visit was largely shrouded in secrecy, also planned to tour Martyrs’ Square and hold a news conference with reporters. They traveled from Malta, where they met with Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi on Wednesday.
Sudan
Sudanese Vice President Ali Osman Taha is expected to meet Thursday in Tripoli with leaders of Libya’s interim government.
It will be the highest level meeting between the two countries since the fall of former leader Moammar Gadhafi. Sudan, whose foreign minister visited Libya in August, is eager to develop positive diplomatic relations with Libya’s Transitional National Council.
Relations between Sudan and Mr. Gadhafi were strained, with Khartoum accusing the ousted Libyan leader of supporting rebel groups in Darfur in an effort to expand his influence in the region.
The Sudanese government reportedly provided military support to anti-Gadhafi forces during earlier stages of Libya’s civil war.
Reuters
Tunisian prosecutors have received a request from the new Libyan authorities to extradite Muammar Gaddafi’s former prime minister, Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, and are therefore keeping him in jail, Mahmoudi’s lawyer said on Thursday.
“The prosecutor-general has decided to keep Mahmoudi in prison after receiving a
request to extradite him to Libya,” his lawyer, Mabrouk Korchid, told Reuters.
A Tunisian court sentenced Mahmoudi to six months in jail for entering the country illegally, but an appeal court later overturned this and ordered his release.
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
Sudanese Vice President #AliOsmanTaha is expected to meet Thursday in #Tripoli with leaders of Libya’s interim government
Ibn Thabit (Tripoli) and MC SWAT (Benghazi) got together one evening and recorded a song…this is it, over a Tupac beat.
Enjoy video:
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_em...
Reuters #Interpol issued an alert calling 4 the arrest of 2nd son of ousted #Gaddafi, putting pressure on #Niger to detain #Saadi #Gaddafi.
Reuters #Libya’s interim gov has asked #UN for fuel for ambulances to evacuate wounded from the besieged #Sirte. #UN source in Libya said
Nael
Finally we got him for the 10th time after his 7th death :-) #MussaIbrahim #Libya #Feb17
Al Arabiya
Rebels urge more NATO strikes after heavy losses in Qaddafi’s hometown
Anti-Qaddafi forces on Wednesday urged NATO to intensify its air war as they took heavy losses in a push on the ousted Libyan despot’s birthplace, Sirte, and his other remaining bastion, Bani Walid.
Wednesday’s fighting was so intense that the fighters of the National Transitional Council (NTC), Libya’s interim ruling body, had to retreat three kilometers (two miles) outside the eastern edge of Muammar Qaddafi’s hometown.
“There were heavy clashes today. Our men came under heavy attack,” said the commander, who asked not to be named.
Read more:
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/...
PhilBlackCNN Phil Black
Staying with revolutionary forces in Sirte. The fighters say too many Libyans have died and they don’t want to fight anymore. #Libya
plemochoe plemochoe
The “journalists” strangely neglected to report on one of the great military victories of our times – the battle of Tripoli
An irregular ground force literally spooked a wily dictator out of his capital and his ears burn with the shame
Only G trolls and the ignorant claim that NATO won the victory. But who has reported any of this?
The running “story” about Libya is concocted by editors who tell stringers what “facts” mean based on polls
In respect of #libya , journalism is to history what photography is to art. Grasps everything, understands very little
#gaddafi ’s ears burn with the shame of his defeat in Tripoli
#gaddafi and his trolls like to call their enemies “rats”, but no rat ever ran as fast as he did in getting out of Tripoli
#gaddafi The popular victory in the Battle of Tripoli will go down in military history as the work of a master thief
#gaddafi very well might have kept control of Tripoli, if only he or any of his low-rent soldiers had had the guts.
#gaddafi and his brood were afraid of the vengeance of the people of Tripoli more than anything else. That’s why they turned tail and ran
#libya The victory of the Libyan people in the Battle of Tripoli was not just politically historic but militarily. NATO did little that day
#libya #gaddafi and his pathetic whining offspring are still problems – but they are minor problems. Life in free Libya has begun
#libya Only the “objectivity” of American news companies keeps whipping the “Gaddafi story” like the proverbial dead horse
#libya From the US TV networks to the wire services, every story is based on an avoidance of anything but the bare surface of the truth
#libya After the Libya war, I don’t think I need to go to journalism school. I’ve been.
#libya I can’t stop laughing at #gaddafi the poor old queer. He had victory in his grasp and he threw it away because he was afraid
#libya Somewhat less amusing is the way “journalists” try to build the #gaddafi children into powerful personalities (suppressed giggle)
#libya If the G trolls are really socialists, they should agree on this great truth: the more money you have, the stupider you are
#libya #gaddafi was a lizard-brained mega-capitalist who proved every leftist axiom about the effect of wealth on one’s humanity
#gaddafi controlled a personal fortune of over $200 billion and passed out chump change for PR. A thieving dictator.
gaddafi had zero respect for Islam, in fact he has officially been declared the enemy of Islam
Jamal
We waited 42 years to overcome #Gaddafi, without all involved in the Libyan revolution including #NTC, we would not be where we are now!
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Snipers are proving to be very effective for Gaddafi, at least in terms of hurting a large number of revolutionaries. #Libya #Gaddafi
Furtado
Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado says she is donating $1 million to the Free the Children charity from the $1 million she was paid to perform at a private concert. In February, Furtado said she would donate to charity the $1 million she was paid to perform in Italy for members of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s family in 2007
Feb17
Interpol has released a Red Notice for Al-Saadi Gaddafi, one of the sons of the deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who fled to Niger two weeks ago. He is accused of corruption and armed intimidation.
Reuters via Feb17
Libya’s interim government has asked the United Nations for fuel for ambulances to evacuate wounded from the besieged city of Sirte, a U.N. source in Libya said on Thursday.
Nael
no pics for #MussaIbrahim yet! we will wait and see.
CNN
McCain arrives in Libya as rival forces battle for control of last few strongholds
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) – United States Sen. John McCain arrived in the Libyan capital Thursday as the new leadership battled for control of the last few strongholds loyal to ousted ruler Moammar Gadhafi.
McCain was accompanied by Sens. Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham and Mark Kirk. The group will meet with members of the National Transitional Council, the new leadership that toppled Gadhafi.
Full story:
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/2...
BBC
Forces loyal to Gaddafi ‘continue oppression’ in Sirte
Thousands of civilians are leaving Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte where a humanitarian disaster is looming according to Medecins Sans Frontieres.
Hana Saleh was born in Canada to Libyan parents and now lives in Leeds. Part of her family has managed to leave Sirte but five uncles and one aunt remain there.
She spoke to Radio 5 live Up All Night.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15108831
BBC
Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte thwart Libya NTC advance
For months, those who began the revolution have advanced west across Libya taking town after town for the National Transitional Council (NTC), but here in Sirte they are facing a huge challenge.
As Col Gaddafi’s home town – seat of his family and tribe – it has always had preferential treatment and now it is being fiercely defended.
The rebel army grew in experience and hardware as it followed the coast road across the country, learning the skills to fight a professional army and relying on Nato to ensure it was an uneven battle.
Full story:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15102194
BBC
Libyan forces take Sirte airport
Forces loyal to Libya’s transitional authorities have taken the airport in the city of Sirte, the birthplace of fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafi.
A BBC correspondent says jubilant fighters moved through the partially destroyed terminal buildings tearing down symbols of the Gaddafi regime.
Gaddafi loyalists have put up stiff resistance in Sirte.
Read more:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15110440
NATO
NATO and Libya – Inside Ain Zara, Qadhafi’s prison (w/subtitles)
A look inside one of Qadhafi’s prisons in Tripoli where former political prisoners are now able to return to the scene of their detention and torture.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKn2WjPor-g&fea...
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Normal life is returing to Brega as families return and children head back to school. #Libya
It has confirmed that the NTC Fighters have full control of the Airport in Sirt #Libya
Mahmoud Jibreal will be having a press conference this evening in Tripoli at 7.30 pm #Libya
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Photo: Bab al-Aziziyah on Flickr. This giant hawk statue looks out over Gaddafi’s sprawling Tripoli… tumblr.com/xxw4yp13lz
Photo: Bab al-Aziziyah on Flickr. This giant hawk statue looks out over Gaddafi’s sprawling Tripoli… tumblr.com/xxw4yp0pmo
Photo: Bab al-Aziziyah on Flickr. This giant hawk statue looks out over Gaddafi’s sprawling Tripoli… tumblr.com/xxw4yp0k8o
Photo: Gaddafi’s swimming pool on Flickr. This is Gaddafi’s swimming pool, next to his home in the Bab… tumblr.com/xxw4yp1m7h
Tweeting Tripoli
MacCain live from Tripoli now. AJE
Malta Independent
Libya’s tankers laid off Malta seen operational in a month
Libya’s state owned oil tanker fleet is set to be back in business within a month, with some vessels ready for trading in the next two weeks after months at anchorage due to war, the country’s port authority chief told Reuters on Tuesday.
Libya’s interim rulers are stepping up efforts to get the economy and Africa’s previously third biggest oil producer back on track after former leader Muammar Gaddafi was toppled last month. The country’s seaborne trade is seen as vital for resumption of trading activity.
The state-owned shipping firm General National Maritime Transport Company (GNMTC) has been under pressure in recent months due to a combination of sanctions and a freeze on assets belonging to the Gaddafi family, with several tankers that were managed by an international company laid-up off Malta and Singapore.
Ramadan Boumadyan, chairman of the designated committee at Libya’s Ports and Maritime Transport Authority, said the interim government was working on getting the 24-strong fleet operational again.
“Those ships will be in service soon,” he said in an interview.
Full story:
www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsite...
libyanfsl
LibyaTV program about the role of Libya’s Youth in the future, myself & Taher Suni as guests #Feb17 #Libya
bit.ly/nQSEI2
NYT
Interpol Widens Net in Hunt for Qaddafi and Sons
TRIPOLI, Libya — Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the fugitive former Libyan leader toppled from power a month ago, is likely to have taken refuge near the Algerian border under the protection of sympathetic nomadic tribesmen who have fought for him, an official of the new Libyan government said Wednesday.
On Thursday, Interpol also widened its net for members of his family.
Full story:
www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/world/africa...
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
#Gaddafi’s former prime minister, Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, has begun a hunger strike in a prison in Tunisa, his lawyer says
mojo
Baghdadi Mahmudi (#Gaddafi PM) goes on hunger strike in #Tunisia prison — boo hoo #libya #crymeariver
Tweeting Tripoli
They probably meant “Diet”!!!
ahmadalgamaty ahmadalgamaty
Jibril and Vice President of #Sudan working to strengthen the relations between #Libya and Sudan and cooperation in the field of investments
FR24
Interpol puts Gaddafi’s son on most-wanted list
The international police agency Interpol announced Thursday that it had issued a red notice for al-Saadi Gaddafi, son of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Al-Saadi Gaddafi, last seen in Niger, is accused of corruption and intimidation.
More here:
goo.gl/SJQEr
20arb11 Souffian Tripoli
Daily News on #Tripoli #Trables #Libya goo.gl/r9L0i
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libyan interim government forces take full control of airport in #Gaddafi bastion #Sirte.
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
#Libye les forces du CNT ont pris le contrôle de l’aéroport de #Syrte romandie.com/news/n/_Libyan…
Khadija \
Aeroplanes fill Tripoli’s sky on a cool rainy Thursday morning. #Libya #Matigaairbase
Ceedat
“Keep your city clean, Libya is free, historical garbage.”
pic.twitter.com/PQZxfSsK
Times of Malta
Qatar: Helping Libya from Malta
Qatar will continue using Malta as a hub for humanitarian aid to Libya for as long as necessary, according to General Naser Alkaabi, a senior Qatari military official who heads his country’s aid mission for Libya in Malta.
“As long as the Libyan people need our help, we are willing to provide assistance from Malta. There is no target deadline, we will stay here for as long as necessary,” he tells The Times Business.
General Alkaabi, who is assisted in Malta by a number of Qatari military officers, says his country began its humanitarian assistance to Libya about five months ago when the Qatari chief of military staff came to Malta for talks with the Prime Minister and the Commander of the Armed Forces.
“The two sides agreed to cooperate in providing humanitarian assistance to Libya and since then we have been sending supplies over such as food, medicine and ambulances.
“We signed a contract with Salvo Grima Group to supply us with food and mineral water for our weekly shipment to Libya with humanitarian aid. We have sent 13 shipments since we started, consisting of 2,000 tons of food and two tons of medicine and ambulances.”
Full story:
www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011...
MeesEnergy MEES Oil & Gas
#Benghazi-based state-#oil firm #Agoco said on Wednesday it planned to restart production from three fields in east …
bit.ly/rgrlwP
JohnDelaGuardia John D. Dela Guardia
I just saw Senator John #McCain arriving in Corinthia Hotel #Tripoli for the presser… He looks a lot older in person…
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
News that some NTC Fighters have died after Gadaffi Loyalists shelled a hotel that the NTC Fighters have control of in Sirt #Libya
Libya Outreach Group
Situation Report:
Libya – September 28, 2011
Executive Summary
Highlights
Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) employees protest outside offices in Tripoli saying they want a clean break from the past regime Article
NTC urges the UN to help prevent possible terrorist threats and attacks from Gaddafi and his family.
Additional News
From September 28-29 (a.m.) 2011:
Maummer Gaddafi may be hiding in Libya’s southern desert under the protection of Tuareg fighters and could be near the Libya Algerian border. His exact whereabouts are unknown. Article
Col. Ahmed Bani, the military spokesman for NTC says, Seif al-Islam is in Bani Walid and Muatassim is in Sirte. Article
Pro-Democracy forces take Sirte port Tuesday Article
Very heavy fighting in Sirte, Libya Wednesday inside the city center Video, Article
Pro-Democracy fighters in Sirte city center facing fire from snipers in the area and are having a hard time moving forward. Article
NTC urges NATO to intensify their strategic bombing of military targets in and around Bani Walid and Sirte. There have been heavy casualties in the last few days. Article
NATO press conference on Libya Video
Former Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoude was arrested in Tunisia near the border of Algeria. He sentenced to six months in prison for illegally entering the country by a Tunisian judge, but was freed yesterday. Tunisia says they did not receive any requests to extradite Mr. al-Mahmoude from the NTC or any other entity. Article , Article
NTC sends 20 million LYD ($16 million) to the newly liberated town of Sebha, Libya Article
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister, John Baird my visit Libya this week if the National Transitional Council (NTC) selects a new interim cabinet Article
NTC decides to postpone naming the new interim council until Libya is fully liberated from Gaddafi Article, Article2
The first shipment of Libyan crude oil was shipped from eastern port of Marsa el Hariga on September 25, 2011 to Italy. Article
Libya’s oil tanker fleet owned by the state-owned shipping firm, General National Maritime Transport Company (GNMTC) to resume business within a month and some ready for trading in the next two weeks. Article
Malta urges Libya to adopt international conventions on immigration Article
Read individual articles here:
us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=5f65a9cec4...
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Al Baghdadi AlMahmoudi goes on hunger strike after the NTC in #Libya ask for him to be handed over.
Tweeting Tripoli
McCain: USA should continue help Libya
USA senators: Gaddafi’s regime is over, but the war is not over yet. People are still dying defending the freedom they fought for.
McCain: USA will be ready to cooperate with any government chosen by the Libyan people (Answering question about a possible Islamist gov).
AJELive AJELive
US senator John McCain speaking live from Tripoli:"This is the Libyan revolution not ours, the US will stand by you
Bloomberg
Business Week
Nigeria Investigating Suspected Qaddafi Fighters, Police Say
Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) — Nigeria is investigating more than 100 people detained in the northern city of Kaduna on suspicion of being fighters for former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi after they entered the country from Niger, police said.
“It is only investigation that will prove if they’re Qaddafi fighters or just Nigerians returning home,” police spokesman Yemi Ajayi said today by phone from Abuja, the capital. “They’ll be allowed to go if they’re not fighters from Libya.”
Read more:
www.businessweek.com/news/2011-09-29/ni...
Tweeting Tripoli
I admire Mohamed Gaddaf Aldam (Gaddafi’s cousin) for his courage to come out against Gaddafi early in the revolution. pic.twitter.com/4IEop0yk
Having said that, the poor thing seems always confused. I always come out with more questions than answers after viewing his interviews!!!
Mariam
I think it had more to do with w/ fear of losing access to the millions sitting in his bank accounts than it did courage.
Tweeting Tripoli
Yes, but 99% of others went for fighting and committing more crimes!! I am sure he understands he will be questioned someday.
Mariam
I appreciate that but I wouldn’t go so far as to say I admire that.
AJA:
Casualties among #FFs as Gaddafi forces bomb the Hotel they had taken over.
Sirtawi
Ahmed Bani: North of #Sirte is liberated and the pathway btwn E/W of the city is open. #FFs are still helping civilians leave. #Feb17
Gaddafi forces dressed as civilians and fighting alongside foreign mercenaries in #Sirte. v @libyatv
Libyan fighters ‘capture Sirte airport’
Fighters supporting Libya’s National Transitional Council say they they are now in control of the airport in Sirte, Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown.
The city is one of the last battlegrounds in the NTC’s push to take over the country.
Sirte is Gaddafi’s birthplace, and has been a stronghold for him throughout the seven months of conflict in Libya.
Al Jazeera Zeina Khodr reports Sirte, Libya.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU3m7HezJZI&fea...
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Anonymous asked: Do you know anything about who will be the next Minister of Health? tumblr.com/xxw4yozw4q
Malta Independent
Libya: ‘We have offered all our resources within limits’ – PM Gonzi
Malta has offered all its resources within limits and currently we cannot take any more patients needing ITU treatment, said Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi yesterday morning.
Addressing a business breakfast on Libya in St Julian’s, Dr Gonzi pointed out that on Monday, a flight bringing to Malta some 15 patients was refused because of their specialised requirements.
“Our ITU is full so we cannot take any more patients needing ITU treatment but we can take other patients who may be treated in other wards or private hospitals,” he said.
He confirmed that the Malta Red Cross has asked for help to set up a field hospital and that the government had accepted to give assistance.
St Luke´s Hospital and St Philip´s Hospital are being examined as possibilities and Red Cross will be making its preference according to requirements after considering the options Malta has given.
The International Red Cross will help with human resources.
Read more:
www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsite...
Vancouver Sun
Gadhafi diehards force Sirte retreat by Libyan NTC fighters
SIRTE, Libya — Ferocious attacks by Gadhafi diehards forced fighters of Libya’s new rulers to retreat from the ousted strongman’s birthplace Sirte, where a tank shell killed three in a “friendly fire” attack.
Equally fierce resistance from loyalists in the desert town of Bani Walid, Moammar Gadhafi’s other remaining bastion of support, has stalled a final assault by National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters, said commanders, who called on NATO to increase its air support.
More here:
www.vancouversun.com/news/Gadhafi%20die...
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Does anyone know of any other source for #MusaIbrahim capture story other than Quryna?
Reuters
McCain says Libya inspires people in China, Russia, Iran, Syria
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
Fox News
McCain: ‘The Libyan People Have Inspired the World’
WASHINGTON — Arizona Sen. John McCain said Thursday during a trip to Libya to meet with the nation’s new rulers that the Libyan people “have inspired the world.”
“They have paid an enormous price for their freedom but the sacrifice of the Libyan
people has delivered their great nation to the shores of a new world full of new hope; a chance for all Libyans to know lasting peace, dignity and justice," he told reporters at a news conference.
McCain was joined by three other Republican senators in the highest-profile American delegation to visit the country since the ouster of longtime leader Muammar Qaddafi.
Read more:
www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/29/us-...
Anaya
The next few month will shape the future, the # NTC will announce a new cabinet (…) important for it to be inclusive of all. John McCain
First News
Mines Advisory Group(aUK group) to help clear landmines from #Libya www.firstnews.co.uk/news/uk-to-clear-la... via
Ruwayda
Would it be a wrong move for international feminists to fund women rights activists in Tunisia, Egypt & Libya to help them?
Global Post
It’s a long road for Libya’s wounded
SIRTE, Libya — Ammunition tore through Sirte’s main street last week as rebel fighters emerged from behind shelter to fire machine guns and RPGs. Suddenly, Yusef Matoog Alhamaly dropped to the ground, his Kalashnikov falling beside him.
Through the smoke filled air, a sniper bullet had found its target.
As he lay fully exposed with his shattered leg twisted behind him, one man rushed in
to cover him with a round of bullets and several comrades dragged him to safety. The 34-year-old winced in pain as he was thrown onto the back of a pickup truck and rushed to a waiting ambulance through a hail of incoming fire.
Full art.:
www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/region...
MWorldNews Morocco World News
The previous enthusiasm for pursuing international justice by investigating crimes of the Gaddafi regime has…
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Watchdog: Libya chemical weapons as expected: AMSTERDAM (AP) — The international chemical weapons watchdog…
apne.ws/rmgxWT
libyanproud libyanandproud
The #Gaddafi family coming together under one roof one more time :) twitpic.com/6sduwk #Feb17 #Libya
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Tunisian spectators sure didn’t know what to think when my injured #Libyan FF friend got in this car for a photo. twitpic.com/6s58ph
#Libya: Back to school… “We’re not interested in Al Qaeda, we’re interested in education.” arabnews.com/middleeast/art…
Wash Post:
Libyans wait, and worry, as new government delays.
“We are very worried; they are not telling us anything” www.washingtonpost.com/world/libyans-wa...
Voice of Russia
NTC forces take Sirte airport
Forces loyal to Libya’s rebel National Transitional Council have taken the airport in Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, the BBC reported on Thursday.
It quoted rebels as saying that they also detained Gaddafi’s press secretary Moussa Ibrahim, who unsuccessfully tried to flee Sire earlier in the day and who has already been transported to the city of Misrata to face an interrogation.
Colonel Gaddafi’s current whereabouts are still unknown.
Source:
english.ruvr.ru/2011/09/29/56942878.html
SerajElalem Seraj Elalem
Driving around #Tripoli this wonderful rainy morning listening to The Beatles
Another round of journalist training has just started in #Tripoli, if you’re interested, give me a shout!
#Libya hopes to see economy take flight – FT.com
on.ft.com/qUGwgD #Feb17 #Libya
Small World News
Training in Tripoli
Last weekend Alive in Libya, led by our Benghazi bureau chief Seraj Elalem, completed its first training session in Tripoli. 10 aspiring journalists, 5 women and 5 men, graduated from our course, and 4 of them signed on as contributors to Alive in Libya. More trainings will follow in the coming weeks as we continue to expand into previously inaccessible areas. You can see a selection of the new content from our Tripoli bureau by visiting the website.
UN rights council recommends lifting Libya suspension english.ahram.org.eg/News/22897.aspx via @ahramonline
#FFs capture a number of Gaddafi forces to the east of #Sirte and find a farm stacked with all kinds of ammo. v @libyatv
Aljazeera
Giving birth on the frontline
The impact of the drawn out conflict on ordinary people in Sirte was brought into sharp focus for us last night. We had swung by the field hospital on the way back from the fighting on the frontline to ask the surgeon about casualty figures.
We had seen and heard ambulances rushing backwards and forwards all day so feared the toll was high. The doctor shook his head and said it had been a bad day.
Two of the commanders fighting on the northern flank close to the port had been killed by sniper bullets and he had treated many shrapnel injuries.
Then he added that they had also had a labour to deal with. I thought I’d misheard him.
A labour? As in a birth? Yes, he said. A pregnant woman had escaped the fighting in Sirte and was staying in one of the houses behind the field hospital. She was three days overdue and was suffering complications.
I asked if he was up for delivering a baby. He turned as white as a sheet. He had dug out countless bullets and dealt with the most horrific battlefield injuries for months now but the idea of delivering a baby scared the life out of him.
Thankfully there was a local midwife on hand. He was hopeful she could manage without his services. I asked if I could see her.
I am lucky enough to have a camerawoman with me, so talking to women is a much easier prospect, than trying to allow a male crew in – because of cultural sensitivities.
The doctor said he thought he should be ok and sent us off with the ambulance chosen to pick her up and rush her down the road to Ras Lanuf, the nearest hospital an hour and a half away. We followed the ambulance to the house.
The driver and fighters on board, still carrying their AK47s, saw this mission as urgent as any they had dealt with in the past six months of conflict. By the time we got to the house it was pitch black.
The male members of the family came out. They explained how the hospital in Sirte had no electricity, little water and was low on medical supplies.
They were reluctant to allow us in. Understandable, given what they had been through and their concerns for a safe delivery.
The brother eventually said we were welcome to film as she was transferred to the ambulance that was to rush her to hospital. Moments later a scream rang out through the darkness. She was already in labour.
We retreated not wanting to be a burden at such a sensitive time. The next morning we were at the hospital getting fuel from the tank stationed to keep the ambulances on the road.
We asked the gaggle of doctors and staff hanging around reception if she had made it to the hospital. They all smiled broadly. Mother and baby were doing fine.
BBC
Libya’s planned revision of school curriculum
During the 42 years of Colonel Gaddafi’s rule, Libya’s education system became the testing ground for the many ideological whims of its leader.
Libyan students are now returning to their studies and a school curriculum that needs a complete overhaul.
Jonathan Head reports from Tripoli.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15110795
Romandie News
ONU: le Conseil des droits de l’Homme demande le retour de la Libye
GENEVE – Le Conseil des droits de l’homme de l’ONU a demandé jeudi dans une résolution le retour de la Libye dans ses rangs après la chute du régime de Mouammar Kadhafi.
Le texte proposé par le Maroc, avec le soutien de nombreux pays arabes ainsi que celui de la France, du Royaume-Uni et de l’Espagne demande à l’Assemblée générale de l’ONU de lever la suspension prononcée contre la Libye.
La résolution note avec satisfaction que la Libye sest engagée à sacquitter des obligations qui lui incombent en vertu du droit international relatif aux droits de lhomme, à promouvoir et protéger les droits de lhomme, la démocratie et létat de droit et à coopérer avec les mécanismes internationaux des droits de lhomme compétents.
Il félicite également la Libye pour son engagement à coopérer avec la Commission internationale denquête créée par le Conseil des droits de lhomme de l’ONU pour enquêter sur les allégations de violations commises dans le pays depuis le début du soulèvement populaire contre le régime de Kadhafi.
Art.:
www.romandie.com/news/n/_ONU_le_Conseil...
ALERTE – Tunisie: l’ex Premier ministre libyen entame une grève de la faim
www.romandie.com/news/n/_ALERTE___Tunis...
The Swiss government has appointed an ambassador to the new Libyan government, the foreign ministry announced on Thursday. Michel Gottret
KenRoth Kenneth Roth
UN Human Rights Council reinstates suspended #Libya as member. bit.ly/pRSbda
Der Spiegel
Mussa Ibrahim
Gaddafi-Sprecher angeblich in Frauenkleidern aufgegriffen
Er gilt als eine der bekanntesten Personen der Gaddafi-Herrschaft: Monatelang verkündete Mussa Ibrahim als Sprecher des Regimes Propaganda-Botschaften für die Öffentlichkeit. Jetzt soll er Aufständischen zufolge in Sirt gefasst worden sein – angeblich verschleiert und in Frauenkleider gehüllt.
Tripolis – Die Truppen des libyschen Übergangsrates haben in der schwer umkämpften Stadt Sirt angeblich Mussa Ibrahim, den Regierungssprecher von Muammar al-Gaddafi, gefangen genommen.
Der Fernsehsender der Aufständischen von Misurata meldete am Donnerstag, Ibrahim sei in der Nacht geschnappt worden, als er versucht habe, zusammen mit einer
Gruppe von Zivilisten die Stadt zu verlassen.
Ibrahim habe Frauenkleider getragen und sei verschleiert gewesen. Der Sender kündigte an, er wolle demnächst Bilder von der Gefangennahme zeigen. Eine unabhängige Bestätigung für die Angaben gibt es bislang nicht.
Ebenfalls unklar ist der Verbleib von Ibrahims Familie: Der 36-Jährige ist verheiratet mit einer deutschen Staatsbürgerin, beide hatten bis zur Eroberung der Hauptstadt durch Rebellenkämpfer in einem Hotel in Tripolis Quartier bezogen.
Full story:
www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,7...
Les glissements du “devoir de protéger”, en #Libye. www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2011/09/29...
Breaking (Yawn) : #NIGER refuses to hand over Saadi #Gaddafi as requested by the INTERPOL . #Feb17 #Libya
ICRC
Libya: aid for 10,000 people near Sirte
In recent days, thousands of people have been fleeing their homes in the combat zone of Sirte, heading towards the desert or nearby villages to the east and to the west. The ICRC and the Libyan Red Crescent have stepped up their aid effort.
“Civilians fleeing Sirte report that water and electricity in the city are cut most of the time, food reserves are very low and access to health care is very difficult,” said Georges Comninos, the head of the ICRC delegation in Tripoli. “We are also hearing about severe shortages of medical supplies in the hospital. We are increasingly concerned about the humanitarian situation there.”
The ICRC is stepping up its efforts to obtain access to Sirte as rapidly as possible. It has a ship loaded with medical and relief supplies that is ready to leave from the port of Misrata.
Around 3,000 displaced people, including many children, women and elderly people, are dispersed in a desert area between Sirte and Harawa, some 30 kilometres east of Sirte. “These people don’t want to go any further. Despite very difficult living conditions, they want to remain as close as possible to their houses,” said Patrick Schwaerzler, the head of the ICRC sub-delegation in Benghazi, who participated in a mission to the area. “They have no proper toilets or showers, and they do not have enough drinking water. Diarrhoea and fever are spreading. No health care is reaching them.” On 26 September, water and hygiene items were distributed to 1,200 of the displaced. More assistance is needed for the people who have arrived in the area in the meantime.
In the village of Harawa, 20 kilometres further east, the situation is hardly better. In cooperation with the Libyan Red Crescent, the ICRC has delivered water and hygiene items to 6,600 people displaced from Sirte and to the residents hosting them. Some 57,000 jars of baby food are also being distributed in the area.
About 100 kilometres to the west of Sirte, hundreds of displaced people have taken refuge in the village of Washka, joining others who came from Misrata and Tamina. They have mostly been accommodated in schools and vacant houses. On 27 September, Libyan Red Crescent volunteers and ICRC staff distributed food, kitchen sets, hygiene items and diapers to 850 people in the village. Similar items were distributed to about 700 people displaced from Sirte, Tawargha and Tamina in Wadi Marah, a village deep in the desert about 170 kilometres south-east of Misrata.
Displaced people in Washka and Wadi Marah, particularly children and pregnant women, are also in urgent need of access to primary health care and potable water.
Once again, the ICRC reminds those fighting on the ground in Libya as well as NATO forces of their obligations under international humanitarian law. In particular, they must at all times protect civilians and guarantee safe access for health-care and humanitarian personnel.
For further information, please contact:
Soaade Messoudi, ICRC Tripoli, tel: +218 913 066 198
Dibeh Fakhr, ICRC Benghazi, tel: +870 772 390 124 (ext. 250) or +218 9 923 304 560
Steven Anderson, ICRC Geneva, tel: +41 22 730 20 11 or +41 79 536 92 50
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Niger refuse to hand Saadi Gadaffi over after Interpol warrant issued #Libya
m_madi Mohamed Madi
still no picture evidence, although there is an image apparently of his brother who was captured
Slip of the tongue: “Irak” instead of #Libya" Senator John McCain said, speeking Al Jazeera
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovh-ziYO748&fea...
#Libye: Les #amazighs libyens se libèrent
fr.allafrica.com/stories/201109…
misrati_free Alaeddin Muntasser
Spoke with the captain of Maltese boat Mae Manga that ferried aid for @IGOAID that was targeted 5 times while docked in Misurata by grad 1/2
With tears in his eyes he said “How can I feel fear or turn back when I can almost hear people dying meters from me”Thank you Cpt. Charlie
Its one thing for a Libyan hero like Captain “Tareg Eddrgash” but for a non Libyan to take such a risk is something else.
FreedomTV based in Misrata,assured that the images of the arrest of Ibrahim M will be released once it is sent to a safe place
“Libya, Saudi Arabia and Middle East unrest – 29 September 2011” www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-li...
Mairi
6 month on the UN and International Community fails to stop Mali and Chad providing mercenaries to Libya.
tinyurl.com/PCOLibya
BBC News – Forces loyal to Gaddafi ‘continue oppression’ in Sirte bbc.in/mTo4tR
Arrestation de Moussa Ibrahim… déguisé en femme !
RT @N24_de: Mussa Ibrahim gefasst :
N24.de/n/7300156 #Libye
Reuters
Conoco buys Libyan oil, 1st of U.S. majors -sources
To deliver to German Miro refinery – source
Other U.S. majors also close to resuming buying
Purchase to help further normalise Libya oil trade
More:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/29/liby...
The Mussa Ibrahim #Gaddafi arrest rumor is persistent. As wise men are wont to say: pics or didn’t happen. #Libya
unfortunately the news of #Mussa #Ibrahim #Gaddafi arrest remains unconfirmed by #WefaqLibyaAr FB page
Free Libya
I only want to see Mussa Ibrahim dead, otherwise he will just get released like the rest and holiday in Tunis/ Algiers/ Syria.
major_gazette GLAVGAZETA
Muammar Gaddafi’s press secretary was arrested in Libya: Mussa Ibrahim, Muammar Gaddafi’s official representativ…
bit.ly/psiaT2
Reuters
Libya to honour deals with foreign firms: c.bank
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Libya is committed to honouring all deals with foreign firms unless they reveal evidence of corruption, and the country will not impose foreign exchange controls, its central bank governor said on Thursday.
Read more:
af.reuters.com/article/investingNews/id...
WorldsNewsHouse World’s News House
Libyen: Gaddadis Sprecher offenbar verschleiert und in Frauenkleidung gefasst: Mussa Ibrahim hat im Auftrag des …
bit.ly/r4feNC
emol
Rebeldes anuncian detención del portavoz de Jaddafi y que controlan aeropuerto de Sirte
Mussa Ibrahim fue apresado en la ciudad natal de Moammar Jaddfi. Antes, las nuevas autoridades libias lo habían dado por muerto.
TRÍPOLI.- Las tropas del Consejo de Transición libio afirmaron que detuvieron al portavoz del prófugo ex líder Moammar Jaddafi, Mussa Ibrahim, a su vez, anunciaron que capturaron el aeropuerto de la disputada ciudad de Sirte.
Según informó hoy el canal de televisión de los rebeldes de Misrata, Ibrahim fue detenido en la noche junto con un grupo de civiles cuando intentaba huir de la ciudad, señaló la emisora. El portavoz de Jaddafi llevaba ropa de mujer y un velo.
More:
goo.gl/bcWbF
20 minuten
Gaddafi-Sprecher in Frauenkleider verhaftet
Den Rebellen in Libyen ist offenbar wieder ein dicker Fisch ins Netz gegangen. Mussa Ibrahim wurde in Misrata verhaftet. Derweil gibt es Erfolgsmeldungen aus der umkämpften Stadt Sirte
More here:
www.20min.ch/news/dossier/libyen/story/...
ahauslohner Abigail Hauslohner
Yesterday met a volunteer #Libya EOD team…just a group of engineers digging up land mines by hand, w out protection in #Nafusa Mts. #Brave
Army Air Corps Apache And RAF Chinook Helicopters Practice Deck Landings Onboard HMS Illustrious
www.flickr.com/photos/defenceimages/619...
Aljazeera
A high-profile delegation of United States senators has arrived in the Libyan capital Tripoli, they include John McCain, the one-time Republican presidential hopeful. It comes days after America re-opened its embassy in the country.
Video:
blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/Libya
star Tribune
New envoys for Swiss, Libyans sent to improve once-rocky relationship
GENEVA – Switzerland and Libya are establishing new relations to finally put behind them a diplomatic dispute involving one of Moammar Gadhafi’s sons.
With the ouster of Gadhafi last month, Libya sent a new ambassador to Switzerland, Sliman Bouchuiguir, who presented his credentials Thursday to the Swiss president and a federal chancellor.
Bouchuiguir headed the Libyan League for Human Rights, which argued for a new relationship with the Swiss.
The Swiss Cabinet, in turn, appointed Michel Gottret, envoy to Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain, as its ambassador in Tripoli, where the Swiss plan to soon reopen their embassy.
Gadhafi’s son and daughter-in-law were arrested in 2008 for allegedly beating servants in a Geneva hotel, sparking the diplomatic friction.
Source:
www.startribune.com/world/130790253.html
MUST READ:
Today’s Zaman
Libyan Gen. Salihin speaks to Anatolia hours before death
One of the most important officers of the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) and commander of the siege in Bani Walid, Gen. Dau Salihin, spoke to an Anatolia news agency correspondent just hours before being killed by Muammar Gaddafi’s forces on Wednesday.
Salihin gave an exclusive interview to the Anatolia team at a farm built by Gaddafi for wild animals some 40 kilometers from the Bani Walid front.
“A two-room building that has dirt all over its road is our command center for the siege of Bani Walid. I am pleased to be speaking with a Turkish journalist. Turkey has a special place for me and the Libyan insurgents. You have a special place in our hearts. We are happy to see Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s support for us and for what he has said about Libya,” Salihin said.
“The siege of Bani Walid continued for weeks, and the war between Gaddafi forces and the NTC will determine the future of Libya,” the general noted.
“Bani Walid is crucial, as all of Gaddafi’s armed forces have come here. Gaddafi’s well-trained special forces have all converged in Bani Walid, the NTC officer noted, adding, “Gaddafi forces attack us with around 500 rocket launchers daily.”
“We could enter Bani Walid, but we do not want to use heavy weapons. The majority of the people there support the NTC. As we do not want to harm the people, we are not conducting massive attacks on the city. While 80 percent of the residents of Bani Walid support us, 50 percent of the population is forced to fight against the NTC. Gaddafi forces use innocent people as shields against weapons,” Salihin told Anatolia.
Bani Walid a siege on three fronts
“The NTC forces’ siege of Bani Walid took place on three fronts. We have completely cut off all logistical support to Gaddafi forces. We are trying to gain hold of Bani Walid without hurting the civilians in the city,” he said, adding, “As such, the siege has taken a long time.”
“Two of Gaddafi’s sons are still in Bani Walid. Accordingly, there is more resistance here than in other cities. Gaddafi’s son Seyfulislam is commanding the forces in Bani Walid,” the Libyan general stated.
Gen. Salihin continued: “Gaddafi’s sharpshooters are presently in Bani Walid and fighting against us. Around 4,500 sharpshooters are in there. We believe that Gaddafi forces have around 1,500 rocket launchers.”
“Every passing day, the number of volunteers joining the NTC is on the rise,” he told Anatolia, noting: “There is a humanitarian tragedy in Bani Walid at the present time. People in Bani Walid cannot find bread and water. We receive information from the city on a daily basis, and Gaddafi forces kill three to five people every day. An 83-year-old woman was killed the other day for complaining that she could not find water. Gaddafi forces have planted mines in various corners of the city so that the residents cannot escape.”
“The number of paid soldiers fighting against the NTC is high. Gaddafi has used 600 rocket launchers against us in a single day. They keep on firing missiles on us, including Russian-made ones. We do not know where they got their missiles from,” Salihin noted.
Bani Walid everything for Gaddafi
“All killers, thieves and rapists are fighting against the us in Bani Walid,” the Libyan general stated. “Once Bani Walid falls, it would imply that all of Gaddafi’s force has been wiped out. Once the war ends, those who were with Gaddafi will be punished through the law,” he added.
“The world should do what it has to do so that we do not kill each other. The people of the world should help us so that we will not kill one another,” Salihin said in his last message.
Times of Malta-Debate on #Libya reborn goo.gl/YSDj8 #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Anay_a Anaya
#Gaddaffi spokesman Moussa Ibrahim captured outside Sirte dressed as a woman, fleeing in a stealth golf car, hiding an AK74 in the umbrella
#Jibril said he will not be a part of the new gov, the formation of which has been postponed until the end of the country’s conflict.AJE
#Jibril “I hope that soon we will free Sirte& BW to begin negotiations on the formation
of the transitional gov, of which I wont be a part”
SenJohnMcCain John McCain
Sen @GrahamBlog and I met this young rebel recovering from his injuries at Tripoli Med Center #Libya
lockerz.com/s/143021081
After a day in #Tripoli Kirk praised Obama’s handling of the Libyan conflict as a undeniable “success.”
www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/6474... #Libya
Libya’s NTC announces capture of Mussa Ibrahim, closing in on Gaddafi & sons
TRIPOLI, – Libya’s new rulers on Thursday stepped up the hunt for Moamer Gaddafi’s inner circle, seeking the arrest of one of his sons, Saadi, and announcing the capture of his spokesman Mussa Ibrahim.
They also said another Kadhafi son, Mutassim, was in the deposed despot’s birthplace of Sirte, where old regime loyalists fought pitched battles with combatants loyal to the ruling National Transitional Council.
Read more:
goo.gl/d3zMY
Iranian MPs to visit #Libya to pursue Imam Mousa Sadr’s whereabouts goo.gl/5s23J
Russian TV trying to put the ‘Gaddafi is in Belarus’ rumors to rest. goo.gl/nt9JU #Libya #Feb17
NTC Commanders have confirmed to AFP that they have captured Gaddafi Spokesman, Mussa Ibrahim Gaddafi, outside Sirte – #Libya
Mussa Ibrahim captured outside Sirte ‘dressed as woman’ via @AlArabiya_Eng v/ AFP #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
Photo Martyrs Square #Tripoli #Libya today @grahamblog @marcorubio & @senatorkirk @SenJohnMcCain
goo.gl/0dZuh
U.S. Sen. LindseyGraham Thursday: #Libya ns met visiting Senators and expressed gratitude Want repay int. community
goo.gl/tjjbs
Undated Pic: #Hannibal #Gaddafi watches MilitaryExercise by elite military Unit commanded by bro #Khamis #Zlitan #Libya
goo.gl/LMNke
Undated #Photo of #Saadi Gaddafi watching exercise of Elite Military Unit commanded by #Khamis #Zlitan
goo.gl/YuIJE #Libya
#Photo of the man who is Wanted by Interpol goo.gl/tfVN7 al-Saadi #Gaddafi in the middle of the pic next2 Hannibal on right #Libya
Photo of Al Saadi and Hannibal in audience watching a Military Exercise of Unit commanded by brother #Khamis goo.gl/NgPuq
#Tripoli press corps chuckled as McCain said he’d dreamed of visiting the “liberated capital of a free Iraq.” Oops. He corrected to #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
Oh dear this doesnr abode well @hadeelalsh Mahmoud Jibril says he CANNOT confirm that #Gadhafi spox Moussa #Ibrahim has been arrested #Libya
Echorouk in #Tripoli: #Algerians Fought with Rebels to Topple #Gaddafi #Libya goo.gl/u3gmR
#Niger refuses 2extradite Gaddafi’s son: Nigers Prime Minister Brigi Rafini stated that his country is not going to… dlvr.it/ncc2Q
FromJoanne Joanne
♥ #Tunisia ♥ Keeps ex Gaddafi PM #AlBaghdadi Ali #alMahmoudi in Prison because they got request for extradition from #NTC #Libya
#Sirte Muatassim comes @night 2give men Smokes +weapons + 2Talk 2Them about Armies still in #BaniWalid #Ghadames goo.gl/mXPbn #Libya
#Falsh Footage of Mousa #Ibrahim ’s arrest He was in group of villagers fleeing #Sirte will be broadcast once he is sent 2safe place #Libya
SenJohnMcCain Our group meeting w/ interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril #Libya lockerz.com/s/143016355 #Libya #NTC
WSJ: #Jibril was a member of the board of trustees of the #Libyan Investment Authority during the era where it lost billions of dollars #NTC
SkyNewsBreak:
AFP:
NTC commanders say Gaddafi spokesman Moussa Ibrahim captured in Sirte” #Libya
flyingbirdies أكرم
Mussa Ibrahim’ wife left #Libya today to Tunisia, car with diplomatic pates took her from the German embassy. Source from inside told me.
BREAKING:#Tunisia will hand over Baghdadi Al Mahmoudi,former PM under Gaddfi 2 NTC so he can be tried for his crimes in FREE
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 30th 2011
9/30/11
9.30.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya –
goo.gl/74JO2
USIP U.S. Inst. of Peace
“For the first time, Libyans are making their voices freely heard w/o fear of punishment," said Ahmed Jehani at #USIP:
bit.ly/nT298A
LibyaInMe حنين ~ Hanin
At one point in the past couple of weeks Benghazi had a funeral procession for over 15 matyrs in one day from Sirte
Anaya
The final bursts of a dying monster can be very violent, as in Sirte and BaniWalid. Many casualties. #Libya
Women brought to swell the ranks of supporters in appalling #BabalAziziya have been abused. Many of them orphans from institutions. Sick.
FromJoanne Joanne
#NTC Mustafa binDardef of Council #Zintan Brigade told AFP Thursday #Misrata fighters contacted us and gave info Mussa #Ibrahim captured
Well if #NTC cant show Prove of Ibrahim’s arrest, then the diabolic #Mousa Ibrahim is bound to speak to us soon #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#BBC in #Misrata say #NTC commander there IS NOT claiming M Ibrahim arrest in #Sirte despite Misrata fighters quoted AFP
Sirtawi
Mousa Ibrahim “unconfirmed” arrest making headlines more than Gaddafi whereabouts… lucky him?
Exclusive: Concern grows over militant activity in #Libya | Reuters www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/29/us-l...
derek_brower Derek Brower
Interviewing in & driving around #Libya w my oil reporter hat on… Seems clear oil won’t be the contract-scramble story. Construction will.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Rumours of Musa #Ibrahim arrest circulating for 24 hours but no picture! Would be embarrassing if this is another ‘Saif arrested’ #error
libyanproud libyanandproud
Picture: Freedom Fighters in #Sirte (29/09/2011) #Feb17 #Libya via FB twitpic.com/6siq2e
hominoid555 Russell
Bosco the chimpanzee at Tripoli Zoo is showing signs of depression The Zoo still needs money, Bosco never supported Gaddafi #freeapes
pdanahar Paul Danahar
“@AlArabiya_Eng: Mussa Ibrahim captured outside Sirte ‘dressed as woman’ ” if true was it the goatee or the comb over that gave him away
Sirtawi
Ali Tareq Al-Jidda’, Mutasim Gaddafi’s right hand, was captured today in #Sirte. #FreeSirte #Feb17 #Libya
Field Com. Adel Al-Tarhuni: Number 3 residential area in #Sirte officially liberated and independence flag is now raised there. #FreeSirte
The news of Libya recognising Syrian National Council is not coming from any officials. Libya Alhura TV recognises the SNC is more accurate.
The body of FF Commander Daw Salheen Al-Jidk being buried in #Tripoli yesterday. #BaniWalid #Feb17 #Libya
twitpic.com/6shazv
derek_brower Derek Brower
Just back from #Misrata, where spent time in the prison talking with #Gaddafi troops. Musa Ibrahim’s brother was among them.
libyanproud libyanandproud
Picture: Hyundai Sonatta mounted machine gun. #Feb17 #Libya twitpic.com/6sgtqq
Yesterday:
m_madi Mohamed Madi
#Jibril gave a press conference outlining plans for economic support, salaries for fighters and families etc. in Tripoli
He also said that the announcement of the interim government would be delayed “until all of #Libya was liberated”
#Jibril said that a list of potential interim govt candidates had been “leaked” and distributed online
Wonder who was responsible for that ;-)
But he said that further lists which appeared online were not grounded in reality
Anaya
I have been told that Moussa Ibrahim’s brother is the one who had forbidden English at school. #Libya is opening up to the languages.
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Reportage Vidéo BBC Afrique du 28/09, en français
Les migrants fuient la #Libye
j.mp/qfJmue
Juppé convaincu que “le ferment démocratique l’emportera” ds les jeunes démocraties arabes en cours de création
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Les Toubou, ethnie originaire du sud du pays, veulent leur place dans l’après kadhafi (url dans tweet suivant) …
www.letemps.ch/Page/Uuid/a1b71eea-eada-...
Les sénateurs US ont par ailleurs affirmé avoir évoqué le dossier de l’attentat de Lockerbie en 1988, avec le nouveau pouvoir libyen.
“Les Libyens ont inspiré le monde… Nous croyons qu’ils inspirent les gens à Téhéran, à Damas et même à Pékin et Moscou”
j.mp/oIeSll
Il reste beaucoup à faire en #Libye, selon des sénateurs américains (dont McCain) à #Tripoli j.mp/oIeSll
A #Tripoli, les Berbères réclament leur place dans la #Libye nouvelle
j.mp/oN73fi
derek_brower Derek Brower
didn’t hear anything. Only two prisoners brought in from sirte to misrata today when I was there. Neither moussa
Sarah
I’m sure #Gaddafi is so jealous that people are more focusing on Moussa than on him.
LibyaInMe حنين ~ Hanin
The # of martyrs in Sirte today is 6..3 from Benghazi, 2 from Ajdabiya, and 1 from Beitha. # of injured = 45 #Libya
Graffiti in #Benghazi in honor to the Freedom Fighter Ramadan Al Swehli that resisted the Italian occupation –
twitpic.com/6sk956
AliTweel Ali Tweel
Heavy shooting from 7 minutes coming from Alhadba / Abusalim areas. no idea why and for what? sounds like celebratory firing :(
Yester Allah l: 12 minutes and the shooting is still continues..”
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Libyas most loved man doing what he loves most. Mostafa Abduljaleel playing football pic.twitter.com/lVqFcYFn
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
One of the many LIONS of #Libya who got injured in the battle against Gadaffi pic.twitter.com/81nJNnb7
Who isnt proud that they are Libyan after everything that has happened? Fight like i Libyan!!
pic.twitter.com/ufpt277N
Gadaffi looking for some air after being underground for more than 4months !! pic.twitter.com/6cg5VDTQ
Yousef Shakeer after his makeover !!
pic.twitter.com/z29vGqVG
#Libya’s most loved man can’t hide his emotions after visiting a hospital. pic.twitter.com/FBaUrkcy
Nadine
Saif:
yfrog.com/18qj4gj
LibyaMartyrs Libya Martyrs
Martyr Abdel Kader Al hady Salem al Mijrab, infront of Moh el Giddafi house while he faked his phone call to Jazeera tv
pic.twitter.com/LhGK9MiI
LibyaInMe حنين ~ Hanin
The rate of martyrs/injured in Sirte exceeds what we see/hear in the media. It’s a real massacre and a tough fight for all of Libya
Angela
Perfect start to the day that Big Mouth Moussa Ibrahim captured in #Sirte #Libya no more insults. #brilliant
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Guardian: Libyans seek justice, but who goes and who stays?
goo.gl/IUmbO #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Tweeting Tripoli
Dr Gmati just explained on FB that Ahmed Ibrahim asked him to return back to Libya when they met in Qatar Gmati refused
yfrog.com/o0eq2qj
Gmati told him he’ll return to Libya when there is democracy. So we should expect Dr Gmati soon ;)
SMILE:
S K
money doesnt buy happiness but id rather cry out my depression in a ferrari
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
its two groups who hate jebril: swehli’s “ansar alhorrya” party and brotherhood. Both groups who know nothing abt governance.
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Mahmoud Jibril re: report #Gadhafi spox Moussa Ibrahim arrested: “I hope it’s true” #libya
There’s a lot of celebratory fire out there… I think ppl may be prematurely excited re: Moussa Ibrahim arrest.. #Tripoli #Libya
rcolebourn Richard Colebourn
Worth noting that there have been rumours of arrest of Moussa Ibrahim in Sirte floating around for 3 days now without any evidence #Libya
haque:
Imagining Moussa Ibrahim being caught in a dress just ruined dresses for me. #Libya
TheyCallMeSof
If Moussa the douche Ibrahim was Pinocchio, his nose would get caught in Saturn’s rings #Feb17 #Libya #justsayin
Libye : le porte parole du gouvernement libyen, docteur Moussa Ibrahim est toujours en vie |Algeria ISP:
bit.ly/oKaVhT via @AddThis
AJE hears from Libyan sources that Col Gaddafi’s spokesman, Ibrahim Moussa has not been caught. rumours abound in Libya.
Telegraph
Libya:
Gaddafi mouthpiece caught ‘fleeing dressed as a woman’: Moussa Ibrahim, the mouthpiece of the …
bit.ly/oUyIpe
Red Fraggle
Punishment for #Moussa #Ibrahim : Put him in front of a bunch of journos asking him questions & have his mouth sellotaped!
osama
so was moussa ibrahim caught or not? and if he was caught, did he deny it? #Libya
Via Feb17libya: There is no independent confirmation beyond field commander reports re Moussa Ibrahim capture.
Beautiful:
just to make sure that you get it right… #Feb17 #Libya #Tunisia #Egypt #Yemen #Syria #Bahrain
pic.twitter.com/YpOSEv5s
Algeria arrests 30 Libyan Tuaregs who entered Algeria with armed vehicles and weapons.
bit.ly/nUCjhX via albayan (ar)
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya hundreds of fa,pmilies streaming out of #Sirte … Arriving in western entrance of city
#Libya fighters from western mountains and east arrive in western entrance of Sirte, anti-gaddafi force no longer just from misrata
All Africa
At Morocco’s Initiative, the UN HRC Recommends Libya’s Integration
Rabat — The UN human rights body, the Human Rights Council (HRC), adopted, on Thursday, a resolution, initiated by Morocco on behalf of the Arab group, requesting the General Assembly to lift the suspension of Libya’s rights of membership in the Council.
Read more:
allafrica.com/stories/201109300197.html
NYT
Activists in Arab World Vie to Define Islamic State
CAIRO — By force of this year’s Arab revolts and revolutions, activists marching under the banner of Islam are on the verge of a reckoning decades in the making: the prospect of achieving decisive power across the region has unleashed an unprecedented debate over the character of the emerging political orders they are helping to build.
Full art.:
www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/world/middle...=1&pagewanted=all?src=tp
Washington Times
Rebels fearful of Islamist takeover in Libya
Qatar’s support for a former jihadist leader who is now the top rebel commander in Tripoli, Libya, is causing unease among Libyan rebels who worry that the revolution that ended Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s four-decade rule is being hijacked by Islamists
Full art.:
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/2...
Sliman Bouchuiguir named as #Libya ambassador to Switzerland
shar.es/bagj6 #Feb17 #Libya #NTC
libyanproud libyanandproud
Picture : Wanis Mabruk pretending to be involved in the fighting to protect #Misratta (MisrattaSumood FB) #Feb17 #Libya
twitpic.com/6srmav
Picture : Nasser Mabruk and the MB’s favorite AJA anchor . #Feb17 #Libya via 212Group
twitpic.com/6sro6n
libyanproud libyanandproud
On 1 September 2011, #Gaddafi proclaimed #Sirte to be the capital of the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. #Feb17 #Libya
Vermondo
Soon #Gaddafi will proclaim his bedroom (if any) capital of the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya #Feb17 #Libya
Nigerian tribune
How Gaddafi recruited Nigerians into Libyan Army •Ex-Libyan president’s spokesman arrested
IT emerged, on Wednesday, that ousted Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, recruited several young Nigerians into his armed forces in his heyday.
Security sources told the Nigerian Tribune that the former Libyan leader targeted young university graduates, who were about going for the youth service.
A security expert told the Nigerian Tribune that the deposed Libyan leader had a network through which he identified young Nigerians who could be recruited into the Libyan army and other forces.
Another source said that the former Libyan leader usually offered those recruits scholarships and opportunity to pursue lifetime career in the Libyan Armed Forces.
It was learnt that the Libyan leader deliberately did not restrict the recruitment drive to a section of the country and that while many from the North and South-East took up offers in the military, those from the South-West and South-South usually did not take up the offer.
It was also gathered that the development lasted many years and that many of those recruited were encouraged to leave the youth service for a more promising career in the Libyan Armed Forces.
Read more:
tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-new...
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Le gouvernement somalien reconnaît le CNT
french.cri.cn/781/2011/09/30… #Libye
SlateAfrique:
France-Italie: qui va gagner la Libye? –
goo.gl/GILUv
DonGiobello:
Des privés pour sécuriser le pétrole libyen: le “no thanks” du CNT
bit.ly/pDBfog #Libye
#Libye : à #Syrte
Forces pro-CNT et Kadhafistes se font face
j.mp/omnnnl
Les civils fuient Syrte par centaines. Les combats font rage www.lemonde.fr/libye/article/2011/09/30...
itele:
Libye: un média pro-Kadhafi dément la capture du porte-parole de l’ex-régime.
Sumayyah
I can’t keep up with the Free Libya group, if every time I go in each post has 700+ comments. Can’t even find the comments i’m mentioned in
Alex
You can get quality coffee anywhere in Libya
bit.ly/o28ZsH #EpicLibyanMan must have his espresso
m_madi Mohamed Madi
proves my point about Libyan coffee addiction, there’s never a wrong time for an #epiclibyanmachhiato
FromJoanne Joanne
How much did #Gaddafi steal ? From 1970 to 2010 #Libya State earned over a #TRILLION dollars
goo.gl/M8NF0 #Oil #Blog
#Photos of #Libya on #SkyscraperCity Unfortunately They mixed up Pics of #Tripoli and Benghazi and even #Sirte :
goo.gl/xBQTp
#Photos of Benghazi #Libya on #SkyScraperCity
goo.gl/liIvu #Forum
Lisa
Video : Ali Sallaby old press conference thanking Saif Gaddafi youtu.be/ik9IJOxx5_g #Feb17
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik9IJOxx5_g&fea...
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
People are telling Mahmoud Jibreal to listen to the street.They said help our wounded.In less than a week he did so give him a break #Libya
Europe 1
Libye : Frattini a rencontré le CNT
Le ministre des Affaires étrangères d’Italie, Franco Frattini, s’est rendu vendredi en Libye pour y rencontrer les nouvelles autorités et s’assurer, après la chute de Mouammar Kadhafi, de la pérennité des liens diplomatiques et économiques avec son ex-colonie.
Read more:
www.europe1.fr/International/Libye-Frat...
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Just arrived in Devon for a mini-break. MAYBE when i log back in on Sunday #Gaddafi will be arrested and fighting stopped (?)
Sumayyah
#Libya’s Berbers demand post-revolution dues
goo.gl/6wWkq #Feb17
Tweeting Tripoli
Did you know we have our own “Dawar Loloa” (famous #Bahrain roundabout) in Janzour, Libya? Picture taken yesterday.
pic.twitter.com/OWAZW23v
Tweeting Tripoli
Bought Salabi’s book from Tripoli International Books Fair about 4 yrs ago. Ghaddafi doesn’t hate him!
yfrog.com/kj58ouaj
What I want to know is when did the good relationship between Salabi and Gaddafi’s regime start?
libyanandproud
before april 2008 according to this forum post
goo.gl/NVxgo
Tweeting Tripoli
OK that explains why his book being sold in Libya without restrictions as early as 2008.
I only got that book by Salaby. That was the only book about the life of the prophet that I could find there.
flyingbirdies أكرم
Friday market for pets now taking place in Bab al-azizia
Tweeting Tripoli
Hope we don’t get fake mullahs and pretenders. People who use religion 4 a purpose are dangerous & sometimes funny:
youtube.com/watch?v=zLT__g…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLT__gqqMv8&fea...
Anyone seen Mussa “Pinocchio” Ibrahim vid or pic? Still doubt such a big fish being caught and no proof, with mobile phones all around us?
Abdullah
Safia Forkash ‘’Gaddafi ’s wife’’ which her father died during #Feb17 revolution in Sfax #Tunisia his body sent back today to Albeda #Libya
Libyan Duda
#French Ambassador eating Couscous Libyan style in #Zintan #Libya tinyurl.com/5uqbudk
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today
AmmarParis Ammar ABD RABBO
Rumors in #Tripoli that all members of #NTC may resign in the next days, to protest problems they face forming a government…
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi fighters exchange heavy fire with loyalists in #Sirte, #Libya
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi fighters & loyalists clash at #Sirte eastern entrance at a junction separating city center from AbuHadi neighborhood
Sarah
#Libye “Prise de l’hôtel du port de #Syrte, a été la + coûteuse en pertes humaines : 15 morts & 81 blessés pour la seule journée de mardi”
The Misrata Military council said that they don’t detain Moussa Ibrahim :)
Reuters:
Civilians fled #Sirte on Friday as interim government forces pounded the coastal city in an effort to dislodge #Gaddafi fighters
Alj: #VenezuelanPresident one of the last remaining friends of #Gaddafi, ridiculed the country’s new #UN repres, calling him puppet & dummy!
Tarek
After more than 18 hours journey I am now in Tripoli with family after 8 months, #Libya
It’s very safe and ppl are so happy
people are telling me their endless stories of struggle for freedom under #Gaddai regime in the last 8 months, but all are happy,
it’s been great in Souk Al Juma, all are happy and untined
#Tunisian people have been great last night, when landing then crossing border
Great young and brave #Libyans on all check points making our lives easier and greeting us with Allah Akbar (Allah is the greater). #Libya
Arrived in Al Hanshir, Souk Al Juma, #Tripoli 4,30am today (Friday 30th Sep), but it was worth the whole trip.
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Al rai channel is bankrupt. They showed old #Saif video pretending it’s new and a school from Zliten saying it’s in Sirte. #progaddafilosers
Never thought I’d ever see tripoli this clean… Amazing how far some national pride and voluntary work goes #libya #feb17
CBS News
Watchdog: WMDs “found” in Libya aren’t new
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – The international chemical weapons watchdog says stockpiles captured so far in Libya are in line with what Muammar Qaddafi’s regime had previously declared, and no new weapons have been found.
The fate of the country’s chemical weapons and precursors had been uncertain amid the chaos of the country’s civil war.
Read more:
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/29/5013...
Reuters
Conoco buys Libyan oil, 1st of U.S. majors -sources
To deliver to German Miro refinery – source
Other U.S. majors also close to resuming buying
Purchase to help further normalise Libya oil trade
Full art.:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/29/liby...
Reuters:
Civilians fled Sirte on Friday as interim government forces pounded the coastal city in an effort to dislodge Gaddafi fighters.
The prolonged battle for Gaddafi’s hometown, besieged from three fronts, has raised mounting concern for civilians trapped inside the city of about 100,000 people, with each side accusing the other of endangering them.
Tweeting Tripoli
Will we soon see Musa Ibrahim interviewed by Shakeer in Syria? I have a feeling we will.
David Cenciotti
Italy still flying 29 weekly missions in Libya w/ multiple assets: F-16, Tornado, AMX, G222VS, KC-767, KC-130J and Predator B drones
Facebook Group: ashahed libya الشاهد ليبيا
www.facebook.com/libya.ashahed:
Statistics : 1149 martyrs in Misratta since February 19.
Statistics : Martyrs: 1083 Libyans, 17 Arabs, 17 Africans, 5 Euro/American(s/n) since February 19.
Statistics : 972 Martyrs who are Misratta residents since February 19.
LibyaInMe:
Derna had 22 martyrs in one day from the battle in #Sirte” #Feb17 #Libya
Breaking :
Tunisia Hands Ex-Libyan Prime Minister to Libyan Authorities. via @Tunisia_Live / TAP
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Gadafi’s Lamborgini Jeep confiscated by a rebel unit during one of their raids in Tripoli yfrog.com/j2sbt0j #Libya
ansa_topnews
Frattini: Alitalia will start its commercial flights to #Tripoli on the 2nd of November bit.ly/qMKqTL
Reuters
Reuters: NTC military chief Suleiman Mahmoud al-Obeidi attended a meeting on Friday between Tuareg tribesmen and local Arabs in the southwestern town of Ghadames aimed at patching up differences that have recently spilled over into violence.
AP
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, in his first visit to Libya since Gadhafi’s fall, says his country is ready to unfreeze 2.5 billion euros ($3.4 billion) in frozen Libyan assets.
Alj:
The exodus of fleeing residents from #Sirte grew larger on Friday, as revolutionary fighters continued their offensive to seize control
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
We need and want proof that Moosa Ibrahim has been caught. Come on Guys.Sort it out :)
libyaoutreach Libya Outreach
#Libya Situation Report – September 29, 2011
fb.me/1dLCA7EjI
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
el ministro de defensa del CNT, Mahmud al Obeidi, intenta pactar una tregua con los tuareg q apoyaron a Gadafi en Gadamés #Libia
Souffian Tripoli
Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا” goo.gl/aM65o
Tunisia Live
Tunisia Hands Ex-Libyan Prime Minister to Libyan Authorities
Tunisia has officially announced surrendering Baghdadi Mahmoudi, former Prime Minister of Libya in Qaddafi’s regime, to Libya.
Charged with illegally entry into Tunisia, Baghdadi Mahmoudi was arrested last week by Tunisian authorities and sentenced to 6 months in jail. However, later in the same week, the Libyan National Transitional Council issued an international warrant through Interpol against the fugitive to return him to Libya for trial.
Tunisian government officials comment that this surrender is temporary and it shouldn’t last more than 30 days. There are treaties existing between and Tunisia and Libya, such as the June 14th 1961 treaty that implores surrendering criminals and fugitives illegally entering both territories. The final verdict of surrender must also go back to the appeal court of Tunis which is the only specialized body in dealing with such matters.
Source: al-Mouharrer, TAP
Source:
goo.gl/WYzgn
The things NATO comes up with:)
Moussa Ibrahim captured by nato special forces using Secret Technology … www.youtube.com/watch?v=olr5diEdu0c&fea... via @youtube
HRW
Libya: Cease Arbitrary Arrests, Abuse of Detainees
(Tripoli) – The National Transitional Council (NTC), the de facto authority in most of Libya, should work to stop militia groups from making arbitrary arrests and abusing detainees in prisons and makeshift detention facilities across western Libya, Human Rights Watch said today.
Human Rights Watch visited 20 detention facilities in Tripoli and interviewed 53 detainees. The detainees reported mistreatment in six facilities, including beatings and the use of electric shock, and some of them showed scars to support the claims. None had been brought before a judge.
Full report:
www.hrw.org/news/2011/09/30/libya-cease...
FreeBenghazi
#Ghadames fighters reached agreement w Tuareg in the city, allowing Tuareg families to return their homes
#Libya
youtube.com/watch?v=uZqBxT…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZqBxTEmPvI
Reuters
Libya officer at Tuareg-Arab talks in desert town
Al-Obeidi in town near where NTC said Gaddafi hiding
Recent clashes thought by some to involve deposed leader
he military chief of Libya’s new interim government attended a meeting on Friday between Tuareg tribesmen and local Arabs in the southwestern town of Ghadames aimed at patching up differences that have recently spilled over into violence.
Full art.:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/30/liby...
Arabia Msn
Libyan February 17 Coalition delegation to visit tribe in Alexandria
CAIRO: A Libyan delegation from the February 17 Coalition will meet with Ali’s Son Tribe in Borg el-Arab in Alexandria to express its gratitude for the tribe’s help during the Libyan popular uprising against the brutal Muammar Gadhafi regime, said Nasser el-Hawari, the Coalition coordinator.
The Ali’s Son Tribe is allegedly is the original bloodline ancestors of Ali’s sons in Libya.
The connection between Libya and this tribe indicates the depth of relations between Egyptians and Libyans, said Hesham el-Aqari, the meeting organizer.
Source:
www.arabia.msn.com/News/MiddleEast/youm...
Franco Frattini, MAE italien, s’est rendu ce vendredi en #Libye pour y rencontrer Abdeljalil et Jibril www.afrik.com/breve35291.html
Arte.TV
Libye : arsenal à ciel ouvert
Alors que les combats continuent autour de Syrte et de Bani Walid, le Conseil National de Transition peine à s’entendre. Le N°2 du CNT, Mahmoud Jibril a annoncé qu’il ne ferait pas partie du gouvernement de transition. Un gouvernement dont la date
d’annonce officielle est reportée jusqu’à la “libération totale de la Libye” a-t-il encore affirmé hier. Le libéral Mahmoud Jibril est poussé vers la porte par les islamistes présents dans le bureau exécutif du CNT qu’il dirige.
Video:
www.arte.tv/fr/3733356,CmC=4174378.html#.ToXlWEClitM.twitter
France 24
Mohamed Bazoum, Ministre nigérien des Affaires étrangères
Marc Perelman reçoit le ministre nigérien des affaires étrangères, Mohamed Bazoum. Saadi Kadhafi, l’un des fils de l’ex-dirigeant libyen Mouammar Kadhafi, se trouve au Niger depuis mi-septembre. Interpol demande son arrestation, mais Niamey refuse de l’extrader en Libye.
Video:
www.france24.com/fr/20110929-niger-liby...
Le Monde
Libye : à Syrte, rebelles et kadhafistes se font face
Syrte et Ras Lanouf (Libye), envoyée spéciale – Retranchés dans le centre-ville de Syrte, les hommes de Kadhafi ont demandé une “Houdna”, une trêve, aux rebelles qui désormais les encerclent. C’est ce qu’affirmaient jeudi 29 septembre, plusieurs responsables au sein des brigades révolutionnaires sur le front de l’Est, qui ont assuré l’avoir refusée. Après plusieurs jours de combats meurtriers, les tentatives de négociation entre les forces révolutionnaires et les Maadan – l’une des tribus de Syrte – ont échoué.
Art. and photo’s:
www.lemonde.fr/libye/article/2011/09/30...
OPEX 360
Zone Militaire
Libye : En difficulté à Syrte et à Bani Walid, les combattants du CNT en demandent plus à l’Otan
Plus d’un mois après la chute de Tripoli, les combattants révolutionnaires libyens (les « thuwars ») ne sont toujours pas arrivés à prendre le contrôle de Syrte et de Bani-Walid, les deux derniers bastions des forces restées loyales au colonel Kadhafi.
A Syrte, située à 360 km à l’est de la capitale libyenne, les troupes du Conseil national de transition (CNT) se heurtent à une résistance farouche opposée par les pro-Kadhafi, qui n’a pas faibli malgré la prise du port de la ville au début de cette semaine. Cela s’explique en grande partie par une différence de qualité militaire entre les forces en présence.
A Bani Walid, à 170 km au sud-est de Tripoli, la situation n’est guère différente. En plus de leur manque d’expérience militaire, les thuwars n’ont pas la géographie pour eux. Qui plus est, les forces pro-Kadhafi de cette ville, ont été renforcées par celles qui se sont repliées devant l’avancée des troupes du CNT dans la capitale libyenne.
Full art.:
www.opex360.com/2011/09/30/libye-en-dif...
Moussa Ibrahim’s wife and toddler son:
Confirmed that Julia Ramelow and young son have indeed fled Libya yesterday.
They went to Tunesia helped by the German embassy.
Seem to hav fled in embassy car.
Fyi:
It seems Julia Ramelow – wife of Mousa Ibrahim was at it too – concocting & fabricating pro-Gaddafi propaganda!
Have a look for yourself:
haderza.blogspot.com
Photo of Julia Ramelow Wife of Mousa Ibrahim who fled to #Tunisia from #Libya on Thursday goo.gl/F2svY
or:
www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bild...
Spiegel online
Gefallenes Regime
Deutsche Ehefrau von Gaddafis Sprecher flieht aus Libyen
Ihr Mann Mussa Ibrahim war Gaddafis Propaganda-Chef: Monatelang hat Julia Ramelow aus Hamburg mit dem gemeinsamen Baby an Ibrahims Seite ausgeharrt. Nun ist sie nach SPIEGEL-ONLINE-Informationen aus Libyen nach Tunesien geflohen – und anschließend zurück nach Deutschland gereist.
Berlin/Tripolis – So dicht dran am Machtapparat Muammar al-Gaddafis waren nur wenige: Julia Ramelow, die deutsche Ehefrau des Regierungssprechers von Gaddafi, ist aus Libyen geflüchtet. Wie SPIEGEL ONLINE erfuhr, ermöglichte die Deutsche Botschaft in Tripolis, dass Ramelow gemeinsam mit ihrem Baby am Donnerstag von der libyschen Hauptstadt nach Tunesien ausreisen konnte.
Full art.:
www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/a-78...
gebauerspon Matthias Gebauer
julia is just back in germany, arrived this afternoon
Lee Alley
Ha, Julia Ramelow & Mussa Ibrahim met @ church group in Exeter (UK) in 2000: “We both love God, literature & hate politics” Hmmm
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
look where is Mr. Gaddafi’s fist now in the war museum of Tripoli St. #Misrata #Libya yfrog.com/h7mclhqj
yfrog.com/nzdwovj
another photo of Tripoli St. new war museum when I saw it in may was just starting #Misrata #Libya
yfrog.com/o0xwpyj
photo 1 canon in Tripoli St. war museum they even have tanks now #Misrata #Libya
yfrog.com/h7aagpmej
Tarek
I have heard a single shot so far in #Tripoli Coastal part. #Libya
plemochoe plemochoe
#libya What is apparently impossible is getting Western press operatives who graduated from college, not just J school
libya The NTC should require all Western journalists to KNOW SOMETHING about Libya before they get credentials
#libya But it’s obviously hopeless, people are still talking about rebels and quagmires and al-Qaeda and Brega
Older video:
afelyun aphelion
Suleiman “Chameleon” Dogha and his love for the Gaddafi’s
youtube.com/watch?v=0xBU4W… #Libya #Feb17
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xBU4WBj-is&fea...
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Alitalia to resume #Rome #Tripoli scheduled flights as on November 2
Jonas Renz
Syrian flag, Free Libyan Flag, and Logos of Aljazeera and Alarabiya at a SYRIA demonstration:
youtube.com/watch?v=SCdeb_…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCdeb_J8BSg&fea...
Orla
how many palaces with swimming pools had #Gaddafi? pretending to using a tent was an insult to real bedouines
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
News is that Moosa Ibrahim wasnt caught but a car in his name was.This is really becoming a joke guys. #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
Libya Al-Ahrar still insist Pinocchio was captured, while Misrata brigade commanders denied. Can’t they ever learn from previous mistakes?
There is treaty between and Tunisia and Libya (since 1961) that implores exchanging fugitives who illegally enter respective territories.
Gaddafi’s house in Sabha hit by NATO:
Anyone knows the coordinates, please?
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z21yiP8hdG0&fea...
FF ambushed as they entered Alasaba town near Ghyrian
(date is not known).
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2FOunmIw3E&fea...
( fyi: that was first week of sept.)
plemochoe plemochoe
#libya Here’s something that hasn’t been reported: the FF victory in the Battle of Tripoli was a MASTERPIECE that will go down in history
#libya The supposedly incompetent NTC and their supposedly clueless fighters n flip-flops pulled off th coup of the century #BattleofTripoli
Guardian
Libyans seek justice, but who goes and who stays?
A purge of Gaddafi collaborators to end corruption and cronyism risks putting on trial people needed to help run the country
Libya’s National Oil Corporation is housed in an imposing building near Tripoli’s old royal palace, its concrete and mirrored glass facade a monument to the country’s wealth and a face of modernity in a ramshackle capital. And many of its employees are furious.
Full art.:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/29/li...
LIBYAN
we appreciate the support of #Qatar and we assume it’s with good intentions
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte situation is absolutely Desperate No power No food a Dr in Hospital was trying 2Patch wounds with light of his Mobile phone #Libya
#Sirte Situation is threatening #Gaddafi Goons are Executing People believed to be #NTC sympathisers Snipers #Nato bombs night & day #Libya
#Sirte is Starving: People have not eaten for several days All the shops are closed “I am not scared. I am hungry says Ghazi #libya
U.N. sends drinking water trucks 2 civilians crammed into vehicles on road from #Sirte heading either 2wards #Benghazi or #Misrata
FromJoanne Joanne
After Meeting with #NTC #Jibril FM Franco #Frattini announced that as of Nov2 #Alitalia will resume flights betwen #Rome and #Tripoli
Sarah
#Tripoli :
Libyan anthem + Libyan Flag waving live on Libya AlAhrar :)
I feel like it’s summer ! Seems #Libya have steal our weather !
misrati_free Alaeddin Muntasser
IGOAID vessel Entissar on her final trip From Malta to Misurata. An emotional day for the I-GOAID volunteers and
twitpic.com/6sxqzz
Snipers halt NTC fight for Kadhafi hometown
Fighters for Libya’s new rulers were Friday forced to regroup on the edge of Sirte, halted by pro-Kadhafi snipers in their two-week old assault on the ousted despot’s hometown.
And in Bani Walid, the only other stronghold of forces loyal to Moamer Kadhafi, the National Transitional Council fighters appeared to have opened another front.
Read more:
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/A...
Tweeting Tripoli
Gaddafi’s thugs from the town of Tawergha preparing to attack Misrata back in April, but failed miserably:
youtube.com/watch?v=_-gxYI…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-gxYIT3ytc&fea...
EA_v_G Ernst-Alex.Gersdorff
Deutsche Ehefrau von Gaddafis Sprecher flieht nach Tunesien – SPIEGEL ONLINE – spon.de/adtwa #Libya
ForeignPolicyIT ItalianForeignPolicy
Libyan fighters injured in fighting in Tripoli and Misurata have been flown to Italy for treatment. Other humanitarian flights next week.
SMILE:
pdanahar Paul Danahar
Man drops daughter to catch ball
bbc.in/ofJsIE
or:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-1...
you can only imagine the roasting his wife gave him for this
Borzou
#Libya:
Misurata rebels REJECT reports they arrested Ghaddafi flack Moussa Ibrahim, but “members of his family” were arrested
Karybdis
#Ghadames council has made a deal with local #Tuareg . They may now return to homes in city. They will no longer support G / Prisoner trade.
Also, A group of #Tuareg were arrested in Debdeb #Algeria suspected of the attack on #Ghadames last week which killed 8 people.
Coincidentally, reports of Mussa Ibrahim’s capture were… exaggerated. They found documents with him name on em in a car leaving #Sirte.
RFI FR
Libye : l’urgence d’un nouveau gouvernement est de plus en plus cruciale
Le numéro 2 du Conseil national de transition libyen, Mahmoud Jibril, a annoncé vendredi 30 septembre lors d’une conférence de presse qu’il ne ferait pas partie du prochain gouvernement. D’obédience libérale, Mahmoud Jibril, qui fait office de Premier ministre, est confronté à une opposition islamiste au sein du bureau exécutif du CNT qu’il dirige.
More and source:
www.rfi.fr/afrique/20110930-libye-mahmo...
Anaya
HUGE work for the #NTC, injuried FF, social cohesion, abused women, frontlines, economy, dissensions, administrations, infrastructures……
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: Wounded #Misrata freedom fighter adjusting his seat cushion in Tunis. twitpic.com/6sydnd
Libye: le numéro 2 du CNT ne sera pas du prochain gouvernement
Mahmoud Jibril, numéro deux du Conseil national de transition (CNT), a annoncé jeudi qu’il ne ferait pas partie du prochain gouvernement, lors d’une conférence de presse à Tripoli.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm-2jEyhF9k&...
liveTripoli
Islam is a complete way of life. That means when we do our politics we first check with #Islam because its our first and for most creed.
libyanandproud
Alamin Belhaj member of #Tripoli council and spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood in #Libya. #ConflictofInterest goo.gl/BKFlz #Feb17
Libyan4life
The more I read about #Gaddafi and history of #Libya the more in awe I am that he lasted 42yrs. The level he crippled the ppl is astonishing
Jon Williams
Senior Libyan official says NTC believes Gaddafi trying to set up rump regime in south: massing arms & money. “Still poses threat to Libya”.
Official tells BBC Saif al-Islam directing #BaniWalid fight. Loyalists hv advantage of mountain v plateau so difficult to conquer from below
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Typical Libyans they are not good at putting dates on things, They have postponed the #Tripolifestival twice and the interim govt.
20arb11 Souffian Tripoli
Daily Arabic #Tripoli news on “طرابلس” goo.gl/1FXb4
Mushu
Libyan by force, proud by choice. Al hamdu li Allah :) #proudlibyan #libyanproud #Libya
Feb17
NTC fighters suffer large casualties securing control of Sirte airport
Injured fighters loyal to Libya’s National Transitional Council have been flown by helicopter to Benghazi for medical treatment.
Video:
bit.ly/oynm30
or:
goo.gl/gWqgH
MSNBC
Ruined Libya town shows danger of postwar vendetta
TAWARGHA, Libya— Cast out of his home and with nowhere left to flee, Aboulharef al-Tawarghy laughs when he thinks of the Libyan fighters who toppled Muammar Gaddafi calling for freedom and justice.
“Their words are just ink on paper. I haven’t seen any action,” the 29-year-old electronics dealer said as he sat near a mosque in the embattled city of Sirte, where scores of men, women and children who fled their home town of Tawargha have found a precarious refuge.
Full art.:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44732380/ns/world_...
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
#Misrata Military Council confirms to @AP that #Gadhafi spox Moussa Ibrahim has NOT been arrested.
Gheblawi Ghazi Gheblawi
Gaddafi Sr. Opposed idea but Saif persuaded him to contain MB in regime to get broader support from people for his ‘Reforms’
FromJoanne Joanne
Between #Tripoli and #Misrata (200KM )are 30 checkpoints NTC is trying to make sure no Gaddafi goons enter the city#Libya
LibyaFromFrance
Graffiti in #Benghazi in honor to the Freedom Fighter Ramadan Al Swehli that resisted the Italian occupation –
twitpic.com/6sk956
libya_Horra
if jebril stays ppl say he’s dodgy wants power.. Wen jebril says I’m not gona b in trans. govt ppl say its cuz of crisis, make up ur minds!
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tuareg + local Arabs who fought each other near Ghadames exchanged hostages and Signed Agreement Friday 2try to stabilise oasis area #Libya
TheyCallMeSof
JUST like the #Gaddafi regime,his supports on Twtter make up all types of ‘facts’&events.Some r still in denial of #Tripoli falling 2
FreeBenghazi
ICFMMC report big divisions w/in ranks of Gaddafiforces in #Sirte. Fighters continue to bomb their positions w artillery shells #Libya
Abdul
today the friday market that used 2 be in Souq Aljumaa #tripoli has moved to #Bab alazizia compound, where sheep, pigeons got sold :) #libya
libya_Horra
And the LibyaTV aka DoghaTV lovefest with Sallabi continues he’s on live for a second day!
ICFMMC
Relative calm at #Sirte front-line. Fighters have not entered the city in order to allow families to leave the city #Libya
guess what
i read this as satire: Muammar Monitor: Colonel arrives in Minsk, sets up shop…err, tent —
bit.ly/o4c4v0
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
There is a road for the fighters between the East and the West FF in Libya. They are joining each other as we speak
Ahmed
My brother and Taher Al Suni (UN diplomat) discuss the role of youth in Feb17 and in the future of Libya on Libya TV
goo.gl/Qogfq
Tarek
#Eni resumed oil production in #Libya for the first time since it fled the fighting between FF and forces loyal to #Qaddafi. #Italy
thicken86
#NTC has been doing a great job w/ international relations but im afraid its at the expense of not paying enough attention at home #Libya
Speaking to many in #Libya they feel that outside of Mustafa AbdelJalil the #NTC seems a bit out of touch #Feb17
FromJoanne Joanne
Injured Fighters in #Sirte R taken by car (up to 3hrs and life threatening)or by 1 of the 2 #NTC helicopters to #Misrata or #Benghazi #Libya
Iran French radio
Libye: le “CNT” débloque 400 M USD, pour les victimes
IRIB- Les nouvelles autorités libyennes ont octroyé 400 millions de dollars d’aide aux combattants blessés, lors de la lutte contre le régime Kadhafi, ainsi qu’aux familles des victimes et aux étudiants faisant leurs études à l’étranger, rapportent, vendredi, les médias occidentaux.
Source:
french.irib.ir/info/afrique/item/144768...
Nusaybah
May Allah guide our future politicians/rulers to a direction that is pleasing to Him. #Libya
Sarah
(AFP) – #Tripoli : During Friday prayer . Little Libyan kid wearing traditional Libyan clothes. #SoCute #Libya
yfrog.com/o08gmbj
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Le Niger refuserait d’extrader Saadi Kadhafi, un des fils de Kadhafi impliqués dans la répression.
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
a misrata fighter upon seeing one from benghazi side in #sirte for the first time— “you’re late”
Ali Tweel
ALMOST went to JAIL today, scared the hell outta me… those monopoly games get pretty intense! :-P
Reuters
Civilians surge out of Sirte, say food dwindling
Civilians fled Sirte on Friday as interim government forces pounded the coastal city in an effort to dislodge fighters loyal to ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Art. and video:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/30/us-l...
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
Why does Belhaj lie about contents of arms shipments? – Washington Times: wtim.es/qPJq5y via @washtimes
SMILE:
wafa
Don’t be a hard rock when you really are a gem
Ahmed
#Libya is up and running due to the hard work of local councils, organizations and volunteerism. #Feb17
hominoid555
Yobo English name for a football hooligan Saddi yobo Gaddafi
Snipers halt NTC fight for Kadhafi hometown. www.thejakartaglobe.com/afp/snipers-hal...
hominoid555
Lady Gaga and Victoria Beckham Recognized for Wearing Hats, all the things that are going on in the world, WT* who cares about hats !
Karybdis
Watiyah was indeed reported by #FF after they took Badr. Assah and Regdalin I left blue for a while, but news said NW clear.
Several (major) news outlets said the only G forces known at the time were in farmlands outside Ajaylat. That was long ago.
I assume that the leftovers of those forces were the ones who attacked #Regdalin. Maybe angry locals (There are many there)
As for concrete on #Regdalin, rebels would not be fighting there 4 weeks ago, then decide NW is safe.
blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/Ragdalin
NATO’s overview of #Libya control from Sept 22. Horrid mapping, but shows it www.nato.int/nato_static/assets/pdf/pdf...
KAVZAK CENTER
KGB wants to bring case against McCain on Article 280 of Criminal Code of Russia for call for armed uprising
According to Russian media outlets, a PM of the terrorist gang “State Duma”, a member of gang group “United Russia” Sergei Markov, severely condemned the appeal of US Senator John McCain to Russians to raise an armed rebellion against
the Putin’s regime by example of the armed uprising of Libyans against the regime of Gaddafi.
“I am convinced that these statements are nothing but a call to the public uprising in our country. And I am now thinking whether to file senator for US court (there certainly will not since calling for the overthrow foreign regimes is not banned anywhere, so to file for court should done only in Russia – KC) for his inflammatory statement”, official website of United Russia quoted Markov as saying.
Markov said that, judging by this and a number of other statements made previously, McCain “will support anyone who is willing to harm Russia and its current government”. What’s so bad in this, Markov has not explained.
Read more here:
www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2011/0...
#NTC confirms that the delay in controlling #Sirte is solely due to trying to provide an opportunity for civilians to escape safely #Libyat
Swiss info
Exclusive – Concern grows over militant activity in Libya
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As the dust settles after six months of fighting in Libya, U.S. officials are stepping up efforts to identify Islamic militants who might pose a threat in a post-Gaddafi power vacuum.
U.S. counterterrorism and intelligence agencies have recently produced classified papers examining the strength, role and activities of militant activists and factions in post-Gaddafi Libya, four U.S. officials said. Some assessments examine the backgrounds of anti-Gaddafi leaders with militant pedigrees, and explore whether these individuals, some of whom have publicly renounced Islamic militancy, will stand by their pledges against extremism.
During the half-year campaign by rebels to drive Muammar Gaddafi from power, U.S. and NATO officials downplayed fears that al Qaeda or other militants would infiltrate anti-Gaddafi forces or take advantage of disorder to establish footholds in Libya.
Since then, however, the assessment of top experts inside the U.S. government has sharpened.
Full art.:
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international...
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tuareg + local Arabs who fought each other near Ghadames exchanged hostages and Signed Agreement Friday 2try to stabilise oasis area #Libya
Sirtawi
A guy who fled #Sirte tells Reuters a doctor had to sew his wound under the light of his mobile. Still no electricity in city or hospital.
Some use their in-car battery chargers. #Sirte
4Adam Adam
Reuters.
Rally calls for provincial militias to leave #Tripoli amid to end celebratory gunfire. They say celebratory gunfire has killed four
Sarah
FF tank shells the city of #Sirte from an outpost some 5 kms east of the entrance to the city (29Sep). #Libya
yfrog.com/o0h2qrj
Benghazi Black Saturday – 19 March 2011 (5/13)
When Gaddafi forces entered Benghazi. This when they arrived at Tripoli Bridge in Benghazi.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKEOZ-uSO9I&fea...
SOME WISDOM:
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~ Winston Churchill
Tweeting Tripoli
A “motivator” woman in Bayda city in east Libya encouraging young men to continue protesting early in the revolution:
youtube.com/watch?v=urPfDX…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=urPfDXE8RFU
Joanne
#Tripoli Martyr Square Friday evening Rally Ppl Call 4 provincial Fighters to leave #Tripoli and stop the celebratory firing #Libya
Ghazi Gheblawi
reports about Islamists and Belhaj in media indicate there will be pressure on them either to conform or face exclusion
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
I am proud to be Libyan and always will be :-) #proudlibyan
Nadine
Libyan woman with #FFs in Bani Walid #libya
yfrog.com/nxtiwvj
#FF having his tea and ciggy time (shahi and sebsi) #libya
yfrog.com/nyrcvkfj
Aljazeera
NTC probes ‘capture’ of Gaddafi spokesman
Transitional leaders cannot confirm claim from tv channel that Mussa Ibrahim was detained while disguised as a woman.
Libya’s new rulers are investigating the whereabouts of the public voice of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime, as a television channel said it would air footage of Mussa Ibrahim being detained when he was disguised as a woman.
National Transitional Council (NTC) commanders said on Thursday they had received reports from fighters that Ibrahim had been captured outside Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, where his loyalists have been under siege for the past week.
But on Friday, the fighters’ high command in Libya’s third-largest city Misrata said it was unable to confirm the capture of Ibrahim, who has kept up a steady stream of pro-Gaddafi broadcasts from unknown locations while on the run.
“Misrata fighters contacted us and gave us the information that Mussa Ibrahim has been captured,” said Mustafa bin Dardef of the NTC’s Zintan Brigade.
Another commander, Mohammed al-Marimi, said: “Mussa Ibrahim was captured while driving outside Sirte by fighters from Misrata.”
Read more:
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...
MUST READ:
Gulfnews
Libya’s freedom and status updates
As the war for liberation raged in Libya, paranoia surrounded any talk of politics on the country’s social networking sites
Decked out in Colonel Gaddafi’s hat and gold chain, speaking to television crews from within the walls of the dictator’s Bab Al Azizia compound in Tripoli on August 23, a freedom fighter who identified himself only as Al Windy unwittingly became
the image of Libya’s liberation.
But another, more everyday, image unseen by the press came over my laptop from my cousin, the son of my dad’s sister, who lives 1.5km east of the fallen dictator’s residence. (My cousin won’t be named in this feature to protect his identity).
Read more here:
gulfnews.com/news/region/libya/libya-s-...
RAW, Libya , Rebels gun explodes in his hands as he displays his skills to the camera
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucTzA5vHuO0&fea...
RAW, Libya , Rebels incredibly annihilate their own vehicle
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7xY2T62y4g&NR=1
RAW, Libya , Regime tank embedded in the ground on the outskirts of Misrata
www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=q-LUjPlFcoc
PLEASE HELP US FIND THE FAMILY OF THIS MAN SO THEY CAN BE REUNITED!
Misrata fighter lost part of his memory. Now in Mitiga hospital. Pls share so family/friends may recognise him www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1822443101127
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SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 26th 2011
9/26/11
9.26.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/L763S
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Sat Night: RAF aircraft struck a command & control installation, a psychological warfare centre & 3 firing points & staging posts. #Libya
In 1 case an inert Paveway bomb with concrete replacing the explosive charge, was used to destroy a target without risking collateral damage
Sun pm: A staging post, known from NATO surveillance analysis to be used by mercenary forces, was attacked by a formation of Tornado GR4s.
Given current situation in Libya, NATO & UK have agreed that HMS Ocean & her helicopter detachment can be released from Op Unified Protector
HMS Ocean is offloading equipment in Souda Bay and in due course will proceed through the Suez Canal en route to the Red Sea.
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
My photo at Bani Walid front line with the commander of the Zintan fighters/revolutionaries
yfrog.com/h799f6j #Libya #Feb17
Libyans debate future, but after being stifled so long, words don’t come easily – The National
shar.es/HLufH #Libya #Feb17
FromJoanne Joanne
Mahmoud #Jibril There are 50,000 ppl Injured incl 1,700 amputees #Libya Need pay bills? Call +216 71 9650 38 /40 /44 /49 Contact @TFMLibya
derek_brower Derek Brower
Idea for Tripoli’s youth: how about you leave the trigger on your Kalashnikov alone for a while?
LibyanBentBladi Asma Magariaf
Alj report on discovery of #Abu Salim bodies shows one guard of site unearthing remains w/ bare hands.. where is the NTC??this is not right!
EgyptAir to resume flights to #Libya next week Reuters
bit.ly/qUV412 via @addthis
architarik:
LNot surprised many theoretic doubters of #Feb17 rev r frm vry comfortabl Western democracies. Never faced oppression!
Le Figaro
Libye:exactions de mercenaires à Syrte
Des mercenaires africains menaient des exactions à Syrte en représailles à l’assaut lancé hier par les combattants du nouveau régime libyen contre un des derniers bastions de Mouammar Kadhafi, a déclaré un habitant qui a fui la ville.
“Il y a des mercenaires africains qui errent dans le ville. Ils tirent sur les habitations avec des armes anti-aériennes dans le premier district”, en bordure ouest de la ville, a-t-il déclaré à l’AFP par téléphone, tout en refusant de donner son nom par peur de représailles contre sa famille restée à Syrte. “Je pense qu’ils se vengent”, a-t-il ajouté, soulignant que 80% des habitants de Syrte sont originaires de Misrata (est).
Full art.:
www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2011/09/25/9...
4Adam Adam
Interview with the Libyan pilots who refused Gaddafi orders to bomb Benghazi and fled with their jets to Malta
youtube.com/watch?v=OkNnrv… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkNnrvus7KM
Anaya
Réponse d’un Libyen à #Sarkozy après résultats Sénat RT @libyans_revolt whatever!! Sarko, u’ll never walk alone.. Libyan FFs r with you. :)
NATO
NATO strikes shield civilians in Sirte
In the last twenty-four hours, NATO aircraft, as part of Operation Unified Protector struck a series of targets Qadhafi forces used in order to threaten the civilian population of Sirte. Among the targets were: an ammunition storage facility, an anti aircraft gun, a command and control node, and two armed vehicles.
NATO has employed careful planning and precision munitions as we have done throughout the campaign.
In recent days some open-source and intelligence and dozens of eyewitness accounts in Sirte have described worsening conditions precipitated by Qadhafi forces. The brutal nature of their acts, signify a defunct regime in its final days.
Among the reports emerging from Sirte are executions, hostage-taking, and the calculated targeting of individuals, families, and communities within the city. Hundreds of families are being prevented from their desired evacuation by the absence of safety and fuel. Other resources required for survival including water, medicine, and food are in short supply or denied to civilians. Mercenaries roam the streets and civilians lack access to outside information. These conditions have persisted for days while Qadhafi forces maintain control likely resulting in a severe situation.
NATO Operation Unified Protector commenced in order to protect civilians and civilian-populated areas under United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973.
Libyan NTC fighters wounded in Sirte battle
Fighters for Libya’s new rulers tightened their stranglehold on Sirte after thrusting into the centre of Moamer Kadhafi’s hometown, and one of his last bastions, backed by NATO strikes. As they rolled in, ambulances sped out carrying those wounded in small arms firefights.Duration: 00:35
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rfq3czodyE&fea...
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte looks to become like #Misrata already all buildings in main street are damaged #Libya
Mass grave Abu Saleem
Moez
Libyan forensics team highly skilled and working to exhume according to international standards with international observers
they’re not digging this particular grave yet. We do have expertise – PHR visit said exceptional team
the forensic lab team from #tripoli are there. They are considerably capable of dealing with it appropriately
I know forensics team were definitely there. Should have made site secure
FromJoanne Joanne
I also read that family members are picking through the sand actually picking up bones #Libya #AbuSalim
Free Libya ♔☾✰
Muatassim #Gaddafi Command Center in #Sirte was in basement of main hospital. #libya
Joanne
#Mahmoud #Jibril (Mahmoud Gebril ElWarfally) longtime friend Close associate of #OMAG goo.gl/8bhlw owns 6% in US InvestmentComp
Hayat
#Ghadames was under attack by #Gaddafi leftover forces, really well armed. Guess why? Treatcherous #Algeria striked again! DUH! #Feb17
Tell me, who is really loved here?
Anaya
This is another poor man, dominated by a woman, treated like a common beast of burden. This woman has no consideration!
lefigaro.fr/medias/2011/09…
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
My photo with the Zintan fighters on the Bani Walid front line “Revolution Continues” yfrog.com/h8wgj3j #Libya #Feb17
My photo with another Libyan revolutionary brigade on the front line of Bani Walid yfrog.com/h7xfg5j
In Tripoli- Love your city, very nice straight up people. Yalla waiting for you.
Huge Libyan independence flag waives yfrog.com/o0b0ggj on the Bani Walid front line- " Hoping the best to the free Libyans"
Reuters:
members of #Libya’s #NTC are leaning towards putting plans for a new caretaker gov on hold because they cannot agree on a line-up.
Hana S.
My cousins left in two cars from #Sirte earlier today. Due to bombing they parted ways. No word of their whereabouts yet. #SirteCrisis
Gihan Badi
Reuters: EgyptAir will resume flights 2 #Libya next week, 7mnths after the airline suspended operations to its #Arab neighbour #Libya #feb17
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Revolutionary fighters around Bani Walid are in high spirits- yet the town is extremely loyal to Gadafi according to them
4Adam Adam
The ppl who restored electricity and water to the capital were Tripoli’s patriots. Plz, give the credit to them and stop glorifying the NTC.
libyanfsl
Ali Sussi passed away yesterday, spent several years in AbuSleem prison, was freed last month, died in car accident on way to battle front
Libya_United Libya_
The idea of Dictatorship still stuck in ppl’s mind, Otherwise it wouldn’t be that much struggle for chairs in the transitional Government
Hussein Massoud chairman of #EgyptAir said First Flight from #Cairo 2 #Benghazi would fly on Sunday Oct.2
Libya goo.gl/gT7dE
khalidalbaih khalid
Dear NATO, #AliSalih is as bad as Gaddafi but we have no oil. Can you please come help us. Yours, #Yemen people
S K
#libya is officially libya now not libya arab jumbalaya :p :) #feb17
Rubicon
Some amazing stories of Libyan pilots salvaging the airplanes at Tripoli Airport #Libya
Apparently they had to keep the fuel in them at 30% and turn the engine on every 2 weeks to reset the computers and such #Libya
The senior captain here is an old face who I’ve always had convos with, such an epic guy…is currently heading the assessment for airports
said the Libyan fleet based in Tripoli is 64 planes, though some of them are stuck at Toulouse and Hamburg.
in Toulouse thru some loophole are nt actually registered as Libyan planes, are getting them back, while hamburg ones r frozen assets
There are issues with Libyan pilots licenses, since they expire if you don’t fly for 6 months, they got some contract with Turkey to help
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
Emotional day for many in Libya w/ discovery of mass grave believed 2 hold remains of 1200 inmates killed by guards @ Abu Salim jail in 1996
The 1996 Abu Salim prison massacre looms large in the Libyan imagination. Today’s discovery part of Libya’s painful reckoning with its past
Sirtawi
#FFs closing in on #Sirte as hundreds of families have fled the city.
Number 1 and 2 residential areas said to have been liberated today after heavy fighting. Reports of clashes now near #Sirte harbour.
Please read:
Abu Saleem horrific story:
Derek Brower
“I took gifts to my brother in Abu Salim for nine years and then they told me he’d been dead all along”
Libyans today starting digging up a mass grave underneath Tripoli’s Abu Salim prison, scene of one of Gaddafi’s most notorious acts: the massacre in 1996 of 1,700 inmates, many of them dissidents.
The picture above (taken today by Eric Kampherbeek, the photographer I’m in Libya with right now) is of Abdel Hakim Gheit, who was 28 when he was shot dead inside the jail.
Gheit was sent to Abu Salim, his brother Abdul Basset told me, because he took a trip to Dubai and came back wearing a beard. Like that other crazy autocrat, Russia’s Peter the Great, colonel Gaddafi didn’t like beards, because they signified someone’s religiosity. (Not surprisingly, you see a lot of rebels sporting beards in Libya these days.)
Read more:
derekbrower.tumblr.com/post/10656594470...
bunbunbunnyyy ارنوبة بنغازي ♥
Benghazi’s Talented Street Artists: #Benghazi is buzzing.It feels like a city waking up from years of repression kelvinbrownimages.com/benghazis-tale… #Libya
HRIMark HRI Mark
Hospital interrogation:
youtube.com/watch?v=SLQNsP… #libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLQNsPbG7kY
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Reports of Mass Grave to be Investigated
alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… Video #Libya #NTC #UN
Please read:
Imtidad
Prison Tales (By: Omar Abulqasem al-Kikli)
Omar al-Kikli is a prominent Libyan short story writer, from a generation of Libyan writer that suffered greatly under Gaddafi regime. He was one of a new generation of Libyan writers in the early in 1970’s that came onto the literary scene full of hope and new styles and ideas, only to be imprisoned for a decade, accused of plotting to topple the Gaddafi regime.
These are a sample of a collection of short stories named (Sejneyat), written to commemorate two decades of his release from prison in 1988; they are a testament of the years he spent with fellow Libyan writers and intellectuals in different Gaddafi prisons.
www.imtidad-blog.com/2011/09/prison-tal...
IbnOmar2005
linktumi.deviantart.com/art/libya-2569… beautiful photograph of the arch of marcus aurelius in #tripoli #libya
LOOOOL #Gaddafi #Libya
pic.twitter.com/koAAEdy3
Nouvel Observateur
Libye: les volontaires désertent le front de Bani Walid
WADI DINAR, Libye (AP) — La lassitude gagne les combattants de la révolution libyenne restés combattre à Bani Walid, l’un des derniers bastions des fidèles de Moammar Kadhafi. Confrontés à une résistance farouche, de plus en plus de volontaires quittent le front, découragés par la désorganisation et le manque de munitions dans leurs propres rangs.
Plusieurs semaines après la chute de Tripoli, Bani Walid, à environ 140km au sud-est de la capitale, reste imprenable. Les forces du Conseil national de transition (CNT) se sont heurtées aux défenses naturelles de cette ville de 100.000 habitants, située en travers d’une vallée montagneuse. Mais depuis près d’un mois, le siège a surtout confirmé le désarroi des troupes révolutionnaires, qui mêlent des militaires relativement organisés et des légions de volontaires sous-entraînés.
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Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
Kudos to the Libyan women.. Check out Libyan Female Doctors Association facebook.com/pages/Libyan-F… v @Hend_ElSherif
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Blogs: Arab Revolts and the Western role goo.gl/I9UxM
#Libya conflict may cost #UK £1.75bn
gu.com/p/326cz/tw
Lisa
#FreeLibya #PrayforFreedomFighters #prayforlibya #prayforSirte!! Almost there #Libya :) Stay safe everyone! #Feb17
Ghazi Gheblawi
Petition for greater representation of Libyan women in the #NTC and future governmental institutions
bit.ly/ovt58z #Libya #Feb17
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Italy’s ENI, an Italian multinational oil and gas company, says is resuming oil production in #Libya
Libyan4life
Finding the mass grave of Abu Sleem will answer so many questions and break so many hearts. #Libya #Gaddaficrimes
Libyan4life
#YouKnowYoureLibyanWhen You go grocery shopping and come back with: Tomato paste, Tuna, Macaroni, Figs and bunches of parsley&cilantro
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
UK prosecutors ask Libya’s NTC for #Lockerbie help
Nigerian Tribune
Immigration arrests 100 suspected mercenaries from Libya
THE Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), in Kaduna, has arrested over 100 suspected mercenaries from Libya.
They were suspected to have fled the country and arrived in Kaduna through the Niger-Nigeria border at the weekend, after the fall of the regime of Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi.
The suspects, according to an eyewitness, arrived in the state at about 2.00 p.m. on Friday looking exhausted and unkempt.
According to the eyewitness, “as they filed through heavily armed Immigration officials at the Kaduna zonal office of the Nigerian Immigration Service(NIS),they were made to sit on the ground on the premises right in front of the office of the Zonal Comptroller under the watch of heavily armed officials while documentation procedure went on.”
The suspects were said to be with some members of their families, including children, and were conveyed in two luxury buses.
“One of the suspects, who craved for anonymity, said that they had been wandering in the desert for the past three weeks before they were apprehended by the Immigration officials at the Niger-Nigeria border. He said they left Libya and wandered in the desert before their arrest and subsequent conveyance to Kaduna from the Niger-Nigeria border.
However, newsmen were told that the command needed to obtain clearance from Abuja and liaise with other relevant security agencies, particularly, the State Security Service(SSS), Police and the Army before speaking with the press.
Source:
tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-new...
Pan Armenian
Russian mercenaries fight for Muammar Gaddafi?
In a press conference in New York, within the frames of the 66th regular session of the General Assembly, UN, Libya’s TNC head Mahmoud Jibril announced that Muammar Gaddafi regime fighters include mercenaries from Russia.
UN press service broadcasted Jibril’s speech. “We have everything from Africa, from Arab countries, Serbia, Ukraine, Russia. Gadaffi still has a lot of money, and he has bought a lot of mercenaries,” according to Jibril. He added that he cannot say the exact number of foreign mercenaries fighting for the Jamahiriya leader.
Earlier media repeatedly reported of mercenaries from Ukraine, Belarus fighting for Libya’s leader. However, there were no such reports of Russians. In Septemeber 2011 Russia’s FM stated that TNC detained two Russian citizens, suspected of repairing tanks in Gadaffi’s army.
Source:
www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/79118
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Anti-Qaddafi fighters encircle Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte from the east, south and west. #NATO warplanes pound the city for a 3rd day
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
Reuters #Scottish prosecutors ve contacted #Libya #NTC 4help in tracking down info which could lead 2others charged over #Lockerbie bombing
Reuters #Tripoli Univ asking #LondonSchool of Economics to return money pledged by #SaifAslam #Gaddafi & investigate other similar cases
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
#CNN Gadhafi graffiti appears in Libya tiny.cc/hf541 #Shafshofa #Feb17
Hana S.
G loyalists are by far the only ppl who r left there that didn’t want to leave or lay down their weapons. #Sirte
JohnDelaGuardia John D. Dela Guardia
Saw a long queue of vehicles leaving the town of #Sirte…
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
doing business with our ex friend Gaddafi Tony Blair #Libya bit.ly/qpiNPJ
FromJoanne Joanne
#ITV Documentary tonight shows how #Gaddafi send $2 million 2Terrorist groups believed 2b used2 attack UK #CreateUnrest goo.gl/Mru0A
#Nato went 2 town yesterday They Hit 8 #Gaddafi terrorist Targets yesterday after ordering #NTC fighters 2 withdraw from #Sirte #Libya
Col #Bani says they Intercepted Call between #Mutasim Gaddafi organising the fighting inside #Sirte and #Saif alIslam in #BaniWalid #Libya
#Libya Conflict may cost UK £1.75 bn goo.gl/AR1gD almost 7 times more then Government estimated #Libya
#London conference this morning on Future 4UK businesses in #Libya #NTC delegation will b there #Guma #elGamaty 2deliver keynote Speech
#Sirte NTC fighters are regrouping Preparing for new attack after #Nato softened up Hit various sites in #Sirte
reut.rs/qyXqlp #Libya
In #Sirte a DR Accused #NTC Fighters of making civilians suffer Dr was using the mobile telephone of #Gaddafi spokesman Musa Ibrahim #Libya
The Dr might hv been forced by Musa Ibrahim to make that call #Libya #Sirte
its likely DR in #Sirte was forced by Musa Ibrahim to make call otherwise he would have used his own phone #Libya
#NTC cannot begin process of holding elections Wrangling over ministerial portfolios prevented them from forming caretaker government #Libya
#REAL #NEWS a well kept secret ; Musa #Ibrahim says #Gaddafi is Poor and Honest goo.gl/LvaHQ #Libya
#Tripoli University asked #London #SchoolofEconomics 2 return Stolen £££ from #Libya ppl ) The money pledged by Saif alIslam #Gaddafi #Libya
Inside a Gaddafi compound in Tripoli
Muammar Gaddafi, the toppled Libyan leader, left behind numerous houses and compounds in Tripoli, Libya’s capital, after being ousted from the city by a popular uprising.
In this Al Jazeera exclusive, Sue Turton explores the insides of a hidden compound once owned by Gaddafi in Tripoli.
Sue Turton
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuAYeZE-b2U&fea...
FromJoanne Joanne
#Scotland prosecutors askd #NTC 2help Crown find Documentary Evidence & Witnesses which could assist in ongoing #Lockerbie enquiries #Libya
#Reports now that hundreds of cars Streaming out of #Sirte Ppl say Gaddafi forces try 2prevent them many escaped through farmland #Libya
#Sirte residents who were completely cutoff from world due2 no communications and managed to escape are in shock to hear most of #Libya free
#Qatar #Airways to Resume Flights on October 24 to #Libya
NTC fighters pull back from Sirte
NATO warplanes are backing up Libyan fighters who are trying to capture Muammar Gaddafi’s home city of Sirte.
For a few hours on Saturday – anti Gaddafi forces were within touching distance of the city centre.
But they were driven back by heavy fire from snipers, mortars and artillery.
Zeina Khodr reports from outside Sirte.Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBq_XYKSFfg&...
FromJoanne Joanne
#BREGA Gaddafi’s troops planted 6,000 mines on local popular beach #NTC captured officer Incl his maps so they roughly able 2track locations
The Seattle Times
Oil workers saved key parts of Libya’s lifeblood
BREGA, Libya — When Moammar Gadhafi’s loyalists fled this sprawling refinery and petrochemical complex in late August, shortly after Tripoli fell, they left behind lethal “forget-me-nots” for the revolutionaries who unseated him.
There were 40,000 mines, both anti-personnel and anti-tank. A minefield still surrounds the town, and 6,000 mines were planted on what had been a popular beach. The grounds are littered with shells filled with explosives, plant officials said.
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seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationwo...
CBS News
Mass grave reveals 1996 Libyan massacre
TRIPOLI, Libya — A bone wrapped with rope and skull fragments scattered over a cactus-covered desert field are grim testament to a 1996 massacre of more than 1,200 prisoners by Muammar Qaddafi’s regime.
Libyan officials announced Sunday they have found the site of a mass grave believed to hold the remains of the victims after capturing former security guards who revealed its location as well as receiving witness accounts.
Excavation has not begun in the field outside the white walls of the notorious Abu Salim prison, although several bone fragments and pieces of clothing already have been found in the top soil.
Read more:
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/25/5013...
PHOTOS of #Abu #Salim Mass Grave 1270 former detainees executed in 1996 by #Khalid #Khan plus.google.com/106121822900970376050/p... #Libya
Brown Moses
abu salim bones
i.imgur.com/GhOlz.jpg bovine scapula
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FromJoanne Joanne
alFarjani of Military Council #Sirte say Muattasim Gaddafi who is TRAPPED encouraged his men & several of his relatives 2 fight #Libya
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Revolutionaries say they’re fighting near the port of Sirte, in the very centre of the city. #Libya #Sirte #Gaddafi #NTC
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
ONtv: Egypt Air will start flights to Libya from coming sunday.
Regine
#Libya – I Listen now to Libyan women speaking on radio from Tripoli about womens rights in Libya and what they did to help the revolution.
FromJoanne Joanne
alFarjani of Military Council #Sirte say Muattasim Gaddafi who is TRAPPED encouraged his men & several of his relatives 2 fight #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli Expo and a chance to see the beautiful ladies of #Libya :) youtube.com/watch?v=SBUU_H…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBUU_HYWUYI&fea...
Paulo
This is impressive, the first time I saw Libyan youth doing something that has meaning for them, the excitement is in the eyes
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
There are leaflets being spread in Tripoli asking for the resignation of Mahmoud Jibril…while others are dying to liberate other cities.
Tweeting Tripoli
If you had any doubt our Revolution started peacefully then watch this (Benghazi, Feb 15): youtube.com/watch?v=CdXg8r…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdXg8rqFcTs&fea...
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Algeria has been complaining for months about ‘potential unrest’, then allows Gaddafi forces to use its territory to attack Libya. #Libya
I have a feeling it will take months, not weeks, before NTC has terrritorial control. Armed attacks by Gaddafi might continue for years.
More than 2000 Misrata fighters for treatment in Tunisia, 600 of whom in critical condition. They need treatment in Europe, however…
slow visa procedures prevent them from quickly going to France or Germany to receive the necessary treatment. #Libya #Tunisia #Misrata
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya NATO continuing to hit trysts in #Sirte
#Libya NATO continuing to hit targets in #Sirte
#libya Anti gaddafi fighters holding their positions at the west and south of #Sirte
#libya Hundreds of cars streaming out of west #Sirte, families fleeing … Many say they drove through farmlands to avoid gaddafi’s forces
malonebarry Barry Malone
Libya’s NTC readies new push into Sirte | Reuters reut.rs/mSdxzv #Libya
Quiet at Bani Walid again so far today, our team say. Expectation that Sirte will continue to be the focus of NTC military effort #Libya
Our reporters there: NATO planes over Sirte. NTC hitting it with tanks on west side. Advance from east is within about 10kms now #Libya
Sirtawi
4th aid convoy laden with food supplies reached #Sirte today. #FFs managed to pass in aid to some of the liberated areas in city. #FreeSirte
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli #Germany Embassy opened its doors again Functions in the embassy will be restored over time #Rainer #Eberle new Ambassador 2 #Libya
#BREGA #NTC Finance & #oil Trahouni: Gaddafi troops destroyed small businesses and killed all livestock but OilRefinery was protected #Libya
Generating station in #Brega employees said they ate slept lived there just 2make sure no one else could take it over #Libya
AP The Associated Press
#NATO pounds targets around #Gadhafi’s hometown as it’s besieged by #Libyan revolutionary forces.apne.ws/idMWwt -MM
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
#CNN Thousands abandon Libyan town tiny.cc/gwupx #Twergans #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
#Libyan former PM Al-Mahmudi, arrested in Tunisia & jailed for 6 months for illegal entry, will go to appeal on Tuesday: Justice Ministry
Aljazeera:
Libya has resumed oil production for the first time since the revolution, tapping 15 wells and producing some 31,900 barrels per day, Italian energy giant Eni said Monday.
Eni said production had resumed at the Abu-Attifel fields, about 300km south of the city of Benghazi. Other wells would be reactivated soon to reach the “required volumes to fill the pipeline” between the Abu-Attifel field and the Zuetina port.
The operations are being conducted by Mellitah Oil & Gas, a partnership between Eni and Libya’s state-run National Oil Corp.
Before the protests against Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi in mid-February morphed into a full-scale civil war, Eni was producing 273,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in Libya. The country sits atop Africa’s largest proven reserves of conventional crude.
With a small population of only 6mn, Libya raked in $40bn last year from oil and gas exports. Experts say it could take about a year or more to get back to its pre-war production of 1.6mn barrels a day.
Earlier this month, Eni CEO Paolo Scaroni visited Tripoli to lay the groundwork for relaunching gas exports to Italy via the Greenstream pipeline, which can carry roughly 10bn cubic meters of natural gas per year. It hasn’t been operational since late February.
Scaroni has set October 15 as an optimistic deadline to restart the gas flow.
NYT
Former Rebels’ Rivalries Hold Up Governing in Libya
TRIPOLI, Libya — When the fighters who ousted Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi find caches of weapons from his arsenals, they do not entrust them to Libya’s new provisional government. Instead, they haul them back to their hometowns, like Misurata, Zintan, Yafran or Rujban. And when they capture members of the Qaddafi government, the fighters say, they cart them home as well.
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www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/world/africa...=all?src=tp
Lisa
#FreeLibya Kenya formally recognizes #NTC….took them long enough! #Feb17 #PrayforFreedomFighters
Anti-T
Gaddafi ordered murder of 1,700 prisoners and acid poured on their bodies. If he is sentenced to hang, perhaps rebels will skip the hanging and go straight to the acid bath.
hominoid555 Russell
FFs from Gheryan find ammunition in the vally of Jafra
youtube.com/watch?v=EzN4Ak…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzN4AkKGkvY&fea...
#Kenya Formally Recognizes #Libya’s NTC:
allafrica.com/c/-4FJG2
DougSaunders Doug Saunders
“5 ridiculous things you probably believe about Islam:” This is not the Cracked Magazine I grew up with.
is.gd/rCLwUX
Reuters
INTERVIEW-Without my men, Tripoli will destabilise-officer
Provincial militia says must stay in Tripoli to keep order
Longer the war goes on, more crime will grow – commander
Zintan force works for conciliation, collects guns
Read more here:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...=RSS&feedName=libyaNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:reuters/AfricaLibyaNews%28News+/Africa/+Libya+News%29&utm_content=Google+Reader&sp=true
Sarah
#Libye : AFP – Les Thuwar resserrent l’étau sur #Syrte, encerclant par l’est et par l’ouest les partisans de Kadhafi dans cette ville.
BFBS
Libya conflict could cost Britain £1.75 billion
The true cost of Britain’s involvement in the Libya conflict could be as high as 1.75 billion pounds; almost seven times more than government estimates.
That’s according to new research by defence analyst Francis Tusa.
It says RAF air strikes against forces remaining loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have continued at an exceptionally high rate, depleting stockpiles of expensive precision weapons the Ministry of Defence will want to replace, which will add to the overall bill.
AJA:
(undated) Members of Ma’dan tribe have handed in their weapons 20km S of #Sirte saying they were given to them by Gaddafi forces.
Malik
just saw a video of a girl being raped by Gforces in front of her dad, she asked her dad to look away he jumped from the balcony, #Libya
Gihan
ملقاة في الصحراء… مخزونات القذافي للكيك الاصفر الصفراء Dumped in the desert .#Gaddafi’s yellowcake stockpile
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The State
Misrata demand for leading role in transition roiling Libya’s politics
BENGHAZI, Libya — Few Libyans dispute that the western city of Misrata suffered devastation and fielded the best fighters in the battle to topple Moammar Gadhafi’s regime, but how those sacrifices are rewarded is one of the main debates stalling the next phase of an interim government.
Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the head of the National Transitional Council, the interim ruling authority, on Saturday stressed that hardship and loss of life during the uprising wouldn’t be a measure for inclusion in the government.
While Abdul Jalil didn’t mention Misrata by name, there was no mistaking the intended target.
Read more:
www.thestate.com/2011/09/24/1984621/bat...
Guysen News
8 membres de la famille Kadhafi auraient trouvé refuge en Egypte Huit membres de la famille du dictateur libyen déchu, Mouammar Kadhafi, ont quitté l’Algérie pour l’Egypte, affirme le journal algérien Al-Khabar. Ils auraient fui la Libye il y a un mois pour se réfugier en Algérie, mais ne se sont finalement pas sentis assez en sécurité, semble-t-il, et ont décidé de passer en Egypte samedi dernier. Aïsha Kadhafi, la fille du raïs libyen, ferait partie du groupe.
English Ahram
Airport security officials deny Gaddafi family arrived in Egypt
Security officials at the Cairo Airport deny Algerian media reports that eight members
of Gaddafi’s family landed in Cairo from Algeria or anywhere else
Security officials in the Cairo Airport have denied Algerian media reports that eight family members of Libya’s ousted leader, Gaddafi, arrived in Egypt with plans to settle down.
“There is no truth to the reports circulated by Algerian media and no one from the Gaddafi family has arrived in Cairo; neither from Algeria nor other countries,” the source said. “Airlines have been given strict instructions that all Libyans entering Egypt should have visas and get security approval from Egyptian embassies before they arrive in the country.”
Algerian media had reported this morning that eight members of the Gaddafi family arrived In Cairo after residing in Algeria during the last period. The Gaddafi family members had allegedly crossed the Libyan border into Algeria after the revolution started.
derek_brower Derek Brower
Just back from #AbuSalim prison and the mass grave outside it. Truly devastating couple of hours. Hope to write something later. #Libya
Sirtawi
PIC: School destroyed in #Zliten. It is said that around 25 schools have been damaged there due to war. #LibyanCrisis pic.twitter.com/qdgSkPeX
CBC
NATO strikes Gadhafi’s hometown in Libya
NATO says warplanes have struck several military targets in Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte as Libyan revolutionary forces besiege the area in an attempt to wear down Gadhafi supporters of the fugitive leader who are holed up inside.
The alliance said Monday that it hit eight targets around Sirte the previous day, including an ammunition and vehicle storage facility, a multiple rocket launcher and
other military sites.
Source:
www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/09/26/...
AmmarParis Ammar ABD RABBO
#Amazigh demand that new name of #Libya does not bear the mention #Arab as in “Libyan Arab Republic” or similar… #Tripoli
Armchair Arab
Jalil is the only one who’s repeatedly mentioned that NTC won’t be allowed to run.
#AJA :
Des milliers de familles quittent la ville de #Syrte due à d’intense combat entre les Thuwar et les forces de #Gaddadfi. #Libye
#AJA Reporter live from Sirte : The Freedom Fighters are ~ at 10kms from the city center. #Libya #Sirte
NATO
Libya: Protecting Tripoli with care and precision
‘’In my opinion the man who built it decided to put it beside the hospital to prevent the security building from being attacked,’’ says Mahnoud the manager of the Al-Hourok Hospital, which specialises in treating burns, in the Tripoli suburb of Cidi Khaleffa.
From behind his neatly organised desk he can peer out and see a scene of destruction. Fifty metres across the road lies the smashed remains of a building which used to be one of Qadhafi’s intelligence centres, reduced to a ruin by a NATO air strike during one dark June night.
Across Tripoli military installations were interspersed throughout the civilian population. Intelligence headquarters and command centres nestled amongst schools and mosques in the patchwork of concrete buildings that make up the capital’s skyline.
This policy of human shielding writ large didn’t count on the accuracy of modern weaponry.
Calm after the storm
Fallen panels from the hospital’s suspended ceiling attest to the violence of the event that the building was subject to, but aside from some broken glass and a few bent door hinges it escaped any serious damage. It’s testament to the skill with which NATO aircraft were able to pinpoint a military target in a sea of civilian buildings.
As peace has returned to Tripoli’s streets it’s given an opportunity to assess the effects of the bombing campaign that the city endured since March. As you talk to civilians who witnessed the bombings their opinions are quite surprising.
“We were very happy,” says Omah now a guard at the hospital for the National Transitional Council (NTC) forces. “This building was the second most important place used to torture, to kill, and hit the people who have been arrested. This is the second most important place after Bab al-Aziziya (Qadhafi’s compound), which is the centre of evil,” he explains.
Weapons dump
Nadia, a psychology teacher who lives in the area of Ain Zara, tells me that there was appreciation for the way that the strike was carried out. “The strike wasn’t done in a heavy-handed way,” she says. “The first strike gave a warning to the residents, so automatically they left their houses. The result, there is no accidents.”
The residential suburb in the southeast of the city was targeted because of the large weapons dump that Qadafi had established in the area. One of many set up under the old regime to house the glut of munitions and arms on which the oil revenues of the country were squandered.
The air strike in Ain Zara resulted in a large secondary explosion throwing shrapnel out into surrounding shops. Yet despite this the locals don’t feel the blame lies with the Alliance. “I blame the government, I don’t blame NATO,” says 52 year-old Yunis. “NATO was striking military targets so our government should have informed us that this location was a target,” he tells us.
Of course there is widespread acknowledgement of the fear that the bombings brought. Nobody wants their neighbourhood to be subject to such actions. “The
children were terrified from the sound of bombing, it was very loud,” says Mahmoud a local resident. “Really this is nothing,” he adds, “as NATO was acting in a positive way to stop Qadhafi’s forces, who were actually bombing the civilians.”
Minimising Collateral Damage
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has spoken of this being the most accurate and careful bombing campaign of its kind ever. Pilots have sought to use the smallest possible weapon to achieve the desired effect and a rigorous chain of command has been put in place to ensure mistakes are not made.
The use of precision and accuracy of modern weapons guided by laser and satellite has proved critical to minimise collateral damage, in some cases only targeting the most threatening sections of military infrastructures.
Mission on track
Of course any war brings with its mistakes, and the claims of the Qadhafi regime of civilian casualties, although widely acknowledged to be extremely unreliable, have to be carefully looked at. NATO acknowledged back in June that a weapons system failure might have caused a bomb to go astray. Yet, NATO’s actions seem to have widespread support amongst the people of Tripoli.
The NATO mission to protect civilians in Libya goes on, and was recently extended by up to 90 days by the North Atlantic Council. The Alliance will look to continue the careful use of military power as the NTC battles for the towns of Sirte and Bani Walid , whose population remains under the threat of the Qadhafi forces .
Sirtawi
Hassan Drouy: Our biggest fear is for families stuck east and south of #Sirte as they might be subject to harm from Gaddafi thugs. #Feb17
WARDLORNASKY LORNA WARD
#Libya: NATO says HMS Ocean and her helicopter detachment will shortly end their role off coast of Libya
#Libya : NATO says air strikes over Sirte have continued; targets include command
and control base and psychological warfare centre
#Libya : NATO says explosive in one bomb dropped on Sirte replaced with concrete, to destroy target but avoid collateral damage
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Egypt Air will NOT resume its flights to Libya next Sunday or Oct 2 as mentioned in several news agencies.“Will resume shortly though”
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Faez Gebril: wouldnt be a smart choice of Gaddafi family members to go to 25Jan Egypt, Syria d be a better choice if they d leave Algeria
Faez Gebril: Muammar Gaddafi, Saif and Mutasim pay the price now of their foolishness to not have accepted a safe way out a few months ago..
Defected Libyan gen Gebril: We re now very happy that they didn’t accept it. they could have left us with an incomplete Revolution.
liveTripoli
Masha’Allah the streets of #Tripoli are really clean. Not 100% but its quite noticeable. #Libya
AU The West
Foreign embassies opened in Libya
Here are details of foreign embassies that have re-opened in Libya or will soon:
BRITAIN – Britain re-established a full diplomatic presence in the Libyan capital on September 5, seven months after closing its embassy in Tripoli.
CANADA – Canada has re-established its diplomatic mission in Tripoli, government officials said on September 13. Ottawa hoped reopening the mission would help Canadian businesses win contracts as Libya rebuilds.
FRANCE – France opened its embassy in Tripoli on August 29 after a gap of six months.
GERMANY – Germany’s embassy in Libya reopened on September 25. It had closed on March 3 as unrest grew. Germany has had a liaison office in Benghazi since May.
IRAN – Ali Asghar Naseri, the Islamic Republic’s ambassador to Libya, has returned to Tripoli, the foreign ministry said on September 14.
ITALY – Italy reopened its embassy in Libya from September 2, the foreign ministry said.
POLAND – Poland says it reopened its embassy in Tripoli on September 15. It had operated from a temporary location in Benghazi.
ROMANIA – Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi said Romania has received approval from the new authorities in Libya to open an embassy in Tripoli. Romania will at first name a charge d’affaires and then an ambassador, when Libya has a legal government in place.
SOUTH KOREA – South Korea on September 8 reopened its embassy in Tripoli, an official said.
TURKEY – Turkey said on September 2 it has reopened its embassy in the Tripoli and appointed Ali Kemal Aydin as its new ambassador.
UNITED STATES: U.S. ambassador to Libya Gene Cretz pledged support for the transitional government as he returned to work on September 22, raising the U.S. flag over a re-opened embassy.
Source:
au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/103...
Danya ☪
A young man just fired his gun randomdly down street.they arrested &took him to neighborhoods council. #waytogo! #celebullets #Libya #Tripoli
Libyans fear Gadaffi leading a guerilla war from Algeria:
Frykter Gaddafi fører geriljakrig fra Algerie
(VG Nett) Frykten sprer seg for at diktatorens styrker planlegger en geriljakrig fra Algerie.
Åtte soldater tilhørende det libyske overgangsrådet som har tatt makten i Libya ble lørdag drept av eks-diktatoren Muammar al-Gaddafis styrker nær grensen til Algerie.
Nå sprer frykten seg for at diktatorens styrker planlegger en langvarig geriljakrig fra ørkenlandet i vest. Angrepet viser at styrker lojale mot Gaddafi har klart å flykte og gjøre seg klar for nye angrep, skriver nyhetsbyrået
Full art.:
www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/libya/artikk...
Gaddafi spox
Muammar Gaddafi’s chief spokesman said on Sunday the deposed Libyan leader and his family had not helped themselves to Libya’s oil wealth and that they were “among the poorest citizens”.
Speaking to Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location, Moussa Ibrahim said no one had been able to show that Gaddafi or his family had assets or accounts.
“That is more proof of the honesty and transparency of this family and that they are an ordinary Libyan family,” said Ibrahim, who usually acts as Gaddafi’s contact with the international media.
“The leader of the revolution and his family are among the poorest citizens,” Ibrahim said. “All the wealth of Libya is traceable to functioning companies and institutions”.
Ghadames via Feb17
Gaddafi loyalists launched an attack on the desert oasis town of Ghadames on Sunday, where they plan to re-group and re-arm, NTC officials said. The attack underlined the fragility of the NTC’s grip even on parts of the country nominally under its control. The town, about 600km southwest of Tripoli, is near a border crossing that pro-Gaddafi Libyans have used to flee into Algeria. Its old town, an intricate maze of mud walls, is a UNESCO world heritage site.
“These militias have attacked our people in Ghadames city,” the NTC’s Bani told a news conference, adding that NTC fighters expected to be in full control of the area in “a matter of days”.
Scotland
Scottish prosecutors have contacted Libya’s interim rulers for help in tracking down information which could lead to others being charged over the 1988 bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner over Lockerbie in Scotland.
“In particular we have asked the NTC (National Transitional Council) to make available to the Crown any documentary evidence and witnesses which could assist in the ongoing enquiries,” a spokeswoman for the Scottish Crown Office said.
Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, a former Libyan agent who was convicted of the bombing which killed 270 people, was released on compassionate grounds in 2009, but the Crown Office said his trial court had accepted he had not acted alone.
Via Feb17
Money back from LSE:
Tripoli University says it is asking the London School of Economics (LSE) to return money pledged by Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and investigate other similar cases as it prepares to re-open later this academic year, allowing its students who have been on the battlefronts to rehabilitate before returning to class.
Gaddafi, who earned his PhD at LSE, pledged $2.3mn to the institution.
University officials say the money offered was stolen from the Libyan people and should be either reimbursed or used to fund scholarships for Libyans studying in the UK.
Ava
gaddafi&family: i hope u choke to death on your filthy lies #libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Qaddafi relatives have reportedly left Algeria and are now in Egypt
Egyptian sources deny Algerian reports Qaddafi’s relatives are now in Egypt goo.gl/gYoyL
More reports coming in that Gaddafi family fled, no conformation yet, just denial from Egypt at present:
Malaysian Digest:
Eight Gaddafi Family Members Left Algeria for Egypt
ALGIERS, 26 SEPTEMBER, 2011:
Eight members of Muammar Gaddafi’s family, probably including his daughter Aisha, would have left Algeria and reached Cairo, the capital of Egypt, Algeria’s Arabic- language daily El Khabar reported Monday.
Quoting a well-informed source, the report said the eight family members of Gaddafi left Algeria for Cairo Saturday via Houari Boumediene International Airport in Algiers, Xinhua news agency said.
Egypt denies the arrival of members of the #Gaddafi family in Egypt via Deutsche Welle | AR
bit.ly/rbrCW2
or:
www.dw-world.de/dw/article/9799/0,,1541...
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Today’s News in Pictures: September 26th, 2011
goo.gl/6K5AC #Libya #Yemen #Sanaa
Freedom_7uriyah ღ.¸¸Esra¸¸.ღ
Isn’t the colour of ppl of Tawergha irrelevant? isn’t the reason for tensions the crimes they committed against the ppl of #Misrata?
Proudlibyandoc
The International community recognised #Libya #NTC because the Libyan people recognised it and showed the determination to overthrow Ghadafi
Enough of the talk about not creating Sedition (fitnah) and enough idolatry and worshiping mortals!! No mortal is immune from Satan’s whispers. The right to speak out against what is wrong is not only a right, but it is also a civic obligation!!! We need to speak up BEFORE the wrong gets so deep into the fabric of our society and our government when it would be too late to extract it just like how Q’s regime penetrated our society and remained in power for 42 years and took the lives of tens of thousands of men and women to remove it.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
BRK: Libya sovereign wealth fund probing “big losses” in $5 bln Africa portfolio: acting CEO
FFs have entered Sirte from the eastern side, residents flooding out relieved that they have not been killed by the FFs as G had told them.
Reuters
UN says cannot get supplies into Libya stronghold
Food and medical supplies outside Sirte, cannot be given out
Says no water or electricity inside Gaddafi bastions
Conflict prevents U.N. distributing warehouses full of food
Read more here:
af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/id...
BBC
Libya: Net closes in on pro-Gaddafi stonghold of Sirte
Armed forces loyal to Libya’s National Transitional Council have surrounded Colonel Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte, one of the fugitive leader’s few remaining strongholds.
The pro-NTC soldiers launched a surprise attack on the city at the weekend.
The BBC’s Alastair Leithead, who is travelling with the NTC forces, reports from inside the boundary of Sirte.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-1506729...
JohnDelaGuardia John D. Dela Guardia
heading back to #Misrata… Hundreds of people continue to leave #Sirte. Long queue on checkpoints…
Al Arabiya
Martyrs Funerals in Libya
Hatem Hussein Al-Hamidi was only 23 years old when he was killed in Sirte.
You rarely meet a family in Benghazi which has not lost one of its members in the war. Mothers and women are bereaved, widows mourn the death of a son, a husband or a family member.
Oum Ahmad and Abu Ahmad are still grief stricken by the death of their son on the front line of Rass Lanuf.
Oum Ahmed said,“Whenever we asked him if he was thinking about getting married, he used to reply that he will commit to someone unless Muammar Qaddafi is overthrown. He didn’t want his children to suffer a life like he did.”
His death however has not ended his struggle. His family has established a foundation in his name and says they will carry the torch of freedom.
For the family of Murad Al Arabi, all that is left are certificates of merit. Murad had only one year left to finish his studies in law school but he was tragically killed. His parents don’t want his death to be in vain.
Murad Al Arabi’s father said, “Why were my son and others martyred? They died for the freedom of this country not to establish a dictatorship.”
Another house has another story to tell. Hassan Abdul Fatah was killed on Brega
frontline more than two months ago and his mother’s tears have yet to dry.
Since his death, his family continues to struggle. Some of his brothers are still fighting on the frontline and one is injured. However, they all refuse to return home until they fulfill their brother’s dream of freedom — even if freedom comes at a bloody price.
Speakers:
Oum Ahmed, Murad Al Arabi’s fatehr.
Voice:
Nadia Idriss Mayen
Mustapha Ajbaili
Adaptation:
Sara Sifer
Video:
www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/26/1...
Abduljalil to Alarabiya:
It’s possible Jibril will not be prime minister..the result of Monday’s meeting will be in #Libya’s best interest.
#Jibril at #SecurityCouncil re revenge killings in #Libya:
“It’s just a few cases here and there” and not limited to Sub-Saharan Africans.
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
I attended private. organised business conference in London today on business opportunities in Libya Tomorrow will attend gov. organised one
Reuters:
Tanks manned by #NTC fighters shelled #Gaddafi loyalists in #Sirte & NATO jets circled overhead, ready to renew air strikes #Sirte
NalutFeb17:
Nalut military council decided to send special forces to the city of #Ghadames to support freedom fighters there #Libya #feb17
Al Arabiya
Deadly Currency for Africans and Black Libyans
As Libya turns a new chapter in its history and moves towards creating a democratic state that has the support of Western nations, African migrants and black Libyans have expressed fears about their future.
While most Libyans have celebrated their country’s new era since the capital, Tripoli was seized last month, African laborers and those identified as Muammar Qaddafi’s foreign soldiers have faced a difficult time.
Race has been a divisive issue in Libya, like in some other North African states, where Africans say they are treated dismissively.
However the violence towards black mercenaries and black Libyans during the uprising has lent the race issue a new and deadly currency.
Read more and video here:
www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/26/1...
Sirtawi
I like how Aljazeera correspondent (Tamer Mas-hal) described life in #Sirte as “paralysed”. Very precise. #SirteCrisis #Libya #Feb17
AJA:
Ongoing talks btwn #FF & G forces/ armed families inside #Sirte to lay down their weapons peacefully & stop bloodshed. #SirteCrisis
FFs find abandoned ammo in a valley in Sokina south of #Libya. youtube.com/watch?v=5Rbfhk…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rbfhk8CUOU&fea...
Tweeting Tripoli
Never underestimate Twitter. It can expose a dictator. yfrog.com/kl9f7wbj
Gaddafi’s rule never was legitimate. The 1969 coup overthrown the legitimate government and killed Libyans ever since.
FreeBenghazi
#Nalut fighters martyred liberating #Sabha, Ehab Mohamed AlKhamaisi(top), Nassim Mayouf (bottom) in spirit of 1 #Libya
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2935443...
People of #Gheryan in Nafusa Mt, send food to aid of their brothers in #Sabha #Libya
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2297379...
BenghaziChron
My new #Benghazi #Libya pictures
benghazichronicles.tumblr.com – check them out and RT for support!:)
BenghaziChron
My new #Benghazi #Libya pictures
- check them out and RT for support!:)
benghazichronicles.tumblr.com
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Gebril: Mutasim and Saif will die, Muamar is on the run in the desert, with a few around him. Not with a convoy, it d be detected by Nato.
frankentele Sean Carberry
Feels weird not to be in Libya anymore. Hope to go back soon.
FromJoanne Joanne
Today was Emergency Conference " #Libya The Future" at the QEII #London but More 2 come get info here
libya-conference.co.uk
#AlGamaty @London Conference; $170bn worth of #Libya gov. assets R Set aside to Reconstruct+ Repair houses + Offices in various cities
BBC
Libya seeks partners for rebuilding
Libya will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on reconstruction over the next decade, according to the UK representative for the National Transitional Council.
But British companies should not count on getting “easy business”.
Speaking at the Libya – The Future conference in London to business leaders interested in working in his country, Guma al-Gamaty said: “There will be huge changes in everything – in the oil and gas sectors, in education and with the creation of new industrial sectors. But it’s not a guaranteed market for you.”
Read more:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15061084
malonebarry Barry Malone
Moussa Ibrahim gave our office a bell again. Claims he was in Sirte on Sunday, outlined dire conditions, in common with UN, Red Cross #Libya
Joanne
#elGumaty says #Libya #oil exports stands 2 recover in next 6 mnths to 1.3 mil. barrels a day adding $40bn to $50bn a yr to National Income
Hana S.
Amazing how some ppl tend to think. They claim they’re anti-war/bloodshed, but their thoughts are so… bloody!! #realmoftheweird
Iman
If 1 mre person cmes up 2 me and starts preaching about how they’re disappointed in libyans and its going to be a new iraq I will BLAST them
Tripoli Jalil on satellite Arab information Colonel Gaddafi was hiding in the border triangle between Niger & Algeria & Libya
BBC
Libyan NTC fighters breach Gaddafi city Sirte from east
Anti-Gaddafi fighters have breached the former Libya leader’s hometown of Sirte from the east for the first time, as their three-day long assault continues.
Soldiers traded rocket fire with Gaddafi loyalists as they edged from the eastern suburbs into the city.
The advance comes two days after the soldiers, loyal to the National Transitional Council, attacked from the west before retreating again.
Sirte is one of the last remaining strongholds of Gaddafi loyalists.
Read full story here:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-1506546...
Proudlibyandoc
If #Jibreel under performed and didn’t create proper gov in the past 7 months. There is no reason for him to remain in position.
#Jibreel can be replaced with someone more able. This will not destabilise the NTC.
If we don’t aim to create institutions that are not reliant on individuals, then we don’t know what a civil democratic society/state is.
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
#Tripoli’s sky is stunning. Indeed the whole city is very pretty. But it’s sky is really breathtaking.
FraCicardi Francesca Cicardi
But may be #Italy Eni will be better positioned…#Libya #NTC proposes ex-Eni executive for oil minister reut.rs/qGx8Ow vía @reuters
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
The Tripoli Brigade, led by Irish-Libyan Mahdi Harati,first revolutionary brigade to have its own official Facebook page in Arabic + English
plemochoe
With all due respect. I don’t think there’s any problem regarding Sirte or Bani Walid. Letting it drag on saves lives
NLA has breached #Sirte perimeter by taking Tiyush, Suwawah, Zahiyah, and have taken the roundabout at entrance, splitting off QasrAbuHadi
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
More civilians escaped Sirte today while heavy fighting continued & NATO planes flying overhead. Some progress in the east. #Libya #Sirte
VOA
Libyan NTC Chief Warns Gadhafi Must Be Caught
The head of Libya’s National Transitional Council appealed directly to the U.N. Security Council Monday, asking it to lift the remaining sanctions on Libya so the country could rebuild. Mahmoud Jibril also warned that the stability of Libya will be at risk as long as former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is on the loose.
“We must not only fight against a despotic regime, but the Libyan people are counting on the capacity of the NTC to be able to provide the basic needs of the citizens," he said. "The inability of the NTC or provisional government to provide these kinds of services because of a lack of funding, could affect the very foundations of this council that you have recognized.”
Read more:
www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Lib...
Tweeting Tripoli
FIFA recognizes NTC… yfrog.com/ntyw7ej
Osama
1/2 Yesterday a meeting took place between the elders of #Wershiffana and #Azzawiya under the auspices of the elders of #Zintan
2/2 issues of contentions were discussed and the nuisance raids by #Azzawiya thugs have now stopped according to on the spot eyewitnesses !
CBS
Civilians flee Gadhafi loyalist stronghold Sirte
Hundreds of civilians fled Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown Monday to escape growing shortages of food and medicine and escalating fears that their homes will be struck during fighting between revolutionary forces and regime loyalists.
Anti-Gadhafi fighters launched their offensive against Sirte nearly two weeks ago, but have faced fierce resistance from loyalists holed up inside the city. After a bloody push into Sirte again over the weekend, revolutionary fighters say they have pulled back to plan their assault and allow civilians more time to flee.
Full art.:
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/26/ap/m...
Karybdamoid Karybdis
#Libya I think at this point, my suggestion for finding #Gaddafi is this: youtube.com/watch?v=MtkK3e…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtkK3eijBso
Aljazeera Update: FF now consolidating positions on East Sirte 17.15GMT …
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e74g28wUAo&fea...
Zlitniya Zlitniya
Many pupils&teachers unable to return to school in #Zliten as more than 25 schools were destroyed in #Feb17 rev #Libya
yfrog.com/nwey0dj
Sirtawi
Confirmed news that Gaddafi’s nephew, AbdelRahman AbdelHamid, was killed in #Sirte recently by G men from Gadadfa tribe. #Lib
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Anyone know when the Wimax in Tripoli will be working again?
Niz_FGM Niz
by hominoid555
In Tunis. Strange to be out of Libya. Lots of Libyan solidarity here. Spent some time reflecting in Zawiyah on the way….. video to follow
FFs are two kilometers away from the center of Sirt, I think that is from the eastern side !
Karybdis
Looks like the final battle for #Sirte is approaching. Being hit from all 3 sides now with local FF saying they control half the centre.
hindhassan:
Approximately 8,000 combat aircraft missions over #Libya since NATO began intervention.
LibyaNewMedia
More civilians escaped Sirte today while heavy fighting continued & NATO planes flying overhead. Some progress in the east. #Libya #Sirte
Guardian
Ian Black
Libyans reclaim their streets
Freed from the ‘old frizzyhead’ dictatorship of Gaddafi, an infectious sense of goodwill is giving birth to a vibrant new civil society
Omar al-Mukhtar street does not quite live up to its promise as the most elegant boulevard in Tripoli. Tall, Italianate colonial-era arcades and a few spindly palm trees provide shade, but the buildings are rundown and the pavements dirty and neglected.
Still, Khawla, Asma, Aya and friends are sprucing things up. With a few dozen other teenagers – looking purposeful in 17 February revolutionary T-shirts – they are sweeping and cleaning, and even painting the kerbstones in precise yellow and black segments.
“Now we must help look after our city,” said Khawla, a beaming 18-year-old with her hair covered in a scarf topped by a baseball cap bearing the crescent and star emblem
of Libya’s revolution. “We want to do something for our country,” Aya chimes in.
Full story here:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/26/li...
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli today saw the First National #Libyan #Amazigh #Congress in the #RIXOS Hotel # Libya Photos goo.gl/ySeyJ
#Tripoli Mass Grave Authorities believe bodies were kept in #AbuSalim prison b4 buried in the year 2000 just outside building’s walls #Libya
Building #Business Bridges with #Libya Website: www.lbbc.org.uk/events_programme.php
#Benghazi; Today was the second day of the 3 day #meeting in #Benghazi to form an Interim Government #Libya
#Blog of the remarkable #NAFISSA #ASSED Daugther of a #Libyan Martyr GrandDaughter of former #Libya Prime Minister
goo.gl/GfFDt
Osama
all of #wershiffana areas , incl #aziziya and #an-nasiriya have never been G supporters and were never armed by G!
their “fall” was not a resultant of armed conflict but a natural peaceful support for change!
hat is the reason why there was NO fighting on #wershiffana held territory and not a single life was lost during that time!
ff never attacked the region because they knew there was no military need for it! But now some parties r raiding #wershiffana
they raid #wershiffana because #wershiffa are passive by nature but they have finally decided to take arms for self defence!
devilsavocato
PLS CALL #ICRC Benghazi, Deeba Fakhr tel. +218 9 923 304 560 & ASK them TO SEND SOME WATER TO #SIRTE & bany waleed: Every call counts #libya
TunisianAmazigh
#Amazigh language in #Tunisia was spoken in most of areas of country until 3-4generations ago. Then we had the most cruel cultural genocide
Imazighen living in Holland(mostly from Morocco and Algeria) marching in solidarity with Libyan Imazighen fb.me/10yI7iPM5
Euronews
Gaddafi strongholds proving difficult for NTC
www.euronews.net One of the last strongholds of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is coming under renewed attack from the forces of the new National Transitional Council. Over the weekend, the interim government’s fighters pushed towards Sirte, before withdrawing on Sunday to allow NATO airstrikes to pave the way
Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz3QV1LKW6E
libya_H
Watching panorama on #bbc 1 now about #syria, wow its like a copy-paste of #Libya.. Deja-vu, I pray syria is free of this killer bashar soon
Times of Malta
‘We had to free our country… even at the cost of our own lives’
Much has been said about the freedom fighters during the Libya uprising. But what could be referred to as freedom flights also played a major role in the revolution. Capt. Ali Sanusi risked his life several times to fly his BAe 146 into the battlefield. Fiona Galea Debono caught up with the heroic commercial pilot on the runway of the Malta International Airshow.
Capt. Ali Sanusi told his wife it was “either me, or Muammar Gaddafi” when he started flying civilian aircraft into the west of Libya, landing precariously on normal roads to transport rebels, weapons and supplies and build a lifeline that linked it to the east.
But even though he was risking his life, he never thought twice, and since that first trip on the BAe 146 to the battlefield in June, he clocked up 32 flights – each one equally dangerous.
“We were landing behind the Gaddafi forces, with no protection. They would be no more than 30 kilometres away.”
Full story:
www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011...
First day back at school in Benghazi singing the Libyan Anthem
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lprvso9sG1M&fea...
Sirtawi
#Sirte #FFs report that there are hundreds of bodies of detainees from all over Libya being kept in large mobile freezers at Sirte Harbour.
ZEE News
Libyan forces close on Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte
Sirte: Libyan provisional government forces backed by NATO warplanes raced through the eastern outskirts of Sirte on Monday, closing in on Muammar Gaddafi loyalists holed up in one of the last two bastions of the deposed leader.
Thick, black smoke billowed into the air as National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters battled loyalist troops at a roundabout about 2 km (1.2 mile) from the center of Gaddafi’s home town, Reuters journalists said.
The thud of large explosions could be heard as NATO aircraft roared overhead. NTC fighters said the jets were striking the positions of Gaddafi loyalists.
Read more:
zeenews.india.com/news/world/libyan-for...
The British trade minister said Monday that his country’s businesses are eager to take part in the rebuilding of Libya.
hominoid555 Russell
Libya’s justice minister says he will disband the bodies that sentenced opponents of the old regime to prison.
Humanitarian organizations have raised the alarm over conditions for civilians cut off in Sirte and in Bani Walid to the south.
Sirtawi
Palestinian family managed to escape #Sirte, saying life was hard & ppl had to drink dirty water. Dead bodies lying on the streets.
Libya orders state security courts abolished
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya’s transitional justice minister says he has approved a measure to abolish the country’s state security prosecution and courts.
Mohammed al-Alagi, part of Libya’s new leadership after the ouster of Moammar Gadhafi, said Monday he has signed a document that will disband the bodies that sentenced opponents of the old regime to prison.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.
Read more:
hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_LIBY...
Reuters Reuters Top News
Lockerbie case shut, Libya says, after UK seeks help
reut.rs/olA8vO
Nigerian Tribune
Immigration arrests 100 suspected mercenaries from Libya
THE Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), in Kaduna, has arrested over 100 suspected mercenaries from Libya.
They were suspected to have fled the country and arrived in Kaduna through the Niger-Nigeria border at the weekend, after the fall of the regime of Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi.
The suspects, according to an eyewitness, arrived in the state at about 2.00 p.m. on Friday looking exhausted and unkempt.
According to the eyewitness, “as they filed through heavily armed Immigration officials at the Kaduna zonal office of the Nigerian Immigration Service(NIS),they were made to sit on the ground on the premises right in front of the office of the Zonal Comptroller under the watch of heavily armed officials while documentation procedure went on.”
The suspects were said to be with some members of their families, including children, and were conveyed in two luxury buses.
“One of the suspects, who craved for anonymity, said that they had been wandering in the desert for the past three weeks before they were apprehended by the Immigration officials at the Niger-Nigeria border. He said they left Libya and wandered in the desert before their arrest and subsequent conveyance to Kaduna from the Niger-Nigeria border.
However, newsmen were told that the command needed to obtain clearance from Abuja and liaise with other relevant security agencies, particularly, the State Security Service(SSS), Police and the Army before speaking with the press.
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya: No wonder nobody could find #Gaddafi & #Saif , they have not looked in the maternity ward! twitpic.com/6qtiqh
Security Council Meeting (English): The situation in #Libya bit.ly/nWW08A #un #webcast #video rt @Unwebcast
Sirtawi
Confirmed news that Moussa Ibrahim’s brother (Faraj Ibrahim) was killed in #Sirte as well as other Gaddafi thugs working under Jamal Karami.
SMH
Dictator sent $2m to fund Irish terrorists, documentary claims
MUAMMAR GADDAFI, the deposed Libyan leader, resumed his funding of Irish republican terrorist groups shortly before he was forced into hiding by NATO bombing raids, it has been claimed.
A Libyan government courier flew into London in June with $US2 million ($2.04 million) in cash during a stopover while on route to the Irish Republic, a documentary to be screened in Britain tonight says.
The cash was said to be on its way to a businessman, believed to be a supporter of one of the dissident republican terrorist groups responsible for attacks against police in Northern Ireland.
Exposure, a new documentary series, says Colonel Gaddafi, who sent large quantities of weapons to the IRA in the 1970s, wants to exploit the growing unrest in Northern Ireland as a means of attacking Britain for supporting the overthrowing of his regime.
Full story:
www.smh.com.au/world/dictator-sent-2m-t...
#Libya is requiring visas now. Many aid workers and doctors canceled plans to travel there because of no information on how to obtain visas
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
today in Jufra Hun 1 of the cities there revolted on 19th people fought with AK against Gaddafi followers #Libya
huge bombs may be more 1.5 tonnes just abandoned on the road #Jufra #Libya
photo first NTC fighter dead in the battle for #Sirte #Libya last saturday yfrog.com/kf5yterj
photo bombs abandoned by Gaddafi forces near by Waddan #Jufra #Libya yfrog.com/nybuvltj
Tweeting Tripoli
American embassy in Tripoli…
yfrog.com/nxwrtvj
4Adam Adam
#Libya Amazigh demand recognition in new constitution reut.rs/oNvQE5 #Tripoli
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
I was in the arm depot where Gaddafi forces kept their mustard gas NTC fighters waiting for UN to help them to secure it #Waddan #Libya
people in the area worry about the future of all those chemical materials #Waddan
all #Jufra under the control of NTC fighters but Gaddafi forces in the desert around #Libya
‘Woman in Tripoli hoping to find remains of her son who was killed in AbuSalim prison massacre’ @IbnOmar2005 goo.gl/oICkG
#Libya: Volunteers collected pieces of what they said were human bones in site of mass grave at #AbuSalim Prison pic.twitter.com/g44m9ic1
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
There are some unfair mudahamat happening. PPl that worked at afriqiyah, libyan airlines, gov etc.. get raided at home & jailed
they get released later on but the mudahama itself is extremely humiliating. 20+ cars come to your house and drag you out
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
#sirte resident said gaddafi command in control room is under hospital, only major gov’t. building not hit by NATO
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
NTC Fighters in #Libya have taken control of the border with Algeria near Ghdamis
NTC Fighters in #Libya.13 fighters injured and one passed away in Sirt today.
Free Libya ♔☾✰
1 martyred (Mustafa Muftah Al-Dermeesh) & 13 injured in #Sirte frontlines today. #libya
fieldproducer Neal Mann
UK Foreign Office says it has spoken to NTC about Lockerbie & understands that the new Libyan authorities will still co-operate with the UK
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 27th 2011
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NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – t.co/RBcqGu7l
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Mon: In Sirte, a formation of Tornado GR4s attacked ammunition stores, destroying their targets with Paveway guided bombs. #Libya
Mon: At Bani Walid a psychological warfare centre & firing position used by Qadhafi’s troops were subjected to precision strikes by GR4s.
libyanfsl
Now this is a TRUE leader in Misrata, Col. Salem Juha speaking to his fellow Misratans
youtu.be/6_8p3H7znMM #Feb17 #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_8p3H7znMM&fea...
4Adam Adam
Who allowed those “volunteers” to dig for bones at the Abu Salim grave site. Is the NTC involved? This site must be protected asap!
AlanFisher Alan Fisher
Fighters supporting #Libya’s interim government are fighting street-to-street battles with #Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte
Libyan ‘prison massacre grave’ revives painful memories
The discovery of what is believed to be a mass grave for more than 1,200 prisoners killed at Tripoli’s Abu Salim jail in 1996 has evoked painful memories for those who have waited years to learn the fate of loved ones, says the BBC’s Rana Jawad in Tripoli.
The site is a massive, arid plot of land scattered with dry shrubs that stretches out behind the outer concrete walls of Tripoli’s Abu Salim prison – a place long associated with the horrors of incarceration.
Some recently uncovered bone fragments are strewn in several locations.
It is here that officials think some 1,270 prisoners were buried after what is known as the Abu Salim massacre, one of the darkest chapters of Col Gaddafi’s rule.
Full art.:
shabablibya.org/news/libyan-prison-mass...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
On sunday the main column of the liberation army coming in from the East arrived to Sirte and have liberated the Eastern gates #Libya
The liberation army has a front which attacked from the south last week and liberated the airbase, Sirte is now completely surrounded
The 3 fronts on Sirte are pushing into the town and will try to corner Gaddafi loyalists in one area #Libya #Sirte
Sirte is in between Western front line and liberation army
Hamza
CuteLibyan Girl partying in #Benghazi the day #Tripoli was being freed. #Libya
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHgVOEqq0fg&fea...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
David Cameron in #Libya: ‘#Benghazi is an inspiration to the world’ They chose freedom. goo.gl/zlARl #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
The 24 4×4 Police cars in Tripoli streets sent from the UAE still carry the DUBAI Police website sticker advertisement on the bumper #Libya
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
AFP: #UN is expected to end its emergency humanitarian operations in #Libya at the end of Nov, #UN Humanit Coordinator 4 #Libya said on Mon
#NTC Fighters raced into east outskirts #Sirte backed by #NATO &fighting street-2-street battles with Gaddafi loyalists bit.ly/qyaP9V
VID: #CNN report: #Fashlom, #Triploi, the wall graphic of 17Feb revolution, funny drawings of Deposed #Gaddafi bit.ly/npGQlm
#Amazigh, minority in #Libya r demanding that the country’s new rulers recognise them & their lang in any new constitution, Reuters #Libya
LibyaUnited1944 Walid وليد
BILLIONS have been unfrozen..what’s 50M to give our #FF the best medical care the World has to offer! Without them we would b nothing #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
#Libyan interim leaders say #Lockerbie case closed, no new evidence will be released goo.gl/hkBGg #AlArabiya
Stephen Morgan
#Libya With NTC forces using heavy artillery to indiscriminately shell Bani Walid+Sirte, what is NATO going to do to protect the civilians?
#Libya Knives drawn by Misrata and the Mountains as the NTC struggles to form a government nyti.ms/npgi6Y
#Libya Associated Press article on people fleeing Sirte. Doctor says it no longer has anything to do with Gaddafi
bit.ly/nbhMrM
#Libya “We’re going to punish even those that supported Moammar with words” said fighter as Sirte refugees are stopped
on.wsj.com/pF9qJu
#Libya UK military expert says only 2 ways to take Bani Walid – "flatten the place with high explosive or starve them "
bit.ly/o3dXMz
88simon88 simon
Some impressive PHOTOS of the FF artillery during the siege of SYRTE parismatch.com/Actu-Match/Mon…
or:
www.parismatch.com/Actu-Match/Monde/Pho...
Canada
CBCAlerts:
Parliament votes to extend Libya mission by 3 months . Mission now extended to December 2011 #Libya #NATO
This will be the first ever announcement to the Libyan people of what they own… Reuters bit.ly/nYiTOG via @addthis
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Procès en appel demain pour l’ex-PM libyen al-#Mahmoudi condamné à 6 mois de prison pour entrée en illégale en #Tunisie google.com/hostednews/afp…
Hamza
changing the flag on the back of a fighter jet in #libya
pic.twitter.com/SsEdecBF
perfectsliders perfectsliders
#Libya #Feb17 Monday – 3 fronts on Sirte are pushing into the town, trying to corner Gaddafi loyalists goo.gl/fb/si4rz
Hayat
Especially since women STARTED this #feb17 #revolution!! We will kick anyone depriving us of our rights OUT!
Demoqrateya
“Surprisingly” it barely took 2 weeks for oil majors Eni (Italy) & Total (France) to come back to #Libya bit.ly/nyJUNJ #Oil
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
La #Libye demande l’extradition de son ancien Premier ministre magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xht…
Carol Viana
Goosebumps!
Libya first day of school in Benghazi
First day back at school in Benghazi singing the Libyan Anthem
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lprvso9sG1M&fea...
CNN
Thawing Libya’s frozen assets
Libya’s National Transitional Council is moving swiftly to get access to much needed funds in anticipation of taking full control of the country. There is an intense level of shuttle diplomacy underway in countries that backed the rebel movement early on — Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Italy and France.
At the core of this effort is the desire to avoid an “Iraq-like” situation where the country collapses and the Libyan rebel movement is without funds to pay government salaries, provide urgent medical care and food — the staples of day-to-day living.
Article and video:
edition.cnn.com/2011/BUSINESS/08/25/lib...
20 minutes
Libye: Le CNT en faveur de la poursuite des raids de l’Otan
Mahmoud Djibril, numéro 2 du Conseil national de transition (CNT), a plaidé ce lundi en faveur d’une poursuite des raids de l’Otan tant que les forces loyales à Mouammar Kadhafi continueraient à tuer des civils libyens. Il a également mis en garde contre le degré de nuisance du Guide déchu, qui court toujours, pour la stabilité de l’ensemble de la région sahélienne.
Full art.:
www.20minutes.fr/ledirect/794742/libye-...
Libyan4life
Was just thinking today how in the early weeks of our revolution I couldnt believe that 300 had died. Little did I know 10’s of 1000s would.
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
“Non favorables à la créat° de partis amazighs, nous voulons dire au CNT que les Amazighs constituent l’une des composantes politiques”
Anaya
People in #Sirte under propaganda: don’t believe #Tripoli is free & expect to find English and French lying in wait to attack them. #Libya
Sarah LFFR
was the same for many people in BW
Anaya
Indeed! He tried to do the same thing in Tripoli but didnt succeed.
LIBYAN
Expectation is what will make us far behind the schedule. #Libya
Ali Tweel
The shops today..
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LibyeLibre Libye Libre
A Tripoli, une conférence berbère s’est ouverte sous le slogan “Officialisation de la langue amazigh et soutien à l’unité nationale”
Algerian gov’t unhappy with Aisha Gaddafi’s radio remarks. bit.ly/mT0iYz via @PicoBee ~ Shut up or get out? Wud be nice.
Libyans request hospital, school from #Turkey www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/newsDetail_... via @todayszamancom #Libya
Michael
NATO hammered 20km ahead of FF on E frnt frm Gate allowing FF to join w S frnt at round-about visible. C if stay?
twitpic.com/6r55v6
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Les autorités aéroportuaires égyptiennes ont nié l’arrivée de membres de la famille Kadhafi au Caire afriquinfos.com/articles/2011/…
Sue Turton updates on the latest from Sirte (eastern front line) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Fga6g0QjQ&fea... via @youtube
Tribulusterr
looking for stories of #feb17 martyrs- @LibyaInMe If..want to submit story…do so here.Arabic, English accepted
feb17martyrs.com/submit/ #Libya
osama
many say we should forget the past re: #libya. i disagree. if we don’t retrace our steps, we may be doomed to follow the same path.
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
#Libye: Le CNT compte abolir les cours de sûreté de l’Etat afreekelection.com/journal/item/8… qui servaient à emprisonner opposants politiques de kadhafi
Triploli scream
I posted a new photo to Facebook fb.me/1a7DppyJG
Karybdis
Sept 27 #Gaddafi control- 20% of #BaniWalid, 50% of #Sirte, QasrAbuHadi (surrounded), Fuqaha (contested), Ma’tan As Sarah (contested) #Libya
From spring into summer: key peacebuilding actions for #Libya www.opendemocracy.net/erwin-van-veen/fr...
Former #Libya PM Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi to contest any extradition-lawyer reut.rs/rpgpKo via @reuters
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Texte intégral en fr de l’intervention d’ Aïcha Kadhafi
la colère des autorités algériennes
Vendredi une itw d’ #Aïcha #Kadhafi depuis son lieu d’exil en Algérie, a été diffusée sur ArraïTV : colère des autorités algériennes 1/2
2/2 Texte intégral en fr de l’intervention d’ #Aïcha #Kadhafi www.rue89.com/2011/09/26/dans-la-famill...,
la colère des autorités algériennes www.dna-algerie.com/interieure/alger-ju...
Tribulusterr:
Libye : Selon l’ONU, quelque 24.000 personnes ont fui #BaniWalid et près de 2.000 ont quitté #Syrte.
Libya In Me
A HUGE crowd in Gheryan celebrating w/ singer Adel Msheti & other Benghazi reps youtube.com/watch?v=UUo_UC… #Gheryan #Benghazi
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUo_UCFZwLs
Kety
One day I’ll eat bazeen in Tripoli; I’ll have coffee in Benghazi; I’ll walk around Misrata and shake the hands of FFs.
RichardRothCNN Richard Roth
Libyan Prime Minister tells Security Council Gaddafi ’arrest is imperative". M. Jibril says since he is on loose could destabilize situation
Karybdis
Sept 27 #BaniWalid map. This is the last available status for the city. It is unknown how much lines changed lately.
pic.twitter.com/BmZOACM9
Loyalist forces are thought to be concentrated at the Congress hall and hospital of #Sirte, with a separate 1000 fighters in #QasrAbuHadi
Loyalist forces in #BaniWalid are concentrated in 5 districts around the centre, with the main forces being in the downtown core and souk
Sept 27 #Sirte map. Thanks to NATO/BBC/Aljazeera and mainly @Sirte_Feb17 who named most areas and their status.
pic.twitter.com/sYuB3CHD
AP’s @hadeelalsh w dets of proposed closure of G-era state security courts,prosecution service
abcn.ws/oJ7Z1m #Libya
Hamza
We should always remember it was the mothers of the Abu Salim massacre victims that kick started #Libya’s revolt. Never cross angry moms.
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
Have the official list from the #ntc and #baniwalid council of the martyred and injured on the #baniwalid front upto Sep 20.
up until sept 20, its 35 dead and I think 159 injured. The numbers are much less than media hype claims.
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Had good seafood in a restaurant in Tajoura. What other good restaurants around Tripoli?
Resignation of the Libyan Ambassador by France
A source familiar with the Libyan ambassador in France Mansour Seif El-Nasr presentedhis resignation to the Interim Council on 14 Sept. justified for health reasons.
The source noted that the transition was not broadcast on the resignationand the source speculated that resignation may be due to reasons other than that made by the ambassador, and noted that Seif El-Nasr made great efforts to persuade Algeria to recognize the Transitional Council as representative of the Libyan people.
He also states that Libyan Ambassador by France, played a major Abdoulaye Wade to come to Libya during the early months of the revolution.
Source:
www.libyaalhura.net/eng/?p=3035
abeneihum Abe Neihum
We finished the 40ft container today. Empty 20ft container coming in tomorrow. #MedAid
pic.twitter.com/JnkeT9bl
FromJoanne Joanne
Money you can donate to :
t.co/6B8EWm8r
#Egypt airport authorities denied on Monday reports that members of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s family arrived in #Cairo from #Algeria #Libya
Report said 8 Gaddafi family members incl Aisha left #Algeria for #Cairo Saturday via #Houari #Boumediene Int Airport in #Algiers #Libya
CNN
Libyan anti-Gadhafi forces take over port in Sirte
Fighters for Libya’s new leadership managed to take over the port in Sirte on Tuesday morning, a senior military commander in Tripoli said.
The seizure followed fierce clashes with forces loyal to ousted Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi in Sirte, Gadhafi’s hometown. The number and extent of casualties were not immediately known, the commander said.
The port of Sirte, on the northern edge of Libya, has exchanged hands of power recently. Anti-Gadhafi fighters have previously taken the port during the day and have pulled back at night.
Read more:
edition.cnn.com/2011/09/27/world/africa...
It is estimated that around 24,000 people have left #BaniWalid and 1,700 fled #Sirte since fighting intensified in mid-August.#Libya
BBC
Libya: Fierce fighting in Gaddafi stronghold Sirte
There has been heavy fighting in the Libyan city of Sirte, where armed supporters of the transitional authorities are facing strong resistance from Gaddafi loyalists.
A BBC correspondent on the outskirts of the city says the two sides have been exchanging machinegun fire, rockets and artillery shells.
Many thousands of civilians remain in Sirte, east of the capital, Tripoli.
Read more:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-1507515...
FromJoanne Joanne
@NATO needs 2 drop #LEAFLETS over #Sirte 2Tell Residents the TRUTH They hv No Idea Most of #Libya is FREE No need 2Fear #NTC Fighters #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Anti-Qaddafi fighters overrun strategic Sirte port: commander #alarabiya #Libya #Qaddafi
Al Arabiya
NTC commander says troops seized Sirte’s port as civilians flee Qaddafi’s hometown
Troops of Libya’s new rulers seized control of the port in Sirte, Muammar Qaddafi’s birthplace, in fighting with the ousted leader’s diehards during the night, a commander told AFP on Tuesday, as hundreds of terrified civilians poured out of the Mediterranean coastal city.
“There were clashes in the night and we now are controlling the port,” said Commander Mustafa bin Dardef of the Zintan brigade, which is attached to the National Transitional Council (NTC), the new ruling body of Libya.
The capture of the port, located in eastern Sirte, marks a strategic victory for the anti-Qaddafi forces as they battle for control of Sirte, one of Qaddafi’s last remaining strongholds.
The fight for the Mediterranean city has intensified in the past few days with NATO carrying out raids for the third consecutive day on Monday.
NTC fighters have besieged the city from the east, west and south and were on Tuesday cleaning and oiling their weapons for what they said would be a thrust towards the centre, site of Qaddafi’s compound and military bunkers.
“As we move closer to the city center, it’s going to be face-to-face street fighting and we are preparing for it,” said one fighter, Ali Zaidi.
Fleeing residents spoke of dwindling supplies of food and water and said Qaddafi forces had attempted to stop people leaving, while doctors warned of a growing humanitarian crisis.
Fighters loyal to the new government also pounded Muammar Qaddafi’s forces in the desert city of Bani Walid, southeast of the capital Tripoli, the only other significant stronghold left to his loyalists.
Very “critical situation”
Earlier, NTC troops advancing from the east said they had pushed 10 kilometers (six miles) inside Sirte’s outskirts but were still 15 kilometers from the center of the sprawling city.
On Monday, NTC fighters captured a large weapons cache from loyalist forces including Grad rockets and machine gun ammunition.
Crates of grenades were loaded aboard more than a dozen pick-ups and hauled to a base by dozens of fighters shouting “Allahu akbar!” (God is greater), flashing victory signs and firing in the air.
Hundreds of fearful residents fled the looming offensive, arriving at NTC checkpoints on the front lines both east and west.
“The situation in the city is very critical,” said Muftah Mohammed, leaving in a convoy of seven vehicles.
“There is no food, no water, no petrol and no electricity. This has been going on for nearly two months now as Qaddafi forces would not allow us to leave.
“Children are in a particularly bad condition.”
The collapse of the mains supply has left residents without access to clean drinking water, triggering an epidemic of water-borne diseases.
An AFP correspondent saw dozens of children receiving treatment at a clinic in the town of Harawa, 40 kilometers east of Sirte.
“We have medicines but no nurses to treat the constant flow of patients, mainly children, suffering from vomiting and gastrointestinal diseases,” said Dr Valentina Rybakova, a Ukrainian working in Libya for eight years.
“Since morning I saw nearly 120 patients and 70 percent of them were children. They are coming from some outskirts of Sirte and nearby villages,” she said.
“This is a big humanitarian crisis. We are trying to get help from everybody but the main problem is that these people have no access to clean drinking water.”
Facing “heavy resistance”
NATO said Monday its aircraft had multiple military targets in Sirte. Britain however said it had agreed with the alliance to withdraw the five Apache helicopters it has in service over Libya, a clear sign the NATO air mission is winding down.
There have been repeated reports that one of Qaddafi’s sons — Mutassim — is holed up in Sirte’s southern outskirts.
NTC forces believe Qaddafi’s most prominent son, Seif al-Islam, is in the other major
enclave still in the hands of loyalist forces, the desert city of Bani Walid.
Troops massed at Bani Walid’s northern gates pounded Qaddafi positions with artillery, tanks and anti-aircraft guns.
“We are facing heavy resistance, that’s why we are using the heavy artillery and not sending in any infantry for now,” Commander Mohamed al-Seddiq told AFP.
The NTC is keen to put Qaddafi, whose whereabouts are unknown, and top members of his former regime on trial for what they say were widespread human rights abuses committed during his 42-year rule.
NTC number two Mahmoud Jibril, the interim premier, told the U.N. Security Council Qaddafi was a growing international terrorist threat.
“The simple fact that he is free and has at his disposal such wealth means that he is still able to destabilize the situation not only within my country but also in the Sahel and Sahara region,” Jibril told the council.
Even outside Africa, Qaddafi “could return to his terrorist practices by providing arms” to militant groups, he added.
The gruesome find in a mass grave of the remains of prisoners executed at Tripoli’s notorious Abu Salim jail was yet further proof of “criminal acts” by Qaddafi’s regime, said Khalid Sharif, spokesman for the NTC’s military council.
Sharif, who announced the find on Sunday, said the grave was believed to hold the remains of more than 1,700 people.
The uprising that finally ousted Qaddafi last month erupted in Benghazi in February, when families of Abu Salim victims called for protests against the arrest of their lawyer.
Calm situation
In the remote oasis town of Ghadames, on Libya’s western border with Algeria, funerals were held for eight NTC soldiers killed in a dawn raid by around 100 pro-Qaddafi fighters on Sunday.
“The situation is calm now after we managed to defeat the attackers, but there are unconfirmed reports that they are reorganizing to attack the town again,” municipal council number two Sirajeddin Muwaffaq said.
Scottish prosecutors, meanwhile, called on the NTC for help in their continuing investigation into the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over the town of Lockerbie in
which 270 people died.
The only person convicted of the bombing, Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, was released on compassionate grounds in 2009.
But Scottish prosecutors said it had asked the NTC to make available “any documentary evidence and witnesses which could assist in the ongoing enquiries.”
Later, Britain’s Foreign Office said the NTC had promised it would help the investigation despite comments from Libya’s justice minister earlier Monday that the case was closed.
Italian oil giant ENI, Libya’s top foreign producer before the uprising brought output to a near standstill, announced that it had resumed production, pumping 31,900 barrels per day from 15 wells in the Abu Attifel field.
On Friday, French oil giant Total said it had restarted production from an offshore oil platform.
Report on Islamaphobia in the U.S. raises some important questions
A much heralded, arguably misleading report on Islamophobia, “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America”, from the Center for American Progress, a liberal think-tank with close ties to the Obama administration, warrants our attention.
The scapegoating of Arabs and Muslims that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the subsequent U.S.-declared war on terror, which conflated external and internal threats, helped generate what Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was the national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter, described as a “culture of fear” in America, with “Islamic terror” raised to a specter, in the service of a broad, neo-conservative agenda, assisted by a complicit corporate media.
A much heralded, arguably misleading report on Islamophobia, “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America”, from the Center for American Progress, a liberal think-tank with close ties to the Obama administration, warrants our attention.
The scapegoating of Arabs and Muslims that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the subsequent U.S.-declared war on terror, which conflated external and internal
threats, helped generate what Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was the national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter, described as a “culture of fear” in America, with “Islamic terror” raised to a specter, in the service of a broad, neo-conservative agenda, assisted by a complicit corporate media.
Full art.:
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/...
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libyan interim government commander near Sirte says he was contacted by elder from Qaddafi tribe seeking truce #alarabiya #Libya #Qaddafi
In Libya’s new politics, localism may trump tribes
“No To Tribalism,” declare the now tattered posters put up by rebels who overthrew Muammar Qaddafi, a defiant riposte to an Arab autocrat who magnified tribal cleavages with a policy of divide and rule.
But rebels also daubs walls with the place names “Misrata” “Zintan” and “Zawiya,” suggesting that loyalty to hometown will be a far more potent force than kinship in post-Qaddafi Libya.
Nursing bitter memories of tribal manipulation, Qaddafi’s immediate successors are working to give a technocratic gloss to their caretaker administration and minimize the influence of ancient kinship ties in the emerging political landscape.
Libyans, diplomats and political analysts say this effort may be pushing at an open door. The country’s scores of tribes carry weight in Libyan society, but less so in its politics, an activity dominated by an urban elite more attuned to provincial roots than blood relations.
Please read more here:
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/...
GRAFIXEL
Estimated number of Tuareg in Gaddafis brigades: up to 15,000
NZZ ( German)
Tuareg als unwillige Helfer Ghadhafis
Libyens abgesetzter Diktator Ghadhafi hat für seine Machtpolitik Angehörige der Tuareg-Nomaden benutzt. Nach dem Sturz des Regimes suchen ihre Vertreter Stabilität.
Markus M. Haefliger, Nairobi
Im Norden Nigers, der Heimat der Tuareg, hört man keinen Irrtum so häufig wie jenen, dass Ghadhafi ein Freund des Nomadenvolks gewesen sei. «Wir konnten nach Libyen reisen, sooft uns der Sinn danach stand», sagt Mohammed Ahmed, ein eher mittelloser Bijoutier in Agadez. An der Grenze hätten libysche Soldaten Leute wie ihn, die gehandelt oder in den Erdölzentren eine Anstellung gesucht hätten, ohne Aufhebens durchgelassen. Ghadhafi sei den Tuareg wie ein Bruder gewesen.
Full story:
www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/politik/internat...
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Alarabia, military representative: ‘Truce in Sirte to guarantee departure of families from Gaddafi’s tribe.
Sky News
Anti-Gaddafi Forces Capture Sirte’s Port
Libya’s anti-Gaddafi fighters have captured the port of Sirte in their battle for control of Colonel Gaddafi’s hometown.
The forces have been stepping-up their siege on the town, after they were forced back from the coastal town over the weekend.
On Sunday, they pushed within a few hundred metres of the Sirte’s centre but drew back their attack while Nato aircrafts bombed targets in the area.
Art. and video:
news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16...
BBC
Sailors who served in Libya among Royal Navy job cuts
Sailors who took part in the Libya campaign will be among hundreds of Royal Navy personnel to learn they are being made redundant later this week.
Dozens of sailors from HMS Cumberland, which rescued Britons from Libya in February, could be affected, along with those on other ships that took part.
Personnel not on or preparing for deployment are eligible for redundancy.
Up to 400 compulsory redundancies are expected in the Ministry of Defence’s first round of 1,100 navy job losses.
Art.:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15070911
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Asharq alAwsat: ‘rebel’ sources: Gaddafi fighters are moving around in the southern desert and plan a war of exhaustion.
LibyaVoluntDocs Libyan Doctors
Please can you help us spread the word about our Libyan doctor #volunteer project. Thank you. t.co/WxCmSMzm #Libya #Tripoli
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Mohamed Bubleen,17feb Youth Union, at eastern front of Sirte: ‘a lot of defections of Gaddafi tribe fighters in Sirte’, in Asharq alAwsat
gahgeer
Libyan transitional council recognizes its Syrian counterpart as “legitimate representative” of Syrian people (Libya al-Hurra TV)
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, Families continue to leave#Sirte from the western side of the coastal city#Gaddafi
#Libya, Families leaving #Sirte say #Gaddafi has a lot of snipers inside the city, his forces have hidden their weapons in civilian areas
Niz_FGM Niz
My visit to Zawiyah…. Sad, yet uplifting.So much hope for the future amidst so much destruction from the past. ARABIC
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HRW
Libya: Transitional Government Should Support Victims
(New York) − The National Transitional Council (NTC), the de facto authority that controls most of Libya, should investigate allegations of sexual violence perpetrated during the Libyan armed conflict and provide medical services, treatment, and support for survivors, Human Rights Watch said today.
Heads of state from the group of countries who have pledged to support Libya as it moves toward democratization – the so-called Friends of Libya – are gathering this week at the United Nations to discuss the future of the country. They should put dealing with sexual violence high on the list of priorities, Human Rights Watch said.
“The NTC has a duty to investigate allegations of sexual assault and to ensure that these claims are not buried,” said Liesl Gerntholtz, women’s rights director at Human Rights Watch. “Some brave women and men have come forward and talked to us, despite the stigma of rape in Libya. They and others deserve to see justice served.”
The full extent of sexual violence during the conflict remains unknown, due in part to the stigma surrounding rape in Libya and the dangers that survivors may face when they make crimes public. Human Rights Watch has documented nine cases of apparent gang rapes and sexual assault at the hands of Gaddafi forces, and one at the hands of unidentified perpetrators, committed between February and May 2011. The assaults were mainly in territory controlled by Gaddafi forces at the time.
The cases documented by Human Rights Watch involve three men and seven women, ranging in age from 22 to 41 years old. All of the victims allege gang rape, with one case involving at least seven perpetrators.
One survivor was unable to describe the perpetrators, but the other nine identified their tormenters as “soldiers,” “men in uniforms, ” and “men in camo shirts.”
Survivors described being abducted from their homes or arrested on the streets. They all described being raped and beaten. Some also told Human Rights Watch that they had been stabbed or had their hair pulled and cut off. Several people said perpetrators penetrated them with objects, including guns and a broomstick.
S.A., a 34-year-old woman, described how three uniformed men broke into her apartment in February:
They took me to the bedroom; I was alone at home… They were beating me,” she said. “Then two of them started to rape me. I was crying and telling them, ‘please stop, I am a mother, I have two children.’ They raped me together… I was bleeding, there was blood everywhere.
A.G., a 39-year-old woman, said she was raped alongside her younger sister in April. She told Human Rights Watch that Gaddafi soldiers came to her home to look for her brother:
We were screaming because we were so afraid, and they were pushing weapons against us. After they destroyed everything, they got each of us in a room. They got into the room, they got on top of me, I was screaming, I heard my sister screaming. There were many of them, and they were taking turns… There were four or five of them… After he was done, he took the knife from the Kalashnikov and scratched my body and thighs, cutting them. After I lost a lot of blood, I fainted. After I woke up I didn’t know how long I had been unconscious. I found my body all cut and scratched. My sister was in the same shape.
N.H., a 23-year-old woman, said she was abducted from her home and gang raped in May. She told Human Rights Watch how a “military guy” punched her on the face and dragged her into a car:
When I tried to move, they hit me. I couldn’t scream, I couldn’t yell, I couldn’t move, so I gave up. I was wearing jeans and a t-shirt. They tore these and took my bra off. They tore off my trousers. They raped me. Four of them were taking turns. It was like someone pulled me and someone scratched me. Everyone did something in a disgusting way. I was a virgin. I got faint. They didn’t even stop. I felt blood all over me.
M.G., a 39-year-old man, said he was sexually assaulted in April along with his brother who is 28 years old. Five men “in military uniforms” abducted them from their home, he said, and took them to a place used by Gadaffi’s military. M.G. said the men anally raped and tortured him. He told Human Rights Watch:
There was a torture room… They would use electricity. They would hang us by the hands… I was raped with some wood sticks, bottles, and weapons. They used the caliber barrel of a Kalashnikov. They would shoot with it so that it is hot and put it in my bottom. They also raped my brother.
Another male survivor, a 22-year-old former soldier for the Gaddafi government, described being tortured for three days and sexually assaulted after he was arrested on February 17 after participating in a demonstration and burning a picture of Gadaffi.
Human Rights Watch could not confirm claims of mass or systematic rape by Gaddafi forces. But the stigma for victims, their fear of reprisal, and the lack of available services for victims of sexual violence may lead to underreporting, Human Rights Watch said.
“It has been extremely difficult to gather evidence about sexual violence in Libya,” said Gerntholtz. “It is a complex environment, with a high level of stigma and taboo, which makes victims reluctant to speak.”
Human Rights Watch urged the NTC, with the support of the Friends of Libya, to begin providing services immediately for the victims of sexual assault. These services must place a high priority on victims’ confidentiality and privacy and should include treatment for physical injuries, medication for sexually transmitted infections and abortion-related services, Human Rights Watch said. Survivors also require urgent access to counseling and social support services, Human Rights Watch said.
Human Rights Watch recommended that, given the stigma attached to rape in Libya, care for survivors should be discreetly inserted into other health services, including sexual, reproductive, and antenatal care.
“Special care should be taken not to further stigmatize survivors by offering them health care that identifies them as survivors of sexual violence,” Gerntholtz said.
Health care providers should receive training to help them screen patients for sexual assault, Human Rights Watch said. Where possible, survivors of sexual violence should be involved in the design and delivery of these services.
The NTC should also ensure that survivors of sexual violence have access to protection where they need it, Human Rights Watch said. Some women interviewed by Human Rights Watch expressed concerns about their safety when their families found out that they had been raped. S.A., for example, told Human Rights Watch that she had been threatened by her brother-in-law after her husband took her to see a doctor:
I went back to my family’s home and stayed in a room alone – they would bring me a tray of food and leave. My brother-in-law came then and told me, “Either you commit suicide, or we kill you and make it look like a suicide, or an accident will happen, someone will clean a weapon and will kill you, accidentally.”
“The victims we spoke to are urgently in need of medical treatment and other services that will help them deal with what happened and ensure their safety, and for sure there are more victims we have not met,” Gerntholtz said. It is critical that the NTC and the international community focus on this very vulnerable group, and that appropriate services are developed to meet their needs.”
ZAWIYAH – BATTLE SCARS AND MARTYRS STORIES – 26/09/2011
Upon leaving Tripoli for the first time in 7 months, i visited Zawiyah to pay tribute to their efforts of resistance and to reflect on the many lives lost and the many wounds to heal.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fasjENLleQ&fea...
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Malta entrepreneurs in talks with #Silverstone and #Libya company to rebuild #Mallaha Lake motor racing circuit with €120m investment
Photo’s
septimius_sever septimius severus
Hanibal #Gaddafi & his wife ‘private’ collection! I will not comment any further. t.co/eZ0pjK3M …. #Libya
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
fphoto of #Waddan arm depot where Gaddafi kept it’s chemical and forbidden material as mustard gas #Libya
yfrog.com/kkym8fqj
Lockerbie bombing: Libyans asked for help by Scottish prosecutors #libya bit.ly/qIKVG4
Libyans reclaim their streets #libya
bit.ly/pBAc9U
Libyan women train for military, hope for equality
Women were at the forefront of the protests that launched the anti-Gadhafi uprising in February, demanding democracy for the country and justice for loved ones who had been killed. Many women now hope the revolution will herald full equality.
“We should be equal and we’re fighting for the same goal, so why should the men have to carry the burdens of this fight while we sit and watch?” said Amal al-Obeidi, 35, who teaches business management at a high school in Benghazi.
“The least we can do is learn to protect ourselves so the men can focus on fighting Gadhafi on the front lines knowing that we have their back,” added al-Obeidi, who wore a headscarf and was brimming with enthusiasm.
She said Islam doesn’t forbid women from fighting alongside the men.
Full art.:
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/AL...
Huffington Post
Libyan fighters try to free civilians from town
SIRTE, Libya — A brigade commander of Libyan revolutionary fighters says his forces are communicating with families stuck inside of Moammar Gadhafi’s besieged hometown to try to secure them a way out.
Al-Tohami Abu Zayan said Tuesday that revolutionary forces can take the city “whenever we choose,” but are holding back to protect civilians.
For nearly two weeks, revolutionary forces have regularly fired mortars, Grad rockets and tanks shells into the city.
More:
www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20110...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
The liberation forces have taken over the seaport in the town of Sirte, one of the last 2 Gaddafi held towns #Libya #Sirte
Reuters
WRAPUP 2-Snipers hold up push into Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte
UN concerned for civilians trapped in Gaddafi’s home town
NATO warplanes strike the city
Advance by anti-Gaddafi units stalled near city centre (Updates with new details of fighting)
Snipers defending Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte held off an advance on Tuesday by interim government forces into the centre of the city, one of the last bastions of supporters of the ousted Libyan leader.
Read art.:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
(Video filmed March, 2011) 4:02min “Libyan aircraft transporting mercenaries to #Tripoli & #Benghazi” #Libya t.co/jRXccvf3
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ2_DKQvu-4
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
we ALL need to stand together to make sure that this phenomenal revolution succeeds.no one can do it alone
we will all help in the best way we can.
SumayyahG
Gaddafi’s mess took 42 years to create, We’d be naive to think all the problems will be solved in a few weeks. Have patience. #Libya
AJA:
Freedom Fighters are suspending their attack on Sirte City Centre to allow civilians to evacuate. City is under complete siege
AJA corrresp at northeastern front Sirte:
Fieldcommander ‘rebels’ killed by bullet of sniper.’
Flights between Egypt and Libya resume.
t.co/MXMCpODD
Reuters
Snipers hold up push into Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte
Snipers defending Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte held off an advance on Tuesday by interim government forces into the centre of the city, one of the last bastions of supporters of the ousted Libyan leader.
Forces of Libya’s new rulers, the National Transitional Council (NTC), broke weeks of resistance from Gaddafi loyalists to enter Sirte in recent days, but heavy gunfire has prevented them from reaching the city centre.
Read more here:
in.reuters.com/article/2011/09/27/idINI...
WNYC News
With Hope and Fear, Libyan Students Meet New Leaders in New York
Along the blocks surrounding United Nations headquarters, there have been plenty of sour faces the past week – angry protesters and frustrated neighbors trying to weave through the blue barricades. But the faces of one group of visitors to the UN were full of joy: Libyans.
Even a group of Libyan students who had been slated to become part of ousted President Moammar Gadhafi’s regime were smiling as they waited to meet Libya’s interim president at the country’s Mission to the UN last week.
Libya’s population is smaller than that of New York City and Gadhafi ruled for more than four decades.
But 28-year old Michigan State University student Mohammed Gibril said, during all his years in Libya, he never saw the man in person.
“You don’t see officials in Libya before,” Gibril said. “I mean, you hear about them but you don’t want to meet them, you don’t want to see them, you stay away from them,” he said.
He added: “We drove all the way from East Lansing, Michigan, here just to see the new leadership of Libya.”
Art.:
www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2011/se...
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
I think Amazigh people can better spend their time educating Arab Libyans instead of getting angry & blaming them. #Libya #Amazigh
The Amazigh are justified in their demands & I support them. :)
Khiria
Just to clear things up: #Gaddafi is not our president! He never was! He was just a crazy man holding us hostage. #Libya #ScrewGaddafi
Mohammed
@LouisFarrakhan #Usher, Nelly #Furtado, #Beyonce, Mariah #Carey all have returned #Libya money, when will you? #AskFarrakhan
The Freedom Group Daily is out! t.co/IxtCXFgS
Ben CNN
Photo: brothers reunited, al-Asfar, al-Shati, #libya. one had been fighting for 6 months. Their father died 2 weeks ago
yfrog.com/nufqpstj
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Apparently Gaddafi has spoken and claimed that he is inside Libya. #Libya #gaddafi
Please read:
A Kabyle professor from Paris joined the rebels in Adrar Inefusen, Nalut, Zwara, Yefren, Douiret, etc
Tamazgha. fr
Un voyage de rêve en pays amazigh
Aller en Libye était quelque chose d’inenvisageable pour moi. Oui, comment visiter un territoire sous domination du système de Kadhafi ? Même en Kabylie pourtant mon
pays natal, cela fait dix-huit ans que je n’y suis pas allé. En effet, pourquoi me rendre en terre kabyle sous régence quasi coloniale, voire purement colonisée? M’y rendre serait en effet pour moi, quelque part, l’acceptation du fait accompli, à savoir vivre dans son propre pays l’humiliation au quotidien…
Mais, ce lundi 25 juillet, tout a été enfin possible pour moi sous un autre ciel berbère. Oui, j’ai atterri sur un territoire amazigh débarrassé de la colonisation, un pays sous contrôle total d’Amazighs… Croisons les doigts pour que ce le soit pour toujours.
Read more here:
www.tamazgha.fr/Un-voyage-de-reve-en-pa...
Telegraph
British Government ‘not interested in finding Libyan killer of Yvonne Fletcher’
The colleague present at the murder of WPc Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan embassy in London has accused the British government of hampering the quest to find her kille
Retired police officer John Murray, who vowed to the dying WPc Fletcher that he would bring her murderers to justice when she was shot during a1984 demonstration, said the failure to resolve her case was linked to politics between Libya and Britain.
“It is a very embarrassing situation for the Metropolitan police. The rank and file want the murderer charged, but they have been prevented by political reasons. There is no doubt about that,” said Murray.
Full story:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
Background:
Murder of Yvonne Fletcher
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yvonne_...
flyingbirdies أكرم
German Embassy in #Tripoli will officially open it’s doors 2morrow after being closed 4 over 7 months, ONLY medical cases will be excepted.
Reuters:
Libya Amazigh demand recognition in new #constitution t.co/nJ3FLpv6 #
Berbers t.co/wZ8QHwyJ
t.co/wAVF6pY0
IMC_Worldwide Intl Medical Corps
War wounds aren’t just physical: we’re providing Psychological First Aid trainings to support mental health needs in #Libya.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libya postpones formation of new Govt
malonebarry Barry Malone
Developing: NTC commander at Sirte is saying they’ve been contacted by elders from inside the town who want to negotiate a truce #Libya
FreeBenghazi
(Video filmed March, 2011) 4:02min “Libyan aircraft transporting mercenaries to #Tripoli & #Benghazi” #Libya
t.co/jRXccvf3
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ2_DKQvu-4
Defense News
Britain Pulls Apache Helos from Libya Mission
LONDON – Britain said Sept. 26 it has agreed with NATO to withdraw the five Apache helicopters that it has in service over Libya, in a major sign that the alliance’s air mission is winding down.
Britain deployed the army attack helicopters in June to support forces fighting then-leader Moammar Gadhafi. The choppers were based on the Royal Navy carrier HMS Ocean, which has been based in the Mediterranean Sea.
“Given the current situation in Libya, NATO has agreed with the U.K. that HMS Ocean and her helicopter detachment can be released from Operation Unified Protector,” said Major Gen. Nick Pope, spokesman for Britain’s Chief of Defence Staff.
“The vessel is offloading equipment in Souda Bay and in due course will proceed through the Suez Canal en route to the Red Sea,” Pope said in a statement.
British warplanes continued their mission on Sept. 26, attacking a series of targets in Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte on Sept. 25, including a command-and-control installation and a psychological warfare center, added Pope.
On Sept. 21, British Defence Minister Liam Fox had said that the “good progress made to date” would allow the country to bring home four Typhoon fast jets and three Apaches.
NATO allies on the same day decided to extend their air campaign in Libya by another 90 days but said the mission would remain under constant review following the toppling of Gadhafi earlier this month.
The United Nations Security Council unanimously agreed last week to maintain the no-fly zone, which has been used to justify NATO air strikes against Gadhafi targets and came into force in March.
Musa Ibrahim & Gaddafi Electronic Army ( It would be nice to put a face to the (tweep) Name ! #Libya
pic.twitter.com/3aRFxT7c
Al Alrabiya,
military representative: ‘Truce in Sirte to guarantee departure of families from Gaddafi’s tribe.
HaraldDoornbos Harald Doornbos
#TalithaVanZon gearresteerd in NL, liefje #Moutassim in belegerd Stalingrad…eh…Sirt. Dat was vorig jaar toch een leukere zomer…
Please read ( Dutch):
RTL
Ex-model Talitha van Zon opgepakt
Voormalig fotomodel Talitha van Zon is vanochtend door de Marechaussee opgepakt op Schiphol. Ze wordt verdacht van mensenhandel. Het ex-model werd bekend nadat ze in Libië gewond was geraakt.
De Telegraaf meldt dat het Nederlandse model (39) in voorlopige hechtenis zou zijn genomen, nadat zij was verhoord over het meelokken van een vriendin naar Libië, eerder dit jaar. Die vriendin verklaarde later verkracht te zijn door de zoon van de voormalige leider Khadaffi. De vrouw deed bij terugkomst in Nederland aangifte tegen Talitha van Zon.
Ineens wereldnieuws
Van Zon werd ineens wereldnieuws toen ze in augustus uit een raam was gevallen van een hotel in Tripoli en daarbij in coma zijn geraakt. Later werd dat verhaal door haarzelf genuanceerd. Zij sprong zelf het hotel uit omdat zij bang was dat zij door Libische rebellen zou worden gestraft voor haar banden met de zoon van Muammar Khadaffi, Mutassim. Ze raakte niet in coma, maar brak slechts haar arm.
Internationaal escortbureau
Van Zon vluchtte weg uit Libië, maar daarmee was de kous nog niet af. Zij werd gezien als callgirl van Mutassim Khadaffi en werd ervan verdacht een internationaal escortbureau op te willen zetten. Ook zou ze dus haar vriendin naar Libië hebben gelokt.
Moszkowicz staat vriendin bij
Advocaat Bram Moszkowicz, die de vriendin bijstaat, heeft de Marechaussee een paar weken geleden verzocht om de vrouw op te pakken, meldt De Telegraaf. Diverse betrokkenen zijn sindsdien gehoord op Schiphol over Talitha van Zon.
Hulp aan alzheimerpatiënten
Van Zon wees later in het AD alle beschuldigingen van de hand. Zij was in Libië om een stichting voor alzheimerpatienten op te zetten, zei ze. Ook wilde zij in een vluchtelingenkamp gaan werken aan de Tunesische grens.
Source:
rtl.nl.msn.com/%28/actueel/rtlnieuws/bi...
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
by ChangeInLibya
نم قرير العين… فانت في اعظم عبادة… ثائر ليبي #libya #feb17 FF having little nap, what a seen…Can #Gaddafi do it?
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Commander Salem Juha’s message on behalf of freedom fighters of Misrata.
Juha:“Been talk about #Misrata thuwar which shouldn’t happen. Defending nation & answering call of mistreated” #Libya
Juha:“Misrata thuwar support NTC. Not pressuring them into making decisions about appointment of ministers” #
Juha:“Impossible 4 #Misrata 2 exploit their won blood or step over martyrs’ bodies2 gain position in ministry”
Juha:“Urge Misratis who r qualified/seek positions, 2 give opportunity2 other cities in this transition period”
t.co/QydNAu3q
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_8p3H7znMM
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
NTC Fighters in #Libya announce that they have full control of the Sirt port after fierce battles throughout the night.
NTC Fighters in #Libya enter Sirt from the East and clash with Gadaffi forces
NTC Fighters in #Libya have said that they now have control of the East part of Sirt.
AP
Italian and French energy companies have resumed some oil production in Libya, the Associated Press reports Eni, the Italian energy giant, announced on Monday that it had resumed oil production after months of interruption, with 15 wells being tapped. Production stood at about 31,900 barrels per day. Total, a French energy company, said that it had restarted production last week.
AFP
Troops of Libya’s new rulers seized control of the port in Sirte, Moamer Kadhafi’s birthplace, in fighting with the ousted leader’s diehards during the night, a commander said.
“There were clashes in the night and we now are controlling the port,” said Commander Mustafa bin Dardef of the Zintan brigade, which is attached to the National Transitional Council (NTC), the new ruling body of Libya.
The capture of the port, located in eastern Sirte, marks a strategic victory for the anti-Gaddafi forces as they battle for control of Sirte, one of Gaddafi ‘s last remaining strongholds.
AP
A brigade commander of Libyan revolutionary fighters says his forces are communicating with families stuck inside of Moammar Gadhafi’s besieged hometown to try to secure them a way out.
Al-Tohami Abu Zayan said Tuesday that revolutionary forces can take the city “whenever we choose,” but are holding back to protect civilians. More than one month
after seizing Tripoli and ending Gadhafi’s rule, revolutionary forces still face fierce resistance from Gadhafi loyalists in the towns of Sirte, Bani Walid and in pockets in the country’s desert south.
Early Tuesday, forces outside Sirte were preparing to fire rockets at the town when at least four mortars exploded near them. No one was injured.
Sirte
BBC
There has been heavy fighting in the Libyan city of Sirte, where hundreds of armed supporters of the new government continue to face strong resistance from forces loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi. A BBC correspondent on the outskirts of the city says the two sides have been exchanging machinegun fire, rockets and artillery shells.
Sirte
Reuters
A local military commander with Libya’s interim government said on Tuesday he was in talks about a truce with an elder from Muammar Gaddafi’s tribe inside the besieged city of Sirte.
Touhami Zayani, commander of the El-Farouk brigade outside Sirte, told Reuters the elder had contacted him and asked for safe passage for members of the tribe out of the city. Zayani said he agreed to allow families to leave and was still in negotiations on a way for armed Gaddafi loyalists to lay down their arms and leave Sirte.
Apaches UK
Britain said on Monday it has agreed with Nato to withdraw the five Apache helicopters that it has in service over Libya, in a major sign that the alliance’s air mission is winding down.
Anthem Olympics
Interesting fact:
The recording of the 205 national anthems for next year’s London Olympics has finally been wrapped up however the Libyan anthem remained the same old Gaddafi anthem. With Libya’s anthem already replaced by the country’s National Transitional Council (NTC), Olympics director believes he will be back in the studio soon.
Malta
One of the 16 patients who were flown to Malta from Libya for treatment last Tuesday passed away early yesterday afternoon, the government said in a statement.
UK
Britain’s help in overthrowing Muammar Gaddafi will never be forgotten and British companies can expect to play an instrumental role in rebuilding Libya, a senior diplomat told British executives on Tuesday. “I can assure you that British businesses have a role to play and hope you will work with us to build the future Libya,” Nacua, charge d’affaires at the country’s embassy in London told the meeting, attended by about 100 executives and closed to media other than Reuters.
Aljazeera
More than a hundred employees of Libya’s National Oil Company (NOC) protested outside its offices in Tripoli on Tuesday against what they said was a failure by managers to make a clean break with the past. “This is a new era, a new revolution. We paid a lot of blood. We are looking for a huge change,” said Haifa Mohammed, who said she worked in the company’s sustainable development department. “We expected this change to happen. But what we are seeing is the old people are still there, the bad people, the managers.
hominoid555 Russell
Khadafy says he is still in Libya, ready for martyrdom, well let’s face it he will probably get it !
aleithead Alastair Leithead
Coast road near #Sirte centre crazy. Just got caught up in a battle. And shelling on main road. Gaddafi people mounting strong defence
Karybdis
Qasr Abu Hadi #Sirte still appears to be under loyalist control as of 23 Sept. They had barricaded escape routes from the village that day.
Sirte
It has been confirmed on more than one occasion that 700 complex is ANTIG.
AP:
A brigade com of Libyan FFS says his forces are communicating with families stuck inside besieged #Sirte & try 2 secure them a way out.
#Libyan fighters try to free families stuck inside the besieged city #Sirte bit.ly/n9zdnB
Misrata Recovering 4m #Libya’s Bloody Battles, shops r opening & people are trying to resume something like normal life
n.pr/o1tc4w
BBC:
There has been heavy fighting in city of S#irte, where 100s of armed #NTC forces continue to face strong resistance from #Gaddafi forces
AJA
#FF’s entering #sirte from the east and are now clashing with #Gaddafi’s gangs .
Alj:
NTC Fighters controlled the eastern portion of #Sirte, the hometown of deposed Gaddafi and one of the last bastions supporting him
Reuters
Libya #NTC taken full control of the stockpile of chemical weapons & nuclear material 4m Gaddafi forces. #NATO officials said
iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
If the #ArabSpring was a movie, you’ve just seen the first 5 minutes.
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
1 dead, 12 injured as Benghazi and Misrata revolutionary fighters take control of sea port in Sirte from the Eastern front #Libya
hominoid555 Russell
7 Sea King Airborne Surveillance and Control helicopters, crews flew almost 100 operational sorties over Libya, returned home too soon.
felixkuehn Felix Kuehn
saw a truckload today so not all are missing RT @DaveedGR: estimated 20,000 surface-to-air missiles missing in Libya
t.co/K1wx9ybG
LosPlanez Walter
Teacher : “There are alot of immigrants from Libya in Minnesota.” Student: “Libya?” Teacher: “Yea..like f****** Africa…”
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CNN
Witnessing lengthy battle for Libyan city
We were told to be awake and ready to move at 4 a.m. The National Transitional Council fighters we were with were planning to launch a dawn assault on the Saharan city of Sabha.
All predictions indicated it would be one of the bloodiest battles yet. NTC officials said loyalist forces would use weaponry they hadn’t used before. They didn’t go into detail but it sounded ominous. Western intelligence sources told CNN the fighters in Sabha still loyal to Libya’s ousted leader, Moammar Gadhafi, had heavy artillery and would likely use it.
Read full art.:
www.cnn.com/2011/09/27/world/africa/bat...
Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا” t.co/jlNRyLz4
BBC
Red Cross ‘concern’ at Libya
Gaddafi loyalists are holding out in Libya. The BBC’s Peter Biles reports from the front line at Bani Walid and the Red Cross’s Dibeh Sakhr outlines concerns about the humanitarian situation in parts of the country.
Audio:
news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_95...
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Photo Album from the First Libyan National Amazigh Congress in Tripoli: t.co/yAeItV9y #Libya #Amazigh
Reuters
WRAPUP 4-Gaddafi loyalists “ask for truce” in besieged city
Commander near Sirte said offered Gaddafi’s tribe safe passage
Fierce fighting still going on in east of city
Libya exports first crude oil shipment in months
Tension in Tripoli between regional militias (Updates throughout)
Read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/27/liby...
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
“This is one of the greatest stockpiles of these weapons that has ever gone on the loose.” t.co/LrXlF73a (via @ABC)
FromJoanne Joanne
#Gaddafi spoke on Tuesday and claimed on Local Radio in #Bani #Walid that the #NTC would get “An Unexpected shock” #Libya
Osama
Why do ppl see the gain of a seat in powerful positions as a trophy rather than a heavy responsibility? Skewed morals perhaps??
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Main Eastern gate of Sirte 26-09-2011 Youtube -
t.co/tI1jbnR9 #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xzJuVDV3hQ
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli #NOC Employees PROTEST They want #Gaddafi Regime Managers Removed from their position “Yes 2 justice No to favoritism” #Libya #Oil
alexrossiSKY alex rossi
Another mortar is launched into the centre of #Sirte. #Libya #Feb17 pic.twitter.com/rXNHYdTf
hominoid555 Russell
NATO says about 200,000 Libyan civilians are still threatened by forces loyal to the country’s former regime and 22,457,763 in Syria
N_Benghazi ن
When Libyans heard Emirati’s calling Sheikh Zayed “Zayed alKhair” they started calling Gaddafi “Naagis al Khair.”
GRAFIXEL
“Threats have been sent to television channels, warning that women should not appear on the small screen” #Tripoli #Libya #Fatwas
FromJoanne Joanne
#FLASH #GoodNEWS 1st crude #oil 381,000 barrels cargo Ship sailed from Marsa elHariga #Libya Sept.25 bound for #Italy
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Huge pro-amazigh rights rallies today all over Tripoli – martyr’s square especially #libya #Amazigh #feb17
malonebarry Barry Malone
Tunisian appeal court decides to free former Libyan PM Al Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi who was jailed for 6 months last week, lawyer says #Libya
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
day of shelling in the western front of #Sirte NTC fighters not advancing they closed entrance to the city with containers #Libya
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
NTC Fighters in #Libya in the Eastern region push closer to Sirt and lose a main commander who was shot by a sniper
just spoken to friends there,they havent entered Sirt yet but are getting closer
FromJoanne Joanne
#Libya s Marine Ports are Safe Since 3 weeks #NTC fighters stepped up security they set up checkpoints at all entrances
#Gaddafi tribe elder is negotiating via SatellitePhone with ElFarouk brigade Commander Safe passage 4families +Militias Out of #Sirte
AJEnglish television station reported that #NTC fighters had taken control of the eastern portion of #Sirte #Libya
#FLASH #NTC officials on Tuesday asked FIGHTERS from Other Regions to LEAVE #Tripoli warning their presence could Destabilize #Libya
#Trident #Hope tanker sailed from #Mellitah #Libya on Tuesday with 1st cargo of #Condensate ( condensate is In between Gas and Crude Oil)
(fyi: Melittah = port on the west coast)
Colonel #Bani : Armed Presence is unhealthy I ask kata’iba (brigades) which r concerned for the future of #Libya to exit capital #Tripoli
BREAKING The #Tunisia Appeal Court released the #Libya former prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi via #AlArabiya
#NTC Mustafa #alHuni on Tuesday: Consultations have led to a decision to POSTPONE the Formation of Government until after liberation #Libya
Tunisian court frees former Libya prime minister
Read more:
shabablibya.org/news/tunisian-court-fre...
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Poor healthcare in Libya
Medical staff at a hospital in Sabha in Libya spoke on Saturday about the struggles they face in meeting the needs of their patients due to difficult living conditions. They also faced difficulties in their work during the rule of Muammar Qaddafi and have been under intense pressure since the start of the conflict.
a doctor at the hospital said, “Sabha Hospital is like any other hospital in Libya. All hospitals in the country have collapsed. Unfortunately the former regime did not care for law and order so if a hospital couldn’t function in normal circumstances how can it expected to do so in a war?”
Injured fighters in Libya’s conflict are among those being treated in the wards alongside innocent civilians including newborns.
The United Nations has identified healthcare as a priority for Libya’s interim authorities as they seek to restore stability.
U.N. Under-Secretary-General B. Lynn Pascoe drew attention to four key challenges facing the National Transitional Council, beginning with addressing national reconciliation, unity and ensuring that all military groups are brought under a unified command and the political authority of the NTC is carried out quickly.
Local authorities have indicated an urgent need for health items, food, water and other assistance.
Meanwhile, troops of Libya’s new rulers seized control of the port in Sirte, Qaddafi’s birthplace, in fighting with the ousted leader’s troops.
The capture of the port, located in eastern Sirte, marks a strategic victory for the anti-Qaddafi forces as they battle for control of Sirte, one of Qaddafi’s last remaining strongholds.
Speaker:
a doctor at the hospital
Voice:
Mustapha Ajbaili
Video:
www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/27/1...
Karybdis
East Front #Sirte . Fighters have moved north and taken the port from the main front on the highway. A #gadhadhfa elder is negotiating w NTC
Michael
E #Sirte #Libya frnt xtend up to Port frm circle. 1st time G has to do other than point arty E & infantry W.
t.co/SA3DgSeL
Reuters
Exclusive: First Libya crude cargo bound for Italy
Libya’s first crude oil cargo to be shipped in months sailed from the eastern port of Marsa el Hariga on September 25 bound for Italy, Libya’s port authority chief told Reuters on Tuesday.
Full story:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/27/us-l...
LibyaLiberty Hend Bashir Amry
If they say on ‘humanitarian’ grounds, I’m gonna scream. RT@ShababLibya Reuters: Tunisian court frees former Libya prime minister
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: Reporter went to #Misrata today & asked me for help contacting local military leaders. But they are leading the fight at Sirte.
#Sirte:
Street to street fighting happening now reported by #Freedomfighter commander. #Libye
LA Times
Returned U.S. envoy to Libya doesn’t see long-term insurgency
Reporting from Tripoli, Libya — Fugitive leader Moammar Kadafi remains a danger and Libya faces “stubborn resistance” from former regime loyalists, but the U.S. ambassador to Libya said Thursday that he did not envision a long-term insurgency against the nation’s fledgling government.
“I don’t think the Libyan people, after all the blood that has been shed in the last six months, are going to let their revolution be hijacked,” Ambassador Gene Cretz said after a flag-raising ceremony at the ambassador’s residence, now the site of the U.S. Embassy.
Full story:
articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/23/world/...
Tweeting Tripoli
ITV used video games footage in documentary about Libya and the IRA: t.co/VMjul2VX LOL, it’s so obvious it’s fake!!!
Aljazeera
Libya
A Tunisian court Tuesday dismissed an illegal entry conviction against Muammar Gaddafi’s ex-prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi who had fled Libya to the neighbouring north African country, AFP news agency reports.
“It’s a dismissal. Mr Mahmudi and his two co-accused have been acquitted by the appeals court in Tozeur,” the lawyer Aref Rouiss told AFP.
Prime minister until the last days of Gaddafi’s regime, Mahmudi was arrested last week with two others near Tamaghza on the south-western border with Algeria. His lawyer said the co-accused were his nephew Karim al-Mahmudi and Libyan car dealer Fethi Hamel.
Swiftly tried by a court in Tozeur, some 450km from the capital Tunis, he was sentenced to six months in prison for illegal entry into Tunisia.
His lawyers appealed that decision which was overruled Tuesday by a higher court.
The dismissal was later confirmed to AFP by a spokesman for Tunisian Justice Minister Chokri Nafti.
According to Reuters news agency, Libya’s interm rulers have not asked Tunisia to extradite Mahmudi.
“He is a free man,” said source from the justice ministery.
News Republic
Anti-Kadhafi fighters capture hometown port
Anti-Kadhafi fighters overran the port of Sirte early Tuesday, scoring a strategic victory in their battle for control of the defeated Libyan leader’s birthplace, his loyalists’ most important bastion.
Hundreds of fearful civilians have fled the Mediterranean coastal city in recent days as the new regime’s forces have closed in from east, south and west.
But as the National Transitional Council troops zero in on the centre of the sprawling city where Kadhafi diehards are believed to be holed up, the threat of destructive urban warfare street-by-street hangs over the remaining residents.
“There were clashes in the night and we now are controlling the port,” said
Commander Mustafa bin Dardef of the NTC’s Zintan Brigade.
The port lies on the north side of the city but it is the city centre that Kadhafi’s compound and military bunkers lie and NTC fighters said they expected his remaining loyalists to put up fierce resistance.
“As we move closer to the city centre, it’s going to be face-to-face street fighting and we are preparing for it,” said one fighter, Ali Zaidi.
Full story:
www.news-republic.com/Web/ArticleWeb.as...
(Reuters)
Algeria’s govt has ordered members of Gaddafi’s family in exile on its territory to stop making political pronouncements.
LIBYAN
someone have to be held accountable for not requesting to deport #AlBaghdadi #AlMahmodi from #Tunis. #Libya
libertad
#Algerie demande a Aïcha Kadhafi de ne pas faire de la politique pendant son séjour dans le pays #Libye #Libya #feb17
Iman
its as though the only thing worse than Ghadaffi is a female Ghadaffi
Aljazeera
Algeria’s government has ordered members of Muammar Gaddafi’s family in exile on its territory to stop making political pronouncements, after Gaddafi’s daughter Aisha angered the new Libyan government by telling the media her father was still fighting to hold on to power.
“It is clear that the message has been passed on to Aisha and the other members of the family that they should, from now on, respect their status as guests in Algeria and remove themselves completely from any political action,” Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci was quoted as saying by Algeria’s official APS news agency. – Reuters
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
Apparently the two times the #baniwalid FF retreated from the front was orders by ntc, although civillian areas were being hit.
Also, the ntc went behind the backs of FF and thuwar on the frontlines and was doing its own negotiations with Gaddafi forces.
wheelertweets James Wheeler
by LibyaNewMedia
#Libya: Interim government now trying to get 400 injured fighters to go from Tunis to Jordan. Doctors & injured anxious & upset. Me too.
Naharnet
Gadhafi Says Still in Libya, Ready for Martyrdom
Fugitive Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi has told his supporters that he is still fighting on the ground and is ready to die a martyr, a loyalist website reported on Tuesday.
“Heroes have resisted and fallen as martyrs and we too are awaiting martyrdom,” the website of the defunct Allibiya state television channel quoted Gadhafi as saying in a speech broadcast on local radio in Bani Walid, one of his last remaining bastions.
The toppled despot hailed the fierce resistance put up by his loyalists in Bani Walid, a desert city, 170 kilometers southeast of Tripoli, which has resisted a bloody siege by forces of the National Transitional Council for several weeks.
The region’s Warfalla tribe was a major source of recruitment for the elite troops of Gadhafi’s regime and the strongman told its members that they were continuing in that martial tradition.
“Through your jihad, you are imitating the exploits of your ancestors,” he said.
“You should know that I am on the ground with you. They lie when they say Gadhafi is in Venezuela or Gadhafi is in Niger. I am among my people and an unexpected shock awaits this clique of agents in the coming days.”
Source Agence France Presse
4Adam
Confirmed by #South #Africa Football Association that SA will host the 2013 #Africa #Cup of #Nations replacing #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#SIRTE Gaddafi Men R TRAPPED #NTC fighters R South East and West To the north is the sea #NATO Navy is blocking escape from North #Libya
#SIRTE Gaddafi Militia and supporters cant escape anymore All entrances are b#ocked with Containers & Checkpoints #Libya
#FLASH #Syria TV station shows Saif al Islam #Gaddafi rallying forces Urging them to retake #Tripoli #Libya
ITV have Apologised for using #Arma2 video game footage in its documentary on #Gaddafi supporting the #IRA thetim.es/qPiykh
Mahmud Nacua #Libya envoy wants African states to prevent #Gaddafi sabotage goo.gl/K1uIo #Libya
Vanguard
Libya envoy wants African states to prevent Gaddafi sabotage
London – The international community must put pressure on African countries backing Muammar Gaddafi to ensure he and his family do not sabotage the country’s fight for freedom, a Libyan diplomat said.
“At political level I think Libya will need support from the international community to put pressure on those African countries who still support Gaddafi and benefit from his money,” Mahmud Nacua, charge d’affaires at the Libyan embassy in London, told Reuters in London on Tuesday.
“The international community has a vital role to stop any sabotage from Gaddafi, his sons and his supporters, especially in the south near the border,”
Read more:
www.vanguardngr.com/2011/09/libya-envoy...
Tweeting Tripoli
NTC, apparently, did not request extradition of Baghdadi. If true, I will remove “I support NTC” from my profile. That’s it.
you should see how much people are furious here in Tripoli. This is a fatal mistake. Baghdadi is as wanted as Gaddafi.
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
I posted 4 photos on Facebook in the album “Wounded fighters, September 26, 2011” fb.me/14Ty6POOn
I posted 8 photos on Facebook in the album “Families flee Sirte (September 26, 2011)”
fb.me/K09YGU0t
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
Saif al Islam l hijo de Gadafi aparece n unas imágenes arengando a sus seguidores a recapturar #Trípoli #Libia
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
NTC didnt aske the Tunisian Government to hand over Al Baghdadi Al Mahmoudi. What is going on ?
NTC Fighters in #Libya in the west & south sides of Sirt give the G loyalists some time to hand over weapons and allow families to leave.
Families coming out of Sirt and Sabha in #Libya dont even know that Tripoli has fallen.
Tripolitanian Libyan
#NTC have yet to ask for extradition of #Gaddafi officials, are they waiting for them to die of old age first? #Libya
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Today I met Libya’s pilots Abdulla Salhi & Ali El Rabti-defected to Malta Feb 21 & refused orders to bomb civilians yfrog.com/nycu2hj
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
good to see #FF on front line using eye protection and body armour. allvoices.com/contributed-ne…
Photos of Hannibal Gaddafi and his wife Aline Kaff Dear Alin poured Boiling Water over Nanny #Shweyga #Mullah
goo.gl/8nZuE #Libya
#Fighters found Photos of Hannibal and his evil wife Aline Skaff on Hannibal’s laptop
goo.gl/VuNh9 #Libya
ianbirrell ianbirrell
The revolution belongs to all Libyans, secular or not – interesting article by Abdel Hakim Belhaj bit.ly/oRY7Ey
Tripolitanian Libyan
#NTC have yet to form a unified security force for maintaining peace and security in #Tripoli. #Libya
FreeBenghazi
“There is a state of chaos in #Sabha with looting, theft & worse.” #Libya v #SabhaMediaCentre
“There lots of climbers. Those who ystrday called thuwar ‘rats’ & killed innocent #Libya’ns, are now ‘thuwar’.” v #SabhaMediaCentre
JohnDelaGuardia John D. Dela Guardia
#Sirte → #Tripoli – to de-rig and rig the SNG equipment. I need a more reliable vehicle (Land Cruiser, Tundra, 4×4)
MilitantNews Stephen Morgan
#Libya Islamists warn NTC of “huge risks… or the serious … reaction” if they are excluded from a share of power
gu.com/p/327nx/tw
FreeBenghazi
“(Opportunist who claim to be thuwar) pose great danger to Feb17 bcos they don’t have any principles” #Libya v #SabhaMediaCentre
Libyan
#NTC still has no control over various armed revolutionary groups in #Libya.
#NTC has still not provided funding for injured revolutionaries being treated outside of #Libya.
liveTripoli
It takes time, effort and tons of patience for rebuilding. So know, we are facing difficulties we will continue to do so, because we want.
…change…good change
At the same time let’s keep it balanced. Keep the new government on its feet. Now the government works for the people not vice versa..!
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Sirte is now available as a clickable city on our Libya video archive map bit.ly/pfUeiK #libya
Tripolitanian Libyan
I don’t understand why Islamists like #Sallabi and #Belhaj insist on playing political games now, we’re in transition, calm down. #Libya
#NTC’s Jalil has already said Islam will be integrated into #Libyan law, why does #Belhaj insist on forcing Islamists into politics?
Abdel Hakim Belhaj claims that #Libya’s Islamists are being marginalized, when will he get it? #Libya should be a secular state.
Tweeting Tripoli
“NTC failed to ask for Baghdadi. If true,…………….” go on say what will you do?
Reuters
Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam shown rallying Libyans-TV
A television station broadcast footage on Tuesday of what it said was Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam dated Sept. 20, apparently rallying his forces in one of the last strongholds of the Libyan leader, now surrounded by rebels.
“This land is the land of your forefathers. Don’t hand it over,” Saif al-Islam, shouted to a crowd of followers, according to the footage broadcast by Arrai TV.
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
Guardian
British trade mission seeks to make most of Libyan goodwill
Britain has moved quickly to explore opportunities for boosting business in Libya, hoping to build on the goodwill of its support for the administration that has overthrown
Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
Lord Green, minister for trade and investment, led a UK delegation including representatives of BP and Shell for talks in Tripoli on Monday with the National Transitional Council (NTC) ministers dealing with the economy, transport, education and communications. “This is not about signing contracts, it’s a dialogue where we need to understand Libyan priorities for economic development and construction,” he said.
Read more:
www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/sep/26...
zaidbenjamin Zaid Benjamin
It seems that we (Me and Reuters) were victims of an old video by Saif al-Islam which was shown on al-Rai TV today. pic.twitter.com/xpcnSIdw
The video shown on al-Rai TV today was presented as an evidence to ICC against Saif #Gaddafi. It was posted on Youtube last February #Libya
“Exposure” Gaddafi and the IRA on ITV itv.com/itvplayer/vide… @itvplayer #Libya via @Abssi
She would scare the daylight out of me 2 wake up next to this 1 goo.gl/smTau Aline Skaff Wife Hannibal Gadafi via @septimius_sever
Guardian
Libyan Islamists must have share in power, warns leader
Libya’s Islamist groups “will not allow” secular politicians to exclude or marginalise them in the intensifying battle for power in the post-Gaddafi era, the country’s most powerful Islamist leader has said.
Abdel Hakim Belhaj, head of the Tripoli Military Council and founder of a jihadi group
that was later disbanded, appears to be firing a shot across the bows of liberal, western-backed rivals after negotiations over broadening the rebel administration foundered.
Read more:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/27/li...
Guardian
The revolution belongs to all Libyans, secular or not
It was 20 years ago that I left my hometown, Tripoli, in search of refuge. Colonel Gaddafi’s security apparatus had the country in an iron grip; the eyes of its agents were everywhere. No one was safe. I have lived in many countries since, dedicating all my efforts to one objective: the overthrow of the dictatorship in order to bring about real change in our country. A change that would guarantee a dignified life, freedom and justice.
Full art.:
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/s...
FromJoanne Joanne
#SIRTE Port + University lie on northeast side Gaddafi compound +Military Bunkers lie in Center #GaddafiMen #NowFighting #InCivilianClothes
#Zintan Brigade discovered MASSIVE Amount all kind WEAPONS in abt 100 VillageHouses even in Hospital several Km S of #Sirte via #AFP #Libya
Jumana
I trust #Libyans in deciding their govt institutions. Diverse ideology is not bad,if not violent/repressive.And I’m ‘secular’:-)
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
they said Hun was shelled on the 20th from those groups not a big number but 1 commander told me not to drive at night
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
hundreds of families leave everyday. there will be no fighting for a few days to let more leave.
Heba
another Musa Ebrahim rumor,this time he’s been reportedly caught wearing women’s clothes n #Heesha west of #Sirte . ooh I’d love that xD
Tweeting Tripoli
LOL, loved Suliman Dogha’s observation on Libya-TV: Gaddafi was fair & just in distributing death equally between the Arabs & the Amazighs.
Alex_Ogle:
Fantastic timing captures Libyan rebels firing rocket, by Reuters’ Goran Tomasevic near Sirte >>
i.imgur.com/ejAaF.jpg
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Having mbakbaka with the tripoli brigade. Checkpoint duty and some fun in martyrs square later #libya #feb17 #Tripoli
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 28th 2011
9/28/11
9.28.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya –
goo.gl/JhnQW
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Tue: Tornado GR4s conducted strikes on large ammunition & vehicle storage depot serving as one of main bases for Qadhafi’s garrison in Sirte
Six guided Paveway bombs were dropped, scoring direct hits which destroyed multiple military facilities within depot inc. storage bunkers.
HMS Bangor is providing security to merchant shipping by conducting precautionary mine counter-measure surveys. #Libya
Aljazeera summary of Sept. 27
What you need to know:
- At least seven anti-Gaddafi fighters have been killed, and more than 40 wounded, as the NTC’s push into Sirte continued today. There were fierce clashes in the east of the city, even as an NTC commander outside the western side of the city said that he was in talks with a tribal elder in the city regarding a possible truce. A humanitarian crisis appears to be brewing inside the city, which is Gaddafi’s hometown.
- A new video of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has emerged, showing him whipping up support amongst followers.
- Algeria has told off Gaddafi family members who are in the country seeking refuge
for taking part in political activities.
- A Tunisian appeals court has freed the former prime minister of Libya under Gaddafi, Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahdoudi.
NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
Musa Ibrahim arrested between Gates 30 & 50 in #Sirte, disguised as a woman wearing a veil. Inshallah its true & not another rumor #libya
WefaqLibya: the one who was arrested is not #MoussaIbrahim but a well-known traitor Hmed Ghuma حمد غومة
www.facebook.com/WefaqLibyaAr #Libya
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
moussa ibrahim’s brother lays in misrata prison, a bullet in his back and partially paralyzed, said #Sirte won’t surrender
some families won’t surrender b/c think rebels will rape their women, that’s what Motassim has apparently been saying #sirte
Jonny_Hallam reported by #WefaqLibyaAr FB page from #Misrata cc @Abdullah_SH #Mousa Ibrahim arrested #Libya
Omar
I will only open my bottle of champagne when Gaddafi is caught. I have it in the fridge since last February.
Sirtawi
News coming in from #Sirte that the son of late AbdelSalam AlZadma has executed his own uncle Ali AlZadma under mysterious circumstances.
BenedictMPWhite Benedict White
Well, for the most part #gaddafi was fair! he was evil to most people.
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
Three reported cases of gunfire aimed at ambulances leaving #baniwalid inside #tarhuna by unidentified pockets of G forces.
FreeBenghazi
Relative calm on Sirte’s western front, all. Fighters reinforcing their positions & helping families flee #Sirte. #Libya
Clashes between fighters & Gaddafi mercenaries on Sirte’s eastern front. Fighters have gained control of the port
Gaddafi forces shelled fighters with mortars & GRAD rockets today. There no were injuries as a result of shelling
SIRTE
Video of wounded & martyred being brought in from front-lines. (0:46min Fighter is from #Sirte)
www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1741219026...
FromJoanne Joanne
That would b a #STUNNING Feat I might celebrate tomorrow if its true ! FF ARRESTED #Mussa #Ibrahim #Gaddafi near #Sirte #Libya
United4Libya
I trust #WefaqLibyaAr FB page from #Misrata: FF have arrested #Mussa #Ibrahim #Gaddafi near #Sirt. he is #Gaddafi’s spokesperson and cousin.
FromJoanne Joanne
#MISRATA Wants AbdulRahman #alSwehli 2get interim Prime Minister post Tribal leaders warned exclusion unacceptable goo.gl/pZfdx
Nah…
RT @NadineFarkash Musa Ibrahim arrested between Gates 30 & 50 #Sirte disguised as veiled woman Inshallah its true #libya
#FLASH NTC Ali #AlTarhouni on 1st Flight delivered 20 boxes of 20-dinar notes($16 million)Tuesday to #Sabha Bank goo.gl/arLsM #Libya
Tripolitano
he was one of the first in Benghazi, then Misurata, then Martyr sq in Tripoli. Now Sebha. Respect for AlTarhouni, regardless!
HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
its so cold now in Libya that Saif is wearing a fur collar-this video has been around for months
youtube.com/watch?v=K9ru5F… via @youtube
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9ru5FEQVG4&fea...
Osama
What is it with these gaddafis keep spawning, after being “killed”, like a bad garden weed! Someone spray some herbicide on them plse!:)
gaddafi wants to b a martyr daddy style! NEVER FIGHT & die of OLD AGE!
Hana S.
Talked to my uncle’s wife today. They fled #Sirte yesterday and are now in #Tripoli. She told me horrific stories of their suffering there.
My uncle’s wife said my cousins & uncle were harassed in #Sirte just bcoz my dad didn’t leave #Misrata since #Feb17, called him a traitor.
My uncle’s family came under severe pressure from relatives loyal to G especially after dad came on tv in Misrata condemning #gaddaficrimes
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Malta’s Independence Day commemorated in Benghazi is.gd/V7xIge #Libya #Benghazi
‘Who will control #Libya’s new media?’
goo.gl/AWuCY #feb17 #gaddaficrimes #Libya
#NATO official says #Libya operations remain fluid. Committed to protecting the population as long as needed.
goo.gl/Ah4QQ #feb17
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
Go on this group (Arabic) to find a list of the martyred and injured on the #baniwalid front upto sept 20.
bit.ly/rpXJw3
derek_brower Derek Brower
The world must help with Abu Salim, quickly – It was a disturbing introduction to Tripoli. A mass grave had…
tumblr.com/xdo4xixsq6
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
Daw Salheen Aljedik, arrested from Oct 93- Aug ’11, for the 93 attempted coup. Head of military tactics in #baniwalid, martyred tonight.
Daw Salheen Aljedik, arrested from Oct 93- Aug ’11, for the 93 attempted coup. Head of military tactics in #baniwalid was martyred tonight.
Four deaths today in #baniwalid in one family: Aljedik. Their first martyr was in 1997, executed by Gaddafi. May they RIP. Allah yarhamhom.
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
#US is working closely with Libya’s #NTC to secure all arms stockpiles, amid concerns over weapons proliferation #WhiteHouse said Tues
A plane carrying the injured from Misurata to Jordan after a malfunction in one of its engines had to turn back.
Breaking: Ahrar TV: Ghat liberated after G Forces surrendered and arrival of reinforcements of Cabao & Ubari FFs #feb17 #Libya Allah Akbar
#Libya BBC Fears grow for 200,000 civilians caught in fierce fighting
bbc.in/noFSLD
#Libya After the “news” of how easily Sabha fell to NTC forces, it is crisscrossed by checkpoints where ppl can enter NTC or loyalist areas
Libya To gain support NTC gives $16M to Sabha, but continues to face stiff resistance www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-eas...
#Libya Humanitarian crisis in Sirte worsens as lack of clean water is causing an"epidemic of water-borne diseases" especially among children
#Libya After repelling the attack by 100 pro-Gaddafi fighters on Ghadames, local leaders report they are reorganizing for another attack
#Libya UN aid coordinator also says 24,000 have fled Bani Walid, which is 1 in 4 and most went south, not to Tripoli
Libya UN aid coordinator says 1,700 people have fled from Sirte so far – it has a population of 100,000
Gheblawi Ghazi Gheblawi
More Photos of last night 27/9/2011 Libyan #Amazigh rally in #Tripoli (Yefren Media Center)
on.fb.me/nBJzrF
on.fb.me/n1bfzT
wheelertweets James Wheeler
An injured FF friend just told me, calmly but firmly, that when all of #Libya is free, they’ll need another revolution to fix the NTC.
LibyaInMe حنين ~ Hanin
Salah Bader. Born in 1991. Tripoli hero who along w/ his friends would secretly obtain & give FFs Gaddafi units’ mov’ts feb17martyrs.com/?p=839
NATO NATO
In 2 hours (14:00 Brussels) follow the live streaming of the press briefing on #Libya goo.gl/DAPPb #NATO
WyreDavies Wyre Davies
Re #Reuters flash. Suddenly everyone in #Libya seems to know where #Gaddafi and his sons are. Why now and why so certain?
Comprehensive report of latest developments #Libyaupdates, via @al_omari #Libya Sep27
Libya, Sep 27, 2011
By Hussein Al-Omari on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 6:31pm
(Sources: Aljazeera)
1. Gaddafi spoke via a recorded message aired by Bani Walid radio station promising fighting till martyrdom.
2. Gaddafi speech was directed at his supporters from Warfelleh who are fighting in Bani Walid and Sirte calling it “Jihad”
3. Gaddafi added that the oil of Libya belongs to the Libyan people and not to NATO countries.
4. The revolutionary fighters are now controlling the port of Sirte. East of the city.
5. Negotiations are under way with elders of the Gaddafi tribe to lay down weapns and surrender peacefully.
6. The local front leader of the revolutionary fighters agreed to secure a safe passage.
7. The revolutionary fighters entered Sirte from the easter front.
8. Fighting erupted in he city and tens of the revolutionary fighters are injured.
9. One of the local leaders of the revolutionary fighters was killed by snipers fire.
10. The revolutionary fighters control Dawran Island in Sirte connecting east wit west.
aleithead Alastair Leithead
Watching battle for #Sirte from E overview. NATO bombing, rockets firing in & out. More #Libya civilians leaving town
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libyans wait, and worry, as government delays forming cabinet is.gd/Q2Whur #Libya
EXCLUSIVE: Sharara field ready for exports within two weeks – petroleum economist www.petroleum-economist.com/Article/290... #Libya
Reuters: Libya’s Gaddafi hiding near Algeria border: NTC official is.gd/IGrN0n #Libya
AJE:
Radio active material discovered in Libya
The discovery of a large quantity of so called yellowcake in the Libyan town of Sabha has shocked observers.
The radioactive chemical which can be used in the production of nuclear weapons was found unguarded.
Tony Birtley toured the warehouse where the milled powder is stored.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7LkuH2FOCE
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
#Feb17Jokes #Gaddafi says in his Green Book. A Man is a Male and a Lady is a Female. Now only a genius could figure that out. #Libya
There R indications that #Gaddafi is hiding among the Tuareq ppl around Ghadames near the #Algeria n border
Tweeting Tripoli
Large quantities of petrol found hidden under desert sand. Gaddafi was a mad man for sure!!!
yfrog.com/nzpd2rdj
yfrog.com/hsx1thuij
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Alarabia: Mousa alKouni, Touareg, NTC member: ‘It isn’’t possible that Gaddafi is in Ghadames area, he is in the far south, protected from..
Touaregs from Niger. The group that has been fighting last sunday in Ghadames is a group of Gaddafi fighters’. There is an old division
.between different Touaregs.’ fmr gen Gebril: ‘It s a group of Gad officers that tries to escape to Algeria, therefore the fight sunday.’
So different NTC officials come with different versions about Gaddafi whereabouts…is it unexperience? psychological warfare?
Alarabia: Commander of ‘rebels’ at northern Bani Walid front killed.
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
#Qaddafi’s son Sail al-Islam believed to be in Bani Walid, other son Mutassem in Sirte: NTC official #AlArabiya
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi fighters launching an assault to take control of #Sirte airport
#Libya, a few hundred fighters taking part in operation aimed at securing southern flank of #Sirte where airport is located
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi fighters firing rockets at #Sirte airport
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi forces still haven’t advanced towards #Sirte airport but they are pounding it with #katyusha rockets
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi forces encircling #Sirte from the east, west and south but #Gaddafi loyalists still not refusing to surrender
Gaddafi battalions in Ghat surrendered to #FF after the arrival of reinforcements fr Awbari and Kabaw. They say “border area under control”
Hamza Malek
Young girl wearing a traditional #Libyan outfit during an #Amazigh festival in #Tripoli #Libya
pic.twitter.com/FAKPKs5u
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
This #Saif footage that Al-Ra’y TV are claiming is “new” is in reality so old that the #BBC put it in a news pkge in March!
Al-Ra’y TV is putting out video of #Saif #Gaddafi from Feb11 www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9ru5FEQVG4&fea... and claiming it is NEW from 20.09.11. #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9ru5FEQVG4&fea...
BREAKING: Red Cross to set up field hospital in #Malta for 200 #Libyans in urgent need of medical care via @ksnavarra #libya #feb17
malonebarry Barry Malone
Gaddafi believed hiding in Ghadamis, near Algerian border, protected by Tuareg tribesmen, NTC official tells Reuters #Libya
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Malta PM ‘looks forward’ to oil exploration talks with #Libya, ‘but at the proper time’ | Oil exp is ‘black chapter’ in relations
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
As Thousands Leave #Libya, and Jobs, #Niger Feels Impact
nyti.ms/pY7l4c
Peter Clifford
FIERCE FIGHTING CONTINUES IN SIRTE – 2 NTC COMMANDERS SHOT DEAD BY SNIPERS:
SAIF GADDAFI ISSUES VIDEO RALLYING CRY VIA AL-RAI TV BUT MOSTLY OLD FOOTAGE:
“YELLOWCAKE” SITE AT SABHA REVEALS OLD MISSILES AND MYSTERIOUS SEALED CONTAINERS:
TEENAGERS VOLUNTEER TO CLEAN STREETS AND ISLAMISTS SUPPORT DEMOCRACY IN A NEW LIBYA
Fierce fighting continued in Sirte yesterday, particularly around the port area, the university and the Mahari hotel to the north-east, with 6 NTC fighters killed and 45 wounded.
Included among the dead, Tuesday, were 2 NTC commanders shot by snipers.
Al Arabiya
Libya’s NTC official says Qaddafi hiding near Algeria border
Muammar Qaddafi is believed to be hiding near the western town of Ghadamis near the Algerian border under the protection of Touareg tribesmen, a senior Libyan military official said.
“One tribe, the Touareg, is still supporting him and he is believed to be in the Ghadamis area in the south,” Hisham Buhagiar, a senior military official of the Libya’s new leadership, told Reuters by telephone late on Tuesday.
Buhagiar, coordinator of the hunt for Qaddafi, said the ousted Libyan leader was believed to have been in the southern town of Samnu a week ago before moving to Ghadamis, which lies 550 km (345 miles) southwest of Tripoli.
He said Qaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam was in Bani Walid and another son, Mutassem, was in Sirte, the family’s home town.
“They are both thinking about leaving Libya maybe to Niger,” Buhagiar added.
Sirte, one of the last bastions of support for Qaddafi, is encircled by forces of Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) and under bombardment from NATO warplanes.
Taking Sirte, 450 km east of Tripoli, would bring the NTC closer to gaining control of the whole country, a goal that has eluded it more than a month after its fighters seized
the capital.
Buhagiar said most tribes in the south were against Qaddafi except for the Touareg, who still supported him.
“There has been a fight between Touareg tribesmen who are loyal to Qaddafi and Arabs living there (in the south). We are negotiating. The Qaddafi search is taking a different course,” Buhagiar said, without elaborating.
Qaddafi’s daughter Aisha, her brothers Hannibal and Mohammed, their mother Safia and several other family members fled to Algeria in August and have lived there since.
Fleeing civilians
Anti-Qaddafi forces overran Sirte’s port on Tuesday, but in the other stronghold of supporters of the ousted Libyan leader, the new regime’s fighters were beaten back by fierce resistance.
On the political front, a member of Libya’s new ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) said formation of a transitional government, already delayed by disputes over power-sharing, had been postponed until they had won control of the entire country.
Capturing the port at Sirte marked a key victory in the battle for control of Qaddafi’s birthplace, but intense fighting carried on inside the city.
Hundreds of fearful civilians have fled Sirte, a sprawling Mediterranean city, as the new regime’s forces close in from east, south and west.
NTC fighter Fateh Marimri, who drove out of Sirte’s eastern gate in what he said was a captured Qaddafi 4X4, reported fierce fighting around the Mahari Hotel.
“They are using heavy weapons but we are not, as we want to cause minimum damage to civilians,” Marimri told AFP.
“They are now fighting us in civilian clothes and there are African mercenaries everywhere in Sirte.”
Qaddafi’s radio message
Al-Rai TV station has been broadcasting audio speeches by Qaddafi, reported on
Tuesday that the toppled leader had addressed his supporters and urged them to fight in a speech broadcast on a local radio station in Bani Walid.
“You should know that I am on the ground with you,” he said. “Through your jihad, you are imitating the exploits of your ancestors.”
“Heroes have resisted and fallen as martyrs and we too are awaiting martyrdom,” Qaddafi said.
The report by Arrai television could not be independently verified.
Arrai also broadcast footage of what it said was Qaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam, dated Sept. 20, rallying his forces at an unidentified location.
“This land is the land of your forefathers. Don’t hand it over,” Saif al-Islam, shouted to a crowd of followers.
NTC forces said the fierce resistance of Qaddafi loyalists had stalled their offensive in Bani Walid.
“NTC fighters pulled out from some areas they control in Bani Walid due to the intensity of fire,” said Abdallah Kenshil, the new government’s chief negotiator in abortive efforts to broker the town’s surrender.
In Benghazi, NTC member Mustafa al-Huni said Libya’s new rulers had decided to postpone the formation of a transitional government until they had won control of the entire country.
NATO meanwhile urged Libya’s new regime to make plans to destroy stockpiles of chemical weapons and nuclear-related agents amassed by Qaddafi. Washington said Tuesday it was working closely with the new regime to secure all arms stockpiles.
In a letter to the U.N. General Assembly meanwhile, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a staunch supporter of Qaddafi, said the Libyan conflict marked “a new cycle of colonial wars… with the sinister goal of refreshing the capitalist global system.”
Meanwhile, Libya’s transitional government delivered 20 million dinars ($16 million) Tuesday to Sabha, a remote southern city beset by Qaddafi loyalists, hoping to bolster support for revolutionary forces.
Tweeting Tripoli
Do you guys know if this documentary is available with English subtitles?
Abuslim massacre story by Aljazeera (Arabic).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-1n0tvT16A
Change In Libya
A chemical/injection found along with gas masks inside Bab Al Aziziya #libya #feb17 #tripoli
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=356326&l...
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Just bumped into one of my minders at the #Rixos in #Tripoli.. he claims he was always anti-#Gadhafi.
Tweeting Tripoli
Its raining and raining and raining here in #Tripoli today #Libya
It’s so weird, although it shouldn’t be…this happiness we feel when it rains… Thank god!
Kids enjoying September rain in Tripoli…
yfrog.com/j2meqemj
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Another amazing wall painting in Tripoli… this one is in Fashloom #libya #tripoli #feb17
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=356329&l...
Gaddafi’s missiles in the middle of a residential area. Fornaj/As-saba3 #libya #feb17 #tripoli
fb.me/LpxkEXZW
A poster in #Tripoli – “Lord, make this country safe” رب اجعل هذا البلد آمنا fb.me/15BAHRsYK
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
I’m going to post all my #Tripoli pictures including chemicals, weapons, mercenary living quarters & other things I found in a flickr album
Got a call this morning from my friend in #Sirte he told me that the ppl are confused and surrenderd but the extrme loyalests are fighting.
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
NTC Fighters in the east of #Libya reach the presidential palace in Sirt and lose 11 fighters and many others are injured
Bullets that poison you are being used by snipers in Sirt in #Libya.One fighter reported poisoned.
An NTC Fighter shot in the arm by a sniper.News is that the snipers are using poisoned bullet
AFP:
anti-Gaddafi fighters appealed 4 help 4m #NATO after being blasted by rockets fired by #Gaddafi troops in #BaniWalid #Libya
Libya’s state owned oil tanker fleet is set to be back in business within a month, with some vessels ready for trading in the next two weeks
alexrossiSKY alex rossi
by hominoid555
A little boy waits for his food at a take-away restaurant in #Misrata. #Libya #Feb17 pic.twitter.com/dhw7CxVe
Nasr
Many Libyan-American travelers have reported loss of their luggage in #Cairo airport. #Egypt.
DougSaunders Doug Saunders
The fact that VW can name a vehicle the Tuareg shows how marginalized they are. I mean, would you have a Chrysler Kurd or a Toyota Jew?
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Check out my Facebook page for some recent Tripoli photos
www.facebook.com/changeinlibya17
Albums:
www.facebook.com/changeinlibya17?sk=photos
live2Tripoli liveTripoli
Can’t recall a rainbow in #Tripoli before. Times have changed. Even nature has been affected by #Muammar’s absence.
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Oh my god, it just started POURING over here in Tripoli… Alhamdullilah :D
‘behind the scenes of the first serious time lapse’ #Tripoli #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7YIW3NU1FU&edi...
Ali Tweel
it’s raining in Tripoli at the moment _
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Rain.. pouring in Tripoli a few minutes ago #libya #feb17 fb.me/12qhxx9EI
AmmarParis Ammar ABD RABBO
Mustapha Abdel Jalil is back in #Tripoli now #Libya #NTC and heavy rains over the city since this morning !!! (these news are related ??)
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
All this talk about #Gadaffi’s whereabouts.Honestly we dont care where he is.We just want him arrested.If you know where he is CAPTURE him!!
Its pouring down with rain in Tripoli.Lets pray that this rain brings good luck to all our Freedom Fighters all around #Libya !!
libyanproud libyanandproud
Jalil is in town :P
Kety
Hopefully the rain is a good omen in Libya and will shower this amazing ppl with good fortune.
iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
We only revolted because we realized we’re still under occupation – not by foreigners but by tyrants of our very own skin. #ArabSpring
Sky News
‘Mass Grave’ Found Close To Libyan Hotel
The new Libyan authorities claim to have discovered another “mass grave” in Tripoli – close to a hotel at which Western journalists had been forced to stay.
The National Transitional Council (NTC) say the latest site is being unearthed near the Rixos Hotel, where 37 foreign journalists were trapped by the Gaddafi government during the fall of Tripoli.
A total of eight corpses have so far been uncovered although no evidence has yet
been made available linking it to the previous regime.
The discovery was made after a soldier saw blood on the ground and what looked like broken limbs.
The military spokesman for the armed forces of the NTC, Radwan Elbuzedi, says “the bloody behaviour is typical of the style of the Gaddafi government”.
It is thought the alleged victims died within the past five months and the NTC is speculating that they could be local civilians.
Read more and video:
news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16...
blabeen
Waiting for a flight to Tunisia , tomorrow a taxi to Libya Libya Libya , ya beladi ya beladi .
live2Tripoli liveTripoli
ok people, rain is nice….but it’s going to flood if it isn’t already… no where for the rain water to go, so some streets flood completely!
AND SOME THUNDER! #Tripoli
Reuters Reuters Top News
Gaddafi said to be hiding near Algeria border, according to a senior Libyan military official reut.rs/pUqCue
Orla
I used to love the first rain fall after the long hot summer I used to stand out in it to get wet #Libya
Zainab
Libya after Gadafi is just everything “Beautiful” means <3
MSF
MSF on the frontline in Libya
Interviews with MSF staff working on the frontline in Libya during the recent conflict. MSF runs a mobile surgery as well as providing medical care across the country.
Video:
vimeo.com/29718395
malonebarry Barry Malone
More detail here on “Gaddafi hiding near Algeria border” theory as told to Reuters by NTC reut.rs/pUqCue #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
A good thing I discovered today; My kids used to be afraid of Thunders. Now they are not. Did NATO bombings act like a vaccine? Hmmmm!!
Free Libya
Gaddafi goes and everything becomes good…….sometimes it feels as simple as that! He was the blight on everything:/ #Libya
LOL, if the rain in Tripoli floods the sewers as it usually does, poor G might drown in his hidey hole with his rat companions :) #
WEELULE
itsn’t just Tripoli it is across the whole coast, is forecasted to last till early next week,ur going 2 need boats 2 get around
flyingbirdies أكرم
this afternoon, #Tripoli #Photo
flic.kr/p/araZBE
FreeedomGroup
A cargo plane, not intended for passengers, is being used to transported the wounded fighters from Misrata. Has the level of neglect of our wounded fighters who fought to liberate and defend their country reached to this extent?
Who is responsible for this tragic situation? Where the local council Misurata? Where are the promises that Khalifa Al-Zawawi made for the care of our wounded?
Libyans dozen FFs were killed in heavy fighting with al-Gaddafi in Sirte, near a hotel which was taken over by the FFs in the city
malonebarry Barry Malone
Analysis – Gaddafi hometown a hazardous prize for #Libya’s NTC | Reuters reut.rs/pC3AIf
LibyaLiberty
Anything #Gaddafi is, by definition, #hazardous. RT@malonebarry Analysis – Gaddafi hometown a hazardous prize for #Libya’s NTC
MisrataPatriots PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
Reuters #Agoco oil firm in #Benghazi is planning restarts at 3 more Libyan oilfields in east & west Libya by… fb.me/1e1knHOjU
UKUN_NewYork UKUN_NewYork
#UN SecCouncil expected to refer #Palestinian membership application to standing membership committee LIVE at bit.ly/99mUrW 9.30am ET
flyingbirdies أكرم
After rainy morning, Old city view from parking lot inside Cornthia commercial center #photo
www.flickr.com/photos/flyingbirds/61915...
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
150 Tripoli revolutionary fighters just boarded a plane heading to Ghadamis were Gadafi is expected to be hiding #Libya
TawarghaFree Tawargha Free
The whole members of the local council of Taweagha in Tripoli have been arrested by Misrata rebels on September the 24.
thedailybeast The Daily Beast
Libyan Missiles Go Missing: Thousands of surface-to-air unaccounted for. thebea.st/qz4mV9 #cheatsheet
Skytwitius Tim Marshall
#Libya NTC fighters are shelling built up area of Sirte where there are civilians. Perhaps NATO will reread UN Res 1973 ‘protect civilians’.
iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
I will believe we have freedom progress in an #ArabSpring government when they declare there’s no such thing as a ministry of information.
Aljazeera
The AFP news agency reports that anti-Gaddafi fighters Wednesday appealed for help from NATO after being blasted by rockets fired by loyalist troops in Bani Walid, one of the ousted Libyan leader’s last bastions.
Among 11 National Transitional Council fighters killed in the barrage was senior commander Daou al-Salhine al-Jadak, whose car was struck by a rocket as he headed towards the front late on Tuesday, NTC chief negotiator Abdullah Kenshil told AFP.
NTC field commander Captain Walid Khaimej said, meanwhile, that the fierce resistance of Muammar Gaddafi’s loyalists had stalled the advance by NTC fighters in the desert town, some 170 km (100 miles) from Tripoli.
“There is always incoming missile and artillery fire. We are returning fire with heavy weapons but we are not sending in infantry. We are waiting for reinforcements to come from Tripoli and Zawiyah,” said Khaimej.
“NATO is here but is not doing enough. They take out the rocket launchers firing at us, but they are immediately replaced. We need more help from NATO,” he added.
The Western military alliance has under a UN mandate being giving air support to a popular revolt against Gaddafi launched in February which saw the veteran strongman toppled from power after 42 years by NTC forces last month.
Gaddafi has gone into hiding since Tripoli was overrun on August 23 but he and some of his sons are still believed by the NTC to be in Libya, possibly even in Bani Walid or in his birthplace Sirte, where his last remaining forces are putting up fierce resistance.
Jadak was one of the highest ranking NTC military commanders in Bani Walid and hails from the oasis town itself.
Two days before he was killed, he told AFP he had been imprisoned for more than 18
years for helping organise a rebellion against Gaddafi in 1993.AFP
Hana S.
Today I saw my aunt and her kids v webcam 4 the first time in almost 9 months!! They fled #Sirte 2 days ago. Everybody looks so…different.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Pro-NTC TV: Mass #grave discovered near #Rixos #Tripoli containing the remains of 100s of individuals executed by #Gaddafi.
Mass grave discovered in Misrata near the Air force Academy base
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CBrTwmz8-g
VICE:
Vid 5
“There is not a country in the world that Gaddafi’s evil didn’t reach” tinyurl.com/3v5j77v #Libya #Feb17
Gaddafi’s forces send us an aerial “welcome to Misrata” – The Rebels of Libya, Pt. 4 bit.ly/reum29
Ahmed
Here’s a story: yesterday a Tawarghan was caught in Tripoli and brought back to Misrata…
CNN
Libyans claim Gadhafi hiding near western border town
Ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is believed to be hiding out near the town of Ghadamis under the protection of the Tuareg tribe, an interim government military spokesman told CNN Tuesday.
“We have reliable information that Gadhafi is protected by the Tuareg tribe located between Niger, Algeria, and Ghadamis town in Libya,” said Col. Abdul Basit.
More:
news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/28/libyans-c...
Bloomberg
Libya’s Bourse to Resume Trading by February, Chairman Says
Trading on the Libyan Stock Exchange will resume in January or February after an armed rebellion against the regime of Muammar Qaddafi forced it to close, Chairman Ahmed Karoud said today.
Karoud hopes the leadership change in the North African nation would introduce fresh regulations and help attract foreign investors to the five-year-old exchange. Foreigners own less than 1 percent of the shares listed on the bourse, Karoud said in an interview in Tripoli.
Full story:
www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-28/libya...
malonebarry Barry Malone
Our summary of #Libya events so far today – Gaddafi hunt, latest fighting for Sirte, terrified civilians
reut.rs/pUqCue
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, #Gaddafi forces hit #NTC fighters position near #Sirte airport with #grad rockets … No casualties but we had to evacuate
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi fighters say they are engaging in skirmishes with gaddafi forces at #Sirte airport
#Libya, #Gaddafi fighters putting ip fierce resistance against anti gaddafi forces as they try to take xonteol of #Sirte airport
iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Seems mass graves are found almost daily these days in #Libya. Wonder how many will be found in #Syria.
NYT
Beautiful photo’s:
The Battle for Libya
www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/afric...
M & C
Libyan rebel commander killed as fighting for Gaddafi towns rages
Cairo- A Libyan rebel commander was killed in an attack by loyalists of fugitive leader Moamer Gaddafi on the northern front of the unruly town of Bani Walid, the pro-rebel Free Liba TV reported Wednesday.
Daw al-Salheen was killed Tuesday night when a rocket was fired at his car as he drove to an area where fighting was taking place near his hometown, Bani Walid, according to the report.
He had been jailed for 18 years by the Gaddafi government and was released in February this year.
Full story:
www.monstersandcritics.com/news/africa/...
Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا” goo.gl/aM65o
farahabushwesha
Ireland’s youth media org wants young Libyans 2 write about views on #Libya, life as young person E ruairi@spunout.ie
SerajElalem Seraj Elalem
Yeah I’m still in #Tripoli, I heard it’s raining hard in #Benghazi too
OmarAlMukhtar Omar Al Mukhtar
Cartoon Movement – #Libyan #Resistance #Hero @OmarAlMukhtar cartoonmovement.com/cartoon/1608
iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
This is the most #Epic out of all epic #Libya men: bit.ly/n8e96R
Sky News
Libya: Maimed Boy in Hospital
A father tells Sky News how his son lies injured and untreated in a desperately overcrowded Tripoli hospital. Contains disturbing images.
goo.gl/NdDPv
FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
Wounded fighter in need of further treatment says Council asked for endless documents when he approached them. #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=7gyEzZ…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gyEzZxidtI
Bloomberg
Citi Sees Libya October Daily Oil Output at 400,000 Barrels
Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) — Libyan crude production may reach 400,000 barrels a day next month as fields and ports resume operations after armed conflict blocked output and exports for much of the year, Citigroup Inc. analysts said.
The country’s transitional government is seeking to speed up production, and the good condition of its wells and transportation links may help, analysts including Edward Morse, the bank’s global commodities research head, said today.
Full story:
www.businessweek.com/news/2011-09-28/ci...
TawarghaFree Tawargha Free
Misrata rebels arrested Mr. Mohamed Mahjube and Mr. Moamer Husian on 27 of September in Tripoli.
Misrata rebels came to Al Ahlee Bank and took them to unknown place.
Mr. Mohamed & Mr. Husian were only trying to give the Tawarghian customers their salaries as they were also working in Tawargha branch.
MSNBC
No Libya request to extradite Gaddafi’s ex-PM: source
Tunisia has not received any request from Libya’s interim rulers to extradite Muammar Gaddafi’s former Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, who was freed by a court of appeal on Tuesday, a source at the Justice Ministry told Reuters.
Full story:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44698365/ns/world_...
Tweeting Tripoli
Did you know, prime minster of Libya from September 4th 1968 till August 31st 1969 was “Wanis Gaddafi”?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanis_al-…
The West AU
Libya’s battered NTC forces urge more NATO strikes
BANI WALID, Libya (AFP) – Anti-Kadhafi forces Wednesday urged NATO to intensify its air war as they took heavy losses in a push on the ousted despot’s birthplace of Sirte and his other remaining bastion, Bani Walid.
In a radio message, meanwhile, Moamer Kadhafi hailed the resistance put up in Bani Walid, where the NTC said 11 of their fighters were killed Tuesday by a hail of rockets fired by forces loyal to the former strongman.
Among those killed in the barrage was senior commander Daou al-Salhine al-Jadak, whose car was struck by a rocket as he headed towards the front late in the day, NTC chief negotiator Abdullah Kenshil told AFP.
Full report:
au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/103...
plemochoe plemochoe
#libya Moussa Ibrahim has a family to protect. Now he has to protect them by switching sides and cooperating fully with the Revolution
#sirte #libya You can almost tell how many days left till Sirte falls by the fact that they tried to get Moussa Ibrahim out ahead of time
#libya Just as a matter of guesses: I guess Saif is in Bani Walid, Mutassim in Sirte, Khamis is really dead and Muammar is outside Libya
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING: Benghazi: Demonstration will take place today 28/09/2011 in-front of Tebesti Hotel at 5 pm to support the injured and against minster of health
IbnOmar2005 Hamza Malek
LOL I don’t know where this pic was taken, but it shows Arab businesses should never use Google translate yfrog.com/nyi6rbj
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
These are SMS Messages sent by Al-Madar phone network introducing the Amazigh languages: ليبيا تادرفت، توكدوت….. fb.me/ICKKvRR4
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Col. Bani, MoD spox said that the tribe was trying to make the Zintan rebels look bad
NTC troops encircle Sirte
Video:
goo.gl/qT3GY
CBS
Anti-Gadhafi commander killed in loyalist bastion
An anti-Gadhafi field commander says the top military official for revolutionary forces fighting loyalists in a key regime stronghold has been killed in a rocket attack.
Osama al-Fasi says the commander, Daw Saleheen, was killed Wednesday by a heat-seeking rocket while fighting in Bani Walid, southeast of Tripoli.
Full art.:
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/28/ap/m...
GRAFIXEL guess what
When reading about chemical weapons,radioactiv stuff,looted missile stores etc in #Libya.where did all the people guarding the stuff go…?
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Al-Aan is posting an EXCLUSIVE recorded call between Gaddafi and one of his associates. They speak about blowing up airports #libya #feb17
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
#BaniWalid military commander Daw Saleheen died in a rocket attack Tuesday night.
I spoke and interviewed Daw Saleheen so many times when I was at the #BaniWalid front line. Am stunned at the news of his death. #Libya
WafaFt wafa
LOL “zomeeta, aseeda, jow ba, jow ba” | UCLA math major, Chris Jeon, on his trip to LIbya youtube.com/watch?v=irZOhJ…!
Or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=irZOhJq5Dvo&fea...
When did a woman’s hijab become other people’s concern? This is btw her & Allah, so unless you are her, you have no say in the matter.
Hijab is an internal struggle that is apparent to every1 & cuz it is, people feel like they have a right cont
To make judgmental remarks that they patronizingly pass on as “friendly advice”
Ultimately, its a collective effort and inshallah we will all take part in the rebuilding of the new #Libya in some way.
Hajer
i think its hotter in the UK today than in Libya aswell lool
HRW
Canada: Intelligence Service Accused of Libya Interrogations
(New York) – A Libyan-Canadian citizen who was imprisoned for eight years by the Muammar Gaddafi government says that agents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) were among foreign agents who interrogated him while he was in Libyan custody for suspected terrorist ties, Human Rights Watch said today.
The former prisoner, Mustafa Krer, 46, was detained in Libya from 2002 to 2010 for alleged ties to the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. He told Human Rights Watch that Canadian interrogators visited him about three times between 2003 and 2005, although he could not recall the exact number of Canadian interrogations or the dates. Once, he said, CSIS agents interrogated him jointly with a team of Libyans in the room. Krer did not allege mistreatment during any of the CSIS interrogations. But he said that his Libyan captors beat him repeatedly between the time of his arrest in May 2002 and mid-2004.
“Canada’s apparent decision to interrogate a suspect in the custody of Gaddafi’s forces is deeply troubling,” said Andrea Prasow, senior counterterrorism counsel at Human Rights Watch. “CSIS did not torture Krer, but they must have known that the Libyans probably did.”
Human Rights Watch called on CSIS to clarify whether it had interrogated Krer in Libya, and if so, under what circumstances. CSIS did not respond to a request from Human Rights Watch for comment about the case.
In addition to alleged interrogations by CSIS, Krer said that agents of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) interrogated him in Libya about seven times starting in 2005, and that the United Kingdom’s MI6 intelligence agency interrogated him once in 2007. He said he was not mistreated during these interrogations.
Krer alleged that Libyan interrogators beat him repeatedly with sticks, cables, and kicks to the face, sometimes while he was blindfolded. One beating required him to get stitches on the face. On one occasion Krer said he was forced to stay in what he called a “steel box” for five days with limited food and water.
Krer told Human Rights Watch that agents who identified themselves as being from CSIS interrogated him about three times. After interrogations by four governments over eight years he could not remember exactly how many times CSIS agents had questioned him.
During one interrogation, he said, a team of Canadians and Libyans questioned him
together for more than seven hours. “I was at the head of the table,” he said. “Left and right there was a line – seven Canadians and seven Libyans. I was there, and they did it together. It was an interrogation, many, many questions.”
Krer said the Canadians had knowledge about specific phone calls he had made while living in Canada and they showed him surveillance photos of him in public places in Canada.
After the fall of Tripoli to rebel forces in late August 2011, Human Rights Watch discovered a cache of documents in a Libyan External Security building revealing details of close cooperation between the US, the UK, and other governments with the Libyan intelligence agency. One of those documents, which appears to be from the CIA, requests that the Libyans ask Krer a set of 89 questions. In an interview with Human Rights Watch following the fall of Gaddafi, Krer confirmed that he was asked those questions by the Libyans and the CIA. He said he was also asked some of those questions by CSIS. Prior to this interview with Human Rights Watch, the role of CSIS in Krer’s interrogation was not known.
Human Rights Watch also interviewed Krer in 2005 while he was still in Libyan custody, meeting him privately in an office at Abu Salim prison. He did not mention torture or interrogations by foreign agents at that time, but he was clearly uncomfortable talking about matters that might put him in danger. At one point he asked to write a note in the interviewer’s notebook, apparently afraid to speak out loud. “I’m not happy with what’s happening with me,” he wrote.
In both interviews Krer said that he had returned to Libya from Canada, via Malta, in May 2002, after getting guarantees from Libyan authorities that he would not face prosecution for past opposition activity, including involvement in the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), which had been fighting since the late 1990s to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi. Libyan security forces arrested him at the Tripoli airport upon his return, he said. Krer was eventually sentenced to life in prison after a trial where, he said, his lawyers were not allowed to speak. He was released in January 2010 after the intervention of Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam, who mediated the release of a few hundred prisoners, including members of the LIFG.
Krer said that he was held in various facilities during his eight years in custody and that he endured repeated torture during the first two-and-a-half years. At the Internal Security Agency office on al-Sikka Street in Tripoli, he said, he was held for five days in August heat in what he called a “steel box” with limited food and water. The box was 1.5 by 2 meters, and too small for a person to stand, he said.
Krer said interrogators at the internal security facility on al-Sikka Street subjected him and fellow prisoners to beatings on the soles of their feet with a thick cable. “There’s a stick that they wind your legs around, two guys hold you, and another hits your feet with an electric cable,” he said. “But they don’t care where they hit.”
Krer also said that he did not receive a consular visit from Canada until 2005. Starting that year, he received a total of five visits until his release in 2010, from Canadian
diplomats who were helpful, he said.
In May 2005, Human Rights Watch interviewed the head of Libya’s Internal Security Agency, Col. Tohamy Khaled, and asked him about Krer’s case. Krer is “one of the terrorists,” Khaled said – something that, he said, is “also known to the Canadians.”
Libya’s record of torture under Gaddafi is well documented. The US State Department Report on Human Rights Practices, a reference consulted by many governments, stated in its 2004 edition on Libya, “Security personnel reportedly routinely tortured prisoners during interrogations or as punishment.” Some of the reported methods of torture, according to the State Department, included chaining prisoners to a wall for hours; clubbing; applying electric shock; applying corkscrews to the back; pouring lemon juice in open wounds; breaking fingers and allowing the joints to heal without medical care; suffocating with plastic bags; deprivation of food and water; hanging by the wrists; suspension from a pole inserted between the knees and elbows; cigarette burns; threats of being attacked by dogs; and beating on the soles of the feet.
In December 2004, just prior to the visit to Libya by Paul Martin, Prime Minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006, Human Rights Watch sent Martin a list of human rights concerns. “Prolonged incommunicado detention is common, as are confessions extracted by means of torture,” the Human Rights Watch memo to Martin said.
“There is no justification for CSIS agents joining in the interrogation of a prisoner by agents of a government well-known for torturing prisoners,” Prasow said. “CSIS should explain what it knows about Krer’s case.”
BREAKING:
AJ Reporter: Free Libyan Army is shelling Gaddafi forces in the centre of the city of Sirte with heavy weapons
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
It’s hard to know who to believe: who was always silently pro-#Feb17, or just switched after revolution’s success was imminent. #Libya
My story on al-Meshashya tribe being raided by rebels: apne.ws/qV9LE3 #Libya #tribalrifts @AP
AP visited the al-Meshashya tribe which says has been attacked by Zintan briagde rev forces for harboring #Gadhafi loyalists.
Computers in a lab were destroyed, bullet marks in the walls.
Col. Bani, MoD spox said that the tribe was trying to make the Zintan rebels look bad
Bani also said that anyone who stirs tribal division will be treated as an enemy of #Libya
Sirtawi
PIC of Al-Gurdabiya Hotel in #Sirte where fighting is going on. Location is near Sirte sea port. #SirteCrisis #Feb17 pic.twitter.com/ZpVWfxZO
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
The vast majority of Dutch Parliament has agreed to extend the Nato mission in Libya for three more months.
Ajazeera
FF in control of the airport in Sirte
Tribulusterr Brunnan de Coucy
Col Bani’s response to this evidence ( apne.ws/qV9LE3) inadequate – can’t just put head in sand, deny these things happening #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Video: Smuggled Weapons Uncovered in Libya english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… #Libya #Sirte #SmuggledWeapons #AlArabiya
AliveIn Alive.In
Injuries at Meitega Hospital
l.alive.in/ur (Sep 28) #feb17
Warning bells sound over Tripoli zoo
www.iol.co.za/news/africa/warning-bells...
Foreign Affairs
Behind Qatar’s Intervention In Libya
Among the many countries that supported Libya’s rebels in their fight to unseat Muammar al-Qaddafi, Qatar was a particularly enthusiastic partner. The Arab emirate of just 1.6 million people, rich in oil and gas, was the first Arab country to recognize the rebel government, the Transitional National Council. It sold Libyan oil on behalf of the rebels to avoid sanctions and supplied them with gas, diesel, and millions of dollars in aid. And Al Jazeera, the satellite broadcaster based in Doha, covered the struggle of the Libyan rebels in even greater detail and depth than it has the Arab world’s other revolutionary movements.
Full art.:
www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/68302/d...
Proudlibyandoc Hussam Muntasser
Proposal to make the next gov seats made out of Tefal. It will even make the French happy.
Who owns Zimbabwe house in London?
The deeds to the Embassy were reportedly handed over to Gaddafi by Mugabe, in 2002.
www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/news/zimbabwe/5...
SMILE:
First it’s one little white lie. Then they get easier & easier to tell. Next thing you know, you’re a lawyer
BBC
Migrants return home from Libya
Many migrants who left their countries for Libya have returned home after fleeing the conflict there.
Violence has been meted out in Libya to people accused of being mercenaries working for ex-leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The desert town of Agadez in Northern Niger has been the last stop for sub-Saharan Africans making their way to the promise of a better life, but now sees many passing back the other way.
Thomas Fessy reports.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15086101
alanboswell Alan Boswell
my piece from Agadez, Niger finally live on @TIME – ti.me/r6kHrk – Did war in Libya play into hands of region’s al-Qaeda?
still writing up more on Tuareg’s future in all this
BreakingNews Breaking News
Libyan justice minister: Ready to work with Scottish authorities to probe possible role by others in Lockerbie bombing – @Reuters
libyansrevolt Moez
Chillaxing, relaxing and acting all cool on the front line #Libya #feb17 twitpic.com/6ry9me
Al Arabiya
OPEC says Libya NOC chief to head country’s delegation
Libya’s delegation to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries will be headed by the new chief of its National Oil Corporation, OPEC’s website said.
A recent update of the website lists the head of Libya’s delegation to OPEC as Nouri Berouin, the head of the NOC. The Libyan official said in August, soon after being appointed, that he expected to attend OPEC’s next meeting.
OPEC Secretary General Abdullah al-Badri said earlier this month the producer group, which Libya joined in 1962, had recognized Libya’s National Transitional Council as the country’s OPEC representative.
Read more:
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/...
At UN, Libya’s new leaders seek support to thwart terrorist threat
WASHINGTON – Libya’s interim government may be this year’s darling of the international community, reaping praise from world leaders, including President Obama, at the United Nations’ annual gathering in New York.
But Libya’s new leaders say they are not getting the support of key African countries for their efforts to stabilize their country. Indeed, they worry that some African leaders in Zimbabwe, Algeria, and elsewhere still root for the deposed Muammar Qaddafi, who is on the run but still issuing defiant statements of resistance.
“Libya will need support from the international community to put pressure on those African countries who still support Qaddafi and benefit from his money,” said Mahmoud Nacua, charge d’affaires at the Libyan embassy in London, in an interview Tuesday with Reuters
Full story:
old.news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20110927/ts_cs...
Moez
Just saw a #Libyan airline jet (A320) leave #mitiga airport – are they up and running? #Libya
#Libya’s last tourist
travelmag.co.uk/?p=5110
The North Africa Daily is out!
bit.ly/dRzwj9
NCE.CO UK
Arup examines Libya’s infrastructure needs
Subscr. only:
www.nce.co.uk/news/international/arup-e...
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi fighters in control of #Sirte airport they now pushed #Gaddafi ’s men from southern outskirts of city, #LIbya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli About to post a few pictures I took when I was driving randomly.. just to show serbs/russians/idiots how G’s infrastructure is
I loved the weather today. the sunset was absolutely beautiful.. managed to snap a few pics… u ma tansash et-takbeer :D
I posted 13 photos on Facebook in the album “Tripoli: Gaddafi’s infrastructure after 20mins of rain”
fb.me/17ohUtCHr
AFP
Libya issues arrest warrant for Colonel Gaddafi’s former prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi, who fled to Tunisia
live2Tripoli liveTripoli
Driving around #Tripoli the other day trying a different angle of shooting. Using hands as a tripod youtube.com/user/live2Trip… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/user/live2Tripoli?featu...
Some how, after visiting some flood sites, they’re not as severe as they use to be. Its rare that we see people clearing the sewage. we did!
tweets4peace ♡ Freedom ✌ Syria ♡
Got this msg from a guy in #Libya – a thayer :) “all Libyans are waiting to enter #Syria, all you gotta do is free a city…we’ll all be in”
Tweeting Tripoli
Gaddafi in Gaddames, Saif in BW, Mutasim in Sirte…. Why do I have the feeling no one knows where any of the Gaddafis are?
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
#Libya promises UK companies a main part in the re-development of the Country.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
#Libya issues arrest warrant for #Gaddafi’s ex-PM: NTC minister
Standpoint
“At last, I feel proud to be Libyan”
At the Mellitah Oil and Gas complex, a vast city of pipes and gas-flaring chimneys about 90 minutes west of Tripoli, Dr Ali Tarhuni is being mobbed by crowds of well-wishers. He’s here on behalf of the National Transitional Council (NTC) to take back control of the facility from rebel forces from the Zintan Brigade who secured it in late August as they swept down from the Nafusa mountains towards Tripoli. The atmosphere is jubilant.
“We’re here to show the world that the revolutionaries are not only capable of conquering Gaddafi and liberating our dear land, but also of protecting our institutions and of managing our own country,” says Tarhuni, the oil and finance minister. “It’s a great day to see the country getting back to normal-gradually but surely.”
Read more:
www.standpointmag.co.uk/dispatches-octo...
Who will control Libya’s new media www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/afri... via @globeandmail
Janes.com
UK withdraws Sea Kings from Libya
www.janes.com/products/janes/defence-se...
Triploli scream
I posted a new photo to Facebook fb.me/UABwgAPr
Free Libya
Happy to see companies like Arup are going to work in Libya, no Chinese/ Turkish/ Indian/ Brazilian 2nd rate rubbish Gaddafi liked.
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Que st devenus les 20 000 missiles à têtes chercheuses entreposés en Libye avt la Revolution? Une part a disparu… atlantico.fr/pepites/millie…
USA Today
Gadhafi loyalists empty entire cities in fear of rebels
Tawargha, which was once home to around 30,000 people, is now deserted. Like a number of other towns in Libya that supported toppled former leader Moammar Gadhafi, the former residents have fled and rebels have looted the town.
“He gave them money and apartments,” said Ismail Ali Zoubi, one of the rebel fighters who took the town in a two-day battle in August. “He spoiled them so that they would protect him in a day like this day.”
Read more:
www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-...
AFP
More than 10 fighters of Libya’s new rulers were killed on Tuesday in fierce street fighting with forces of Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte, a commander told AFP.
“More than 10 of our fighters have been killed today in face-to-face fighting near Mahari hotel” in eastern Sirte, said the commander who asked not to be named as the information was sensitive. The fighters of the National Transitional Council (NTC), Libya’s new ruling body, had taken control of the hotel on Monday. The NTC fighters and Gaddafi’s diehards clashed “in street fights and shot at each other from close range with Kalashnikovs and rocket-propelled-grenades” on Tuesday, the commander said.
Reuters
Muammar Gaddafi is believed to be hiding near the western town of Ghadamis near the Algerian border under the protection of Touareg tribesmen, a senior Libyan military official said. “One tribe, the Touareg, is still supporting him and he is believed to be in the Ghadamis area in the south,” Hisham Buhagiar, a senior military official of the Libya’s new leadership, told Reuters by telephone late on Tuesday. Buhagiar, coordinator of the hunt for Gaddafi, said the ousted Libyan leader was believed to have been in the southern town of Samnu a week ago before moving to Ghadamis, which lies 550 km (345 miles) southwest of Tripoli.
Agoco
Benghazi-based oil firm Agoco said it planned restarts at three more Libyan oilfields in east and west Libya by mid-October, boosting output to 350,000 barrels per day (bpd).
NTC
Libya’s interim justice minister Mohammed al-Alagi said on Wednesday he was ready to work with Scottish authorities to probe the possible involvement of others in the
Lockerbie bombing apart from the sole Libyan convicted for the attack. His remark at news conference reversed a position he took only on Monday, when he said that as far as Libya was concerned the case of the bombing of the U.S.-bound airliner over the Scottish village of Lockerbie with the loss of 270 lives was closed.
Zimbabwe’s embassy London
Who owns Zimbabwe’s embassy in London? Who other than Muammar Gaddafi. The transaction was said to have been personally facilitated by Mugabe, after his ZANU PF government’s failure to pay for oil supplied by the Libyan state company Tamoil.
Aljazeera
Forces loyal to Libya’s interim government say they have captured the airport in Sirte, the birthplace of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Fighters belonging to National Transitional Council said on Wednesday they were in control of the airport after intense fighting in the coastal city, one of the last of two bastions of support for the deposed Libyan leader.
Singing national anthem in amazigh in Tripoli
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PIGv9AVh1M&fea...
Atlantico.fr
Des missiles libyens portés disparus
L’histoire ressemble à un mauvais film, et pourtant… En Libye, des entrepôts de missiles mal gardés ont été pillés. Des missiles dont on ne sait plus rien, si ce n’est qu’ils sont peut-être tombés dans les mauvaises mains.
La première à avoir lancé l’alerte sur le sujet, c’est l’ONG Human Rights Watch, il y a six mois. L’un de ses responsables, Peter Bouckaert, a assisté à l’un de ces vols de missiles et en a pris des photos.“J’aurai même pu en emporter plusieurs centaines si je le voulais”, a-t-il ajouté."
Il s’agit de missiles SA-24 à têtes chercheuses thermiques, de fabrication russe,et pouvant abattre un avion volant à 11 000 pieds. La Libye en possédait 20 000 avant le début de la guerre. Aujourd’hui, on ne sait pas exactement combien ont disparu.
De leur côté, les Etats-Unis affirment avoir étendu leur programme pour sécuriser et détruire les stocks restants. “Associer un terroriste avec un missile lancé à l’épaule, c’est notre pire cauchemard”, a résumé Barbara Boxer, sénatrice démocrate de Californie.
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Senior NTC commander Daou Al- Salhine Al Jadak was killed on Tuesday in Bani Walid when a rocket struck his truck close to front line #Libya
Global Post
Why they fight for Muammar Gaddafi
GlobalPost goes inside the mind of a Gaddafi loyalist to find out why, with no hope of winning, they continue to fight.
MISRATA, Libya — Omar Matug was a reluctant soldier, fighting for his leader, Muammar Gaddafi.
His hometown, Tarhouna, was known as a bastion of loyalist support, located on the outskirts of the rebellious and now world-famous city of Misrata. And so when the conflict began earlier this year, Matug was called to serve.
More here:
www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/region...
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
US Senators John McCaine and Joe Liberman address the world from Tripoli tomorrow #Libya
khadijateri khadijateri
Rain in Tripoli. This afternoon on the Ain Zara road near Fornaj. twitpic.com/6rze9h
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
More Mass graves discovered. One in Rixos Hotel, one in Gergaresh w/ 200 bodies & one in Zerat w/ 10 bodies so far & new one in Qalaa
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Al-Ahrar TV: NTC Fighters have found another mass grave in the area of Al-Qal’ah. #Libya (I make that 3 different sites today)
Al-Ahrar TV: #NTC Army have found a mass #grave in Wadi Zarat #Libya, from which they have excavated 10 bodies. #Feb17
Foreign embassies opened in #Libya reut.rs/qgusB5 via @reuters
French ambassador’s visit to #Zintan bit.ly/ogv1R5 via Zintan Media FB #Feb17 #Libya
portia_walker Portia Walker
Back in #Tripoli after a week in Sirte. Seeing even more shops open and people in the street. Shame about the rain though. #Libya
ahauslohner Abigail Hauslohner
Another mass grave found in #nafusa mts a few days ago- 9 bodies. ID-ed in #Qala. To be buried fri
Some of those found in new #Qala grave r relatives of those in earlier mass grave #libya #nafusa
MilitantNews Stephen Morgan
#Libya Why Gaddafi should advertise his whereabouts by atacking Ghadames is a mystery I’m afraid its a diversion from the stalemate in Sirte
#Libya Gaddafi could be near the Algerian border, but then the desert areas of southern Algeria, Libya+Niger are equal to the size of India.
#Syria Rebel army holds out for 2nd day against huge attack. This really marks a qualitative change in the revolution
reut.rs/mWJJI3
FreeLeebeya فاطمة
#Libya Situational Map as of Sept 27 feb17.info/images/map-lib… via @Feb17Libya #Feb17
NATOSource NATOSource
Libya showed that the Europeans “successfully took on more responsibility through NATO, not the EU”
nblo.gs/nIlQz
Noha
it seems that #libya has become one massive mass grave site
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
Niger Feels Economic Impact of Qaddafi’s Downfall in Libya: nyti.ms/qZdOW1
fcukruna مصراتية
The #Gaddafi family are the LITERAL definition of #FILTYrich.
Guardian
Aqim escalates the violence in Algeria – helped by Libya’s war
Chaos in Libya is threatening Algeria’s stability by fuelling jihadism, while popular discontent adds to internal tensions
A sharp surge in terrorist attacks, attributed to al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim), is threatening pro-western Algeria’s political stability even as it struggles to defuse popular discontent sparked by the Arab spring, according to a new study. The rising violence is partly linked to the Nato-led war in next-door Libya, which appears to have fuelled jihadist sentiment and activity and increased the availability of weapons.
Read more:
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/s...
SMILE:
The people you lose sleep over don’t lose sleep over you. So, help out and call them at 3AM.
Catch up on the latest news:
Reuters
Factbox: Latest developments in Libyan conflict
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/28/us-n...
via sept 17
Guardian
The revolution belongs to all Libyans, secular or not
It was 20 years ago that I left my hometown, Tripoli, in search of refuge. Colonel Gaddafi’s security apparatus had the country in an iron grip; the eyes of its agents were everywhere. No one was safe. I have lived in many countries since, dedicating all my efforts to one objective: the overthrow of the dictatorship in order to bring about real change in our country. A change that would guarantee a dignified life, freedom and justice.
Please read more here:
feb17.info/news/the-revolution-belongs-...
Missing in #Libya – مفقود في ليبيا – View and Submit Missing People. www.mafqood.org
Hamza
massive demonstration in #tripoli #libya. seems they have these daily now pic.twitter.com/lX8Vu1VB
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
i’ve just shown my mum twitter for the first time. she says she will start following me now.
Bloomberg
Libya Cabinet Talks End Without Agreement as Fighters Wait for Ammunition
Libya’s new rulers ended talks with no agreement on an interim Cabinet, as their fighters halted an offensive on Muammar Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte to allow civilians to flee and for ammunition to arrive.
Senior members of the National Transitional Council ended negotiations on a new Cabinet in the eastern city of Benghazi yesterday without announcing an agreement.
Read more:
www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-28/libya...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya: exodus from Sirte as thousands flee rebel offensive shabablibya.org/news/libya-exo… #Libya
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
my mum has just told me i have an unhealthy relationship with #Libya and need to see a counsellor.
live2Tripoli liveTripoli
#Epic sunset in #Tripoli today. #Libya twitpic.com/6s109r
Today’s sunset in #Tripoli #Libya twitpic.com/6s0wzq
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 29th 2011
9/29/11
9.29.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/KeD45
NATO
Key Hits September 28, 2011:
In the vicinity of Sirte: 1 ammunition / vehicle storage facility, 1 staging and firing location, 1 command and control node and staging area, 2 ammunition and missile facilities, 1 tank.
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Wed am: RAF aircraft struck military targets at large ammunition & vehicle storage depot supporting Qadhafi’s troops within Sirte. #Libya
Wed: RAF aircraft conducted precision strikes on buildings identified as HQ & staging post for former regime forces.
RFA Fort Rosalie, which has provided support to the RN patrols off Libya, completed replenishment of HMS Liverpool & is now on passage to UK
Darreg Zoomtick
hahaha Gaddafi’s paychecks must have stopped coming: dignity.ning.com/main/index/dis… Cynthia McKinney’s conspiracy site has an overdue bill
Prisoner from Gaddafiforces reveals location of grave of two thuwar,
Prisoner saw them buried by Gaddafiforces. They’d been sentenced2 death in prison for POW at Airforce Academy
Misrata AirForce Academy #Libya v @free_misurata
youtube.com/watch?v=1CBrTw…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CBrTwmz8-g
Karybdis
Abu Hadi near #Sirte still under loyalist control (28 September). Confirmed by AJE correspondent – says NTC worried about ppl trapped there
They have seized it at least 4 times that I can think of. They pull back at night so far.
As for Sokna, I think it fell under the category of locals declaring it NTC oriented, and G forces in the city not agreeing
Alielehmer Ali El-Ehmer
Qatar and UAE to benefit from #Libyan revolution | ConstructionWeekOnline.com: bit.ly/pYGYJS via @AddThis
OPEC says #Libya NOC chief to head country’s delegation english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/...
A reporter in #Libya wonders about lessons of war – KansasCity.com: bit.ly/n1lDRE via @AddThis
Call for Pakistan to rename its “Gaddafi Stadium” – Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia... via @Telegraph
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
camels are dangerous! they’re really really dumb and walk in the road when libyans are driving back from the front at high speeds.
#camelhazards camels are dangerous! dumbly sauntering in the road, don’t they know libyans are driving back from the front at high speeds!
Heba
‘(Gaddaf’s PM) still under custody in Tunisia, there’s an arrest warrant 4 him by us &Interpol -he’ll b turned to us’ NTC’s Fouzi Taher says
FreeBenghazi
Nalut RedCrescent have been busy doing great work. Follow them on @NalutLRC and Facebook
facebook.com/pages/Libyan-R… #Libya @merlinuk
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli Council : Elementary and junior high schools have already started this month High school will open its doors on October 2 #Libya
#BaniWalid FieldCommander: We r not sending in troops we r waiting 4reinforcements 2come from #Tripoli and #Zawiyah #Nato needs 2help more
E Sirte"More than 10 fighters killed Tuesday in face-to-face fighting near #Mahari Hotel another 5 injured and 1 killed yesterday
Telegraph
Libya: Extraordinary argument captured during fresh Sirte assault
As National Transitional Council forces launch a fresh assault on the Col Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, cameras pick up a war of words between a pro-Gaddafi soldier and a NTC fighter.
Anti-Gaddafi fighters have renewed the battle to capture Sirte with one soldier attempting to use psychological warfare to undermine forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.
Away from the battlefield’s mix of rocket fire, he took to the airwaves on an intercepted radio frequency to urge pro-Gaddafi fighters in the city to surrender.
As the war of words began………
Read, watch and listen here:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9nPJUo48rI
#FLASH Col. Bani: NTC fighters now control #Sirte port #airport #airbase + north of the city + Fighters advanced some kms from east #Libya
#Bani Walid NTC fighters plea 4 more #Nato help but #Nato spokesman colonel Lavoie says NATO has NOT Reduced its Activity in #Libya
#NTC Hisham Buhagiar : #Gaddafi is believed to be protected by Tuareg tribesmen and hiding nr #Ghadamis an #UNESCO WorldHeritageSite #Libya
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
@Twitter says they closed the verification process to the public but FOUR crazy #Gadhafi impersonators is enuf reason to make an exception
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
The video of Khamis that has surfaced is very old. I saw it ages ago.#feb17 #libya
Khamis Gaddafi video that surfaced today is old. I am surprised no one has mentioned this. G trolls still at work. #libya #feb17
No doubt there are those who wish #feb17 fails. 2 words to them … ALLAHU AKBAR #libya
Sarah
Video:
Libyans chanting Anti-Gaddafi slogans inside the Katiba in Benghazi.
BenghaziFree tumblr.com/xew4ybnfk2
or:
libyafromfrance.tumblr.com/post/1078254...
Hana S.
My cousin martyred this morning in #Sirte. He came all the way from his home in #Tripoli. May Allah bless his soul and grant him Paradise…
Cousin Tareq Trabilsi came all the way from #Tripoli to be on #Sirte’s front line. I called his mom… she tried hard to take it easy. #RIP
The Libyan pilots who defied Gaddafi – CNN
Video is.gd/vuHEfB #Libya
or:
shabablibya.org/news/the-libyan-pilots-...
Think about it:
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.” – Barry Goldwater
Ali El-Ehmer
Reading the course of events the person whose name is Mahmoud Jibril, a source of concern for a large segment of the Libyan people, why this insistence and hang on and impose himself on the Libyan people, although his presence threatens the unity and stability of the country. He can prove his patriotism to remove himself from the political scene for the time being until the creation of political parties and yet he can present himself in the election battle. What we ’need at the present time to the figures agreed upon by the majority of Libyans
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Tripoli yesterday… wow!
facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… #libya
Nalut RedCrescent have been busy doing great work. Follow them on @NalutLRC and Facebook
www.facebook.com/pages/Libyan-Red-Cresc... #Libya @merlinuk
LRCNalut LRCNalut
This will be the Libyan Red Crescent Nalut Branch account on twitter هذا سيكون حساب الهلال الأحمر الليبي فرع نالوت على التويتر
Lisa
#FreeLibya is in my prayers..always :) #PrayforFreedomFighters who still face danger daily! #Feb17 #Libya
Armchair Arab
Muslim vs liberal, arab vs. amazigh, western vs eastern, northern vs. southern = threats to #Feb17
Hamza
“The leader of the revolution and his family are among the poorest citizens” -Mossa Ibrahim.
Saadi’s ferrari:
youtube.com/watch?v=XsA-P5… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsA-P566-Qc
Kathleen
So sad G & thugs r still finding people willing 2 take their “blood” money, in exchange 4 air time! #Peace4AllLibya
A Bani Walid, les combattants du CNT préparent une offensive
Les combattants du nouveau régime ont appelé mercredi l’Otan à intensifier ses frappes pour rompre la résistance des forces loyales à Mouammar Kadhafi à Syrte et Bani Walid. Sur la vaste oasis de Bani Walid, à 170 km au sud de Tripoli, les forces des nouvelles autorités se préparaient à lancer une nouvelle offensive au lendemain d’accrochages qui ont fait onze morts dans leurs rangs. Images.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ywU3FBJ01M
omar
Interpol has issued arrest warrant for #Gaddafi’s son #Saadi – #Alarabiya #libya #feb17 #GetGaddafis
#Libye : Interpol a demandé l’arrestation de Saadi Kadhafi, un des fils de Mouammar Kadhafi, à la demande des autorités libyennes – #BFMTV
Libyan fighters ‘capture Sirte airport’
Fighters supporting Libya’s National Transitional Council say they they are now in control of the airport in Sirte, Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown.
The city is one of the last battlegrounds in the NTC’s push to take over the country.
Sirte is Gaddafi’s birthplace, and has been a stronghold for him throughout the seven months of conflict in Libya.
Al Jazeera Zeina Khodr reports Sirte, Libya.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU3m7HezJZI&fea...
ANSA IT
Libia:mandato arresto Interpol per Saadi
Figlio Gheddafi avvisato per l’ultima volta in Niger
L’Interpol ha spiccato un mandato d’arresto per Saadi Gheddafi su richiesta delle nuove autorita’ libiche. Il figlio del rais, si troverebbe in Niger ‘’dove e’ stato visto per l’ultima volta’’. Saadi e’ ricercato per ‘’presunta appropriazione indebita tramite la forza e l’intimidazione armata quando era a capo della Federazione di calcio’’ e ‘’in quanto comandante di unita’ militari sospettate di coinvolgimento nella repressione di manifestazioni durante la rivolta in Libia.(ANSA).
Source:
www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/topnew...
#NATO jets hit targets in #sirte for the second time today. – ALJA
On the medical frontline of Libya’s uprising
I arrived in Tataouine, a desert town in southern Tunisia, on an oven baked 113 degrees day. Sand filled the air. It was the end of August and still Ramadan – the Muslim month of fasting.
There is something ‘otherworldly’ about this stark landscape. This may explain why George Lucas chose it as the setting of Luke Skywalker’s home planet. But I was not visiting as a Star Wars groupie. I’d come to work with a group of Libyan volunteer doctors who had left their Tripoli homes to care for the war-wounded being evacuated out of Libya into Tunisia.
Read more:
www.latitudenews.com/story/on-the-medic...
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
Interpol have issued a Red Notice for Saadi Gaddafi after request by Libya’s Transitional National Council”
BBC
Libya conflict: Nato hits Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte
Nato planes have bombed targets in one of the last pro-Gaddafi strongholds, Sirte, as government forces continue their assault on the city.
Soldiers of the National Transitional Council (NTC) have been facing fierce resistance and deployed tanks to fend off sniper fire by Gaddafi loyalists.
Read more:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15095594
BBC Global News
Interpol issues arrest notice for Saadi Gaddafi for alleged crimes during time as head of Libyan Football Federation
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Two days of gorgeous rain in #Tripoli. The temperature is so beautiful and tha rain makes things clean and fresh #lovely
FromJoanne Joanne
##FLASH #Interpol issues Arrest Warrant; for #Saadi #Gaddafi 4 Alleged #crimes during time as head of #Libya #Football
AP News
Destroyed school raises questions for Libyans
oAL-SHEGAIGA, Libya (AP) – Textbooks are strewn across the floor of the computer and math lab. Pages of science homework are stamped with footprints. A cupboard has been smashed. Bullet holes puncture computer screens and frame door locks.
The Tareq Abu Zeyad middle school lies in ruins.
Full story:
m.apnews.com/ap/db_16026/contentdetail....
freedom4libya
1sided AP Bull Shit Why they did not interview anyone from #Zintan for this story?
Khalifa
The school was destroyed by #Gadhafi forces while fleeing the city. The ones interviewed for the story some by phone were known Gadhafi thugs and wanted for crimes against their own people.
#SIRTE 3 #NTC fighters were killed in “Friendly Fire” Wednesday when they were shelled by tank positioned behind them #Libya
AP
Interpol puts Gadhafi son on most-wanted list
PARIS (AP) — Interpol put ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s son al-Saadi on the equivalent of its most-wanted list on Thursday, and said he was last seen in Niger.
nterpol says the notice was based on accusations that al-Saadi Gadhafi, 38, misappropriated property and engaged in “armed intimidation” when he headed the Libyan Football Federation.
He was also a special forces commander and is the subject of U.N. sanctions for commanding military units involved in repression of demonstrations.
Read more:
hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_INTE...
Daily Star Lebanon
Photos reveal party life of Hannibal Gadhafi and his Lebanese wife
TRIPOLI: Photographs obtained by AFP in Libya reveal how Moammar Gadhafi’s son Hannibal and his lingerie model wife lived a high-flying party lifestyle during his father’s brutal rule.
In the dozens of photographs, found on a laptop belonging to Gadhafi’s son and made available by former Libyan rebels to AFP, Hannibal, 36, and his Lebanese wife Aline Skaff are shown partying in European capitals, on a private jet and on a yacht off the Egyptian coast.
Read more:
www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2...
FromJoanne Joanne
Mustapha Abdel #Jalil has returned to #Tripoli #Libya #NTC
#Benghazi
Demonstration Demanding Removal of Health Minister Barakat youtube.com/watch?v=7wGd9B… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wGd9BgOuEM
#TRIPOLI 4 US Lawmakers #JohnMcCain #MarkKirk #LindseyGraham #MarcoRubio to meet #NTC and hold Presser in Martyr Square later today #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
This is no joke: Free-Libya TV Channel recognizes the Syrian NTC as the sole representative of ppl in #Syria. Via @M_akbik
Irish Times
Girlfriend of Gadafy’s son investigated over alleged trafficking of ‘escorts’
A 39-YEAR-OLD Dutch former Playboy model is under investigation by police in the Netherlands over allegations she was involved in the trafficking of women as “escorts” to members of the Gadafy regime in Libya.
Talitha van Zon, who met Muammar Gadafy’s son Mutassim in an Italian nightclub in 2004 and became his girlfriend, has gone on Dutch radio to deny the allegations. Last month she jumped from a hotel balcony in Tripoli and escaped the country in a last-minute evacuation arranged by the Hungarian embassy.
The charges were filed in Amsterdam by a former girlfriend of Ms van Zon’s who travelled with her on that last trip to Tripoli just as the Gadafy stranglehold began to crumble. The girlfriend claims she was raped there by Mutassim Gadafy and reported the alleged rape to the Dutch police. She subsequently filed the people-trafficking charges against Ms van Zon, claiming she had been the most recent in a long line of women brought to Tripoli to fund the former centrefold’s luxury lifestyle.
Read full story:
www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011...
Tweeting Tripoli
One strange thing about Libyan, Syrian & Yemeni revolutions! How can a president convince thousands of Army members to kill fellow citizen?
In the Libyan case, Gaddafi’s “mercenaries” can explain part of the puzzle. But can’t understand it with the Syrian case!!!
Hiba El-Gamaty
They brainwash them! It’s quite freaky, they become literally brainwashed. Thinking they’re serving their country
Fadwa
soldiers r somehow ignorant & hv been brainwashed. they convince them its 4 their own good & if thy dnt kill, they’ll b killed
Tweeting Tripoli
Wish scientists could study cases like Gaddafi, Bashar & Saleh (shame about Hitler, Saddam, Pol Pot, Bin Laden… they’re dead now).
Imagine scientists can link brutal dictators to a certain gene? Nice! Attention all presidential candidates, show ur genetic profile please!
in Gaddafi’s case, I have little or no doubt that he may have serial killers genetic profile. He’s been killing libyans since 1969.
Hussam
one article suggested atrophy of limbic area in the brain, this happens due to diminishing levels of stress hormone,
Jean-Paul
Because presidents not alone but with extensive network of ppl / army sharing same interests.
Carol
Great use 4 tyrants & their aides: experimental subjects! Scientists could test all sorts on ’em, finally b some use to humanity
Tweeting Tripoli
Yeah, Dear Scientists feel free to experiment with lots and lots of needle pricking pleeeease! Muahhhhaahhaa
Malta_News Malta News
Interpol wants Saadi Gaddafi for ‘football crimes’
bit.ly/ne4swZ #Malta
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Aaaand it’s raining again in Tripoli :) #imlovingthis
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
ONtv: Musa Ibrahim, official spokesman of Gaddafi, is arrested when trying to leave Sirte.
Alarabia: ‘Interpol issues an arrestwarrant for Sa’di Gaddafi’.
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
AJA Ahmad Mansour asks his guest: ‘What are the real reasons behind the postponement of the new Libyan (Crisis) Government?’..
AJA: This is getting interesting, even tv host Ahmad Mansour (mb) is attacking Ali Tarhouni’s position…
Richard
Today is the anniversary of the invasion of Libya….by Italy, in 1911. Start of countdown to World War I. First aerial bombing in history.
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Libyan Embassy in #Jordan has been opened with the new flag on the top of it.
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Mate this is such a beauty. Have a look at the Gadaffi families old photos. Such a laugh.
facebook.com/pages/%D8%B9%D…
Vice President of Sudan visits #Libya to holda talks with the NTC.
The NTC in #Libya do officially send in a request to Tunisia to hand over AlBaghdadi AlMahmoudi
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
News that the #Interpol has issued a warrant to arrest Al Saadi Gadaffi #Libya
Sara
This is confirmed news.. here is the link to it
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB5TBB3U86w
BBC
‘Urban warfare’ in Sirte
The coverage of the war in Libya has decreased in recent weeks, but fighting goes on with civilians still in danger.
Alastair Leithead reports from the town of Sirte, where the violence is continuing.
Audio:
news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_96...
Moez
Glad to hear Musa ibrahim captured on attempting to escape #Sirte – anyone got any link to any pics? #libya
I just heard it as confirmed news on local Libyan radio in #tripoli – usually they have military sources etc here…maybe not then?
Clarification: Musa ibrahim news I just heard on local #tripoli radio – wait on other sources before you start celebrating…. #libya
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
#Amazighs are rallying 2 seek recognition of their language and other rights, thanks to the country’s revolution
bit.ly/okvHm8 #Libya
AFP
Libya has issued a summons for #Gaddafi’s former MP #BaghdadiAlMahmudi, who fled the country 2 Tunisia, #NTC justice minister said Wed
Skynews:
Interpol has issued an arrest notice for #Saadi #Gaddafi for alleged crimes during his time at head of #Libya football federation
Reuters #Tunisian prosecutors keeping #AlBaghdadiAlMahmoudi in jail after received a request 4m #NTC 2 extradite the former PM #Libya #feb17
Patrick_Baz patrickbaz
Tens of Thousands crowd Ras Jdair border post on their way to #Tunisia #Libya
Via Feb17
AFP
Libya has issued a summons for Muammar Qaddafi’s former Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi, who fled the country for neighboring Tunisia, the interim justice minister said Wednesday.
“The prosecutor general has issued a summons for former Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi,” the minister, Mohammed al-Alagi, told a news conference in Tripoli.
Mahmudi, Libya’s prime minister until the last days of Qaddafi’s regime, was arrested last week on Tunisia’s southwestern border with Algeria. A Tunisian court swiftly sentenced him to six months in prison after finding him guilty of illegal entry, but that decision was overruled on Tuesday by a higher court following an appeal by his lawyers.
Mahmudi’s arrest was the second in Tunisia of a senior Libyan official since the fall of the regime run by Qaddafi, who has been on the run since Libyan rebels took the capital Tripoli on August 23.
Sky News
World police body Interpol has issued an arrest notice for Saadi Gaddafi for alleged crimes during his time at the head of Libya’s football federation. Libyan rebel authorities requested the notice against the fallen Libyan leader’s son, believed to be in Niger, ‘for allegedly misappropriating properties through force and armed intimidation when he headed the Libyan Football Federation,’ Interpol said in a statement on Thursday.
AP
Four Republican senators traveled to Libya on Thursday to meet with the nation’s new rulers, the highest-profile American delegation to visit the country since the ouster of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi.
The four lawmakers — John McCain of Arizona, Mark Kirk of Illinois, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Marco Rubio of Florida — planned to meet with members of the National Transitional Council, which is now governing Libya after the rebels forced Gadhafi from power. Gadhafi’s whereabouts remain unknown, but the new leaders suspect he is hiding in the southern desert of the North African nation.
The senators, whose brief visit was largely shrouded in secrecy, also planned to tour Martyrs’ Square and hold a news conference with reporters. They traveled from Malta, where they met with Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi on Wednesday.
Sudan
Sudanese Vice President Ali Osman Taha is expected to meet Thursday in Tripoli with leaders of Libya’s interim government.
It will be the highest level meeting between the two countries since the fall of former leader Moammar Gadhafi. Sudan, whose foreign minister visited Libya in August, is eager to develop positive diplomatic relations with Libya’s Transitional National Council.
Relations between Sudan and Mr. Gadhafi were strained, with Khartoum accusing the ousted Libyan leader of supporting rebel groups in Darfur in an effort to expand his influence in the region.
The Sudanese government reportedly provided military support to anti-Gadhafi forces during earlier stages of Libya’s civil war.
Reuters
Tunisian prosecutors have received a request from the new Libyan authorities to extradite Muammar Gaddafi’s former prime minister, Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, and are therefore keeping him in jail, Mahmoudi’s lawyer said on Thursday.
“The prosecutor-general has decided to keep Mahmoudi in prison after receiving a
request to extradite him to Libya,” his lawyer, Mabrouk Korchid, told Reuters.
A Tunisian court sentenced Mahmoudi to six months in jail for entering the country illegally, but an appeal court later overturned this and ordered his release.
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
Sudanese Vice President #AliOsmanTaha is expected to meet Thursday in #Tripoli with leaders of Libya’s interim government
Ibn Thabit (Tripoli) and MC SWAT (Benghazi) got together one evening and recorded a song…this is it, over a Tupac beat.
Enjoy video:
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_em...
Reuters #Interpol issued an alert calling 4 the arrest of 2nd son of ousted #Gaddafi, putting pressure on #Niger to detain #Saadi #Gaddafi.
Reuters #Libya’s interim gov has asked #UN for fuel for ambulances to evacuate wounded from the besieged #Sirte. #UN source in Libya said
Nael
Finally we got him for the 10th time after his 7th death :-) #MussaIbrahim #Libya #Feb17
Al Arabiya
Rebels urge more NATO strikes after heavy losses in Qaddafi’s hometown
Anti-Qaddafi forces on Wednesday urged NATO to intensify its air war as they took heavy losses in a push on the ousted Libyan despot’s birthplace, Sirte, and his other remaining bastion, Bani Walid.
Wednesday’s fighting was so intense that the fighters of the National Transitional Council (NTC), Libya’s interim ruling body, had to retreat three kilometers (two miles) outside the eastern edge of Muammar Qaddafi’s hometown.
“There were heavy clashes today. Our men came under heavy attack,” said the commander, who asked not to be named.
Read more:
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/...
PhilBlackCNN Phil Black
Staying with revolutionary forces in Sirte. The fighters say too many Libyans have died and they don’t want to fight anymore. #Libya
plemochoe plemochoe
The “journalists” strangely neglected to report on one of the great military victories of our times – the battle of Tripoli
An irregular ground force literally spooked a wily dictator out of his capital and his ears burn with the shame
Only G trolls and the ignorant claim that NATO won the victory. But who has reported any of this?
The running “story” about Libya is concocted by editors who tell stringers what “facts” mean based on polls
In respect of #libya , journalism is to history what photography is to art. Grasps everything, understands very little
#gaddafi ’s ears burn with the shame of his defeat in Tripoli
#gaddafi and his trolls like to call their enemies “rats”, but no rat ever ran as fast as he did in getting out of Tripoli
#gaddafi The popular victory in the Battle of Tripoli will go down in military history as the work of a master thief
#gaddafi very well might have kept control of Tripoli, if only he or any of his low-rent soldiers had had the guts.
#gaddafi and his brood were afraid of the vengeance of the people of Tripoli more than anything else. That’s why they turned tail and ran
#libya The victory of the Libyan people in the Battle of Tripoli was not just politically historic but militarily. NATO did little that day
#libya #gaddafi and his pathetic whining offspring are still problems – but they are minor problems. Life in free Libya has begun
#libya Only the “objectivity” of American news companies keeps whipping the “Gaddafi story” like the proverbial dead horse
#libya From the US TV networks to the wire services, every story is based on an avoidance of anything but the bare surface of the truth
#libya After the Libya war, I don’t think I need to go to journalism school. I’ve been.
#libya I can’t stop laughing at #gaddafi the poor old queer. He had victory in his grasp and he threw it away because he was afraid
#libya Somewhat less amusing is the way “journalists” try to build the #gaddafi children into powerful personalities (suppressed giggle)
#libya If the G trolls are really socialists, they should agree on this great truth: the more money you have, the stupider you are
#libya #gaddafi was a lizard-brained mega-capitalist who proved every leftist axiom about the effect of wealth on one’s humanity
#gaddafi controlled a personal fortune of over $200 billion and passed out chump change for PR. A thieving dictator.
gaddafi had zero respect for Islam, in fact he has officially been declared the enemy of Islam
Jamal
We waited 42 years to overcome #Gaddafi, without all involved in the Libyan revolution including #NTC, we would not be where we are now!
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Snipers are proving to be very effective for Gaddafi, at least in terms of hurting a large number of revolutionaries. #Libya #Gaddafi
Furtado
Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado says she is donating $1 million to the Free the Children charity from the $1 million she was paid to perform at a private concert. In February, Furtado said she would donate to charity the $1 million she was paid to perform in Italy for members of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s family in 2007
Feb17
Interpol has released a Red Notice for Al-Saadi Gaddafi, one of the sons of the deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who fled to Niger two weeks ago. He is accused of corruption and armed intimidation.
Reuters via Feb17
Libya’s interim government has asked the United Nations for fuel for ambulances to evacuate wounded from the besieged city of Sirte, a U.N. source in Libya said on Thursday.
Nael
no pics for #MussaIbrahim yet! we will wait and see.
CNN
McCain arrives in Libya as rival forces battle for control of last few strongholds
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) – United States Sen. John McCain arrived in the Libyan capital Thursday as the new leadership battled for control of the last few strongholds loyal to ousted ruler Moammar Gadhafi.
McCain was accompanied by Sens. Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham and Mark Kirk. The group will meet with members of the National Transitional Council, the new leadership that toppled Gadhafi.
Full story:
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/2...
BBC
Forces loyal to Gaddafi ‘continue oppression’ in Sirte
Thousands of civilians are leaving Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte where a humanitarian disaster is looming according to Medecins Sans Frontieres.
Hana Saleh was born in Canada to Libyan parents and now lives in Leeds. Part of her family has managed to leave Sirte but five uncles and one aunt remain there.
She spoke to Radio 5 live Up All Night.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15108831
BBC
Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte thwart Libya NTC advance
For months, those who began the revolution have advanced west across Libya taking town after town for the National Transitional Council (NTC), but here in Sirte they are facing a huge challenge.
As Col Gaddafi’s home town – seat of his family and tribe – it has always had preferential treatment and now it is being fiercely defended.
The rebel army grew in experience and hardware as it followed the coast road across the country, learning the skills to fight a professional army and relying on Nato to ensure it was an uneven battle.
Full story:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15102194
BBC
Libyan forces take Sirte airport
Forces loyal to Libya’s transitional authorities have taken the airport in the city of Sirte, the birthplace of fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafi.
A BBC correspondent says jubilant fighters moved through the partially destroyed terminal buildings tearing down symbols of the Gaddafi regime.
Gaddafi loyalists have put up stiff resistance in Sirte.
Read more:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15110440
NATO
NATO and Libya – Inside Ain Zara, Qadhafi’s prison (w/subtitles)
A look inside one of Qadhafi’s prisons in Tripoli where former political prisoners are now able to return to the scene of their detention and torture.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKn2WjPor-g&fea...
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Normal life is returing to Brega as families return and children head back to school. #Libya
It has confirmed that the NTC Fighters have full control of the Airport in Sirt #Libya
Mahmoud Jibreal will be having a press conference this evening in Tripoli at 7.30 pm #Libya
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Photo: Bab al-Aziziyah on Flickr. This giant hawk statue looks out over Gaddafi’s sprawling Tripoli… tumblr.com/xxw4yp13lz
Photo: Bab al-Aziziyah on Flickr. This giant hawk statue looks out over Gaddafi’s sprawling Tripoli… tumblr.com/xxw4yp0pmo
Photo: Bab al-Aziziyah on Flickr. This giant hawk statue looks out over Gaddafi’s sprawling Tripoli… tumblr.com/xxw4yp0k8o
Photo: Gaddafi’s swimming pool on Flickr. This is Gaddafi’s swimming pool, next to his home in the Bab… tumblr.com/xxw4yp1m7h
Tweeting Tripoli
MacCain live from Tripoli now. AJE
Malta Independent
Libya’s tankers laid off Malta seen operational in a month
Libya’s state owned oil tanker fleet is set to be back in business within a month, with some vessels ready for trading in the next two weeks after months at anchorage due to war, the country’s port authority chief told Reuters on Tuesday.
Libya’s interim rulers are stepping up efforts to get the economy and Africa’s previously third biggest oil producer back on track after former leader Muammar Gaddafi was toppled last month. The country’s seaborne trade is seen as vital for resumption of trading activity.
The state-owned shipping firm General National Maritime Transport Company (GNMTC) has been under pressure in recent months due to a combination of sanctions and a freeze on assets belonging to the Gaddafi family, with several tankers that were managed by an international company laid-up off Malta and Singapore.
Ramadan Boumadyan, chairman of the designated committee at Libya’s Ports and Maritime Transport Authority, said the interim government was working on getting the 24-strong fleet operational again.
“Those ships will be in service soon,” he said in an interview.
Full story:
www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsite...
libyanfsl
LibyaTV program about the role of Libya’s Youth in the future, myself & Taher Suni as guests #Feb17 #Libya
bit.ly/nQSEI2
NYT
Interpol Widens Net in Hunt for Qaddafi and Sons
TRIPOLI, Libya — Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the fugitive former Libyan leader toppled from power a month ago, is likely to have taken refuge near the Algerian border under the protection of sympathetic nomadic tribesmen who have fought for him, an official of the new Libyan government said Wednesday.
On Thursday, Interpol also widened its net for members of his family.
Full story:
www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/world/africa...
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
#Gaddafi’s former prime minister, Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, has begun a hunger strike in a prison in Tunisa, his lawyer says
mojo
Baghdadi Mahmudi (#Gaddafi PM) goes on hunger strike in #Tunisia prison — boo hoo #libya #crymeariver
Tweeting Tripoli
They probably meant “Diet”!!!
ahmadalgamaty ahmadalgamaty
Jibril and Vice President of #Sudan working to strengthen the relations between #Libya and Sudan and cooperation in the field of investments
FR24
Interpol puts Gaddafi’s son on most-wanted list
The international police agency Interpol announced Thursday that it had issued a red notice for al-Saadi Gaddafi, son of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Al-Saadi Gaddafi, last seen in Niger, is accused of corruption and intimidation.
More here:
goo.gl/SJQEr
20arb11 Souffian Tripoli
Daily News on #Tripoli #Trables #Libya goo.gl/r9L0i
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libyan interim government forces take full control of airport in #Gaddafi bastion #Sirte.
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
#Libye les forces du CNT ont pris le contrôle de l’aéroport de #Syrte romandie.com/news/n/_Libyan…
Khadija \
Aeroplanes fill Tripoli’s sky on a cool rainy Thursday morning. #Libya #Matigaairbase
Ceedat
“Keep your city clean, Libya is free, historical garbage.”
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Times of Malta
Qatar: Helping Libya from Malta
Qatar will continue using Malta as a hub for humanitarian aid to Libya for as long as necessary, according to General Naser Alkaabi, a senior Qatari military official who heads his country’s aid mission for Libya in Malta.
“As long as the Libyan people need our help, we are willing to provide assistance from Malta. There is no target deadline, we will stay here for as long as necessary,” he tells The Times Business.
General Alkaabi, who is assisted in Malta by a number of Qatari military officers, says his country began its humanitarian assistance to Libya about five months ago when the Qatari chief of military staff came to Malta for talks with the Prime Minister and the Commander of the Armed Forces.
“The two sides agreed to cooperate in providing humanitarian assistance to Libya and since then we have been sending supplies over such as food, medicine and ambulances.
“We signed a contract with Salvo Grima Group to supply us with food and mineral water for our weekly shipment to Libya with humanitarian aid. We have sent 13 shipments since we started, consisting of 2,000 tons of food and two tons of medicine and ambulances.”
Full story:
www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011...
MeesEnergy MEES Oil & Gas
#Benghazi-based state-#oil firm #Agoco said on Wednesday it planned to restart production from three fields in east …
bit.ly/rgrlwP
JohnDelaGuardia John D. Dela Guardia
I just saw Senator John #McCain arriving in Corinthia Hotel #Tripoli for the presser… He looks a lot older in person…
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
News that some NTC Fighters have died after Gadaffi Loyalists shelled a hotel that the NTC Fighters have control of in Sirt #Libya
Libya Outreach Group
Situation Report:
Libya – September 28, 2011
Executive Summary
Highlights
Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) employees protest outside offices in Tripoli saying they want a clean break from the past regime Article
NTC urges the UN to help prevent possible terrorist threats and attacks from Gaddafi and his family.
Additional News
From September 28-29 (a.m.) 2011:
Maummer Gaddafi may be hiding in Libya’s southern desert under the protection of Tuareg fighters and could be near the Libya Algerian border. His exact whereabouts are unknown. Article
Col. Ahmed Bani, the military spokesman for NTC says, Seif al-Islam is in Bani Walid and Muatassim is in Sirte. Article
Pro-Democracy forces take Sirte port Tuesday Article
Very heavy fighting in Sirte, Libya Wednesday inside the city center Video, Article
Pro-Democracy fighters in Sirte city center facing fire from snipers in the area and are having a hard time moving forward. Article
NTC urges NATO to intensify their strategic bombing of military targets in and around Bani Walid and Sirte. There have been heavy casualties in the last few days. Article
NATO press conference on Libya Video
Former Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoude was arrested in Tunisia near the border of Algeria. He sentenced to six months in prison for illegally entering the country by a Tunisian judge, but was freed yesterday. Tunisia says they did not receive any requests to extradite Mr. al-Mahmoude from the NTC or any other entity. Article , Article
NTC sends 20 million LYD ($16 million) to the newly liberated town of Sebha, Libya Article
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister, John Baird my visit Libya this week if the National Transitional Council (NTC) selects a new interim cabinet Article
NTC decides to postpone naming the new interim council until Libya is fully liberated from Gaddafi Article, Article2
The first shipment of Libyan crude oil was shipped from eastern port of Marsa el Hariga on September 25, 2011 to Italy. Article
Libya’s oil tanker fleet owned by the state-owned shipping firm, General National Maritime Transport Company (GNMTC) to resume business within a month and some ready for trading in the next two weeks. Article
Malta urges Libya to adopt international conventions on immigration Article
Read individual articles here:
us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=5f65a9cec4...
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Al Baghdadi AlMahmoudi goes on hunger strike after the NTC in #Libya ask for him to be handed over.
Tweeting Tripoli
McCain: USA should continue help Libya
USA senators: Gaddafi’s regime is over, but the war is not over yet. People are still dying defending the freedom they fought for.
McCain: USA will be ready to cooperate with any government chosen by the Libyan people (Answering question about a possible Islamist gov).
AJELive AJELive
US senator John McCain speaking live from Tripoli:"This is the Libyan revolution not ours, the US will stand by you
Bloomberg
Business Week
Nigeria Investigating Suspected Qaddafi Fighters, Police Say
Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) — Nigeria is investigating more than 100 people detained in the northern city of Kaduna on suspicion of being fighters for former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi after they entered the country from Niger, police said.
“It is only investigation that will prove if they’re Qaddafi fighters or just Nigerians returning home,” police spokesman Yemi Ajayi said today by phone from Abuja, the capital. “They’ll be allowed to go if they’re not fighters from Libya.”
Read more:
www.businessweek.com/news/2011-09-29/ni...
Tweeting Tripoli
I admire Mohamed Gaddaf Aldam (Gaddafi’s cousin) for his courage to come out against Gaddafi early in the revolution. pic.twitter.com/4IEop0yk
Having said that, the poor thing seems always confused. I always come out with more questions than answers after viewing his interviews!!!
Mariam
I think it had more to do with w/ fear of losing access to the millions sitting in his bank accounts than it did courage.
Tweeting Tripoli
Yes, but 99% of others went for fighting and committing more crimes!! I am sure he understands he will be questioned someday.
Mariam
I appreciate that but I wouldn’t go so far as to say I admire that.
AJA:
Casualties among #FFs as Gaddafi forces bomb the Hotel they had taken over.
Sirtawi
Ahmed Bani: North of #Sirte is liberated and the pathway btwn E/W of the city is open. #FFs are still helping civilians leave. #Feb17
Gaddafi forces dressed as civilians and fighting alongside foreign mercenaries in #Sirte. v @libyatv
Libyan fighters ‘capture Sirte airport’
Fighters supporting Libya’s National Transitional Council say they they are now in control of the airport in Sirte, Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown.
The city is one of the last battlegrounds in the NTC’s push to take over the country.
Sirte is Gaddafi’s birthplace, and has been a stronghold for him throughout the seven months of conflict in Libya.
Al Jazeera Zeina Khodr reports Sirte, Libya.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU3m7HezJZI&fea...
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Anonymous asked: Do you know anything about who will be the next Minister of Health? tumblr.com/xxw4yozw4q
Malta Independent
Libya: ‘We have offered all our resources within limits’ – PM Gonzi
Malta has offered all its resources within limits and currently we cannot take any more patients needing ITU treatment, said Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi yesterday morning.
Addressing a business breakfast on Libya in St Julian’s, Dr Gonzi pointed out that on Monday, a flight bringing to Malta some 15 patients was refused because of their specialised requirements.
“Our ITU is full so we cannot take any more patients needing ITU treatment but we can take other patients who may be treated in other wards or private hospitals,” he said.
He confirmed that the Malta Red Cross has asked for help to set up a field hospital and that the government had accepted to give assistance.
St Luke´s Hospital and St Philip´s Hospital are being examined as possibilities and Red Cross will be making its preference according to requirements after considering the options Malta has given.
The International Red Cross will help with human resources.
Read more:
www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsite...
Vancouver Sun
Gadhafi diehards force Sirte retreat by Libyan NTC fighters
SIRTE, Libya — Ferocious attacks by Gadhafi diehards forced fighters of Libya’s new rulers to retreat from the ousted strongman’s birthplace Sirte, where a tank shell killed three in a “friendly fire” attack.
Equally fierce resistance from loyalists in the desert town of Bani Walid, Moammar Gadhafi’s other remaining bastion of support, has stalled a final assault by National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters, said commanders, who called on NATO to increase its air support.
More here:
www.vancouversun.com/news/Gadhafi%20die...
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Does anyone know of any other source for #MusaIbrahim capture story other than Quryna?
Reuters
McCain says Libya inspires people in China, Russia, Iran, Syria
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
Fox News
McCain: ‘The Libyan People Have Inspired the World’
WASHINGTON — Arizona Sen. John McCain said Thursday during a trip to Libya to meet with the nation’s new rulers that the Libyan people “have inspired the world.”
“They have paid an enormous price for their freedom but the sacrifice of the Libyan
people has delivered their great nation to the shores of a new world full of new hope; a chance for all Libyans to know lasting peace, dignity and justice," he told reporters at a news conference.
McCain was joined by three other Republican senators in the highest-profile American delegation to visit the country since the ouster of longtime leader Muammar Qaddafi.
Read more:
www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/29/us-...
Anaya
The next few month will shape the future, the # NTC will announce a new cabinet (…) important for it to be inclusive of all. John McCain
First News
Mines Advisory Group(aUK group) to help clear landmines from #Libya www.firstnews.co.uk/news/uk-to-clear-la... via
Ruwayda
Would it be a wrong move for international feminists to fund women rights activists in Tunisia, Egypt & Libya to help them?
Global Post
It’s a long road for Libya’s wounded
SIRTE, Libya — Ammunition tore through Sirte’s main street last week as rebel fighters emerged from behind shelter to fire machine guns and RPGs. Suddenly, Yusef Matoog Alhamaly dropped to the ground, his Kalashnikov falling beside him.
Through the smoke filled air, a sniper bullet had found its target.
As he lay fully exposed with his shattered leg twisted behind him, one man rushed in
to cover him with a round of bullets and several comrades dragged him to safety. The 34-year-old winced in pain as he was thrown onto the back of a pickup truck and rushed to a waiting ambulance through a hail of incoming fire.
Full art.:
www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/region...
MWorldNews Morocco World News
The previous enthusiasm for pursuing international justice by investigating crimes of the Gaddafi regime has…
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Watchdog: Libya chemical weapons as expected: AMSTERDAM (AP) — The international chemical weapons watchdog…
apne.ws/rmgxWT
libyanproud libyanandproud
The #Gaddafi family coming together under one roof one more time :) twitpic.com/6sduwk #Feb17 #Libya
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Tunisian spectators sure didn’t know what to think when my injured #Libyan FF friend got in this car for a photo. twitpic.com/6s58ph
#Libya: Back to school… “We’re not interested in Al Qaeda, we’re interested in education.” arabnews.com/middleeast/art…
Wash Post:
Libyans wait, and worry, as new government delays.
“We are very worried; they are not telling us anything” www.washingtonpost.com/world/libyans-wa...
Voice of Russia
NTC forces take Sirte airport
Forces loyal to Libya’s rebel National Transitional Council have taken the airport in Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, the BBC reported on Thursday.
It quoted rebels as saying that they also detained Gaddafi’s press secretary Moussa Ibrahim, who unsuccessfully tried to flee Sire earlier in the day and who has already been transported to the city of Misrata to face an interrogation.
Colonel Gaddafi’s current whereabouts are still unknown.
Source:
english.ruvr.ru/2011/09/29/56942878.html
SerajElalem Seraj Elalem
Driving around #Tripoli this wonderful rainy morning listening to The Beatles
Another round of journalist training has just started in #Tripoli, if you’re interested, give me a shout!
#Libya hopes to see economy take flight – FT.com
on.ft.com/qUGwgD #Feb17 #Libya
Small World News
Training in Tripoli
Last weekend Alive in Libya, led by our Benghazi bureau chief Seraj Elalem, completed its first training session in Tripoli. 10 aspiring journalists, 5 women and 5 men, graduated from our course, and 4 of them signed on as contributors to Alive in Libya. More trainings will follow in the coming weeks as we continue to expand into previously inaccessible areas. You can see a selection of the new content from our Tripoli bureau by visiting the website.
UN rights council recommends lifting Libya suspension english.ahram.org.eg/News/22897.aspx via @ahramonline
#FFs capture a number of Gaddafi forces to the east of #Sirte and find a farm stacked with all kinds of ammo. v @libyatv
Aljazeera
Giving birth on the frontline
The impact of the drawn out conflict on ordinary people in Sirte was brought into sharp focus for us last night. We had swung by the field hospital on the way back from the fighting on the frontline to ask the surgeon about casualty figures.
We had seen and heard ambulances rushing backwards and forwards all day so feared the toll was high. The doctor shook his head and said it had been a bad day.
Two of the commanders fighting on the northern flank close to the port had been killed by sniper bullets and he had treated many shrapnel injuries.
Then he added that they had also had a labour to deal with. I thought I’d misheard him.
A labour? As in a birth? Yes, he said. A pregnant woman had escaped the fighting in Sirte and was staying in one of the houses behind the field hospital. She was three days overdue and was suffering complications.
I asked if he was up for delivering a baby. He turned as white as a sheet. He had dug out countless bullets and dealt with the most horrific battlefield injuries for months now but the idea of delivering a baby scared the life out of him.
Thankfully there was a local midwife on hand. He was hopeful she could manage without his services. I asked if I could see her.
I am lucky enough to have a camerawoman with me, so talking to women is a much easier prospect, than trying to allow a male crew in – because of cultural sensitivities.
The doctor said he thought he should be ok and sent us off with the ambulance chosen to pick her up and rush her down the road to Ras Lanuf, the nearest hospital an hour and a half away. We followed the ambulance to the house.
The driver and fighters on board, still carrying their AK47s, saw this mission as urgent as any they had dealt with in the past six months of conflict. By the time we got to the house it was pitch black.
The male members of the family came out. They explained how the hospital in Sirte had no electricity, little water and was low on medical supplies.
They were reluctant to allow us in. Understandable, given what they had been through and their concerns for a safe delivery.
The brother eventually said we were welcome to film as she was transferred to the ambulance that was to rush her to hospital. Moments later a scream rang out through the darkness. She was already in labour.
We retreated not wanting to be a burden at such a sensitive time. The next morning we were at the hospital getting fuel from the tank stationed to keep the ambulances on the road.
We asked the gaggle of doctors and staff hanging around reception if she had made it to the hospital. They all smiled broadly. Mother and baby were doing fine.
BBC
Libya’s planned revision of school curriculum
During the 42 years of Colonel Gaddafi’s rule, Libya’s education system became the testing ground for the many ideological whims of its leader.
Libyan students are now returning to their studies and a school curriculum that needs a complete overhaul.
Jonathan Head reports from Tripoli.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15110795
Romandie News
ONU: le Conseil des droits de l’Homme demande le retour de la Libye
GENEVE – Le Conseil des droits de l’homme de l’ONU a demandé jeudi dans une résolution le retour de la Libye dans ses rangs après la chute du régime de Mouammar Kadhafi.
Le texte proposé par le Maroc, avec le soutien de nombreux pays arabes ainsi que celui de la France, du Royaume-Uni et de l’Espagne demande à l’Assemblée générale de l’ONU de lever la suspension prononcée contre la Libye.
La résolution note avec satisfaction que la Libye sest engagée à sacquitter des obligations qui lui incombent en vertu du droit international relatif aux droits de lhomme, à promouvoir et protéger les droits de lhomme, la démocratie et létat de droit et à coopérer avec les mécanismes internationaux des droits de lhomme compétents.
Il félicite également la Libye pour son engagement à coopérer avec la Commission internationale denquête créée par le Conseil des droits de lhomme de l’ONU pour enquêter sur les allégations de violations commises dans le pays depuis le début du soulèvement populaire contre le régime de Kadhafi.
Art.:
www.romandie.com/news/n/_ONU_le_Conseil...
ALERTE – Tunisie: l’ex Premier ministre libyen entame une grève de la faim
www.romandie.com/news/n/_ALERTE___Tunis...
The Swiss government has appointed an ambassador to the new Libyan government, the foreign ministry announced on Thursday. Michel Gottret
KenRoth Kenneth Roth
UN Human Rights Council reinstates suspended #Libya as member. bit.ly/pRSbda
Der Spiegel
Mussa Ibrahim
Gaddafi-Sprecher angeblich in Frauenkleidern aufgegriffen
Er gilt als eine der bekanntesten Personen der Gaddafi-Herrschaft: Monatelang verkündete Mussa Ibrahim als Sprecher des Regimes Propaganda-Botschaften für die Öffentlichkeit. Jetzt soll er Aufständischen zufolge in Sirt gefasst worden sein – angeblich verschleiert und in Frauenkleider gehüllt.
Tripolis – Die Truppen des libyschen Übergangsrates haben in der schwer umkämpften Stadt Sirt angeblich Mussa Ibrahim, den Regierungssprecher von Muammar al-Gaddafi, gefangen genommen.
Der Fernsehsender der Aufständischen von Misurata meldete am Donnerstag, Ibrahim sei in der Nacht geschnappt worden, als er versucht habe, zusammen mit einer
Gruppe von Zivilisten die Stadt zu verlassen.
Ibrahim habe Frauenkleider getragen und sei verschleiert gewesen. Der Sender kündigte an, er wolle demnächst Bilder von der Gefangennahme zeigen. Eine unabhängige Bestätigung für die Angaben gibt es bislang nicht.
Ebenfalls unklar ist der Verbleib von Ibrahims Familie: Der 36-Jährige ist verheiratet mit einer deutschen Staatsbürgerin, beide hatten bis zur Eroberung der Hauptstadt durch Rebellenkämpfer in einem Hotel in Tripolis Quartier bezogen.
Full story:
www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,7...
Les glissements du “devoir de protéger”, en #Libye. www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2011/09/29...
Breaking (Yawn) : #NIGER refuses to hand over Saadi #Gaddafi as requested by the INTERPOL . #Feb17 #Libya
ICRC
Libya: aid for 10,000 people near Sirte
In recent days, thousands of people have been fleeing their homes in the combat zone of Sirte, heading towards the desert or nearby villages to the east and to the west. The ICRC and the Libyan Red Crescent have stepped up their aid effort.
“Civilians fleeing Sirte report that water and electricity in the city are cut most of the time, food reserves are very low and access to health care is very difficult,” said Georges Comninos, the head of the ICRC delegation in Tripoli. “We are also hearing about severe shortages of medical supplies in the hospital. We are increasingly concerned about the humanitarian situation there.”
The ICRC is stepping up its efforts to obtain access to Sirte as rapidly as possible. It has a ship loaded with medical and relief supplies that is ready to leave from the port of Misrata.
Around 3,000 displaced people, including many children, women and elderly people, are dispersed in a desert area between Sirte and Harawa, some 30 kilometres east of Sirte. “These people don’t want to go any further. Despite very difficult living conditions, they want to remain as close as possible to their houses,” said Patrick Schwaerzler, the head of the ICRC sub-delegation in Benghazi, who participated in a mission to the area. “They have no proper toilets or showers, and they do not have enough drinking water. Diarrhoea and fever are spreading. No health care is reaching them.” On 26 September, water and hygiene items were distributed to 1,200 of the displaced. More assistance is needed for the people who have arrived in the area in the meantime.
In the village of Harawa, 20 kilometres further east, the situation is hardly better. In cooperation with the Libyan Red Crescent, the ICRC has delivered water and hygiene items to 6,600 people displaced from Sirte and to the residents hosting them. Some 57,000 jars of baby food are also being distributed in the area.
About 100 kilometres to the west of Sirte, hundreds of displaced people have taken refuge in the village of Washka, joining others who came from Misrata and Tamina. They have mostly been accommodated in schools and vacant houses. On 27 September, Libyan Red Crescent volunteers and ICRC staff distributed food, kitchen sets, hygiene items and diapers to 850 people in the village. Similar items were distributed to about 700 people displaced from Sirte, Tawargha and Tamina in Wadi Marah, a village deep in the desert about 170 kilometres south-east of Misrata.
Displaced people in Washka and Wadi Marah, particularly children and pregnant women, are also in urgent need of access to primary health care and potable water.
Once again, the ICRC reminds those fighting on the ground in Libya as well as NATO forces of their obligations under international humanitarian law. In particular, they must at all times protect civilians and guarantee safe access for health-care and humanitarian personnel.
For further information, please contact:
Soaade Messoudi, ICRC Tripoli, tel: +218 913 066 198
Dibeh Fakhr, ICRC Benghazi, tel: +870 772 390 124 (ext. 250) or +218 9 923 304 560
Steven Anderson, ICRC Geneva, tel: +41 22 730 20 11 or +41 79 536 92 50
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Niger refuse to hand Saadi Gadaffi over after Interpol warrant issued #Libya
m_madi Mohamed Madi
still no picture evidence, although there is an image apparently of his brother who was captured
Slip of the tongue: “Irak” instead of #Libya" Senator John McCain said, speeking Al Jazeera
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovh-ziYO748&fea...
#Libye: Les #amazighs libyens se libèrent
fr.allafrica.com/stories/201109…
misrati_free Alaeddin Muntasser
Spoke with the captain of Maltese boat Mae Manga that ferried aid for @IGOAID that was targeted 5 times while docked in Misurata by grad 1/2
With tears in his eyes he said “How can I feel fear or turn back when I can almost hear people dying meters from me”Thank you Cpt. Charlie
Its one thing for a Libyan hero like Captain “Tareg Eddrgash” but for a non Libyan to take such a risk is something else.
FreedomTV based in Misrata,assured that the images of the arrest of Ibrahim M will be released once it is sent to a safe place
“Libya, Saudi Arabia and Middle East unrest – 29 September 2011” www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-li...
Mairi
6 month on the UN and International Community fails to stop Mali and Chad providing mercenaries to Libya.
tinyurl.com/PCOLibya
BBC News – Forces loyal to Gaddafi ‘continue oppression’ in Sirte bbc.in/mTo4tR
Arrestation de Moussa Ibrahim… déguisé en femme !
RT @N24_de: Mussa Ibrahim gefasst :
N24.de/n/7300156 #Libye
Reuters
Conoco buys Libyan oil, 1st of U.S. majors -sources
To deliver to German Miro refinery – source
Other U.S. majors also close to resuming buying
Purchase to help further normalise Libya oil trade
More:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/29/liby...
The Mussa Ibrahim #Gaddafi arrest rumor is persistent. As wise men are wont to say: pics or didn’t happen. #Libya
unfortunately the news of #Mussa #Ibrahim #Gaddafi arrest remains unconfirmed by #WefaqLibyaAr FB page
Free Libya
I only want to see Mussa Ibrahim dead, otherwise he will just get released like the rest and holiday in Tunis/ Algiers/ Syria.
major_gazette GLAVGAZETA
Muammar Gaddafi’s press secretary was arrested in Libya: Mussa Ibrahim, Muammar Gaddafi’s official representativ…
bit.ly/psiaT2
Reuters
Libya to honour deals with foreign firms: c.bank
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Libya is committed to honouring all deals with foreign firms unless they reveal evidence of corruption, and the country will not impose foreign exchange controls, its central bank governor said on Thursday.
Read more:
af.reuters.com/article/investingNews/id...
WorldsNewsHouse World’s News House
Libyen: Gaddadis Sprecher offenbar verschleiert und in Frauenkleidung gefasst: Mussa Ibrahim hat im Auftrag des …
bit.ly/r4feNC
emol
Rebeldes anuncian detención del portavoz de Jaddafi y que controlan aeropuerto de Sirte
Mussa Ibrahim fue apresado en la ciudad natal de Moammar Jaddfi. Antes, las nuevas autoridades libias lo habían dado por muerto.
TRÍPOLI.- Las tropas del Consejo de Transición libio afirmaron que detuvieron al portavoz del prófugo ex líder Moammar Jaddafi, Mussa Ibrahim, a su vez, anunciaron que capturaron el aeropuerto de la disputada ciudad de Sirte.
Según informó hoy el canal de televisión de los rebeldes de Misrata, Ibrahim fue detenido en la noche junto con un grupo de civiles cuando intentaba huir de la ciudad, señaló la emisora. El portavoz de Jaddafi llevaba ropa de mujer y un velo.
More:
goo.gl/bcWbF
20 minuten
Gaddafi-Sprecher in Frauenkleider verhaftet
Den Rebellen in Libyen ist offenbar wieder ein dicker Fisch ins Netz gegangen. Mussa Ibrahim wurde in Misrata verhaftet. Derweil gibt es Erfolgsmeldungen aus der umkämpften Stadt Sirte
More here:
www.20min.ch/news/dossier/libyen/story/...
ahauslohner Abigail Hauslohner
Yesterday met a volunteer #Libya EOD team…just a group of engineers digging up land mines by hand, w out protection in #Nafusa Mts. #Brave
Army Air Corps Apache And RAF Chinook Helicopters Practice Deck Landings Onboard HMS Illustrious
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Aljazeera
A high-profile delegation of United States senators has arrived in the Libyan capital Tripoli, they include John McCain, the one-time Republican presidential hopeful. It comes days after America re-opened its embassy in the country.
Video:
blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/Libya
star Tribune
New envoys for Swiss, Libyans sent to improve once-rocky relationship
GENEVA – Switzerland and Libya are establishing new relations to finally put behind them a diplomatic dispute involving one of Moammar Gadhafi’s sons.
With the ouster of Gadhafi last month, Libya sent a new ambassador to Switzerland, Sliman Bouchuiguir, who presented his credentials Thursday to the Swiss president and a federal chancellor.
Bouchuiguir headed the Libyan League for Human Rights, which argued for a new relationship with the Swiss.
The Swiss Cabinet, in turn, appointed Michel Gottret, envoy to Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain, as its ambassador in Tripoli, where the Swiss plan to soon reopen their embassy.
Gadhafi’s son and daughter-in-law were arrested in 2008 for allegedly beating servants in a Geneva hotel, sparking the diplomatic friction.
Source:
www.startribune.com/world/130790253.html
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Today’s Zaman
Libyan Gen. Salihin speaks to Anatolia hours before death
One of the most important officers of the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) and commander of the siege in Bani Walid, Gen. Dau Salihin, spoke to an Anatolia news agency correspondent just hours before being killed by Muammar Gaddafi’s forces on Wednesday.
Salihin gave an exclusive interview to the Anatolia team at a farm built by Gaddafi for wild animals some 40 kilometers from the Bani Walid front.
“A two-room building that has dirt all over its road is our command center for the siege of Bani Walid. I am pleased to be speaking with a Turkish journalist. Turkey has a special place for me and the Libyan insurgents. You have a special place in our hearts. We are happy to see Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s support for us and for what he has said about Libya,” Salihin said.
“The siege of Bani Walid continued for weeks, and the war between Gaddafi forces and the NTC will determine the future of Libya,” the general noted.
“Bani Walid is crucial, as all of Gaddafi’s armed forces have come here. Gaddafi’s well-trained special forces have all converged in Bani Walid, the NTC officer noted, adding, “Gaddafi forces attack us with around 500 rocket launchers daily.”
“We could enter Bani Walid, but we do not want to use heavy weapons. The majority of the people there support the NTC. As we do not want to harm the people, we are not conducting massive attacks on the city. While 80 percent of the residents of Bani Walid support us, 50 percent of the population is forced to fight against the NTC. Gaddafi forces use innocent people as shields against weapons,” Salihin told Anatolia.
Bani Walid a siege on three fronts
“The NTC forces’ siege of Bani Walid took place on three fronts. We have completely cut off all logistical support to Gaddafi forces. We are trying to gain hold of Bani Walid without hurting the civilians in the city,” he said, adding, “As such, the siege has taken a long time.”
“Two of Gaddafi’s sons are still in Bani Walid. Accordingly, there is more resistance here than in other cities. Gaddafi’s son Seyfulislam is commanding the forces in Bani Walid,” the Libyan general stated.
Gen. Salihin continued: “Gaddafi’s sharpshooters are presently in Bani Walid and fighting against us. Around 4,500 sharpshooters are in there. We believe that Gaddafi forces have around 1,500 rocket launchers.”
“Every passing day, the number of volunteers joining the NTC is on the rise,” he told Anatolia, noting: “There is a humanitarian tragedy in Bani Walid at the present time. People in Bani Walid cannot find bread and water. We receive information from the city on a daily basis, and Gaddafi forces kill three to five people every day. An 83-year-old woman was killed the other day for complaining that she could not find water. Gaddafi forces have planted mines in various corners of the city so that the residents cannot escape.”
“The number of paid soldiers fighting against the NTC is high. Gaddafi has used 600 rocket launchers against us in a single day. They keep on firing missiles on us, including Russian-made ones. We do not know where they got their missiles from,” Salihin noted.
Bani Walid everything for Gaddafi
“All killers, thieves and rapists are fighting against the us in Bani Walid,” the Libyan general stated. “Once Bani Walid falls, it would imply that all of Gaddafi’s force has been wiped out. Once the war ends, those who were with Gaddafi will be punished through the law,” he added.
“The world should do what it has to do so that we do not kill each other. The people of the world should help us so that we will not kill one another,” Salihin said in his last message.
Times of Malta-Debate on #Libya reborn goo.gl/YSDj8 #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Anay_a Anaya
#Gaddaffi spokesman Moussa Ibrahim captured outside Sirte dressed as a woman, fleeing in a stealth golf car, hiding an AK74 in the umbrella
#Jibril said he will not be a part of the new gov, the formation of which has been postponed until the end of the country’s conflict.AJE
#Jibril “I hope that soon we will free Sirte& BW to begin negotiations on the formation
of the transitional gov, of which I wont be a part”
SenJohnMcCain John McCain
Sen @GrahamBlog and I met this young rebel recovering from his injuries at Tripoli Med Center #Libya
lockerz.com/s/143021081
After a day in #Tripoli Kirk praised Obama’s handling of the Libyan conflict as a undeniable “success.”
www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/6474... #Libya
Libya’s NTC announces capture of Mussa Ibrahim, closing in on Gaddafi & sons
TRIPOLI, – Libya’s new rulers on Thursday stepped up the hunt for Moamer Gaddafi’s inner circle, seeking the arrest of one of his sons, Saadi, and announcing the capture of his spokesman Mussa Ibrahim.
They also said another Kadhafi son, Mutassim, was in the deposed despot’s birthplace of Sirte, where old regime loyalists fought pitched battles with combatants loyal to the ruling National Transitional Council.
Read more:
goo.gl/d3zMY
Iranian MPs to visit #Libya to pursue Imam Mousa Sadr’s whereabouts goo.gl/5s23J
Russian TV trying to put the ‘Gaddafi is in Belarus’ rumors to rest. goo.gl/nt9JU #Libya #Feb17
NTC Commanders have confirmed to AFP that they have captured Gaddafi Spokesman, Mussa Ibrahim Gaddafi, outside Sirte – #Libya
Mussa Ibrahim captured outside Sirte ‘dressed as woman’ via @AlArabiya_Eng v/ AFP #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
Photo Martyrs Square #Tripoli #Libya today @grahamblog @marcorubio & @senatorkirk @SenJohnMcCain
goo.gl/0dZuh
U.S. Sen. LindseyGraham Thursday: #Libya ns met visiting Senators and expressed gratitude Want repay int. community
goo.gl/tjjbs
Undated Pic: #Hannibal #Gaddafi watches MilitaryExercise by elite military Unit commanded by bro #Khamis #Zlitan #Libya
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Undated #Photo of #Saadi Gaddafi watching exercise of Elite Military Unit commanded by #Khamis #Zlitan
goo.gl/YuIJE #Libya
#Photo of the man who is Wanted by Interpol goo.gl/tfVN7 al-Saadi #Gaddafi in the middle of the pic next2 Hannibal on right #Libya
Photo of Al Saadi and Hannibal in audience watching a Military Exercise of Unit commanded by brother #Khamis goo.gl/NgPuq
#Tripoli press corps chuckled as McCain said he’d dreamed of visiting the “liberated capital of a free Iraq.” Oops. He corrected to #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
Oh dear this doesnr abode well @hadeelalsh Mahmoud Jibril says he CANNOT confirm that #Gadhafi spox Moussa #Ibrahim has been arrested #Libya
Echorouk in #Tripoli: #Algerians Fought with Rebels to Topple #Gaddafi #Libya goo.gl/u3gmR
#Niger refuses 2extradite Gaddafi’s son: Nigers Prime Minister Brigi Rafini stated that his country is not going to… dlvr.it/ncc2Q
FromJoanne Joanne
♥ #Tunisia ♥ Keeps ex Gaddafi PM #AlBaghdadi Ali #alMahmoudi in Prison because they got request for extradition from #NTC #Libya
#Sirte Muatassim comes @night 2give men Smokes +weapons + 2Talk 2Them about Armies still in #BaniWalid #Ghadames goo.gl/mXPbn #Libya
#Falsh Footage of Mousa #Ibrahim ’s arrest He was in group of villagers fleeing #Sirte will be broadcast once he is sent 2safe place #Libya
SenJohnMcCain Our group meeting w/ interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril #Libya lockerz.com/s/143016355 #Libya #NTC
WSJ: #Jibril was a member of the board of trustees of the #Libyan Investment Authority during the era where it lost billions of dollars #NTC
SkyNewsBreak:
AFP:
NTC commanders say Gaddafi spokesman Moussa Ibrahim captured in Sirte” #Libya
flyingbirdies أكرم
Mussa Ibrahim’ wife left #Libya today to Tunisia, car with diplomatic pates took her from the German embassy. Source from inside told me.
BREAKING:#Tunisia will hand over Baghdadi Al Mahmoudi,former PM under Gaddfi 2 NTC so he can be tried for his crimes in FREE
SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 30th 2011
9/30/11
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NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya –
goo.gl/74JO2
USIP U.S. Inst. of Peace
“For the first time, Libyans are making their voices freely heard w/o fear of punishment," said Ahmed Jehani at #USIP:
bit.ly/nT298A
LibyaInMe حنين ~ Hanin
At one point in the past couple of weeks Benghazi had a funeral procession for over 15 matyrs in one day from Sirte
Anaya
The final bursts of a dying monster can be very violent, as in Sirte and BaniWalid. Many casualties. #Libya
Women brought to swell the ranks of supporters in appalling #BabalAziziya have been abused. Many of them orphans from institutions. Sick.
FromJoanne Joanne
#NTC Mustafa binDardef of Council #Zintan Brigade told AFP Thursday #Misrata fighters contacted us and gave info Mussa #Ibrahim captured
Well if #NTC cant show Prove of Ibrahim’s arrest, then the diabolic #Mousa Ibrahim is bound to speak to us soon #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#BBC in #Misrata say #NTC commander there IS NOT claiming M Ibrahim arrest in #Sirte despite Misrata fighters quoted AFP
Sirtawi
Mousa Ibrahim “unconfirmed” arrest making headlines more than Gaddafi whereabouts… lucky him?
Exclusive: Concern grows over militant activity in #Libya | Reuters www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/29/us-l...
derek_brower Derek Brower
Interviewing in & driving around #Libya w my oil reporter hat on… Seems clear oil won’t be the contract-scramble story. Construction will.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Rumours of Musa #Ibrahim arrest circulating for 24 hours but no picture! Would be embarrassing if this is another ‘Saif arrested’ #error
libyanproud libyanandproud
Picture: Freedom Fighters in #Sirte (29/09/2011) #Feb17 #Libya via FB twitpic.com/6siq2e
hominoid555 Russell
Bosco the chimpanzee at Tripoli Zoo is showing signs of depression The Zoo still needs money, Bosco never supported Gaddafi #freeapes
pdanahar Paul Danahar
“@AlArabiya_Eng: Mussa Ibrahim captured outside Sirte ‘dressed as woman’ ” if true was it the goatee or the comb over that gave him away
Sirtawi
Ali Tareq Al-Jidda’, Mutasim Gaddafi’s right hand, was captured today in #Sirte. #FreeSirte #Feb17 #Libya
Field Com. Adel Al-Tarhuni: Number 3 residential area in #Sirte officially liberated and independence flag is now raised there. #FreeSirte
The news of Libya recognising Syrian National Council is not coming from any officials. Libya Alhura TV recognises the SNC is more accurate.
The body of FF Commander Daw Salheen Al-Jidk being buried in #Tripoli yesterday. #BaniWalid #Feb17 #Libya
twitpic.com/6shazv
derek_brower Derek Brower
Just back from #Misrata, where spent time in the prison talking with #Gaddafi troops. Musa Ibrahim’s brother was among them.
libyanproud libyanandproud
Picture: Hyundai Sonatta mounted machine gun. #Feb17 #Libya twitpic.com/6sgtqq
Yesterday:
m_madi Mohamed Madi
#Jibril gave a press conference outlining plans for economic support, salaries for fighters and families etc. in Tripoli
He also said that the announcement of the interim government would be delayed “until all of #Libya was liberated”
#Jibril said that a list of potential interim govt candidates had been “leaked” and distributed online
Wonder who was responsible for that ;-)
But he said that further lists which appeared online were not grounded in reality
Anaya
I have been told that Moussa Ibrahim’s brother is the one who had forbidden English at school. #Libya is opening up to the languages.
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Reportage Vidéo BBC Afrique du 28/09, en français
Les migrants fuient la #Libye
j.mp/qfJmue
Juppé convaincu que “le ferment démocratique l’emportera” ds les jeunes démocraties arabes en cours de création
j.mp/njeL9k
Les Toubou, ethnie originaire du sud du pays, veulent leur place dans l’après kadhafi (url dans tweet suivant) …
www.letemps.ch/Page/Uuid/a1b71eea-eada-...
Les sénateurs US ont par ailleurs affirmé avoir évoqué le dossier de l’attentat de Lockerbie en 1988, avec le nouveau pouvoir libyen.
“Les Libyens ont inspiré le monde… Nous croyons qu’ils inspirent les gens à Téhéran, à Damas et même à Pékin et Moscou”
j.mp/oIeSll
Il reste beaucoup à faire en #Libye, selon des sénateurs américains (dont McCain) à #Tripoli j.mp/oIeSll
A #Tripoli, les Berbères réclament leur place dans la #Libye nouvelle
j.mp/oN73fi
derek_brower Derek Brower
didn’t hear anything. Only two prisoners brought in from sirte to misrata today when I was there. Neither moussa
Sarah
I’m sure #Gaddafi is so jealous that people are more focusing on Moussa than on him.
LibyaInMe حنين ~ Hanin
The # of martyrs in Sirte today is 6..3 from Benghazi, 2 from Ajdabiya, and 1 from Beitha. # of injured = 45 #Libya
Graffiti in #Benghazi in honor to the Freedom Fighter Ramadan Al Swehli that resisted the Italian occupation –
twitpic.com/6sk956
AliTweel Ali Tweel
Heavy shooting from 7 minutes coming from Alhadba / Abusalim areas. no idea why and for what? sounds like celebratory firing :(
Yester Allah l: 12 minutes and the shooting is still continues..”
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Libyas most loved man doing what he loves most. Mostafa Abduljaleel playing football pic.twitter.com/lVqFcYFn
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
One of the many LIONS of #Libya who got injured in the battle against Gadaffi pic.twitter.com/81nJNnb7
Who isnt proud that they are Libyan after everything that has happened? Fight like i Libyan!!
pic.twitter.com/ufpt277N
Gadaffi looking for some air after being underground for more than 4months !! pic.twitter.com/6cg5VDTQ
Yousef Shakeer after his makeover !!
pic.twitter.com/z29vGqVG
#Libya’s most loved man can’t hide his emotions after visiting a hospital. pic.twitter.com/FBaUrkcy
Nadine
Saif:
yfrog.com/18qj4gj
LibyaMartyrs Libya Martyrs
Martyr Abdel Kader Al hady Salem al Mijrab, infront of Moh el Giddafi house while he faked his phone call to Jazeera tv
pic.twitter.com/LhGK9MiI
LibyaInMe حنين ~ Hanin
The rate of martyrs/injured in Sirte exceeds what we see/hear in the media. It’s a real massacre and a tough fight for all of Libya
Angela
Perfect start to the day that Big Mouth Moussa Ibrahim captured in #Sirte #Libya no more insults. #brilliant
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Guardian: Libyans seek justice, but who goes and who stays?
goo.gl/IUmbO #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Tweeting Tripoli
Dr Gmati just explained on FB that Ahmed Ibrahim asked him to return back to Libya when they met in Qatar Gmati refused
yfrog.com/o0eq2qj
Gmati told him he’ll return to Libya when there is democracy. So we should expect Dr Gmati soon ;)
SMILE:
S K
money doesnt buy happiness but id rather cry out my depression in a ferrari
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
its two groups who hate jebril: swehli’s “ansar alhorrya” party and brotherhood. Both groups who know nothing abt governance.
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Mahmoud Jibril re: report #Gadhafi spox Moussa Ibrahim arrested: “I hope it’s true” #libya
There’s a lot of celebratory fire out there… I think ppl may be prematurely excited re: Moussa Ibrahim arrest.. #Tripoli #Libya
rcolebourn Richard Colebourn
Worth noting that there have been rumours of arrest of Moussa Ibrahim in Sirte floating around for 3 days now without any evidence #Libya
haque:
Imagining Moussa Ibrahim being caught in a dress just ruined dresses for me. #Libya
TheyCallMeSof
If Moussa the douche Ibrahim was Pinocchio, his nose would get caught in Saturn’s rings #Feb17 #Libya #justsayin
Libye : le porte parole du gouvernement libyen, docteur Moussa Ibrahim est toujours en vie |Algeria ISP:
bit.ly/oKaVhT via @AddThis
AJE hears from Libyan sources that Col Gaddafi’s spokesman, Ibrahim Moussa has not been caught. rumours abound in Libya.
Telegraph
Libya:
Gaddafi mouthpiece caught ‘fleeing dressed as a woman’: Moussa Ibrahim, the mouthpiece of the …
bit.ly/oUyIpe
Red Fraggle
Punishment for #Moussa #Ibrahim : Put him in front of a bunch of journos asking him questions & have his mouth sellotaped!
osama
so was moussa ibrahim caught or not? and if he was caught, did he deny it? #Libya
Via Feb17libya: There is no independent confirmation beyond field commander reports re Moussa Ibrahim capture.
Beautiful:
just to make sure that you get it right… #Feb17 #Libya #Tunisia #Egypt #Yemen #Syria #Bahrain
pic.twitter.com/YpOSEv5s
Algeria arrests 30 Libyan Tuaregs who entered Algeria with armed vehicles and weapons.
bit.ly/nUCjhX via albayan (ar)
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya hundreds of fa,pmilies streaming out of #Sirte … Arriving in western entrance of city
#Libya fighters from western mountains and east arrive in western entrance of Sirte, anti-gaddafi force no longer just from misrata
All Africa
At Morocco’s Initiative, the UN HRC Recommends Libya’s Integration
Rabat — The UN human rights body, the Human Rights Council (HRC), adopted, on Thursday, a resolution, initiated by Morocco on behalf of the Arab group, requesting the General Assembly to lift the suspension of Libya’s rights of membership in the Council.
Read more:
allafrica.com/stories/201109300197.html
NYT
Activists in Arab World Vie to Define Islamic State
CAIRO — By force of this year’s Arab revolts and revolutions, activists marching under the banner of Islam are on the verge of a reckoning decades in the making: the prospect of achieving decisive power across the region has unleashed an unprecedented debate over the character of the emerging political orders they are helping to build.
Full art.:
www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/world/middle...=1&pagewanted=all?src=tp
Washington Times
Rebels fearful of Islamist takeover in Libya
Qatar’s support for a former jihadist leader who is now the top rebel commander in Tripoli, Libya, is causing unease among Libyan rebels who worry that the revolution that ended Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s four-decade rule is being hijacked by Islamists
Full art.:
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/2...
Sliman Bouchuiguir named as #Libya ambassador to Switzerland
shar.es/bagj6 #Feb17 #Libya #NTC
libyanproud libyanandproud
Picture : Wanis Mabruk pretending to be involved in the fighting to protect #Misratta (MisrattaSumood FB) #Feb17 #Libya
twitpic.com/6srmav
Picture : Nasser Mabruk and the MB’s favorite AJA anchor . #Feb17 #Libya via 212Group
twitpic.com/6sro6n
libyanproud libyanandproud
On 1 September 2011, #Gaddafi proclaimed #Sirte to be the capital of the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. #Feb17 #Libya
Vermondo
Soon #Gaddafi will proclaim his bedroom (if any) capital of the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya #Feb17 #Libya
Nigerian tribune
How Gaddafi recruited Nigerians into Libyan Army •Ex-Libyan president’s spokesman arrested
IT emerged, on Wednesday, that ousted Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, recruited several young Nigerians into his armed forces in his heyday.
Security sources told the Nigerian Tribune that the former Libyan leader targeted young university graduates, who were about going for the youth service.
A security expert told the Nigerian Tribune that the deposed Libyan leader had a network through which he identified young Nigerians who could be recruited into the Libyan army and other forces.
Another source said that the former Libyan leader usually offered those recruits scholarships and opportunity to pursue lifetime career in the Libyan Armed Forces.
It was learnt that the Libyan leader deliberately did not restrict the recruitment drive to a section of the country and that while many from the North and South-East took up offers in the military, those from the South-West and South-South usually did not take up the offer.
It was also gathered that the development lasted many years and that many of those recruited were encouraged to leave the youth service for a more promising career in the Libyan Armed Forces.
Read more:
tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-new...
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Le gouvernement somalien reconnaît le CNT
french.cri.cn/781/2011/09/30… #Libye
SlateAfrique:
France-Italie: qui va gagner la Libye? –
goo.gl/GILUv
DonGiobello:
Des privés pour sécuriser le pétrole libyen: le “no thanks” du CNT
bit.ly/pDBfog #Libye
#Libye : à #Syrte
Forces pro-CNT et Kadhafistes se font face
j.mp/omnnnl
Les civils fuient Syrte par centaines. Les combats font rage www.lemonde.fr/libye/article/2011/09/30...
itele:
Libye: un média pro-Kadhafi dément la capture du porte-parole de l’ex-régime.
Sumayyah
I can’t keep up with the Free Libya group, if every time I go in each post has 700+ comments. Can’t even find the comments i’m mentioned in
Alex
You can get quality coffee anywhere in Libya
bit.ly/o28ZsH #EpicLibyanMan must have his espresso
m_madi Mohamed Madi
proves my point about Libyan coffee addiction, there’s never a wrong time for an #epiclibyanmachhiato
FromJoanne Joanne
How much did #Gaddafi steal ? From 1970 to 2010 #Libya State earned over a #TRILLION dollars
goo.gl/M8NF0 #Oil #Blog
#Photos of #Libya on #SkyscraperCity Unfortunately They mixed up Pics of #Tripoli and Benghazi and even #Sirte :
goo.gl/xBQTp
#Photos of Benghazi #Libya on #SkyScraperCity
goo.gl/liIvu #Forum
Lisa
Video : Ali Sallaby old press conference thanking Saif Gaddafi youtu.be/ik9IJOxx5_g #Feb17
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik9IJOxx5_g&fea...
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
People are telling Mahmoud Jibreal to listen to the street.They said help our wounded.In less than a week he did so give him a break #Libya
Europe 1
Libye : Frattini a rencontré le CNT
Le ministre des Affaires étrangères d’Italie, Franco Frattini, s’est rendu vendredi en Libye pour y rencontrer les nouvelles autorités et s’assurer, après la chute de Mouammar Kadhafi, de la pérennité des liens diplomatiques et économiques avec son ex-colonie.
Read more:
www.europe1.fr/International/Libye-Frat...
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Just arrived in Devon for a mini-break. MAYBE when i log back in on Sunday #Gaddafi will be arrested and fighting stopped (?)
Sumayyah
#Libya’s Berbers demand post-revolution dues
goo.gl/6wWkq #Feb17
Tweeting Tripoli
Did you know we have our own “Dawar Loloa” (famous #Bahrain roundabout) in Janzour, Libya? Picture taken yesterday.
pic.twitter.com/OWAZW23v
Tweeting Tripoli
Bought Salabi’s book from Tripoli International Books Fair about 4 yrs ago. Ghaddafi doesn’t hate him!
yfrog.com/kj58ouaj
What I want to know is when did the good relationship between Salabi and Gaddafi’s regime start?
libyanandproud
before april 2008 according to this forum post
goo.gl/NVxgo
Tweeting Tripoli
OK that explains why his book being sold in Libya without restrictions as early as 2008.
I only got that book by Salaby. That was the only book about the life of the prophet that I could find there.
flyingbirdies أكرم
Friday market for pets now taking place in Bab al-azizia
Tweeting Tripoli
Hope we don’t get fake mullahs and pretenders. People who use religion 4 a purpose are dangerous & sometimes funny:
youtube.com/watch?v=zLT__g…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLT__gqqMv8&fea...
Anyone seen Mussa “Pinocchio” Ibrahim vid or pic? Still doubt such a big fish being caught and no proof, with mobile phones all around us?
Abdullah
Safia Forkash ‘’Gaddafi ’s wife’’ which her father died during #Feb17 revolution in Sfax #Tunisia his body sent back today to Albeda #Libya
Libyan Duda
#French Ambassador eating Couscous Libyan style in #Zintan #Libya tinyurl.com/5uqbudk
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today
AmmarParis Ammar ABD RABBO
Rumors in #Tripoli that all members of #NTC may resign in the next days, to protest problems they face forming a government…
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi fighters exchange heavy fire with loyalists in #Sirte, #Libya
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi fighters & loyalists clash at #Sirte eastern entrance at a junction separating city center from AbuHadi neighborhood
Sarah
#Libye “Prise de l’hôtel du port de #Syrte, a été la + coûteuse en pertes humaines : 15 morts & 81 blessés pour la seule journée de mardi”
The Misrata Military council said that they don’t detain Moussa Ibrahim :)
Reuters:
Civilians fled #Sirte on Friday as interim government forces pounded the coastal city in an effort to dislodge #Gaddafi fighters
Alj: #VenezuelanPresident one of the last remaining friends of #Gaddafi, ridiculed the country’s new #UN repres, calling him puppet & dummy!
Tarek
After more than 18 hours journey I am now in Tripoli with family after 8 months, #Libya
It’s very safe and ppl are so happy
people are telling me their endless stories of struggle for freedom under #Gaddai regime in the last 8 months, but all are happy,
it’s been great in Souk Al Juma, all are happy and untined
#Tunisian people have been great last night, when landing then crossing border
Great young and brave #Libyans on all check points making our lives easier and greeting us with Allah Akbar (Allah is the greater). #Libya
Arrived in Al Hanshir, Souk Al Juma, #Tripoli 4,30am today (Friday 30th Sep), but it was worth the whole trip.
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Al rai channel is bankrupt. They showed old #Saif video pretending it’s new and a school from Zliten saying it’s in Sirte. #progaddafilosers
Never thought I’d ever see tripoli this clean… Amazing how far some national pride and voluntary work goes #libya #feb17
CBS News
Watchdog: WMDs “found” in Libya aren’t new
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – The international chemical weapons watchdog says stockpiles captured so far in Libya are in line with what Muammar Qaddafi’s regime had previously declared, and no new weapons have been found.
The fate of the country’s chemical weapons and precursors had been uncertain amid the chaos of the country’s civil war.
Read more:
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/29/5013...
Reuters
Conoco buys Libyan oil, 1st of U.S. majors -sources
To deliver to German Miro refinery – source
Other U.S. majors also close to resuming buying
Purchase to help further normalise Libya oil trade
Full art.:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/29/liby...
Reuters:
Civilians fled Sirte on Friday as interim government forces pounded the coastal city in an effort to dislodge Gaddafi fighters.
The prolonged battle for Gaddafi’s hometown, besieged from three fronts, has raised mounting concern for civilians trapped inside the city of about 100,000 people, with each side accusing the other of endangering them.
Tweeting Tripoli
Will we soon see Musa Ibrahim interviewed by Shakeer in Syria? I have a feeling we will.
David Cenciotti
Italy still flying 29 weekly missions in Libya w/ multiple assets: F-16, Tornado, AMX, G222VS, KC-767, KC-130J and Predator B drones
Facebook Group: ashahed libya الشاهد ليبيا
www.facebook.com/libya.ashahed:
Statistics : 1149 martyrs in Misratta since February 19.
Statistics : Martyrs: 1083 Libyans, 17 Arabs, 17 Africans, 5 Euro/American(s/n) since February 19.
Statistics : 972 Martyrs who are Misratta residents since February 19.
LibyaInMe:
Derna had 22 martyrs in one day from the battle in #Sirte” #Feb17 #Libya
Breaking :
Tunisia Hands Ex-Libyan Prime Minister to Libyan Authorities. via @Tunisia_Live / TAP
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Gadafi’s Lamborgini Jeep confiscated by a rebel unit during one of their raids in Tripoli yfrog.com/j2sbt0j #Libya
ansa_topnews
Frattini: Alitalia will start its commercial flights to #Tripoli on the 2nd of November bit.ly/qMKqTL
Reuters
Reuters: NTC military chief Suleiman Mahmoud al-Obeidi attended a meeting on Friday between Tuareg tribesmen and local Arabs in the southwestern town of Ghadames aimed at patching up differences that have recently spilled over into violence.
AP
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, in his first visit to Libya since Gadhafi’s fall, says his country is ready to unfreeze 2.5 billion euros ($3.4 billion) in frozen Libyan assets.
Alj:
The exodus of fleeing residents from #Sirte grew larger on Friday, as revolutionary fighters continued their offensive to seize control
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
We need and want proof that Moosa Ibrahim has been caught. Come on Guys.Sort it out :)
libyaoutreach Libya Outreach
#Libya Situation Report – September 29, 2011
fb.me/1dLCA7EjI
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
el ministro de defensa del CNT, Mahmud al Obeidi, intenta pactar una tregua con los tuareg q apoyaron a Gadafi en Gadamés #Libia
Souffian Tripoli
Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا” goo.gl/aM65o
Tunisia Live
Tunisia Hands Ex-Libyan Prime Minister to Libyan Authorities
Tunisia has officially announced surrendering Baghdadi Mahmoudi, former Prime Minister of Libya in Qaddafi’s regime, to Libya.
Charged with illegally entry into Tunisia, Baghdadi Mahmoudi was arrested last week by Tunisian authorities and sentenced to 6 months in jail. However, later in the same week, the Libyan National Transitional Council issued an international warrant through Interpol against the fugitive to return him to Libya for trial.
Tunisian government officials comment that this surrender is temporary and it shouldn’t last more than 30 days. There are treaties existing between and Tunisia and Libya, such as the June 14th 1961 treaty that implores surrendering criminals and fugitives illegally entering both territories. The final verdict of surrender must also go back to the appeal court of Tunis which is the only specialized body in dealing with such matters.
Source: al-Mouharrer, TAP
Source:
goo.gl/WYzgn
The things NATO comes up with:)
Moussa Ibrahim captured by nato special forces using Secret Technology … www.youtube.com/watch?v=olr5diEdu0c&fea... via @youtube
HRW
Libya: Cease Arbitrary Arrests, Abuse of Detainees
(Tripoli) – The National Transitional Council (NTC), the de facto authority in most of Libya, should work to stop militia groups from making arbitrary arrests and abusing detainees in prisons and makeshift detention facilities across western Libya, Human Rights Watch said today.
Human Rights Watch visited 20 detention facilities in Tripoli and interviewed 53 detainees. The detainees reported mistreatment in six facilities, including beatings and the use of electric shock, and some of them showed scars to support the claims. None had been brought before a judge.
Full report:
www.hrw.org/news/2011/09/30/libya-cease...
FreeBenghazi
#Ghadames fighters reached agreement w Tuareg in the city, allowing Tuareg families to return their homes
#Libya
youtube.com/watch?v=uZqBxT…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZqBxTEmPvI
Reuters
Libya officer at Tuareg-Arab talks in desert town
Al-Obeidi in town near where NTC said Gaddafi hiding
Recent clashes thought by some to involve deposed leader
he military chief of Libya’s new interim government attended a meeting on Friday between Tuareg tribesmen and local Arabs in the southwestern town of Ghadames aimed at patching up differences that have recently spilled over into violence.
Full art.:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/30/liby...
Arabia Msn
Libyan February 17 Coalition delegation to visit tribe in Alexandria
CAIRO: A Libyan delegation from the February 17 Coalition will meet with Ali’s Son Tribe in Borg el-Arab in Alexandria to express its gratitude for the tribe’s help during the Libyan popular uprising against the brutal Muammar Gadhafi regime, said Nasser el-Hawari, the Coalition coordinator.
The Ali’s Son Tribe is allegedly is the original bloodline ancestors of Ali’s sons in Libya.
The connection between Libya and this tribe indicates the depth of relations between Egyptians and Libyans, said Hesham el-Aqari, the meeting organizer.
Source:
www.arabia.msn.com/News/MiddleEast/youm...
Franco Frattini, MAE italien, s’est rendu ce vendredi en #Libye pour y rencontrer Abdeljalil et Jibril www.afrik.com/breve35291.html
Arte.TV
Libye : arsenal à ciel ouvert
Alors que les combats continuent autour de Syrte et de Bani Walid, le Conseil National de Transition peine à s’entendre. Le N°2 du CNT, Mahmoud Jibril a annoncé qu’il ne ferait pas partie du gouvernement de transition. Un gouvernement dont la date
d’annonce officielle est reportée jusqu’à la “libération totale de la Libye” a-t-il encore affirmé hier. Le libéral Mahmoud Jibril est poussé vers la porte par les islamistes présents dans le bureau exécutif du CNT qu’il dirige.
Video:
www.arte.tv/fr/3733356,CmC=4174378.html#.ToXlWEClitM.twitter
France 24
Mohamed Bazoum, Ministre nigérien des Affaires étrangères
Marc Perelman reçoit le ministre nigérien des affaires étrangères, Mohamed Bazoum. Saadi Kadhafi, l’un des fils de l’ex-dirigeant libyen Mouammar Kadhafi, se trouve au Niger depuis mi-septembre. Interpol demande son arrestation, mais Niamey refuse de l’extrader en Libye.
Video:
www.france24.com/fr/20110929-niger-liby...
Le Monde
Libye : à Syrte, rebelles et kadhafistes se font face
Syrte et Ras Lanouf (Libye), envoyée spéciale – Retranchés dans le centre-ville de Syrte, les hommes de Kadhafi ont demandé une “Houdna”, une trêve, aux rebelles qui désormais les encerclent. C’est ce qu’affirmaient jeudi 29 septembre, plusieurs responsables au sein des brigades révolutionnaires sur le front de l’Est, qui ont assuré l’avoir refusée. Après plusieurs jours de combats meurtriers, les tentatives de négociation entre les forces révolutionnaires et les Maadan – l’une des tribus de Syrte – ont échoué.
Art. and photo’s:
www.lemonde.fr/libye/article/2011/09/30...
OPEX 360
Zone Militaire
Libye : En difficulté à Syrte et à Bani Walid, les combattants du CNT en demandent plus à l’Otan
Plus d’un mois après la chute de Tripoli, les combattants révolutionnaires libyens (les « thuwars ») ne sont toujours pas arrivés à prendre le contrôle de Syrte et de Bani-Walid, les deux derniers bastions des forces restées loyales au colonel Kadhafi.
A Syrte, située à 360 km à l’est de la capitale libyenne, les troupes du Conseil national de transition (CNT) se heurtent à une résistance farouche opposée par les pro-Kadhafi, qui n’a pas faibli malgré la prise du port de la ville au début de cette semaine. Cela s’explique en grande partie par une différence de qualité militaire entre les forces en présence.
A Bani Walid, à 170 km au sud-est de Tripoli, la situation n’est guère différente. En plus de leur manque d’expérience militaire, les thuwars n’ont pas la géographie pour eux. Qui plus est, les forces pro-Kadhafi de cette ville, ont été renforcées par celles qui se sont repliées devant l’avancée des troupes du CNT dans la capitale libyenne.
Full art.:
www.opex360.com/2011/09/30/libye-en-dif...
Moussa Ibrahim’s wife and toddler son:
Confirmed that Julia Ramelow and young son have indeed fled Libya yesterday.
They went to Tunesia helped by the German embassy.
Seem to hav fled in embassy car.
Fyi:
It seems Julia Ramelow – wife of Mousa Ibrahim was at it too – concocting & fabricating pro-Gaddafi propaganda!
Have a look for yourself:
haderza.blogspot.com
Photo of Julia Ramelow Wife of Mousa Ibrahim who fled to #Tunisia from #Libya on Thursday goo.gl/F2svY
or:
www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bild...
Spiegel online
Gefallenes Regime
Deutsche Ehefrau von Gaddafis Sprecher flieht aus Libyen
Ihr Mann Mussa Ibrahim war Gaddafis Propaganda-Chef: Monatelang hat Julia Ramelow aus Hamburg mit dem gemeinsamen Baby an Ibrahims Seite ausgeharrt. Nun ist sie nach SPIEGEL-ONLINE-Informationen aus Libyen nach Tunesien geflohen – und anschließend zurück nach Deutschland gereist.
Berlin/Tripolis – So dicht dran am Machtapparat Muammar al-Gaddafis waren nur wenige: Julia Ramelow, die deutsche Ehefrau des Regierungssprechers von Gaddafi, ist aus Libyen geflüchtet. Wie SPIEGEL ONLINE erfuhr, ermöglichte die Deutsche Botschaft in Tripolis, dass Ramelow gemeinsam mit ihrem Baby am Donnerstag von der libyschen Hauptstadt nach Tunesien ausreisen konnte.
Full art.:
www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/a-78...
gebauerspon Matthias Gebauer
julia is just back in germany, arrived this afternoon
Lee Alley
Ha, Julia Ramelow & Mussa Ibrahim met @ church group in Exeter (UK) in 2000: “We both love God, literature & hate politics” Hmmm
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
look where is Mr. Gaddafi’s fist now in the war museum of Tripoli St. #Misrata #Libya yfrog.com/h7mclhqj
yfrog.com/nzdwovj
another photo of Tripoli St. new war museum when I saw it in may was just starting #Misrata #Libya
yfrog.com/o0xwpyj
photo 1 canon in Tripoli St. war museum they even have tanks now #Misrata #Libya
yfrog.com/h7aagpmej
Tarek
I have heard a single shot so far in #Tripoli Coastal part. #Libya
plemochoe plemochoe
#libya What is apparently impossible is getting Western press operatives who graduated from college, not just J school
libya The NTC should require all Western journalists to KNOW SOMETHING about Libya before they get credentials
#libya But it’s obviously hopeless, people are still talking about rebels and quagmires and al-Qaeda and Brega
Older video:
afelyun aphelion
Suleiman “Chameleon” Dogha and his love for the Gaddafi’s
youtube.com/watch?v=0xBU4W… #Libya #Feb17
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xBU4WBj-is&fea...
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Alitalia to resume #Rome #Tripoli scheduled flights as on November 2
Jonas Renz
Syrian flag, Free Libyan Flag, and Logos of Aljazeera and Alarabiya at a SYRIA demonstration:
youtube.com/watch?v=SCdeb_…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCdeb_J8BSg&fea...
Orla
how many palaces with swimming pools had #Gaddafi? pretending to using a tent was an insult to real bedouines
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
News is that Moosa Ibrahim wasnt caught but a car in his name was.This is really becoming a joke guys. #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
Libya Al-Ahrar still insist Pinocchio was captured, while Misrata brigade commanders denied. Can’t they ever learn from previous mistakes?
There is treaty between and Tunisia and Libya (since 1961) that implores exchanging fugitives who illegally enter respective territories.
Gaddafi’s house in Sabha hit by NATO:
Anyone knows the coordinates, please?
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z21yiP8hdG0&fea...
FF ambushed as they entered Alasaba town near Ghyrian
(date is not known).
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2FOunmIw3E&fea...
( fyi: that was first week of sept.)
plemochoe plemochoe
#libya Here’s something that hasn’t been reported: the FF victory in the Battle of Tripoli was a MASTERPIECE that will go down in history
#libya The supposedly incompetent NTC and their supposedly clueless fighters n flip-flops pulled off th coup of the century #BattleofTripoli
Guardian
Libyans seek justice, but who goes and who stays?
A purge of Gaddafi collaborators to end corruption and cronyism risks putting on trial people needed to help run the country
Libya’s National Oil Corporation is housed in an imposing building near Tripoli’s old royal palace, its concrete and mirrored glass facade a monument to the country’s wealth and a face of modernity in a ramshackle capital. And many of its employees are furious.
Full art.:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/29/li...
LIBYAN
we appreciate the support of #Qatar and we assume it’s with good intentions
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte situation is absolutely Desperate No power No food a Dr in Hospital was trying 2Patch wounds with light of his Mobile phone #Libya
#Sirte Situation is threatening #Gaddafi Goons are Executing People believed to be #NTC sympathisers Snipers #Nato bombs night & day #Libya
#Sirte is Starving: People have not eaten for several days All the shops are closed “I am not scared. I am hungry says Ghazi #libya
U.N. sends drinking water trucks 2 civilians crammed into vehicles on road from #Sirte heading either 2wards #Benghazi or #Misrata
FromJoanne Joanne
After Meeting with #NTC #Jibril FM Franco #Frattini announced that as of Nov2 #Alitalia will resume flights betwen #Rome and #Tripoli
Sarah
#Tripoli :
Libyan anthem + Libyan Flag waving live on Libya AlAhrar :)
I feel like it’s summer ! Seems #Libya have steal our weather !
misrati_free Alaeddin Muntasser
IGOAID vessel Entissar on her final trip From Malta to Misurata. An emotional day for the I-GOAID volunteers and
twitpic.com/6sxqzz
Snipers halt NTC fight for Kadhafi hometown
Fighters for Libya’s new rulers were Friday forced to regroup on the edge of Sirte, halted by pro-Kadhafi snipers in their two-week old assault on the ousted despot’s hometown.
And in Bani Walid, the only other stronghold of forces loyal to Moamer Kadhafi, the National Transitional Council fighters appeared to have opened another front.
Read more:
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/A...
Tweeting Tripoli
Gaddafi’s thugs from the town of Tawergha preparing to attack Misrata back in April, but failed miserably:
youtube.com/watch?v=_-gxYI…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-gxYIT3ytc&fea...
EA_v_G Ernst-Alex.Gersdorff
Deutsche Ehefrau von Gaddafis Sprecher flieht nach Tunesien – SPIEGEL ONLINE – spon.de/adtwa #Libya
ForeignPolicyIT ItalianForeignPolicy
Libyan fighters injured in fighting in Tripoli and Misurata have been flown to Italy for treatment. Other humanitarian flights next week.
SMILE:
pdanahar Paul Danahar
Man drops daughter to catch ball
bbc.in/ofJsIE
or:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-1...
you can only imagine the roasting his wife gave him for this
Borzou
#Libya:
Misurata rebels REJECT reports they arrested Ghaddafi flack Moussa Ibrahim, but “members of his family” were arrested
Karybdis
#Ghadames council has made a deal with local #Tuareg . They may now return to homes in city. They will no longer support G / Prisoner trade.
Also, A group of #Tuareg were arrested in Debdeb #Algeria suspected of the attack on #Ghadames last week which killed 8 people.
Coincidentally, reports of Mussa Ibrahim’s capture were… exaggerated. They found documents with him name on em in a car leaving #Sirte.
RFI FR
Libye : l’urgence d’un nouveau gouvernement est de plus en plus cruciale
Le numéro 2 du Conseil national de transition libyen, Mahmoud Jibril, a annoncé vendredi 30 septembre lors d’une conférence de presse qu’il ne ferait pas partie du prochain gouvernement. D’obédience libérale, Mahmoud Jibril, qui fait office de Premier ministre, est confronté à une opposition islamiste au sein du bureau exécutif du CNT qu’il dirige.
More and source:
www.rfi.fr/afrique/20110930-libye-mahmo...
Anaya
HUGE work for the #NTC, injuried FF, social cohesion, abused women, frontlines, economy, dissensions, administrations, infrastructures……
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: Wounded #Misrata freedom fighter adjusting his seat cushion in Tunis. twitpic.com/6sydnd
Libye: le numéro 2 du CNT ne sera pas du prochain gouvernement
Mahmoud Jibril, numéro deux du Conseil national de transition (CNT), a annoncé jeudi qu’il ne ferait pas partie du prochain gouvernement, lors d’une conférence de presse à Tripoli.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm-2jEyhF9k&...
liveTripoli
Islam is a complete way of life. That means when we do our politics we first check with #Islam because its our first and for most creed.
libyanandproud
Alamin Belhaj member of #Tripoli council and spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood in #Libya. #ConflictofInterest goo.gl/BKFlz #Feb17
Libyan4life
The more I read about #Gaddafi and history of #Libya the more in awe I am that he lasted 42yrs. The level he crippled the ppl is astonishing
Jon Williams
Senior Libyan official says NTC believes Gaddafi trying to set up rump regime in south: massing arms & money. “Still poses threat to Libya”.
Official tells BBC Saif al-Islam directing #BaniWalid fight. Loyalists hv advantage of mountain v plateau so difficult to conquer from below
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Typical Libyans they are not good at putting dates on things, They have postponed the #Tripolifestival twice and the interim govt.
20arb11 Souffian Tripoli
Daily Arabic #Tripoli news on “طرابلس” goo.gl/1FXb4
Mushu
Libyan by force, proud by choice. Al hamdu li Allah :) #proudlibyan #libyanproud #Libya
Feb17
NTC fighters suffer large casualties securing control of Sirte airport
Injured fighters loyal to Libya’s National Transitional Council have been flown by helicopter to Benghazi for medical treatment.
Video:
bit.ly/oynm30
or:
goo.gl/gWqgH
MSNBC
Ruined Libya town shows danger of postwar vendetta
TAWARGHA, Libya— Cast out of his home and with nowhere left to flee, Aboulharef al-Tawarghy laughs when he thinks of the Libyan fighters who toppled Muammar Gaddafi calling for freedom and justice.
“Their words are just ink on paper. I haven’t seen any action,” the 29-year-old electronics dealer said as he sat near a mosque in the embattled city of Sirte, where scores of men, women and children who fled their home town of Tawargha have found a precarious refuge.
Full art.:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44732380/ns/world_...
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
#Misrata Military Council confirms to @AP that #Gadhafi spox Moussa Ibrahim has NOT been arrested.
Gheblawi Ghazi Gheblawi
Gaddafi Sr. Opposed idea but Saif persuaded him to contain MB in regime to get broader support from people for his ‘Reforms’
FromJoanne Joanne
Between #Tripoli and #Misrata (200KM )are 30 checkpoints NTC is trying to make sure no Gaddafi goons enter the city#Libya
LibyaFromFrance
Graffiti in #Benghazi in honor to the Freedom Fighter Ramadan Al Swehli that resisted the Italian occupation –
twitpic.com/6sk956
libya_Horra
if jebril stays ppl say he’s dodgy wants power.. Wen jebril says I’m not gona b in trans. govt ppl say its cuz of crisis, make up ur minds!
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tuareg + local Arabs who fought each other near Ghadames exchanged hostages and Signed Agreement Friday 2try to stabilise oasis area #Libya
TheyCallMeSof
JUST like the #Gaddafi regime,his supports on Twtter make up all types of ‘facts’&events.Some r still in denial of #Tripoli falling 2
FreeBenghazi
ICFMMC report big divisions w/in ranks of Gaddafiforces in #Sirte. Fighters continue to bomb their positions w artillery shells #Libya
Abdul
today the friday market that used 2 be in Souq Aljumaa #tripoli has moved to #Bab alazizia compound, where sheep, pigeons got sold :) #libya
libya_Horra
And the LibyaTV aka DoghaTV lovefest with Sallabi continues he’s on live for a second day!
ICFMMC
Relative calm at #Sirte front-line. Fighters have not entered the city in order to allow families to leave the city #Libya
guess what
i read this as satire: Muammar Monitor: Colonel arrives in Minsk, sets up shop…err, tent —
bit.ly/o4c4v0
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
There is a road for the fighters between the East and the West FF in Libya. They are joining each other as we speak
Ahmed
My brother and Taher Al Suni (UN diplomat) discuss the role of youth in Feb17 and in the future of Libya on Libya TV
goo.gl/Qogfq
Tarek
#Eni resumed oil production in #Libya for the first time since it fled the fighting between FF and forces loyal to #Qaddafi. #Italy
thicken86
#NTC has been doing a great job w/ international relations but im afraid its at the expense of not paying enough attention at home #Libya
Speaking to many in #Libya they feel that outside of Mustafa AbdelJalil the #NTC seems a bit out of touch #Feb17
FromJoanne Joanne
Injured Fighters in #Sirte R taken by car (up to 3hrs and life threatening)or by 1 of the 2 #NTC helicopters to #Misrata or #Benghazi #Libya
Iran French radio
Libye: le “CNT” débloque 400 M USD, pour les victimes
IRIB- Les nouvelles autorités libyennes ont octroyé 400 millions de dollars d’aide aux combattants blessés, lors de la lutte contre le régime Kadhafi, ainsi qu’aux familles des victimes et aux étudiants faisant leurs études à l’étranger, rapportent, vendredi, les médias occidentaux.
Source:
french.irib.ir/info/afrique/item/144768...
Nusaybah
May Allah guide our future politicians/rulers to a direction that is pleasing to Him. #Libya
Sarah
(AFP) – #Tripoli : During Friday prayer . Little Libyan kid wearing traditional Libyan clothes. #SoCute #Libya
yfrog.com/o08gmbj
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Le Niger refuserait d’extrader Saadi Kadhafi, un des fils de Kadhafi impliqués dans la répression.
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
a misrata fighter upon seeing one from benghazi side in #sirte for the first time— “you’re late”
Ali Tweel
ALMOST went to JAIL today, scared the hell outta me… those monopoly games get pretty intense! :-P
Reuters
Civilians surge out of Sirte, say food dwindling
Civilians fled Sirte on Friday as interim government forces pounded the coastal city in an effort to dislodge fighters loyal to ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Art. and video:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/30/us-l...
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
Why does Belhaj lie about contents of arms shipments? – Washington Times: wtim.es/qPJq5y via @washtimes
SMILE:
wafa
Don’t be a hard rock when you really are a gem
Ahmed
#Libya is up and running due to the hard work of local councils, organizations and volunteerism. #Feb17
hominoid555
Yobo English name for a football hooligan Saddi yobo Gaddafi
Snipers halt NTC fight for Kadhafi hometown. www.thejakartaglobe.com/afp/snipers-hal...
hominoid555
Lady Gaga and Victoria Beckham Recognized for Wearing Hats, all the things that are going on in the world, WT* who cares about hats !
Karybdis
Watiyah was indeed reported by #FF after they took Badr. Assah and Regdalin I left blue for a while, but news said NW clear.
Several (major) news outlets said the only G forces known at the time were in farmlands outside Ajaylat. That was long ago.
I assume that the leftovers of those forces were the ones who attacked #Regdalin. Maybe angry locals (There are many there)
As for concrete on #Regdalin, rebels would not be fighting there 4 weeks ago, then decide NW is safe.
blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/Ragdalin
NATO’s overview of #Libya control from Sept 22. Horrid mapping, but shows it www.nato.int/nato_static/assets/pdf/pdf...
KAVZAK CENTER
KGB wants to bring case against McCain on Article 280 of Criminal Code of Russia for call for armed uprising
According to Russian media outlets, a PM of the terrorist gang “State Duma”, a member of gang group “United Russia” Sergei Markov, severely condemned the appeal of US Senator John McCain to Russians to raise an armed rebellion against
the Putin’s regime by example of the armed uprising of Libyans against the regime of Gaddafi.
“I am convinced that these statements are nothing but a call to the public uprising in our country. And I am now thinking whether to file senator for US court (there certainly will not since calling for the overthrow foreign regimes is not banned anywhere, so to file for court should done only in Russia – KC) for his inflammatory statement”, official website of United Russia quoted Markov as saying.
Markov said that, judging by this and a number of other statements made previously, McCain “will support anyone who is willing to harm Russia and its current government”. What’s so bad in this, Markov has not explained.
Read more here:
www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2011/0...
#NTC confirms that the delay in controlling #Sirte is solely due to trying to provide an opportunity for civilians to escape safely #Libyat
Swiss info
Exclusive – Concern grows over militant activity in Libya
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As the dust settles after six months of fighting in Libya, U.S. officials are stepping up efforts to identify Islamic militants who might pose a threat in a post-Gaddafi power vacuum.
U.S. counterterrorism and intelligence agencies have recently produced classified papers examining the strength, role and activities of militant activists and factions in post-Gaddafi Libya, four U.S. officials said. Some assessments examine the backgrounds of anti-Gaddafi leaders with militant pedigrees, and explore whether these individuals, some of whom have publicly renounced Islamic militancy, will stand by their pledges against extremism.
During the half-year campaign by rebels to drive Muammar Gaddafi from power, U.S. and NATO officials downplayed fears that al Qaeda or other militants would infiltrate anti-Gaddafi forces or take advantage of disorder to establish footholds in Libya.
Since then, however, the assessment of top experts inside the U.S. government has sharpened.
Full art.:
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international...
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tuareg + local Arabs who fought each other near Ghadames exchanged hostages and Signed Agreement Friday 2try to stabilise oasis area #Libya
Sirtawi
A guy who fled #Sirte tells Reuters a doctor had to sew his wound under the light of his mobile. Still no electricity in city or hospital.
Some use their in-car battery chargers. #Sirte
4Adam Adam
Reuters.
Rally calls for provincial militias to leave #Tripoli amid to end celebratory gunfire. They say celebratory gunfire has killed four
Sarah
FF tank shells the city of #Sirte from an outpost some 5 kms east of the entrance to the city (29Sep). #Libya
yfrog.com/o0h2qrj
Benghazi Black Saturday – 19 March 2011 (5/13)
When Gaddafi forces entered Benghazi. This when they arrived at Tripoli Bridge in Benghazi.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKEOZ-uSO9I&fea...
SOME WISDOM:
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~ Winston Churchill
Tweeting Tripoli
A “motivator” woman in Bayda city in east Libya encouraging young men to continue protesting early in the revolution:
youtube.com/watch?v=urPfDX…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=urPfDXE8RFU
Joanne
#Tripoli Martyr Square Friday evening Rally Ppl Call 4 provincial Fighters to leave #Tripoli and stop the celebratory firing #Libya
Ghazi Gheblawi
reports about Islamists and Belhaj in media indicate there will be pressure on them either to conform or face exclusion
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
I am proud to be Libyan and always will be :-) #proudlibyan
Nadine
Libyan woman with #FFs in Bani Walid #libya
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#FF having his tea and ciggy time (shahi and sebsi) #libya
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Aljazeera
NTC probes ‘capture’ of Gaddafi spokesman
Transitional leaders cannot confirm claim from tv channel that Mussa Ibrahim was detained while disguised as a woman.
Libya’s new rulers are investigating the whereabouts of the public voice of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime, as a television channel said it would air footage of Mussa Ibrahim being detained when he was disguised as a woman.
National Transitional Council (NTC) commanders said on Thursday they had received reports from fighters that Ibrahim had been captured outside Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, where his loyalists have been under siege for the past week.
But on Friday, the fighters’ high command in Libya’s third-largest city Misrata said it was unable to confirm the capture of Ibrahim, who has kept up a steady stream of pro-Gaddafi broadcasts from unknown locations while on the run.
“Misrata fighters contacted us and gave us the information that Mussa Ibrahim has been captured,” said Mustafa bin Dardef of the NTC’s Zintan Brigade.
Another commander, Mohammed al-Marimi, said: “Mussa Ibrahim was captured while driving outside Sirte by fighters from Misrata.”
Read more:
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...
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Gulfnews
Libya’s freedom and status updates
As the war for liberation raged in Libya, paranoia surrounded any talk of politics on the country’s social networking sites
Decked out in Colonel Gaddafi’s hat and gold chain, speaking to television crews from within the walls of the dictator’s Bab Al Azizia compound in Tripoli on August 23, a freedom fighter who identified himself only as Al Windy unwittingly became
the image of Libya’s liberation.
But another, more everyday, image unseen by the press came over my laptop from my cousin, the son of my dad’s sister, who lives 1.5km east of the fallen dictator’s residence. (My cousin won’t be named in this feature to protect his identity).
Read more here:
gulfnews.com/news/region/libya/libya-s-...
RAW, Libya , Rebels gun explodes in his hands as he displays his skills to the camera
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucTzA5vHuO0&fea...
RAW, Libya , Rebels incredibly annihilate their own vehicle
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7xY2T62y4g&NR=1
RAW, Libya , Regime tank embedded in the ground on the outskirts of Misrata
www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=q-LUjPlFcoc
PLEASE HELP US FIND THE FAMILY OF THIS MAN SO THEY CAN BE REUNITED!
Misrata fighter lost part of his memory. Now in Mitiga hospital. Pls share so family/friends may recognise him www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1822443101127