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SUMMARY OCTOBER 1st 2011
10/1/11
10/01/11
10.01.11
No NATO operational update was released today.
Sumayyah
“Be careful of laughing at others for perhaps Allah might forgive their ignorance and not forgive your arrogance.” -Shaykh Yasir
Sarah
It looks like Sallabi will do a new record. #SpeakTooMuch #SallabiVsJallud
WilliamsJon Jon Williams
Hospital between ex-intel chief Senussi’s compound & Bab al-Aziziya. NATO often bombed neighbors. Hospital “starting to get back to normal”.
plemochoe plemochoe
See, this is why the press reports are bad. Gaddafi cannot come back or do an insurgency but press makes it seem possible
No shortage of ammunition for celebrations… and injuries in #Tripoli. http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/09/29/black-libya-celebratory-gunfire.cnn
Tweeting Tripoli
The best thing I liked from Salabi’s talk, is the women’s right to govern. بعضهم اولياء بعض
Tripolitano
Who said men rule in the house. Married #FFs turn from lions to rabbits once they enter the house :)
Matog Saleh
haha.This is amazing !! but i think now the rabbits will get more respect :p
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
What an amazing Interview.Dr Sallabi has proven to everyone that he really loves #Libya
The story of how they planned to free Tripoli on its own is just unbelievable. #Libya you have made me so proud !!
Qatars Army Chief approved on the plan that the FF commanders put to spread out the Gadaffis forces to losen the pressure on Tripoli
The organisation it took so many different people to make it happen is phenomenal.A Film needs to be made about the #Libya revolution
#Qatar and the #U.A.E did help with providing the FF in #Libya with weapons.We wont forget that you helped us when we most needed it !
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
jebril’s phD and lifelong career is in strategy. He said they r teaming w germany & austria re prosthetics and health mgmt
SerajElalem Seraj Elalem
God bless and protect #Libya
CNN
Faces of Desperation in Sirte
CNN’s Phil Black reports on a mass exodus from the besieged Libyan city of Sirte.
Video:
edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2011/09/30/black-libya-sirte-families.cnn
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli at night goo.gl/mPnsE gunfire continues in Tripoli because the fighters are happy #Libya #CNN
This is a must read:
The Palm Beach Post
Tony Blair’s multiple jobs in the spotlight
LONDON — Since stepping down as Britain’s prime minister, Tony Blair has built up a formidable work portfolio: He’s an international peacemaker, a consultant for investment bank JP Morgan, a pricey public speaker and a philanthropist.
He’s so many things to so many people that it’s starting to cause him trouble — with human rights groups, the Palestinian Authority, and even current British Prime Minister David Cameron, who described Blair’s deals with Moammar Gadhafi’s regime as “dodgy deals in the desert.”
Rights workers who have tried to track his activities find it’s sometimes unclear which job he is doing — or who is paying him to do it. Crucially, when he’s in the Arab world as the Middle East Quartet’s peace envoy some of the very parties he’s meant to be
negotiating with aren’t sure whose interests he’s representing.
Full story:
www.palmbeachpost.com/money/tony-blairs...
The Star
Analysis – Libya endgame carries new risks for NATO
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO commanders face a tough balancing act during the bloody battle for Muammar Gaddafi’s last strongholds, Sirte and Bani Walid.
NATO allies would like to let the National Transitional Council (NTC) claim victory in these battles and war for itself. That would enhance the council’s legitimacy as the new ruler of Libya after Gaddafi’s four decades in power, and bolster the chances of a stable democracy taking root in the country.
But the European governments that led NATO’s air campaign in Libya also need to remain long enough and engaged enough to make sure the success so far is not diminished by a messy withdrawal. If NATO quietly stepped aside but fighting restarted, that would diminish Europe’s standing in Libya and tarnish a campaign that has been seen as a success for Europeans.
Full story:
thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/10/1/worldupdates/2011-10-01T002926Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-596453-1&sec=Worldupdates
This is a must read:
guardian
Abu Salim: walls that talk
In September a mass grave was uncovered at Abu Salim, Libya’s top-security prison: grim evidence of a notorious massacre. Magnum photographer Stuart Franklin went inside, and spoke to former inmates and families of the victims about how their fight for
justice sparked a revolution
In the summer of 2003, Aliya al-Sherif and her mother, Faliha, went to visit Faliha’s husband, Mustafa, at Abu Salim prison in Tripoli. It was not an easy journey. They’d driven for 24 hours from their home in Benghazi in Aliya’s uncle’s white Audi. For a further four hours, they queued in the unrelenting midday heat outside the white prison walls, shuffling forward with boxes of food, shampoo, clothes and medicine, with 60 other families.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/30/ma...
Sirtawi
Huge fear of a disease outbreak in #Sirte, particularly in #2 where bodies lying there for more than 5 days have started to decompose. #SOS
#FFs managed to control Marah Street in #3. (Black rectangle on map). #Sirte #FreeSirte #Feb17
pic.twitter.com/huc5jmwq
Zlitniya
Food from free women in #Zliten 2t men fighting 2liberate #BaniWalid #Libya twitpic.com/6t1cab
twitpic.com/6t1dxl
twitpic.com/6t1eon
rcolebourn Richard Colebourn
Landmines + unexploded bombs from the conflict are killing or wounding at least 1 person a day in 1 #Libyan town alone
bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…
Alaan TV
Lt.Gen, Mabrouk Saad Mhd, says he was told to plant mines in Naima (btw Misurata & Zliten) by Khamis Gaddafi #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5b7mQyrx3Q
Free Libya
I feel so sorry for Libyans now that they are going to have an influx of poncy expat Libyans telling them how to do things the ‘right’ way
Guardian
Inside Abu Salim
The first photographs from inside Libya’s notorious prison – the scene of a 1996 massacre
www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/s...=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#/?picture=379583564&index=0
WSJ
First Revolution, Now Democracy
On Tuesday, Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) announced that it will postpone the formation of an interim Libyan government until the entire country is free from pro-Gadhafi forces. Previously, NTC President Mustafa Abdel Jalil had promised to name members of an interim cabinet by today, even if Beni Walid, the loyalists’ last stronghold, remained unliberated.
This is a troubling setback in the process of rebuilding Libya after Moammar Gadhafi’s ouster.
Read more:
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970...%3Darticle
LibyaInMe
Salah Tarhouni. Born in 1985. He was detained August 23. His martyred body found just over a week ago
www.feb17martyrs.com/salah-abdallah-tar...
Anaya
Condolences to all the families who can no longer expect the return of their beloved from #AbuSlim
IsaMadesclaire Isabelle Madesclaire
Want to share wth libyan friends a debate on my brand new TV with Robert Badinter abt abolition Peine de mort, death execution, spt 1981 1/3
It is a must to listen or read R.Badinter, today aged but very vigous – try find his famous speech to Assembly in 1981 vote of abolition 2/3
R.Badinter said tonight that ArabSpring was bound to make step forward for this human progress, knows many arab abolitionists – ah oui? 3/3
Gheblawi Ghazi Gheblawi
Demo against corrupted officials in Libyan Bourse مظاهرة ضد سليمان امام مبني الاوراق المالية (البورصة)
youtube.com/watch?v=VOLwyb… #Libya #Feb17
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOLwybyKF1Q&fea...
sabha17feb
#Sirte : The 1st zone is heavily shelled by #Gaddafi forces with grenades, RPG & mortars. #Libya
Trollalarm!
Swedish reporter LenaSundstrom is impersonated by 2 trolls: >lenasundstromtv<+>@LenaHSundstrom
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Gave talk last night on Libya at British Arab Federation Birmingham wd exlabour minister Mike Obrien. Thanx Fadel & friends for hospitality!
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Unfortunately our free Libyan football team lost 2-1 in a friendly yesterday against a Tunisian local club,in preparation for Libya v Zambia
BREAKING: A mass grave found in AL-Asabah
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today
justinmarozzi Justin Marozzi
#Ghadames hostages held by #Touareg have been released in #Libya. My friend Taher is free. All hostages reported freed in the early hours.
Tweeting Tripoli
Fed up with people slamming Jibril while glorifying Jalil. If Jalil’s ok with Jibril, either accept or protest his trust in Jibril. #IMO
The Atlantic
Former Al Jazeera Head on Quitting, the Arab Spring, and Qatar’s Role
DOHA, Qatar — It’s been a rough week for Wadah Khanfar, but you wouldn’t know it to see him.
Earlier this week when I caught up with the former chief of the sprawling, pan-Arab Al Jazeera news network, who abruptly resigned last Tuesday under unclear circumstances, he was slumped happily into a sofa in a glittering Sheraton suite, his hair still wet from a dip in the hotel pool.
Khanfar’s resignation came just days after the release of a Wikileaks cable suggesting he’d bowed to pressure from U.S. officials in 2005 to change Al Jazeera’s coverage of
the Iraq war. The timing of his departure brought intense scrutiny onto Khanfar, whose direction of Al Jazeera’s early and aggressive coverage of the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt is often credited for contributing to the course of the Arab Spring.
Read more:
www.theatlantic.com/international/archi...
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
Libya a family of four killed when rocket fire hit their car while they were trying to flee #Sirte
#Libya heavy exchange of fire in the eastern outskirts of #Sirte
#Libya red cross enters #Sirte
Libya, #NTC fighters reach main roundabout in eastern outskirts of #Sirte … Battling their way into the city center, #Gaddafi, #Libya
Fadwa
by SumayyahG
Mohammed Al-Furjani, a dentist from Benghazi who was martyred today in Sirte. إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…
WAPO
Gaddafi compound becomes hangout for Libyans
TRIPOLI, Libya — On a breezy Friday, the Muslim day of rest, carloads of families pushed to get through a bottleneck at the walled entrance of a place that once, they’d never dare enter.
“Looking for Frizzhead?” cracked a taxi driver, using a nickname for Moammar Gaddafi, who used to live here. “Right this way!”
Read more:
www.washingtonpost.com/world/libyans-gl...
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Booked flight direct london to tripoli on 30 october inshallah. It will be a return after 31 years! already emotional about it!!
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
LOL one of the Presenters who Left Libya Al-Ahrar is now a reporter for AlAan hahahahaha, he just asked Mustafa Abdel Jalil a question
Karybdis
On a separate note, G loyalists are now claiming they captured #Ghat from FF yesterday. Prob means they didnt/dont control it
Oct 1st #Sirte situation. East front FF consolidate around Port/hotel, take part of outer Area 3 street. W is static. pic.twitter.com/CyCfHa3Y
#Sirte FF reporting yesterday that the north of the city is free and the fronts connected. However this is so major need conf before mapping
APS: Algeria “categorically” denies the existence of talks between Algeria & Qatar over fate of #Gaddafi. bit.ly/qdvdG3
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Gaddafi’s 77 base – absolutely destroyed #libya #feb17 yfrog.com/nvb11naj
m_madi Mohamed Madi
On Sayf al-Islam: Stepping out of Gaddafi’s shadow | Nabila Ramdani | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk j.mp/qT6sob
Jibril said on Thursday that the new interim govt would only be announced when all of Libya is free from Gaddafi
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte # 2FINAL ASSAULT" MEETING held Friday betwn representatives #Misrata fighters & East Benghazi fighters #CommanderZintanBrigade #Libya
#Niger has confirmed it has a total of 32 Gaddafi loyalists on its soil, including three generals, for “humanitarian reasons.” #Libya
#Sirte Desert #FREE4ALL Fighters Loot Weapons From Desert Cache from largest known ammunition storage site in #Libya goo.gl/XneD6
#Niger President Mahamadou #Issoufou hosting Saadi Gaddafi presidential election last March thanks 2 Financial Support from #Gaddafi #Libya
#Niger to Double 2012 Budget af.reuters.com/article/libyaN… Niger increases defence spending over #Libya fallout
#China’s #African Mischief #Gaddafi’s Dirtiest Diplomatic Secrets Exposed negotiations goo.gl/E3BPf #ArmsEmbargo
AmmarParis Ammar ABD RABBO
Je croise une consoeur de #TF1 dans l’hôtel à Djerba, je la salue, lui demande si elle va à #Tripoli ou si elle en vient.. A suivre 1/2
elle me regarde, se retourne et part sans même me répondre… #TF1, une culture “maison” : la politesse !!!! Ca ne s’apprend pas !!! #Libye
Photos : Tripoli ancient synagogue… Check out this gallery on @photoshelter bit.ly/qOoVOR #Tripoli
or:
ammar.photoshelter.com/gallery/Synagogu...
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
#50Cent should come and perform in #Libya for free after seeing this picture.2Million dollars for Saadi’s Birthday!! pic.twitter.com/W6KXwAWI
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MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
NTC in #Libya denies the capture of Moosa Ibrahim. What a suprise !!
FF’s refuse Mostafa Abduljaleels request to unite their forces under the leadership of Belhadj.#Libya
Sabha17feb
#Syrte : Les quartiers de la 1ère zone serait bombardé par les forces de #Gaddafi. Des maisons auraient été touchés.
Plus de 10 blessés sur le front de #Syrte sont arrivé à #Misrata aujourd’hui.
perfectsliders perfectsliders
#Libya #Feb17 VIDEO: #Gaddafi’s ideology & symbols, begin to vanish from the NEW Libya
goo.gl/fb/HG2QX
Euronews
Residents flee fierce fighting in Sirte
Residents continue to flee Muammar Gaddaffi’s hometown of Sirte as forces from the interim Libyan government pound the coastal city.
Several residents told the Reuters news agency that they haven’t eaten for days because food supplies were scarce.
Some said they had paid up to 600 euros for petrol to leave the city as it was in such short supply.
The city has come under heavy bombardment in recent days but NTC forces have also faced stiff resistance.
In the fiercest battles for days, pro-government fighters used anti-tank guns, rocket-launchers and machine guns.
Gaddafi loyalists hit back with mortar, machine-gun and sniper fire.
Doctors at a nearby field hospital reported seeing the first cases of malnutrition among local residents.
Source and video:
www.euronews.net/2011/10/01/residents-f...
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Gadhafi home town Sirt totally surrounded by FF and G son Muatasim is believed to be inside. Hope he will b captured alive & face justice!
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Driving around busleem.. Pretty obvious that some heavy fighting took place here #libya #Tripoli
Walking around the 77 base, hit by NATO many times over the last 8 months – Amazing precision + devastation #libya yfrog.com/nyef1hjj
Families walking around and people dismantling copper wires and everything they can find – Hey Gaddafi, where are you?
This place is huge… And full of scattered mercenary uniforms, boots, pillows and empty weapon boxes
List confirming mercenaries of bangladeshi origin #Tripoli #77base yfrog.com/khkz0cvj
Pretty obvious from what I’m seeing that the 77base next to Bab al Aziziyah was were Gaddafi’s troops, weapons and vehicles were stationed
All that’s left of Gaddafi’s empire #libya #feb17 yfrog.com/nuvvcfzj
Gaddafi’s 77base – a wasteland #libya #feb17 – that’s all for today yfrog.com/nxxxeoj
Hope you enjoyed my short tour.. I’m going to visit the Rixos and the nearby forest next – after a quick lunch #libya #Tripoli
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Off to Sabha tomorrow with an FF brigade, hopefully #libya #Tripoli #Sabha
Gada
WTH it seems FF weren’t just fighting Gaddafi but fighting the mercenaries of the world
Alj:
NTC Fighters ve been forced to regroup on the edge of #Sirte, after pro #Gaddafi snipers halted a 2-week old assault on the ousted despot’s hometown
Reuters:
Aid workers from #RedCross arrived at the hometown of #Gaddafi on Saturday & are trying to enter the besieged #Libyan city #Sirte
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
Pays tribute to the Captain and crew of ‘Al Entisar’ on its last humanitarian trip from #Malta to #Misurata #Tripoli.
‘El Entisar’ ship was vital lifeline to #Misurata that resisted #Gaddafi forces and won
Tarek
Heading now to the centre of #Tripoli to see it then I may pay a visit to #Gaddafi compound (Baz Alazazia), the most feared place in past
Euronews
Libyan peace deal signed over desert town
In Libya, Tuareg tribesman signed a peace agreement on Friday with local Arabs over the Saharan desert oasis of Ghadames.
The town had been at the centre of speculation that Muammar Gaddafi was hiding locally under the protection of the tribes.
“There is no way that Gaddafi is in Ghadames or in the Tuareg area,” said one tribesman following the signing ceremony.
“We are with the new regime. We have been with them from the beginning,” added the man.
Read more and video:
www.euronews.net/2011/10/01/libyan-peac...
Latitudenews
On the medical front line of Libya’s uprising – Dr Emad
Saleyha Ahsan is a doctor, a journalist and an award winning filmmaker. She was also a captain in the British Army who served in Bosnia. For the past month Saleya has been working as a medical volunteer with Libya’s war wounded – in Tunisia and now in Tripoli. In her second despatch for Latitude News she profiles the chief doctor in the hospital in Tunisian desert, Dr Emad Abosrewel
Full story:
www.latitudenews.com/story/on-the-medic...
khald02 kha02
by septimius_sever
Today i saw car plate just 17 02 2011 #Libya #Benghazi
Poor Shakir & Poor Gaddafi #Benghazi #Libya twitpic.com/6taon3
First exhibition for the crimes of the tryant Muammar Gaddafi #Libya #Benghazi twitpic.com/6tajiy
#Benghazi #Libya Olabarri exhibition twitpic.com/6talug
AdiKhair
I saw at least 3 funerals in #Benghazi’s yesterday, young men still dying in Sirte and Bani Walid. Clearly the conflict is not over yet
Many Libyans also seem reluctant to express their political views as they wait for the country to be fully liberated. #Benghazi #Libya
septimius severus
Advice: if your dad is a falling dictator you SHOULD really delete all ur personal porn collection, especially ones starting ur wife #Libya
mtawfeeqCNN Mohammed Tawfeeq
2 stop families from fleeing #Sirte, Pro-Gadhafi forces fired mortar round on civilian car &killed 3
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
LIVE on Libya Al-Ahrar Mustafa Abdel Jalil
justinmarozzi Justin Marozzi
Just spoken to Taher in #Ghadames, being mobbed by friends & family celebrating his release, freed last night, alhamdulillah ala salaamat!
NaelTheLibyan Nael Mogherbi
He is HERE! – إنه هنا – #Libya #Gaddafi #Feb17 twitpic.com/6t6se3
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Going into month 2 in #Libya. Need a mani/pedi REAL bad…
Reuters: #Libya Jew returns home after 44-year exile. #Gaddafi expelled Libya’s 38,000 Jews in 1969.
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/01/us-l...
BirgerHost Birger v. Host
#Libya: “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
FromJoanne Joanne
#Revo Forces COMPLETELY surrounded #SIRTE Taken 1st Residential Area +Hotel with Snipers Heavy Street fighting Advanced to 5KM from Center
So its 100% sure #Jibril will not stand 4 elections RT @WilliamsJon NTC promise part of transition in #Libya but not stand 4 election #Libya
bencnn benwedeman
Started in Tunisia, then Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen…now USA?? Watching growing #occuppywallstreet movement with interest. #jan25
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libyan ‘rebel Jew’ returns home after 44-year exile with hopes to join new government goo.gl/AWYAn
hominoid555 Russell
In pictures: Curious vehicle on the road to Sirte
bbc.in/mPLhSC
Detected a mass grave in Misurata – special Posted 2 days ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CBrTwmz8-g&fea...
Misratapost Kapau martyrdom of a number of FFs on guard duty at the gate of Badr No other details on this incident between Kapau and Tighe
Nasr Anaizi
Royston to twin with Benghazi tgr.ph/puJsEW” رويستن تنشد التوأمة مع بنغازي
Video: the arrest of Gaddafi mercenaries with guns and military gear and personal papers
www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=140410726057873
hominoid555 Russell
Turkish commercial plane lands in Libyan capital, first since no- fly zone. news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/wo…
or:
news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/20...
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING: The killing of Mohammed Thou field commander in Gaddafi forces in Sirte.
Salam Tekbali
Just got word of clashes between Nalut and Bedr. 2 dead. This violence needs to stop!!! #Libya
All Voices
More evidence of the slaughter by Qaddafi: 350 bodies in mass graves
In total, three graves were discovered last night. The largest contained more than 300 bodies, while others have allowed excavation recovered 57 more bodies respectively.
Moreover, a detachment of rebel forces moving towards the farm Daouw Mansur one
of the closest associates of the deposed Muammar Gaddafi, to verify the accuracy of the information on the existence of another mass grave.
Former head of security brigades of the former regime of Gaddafi, General Daowu refuge in Niger is currently in the company of Saadi, one of Gadhafi’s sons, and other former high-ranking dignitaries.
The information on mass graves have been collected after the interrogation of former members of the brigades loyal to Khadafi, the sources said.
On 25 September, the new Libyan authorities announced they had discovered a mass grave in the neighborhood where is situated the Abu Salim prison, with about 1270 residues.
The bodies discovered in this grave could correspond to detainees in the prison who were killed by the Gaddafi regime in 1996, after a failed rebellion.
Two days later, another six bodies were dug up in the hotel garden Rexos.
So far none of the bodies found have been identified by lack of resources and responsible for the new regime have launched an appeal to international organizations to help them in that case.
Source:
www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1049...
Nasr
Classes resume Oct 15th in the University of Tripoli #tripoli #Libya
Reuters
Niger increases 2012 budget by 52.7 percent
Niger increases defence spending over Libya fallout
Plans to raise over half of budget through revenues
To invest in agriculture, infrastructure
Niger’s government adopted late on Friday a 2012 budget for the West African nation of 1.425 trillion CFA francs ($2.9 billion), 52.7 percent more from the previous year as
defence spending rises to deal with fallout from the Libyan conflict.
The poor semi-arid nation on the edge of the Sahara desert has called for international help to secure its northern border with Libya. It fears weapons looted from Libya’s armoury could be brought through the country’s porous nearly 600 km border and used to destabilise countries in the region.
Read more:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Jaleel: The same people will be incharge of the institutions until all the areas in #Libya are Free.
Jaleel: All Judges that were against the Revolution will be excluded.
he was speaking at a press conference on Libya Al Ahrar.
MOUSSA IBRAHIM:
Just been with sitting with 2 FF who have made it from Tobruk to Tripoli by car. #Libya
i have news that it might not be a lie.There are strong links saying that he ( Moussa Ibrahim) is in Misrata right now
Just been with 2FFs who have just arrived from East frontline and slept in Misrata. Moosa Ibrahim has been captured and its not a lie!
(Why isn’t he shown yet) i think maybe he got a beating when he was caught and they cant show that
i am just repeating what i have heard.My explanation is that whoever caught him hit him badly so he cant be shown just yet
well what i think is that maybe whoever caught him punched him a few times.so he cant be shown yet !!
there is rumours it tried to run away as a SHE. :p
Executive office have set up a plan to bring over some Built houses for the people that houses have been demolished like in #Brega
Executive Office in #Libya who Mahmoud Jibreal is incharge of said the Japenese government said houses could be ready within 2months #Libya
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
FF’s in #Libya now have control of Saadi’s Brigades HQ and also the Area No1 in Sirt.
im off out with the FF’s now for dinner :)
Tweeting Tripoli
We have been ruled by minority (Gadadfa tribe) for more than 40 yrs. We won’t let that happen again.
Gaddafi’s goons believed in black magic. Lots of weird stuff found in a house belonged to G thugs in Arada, Tripoli.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8HIWwsUS-I&fea...
BirgerHost Birger v. Host
Libya: situation in #Sirte today:
pic.twitter.com/3Aa3baio #Feb17
Comprehensive report of latest developments Libyaupdates, via @al_omari Libya Sep30
Libya, Sep 30, 2011
By Hussein Al-Omari on Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 8:26am
(Sources: Aljazeera)
1. Gaddafi forces bombed Sirte airport with rockets. The airport fell I the hands of the revolutionary fighters earlier in the week.
2. Controlling the airport opens the way to controlling Abu Hadi, south west of the airport.
3. Abu Hadi is the place where El-Saeidi Al-Gaddafi and his battalion are taking position to attach other places.
4. NATO planes bombed places in Sirte on Thursday.
5. In Bani Walid, an NTC forces leader asked for more help from NATO to gain control of the city.
6. The revolutionat fighters are still waiting for more supplies, fighters, and heavy weaponry like rockets and tanks.
7. An NTC spokesman discredited the rumors that Musa Ibrahim, Gaddafi’s spokesperson, was captured.
8. The spokesperson for NTC said if Misrata fighters had captured Musa Ibrahim they would have told us.
9. In Ghadamis, 600 km south of Tripoli, a meeting was held to make peace between Tuareg and Arab residents of the city.
10. Suleiman Al-Obeidi, an NTC representative, attended the Tuareg-Arab meeting saying there has been a conflict since July 17.
11. Clashes happened this past month between the Tuareg and military militias supporting the revolution.
12. A member of NTC accused the Tuareg of protecting Gaddafi stating that Gaddafi may be in their area.
13. The UN Human Rights Council had a unanimous agreement to restore the membership of Libya in the council.
14. Libya’s membership in the UN Human Rights Council was revoked early in the year after killing peaceful protesters.
15. NTC promised that the new government will observe all the laws and will cooperate with the council mechanisms.
16. Human Rights Watch in New York asked NTC to prevent its forces from committing human rights violations in jails an arrest areas.
Sirtawi
2 families killed today as they tried to flee #Sirte. One was heading east, while the other headed west. Gaddafi forces targeting everyone!
BBC
In pictures: Curious vehicle on the road to Sirte
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15136003
Karybdis
The Guardian is very confused. They say NTC has taken the “1st Residential District” Do they mean #3? #1 is in the middle of the city.
Landmark Turkish passenger flight lands in #Tripoli:
on.msnbc.com/n49vyh #Feb17 #Libya
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Après 2 semaines, les combattants du CNT butent toujours à #Syrte sur la résistance farouche des forces loyalistes #Libye
#Libye: les pro-Kadhafi résistent, le sort des prisonniers critiqué
j.mp/qT5EQS
1/2 – L’Allemagne a étouffé des procédures visant Saif Al-Arab #Kadhafi j.mp/quP9kA #Libye de 2006 à 2010 : 11 enquêtes bloquées
2/2 – 11 enquêtes concernant des trafics d’armes, violences sur personne, conduites sans permis et outrage à policier …
Les tireurs embusqués pro-Kadhafi font des ravages quand les combattants CNT s’approchent du centre
j.mp/qT5EQS #Libye
HRW appelle le CNT et ses soutiens intx à mettre sur pied sans délai un système judiciaire capable de traiter la situation des prisonniers.
Le commandement CNT mise sur les effets du siège: Les hommes de Kadhafi n’ont plus d’électricité, sont à cours de nourriture et de munitions
A Bani Walid, les pro-CNT ont renoncé à combattre samedi après avoir constaté la présence de boucliers humains
j.mp/qT5EQS
Papy fait de la résistance
j.mp/nKhftD
Après une vie gâchée par “le diable”, à 58 ans, Lamine retrouve un sang neuf #Syrte #Libye
Anaya
Same problem in BaniWalid: the FF stopped so as not to injure human shields.
Jon Williams
Good to see BBC Tripoli correspondent Rana Jawad. Braved fighting across #Libya for 7 months, Gaddafi’s intimidation for 7 years. Inspiring.
FromJoanne Joanne
#Chad + Ukrainian Snipers pattern: Aim first @ feet then legs then chest R they “playing” with their targets? goo.gl/Vy1Ju #Libya
#GoodNews #Tunisia n medical team left Saturday morning aboard military plane heading for #Tripoli ten for Al #Khoms goo.gl/tN2jk
Othman
If Jews think they have the right to return to Libya, they should acknowledge the Palistinian right return to Palistine
#SIRTE #ICRC delivered Urgent Medical #Aid to 200 Wounded in #Sirte #Hospital for the first time #Libya
Mushu
Just got a call from my aunt from #Zawiya. She told us they (حرائر الزاوية) had been working all day preparing 4000 1/2 #Libya #Feb17 #UNITY
servings of coucous to be taken tomorrow to the freedom fighters in the western front line of #Sirt. Masha Allah. 2/2 #Zawiya #Libya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Instead of Rixos al Nasr we decided to visit Zawiya instead – just drove past khamis’ 32nd brigade headquarters. Scary place. #libya #feb17
Zawiya… Loads of destruction when Gaddafi forces took this city in March #libya #feb17
Heading to where zawiya’s mosque once stood… Signs of 6 months of fighting all round #libya #feb17
Just passed over the famous bridge where aljazeera and others filmed when FF entered Zawiya from Nafusa #libya #feb17
DavidPoort David Poort
Top US commander for Africa says the military mission in #Libya is largely complete. aje.me/qpyH4C #feb17
News 24
Sirte civilians given chance to leave: NTC
Tripoli – The chief of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC), Mustafa Abdel Jalil, said on Saturday that civilians were being given a chance to leave Sirte, as battles raged in Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown.
“A chance of two days has been given by the revolutionaries near Sirte so that civilians can leave the city. This chance may give the biggest number of residents the
opportunity to leave. It started yesterday," Abdel Jalil told a news conference in Benghazi aired live on Libyan television.
Full art.:
www.news24.com/Africa/News/Sirte-civili...
Aljazeera
The top US commander for Africa says the military mission in Libya is largely complete and NATO’s involvement could begin to wrap up as soon as next week when allied leaders meet in Brussels.
Army Gen. Carter Ham, head of US Africa Command, tells The Associated Press that NATO ministers will review the situation and could decide to end the mission.
He says that US intelligence and surveillance assets, such as drones, will likely stay in the region for some time once the NATO mission ends, particularly to help the Libyan government with key issues such as border security and non-proliferation of weapons.
But he says air strikes would likely end, unless specifically requested by the Libyan transitional government.
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
another day of chaotic fighting in #Sirte suddenly offensive against ouagadougou building plenty of shooting snipers and RPGs #Libya
( = huge conference center)
after around three hours NTC fighters retreated still heavy resistance from Gaddafi side #Libya
fighting in an open area before ouagadougou no cover #Sirte #Libya
question to the fighters: there is any wall to hide? yes they said there was a wall but they were in the side exposed to the snipers #Libya
later on when they retreated the main road that bypass #Sirte came under sniper and RPGs fire our car targeted by 1 but missed #Libya
as usual NTC fightes laughing when they see us running from the RPG explosion “come to eat no problem” they said #Sirte #Libya
only wounded as far as I know until 4 pm
Otro día de fuertes combates sin lógica en el frente de #Sirte un ataque inesperado contra la ciudad francotiradores cohetes etc #Libia
Moussa Ibrahim:
Mussa Ibrahim just told AFP he has not been captured – source SKY live
#Musa Ibrahim #Gaddafi’s spokesman is on a call now to Al Rai TV
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
AFP: Gaddafi’s spokesman Moussa Ibrahim denies claims he has been captured
derek_brower Derek Brower
Some mercenaries fighting in Libya and killing other muslims…. have been doing so to raise money for Haj.
AP The Associated Press
Military mission in Libya is largely complete, NATO mission could begin to wrap up soon, top U.S. commander says:
apne.ws/nCW1gU -RJJ
derek_brower Derek Brower
Theories from #Libya rebel friend: Mutasim killed papa #Gaddafi six weeks ago; Khamis alive leading Sirte battle; & regime killed Younis
Aljazeera
Passengers from Istanbul arrived at Tripoli’s airport on Saturday on the first commercial international flight to land in the Libyan capital since the international coalition imposed a no-fly zone over the country last March.
Flags representing Turkey and Libya’s new leadership flew outside Mitiga International Airport as the flight landed.
Inside the airport, passengers waited patiently and queued at the check-in desk to board the next flight.
“We are going to Turkey for business because it has been a long time since we travelled. We are happy that the airline is back in the meantime and we thank God,” said Tripoli resident Mohammed al-Jaroushi.
The U.N. Security Council resolution imposed the no-fly zone as part of international efforts to protect anti-government protesters under attack from Gaddafi loyalists.
Captured Chadian Mercenaries in Sirte (Libya), Sept. 29, 2011. سرت
These two Chadian mercenaries were captured during fighting in the city of Sirte (Libya). They had military equipment with them at the time of the capture.
You can also see the witchcraft that he is carrying with him supposedly to protect him during the fighting.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtrWngB_uv0
libyanfsl
Two additional mass graves discovered in Sirte today, one under Ibn Sina hospital & one under Refak School inside water well #Feb17 #Libya
#Libye: près de 5.000 missiles sol-air SAM-7 pas encore retrouvés
j.mp/nk9AQt
1/3 – Abdeljalil : #Syrte et #BaniWalid sont des zones désertiques, les appros sont difficiles www.romandie.com/news/n/_Libye_le_CNT_l... #Libye
2/3 – Les combattants eux-mêmes manquent d’expertise et d’organisation. Trop de munitions sont gaspillées #Libye
3/3 – Mais la situation sur ces 2 lignes de front est bonne. Il existe un plan coordonné entre ces deux zones, la victoire sera bientôt là
Abdeljalil psdt du CNT : les combattants laissent deux jours aux civils pour fuir #Syrte assiégée
j.mp/q7V9JH #Libye
#Libye : le CICR entre dans #Syrte europe1.fr/International/… pour apporter des fournitures médicales
Aljazeera
Libya’s interim government forces will call a two-day truce to allow civilians to leave the besieged hometown of Muammar Gaddafi, the chairman of the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) said on Saturday.
Residents have been streaming out of Sirte in their hundreds over the last few days as NTC forces backed by NATO warplanes intensified their shelling of the coastal city in an effort to dislodge fighters loyal to Gaddafi.
Reuters
Heavy fighting in Sirte
Oct. 1 – Fierce resistence keeps NTC pinned down on eastern front of Sirte. Rough Cut. (No reporter narration
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n0sJtezv9k
Aljazeera
Mussa Ibrahim, the spokesman for Muammar Gaddafi, denied on Saturday claims he had been captured by forces of the country’s new regime outside of the deposed Libyan leader’s hometown of Sirte.
“This information is a lie and does not reflect reality,” a man claiming to be Ibrahim said live on Syrian-based Arrai television, which has become a conduit for declarations by Gaddafi and other elements of his former regime.
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
Red Cross gets medicine into #Libya’s besieged #Sirte
trust.org/alertnet/news/…
Former Prime Minister of Libya confesses racial motivation behind repression of amazigh in Zuwara
L’interception et la diffusion par la télévision Libya TV (Libya Al Ahrar) d’une conversation téléphonique impliquant Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi (ar: البغدادي علي المحمودي) ancien premier ministre du régime libyen déchu et homme de main du fugitif Muammar Bumenyar Al-Qathafi a.k.a Gaddafi, recherché par Interpol et la CPI pour crimes des guerre et crimes contre l’Humanité, révèle au grand jour les mobiles également racistes qui ont motivé la répression particulièrement brutale qui s’est abattue les 14 et 15 mars 2011 contre la minorité berbère libyenne habitant de la ville de Zuwara (dans l’ouest du pays du côté de la frontière tunisienne) et l’encerclement et le quadrillage particulièrement inhumain pendant plus de quatre (4) mois qu’ont eu à subir les habitants de cette ville.
Read more and video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1trXP3WIT4&fea...
88simon88 simon
CRAZY! 11 INVESTIGATIONS done in 4 years (Germany) in order 2 prosecute SEIF AL ARAB 4 arms trafiking, violence. But never finished
FromJoanne Joanne
U.S. may be able to help re-establish #Libya ’s Coast Guard and maritime domain
#SIRTE 2day Long car queues with fleeing families calmly waiting 2b checked by fighters@checkpoints as explosions echo in th distance #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli’s main international airport south of the capital, has yet to resume normal operations #Libya
#MoreGoodNews Moussa #Ibrahim claimed on Syrian-based TV station Al-Rai that he was traveling with 23 fighters inside #Sirte #Libya
#Sirte Gunfire Close your eyes after you click on the link and keep yr head down hosted.ap.org/audio/20111001… #Libya
or:
hosted.ap.org/audio/20111001113200-139.mp3
#MusaIbrahim via Phone: This information of my capture is a lie and does not reflect reality since I was near #Sirte Front with 23 fighters
Musa #Ibrahim babbled abt a New Strategy Launched #NOONA #MIME its 2 Transform situation in #Libya into that like #Afghanistan
misrati_free
#Tripoli Main International Airport is Surrounded by an area with Gaddafi loyalists in it that is yet to be cleared #Libya
NTC fighters ‘seal off’ Gaddafi’s hometown
Libya’s National Transitional Council fighters from the east of the country have linked up with those from the west.
They are battling Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in his hometown of Sirte, and have reached one of the city’s main roundabouts.
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr has this exclusive report.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4orSWl2hcO8&fea...
Libya endgame carries new risks for NATO
BRUSSELS, Oct 1: NATO commanders face a tough balancing act during the bloody battle for Muammar Gaddafi’s last strongholds, Sirte and Bani Walid. NATO allies would like to let the National Transitional Council (NTC) claim victory in these battles and war for itself. That would enhance the council’s legitimacy as the new ruler of Libya after Gaddafi’s four decades in power, and bolster the chances of a stable democracy taking root in the country.
But the European governments that led NATO’s air campaign in Libya also need to remain long enough and engaged enough to make sure the success so far is not diminished by a messy withdrawal. If NATO quietly stepped aside but fighting restarted, that would diminish Europe’s standing in Libya and tarnish a campaign that has been seen as a success for Europeans.
Read more:
theindependentbd.com/international/euro...
Niz_FGM Niz
Back in the UK – amazing to hear support they had for us during the uprising. People who didnt know Libya talking about our towns & cities
Youm 7
Germany overlooked claims against Gadhafi son: report
BERLIN – German officials buried numerous criminal allegations against ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s son Seif al-Arab for fear of damaging bilateral ties, the weekly Der Spiegel reported Saturday.
Germany’s foreign ministry had on five occasions informed justice officials in Munich that investigations against Seif al-Arab Gadhafi, who studied there, could create diplomatic problems with Libya.
Between 2006 and 2010, Germany police had opened 11 investigations against the former strongman’s son on allegations including arms trafficking, violence, driving
without a license and insulting a police officer.
But all the probes were blocked, with police suspecting German intelligence of thwarting their work, the magazine reported.
Members of Gadhafi’s former regime say that Seif al-Arab and three of Gadhafi’s grandchildren were killed in a NATO air strike on Tripoli on April 30, but Italian President Silvio Berlusconi has denied this.
Source:
english.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=345990
(FYI: obviously the wrong pic was used for above art.)
HRW
Libya: Evidence from Mass Graves at Risk
Several mass graves have been uncovered in Libya. But with the country in turmoil, forensic evidence is at risk of being destroyed or lost. Stefan Schmitt of Physicians for Human Rights and HRW’s Fred Abrahams discuss the need to halt exhumations and protect grave sites in order to pursue justice.
Podcast:
www.hrw.org/audio/2011/09/30/libya-evid...
AliTweel
This is exactly why we should never judge by appearance. Sometimes the little God gives you, is very deep.
twitpic.com/6tlnka
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
i really want a libya mug!
misrati_free
Great news, #Alentissar will return to Malta to deliver 2 more shipments to #Sirte refugees in #Misurata and later in #Sirte itself. #IGOAID
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
I wonder if Rixos prices dropped down now?!
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Libya needs ur degree! no proper development without women. Women r not created for cooking! best chefs in the world r men!!
ouch! S
LIBTRIP Tarek Alwan
A photo from the gathering about creating a civil society in #Libya.
yfrog.com/nwuhcxtj
Young #Libyans expressing their views and idea on how to create a civil society in #Libya
Police cars which are donated by #UAE, are visible everywhere in #Tripoli, making life feel safer. #Libya
went well, had discussions about establishing it and keeping going
There was a party for children in #Dahra, last night and went on till 10pm, was a great atmosphere. #Libya
Guardian
Muammar Gaddafi and the justice tyrants face
When Interpol announced its “red notice” arrest warrants for Muammar Gaddafi and his son, Saif al-Islam, it served as a reminder that if they are captured, it won’t just be the Libyan rebels knocking at the Gaddafi door, but also the knock of justice. Times have changed since “Brother Leader” took power in 1969.
Read more:
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifame...
derek_brower Derek Brower
most still call themselves “rebels”. Haven’t met anyone who says he was in “NTC forces”. But I take your point.
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, #ICRC says situation dire in #Sirte after team visits besieged city, #Libya, #Gaddafi
#Libya, #ICRC says people are dying due to lack of basic medical care in #Sirte, #Libya, #Gaddafi
alssomood
Ali AlTrabelsi was killed w son AbdelKader(5yrs) & baby Amna(9mths) after Gaddafi thugs shelled their car in #Sirte
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Tripoli’s residents call time on celebratory gunfire
bit.ly/qfUS2w #libya
UK architects gear up to resume working in Libya
bit.ly/mUw3KU
Libyan detainees describe abuse and torture
bit.ly/oFTA3t #libya
4Adam Adam
According to Libya.tv (run by the NTC) “Libyan provisional government will help restore the synagogues in Tripoli” #Libya #priorities
Sumayyah
Excited that a bunch of my cousins in Libya are getting engaged. Can’t wait to party it up with them in Benghazi soon inshaAllah
Picture: Libyan fighter lost his hand in battle, but continues to fight on the front line MashaAllah #Libya #Feb17
pic.twitter.com/W6dXj7ia
FromJoanne Joanne
As the war 4 liberation raged in #Libya Paranoia surrounded any talk of politics on #Libyas social networking sites goo.gl/pOajT
Thank God I have always loved reading but I dont think I have ever read as much as the last 9 months #Libya
AP The Associated Press
Libyan family killed by machine-gun fire while fleeing battles in Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown:
apne.ws/idMWwt -CJ
4Adam Adam
Chavez said on Sat "I was praying for Muammar Gaddafi and also sent a message of solidarity to Assad against “Yankee” aggression" #RESPECT
Jerusalem Post
Venezuela’s Chavez sends solidarity to Gaddafi, Assad
South American leader says Syria, Libya "resisting imperial aggression, the attacks of the Yankee empire and its European allies”.
CARACAS – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday he was praying for Libya’s deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi and also sent a message of solidarity to Syrian President Bashar Assad against “Yankee” aggression.
Chavez — who has inherited Fidel Castro’s mantle as Washington’s main irritant in Latin America — views the wave of uprisings in the Arab world as Western-led
destabilization and has been a strong ally of Gaddafi.
Read more:
www.jpost.com/International/Article.asp...
Comment from tweeter to above story:
Tom
Original headline for this story: “Huge Chavez is a giant pr*** and a pseudo-revolutionary fraud”
hominoid555 Russell
Libya’s National Transitional Council fighters from the east of the country have linked up with those from the west in Sirte
WilliamsJon Jon Williams
Good night in Tripoli. Fish market in Tajoura buzzing at dinner. Team gathered to salute BBC #Libya reporter Rana Jawad
twitpic.com/6tn0t3
septimius_sever septimius severus
Gaddafi Solider arrested in #Tripoli after finding a video on his mobile phone of 2 young women being raped
Gaddafi soldier described how he & his unit had raped seven women in #Dafniya, west of #Misrata
Gaddafi soldier & his comrades stormed into farmhouses & repeatedly raped teenage girls.
Gadaffi’s rapists and robbers find mercy in militia jails
Full art. behind pay wall: www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world... #Libya
ben3ati:
Just to let you know #Libya will never be like #Iraq because we have #Sallabi. We might be like #Iran”
Sirte Saturday 01/10/2011 one martyr and 11 wounded
From G goon:
SPALATONS
Khamis al-Gaddafi: We will win or die! 01.October 2011.
Khamis al-Gaddafi: We will win or die!
by Jazira Chuibekova on Saturday, 01 October 2011 at 14:23
In a telephone conversation with his classmate on the Academy. Frunze operating officer of the Russian army, Sergei, Khamis al-Gaddafi gave thanks to the people of Russia, which supports the struggle of the Libyan people against the invaders. “Argumenty.ru” quoted Khamis al-Gaddafi fully, removing only the full name of the classmate.
“Thank you to all our classmates and teachers who could give me a little bit of the spirit of your people-winner, and taught to adequately assess the combat situation, gave valuable combat experience and skills. I am proud that I had such a teacher, I deserve them – time will tell .
Thanks to all those who support us being in Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet republics. And especially – those brave souls of your people who were with us shoulder to shoulder to defend my country against aggression. We will win or die, give
up or run no one is going. To die fighting side by side with warriors – a dream for any defender of his country. In any case, to have friends in the Russian people – an honor for the Libyan, and it’s already been written on the pages of the history of Libya, Allah witness. In the words of your Russian song – “This land will be ours if we do not die in battle!” But Libya will always be ours, even if we perish!
Much has now changed in the world. Who would have thought that all that will turn out. But do you remember – that’s what we prepared and studied. And this trial we endure it with valor. Not to say the UK (the French) and American newspapers and TV – most of the population supports us. And we will not abandon them, will not allow looting and massacre. So it is. But our enemies are traitors carried him outside Libya, sells to the capitalist-colonialists. I ordered through any media to inform the international community about NATO and their crimes the rebels, to spread the information after each raid on civilian targets and civilians, after each battle or massacre of ordinary Libyans and foreigners. I want to be sure that Libya is now a river flowing blood is not for nothing that the world finally sees what a UN and the so-called “civilized West.”
Our blood is not cheap. None of the traitor and indifferent will not sleep until the end of my days, I swear by God and honored the Libyan Army officers. Take care of yourself, your family and your country. Once again, our friendship, Sergei, an honor for me. "
SUMMARY OCTOBER 2nd 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 – goo.gl/ovHzc
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Sat: RAF aircraft destroyed a supply base for Qadhafi’s anti-artillery weapons in Sirte using four Paveway precision guided bombs.
Sat eve: RAF aircraft destroyed an armed pick-up truck being used by former regime forces with a direct hit from a Brimstone missile. #Libya
MOD UK
RAF and Royal Navy continue action against Gaddafi forces
The Royal Navy and RAF have been in action all week against Colonel Gaddafi’s forces who continue to operate indiscriminately in Sirte and Bani Walid
NATO maintained a constant aerial presence over both towns during Thursday, when, in the morning, a formation of RAF Tornado GR4s was tasked with a strike on a staging post and ammunition store being used by Gaddafi’s remaining tanks and armed vehicles in Sirte. Severe damage was inflicted on a number of targets at the location.
An armed reconnaissance patrol over Bani Walid meanwhile destroyed with four Paveway guided bombs ammunition stores which had been successfully located by NATO surveillance operations.
In the course of Thursday afternoon, RAF aircraft inflicted further destruction on
ammunition stockpiles in Bani Walid, then proceeded east to Sirte where they joined another RAF patrol in a precision strike on another supply point being used by former regime tanks and rocket launchers.
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, RAF Tornado GR4s struck military targets at a large ammunition and vehicle storage depot which has been supporting Colonel Gaddafi’s troops within Sirte. The site was also hit by the RAF on Tuesday.
NATO maintained a constant presence over the city throughout Wednesday, and, in the course of these patrols, RAF aircraft conducted further precision strikes on a group of buildings which had been identified as a headquarters and staging post for former regime forces, and on two firing positions.
500-pound (227kg) and 1,000-pound (454kg) Paveway bombs employing laser and GPS guidance successfully destroyed each of these targets.
At sea, Royal Navy vessels have maintained their patrols off the Libyan coast, with HMS Bangor providing security to merchant shipping by conducting precautionary mine countermeasure surveys to ensure there is no residual mine threat from the conflict.
4Adam Adam
Safwat ElZayat: When Libyans face a political crisis, go to the graves of young martyrs &listen"We given u #FreeLibya, wat did you do to it"
CNN
Anti-Gadhafi tribes clash in two Libyan locales
Members of two Libyan tribes — who fought together to unseat Moammar Gadhafi and his loyalists — clashed Saturday, infighting among opposition forces that comes as a key ally of the longtime leader vowed to keep up the fight.
Ahmed Hussein, a resident of Badr, told CNN that Berber tribesmen from Nalut used Kalashnikov rifles and machine guns in an attack on Seaan Arab forces in that mountainous western Libyan city. A family of three caught in the crossfire was killed, he claimed.
Full art.:
edition.cnn.com/2011/10/01/world/africa...
Gulf News
Libyan council should focus on building nation
As the fighting for control of the last remaining Muammar Gaddafi strongholds in Libya continues, it is important that the bigger picture of what needs to be done in the country remains in focus. Libya has experienced tremendous changes over the past few months and it is how these events are taken forward by the people that will determine the kind of future they will have.
The fighting has intensified between forces of the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) and those loyal to Gaddafi. Losses of pro-Gaddafi forces have been heavy in the city of Sirte as well as in Bani Walid.
Read full art.:
gulfnews.com/opinions/editorials/libyan...
BintTarablis
Libyan family killed by machine-gun fire while fleeing battles in Gaddafi’s hometown – Winnipeg Free Press
bit.ly/paGh81 #Libya
Telegraph
Libyans urge Britain: ‘Honour David Cameron’s pledge and take our wounded soon’
Promises by David Cameron to help those injured in the uprising against Colonel Gaddafi have not yet been kept, reports Nick Meo in Tripoli
The Libyan crowd waved Union Jacks and revolutionary flags as the Prime Minister’s helicopter came in to land at Tripoli Medical Centre, and then David Cameron bounded out to a hero’s welcome. The cheers on his historic visit last month were loudest when he announced that severely injured casualties from the war against Muammar Gaddafi would be brought to Britain for treatment.
But The Sunday Telegraph has learnt that only one boy has been evacuated to a National Health Service hospital, and it is still not clear when Britain will start receiving wounded from Libya as the Prime Minister promised.
Full story:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
FF from Misrata stockpiling weapons: “we may have to wage war against rival factions or politicians …” #TellMeAllOK http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020413820457660 3151886692530.html#articleTabs%3Darticle
Reuters
Niger gov said that #Libya’s #NTC were welcome to question #Saadi #Gaddafi, who has taken refuge in #Niger, but it was unlikely that he would be extradited to Libya any time soon.
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
#Sirte hospital hit by rebel rockets while the Red Cross was inside this afternoon; rebels ceased fire but say Gaddafi command inside
Red Cross said humanitarian situation in #sirte hospital dire- no oxygen for patients or fuel for power generators
Adi
Libyan friend said that durin 1st days of revolution pple did not know w/ what 2 replace the old flag so they used praying carpets #Benghazi
Ahmed
I saw the respectful manner in which the checkpoint security used when driving through, and their pride and true happiness in their eyes…
It restored pride again to Libya, and no matter what hardship befalls us now, I am a lot happier here in Libya than I have ever been before!
MashAllah on all of the revolutionaries of February 17. InshAllah your final reward is with Allah! You’ve made every Libyan proud! #libya
Oppressed people will never forget. History will always remember.
Hamza
the only people i know who rule with the belief of a utopia are dictators.
malonebarry Barry Malone
Niger says NTC can come chat with Saadi Gaddafi but no possibility of extradition. Like going on a date with no possibility of etc
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Royston to twin with Benghazi is.gd/eOOxoe #Libya
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Libya’s Newest Concern: Looming Political Battles bit.ly/oiubvz
Karybdis
Oct 2 #Sirte situation map.
NTC announces it controls Area 3 and 1. Now mapped, awaiting confirmation on ground.
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Sarah
“Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.”
Niz_FGM Niz Look at this boy, killed by celebratory fire, buried today in
#Misrata goo.gl/0BX0m THIS MUST STOP #libya
Check out Haraer #Misrata Society’s FB pageon.fb.me/pwM2vS I worked with this charity when I was there, truly amazing group.#Libya
WilliamsJon Jon Williams
Brief stop in Malta heading home from Tripoli. #Libya still got huge challenges. Plenty of enthusiasm – but patience also necessary.
Aljazeera
AJA reporter update on #Sirte: bit.ly/r1PgSg
Intensive Nato flights, clashes in AbuHadi 25km S of Sirte, E&W f fighers collaborating.
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, Some families leaving #AbuHadi town southern outskirts of #Sirte, Libya,Gaddafi
Mairi
NTC Forces in Libya must not use hospitals as military HQs this is also breaking Geneva Convention
Vermondo
BREAKING! Moussa Ibrahim, the fugitive spokesman for Gaddafi, denied being Moussa Ibrahim!! Libya #surreal
libyanandproud
Not Gaddafi was sold more than 10000 missiles was never a problem for anyone? Who did u think he was going to use them against?
Tarek Alwan
The main gates to Gaddafi Compound in Bab Alaziziya in Tripoli, Libya, taken by me on Sunday 02/10.11
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The main gates to Gaddafi Compound in Bab Alaziziya inTripoli, Libya, taken on Sunday 02/10.11
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#Tripoli Port looks very busy with many ships uploading containers, life seems coming back to normality. Libya
twitpic.com/6u1lw4
Le point
Libya – The people of Tripoli demanded the withdrawal of armed fighters
Hundreds of fighters have flooded the whole to make Tripoli Libya, but in the capital now in the hands of anti-Gaddafi for over a month, residents, angered by the shooting in the city are more likely to demand the departure of armed men. Taking Bab al-Aziziyah, the headquarters of Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli, the Libyan authorities of the new fighters ended 41 years of rule of the Guide still at large, but their installation in the capital is now a threat to stability, consider the Tripolitans.
Read more:
www.lepoint.fr/monde/libye-les-habitant...
A picture of Corantia Hotel, where most NTC and journalists stay in#Tripoli, I took it just a few mins ago Libya
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ICRC
The ICRC delivered medical kits for treating up to 200 people wounded in the fighting to Sirte hospital, as well as fuel to run its generators, the organisation said.
However, a team of four aid workers, who also had security clearance from pro-Gaddafi forces, were not able to go inside the hospital due to heavy gunfire, the spokesman said.
“They went to the hospital but were not able to see patients, they didn’t go into the wards,” Marcal Izard said.
Doctors at the hospital – which has no power – told the aid workers there were 200 patients inside.
BBC
People in the besieged Libyan city of Sirte are in desperate need of
medical aid, the International Red Cross has warned.
A team from the organisation has taken some supplies to the main hospital in the town, one of the last strongholds of Colonel Gaddafi’s supporters.
The transitional government’s forces have been launching assaults on the city for days.
NIGER
Niger’s justice minister, who is also the government spokesman, said on Niger national television late on Saturday that Saadi could be questioned under an existing cooperation agreement between Tripoli and Niamey.
“If it is to question Saadi, the National Transitional Council (NTC), which we have recognised, can freely come to Niger, under the existing accord,” said Marou Amadou.
“However, I reaffirm that at this stage…there is no possibility of extraditing Saadi, because ultimately what needs to be applied is international conventions,” he said.
Saadi’s exact whereabouts in Niamey have not been disclosed.
AP
Tensions are rising in Tripoli as increasingly frustrated residents call on hundreds of armed Libyan fighters who stayed in the city after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi to leave.
Fighters from across Libya flooded into the capital in late August to help overthrow Gaddafi’s 42-year regime and many have stayed put, provoking concern among many residents and raising fears over the capital’s future stability.
Militia fighters from cities such as Misrata and Zintan man checkpoints around the city, wander the streets with automatic rifles and speed through city roads in pick-up trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns.
Residents blame them for eruptions of automatic gunfire that still echo through the streets of Tripoli every night.
TURKEY
A Turkish Airlines passenger plane landed in Tripoli Saturday noon, the first international commercial flight to arrive in the Libyan capital since the establishment of a no-fly zone in the war-torn country in March, a Libyan aviation official said. The flight from Istanbul, with 43 passengers on board, arrived at the Mitiga International Airport in eastern Tripoli, at about 11:50 local time (0950 GMT), he said.
NATO
The top U.S. commander for Africa said Saturday that the military mission in Libya was largely complete and NATO’s involvement could begin to wrap up as soon as next week after allied leaders meet in Brussels.
Euronews
Libyan peace deal signed over desert town.
In Libya, Tuareg tribesman signed a peace agreement on Friday with local Arabs over the Saharan desert oasis of Ghadames.
The town had been at the centre of speculation that Muammar Gaddafi was hiding locally under the protection of the tribes.
“There is no way that Gaddafi is in Ghadames or in the Tuareg area,” said one tribesman following the signing ceremony.
“We are with the new regime. We have been with them from the beginning,” added the man.
Meanwhile Libya’s new rulers have called on armed militias who helped overthrow Gaddafi to leave Tripoli peacefully.
The National Transitional Council is facing a deadlock as it attempts to form a permanent government.
Hundreds of people gathered in Tripoli’s central Martyr Square on Friday to listen to speeches from local clerics calling for a weapon free city.
They say they no longer feel safe with the revolutionaries who often patrol independently of orders from the interim government.
Moussa ibrahim
Moussa Ibrahim, the fugitive spokesman for Muammar Gaddafi, telephoned a Syria-based television channel on Saturday to deny reports that he himself had been captured this week.”This information is a lie and does not reflect reality because I was near the front of Sirte with 23 fighters,” Ibrahim told Arrai TV.
Aljazeera Sirte:
East of Sirte on Sunday, NTC fighters returning from the front said they had captured a neighbourhood in the southwest of the city which was home to many Gaddafi supporters. “Ninety-five percent of Buhadi is under our control,” fighter Drisi Mayar said. “This was a stronghold of Gaddafi. A lot of his relatives and clan members lived there. There was a small military base. We took control yesterday. We had small clashes but it is under our control.”
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
FYI all: St James (maltese) hospital in Tripoli is treating people for free for 3 days starting today – if they are ex-clients libya feb17
Al arabiya
Tripoli gets new militia in apparent rebuff to Islamists
A Libyan revolutionary officer announced the creation on Sunday of an armed group to keep order in Tripoli, a mission analysts say may overlap uneasily with an existing Military Council with the same job which is led by a prominent Islamist.
Announcing the Tripoli Revolutionists Council at a news conference in the capital, Abdullah Ahmed Naker said his force had 22,000 armed men at its disposal, drawn from what he said were 73 factions which had agreed to pool resources.
The move may stir concern about tensions among the many revolutionary militias who play a de facto security role in the capital, where residents say they fear some groups may resort to violence as they jockey for power.
Visiting U.S. Republican Senator John McCain called on the country’s interim rulers,
the unelected National Transitional Council (NTC), last week to move quickly to get the armed groups under control.
Naker said his group was cooperating with the Tripoli Military Council which is led by Abdulhakim Belhadj, a veteran Islamist foe of Muammar Qaddafi.
He said it would protect citizens’ security and property, collect unlicensed weapons, support humanitarian relief work and help create civil society institutions.
But Naker, wearing military fatigues and flanked by tense-looking fighters cradling assault rifles, suggested Belhadj’s group, believed by diplomats to be supported by Qatar, was not representative of Tripoli’s population and not large enough.
Excluded
“We established the council because we saw that Tripoli people are marginalized … They have not been invited to participate in any entity in the new government,” he said.
Naker said his forces were already in control of 75 percent of the capital. They could extend their area of operations but did not want disputes with other factions.
He said his relations were normal with Belhadj but he did not know much about his background.
“Who is he? Who appointed him?” he said.
Belhadj led an Islamist guerrilla uprising against Qaddafi in the 1990s. He later spent time with Taliban and al Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan but says he opposed al
Qaeda’s transnational campaign of anti-Western violence.
Naker said Belhadj’s military clout was “weak” as he had only 2,000 men. He alleged the Military Council’s forces had staged night raids on private homes that had caused ill-feeling among Tripoli residents.
Spokesmen for the Military Council and the NTC could not immediately be reached for comment.
An analyst in Tripoli who did not want to be identified said Naker’s remarks suggested he was a supporter of interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril, a Western-trained technocrat widely regarded as an opponent of Islamist forces in the country.
Supporters of Belhadj make little secret of their disdain for Jibril, who they say is seeking to exclude them from a share of power following Qaddafi’s fall.
Naker said his council was working under the auspices of de facto head of state Mustafa Abdel Jalil and was “cooperating” with the Tripoli Military Council on bringing safety back to Tripoli.
It would be dissolved when state institutions were up and running again, he said.
rcolebourn Richard Colebourn
BBC is at a hospital just outside Sirte with civilians fleeing city – they report desperate conditions. Fuel queues as people leave #Libya
LIBTRIP
Traffic in Tripoli is still the same, and has not changed yet, it’s terrible especially from 11am.
Feb17libya Feb17Libya
Libyan aid ship makes its last trip
bit.ly/oo1UDJ #libya
Smile:
When you walk into a spider web, you automatically know karate.
Thanku4theAnger
The sight of the independence flag at the London Libya Embassy brings a smile to my face every time I pass by
20arb11
Daily News on #Tripoli #Trables #Libya
goo.gl/r9L0i
LibyeLibre
MJ Niger : Le CNT est bienvenu au Niger pour interroger Saadi Kadhafi, mais son extradition n’est pas possible pr l’instant Libye
j.mp/r0SpCp #Libye
BBC:
People in the besieged Libyan city of Sirte are in desperate need of medical aid, International RedCross has warned
NTC fighters ‘seal off’ Gaddafi’s hometown
Libya’s National Transitional Council fighters from the east of the country have linked up with those from the west.
They are battling Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in his hometown of Sirte, and have reached one of the city’s main roundabouts.
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr has this exclusive report.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4orSWl2hcO8&fea...
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya #NATO bombing targets in #AbuHadi town in southern outskirts of #Sirte, Gaddafi, Libya
NATO:
More than 10 000 surface to air missiles which pose a serious threat to civil aviation could get out of Libya
libyahmed Ahmed Bin Lasher
Driving in from Djerba Tunisia to libya was very interesting. I didn’t see a single Tunisia flag, yet in every where was the Libya flag!
Libye Libre
#Libye: La Croix-Rouge internationale a pu entrer dans #Syrte
j.mp/roREK2 a abrégé sa visite en raison d’une attaque malgré un accord
Des blessés ou des malades ne peuvent pas rejoindre l’hôpital à cause des combats. Le CICR a fourni 300 kits de soins pour blessés de guerre
libyahmed Ahmed Bin Lasher
Friday prayer 2 days ago, here in tajoura Tripoli, the sheikh made such strong duas against Bashar and Salah! Was amazing hearing it
We made powerful dua’s for the people of #Syria and #Yemen. We are your brothers and our thoughts are with you inshAllah. libya
AJE: FFs now control Bu Hadi area in Sirte feb17 #libya Allahu Akbar
libyanproud libyanandproud
Picture : Freedom Fighters praying before the entry of #Sirte #Feb17 #Libya via FB twitpic.com/6u0j57
#Sirte #Misratta and Eastern Libya FF have connected and are in control of Buhadi Feb17 Libya via @MisrataPatriots
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Almost 38,000 Libyan/Jews left Libya in 1967. David Gerbi returns to Libya to reopen the Jewish synagogue- 10 via
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#Sirte
Misratta FF now completely control the main coastal road linking Benghazi Misratta. #Feb17 #Libya via @MisrataPatriots
Sirtawi
According to AFP, #Ffs now have 95% of AbuHadi, south of #Sirteunder their control.
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
He really wants to go to the front line and fight bless him #Libyapic.twitter.com/AqUG9Jy0
#Gadaffis #GreenBook “A Cockerel doesnt lay eggs but a chicken does” Very important information that is !!!
#Gadaffis #Greenbook. “A Man is a Male and a Lady is a Female”. Now if Gadaffi didnt tell us that who would have known !!
libyanproud libyanandproud
#Gaddafi:
Fish is meat, Birds is meat, Rabbits is meat, meat is protein
youtu.be/yerM_W64qPA LOOOOOL
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yerM_W64qPA&fea...
#BaniWalid:
“Freedom Fighters says they’ve captured the valley leading to the center of the town” – youtube.com/watch?v=PcOGfE…via @Anay_a
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcOGfEcUPII
LibyaMartyrs Libya Martyrs
Mohamed Eayad Al-Zaytouni, from Janzour and martyred on the frontline in Misratah #Libya.
pic.twitter.com/LR1VbDAe
Aljazeera
East of Sirte on Sunday, NTC fighters returning from the front said they had captured a neighbourhood in the southwest of the city which was home to many Gaddafi supporters.
“Ninety-five percent of Buhadi is under our control,” fighter Drisi Mayar said.
“This was a stronghold of Gaddafi. A lot of his relatives and clan members lived there. There was a small military base. We took control yesterday. We had small clashes but it is under our control.”
Hundreds of vehicles also streamed out of Sirte on the eastern front during a lull in fighting on Sunday.
One man leaving with his family who gave his name only as Muftah said: "The situation is absolutely pathetic, especially in the hospitals. We have no
oxygen, no medicines. Wounded people die even before reaching the hospital.
“Many people have broken open the pharmacies in the city to bring medicines to the hospital but even that is exhausted now.”
Mairi Sutherland
It is very annoyoing to hear that Geneva Convention regarding hospitals is not abided by Gaddafi forces. Stop firing at Hospitals
BBC News – 2 day truce has been arranged for civilians to leave Sirte
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS
VIDEO: Benghazi today:
youtu.be/kRqjw-zhbZY
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRqjw-zhbZY&fea...
Libyans flee Sirte amid Red Cross medical warning France24
www.france24.com/en/20111002-libyans-fl...
Deadly legacy of Gaddafi landmines: The Gaddafi landmines still killing civilians in Libya
bbc.in/pLACmQ #gaddaficrimes
libyahmed Ahmed Bin Lasher
On my way to Libya, all I dreamt of was walking into my home to find Gaddafi sitting there with a cup of tea… alas he wasn’t! Funny that!
2e et dernier jour de trève permettant aux civils de fuir Syrte. Snipers embusqués dans la ville.
www.bfmtv.com//video-infos-actualite/de... Libye
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
“Welcome October” NATO concern over ‘10,000 lost missiles’ in Libya: report
goo.gl/caonA
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Video: The Battle for Sirte Rages Onenglish.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… Sirte NTC Qaddafi AlArabiya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Shortages “killing patients” in Libya siege hospital
is.gd/uKjJxg Libya
Return_of_libya
ليبيا تعــــــود: المدخل الرئيسي لباب العزيزية اليوم The main entrance of Bab Al Aziziya today, Tripoli
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20arb11 Souffian Tripoli
Daily Arabic Libya news on “ليبيا”
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MUST READ:
Telegraph
Gaddafi loyalists stranded as battle for Sirte rages
Dozens of families who remain fiercely loyal to Col Muammer Gaddafi’s regime are trapped in the Libyan desert as fighting intensifies in the loyalist stronghold of Sirte
Families continue to stream out of the city, as interim government forces fought intense battles for control of the city centre. But many men and women were too terrified, angry and mistrustful of the fighters that now control the majority of Libya, to flee to the next town.
Crammed 30 people to a room, the families live in an abandoned school building with scant supplies. Others have been taken in by loyalist homes dotted in the scrubland surrounding Sirte.
“The rebels are worse than rats. Nato is the same as Osama bin Laden,” said a resident who did not wish to be named. “We have ten families staying with us now, there is little food, not enough clean water and no gas. Before we lived wealthy lives, I had two homes, now we live worse than animals.”
Read more here:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
Libyan
All Libyans are Muslims, Libya should be secular whether Islamists like it or not.
Ancient Libyan old men thinking they are ‘tribal leaders’ don’t know we’re in the 21st century. Libya
alchemist585
#Algerian authorities have refused to grant political asylum 2 Fatima al-Sharif, #Gaddafi’s chief female body guards “coordinator”.
However, they suggested she can come in2 Algeria illegally as did 100s of Gaddafi soldiers establishing a base on Algerian side of border
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS
Aparently Mahmoud Shamam is ill and is in hospital in America
Libyan
At another BS tribal meeting in town of Bayda: “We will not return weapons until we make sure new gov is right gov.” Idiots.Libya
What’s with these random ‘tribal meetings’ in #Libya, we didn’t have a revolution to have some ancient old men decide #Libya’s future.
derek_brower Derek Brower
Forget jury-rigged weaponry & drunken madman in Martyrs’ Sq. Most incongruous sight so far in Tripoli: peloton of lycra-clad road cyclists
Another #Libya theory doing the rounds. That record-breaking gold-price crash the other day? Yup. Gadaffi dumping it for cash.
Sky
Post-War Therapy For Traumatised Libyan Kids
Schools across Misratah have been setting up counselling centres to help traumatised pupils cope with the psychological damage caused by the Libyan war.
The city saw the worst fighting during the conflict. It was under siege by Gaddafi forces for months.
For children caught up in the fighting, it was a terrifying time.
Most of them spent days cowering in basements with no electricity and little water as Gaddafi forces unleashed a barrage of rockets and mortars.
Teacher Sondos Krwad said many of her pupils are still frightened and are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
More here:
news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16...
Trend.az
Libyan rebel commander denies post-Gaddafi rifts
The chief of the Libyan rebels’ military council in the capital Tripoli, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, has denied reports about rifts among the rebels after they ousted long-standing ruler Moamer Gaddafi in an interview with the German Press Agencydpa.
“There are no differences among the revolutionaries and there are no signs of such differences,” Belhaj told dpa by telephone.
The head of the rebels’ Transitional National Council (TNC), Mustafa Abdel Jalil, had reportedly failed to convince 30 senior rebels in Tripoli to operate under Belhaj’s command.
“The whole matter is that some different views were made, which is normal, given the freedom prevalent now in Libya,” Belhaj, a leading Islamist in the North African country.
Belhaj spent six years in Libyan jails where he said he was maltreated and tortured.
He told dpa that his “history of struggle” against the Gaddafi regime qualified him to be chief commander in Tripoli.
Read more:
en.trend.az/regions/met/arabicr/1939382...
Libyan
Islam and secularism can work together, Libya should use Turkey as a model.
WEELULE
Libyans must stop hating Jews or any other ethnicity, the hate is politically driven by the like of Gaddafi and other Arab dictators
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Libya uprising: Deadly legacy of Gaddafi landmines
bit.ly/p1GYdH libya
Libyans urge Britain: ‘Honour David Cameron’s pledge and take our wounded soon’
bit.ly/rmQGzt
#libya
Tweeting Tripoli
Saeed Rashid (one of Lockerbie’s masterminds) assassinated by Gaddafi on February (vid of his vehicles in Bab Azizia):youtube.com/watch?v=oJeg9u…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJeg9uQf79k&fea...
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
photo: #Sirte yesterday former american freelance Matthew Van Dike fighting now again in Libya last battle
yfrog.com/nwfodhj
Matthew Van Dyke a journalist fighting for the revolution whole story tomorrow in EL MUNDO print edition Sirte Libya
“I came to do a job and I can not leave until I finish and the whole of Libya is free” Matthew Van Dyke
derek_brower Derek Brower
Libya’s revolutionaries, part 1 – Kids are going back to school in Libya’s liberated areas. The picture…
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Libya’s revolutionaries, part 2 – Hisham Belhaj, 31, grew up in Denmark, where his father was in exile….
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Libya’s revolutionaries, part 3 – Mustafa Omar, 29, is a radiologist from Misrata and he is tired. (Photo:…
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Libya’s revolutionaries, part 4 – A makeshift prison on the outskirts of Misrata holds soldiers from…
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Nusaybah
It’s imperative on the NTC to establish a system that will offer effective psychological care to victims of rape – men and women. Libya
Reuters
Libya’s Waha Oil faces tough task to fix war damage
Waha Oil is joint venture with U.S. energy companies
Some facilities looted, others still unsafe: engineer
Staff refuse to go back to fields until managers leave
Read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/02/liby...
Nafissa
That’s my healthy hand with the colors of my Baby libya :)
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Al Arabiya
Former Libyan prime minister awaits his fate in Tunisia
Former Libyan Prime Minister Baghdadi Mahmudi has placed the Tunisian government between a rock and a hard place as Libyan revolutionaries are demanding his extradition while his lawyers are calling for him to be granted political asylum for fear of unfair trial or summary execution in case he returns to Libya.
Mahmudi’s case is unfortunately being dealt with politically and not legally or humanitarianly, said member of the ex-premier’s defense team, Mabrouk Kourchid.
“The Tunisian authorities are collaborating with their Libyan counterparts and diplomatic ties are taken into consideration when dealing with Mahmudi’s case,” he said in a press conference Saturday.
Extraditing the former prime minister, Kourchid added, would be a disgraceful action on the part of the new democracy in Tunisia since the fate that awaits him in Libya could be described as a crime against humanity.
“It is very likely that Mahmudi will be executed if he goes back to Libya,” said Kouchid.
His lawyer also added that Mahmudi, who is currently detained in a prison outside the capital Tunis, went on hunger strike three days ago.
“His health condition is deplorable now.”
Mahmudi, who fled to the Tunisian island Djerba in August, was arrested on September 21 and charged with illegal entry into Tunisia. He was found guilty and handed six months in jail but acquitted on September 27 by the court of appeals. However, he was kept in detention following an extradition request sent by the Libyan interim government the following day.
According to Ezzeddine Arfaoui, another member of Mahmudi’s defense team, Libyan authorities are expected to level three charges at his client.
“He will most likely be charged with embezzlement of public funds, possession of weapons, and attempted murder,” he said at the same press conference.
Arfaoui called upon the Tunisian judiciary to carry out a careful examination of the
extradition request and make the right decision.
“It should also be made sure that the extradition conforms to Tunisian law and international conventions on the extradition of foreign nationals.”
The Tunisian government recognized Libya’s National Transitional Council on August 22 following the fall of the capital Tripoli and vowed to collaborate with the interim government as far as security issues are concerned.
(This article was translated from Arabic by Sonia Farid.)
AGI NEWS
FOREIGN MINISTRY: ITALY BACKS ITALIAN BUSINESSES IN LIBYA
(AGI) Rome – A note from the Foreign Ministry countered declarations by Alfredo Cestari, president of the ItalAfrica Chamber of Commerce, about the damage small and medium-size Italian companies would suffer with the change of regime in Libya. The Italian government, “has since the beginning of the Libyan crisis closely followed the interests of the business community and worked closely with the new Libyan government so that Italian business interests would be preserved in the new era.” . .
GheblawiGhazi Gheblawi
My flight to Tunis has been delayed by an hour possibly will reach there around 9pm
With brooms and rakes, Libyan ‘revolutionary Jew’ starts restoring #Tripoli synagogue
wapo.st/mYpxh6 Libya
WSJ
New Libyan Sovereign Wealth Fund Chief Seeks Probes
One of the first orders of business in post-Moammar Gadhafi Libya is to clean out the rotten wood.
Tops on that list is investigating corruption at the Libyan Investment Authority, the country’s sovereign wealth fund. Rafik Nayed, the fund’s acting chief executive, said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that its investment operations are on hold while it looks through $65 billion in holdings to examine dealings with people tied to Gadhafi.
“We aren’t interested in new deals,” said Nayed to the Journal. “My mandate…is to untangle the inheritance of the Gadhafi regime and stabilize” the country’s national wealth.
Nayed said he wants to create an independent committee, staffed with forensic accountants and finance experts, to conduct the probe in a bid to prevent the perception of a witch hunt.
Read more:
blogs.wsj.com/corruption-currents/2011/...
Moez
Many martyrs from SoogEljumaa, tajura and fashloom in BaniWalidfronts past few weeks
Many families getting frustrated at lack of support from NTC as military council not sending FF there – only individual efforts
Families of Martyred FF demonstrating in front of Radisson now where NTC members stayingLibya
twitpic.com/6u4xmw
military council hasn’t sent any support there at all, it is all individual efforts from badly trained/poorly equipped FF
A lot of these relatives live on my road in SoogEljumaa – been driving past a new 3azaa/mourning every day twitvid.com/C3PK3
Guma-el-gamaty will be on Alarabiya satellite tv news shortly around 6.15pm london time (5.00pm gmt) inshallah 2 discuss ltst in Libya
BBC
Freed US writer describes Libyan jail ordeal
Matthew VanDyke, an American journalist who had been missing since March, has escaped from Libya’s notorious Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, where he had been being held in solitary confinement.
The 32-year-old told the BBC World Have Your Say’s Ros Atkins about his ordeal. Here are some extracts.
Full story:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14674110
( yfrog.com/nwfodhj )
Tweeting Tripoli
Stairways to heaven!…. Have no idea where this thing is going to! Maybe from Sirte airport to Misrata?
Photo:
twitter.com/#!/2011feb17/status/120552438154543104/photo/1
LibyaLiberty
Don’t worry,Baghdadi,Justice delayed is not Justice denied. RT Former Libyan prime minister awaits his fate in Tunisia
Free Libya
Just realised that our house won’t be ready in time for my graduation party……..hmmm is the Rixos taking bookings? :P
Triploli scream
I posted 9 photos on Facebook in the album “حفل خيري بمنزل – عائشة القذافي”
fb.me/LWxGGcbO
AmazighLibya
Proof that FF did actually capture Musa Ibrahim
twitpic.com/6u5wnt
The Hill
McCain on Libya: ‘We could do enormous things’ helping them
Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) pressed Sunday for the U.S. government to aid Libya with medical care for wounded anti-Gadhafi soldiers.
McCain visited Libya during the congressional recess and spoke about his experience on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday. “They’ve got thousands and thousands of wounded… We should be helping them. They don’t have the medical expertise and talent to be taking care of these people,” he urged.
The senator added that the Libyan people are “proud of what weU.S. did to help them, and I think we could do enormous things by helping them with the casualties that they’ve experienced.”
Sens. McCain (Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) traveled to Libya last week wher they met with members of the governing National Transitional Council and later toured Tripoli’s Martyrs’s Square.
The senators were strong supporters of Obama’s decision to authorize U.S. involvement in NATO’s campaign to oust Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, a move which faced opposition from both Democratic and GOP lawmakers.
Although opposition forces now control the capital and much of the country, fighting has continued and Gadhafi remains on the loose.
In recent weeks, the United States has moved to strengthen ties with the Libyan transitional government. President Obama met with Libya’s transitional leader Mustafa Abdel-Jalil at the United Nations last month and announced a reopening of the U.S. embassy in Tripoli.
Guardian
Sirte residents queue to leave city during two-day ceasefire
Conditions for remaining residents deteriorating in city still held by Gaddafi loyalists, says doctor
Residents trapped in fighting for the Libyan coastal city of Sirte have run out of basic medical supplies and are resorting to drinking contaminated water to survive as conditions deteriorate, a Libyan doctor who was in the city at the weekend said.
Dr Siraj Assouri, who was travelling from Sirte to nearby Misrata, said: “The conditions have been getting worse and worse. There is no medicine for heart disease or blood pressure or baby milk or nappies. There is very little water that is drinkable. The water is contaminated with waste oil. Our forces are close to the centre but there are other areas still under the control of Gaddafi loyalists where they have been putting up a very strong fight. They still control 40% of the city.”
Full art.:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/02/si...
Nael
An Amazing Sign i saw in Benghazi Freedom
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WAPO
Gadhafi’s son denies allegations of intimidation, corruption that led to Interpol red notice
TRIPOLI, Libya — Moammar Gadhafi’s son, al-Saadi, has denied allegations of corruption and intimidation and says an Interpol decision to put him on the equivalent of its most-wanted list is political.
Al-Saadi Gadhafi is under house arrest in Niger, where he fled after Tripoli fell to revolutionary forces. His father and two of his brothers are in hiding.
Interpol issued a red notice for al-Saadi based on accusations he misappropriated property and engaged in “armed intimidation” when he headed the Libyan Football Federation
Full story:
goo.gl/XXDyH
quickmichael:
surprised that NATO vessels do not allow strictly controlled humanitarian supplies into #Sirte from the sea.#Libya
HafedAlGhwell Hafed Al Ghwell
#libya— Libyan ‘revolutionary Jew’ to restore synagogue --
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Free Libya
Is it true that NTC signed a deal with Egypt to bring 2 million workers???
where did that come from? Haven’t heard that..
Nael
War did not stop the Libyan FF from enjoying the moment!, Starbucks opened near Sirte city – Libya
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Abeidi
#Libya, Benghazi
Mr Gazal the head of Benghazi Council has announced resignation this evening, claimed his office is neglected by NTC
Gheblawi Ghazi Gheblawi
At last I am on board Tunisair flight to Tunis should arrive there before 10pm local time
Nael
#ThingsThatGetMePissed when people say NATO helping libya for oil!
#ThingsThatGetMePissed Listening to MussaIbrahim on TV!
LibyaNewMedia
Nigeria supports Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
Free Libya ♔☾✰
Injured FF’s in SIrte
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Nasr Anaizi
#NTC must disclose the names of SPIES reported within its organization & the THIEVES referred 2 as new fat cats by Mr. #Jalil #Libya Plz RT
Triploli scream
I posted 22 photos on Facebook in the album “بازار جامعة ناصر – 10/2” fb.me/1mlm2gH7P
Jon Williams
Returned to UK with Manchester 18 yo off to Liverpool Uni. Shot in leg fighting in #Libya. Some summer job! Quite a story for freshers’ week
CBC
Besieged Libyan city’s residents flee in fighting lull
Libyan rebel forces have paused in their push for deposed ruler Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte, saying the former leader’s loyalists remain entrenched in the city.
Leaders with the National Transitional Council say they have Sirte surrounded. On Saturday, the NTC said its forces seized the headquarters of the Saadi Gadhafi brigades, an army unit led by Gadhafi’s third son.
Full story:
www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/10/02/...
LibyanDictator فاطمة الزهراء
There are a lot of rumours/hidden truths about Gaddafi’s many visits to Libyan Jews abroad..
Free Libya
Still not convinced that with being such a rich country we need Libyans to fill menial unskilled jobs. Just my opinion. #Libya
LA Times
John McCain urges medical aid for Libya
Sen. John McCain, who visited Libya with other Republican senators last week, said as the military mission there winds down the U.S. should consider helping the North African country cope with its “horrendous” casualties.
The Arizona senator proposed sending some of the injured to the U.S. Army hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, or sending a U.S. hospital ship either to Libya, or, if that was too dangerous, to Malta, a European island nation south of Sicily.
He said the revolution that toppled Moammar Kadafi had left 25,000 people dead, 3,000 maimed and 60,000 wounded. McCain attributed the figures to the country’s new government.
The Libyans, he said, “don’t have the medical capability to care for all of these wounded — more are still coming in.”
Read more here:
www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-mcc...
libyans_revolt omar
#Alitalia to resume flights to #Libya in November, would carry out five weekly flights between #Tripoli and #Rome.
SerajElalem Seraj Elalem
Scr**Africa ! #Libya is joining #Europe now, we’re bringing #Tunisia and #Egypt along too ! but #Egypt please leave #SCAF at home
yasmarah ياسمين
Are people serious when they say that Jews shouldn’t be allowed in Libya? I honestly can’t tell if they’re joking.
Libyans are Libyans are Libyans are Libyans. Doesn’t matter your religion. If I became Athiest am I less Libyan? #PeopleAreDumb
For real, I think that bc Libya is such a homogeneous society, diversity is a challenge for some to understand.
I really don’t approve of the intolerance some Libyans are displaying when it comes to Libyan Jews returning home.
This type of ignorance is people continuing the mold of distrust/division that Gaddafi used to keep his control.
All of my neighbors are Jewish, every street corner has at least 2 synagogues so when my grandma came to visit she freaked.
Sometimes people need to see a diverse, multicultural society in order to believe that people can live among each other peacefully.
You don’t have to be a ‘secular’ state to be a state of religious freedom. People confuse the two too often.
People are asking for democracy and yet want to eliminate anyone who is different. Completely illogical.
Sometimes the price of freedom will be people who say and believe in things you might not necessarily agree with.
Gaddafi’s way of dealing with diversity was to kick everyone out in one paranoid wave of the wand
Last time I was in Libya, Gaddafi was pissed off at Egypt and decided to kick out all Egyptians from Libya OVERNIGHT.
People who lived there for years had to pack up and leave within a week. I saw trucks full of Egyptian families being kicked out of Libya.
Generalized distrust and paranoia, got enough from Gaddafi regime. A utopian, homogeneous society is impossible in this world.
I don’t get exactly what people’s vision of Libya without Gaddafi will be when they continue to preach intolerance…but khair iA.
They deserve to return as much as we deserve to return. You don’t deserve more than someone simply bc you’re not Jewish.
Haha, sometimes I love that I piss people off who are racist and intoleran
I love that I’m mixed and it challenges nationalistic and racist sentiments.
I love that you hate the fact that I exist and won’t shut up because of bullying. Gaddafi did too.
Who exactly am I attacking? I thought I was being very fair. Just trying to prove a point.
I’m trying so hard not to reply to some people right now. Hold me back y’all. SABR.
OMGGGG YA ALLAH GRANT ME PATIENCE. YALL DON’T EVEN KNOW WHERE YOU’RE GOING WITH SOME OF YOUR TWEETS.
lol someone just tweeted that Libyans marry blonde Americans bc they’re fun to show off in weddings. I’m shaking lol.
I think my head just exploded. Thanks guys! :)
I’m sitting here talking about tolerance and getting personally attacked? OHHH the irony.
Good thing Twitter doesn’t matter at all.
At the end of the day, if Libya becomes a democracy then the people will decide what’s best for their country. And I accept that :)
‘The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.’
#TooLiberalToBeLibyanApparently #DidntKnowToleranceWasJustBeing LiberalAndNotIslamic #OhWell
Twitter is miscommunication central. This must be a therapists worst nightmare. It’s kind of funny watching these debates.
Get em Lions!!! #TweetingAboutFootballIsSaferTh anTweetingAboutLibya
Free Libya
Islam is so inherent and deeply ingrained in Libyan culture that I find it very hard to picture true atheist Libyans having never met any
Ahmed
Just a reminder next weekend Libya plays Zambia for an African Cup birth.
#Libya (#ليبيا) Our #Country, #Origin of Name Libya, #History, #Information & Facts: #NTC #Feb17
www.temehu.com/Cities_sites/Libya.htm
RIXOS MEMORIES:
@hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
If anyone knew what we went thru in the #Rixos, they’d know it wasnt VIP treatment at all.
been accused of taking “gifts” from #Gadhafi from #Rixos. And for challenging NTC’s authority in my reporting.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Agreed. they stole BBC/Sky sat equipment, hardly VIP treatment. why do you say this now though?
Jonny Hallam
Sky found their kit it was in Yosif Shakirs room! but ours is still missing. MiniM and Bgan aerials
HebaS
it’s probably being used in #Sirte or #BaniWalid ;) by #Mussa
Suzanne
Networks often gave #Gaddafi goons a platform via #Rixos reporters when other voices in #Libya were ignored. Many resent it.
LibyaMartyrs Libya Martyrs
Jibril Farag Al-Nemer 12/05/1989 passed away on 25/09/2011 in Al-Jala Hospital,Benghazi after a severe injury in Brega pic.twitter.com/mXSZS7gM
Nasr
It’s a great tribute to the FFs that some civilians fleeing #Sirte feel safe enough to voice publicly their continued support 4 #Gaddafi.
Aljazeera
Civilians flee worsening situation in Sirte
Hundreds of residents of Sirte are fleeing the coastal town after the National Transitional Council (NTC) announced a 48-hour suspension in fighting to capture toppled leader Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown.
A long queue of cars jammed the roads leading out of Sirte on Sunday as civilians sought to escape a worsening humanitarian crisis in the town.
Residents fleeing the town of around 100,000 say that those still trapped inside are running low on food and supplies, enduring NTC and NATO shelling as well as intimidation from forces loyal to Gaddafi who are trying to prevent some people from leaving.
NTC fighters in Sirte told the Reuters news agency that NATO planes had dropped flyers urging civilians to flee the fighting.
Fighting has continued in Sirte, despite NTC commanders claiming for more than two weeks that they were on the verge of wresting control of one of the last remaining strongholds of Gaddafi.
Last week, the NTC’s defence ministry said that Sirte’s port, airport and military base were all under the control of its forces.
On Saturday, aid workers from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who entered the town to deliver supplies could not visit the main Ibn Sina Hospital because of shooting.
One family of four was killed by a rocket strike on Saturday while trying to leave, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reported on Sunday.
“One nurse escaping with her family this morning said that medical staff couldn’t reach Ibn Sina hospital and couldn’t perform operations,” she said. “Residents say conditions are dire and people are dying simply because they don’t have any basic medical supplies.”
Red Cross aid
A truck carrying supplies and a car carrying European ICRC workers were allowed to pass checkpoints manned by NTC fighters on Saturday.
The ICRC delivered medical kits for treating up to 200 people wounded in the fighting for Sirte, as well as 400 litres of fuel to run hospital generators, the organisation said.
However, a team of four aid workers, who also had security clearance from pro-Gaddafi forces, were not able to go inside the hospital due to heavy gunfire, the spokesman said.
“They went to the hospital but were not able to see patients, they didn’t go into the wards,” Marcal Izard said.
Doctors at the hospital – which has no power – told the aid workers there were 200 patients inside.
“The conditions under which medical personnel have had to work over the past weeks have been extremely difficult,” said Hichem Khadraoui, who headed the operation.
“The hospital is facing a huge influx of patients, medical supplies are running out and there is a desperate need for oxygen. On top of that, the water reservoir has been damaged.”
Safe access
In a statement, the ICRC reminded all parties of their “obligation under international humanitarian law to take all possible measures of precaution in order to spare civilian lives and allow safe access for medical personnel”.
Musatafa al-Rubaie, an NTC commander, told the Associated Press news agency that even though his fighters had surrounded Sirte from all sides, a path out had been left for civilians who wanted to leave.
After weeks of fighting Gaddafi’s loyalists inside Sirte, the fighters now hold positions about 5km from the city centre, he said.
CNN
Officials: Cabinet for emerging Libyan government finalized
A slate of cabinet ministers for Libya’s emerging government was finalized Sunday, two spokesmen for the National Transitional Council said.
The names of those in the new cabinet are expected to be released soon, said the spokesmen, who declined to be named.
The transitional council has organized the military and political movement to unseat Libya’s long-time ruler Moammar Gadhafi. It moved its capital from Benghazi to Tripoli last month, after anti-Gadhafi forces took over the city, and is recognized as Libya’s legitimate government by many nations and world bodies, including the United Nations and African Union.
Full art.:
www.cnn.com/2011/10/02/world/africa/lib...
LibyaMartyrs Libya Martyrs
Ghanem Emhamed Al-Zerqani from Sidi Khalifa, martyred on 20/08/2011 in Tripoli. May Allah grant patience to his family
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Nasr
Unconfirmed It’s been reported 4 of those accused of involvement in assassination of AbdulFattah #Younis have murdered by his relatives.
Somaya
We, Libyan’s revolted against Gaddafi to gain back our lost human rights. We paid a very high price for this revolution. I find it highly insulting and disrespectful when I see people already abusing the “freedom” our martyr’s fought very hard for. I am outraged when I see people make decisions for the future of Libya but don’t put in the consideration that 99% of the population is MUSLIM and that Islam will play a strong role in our country. All of a sudden people forget the regulations of our culture and heritage. We want Libya to become a democratic, moderate, Islamic country. Not the other way around.
FromJoanne Joanne
Gaddafi regime allegedly purchased 20000 Russian SAM7Missiles NTC believes 5000 are lon the oose in #Libya 2day found 200in #benghazi #Libya
Interim Gov. New Defence Minister is Salem #Jouha a Military Commander from #Misrata Hopefully this will please #Islamist factions #Libya
#TRIPOLI FREE #TREATMENT starting today for 3 days @ St James (Maltese) Hospital but U have 2b an ex Client #libya via @ChangeInLibya
Interim Gov. Mahmoud #Jibril will stay #NTC Prime min. Ali #Tarhouni former oil minister will bcome dep prime minister which is great #Libya
#Buhadi area East of #SIRTE is now 95% in #NTC control aswell as a small military base Many Gaddafi relatives + his clan lived there #Libya
Jibril stays prime minister in New cabinet but Alsowants 2b Foreign Minister #NTC officials Disapprove Want new Diplomacy face #2portfolios
#AliTarhouni Economist returned 2 #Libya from US during Revolution became finance& #oil minister will b elevated 2dep Prime Mininster #Libya
#BBC #Video goo.gl/7dT2g more then 1000 cars left #SIRTE during these 2 days of truce #Libya
#Jew returned 2his homeland this summer 2join Revo that ousted #Gadhafi & Started rebuilding Synagogue #Tripoli #Libya goo.gl/35gBB
hominoid555 Russell
Bani walid after stiff resistance from G troops for weeks now some tanks and heavy guns have been brought in to try and tip the balance.
Journalists summoned by the NTC to a hanger in Benghazi on Saturday were shown about 200 recently discovered SAM-7 anti-aircraft missiles
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
eastern #sirte dicey, gaddafi mortar wounded commander today.
\eastern rebels have tenuous hold on 4 star hotel, seen apts of city full of guns from roof. this will take weeks and weeks #sirte
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
FF’s in #Libya decide to launch the final attack on #Sirt tomorrow after they have managed to control many areas of the City.
NTC have announced that the new Defence Minister in Libya will be Salim Jha from #Misrata #Libya
Now that #Buhadi is nearly in FF’s hands the official link between the East and West Army will be a matter of hours.#Libya
A bit of information about #MahmoudJibreal. He has a Phd in Crisis Management.A very rare degree that not many people carry. #Libya
#MahmoudJibreal was also a member of the #Tsunami crisis committee and helped in solving that issue.
#MahmoudJibreal was also the man behind the road map for #Qatar in the Nineties.
#MahmoudJibreal left behind a contract worth Millions of Dollars in Oman to help out in #Libya
FF’s in the Eastern Region enter a residential area in #Sirt today and capture 40 #Gadaffi soliders.The FF also had 25 injured in the battle
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today
Announcing the Tripoli Revolutionists Council at a news conference in the capital, Abdullah Ahmed Naker said his force had 22,000 armed men
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Faute d’électricité ou de téléphone, les civils ignorent tout ou presque de la situation à l’extérieur de #Syrte #Libye
lefigaro.fr/international/…
Le Figaro
Libye: l’exode chaotique des civils de Syrte
REPORTAGE – Les habitants fuient la ville assiégée qui était devenue depuis le début de la guerre la capitale des kadhafistes.
La longue quatre-voies droite et monotone qui mène à Syrte s’encombre brusquement. De longues files de voitures, presque toutes blanches, bloquent la route forçant les gros pick-up chargés de combattants rebelles à ralentir leur vitesse folle. Ce samedi, comme les jours précédents, les accès à la ville, principal bastion encore aux mains des fidèles de Kadhafi et assiégée depuis trois semaines, ont l’allure de chemins d’exode.
Read more:
www.lefigaro.fr/international/2011/10/0...
Naker said his group was cooperating with the Tripoli Military Council which is led by Abdulhakim Belhadj
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FYI:
Mr. Naker is from Tripoli but is originally from Zintan tribe. By the way, Belhaj has 6,000 armed militias.
Al Jazeera:
report from Tripoli, says the names of some members of the new interim cabinet have begun to emerge late on Sunday evening.
Libya’s new defence minister will be a man named Salem Jouha, reportedly a military commander from Misrata. It is hoped that his appointment will please Islamist factions
Regine Rayani
#libya building a country from the ground is like building a house.make sure it has a strong foundation or else the house will not stand.
That’s putting it in perspective:)
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
So Libya is formalising its new crisis govt in less then 60 days. Recent govt formations in the Netherlands took 127 and 90 days.
Underground bunker with intelligence equipment. #Alkhums #Libya
مركز تجسس واستخبارات تحت الأرض ومجهز ضد الأسلحة الجرثومية (ما يعرف بأنتينة الاستخبارات) – مدينة الخمس – ليبيا
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkjhiYmcvxQ
Anis Alawamy from #Benghazi fought with the #Tripoli Birgade in #Takout #Tiji #Tripoli and was martyred in #BaniWalid
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Tarek
I’ve met this FF, he’s still alive, (Mohamed Ali) you can see him in this video, #Tripoli, #Libya bit.ly/oegn51
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I’ve met him personally and spent sometime with him and my brother. He’s now protecting #Tripoli, a great man
amjed
let me tell you this, i was in tripoli, the situation on the ground is like this: most of tripoli is controled by zintan
Moez
Most people seem to be missing the point: NTC announcement is NOT Interim Gov. that has been postponed till liberation of all #Libya
The new NTC cabinet will serve until liberation of #Libya (dubious definition) then interim Gov will be formed for interim period under a…
…constitution in the interim period. It is THOSE ministers of interim Gov that won’t be able to stand 4 election later on #libya
Example: Jibril is PM in NTC for next few weeks, Libya liberated, Jibril not elected in interim Gov then eligible in elections 4 #Libya Gov
Call it a cabinet reshuffle of the NTC before announcement of interim government
I’m slowly working my way to ill health/death over here – need a break. Somebody save me? #LastSwanSong #CueViolin :(
Guardian
How David Cameron swept aside sceptics over Libya campaign
A Guardian investigation into David Cameron’s six-month Libyan campaign has revealed how the prime minister overrode scepticism from his cabinet and MI6 to press for military action, and how Colonel Gaddafi secretly wanted to become a figurehead of the country “like the Queen of England”
Full art.:
www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/oct/02...
The Martyr Abdewahab AlJeelany was only 18 years old. May Allah grant him the haighest level of paradise. #Libya
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200 Arab Spring bloggers to gather in Tunis to discuss role of Internet & social networking in political change
www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.a...
FromJoanne Joanne
#Gaddafi Forces Destroyed & Damaged Warehouses Accommodation Equipment etc @ Waha #Oil fields Will take 6mnths 2 bring back on stream #Libya
senoDizzy ☮Nesrine Libya ☾✰
Syria NTC we wish u good luck in ur journey and make the best out of the libyan experiance #syria
Triploli scream
I posted a new photo to Facebook fb.me/V0FIauei
Free Libya ♔☾✰
Battle for #Sirte #libya
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Please read:
Blog Libya ( Dutch)
Gisteren vertelde ik al over de broer van onze chauffeur die in de Abu Salim gevangenis in Tripoli vermoord is met nog 1700 anderen. We gaan naar Abu Salim om te zien wat de gevangenis tijdens het regime van Kadhafi was. Nog maar een paar weken geleden was dit niet mogelijk.
Het is er best druk met mensen. Velen van hen hebben gevangen gezeten in Abu Salim. Lang, soms 18 jaar. Allen zonder enig vorm van proces en allen vrijgekomen voordat de massamoord plaatsvond. Ze komen voor het eerst kijken naar de plek waar ze zo lang vast gezeten hebben.
libyasrevolution.net/index.php?pageid=2...
Libya_Awake_United
Sleeves rolled up, expectations high … Hope never dies … Freeing the rest of Libya while building … #Libya #Feb17
LaCouleur Eric Kampherbeek
Where are all the Libyan flags stored before they’re sold? #Libya #Tripoli #Flag #NTC
Keep your eyes and ears open tomorrow for the news on Sirte:)
Intel is telling me tomorrow could be a good day.
Sarah
A new cousin was born in #Tripoli today :)
SUMMARY OCTOBER 3rd 2011
10/3/11
10/03/11
10.03.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya –
goo.gl/IuPHg
#NATO :
Key Hits 2 OCTOBER: In the vicinity of #Sirte:
1 multiple rocket launcher,
1 armed vehicle.
AliTweel Ali Tweel
Thunder storm is coming!
Video:
www.twitvid.com/HLYCD
Ali Gweder
Thunder on tape lol
Video:
yfrog.com/n0vc6cz
khadijateri khadijateri
The sound of thunder bombarding Libya. This time its rain raining down, not Nato’s bombs. Wow! What an amazing storm!
4Adam Adam
Gaddafi’s middle finger salute to his supporters in Tripoli’s “Green Square” youtube.com/watch?v=tfONhB…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfONhB2puWw
omar
Read Gaddafi’s last letter to Obama. " you’ll always remain my son" yfrog.com/ntw0peej #libya #feb17 #US
Abigail
Back in #Misrata, which is increasingly resembling a city-state..got a Misrata border stamp on my NTC access letter tday. Not kidding
Still so shocking to drive dwn Tripoli Street: such total destruction & so many ppl lost here, including 2 of world’s best photogs #Misrata
Evan Hill
Border stamp or local militia seal of approval? Zintan did a similar thing to let us on to Tripoli.
Abigail
I’m a little worried it’s the same thing
AJELive AJELive
#Libya’s NTC has finalised a new cabinet that includes Mahmoud Jibril and Ali Tarhouni. Salem Joha, a Misratan, will be defence minister.
Moez
Crazy storm this morning in #tripoli #Libya …
Abdullah
To be a secular and a muslim is like to be a man and a woman in the same time. It doesn’t work.
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Rain,Thunder and Lightning right now in #Tripoli.Thought it was NATO at the beginning #Libya
I hope this thunder clears away the remainders of the #Gadaffi loyalists in #Libya
#Gadaffi said that he was fighting against Christian Invaders.Did he mean his own son aswell? Look at Moatasim #Libya
Moez
he’s in charge of ‘Tripoli Brigade’ and had mandate for brigades to come under him. Will be interesting to see how things change
Tweeting Tripoli
A friend who is returning today from BW frontline have promised me exclusive photos that he took. Hope they’re nice worth publishing.
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
AJA: Libyan ‘rebels’ continue combing the areas between Libya, Tunis, Algeria in the search for Gaddafi.
FromJoanne Joanne
Abu Salim goo.gl/pyWtH is now becoming s site of pilgrimage 4 ex-inmates & relatives of those killed in 1996 #Monument
#Libya ’s #Waha #Oil faces tough task to fix war damage
goo.gl/QAzxt
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
The #Libyan Currency back in the day was 1Libyan Dinar to 3US Dollars.Hope that we get that back again soon
Al Arabiyah: NTC: ‘We are trying to secure a safe exit for civilians to leave Sirte.’
Tweeting Tripoli
Poor kids woken up crying following extremely loud Thunders. Few days ago they didn’t get scared. But then they were awake and alert!
VOA News
Libya To Question Gadhafi’s Son, Says Niger Official
A prominent member of Niger’s ruling Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya) says a delegation from Libya’s transitional authority will soon visit Niger to question the son of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Sonny Iro, the party’s communications director, says Niamey is unlikely to extradite Saadi Gadhafi to Libya. Officials of the Niger government recently had discussions about the possible extradition of Mr. Gadhafi’s son as well as some of his loyalists who are seeking refuge in the West African nation.
Full story:
www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Lib...
NATO bombed four G forces vehicles in Sirte yesterday while 4 mercenaries were captured by #FFs and are now being interrogated in #Ajdabiya.
Ali Tweel
This is 8:15am in Tripoli, still raining since 4:30am :)
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2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
My understanding is that Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all considered Abrahamic (same source) religions; so why the hate?
FreedomgroupTV
One child killed, two others injured by the explosion of a land mine in Naima, Zliten.
Three siblings were wounded on Sunday, 10/02/2011 after they were an anti-personnel landmine exploded in, Naima, Zliten city. The oldest brother, Marwan Abdullah Al-Saddayi, aged 13 years, was martyred. His younger sister, Deena Abdullah Al-Siddayi, and brother, Mohammed Abdullah Al-Siddayi were seriously injured and taken to Zliten hospital. Deena and Mohammed are in critical condition and both were immediately admitted to intensive care.
The martyr will be buried on Monday, 10/03/2011 at 1:00 pm at the Awlad Al-Sabaa cemetry in Sabaa, Zliten city.
LibyaMartyrs Libya Martyrs
Daw Al-Saleheen Al-Gedak martyred in BaniWalid &buried in Tripoli. ان الي الله وان اليه راجعون اللهم تقبله شهيد #Libya pic.twitter.com/NHCuo42z
Guardian
David Cameron’s Libyan war: why the PM felt Gaddafi had to be stopped
Alook at how the Arab Spring in Libya transformed the prime minister from a reluctant
to a passionate interventionist
It was a rare outburst during months of calm chairmanship of the special cabinet committee that ran the Libyan campaign. “This is quite ridiculous,” David Cameron snapped at ministers gathered in Britain’s modest version of the White House situation room, known as Cobra, in the depths of the Cabinet Office. “Why cannot I just order they are going to go, and I will provide a waiver and indemnity on the legalities?”
Full story:
www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/oct/02...
Sirtawi
Three Gaddafi men killed in #Sirte taken and buried today in #Ajdabiya. #SirteCrisis
FreeBenghazi
Volunteers using sticks and hoes, to search for and remove landmines in Zliten #libya youtube.com/watch?v=A3Hhmm…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3Hhmmpck-c
#AJA
AlAezzabi:
Woman fired at fighters at Badr checkpoint.Her 2 brothers, fighting 4 Gaddafi & killed in #Sirte #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=yNB7Eu…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNB7EufX5m0
Eric
Wanted to go to #Sirte ’s frontline. Many advised not to go without bulletvest and helmet. Without it and with camera becoming easy target.
yasmarah ياسمين
Anytime religion is used as a discriminatory factor it becomes defiant of its purpose.
This is a must read:
Telegraph
Colonel Gaddafi: And to think we once found this ferocious tyrant funny
If anything positive has emerged from a decade of Middle Eastern wars, it ought to be this: that it has put paid to the glibness with which we had begun to hear news from abroad. It was easy to be cynical about the horrors when so many of their perpetrators were cartoon characters – Saddam in his homburg, Osama in his cave, Muammar in his tent. Gaddafi was the biggest clown of all, and when we sneer at Tony Blair for being taken in, with his “Dear Muammar” letters and world-leader bonhomie, we should perhaps look inside ourselves. How many of us wanted to remember the massacres and tortures when Gaddafi’s antics so added to the gaiety of life?
Read more:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
Reuters
Fighting halts Red Cross mission into Libya’s Sirte
A Red Cross convoy trying to take medical supplies into Libya’s besieged city of Sirte had to turn back on Monday because forces seeking to capture the city from fighters loyal to Muammar Gaddafi opened fire on the town.
Full story:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/03/liby...
Zliten Media
Unlike conventional mines, those in Zliten explode immediately if pressed on by anything weighing 5kg or more
Explosives force of the landmine in #Zliten is from 62gm of explosives; the total weight of each mine is 150gm
ZlitenMedia says @NTC_of_Libya “has turned its back on disaster (deaths & injuries from landmines) that has befallen Zliten.”
Libya’n TV also ignoring Zliten. Ahrar doesn’t even include city in weather report. How many mines b4 get their attention?"
El Watan
Un Libyen à la tête du Congrès mondial amazigh
A l’issue des sixièmes assises du congrès mondial amazigh ( CMA) cloturées, dimanche 2 octobre, dans la ville de Djerba, en Tunisie, le
libyen Fathi Benkhalifa, a été élu nouveau président de cette organisation non gouvernementale.
Full story:
www.elwatan.com/actualite/un-libyen-a-l...
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
#British architects are jockeying to move back into #Libya bit.ly/n8LYhT & #NTC said they will honour any pre-existing contracts
ثوار سوق الجمعة يعثرون على مقبرة جماعية تحوي أسلحة FFs in #SouqAljumaa #Tripoli found a mass grave containing weapons
Video:
bit.ly/nhlaVG
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTRRJQ6Ebr8
Aljazeera
At least 3 positions have now been assigned in Libya’s interim cabinet.
#NTC #MahmoudJibril is expected to be confirmed as interim leader.
The finance and oil minister Ali Tarhouni will be Jibril’s deputy & #SalemJoha will most likely become the new defence minister
Aljazeera
Civilians fleeing Sirte describe desperate situation
After nearly three weeks of siege, residents of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s coastal hometown Sirte say their supplies are running low, while the sick and injured lack adequate medical care. One nurse said her injured brother could not reach the hospital because of the violence, and a Red Cross team was unable to get there on Saturday.
Some fleeing families readily admit their loyalty to Gaddafi, though fighters for the National Transitional Council appear to be allowing them to leave after searching for weapons. They say loyalist volunteers are responsible for holding out against NTC forces.
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports from Sirte
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQLEs-gOoDM&fea...
Reuters
RedCross convoy trying to take medical supplies into besieged #Sirte had to turn back on Monday because forces seeking to capture the city from #Gaddafi fighters
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Exclusive Pic 1: Truck-loads of foods/goods from Soug Guma to Jufra towns in the middle of Libya (south of Tripoli).
pic.twitter.com/j3rO0eup
Exclusive Pic 2: Truck-loads of foods/goods from Soug Guma to Jufra towns in the middle of Libya (south of Tripoli).
pic.twitter.com/PHY8fdgN
Exclusive Pic 3: Soug Guma FF on break at BW front-lines. (pic taken yesterday). It was heavily raining there too :)
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Exclusive Pic 4: Reserve FF prepare at BW front-lines.
pic.twitter.com/gn7LPETt
Exclusive Pic 5: The mosque where BW negotiations carried out, but unfortunately failed.
pic.twitter.com/xlFLV8hB
AliTweel Ali Tweel
after 6 months of bombs, rockets and explosions it’s very hard to get used to this beautiful thunder I hear!
OnlyLibyaa Triploli scream
I posted a new photo to Facebook
fb.me/1bjsRmdyb
I posted a new photo to Facebook
fb.me/1hrlXYZyI
I posted 8 photos on Facebook in the album “الأمطار صباح اليوم – طرابلس” fb.me/12DqlGRFI
I posted 13 photos on Facebook in the album “عودة اليهود – مدينة القديمة طرابلس” fb.me/Jjl2IUxn
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
NTC fighters use a Russian-built 130 mm cannon to shell Sirte from the city’s eastern edge to target what they said were buildings where loyalists were holed up on October 1, 2011. Fighters have been forced to regroup on the edge of Sirte, after pro-Kadhafi snipers halted a two-week old assault on the ousted despot’s hometown.
The Freedom Group Daily is out!
bit.ly/fGJIFt
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
the northern gate of Bani Walid has been v slow; most of us are reporting from Sirte front… stay tuned
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, #ICRC convoy attempts to enter besieged city of #Sirte to bring in medical supplies but turned back after heavy exchange of fire
#Libya, #NTC fighters want the #ICRC to find missing people inside #Sirte believed to be in prisons, #Libya, #Gaddafi
#Libya, #NTC fiters ask #ICRC to bring out injured civilians who are not receiving treatment in #Sirte, #Libya, #Gaddafi
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Hope this generation get to live the life they deserve now.My lil cousin :) #Libya pic.twitter.com/TyAOESO2
Head of NTC in #Benghazi has resigned. #Libya
Tarek
It’s been raining in #Tripoli since late last night, it’s a great to feel the rain after 42 years of dictatorship in #Libya
Times of Malta
Maltese race track proposal for Libya
Libya might soon have a new motor racing circuit to go with its new government, if two Maltese entrepreneurs are successful in their bid and dream to redevelop Tripoli’s famous Mellaha Lake circuit.
The project involves an initial investment of €120 million and envisages the development of a 3.9 km race track together with a hotel and variety of retail space
But the two Maltese entrepreneurs harbour an even greater dream: to build a similar track in Malta.
Read more:
www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011...
News Observer
Gadhafi son denies Interpol allegations
TRIPOLI, Libya - Moammar Gadhafi’s son, al-Saadi, denied allegations of corruption and intimidation and called Interpol’s decision to put him on the equivalent of its most
wanted list political, according to an email sent Sunday.
Al-Saadi Gadhafi is under house arrest in Libyan neighbor Niger, where he fled after Tripoli fell to revolutionary forces. His father and two of his brothers are in hiding, presumably inside Libya, as fighting between revolutionary forces and Gadhafi’s loyalists continues on three fronts
Full story:
www.newsobserver.com/2011/10/02/1535405...
Reuters
Libyans run gauntlet of bullets to escape Sirte
Sirte centre of battle with Gaddafi loyalists, NTC
Thousands of civilians trying to escape city
Residents say supplies scarce, prices soar
More here:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
Aljazeera
At least three positions have now been assigned in Libya’s interim cabinet.
Chairman of the National Transitional Council Mahmoud Jibril is expected to be confirmed as interim leader.
The finance and oil minister Ali Tarhouni will be Jibril’s deputy.
And Salem Joha – an NTC commander in Misrata – will most likely become the new defence minister.
CNN
A slate of Cabinet ministers for Libya’s emerging government was finalized Sunday, two spokesmen for the National Transitional Council said. The names of those in the new Cabinet are expected to be released soon, said the spokesmen, who declined to be named.
News 24
Muammar Gaddafi’s son, al-Saadi, denied allegations of corruption and intimidation and called Interpol’s decision to put him on the equivalent of its most-wanted list political, according to an email. Al-Saadi Gaddafi is under house arrest in Libyan neighbour Niger, where he fled after Tripoli fell to revolutionary forces.
HRW
The rebels’ Transitional National Council (TNC), with the help of its international supporters, ‘urgently needs to set up a justice system able to provide prompt judicial review of all detainees, a task that has not been given sufficiently high priority’, the New York-based group said.
RAF
Libyan fighters expect to launch a final assault on Sirte – one of the last bastions of Gaddafi resistance. A two-day ceasefire has come to an end, with large numbers of civilians fleeing the Gaddafi stronghold over the weekend. RAF jets struck a series of targets in Sirte to stop the former dictator’s forces targeting civilians trying to escape. formation of Tornado GR4s used Paveway guided bombs to destroy a supply base for some of Gaddafi’s anti-aircraft artillery weapons used to target civilian areas. An armed pick-up truck was also hit in a separate mission using Brimstone missiles.
MALTA
6 injured Libyans were flown to Malta for treatment on Saturday night, including a dangerously critical three-year-old boy with a brain injury who is being cared for at the Intensive Therapy Unit at Mater Dei Hospital. The other five, including an eight-year-old boy, are recovering at Saint James Hospital, where other seriously injured but not critical patients are being treated.
Red Cross
A Red Cross convoy trying to take medical supplies into Libya’s besieged city of Sirte had to turn back on Monday because forces seeking to capture the city from fighters loyal to Muammar Gaddafi opened fire on the town
NOC
Head of National Oil Company (NOC) told Petroleum Economist that oil production has already reached 350,000 barrels a day (b/d) and will jump in the next week as the Sharara oilfield in the country’s southwest comes back on stream, NOC chairman Nuri Berruien said in Tripoli.Swiftly rising production will also boost sales to foreign markets. Berruien said exports would reach 400,000 b/d by mid-October.
Via Feb17
New Libyan Sovereign Wealth Fund Chief Seeks Probes
One of the first orders of business in post-Moammar Gadhafi Libya is to clean out the rotten wood.
Tops on that list is investigating corruption at the Libyan Investment Authority, the country’s sovereign wealth fund. Rafik Nayed, the fund’s acting chief executive, said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that its investment operations are on hold
while it looks through $65 billion in holdings to examine dealings with people tied to Gadhafi.
“We aren’t interested in new deals,” said Nayed to the Journal. “My mandate…is to untangle the inheritance of the Gadhafi regime and stabilize” the country’s national wealth.
Read more:
feb17.info/news/new-libyan-sovereign-we...
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
matthew van Dyke was captured in march when he was already fighting with the libyan opposition then he passed almost 6 months in jail #Libya
Matthew Van Dyke He decided to join the fighting because his friendship with a guy from Benghazi he met in Mauritania years ago #Libya
Matthew Van Dyke both are still fighting together #Sirte #Libya
Mondoweiss
Take notice D.C. – Panel of distinguished Arabs analyze the ‘Arab Spring’ at Harvard
I had the privilege of attending a discussion entitled “Inside the Arab Awakening” on Sept. 19. The panel was organized by the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School and was moderated by Ambassador Nicholas Burns. The panelists – all experts on various issues pertaining to the region – had the benefit of having been in the Middle East very recently. Moreover, they were all Arabs.
Rami Khouri, Director of the Issam Fares Institute at the American University of Beirut shared the stage with Dr. Karim Makdisi, also of AUB, Diana Buttu, a Harvard Fellow and UAE-based columnist Sultan Al Qassemi.
Full story:
mondoweiss.net/2011/10/take-notice-d-c-...
Daily Star
Libya’s Sirte on brink of humanitarian crisis
People wounded in fighting in Libya’s besieged city of Sirte are dying on the operating table because fuel for the hospital generator has run out, medical workers fleeing a worsening humanitarian crisis in the city said Sunday. The birthplace of deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, Sirte is one of two towns still holding out against the country’s new rulers and civilians are caught in the middle of fierce fighting now in its third week.
Read more:
www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2...
Aisha
A link to Libya Alahrar .Mustapha AbdalJalil speaking live . media4.lsops.net/libyatv/smil:l… #Libya
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Jibril stays head of #libya executive council and takes ministry of foreign affairs; press conference now. #libya
Ahmed Elhasairi
Live presser on AJA mubasher AbdulJalil just finished they formed the new government #Libya #NTC
Moez
Unbelevable floods in #Tripoli this morning – Alsaree3 (main highway through Tripoli) was a river – lorrys underwater #libya
Legal Brief
Libya needs justice system to stop abuses – HRW
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Libya’s rebel leaders to stop their forces from making arbitrary arrests and abusing detainees in the country’s prisons and makeshift detention facilities, notes a report on the News24 site.
The rebels’ Transitional National Council (TNC), with the help of its international supporters, ‘urgently needs to set up a justice system able to provide prompt judicial review of all detainees, a task that has not been given sufficiently high priority’, the New York-based group said. The organisation added that its personnel had 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,’ HRW added.
Full report on the News24 site
Source:
www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=...
Free Libya ♔☾✰
Oil production in #libya has a reached 350,000 barrels a day.
Eric Kampherbeek
Made it out of #Libya with @derek_brower. Thanks #Libya all the best.
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
#libya #NTC forces capture #Sirte(s) #Bouhadi district from pro #gaddafi fighters: Reuters
Farah
Thing I’ve learned from the #ArabSpring The word “official” means jack s***. Till I see it with my own eyes, im not believing it. #Libya
Sirtawi
Mahmoud Jibril: The liberation of #Libya will be declared when #Sirte is liberated. #SirteCrisis #Feb17
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Qaddafi son says Interpol red notice ‘political’; shortages ‘killing patients’ in Sirte goo.gl/GCt7I #alarabiya, Libya #Qaddafi
libyanproud libyanandproud
Jalil: Interim constitutional document issued by the #NTC, gives Amazigh, Tuareg, Tabu languages official language status. #Feb17
Jalil : The Amazigh of Libya are a key component in the composition of the Libyan community. #Feb17 #Libya
Dear Gaddafi Lovers: his achievements
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Good news:
Ahrar TV:
100 G forces captured in Sirte by Hasan AlJaber Brigade #libya #feb17
Farah
The practice of religion is a fundamental right that all humans must have. Like it or not. #Tripoli Synagogue reopens
on.wsj.com/r0MGsv
Over 1200 African migrants stranded in the southern Libyan city of Sabha are being evacuated to Chad
BBC
Libya conflict: New offensive on Sirte
Forces of the Libyan transitional government have launched a new offensive against the pro-Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte.
Barrages of rocket and tank fire were being directed at the city centre after a two-day lull in fighting.
Hundreds more civilians have escaped from the town, but humanitarian workers fear there are thousands more unable or unwilling to leave.
In the south, more than 1,200 African migrants are being evacuated to Chad.
Full story:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15148491
Sabha evacuation
A convoy of 15 trucks has left for Niger on the way to Chad, from where they will be transported home.
hominoid555 Russell
BREAKING: Libya’s new rulers name new Cabinet, vow to step down after country fully secured.
The head of Libya’s #NTC announced changes 2 its ministers but kept key portfolios of foreign affairs and oil unchanged
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7mDGLsE46Q
Aljazeera
Jibril pledges to resign from Libya’s NTC
Prime minister of interim government says he will step down once the country is wholly liberated.
Mahmoud Jibril, the prime minister and often the foreign face of Libya’s National Transitional Council, has pledged to resign from government once the country is liberated.
That moment will occur when Sirte, the contested coastal hometown of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi, is taken by NTC fighters, Jibril said in a press conference on Monday.
Jibril’s announcement came after news of a cabinet reshuffle began to emerge on Sunday evening.
More than a month after the fall of Tripoli, the NTC has finalised a new cabinet that reportedly aims to be more representative and take into account the desires of Islamist factions.
In the new cabinet, Salem Joha, a military commander from Misrata, will be defence minister, and Ali Tarhouni, who has held the role of oil and finance minister, will
become a deputy prime minister.
Under the terms of the NTC’s draft interim constitution, no member of the NTC will be allowed to serve in Libya’s elected post-revolution government. By speaking out on Monday, Jibril became the first NTC member to publicly declare he would not do so.
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Al-Megrahi tells Reuters “I’ve never harmed anyone in my life, conviction was unfair” #Lockerbie #Libya
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Flights from #Tripoli to Tobruk will start again.Every Monday for the time being #Libya
Apparently #MahmoudJibreal has spent his own money on his trips to France,US and other countries.If that is true then that is a true #Libyan
Moatasim Gadaffi is in Ibn Sena hospital in #Sirt #Libya
Ahmed Bani reports that Moatasim is in #Sirt in the Ibn Seena hospital. #Libya
BREAKING: press conference at NTC in Benghazi – #Mahmoud #Jibril announces his resignation effective after #Sirte’s liberation.
BREAKING: #NTC press conf in #Benghazi – #AbdelJalil announces new ExecComm. Interim Govt will then be formed w/in 30 days after liberation.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Post-War Therapy For Traumatised Libyan Kids
bit.ly/pjF1D7 #libya
One of Gaddafi’s many luxury tents. These ones were seized in Sirte. yfrog.com/h8qclhyj
TripoliFestival TripoliFestival
Official date set ladies and gentlemen #Tripoli #Festival will be on #Oct15
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
“The NTC is busy trying to liberate Libya and it is not mandated to look into Megrahi’s fate” al-Alagi
Tweeting Tripoli
will try to tell you a story that happened 10 years ago, if twitter’s 140 permits!
where I used to work, there were 22 ppl in total, 10 Tripoli, 5 Tarhona, 3 Werfali, 2 Ajelat, 1 Rabta, 1 shwerif.
one day the Tarhona guy complained that I was appointed because I was a Werfali, forgetting that he was one of 5 from Tarhona.
Bab ben Ghashier this morning, we have a lake, thanks to Gaddafi’s Infrastructure! Woohooo!!
TripoliRain
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Picture : Libyan and Palestinian flags on the Palestinian border via FB #Feb17 #Libya
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ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Found these on my rooftop… One of them narrowly missed the AC… Stop celebratory gunfire, it kills. #Tripoli #libya
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MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Qasr Bu Hadi is 15kms South of #Sirt which means now FF can fully surround Sirt and Link up with #Misrata Fighters #Libya
Walking around #Tripoli today has proven to everyone how bad #Libya’s infrastructure really is !!
This is a picture of the amazing infrastructure that Gadaffi provided the Libyan people in Soug AlJuma in #Tripoli
twitter.com/#!/MatogSaleh/status/120878662571667456/photo/1
Look at these innocent two CRIMINALS back in the day Saif and Saadi #Gadaffi
twitter.com/#!/MatogSaleh/status/120880813234585600/photo/1
Sirtawi
Ahmed Bani: Mutassim Gaddafi in #Sirte’s Ibn Sina hospital. #SirteCrisis #Libya #Feb17
One of our colleagues showed us a pic of his brother detained in #Sirte by Gaddafi forces. His fate, like many others, is still unknown.
AFP:
SIRTE, #Libya, Moamer #Gaddafi birthplace Qasr Abu Hadi has been overrun by #NTC fighters
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Jibril pledges to resign from Libya’s NTC
is.gd/sAC6kB #Libya
Libya: Lockerbie bomber says truth will soon emerge
is.gd/OBiuU6
Libya: New Cabinet Named
is.gd/ZnNU96 #Libya
Sarah LFFR
Never thought one day I’ll attend this :
1st #France 2nd #Tripoli
(Tripo pic v @flyingbirdies )
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Reuters
AbdelBassetALMegrahi, convicted #Lockerbie ombing said his role in the attack had been exaggerated & the truth about what really happened would emerge soon
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Rainbow in #Tripoli today #Libya
twitter.com/#!/MatogSaleh/status/120881600803246081/photo/1
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Tripoli gets new militia in apparent rebuff to Islamists
bit.ly/odclnK
Aisha
Arrai TV, Gaddafi’s last mouthpiece
f24.my/oJ1t3T
Ceasefire ends as Sirte continues to suffer :
bit.ly/oj9040 via @AddThis
#Libya’s transitional leaders name new Cabinet
ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/… via @CTVNews
The red cross convoy near Sirte on Sunday, could not enter the city and it turned back.
yfrog.com/nz9xmij
Farah
Say it aint so Sarko?! “@AlArabiya_Eng: Most French believe #Sarkozy will lose presidential election
goo.gl/uDtC3”
OMV’s 1st Condensate Lifting From #Libya Arrives At Italian Port foxbusiness.com/industries/201
Farah
Oh thats just peachy. Marvelous. Missile party in the house “Libya: 10,000 missiles missing NATO admits globalpost.com/dispatch/news/… via GlobalPost”
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
REUTERS:
FF locked in battle outside #Sirte engage Loyalists in an attempt to clear roads for ICRC to enter city.
#AFP:
AbuHadi is completely free (of #Gaddafi fighters)," said Dr Taha Sultan at a field hospital on the eastern outskirts of #Sirte.
Fadwa
Tune into AJA now, a documentary on Misrata <3 #Libya
LibyanDictator فاطمة الزهراء
In what world would you agree to neighbour those who have killed you, raped you, destroyed your homes, your food stock, and your factories?
Tawergha’s residents left the city of their own accord, Misrata never kicked them out. Those who stayed are the only innocent ones.
Tweeting Tripoli
anyways, since I can remember my near and distant family members hate Gaddafi’s guts!
Always had to explain to pplbthat being a Werfali does’nt automatically means endorsement of G!
BTW our best friends are from Misrata. My grandfather’s buiness partner and childhood best friend was a Misrati.
No I am not worried about u guys. I am worried about the idiots who keep stirring the old Werfalla-Misrata 80 years old saga.
All I wish for is a tolerant democratic not extreme country, is that too much to ask for?
you guys may not remember this, but libyans used to get offended when the news anchor says:
Gaddafi met Uganda president, then pauses, then says; … Fee Kampala!
HRW
Libya: Evidence from Mass Graves at Risk
Several mass graves have been uncovered in Libya. But with the country in turmoil, forensic evidence is at risk of being destroyed or lost. Stefan Schmitt of Physicians for Human Rights and HRW’s Fred Abrahams discuss the need to halt exhumations and protect grave sites in order to pursue justice
Audio:
www.hrw.org/audio/2011/09/30/libya-evid...
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Billions of Dollars in accounts abroad. Why didnt you build roads in #Libya first #Gadaffi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=znfjF2pquKk
Rats maybe nothing without NATO but Gadaffi is NOTHING without ANYTHING.He hasnt got a house.What hole is he in tonight?
haha.i forgot about those tunnels that go on for miles !! :)
Rima
I had a dream Sire was free last night. Only now realized it was just a dream after reading tweets :/ ah
Sarah
M.AbdelJelil : “Nous appelons le peuple libyen à être patient car l’heure de la libération approche.” #Benghazi #Libye #CNT
M.Abduljelil : “Le CNT et M. Jibril sont arrivés pendant ces 2 derniers jours de négociation à la conclusion de réformer l’exécutif” #Libye
DavidKenner DavidKenner
Al Jazeera publishes some great anti-Qaddafi street art. english.aljazeera.net/indepth/inpict…
CNN
Anti-Gadhafi tribes clash in two Libyan locales
Members of two Libyan tribes — who fought together to unseat Moammar Gadhafi and his loyalists — clashed Saturday, infighting among opposition forces that comes as a
key ally of the longtime leader vowed to keep up the fight.
Ahmed Hussein, a resident of Badr, told CNN that Berber tribesmen from Nalut used Kalashnikov rifles and machine guns in an attack on Seaan Arab forces in that
mountainous western Libyan city. A family of three caught in the crossfire was killed, he claimed.
Read more and video:
edition.cnn.com/2011/10/01/world/africa...
LibyaNewMedia
The Arab League always reacts after Western countries react. They are never proactive; the result of lacking any kind of direction.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Could #Libya be like #Norway ? BBC Radio 4 – Libya’s Islamic Capitalists bbc.co.uk/iplayer/b006r4…
libyanandproud
#Sebha: more than 1,200 African migrants are being evacuated to Chad. #Feb17 #Libya
Fadwa
I don’t care about those people who try to ruin Misrata’s image, I LOVE Misrata a lot and I’ll always do,it has a special place in my heart♥
Reuters
Col Gaddafi’s son Mutassim is hiding in hospital in besieged city #Sirte, NTC military spokesman says – Reuters
bbc.in/qB3rfV #Libya
Acus.org
NATO air strikes coming to an end: Alliance may soon turn over Libya operation to US Africa Command
The military mission in Libya is largely complete and NATO’s involvement could begin to wrap up as soon as this coming week after allied leaders meet in Brussels, according to the top U.S. commander for Africa.
Army Gen. Carter Ham, head of U.S. Africa Command, told The Associated Press that American military leaders are expected to give NATO ministers their assessment of the situation during meetings late in the week.
NATO could decide to end the mission even though ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi is still at large and his forces are still entrenched in strongholds such as Sirte and Bani Walid. . . .
Read more:
www.acus.org/natosource/nato-air-strike...
CNN
Libyan leaders to announce ‘liberation’ if key city falls
The leaders of Libya plan to declare the “liberation” of Libya if and when fighters for the National Transitional Council defeat forces loyal to ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi in Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte, the head of the council, Mustapha Abdel Jalil, said Monday.
Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril, meanwhile, said he would resign if and when the fighters defeat pro-Gadhafi forces in Sirte.
More:
edition.cnn.com/2011/10/03/world/africa...
Tawargha Tawargha
We have news saying that some Families have been found in the middle of Libya in Al-Jofrha area, Update coming soon. Thank you
Farah
Hairdressers today told me I dont look ‘arabic’, then proceeded to say ‘youre pretty!!’.Welcome to Spain, land of the politically incorrect!
For Sirte wounded, frontline triage comes in a mosque | Reuters reut.rs/oolTYC via @reuters
Libyan
Revolutionaries battling in #Sirte have opened up corridor for ICRC to allow medical aid into city. #Libya #Feb17
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Back in #Misrata, and happy to be here. This is a really special city.
#Misrata is the one city in #Libya where the wounds of war are very visible. But it’s also possibly the best organized now post-war
derek_brower Derek Brower
Confused by #Jibril news. He steps down after Sirte falls and then NTC goes through this whole mess of naming another cabinet, again? #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
LibyanNTC forces captured the district of Bouhadi in Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte on Monday, a Reuters reporter there said. Reuters
Gaddafi graffiti speaks volumes in Tripoli
Pics:
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.21332...
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Not sure if this is normal, but I keep dreaming of #Gadhafi. 4 nights now, I dream about searching for him. #goingmad
Al Arabiya
Sirte: The Abandoned City
As the battle for Libyan leader Muammer Qaddafi’s hometown, Sirte rages on, families crammed themselves into cars as they fled the city on Sunday, reporting a humanitarian situation nearing a tipping point.
The ongoing battle for Sirte, between anti-Qaddafi fighters and backed by NATO air strikes, has trapped people inside the town of about 100,000 through several fierce assaults over two weeks.
The chairman of the ruling National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, said his forces had called a two-day truce to allow civilians to leave.
Hundreds of people, many of them women and children and the elderly, took advantage of a lull in fighting to make their way out of the city.
Cars waited in line as they were searched by NTC fighters to make sure they were not carrying arms or suspected pro-Gaddafi forces.
Meanwhile, aid workers from the International Committee of the Red Cross brought medical supplies to Sirte as fears grew that a humanitarian disaster was unfolding there.
ICRC medical staff said, “We hope that we will be able to go in as quickly as possible again because we really need to and we want to assist civilians inside Sirte and this hospital – the medical personnel and the war wounded. This is our role, this is our mandate and we want to take the opportunity to remind all the parties to the conflict to allow safe access for medical personnel and spare as much as possible civilian lives.”
Speaker:
ICRC medical staff
Video:
www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/10/03/1...
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
www8.0zz0.com/2011/10/03/14/… Tripoli today because Gaddafi keeps the money for him and his sons.
MSNBC
Exiled Libyan Jew blocked from restoring synagogue
Full story:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44755697/ns/world_...
libyanproud libyanandproud
Picture : David “The Revolutionary Jew” Gerbi met #Gaddafi in 2002 . #Feb17 #Libya via FB twitpic.com/6unmgi
ChangeInLibya
The libyanjew trying to rebuild that synagogue met Gaddafi a few years ago and they seem to have a friendship.
Sarah LFFR
(AFP) – Les Thuwar ont pris le contrôle du village de Qasr Abou Hadi, lieu de naissance de #Gaddafi près de #Syrte #Libye #17feb
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Belhadj: This press conference comes as part of many meetings that took place between civil society institutions in Tripoli #libya
Belhadj: This concerns some of the recent problems associated with widespread availability of weapons on Tripoli’s streets #libya
Belhadj: The people of Tripoli no longer want to instability and fear that comes with celebratory gunfire & unlicensed use of heavy weapons
Belhadj: We hereby ask all signs of heavy weaponry to be removed from Tripoli’s streets, and only licensed & NLA weapons allowed
Reuters
Chilly welcome for freedom fighters in Gaddafi’s town
If the Libyan fighters who advanced deep into Sirte on Monday had hoped to be greeted as liberating heroes, they were disappointed. All the residents had fled, leaving behind prized mementoes of their kinsman Muammar Gaddafi.
Full story:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/03/liby...
Amnesty:
Libya: warring forces must allow humanitarian aid to reach Sirte
Humanitarian ‘corridors’ should be established
All parties to Libya’s armed conflict must act to spare civilians and ensure that urgently needed supplies can be delivered safely to Sirte, Amnesty International said today amid reports that the humanitarian situation in the coastal city is rapidly worsening.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was able to visit Sirte on Saturday, where they described severe shortages of medical and other supplies while indiscriminate fire continues to put residents at risk. The ICRC team brought the first humanitarian aid since the city came under siege in mid-September.
Media reports have described how civilians trapped in Sirte have been endangered by ongoing fighting and surviving on dwindling medical supplies, food, fuel and water. Sirte’s main hospital, Ibn Sina, reportedly came under fire over the weekend. Meanwhile, an ICRC team was unable to carry out a visit today due to the security situation.
Amnesty International Middle East and North Africa Deputy Director Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui said:
“Forces on both sides must take necessary precautions to spare civilians and must immediately set up humanitarian corridors to ensure that urgently needed supplies can be delivered safely to Sirte residents.
“All civilians who want to leave Sirte should be allowed to do so immediately in dignity and safety.
“All those involved in the fighting have legal obligations to spare civilians by ending immediately the use of indiscriminate weapons like GRAD rockets, and not firing artillery and mortars into residential areas.”
Establishing humanitarian corridors would include setting up neutral zones and negotiated routes that are clearly defined, to give humanitarian workers safe access to the sick and injured. International humanitarian law prohibits the use of weapons that are inherently indiscriminate or which cannot be targeted at military objectives.
Amnesty has collected evidence that Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi’s forces committed war crimes throughout the conflict, including by carrying out attacks targeting civilians and indiscriminate attacks. They launched artillery, mortar and
rocket attacks against residential areas, and used inherently indiscriminate weapons such as anti-personnel mines and cluster bombs. They also concealed tanks and heavy military equipment in residential buildings.
NATO has accused pro-Gaddafi forces of using civilians as shields in Sirte. Meanwhile, anti-Gaddafi forces have been found to use GRAD rockets, which pose a lethal danger to populated areas because they are unguided.
Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui added:
“The NTC, which has publicly committed to respect international human rights and humanitarian law, must ensure that anti-Gaddafi forces respect these norms and to also avoid revenge attacks and other reprisals.”
(AFP) –
NTC fighters were able to control the village of Abu Hadi in Sirte according to medical sources visited the village.
FreeBenghazi
Nalut Col. Mohamed AlTamtam w Ubari kids. Fighters noticed kids in oil-rich Sth, live in poverty #Libya v @nalut17feb
pic.twitter.com/3BzviEdG
or:
twitter.com/#!/FreeBenghazi/status/120910716923412481/photo/1
Iman
OMG its seven o clock and I’ve made np progress with revision, libyan news is so distracting so many press conferences to keep up with ARGH!
Fighters gained control of Gaddafi’s so-called “tent” in #Sirte #Libya pic.twitter.com/v9DD0Hjg
Battle for Sirte continues
Oct. 3 – Medical supply shortages prevent doctors in Sirte from assisting the wounded as a cease-fire to allow citizens to escape the town has ended. Julie Noce reports.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoEyiwFOn4c
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
We weren’t allowed to possess guns during G’s reign. Now guns are all over the place. Incl. heavy 1s that shd be at frnt lines
sarahbethlynch Sarah Lynch
Jibril’s anncment that he won’t run for PM is consistent w/ wht other NTC membrs hve told me.. Tht they won’t be part of post-rev gvt #libya
Libyan4life
I said it once, I’ll say it again: If you want to catch the Lockerbie bomber, if you want justice, catch #Gaddafi. #NuffSaid
AbdelBaset AlMegrahi was a #Gaddafi scapegoat. No one in #Libya could mastermind something like that without #Gaddafi bidding&support
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Micheal Vandick an American Producer who the #Gadaffi forces kept in prison for 6months.Is now fighting in #Sirt #Libya pic.twitter.com/A7JWjzSA
#UAE Nationals donate blood for the injured FF’s from #Libya.This is something we wont forget
Mustafa #AbdulJaleel says that after #Libya is liberated he will resign.We are going to do anything to prevent that happening!!
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Jibril vows to quit after Libya ‘liberation’
bit.ly/n6U17O #libya
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, youtube.com/watch?v=bQLEs-…, #Sirte, #Gaddafi
Aljazeera
Civilians fleeing Sirte describe desperate situation
After nearly three weeks of siege, residents of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s coastal hometown Sirte say their supplies are running low, while the sick and injured lack adequate medical care. One nurse said her injured brother could not reach the hospital because of the violence, and a Red Cross team was unable to get there on Saturday.
Some fleeing families readily admit their loyalty to Gaddafi, though fighters for the National Transitional Council appear to be allowing them to leave after searching for weapons. They say loyalist volunteers are responsible for holding out against NTC forces.
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports from Sirte.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQLEs-gOoDM&fea...
libyanproud libyanandproud
Jibril: “liberation would be achieved by controlling the country’s air, sea land outlets” #Feb17 #Libya
Jibril: #BaniWalid doesn’t have any outlets … so it wouldn’t stop the democratic process. #Feb17 #Libya
Jibril: #BaniWalid would be dealt with as a renegade region. #Feb17 #Libya
Interim constitution: 200-member national conference is to be elected within 240 days, which will appoint a PM 30 days later. #Feb17 #Libya
Mohamed
I am in tripoli and I am okay really happy it rained so much today gaddfi will be flushed out of the sewers
QuickMichael
I think the best way to launch a free market economy in #Libya would be small loans to tiny retail stores.
Tweeting Tripoli
Sinkhole on Tripoli university road. This happened 3 times on the same spot before. Is there a geologist in the house? pic.twitter.com/jglz1wo0
Basic training by @MerlinUK continues in #Nalut: “Administering IV & measuring blood pressure” v @NalutLRC #Libya www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.22688...
WEELULE
Al-Megrahi worked as an agent for the tyrant; therefore I say: you sleep with animals you wake-up with flees
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
After 5 wks in Libya, returned today to an Ireland in heat of presidential election campaign with Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness a candidate
VOA News
Libya’s Interim Prime Minister Sets Plans to Step Down
Libya’s interim prime minister said he would leave his post once Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown is captured as the National Transitional Council Monday reappointed most of its top figures. Meanwhile, fighters loyal to the TNC prepared to launch a final assault on the former leader’s enclave of Sirte.
Full story:
www.voanews.com/english/news/usa/Libyas...
ICRC
Libya: more medical assistance reaches Sirte
Tripoli/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) provided urgently needed oxygen and other medical supplies for the hospital in Sirte on 3 October.
“Oxygen has to be available to perform surgery on war-wounded patients in good conditions,” said Hichem Khadraoui, the ICRC delegate in charge of the operation.
“Oxygen was desperately needed in the hospital. It can save lives.”
ICRC staff crossed the front line with a fully loaded truck from the west side of Sirte. Fifty oxygen cylinders and other items required for hospital care were handed over to medical staff and representatives of civil society. A Dutch nurse who had been working in the hospital was evacuated in an ICRC vehicle.
“The situation on the ground was very tense with ongoing fighting,” said Mr Khadraoui. “Under such conditions, we had to limit ourselves – after obtaining clearances from all the parties concerned – to bringing in the most urgently needed humanitarian aid without further assessing needs. We hope to return soon.”
The oxygen and other items reached Sirte two days after the ICRC had provided the city’s hospital with urgently needed surgical supplies, body bags and fuel for the generator. In the meantime, together with the Libyan Red Crescent, the ICRC continues to provide food and other items for thousands of people who fled Sirte to the east and the west and decided to stay nearby, often in difficult conditions.
“The ICRC reminds those fighting on the ground as well as NATO forces of their obligation under international humanitarian law to protect civilians and allow safe access for health-care and humanitarian personnel,” said Georges Comninos, the head of the ICRC delegation in Tripoli.
For further information, please contact:
Soaade Messoudi, ICRC Tripoli, tel: +218 913 066 198 or +88 21 651 075 912
Dibeh Fakhr, ICRC Benghazi, tel: +870 772 390 124 (ext. 250) or +218 9 923 304 560
Steven Anderson, tel: +41 22 730 20 11 or +41 79 536 92 50
Reuters
Fighting intensifies in Sirte, Libya
Oct. 3 – The commander of the National Transitional Forces says Gaddafi loyalists tried ambushing his fighters and his men returned fire. Sarah Irwin reports.
Video:
goo.gl/8GB9m
jgg_bw
“Once #Sirte is liberated, #Libya is liberated”? What will they do about Bani Waled?
ANSA IT
Libia: Croce Rossa porta aiuti a Sirte
Ossigeno e forniture mediche nella citta’. Ma si combatte ancor
GINEVRA, 3 OTT – Il Comitato internazionale della Croce Rossa (Cicr) ha potuto far giungere aiuti urgenti all’ospedale di Sirte, citta’ costiera della Libia dove continuano i combattimenti. Si tratta di ossigeno e di altre forniture mediche. ’’C’e’ un disperato bisogno di ossigeno nell’ospedale – ha detto Hichem Khadraoui, delegato Cicr responsabile dell’operazione – Ma abbiamo dovuto limitarci a portare gli aiuti umanitari piu’ urgenti. Speriamo di tornare presto’’. (ANSA).
Source:
www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/topnew...
LA Times
Many in Surt, Libya, don’t trust revolutionary forces
Many in Surt, the hometown of Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi, want their old lives back, before the uprising, the NATO bombing campaign and the siege on the city
Reporting from Surt, Libya—
As fighters loyal to Libya’s revolutionary government gain on the holdout city of Surt, residents are making it clear that the battle for hearts and minds is far from won.
The scrublands that surround Moammar Kadafi’s hometown have become a confused patchwork of loyalties. As vehicles of the revolutionary forces patrolled the dusty villages in newly seized territory Sunday, many residents peered angrily from their homes.
“The rebels are worse than rats. NATO is the same as Osama bin Laden,” said a father, his seven children crowding around him.
“We have 10 families staying with us now,” said the angry father, who, like many others, declined to be identified for fear of recrimination. “There is little food, not enough clean water and no gas. Before, we lived wealthy lives. I had two homes. Now we live worse than animals.”
Full story:
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/...
NYT
Libya Leaders Promise New Government After Qaddafi Hometown Is Captured
Libya’s provisional leaders said Monday that they would resign once the vestiges of armed support for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in his hometown city of Surt are defeated, a move that would clear the way for a new interim government that would run the country until elections can be held.
Read full art.:
www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/world/africa...
Ali Tweel
Thank you #Gaddafi again for making Libya a better place to live, this is #HayDemashq area 1km away from me, #Tripoli
bit.ly/o6xwCl
LaProvence
Dix jours pour sortir de Syrte
YRTE, Libye (Reuters) – La famille d’Ali Ramadan a mis dix jours pour s’échapper de
Syrte, la ville natale de Mouammar Kadhafi assiégée par les forces du Conseil national de transition.
Comme des milliers d’autres civils pris au piège entre les deux camps, Ramadan et ses proches ont dû user de toute leur détermination et d’ingéniosité pour se mettre à l’abri.
“Ce sont mes parents malades qui m’ont persuadé de partir”, explique le Libyen à son arrivée à un point de contrôle situé à l’est de la ville côtière.
“Regardez mon père. Comment est-ce que je pouvais m’occuper de lui dans cet état ?”, lance-t-il en montrant la jambe amputée du vieil homme.
Ali Ramadan a décidé de quitter Syrte au petit matin en compagnie de ses vieux parents, de sa soeur, de ses filles et de leurs familles.
Juste après l’aube, moment le plus propice selon les fugitifs, car alors, le risque est moins grand d’être visé par des tireurs embusqués ou touché par une roquette.
Read more:
www.laprovence.com/article/monde/dix-jo...
Tweeting Tripoli
If you missed Jibril’s interview today (Arabic) then here it is: youtube.com/watch?v=vGWPgF…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGWPgFSFvko
Thank you so much:)
Ali Tweel
#Gaddafi you keep amazing me, thanks for your efforts of building Libya, this is Gurjy area #Tripoli today
Photo:
bit.ly/qP2tCw
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
today in Abu Hadi Gaddafi’s village near #Sirte NTC fighters control everything houses still with green flags #Libya
covering the battle in #Sirte #libya
yfrog.com/h0jzcssj
presidential seat at #Sirte airport #libya
yfrog.com/nyra7rj
ahauslohner Abigail Hauslohner
A Misratan commander told me (estimating) that #Misrata is currently holding some 1,800 prisoners. His brigade has 200 of them. #Libya
Ali Tweel
by FreeBenghazi
Here I present to you the great Libyan high way built by #Gaddafi:
bit.ly/pO92c8
and
bit.ly/pENh6W
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Some money goes a long way, my friend. Loads of people will do anything to screw up this revolution.
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Wants to organise a Demonstration on a Friday throughout #Libya under the title"Abduljaleel for president after Liberation"
Who can i speak to to organise this demonstration in #Libya? If anyone can help me please do :)
i want him to be the main figure.he is the only person in #Libya that everyone respects and love.no one can play his role
its a vital stage now.we can have him here for 4years until some candidates are ready to take over.they need experience
ABC News
Libya’s Post-Gadhafi Rulers Name New Cabinet
Libya’s transitional leaders named a new Cabinet Monday and said they would step down after the country is fully secured, putting an end to weeks of political infighting as the North African nation struggles to get back on its feet.
Read more:
abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/...
Naass
And this is the beautiful #Tajura , She looks amazing in the look of Rain on.fb.me/pdg7f3 . Offcourse thanks to bro Leader
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
hard to believe from revolutionary side, but sirte was it’s own kingdom telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews…
Huge convoys massing #sirte, straight ahead assault stalled by accurate defensive fire, 2moro say the big push will happen, inshallah
dee
#libya Sirte residents are unhappy they are losing their wealthy lifestyles provided by #gaddafi I 4 one have no sympathy for such things
Please look at this pic:
Apparently this is David Gerbi, the Libyan Jew, and currently the media’s favourite Libyan..
pic.twitter.com/2viFQSMf
or:
twitter.com/#!/LibyanDictator/status/120948437238820864/photo/1
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
lots of weapon left at #Sirte airport including some long range rockets #Libya yfrog.com/nt7sqvj
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya interim forces intensify attack on Sirte is.gd/0rgEGU #Libya
Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. ( Francis of Assisi )
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Guys tune in to Aljazeera Mubasher now they are interviewing this guy!! facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… #EPICLIBYANGUY and his mother/family!! #libya
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Croix rouge: 10 000 des 70 000 habitants de Syrte se sont déjà échappés de de la ville. Le CNT leur a donnée 2 jours
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
hoy estuve en la aldea natal de Muamar Gadafi me recordó a Ujda donde nació Sadam Hussein aunq sta es aun + pobre #Libia
WEELULE
Urgent call 2 all Libyans,people who pushed Jibril out r a threat 2 our country and freedom, must expose+fight them
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
NTC fighters keep push against conference center today they advance on foot but had to stop after many mortars targeted them #Sirte #Libya
dee
#libya sirte was well kept under #gaddafi thats what its all about huh? nothing to do with any1 else sufferring. Just keep us rich in sirte
Triploli scream
I posted a new photo to Facebook
fb.me/17o8Zz9ZE
Moez
If anyone knows any #LIBYAN health-related NGOs active in #Tripoli please @ me details – their representation is awful #libya #feb17
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli’s Martyrs Square Oct3 Several 100 demonstrators rallied in support of Libya NTC Some1 carried Placard: No 2return ofJews 2 #Libya
#BELHADJ Urges #Tripoli Ppl 2 help RESTORE Stability City has started feeling that security of early days has flipped Stop all illegal arms
Belhadj calls 4 the Full Restoration of Education & Health services its important schools and hospitals restart normal operations #Libya
MUST READ:
Miami Herald
Family tells of terror from armed Gadhafi loyalists in Sirte
Militiamen loyal to Moammar Gadhafi swarm the streets of Sirte, brandishing rocket-propelled grenade launchers and passing out heavy weapons, including belt-fed machine guns, to anyone who’s willing to fight. The electricity’s been cut off since August, and those with generators are suspected of listening to news from the outside, marking them as disloyal.
Full art.:
www.miamiherald.com/2011/10/03/2436946/...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya’s NTC lowers bar for starting election process
is.gd/xdaIdn
FreedomGroup
#Libya Our dear friend and brother, Ghassan Muftah Fackroon, a member of Freedom Group, is in intensive care in Misrata. Ghassan was serious head and neck wound following the heavy clashes in Sirte today. Ghassan has been a fearlessly cameraman and reporter since the very beginning of the revolution.
We ask Allah to heal our brother, Ghassan
Photo:
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=347679&l...
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
#Libyan oil production is set to reach 1m bpd by end of Nov and & return to pre-war levels by the middle of next year bit.ly/nlc6gO
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
“Bazaars” are a new & spreading trend in Tripoli. Events where people buy & sell things, with revenues going to charities & FF supprt #libya
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
#Sirte #MatthewVanDyke #American writer &filmmaker who was imprisoned in #Libya for 6 mnths, taken up arms & joined FFs tiny.cc/rkpo4
#AJA – Heavy fighting between Freedom Fighters and Gaddafi forces in #Sirte. #Libya #17Feb
LibyanDictator فاطمة الزهراء
Although I disagree with those against Libyan Jews returning, I believe Libyans would’ve been welcoming had they participated in revolution.
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
photos found at Khalifa Ijneish house in Abu Hadi NTC fightes said Khalifa second in command to Gaddafi??? #Libya
yfrog.com/h6ttquwj
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Libya will import 750K sheep for Eid. Udhya is only for those who can afford it. Skip it this year give it to the wounded & Martyrs families
750K sheep worth of 7.5 M $. This can repair lots of roofs (rainy season). Also can help with health care for the wounded. Sheik Sadig?
For Libyans it is more or less a big BBQ party (Also it is Sunna and not Fard).
People don’t understand religion. I think we will please God more if we put finding a shelter 4 families who lost their houses 1st!
Moez
Huge storm clouds gathering and thunder/lightning over #tripoli – looks like tonight is gonna be a splash! (pun intended!) #libya
Libyan4life
Lots of opinions and discourse about the place of Libyan Jews. Makes for interesting dinner conversation. #Libya #Feb17
MDaLibyan
As a muslim arab Libyan I think we should let the Libyan Jews come home. Da day after Israel let all 8million palestinian refugees go home
SUMMARY OCTOBER 4th 2011
10/4/11
10/04/11
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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/gFVdc
yasmarah ياسمين
I just hate that all the stereotypes people have about Libyans being racist have come up again.
Stupidity is a disease without a medicine.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
I have so many memories or Libya. one of them is being with FF moving west from benghazi in to ‘green’ towns. they would walk around (cont)
areas near Sirte, amazed at the quality of buildings. “we never got any houses like this.” Mashallah said. #Gaddafi favouritizied
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Rain, Thunder and Lightning once again in #Tripoli #Libya.Always starts when you want to go to sleep !
Last night:
Moez
Lightning coming thick and fast – managed to take some snaps #tripoli #Libya twitpic.com/6ur2bg
twitpic.com/6ur3oh
twitpic.com/6ur24b
bousuwa
Tripoli is pouring rain Mashalla people chanting allaho Akbar #Tripoli
88simon88 simon
Latest NTC recognition MAP. Welcome to Somalia, Uganda and Jamaica 66% of the countries hv now recognize the NTC
img338.imageshack.us/img338/3272/3o…
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
More “thundery showers” forecast for #Tripoli. I really hope puddles & flooded streets can be cleared ASAP
news.bbc.co.uk/weather/foreca… #libya
Tamather ♥ ♕ ☮ ▲ ♔
Well it rained in #Benghazi too, it’s all because there’s no shafshofa any more. :]
Free Libya
Baraka in a non-spritual sense too, farmers are very happy since it’s ploughing season in Libya, love the rain:)
Neale
It might clean out some of the crap in all the tunnels under (I was gonna say Tripoli, but) just abt everywhere!
LibyanDictator فاطمة الزهراء
Total of 12 martyrs in the battle for #Sirte yesterday, tens more injured. #Libya #Feb17
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
Libya’s #NTC leaders said that they would resign once the vestiges of armed support for #Gaddafi in #Sirte are defeated
tiny.cc/171h1
#Libya mission is “pretty close” to its end, however,
tiny.cc/1s50q
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Libya’s new rulers say war has been won
bit.ly/qDsynU #libya
Libyan4life
I know there is a problems associated with too much rain,but if this isnt a sign of the Baraka #Libya is enjoying IDK what is
Yefrenia
When Analysts Underestimated The capabilities of Libya’s FFs During Ramadan I Learnt Never to Underestimate a Free Man’s Determination…
Even if Many from your Generation who you Fought alongside have been Martyred don’t Give Up, Save the Next Generation from Tyranny #Faith
Libyans seem to be forgetting. All this about Libyan Jews returning to Libya is blown out of proportion. Most prob dont even want to come bk
In the new Libya, if a law is in place no one should be above the Law. Libyan Muslims shouldn’t fear Libyan Jews & vice versa.
Even if some Libyan Jews still have their loyalties to Israel; that could easily change if majority of Libyans vote to cut ties with Israel.
You might not know it but having a Libyan Jew in Libya who supports Israel is no different than your government having relations with Israel
Either way if you’ve read Literature on European Jews many were against the creation of Israel. Then again the powerless rarely have a voice
Same goes to many Libyan Jews Im so sure many dont want anything to do with Israel.They exist. Not everyone is outspoken like this Gerbi guy
my dad told me he was told many Libyan Jews, families forced out of Nafusa in bk of trucks during the war
Armchair Arab
btw he’s an Italian Jewish immigrant to Libya. Not even Libyan.
Gerbi
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
My Cousin who is an FF who was one of the first people to actually drive from Tobruk to Tripoli #Libya
pic.twitter.com/LoUNuR3G
Saja Ramadan ♥
AbdelBaset AlMegrahy claiming he never harmed anyone ??!!
youtube.com/watch?v=S5dLJB…
Matog
he only costed us 10billion was it ? :)
librev2011 ThEsToRmX!
Gaddafi war crimes shooting Libyan Protesters in tajoura district tripoli 21 2 11 fb.me/yO3BibPN
Libya_Awake_United
Once upon a time a king was walking around in a city late at night in the dark, checking on his ppl. He found a woman crying for her husband
The next morning he called that woman and asked her: where is your husband ? she answered : you sent him fighting in the front-lines. 2/3
He called for the women of the city asking them, how long a woman can stay away from her husband?some said 2 mon others said 3 to 4 mon. 3/4
He made an average period according to women’s answers & he set a rule. Every fighter has to come back after 4 months in the front-lines.4/5
That was not a king, he was Omer Ibn Elkhatab peace be upon him. This is an example of how much real #Islam cares about women. 6/7
The US Welcomes His Royal Highness Crown Prince Hasan, 16 Oct. 1962 – J.F.Kennedy Presidential Library
bit.ly/rnYpkv #Libya #History
Karybdis
October 3 #Libya situation map. #Buhadi (Qasr Abu Hadi) to NTC. Attacks into #Sirte, with fluid territory. BW is static
pic.twitter.com/auvn1HGv
Visiting war-ravaged #Misrata, #UN envoy in #Libya salutes courage of residents shar.es/b0ptj
Benghazi Youth
’I’m not afraid to die. I’m afraid to lose the battle’ What a legend. Very smart & courageous individual. A big loss for Libya :[
Emma Gable
One thing I will never forget: 1st day Mo Nabbous broadcast from the roof of Benghazi courthouse. His voice calling for help. His voice . .
Benghazi Youth
Exiled Libyan Jew says synagogue efforts blocked
guardian.co.uk/world/feedarti… #Guardian #AP #Libya
LibyaSteadfast Benghazi Youth
Free from #Libya prison US journalist joins fight against #Gaddafi photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/…
Back in Aug when he escaped:
abc2news.com/dpp/news/regio…
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
Good for Abdullah Abdul Naker and #Jalil and Jibril against the Islamists feb17.info/news/tripoli-g… via @Feb17Libya
try #Sabratha – plenty of burnt out buildings to satisfy even the most jaded observer
Off – topic smile:
Mostafa
The correlation between beauty and incompetence in female PR reps is astonishing
#Yefren #Nafousa #Libya #Nature #Beautiful #Photo by @4Adam flickr.com/photos/yefren/…
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Nato’s Libyan triumphs conceal deeper malaise
bit.ly/pdU3Pn #libya
Have a look:
afelyun aphelion
Gene mutation in Libyan sheep facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… #Libya
Abu Hanood El-Dernaw
jst bk frm Sirte wer ive lft @raggzeb on d frntline. on friday we said bye to another 2 falling soldiers. it’s hard but for freedom we must
raggzeb the hero who took us back to the front line was killed on 30.08.11. in #Sirte Hotel his legacy will forever live on. RIP Yousif
43 of Gaddaffi’s soldiers surrendered in #Sirte #Libya saying they have nothing more to give. Victory on the horizon inshaAllah.
sorry for the delay in responding. the 3rd member of our unit was killed and not @raggzeb he is still alive n well
3rd)another member of our team was killed on the roof of the hotel when a 120mm Mortar landed
Yosif El-Fitoury, 3rd member of unit was killed. raggzeb is still well
be not sad. i visited his family and they are in good spirit. Death is inevitable and he went out in the best possible style.
it was a price that he was ready to pay. his bravery was witnessed by all. he has left behind a wife, 2 daughters an 2 sons.
originally from Tajura, but they have been in Benghazi for generations now. i will post a photo of him soon
no mobile or net coverage in Sirte. update only when we meet sky news team or in bnghzi
me and the martyr Yousif El-Fitoury AKA the friendly giant pic.twitter.com/D0thhk20
Martyrs will fall but thier legacies are immortal. Yousif Fitoury forever alive in our hearts….Allahu Akbar
#Sirte & its people r v different to rest of #Libya. Sirte is v well maintained & most people r armed with AK47s and sniper rifles
Tweeting Tripoli
Gaddafi last February asked the Libyans "Who are you?” Poet Farag Mismary:
We are your grief. We made your blood run dry
We are your pain
Do you not know who we are?
We drove you insane. We made your nightmare come true
We bloodied your nose.
Do you not know who we are?
We are the cavaliers who crushed your cowardice
We are the brave whom you dared not face
Do you not know who we are?
Tweeting Tripoli
Will be meeting a member from Soug Guma FF council in an hr. He would know about such incidents. Don’t believe all news reports.
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today
#AJArabic Exclusive Footage – Street-to-street fighting inside #Sirte youtube.com/watch?v=H7_TcS…! #libya #feb17 #GetGaddafi
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7_TcSU4Xs0&fea...
ahauslohner Abigail Hauslohner
#Misrata’s top military commander tells me Muatassim may have left #Sirte. Armored cars seen in Jufra, heading south a few days ago #Libya
Tarek Alwan
The damage caused by #NATO to #Gaddafi Brigade next to his compound in #Tripoli, #Libya yfrog.com/g0yd1wj
Heavy rain in #Tripoli on Monday 3rd Oct. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbatDu4aM5s&fea... #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbatDu4aM5s&fea...
FromJoanne Joanne
#SIRTE Frontline NTC infantry Squad was surrounded &attacked with mortars by Gaddafi soldiers Killed 8 NTC Fighters Injured 39 Monday #Libya
A senior #NATO official acknowledged 10,000 ground-to-air missiles are missing which represent “a serious threat to civil aviation” #Libya
Reuters
UPDATE 2-Heritage deal marks first move on Libyan oil
Has established base in Benghazi
In talks with senior NTC members (Writes through with comment, detail, background)
Heritage Oil has bought control of a Benghazi-based oil services firm, striking the first upstream deal in Libya since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi and building on the British explorer’s reputation as a first mover into political hot-spots.
Heritage said on Tuesday it had bought 51 percent of Sahara Oil Services Holdings for $19.5 million.
Read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/04/heri...
Re opening Tripoli Synagogue is a subject of debate #Libya
#SIRTE NTC fighters plead #Red #Cross to help find many missing prisoners from the prisons of Sirte #libya
#Nafusa fighters refused requests 2leave #Tripoli leading 2clashes between the city own militias & fighters from other regions #Libya #NYT
NYT
Libyan Rebels Clarify Steps to New Rule
Libya’s provisional leaders said Monday that they would resign once the former rebels defeat the vestiges of armed support for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in his home city of Surt, a move that would clear the way for a new interim government that would run the country until elections can be held.
Local officials also moved on Monday to try to assuage the residents of Tripoli, who have complained about the dozens of armed militias that continue to patrol the streets and guard government installations. These include many militias from the Nafusah Mountains who have so far refused requests to leave Tripoli, the capital, leading to clashes in recent days between the city’s own militias and the fighters from other regions.
Full art.:
www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/world/africa...
Omar
this is a bad news. I hope FFs will unite against tyranny and oppression and fight for democracy and freedom.
MSenusi
is this clash confirmed this is seriously bad news
#SalemJoha was set to take over as Defence Minister but NTC Jalil announced that current minister #JalalDghaili will stay Def. Min #Libya
tripolitano Tripolitano
I don’t think the story is accurate.There were clashes between Nalut and Tiji in Nafousa. Small clash happened in a farm in Tip
however all is sorted now. Between Nalut and Tiji. Started with pro G woman shooting at check point
FromJoanne Joanne
#SIRTE Tornado GR4s used Paveway bombs 2destroy SupplyBase of Gaddafi anti-aircraft artillery weapons used to target civilian areas #Libya
#Sirte video of #RAF jets protecting civilians fleeing Sirte
goo.gl/zpRwy #Libya
#Tuesday :
“I will not stay in any official post after the liberation,” stated #Jibril on Al Arabiya TV channel #Libya
This morning NTC Launched its ‘Final Assault’ on #Sirte #Libya
#SIRTE today NTC Fighters keep trying 2 conquer Conference Center #Ouagadougou but barrage of Mortars stopped them in their tracks #Libya
#Sirte #NTC fighters control Birthplace of Gaddafi Neighbourhood where most of 5000 residents had already fled Kasr #AbuHadi #Libya
#Tripoli Photos
flickr.com/photos/byammar/ #Libya
Malta PM suggested to McCain that US send medical ship to help injured Libyan fighters --
www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011...
omar
New #Libya springs a surprise everywhere u go, there is a story on every street, around every corner- By Michel cousins
arabnews.com/middleeast/art…
Arab News
New Libya springs a surprise everywhere you go
BENGHAZI: As newspaper editors so often tell their reporters, there is a story on every street, around every corner. Never has that been more so than in Libya at present.
Driving around Benghazi a couple of weeks ago, we (the Arab News correspondent and his invaluable and remarkably well-connected driver Awad) noticed a small group of men being photographed beside a newly planted tree in one of the city’s main squares. Two of the men were in army uniform. Clearly there had to be story there.
Read more:
arabnews.com/middleeast/article511057.ece
omar
media every day come up with new story of missing weapons in #Libya! missiles, chemical weapons & who knows maybe tomorrow “Atomic bombs”
Via Feb17
AP
British company Heritage Oil PLC has acquired a controlling interest in a Libyan company licensed to provide oil field services including offshore and land-based drilling.
Heritage said Tuesday that it paid $19.5 million for a 51 percent stake in Sahara Oil Services Holdings Ltd. Heritage said the acquisition will allow it to play a significant role in Libya’s oil and gas industry. Sahara Oil Services was established in 2009 and is based in Benghazi.
Heritage says it established a base in Benghazi this year and has been dealing with senior members of the National Transitional Council. Tony Buckingham, chief executive of Heritage, says his company is now well placed to win exploration and production licenses.
VOA
Libyan interim government fighters have launched what they say is the “final assault” on the loyalist stronghold of Sirte, as officials pledged to appoint a new transitional government soon after the strategic coastal city is captured.
Senator John McCain
Senator John McCain urged the US government to send a hospital ship to Tripoli or Malta.“We should be helping them.” He believes that the United States could ship or fly wounded to its military base hospitals in Germany. But he went one further, saying that an American hospital ship “should be sent to Tripoli, or if not Malta”
Aljazeera
Mahmoud Jibril, the prime minister and often the foreign face of Libya’s National Transitional Council, has pledged to resign from government once the country is liberated.There has been political infighting in the NTC, with some potentially damaging rifts opening up. Jibril’s announcement came after news of a potential cabinet reshuffle began to emerge on Sunday evening.
Khadija Ali
at the first Youth Movement Gathering. #Tripoli #Libya
Media figure Mohamed Mhaisin at YMG. #Tripoli #Libya
Ameen Belhaj, an NTC member, gave a speech at the YMG. #Tripoli #Libya
Libyan4life
This Libyan Jew is getting about as much press as #Feb17 is. I wonder how long it is till we read headlines ‘’Libya is antisemitic’’
There were MANY MANY Libyan Jews that accepted big $$$ from #Gaddafi to Skedaddle
I think ANY Libyan has the right to return to #Libya. That said, unfortunately due to Israeli politics there has to be stipulations
So do Jewish Libyans say: ‘’Shalom, Shin Jow’’? #TooSoon?
Farah
I’m a mixed: ¼ Tripolitanian ¼Tajouriya ¼Dernawiya ¼ from Zawiyah. How’s that for ‘Slata Mishweya’ ? #Libya
what if Sirte (Isa ya rab) is liberated in a month? Were still not ready for elections….Its going to be chaos
That’s why I believe that Jibril shld not resign unless we have set up some form of election, even if its by councils.
I’m not sure for how long but yes they shld stay long enough for things to stabilise. I just wish ppl wld be more patient.
News 24
Libya: Nato draws harsh lessons
Brussels – Nato allies are savouring a bittersweet achievement in Libya: while the air campaign appears close to victory, the mission exposed major frailties in their ability to carry out a fight.
While Libya’s new regime battles to defeat the last forces loyal to deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi, Nato defence ministers will draw lessons from the six-month mission during talks on Wednesday and Thursday.
Read more:
www.news24.com/Africa/News/Libya-Nato-d...
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
A Demonstration in all the cities of #Libya should be arranged to say we want #MustafaAbduljaleel as president when Libya is fully liberated
AlexCrawfordSky Alex Crawford
Libyans I spoke to saw it as national help not party political: the result was v positive appreciation for Brits and French as a whole.
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Keep your eyes open on the news on #Sirt today.The Allahu Akbar chant can be heard now in mosques in the City #Libya
Libya AlAhrar’s correspondent Osama Jibreal passed away in #Sirt #Libya :(
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Once Sirt is liberated will Dr Abdurrahim Elkeeb an academic & electric energy expert from tripoli be appointed as interim prime minister?!!
FF’s in AlKufra in #Libya find a mass grave that contains over 60 bodies.. #Gadaffi loves blood so much i hope he drowns in it !! #Libya
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
it is really bad how desperate everyone is.It takes you at least a year to build a house.we are trying to build a country!!
Hands up, ur surrounded…. When will we see it happens? Enough already, we want to get on with our lives!
Pic.:
twitter.com/#!/2011feb17/status/121156074769354753/photo/1
Maryam Tarhouni said, “To this moment, there are people (in Sirte) who have no idea Tripoli is free.” #Libya #feb17
Telecomm. Co
New Zambian President Michael Sata on Friday, 30 September 2011, launched an investigation into the sale of public telecommunications company Zamtel to a Libyan state firm. “We want to see whether the sell of Finance Bank was transparent or if it was fraudulent,” he told new justice minister Sebastian Zulu at the swearing in of his new cabinet in Lusaka.
Reuters
Heritage Oil
Heritage Oil has bought control of a Benghazi-based oil services firm, striking the first upstream deal in Libya since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi and building on the British explorer’s reputation as a first mover into political hot-spots. Heritage said on Tuesday it had bought 51 percent of Sahara Oil Services Holdings for $19.5 million. Reuters reported last month it was touting for business in Libya.
Reuters
Belhaj
The military commander of Tripoli, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, a key figure in the revolution that overthrew Muammar Gaddafi, called on other militias to pull their weapons out of Tripoli, accusing them of terrorizing the city’s population.
Triploli scream
I posted a new photo to Facebook
fb.me/NvtVE10T
Farah
Our govt has to deal with the rebuilding of a new country from scratch, national reconciliation, 1000’s of deaths…Not an easy task.
SMILE:
That awkward moment when you’re presenting the news, and…. twitpic.com/6ux0s4
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
MoD say a 2000lb mine has been found underwater off the coast of Tobruk #Libya in recent days. It’s been safely destroyed by HMS Bangor
Anaya
Family fleeing #Sirte:“We were afraid to leave, we’ve been told the #NTC wd cut our head. But we could not stay because of the bombing.”
Ali Tweel
One of the best things in life is seeing a smile on a persons face and knowing that you put it there.
Mark
#Libya map of #Sirte location of forces
twitpic.com/6v0v5w
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
AJA: Streetwar going on in Sirt, 6 Revolutionary Fighters died in clashes.
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Alot of action around the #Sirt area as we speak right now.Could today be the day the last City on the Libyan coast falls? #Libya
Aljazeera
6 muertos, 15 heridos de los rebeldes en controntaciones con tropas de Gaddafi en Sirte #Libia
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Almost game over for Sirte. #libya #feb17
Seeing it from the PoV of a female reporter:
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
In #Sirte,10 km from the city center. There is constant shelling incoming and outgoing, but fighting lighter than yesterday I’m told.
Hundreds of cars carrying #Sirte families fleeing the city; all I’ve talked to are anti-#Feb17, pro-#Gadhafi and very scared.
Just called an infidel and dishonorable by a Libyan driver for asking him to mind my computer cable.
Sometimes I really wonder if it’s worth covering stories like this one as a woman. The disrespect from close-minded ppl is unbearable.
Many times as an Arab female journo I try to overlook the disrespect we receive daily when working in the field in the Arab world
You try to be polite, pretend it doesnt happen, fight back, risk looking hysterical, hold back tears sometimes.
But it builds up. Every day: being sexually harassed, called a dishonorable, told to stay home where I belong…
And every day you risk your life trying to cover their stories and get their PoV out.
I try to overlook cuz I try to avoid perpetuating gross stereotypes of Arab men.
But what to do when you are being treated like garbage for being a woman.
Spose I risk my life for the story and for reporting the truth in difficult places. The ppl come w the story, and make up part of the story.
All I can say is women have a lot of work to do in #Libya and across the Arab world. Take the Spring as a chance to keep it up.
Women AND Men have a lot of work to do :)
I’m not gonna lie. I’ve traveled to a lot of places; it’s always worse in the arab world.
Then there these: @mostafaabbas2 Uve lots of hurt feelings against men .f****** why you already have taken all your rights long period ago
i shouldnt expect being respected?
Noone should feel like they need to apologize for someone else’s actions; I just needed to vent :) Thanks for listening everyone!
At the end of the day, I LOVE being a reporter and covering this region. The majority of people _ men and women _ are honorable, kind ppl
am coming home to Canada at Xmas to breathe :)
Thanks to all for support. I’ll stop whining now lol
Then ppl like this @apoetsailor I understand loving God is good, but a religion that forces Women 2 b second class Humans must b questioned
Luckily I work some lovely @AP guys and other journalists who take care of each other on front lines daily :)
Bear
Better you whine on Twitter than go balistic and take your fury out on Arab men with one of those AKs.
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
LOL true :)
Libya
Ahhh the plight of Libyan women…..huge sigh. I would actually love for u or anyone to write a story about it
Nations understanding each other on twitter:
Friedrich
Russia should be easy to understand for anyone who knows Arab regimes. It’s exactly the same. Minus sunshine.
Tripoli
is it a dictatorship too? All Arab countries so far are dictatorships. But have 2 wait & see what happens with the North African 3.
I meant we wait and see what happens with the presumably liberated three countries T, E & L !
why is Putin a candidate for presidency? Do you not have others who can lead Russia?
Carrie
They’re afraid a successful Arab Spring could inspire a Russian Spring. The rulers don’t want that.
Friedrich
Putin & everyone who matters is secret service, they control media, fake elections and live in palaces. Sound familiar? ;)
Tripoli
yeah its the same thing, then!
Friedrich
It increasingly seems to me only Libya is really free. For others much will depend on whether you can build something new or not.
Tripoli
Hope so. We’ll be OK if people don’t support extremism without them knowing (hypnotized or brainwashed) if you know what I mean.
Friedrich
My hope is pragmatism. Perhaps you can put good hospitals, schools and jobs first and discuss religion and ideology later.
Tripoli
Yeah very much agree to that. But then if that happens, then there is no fear about Libya’s fate at all.
Friedrich
There’ll always be leaders exploiting differences, but Libyans just fought and died together. Must count for something.
Noit
Don’t chase your dreams, catch them. But then let them go, they aren’t pokemon. Dreams are meant to become realities.
Good read:
Channel 4
LIBYA’S CHALLENGE: NOT REBUILDUING BUT CREATING A NATION
Some of Libya’s most precious archives survived the violent overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. But can they now help Libya’s new leaders forge a national identity, asks expert Jason Pack
Over the past six months, I frequently wondered if the prestigious Libyan Studies Centre was on a special Nato list of protected monuments – along with Tripoli’s mosques, hospitals, and the famous arch of Marcus Aurelius in the old medina – that were not to be targeted even if Gaddafi stationed troops nearby.
As soon as Tripoli fell in late August, I was anxious to return to the centre and see if the basis for my doctoral research and the life’s work of so many Libyan and foreign academics had been damaged
Read full story:
www.channel4.com/news/libyas-challenge-...
weddady
Question from participant in #ab11: “Does the Arab League still exist, are you sure?” #TellThePress
Sarah
Magerhi dying .. On Libya Al Ahrar. #Libya #Lockerbie
Libya Alahrar TV: 180 streets in #Sirte are now under the Freedom Fighters control.
Tweeting Tripoli
And where the heck is Mutassim? Do they all have the Harry Potter magic cloak?
live2Tripoli live2Tripoli
I’ll do the weather reporting for #Tripoli today.
:)
Libyan4life
Abdelhakim Belhadj urged #Tripoli residents to end the presence of unlicensed weapon,calling for a crackdown on illegal arms. #Libya
Tarek
International mobile phones are not operative in #Tripoli yes, no roaming yet.
acarvin Andy Carvin
Defense Sec Panetta: NATO mission in #Libya can’t end before fighting ends. -AP
Tarek
I was shocked to see the amount of weapons #Gaddafi bought and #NATO damaged it, #Tripoli #Libya
yfrog.com/nxleucqj
Another set of weapons destroyed by #NATO, #Tripoli #Libya yfrog.com/kg50305337j
Khadija
Faraj bu-Isha also attended part of the YMG. #Tripoli #Libya
Yefrenia
“NTC troops said on Monday they now controlled most of Qasr Abu Hadi the small town close to Sirte where Gaddafi was born in a tent in 1942”
G weapons:
hominoid555 Russell
He did not buy them all Russia used Libya as a stocking area
Libyan4life
Know whats interesting, I VERY rarely read ‘’opposition fighters’’or’’rebel fighters’’ anymore. NTC fighters is usually whats being used now
I keep hearing 80% of #Sirte is captured. So ostensibly if the other 20% is captured we find #Gaddafi?! #Hmmmm
hominoid555 Russell
Crude oil now at $75.91 seen any drop in pump prices ?
USAmbNATO Ivo Daalder
After a USNATO-sponsored visit, @Volkskrant editor Paul Brill sees a “renewed pride” in #NATO.
goo.gl/SiW2O
SMILE:
I got up for a minute and returned to my laptop to find my cat had attempted to write
twitpic.com/6uocpk
djopec James Herron
#Libya’s Es Sider terminal, which shipped around 1/3 of the country’s pre-war exports, will be operational in 2.5 months, says NOC Chairman.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Adballah Senussi, Qaddafi’s intelligence chief, is in Algeria: sources to Al Arabiya #Gaddafi #Libya
Muammar Qaddafi’s intelligence chief Adballah Senussi has been spotted in Algeria: Sources to Al Arabiya
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Breaking: Abdallah Senussi, Gaddafi’s intelligence chief, has been in Algeria for a week – sources to Al Arabiya
Libyan4life
If you’re looking for #Libya news today,dont bother.ZERO stories except for a bunch of hyperbole about a Libyan Jew & some missing missiles
Anaya
When there is no news, there can be some thoughts. Too many rushing news prevent from thinking, sometimes :)
Must read
Civilians flee horror of the battle for Sirte
Civilians pouring out of Moamer Kadhafi’s hometown Sirte said on Tuesday the horror of the battle for the city finally forced them to conquer their fear of the besieging new regime forces and leave.
The exodus comes as a commander of National Transitional Council (NTC) forces besieging the other remaining loyalist bastion of Bani Walid said Kadhafi’s son Seif al-Islam was directing the last stand in the desert oasis.
Read more:
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/A...
LeShaque:
I’ve learned that it is impossible to start watching a new TV show during a revolution no matter how much you try."
AmmarParis Ammar ABD RABBO
After #Tunisia #Egypt #Libya #Syria #Yemen now it s #KSA (Saudi) that blames foreign countries for inside troubles & popular protests…
Finally reuters is catching up with very old news:
Reuters
Email scammers tout assets of deposed Arab leaders
Scam emails supposedly from close aides or relatives of deposed Arab leaders are
offering a huge chunk of their assets if recipients hand over their bank details or pay a fee up front.
“The quantity of attacks of this sort that we detect is enormous,” said Chester Wisniewski, a senior security adviser at Sophos, which uses sophisticated spam filters to identify scam emails.
Full story:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
Libyan4life
Reading all these articles makes me actually agree with Mousa Ibrahim ‘’lets stay away from sensationalized media’’ #LibyanJew #Libya #Feb17
Old art. still worth reading and thinking about:
Vatican Insider
World Organization of Libyan Jews offers support to Leader of Transitional Council in Benghazi
WOLJ, whose main offices are based in Israel, is the organization that gives voice to the approximately 200,000 descendents of Jews who fled Libya after the massacres of 1945, 1948 and 1967. With the advent of the dictator Col. Gheddafi in 1969, their abandoned homes, shops and 44 empty synagogues plus all other communal property and precious objects of the Libyan Jewish heritage, which traces its origins to the third century B.C., were confiscated. The over 2300 years of peaceful interreligious coexistence between Libyans and their Jewish minority thus came to an abrupt end.
Read more:
vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/...
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Video: Controversy in Tripoli over a Synagogue english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… #Libya #Jewish
Jerusalem Post
Libyan Jews divided over bid to restore Tripoli temple
David Gerbi grabbed headlines around the world over the weekend when he ceremoniously knocked down a wall sealing the Dir Bashi synagogue in Tripoli with a sledgehammer, telling reporters he planned to fix up the dilapidated Jewish place of worship.
Gerbi’s efforts, undertaken at great personal risk, were not universally welcomed.
Not only was he barred by local gunmen from returning to the site the following day but he was also admonished by several prominent members of the Libyan Jewish Diaspora who said he had acted hastily and without prior consultation.
“This is not a one-man show,” said Raphael Luzon, a Libyan Jew living in the UK who had negotiated with longtime Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and is involved in talks with the National Transitional Council (NTC).
“You have to be part of a framework, part of an organization. I have received many calls from Libyan Jews in Rome because he is not talking about the community but about himself as a new messiah. We have to move very carefully.”
Full art.:
www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeature...
MUST READ
WSJ
First Revolution, Now Democracy
On Tuesday, Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) announced that it will postpone the formation of an interim Libyan government until the entire country is free from pro-Gadhafi forces. Previously, NTC President Mustafa Abdel Jalil had promised to name members of an interim cabinet by today, even if Beni Walid, the loyalists’ last stronghold, remained unliberated.
This is a troubling setback in the process of rebuilding Libya after Moammar Gadhafi’s ouster.
There were also concerns about a long period of insecurity and lawlessness à la Iraq.
Such worries were not entirely unfounded. It would have been natural for the rebels to seek revenge for Gadhafi’s brutality in Ajdabiya, the Nafusa Mountains and Misrata. Tripoli residents had heard of rebel reprisals and tribal revenge killings in the Nafusa mountains.
But none of these fears materialized. The anti-Gadhafi forces carried out a humane liberation based on a strict Islamic code of conduct.
Full story:
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970...%3Darticle
88simon88 simon
A christian representative talk with top NTC members: “I have a lot of hope 4 the future of this country, they have nothing agst christians”
Souffian Tripoli
Free Tripoli Daily is out! bit.ly/jXMewE ▸ Top stories today
ReutersIndia Reuters India
FLASH: Ex-Libyan pm al-Mahmoudi says he believes Muammar Gaddafi is still in Libya and will fight to the end
Guysen.com
Libye : découverte d’un nouveau charnier
Un nouveau charnier contenant les dépouilles de membres des groupes armés qui luttaient contre le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi a été découvert près de la ville libyenne de Koufra, rapportent mardi les médias arabes. "Un charnier contenant les
restes de 60 personnes ayant participé à la résistance contre les forces de Kadhafi, a été découvert près de la ville de Koufra", a indiqué Faouzi Bougueidan, commandant d’une brigade soutenant le CNT. Le charnier près de Koufra est la 14ème fosse commune trouvée sur le territoire libyen au cours des dernières semaines.
Source:
www.guysen.com/news_Libye-decouverte-d-...
The mass grave found in Abu Yema in Kufra containing a total of 60 bodies. #libya
yfrog.com/numipxj
(AFP ) --
Sean Penn est arrivé mardi à #Benghazi, pour s’inspirer du vent de révolte arabe & évaluer les besoins humanitaires des libyens.
Iman
Got that fan on, listening to jasmy feels just like I’m in libya, bas I’m stuck in the library :‘( neby enrawah ya nas waaa33333 :’(
Middle east Online
Hollywood humanitarian mission: Sean Penn visits Libya
BENGHAZI (Libya) – Hollywood star Sean Penn on Tuesday flew in to Benghazi — the epicentre of rebellion against Moamer Gathafi — to assess at first hand the humanitarian needs of the people of Libya.
“This is my first visit to inspirational Libya. I am inspired by the Arab Spring and am here to be able to get a sense of what humanitarian aid can be delivered” to the people, Penn said after landing at Benghazi airport.
Penn, who arrived from a visit to Egypt, is set to meet humanitarian organisations already working in Libya and also to meet high-ranking officials and leaders of the uprising that toppled the now fugitive former strongman.
Full art.:
www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=...
Libyan4life
I hear its thundering in #Tripoli…. This sort of weather in late summer is UNPRECEDENTED. #Libya #BarkitRubAl3lameen
I cant believe ppl waste their time sitting on a computer all day tweeting in defense of #Gaddafi. A) Not a threat B) No one cares. #Fadyeen
I wonder how that hunger strike is going for Al Baghdadi Al Mahmoudi #LostCause #Sa7Sa7 #Libya
Reuters
EXCLUSIVE-Gaddafi will fight on in Libya to the end:ex-PM
Muammar Gaddafi’s former prime minister said on Tuesday he believed the deposed leader was still in Libya and would carry on fighting the country’s new leaders until the end.
Read more:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
The whole problem w/ this world is that fools & fanatics are always so sure of themselves & wiser ppl are full of doubts – Bertrand Russell
Photo
AFP – American actor Sean Penn welcomed by a Libyan official on his arrival in #Benghazi #Libya #LOL –
twitpic.com/6v3x8i
FromJoanne Joanne
#NTC commander AdelBenyur Tues.;"We captured a Gaddafi general who said Seif al-Islam is in #BaniWalid directing military operations #Libya
Le Monde
Seif Al-Islam dirige les opérations à Bani Walid, selon le CNT
Le fils le plus en vue du colonel Mouammar Kadhafi, Seif Al-Islam, se trouve à Bani Walid, où il dirige les opérations militaires contre les combattants du Conseil national de transition (CNT), a affirmé mardi un commandant du nouveau régime libyen.
Full art.:
www.lemonde.fr/libye/article/2011/10/04...=AL-32280258
SMILE:
My dinosaur name would have been Trainosaurus Wrex.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
We are proud to say @feb17libya has reached 10,000 Followers. Thank you all for your endless support to us, to our freedom, and to #Libya.
LIBYA☾✰ليبيا
Qaddafi tried to kill the Uprising with people wearing Yellow Construction hats. Red Flag means a dangerous Person.
so my neighbor was one of the Yellow hats he fled to Sirte in 22Feb, yesterday he fled back to Benghazi, We Red flagged him to the Police.
I thought people would just cut him in peaces, but they just called the police, this
shows Benghazi doesn’t want blood.
FromJoanne Joanne
#OMG Cant the #NTC make up their Mind ? #NTC will not form Governemnt till ENTIRE #Libya is Free Incl #BaniWalid goo.gl/1SHze
Adel Beniour : “The majority of residents left the city and this will help our offensive in the next two days” #BaniWalid #17feb #Libya
Daily Nation
Gaddafi directing defence of Bani Walid
Seif al-Islam, the best-known son of fallen Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, is leading the final stand of loyalists in Bani Walid against NTC forces, a commander with the new regime said Tuesday.
“We captured a general from the pro-Gaddafi brigades, and he said Seif al-Islam is in Bani Walid and directing military operations there,” an NTC commander, Adel Benyur, told journalists
“Most of the town’s inhabitants have left, and that will make it easier for us to attack in the next two days,” he said.
Source:
www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Gaddafi%2B...
Hajoor_ Hajer
so stupud, libyan students are going to protest infront of the libyan embassy in london because they dont like the london ambassador!
these students are probably and were being paid before even though they are not studying! #greedyTwats
Nursing Standard
Interview: Benghazi nurses heal Libyan rebels
Nurses based at Benghazi’s Al Jala hospital have been caring for rebels wounded in their battle for independence from Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s repressive regime in Libya.
Watch our podcast interview with the hospital’s intensive care unit head nurse Judith San Pedro. Speaking recently in Benghazi, Ms San Pedro describes the pressures faced by the nurses and doctors in the early days of the crisis. Since our report was filed, the rebels have captured the capital Tripoli and are in the last throes of the battle for Sirte, Gaddafi’s home town.
Video:
nursingstandard.rcnpublishing.co.uk/new...
Reuters
Eni sees Libya Bouri field restart end-Oct, early-Nov
Italian oil and gas group Eni sees production at the offshore Bouri field in Libya restarting late October or early November, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
“First production at the field should be at the end of October or at the start of November,” the spokesman told Reuters.
Read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/04/eni-...
LibyaMartyrs Libya Martyrs
Malak, 5 years old from Misratah did not only loose her leg, but she also lost her younger brother…#Libya (1/2) pic.twitter.com/DcOWeonv
.Mohammed (3 years old) and her little sister Rudayna (1 year old)إنا الله وإنا إليه راجعون (2/2) #Libya pic.twitter.com/UHJrI9g2
Sarah
les FFs seraient rentré dans la 2ième zone résidentiel
Salem Atwair head of #Khoms military council martyred 26Sep in #BaniWalid front. He was Col. Maintenance Squadron commander in Benina airbase, #Benghazi. In #17Feb, Before being appointed as head of AlKhoms military council by the NTC, he was helping to raise the validity of the helicopters and he managed to fix them.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Abdulla Senussi is a war criminal wanted by the ICC and should be arrested & turned over immediately by Algerian government – #Libya #Feb17
hominoid555 Russell
Control of the city of Sirte.
youtube.com/watch?v=SVyTkD…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVyTkDaiPEQ&fea...
Fighting rebels in Sirte, Misurata.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMcGDcHK3Ns&fea...
andreliohn Andre Liohn
Less civilians coming out from #Sirte as NATO continues to bomb loyalist forces in town. Rebels have apparently been instructed to stay out.
live2Tripoli live2Tripoli
Visited the #Synagogue a few times before, even during #Muammar’s rule. A bit strange though some Libyans don’t know about it.
A Muslim Libyan does not have more rights than a Jewish #Libyan nor vice versa.
Continuous clashes in Sirte kill 8 NTC fighters, wound 39: source
A total of eight fighters of Libya’ s ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) were killed and another 39 were wounded in Sirte Monday, as battles went on in the hometown of fallen leader Muammar Gaddafi, a source close to NTC’s front line members said.
On Monday, a NTC infantry squad in Sirte was surrounded by pro- Gaddafi soldiers, who resorted to mortars in the exchange of fire and resulted in the NTC’s casualties, a Xinhua photographer, currently near Sirte with NTC fighters, quoted a source as saying.
Some members of the squad managed to pull out, the source told Xinhua.
More:
news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/20...
Guardian
The British army has lost out in Libya
The case for maintaining air and maritime systems has been made in Libya – and it’s the last thing the British army needed
As the Libyan crisis peters out with some fragmented resistance from Muammar Gaddafi’s supporters, it may seem obvious that the colonel, his clan and cronies are the vanquished. But in this chapter of history there is another loser much closer to home: the British army.
While admirals and air marshals may feel very pleased with the outcome of the Libya intervention, generals may not feel so sanguine.
Read full art.:
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/o...
Watch out another one:
FAKES: @markito01711 is spreading fake-maps with order of airstrikes on expected FF-positions. REAL-ACC: @markito0171 #Libya #Feb17 #Sirte
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
The apparent official date for #Tripoli #Festival is October 15th.
Ahmed
A day of faffing around, 260 dinar later, and I finally have a working wimax wifi router!! (ps, I hate wimax!!)
Gulfnews
Daunting future for new Libya cabinet
Libya’s transitional leaders have named a new cabinet to take over the reins of the nation as it prepares to declare the liberation struggle over. That declaration of victory will come once Sirte, the former stronghold of dictator Muammar Gaddafi, falls to transition forces.
The struggle in Libya has been bloody and destructive, casting the North African nation into chaos and strife for the past eight months. Since the revolt began in Benghazi in February, the nation has been ripped apart as Libyans fought for their freedom after 42 years of repression and tyranny.
More here:
gulfnews.com/opinions/editorials/daunti...
N_Benghazi ن
Middle Eastern dictators like to use their ‘opposition’ to Israel as a way to complicate matters and a reason to keep themselves in power.
FromJoanne Joanne
EXGaddafiPM #Mahmoudi in Prison: Am Ready 2Cooperate #NTC on Condition They Drop extradition Requests +negative campaigns against me #Libya
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
apparently enough civilians are out of #sirte, heavy shelling of city this afternoon
Jumana Libya
I am disappointed in both Italian Libyans and Jewish Libyans not speaking up at the
beginning.
They took a wait and see attitude.Racially, I belong to both groups!
Both were promised $ by #Gaddafi regime that was the delay.After the thowra he invited Libyan Jews to return 4 support.Refused
Libyan Jews are 2nd class citizens in Israel.They keep their Libyan customs.Because of the past, they r suspicious of libyans
I can understand both sides.Not only anti-Jew sentiment but they were the ones who brought Italians in Libya thru Bank of Rome
Bank of Rome initially begun as venture between Italy and the Vatican to begin Christianizing Libya.Brought in by Libyan jews.
They would issue outrageous loans to Libyans then foreclose on them.Colonization effort began a decade before 1911.
Benghazi Youth
Thanks for some real insight. The ‘Jew == Israel’ sentiment is getting out of hand.
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, Mohammed el Naas spokesman for #Sirte operation command tells us the final battle is imminent, Libya, #Gaddafi
#Libya, Mohammed el Naas spoeksman for sirte operation command: we are almost sure Mutassim #Gaddafi is in #Sirte
#Libya, Mohammed el Naas … Loyalists are no longer fighting for cause but to protect high ranking men from #Gaddafi circle Inside #Sirte
#Libya, Mohammed el Naas … We did our best to block all escape routes from #Sirte but there have been security lapses, #Gaddafi
#Libya, we have seen checkpoints on the outskirts of the besieged city suddenly withdraw allowing the traffic to flow, #Sirte
Naas Says the fight is not just about liberating #Sirte but “capturing #Gaddafi ’s criminals” who have been surrounded for some time now
#Libya, Naas says the#ICRC failed to properly coordinate with them when they entered #Sirte On humanitarian mission, #Gaddafi
Naas says #ICRC didn’t inform them of what they brought out from #Sirte, they didn’t tell us they evacuated a foreign nurse, #Gaddafi
#Libya, Naas says #ICRC should coordinate with local red cross when entering #Sirte, #Gaddafi
Few commanders who requested anonymity told me they believe some East European mercenaries escaped from #Sirte when ICRC was in the city >
FromJoanne Joanne
#EX G PM #BaghdadiMahmoudi: I tell u 1 thing: I was hated by #Gaddafi entourage am convinced that I have Done Nothing bad to #Libyans
#AlArabya claims #Gaddafi’s Intelligence Chief Abdalla #Senussi has been in #Algeria 4 a week visiting #alSaadi and #Aisha Gaddafi #Libya
#AlArabya claims #Gaddafi’s Intelligence Chief Abdalla #Senussi has been in #Algeria 4 a week visiting #Aisha Hannibal and Mohammed #Libya
Senator McCain urged US gov. 2send a hospital ship to #Tripoli or #Malta and ship or fly wounded to US military base hospitals in #Germany
US defence secretary Leon Panetta said on Tuesday that #NATO air raids in #Libya will continue as long as there is heavy ground combat
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Factbox: Latest developments in Libyan conflict shabablibya.org/news/factbox-l… #Libya
Libyan forces plan “final” attack on Sirte is.gd/nuXBMR #Libya
Gada
#Libya,what we hear about ppl in Tripoli being disgruntled about Belahj the NTC military leader is untrue Tripoli likes &trusts him
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Feels so sorry for everyone that has lost a loved one in this revolution.They are all true #heroes that we will never forget #Libya
ahauslohner Abigail Hauslohner
Many ppl in a bad condition leaving #Sirte today
Saw a guy arrive at field clinic w his 4 yr old daughter who had 2day-old bullet wound in her leg. Dad had tried to remove it himself #Sirte
Also saw #Misrata fighters using abandoned Tawergha homes for their heavy weapons target practice. #Libya #Sirte
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Tariq.A 16 yearold boy who #Gadaffis forces Killed near Sirt.
How can people still want him ?? #Libya
youtube.com/watch?v=q1s1fx…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1s1fxWLawc&fea...
Saja
One of #Tripoli’s Beaches back in the late 50’s flickr.com/photos/libdas_… #Libya
Ten Martyrs and about fifty wounded among the FF in #Sirte #libya #feb17 via @Sirte_Feb17 FB
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte 100s of Civilians fleeing said #Tuesday the Horror of Battle 4 Sirte forced them 2Conquer their Fear of besieging #NTC forces #Libya
#NTC fighters R now battling 4 #SIRTE Ibn #Sina #Hospital :There is a military operations room below the maternity ward of hospital #Libya
#Sirte #IbnSinaHospital Fleeing Doctors say ther R : Arms depots Inside & Rocket launchers and mortar detonators ring the hospital #Libya
#SIRTE 2Drs from# India + #Bangladesh escaped IbnSinaHospital describe conditions asDire Hospital full of military men and casualties #Libya
live2Tripoli live2Tripoli
Temperature is at 22˚C
Telegraph
Gaddafi forces turn Sirte into military nerve centre
Forces loyal to Col. Muammar Gaddafi have transformed Sirte hospital into a fortified military base as rebel fighters close in on the city centre.
Doctors fleeing the area said they had seen arms depots inside the complex and that “rocket launchers and mortar detonators ring the hospital”.
Inside the built-up area of downtown Sirte, Ibn Sina hospital has become the nerve centre of the pro-Gaddafi operation. “There is a military operations room below the maternity ward of hospital,” said Osama Muttawa Swehli, one of the rebels.
“This has been a tactic of the regime to base themselves in hospitals where they know Nato will not attack”.
Two doctors from India and Bangladesh who escaped the hospital described the dire conditions.
Full art.:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
Fox News
Panetta Says NATO’s Libya Mission Can’t End Until Fighting Stops
NATO’s mission in Libya cannot end as long as fighting continues, including in Moammar Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday.
“As long as there is fighting that continues in Libya, I suspect that the NATO mission will continue,” Panetta said ahead of meetings later this week with other NATO defense chiefs.
Revolutionary forces supported by NATO airstrikes have seized Tripoli and much of the rest of the country, but they have been locked in a standoff over Sirte and Bani Walid for weeks.
Full story:
goo.gl/zvMKb
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte this morning Video Massive evacuation goo.gl/KfhwU #Libya
#Sirte Ali Durgham couldn’t stop his tears telling how his father had been killed by a stray shell as he walked to mosque with his bro #Libya
#Sirte "It is unimaginable back there says MasoudAwidat who just drove out of town in a car with a bullet-riddled windshield and door #Libya
live2Tripoli live2Tripoli
For the weather update tonight its currently 10:07pm in #Tripoli and steadily raining, its been so for quite some time now.
Reuters
Life inside besieged Libyan city “unimaginable”
Fleeing besieged Sirte, Ali Durgham couldn’t stop the tears as he described how his father had been killed by a stray shell as he walked to the mosque with his brother.
“He died in my arms,” Durgham said. “I buried him yesterday.”
The young man’s uncle is now in Sirte’s Ibn Sina hospital — but it, too, has been hit in the fighting, residents said.
Full art.:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/04/us-l...
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte Every day the road is jammed with #NTC fighters on their way to Sirte Front Lines battling to take control of the city #Libya
BBC
National Transitional Council fighters have entered a house they claim belongs to the former Libyan leader
Muammar Gaddafi’s birth village of Abu Hadi.
The home has the trademark bedouin tent in which Gadaffi traditionally liked to receive guests.
British national Anas Ramadan, who was filmed inside the house, came across a coffee set and said he would auction it to raise money for Libya.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15173493
Lisa
#freeLibya #PrayforSirte! #PrayforFreedomFighters….. #Feb17
20arb11 Souffian Tripoli
Daily Arabic #Tripoli news on “طرابلس” goo.gl/1FXb4
Please have a look here:
Amazing website displaying many pictures of Libya,
from before Libya’s independence up until this revolution!!
albakour.com/album/index.php
Yesterday’s rain:
Ali Tweel
#Gaddafi u r amazing! ur efforts of building #Libya is unbeatable worldwide! this is the capital ladies & gentle men
bit.ly/qpADnE
Tweeting Tripoli
A rare video from Tripoli (Feb 20)
found in the Intelligence building.
Protesters heading to Green (Martyrs) Square:
youtube.com/watch?v=uJ2Ge-…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ2Ge-tf6j0
Star Africa
Germany / The Federal Foreign Office supports the destruction of landmines in Libya
BERLIN, Germany, October 4, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — As a result of the civil war unleashed by Colonel Gaddafi against his own citizens, the security situation in Libya is still precarious. This applies in particular to the securing of arms, munitions and to the remnants of munitions, landmines and other explosives left behind after the conflict.
The Federal Office is therefore making available approximately 291,000 euro for a project to destroy of about 500,000 landmines and fuses. The project is to be carried out by the Swiss non-governmental organization ‘Fondation Suisse de Déminage’ (FSD). The landmine stockpiles have been taken over from the Gaddafi regime.
Read more:
www.starafrica.com/en/news/detail-news/...
Libya outreach Group
SITUATION REPORT
Libya – October 3, 2011
Executive Summary
Humanitarian situation in Sirte, Libya further deteriorates as citizens flee the city. International Red Cross (IRIC) tries to deliver much needed aid.
As the battle for Sirte continues, thousands of civilians have been caught in the cross
fires. Hundreds of residents scramble to flee the city after the NTC announced a 48-hour suspension of fighting to allow them safe passage out of the city.
Patients at Ibn Sina Hospital have died on the operating table as a result of power cuts triggered by a lack of fuel for generators. Medics said oxygen and medicines also were running low.
Tripoli Revolutionists Council formed in Tripoli
Additional News:
David Gerbi, the Libyan “rebel Jew”, returns to Libya. He visited Tripoli’s main synagogue with the intention of cleaning and restoring it
NTC working on new Libyan interim cabinet, they assign three positions.
Twitter: Via:libyanproudlibyanandproud: Bani : Mutassim #Gaddafi is in Ibn Sina Hospital in #Sirte. #Feb17 #Libya
Production of oil increases across Libya. Read here for details of who and where:
Monday fighting resumes in Sirte. NTC forces have captured the Bouhadi district in the southern part of the city where it is believed one of Gaddafi’s sons is hiding.
NATO continued its campaign of air strikes Sunday, hitting multiple targets in Sirte including a rocket launcher and an armed vehicle.
Misrata TV reports Moussa Ibrahim, Gaddafi regime spokesman, has been captured fleeing Sirte, Libya. Footage of the arrest to be released once he has been transported to a secure location.
Niger to allow NTC to questions Saadi Gaddafi who is in Niger. The Niger government has refused to disclose Saadi’s location and are not willing to extradite Saadi back to Libya saying the NTC was not an elected government and said they would be willing to hand him over to an elected Libyan government.
Saadi Gaddafi denies allegations that he engaged in “armed intimidation” when he headed Libya’s football Federation.
The International Organization for Migration (IMO) says it has begun evacuating more than 1,200 African migrants from the Libyan town of Sabha, one of former leader Muammar Gadhafi’s longtime strongholds.
NATO urges NTC to secure arms caches across Libya to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands.
Libya’s former Prime Minister,Baghdadi Mahmudi, was arrested after crossing into Tunisia from Libya. He was charged with illegal entry and sentenced to 6 months in jail but was later acquitted. Since that time, he has been in detention waiting an extradition request but the NTC. The Tunisian authorities are concerned about handing Mr. Mahmudi over to the NTC because they fear he will not receive a fair trial and will be executed if returned to Libya which would be a crime against humanity. He is expected to stand trial for embezzlement of public funds, possession of weapons, and attempted murder.
Individual articles available here:
us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=5f65a9cec4...
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya plans to ramp up #Oil production, particularly from undamaged fields, raising output to… bit.ly/qjlcqc
alexrossiSKY alex rossi
Morning by the way! This was sunset in #Misrata last night. #Libya pic.twitter.com/SsPb6lTZ
MOD UK
RFA Fort Rosalie finishes her Libya mission
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) vessel Fort Rosalie has completed her tasking under Operation ELLAMY, the UK’s contribution to international efforts to protect Libyan civilians from attack by the former Gaddafi regime.
For the past four months, RFA Fort Rosalie has been supporting helicopter carrier HMS Ocean and other Royal Navy warships by providing stores and ammunition, and has also undertaken a vital shuttle service – known as a ‘Del Boy’ run – between the
Task Group and NATO bases in the Mediterranean.
Full art.:
www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/...
Libyan Duda
Director/actor #Sean #Penn in #Benghazi #Libya today – Really hope he is researching for a movie about #Feb17
Words of wisdom
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Total JV chief wants Libya oil sector freed goo.gl/MHXbG
Libyan Duda
A woman & a child are amongst the 18 bodies found in Tripoli hospital morgue from 1984 #Libya #Feb17 #Gaddaficrimes
Anaya
A group of Libyans carrying weapons arrested in #Tunisia. Intended to go to #Algeria. LeNouvelObs. #Libya
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
today in #Sirte east front much more fighting that in the west 3 dead at midday and more than 10 wounded main danger snipers #Libya
hoy en la guerra de los hoteles de #Sirte nunca estuve en la de Beirut pero me ha recordado todo lo que leí sobre ella #Libia
milicianos armados con RGs y ametralladoras pesadas n medio d techos d cristaleras, palmeras, piscinas y un spa con fuentes d mármol #Libia
mañana en la edición impresa de EL MUNDO “un hotel con vistas a los francotiradores” un escenario surrealista #Libia
another encounter with Matthew Van Dyke he is fighting in a 5 stars hotel converted in a battle front crazy seen war in the luxury #Libya
“keep your head down some days ago 1 guy was killed meanwhile he was praying” Matthew Van Dyke in #Sirte Hotel #Libya
NTC fighters “no problem no problem” then 1 bullet smashed the window of the ambulance they missed 3 guys by inches #Sirte #Libya
photo: 1 NTC fighter near the swimming pool of #Sirte 5 stars Hotel yfrog.com/nudg4bj
Moez
I need a hovercraft to get around #tripoli these days #Libya #feb17
FromJoanne Joanne
#Libya NOC Nuri Berruien saya NOC likely 2 Issue a Tender 2Sell a Shipment of abt 500,000 barrels of crude from #Tobruk in coming3Days
The economist
All creatures great and small
During the war in Libya, the animals of Tripoli’s zoo suffered along with the rest of the city’s residents.
Photo’s:
www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2011/1...=scn/tw/te/bl/allcreaturesgreatandsmall
UPI
U.S. reacts to Megrahi claims from Libya
While the primary concern in Libya is reconstruction, transitional leaders are examining the case of the Lockerbie bomber, the U.S. State Department said.
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer, was convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, in which 270 people were killed. He was released from prison by Scottish officials in August 2009 on compassionate grounds because of a terminal prostate cancer diagnosis.
Read more:
www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2011/10/04...
National Review
Sudanese in Libya
Our allies in Libya, it turns out, include the people accused of genocide in Darfur
In a further sign of the close relations between Sudan and the new rulers in Libya, Sudan’s first vice president, Ali Osman Taha, met with the chairman of the executive board of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC), Mahmoud Jibril, in Tripoli on Thursday. The same Ali Osman Taha has been accused by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of complicity in what the court’s chief prosecutor has identified as
genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur — the crimes for which Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir is under indictment by the court. Taha’s visit coincided with a visit to Libya’s new rulers by John McCain and three other Republican senators.
Full report:
www.nationalreview.com/articles/279049/...
Moez
Wow the thunder is so heavy it’s setting off car alarms in our ‘saanya’ (try translating that!) #Libya #tripoli
Signon san Diego
Fleeing Gadhafi bastion, bitter at the new Libya
SIRTE, Libya — Families flowed out of Moammar Gadhafi’s besieged hometown Tuesday, exhausted and battered by weeks of hiding from shelling and gunbattles with no meat or vegetables or electricity – but unbowed in their deep distrust of the revolutionaries trying to crush this bastion of the old regime.
Read more here:
www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/oct/04...
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Looks like more rain in #Tripoli tonight, God has come to purify the land from Gaddafi
Nusaybah
Libyan kid on Libya TV : Deero makroona deero makroona, ethowar greeb bee joo, nibooha skhoona nibooha skhoona, to7reg Saif ou to7reg boo :D
Khadija Ali
At the moment there are over 90 registered NGOs. #Tripoli #Libya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Many stories of dead people here in Tripoli as well as Benghazi due to celebratory bullets falling down
This image left me speechless. While some of us argue over politics, our FF continue to give everything for #Libya
facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…
#Libia:
Sean Penn a #Bengasi per aiuti ‘Fantastico quello che accade in questa parte del mondo’
ansa.it/web/notizie/ru… #feb17
Fadwa
Amin Budra’a, martyred yday in Sirte, his mom telling him to salem 3ala his other brother who was martyred in Benghazi
youtube.com/watch?v=rj4rYm…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj4rYmW_lX4&fea...
Reuters
WRAPUP 3-Libyan forces plan “final” attack on Gaddafi hometown
Ex-PM believes former leader still in Libya
Anti-Gaddafi forces say they are ready for final push
NTC says Gaddafi’s son may be hiding in hospital (Adds ex-PM, other details)
Read more:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
If u r Libyan + proud OR just suport the Libyan revolution RT
BentBenghazi G
There is no way that we will ever be able to repay those Freedom Fighters who don’t even hesitate while fighting #Gaddafi . #libya #feb17
Ahmed
This lightening is scr***** up my wimax! A full day of fixing it only to get it ruined by the weather! Alhamduliilah! #libya #tripoli
Imglesi
BBC’s Jonathan Head outside Sirte with evacuee from city
Audio:
goo.gl/Nh00U
Reuters
Libya army recruits march in capital full of gunmen
Libya’s new rulers on Tuesday unveiled a group of fighters trained to serve in a national army, in a step toward bringing armed groups under central authority in a
capital bristling with revolutionary volunteers who ousted Muammar Gaddafi.
More here:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/04/liby...
Arabic Spring book
Boekbespreking Arabische Lente van BikeWriter @JanEikelboom op Nu.nl bit.ly/pV2qcv **** sterren!
Abeidi
#Libya,#Sirte Egyptian driver left Sirte confessed & felt v guilty when G goons forced him to drive 8 containers full of ppl buried alive.
Anaya
“If you look at history, women have always had to fight " Huda Abuzaid a filmmaker who returned to #Libya to help #NTC
npr.org/2011/10/04/141…
FromJoanne Joanne
UK #Dumfries and #Galloway Police ask for a Copy of #Megrahi’s Television Interview
goo.gl/btv1h #Lockerbie #Libya
#NTC fighters decreased shelling on Tuesday To allow residents to leave #Sirte #Libya #Feb17
globalpost.com/dispatch/news/…
Slate FR
Kadhafi était prêt à se mettre en retrait comme la reine d’Angleterre
Le quotidien britannique The Guardian révèle que Mouammar Kadhafi, sur la fin de son règne despotique en Libye, «voulait secrètement devenir une figure symbolique du pays “comme la reine d’Angleterre”» tout en abandonnant ses pouvoirs.
Read more here:
www.slate.fr/lien/44553/kadhafi-libye-r...
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
AJA Col Ahmed Bani: ‘speaking of days concern. liberation of Sirt was a strategic vision.’ (I m glad I explained it as psychol. warfare;)
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
People in #Sirte don’t know what is happening in the rest of #Libya. power cut means no TV.
libyahmed Ahmed Bin Lasher
for anyone who is wondering, the author of ‘Can libyan #jews return? –
libya-ya-biladi.blogspot.com/2011/10/can-li…’ is @redahmeid -let him know your thoughts #libya
SUMMARY OCTOBER 5th 2011
10/5/11
10/05/11
10.05.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/bZVvQ
NATO
Press conference by the NATO Secretary General
NATO HQ, Brussels, Belgium
On Wednesday 5 October at 15h45, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen will hold a press conference following the meeting of NATO Ministers of Defence
www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/events_673...
NATOlibrary NATO Library
Looking for #Videos on #Libya? Take a look at the #NATO and #Libya LibGuide! goo.gl/NBrIi
Tripolitano
in a phone call 2 LIBYATV Jalil launched attach on Ahrar&hurra tv 4 spreading rumor that he’s resigning just after liberation
Mustafa Abd Al Jaleel confirmed he’s staying on after liberation until new government is in place.
MAJ described 5th column working in the new media spreading rumors and having hidden agendas. Naming Libya ahrar tv and hurra Tv
Mustafa AJ also strongly denied rumors of allowing private security firms to work in #Libya. Again during the call to LibyaTV
I think NTC members have to always come out to clarify news floating around which r not true. It puts ppl minds at rest.
Today I made a point of asking FFs from Souq Jumaa, misraata and Nafousa. None of them had ever heard of Naker b4 his presser 2days ago
benghazifeb ali libyan
the power of media and the lack of coverage from NTC, always been our weak point
Tripolitano
he spoke about this too. Saying the delay in launching a channel for NTC was due to fighters taking over facilities!!
FreeBenghazi
Zawara commander says Rajaban & Zintan fighters heading to Zawara, to strip Jmail & Rigdaleen of weapons #Libya v @AlmanaraMedia
Fighters from Arab cities(Rajaban&Zintan) chosen especially, so it wouldn’t appear like settling of scores/racial #Libya v @AlmanaraMedia
Firas Askar Khalifa, martyred in Tiji Oct2, “by remnants of ousted regime” الله يرحمه #Libya v @nalut17feb pic.twitter.com/1gSUa3gf
Aisha Gaddafi would rather go to Venezuela or else where, after Algeria warns her against any more interviews #Libya
Aisha Gaddafi reportedly resented warnings & harsh tone w which Algerian officials spoke to her & her family #Libya
Aisha upset Algerians imposed restrictions on her & family, taking away mobiles & monitoring their movements.
Please read:
www.alquds.co.uk/index.asp?fname=today\04z499.htm&arc=data\2011\10\10-04\04z499.htm
Iman
Please Aisha Gonedaffi, go to Venezuela and stay there forever. We don’t want you for a neighbor! :)
4Adam Adam
VIDEOS fr Zuwara’s hospital “we were talking w/ friends then shells fell behind us” " Grad shells come fr Reggdaleen"
youtube.com/watch?v=ZncTFj…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZncTFjzKH8o
BBC
Libyan casualties treated at Middlesbrough hospital
Three casualties of the conflict in Libya have arrived at a Teesside hospital for treatment.
The men, whose injuries include gunshot and shrapnel wounds, are being assessed by specialists at Middlesbrough’s James Cook University Hospital.
They are among 50 civilians who will be receiving specialist advanced surgery and rehabilitation at UK hospitals, the Department of Health said.
The full cost of their care is being met by the Libyan government.
Read more:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-1517...
KhadijaTeri wants to start a WEBSITE or a Blog with #Libya Wall #Art Is anyone interested in collaborating with her ?
goo.gl/DKH2S
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte audioboo GaddafiForces lied to residents about #NTC Fighters Tell them to fight or they will be killed
goo.gl/Nh00U #Libya
Sirtawi
Some evacuees from #Sirte report Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology (Ibn Sina hospital) was bombed. Many women, newly born dead. #SirteCrisis
Witness who left #Sirte says wounded die due to bleeding/lack of medical aid. Hospital practically empty with no medical staff. #SirteCrisis
Even wounded Gaddafi loyalists brought to Ibn Sina hospital were left to die. Many bodies lying on the streets. #SirteCrisis
Abdullah
Mortar attack by Gaddafi Thugs in Regdaleen results in death of 10 Civilians in #Zwara. #Libya
LPC: Clashes now between remaining #Gaddafi loyalists south of #Zwara and revolutionaries from #Zwara
LPC: Heard that #Tripoli and #Zintan military councils are sending reinforcements to support revolutionaries from #Zwara
LPC: Clashes started after several GRAD rockets hit residential areas, revolutionaries went looking for source. #Zwara
Syria
Dear Libyans, please make sure Russia and China don’t get any contracts.
Sarah
How many stories been told about Mercenaries founded totally scared on front saying"We heard something horrible shouting!" #Takbeer #Islam
4-10-2011 Sky in Tripoli at 4:30 PM … my colleague took the shot from his office !
twitpic.com/6v7wwg
Lucie
Russia uses #LIbya as a reason NOT to support #Syria. Are they for real????
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
I personally don’t want #AbdulJalil to resign once #Sirte liberated. I want him to oversee government formation till Libya is on right track
Ahmed
The veto system is a major #Fail4UN! I don’t even understand the logic behind it! All people are equal, except for the elite few?
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Feels so weird to actually here passenger planes flying over #Tripoli.Life is slowly but gradually crawling back to normality.#Libya
The conversation
After Gaddafi, will Libya’s ‘resource curse’ become a blessing?
With the collapse of Muammar Gaddafi’s autocratic regime, the transitional government in Libya is prompting hopes for a new era of democracy in the country.
While a swift transition to democracy is certainly desirable, a question arises: to what extent is democratisation going to help the economic development of Libya?
This question has a complicated answer.
Read more:
theconversation.edu.au/after-gaddafi-wi...
The Epoch Times
Libya: NATO Concerned Over Missing Missiles
NATO has expressed concern over a report that thousands of missiles have gone missing in Libya after six months of civil war, according to media reports.
The 28-member coalition urged Libya’s transitional authorities to take immediate action to try and secure at least 10,000 surface-to-air missiles, The Associated Press reported
Full art.:
www.theepochtimes.com/n2/world/libya-na...
Tripoli military chief says militias must pull out
The military commander of Tripoli, a key figure in the revolution that overthrew Muammar Gaddafi, called on other militias to pull their weapons out of Tripoli, accusing them of terrorizing the city’s population.
Read more here:
feb17.info/news/tripoli-military-chief-...
Older article:
Times live
‘Tuaregs hiding fugitive Gaddafi’
Muammar Gaddafi is believed to be hiding near the town of Ghadamis, near the Algerian border, under the protection of Tuareg tribesmen, a senior Libyan military official said.
“The Tuareg are still supporting him and he is believed to be in the Ghadamis area in the south,” Hisham Buhagiar, a senior military official of Libya’s new leadership, said late on Tuesday.
Read more:
www.timeslive.co.za/africa/2011/09/29/t...
Cyrenaican ياسين بنغازي
George Galloway was a supporter of Seif Gaddafi and worked against the Libyan revolution…and he knows better
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
A picture of our dear friend and brother, Ghassan, at Misrata hospital. Tomorrow morning (Wednesday), Ghassan will be going to Jordan for treatment. We ask Allah to heal Ghassan, and for his return to our homeland.
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=349591&l...
FreedomGroup, News in English
The heroic martyr, Firas Askar Khalifa, martyred in Tiji by remnants
of the ousted regime, 10/02/2011. We ask Allah to accept him as a martyr and admit him to paradise. Amen.
The first of the three photos, was taken in the battle for Al-Marabh, 5/17/2011; the second in the battle for Badr, 9/17/2011; and finally at Martyrs Square in Tripoli, during the Celebration of the Amazigh, 28/09/2011.
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=349618&l...
mbi3000 LIBYA☾✰ليبيا
On the 19th of March, Qaddafi Grad Rockets were raining on Benghazi from 4 to 7 AM non-stop. I don’t mined the same happening to #Sirte NOW.
OttawaReporter Kathleen Harris
Canada plans post-conflict assistance, diplomatic expansion for Libya | iPolitics ipolitics.ca/2011/10/04/can… #cdnpoli #ipca
Qatar accused of interfering in Libyan affairs m.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/04/qata... #Libya #feb17
Libyan
Seems there is a smear campaign well underway against prominent liberals on the #NTC. #Libya
HOW A PARIS MOSQUE SHELTERED JEWS IN THE HOLOCAUST madeinnablus.tumblr.com/post/1103988985...
FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#MatthewVanDyke after 5Mnths in AbuSalim Prison Now Holed up in 5★ Hotel Fighting along his best Friend to Free #Libya goo.gl/aEVi4
#Sirte man called Al Fatouri (so deluded) says “This country has been built around 1 man. If he is over, Libya will be over”
LibyaUnited1944 Walid وليد
This has got 2 be the best Shafshofa impersonator yesterday in #Zliten tiny.cc/4jq3w via Naser Mahjoob kooora.com #Libya #Feb17
United Sports Club visited #Zliten yesterday & the pics were taken by Naser Mahjoob amongst the celebrations
Reuters
Sirte residents turn anger on Libya’s new rulers
Many residents of Sirte, Muammar Gaddafi’s birth-place, blame Libya’s new rulers and their Western allies for the death and destruction unleashed on their city by weeks of fighting.
Read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/05/us-l...
NTC forces Mounting Final Push 2seize Sirte Only mercenaries + die-hard fighters and Mu’atassem their Mil. Commander is left in city #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#AlHarati the Deputy of #Belhadj says: Its time for #Libya Revolutionaries 2Fall under #Tripoli Military Council Umbrella and NationalArmy
France 24
NATO allies hold talks on Libyan, Afghan wars
NATO allies begin two days of talks Wednesday on the lessons drawn from six months of bombings in Libya and their goal of withdrawing combat troops from Afghanistan within three years.
While the air war continues in Libya, defence ministers will debate acute shortcomings they witnessed while carrying out the operation over the past six months.
Read more:
www.france24.com/en/20111005-nato-allie...
News 24
NTC unveils Libya’s national army
- Libya’s new rulers on Tuesday unveiled a group of fighters trained to serve in a national army, in a step toward bringing armed groups under central authority in a capital bristling with revolutionary volunteers who ousted Muammar Gaddafi.
More than 500 new recruits marched behind a military band in Tripoli’s Souq al-Jumaa district at a ceremony attended by a senior military officer to mark the end of their training for service in the national army.
Full art.:
www.news24.com/Africa/News/NTC-unveils-...
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
Libya fighters are besieging Abdul Hakim Belhaj at his base in Mitiga for suspicions of buying and stockpiling weapons for his own purposes, and other suspicions.
10 fighters martyred (6 from Benghazi, 2 from Derna, 1 from AlRajmah, 1 from Turka), & 74 wounded on Sirte’s eastern front, Oct4.
Al Arabiya :
Sirte : Heavy clashes between the Freedom Fighters and Gaddafi forces in the city center.
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
The right of Veto for the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council must be abolished. This is 2011 not 1911 #syria #yemen #palestine
blabeen
On the road to Sirt, pray for me.
NYT
Back to School in Libya, and Struggling to Adjust
The classrooms at the Dawn of Freedom middle school were empty. Teachers shuffled around aimlessly outside or gossiped in the halls. A small group of bored teenagers sat in the theater and hatched a plan to coax their classmates back.
The revolution was the problem, they figured. Just weeks after the liberation of Tripoli, their neighborhood, Abu Salim, remained a bastion of support for Libya’s deposed
leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. The loyalists’ children — including teenagers who were recruited or had volunteered for military service — had little interest in learning the history of the uprising or the new national anthem, their friends said
Full story:
www.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/world/africa...
CNN
Once allies against Gadhafi, now fight in new Libya
Old feuds and divisions are surfacing among armed groups and local military council members of Libya’s National Transitional Council, officials told CNN.
One controversial figure is Abdelhakim Belhaj, head of the Tripoli Military Council.
On Monday, Belhaj opened a news conference with a clear message calling all other military brigades to take their weapons out of Tripoli.
Read more:
goo.gl/DQGGQ
Khadija
Why do most of us Libyans speak about Libya and other Libyans in third person?? #awkward #lostidentity
Palestinian and Libyan flag waving side by side at #Tripoli university.
Our meeting is being interrupted because they think we’re planning a coup.
We’re are a charity foundation and they are about to kick us off campus.
Ha! We win! Libya hurra you can’t make us leave!
we are in the arts faculty & a gang of young men, some in army clothes, claiming they’re in charge tried to kick us out.
Nigerian Guardian
Three Nigerians fighting for Gaddafi killed in Libya
THREE Nigerian immigrants allegedly fighting for ousted Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Gaddafi, were reported killed by forces of the National Transition Council (NTC) at the weekend.
According to Hamada Radio International monitored in Kaduna yesterday, those killed were Ugochukwu Okafor, aged 33; Emeka Aloysius Mohammed, 33 and Braimoh Robinson Garba, 30.
Full story:
goo.gl/xEgcQ
Via Feb17
Heritage deal marks first move on Libyan oil
Heritage Oil has bought control of a Benghazi-based oil services firm, striking the first upstream deal in Libya since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi and building on the British explorer’s reputation as a first mover into political hot-spots.
Heritage said on Tuesday it had bought 51 percent of Sahara Oil Services Holdings for $19.5 million. Reuters reported last month it was touting for business in Libya.
More:
feb17.info/news/heritage-deal-marks-fir...
Malta
Today
Gonzi awaits response from US Senator on suggested Libyan convoy
During U.S. Senator John Mc Cain’s visit to Malta last week, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said he suggested that the US sends a naval hospital convoy to take on more Libyan war victims as part of their contribution to the much needed humanitarian assistance.
Addressing Parliament yesterday evening, Gonzi announced developments regarding the situation in Libya and government’s in assisting in the evacuation of Libyan citizens, his participation in the 66th United Nations General Assembly and the Eastern Partnership Summit held in Warsaw.
Full art.:
www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/2011/1004/go...
Biz Community
Zambia investigates telecom sale to Libya
LUSAKA: New Zambian President Michael Sata on Friday, 30 September 2011, launched an investigation into the sale of public telecommunications company Zamtel to a Libyan state firm.
Following up an election campaign pledge, Sata said authorities would look into the Zamtel deal and the sale of Finance Bank to South Africa’s First Rand Bank.
“We want to see whether the sell of Finance Bank was transparent or if it was fraudulent,” he told new justice minister Sebastian Zulu at the swearing in of his new cabinet in Lusaka.
Full story here:
www.bizcommunity.com/Article/237/20/651...
AP
Actor-activist Sean Penn says he admires Libyans for their courage in overthrowing Moammar Gadhafi. Penn spoke during a visit to Tripoli on Wednesday. He declined to comment on details about what he plans to do in the Libyan capital. But he told Associated Press Television News that he admires “the courage to say we want freedom. It’s an extraordinary thing.”
Standing outside a hotel, Penn also expressed confidence in Libya’s efforts to make a transition to democracy. He says that “an enormous price has been paid but I think that there is no question that they can follow it through.”
Times Live
Libya rulers name new cabinet
The announcement Monday was made jointly by the head of the National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, and de facto Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril in a news conference following weeks of political infighting and delays over the formation of a new government.
More:
www.timeslive.co.za/africa/2011/10/04/l...
Reuters
Volunteers care for sick animals at Gaddafi’s menagerie
WADI BAI, Libya, Oct 5 (Reuters)- Flopped in the baking sand, deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s ostrich thrashes wildly, then lays its beak in the dust to die.
“Gaddafi didn’t care for people, he killed them with tanks. How can you expect him to care about his animals?” rebel commander Abu Bakr Essa asks indignantly.
The dying bird is among around 1,000 ostriches abandoned without food or water at Wadi Bai, Gaddafi’s vast private menagerie in the sun-blasted desert west of Sirte.
Full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
Iman
Inshallah by the time I visit libya in december, all of libya will be free from north to south and east to west #Libya #feb17
Praying for all our brave freedom fighters they will not be forgotten! Allah yunsurhum w eysaberhum inshallah! #Libya #feb17
Praying for #syria and #yemen the world seems to be ignoring the heinous crimes being committed there! Inshallah raby yunsurkum w eysaberkum
Waiting for the end of my exams in November, so that I can actively tweet and get involved in libya news again! I miss #feb17 ♥
My favourite libyan accent award goes to: drumroll BENGHAZY its all about the BENGO LINGO sim7 bikil ♥
Jerusalem Post
Libyan Jew demands new regime tackle anti-Semitism
David Gerbi to ‘Post’: Failed bid to reopen synagogue in Tripoli has transformed debate on rights of Jews in country
Read more:
www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeature...
Libyan4life
Again, no news on #Libya. Just the Libyan Jew story again with different adjectives. Even the missile stories are gone now. #Libya #Feb17
Sirtawi
Some of those who’ve evacuated #Sirte in past couple of days say they didn’t know about truce for families to leave. #SirteCrisis
Libyan fighters launch final assault on Sirte
In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, the commanders leading the battle for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, say they have begun a final assault to seize the town.
A senior commander in charge of the mission also claims most civilians have now fled the city.
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports from Sirte.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky9ux56I7DI&sns=fb
@bucketofsoda from Poland
Under the circumstances, Red Cross should evacuate patients from Sina hospital. Why don’t they do that?
Zeina Khodr
that is the question many fighters on the front line have been asking
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today
This morning, God willing, an aircraft from the State of Jordan will arrive to transport the wounded fighters for treatment in Jordan. Many thanks to Jordan, and to our Local Council.
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
Mohamed had spent twenty years in #Sirte and yet his only Libyan passport was the green cover over his Sudanese one.
LIBYA☾✰ليبيا
#Qaddafi’s 42 Year Infrastructure flood #Tripoli After Rain, this is the Capital imagine the situation in other Cities. pic.twitter.com/L4DKMj18
Qaddafi made Billions nuclear deal with russia, he give it away for free in 03 so he can stay in Power
Sirte:
They Must Show the utmost self-control and patience at this difficult time the important battle has just Began. Alah Help Us All
MSNBC
Analysis: Gaddafi determined to avoid Saddam Hussein’s fate
When Muammar Gaddafi ponders his future from his hideout somewhere in Libya, he will probably recall the fate of another fallen Arab autocrat, Saddam Hussein, pulled bedraggled from a hole in the ground.
With that precedent in mind, Gaddafi will be adamant, say people who know him, about two things: he will not give up the fight against Libya’s new rulers and, if the end comes, he will not allow himself to be captured alive.
Story:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44784495
Time World
Twists of Fate: The Towns That Loved Gaddafi Face an Uncertain Future
Three children crowd around the parked car, thrusting their little heads through the open window on the driver’s side. “Do you love Gaddafi?” they demand to know from a foreign reporter. When the question is turned around, they nod vigorously. “Yes,” they all say. Then, with an almost intimidating seriousness: “What are you doing here?”
Full story;
www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,...
Lusaka Times
Jacob Arrives, Libya Expected on Wednesday
Jacob Mulenga has finally joined the Zambia national team in camp in Kitwe.
And Libya are expected to arrive tomorrow ahead of Saturdays 2012 Africa Cup Group C qualifier against Zambia to be played at Nchanga Stadium in Chingola.
Source:
www.lusakatimes.com/2011/10/04/jacob-ar...
Fox News
Panetta: NATO Must Work Together to Sustain Libya, Afghanistan Operations
Facing deep budget cuts, the U.S. will no longer be able to make up for the significant shortfalls that have plagued NATO’s operations in Libya and Afghanistan, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Wednesday, exhorting allies to work together or risk losing the ability to take on such missions.
More:
www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/05/panetta-n...
MSNBC
Panetta presses NATO allies to address defense needs
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta urged NATO allies on Wednesday to avoid sharp cuts in defense spending, pointing to this year’s war in Libya as an example of NATO’s vital role in responding to global military crises.
NATO, whose warplanes have bombed Libya since March in line with a U.N. resolution authorizing military action to protect civilians, is under pressure to find ways of offsetting the impact of tighter budgets on both sides of the Atlantic.
Story:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44783530
Newsvine
NATO urges Libyan authorities to seize arms caches
NATO said Monday it is concerned about the possibility that large numbers of portable surface-to-air missiles, previously in the armament of Moammar Gadhafi’s army, are missing in Libya.
“It is a matter of concern if stockpiles of weapons are not properly controlled and monitored,” Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.
He was responding to a report that thousands of SAM-7 shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles allegedly went missing after the defeat of loyalist forces by former Libyan rebels, who were supported by NATO air strikes.
Read more:
www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/03/81212...
Newsvine
Group: Migrants evacuated from Libyan city to Chad
The International Organization for Migration says more than 1,200 migrant workers and family members sheltering in the southern Libyan city of Sabha are being evacuated to Chad.
IOM chief of mission in Chad, Qasim Sufi, said Monday the group of people from 11 different nations are “extremely relieved” after enduring weeks of hardship and anxiety while trapped at a transit center in the embattled city.
Source:
www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/03/81155...
FP
Mideast Brief: Libya’s NTC names new cabinet amidst ongoing fighting
Libya’s NTC names new cabinet amidst ongoing fighting
The National Transitional Council named a new cabinet to take over a month after the country has been secured.
The head of U.S. Africa Command answered rumors that NATO would soon pull out
Canadian Defense Minister, Peter MacKay, said that Canada will maintain a presence for at least 90 more days due to civilian security and growing humanitarian concerns.
Source;
mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/10...
Commentary Magazine
Beware Missile Stockpile in Libya
What’s wrong with this picture? On the one hand, Gen. Carter Ham, head of U.S. Africa Command, says (as the Associated Press puts it) that “the military mission in Libya is largely complete and NATO’s involvement could begin to wrap up as soon as this coming week after allied leaders meet in Brussels.” On the other hand, the Wall Street Journal reports:
Read more:
www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/10/04/m...
AJA reporting from inside #Sirte. Fierce street fighting.
AJA:
only few civilians were able to escape #Sirte today comparing to thousands the last few days.
BBC
UK Libyans mourn rebel’s death
There are no exact figures for the number of British Libyans who went to fight Gaddafi forces in Libya, or how many died there.
Today reporter Zubeida Malik goes to Birmingham to meet one family who have decided to speak about their loss.
Audio:
news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_96...
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya anti gaddafi fighters pounding the besieged city of #sirte with heavy weapons
Libyan4life
Dear Russia and China, I hope you enjoyed your relationship with #Libya’s economy, the buck stops here. You bet wrong. #TeamFreedom
Change In Libya
Libya: On the road to Sirte… via AFP
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=363951&l...
Reuters
INSIGHT – On the run, Gaddafi leaves few footprints
Dressed in rags and holding a cellphone, Muammar Gaddafi sits in the shade of an oasis palm in the southern Libyan desert. He gazes wistfully at signs that say “Niger 450 km”, “Burkina Faso 2,700 km”, “Algiers, 650 km”.
The cartoon, displayed on an easel in the lobby of Tripoli’s Mahari hotel, raises a smile from patrons checking their AK-47 assault rifles and machine pistols in the wooden gun rack behind the security desk.
Full art.:
in.reuters.com/article/2011/10/05/idINI...
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
new push from east #Sirte heavy shelling and some casualties arriving in field hospital #Libya
alexrossiSKY alex rossi
A captured Gaddafi soldier recovers in a makeshift prison in #Misrata. My pic of the day #Libya #Feb17
pic.twitter.com/XfiuYcRb
Sky News
Libya: Fears For Civilians Trapped In Sirte
It is feared many civilians may be trapped inside the war-torn Libyan city of Sirte – unable to escape because they have no fuel for their vehicles.
The birthplace of deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi, it has been without electricity or clean water for days and medical supplies are also running out.
A steady stream of people are continuing to flee the fighting – many of them women and young children.
They said bombs are falling on their homes and civilians are being killed by the revolutionary offensive.
We do not want to hit innocent people or hurt innocent people but you know this is a war.
NTC soldier Ahmad Ibrahim
Read full report, see photo’s and video:
news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16...
FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
Reports that Aisha Gaddafi wants to leave #Algeria to #Venezuela or other countries #Libya
20 minutes
Libye: Le CNT libyen espère contrôler Syrte d’ici deux jours
Les forces du nouveau régime libyen contrôlent plus de la moitié de la ville de Syrte et espèrent venir à bout d’ici deux jours de la résistance des partisans de Mouammar Kadhafi, a déclaré mercredi à Reuters un commandant militaire du Conseil national de transition (CNT).
Source:
www.20minutes.fr/ledirect/800320/libye-...
Zainab
We’re actually excited! Free Libyan Football is epic! XD RT @StayStrongLibya: Can’t wait for our next game! #Football #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
Want to get RICH Fast ? Go 2 #Libya $1.5 million #Reward is on offer for information leading to #Gaddafi’s Capture goo.gl/u0Wdb
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
#Tunisian National Guard arrests seven #Libyan “terrorists” en route to #Algeria (newspaper Le Temps d’Algerie)
FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
Satellites or HumanInformers report several HUGE ArmedConvoys with blackedout windows Cross in2 #Algeria #Niger
goo.gl/u0Wdb #Libya
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
A Martyr with the name Abdulla Fathi AlShiriksi is in AlJalaa hospital in #Benghazi but no one knows his family.if you do please help #Libya
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi fighters using heavy artillery to weaken the defences of loyalists inside #Sirte, #Libya
#Libya, Commanders say the final push into #Sirte will be on Friday or Saturday, #Libya, #Gaddafi
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
el CNT libio dice que ya controla + de la mitad de #Sirte y q concluirá la batalla en las próximas 48 horas #Libia
Le Figaro
Vienne: l’ONU hisse le drapeau du CNT
Les Nations unies à Vienne ont hissé aujourd’hui le drapeau du Conseil national de transition libyen (CNT), reconnu officiellement en septembre par la communauté internationale comme le nouveau régime libyen.
Le nouveau drapeau rouge-noir-vert a remplacé l’étendard vert de l’ancien régime de Mouammar Kadhafi, se joignant aux couleurs des 192 pays membres qui trônent dans la cour du siège de l’ONU à Vienne, selon un communiqué des Nations unies.
Source:
www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2011/10/05/9...
Mariam
It looks like Ashahed Libya’s page on Facebook has been hacked by Gaddafi’s clowns.
Nasr
Unconfirmed: ICRC helped #Muatassim #Gaddafi escape from #Sirte #NTC fails.
Esteri
Frattini: “A Mission to Libya to revitalise Italy’s role” (Il Messaggero)
Tomorrow I will be visiting the “new” Tripoli, liberated by the Libyan people. A mission
that I’d like to use as the basis for some considerations on our policy towards Libya and, more in general, towards the Mediterranean. A focus on the Mediterranean has been, and continues to be, one of the three principle lines followed by Italian foreign policy, along with our focus on Europe and the Atlantic. And it could not be otherwise: it is in the Mediterranean that our political, economic and cultural presence has its roots; it is to the Mediterranean that our civilisation has for centuries been linked.
Read more:
www.esteri.it/MAE/EN/Sala_Stampa/Archiv...
Marianne 2
Libye: deux guerres pour le prix d’une…
Malgré les images gaulliennes d’un Sarkozy libérateur défilant dans les rues de Tripoli, les violences sont loin d’être terminées et la bataille de Libye toujours pas gagnée. Si la visite-éclair de Sarkozy et Cameron à Tripoli sonnait symboliquement la fin de la guerre, dans leurs derniers fiefs de Syrte et Bani Walid, les pro-Kadhafi repoussent les assauts du CNT.
Art.:
www.marianne2.fr/Libye-deux-guerres-pou...
NYT
Libyan Rebels Clarify Steps to New Rule
Libya’s provisional leaders said Monday that they would resign once the former rebels defeat the vestiges of armed support for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in his home city of Surt, a move that would clear the way for a new interim government that would run the country until elections can be held.
More:
www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/world/africa...
Digital Journal
Inspectors investigate claim of missing chemical weapons in Libya
Inspectors with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons are investigating claims by the interim government in Libya of missing chemical weapons from a munitions storage site that was once under the control of strongman Muammar Qaddafi.
Art. and video:
www.digitaljournal.com/article/312220
All Africa
‘Nato Intervention in Libya an Attack On Africa’- Hugo Chavez Foundation-SL
The Sierra Leone chapter of the Hugo Chavez International Foundation for Peace, Friendship and Solidarity has added its voice to those calling the military intervention by the Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO in Libya as an attack on Africa rather than upholding human rights.
More:
allafrica.com/stories/201110040889.html
CBS News
NATO urges Libyan authorities to seize arms caches
NATO said Monday it is concerned about the possibility that large numbers of portable surface-to-air missiles, previously in the armament of Moammar Gadhafi’s army, are missing in Libya.
“It is a matter of concern if stockpiles of weapons are not properly controlled and monitored,” Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.
He was responding to a report that thousands of SAM-7 shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles allegedly went missing after the defeat of loyalist forces by former Libyan rebels, who were supported by NATO air strikes.
More here:
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/03/ap/e...
VOA
Libya’s NTC Launches ‘Final Assault’ on Gadhafi Stronghold
Libyan interim government fighters have launched what they say is the “final assault” on Sirte, one of the few remaining strongholds of former leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Residents are pouring out of the the coastal town as National Transitional Government (NTC) fighters push into neighborhoods
Read more:
www.voanews.com/english/news/Libyas-NTC...
Here is la-la land:
How twisted can you get?
Russia lost a lot of arms trade ( over4 billion $ was ordered by G ) and they are angry:
Pravda
Libyan conflict lurches out of NATO control
What do you get when a British public schoolboy with a proven record of a seriously flawed judgement as regards choosing his advisers and choosing his policy gets embroiled in conflict in a tribal society utterly beyond his comprehension? You get David Cameron’s 2 billion-pound nightmare.
Read more:
english.pravda.ru/hotspots/conflicts/04...
bilal
Tell me one negative thing in Libya and i bet i can prove it’s not a negative thing.
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Reuters report that the FF’s are now pushing there way into the centre of #Sirt #Libya
I think part of the attack on #Sirt from the FF’s point of view is to provide a safe passage for aids to reach civillians in the City #Libya
Khadija
we r a charity foundation holding a meeting on campus with permission, then the feb17 coalition told us we had to go …
because we didnt have their permission even though they have nothing to do with us.
unfortunately we did not take any videos :(
FraCicardi Francesca Cicardi
#Misrata Military Council:“we’re bombing #Gadafi mercenaries in Ouagadougou hall by all our artillery,tanks & Grad rocket launchers” #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
The United Nations cultural organization UNESCO recommended that the world body accept Palestine as a full member with the rights of a state
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Palestine has not yet been admitted to UNESCO. It is still awaiting the General Assembly voting with 193 countries.
And announced just now:
Palestine has been admitted to UNESCO, one of the UN’s important organizations. 4 countries voted against. Guess who was 1 of them. #UNESCO
The United States, Germany, Romania and Latvia voted against. Germany still trying to punish Palestinians for German crimes against Jews.
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Secularism is defined as “seperation between church & state”. What the French call ‘laicite’ however, is used as excuse to repress muslims.
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
When a muslim tells a christian/atheist Englishman that he doesn’t eat pork & doesn’t drink wine, it’s no problem & they go on like before.
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
As we speak the Wagadogo Hall in #Sirt is being attacked by the FF using Tanks,MRLs and other heavy weapons. #Libya
Ahmed
Yes Libyan Jews who were forced from their homes have the right to return but I’m uneasy bout this one man show Gerbi.
How come we haven’t heard from other Libyan Jews other than Gerbi? Anytime 1 prsn is in the spotlight spkng for an entire group I’m skptkl
Also pics surfacing of Gerbi shaking #Gaddafis hand pisses me off. Any Libyan (Jew or not) who does/did that is a punk in my eyes
Good news:
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
#Zwara and #jumayl shelling each other in continuing asrab- #Amazugh feud. Zwara commander Senussi Mahrez says Jumayl +Rig Dalin attacked
No deaths in #Zwara-Jumayl-Rig Dalin conflict acc to Zwara commander Senussi Mahrez – Al Jaz report wrong
Osama
the fighting between #zwara and #ejmail has absolutely nothing to do with Arab against amazigh!! It is purely HISTORICAL!
I listened to penetrated Qaddafi Phone Calls, Qaddafi seems to be so so so far from reality.
www.facebook.com/GaddafiPhonegate
MSNBC
Libya’s oil-rich east bids for power
Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi would risk fading back into obscurity after a six-month interlude as the seat of the rebel government were it not for one powerful asset: oil.
Benghazi residents are struggling to convert their wartime sacrifices into economic clout to restore the status of a city once deemed on a par with the capital, Tripoli, and rescue it from its relative obscurity in the Muammar Gaddafi era.
More here:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44786168/ns/world_...
TFMLibya TFM Libya
Tomorrow is our launch event for the Libyan NGO Fund. Anyone interested in attending & finding out more email NGOFund@tfmlibya.org
LibyanPilot
Under Gaddafi, Benghazi was at the mercy of Tripoli for its share of state funding (cont)
even though most of this is generated from nearby eastern oil fields. Libya’s economy is almost entirely reliant on oil and gas revenue.
“Gaddafi took it (NOC) to Tripoli because he wanted control. But where are the fields?” complained Mahmoud, jabbing his finger at a map
showing a large clump of black circles representing oil fields in the eastern Sirte Basin.
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
Reuters #Libya #NTC Forces control more than 1/2 of of #Sirte & believe they will have the city under their complete control within 48 hours
Reuters
WRAPUP 2-Libyan government forces push into centre of Sirte
Half of Sirte under interim government control: local commander
Gaddafi birthplace will be captured “within two days”
Residents angry at bombardment by anti-Gaddafi forces
Red Cross trying to get new aid convoy into the city
Full report:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/05/liby...
Libya’s NTC forces are bombing Sirte now #Libya #Feb17 “liberation” seems to be near
NATO NATO
Photos of #NATO Defence Ministers meeting can be found on our Facebook page goo.gl/0h5iJ
Euronews
Libyan govt forces claim to control half of Sirte
Interim government forces in Libya claim they now control half the city of Sirte, the birthplace of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Commanders say they expect to have total control of the city within 48 hours.
Sirte is one of the last strongholds of Gaddafi.
A Red Cross convoy is preparing to enter the city for the second time to deliver urgent medical aid.
A hospital there is reported to be struggling to cope with the number of wounded after weeks of fighting.
Elsewhere, support for the new Libya is coming from many different quarters.
More and video:
www.euronews.net/2011/10/05/libyan-govt...
United4Libya LIBYAN
More #FF’s were killed in #Sirt today.
Triploli scream
I posted a new photo to Facebook
fb.me/17AOQvGoY
MushuThaLohari
Assad has even less guts than #Gaddafi, hence the extremely violent attacks on the children and women specifically. 1/2
He wants to scare the Syrians into submission because he KNOWS that if they continue,he’ll be the next dictator to fall. 2/2 #Syria
SerajElalem Seraj Elalem
Sean Penn in #Benghazi on #Wednesday ! and I missed my flight to #Benghazi on #Tuesday ! So I won’t get to meet him, Woe is me !
WSJ
Libyans Loot Weapons From Desert Cache
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970...
WSJ
In Libya, Have Truck, Will Proliferate
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970...
ArmchairArab Armchair Arab
Jalil doing an interview on l-tv.tv right now.
NATO presser
Rasmussen
05 Oct. 2011
Press conference
by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen following the Defence Ministers meeting
Good afternoon. I am very happy to hear that we have with us a group of journalists from the new independent Libya, welcome to NATO.
We have just had a productive session reviewing several of our current operations: for Libya, in Kosovo and off the Horn of Africa.
Six months ago, we launched Operation Unified Protector to prevent threats against civilians in Libya. Today, ministers agreed that the operation has been a great success.
In Libya, NATO and our partners have made the difference. For countless civilians, we have literally made the difference between life and death. We have fulfilled the mandate of the United Nations. And we are close to completing our mission.
Tomorrow, when we meet with our partners in the operation, we will discuss the prospects for ending mission.
Today, we began discussing the lessons we should draw from this operation.
There are many things which we did right: we acted fast. We were flexible. We engaged with our partners. And together, we continue to be effective.
But we cannot be complacent. The operation also showed we lack certain critical capabilities, especially in Europe. European Allies and Canada took the lead. They provided most of the assets. But they had to rely on the United States to deploy critical enablers to get the job done. I’m talking about intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and air-to-air refuelling.
NATO, as an Alliance, rose to the challenge. But if we are to respond to the challenges of tomorrow just as effectively, more Allies should make sure they obtain and maintain those kinds of critical capabilties.. One is not enough.
Looking ahead, we also agreed that NATO should be ready to assist the new Libyan authorities with defence and security sector reforms, if they request our support.
NATO has long experience of supporting the move from dictatorship to democracy. And if asked, we would be happy to share that experience.
Nous avons aussi parlé des événements au Kosovo. Nous estimons que la KFOR a
agi avec prudence, fermeté et impartialité, en respectant pleinement le mandat de l’ONU. Nous continuons d’attacher une grande importance à cette mission.
La KFOR est un bel exemple de réussite. Grâce à nous, un point chaud a pratiquement été pacifié en douze ans. Et nous ne laisserons pas la violence se réinstaller. La KFOR continuera de remplir son mandat en garantissant un environnement sûr et sécurisé, et en préservant la liberté de circulation.
Nous nous félicitons de la coopération étroite entre la KFOR et la mission EULEX de l’Union européenne sur le terrain. Elle est essentielle à notre réussite commune. Mais de nouveaux progrès sont nécessaires sur le plan politique. Le calme, la modération et le dialogue sont indispensables à la sortie de crise. Le dialogue politique entre Belgrade et Pristina, sous les auspices de l’UE, est la seule solution pour tous les habitants du Kosovo, quelle que soit leur origine ethnique.
Finally, we discussed the challenge of piracy. International efforts to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia are having an effect.
Overall, the number of successful pirate attacks is down. And in the Gulf of Aden, there has not been a single successful attack since the start of the year.
But challenges remain and the solution will take an international effort. NATO is an integral part of that international effort. We agreed that Operation Ocean Shield makes an important contribution. And that we will continue the mission with the commitment, and the capabilities, which our commanders need to undertake their role.
With that, I am ready to take your questions.
APPABLOG
Libye / Point de presse du porte-parole du Quai d’Orsay
PARIS, France, 5 octobre 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Point de presse du 5 octobre 2011
France – Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Q et R:
appablog.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/libye...
20arb11 Souffian Tripoli
Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا”
goo.gl/aM65o
AliTweel Ali Tweel
this is where everything happened
flickr.com/photos/tweel/4… #libya #feb17 #GoogleEarth #nato @nato
sabha17feb ثوار 17 فبراير سبها
I posted 4 photos on Facebook in the album “05 October 2011”
fb.me/FQK56GMJ
MOD UK
HMS Bangor destroys bombs off Libya
The Royal Navy minehunter HMS Bangor has destroyed a 2,000-pound (907kg) mine and a torpedo lying on the seabed off the port of Tobruk in eastern Libya.
The ship has conducted exhaustive surveys of harbours in eastern Libya in recent days, helping to ensure that the waters are safe for merchant shipping. A residual threat remains from mines and other unexploded ordnance left behind as a legacy of the former Gaddafi regime.
Read full report:
www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/...
Al Arabiya
Tripoli Brigade Salutes New Members
Friends and family gather together to celebrate the graduation of the new members added to the Tripoli brigade in the Libyan capital on Tuesday night.
Graduates of the Souk al-Jumah Brigade marched proudly as supporters cheered from the stands.
Despite the encouragement and celebratory atmosphere, this event for some people is conveyed as an attempt to rectify the political limbo left after the ousting of Muammer Qaddafi over a month ago.
More and video:
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/10/...
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
just coming back from inside #Sirte urban area really heavy fighting I stopped counting RPGs after 20 lots of snipers #Libya
at he hospital right now 1 body being transfer to ambulance “Ala Uakbar Ala Uakbar” shout the crowd of NTC fighters #Sirte #Libya
some fighters crying others shooting in the air even RPGs #Sirte #Libya
Public Broadcasting
Libyan government forces push into centre of Sirte
SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan government forces fought their way, street by street, into the center of Muammar Gaddafi’s birthplace of Sirte on Wednesday after their commanders said the battle for the city was entering its final hours.
Taking Sirte would be of huge symbolic importance to Libya’s new rulers because it would dispense with the biggest pocket of pro-Gaddafi resistance, and allow the interim government to switch its focus to preparing democratic elections.
“More than half the city is under the control of the (anti-Gaddafi) rebels,” said Adel Al-Hasi, a local NTC commander. “In two days, God willing, Sirte will be free.”
More here:
www.publicbroadcasting.net/wxel/news.ne...
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
crazy street fighting inside NTC fighters in Mauritanian neighborhood all buildings damaged explosions all around #Sirte #Libya
afelyun aphelion
The North Africa Daily is out!
bit.ly/dRzwj9
Mushu
#FF spokesman on #Libya Alahrar: Yesterday 11 martyred in the battle of #Sirte, none today (only some injured). #Feb17
HannahAllam Hannah Allam
Not sure why #Libya interim officials continue to damage their credibility w/ false or overblown claims of mass graves, but same story today
Taken to 1 graveyard but worker there said the bodies (no IDs, interred, not visible) were dumped there a few at a time, not en masse #Libya
Site of actual mass grave said to be in Tajjoura but wasn’t taken to that site. Some of the pics they provided as “evidence” were from NYT!
No doubt there are lots of missing & presumed dead but #Libya interim govt doing disservice by spreading false/misleading info.
malonebarry Barry Malone
Know probably old news he’s here. But just walked past a strutting Sean Penn in Tripoli – not something you see every day… #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#Libya’s #oil -rich East bids for Power #Libya #Benghazi goo.gl/SlUny #NOC #Agoco #Jalil #Ghoga #Tripoli #Libya
Have a read:
GRAFIXEL guess what
appears to be an interview with Russian mercenary
is.gd/QPXWz3 #Libya
AliTweel Ali Tweel
Now reading : Sean Penn travels to “inspirational” Libya : bit.ly/mY1xPc via @CBSNews
FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#Feb17 #Oil Committee Group is #obbying #NTC 4 Greater Say in #Oil Policy they want NOC headquarters move from #Tripoli 2 #Benghazi #libya
goo.gl/SlUny #Benghazi residents hope #oil rev. worth around $130 million a day @current Brent prices 2fuel economic revival in East
#Libya’s #oil -rich East bids for Power #Libya #Benghazi goo.gl/SlUny #NOC #Agoco #Jalil #Ghoga #Tripoli #Libya
#FLASH #Libya #NOC pursuing International #oil Firms 4 Bills Worth around $6 billion left unpaid this year #Libya #OPEC goo.gl/9eAAH
#NOC list of Debtors: #oil Firms: #ConocoPhillips #Exxon Mobil Corp #BP #OMV #Vitol #Eni #Saras goo.gl/9eAAH #Libya
eur0phile Jonathan Twigg
Executive transport on the front line at Sirte. Then again, the parking’s free and there are no traffic wardens. #Libya
pic.twitter.com/V5RZs9Wi
NATOpress NATO Press
LIVE 19:00CET: Joint announcement cooperation new capabilities – PM of Spain Zapatero and US Defense Secretary Panetta goo.gl/qPw0Y
LibyaInMe حنين ~ Hanin
This past weekend we lost the closest person to our hearts. She was our mother, our angel, & the life of the family, my grandmother :’( </3
Never in my life have I thought someone so dear to me would go.I am having a hard time saying she “died” because it’s too hard, unbelievable
Life is never going to be the same, she was our go to person, she was our prayers angel, she was everything to us. She’s gone?
I am write and crying. Because only when I write do I realize it’s real, it’s very real. :’(
How did she die you ask? The day Gaddafi entered Misrata, months ago, she spent the day crying & later in the evening got a stroke
She spent months in bed, couldn’t speak, couldn’t walk, couldn’t eat. Healthcare is zero to nill in Libya.
Thank you for your condolences. Thought I’d update you to explain my disappearance.
LibyaInMe حنين ~ Hanin
My brother lost two of his friends yesterday near Sirte…
www.feb17martyrs.com/hassan-messmari-os...
JOINT MINE ACTION COORDINATION TEAM – LIBYA www.mineaction.org/downloads/1/JMACT%20...
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Tripoli military council: We have found two sites with a total of 900 unidentified corpses- 700 buried in Tajoura & 200 in Gergash. #Libya
hominoid555 Russell
Libya A man was arrested with 502 gold coins he was trying to smuggle them out, no information of their value.
ReutersIndia Reuters India
Libya back to school, but without Gaddafi teachings
reut.rs/n4pP8R
libyanproud libyanandproud
WOW! 14 year old boy from tripoli who had a bullet wound to the spine and couldn’t move month ago, is now recovered, walking, and smiling.
British Forces News
UK
David Cameron pays tribute to armed forces
Prime Minister David Cameron has paid tribute to British Forces at the Conservative conference in Manchester.
In his speech closing the Conservative Party conference, he told delegates, intervening in Libya to help remove Gaddafi was the right thing to do.
Earlier, Defence Secretary Liam Fox told the party that he is determined to get the Ministry of Defence “back on track” but that the government is investing in defence.
He also used his speech for a broadside against the defence plans of some European allies.
Video:
www.bfbs.com/news/uk/david-cameron-pays...
BintTarablis KC
Allah is ever aware of the evildoers, each one will have their time – He never forgets them. #Libya #Syria #Bahrain #Yemen #TheWorld
yasmarah ياسمين
‘You cannot build a nation without recognizing minorities and finding a solution to acknowledge all parts where minorities are present.’
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
photo: one NTC fighter with his Mad Max style vehicle #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/ob6qej
photo: american Matthew Van Dyke fighting inside #Sirte in the mauritanian neiborghood #Libya yfrog.com/mek4rlj
photo: street fighting happening in this neighborhood inside #Sirte today 2 dead and 45 wounded at 6:00 pm #Libya yfrog.com/h36bwlsj
photo: NTC snipers using a room at a 5 star hotel as platform to shoot #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/h71s2rnfj
photo: 2 NTC fighters resting in the same 5 stars hotel in the middle of the battle #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/h3co8wlj
they stay at night now they control a big area of the city
well let’s say Gaddafi forces just control an small area near city center but battle is still not over
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Another call for a big protest on Friday in different parts of Libya against " return of Jews to Libya" Youth distributing flyers in town
Tweeting Tripoli
Graduation ceremony of Tripoli’s 1st batch of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Oct 4th, 2011. pic.twitter.com/4ix4Uieq
An officer speaking at the ceremony of Tripoli’s 1st batch of the Libyan National Army (LNA). pic.twitter.com/kRPgOenm
Officer Bani at the graduation ceremony of Tripoli’s Libyan National Army (LNA) Oct 4th, 2011. pic.twitter.com/It1Bs0Mh
Some of the guests at the graduation ceremony of Tripoli’s 1st batch of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Oct 4th, 2011. pic.twitter.com/kPZqDFVl
hominoid555 Russell
United Nations in Vienna has raised the flag of Libya’s National Transitional Council
Guardian
Libya mass grave discovered near Misrata
Bodies of five bound and executed men found wrapped in military blankets and buried in shallow sandy scrapes
Whoever buried the five men, discovered on Wednesday in graves a little way outside the Libyan coastal city of Misrata, had a sense of order.
The bodies were buried neatly in a row of shallow sandy scrapes, each wrapped in a green military blanket, the last one of them interred on the stretcher on which he was, in all likelihood, killed.
Someone – no one knows who – had marked the place, leaving a sign next to the grave site saying: “Five dead.”
All of them were men, wearing civilian clothes.
Read full article:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/05/li...
hominoid555 Russell
NATO is close to halting its 6-month-old bombing campaign in Libya
Sirte: Over 50% of the city is under FF control with steady progress continuing #feb17 #Libya
Sirte:
raggzeb was ystrdy injrd n battle wit shrapnel frm a bazooka (RPG) and a sniper bullet . he was today treated in Benghazi & is alot better.
he was yesterday injured but was operated on today and is getting better
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
by MatogSaleh
I will be on Alarabiya PANORAMA programme from their studio at 8.30pm london time (7.30 gmt) shortly today inshallah
Tweeting Tripoli
Another pic from graduation of Tripoli LNA…
pic.twitter.com/UXl5cFbh
Tripolitanian Libyan
Protest in #Zwara demanding #NTC play more active role in treatment of injured revolutionaries.
youtu.be/hrB3szsanBA #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrB3szsanBA&fea...
ARABIC One of the f fighters talking about the situation in #Zwara yesterday: bit.ly/o6N0mQ #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4vMBdOsDTI&fea...
Tripolitanian Libyan
Tripoli Military Council leader Naker: 75% of #Tripoli is secured by the Tripoli Military Council, 25% secured by our revolutionary brothers
Tripoli Military Council leader Naker: #Tripoli is #Libya’s capital, every Libyan is welcome to stay here.
Tripoli Military Council leader Naker: When the revolutionaries entered #Tripoli, they found the residents already liberated it. #Libya
#Tripoli Military Council Leader Naker: No individual can say they liberated Tripoli, Tripoli liberated Tripoli. #Libya
#Tripoli Military Council Leader Naker: We thank Qatar and NATO but we believe some figures in Libya are being influence by them
#Tripoli Military Council Leader Naker: and are pushing for their own agenda. We want Libyans to be nationalists.
#Tripoli Military Council Leader Naker: We hope that soon everything will calm down and elections will take place so that democ can flourish
#Tripoli Military Council Leader Naker: We are working with Misrata and Benghazi
brigades, they have asked us for help in BW and Sebha
#Tripoli Military Council Leader Naker: We have helped them to the best of our abilities
#Tripoli MC Leader Naker: We would like to collect and register weapons as soon as possible.
End of interview.
Tripolitanian Libyan
My take: Naker seems a good leader, however I can see the potential of friction btwn him & Belhaj, would like them to work together.
4Adam Adam
FYI – Abudallah Ahmed Naker is the head of Tripoli Revolutionists Council and he is NOT the head of Tripoli Military Council.
Tripolitanian Libyan
Correction, he’s the leader of the Tripoli Revolutionists Council, not Military Council via @4Adam . #Libya
Armchair Arab
We should include the fact that oil must be managed at a national level in the constitution.
Biggest challenge facing #NTC now is uniting #Libya
Tripolitanian Libyan
#MAJ on #Libya Ahrar
#MAJ: We are proud of the work Libyans have done.
#MAJ: Everyone played a role in the liberation of #Tripoli, a variety of factors led to the liberation of the capital
#MAJ: I have talked with Sallabi and Jibril, they both have the same goals
#MAJ: Liberation of #Libya will be announced after liberation of #Sirte, hence borders, land and sea will be liberated
#MAJ: BW is land locked and we will continue work on the liberation of BW. #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
Reason 4 #Jibril ’s eminent resignation after liberation #Sirte is that #NTC members did NOT agree with his New trans Gov. Proposal #Libya
FreeBenghazi
Heads up: @AshahedLibya has been hacked by gaddafi’s green algae #Libya
FreeBenghazi
5 people were found buried in a mass grave in Assikit area, in Misrata #Libya pic.twitter.com/mvxhDfFl
Col.Bani: Mutassim Gaddafi fled Sirte 2 unknown destination. 1 car in his convoy captured, &those arrested admitted he’s in convoy #Libya
bunbunbunnyyy ارنوبة بنغازي ♥
#NTC halts fire to allow the Red Cross to deliver vital medical aid to the besieged city of #Sirte Oct 5.
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
#Jaleel: The new government will be announced after the fall of #Sirt and we wont be waiting for the fall of #BinWaleed #Libya
Jaleel: We have arrested people who are suspects in the killing of #AbdulfatahYounis and are making progress on that case #Libya
#Jaleel: I want to thank the AlAbaidaat Tribe for their patience of waiting to find out the verdict of #Abdulfatah’s case is #Libya
#Jaleel: I am carefully following the updates of this case personally.The people involved will all be dealt with according to the law #Libya
Jaleel: Every injured person in #Libya will be treated abroad and their will be no differences between anyone #Libya
#Jaleel: There are nearly 3000 injured in #Libya so it is a slow process.800 are now being treated in different countries #Libya
#Jaleel: The injured are now being treated in hospitals in France,the UK,Italy,Germany,Jordan and other countries #Libya
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
AbdelJalil: All Military councils will be dissolved once Sirte liberated
AbdelJalil: We are working to ensure all FFs in Tripoli fall under the Supreme Security Committee #feb17 #Libya
AbdelJalil: Foreign countries including NATO countries will play no role in deciding Libya govts, transitional or otherwise #feb17 #Libya
AbdelJalil: Supreme Security council will be responsible for Tripoli’s security and its forces will have distinct uniform #feb17 #Libya
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
BW will fold in on its own. It is in the middle of nowhere and has no source of supplies
bint_tarhouna
President Jimmy Carter is offering the services of the Carter Centre to oversee elections in Libya (they’re overseeing Tunisian elections)
BintTarablis KC
It seems like all the people missing in Libya are being discovered in mass graves – tragic and horrific ! #Libya
KhadijaMAli Khadija Ali
#Aid #Volunteer #Help #Libya #Tripoli #Benghazi #Misratah facebook.com/groups/feb17ai…
United4Libya LIBYAN
We have not lost the feeling of sorrow and sadness of discovering new mass graves every other day in #Libya since #Feb17
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Rigdaleen & Jameel still not cleared of G forces. FFs awaiting decision by Military council of Western area #feb17 #Libya
aabeidi
#Libya, #Benghazi,just home from city very sad atmosphere between ppl of Benghazi cuz rising No of loss FFs yesterday&today@#Sirte frontline
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Yesterday remaining G Forces in Rigdaleen shelled Zuwara leading to clashes with 4 FF injured. 7 G forces were captured #feb17 #Libya
live2Tripoli live2Tripoli
Are we finding any missing people? Or have they all ended up in mass graves!!? #DISGUSTING
Ahmed
Just got back from the maydan … a bit boring tonight. #tripoli #libya
But i did see the revolutionaries making their way out going back to their homes… not sure yet if this is good or bad #libya #tripoli
LibyanPilot
Seeing a few articles regarding ‘fighting for power in #Libya’ if one city or another did much for the revolution does not mean (cont)
they should have more ministers or a prime minister from them in the new cabinet, that isn’t how this democracy thing works man
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
#NTC discovers two mass graves containing up to 900 bodies near Tripoli. #Gaddafi goo.gl/Sh3Fd
Tweeting Tripoli
Juma Gmati on Alarabya (Panorama) now… One of the best analysts.
Juma Gmati: Members of the infamous Gaddafi Revolutionary Committees should not be allowed to get high profile positions for 5 or 10 years.
Juma Gmati: Libya’s Islam is and always will be moderate its purpose is to serve people. Any extremism is not accepted by most Libyans.
WEELULE
5 or 10 years, try never
Tweeting Tripoli
I am sure he meant people who have no blood on their hands. 5 or 10 years to prove that they are weaned of Gaddafi, But I get u.
Jonathan
Part of rebel tank barrage into southern Sirte on Tuesday. Heavy weaponry more in evidence. Phenomenally loud. #Libya
pic.twitter.com/6baHw2J0
Gaddafestrophe أمل ~
Best quote from Jalil: “#Tripoli’s victory was not because of Jibreel or Sallabi. It was from Allah.” Allahu Akbar! #Libya #Feb17
Sami
Beautiful. Jalil says #Libya is big enough to accommodate every Libyan regardless of race, religion or ethnicity.
Ahmed
Saying moderate islam is like saying round circle. Can u have circle that is not round?Likewise you cannot have #islam that is not moderate?
Therefore ‘extreme’ islam is one of kindness and moderation, and ‘extremism’ is one that is NOT of islam! Why are we embarrassed to say so?!
Therefore, islam in libya is of the extreme kind! We r extremely honest, respectful, tolerant,moderate.These r the characteristics of islam!
So all please, for #islam, next time you have a conversation with someone about islamists, stop and ask them to define the word!
For surely you cannot have a conversation about a topic that no one can define? It’s a fools discussion! #islam
Sarah
“Medias said I’m an extremist I answered : … (cont)
…Yes, I’m an extremist ..I’m extremely kind, extremely merciful, extremely honest, extremely fair.” Dr.Zakir Nazik
You might like this » Misconceptions about Islam – By Dr Zakir Naik
bit.ly/qIX4Mt
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Surreal: Kayaking the streets of Tripoli – #Libya #Feb17
pic.twitter.com/X5CzNAYu
FreeBenghazi
17 bodies found in refrigerator of Tripoli Hospital (on Zawiya St). Victims ages between 6mths to 50yrs. They were killed 28yrs ago #Libya
LibyaFromFrance Sarah LFFR
Al Jazeera – Sirte and BaniWalid updates earlier today –
youtube.com/watch?v=HqB_Mj… #Libya #17feb #BaniWalid #Sirte
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqB_Mj0gi0k&fea...
Sarah
FathAllah Jibril El Breki 21years old,my uncle’s friend from #Benghazi martyred in Brega on 11Aug #LibyanHeroes #17feb
twitpic.com/6vna4d
Khadija
Tomorrow there’ll be a demonstration at UofT demanding postponing the school year until all students come back from the front lines.#Tripoli
I went to the TMC today to donate blood but I couldn’t because they don’t have the materials for a CBC nor do they have the right apparatus.
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
#Libya’s NationalOilCompany denied that any new deal involving Libyan oil has been struck with Britain’s #Heritage Oil
reut.rs/rtDEIm
somaya
Recently spoke with my cousin who informed me that his best friend (23 yrs old) & medical colleague just passed away in Ben Walid.
Hamza (my cousin) couldn’t even finish a sentence without crying, which broke my heart b/c he NEVER shows his emotions
Hisham (the martyr) and my cousin acted like blood related brothers. They went everywhere and did everything together.They were inseparable
Hamza
#Libya should straight up not do Amy business with #China and #Russia for the trouble they caused them and #Syria
4libya
Gaddafi is getting help if not directly @ least moral support frm countries who fear revolution &want #Libya conflict 2 last as long as poss
OPEC Risks Bear Market as #Libya Output Recovers: Energy Markets – Businessweek
buswk.co/nboR3M
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
#Tripoli will only become the City it was when all the FF’s from all around #Libya leave and let the FF in Tripoli keep their Capital safe
feb17libya Feb17Libya
NATO chief says Libya mission doesn’t hinge on Gadhafi’s capture
bit.ly/pk5BOi #libya
Tweeting Tripoli
Hey lets go play hide and seek at Bab Al-Azyzia tunnels, cool?
MUST READ
Libya Forever
The land of Omar Al-Mukhtar and the heroes of Feb 17th. May Allah bless this land forever
For you is your way of life and for me mine……
While growing up in London during the 80’s, I dreamt about the time Gaddafi would go and allow the Libyan nation to be an Islamic nation. After all, it is a 100% Muslim nation, populated by a people whose level of practising may vary but whose staunch belief never wavers. In my youthful, beautiful naivety I never imagined this could ever be controversial. After all, Libya is 100% Muslim nation. Why should that be an issue to anyone?
Obviously, I now know that the secular and democratic ideals of “Tolerance” and “Live and Let Live” are only meant to apply domestically and have no place in foreign policy. And so, with victory against Gaddafi assured, the scaremongers come crawling out to inform the world that alot of the fighters are “Islamists”, with ties to al-Qaeda. And with that they play to the fearful prejudice that has been instilled within their people.
Please continue reading:
libya-ya-biladi.blogspot.com/2011/09/fo...
Libya militia says finds mass grave with 200 bodies
A military unit allied to Libya’s new rulers said on Wednesday it had discovered a mass grave in Tripoli containing the bodies of more than 200 people who died in the chaos surrounding the rebel assault that ousted Mummar Gaddafi.
Naji al-Issawi, a commander in a unit of Tripoli’s military council, showed reporters two corpses exhumed from a cemetery which he said contained between 200 and 300 corpses.
Issawi said officials planned to dig up more of the site in the Gargarish district and start identifying the remains.
Read more here:
feb17.info/news/libya-militia-says-find...
Noit
The bodies found in the Tripoli mass graves could be those who lost their lives when Tripoli was liberated.
Estimation was that around 1000 people were killed then.
Forbes
Libya fighters loot Gadhafi tribe, showing divide
Link:
www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/10/05/gene...
Aisha
Civilian safety key to ending #Libya mission: #NATO m.yahoo.com/w/news_america… #feb17
Khaled M
One of the 18 #Freezerbodies in #Tripoli has been identified as Mohammed Hisham Alhadher, an #NFSL member martyred in 84 #Libya
FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
GRAPHIC: 6mth old victim in Tripoli Hospital refrigerator for more than 26yrs. He was shot in right cheek #Libya pic.twitter.com/FIhb6zd6
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
A Martyr with the name Abdulla Fathi AlShiriksi is in AlJalaa hospital in #Benghazi but no one knows his family.if you do please help #Libya
Sarah
#EpicHelmet :) a Freedom Fighter today in #BaniWalid front. (AFP) – pic.twitter.com/8yU3sFWe
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No NATO operational update was released today.
Sumayyah
“Be careful of laughing at others for perhaps Allah might forgive their ignorance and not forgive your arrogance.” -Shaykh Yasir
Sarah
It looks like Sallabi will do a new record. #SpeakTooMuch #SallabiVsJallud
WilliamsJon Jon Williams
Hospital between ex-intel chief Senussi’s compound & Bab al-Aziziya. NATO often bombed neighbors. Hospital “starting to get back to normal”.
plemochoe plemochoe
See, this is why the press reports are bad. Gaddafi cannot come back or do an insurgency but press makes it seem possible
No shortage of ammunition for celebrations… and injuries in #Tripoli. http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/09/29/black-libya-celebratory-gunfire.cnn
Tweeting Tripoli
The best thing I liked from Salabi’s talk, is the women’s right to govern. بعضهم اولياء بعض
Tripolitano
Who said men rule in the house. Married #FFs turn from lions to rabbits once they enter the house :)
Matog Saleh
haha.This is amazing !! but i think now the rabbits will get more respect :p
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
What an amazing Interview.Dr Sallabi has proven to everyone that he really loves #Libya
The story of how they planned to free Tripoli on its own is just unbelievable. #Libya you have made me so proud !!
Qatars Army Chief approved on the plan that the FF commanders put to spread out the Gadaffis forces to losen the pressure on Tripoli
The organisation it took so many different people to make it happen is phenomenal.A Film needs to be made about the #Libya revolution
#Qatar and the #U.A.E did help with providing the FF in #Libya with weapons.We wont forget that you helped us when we most needed it !
freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
jebril’s phD and lifelong career is in strategy. He said they r teaming w germany & austria re prosthetics and health mgmt
SerajElalem Seraj Elalem
God bless and protect #Libya
CNN
Faces of Desperation in Sirte
CNN’s Phil Black reports on a mass exodus from the besieged Libyan city of Sirte.
Video:
edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2011/09/30/black-libya-sirte-families.cnn
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli at night goo.gl/mPnsE gunfire continues in Tripoli because the fighters are happy #Libya #CNN
This is a must read:
The Palm Beach Post
Tony Blair’s multiple jobs in the spotlight
LONDON — Since stepping down as Britain’s prime minister, Tony Blair has built up a formidable work portfolio: He’s an international peacemaker, a consultant for investment bank JP Morgan, a pricey public speaker and a philanthropist.
He’s so many things to so many people that it’s starting to cause him trouble — with human rights groups, the Palestinian Authority, and even current British Prime Minister David Cameron, who described Blair’s deals with Moammar Gadhafi’s regime as “dodgy deals in the desert.”
Rights workers who have tried to track his activities find it’s sometimes unclear which job he is doing — or who is paying him to do it. Crucially, when he’s in the Arab world as the Middle East Quartet’s peace envoy some of the very parties he’s meant to be
negotiating with aren’t sure whose interests he’s representing.
Full story:
www.palmbeachpost.com/money/tony-blairs...
The Star
Analysis – Libya endgame carries new risks for NATO
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO commanders face a tough balancing act during the bloody battle for Muammar Gaddafi’s last strongholds, Sirte and Bani Walid.
NATO allies would like to let the National Transitional Council (NTC) claim victory in these battles and war for itself. That would enhance the council’s legitimacy as the new ruler of Libya after Gaddafi’s four decades in power, and bolster the chances of a stable democracy taking root in the country.
But the European governments that led NATO’s air campaign in Libya also need to remain long enough and engaged enough to make sure the success so far is not diminished by a messy withdrawal. If NATO quietly stepped aside but fighting restarted, that would diminish Europe’s standing in Libya and tarnish a campaign that has been seen as a success for Europeans.
Full story:
thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/10/1/worldupdates/2011-10-01T002926Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-596453-1&sec=Worldupdates
This is a must read:
guardian
Abu Salim: walls that talk
In September a mass grave was uncovered at Abu Salim, Libya’s top-security prison: grim evidence of a notorious massacre. Magnum photographer Stuart Franklin went inside, and spoke to former inmates and families of the victims about how their fight for
justice sparked a revolution
In the summer of 2003, Aliya al-Sherif and her mother, Faliha, went to visit Faliha’s husband, Mustafa, at Abu Salim prison in Tripoli. It was not an easy journey. They’d driven for 24 hours from their home in Benghazi in Aliya’s uncle’s white Audi. For a further four hours, they queued in the unrelenting midday heat outside the white prison walls, shuffling forward with boxes of food, shampoo, clothes and medicine, with 60 other families.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/30/ma...
Sirtawi
Huge fear of a disease outbreak in #Sirte, particularly in #2 where bodies lying there for more than 5 days have started to decompose. #SOS
#FFs managed to control Marah Street in #3. (Black rectangle on map). #Sirte #FreeSirte #Feb17
pic.twitter.com/huc5jmwq
Zlitniya
Food from free women in #Zliten 2t men fighting 2liberate #BaniWalid #Libya twitpic.com/6t1cab
twitpic.com/6t1dxl
twitpic.com/6t1eon
rcolebourn Richard Colebourn
Landmines + unexploded bombs from the conflict are killing or wounding at least 1 person a day in 1 #Libyan town alone
bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…
Alaan TV
Lt.Gen, Mabrouk Saad Mhd, says he was told to plant mines in Naima (btw Misurata & Zliten) by Khamis Gaddafi #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5b7mQyrx3Q
Free Libya
I feel so sorry for Libyans now that they are going to have an influx of poncy expat Libyans telling them how to do things the ‘right’ way
Guardian
Inside Abu Salim
The first photographs from inside Libya’s notorious prison – the scene of a 1996 massacre
www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/s...=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#/?picture=379583564&index=0
WSJ
First Revolution, Now Democracy
On Tuesday, Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) announced that it will postpone the formation of an interim Libyan government until the entire country is free from pro-Gadhafi forces. Previously, NTC President Mustafa Abdel Jalil had promised to name members of an interim cabinet by today, even if Beni Walid, the loyalists’ last stronghold, remained unliberated.
This is a troubling setback in the process of rebuilding Libya after Moammar Gadhafi’s ouster.
Read more:
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970...%3Darticle
LibyaInMe
Salah Tarhouni. Born in 1985. He was detained August 23. His martyred body found just over a week ago
www.feb17martyrs.com/salah-abdallah-tar...
Anaya
Condolences to all the families who can no longer expect the return of their beloved from #AbuSlim
IsaMadesclaire Isabelle Madesclaire
Want to share wth libyan friends a debate on my brand new TV with Robert Badinter abt abolition Peine de mort, death execution, spt 1981 1/3
It is a must to listen or read R.Badinter, today aged but very vigous – try find his famous speech to Assembly in 1981 vote of abolition 2/3
R.Badinter said tonight that ArabSpring was bound to make step forward for this human progress, knows many arab abolitionists – ah oui? 3/3
Gheblawi Ghazi Gheblawi
Demo against corrupted officials in Libyan Bourse مظاهرة ضد سليمان امام مبني الاوراق المالية (البورصة)
youtube.com/watch?v=VOLwyb… #Libya #Feb17
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOLwybyKF1Q&fea...
sabha17feb
#Sirte : The 1st zone is heavily shelled by #Gaddafi forces with grenades, RPG & mortars. #Libya
Trollalarm!
Swedish reporter LenaSundstrom is impersonated by 2 trolls: >lenasundstromtv<+>@LenaHSundstrom
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Gave talk last night on Libya at British Arab Federation Birmingham wd exlabour minister Mike Obrien. Thanx Fadel & friends for hospitality!
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Unfortunately our free Libyan football team lost 2-1 in a friendly yesterday against a Tunisian local club,in preparation for Libya v Zambia
BREAKING: A mass grave found in AL-Asabah
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today
justinmarozzi Justin Marozzi
#Ghadames hostages held by #Touareg have been released in #Libya. My friend Taher is free. All hostages reported freed in the early hours.
Tweeting Tripoli
Fed up with people slamming Jibril while glorifying Jalil. If Jalil’s ok with Jibril, either accept or protest his trust in Jibril. #IMO
The Atlantic
Former Al Jazeera Head on Quitting, the Arab Spring, and Qatar’s Role
DOHA, Qatar — It’s been a rough week for Wadah Khanfar, but you wouldn’t know it to see him.
Earlier this week when I caught up with the former chief of the sprawling, pan-Arab Al Jazeera news network, who abruptly resigned last Tuesday under unclear circumstances, he was slumped happily into a sofa in a glittering Sheraton suite, his hair still wet from a dip in the hotel pool.
Khanfar’s resignation came just days after the release of a Wikileaks cable suggesting he’d bowed to pressure from U.S. officials in 2005 to change Al Jazeera’s coverage of
the Iraq war. The timing of his departure brought intense scrutiny onto Khanfar, whose direction of Al Jazeera’s early and aggressive coverage of the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt is often credited for contributing to the course of the Arab Spring.
Read more:
www.theatlantic.com/international/archi...
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
Libya a family of four killed when rocket fire hit their car while they were trying to flee #Sirte
#Libya heavy exchange of fire in the eastern outskirts of #Sirte
#Libya red cross enters #Sirte
Libya, #NTC fighters reach main roundabout in eastern outskirts of #Sirte … Battling their way into the city center, #Gaddafi, #Libya
Fadwa
by SumayyahG
Mohammed Al-Furjani, a dentist from Benghazi who was martyred today in Sirte. إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…
WAPO
Gaddafi compound becomes hangout for Libyans
TRIPOLI, Libya — On a breezy Friday, the Muslim day of rest, carloads of families pushed to get through a bottleneck at the walled entrance of a place that once, they’d never dare enter.
“Looking for Frizzhead?” cracked a taxi driver, using a nickname for Moammar Gaddafi, who used to live here. “Right this way!”
Read more:
www.washingtonpost.com/world/libyans-gl...
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Booked flight direct london to tripoli on 30 october inshallah. It will be a return after 31 years! already emotional about it!!
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
LOL one of the Presenters who Left Libya Al-Ahrar is now a reporter for AlAan hahahahaha, he just asked Mustafa Abdel Jalil a question
Karybdis
On a separate note, G loyalists are now claiming they captured #Ghat from FF yesterday. Prob means they didnt/dont control it
Oct 1st #Sirte situation. East front FF consolidate around Port/hotel, take part of outer Area 3 street. W is static. pic.twitter.com/CyCfHa3Y
#Sirte FF reporting yesterday that the north of the city is free and the fronts connected. However this is so major need conf before mapping
APS: Algeria “categorically” denies the existence of talks between Algeria & Qatar over fate of #Gaddafi. bit.ly/qdvdG3
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Gaddafi’s 77 base – absolutely destroyed #libya #feb17 yfrog.com/nvb11naj
m_madi Mohamed Madi
On Sayf al-Islam: Stepping out of Gaddafi’s shadow | Nabila Ramdani | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk j.mp/qT6sob
Jibril said on Thursday that the new interim govt would only be announced when all of Libya is free from Gaddafi
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte # 2FINAL ASSAULT" MEETING held Friday betwn representatives #Misrata fighters & East Benghazi fighters #CommanderZintanBrigade #Libya
#Niger has confirmed it has a total of 32 Gaddafi loyalists on its soil, including three generals, for “humanitarian reasons.” #Libya
#Sirte Desert #FREE4ALL Fighters Loot Weapons From Desert Cache from largest known ammunition storage site in #Libya goo.gl/XneD6
#Niger President Mahamadou #Issoufou hosting Saadi Gaddafi presidential election last March thanks 2 Financial Support from #Gaddafi #Libya
#Niger to Double 2012 Budget af.reuters.com/article/libyaN… Niger increases defence spending over #Libya fallout
#China’s #African Mischief #Gaddafi’s Dirtiest Diplomatic Secrets Exposed negotiations goo.gl/E3BPf #ArmsEmbargo
AmmarParis Ammar ABD RABBO
Je croise une consoeur de #TF1 dans l’hôtel à Djerba, je la salue, lui demande si elle va à #Tripoli ou si elle en vient.. A suivre 1/2
elle me regarde, se retourne et part sans même me répondre… #TF1, une culture “maison” : la politesse !!!! Ca ne s’apprend pas !!! #Libye
Photos : Tripoli ancient synagogue… Check out this gallery on @photoshelter bit.ly/qOoVOR #Tripoli
or:
ammar.photoshelter.com/gallery/Synagogu...
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
#50Cent should come and perform in #Libya for free after seeing this picture.2Million dollars for Saadi’s Birthday!! pic.twitter.com/W6KXwAWI
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MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
NTC in #Libya denies the capture of Moosa Ibrahim. What a suprise !!
FF’s refuse Mostafa Abduljaleels request to unite their forces under the leadership of Belhadj.#Libya
Sabha17feb
#Syrte : Les quartiers de la 1ère zone serait bombardé par les forces de #Gaddafi. Des maisons auraient été touchés.
Plus de 10 blessés sur le front de #Syrte sont arrivé à #Misrata aujourd’hui.
perfectsliders perfectsliders
#Libya #Feb17 VIDEO: #Gaddafi’s ideology & symbols, begin to vanish from the NEW Libya
goo.gl/fb/HG2QX
Euronews
Residents flee fierce fighting in Sirte
Residents continue to flee Muammar Gaddaffi’s hometown of Sirte as forces from the interim Libyan government pound the coastal city.
Several residents told the Reuters news agency that they haven’t eaten for days because food supplies were scarce.
Some said they had paid up to 600 euros for petrol to leave the city as it was in such short supply.
The city has come under heavy bombardment in recent days but NTC forces have also faced stiff resistance.
In the fiercest battles for days, pro-government fighters used anti-tank guns, rocket-launchers and machine guns.
Gaddafi loyalists hit back with mortar, machine-gun and sniper fire.
Doctors at a nearby field hospital reported seeing the first cases of malnutrition among local residents.
Source and video:
www.euronews.net/2011/10/01/residents-f...
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Gadhafi home town Sirt totally surrounded by FF and G son Muatasim is believed to be inside. Hope he will b captured alive & face justice!
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Driving around busleem.. Pretty obvious that some heavy fighting took place here #libya #Tripoli
Walking around the 77 base, hit by NATO many times over the last 8 months – Amazing precision + devastation #libya yfrog.com/nyef1hjj
Families walking around and people dismantling copper wires and everything they can find – Hey Gaddafi, where are you?
This place is huge… And full of scattered mercenary uniforms, boots, pillows and empty weapon boxes
List confirming mercenaries of bangladeshi origin #Tripoli #77base yfrog.com/khkz0cvj
Pretty obvious from what I’m seeing that the 77base next to Bab al Aziziyah was were Gaddafi’s troops, weapons and vehicles were stationed
All that’s left of Gaddafi’s empire #libya #feb17 yfrog.com/nuvvcfzj
Gaddafi’s 77base – a wasteland #libya #feb17 – that’s all for today yfrog.com/nxxxeoj
Hope you enjoyed my short tour.. I’m going to visit the Rixos and the nearby forest next – after a quick lunch #libya #Tripoli
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Off to Sabha tomorrow with an FF brigade, hopefully #libya #Tripoli #Sabha
Gada
WTH it seems FF weren’t just fighting Gaddafi but fighting the mercenaries of the world
Alj:
NTC Fighters ve been forced to regroup on the edge of #Sirte, after pro #Gaddafi snipers halted a 2-week old assault on the ousted despot’s hometown
Reuters:
Aid workers from #RedCross arrived at the hometown of #Gaddafi on Saturday & are trying to enter the besieged #Libyan city #Sirte
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
Pays tribute to the Captain and crew of ‘Al Entisar’ on its last humanitarian trip from #Malta to #Misurata #Tripoli.
‘El Entisar’ ship was vital lifeline to #Misurata that resisted #Gaddafi forces and won
Tarek
Heading now to the centre of #Tripoli to see it then I may pay a visit to #Gaddafi compound (Baz Alazazia), the most feared place in past
Euronews
Libyan peace deal signed over desert town
In Libya, Tuareg tribesman signed a peace agreement on Friday with local Arabs over the Saharan desert oasis of Ghadames.
The town had been at the centre of speculation that Muammar Gaddafi was hiding locally under the protection of the tribes.
“There is no way that Gaddafi is in Ghadames or in the Tuareg area,” said one tribesman following the signing ceremony.
“We are with the new regime. We have been with them from the beginning,” added the man.
Read more and video:
www.euronews.net/2011/10/01/libyan-peac...
Latitudenews
On the medical front line of Libya’s uprising – Dr Emad
Saleyha Ahsan is a doctor, a journalist and an award winning filmmaker. She was also a captain in the British Army who served in Bosnia. For the past month Saleya has been working as a medical volunteer with Libya’s war wounded – in Tunisia and now in Tripoli. In her second despatch for Latitude News she profiles the chief doctor in the hospital in Tunisian desert, Dr Emad Abosrewel
Full story:
www.latitudenews.com/story/on-the-medic...
khald02 kha02
by septimius_sever
Today i saw car plate just 17 02 2011 #Libya #Benghazi
Poor Shakir & Poor Gaddafi #Benghazi #Libya twitpic.com/6taon3
First exhibition for the crimes of the tryant Muammar Gaddafi #Libya #Benghazi twitpic.com/6tajiy
#Benghazi #Libya Olabarri exhibition twitpic.com/6talug
AdiKhair
I saw at least 3 funerals in #Benghazi’s yesterday, young men still dying in Sirte and Bani Walid. Clearly the conflict is not over yet
Many Libyans also seem reluctant to express their political views as they wait for the country to be fully liberated. #Benghazi #Libya
septimius severus
Advice: if your dad is a falling dictator you SHOULD really delete all ur personal porn collection, especially ones starting ur wife #Libya
mtawfeeqCNN Mohammed Tawfeeq
2 stop families from fleeing #Sirte, Pro-Gadhafi forces fired mortar round on civilian car &killed 3
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
LIVE on Libya Al-Ahrar Mustafa Abdel Jalil
justinmarozzi Justin Marozzi
Just spoken to Taher in #Ghadames, being mobbed by friends & family celebrating his release, freed last night, alhamdulillah ala salaamat!
NaelTheLibyan Nael Mogherbi
He is HERE! – إنه هنا – #Libya #Gaddafi #Feb17 twitpic.com/6t6se3
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Going into month 2 in #Libya. Need a mani/pedi REAL bad…
Reuters: #Libya Jew returns home after 44-year exile. #Gaddafi expelled Libya’s 38,000 Jews in 1969.
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/01/us-l...
BirgerHost Birger v. Host
#Libya: “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
FromJoanne Joanne
#Revo Forces COMPLETELY surrounded #SIRTE Taken 1st Residential Area +Hotel with Snipers Heavy Street fighting Advanced to 5KM from Center
So its 100% sure #Jibril will not stand 4 elections RT @WilliamsJon NTC promise part of transition in #Libya but not stand 4 election #Libya
bencnn benwedeman
Started in Tunisia, then Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen…now USA?? Watching growing #occuppywallstreet movement with interest. #jan25
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libyan ‘rebel Jew’ returns home after 44-year exile with hopes to join new government goo.gl/AWYAn
hominoid555 Russell
In pictures: Curious vehicle on the road to Sirte
bbc.in/mPLhSC
Detected a mass grave in Misurata – special Posted 2 days ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CBrTwmz8-g&fea...
Misratapost Kapau martyrdom of a number of FFs on guard duty at the gate of Badr No other details on this incident between Kapau and Tighe
Nasr Anaizi
Royston to twin with Benghazi tgr.ph/puJsEW” رويستن تنشد التوأمة مع بنغازي
Video: the arrest of Gaddafi mercenaries with guns and military gear and personal papers
www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=140410726057873
hominoid555 Russell
Turkish commercial plane lands in Libyan capital, first since no- fly zone. news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/wo…
or:
news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/20...
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING: The killing of Mohammed Thou field commander in Gaddafi forces in Sirte.
Salam Tekbali
Just got word of clashes between Nalut and Bedr. 2 dead. This violence needs to stop!!! #Libya
All Voices
More evidence of the slaughter by Qaddafi: 350 bodies in mass graves
In total, three graves were discovered last night. The largest contained more than 300 bodies, while others have allowed excavation recovered 57 more bodies respectively.
Moreover, a detachment of rebel forces moving towards the farm Daouw Mansur one
of the closest associates of the deposed Muammar Gaddafi, to verify the accuracy of the information on the existence of another mass grave.
Former head of security brigades of the former regime of Gaddafi, General Daowu refuge in Niger is currently in the company of Saadi, one of Gadhafi’s sons, and other former high-ranking dignitaries.
The information on mass graves have been collected after the interrogation of former members of the brigades loyal to Khadafi, the sources said.
On 25 September, the new Libyan authorities announced they had discovered a mass grave in the neighborhood where is situated the Abu Salim prison, with about 1270 residues.
The bodies discovered in this grave could correspond to detainees in the prison who were killed by the Gaddafi regime in 1996, after a failed rebellion.
Two days later, another six bodies were dug up in the hotel garden Rexos.
So far none of the bodies found have been identified by lack of resources and responsible for the new regime have launched an appeal to international organizations to help them in that case.
Source:
www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1049...
Nasr
Classes resume Oct 15th in the University of Tripoli #tripoli #Libya
Reuters
Niger increases 2012 budget by 52.7 percent
Niger increases defence spending over Libya fallout
Plans to raise over half of budget through revenues
To invest in agriculture, infrastructure
Niger’s government adopted late on Friday a 2012 budget for the West African nation of 1.425 trillion CFA francs ($2.9 billion), 52.7 percent more from the previous year as
defence spending rises to deal with fallout from the Libyan conflict.
The poor semi-arid nation on the edge of the Sahara desert has called for international help to secure its northern border with Libya. It fears weapons looted from Libya’s armoury could be brought through the country’s porous nearly 600 km border and used to destabilise countries in the region.
Read more:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Jaleel: The same people will be incharge of the institutions until all the areas in #Libya are Free.
Jaleel: All Judges that were against the Revolution will be excluded.
he was speaking at a press conference on Libya Al Ahrar.
MOUSSA IBRAHIM:
Just been with sitting with 2 FF who have made it from Tobruk to Tripoli by car. #Libya
i have news that it might not be a lie.There are strong links saying that he ( Moussa Ibrahim) is in Misrata right now
Just been with 2FFs who have just arrived from East frontline and slept in Misrata. Moosa Ibrahim has been captured and its not a lie!
(Why isn’t he shown yet) i think maybe he got a beating when he was caught and they cant show that
i am just repeating what i have heard.My explanation is that whoever caught him hit him badly so he cant be shown just yet
well what i think is that maybe whoever caught him punched him a few times.so he cant be shown yet !!
there is rumours it tried to run away as a SHE. :p
Executive office have set up a plan to bring over some Built houses for the people that houses have been demolished like in #Brega
Executive Office in #Libya who Mahmoud Jibreal is incharge of said the Japenese government said houses could be ready within 2months #Libya
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
FF’s in #Libya now have control of Saadi’s Brigades HQ and also the Area No1 in Sirt.
im off out with the FF’s now for dinner :)
Tweeting Tripoli
We have been ruled by minority (Gadadfa tribe) for more than 40 yrs. We won’t let that happen again.
Gaddafi’s goons believed in black magic. Lots of weird stuff found in a house belonged to G thugs in Arada, Tripoli.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8HIWwsUS-I&fea...
BirgerHost Birger v. Host
Libya: situation in #Sirte today:
pic.twitter.com/3Aa3baio #Feb17
Comprehensive report of latest developments Libyaupdates, via @al_omari Libya Sep30
Libya, Sep 30, 2011
By Hussein Al-Omari on Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 8:26am
(Sources: Aljazeera)
1. Gaddafi forces bombed Sirte airport with rockets. The airport fell I the hands of the revolutionary fighters earlier in the week.
2. Controlling the airport opens the way to controlling Abu Hadi, south west of the airport.
3. Abu Hadi is the place where El-Saeidi Al-Gaddafi and his battalion are taking position to attach other places.
4. NATO planes bombed places in Sirte on Thursday.
5. In Bani Walid, an NTC forces leader asked for more help from NATO to gain control of the city.
6. The revolutionat fighters are still waiting for more supplies, fighters, and heavy weaponry like rockets and tanks.
7. An NTC spokesman discredited the rumors that Musa Ibrahim, Gaddafi’s spokesperson, was captured.
8. The spokesperson for NTC said if Misrata fighters had captured Musa Ibrahim they would have told us.
9. In Ghadamis, 600 km south of Tripoli, a meeting was held to make peace between Tuareg and Arab residents of the city.
10. Suleiman Al-Obeidi, an NTC representative, attended the Tuareg-Arab meeting saying there has been a conflict since July 17.
11. Clashes happened this past month between the Tuareg and military militias supporting the revolution.
12. A member of NTC accused the Tuareg of protecting Gaddafi stating that Gaddafi may be in their area.
13. The UN Human Rights Council had a unanimous agreement to restore the membership of Libya in the council.
14. Libya’s membership in the UN Human Rights Council was revoked early in the year after killing peaceful protesters.
15. NTC promised that the new government will observe all the laws and will cooperate with the council mechanisms.
16. Human Rights Watch in New York asked NTC to prevent its forces from committing human rights violations in jails an arrest areas.
Sirtawi
2 families killed today as they tried to flee #Sirte. One was heading east, while the other headed west. Gaddafi forces targeting everyone!
BBC
In pictures: Curious vehicle on the road to Sirte
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15136003
Karybdis
The Guardian is very confused. They say NTC has taken the “1st Residential District” Do they mean #3? #1 is in the middle of the city.
Landmark Turkish passenger flight lands in #Tripoli:
on.msnbc.com/n49vyh #Feb17 #Libya
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Après 2 semaines, les combattants du CNT butent toujours à #Syrte sur la résistance farouche des forces loyalistes #Libye
#Libye: les pro-Kadhafi résistent, le sort des prisonniers critiqué
j.mp/qT5EQS
1/2 – L’Allemagne a étouffé des procédures visant Saif Al-Arab #Kadhafi j.mp/quP9kA #Libye de 2006 à 2010 : 11 enquêtes bloquées
2/2 – 11 enquêtes concernant des trafics d’armes, violences sur personne, conduites sans permis et outrage à policier …
Les tireurs embusqués pro-Kadhafi font des ravages quand les combattants CNT s’approchent du centre
j.mp/qT5EQS #Libye
HRW appelle le CNT et ses soutiens intx à mettre sur pied sans délai un système judiciaire capable de traiter la situation des prisonniers.
Le commandement CNT mise sur les effets du siège: Les hommes de Kadhafi n’ont plus d’électricité, sont à cours de nourriture et de munitions
A Bani Walid, les pro-CNT ont renoncé à combattre samedi après avoir constaté la présence de boucliers humains
j.mp/qT5EQS
Papy fait de la résistance
j.mp/nKhftD
Après une vie gâchée par “le diable”, à 58 ans, Lamine retrouve un sang neuf #Syrte #Libye
Anaya
Same problem in BaniWalid: the FF stopped so as not to injure human shields.
Jon Williams
Good to see BBC Tripoli correspondent Rana Jawad. Braved fighting across #Libya for 7 months, Gaddafi’s intimidation for 7 years. Inspiring.
FromJoanne Joanne
#Chad + Ukrainian Snipers pattern: Aim first @ feet then legs then chest R they “playing” with their targets? goo.gl/Vy1Ju #Libya
#GoodNews #Tunisia n medical team left Saturday morning aboard military plane heading for #Tripoli ten for Al #Khoms goo.gl/tN2jk
Othman
If Jews think they have the right to return to Libya, they should acknowledge the Palistinian right return to Palistine
#SIRTE #ICRC delivered Urgent Medical #Aid to 200 Wounded in #Sirte #Hospital for the first time #Libya
Mushu
Just got a call from my aunt from #Zawiya. She told us they (حرائر الزاوية) had been working all day preparing 4000 1/2 #Libya #Feb17 #UNITY
servings of coucous to be taken tomorrow to the freedom fighters in the western front line of #Sirt. Masha Allah. 2/2 #Zawiya #Libya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Instead of Rixos al Nasr we decided to visit Zawiya instead – just drove past khamis’ 32nd brigade headquarters. Scary place. #libya #feb17
Zawiya… Loads of destruction when Gaddafi forces took this city in March #libya #feb17
Heading to where zawiya’s mosque once stood… Signs of 6 months of fighting all round #libya #feb17
Just passed over the famous bridge where aljazeera and others filmed when FF entered Zawiya from Nafusa #libya #feb17
DavidPoort David Poort
Top US commander for Africa says the military mission in #Libya is largely complete. aje.me/qpyH4C #feb17
News 24
Sirte civilians given chance to leave: NTC
Tripoli – The chief of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC), Mustafa Abdel Jalil, said on Saturday that civilians were being given a chance to leave Sirte, as battles raged in Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown.
“A chance of two days has been given by the revolutionaries near Sirte so that civilians can leave the city. This chance may give the biggest number of residents the
opportunity to leave. It started yesterday," Abdel Jalil told a news conference in Benghazi aired live on Libyan television.
Full art.:
www.news24.com/Africa/News/Sirte-civili...
Aljazeera
The top US commander for Africa says the military mission in Libya is largely complete and NATO’s involvement could begin to wrap up as soon as next week when allied leaders meet in Brussels.
Army Gen. Carter Ham, head of US Africa Command, tells The Associated Press that NATO ministers will review the situation and could decide to end the mission.
He says that US intelligence and surveillance assets, such as drones, will likely stay in the region for some time once the NATO mission ends, particularly to help the Libyan government with key issues such as border security and non-proliferation of weapons.
But he says air strikes would likely end, unless specifically requested by the Libyan transitional government.
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
another day of chaotic fighting in #Sirte suddenly offensive against ouagadougou building plenty of shooting snipers and RPGs #Libya
( = huge conference center)
after around three hours NTC fighters retreated still heavy resistance from Gaddafi side #Libya
fighting in an open area before ouagadougou no cover #Sirte #Libya
question to the fighters: there is any wall to hide? yes they said there was a wall but they were in the side exposed to the snipers #Libya
later on when they retreated the main road that bypass #Sirte came under sniper and RPGs fire our car targeted by 1 but missed #Libya
as usual NTC fightes laughing when they see us running from the RPG explosion “come to eat no problem” they said #Sirte #Libya
only wounded as far as I know until 4 pm
Otro día de fuertes combates sin lógica en el frente de #Sirte un ataque inesperado contra la ciudad francotiradores cohetes etc #Libia
Moussa Ibrahim:
Mussa Ibrahim just told AFP he has not been captured – source SKY live
#Musa Ibrahim #Gaddafi’s spokesman is on a call now to Al Rai TV
SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
AFP: Gaddafi’s spokesman Moussa Ibrahim denies claims he has been captured
derek_brower Derek Brower
Some mercenaries fighting in Libya and killing other muslims…. have been doing so to raise money for Haj.
AP The Associated Press
Military mission in Libya is largely complete, NATO mission could begin to wrap up soon, top U.S. commander says:
apne.ws/nCW1gU -RJJ
derek_brower Derek Brower
Theories from #Libya rebel friend: Mutasim killed papa #Gaddafi six weeks ago; Khamis alive leading Sirte battle; & regime killed Younis
Aljazeera
Passengers from Istanbul arrived at Tripoli’s airport on Saturday on the first commercial international flight to land in the Libyan capital since the international coalition imposed a no-fly zone over the country last March.
Flags representing Turkey and Libya’s new leadership flew outside Mitiga International Airport as the flight landed.
Inside the airport, passengers waited patiently and queued at the check-in desk to board the next flight.
“We are going to Turkey for business because it has been a long time since we travelled. We are happy that the airline is back in the meantime and we thank God,” said Tripoli resident Mohammed al-Jaroushi.
The U.N. Security Council resolution imposed the no-fly zone as part of international efforts to protect anti-government protesters under attack from Gaddafi loyalists.
Captured Chadian Mercenaries in Sirte (Libya), Sept. 29, 2011. سرت
These two Chadian mercenaries were captured during fighting in the city of Sirte (Libya). They had military equipment with them at the time of the capture.
You can also see the witchcraft that he is carrying with him supposedly to protect him during the fighting.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtrWngB_uv0
libyanfsl
Two additional mass graves discovered in Sirte today, one under Ibn Sina hospital & one under Refak School inside water well #Feb17 #Libya
#Libye: près de 5.000 missiles sol-air SAM-7 pas encore retrouvés
j.mp/nk9AQt
1/3 – Abdeljalil : #Syrte et #BaniWalid sont des zones désertiques, les appros sont difficiles www.romandie.com/news/n/_Libye_le_CNT_l... #Libye
2/3 – Les combattants eux-mêmes manquent d’expertise et d’organisation. Trop de munitions sont gaspillées #Libye
3/3 – Mais la situation sur ces 2 lignes de front est bonne. Il existe un plan coordonné entre ces deux zones, la victoire sera bientôt là
Abdeljalil psdt du CNT : les combattants laissent deux jours aux civils pour fuir #Syrte assiégée
j.mp/q7V9JH #Libye
#Libye : le CICR entre dans #Syrte europe1.fr/International/… pour apporter des fournitures médicales
Aljazeera
Libya’s interim government forces will call a two-day truce to allow civilians to leave the besieged hometown of Muammar Gaddafi, the chairman of the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) said on Saturday.
Residents have been streaming out of Sirte in their hundreds over the last few days as NTC forces backed by NATO warplanes intensified their shelling of the coastal city in an effort to dislodge fighters loyal to Gaddafi.
Reuters
Heavy fighting in Sirte
Oct. 1 – Fierce resistence keeps NTC pinned down on eastern front of Sirte. Rough Cut. (No reporter narration
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n0sJtezv9k
Aljazeera
Mussa Ibrahim, the spokesman for Muammar Gaddafi, denied on Saturday claims he had been captured by forces of the country’s new regime outside of the deposed Libyan leader’s hometown of Sirte.
“This information is a lie and does not reflect reality,” a man claiming to be Ibrahim said live on Syrian-based Arrai television, which has become a conduit for declarations by Gaddafi and other elements of his former regime.
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
Red Cross gets medicine into #Libya’s besieged #Sirte
trust.org/alertnet/news/…
Former Prime Minister of Libya confesses racial motivation behind repression of amazigh in Zuwara
L’interception et la diffusion par la télévision Libya TV (Libya Al Ahrar) d’une conversation téléphonique impliquant Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi (ar: البغدادي علي المحمودي) ancien premier ministre du régime libyen déchu et homme de main du fugitif Muammar Bumenyar Al-Qathafi a.k.a Gaddafi, recherché par Interpol et la CPI pour crimes des guerre et crimes contre l’Humanité, révèle au grand jour les mobiles également racistes qui ont motivé la répression particulièrement brutale qui s’est abattue les 14 et 15 mars 2011 contre la minorité berbère libyenne habitant de la ville de Zuwara (dans l’ouest du pays du côté de la frontière tunisienne) et l’encerclement et le quadrillage particulièrement inhumain pendant plus de quatre (4) mois qu’ont eu à subir les habitants de cette ville.
Read more and video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1trXP3WIT4&fea...
88simon88 simon
CRAZY! 11 INVESTIGATIONS done in 4 years (Germany) in order 2 prosecute SEIF AL ARAB 4 arms trafiking, violence. But never finished
FromJoanne Joanne
U.S. may be able to help re-establish #Libya ’s Coast Guard and maritime domain
#SIRTE 2day Long car queues with fleeing families calmly waiting 2b checked by fighters@checkpoints as explosions echo in th distance #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli’s main international airport south of the capital, has yet to resume normal operations #Libya
#MoreGoodNews Moussa #Ibrahim claimed on Syrian-based TV station Al-Rai that he was traveling with 23 fighters inside #Sirte #Libya
#Sirte Gunfire Close your eyes after you click on the link and keep yr head down hosted.ap.org/audio/20111001… #Libya
or:
hosted.ap.org/audio/20111001113200-139.mp3
#MusaIbrahim via Phone: This information of my capture is a lie and does not reflect reality since I was near #Sirte Front with 23 fighters
Musa #Ibrahim babbled abt a New Strategy Launched #NOONA #MIME its 2 Transform situation in #Libya into that like #Afghanistan
misrati_free
#Tripoli Main International Airport is Surrounded by an area with Gaddafi loyalists in it that is yet to be cleared #Libya
NTC fighters ‘seal off’ Gaddafi’s hometown
Libya’s National Transitional Council fighters from the east of the country have linked up with those from the west.
They are battling Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in his hometown of Sirte, and have reached one of the city’s main roundabouts.
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr has this exclusive report.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4orSWl2hcO8&fea...
Libya endgame carries new risks for NATO
BRUSSELS, Oct 1: NATO commanders face a tough balancing act during the bloody battle for Muammar Gaddafi’s last strongholds, Sirte and Bani Walid. NATO allies would like to let the National Transitional Council (NTC) claim victory in these battles and war for itself. That would enhance the council’s legitimacy as the new ruler of Libya after Gaddafi’s four decades in power, and bolster the chances of a stable democracy taking root in the country.
But the European governments that led NATO’s air campaign in Libya also need to remain long enough and engaged enough to make sure the success so far is not diminished by a messy withdrawal. If NATO quietly stepped aside but fighting restarted, that would diminish Europe’s standing in Libya and tarnish a campaign that has been seen as a success for Europeans.
Read more:
theindependentbd.com/international/euro...
Niz_FGM Niz
Back in the UK – amazing to hear support they had for us during the uprising. People who didnt know Libya talking about our towns & cities
Youm 7
Germany overlooked claims against Gadhafi son: report
BERLIN – German officials buried numerous criminal allegations against ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s son Seif al-Arab for fear of damaging bilateral ties, the weekly Der Spiegel reported Saturday.
Germany’s foreign ministry had on five occasions informed justice officials in Munich that investigations against Seif al-Arab Gadhafi, who studied there, could create diplomatic problems with Libya.
Between 2006 and 2010, Germany police had opened 11 investigations against the former strongman’s son on allegations including arms trafficking, violence, driving
without a license and insulting a police officer.
But all the probes were blocked, with police suspecting German intelligence of thwarting their work, the magazine reported.
Members of Gadhafi’s former regime say that Seif al-Arab and three of Gadhafi’s grandchildren were killed in a NATO air strike on Tripoli on April 30, but Italian President Silvio Berlusconi has denied this.
Source:
english.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=345990
(FYI: obviously the wrong pic was used for above art.)
HRW
Libya: Evidence from Mass Graves at Risk
Several mass graves have been uncovered in Libya. But with the country in turmoil, forensic evidence is at risk of being destroyed or lost. Stefan Schmitt of Physicians for Human Rights and HRW’s Fred Abrahams discuss the need to halt exhumations and protect grave sites in order to pursue justice.
Podcast:
www.hrw.org/audio/2011/09/30/libya-evid...
AliTweel
This is exactly why we should never judge by appearance. Sometimes the little God gives you, is very deep.
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Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
i really want a libya mug!
misrati_free
Great news, #Alentissar will return to Malta to deliver 2 more shipments to #Sirte refugees in #Misurata and later in #Sirte itself. #IGOAID
Qahtani Mohammad Qahtani
I wonder if Rixos prices dropped down now?!
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Libya needs ur degree! no proper development without women. Women r not created for cooking! best chefs in the world r men!!
ouch! S
LIBTRIP Tarek Alwan
A photo from the gathering about creating a civil society in #Libya.
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Young #Libyans expressing their views and idea on how to create a civil society in #Libya
Police cars which are donated by #UAE, are visible everywhere in #Tripoli, making life feel safer. #Libya
went well, had discussions about establishing it and keeping going
There was a party for children in #Dahra, last night and went on till 10pm, was a great atmosphere. #Libya
Guardian
Muammar Gaddafi and the justice tyrants face
When Interpol announced its “red notice” arrest warrants for Muammar Gaddafi and his son, Saif al-Islam, it served as a reminder that if they are captured, it won’t just be the Libyan rebels knocking at the Gaddafi door, but also the knock of justice. Times have changed since “Brother Leader” took power in 1969.
Read more:
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifame...
derek_brower Derek Brower
most still call themselves “rebels”. Haven’t met anyone who says he was in “NTC forces”. But I take your point.
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, #ICRC says situation dire in #Sirte after team visits besieged city, #Libya, #Gaddafi
#Libya, #ICRC says people are dying due to lack of basic medical care in #Sirte, #Libya, #Gaddafi
alssomood
Ali AlTrabelsi was killed w son AbdelKader(5yrs) & baby Amna(9mths) after Gaddafi thugs shelled their car in #Sirte
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Tripoli’s residents call time on celebratory gunfire
bit.ly/qfUS2w #libya
UK architects gear up to resume working in Libya
bit.ly/mUw3KU
Libyan detainees describe abuse and torture
bit.ly/oFTA3t #libya
4Adam Adam
According to Libya.tv (run by the NTC) “Libyan provisional government will help restore the synagogues in Tripoli” #Libya #priorities
Sumayyah
Excited that a bunch of my cousins in Libya are getting engaged. Can’t wait to party it up with them in Benghazi soon inshaAllah
Picture: Libyan fighter lost his hand in battle, but continues to fight on the front line MashaAllah #Libya #Feb17
pic.twitter.com/W6dXj7ia
FromJoanne Joanne
As the war 4 liberation raged in #Libya Paranoia surrounded any talk of politics on #Libyas social networking sites goo.gl/pOajT
Thank God I have always loved reading but I dont think I have ever read as much as the last 9 months #Libya
AP The Associated Press
Libyan family killed by machine-gun fire while fleeing battles in Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown:
apne.ws/idMWwt -CJ
4Adam Adam
Chavez said on Sat "I was praying for Muammar Gaddafi and also sent a message of solidarity to Assad against “Yankee” aggression" #RESPECT
Jerusalem Post
Venezuela’s Chavez sends solidarity to Gaddafi, Assad
South American leader says Syria, Libya "resisting imperial aggression, the attacks of the Yankee empire and its European allies”.
CARACAS – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday he was praying for Libya’s deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi and also sent a message of solidarity to Syrian President Bashar Assad against “Yankee” aggression.
Chavez — who has inherited Fidel Castro’s mantle as Washington’s main irritant in Latin America — views the wave of uprisings in the Arab world as Western-led
destabilization and has been a strong ally of Gaddafi.
Read more:
www.jpost.com/International/Article.asp...
Comment from tweeter to above story:
Tom
Original headline for this story: “Huge Chavez is a giant pr*** and a pseudo-revolutionary fraud”
hominoid555 Russell
Libya’s National Transitional Council fighters from the east of the country have linked up with those from the west in Sirte
WilliamsJon Jon Williams
Good night in Tripoli. Fish market in Tajoura buzzing at dinner. Team gathered to salute BBC #Libya reporter Rana Jawad
twitpic.com/6tn0t3
septimius_sever septimius severus
Gaddafi Solider arrested in #Tripoli after finding a video on his mobile phone of 2 young women being raped
Gaddafi soldier described how he & his unit had raped seven women in #Dafniya, west of #Misrata
Gaddafi soldier & his comrades stormed into farmhouses & repeatedly raped teenage girls.
Gadaffi’s rapists and robbers find mercy in militia jails
Full art. behind pay wall: www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world... #Libya
ben3ati:
Just to let you know #Libya will never be like #Iraq because we have #Sallabi. We might be like #Iran”
Sirte Saturday 01/10/2011 one martyr and 11 wounded
From G goon:
SPALATONS
Khamis al-Gaddafi: We will win or die! 01.October 2011.
Khamis al-Gaddafi: We will win or die!
by Jazira Chuibekova on Saturday, 01 October 2011 at 14:23
In a telephone conversation with his classmate on the Academy. Frunze operating officer of the Russian army, Sergei, Khamis al-Gaddafi gave thanks to the people of Russia, which supports the struggle of the Libyan people against the invaders. “Argumenty.ru” quoted Khamis al-Gaddafi fully, removing only the full name of the classmate.
“Thank you to all our classmates and teachers who could give me a little bit of the spirit of your people-winner, and taught to adequately assess the combat situation, gave valuable combat experience and skills. I am proud that I had such a teacher, I deserve them – time will tell .
Thanks to all those who support us being in Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet republics. And especially – those brave souls of your people who were with us shoulder to shoulder to defend my country against aggression. We will win or die, give
up or run no one is going. To die fighting side by side with warriors – a dream for any defender of his country. In any case, to have friends in the Russian people – an honor for the Libyan, and it’s already been written on the pages of the history of Libya, Allah witness. In the words of your Russian song – “This land will be ours if we do not die in battle!” But Libya will always be ours, even if we perish!
Much has now changed in the world. Who would have thought that all that will turn out. But do you remember – that’s what we prepared and studied. And this trial we endure it with valor. Not to say the UK (the French) and American newspapers and TV – most of the population supports us. And we will not abandon them, will not allow looting and massacre. So it is. But our enemies are traitors carried him outside Libya, sells to the capitalist-colonialists. I ordered through any media to inform the international community about NATO and their crimes the rebels, to spread the information after each raid on civilian targets and civilians, after each battle or massacre of ordinary Libyans and foreigners. I want to be sure that Libya is now a river flowing blood is not for nothing that the world finally sees what a UN and the so-called “civilized West.”
Our blood is not cheap. None of the traitor and indifferent will not sleep until the end of my days, I swear by God and honored the Libyan Army officers. Take care of yourself, your family and your country. Once again, our friendship, Sergei, an honor for me. "
SUMMARY OCTOBER 2nd 2011
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10/02/11
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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/ovHzc
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Sat: RAF aircraft destroyed a supply base for Qadhafi’s anti-artillery weapons in Sirte using four Paveway precision guided bombs.
Sat eve: RAF aircraft destroyed an armed pick-up truck being used by former regime forces with a direct hit from a Brimstone missile. #Libya
MOD UK
RAF and Royal Navy continue action against Gaddafi forces
The Royal Navy and RAF have been in action all week against Colonel Gaddafi’s forces who continue to operate indiscriminately in Sirte and Bani Walid
NATO maintained a constant aerial presence over both towns during Thursday, when, in the morning, a formation of RAF Tornado GR4s was tasked with a strike on a staging post and ammunition store being used by Gaddafi’s remaining tanks and armed vehicles in Sirte. Severe damage was inflicted on a number of targets at the location.
An armed reconnaissance patrol over Bani Walid meanwhile destroyed with four Paveway guided bombs ammunition stores which had been successfully located by NATO surveillance operations.
In the course of Thursday afternoon, RAF aircraft inflicted further destruction on
ammunition stockpiles in Bani Walid, then proceeded east to Sirte where they joined another RAF patrol in a precision strike on another supply point being used by former regime tanks and rocket launchers.
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, RAF Tornado GR4s struck military targets at a large ammunition and vehicle storage depot which has been supporting Colonel Gaddafi’s troops within Sirte. The site was also hit by the RAF on Tuesday.
NATO maintained a constant presence over the city throughout Wednesday, and, in the course of these patrols, RAF aircraft conducted further precision strikes on a group of buildings which had been identified as a headquarters and staging post for former regime forces, and on two firing positions.
500-pound (227kg) and 1,000-pound (454kg) Paveway bombs employing laser and GPS guidance successfully destroyed each of these targets.
At sea, Royal Navy vessels have maintained their patrols off the Libyan coast, with HMS Bangor providing security to merchant shipping by conducting precautionary mine countermeasure surveys to ensure there is no residual mine threat from the conflict.
4Adam Adam
Safwat ElZayat: When Libyans face a political crisis, go to the graves of young martyrs &listen"We given u #FreeLibya, wat did you do to it"
CNN
Anti-Gadhafi tribes clash in two Libyan locales
Members of two Libyan tribes — who fought together to unseat Moammar Gadhafi and his loyalists — clashed Saturday, infighting among opposition forces that comes as a key ally of the longtime leader vowed to keep up the fight.
Ahmed Hussein, a resident of Badr, told CNN that Berber tribesmen from Nalut used Kalashnikov rifles and machine guns in an attack on Seaan Arab forces in that mountainous western Libyan city. A family of three caught in the crossfire was killed, he claimed.
Full art.:
edition.cnn.com/2011/10/01/world/africa...
Gulf News
Libyan council should focus on building nation
As the fighting for control of the last remaining Muammar Gaddafi strongholds in Libya continues, it is important that the bigger picture of what needs to be done in the country remains in focus. Libya has experienced tremendous changes over the past few months and it is how these events are taken forward by the people that will determine the kind of future they will have.
The fighting has intensified between forces of the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) and those loyal to Gaddafi. Losses of pro-Gaddafi forces have been heavy in the city of Sirte as well as in Bani Walid.
Read full art.:
gulfnews.com/opinions/editorials/libyan...
BintTarablis
Libyan family killed by machine-gun fire while fleeing battles in Gaddafi’s hometown – Winnipeg Free Press
bit.ly/paGh81 #Libya
Telegraph
Libyans urge Britain: ‘Honour David Cameron’s pledge and take our wounded soon’
Promises by David Cameron to help those injured in the uprising against Colonel Gaddafi have not yet been kept, reports Nick Meo in Tripoli
The Libyan crowd waved Union Jacks and revolutionary flags as the Prime Minister’s helicopter came in to land at Tripoli Medical Centre, and then David Cameron bounded out to a hero’s welcome. The cheers on his historic visit last month were loudest when he announced that severely injured casualties from the war against Muammar Gaddafi would be brought to Britain for treatment.
But The Sunday Telegraph has learnt that only one boy has been evacuated to a National Health Service hospital, and it is still not clear when Britain will start receiving wounded from Libya as the Prime Minister promised.
Full story:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
FF from Misrata stockpiling weapons: “we may have to wage war against rival factions or politicians …” #TellMeAllOK http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020413820457660 3151886692530.html#articleTabs%3Darticle
Reuters
Niger gov said that #Libya’s #NTC were welcome to question #Saadi #Gaddafi, who has taken refuge in #Niger, but it was unlikely that he would be extradited to Libya any time soon.
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
#Sirte hospital hit by rebel rockets while the Red Cross was inside this afternoon; rebels ceased fire but say Gaddafi command inside
Red Cross said humanitarian situation in #sirte hospital dire- no oxygen for patients or fuel for power generators
Adi
Libyan friend said that durin 1st days of revolution pple did not know w/ what 2 replace the old flag so they used praying carpets #Benghazi
Ahmed
I saw the respectful manner in which the checkpoint security used when driving through, and their pride and true happiness in their eyes…
It restored pride again to Libya, and no matter what hardship befalls us now, I am a lot happier here in Libya than I have ever been before!
MashAllah on all of the revolutionaries of February 17. InshAllah your final reward is with Allah! You’ve made every Libyan proud! #libya
Oppressed people will never forget. History will always remember.
Hamza
the only people i know who rule with the belief of a utopia are dictators.
malonebarry Barry Malone
Niger says NTC can come chat with Saadi Gaddafi but no possibility of extradition. Like going on a date with no possibility of etc
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Royston to twin with Benghazi is.gd/eOOxoe #Libya
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Libya’s Newest Concern: Looming Political Battles bit.ly/oiubvz
Karybdis
Oct 2 #Sirte situation map.
NTC announces it controls Area 3 and 1. Now mapped, awaiting confirmation on ground.
pic.twitter.com/04iC5W6I
Sarah
“Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.”
Niz_FGM Niz Look at this boy, killed by celebratory fire, buried today in
#Misrata goo.gl/0BX0m THIS MUST STOP #libya
Check out Haraer #Misrata Society’s FB pageon.fb.me/pwM2vS I worked with this charity when I was there, truly amazing group.#Libya
WilliamsJon Jon Williams
Brief stop in Malta heading home from Tripoli. #Libya still got huge challenges. Plenty of enthusiasm – but patience also necessary.
Aljazeera
AJA reporter update on #Sirte: bit.ly/r1PgSg
Intensive Nato flights, clashes in AbuHadi 25km S of Sirte, E&W f fighers collaborating.
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, Some families leaving #AbuHadi town southern outskirts of #Sirte, Libya,Gaddafi
Mairi
NTC Forces in Libya must not use hospitals as military HQs this is also breaking Geneva Convention
Vermondo
BREAKING! Moussa Ibrahim, the fugitive spokesman for Gaddafi, denied being Moussa Ibrahim!! Libya #surreal
libyanandproud
Not Gaddafi was sold more than 10000 missiles was never a problem for anyone? Who did u think he was going to use them against?
Tarek Alwan
The main gates to Gaddafi Compound in Bab Alaziziya in Tripoli, Libya, taken by me on Sunday 02/10.11
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The main gates to Gaddafi Compound in Bab Alaziziya inTripoli, Libya, taken on Sunday 02/10.11
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#Tripoli Port looks very busy with many ships uploading containers, life seems coming back to normality. Libya
twitpic.com/6u1lw4
Le point
Libya – The people of Tripoli demanded the withdrawal of armed fighters
Hundreds of fighters have flooded the whole to make Tripoli Libya, but in the capital now in the hands of anti-Gaddafi for over a month, residents, angered by the shooting in the city are more likely to demand the departure of armed men. Taking Bab al-Aziziyah, the headquarters of Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli, the Libyan authorities of the new fighters ended 41 years of rule of the Guide still at large, but their installation in the capital is now a threat to stability, consider the Tripolitans.
Read more:
www.lepoint.fr/monde/libye-les-habitant...
A picture of Corantia Hotel, where most NTC and journalists stay in#Tripoli, I took it just a few mins ago Libya
twitpic.com/6u1ilj
ICRC
The ICRC delivered medical kits for treating up to 200 people wounded in the fighting to Sirte hospital, as well as fuel to run its generators, the organisation said.
However, a team of four aid workers, who also had security clearance from pro-Gaddafi forces, were not able to go inside the hospital due to heavy gunfire, the spokesman said.
“They went to the hospital but were not able to see patients, they didn’t go into the wards,” Marcal Izard said.
Doctors at the hospital – which has no power – told the aid workers there were 200 patients inside.
BBC
People in the besieged Libyan city of Sirte are in desperate need of
medical aid, the International Red Cross has warned.
A team from the organisation has taken some supplies to the main hospital in the town, one of the last strongholds of Colonel Gaddafi’s supporters.
The transitional government’s forces have been launching assaults on the city for days.
NIGER
Niger’s justice minister, who is also the government spokesman, said on Niger national television late on Saturday that Saadi could be questioned under an existing cooperation agreement between Tripoli and Niamey.
“If it is to question Saadi, the National Transitional Council (NTC), which we have recognised, can freely come to Niger, under the existing accord,” said Marou Amadou.
“However, I reaffirm that at this stage…there is no possibility of extraditing Saadi, because ultimately what needs to be applied is international conventions,” he said.
Saadi’s exact whereabouts in Niamey have not been disclosed.
AP
Tensions are rising in Tripoli as increasingly frustrated residents call on hundreds of armed Libyan fighters who stayed in the city after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi to leave.
Fighters from across Libya flooded into the capital in late August to help overthrow Gaddafi’s 42-year regime and many have stayed put, provoking concern among many residents and raising fears over the capital’s future stability.
Militia fighters from cities such as Misrata and Zintan man checkpoints around the city, wander the streets with automatic rifles and speed through city roads in pick-up trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns.
Residents blame them for eruptions of automatic gunfire that still echo through the streets of Tripoli every night.
TURKEY
A Turkish Airlines passenger plane landed in Tripoli Saturday noon, the first international commercial flight to arrive in the Libyan capital since the establishment of a no-fly zone in the war-torn country in March, a Libyan aviation official said. The flight from Istanbul, with 43 passengers on board, arrived at the Mitiga International Airport in eastern Tripoli, at about 11:50 local time (0950 GMT), he said.
NATO
The top U.S. commander for Africa said Saturday that the military mission in Libya was largely complete and NATO’s involvement could begin to wrap up as soon as next week after allied leaders meet in Brussels.
Euronews
Libyan peace deal signed over desert town.
In Libya, Tuareg tribesman signed a peace agreement on Friday with local Arabs over the Saharan desert oasis of Ghadames.
The town had been at the centre of speculation that Muammar Gaddafi was hiding locally under the protection of the tribes.
“There is no way that Gaddafi is in Ghadames or in the Tuareg area,” said one tribesman following the signing ceremony.
“We are with the new regime. We have been with them from the beginning,” added the man.
Meanwhile Libya’s new rulers have called on armed militias who helped overthrow Gaddafi to leave Tripoli peacefully.
The National Transitional Council is facing a deadlock as it attempts to form a permanent government.
Hundreds of people gathered in Tripoli’s central Martyr Square on Friday to listen to speeches from local clerics calling for a weapon free city.
They say they no longer feel safe with the revolutionaries who often patrol independently of orders from the interim government.
Moussa ibrahim
Moussa Ibrahim, the fugitive spokesman for Muammar Gaddafi, telephoned a Syria-based television channel on Saturday to deny reports that he himself had been captured this week.”This information is a lie and does not reflect reality because I was near the front of Sirte with 23 fighters,” Ibrahim told Arrai TV.
Aljazeera Sirte:
East of Sirte on Sunday, NTC fighters returning from the front said they had captured a neighbourhood in the southwest of the city which was home to many Gaddafi supporters. “Ninety-five percent of Buhadi is under our control,” fighter Drisi Mayar said. “This was a stronghold of Gaddafi. A lot of his relatives and clan members lived there. There was a small military base. We took control yesterday. We had small clashes but it is under our control.”
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
FYI all: St James (maltese) hospital in Tripoli is treating people for free for 3 days starting today – if they are ex-clients libya feb17
Al arabiya
Tripoli gets new militia in apparent rebuff to Islamists
A Libyan revolutionary officer announced the creation on Sunday of an armed group to keep order in Tripoli, a mission analysts say may overlap uneasily with an existing Military Council with the same job which is led by a prominent Islamist.
Announcing the Tripoli Revolutionists Council at a news conference in the capital, Abdullah Ahmed Naker said his force had 22,000 armed men at its disposal, drawn from what he said were 73 factions which had agreed to pool resources.
The move may stir concern about tensions among the many revolutionary militias who play a de facto security role in the capital, where residents say they fear some groups may resort to violence as they jockey for power.
Visiting U.S. Republican Senator John McCain called on the country’s interim rulers,
the unelected National Transitional Council (NTC), last week to move quickly to get the armed groups under control.
Naker said his group was cooperating with the Tripoli Military Council which is led by Abdulhakim Belhadj, a veteran Islamist foe of Muammar Qaddafi.
He said it would protect citizens’ security and property, collect unlicensed weapons, support humanitarian relief work and help create civil society institutions.
But Naker, wearing military fatigues and flanked by tense-looking fighters cradling assault rifles, suggested Belhadj’s group, believed by diplomats to be supported by Qatar, was not representative of Tripoli’s population and not large enough.
Excluded
“We established the council because we saw that Tripoli people are marginalized … They have not been invited to participate in any entity in the new government,” he said.
Naker said his forces were already in control of 75 percent of the capital. They could extend their area of operations but did not want disputes with other factions.
He said his relations were normal with Belhadj but he did not know much about his background.
“Who is he? Who appointed him?” he said.
Belhadj led an Islamist guerrilla uprising against Qaddafi in the 1990s. He later spent time with Taliban and al Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan but says he opposed al
Qaeda’s transnational campaign of anti-Western violence.
Naker said Belhadj’s military clout was “weak” as he had only 2,000 men. He alleged the Military Council’s forces had staged night raids on private homes that had caused ill-feeling among Tripoli residents.
Spokesmen for the Military Council and the NTC could not immediately be reached for comment.
An analyst in Tripoli who did not want to be identified said Naker’s remarks suggested he was a supporter of interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril, a Western-trained technocrat widely regarded as an opponent of Islamist forces in the country.
Supporters of Belhadj make little secret of their disdain for Jibril, who they say is seeking to exclude them from a share of power following Qaddafi’s fall.
Naker said his council was working under the auspices of de facto head of state Mustafa Abdel Jalil and was “cooperating” with the Tripoli Military Council on bringing safety back to Tripoli.
It would be dissolved when state institutions were up and running again, he said.
rcolebourn Richard Colebourn
BBC is at a hospital just outside Sirte with civilians fleeing city – they report desperate conditions. Fuel queues as people leave #Libya
LIBTRIP
Traffic in Tripoli is still the same, and has not changed yet, it’s terrible especially from 11am.
Feb17libya Feb17Libya
Libyan aid ship makes its last trip
bit.ly/oo1UDJ #libya
Smile:
When you walk into a spider web, you automatically know karate.
Thanku4theAnger
The sight of the independence flag at the London Libya Embassy brings a smile to my face every time I pass by
20arb11
Daily News on #Tripoli #Trables #Libya
goo.gl/r9L0i
LibyeLibre
MJ Niger : Le CNT est bienvenu au Niger pour interroger Saadi Kadhafi, mais son extradition n’est pas possible pr l’instant Libye
j.mp/r0SpCp #Libye
BBC:
People in the besieged Libyan city of Sirte are in desperate need of medical aid, International RedCross has warned
NTC fighters ‘seal off’ Gaddafi’s hometown
Libya’s National Transitional Council fighters from the east of the country have linked up with those from the west.
They are battling Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in his hometown of Sirte, and have reached one of the city’s main roundabouts.
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr has this exclusive report.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4orSWl2hcO8&fea...
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya #NATO bombing targets in #AbuHadi town in southern outskirts of #Sirte, Gaddafi, Libya
NATO:
More than 10 000 surface to air missiles which pose a serious threat to civil aviation could get out of Libya
libyahmed Ahmed Bin Lasher
Driving in from Djerba Tunisia to libya was very interesting. I didn’t see a single Tunisia flag, yet in every where was the Libya flag!
Libye Libre
#Libye: La Croix-Rouge internationale a pu entrer dans #Syrte
j.mp/roREK2 a abrégé sa visite en raison d’une attaque malgré un accord
Des blessés ou des malades ne peuvent pas rejoindre l’hôpital à cause des combats. Le CICR a fourni 300 kits de soins pour blessés de guerre
libyahmed Ahmed Bin Lasher
Friday prayer 2 days ago, here in tajoura Tripoli, the sheikh made such strong duas against Bashar and Salah! Was amazing hearing it
We made powerful dua’s for the people of #Syria and #Yemen. We are your brothers and our thoughts are with you inshAllah. libya
AJE: FFs now control Bu Hadi area in Sirte feb17 #libya Allahu Akbar
libyanproud libyanandproud
Picture : Freedom Fighters praying before the entry of #Sirte #Feb17 #Libya via FB twitpic.com/6u0j57
#Sirte #Misratta and Eastern Libya FF have connected and are in control of Buhadi Feb17 Libya via @MisrataPatriots
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Almost 38,000 Libyan/Jews left Libya in 1967. David Gerbi returns to Libya to reopen the Jewish synagogue- 10 via
fro.gy/1fa0o
#Sirte
Misratta FF now completely control the main coastal road linking Benghazi Misratta. #Feb17 #Libya via @MisrataPatriots
Sirtawi
According to AFP, #Ffs now have 95% of AbuHadi, south of #Sirteunder their control.
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
He really wants to go to the front line and fight bless him #Libyapic.twitter.com/AqUG9Jy0
#Gadaffis #GreenBook “A Cockerel doesnt lay eggs but a chicken does” Very important information that is !!!
#Gadaffis #Greenbook. “A Man is a Male and a Lady is a Female”. Now if Gadaffi didnt tell us that who would have known !!
libyanproud libyanandproud
#Gaddafi:
Fish is meat, Birds is meat, Rabbits is meat, meat is protein
youtu.be/yerM_W64qPA LOOOOOL
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yerM_W64qPA&fea...
#BaniWalid:
“Freedom Fighters says they’ve captured the valley leading to the center of the town” – youtube.com/watch?v=PcOGfE…via @Anay_a
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcOGfEcUPII
LibyaMartyrs Libya Martyrs
Mohamed Eayad Al-Zaytouni, from Janzour and martyred on the frontline in Misratah #Libya.
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Aljazeera
East of Sirte on Sunday, NTC fighters returning from the front said they had captured a neighbourhood in the southwest of the city which was home to many Gaddafi supporters.
“Ninety-five percent of Buhadi is under our control,” fighter Drisi Mayar said.
“This was a stronghold of Gaddafi. A lot of his relatives and clan members lived there. There was a small military base. We took control yesterday. We had small clashes but it is under our control.”
Hundreds of vehicles also streamed out of Sirte on the eastern front during a lull in fighting on Sunday.
One man leaving with his family who gave his name only as Muftah said: "The situation is absolutely pathetic, especially in the hospitals. We have no
oxygen, no medicines. Wounded people die even before reaching the hospital.
“Many people have broken open the pharmacies in the city to bring medicines to the hospital but even that is exhausted now.”
Mairi Sutherland
It is very annoyoing to hear that Geneva Convention regarding hospitals is not abided by Gaddafi forces. Stop firing at Hospitals
BBC News – 2 day truce has been arranged for civilians to leave Sirte
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS
VIDEO: Benghazi today:
youtu.be/kRqjw-zhbZY
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRqjw-zhbZY&fea...
Libyans flee Sirte amid Red Cross medical warning France24
www.france24.com/en/20111002-libyans-fl...
Deadly legacy of Gaddafi landmines: The Gaddafi landmines still killing civilians in Libya
bbc.in/pLACmQ #gaddaficrimes
libyahmed Ahmed Bin Lasher
On my way to Libya, all I dreamt of was walking into my home to find Gaddafi sitting there with a cup of tea… alas he wasn’t! Funny that!
2e et dernier jour de trève permettant aux civils de fuir Syrte. Snipers embusqués dans la ville.
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AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
“Welcome October” NATO concern over ‘10,000 lost missiles’ in Libya: report
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AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Video: The Battle for Sirte Rages Onenglish.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… Sirte NTC Qaddafi AlArabiya
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Shortages “killing patients” in Libya siege hospital
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Return_of_libya
ليبيا تعــــــود: المدخل الرئيسي لباب العزيزية اليوم The main entrance of Bab Al Aziziya today, Tripoli
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20arb11 Souffian Tripoli
Daily Arabic Libya news on “ليبيا”
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MUST READ:
Telegraph
Gaddafi loyalists stranded as battle for Sirte rages
Dozens of families who remain fiercely loyal to Col Muammer Gaddafi’s regime are trapped in the Libyan desert as fighting intensifies in the loyalist stronghold of Sirte
Families continue to stream out of the city, as interim government forces fought intense battles for control of the city centre. But many men and women were too terrified, angry and mistrustful of the fighters that now control the majority of Libya, to flee to the next town.
Crammed 30 people to a room, the families live in an abandoned school building with scant supplies. Others have been taken in by loyalist homes dotted in the scrubland surrounding Sirte.
“The rebels are worse than rats. Nato is the same as Osama bin Laden,” said a resident who did not wish to be named. “We have ten families staying with us now, there is little food, not enough clean water and no gas. Before we lived wealthy lives, I had two homes, now we live worse than animals.”
Read more here:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
Libyan
All Libyans are Muslims, Libya should be secular whether Islamists like it or not.
Ancient Libyan old men thinking they are ‘tribal leaders’ don’t know we’re in the 21st century. Libya
alchemist585
#Algerian authorities have refused to grant political asylum 2 Fatima al-Sharif, #Gaddafi’s chief female body guards “coordinator”.
However, they suggested she can come in2 Algeria illegally as did 100s of Gaddafi soldiers establishing a base on Algerian side of border
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS
Aparently Mahmoud Shamam is ill and is in hospital in America
Libyan
At another BS tribal meeting in town of Bayda: “We will not return weapons until we make sure new gov is right gov.” Idiots.Libya
What’s with these random ‘tribal meetings’ in #Libya, we didn’t have a revolution to have some ancient old men decide #Libya’s future.
derek_brower Derek Brower
Forget jury-rigged weaponry & drunken madman in Martyrs’ Sq. Most incongruous sight so far in Tripoli: peloton of lycra-clad road cyclists
Another #Libya theory doing the rounds. That record-breaking gold-price crash the other day? Yup. Gadaffi dumping it for cash.
Sky
Post-War Therapy For Traumatised Libyan Kids
Schools across Misratah have been setting up counselling centres to help traumatised pupils cope with the psychological damage caused by the Libyan war.
The city saw the worst fighting during the conflict. It was under siege by Gaddafi forces for months.
For children caught up in the fighting, it was a terrifying time.
Most of them spent days cowering in basements with no electricity and little water as Gaddafi forces unleashed a barrage of rockets and mortars.
Teacher Sondos Krwad said many of her pupils are still frightened and are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
More here:
news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16...
Trend.az
Libyan rebel commander denies post-Gaddafi rifts
The chief of the Libyan rebels’ military council in the capital Tripoli, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, has denied reports about rifts among the rebels after they ousted long-standing ruler Moamer Gaddafi in an interview with the German Press Agencydpa.
“There are no differences among the revolutionaries and there are no signs of such differences,” Belhaj told dpa by telephone.
The head of the rebels’ Transitional National Council (TNC), Mustafa Abdel Jalil, had reportedly failed to convince 30 senior rebels in Tripoli to operate under Belhaj’s command.
“The whole matter is that some different views were made, which is normal, given the freedom prevalent now in Libya,” Belhaj, a leading Islamist in the North African country.
Belhaj spent six years in Libyan jails where he said he was maltreated and tortured.
He told dpa that his “history of struggle” against the Gaddafi regime qualified him to be chief commander in Tripoli.
Read more:
en.trend.az/regions/met/arabicr/1939382...
Libyan
Islam and secularism can work together, Libya should use Turkey as a model.
WEELULE
Libyans must stop hating Jews or any other ethnicity, the hate is politically driven by the like of Gaddafi and other Arab dictators
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Libya uprising: Deadly legacy of Gaddafi landmines
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Libyans urge Britain: ‘Honour David Cameron’s pledge and take our wounded soon’
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#libya
Tweeting Tripoli
Saeed Rashid (one of Lockerbie’s masterminds) assassinated by Gaddafi on February (vid of his vehicles in Bab Azizia):youtube.com/watch?v=oJeg9u…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJeg9uQf79k&fea...
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
photo: #Sirte yesterday former american freelance Matthew Van Dike fighting now again in Libya last battle
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Matthew Van Dyke a journalist fighting for the revolution whole story tomorrow in EL MUNDO print edition Sirte Libya
“I came to do a job and I can not leave until I finish and the whole of Libya is free” Matthew Van Dyke
derek_brower Derek Brower
Libya’s revolutionaries, part 1 – Kids are going back to school in Libya’s liberated areas. The picture…
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Libya’s revolutionaries, part 2 – Hisham Belhaj, 31, grew up in Denmark, where his father was in exile….
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Libya’s revolutionaries, part 3 – Mustafa Omar, 29, is a radiologist from Misrata and he is tired. (Photo:…
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Libya’s revolutionaries, part 4 – A makeshift prison on the outskirts of Misrata holds soldiers from…
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Nusaybah
It’s imperative on the NTC to establish a system that will offer effective psychological care to victims of rape – men and women. Libya
Reuters
Libya’s Waha Oil faces tough task to fix war damage
Waha Oil is joint venture with U.S. energy companies
Some facilities looted, others still unsafe: engineer
Staff refuse to go back to fields until managers leave
Read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/02/liby...
Nafissa
That’s my healthy hand with the colors of my Baby libya :)
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Al Arabiya
Former Libyan prime minister awaits his fate in Tunisia
Former Libyan Prime Minister Baghdadi Mahmudi has placed the Tunisian government between a rock and a hard place as Libyan revolutionaries are demanding his extradition while his lawyers are calling for him to be granted political asylum for fear of unfair trial or summary execution in case he returns to Libya.
Mahmudi’s case is unfortunately being dealt with politically and not legally or humanitarianly, said member of the ex-premier’s defense team, Mabrouk Kourchid.
“The Tunisian authorities are collaborating with their Libyan counterparts and diplomatic ties are taken into consideration when dealing with Mahmudi’s case,” he said in a press conference Saturday.
Extraditing the former prime minister, Kourchid added, would be a disgraceful action on the part of the new democracy in Tunisia since the fate that awaits him in Libya could be described as a crime against humanity.
“It is very likely that Mahmudi will be executed if he goes back to Libya,” said Kouchid.
His lawyer also added that Mahmudi, who is currently detained in a prison outside the capital Tunis, went on hunger strike three days ago.
“His health condition is deplorable now.”
Mahmudi, who fled to the Tunisian island Djerba in August, was arrested on September 21 and charged with illegal entry into Tunisia. He was found guilty and handed six months in jail but acquitted on September 27 by the court of appeals. However, he was kept in detention following an extradition request sent by the Libyan interim government the following day.
According to Ezzeddine Arfaoui, another member of Mahmudi’s defense team, Libyan authorities are expected to level three charges at his client.
“He will most likely be charged with embezzlement of public funds, possession of weapons, and attempted murder,” he said at the same press conference.
Arfaoui called upon the Tunisian judiciary to carry out a careful examination of the
extradition request and make the right decision.
“It should also be made sure that the extradition conforms to Tunisian law and international conventions on the extradition of foreign nationals.”
The Tunisian government recognized Libya’s National Transitional Council on August 22 following the fall of the capital Tripoli and vowed to collaborate with the interim government as far as security issues are concerned.
(This article was translated from Arabic by Sonia Farid.)
AGI NEWS
FOREIGN MINISTRY: ITALY BACKS ITALIAN BUSINESSES IN LIBYA
(AGI) Rome – A note from the Foreign Ministry countered declarations by Alfredo Cestari, president of the ItalAfrica Chamber of Commerce, about the damage small and medium-size Italian companies would suffer with the change of regime in Libya. The Italian government, “has since the beginning of the Libyan crisis closely followed the interests of the business community and worked closely with the new Libyan government so that Italian business interests would be preserved in the new era.” . .
GheblawiGhazi Gheblawi
My flight to Tunis has been delayed by an hour possibly will reach there around 9pm
With brooms and rakes, Libyan ‘revolutionary Jew’ starts restoring #Tripoli synagogue
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WSJ
New Libyan Sovereign Wealth Fund Chief Seeks Probes
One of the first orders of business in post-Moammar Gadhafi Libya is to clean out the rotten wood.
Tops on that list is investigating corruption at the Libyan Investment Authority, the country’s sovereign wealth fund. Rafik Nayed, the fund’s acting chief executive, said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that its investment operations are on hold while it looks through $65 billion in holdings to examine dealings with people tied to Gadhafi.
“We aren’t interested in new deals,” said Nayed to the Journal. “My mandate…is to untangle the inheritance of the Gadhafi regime and stabilize” the country’s national wealth.
Nayed said he wants to create an independent committee, staffed with forensic accountants and finance experts, to conduct the probe in a bid to prevent the perception of a witch hunt.
Read more:
blogs.wsj.com/corruption-currents/2011/...
Moez
Many martyrs from SoogEljumaa, tajura and fashloom in BaniWalidfronts past few weeks
Many families getting frustrated at lack of support from NTC as military council not sending FF there – only individual efforts
Families of Martyred FF demonstrating in front of Radisson now where NTC members stayingLibya
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military council hasn’t sent any support there at all, it is all individual efforts from badly trained/poorly equipped FF
A lot of these relatives live on my road in SoogEljumaa – been driving past a new 3azaa/mourning every day twitvid.com/C3PK3
Guma-el-gamaty will be on Alarabiya satellite tv news shortly around 6.15pm london time (5.00pm gmt) inshallah 2 discuss ltst in Libya
BBC
Freed US writer describes Libyan jail ordeal
Matthew VanDyke, an American journalist who had been missing since March, has escaped from Libya’s notorious Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, where he had been being held in solitary confinement.
The 32-year-old told the BBC World Have Your Say’s Ros Atkins about his ordeal. Here are some extracts.
Full story:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14674110
( yfrog.com/nwfodhj )
Tweeting Tripoli
Stairways to heaven!…. Have no idea where this thing is going to! Maybe from Sirte airport to Misrata?
Photo:
twitter.com/#!/2011feb17/status/120552438154543104/photo/1
LibyaLiberty
Don’t worry,Baghdadi,Justice delayed is not Justice denied. RT Former Libyan prime minister awaits his fate in Tunisia
Free Libya
Just realised that our house won’t be ready in time for my graduation party……..hmmm is the Rixos taking bookings? :P
Triploli scream
I posted 9 photos on Facebook in the album “حفل خيري بمنزل – عائشة القذافي”
fb.me/LWxGGcbO
AmazighLibya
Proof that FF did actually capture Musa Ibrahim
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The Hill
McCain on Libya: ‘We could do enormous things’ helping them
Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) pressed Sunday for the U.S. government to aid Libya with medical care for wounded anti-Gadhafi soldiers.
McCain visited Libya during the congressional recess and spoke about his experience on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday. “They’ve got thousands and thousands of wounded… We should be helping them. They don’t have the medical expertise and talent to be taking care of these people,” he urged.
The senator added that the Libyan people are “proud of what weU.S. did to help them, and I think we could do enormous things by helping them with the casualties that they’ve experienced.”
Sens. McCain (Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) traveled to Libya last week wher they met with members of the governing National Transitional Council and later toured Tripoli’s Martyrs’s Square.
The senators were strong supporters of Obama’s decision to authorize U.S. involvement in NATO’s campaign to oust Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, a move which faced opposition from both Democratic and GOP lawmakers.
Although opposition forces now control the capital and much of the country, fighting has continued and Gadhafi remains on the loose.
In recent weeks, the United States has moved to strengthen ties with the Libyan transitional government. President Obama met with Libya’s transitional leader Mustafa Abdel-Jalil at the United Nations last month and announced a reopening of the U.S. embassy in Tripoli.
Guardian
Sirte residents queue to leave city during two-day ceasefire
Conditions for remaining residents deteriorating in city still held by Gaddafi loyalists, says doctor
Residents trapped in fighting for the Libyan coastal city of Sirte have run out of basic medical supplies and are resorting to drinking contaminated water to survive as conditions deteriorate, a Libyan doctor who was in the city at the weekend said.
Dr Siraj Assouri, who was travelling from Sirte to nearby Misrata, said: “The conditions have been getting worse and worse. There is no medicine for heart disease or blood pressure or baby milk or nappies. There is very little water that is drinkable. The water is contaminated with waste oil. Our forces are close to the centre but there are other areas still under the control of Gaddafi loyalists where they have been putting up a very strong fight. They still control 40% of the city.”
Full art.:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/02/si...
Nael
An Amazing Sign i saw in Benghazi Freedom
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WAPO
Gadhafi’s son denies allegations of intimidation, corruption that led to Interpol red notice
TRIPOLI, Libya — Moammar Gadhafi’s son, al-Saadi, has denied allegations of corruption and intimidation and says an Interpol decision to put him on the equivalent of its most-wanted list is political.
Al-Saadi Gadhafi is under house arrest in Niger, where he fled after Tripoli fell to revolutionary forces. His father and two of his brothers are in hiding.
Interpol issued a red notice for al-Saadi based on accusations he misappropriated property and engaged in “armed intimidation” when he headed the Libyan Football Federation
Full story:
goo.gl/XXDyH
quickmichael:
surprised that NATO vessels do not allow strictly controlled humanitarian supplies into #Sirte from the sea.#Libya
HafedAlGhwell Hafed Al Ghwell
#libya— Libyan ‘revolutionary Jew’ to restore synagogue --
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Free Libya
Is it true that NTC signed a deal with Egypt to bring 2 million workers???
where did that come from? Haven’t heard that..
Nael
War did not stop the Libyan FF from enjoying the moment!, Starbucks opened near Sirte city – Libya
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Abeidi
#Libya, Benghazi
Mr Gazal the head of Benghazi Council has announced resignation this evening, claimed his office is neglected by NTC
Gheblawi Ghazi Gheblawi
At last I am on board Tunisair flight to Tunis should arrive there before 10pm local time
Nael
#ThingsThatGetMePissed when people say NATO helping libya for oil!
#ThingsThatGetMePissed Listening to MussaIbrahim on TV!
LibyaNewMedia
Nigeria supports Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
Free Libya ♔☾✰
Injured FF’s in SIrte
Photo”s:
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Nasr Anaizi
#NTC must disclose the names of SPIES reported within its organization & the THIEVES referred 2 as new fat cats by Mr. #Jalil #Libya Plz RT
Triploli scream
I posted 22 photos on Facebook in the album “بازار جامعة ناصر – 10/2” fb.me/1mlm2gH7P
Jon Williams
Returned to UK with Manchester 18 yo off to Liverpool Uni. Shot in leg fighting in #Libya. Some summer job! Quite a story for freshers’ week
CBC
Besieged Libyan city’s residents flee in fighting lull
Libyan rebel forces have paused in their push for deposed ruler Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte, saying the former leader’s loyalists remain entrenched in the city.
Leaders with the National Transitional Council say they have Sirte surrounded. On Saturday, the NTC said its forces seized the headquarters of the Saadi Gadhafi brigades, an army unit led by Gadhafi’s third son.
Full story:
www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/10/02/...
LibyanDictator فاطمة الزهراء
There are a lot of rumours/hidden truths about Gaddafi’s many visits to Libyan Jews abroad..
Free Libya
Still not convinced that with being such a rich country we need Libyans to fill menial unskilled jobs. Just my opinion. #Libya
LA Times
John McCain urges medical aid for Libya
Sen. John McCain, who visited Libya with other Republican senators last week, said as the military mission there winds down the U.S. should consider helping the North African country cope with its “horrendous” casualties.
The Arizona senator proposed sending some of the injured to the U.S. Army hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, or sending a U.S. hospital ship either to Libya, or, if that was too dangerous, to Malta, a European island nation south of Sicily.
He said the revolution that toppled Moammar Kadafi had left 25,000 people dead, 3,000 maimed and 60,000 wounded. McCain attributed the figures to the country’s new government.
The Libyans, he said, “don’t have the medical capability to care for all of these wounded — more are still coming in.”
Read more here:
www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-mcc...
libyans_revolt omar
#Alitalia to resume flights to #Libya in November, would carry out five weekly flights between #Tripoli and #Rome.
SerajElalem Seraj Elalem
Scr**Africa ! #Libya is joining #Europe now, we’re bringing #Tunisia and #Egypt along too ! but #Egypt please leave #SCAF at home
yasmarah ياسمين
Are people serious when they say that Jews shouldn’t be allowed in Libya? I honestly can’t tell if they’re joking.
Libyans are Libyans are Libyans are Libyans. Doesn’t matter your religion. If I became Athiest am I less Libyan? #PeopleAreDumb
For real, I think that bc Libya is such a homogeneous society, diversity is a challenge for some to understand.
I really don’t approve of the intolerance some Libyans are displaying when it comes to Libyan Jews returning home.
This type of ignorance is people continuing the mold of distrust/division that Gaddafi used to keep his control.
All of my neighbors are Jewish, every street corner has at least 2 synagogues so when my grandma came to visit she freaked.
Sometimes people need to see a diverse, multicultural society in order to believe that people can live among each other peacefully.
You don’t have to be a ‘secular’ state to be a state of religious freedom. People confuse the two too often.
People are asking for democracy and yet want to eliminate anyone who is different. Completely illogical.
Sometimes the price of freedom will be people who say and believe in things you might not necessarily agree with.
Gaddafi’s way of dealing with diversity was to kick everyone out in one paranoid wave of the wand
Last time I was in Libya, Gaddafi was pissed off at Egypt and decided to kick out all Egyptians from Libya OVERNIGHT.
People who lived there for years had to pack up and leave within a week. I saw trucks full of Egyptian families being kicked out of Libya.
Generalized distrust and paranoia, got enough from Gaddafi regime. A utopian, homogeneous society is impossible in this world.
I don’t get exactly what people’s vision of Libya without Gaddafi will be when they continue to preach intolerance…but khair iA.
They deserve to return as much as we deserve to return. You don’t deserve more than someone simply bc you’re not Jewish.
Haha, sometimes I love that I piss people off who are racist and intoleran
I love that I’m mixed and it challenges nationalistic and racist sentiments.
I love that you hate the fact that I exist and won’t shut up because of bullying. Gaddafi did too.
Who exactly am I attacking? I thought I was being very fair. Just trying to prove a point.
I’m trying so hard not to reply to some people right now. Hold me back y’all. SABR.
OMGGGG YA ALLAH GRANT ME PATIENCE. YALL DON’T EVEN KNOW WHERE YOU’RE GOING WITH SOME OF YOUR TWEETS.
lol someone just tweeted that Libyans marry blonde Americans bc they’re fun to show off in weddings. I’m shaking lol.
I think my head just exploded. Thanks guys! :)
I’m sitting here talking about tolerance and getting personally attacked? OHHH the irony.
Good thing Twitter doesn’t matter at all.
At the end of the day, if Libya becomes a democracy then the people will decide what’s best for their country. And I accept that :)
‘The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.’
#TooLiberalToBeLibyanApparently #DidntKnowToleranceWasJustBeing LiberalAndNotIslamic #OhWell
Twitter is miscommunication central. This must be a therapists worst nightmare. It’s kind of funny watching these debates.
Get em Lions!!! #TweetingAboutFootballIsSaferTh anTweetingAboutLibya
Free Libya
Islam is so inherent and deeply ingrained in Libyan culture that I find it very hard to picture true atheist Libyans having never met any
Ahmed
Just a reminder next weekend Libya plays Zambia for an African Cup birth.
#Libya (#ليبيا) Our #Country, #Origin of Name Libya, #History, #Information & Facts: #NTC #Feb17
www.temehu.com/Cities_sites/Libya.htm
RIXOS MEMORIES:
@hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
If anyone knew what we went thru in the #Rixos, they’d know it wasnt VIP treatment at all.
been accused of taking “gifts” from #Gadhafi from #Rixos. And for challenging NTC’s authority in my reporting.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Agreed. they stole BBC/Sky sat equipment, hardly VIP treatment. why do you say this now though?
Jonny Hallam
Sky found their kit it was in Yosif Shakirs room! but ours is still missing. MiniM and Bgan aerials
HebaS
it’s probably being used in #Sirte or #BaniWalid ;) by #Mussa
Suzanne
Networks often gave #Gaddafi goons a platform via #Rixos reporters when other voices in #Libya were ignored. Many resent it.
LibyaMartyrs Libya Martyrs
Jibril Farag Al-Nemer 12/05/1989 passed away on 25/09/2011 in Al-Jala Hospital,Benghazi after a severe injury in Brega pic.twitter.com/mXSZS7gM
Nasr
It’s a great tribute to the FFs that some civilians fleeing #Sirte feel safe enough to voice publicly their continued support 4 #Gaddafi.
Aljazeera
Civilians flee worsening situation in Sirte
Hundreds of residents of Sirte are fleeing the coastal town after the National Transitional Council (NTC) announced a 48-hour suspension in fighting to capture toppled leader Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown.
A long queue of cars jammed the roads leading out of Sirte on Sunday as civilians sought to escape a worsening humanitarian crisis in the town.
Residents fleeing the town of around 100,000 say that those still trapped inside are running low on food and supplies, enduring NTC and NATO shelling as well as intimidation from forces loyal to Gaddafi who are trying to prevent some people from leaving.
NTC fighters in Sirte told the Reuters news agency that NATO planes had dropped flyers urging civilians to flee the fighting.
Fighting has continued in Sirte, despite NTC commanders claiming for more than two weeks that they were on the verge of wresting control of one of the last remaining strongholds of Gaddafi.
Last week, the NTC’s defence ministry said that Sirte’s port, airport and military base were all under the control of its forces.
On Saturday, aid workers from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who entered the town to deliver supplies could not visit the main Ibn Sina Hospital because of shooting.
One family of four was killed by a rocket strike on Saturday while trying to leave, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reported on Sunday.
“One nurse escaping with her family this morning said that medical staff couldn’t reach Ibn Sina hospital and couldn’t perform operations,” she said. “Residents say conditions are dire and people are dying simply because they don’t have any basic medical supplies.”
Red Cross aid
A truck carrying supplies and a car carrying European ICRC workers were allowed to pass checkpoints manned by NTC fighters on Saturday.
The ICRC delivered medical kits for treating up to 200 people wounded in the fighting for Sirte, as well as 400 litres of fuel to run hospital generators, the organisation said.
However, a team of four aid workers, who also had security clearance from pro-Gaddafi forces, were not able to go inside the hospital due to heavy gunfire, the spokesman said.
“They went to the hospital but were not able to see patients, they didn’t go into the wards,” Marcal Izard said.
Doctors at the hospital – which has no power – told the aid workers there were 200 patients inside.
“The conditions under which medical personnel have had to work over the past weeks have been extremely difficult,” said Hichem Khadraoui, who headed the operation.
“The hospital is facing a huge influx of patients, medical supplies are running out and there is a desperate need for oxygen. On top of that, the water reservoir has been damaged.”
Safe access
In a statement, the ICRC reminded all parties of their “obligation under international humanitarian law to take all possible measures of precaution in order to spare civilian lives and allow safe access for medical personnel”.
Musatafa al-Rubaie, an NTC commander, told the Associated Press news agency that even though his fighters had surrounded Sirte from all sides, a path out had been left for civilians who wanted to leave.
After weeks of fighting Gaddafi’s loyalists inside Sirte, the fighters now hold positions about 5km from the city centre, he said.
CNN
Officials: Cabinet for emerging Libyan government finalized
A slate of cabinet ministers for Libya’s emerging government was finalized Sunday, two spokesmen for the National Transitional Council said.
The names of those in the new cabinet are expected to be released soon, said the spokesmen, who declined to be named.
The transitional council has organized the military and political movement to unseat Libya’s long-time ruler Moammar Gadhafi. It moved its capital from Benghazi to Tripoli last month, after anti-Gadhafi forces took over the city, and is recognized as Libya’s legitimate government by many nations and world bodies, including the United Nations and African Union.
Full art.:
www.cnn.com/2011/10/02/world/africa/lib...
LibyaMartyrs Libya Martyrs
Ghanem Emhamed Al-Zerqani from Sidi Khalifa, martyred on 20/08/2011 in Tripoli. May Allah grant patience to his family
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Nasr
Unconfirmed It’s been reported 4 of those accused of involvement in assassination of AbdulFattah #Younis have murdered by his relatives.
Somaya
We, Libyan’s revolted against Gaddafi to gain back our lost human rights. We paid a very high price for this revolution. I find it highly insulting and disrespectful when I see people already abusing the “freedom” our martyr’s fought very hard for. I am outraged when I see people make decisions for the future of Libya but don’t put in the consideration that 99% of the population is MUSLIM and that Islam will play a strong role in our country. All of a sudden people forget the regulations of our culture and heritage. We want Libya to become a democratic, moderate, Islamic country. Not the other way around.
FromJoanne Joanne
Gaddafi regime allegedly purchased 20000 Russian SAM7Missiles NTC believes 5000 are lon the oose in #Libya 2day found 200in #benghazi #Libya
Interim Gov. New Defence Minister is Salem #Jouha a Military Commander from #Misrata Hopefully this will please #Islamist factions #Libya
#TRIPOLI FREE #TREATMENT starting today for 3 days @ St James (Maltese) Hospital but U have 2b an ex Client #libya via @ChangeInLibya
Interim Gov. Mahmoud #Jibril will stay #NTC Prime min. Ali #Tarhouni former oil minister will bcome dep prime minister which is great #Libya
#Buhadi area East of #SIRTE is now 95% in #NTC control aswell as a small military base Many Gaddafi relatives + his clan lived there #Libya
Jibril stays prime minister in New cabinet but Alsowants 2b Foreign Minister #NTC officials Disapprove Want new Diplomacy face #2portfolios
#AliTarhouni Economist returned 2 #Libya from US during Revolution became finance& #oil minister will b elevated 2dep Prime Mininster #Libya
#BBC #Video goo.gl/7dT2g more then 1000 cars left #SIRTE during these 2 days of truce #Libya
#Jew returned 2his homeland this summer 2join Revo that ousted #Gadhafi & Started rebuilding Synagogue #Tripoli #Libya goo.gl/35gBB
hominoid555 Russell
Bani walid after stiff resistance from G troops for weeks now some tanks and heavy guns have been brought in to try and tip the balance.
Journalists summoned by the NTC to a hanger in Benghazi on Saturday were shown about 200 recently discovered SAM-7 anti-aircraft missiles
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
eastern #sirte dicey, gaddafi mortar wounded commander today.
\eastern rebels have tenuous hold on 4 star hotel, seen apts of city full of guns from roof. this will take weeks and weeks #sirte
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
FF’s in #Libya decide to launch the final attack on #Sirt tomorrow after they have managed to control many areas of the City.
NTC have announced that the new Defence Minister in Libya will be Salim Jha from #Misrata #Libya
Now that #Buhadi is nearly in FF’s hands the official link between the East and West Army will be a matter of hours.#Libya
A bit of information about #MahmoudJibreal. He has a Phd in Crisis Management.A very rare degree that not many people carry. #Libya
#MahmoudJibreal was also a member of the #Tsunami crisis committee and helped in solving that issue.
#MahmoudJibreal was also the man behind the road map for #Qatar in the Nineties.
#MahmoudJibreal left behind a contract worth Millions of Dollars in Oman to help out in #Libya
FF’s in the Eastern Region enter a residential area in #Sirt today and capture 40 #Gadaffi soliders.The FF also had 25 injured in the battle
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today
Announcing the Tripoli Revolutionists Council at a news conference in the capital, Abdullah Ahmed Naker said his force had 22,000 armed men
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Faute d’électricité ou de téléphone, les civils ignorent tout ou presque de la situation à l’extérieur de #Syrte #Libye
lefigaro.fr/international/…
Le Figaro
Libye: l’exode chaotique des civils de Syrte
REPORTAGE – Les habitants fuient la ville assiégée qui était devenue depuis le début de la guerre la capitale des kadhafistes.
La longue quatre-voies droite et monotone qui mène à Syrte s’encombre brusquement. De longues files de voitures, presque toutes blanches, bloquent la route forçant les gros pick-up chargés de combattants rebelles à ralentir leur vitesse folle. Ce samedi, comme les jours précédents, les accès à la ville, principal bastion encore aux mains des fidèles de Kadhafi et assiégée depuis trois semaines, ont l’allure de chemins d’exode.
Read more:
www.lefigaro.fr/international/2011/10/0...
Naker said his group was cooperating with the Tripoli Military Council which is led by Abdulhakim Belhadj
ow.ly/i/ipH4
FYI:
Mr. Naker is from Tripoli but is originally from Zintan tribe. By the way, Belhaj has 6,000 armed militias.
Al Jazeera:
report from Tripoli, says the names of some members of the new interim cabinet have begun to emerge late on Sunday evening.
Libya’s new defence minister will be a man named Salem Jouha, reportedly a military commander from Misrata. It is hoped that his appointment will please Islamist factions
Regine Rayani
#libya building a country from the ground is like building a house.make sure it has a strong foundation or else the house will not stand.
That’s putting it in perspective:)
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
So Libya is formalising its new crisis govt in less then 60 days. Recent govt formations in the Netherlands took 127 and 90 days.
Underground bunker with intelligence equipment. #Alkhums #Libya
مركز تجسس واستخبارات تحت الأرض ومجهز ضد الأسلحة الجرثومية (ما يعرف بأنتينة الاستخبارات) – مدينة الخمس – ليبيا
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkjhiYmcvxQ
Anis Alawamy from #Benghazi fought with the #Tripoli Birgade in #Takout #Tiji #Tripoli and was martyred in #BaniWalid
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Tarek
I’ve met this FF, he’s still alive, (Mohamed Ali) you can see him in this video, #Tripoli, #Libya bit.ly/oegn51
twitpic.com/6u8lbr
I’ve met him personally and spent sometime with him and my brother. He’s now protecting #Tripoli, a great man
amjed
let me tell you this, i was in tripoli, the situation on the ground is like this: most of tripoli is controled by zintan
Moez
Most people seem to be missing the point: NTC announcement is NOT Interim Gov. that has been postponed till liberation of all #Libya
The new NTC cabinet will serve until liberation of #Libya (dubious definition) then interim Gov will be formed for interim period under a…
…constitution in the interim period. It is THOSE ministers of interim Gov that won’t be able to stand 4 election later on #libya
Example: Jibril is PM in NTC for next few weeks, Libya liberated, Jibril not elected in interim Gov then eligible in elections 4 #Libya Gov
Call it a cabinet reshuffle of the NTC before announcement of interim government
I’m slowly working my way to ill health/death over here – need a break. Somebody save me? #LastSwanSong #CueViolin :(
Guardian
How David Cameron swept aside sceptics over Libya campaign
A Guardian investigation into David Cameron’s six-month Libyan campaign has revealed how the prime minister overrode scepticism from his cabinet and MI6 to press for military action, and how Colonel Gaddafi secretly wanted to become a figurehead of the country “like the Queen of England”
Full art.:
www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/oct/02...
The Martyr Abdewahab AlJeelany was only 18 years old. May Allah grant him the haighest level of paradise. #Libya
pic.twitter.com/YLROrsEd
200 Arab Spring bloggers to gather in Tunis to discuss role of Internet & social networking in political change
www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.a...
FromJoanne Joanne
#Gaddafi Forces Destroyed & Damaged Warehouses Accommodation Equipment etc @ Waha #Oil fields Will take 6mnths 2 bring back on stream #Libya
senoDizzy ☮Nesrine Libya ☾✰
Syria NTC we wish u good luck in ur journey and make the best out of the libyan experiance #syria
Triploli scream
I posted a new photo to Facebook fb.me/V0FIauei
Free Libya ♔☾✰
Battle for #Sirte #libya
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Please read:
Blog Libya ( Dutch)
Gisteren vertelde ik al over de broer van onze chauffeur die in de Abu Salim gevangenis in Tripoli vermoord is met nog 1700 anderen. We gaan naar Abu Salim om te zien wat de gevangenis tijdens het regime van Kadhafi was. Nog maar een paar weken geleden was dit niet mogelijk.
Het is er best druk met mensen. Velen van hen hebben gevangen gezeten in Abu Salim. Lang, soms 18 jaar. Allen zonder enig vorm van proces en allen vrijgekomen voordat de massamoord plaatsvond. Ze komen voor het eerst kijken naar de plek waar ze zo lang vast gezeten hebben.
libyasrevolution.net/index.php?pageid=2...
Libya_Awake_United
Sleeves rolled up, expectations high … Hope never dies … Freeing the rest of Libya while building … #Libya #Feb17
LaCouleur Eric Kampherbeek
Where are all the Libyan flags stored before they’re sold? #Libya #Tripoli #Flag #NTC
Keep your eyes and ears open tomorrow for the news on Sirte:)
Intel is telling me tomorrow could be a good day.
Sarah
A new cousin was born in #Tripoli today :)
SUMMARY OCTOBER 3rd 2011
10/3/11
10/03/11
10.03.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya –
goo.gl/IuPHg
#NATO :
Key Hits 2 OCTOBER: In the vicinity of #Sirte:
1 multiple rocket launcher,
1 armed vehicle.
AliTweel Ali Tweel
Thunder storm is coming!
Video:
www.twitvid.com/HLYCD
Ali Gweder
Thunder on tape lol
Video:
yfrog.com/n0vc6cz
khadijateri khadijateri
The sound of thunder bombarding Libya. This time its rain raining down, not Nato’s bombs. Wow! What an amazing storm!
4Adam Adam
Gaddafi’s middle finger salute to his supporters in Tripoli’s “Green Square” youtube.com/watch?v=tfONhB…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfONhB2puWw
omar
Read Gaddafi’s last letter to Obama. " you’ll always remain my son" yfrog.com/ntw0peej #libya #feb17 #US
Abigail
Back in #Misrata, which is increasingly resembling a city-state..got a Misrata border stamp on my NTC access letter tday. Not kidding
Still so shocking to drive dwn Tripoli Street: such total destruction & so many ppl lost here, including 2 of world’s best photogs #Misrata
Evan Hill
Border stamp or local militia seal of approval? Zintan did a similar thing to let us on to Tripoli.
Abigail
I’m a little worried it’s the same thing
AJELive AJELive
#Libya’s NTC has finalised a new cabinet that includes Mahmoud Jibril and Ali Tarhouni. Salem Joha, a Misratan, will be defence minister.
Moez
Crazy storm this morning in #tripoli #Libya …
Abdullah
To be a secular and a muslim is like to be a man and a woman in the same time. It doesn’t work.
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Rain,Thunder and Lightning right now in #Tripoli.Thought it was NATO at the beginning #Libya
I hope this thunder clears away the remainders of the #Gadaffi loyalists in #Libya
#Gadaffi said that he was fighting against Christian Invaders.Did he mean his own son aswell? Look at Moatasim #Libya
Moez
he’s in charge of ‘Tripoli Brigade’ and had mandate for brigades to come under him. Will be interesting to see how things change
Tweeting Tripoli
A friend who is returning today from BW frontline have promised me exclusive photos that he took. Hope they’re nice worth publishing.
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
AJA: Libyan ‘rebels’ continue combing the areas between Libya, Tunis, Algeria in the search for Gaddafi.
FromJoanne Joanne
Abu Salim goo.gl/pyWtH is now becoming s site of pilgrimage 4 ex-inmates & relatives of those killed in 1996 #Monument
#Libya ’s #Waha #Oil faces tough task to fix war damage
goo.gl/QAzxt
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
The #Libyan Currency back in the day was 1Libyan Dinar to 3US Dollars.Hope that we get that back again soon
Al Arabiyah: NTC: ‘We are trying to secure a safe exit for civilians to leave Sirte.’
Tweeting Tripoli
Poor kids woken up crying following extremely loud Thunders. Few days ago they didn’t get scared. But then they were awake and alert!
VOA News
Libya To Question Gadhafi’s Son, Says Niger Official
A prominent member of Niger’s ruling Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya) says a delegation from Libya’s transitional authority will soon visit Niger to question the son of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Sonny Iro, the party’s communications director, says Niamey is unlikely to extradite Saadi Gadhafi to Libya. Officials of the Niger government recently had discussions about the possible extradition of Mr. Gadhafi’s son as well as some of his loyalists who are seeking refuge in the West African nation.
Full story:
www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Lib...
NATO bombed four G forces vehicles in Sirte yesterday while 4 mercenaries were captured by #FFs and are now being interrogated in #Ajdabiya.
Ali Tweel
This is 8:15am in Tripoli, still raining since 4:30am :)
twitvid.com/L0S4K
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
My understanding is that Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all considered Abrahamic (same source) religions; so why the hate?
FreedomgroupTV
One child killed, two others injured by the explosion of a land mine in Naima, Zliten.
Three siblings were wounded on Sunday, 10/02/2011 after they were an anti-personnel landmine exploded in, Naima, Zliten city. The oldest brother, Marwan Abdullah Al-Saddayi, aged 13 years, was martyred. His younger sister, Deena Abdullah Al-Siddayi, and brother, Mohammed Abdullah Al-Siddayi were seriously injured and taken to Zliten hospital. Deena and Mohammed are in critical condition and both were immediately admitted to intensive care.
The martyr will be buried on Monday, 10/03/2011 at 1:00 pm at the Awlad Al-Sabaa cemetry in Sabaa, Zliten city.
LibyaMartyrs Libya Martyrs
Daw Al-Saleheen Al-Gedak martyred in BaniWalid &buried in Tripoli. ان الي الله وان اليه راجعون اللهم تقبله شهيد #Libya pic.twitter.com/NHCuo42z
Guardian
David Cameron’s Libyan war: why the PM felt Gaddafi had to be stopped
Alook at how the Arab Spring in Libya transformed the prime minister from a reluctant
to a passionate interventionist
It was a rare outburst during months of calm chairmanship of the special cabinet committee that ran the Libyan campaign. “This is quite ridiculous,” David Cameron snapped at ministers gathered in Britain’s modest version of the White House situation room, known as Cobra, in the depths of the Cabinet Office. “Why cannot I just order they are going to go, and I will provide a waiver and indemnity on the legalities?”
Full story:
www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/oct/02...
Sirtawi
Three Gaddafi men killed in #Sirte taken and buried today in #Ajdabiya. #SirteCrisis
FreeBenghazi
Volunteers using sticks and hoes, to search for and remove landmines in Zliten #libya youtube.com/watch?v=A3Hhmm…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3Hhmmpck-c
#AJA
AlAezzabi:
Woman fired at fighters at Badr checkpoint.Her 2 brothers, fighting 4 Gaddafi & killed in #Sirte #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=yNB7Eu…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNB7EufX5m0
Eric
Wanted to go to #Sirte ’s frontline. Many advised not to go without bulletvest and helmet. Without it and with camera becoming easy target.
yasmarah ياسمين
Anytime religion is used as a discriminatory factor it becomes defiant of its purpose.
This is a must read:
Telegraph
Colonel Gaddafi: And to think we once found this ferocious tyrant funny
If anything positive has emerged from a decade of Middle Eastern wars, it ought to be this: that it has put paid to the glibness with which we had begun to hear news from abroad. It was easy to be cynical about the horrors when so many of their perpetrators were cartoon characters – Saddam in his homburg, Osama in his cave, Muammar in his tent. Gaddafi was the biggest clown of all, and when we sneer at Tony Blair for being taken in, with his “Dear Muammar” letters and world-leader bonhomie, we should perhaps look inside ourselves. How many of us wanted to remember the massacres and tortures when Gaddafi’s antics so added to the gaiety of life?
Read more:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
Reuters
Fighting halts Red Cross mission into Libya’s Sirte
A Red Cross convoy trying to take medical supplies into Libya’s besieged city of Sirte had to turn back on Monday because forces seeking to capture the city from fighters loyal to Muammar Gaddafi opened fire on the town.
Full story:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/03/liby...
Zliten Media
Unlike conventional mines, those in Zliten explode immediately if pressed on by anything weighing 5kg or more
Explosives force of the landmine in #Zliten is from 62gm of explosives; the total weight of each mine is 150gm
ZlitenMedia says @NTC_of_Libya “has turned its back on disaster (deaths & injuries from landmines) that has befallen Zliten.”
Libya’n TV also ignoring Zliten. Ahrar doesn’t even include city in weather report. How many mines b4 get their attention?"
El Watan
Un Libyen à la tête du Congrès mondial amazigh
A l’issue des sixièmes assises du congrès mondial amazigh ( CMA) cloturées, dimanche 2 octobre, dans la ville de Djerba, en Tunisie, le
libyen Fathi Benkhalifa, a été élu nouveau président de cette organisation non gouvernementale.
Full story:
www.elwatan.com/actualite/un-libyen-a-l...
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
#British architects are jockeying to move back into #Libya bit.ly/n8LYhT & #NTC said they will honour any pre-existing contracts
ثوار سوق الجمعة يعثرون على مقبرة جماعية تحوي أسلحة FFs in #SouqAljumaa #Tripoli found a mass grave containing weapons
Video:
bit.ly/nhlaVG
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTRRJQ6Ebr8
Aljazeera
At least 3 positions have now been assigned in Libya’s interim cabinet.
#NTC #MahmoudJibril is expected to be confirmed as interim leader.
The finance and oil minister Ali Tarhouni will be Jibril’s deputy & #SalemJoha will most likely become the new defence minister
Aljazeera
Civilians fleeing Sirte describe desperate situation
After nearly three weeks of siege, residents of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s coastal hometown Sirte say their supplies are running low, while the sick and injured lack adequate medical care. One nurse said her injured brother could not reach the hospital because of the violence, and a Red Cross team was unable to get there on Saturday.
Some fleeing families readily admit their loyalty to Gaddafi, though fighters for the National Transitional Council appear to be allowing them to leave after searching for weapons. They say loyalist volunteers are responsible for holding out against NTC forces.
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports from Sirte
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQLEs-gOoDM&fea...
Reuters
RedCross convoy trying to take medical supplies into besieged #Sirte had to turn back on Monday because forces seeking to capture the city from #Gaddafi fighters
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Exclusive Pic 1: Truck-loads of foods/goods from Soug Guma to Jufra towns in the middle of Libya (south of Tripoli).
pic.twitter.com/j3rO0eup
Exclusive Pic 2: Truck-loads of foods/goods from Soug Guma to Jufra towns in the middle of Libya (south of Tripoli).
pic.twitter.com/PHY8fdgN
Exclusive Pic 3: Soug Guma FF on break at BW front-lines. (pic taken yesterday). It was heavily raining there too :)
pic.twitter.com/uvV2wSSn
Exclusive Pic 4: Reserve FF prepare at BW front-lines.
pic.twitter.com/gn7LPETt
Exclusive Pic 5: The mosque where BW negotiations carried out, but unfortunately failed.
pic.twitter.com/xlFLV8hB
AliTweel Ali Tweel
after 6 months of bombs, rockets and explosions it’s very hard to get used to this beautiful thunder I hear!
OnlyLibyaa Triploli scream
I posted a new photo to Facebook
fb.me/1bjsRmdyb
I posted a new photo to Facebook
fb.me/1hrlXYZyI
I posted 8 photos on Facebook in the album “الأمطار صباح اليوم – طرابلس” fb.me/12DqlGRFI
I posted 13 photos on Facebook in the album “عودة اليهود – مدينة القديمة طرابلس” fb.me/Jjl2IUxn
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
NTC fighters use a Russian-built 130 mm cannon to shell Sirte from the city’s eastern edge to target what they said were buildings where loyalists were holed up on October 1, 2011. Fighters have been forced to regroup on the edge of Sirte, after pro-Kadhafi snipers halted a two-week old assault on the ousted despot’s hometown.
The Freedom Group Daily is out!
bit.ly/fGJIFt
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
the northern gate of Bani Walid has been v slow; most of us are reporting from Sirte front… stay tuned
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, #ICRC convoy attempts to enter besieged city of #Sirte to bring in medical supplies but turned back after heavy exchange of fire
#Libya, #NTC fighters want the #ICRC to find missing people inside #Sirte believed to be in prisons, #Libya, #Gaddafi
#Libya, #NTC fiters ask #ICRC to bring out injured civilians who are not receiving treatment in #Sirte, #Libya, #Gaddafi
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Hope this generation get to live the life they deserve now.My lil cousin :) #Libya pic.twitter.com/TyAOESO2
Head of NTC in #Benghazi has resigned. #Libya
Tarek
It’s been raining in #Tripoli since late last night, it’s a great to feel the rain after 42 years of dictatorship in #Libya
Times of Malta
Maltese race track proposal for Libya
Libya might soon have a new motor racing circuit to go with its new government, if two Maltese entrepreneurs are successful in their bid and dream to redevelop Tripoli’s famous Mellaha Lake circuit.
The project involves an initial investment of €120 million and envisages the development of a 3.9 km race track together with a hotel and variety of retail space
But the two Maltese entrepreneurs harbour an even greater dream: to build a similar track in Malta.
Read more:
www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011...
News Observer
Gadhafi son denies Interpol allegations
TRIPOLI, Libya - Moammar Gadhafi’s son, al-Saadi, denied allegations of corruption and intimidation and called Interpol’s decision to put him on the equivalent of its most
wanted list political, according to an email sent Sunday.
Al-Saadi Gadhafi is under house arrest in Libyan neighbor Niger, where he fled after Tripoli fell to revolutionary forces. His father and two of his brothers are in hiding, presumably inside Libya, as fighting between revolutionary forces and Gadhafi’s loyalists continues on three fronts
Full story:
www.newsobserver.com/2011/10/02/1535405...
Reuters
Libyans run gauntlet of bullets to escape Sirte
Sirte centre of battle with Gaddafi loyalists, NTC
Thousands of civilians trying to escape city
Residents say supplies scarce, prices soar
More here:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
Aljazeera
At least three positions have now been assigned in Libya’s interim cabinet.
Chairman of the National Transitional Council Mahmoud Jibril is expected to be confirmed as interim leader.
The finance and oil minister Ali Tarhouni will be Jibril’s deputy.
And Salem Joha – an NTC commander in Misrata – will most likely become the new defence minister.
CNN
A slate of Cabinet ministers for Libya’s emerging government was finalized Sunday, two spokesmen for the National Transitional Council said. The names of those in the new Cabinet are expected to be released soon, said the spokesmen, who declined to be named.
News 24
Muammar Gaddafi’s son, al-Saadi, denied allegations of corruption and intimidation and called Interpol’s decision to put him on the equivalent of its most-wanted list political, according to an email. Al-Saadi Gaddafi is under house arrest in Libyan neighbour Niger, where he fled after Tripoli fell to revolutionary forces.
HRW
The rebels’ Transitional National Council (TNC), with the help of its international supporters, ‘urgently needs to set up a justice system able to provide prompt judicial review of all detainees, a task that has not been given sufficiently high priority’, the New York-based group said.
RAF
Libyan fighters expect to launch a final assault on Sirte – one of the last bastions of Gaddafi resistance. A two-day ceasefire has come to an end, with large numbers of civilians fleeing the Gaddafi stronghold over the weekend. RAF jets struck a series of targets in Sirte to stop the former dictator’s forces targeting civilians trying to escape. formation of Tornado GR4s used Paveway guided bombs to destroy a supply base for some of Gaddafi’s anti-aircraft artillery weapons used to target civilian areas. An armed pick-up truck was also hit in a separate mission using Brimstone missiles.
MALTA
6 injured Libyans were flown to Malta for treatment on Saturday night, including a dangerously critical three-year-old boy with a brain injury who is being cared for at the Intensive Therapy Unit at Mater Dei Hospital. The other five, including an eight-year-old boy, are recovering at Saint James Hospital, where other seriously injured but not critical patients are being treated.
Red Cross
A Red Cross convoy trying to take medical supplies into Libya’s besieged city of Sirte had to turn back on Monday because forces seeking to capture the city from fighters loyal to Muammar Gaddafi opened fire on the town
NOC
Head of National Oil Company (NOC) told Petroleum Economist that oil production has already reached 350,000 barrels a day (b/d) and will jump in the next week as the Sharara oilfield in the country’s southwest comes back on stream, NOC chairman Nuri Berruien said in Tripoli.Swiftly rising production will also boost sales to foreign markets. Berruien said exports would reach 400,000 b/d by mid-October.
Via Feb17
New Libyan Sovereign Wealth Fund Chief Seeks Probes
One of the first orders of business in post-Moammar Gadhafi Libya is to clean out the rotten wood.
Tops on that list is investigating corruption at the Libyan Investment Authority, the country’s sovereign wealth fund. Rafik Nayed, the fund’s acting chief executive, said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that its investment operations are on hold
while it looks through $65 billion in holdings to examine dealings with people tied to Gadhafi.
“We aren’t interested in new deals,” said Nayed to the Journal. “My mandate…is to untangle the inheritance of the Gadhafi regime and stabilize” the country’s national wealth.
Read more:
feb17.info/news/new-libyan-sovereign-we...
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
matthew van Dyke was captured in march when he was already fighting with the libyan opposition then he passed almost 6 months in jail #Libya
Matthew Van Dyke He decided to join the fighting because his friendship with a guy from Benghazi he met in Mauritania years ago #Libya
Matthew Van Dyke both are still fighting together #Sirte #Libya
Mondoweiss
Take notice D.C. – Panel of distinguished Arabs analyze the ‘Arab Spring’ at Harvard
I had the privilege of attending a discussion entitled “Inside the Arab Awakening” on Sept. 19. The panel was organized by the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School and was moderated by Ambassador Nicholas Burns. The panelists – all experts on various issues pertaining to the region – had the benefit of having been in the Middle East very recently. Moreover, they were all Arabs.
Rami Khouri, Director of the Issam Fares Institute at the American University of Beirut shared the stage with Dr. Karim Makdisi, also of AUB, Diana Buttu, a Harvard Fellow and UAE-based columnist Sultan Al Qassemi.
Full story:
mondoweiss.net/2011/10/take-notice-d-c-...
Daily Star
Libya’s Sirte on brink of humanitarian crisis
People wounded in fighting in Libya’s besieged city of Sirte are dying on the operating table because fuel for the hospital generator has run out, medical workers fleeing a worsening humanitarian crisis in the city said Sunday. The birthplace of deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, Sirte is one of two towns still holding out against the country’s new rulers and civilians are caught in the middle of fierce fighting now in its third week.
Read more:
www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2...
Aisha
A link to Libya Alahrar .Mustapha AbdalJalil speaking live . media4.lsops.net/libyatv/smil:l… #Libya
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Jibril stays head of #libya executive council and takes ministry of foreign affairs; press conference now. #libya
Ahmed Elhasairi
Live presser on AJA mubasher AbdulJalil just finished they formed the new government #Libya #NTC
Moez
Unbelevable floods in #Tripoli this morning – Alsaree3 (main highway through Tripoli) was a river – lorrys underwater #libya
Legal Brief
Libya needs justice system to stop abuses – HRW
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Libya’s rebel leaders to stop their forces from making arbitrary arrests and abusing detainees in the country’s prisons and makeshift detention facilities, notes a report on the News24 site.
The rebels’ Transitional National Council (TNC), with the help of its international supporters, ‘urgently needs to set up a justice system able to provide prompt judicial review of all detainees, a task that has not been given sufficiently high priority’, the New York-based group said. The organisation added that its personnel had 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,’ HRW added.
Full report on the News24 site
Source:
www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=...
Free Libya ♔☾✰
Oil production in #libya has a reached 350,000 barrels a day.
Eric Kampherbeek
Made it out of #Libya with @derek_brower. Thanks #Libya all the best.
jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
#libya #NTC forces capture #Sirte(s) #Bouhadi district from pro #gaddafi fighters: Reuters
Farah
Thing I’ve learned from the #ArabSpring The word “official” means jack s***. Till I see it with my own eyes, im not believing it. #Libya
Sirtawi
Mahmoud Jibril: The liberation of #Libya will be declared when #Sirte is liberated. #SirteCrisis #Feb17
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Qaddafi son says Interpol red notice ‘political’; shortages ‘killing patients’ in Sirte goo.gl/GCt7I #alarabiya, Libya #Qaddafi
libyanproud libyanandproud
Jalil: Interim constitutional document issued by the #NTC, gives Amazigh, Tuareg, Tabu languages official language status. #Feb17
Jalil : The Amazigh of Libya are a key component in the composition of the Libyan community. #Feb17 #Libya
Dear Gaddafi Lovers: his achievements
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Good news:
Ahrar TV:
100 G forces captured in Sirte by Hasan AlJaber Brigade #libya #feb17
Farah
The practice of religion is a fundamental right that all humans must have. Like it or not. #Tripoli Synagogue reopens
on.wsj.com/r0MGsv
Over 1200 African migrants stranded in the southern Libyan city of Sabha are being evacuated to Chad
BBC
Libya conflict: New offensive on Sirte
Forces of the Libyan transitional government have launched a new offensive against the pro-Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte.
Barrages of rocket and tank fire were being directed at the city centre after a two-day lull in fighting.
Hundreds more civilians have escaped from the town, but humanitarian workers fear there are thousands more unable or unwilling to leave.
In the south, more than 1,200 African migrants are being evacuated to Chad.
Full story:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15148491
Sabha evacuation
A convoy of 15 trucks has left for Niger on the way to Chad, from where they will be transported home.
hominoid555 Russell
BREAKING: Libya’s new rulers name new Cabinet, vow to step down after country fully secured.
The head of Libya’s #NTC announced changes 2 its ministers but kept key portfolios of foreign affairs and oil unchanged
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7mDGLsE46Q
Aljazeera
Jibril pledges to resign from Libya’s NTC
Prime minister of interim government says he will step down once the country is wholly liberated.
Mahmoud Jibril, the prime minister and often the foreign face of Libya’s National Transitional Council, has pledged to resign from government once the country is liberated.
That moment will occur when Sirte, the contested coastal hometown of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi, is taken by NTC fighters, Jibril said in a press conference on Monday.
Jibril’s announcement came after news of a cabinet reshuffle began to emerge on Sunday evening.
More than a month after the fall of Tripoli, the NTC has finalised a new cabinet that reportedly aims to be more representative and take into account the desires of Islamist factions.
In the new cabinet, Salem Joha, a military commander from Misrata, will be defence minister, and Ali Tarhouni, who has held the role of oil and finance minister, will
become a deputy prime minister.
Under the terms of the NTC’s draft interim constitution, no member of the NTC will be allowed to serve in Libya’s elected post-revolution government. By speaking out on Monday, Jibril became the first NTC member to publicly declare he would not do so.
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Al-Megrahi tells Reuters “I’ve never harmed anyone in my life, conviction was unfair” #Lockerbie #Libya
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Flights from #Tripoli to Tobruk will start again.Every Monday for the time being #Libya
Apparently #MahmoudJibreal has spent his own money on his trips to France,US and other countries.If that is true then that is a true #Libyan
Moatasim Gadaffi is in Ibn Sena hospital in #Sirt #Libya
Ahmed Bani reports that Moatasim is in #Sirt in the Ibn Seena hospital. #Libya
BREAKING: press conference at NTC in Benghazi – #Mahmoud #Jibril announces his resignation effective after #Sirte’s liberation.
BREAKING: #NTC press conf in #Benghazi – #AbdelJalil announces new ExecComm. Interim Govt will then be formed w/in 30 days after liberation.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Post-War Therapy For Traumatised Libyan Kids
bit.ly/pjF1D7 #libya
One of Gaddafi’s many luxury tents. These ones were seized in Sirte. yfrog.com/h8qclhyj
TripoliFestival TripoliFestival
Official date set ladies and gentlemen #Tripoli #Festival will be on #Oct15
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
“The NTC is busy trying to liberate Libya and it is not mandated to look into Megrahi’s fate” al-Alagi
Tweeting Tripoli
will try to tell you a story that happened 10 years ago, if twitter’s 140 permits!
where I used to work, there were 22 ppl in total, 10 Tripoli, 5 Tarhona, 3 Werfali, 2 Ajelat, 1 Rabta, 1 shwerif.
one day the Tarhona guy complained that I was appointed because I was a Werfali, forgetting that he was one of 5 from Tarhona.
Bab ben Ghashier this morning, we have a lake, thanks to Gaddafi’s Infrastructure! Woohooo!!
TripoliRain
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Picture : Libyan and Palestinian flags on the Palestinian border via FB #Feb17 #Libya
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ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Found these on my rooftop… One of them narrowly missed the AC… Stop celebratory gunfire, it kills. #Tripoli #libya
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MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Qasr Bu Hadi is 15kms South of #Sirt which means now FF can fully surround Sirt and Link up with #Misrata Fighters #Libya
Walking around #Tripoli today has proven to everyone how bad #Libya’s infrastructure really is !!
This is a picture of the amazing infrastructure that Gadaffi provided the Libyan people in Soug AlJuma in #Tripoli
twitter.com/#!/MatogSaleh/status/120878662571667456/photo/1
Look at these innocent two CRIMINALS back in the day Saif and Saadi #Gadaffi
twitter.com/#!/MatogSaleh/status/120880813234585600/photo/1
Sirtawi
Ahmed Bani: Mutassim Gaddafi in #Sirte’s Ibn Sina hospital. #SirteCrisis #Libya #Feb17
One of our colleagues showed us a pic of his brother detained in #Sirte by Gaddafi forces. His fate, like many others, is still unknown.
AFP:
SIRTE, #Libya, Moamer #Gaddafi birthplace Qasr Abu Hadi has been overrun by #NTC fighters
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Jibril pledges to resign from Libya’s NTC
is.gd/sAC6kB #Libya
Libya: Lockerbie bomber says truth will soon emerge
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Libya: New Cabinet Named
is.gd/ZnNU96 #Libya
Sarah LFFR
Never thought one day I’ll attend this :
1st #France 2nd #Tripoli
(Tripo pic v @flyingbirdies )
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Reuters
AbdelBassetALMegrahi, convicted #Lockerbie ombing said his role in the attack had been exaggerated & the truth about what really happened would emerge soon
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Rainbow in #Tripoli today #Libya
twitter.com/#!/MatogSaleh/status/120881600803246081/photo/1
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Tripoli gets new militia in apparent rebuff to Islamists
bit.ly/odclnK
Aisha
Arrai TV, Gaddafi’s last mouthpiece
f24.my/oJ1t3T
Ceasefire ends as Sirte continues to suffer :
bit.ly/oj9040 via @AddThis
#Libya’s transitional leaders name new Cabinet
ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/… via @CTVNews
The red cross convoy near Sirte on Sunday, could not enter the city and it turned back.
yfrog.com/nz9xmij
Farah
Say it aint so Sarko?! “@AlArabiya_Eng: Most French believe #Sarkozy will lose presidential election
goo.gl/uDtC3”
OMV’s 1st Condensate Lifting From #Libya Arrives At Italian Port foxbusiness.com/industries/201
Farah
Oh thats just peachy. Marvelous. Missile party in the house “Libya: 10,000 missiles missing NATO admits globalpost.com/dispatch/news/… via GlobalPost”
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
REUTERS:
FF locked in battle outside #Sirte engage Loyalists in an attempt to clear roads for ICRC to enter city.
#AFP:
AbuHadi is completely free (of #Gaddafi fighters)," said Dr Taha Sultan at a field hospital on the eastern outskirts of #Sirte.
Fadwa
Tune into AJA now, a documentary on Misrata <3 #Libya
LibyanDictator فاطمة الزهراء
In what world would you agree to neighbour those who have killed you, raped you, destroyed your homes, your food stock, and your factories?
Tawergha’s residents left the city of their own accord, Misrata never kicked them out. Those who stayed are the only innocent ones.
Tweeting Tripoli
anyways, since I can remember my near and distant family members hate Gaddafi’s guts!
Always had to explain to pplbthat being a Werfali does’nt automatically means endorsement of G!
BTW our best friends are from Misrata. My grandfather’s buiness partner and childhood best friend was a Misrati.
No I am not worried about u guys. I am worried about the idiots who keep stirring the old Werfalla-Misrata 80 years old saga.
All I wish for is a tolerant democratic not extreme country, is that too much to ask for?
you guys may not remember this, but libyans used to get offended when the news anchor says:
Gaddafi met Uganda president, then pauses, then says; … Fee Kampala!
HRW
Libya: Evidence from Mass Graves at Risk
Several mass graves have been uncovered in Libya. But with the country in turmoil, forensic evidence is at risk of being destroyed or lost. Stefan Schmitt of Physicians for Human Rights and HRW’s Fred Abrahams discuss the need to halt exhumations and protect grave sites in order to pursue justice
Audio:
www.hrw.org/audio/2011/09/30/libya-evid...
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Billions of Dollars in accounts abroad. Why didnt you build roads in #Libya first #Gadaffi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=znfjF2pquKk
Rats maybe nothing without NATO but Gadaffi is NOTHING without ANYTHING.He hasnt got a house.What hole is he in tonight?
haha.i forgot about those tunnels that go on for miles !! :)
Rima
I had a dream Sire was free last night. Only now realized it was just a dream after reading tweets :/ ah
Sarah
M.AbdelJelil : “Nous appelons le peuple libyen à être patient car l’heure de la libération approche.” #Benghazi #Libye #CNT
M.Abduljelil : “Le CNT et M. Jibril sont arrivés pendant ces 2 derniers jours de négociation à la conclusion de réformer l’exécutif” #Libye
DavidKenner DavidKenner
Al Jazeera publishes some great anti-Qaddafi street art. english.aljazeera.net/indepth/inpict…
CNN
Anti-Gadhafi tribes clash in two Libyan locales
Members of two Libyan tribes — who fought together to unseat Moammar Gadhafi and his loyalists — clashed Saturday, infighting among opposition forces that comes as a
key ally of the longtime leader vowed to keep up the fight.
Ahmed Hussein, a resident of Badr, told CNN that Berber tribesmen from Nalut used Kalashnikov rifles and machine guns in an attack on Seaan Arab forces in that
mountainous western Libyan city. A family of three caught in the crossfire was killed, he claimed.
Read more and video:
edition.cnn.com/2011/10/01/world/africa...
LibyaNewMedia
The Arab League always reacts after Western countries react. They are never proactive; the result of lacking any kind of direction.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Could #Libya be like #Norway ? BBC Radio 4 – Libya’s Islamic Capitalists bbc.co.uk/iplayer/b006r4…
libyanandproud
#Sebha: more than 1,200 African migrants are being evacuated to Chad. #Feb17 #Libya
Fadwa
I don’t care about those people who try to ruin Misrata’s image, I LOVE Misrata a lot and I’ll always do,it has a special place in my heart♥
Reuters
Col Gaddafi’s son Mutassim is hiding in hospital in besieged city #Sirte, NTC military spokesman says – Reuters
bbc.in/qB3rfV #Libya
Acus.org
NATO air strikes coming to an end: Alliance may soon turn over Libya operation to US Africa Command
The military mission in Libya is largely complete and NATO’s involvement could begin to wrap up as soon as this coming week after allied leaders meet in Brussels, according to the top U.S. commander for Africa.
Army Gen. Carter Ham, head of U.S. Africa Command, told The Associated Press that American military leaders are expected to give NATO ministers their assessment of the situation during meetings late in the week.
NATO could decide to end the mission even though ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi is still at large and his forces are still entrenched in strongholds such as Sirte and Bani Walid. . . .
Read more:
www.acus.org/natosource/nato-air-strike...
CNN
Libyan leaders to announce ‘liberation’ if key city falls
The leaders of Libya plan to declare the “liberation” of Libya if and when fighters for the National Transitional Council defeat forces loyal to ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi in Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte, the head of the council, Mustapha Abdel Jalil, said Monday.
Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril, meanwhile, said he would resign if and when the fighters defeat pro-Gadhafi forces in Sirte.
More:
edition.cnn.com/2011/10/03/world/africa...
Tawargha Tawargha
We have news saying that some Families have been found in the middle of Libya in Al-Jofrha area, Update coming soon. Thank you
Farah
Hairdressers today told me I dont look ‘arabic’, then proceeded to say ‘youre pretty!!’.Welcome to Spain, land of the politically incorrect!
For Sirte wounded, frontline triage comes in a mosque | Reuters reut.rs/oolTYC via @reuters
Libyan
Revolutionaries battling in #Sirte have opened up corridor for ICRC to allow medical aid into city. #Libya #Feb17
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Back in #Misrata, and happy to be here. This is a really special city.
#Misrata is the one city in #Libya where the wounds of war are very visible. But it’s also possibly the best organized now post-war
derek_brower Derek Brower
Confused by #Jibril news. He steps down after Sirte falls and then NTC goes through this whole mess of naming another cabinet, again? #Libya
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
LibyanNTC forces captured the district of Bouhadi in Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte on Monday, a Reuters reporter there said. Reuters
Gaddafi graffiti speaks volumes in Tripoli
Pics:
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.21332...
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Not sure if this is normal, but I keep dreaming of #Gadhafi. 4 nights now, I dream about searching for him. #goingmad
Al Arabiya
Sirte: The Abandoned City
As the battle for Libyan leader Muammer Qaddafi’s hometown, Sirte rages on, families crammed themselves into cars as they fled the city on Sunday, reporting a humanitarian situation nearing a tipping point.
The ongoing battle for Sirte, between anti-Qaddafi fighters and backed by NATO air strikes, has trapped people inside the town of about 100,000 through several fierce assaults over two weeks.
The chairman of the ruling National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, said his forces had called a two-day truce to allow civilians to leave.
Hundreds of people, many of them women and children and the elderly, took advantage of a lull in fighting to make their way out of the city.
Cars waited in line as they were searched by NTC fighters to make sure they were not carrying arms or suspected pro-Gaddafi forces.
Meanwhile, aid workers from the International Committee of the Red Cross brought medical supplies to Sirte as fears grew that a humanitarian disaster was unfolding there.
ICRC medical staff said, “We hope that we will be able to go in as quickly as possible again because we really need to and we want to assist civilians inside Sirte and this hospital – the medical personnel and the war wounded. This is our role, this is our mandate and we want to take the opportunity to remind all the parties to the conflict to allow safe access for medical personnel and spare as much as possible civilian lives.”
Speaker:
ICRC medical staff
Video:
www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/10/03/1...
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
www8.0zz0.com/2011/10/03/14/… Tripoli today because Gaddafi keeps the money for him and his sons.
MSNBC
Exiled Libyan Jew blocked from restoring synagogue
Full story:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44755697/ns/world_...
libyanproud libyanandproud
Picture : David “The Revolutionary Jew” Gerbi met #Gaddafi in 2002 . #Feb17 #Libya via FB twitpic.com/6unmgi
ChangeInLibya
The libyanjew trying to rebuild that synagogue met Gaddafi a few years ago and they seem to have a friendship.
Sarah LFFR
(AFP) – Les Thuwar ont pris le contrôle du village de Qasr Abou Hadi, lieu de naissance de #Gaddafi près de #Syrte #Libye #17feb
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Belhadj: This press conference comes as part of many meetings that took place between civil society institutions in Tripoli #libya
Belhadj: This concerns some of the recent problems associated with widespread availability of weapons on Tripoli’s streets #libya
Belhadj: The people of Tripoli no longer want to instability and fear that comes with celebratory gunfire & unlicensed use of heavy weapons
Belhadj: We hereby ask all signs of heavy weaponry to be removed from Tripoli’s streets, and only licensed & NLA weapons allowed
Reuters
Chilly welcome for freedom fighters in Gaddafi’s town
If the Libyan fighters who advanced deep into Sirte on Monday had hoped to be greeted as liberating heroes, they were disappointed. All the residents had fled, leaving behind prized mementoes of their kinsman Muammar Gaddafi.
Full story:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/03/liby...
Amnesty:
Libya: warring forces must allow humanitarian aid to reach Sirte
Humanitarian ‘corridors’ should be established
All parties to Libya’s armed conflict must act to spare civilians and ensure that urgently needed supplies can be delivered safely to Sirte, Amnesty International said today amid reports that the humanitarian situation in the coastal city is rapidly worsening.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was able to visit Sirte on Saturday, where they described severe shortages of medical and other supplies while indiscriminate fire continues to put residents at risk. The ICRC team brought the first humanitarian aid since the city came under siege in mid-September.
Media reports have described how civilians trapped in Sirte have been endangered by ongoing fighting and surviving on dwindling medical supplies, food, fuel and water. Sirte’s main hospital, Ibn Sina, reportedly came under fire over the weekend. Meanwhile, an ICRC team was unable to carry out a visit today due to the security situation.
Amnesty International Middle East and North Africa Deputy Director Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui said:
“Forces on both sides must take necessary precautions to spare civilians and must immediately set up humanitarian corridors to ensure that urgently needed supplies can be delivered safely to Sirte residents.
“All civilians who want to leave Sirte should be allowed to do so immediately in dignity and safety.
“All those involved in the fighting have legal obligations to spare civilians by ending immediately the use of indiscriminate weapons like GRAD rockets, and not firing artillery and mortars into residential areas.”
Establishing humanitarian corridors would include setting up neutral zones and negotiated routes that are clearly defined, to give humanitarian workers safe access to the sick and injured. International humanitarian law prohibits the use of weapons that are inherently indiscriminate or which cannot be targeted at military objectives.
Amnesty has collected evidence that Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi’s forces committed war crimes throughout the conflict, including by carrying out attacks targeting civilians and indiscriminate attacks. They launched artillery, mortar and
rocket attacks against residential areas, and used inherently indiscriminate weapons such as anti-personnel mines and cluster bombs. They also concealed tanks and heavy military equipment in residential buildings.
NATO has accused pro-Gaddafi forces of using civilians as shields in Sirte. Meanwhile, anti-Gaddafi forces have been found to use GRAD rockets, which pose a lethal danger to populated areas because they are unguided.
Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui added:
“The NTC, which has publicly committed to respect international human rights and humanitarian law, must ensure that anti-Gaddafi forces respect these norms and to also avoid revenge attacks and other reprisals.”
(AFP) –
NTC fighters were able to control the village of Abu Hadi in Sirte according to medical sources visited the village.
FreeBenghazi
Nalut Col. Mohamed AlTamtam w Ubari kids. Fighters noticed kids in oil-rich Sth, live in poverty #Libya v @nalut17feb
pic.twitter.com/3BzviEdG
or:
twitter.com/#!/FreeBenghazi/status/120910716923412481/photo/1
Iman
OMG its seven o clock and I’ve made np progress with revision, libyan news is so distracting so many press conferences to keep up with ARGH!
Fighters gained control of Gaddafi’s so-called “tent” in #Sirte #Libya pic.twitter.com/v9DD0Hjg
Battle for Sirte continues
Oct. 3 – Medical supply shortages prevent doctors in Sirte from assisting the wounded as a cease-fire to allow citizens to escape the town has ended. Julie Noce reports.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoEyiwFOn4c
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
We weren’t allowed to possess guns during G’s reign. Now guns are all over the place. Incl. heavy 1s that shd be at frnt lines
sarahbethlynch Sarah Lynch
Jibril’s anncment that he won’t run for PM is consistent w/ wht other NTC membrs hve told me.. Tht they won’t be part of post-rev gvt #libya
Libyan4life
I said it once, I’ll say it again: If you want to catch the Lockerbie bomber, if you want justice, catch #Gaddafi. #NuffSaid
AbdelBaset AlMegrahi was a #Gaddafi scapegoat. No one in #Libya could mastermind something like that without #Gaddafi bidding&support
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Micheal Vandick an American Producer who the #Gadaffi forces kept in prison for 6months.Is now fighting in #Sirt #Libya pic.twitter.com/A7JWjzSA
#UAE Nationals donate blood for the injured FF’s from #Libya.This is something we wont forget
Mustafa #AbdulJaleel says that after #Libya is liberated he will resign.We are going to do anything to prevent that happening!!
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Jibril vows to quit after Libya ‘liberation’
bit.ly/n6U17O #libya
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, youtube.com/watch?v=bQLEs-…, #Sirte, #Gaddafi
Aljazeera
Civilians fleeing Sirte describe desperate situation
After nearly three weeks of siege, residents of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s coastal hometown Sirte say their supplies are running low, while the sick and injured lack adequate medical care. One nurse said her injured brother could not reach the hospital because of the violence, and a Red Cross team was unable to get there on Saturday.
Some fleeing families readily admit their loyalty to Gaddafi, though fighters for the National Transitional Council appear to be allowing them to leave after searching for weapons. They say loyalist volunteers are responsible for holding out against NTC forces.
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports from Sirte.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQLEs-gOoDM&fea...
libyanproud libyanandproud
Jibril: “liberation would be achieved by controlling the country’s air, sea land outlets” #Feb17 #Libya
Jibril: #BaniWalid doesn’t have any outlets … so it wouldn’t stop the democratic process. #Feb17 #Libya
Jibril: #BaniWalid would be dealt with as a renegade region. #Feb17 #Libya
Interim constitution: 200-member national conference is to be elected within 240 days, which will appoint a PM 30 days later. #Feb17 #Libya
Mohamed
I am in tripoli and I am okay really happy it rained so much today gaddfi will be flushed out of the sewers
QuickMichael
I think the best way to launch a free market economy in #Libya would be small loans to tiny retail stores.
Tweeting Tripoli
Sinkhole on Tripoli university road. This happened 3 times on the same spot before. Is there a geologist in the house? pic.twitter.com/jglz1wo0
Basic training by @MerlinUK continues in #Nalut: “Administering IV & measuring blood pressure” v @NalutLRC #Libya www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.22688...
WEELULE
Al-Megrahi worked as an agent for the tyrant; therefore I say: you sleep with animals you wake-up with flees
MaryFitzgerldIT Mary Fitzgerald
After 5 wks in Libya, returned today to an Ireland in heat of presidential election campaign with Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness a candidate
VOA News
Libya’s Interim Prime Minister Sets Plans to Step Down
Libya’s interim prime minister said he would leave his post once Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown is captured as the National Transitional Council Monday reappointed most of its top figures. Meanwhile, fighters loyal to the TNC prepared to launch a final assault on the former leader’s enclave of Sirte.
Full story:
www.voanews.com/english/news/usa/Libyas...
ICRC
Libya: more medical assistance reaches Sirte
Tripoli/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) provided urgently needed oxygen and other medical supplies for the hospital in Sirte on 3 October.
“Oxygen has to be available to perform surgery on war-wounded patients in good conditions,” said Hichem Khadraoui, the ICRC delegate in charge of the operation.
“Oxygen was desperately needed in the hospital. It can save lives.”
ICRC staff crossed the front line with a fully loaded truck from the west side of Sirte. Fifty oxygen cylinders and other items required for hospital care were handed over to medical staff and representatives of civil society. A Dutch nurse who had been working in the hospital was evacuated in an ICRC vehicle.
“The situation on the ground was very tense with ongoing fighting,” said Mr Khadraoui. “Under such conditions, we had to limit ourselves – after obtaining clearances from all the parties concerned – to bringing in the most urgently needed humanitarian aid without further assessing needs. We hope to return soon.”
The oxygen and other items reached Sirte two days after the ICRC had provided the city’s hospital with urgently needed surgical supplies, body bags and fuel for the generator. In the meantime, together with the Libyan Red Crescent, the ICRC continues to provide food and other items for thousands of people who fled Sirte to the east and the west and decided to stay nearby, often in difficult conditions.
“The ICRC reminds those fighting on the ground as well as NATO forces of their obligation under international humanitarian law to protect civilians and allow safe access for health-care and humanitarian personnel,” said Georges Comninos, the head of the ICRC delegation in Tripoli.
For further information, please contact:
Soaade Messoudi, ICRC Tripoli, tel: +218 913 066 198 or +88 21 651 075 912
Dibeh Fakhr, ICRC Benghazi, tel: +870 772 390 124 (ext. 250) or +218 9 923 304 560
Steven Anderson, tel: +41 22 730 20 11 or +41 79 536 92 50
Reuters
Fighting intensifies in Sirte, Libya
Oct. 3 – The commander of the National Transitional Forces says Gaddafi loyalists tried ambushing his fighters and his men returned fire. Sarah Irwin reports.
Video:
goo.gl/8GB9m
jgg_bw
“Once #Sirte is liberated, #Libya is liberated”? What will they do about Bani Waled?
ANSA IT
Libia: Croce Rossa porta aiuti a Sirte
Ossigeno e forniture mediche nella citta’. Ma si combatte ancor
GINEVRA, 3 OTT – Il Comitato internazionale della Croce Rossa (Cicr) ha potuto far giungere aiuti urgenti all’ospedale di Sirte, citta’ costiera della Libia dove continuano i combattimenti. Si tratta di ossigeno e di altre forniture mediche. ’’C’e’ un disperato bisogno di ossigeno nell’ospedale – ha detto Hichem Khadraoui, delegato Cicr responsabile dell’operazione – Ma abbiamo dovuto limitarci a portare gli aiuti umanitari piu’ urgenti. Speriamo di tornare presto’’. (ANSA).
Source:
www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/topnew...
LA Times
Many in Surt, Libya, don’t trust revolutionary forces
Many in Surt, the hometown of Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi, want their old lives back, before the uprising, the NATO bombing campaign and the siege on the city
Reporting from Surt, Libya—
As fighters loyal to Libya’s revolutionary government gain on the holdout city of Surt, residents are making it clear that the battle for hearts and minds is far from won.
The scrublands that surround Moammar Kadafi’s hometown have become a confused patchwork of loyalties. As vehicles of the revolutionary forces patrolled the dusty villages in newly seized territory Sunday, many residents peered angrily from their homes.
“The rebels are worse than rats. NATO is the same as Osama bin Laden,” said a father, his seven children crowding around him.
“We have 10 families staying with us now,” said the angry father, who, like many others, declined to be identified for fear of recrimination. “There is little food, not enough clean water and no gas. Before, we lived wealthy lives. I had two homes. Now we live worse than animals.”
Full story:
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/...
NYT
Libya Leaders Promise New Government After Qaddafi Hometown Is Captured
Libya’s provisional leaders said Monday that they would resign once the vestiges of armed support for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in his hometown city of Surt are defeated, a move that would clear the way for a new interim government that would run the country until elections can be held.
Read full art.:
www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/world/africa...
Ali Tweel
Thank you #Gaddafi again for making Libya a better place to live, this is #HayDemashq area 1km away from me, #Tripoli
bit.ly/o6xwCl
LaProvence
Dix jours pour sortir de Syrte
YRTE, Libye (Reuters) – La famille d’Ali Ramadan a mis dix jours pour s’échapper de
Syrte, la ville natale de Mouammar Kadhafi assiégée par les forces du Conseil national de transition.
Comme des milliers d’autres civils pris au piège entre les deux camps, Ramadan et ses proches ont dû user de toute leur détermination et d’ingéniosité pour se mettre à l’abri.
“Ce sont mes parents malades qui m’ont persuadé de partir”, explique le Libyen à son arrivée à un point de contrôle situé à l’est de la ville côtière.
“Regardez mon père. Comment est-ce que je pouvais m’occuper de lui dans cet état ?”, lance-t-il en montrant la jambe amputée du vieil homme.
Ali Ramadan a décidé de quitter Syrte au petit matin en compagnie de ses vieux parents, de sa soeur, de ses filles et de leurs familles.
Juste après l’aube, moment le plus propice selon les fugitifs, car alors, le risque est moins grand d’être visé par des tireurs embusqués ou touché par une roquette.
Read more:
www.laprovence.com/article/monde/dix-jo...
Tweeting Tripoli
If you missed Jibril’s interview today (Arabic) then here it is: youtube.com/watch?v=vGWPgF…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGWPgFSFvko
Thank you so much:)
Ali Tweel
#Gaddafi you keep amazing me, thanks for your efforts of building Libya, this is Gurjy area #Tripoli today
Photo:
bit.ly/qP2tCw
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
today in Abu Hadi Gaddafi’s village near #Sirte NTC fighters control everything houses still with green flags #Libya
covering the battle in #Sirte #libya
yfrog.com/h0jzcssj
presidential seat at #Sirte airport #libya
yfrog.com/nyra7rj
ahauslohner Abigail Hauslohner
A Misratan commander told me (estimating) that #Misrata is currently holding some 1,800 prisoners. His brigade has 200 of them. #Libya
Ali Tweel
by FreeBenghazi
Here I present to you the great Libyan high way built by #Gaddafi:
bit.ly/pO92c8
and
bit.ly/pENh6W
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Some money goes a long way, my friend. Loads of people will do anything to screw up this revolution.
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Wants to organise a Demonstration on a Friday throughout #Libya under the title"Abduljaleel for president after Liberation"
Who can i speak to to organise this demonstration in #Libya? If anyone can help me please do :)
i want him to be the main figure.he is the only person in #Libya that everyone respects and love.no one can play his role
its a vital stage now.we can have him here for 4years until some candidates are ready to take over.they need experience
ABC News
Libya’s Post-Gadhafi Rulers Name New Cabinet
Libya’s transitional leaders named a new Cabinet Monday and said they would step down after the country is fully secured, putting an end to weeks of political infighting as the North African nation struggles to get back on its feet.
Read more:
abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/...
Naass
And this is the beautiful #Tajura , She looks amazing in the look of Rain on.fb.me/pdg7f3 . Offcourse thanks to bro Leader
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
hard to believe from revolutionary side, but sirte was it’s own kingdom telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews…
Huge convoys massing #sirte, straight ahead assault stalled by accurate defensive fire, 2moro say the big push will happen, inshallah
dee
#libya Sirte residents are unhappy they are losing their wealthy lifestyles provided by #gaddafi I 4 one have no sympathy for such things
Please look at this pic:
Apparently this is David Gerbi, the Libyan Jew, and currently the media’s favourite Libyan..
pic.twitter.com/2viFQSMf
or:
twitter.com/#!/LibyanDictator/status/120948437238820864/photo/1
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
lots of weapon left at #Sirte airport including some long range rockets #Libya yfrog.com/nt7sqvj
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya interim forces intensify attack on Sirte is.gd/0rgEGU #Libya
Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. ( Francis of Assisi )
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Guys tune in to Aljazeera Mubasher now they are interviewing this guy!! facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… #EPICLIBYANGUY and his mother/family!! #libya
LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Croix rouge: 10 000 des 70 000 habitants de Syrte se sont déjà échappés de de la ville. Le CNT leur a donnée 2 jours
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
hoy estuve en la aldea natal de Muamar Gadafi me recordó a Ujda donde nació Sadam Hussein aunq sta es aun + pobre #Libia
WEELULE
Urgent call 2 all Libyans,people who pushed Jibril out r a threat 2 our country and freedom, must expose+fight them
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
NTC fighters keep push against conference center today they advance on foot but had to stop after many mortars targeted them #Sirte #Libya
dee
#libya sirte was well kept under #gaddafi thats what its all about huh? nothing to do with any1 else sufferring. Just keep us rich in sirte
Triploli scream
I posted a new photo to Facebook
fb.me/17o8Zz9ZE
Moez
If anyone knows any #LIBYAN health-related NGOs active in #Tripoli please @ me details – their representation is awful #libya #feb17
FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli’s Martyrs Square Oct3 Several 100 demonstrators rallied in support of Libya NTC Some1 carried Placard: No 2return ofJews 2 #Libya
#BELHADJ Urges #Tripoli Ppl 2 help RESTORE Stability City has started feeling that security of early days has flipped Stop all illegal arms
Belhadj calls 4 the Full Restoration of Education & Health services its important schools and hospitals restart normal operations #Libya
MUST READ:
Miami Herald
Family tells of terror from armed Gadhafi loyalists in Sirte
Militiamen loyal to Moammar Gadhafi swarm the streets of Sirte, brandishing rocket-propelled grenade launchers and passing out heavy weapons, including belt-fed machine guns, to anyone who’s willing to fight. The electricity’s been cut off since August, and those with generators are suspected of listening to news from the outside, marking them as disloyal.
Full art.:
www.miamiherald.com/2011/10/03/2436946/...
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libya’s NTC lowers bar for starting election process
is.gd/xdaIdn
FreedomGroup
#Libya Our dear friend and brother, Ghassan Muftah Fackroon, a member of Freedom Group, is in intensive care in Misrata. Ghassan was serious head and neck wound following the heavy clashes in Sirte today. Ghassan has been a fearlessly cameraman and reporter since the very beginning of the revolution.
We ask Allah to heal our brother, Ghassan
Photo:
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=347679&l...
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
#Libyan oil production is set to reach 1m bpd by end of Nov and & return to pre-war levels by the middle of next year bit.ly/nlc6gO
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
“Bazaars” are a new & spreading trend in Tripoli. Events where people buy & sell things, with revenues going to charities & FF supprt #libya
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
#Sirte #MatthewVanDyke #American writer &filmmaker who was imprisoned in #Libya for 6 mnths, taken up arms & joined FFs tiny.cc/rkpo4
#AJA – Heavy fighting between Freedom Fighters and Gaddafi forces in #Sirte. #Libya #17Feb
LibyanDictator فاطمة الزهراء
Although I disagree with those against Libyan Jews returning, I believe Libyans would’ve been welcoming had they participated in revolution.
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
photos found at Khalifa Ijneish house in Abu Hadi NTC fightes said Khalifa second in command to Gaddafi??? #Libya
yfrog.com/h6ttquwj
2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Libya will import 750K sheep for Eid. Udhya is only for those who can afford it. Skip it this year give it to the wounded & Martyrs families
750K sheep worth of 7.5 M $. This can repair lots of roofs (rainy season). Also can help with health care for the wounded. Sheik Sadig?
For Libyans it is more or less a big BBQ party (Also it is Sunna and not Fard).
People don’t understand religion. I think we will please God more if we put finding a shelter 4 families who lost their houses 1st!
Moez
Huge storm clouds gathering and thunder/lightning over #tripoli – looks like tonight is gonna be a splash! (pun intended!) #libya
Libyan4life
Lots of opinions and discourse about the place of Libyan Jews. Makes for interesting dinner conversation. #Libya #Feb17
MDaLibyan
As a muslim arab Libyan I think we should let the Libyan Jews come home. Da day after Israel let all 8million palestinian refugees go home
SUMMARY OCTOBER 4th 2011
10/4/11
10/04/11
10.04.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya –
goo.gl/gFVdc
yasmarah ياسمين
I just hate that all the stereotypes people have about Libyans being racist have come up again.
Stupidity is a disease without a medicine.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
I have so many memories or Libya. one of them is being with FF moving west from benghazi in to ‘green’ towns. they would walk around (cont)
areas near Sirte, amazed at the quality of buildings. “we never got any houses like this.” Mashallah said. #Gaddafi favouritizied
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Rain, Thunder and Lightning once again in #Tripoli #Libya.Always starts when you want to go to sleep !
Last night:
Moez
Lightning coming thick and fast – managed to take some snaps #tripoli #Libya twitpic.com/6ur2bg
twitpic.com/6ur3oh
twitpic.com/6ur24b
bousuwa
Tripoli is pouring rain Mashalla people chanting allaho Akbar #Tripoli
88simon88 simon
Latest NTC recognition MAP. Welcome to Somalia, Uganda and Jamaica 66% of the countries hv now recognize the NTC
img338.imageshack.us/img338/3272/3o…
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
More “thundery showers” forecast for #Tripoli. I really hope puddles & flooded streets can be cleared ASAP
news.bbc.co.uk/weather/foreca… #libya
Tamather ♥ ♕ ☮ ▲ ♔
Well it rained in #Benghazi too, it’s all because there’s no shafshofa any more. :]
Free Libya
Baraka in a non-spritual sense too, farmers are very happy since it’s ploughing season in Libya, love the rain:)
Neale
It might clean out some of the crap in all the tunnels under (I was gonna say Tripoli, but) just abt everywhere!
LibyanDictator فاطمة الزهراء
Total of 12 martyrs in the battle for #Sirte yesterday, tens more injured. #Libya #Feb17
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
Libya’s #NTC leaders said that they would resign once the vestiges of armed support for #Gaddafi in #Sirte are defeated
tiny.cc/171h1
#Libya mission is “pretty close” to its end, however,
tiny.cc/1s50q
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Libya’s new rulers say war has been won
bit.ly/qDsynU #libya
Libyan4life
I know there is a problems associated with too much rain,but if this isnt a sign of the Baraka #Libya is enjoying IDK what is
Yefrenia
When Analysts Underestimated The capabilities of Libya’s FFs During Ramadan I Learnt Never to Underestimate a Free Man’s Determination…
Even if Many from your Generation who you Fought alongside have been Martyred don’t Give Up, Save the Next Generation from Tyranny #Faith
Libyans seem to be forgetting. All this about Libyan Jews returning to Libya is blown out of proportion. Most prob dont even want to come bk
In the new Libya, if a law is in place no one should be above the Law. Libyan Muslims shouldn’t fear Libyan Jews & vice versa.
Even if some Libyan Jews still have their loyalties to Israel; that could easily change if majority of Libyans vote to cut ties with Israel.
You might not know it but having a Libyan Jew in Libya who supports Israel is no different than your government having relations with Israel
Either way if you’ve read Literature on European Jews many were against the creation of Israel. Then again the powerless rarely have a voice
Same goes to many Libyan Jews Im so sure many dont want anything to do with Israel.They exist. Not everyone is outspoken like this Gerbi guy
my dad told me he was told many Libyan Jews, families forced out of Nafusa in bk of trucks during the war
Armchair Arab
btw he’s an Italian Jewish immigrant to Libya. Not even Libyan.
Gerbi
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
My Cousin who is an FF who was one of the first people to actually drive from Tobruk to Tripoli #Libya
pic.twitter.com/LoUNuR3G
Saja Ramadan ♥
AbdelBaset AlMegrahy claiming he never harmed anyone ??!!
youtube.com/watch?v=S5dLJB…
Matog
he only costed us 10billion was it ? :)
librev2011 ThEsToRmX!
Gaddafi war crimes shooting Libyan Protesters in tajoura district tripoli 21 2 11 fb.me/yO3BibPN
Libya_Awake_United
Once upon a time a king was walking around in a city late at night in the dark, checking on his ppl. He found a woman crying for her husband
The next morning he called that woman and asked her: where is your husband ? she answered : you sent him fighting in the front-lines. 2/3
He called for the women of the city asking them, how long a woman can stay away from her husband?some said 2 mon others said 3 to 4 mon. 3/4
He made an average period according to women’s answers & he set a rule. Every fighter has to come back after 4 months in the front-lines.4/5
That was not a king, he was Omer Ibn Elkhatab peace be upon him. This is an example of how much real #Islam cares about women. 6/7
The US Welcomes His Royal Highness Crown Prince Hasan, 16 Oct. 1962 – J.F.Kennedy Presidential Library
bit.ly/rnYpkv #Libya #History
Karybdis
October 3 #Libya situation map. #Buhadi (Qasr Abu Hadi) to NTC. Attacks into #Sirte, with fluid territory. BW is static
pic.twitter.com/auvn1HGv
Visiting war-ravaged #Misrata, #UN envoy in #Libya salutes courage of residents shar.es/b0ptj
Benghazi Youth
’I’m not afraid to die. I’m afraid to lose the battle’ What a legend. Very smart & courageous individual. A big loss for Libya :[
Emma Gable
One thing I will never forget: 1st day Mo Nabbous broadcast from the roof of Benghazi courthouse. His voice calling for help. His voice . .
Benghazi Youth
Exiled Libyan Jew says synagogue efforts blocked
guardian.co.uk/world/feedarti… #Guardian #AP #Libya
LibyaSteadfast Benghazi Youth
Free from #Libya prison US journalist joins fight against #Gaddafi photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/…
Back in Aug when he escaped:
abc2news.com/dpp/news/regio…
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
Good for Abdullah Abdul Naker and #Jalil and Jibril against the Islamists feb17.info/news/tripoli-g… via @Feb17Libya
try #Sabratha – plenty of burnt out buildings to satisfy even the most jaded observer
Off – topic smile:
Mostafa
The correlation between beauty and incompetence in female PR reps is astonishing
#Yefren #Nafousa #Libya #Nature #Beautiful #Photo by @4Adam flickr.com/photos/yefren/…
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Nato’s Libyan triumphs conceal deeper malaise
bit.ly/pdU3Pn #libya
Have a look:
afelyun aphelion
Gene mutation in Libyan sheep facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… #Libya
Abu Hanood El-Dernaw
jst bk frm Sirte wer ive lft @raggzeb on d frntline. on friday we said bye to another 2 falling soldiers. it’s hard but for freedom we must
raggzeb the hero who took us back to the front line was killed on 30.08.11. in #Sirte Hotel his legacy will forever live on. RIP Yousif
43 of Gaddaffi’s soldiers surrendered in #Sirte #Libya saying they have nothing more to give. Victory on the horizon inshaAllah.
sorry for the delay in responding. the 3rd member of our unit was killed and not @raggzeb he is still alive n well
3rd)another member of our team was killed on the roof of the hotel when a 120mm Mortar landed
Yosif El-Fitoury, 3rd member of unit was killed. raggzeb is still well
be not sad. i visited his family and they are in good spirit. Death is inevitable and he went out in the best possible style.
it was a price that he was ready to pay. his bravery was witnessed by all. he has left behind a wife, 2 daughters an 2 sons.
originally from Tajura, but they have been in Benghazi for generations now. i will post a photo of him soon
no mobile or net coverage in Sirte. update only when we meet sky news team or in bnghzi
me and the martyr Yousif El-Fitoury AKA the friendly giant pic.twitter.com/D0thhk20
Martyrs will fall but thier legacies are immortal. Yousif Fitoury forever alive in our hearts….Allahu Akbar
#Sirte & its people r v different to rest of #Libya. Sirte is v well maintained & most people r armed with AK47s and sniper rifles
Tweeting Tripoli
Gaddafi last February asked the Libyans "Who are you?” Poet Farag Mismary:
We are your grief. We made your blood run dry
We are your pain
Do you not know who we are?
We drove you insane. We made your nightmare come true
We bloodied your nose.
Do you not know who we are?
We are the cavaliers who crushed your cowardice
We are the brave whom you dared not face
Do you not know who we are?
Tweeting Tripoli
Will be meeting a member from Soug Guma FF council in an hr. He would know about such incidents. Don’t believe all news reports.
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today
#AJArabic Exclusive Footage – Street-to-street fighting inside #Sirte youtube.com/watch?v=H7_TcS…! #libya #feb17 #GetGaddafi
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7_TcSU4Xs0&fea...
ahauslohner Abigail Hauslohner
#Misrata’s top military commander tells me Muatassim may have left #Sirte. Armored cars seen in Jufra, heading south a few days ago #Libya
Tarek Alwan
The damage caused by #NATO to #Gaddafi Brigade next to his compound in #Tripoli, #Libya yfrog.com/g0yd1wj
Heavy rain in #Tripoli on Monday 3rd Oct. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbatDu4aM5s&fea... #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbatDu4aM5s&fea...
FromJoanne Joanne
#SIRTE Frontline NTC infantry Squad was surrounded &attacked with mortars by Gaddafi soldiers Killed 8 NTC Fighters Injured 39 Monday #Libya
A senior #NATO official acknowledged 10,000 ground-to-air missiles are missing which represent “a serious threat to civil aviation” #Libya
Reuters
UPDATE 2-Heritage deal marks first move on Libyan oil
Has established base in Benghazi
In talks with senior NTC members (Writes through with comment, detail, background)
Heritage Oil has bought control of a Benghazi-based oil services firm, striking the first upstream deal in Libya since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi and building on the British explorer’s reputation as a first mover into political hot-spots.
Heritage said on Tuesday it had bought 51 percent of Sahara Oil Services Holdings for $19.5 million.
Read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/04/heri...
Re opening Tripoli Synagogue is a subject of debate #Libya
#SIRTE NTC fighters plead #Red #Cross to help find many missing prisoners from the prisons of Sirte #libya
#Nafusa fighters refused requests 2leave #Tripoli leading 2clashes between the city own militias & fighters from other regions #Libya #NYT
NYT
Libyan Rebels Clarify Steps to New Rule
Libya’s provisional leaders said Monday that they would resign once the former rebels defeat the vestiges of armed support for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in his home city of Surt, a move that would clear the way for a new interim government that would run the country until elections can be held.
Local officials also moved on Monday to try to assuage the residents of Tripoli, who have complained about the dozens of armed militias that continue to patrol the streets and guard government installations. These include many militias from the Nafusah Mountains who have so far refused requests to leave Tripoli, the capital, leading to clashes in recent days between the city’s own militias and the fighters from other regions.
Full art.:
www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/world/africa...
Omar
this is a bad news. I hope FFs will unite against tyranny and oppression and fight for democracy and freedom.
MSenusi
is this clash confirmed this is seriously bad news
#SalemJoha was set to take over as Defence Minister but NTC Jalil announced that current minister #JalalDghaili will stay Def. Min #Libya
tripolitano Tripolitano
I don’t think the story is accurate.There were clashes between Nalut and Tiji in Nafousa. Small clash happened in a farm in Tip
however all is sorted now. Between Nalut and Tiji. Started with pro G woman shooting at check point
FromJoanne Joanne
#SIRTE Tornado GR4s used Paveway bombs 2destroy SupplyBase of Gaddafi anti-aircraft artillery weapons used to target civilian areas #Libya
#Sirte video of #RAF jets protecting civilians fleeing Sirte
goo.gl/zpRwy #Libya
#Tuesday :
“I will not stay in any official post after the liberation,” stated #Jibril on Al Arabiya TV channel #Libya
This morning NTC Launched its ‘Final Assault’ on #Sirte #Libya
#SIRTE today NTC Fighters keep trying 2 conquer Conference Center #Ouagadougou but barrage of Mortars stopped them in their tracks #Libya
#Sirte #NTC fighters control Birthplace of Gaddafi Neighbourhood where most of 5000 residents had already fled Kasr #AbuHadi #Libya
#Tripoli Photos
flickr.com/photos/byammar/ #Libya
Malta PM suggested to McCain that US send medical ship to help injured Libyan fighters --
www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011...
omar
New #Libya springs a surprise everywhere u go, there is a story on every street, around every corner- By Michel cousins
arabnews.com/middleeast/art…
Arab News
New Libya springs a surprise everywhere you go
BENGHAZI: As newspaper editors so often tell their reporters, there is a story on every street, around every corner. Never has that been more so than in Libya at present.
Driving around Benghazi a couple of weeks ago, we (the Arab News correspondent and his invaluable and remarkably well-connected driver Awad) noticed a small group of men being photographed beside a newly planted tree in one of the city’s main squares. Two of the men were in army uniform. Clearly there had to be story there.
Read more:
arabnews.com/middleeast/article511057.ece
omar
media every day come up with new story of missing weapons in #Libya! missiles, chemical weapons & who knows maybe tomorrow “Atomic bombs”
Via Feb17
AP
British company Heritage Oil PLC has acquired a controlling interest in a Libyan company licensed to provide oil field services including offshore and land-based drilling.
Heritage said Tuesday that it paid $19.5 million for a 51 percent stake in Sahara Oil Services Holdings Ltd. Heritage said the acquisition will allow it to play a significant role in Libya’s oil and gas industry. Sahara Oil Services was established in 2009 and is based in Benghazi.
Heritage says it established a base in Benghazi this year and has been dealing with senior members of the National Transitional Council. Tony Buckingham, chief executive of Heritage, says his company is now well placed to win exploration and production licenses.
VOA
Libyan interim government fighters have launched what they say is the “final assault” on the loyalist stronghold of Sirte, as officials pledged to appoint a new transitional government soon after the strategic coastal city is captured.
Senator John McCain
Senator John McCain urged the US government to send a hospital ship to Tripoli or Malta.“We should be helping them.” He believes that the United States could ship or fly wounded to its military base hospitals in Germany. But he went one further, saying that an American hospital ship “should be sent to Tripoli, or if not Malta”
Aljazeera
Mahmoud Jibril, the prime minister and often the foreign face of Libya’s National Transitional Council, has pledged to resign from government once the country is liberated.There has been political infighting in the NTC, with some potentially damaging rifts opening up. Jibril’s announcement came after news of a potential cabinet reshuffle began to emerge on Sunday evening.
Khadija Ali
at the first Youth Movement Gathering. #Tripoli #Libya
Media figure Mohamed Mhaisin at YMG. #Tripoli #Libya
Ameen Belhaj, an NTC member, gave a speech at the YMG. #Tripoli #Libya
Libyan4life
This Libyan Jew is getting about as much press as #Feb17 is. I wonder how long it is till we read headlines ‘’Libya is antisemitic’’
There were MANY MANY Libyan Jews that accepted big $$$ from #Gaddafi to Skedaddle
I think ANY Libyan has the right to return to #Libya. That said, unfortunately due to Israeli politics there has to be stipulations
So do Jewish Libyans say: ‘’Shalom, Shin Jow’’? #TooSoon?
Farah
I’m a mixed: ¼ Tripolitanian ¼Tajouriya ¼Dernawiya ¼ from Zawiyah. How’s that for ‘Slata Mishweya’ ? #Libya
what if Sirte (Isa ya rab) is liberated in a month? Were still not ready for elections….Its going to be chaos
That’s why I believe that Jibril shld not resign unless we have set up some form of election, even if its by councils.
I’m not sure for how long but yes they shld stay long enough for things to stabilise. I just wish ppl wld be more patient.
News 24
Libya: Nato draws harsh lessons
Brussels – Nato allies are savouring a bittersweet achievement in Libya: while the air campaign appears close to victory, the mission exposed major frailties in their ability to carry out a fight.
While Libya’s new regime battles to defeat the last forces loyal to deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi, Nato defence ministers will draw lessons from the six-month mission during talks on Wednesday and Thursday.
Read more:
www.news24.com/Africa/News/Libya-Nato-d...
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
A Demonstration in all the cities of #Libya should be arranged to say we want #MustafaAbduljaleel as president when Libya is fully liberated
AlexCrawfordSky Alex Crawford
Libyans I spoke to saw it as national help not party political: the result was v positive appreciation for Brits and French as a whole.
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Keep your eyes open on the news on #Sirt today.The Allahu Akbar chant can be heard now in mosques in the City #Libya
Libya AlAhrar’s correspondent Osama Jibreal passed away in #Sirt #Libya :(
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Once Sirt is liberated will Dr Abdurrahim Elkeeb an academic & electric energy expert from tripoli be appointed as interim prime minister?!!
FF’s in AlKufra in #Libya find a mass grave that contains over 60 bodies.. #Gadaffi loves blood so much i hope he drowns in it !! #Libya
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
it is really bad how desperate everyone is.It takes you at least a year to build a house.we are trying to build a country!!
Hands up, ur surrounded…. When will we see it happens? Enough already, we want to get on with our lives!
Pic.:
twitter.com/#!/2011feb17/status/121156074769354753/photo/1
Maryam Tarhouni said, “To this moment, there are people (in Sirte) who have no idea Tripoli is free.” #Libya #feb17
Telecomm. Co
New Zambian President Michael Sata on Friday, 30 September 2011, launched an investigation into the sale of public telecommunications company Zamtel to a Libyan state firm. “We want to see whether the sell of Finance Bank was transparent or if it was fraudulent,” he told new justice minister Sebastian Zulu at the swearing in of his new cabinet in Lusaka.
Reuters
Heritage Oil
Heritage Oil has bought control of a Benghazi-based oil services firm, striking the first upstream deal in Libya since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi and building on the British explorer’s reputation as a first mover into political hot-spots. Heritage said on Tuesday it had bought 51 percent of Sahara Oil Services Holdings for $19.5 million. Reuters reported last month it was touting for business in Libya.
Reuters
Belhaj
The military commander of Tripoli, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, a key figure in the revolution that overthrew Muammar Gaddafi, called on other militias to pull their weapons out of Tripoli, accusing them of terrorizing the city’s population.
Triploli scream
I posted a new photo to Facebook
fb.me/NvtVE10T
Farah
Our govt has to deal with the rebuilding of a new country from scratch, national reconciliation, 1000’s of deaths…Not an easy task.
SMILE:
That awkward moment when you’re presenting the news, and…. twitpic.com/6ux0s4
GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
MoD say a 2000lb mine has been found underwater off the coast of Tobruk #Libya in recent days. It’s been safely destroyed by HMS Bangor
Anaya
Family fleeing #Sirte:“We were afraid to leave, we’ve been told the #NTC wd cut our head. But we could not stay because of the bombing.”
Ali Tweel
One of the best things in life is seeing a smile on a persons face and knowing that you put it there.
Mark
#Libya map of #Sirte location of forces
twitpic.com/6v0v5w
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
AJA: Streetwar going on in Sirt, 6 Revolutionary Fighters died in clashes.
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Alot of action around the #Sirt area as we speak right now.Could today be the day the last City on the Libyan coast falls? #Libya
Aljazeera
6 muertos, 15 heridos de los rebeldes en controntaciones con tropas de Gaddafi en Sirte #Libia
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Almost game over for Sirte. #libya #feb17
Seeing it from the PoV of a female reporter:
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
In #Sirte,10 km from the city center. There is constant shelling incoming and outgoing, but fighting lighter than yesterday I’m told.
Hundreds of cars carrying #Sirte families fleeing the city; all I’ve talked to are anti-#Feb17, pro-#Gadhafi and very scared.
Just called an infidel and dishonorable by a Libyan driver for asking him to mind my computer cable.
Sometimes I really wonder if it’s worth covering stories like this one as a woman. The disrespect from close-minded ppl is unbearable.
Many times as an Arab female journo I try to overlook the disrespect we receive daily when working in the field in the Arab world
You try to be polite, pretend it doesnt happen, fight back, risk looking hysterical, hold back tears sometimes.
But it builds up. Every day: being sexually harassed, called a dishonorable, told to stay home where I belong…
And every day you risk your life trying to cover their stories and get their PoV out.
I try to overlook cuz I try to avoid perpetuating gross stereotypes of Arab men.
But what to do when you are being treated like garbage for being a woman.
Spose I risk my life for the story and for reporting the truth in difficult places. The ppl come w the story, and make up part of the story.
All I can say is women have a lot of work to do in #Libya and across the Arab world. Take the Spring as a chance to keep it up.
Women AND Men have a lot of work to do :)
I’m not gonna lie. I’ve traveled to a lot of places; it’s always worse in the arab world.
Then there these: @mostafaabbas2 Uve lots of hurt feelings against men .f****** why you already have taken all your rights long period ago
i shouldnt expect being respected?
Noone should feel like they need to apologize for someone else’s actions; I just needed to vent :) Thanks for listening everyone!
At the end of the day, I LOVE being a reporter and covering this region. The majority of people _ men and women _ are honorable, kind ppl
am coming home to Canada at Xmas to breathe :)
Thanks to all for support. I’ll stop whining now lol
Then ppl like this @apoetsailor I understand loving God is good, but a religion that forces Women 2 b second class Humans must b questioned
Luckily I work some lovely @AP guys and other journalists who take care of each other on front lines daily :)
Bear
Better you whine on Twitter than go balistic and take your fury out on Arab men with one of those AKs.
hadeelalsh Hadeel Al-Shalchi
LOL true :)
Libya
Ahhh the plight of Libyan women…..huge sigh. I would actually love for u or anyone to write a story about it
Nations understanding each other on twitter:
Friedrich
Russia should be easy to understand for anyone who knows Arab regimes. It’s exactly the same. Minus sunshine.
Tripoli
is it a dictatorship too? All Arab countries so far are dictatorships. But have 2 wait & see what happens with the North African 3.
I meant we wait and see what happens with the presumably liberated three countries T, E & L !
why is Putin a candidate for presidency? Do you not have others who can lead Russia?
Carrie
They’re afraid a successful Arab Spring could inspire a Russian Spring. The rulers don’t want that.
Friedrich
Putin & everyone who matters is secret service, they control media, fake elections and live in palaces. Sound familiar? ;)
Tripoli
yeah its the same thing, then!
Friedrich
It increasingly seems to me only Libya is really free. For others much will depend on whether you can build something new or not.
Tripoli
Hope so. We’ll be OK if people don’t support extremism without them knowing (hypnotized or brainwashed) if you know what I mean.
Friedrich
My hope is pragmatism. Perhaps you can put good hospitals, schools and jobs first and discuss religion and ideology later.
Tripoli
Yeah very much agree to that. But then if that happens, then there is no fear about Libya’s fate at all.
Friedrich
There’ll always be leaders exploiting differences, but Libyans just fought and died together. Must count for something.
Noit
Don’t chase your dreams, catch them. But then let them go, they aren’t pokemon. Dreams are meant to become realities.
Good read:
Channel 4
LIBYA’S CHALLENGE: NOT REBUILDUING BUT CREATING A NATION
Some of Libya’s most precious archives survived the violent overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. But can they now help Libya’s new leaders forge a national identity, asks expert Jason Pack
Over the past six months, I frequently wondered if the prestigious Libyan Studies Centre was on a special Nato list of protected monuments – along with Tripoli’s mosques, hospitals, and the famous arch of Marcus Aurelius in the old medina – that were not to be targeted even if Gaddafi stationed troops nearby.
As soon as Tripoli fell in late August, I was anxious to return to the centre and see if the basis for my doctoral research and the life’s work of so many Libyan and foreign academics had been damaged
Read full story:
www.channel4.com/news/libyas-challenge-...
weddady
Question from participant in #ab11: “Does the Arab League still exist, are you sure?” #TellThePress
Sarah
Magerhi dying .. On Libya Al Ahrar. #Libya #Lockerbie
Libya Alahrar TV: 180 streets in #Sirte are now under the Freedom Fighters control.
Tweeting Tripoli
And where the heck is Mutassim? Do they all have the Harry Potter magic cloak?
live2Tripoli live2Tripoli
I’ll do the weather reporting for #Tripoli today.
:)
Libyan4life
Abdelhakim Belhadj urged #Tripoli residents to end the presence of unlicensed weapon,calling for a crackdown on illegal arms. #Libya
Tarek
International mobile phones are not operative in #Tripoli yes, no roaming yet.
acarvin Andy Carvin
Defense Sec Panetta: NATO mission in #Libya can’t end before fighting ends. -AP
Tarek
I was shocked to see the amount of weapons #Gaddafi bought and #NATO damaged it, #Tripoli #Libya
yfrog.com/nxleucqj
Another set of weapons destroyed by #NATO, #Tripoli #Libya yfrog.com/kg50305337j
Khadija
Faraj bu-Isha also attended part of the YMG. #Tripoli #Libya
Yefrenia
“NTC troops said on Monday they now controlled most of Qasr Abu Hadi the small town close to Sirte where Gaddafi was born in a tent in 1942”
G weapons:
hominoid555 Russell
He did not buy them all Russia used Libya as a stocking area
Libyan4life
Know whats interesting, I VERY rarely read ‘’opposition fighters’’or’’rebel fighters’’ anymore. NTC fighters is usually whats being used now
I keep hearing 80% of #Sirte is captured. So ostensibly if the other 20% is captured we find #Gaddafi?! #Hmmmm
hominoid555 Russell
Crude oil now at $75.91 seen any drop in pump prices ?
USAmbNATO Ivo Daalder
After a USNATO-sponsored visit, @Volkskrant editor Paul Brill sees a “renewed pride” in #NATO.
goo.gl/SiW2O
SMILE:
I got up for a minute and returned to my laptop to find my cat had attempted to write
twitpic.com/6uocpk
djopec James Herron
#Libya’s Es Sider terminal, which shipped around 1/3 of the country’s pre-war exports, will be operational in 2.5 months, says NOC Chairman.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Adballah Senussi, Qaddafi’s intelligence chief, is in Algeria: sources to Al Arabiya #Gaddafi #Libya
Muammar Qaddafi’s intelligence chief Adballah Senussi has been spotted in Algeria: Sources to Al Arabiya
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Breaking: Abdallah Senussi, Gaddafi’s intelligence chief, has been in Algeria for a week – sources to Al Arabiya
Libyan4life
If you’re looking for #Libya news today,dont bother.ZERO stories except for a bunch of hyperbole about a Libyan Jew & some missing missiles
Anaya
When there is no news, there can be some thoughts. Too many rushing news prevent from thinking, sometimes :)
Must read
Civilians flee horror of the battle for Sirte
Civilians pouring out of Moamer Kadhafi’s hometown Sirte said on Tuesday the horror of the battle for the city finally forced them to conquer their fear of the besieging new regime forces and leave.
The exodus comes as a commander of National Transitional Council (NTC) forces besieging the other remaining loyalist bastion of Bani Walid said Kadhafi’s son Seif al-Islam was directing the last stand in the desert oasis.
Read more:
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/A...
LeShaque:
I’ve learned that it is impossible to start watching a new TV show during a revolution no matter how much you try."
AmmarParis Ammar ABD RABBO
After #Tunisia #Egypt #Libya #Syria #Yemen now it s #KSA (Saudi) that blames foreign countries for inside troubles & popular protests…
Finally reuters is catching up with very old news:
Reuters
Email scammers tout assets of deposed Arab leaders
Scam emails supposedly from close aides or relatives of deposed Arab leaders are
offering a huge chunk of their assets if recipients hand over their bank details or pay a fee up front.
“The quantity of attacks of this sort that we detect is enormous,” said Chester Wisniewski, a senior security adviser at Sophos, which uses sophisticated spam filters to identify scam emails.
Full story:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
Libyan4life
Reading all these articles makes me actually agree with Mousa Ibrahim ‘’lets stay away from sensationalized media’’ #LibyanJew #Libya #Feb17
Old art. still worth reading and thinking about:
Vatican Insider
World Organization of Libyan Jews offers support to Leader of Transitional Council in Benghazi
WOLJ, whose main offices are based in Israel, is the organization that gives voice to the approximately 200,000 descendents of Jews who fled Libya after the massacres of 1945, 1948 and 1967. With the advent of the dictator Col. Gheddafi in 1969, their abandoned homes, shops and 44 empty synagogues plus all other communal property and precious objects of the Libyan Jewish heritage, which traces its origins to the third century B.C., were confiscated. The over 2300 years of peaceful interreligious coexistence between Libyans and their Jewish minority thus came to an abrupt end.
Read more:
vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/...
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Video: Controversy in Tripoli over a Synagogue english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… #Libya #Jewish
Jerusalem Post
Libyan Jews divided over bid to restore Tripoli temple
David Gerbi grabbed headlines around the world over the weekend when he ceremoniously knocked down a wall sealing the Dir Bashi synagogue in Tripoli with a sledgehammer, telling reporters he planned to fix up the dilapidated Jewish place of worship.
Gerbi’s efforts, undertaken at great personal risk, were not universally welcomed.
Not only was he barred by local gunmen from returning to the site the following day but he was also admonished by several prominent members of the Libyan Jewish Diaspora who said he had acted hastily and without prior consultation.
“This is not a one-man show,” said Raphael Luzon, a Libyan Jew living in the UK who had negotiated with longtime Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and is involved in talks with the National Transitional Council (NTC).
“You have to be part of a framework, part of an organization. I have received many calls from Libyan Jews in Rome because he is not talking about the community but about himself as a new messiah. We have to move very carefully.”
Full art.:
www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeature...
MUST READ
WSJ
First Revolution, Now Democracy
On Tuesday, Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) announced that it will postpone the formation of an interim Libyan government until the entire country is free from pro-Gadhafi forces. Previously, NTC President Mustafa Abdel Jalil had promised to name members of an interim cabinet by today, even if Beni Walid, the loyalists’ last stronghold, remained unliberated.
This is a troubling setback in the process of rebuilding Libya after Moammar Gadhafi’s ouster.
There were also concerns about a long period of insecurity and lawlessness à la Iraq.
Such worries were not entirely unfounded. It would have been natural for the rebels to seek revenge for Gadhafi’s brutality in Ajdabiya, the Nafusa Mountains and Misrata. Tripoli residents had heard of rebel reprisals and tribal revenge killings in the Nafusa mountains.
But none of these fears materialized. The anti-Gadhafi forces carried out a humane liberation based on a strict Islamic code of conduct.
Full story:
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970...%3Darticle
88simon88 simon
A christian representative talk with top NTC members: “I have a lot of hope 4 the future of this country, they have nothing agst christians”
Souffian Tripoli
Free Tripoli Daily is out! bit.ly/jXMewE ▸ Top stories today
ReutersIndia Reuters India
FLASH: Ex-Libyan pm al-Mahmoudi says he believes Muammar Gaddafi is still in Libya and will fight to the end
Guysen.com
Libye : découverte d’un nouveau charnier
Un nouveau charnier contenant les dépouilles de membres des groupes armés qui luttaient contre le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi a été découvert près de la ville libyenne de Koufra, rapportent mardi les médias arabes. "Un charnier contenant les
restes de 60 personnes ayant participé à la résistance contre les forces de Kadhafi, a été découvert près de la ville de Koufra", a indiqué Faouzi Bougueidan, commandant d’une brigade soutenant le CNT. Le charnier près de Koufra est la 14ème fosse commune trouvée sur le territoire libyen au cours des dernières semaines.
Source:
www.guysen.com/news_Libye-decouverte-d-...
The mass grave found in Abu Yema in Kufra containing a total of 60 bodies. #libya
yfrog.com/numipxj
(AFP ) --
Sean Penn est arrivé mardi à #Benghazi, pour s’inspirer du vent de révolte arabe & évaluer les besoins humanitaires des libyens.
Iman
Got that fan on, listening to jasmy feels just like I’m in libya, bas I’m stuck in the library :‘( neby enrawah ya nas waaa33333 :’(
Middle east Online
Hollywood humanitarian mission: Sean Penn visits Libya
BENGHAZI (Libya) – Hollywood star Sean Penn on Tuesday flew in to Benghazi — the epicentre of rebellion against Moamer Gathafi — to assess at first hand the humanitarian needs of the people of Libya.
“This is my first visit to inspirational Libya. I am inspired by the Arab Spring and am here to be able to get a sense of what humanitarian aid can be delivered” to the people, Penn said after landing at Benghazi airport.
Penn, who arrived from a visit to Egypt, is set to meet humanitarian organisations already working in Libya and also to meet high-ranking officials and leaders of the uprising that toppled the now fugitive former strongman.
Full art.:
www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=...
Libyan4life
I hear its thundering in #Tripoli…. This sort of weather in late summer is UNPRECEDENTED. #Libya #BarkitRubAl3lameen
I cant believe ppl waste their time sitting on a computer all day tweeting in defense of #Gaddafi. A) Not a threat B) No one cares. #Fadyeen
I wonder how that hunger strike is going for Al Baghdadi Al Mahmoudi #LostCause #Sa7Sa7 #Libya
Reuters
EXCLUSIVE-Gaddafi will fight on in Libya to the end:ex-PM
Muammar Gaddafi’s former prime minister said on Tuesday he believed the deposed leader was still in Libya and would carry on fighting the country’s new leaders until the end.
Read more:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
The whole problem w/ this world is that fools & fanatics are always so sure of themselves & wiser ppl are full of doubts – Bertrand Russell
Photo
AFP – American actor Sean Penn welcomed by a Libyan official on his arrival in #Benghazi #Libya #LOL –
twitpic.com/6v3x8i
FromJoanne Joanne
#NTC commander AdelBenyur Tues.;"We captured a Gaddafi general who said Seif al-Islam is in #BaniWalid directing military operations #Libya
Le Monde
Seif Al-Islam dirige les opérations à Bani Walid, selon le CNT
Le fils le plus en vue du colonel Mouammar Kadhafi, Seif Al-Islam, se trouve à Bani Walid, où il dirige les opérations militaires contre les combattants du Conseil national de transition (CNT), a affirmé mardi un commandant du nouveau régime libyen.
Full art.:
www.lemonde.fr/libye/article/2011/10/04...=AL-32280258
SMILE:
My dinosaur name would have been Trainosaurus Wrex.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
We are proud to say @feb17libya has reached 10,000 Followers. Thank you all for your endless support to us, to our freedom, and to #Libya.
LIBYA☾✰ليبيا
Qaddafi tried to kill the Uprising with people wearing Yellow Construction hats. Red Flag means a dangerous Person.
so my neighbor was one of the Yellow hats he fled to Sirte in 22Feb, yesterday he fled back to Benghazi, We Red flagged him to the Police.
I thought people would just cut him in peaces, but they just called the police, this
shows Benghazi doesn’t want blood.
FromJoanne Joanne
#OMG Cant the #NTC make up their Mind ? #NTC will not form Governemnt till ENTIRE #Libya is Free Incl #BaniWalid goo.gl/1SHze
Adel Beniour : “The majority of residents left the city and this will help our offensive in the next two days” #BaniWalid #17feb #Libya
Daily Nation
Gaddafi directing defence of Bani Walid
Seif al-Islam, the best-known son of fallen Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, is leading the final stand of loyalists in Bani Walid against NTC forces, a commander with the new regime said Tuesday.
“We captured a general from the pro-Gaddafi brigades, and he said Seif al-Islam is in Bani Walid and directing military operations there,” an NTC commander, Adel Benyur, told journalists
“Most of the town’s inhabitants have left, and that will make it easier for us to attack in the next two days,” he said.
Source:
www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Gaddafi%2B...
Hajoor_ Hajer
so stupud, libyan students are going to protest infront of the libyan embassy in london because they dont like the london ambassador!
these students are probably and were being paid before even though they are not studying! #greedyTwats
Nursing Standard
Interview: Benghazi nurses heal Libyan rebels
Nurses based at Benghazi’s Al Jala hospital have been caring for rebels wounded in their battle for independence from Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s repressive regime in Libya.
Watch our podcast interview with the hospital’s intensive care unit head nurse Judith San Pedro. Speaking recently in Benghazi, Ms San Pedro describes the pressures faced by the nurses and doctors in the early days of the crisis. Since our report was filed, the rebels have captured the capital Tripoli and are in the last throes of the battle for Sirte, Gaddafi’s home town.
Video:
nursingstandard.rcnpublishing.co.uk/new...
Reuters
Eni sees Libya Bouri field restart end-Oct, early-Nov
Italian oil and gas group Eni sees production at the offshore Bouri field in Libya restarting late October or early November, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
“First production at the field should be at the end of October or at the start of November,” the spokesman told Reuters.
Read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/04/eni-...
LibyaMartyrs Libya Martyrs
Malak, 5 years old from Misratah did not only loose her leg, but she also lost her younger brother…#Libya (1/2) pic.twitter.com/DcOWeonv
.Mohammed (3 years old) and her little sister Rudayna (1 year old)إنا الله وإنا إليه راجعون (2/2) #Libya pic.twitter.com/UHJrI9g2
Sarah
les FFs seraient rentré dans la 2ième zone résidentiel
Salem Atwair head of #Khoms military council martyred 26Sep in #BaniWalid front. He was Col. Maintenance Squadron commander in Benina airbase, #Benghazi. In #17Feb, Before being appointed as head of AlKhoms military council by the NTC, he was helping to raise the validity of the helicopters and he managed to fix them.
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Abdulla Senussi is a war criminal wanted by the ICC and should be arrested & turned over immediately by Algerian government – #Libya #Feb17
hominoid555 Russell
Control of the city of Sirte.
youtube.com/watch?v=SVyTkD…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVyTkDaiPEQ&fea...
Fighting rebels in Sirte, Misurata.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMcGDcHK3Ns&fea...
andreliohn Andre Liohn
Less civilians coming out from #Sirte as NATO continues to bomb loyalist forces in town. Rebels have apparently been instructed to stay out.
live2Tripoli live2Tripoli
Visited the #Synagogue a few times before, even during #Muammar’s rule. A bit strange though some Libyans don’t know about it.
A Muslim Libyan does not have more rights than a Jewish #Libyan nor vice versa.
Continuous clashes in Sirte kill 8 NTC fighters, wound 39: source
A total of eight fighters of Libya’ s ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) were killed and another 39 were wounded in Sirte Monday, as battles went on in the hometown of fallen leader Muammar Gaddafi, a source close to NTC’s front line members said.
On Monday, a NTC infantry squad in Sirte was surrounded by pro- Gaddafi soldiers, who resorted to mortars in the exchange of fire and resulted in the NTC’s casualties, a Xinhua photographer, currently near Sirte with NTC fighters, quoted a source as saying.
Some members of the squad managed to pull out, the source told Xinhua.
More:
news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/20...
Guardian
The British army has lost out in Libya
The case for maintaining air and maritime systems has been made in Libya – and it’s the last thing the British army needed
As the Libyan crisis peters out with some fragmented resistance from Muammar Gaddafi’s supporters, it may seem obvious that the colonel, his clan and cronies are the vanquished. But in this chapter of history there is another loser much closer to home: the British army.
While admirals and air marshals may feel very pleased with the outcome of the Libya intervention, generals may not feel so sanguine.
Read full art.:
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/o...
Watch out another one:
FAKES: @markito01711 is spreading fake-maps with order of airstrikes on expected FF-positions. REAL-ACC: @markito0171 #Libya #Feb17 #Sirte
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
The apparent official date for #Tripoli #Festival is October 15th.
Ahmed
A day of faffing around, 260 dinar later, and I finally have a working wimax wifi router!! (ps, I hate wimax!!)
Gulfnews
Daunting future for new Libya cabinet
Libya’s transitional leaders have named a new cabinet to take over the reins of the nation as it prepares to declare the liberation struggle over. That declaration of victory will come once Sirte, the former stronghold of dictator Muammar Gaddafi, falls to transition forces.
The struggle in Libya has been bloody and destructive, casting the North African nation into chaos and strife for the past eight months. Since the revolt began in Benghazi in February, the nation has been ripped apart as Libyans fought for their freedom after 42 years of repression and tyranny.
More here:
gulfnews.com/opinions/editorials/daunti...
N_Benghazi ن
Middle Eastern dictators like to use their ‘opposition’ to Israel as a way to complicate matters and a reason to keep themselves in power.
FromJoanne Joanne
EXGaddafiPM #Mahmoudi in Prison: Am Ready 2Cooperate #NTC on Condition They Drop extradition Requests +negative campaigns against me #Libya
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
apparently enough civilians are out of #sirte, heavy shelling of city this afternoon
Jumana Libya
I am disappointed in both Italian Libyans and Jewish Libyans not speaking up at the
beginning.
They took a wait and see attitude.Racially, I belong to both groups!
Both were promised $ by #Gaddafi regime that was the delay.After the thowra he invited Libyan Jews to return 4 support.Refused
Libyan Jews are 2nd class citizens in Israel.They keep their Libyan customs.Because of the past, they r suspicious of libyans
I can understand both sides.Not only anti-Jew sentiment but they were the ones who brought Italians in Libya thru Bank of Rome
Bank of Rome initially begun as venture between Italy and the Vatican to begin Christianizing Libya.Brought in by Libyan jews.
They would issue outrageous loans to Libyans then foreclose on them.Colonization effort began a decade before 1911.
Benghazi Youth
Thanks for some real insight. The ‘Jew == Israel’ sentiment is getting out of hand.
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, Mohammed el Naas spokesman for #Sirte operation command tells us the final battle is imminent, Libya, #Gaddafi
#Libya, Mohammed el Naas spoeksman for sirte operation command: we are almost sure Mutassim #Gaddafi is in #Sirte
#Libya, Mohammed el Naas … Loyalists are no longer fighting for cause but to protect high ranking men from #Gaddafi circle Inside #Sirte
#Libya, Mohammed el Naas … We did our best to block all escape routes from #Sirte but there have been security lapses, #Gaddafi
#Libya, we have seen checkpoints on the outskirts of the besieged city suddenly withdraw allowing the traffic to flow, #Sirte
Naas Says the fight is not just about liberating #Sirte but “capturing #Gaddafi ’s criminals” who have been surrounded for some time now
#Libya, Naas says the#ICRC failed to properly coordinate with them when they entered #Sirte On humanitarian mission, #Gaddafi
Naas says #ICRC didn’t inform them of what they brought out from #Sirte, they didn’t tell us they evacuated a foreign nurse, #Gaddafi
#Libya, Naas says #ICRC should coordinate with local red cross when entering #Sirte, #Gaddafi
Few commanders who requested anonymity told me they believe some East European mercenaries escaped from #Sirte when ICRC was in the city >
FromJoanne Joanne
#EX G PM #BaghdadiMahmoudi: I tell u 1 thing: I was hated by #Gaddafi entourage am convinced that I have Done Nothing bad to #Libyans
#AlArabya claims #Gaddafi’s Intelligence Chief Abdalla #Senussi has been in #Algeria 4 a week visiting #alSaadi and #Aisha Gaddafi #Libya
#AlArabya claims #Gaddafi’s Intelligence Chief Abdalla #Senussi has been in #Algeria 4 a week visiting #Aisha Hannibal and Mohammed #Libya
Senator McCain urged US gov. 2send a hospital ship to #Tripoli or #Malta and ship or fly wounded to US military base hospitals in #Germany
US defence secretary Leon Panetta said on Tuesday that #NATO air raids in #Libya will continue as long as there is heavy ground combat
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Factbox: Latest developments in Libyan conflict shabablibya.org/news/factbox-l… #Libya
Libyan forces plan “final” attack on Sirte is.gd/nuXBMR #Libya
Gada
#Libya,what we hear about ppl in Tripoli being disgruntled about Belahj the NTC military leader is untrue Tripoli likes &trusts him
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Feels so sorry for everyone that has lost a loved one in this revolution.They are all true #heroes that we will never forget #Libya
ahauslohner Abigail Hauslohner
Many ppl in a bad condition leaving #Sirte today
Saw a guy arrive at field clinic w his 4 yr old daughter who had 2day-old bullet wound in her leg. Dad had tried to remove it himself #Sirte
Also saw #Misrata fighters using abandoned Tawergha homes for their heavy weapons target practice. #Libya #Sirte
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Tariq.A 16 yearold boy who #Gadaffis forces Killed near Sirt.
How can people still want him ?? #Libya
youtube.com/watch?v=q1s1fx…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1s1fxWLawc&fea...
Saja
One of #Tripoli’s Beaches back in the late 50’s flickr.com/photos/libdas_… #Libya
Ten Martyrs and about fifty wounded among the FF in #Sirte #libya #feb17 via @Sirte_Feb17 FB
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte 100s of Civilians fleeing said #Tuesday the Horror of Battle 4 Sirte forced them 2Conquer their Fear of besieging #NTC forces #Libya
#NTC fighters R now battling 4 #SIRTE Ibn #Sina #Hospital :There is a military operations room below the maternity ward of hospital #Libya
#Sirte #IbnSinaHospital Fleeing Doctors say ther R : Arms depots Inside & Rocket launchers and mortar detonators ring the hospital #Libya
#SIRTE 2Drs from# India + #Bangladesh escaped IbnSinaHospital describe conditions asDire Hospital full of military men and casualties #Libya
live2Tripoli live2Tripoli
Temperature is at 22˚C
Telegraph
Gaddafi forces turn Sirte into military nerve centre
Forces loyal to Col. Muammar Gaddafi have transformed Sirte hospital into a fortified military base as rebel fighters close in on the city centre.
Doctors fleeing the area said they had seen arms depots inside the complex and that “rocket launchers and mortar detonators ring the hospital”.
Inside the built-up area of downtown Sirte, Ibn Sina hospital has become the nerve centre of the pro-Gaddafi operation. “There is a military operations room below the maternity ward of hospital,” said Osama Muttawa Swehli, one of the rebels.
“This has been a tactic of the regime to base themselves in hospitals where they know Nato will not attack”.
Two doctors from India and Bangladesh who escaped the hospital described the dire conditions.
Full art.:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
Fox News
Panetta Says NATO’s Libya Mission Can’t End Until Fighting Stops
NATO’s mission in Libya cannot end as long as fighting continues, including in Moammar Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday.
“As long as there is fighting that continues in Libya, I suspect that the NATO mission will continue,” Panetta said ahead of meetings later this week with other NATO defense chiefs.
Revolutionary forces supported by NATO airstrikes have seized Tripoli and much of the rest of the country, but they have been locked in a standoff over Sirte and Bani Walid for weeks.
Full story:
goo.gl/zvMKb
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte this morning Video Massive evacuation goo.gl/KfhwU #Libya
#Sirte Ali Durgham couldn’t stop his tears telling how his father had been killed by a stray shell as he walked to mosque with his bro #Libya
#Sirte "It is unimaginable back there says MasoudAwidat who just drove out of town in a car with a bullet-riddled windshield and door #Libya
live2Tripoli live2Tripoli
For the weather update tonight its currently 10:07pm in #Tripoli and steadily raining, its been so for quite some time now.
Reuters
Life inside besieged Libyan city “unimaginable”
Fleeing besieged Sirte, Ali Durgham couldn’t stop the tears as he described how his father had been killed by a stray shell as he walked to the mosque with his brother.
“He died in my arms,” Durgham said. “I buried him yesterday.”
The young man’s uncle is now in Sirte’s Ibn Sina hospital — but it, too, has been hit in the fighting, residents said.
Full art.:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/04/us-l...
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte Every day the road is jammed with #NTC fighters on their way to Sirte Front Lines battling to take control of the city #Libya
BBC
National Transitional Council fighters have entered a house they claim belongs to the former Libyan leader
Muammar Gaddafi’s birth village of Abu Hadi.
The home has the trademark bedouin tent in which Gadaffi traditionally liked to receive guests.
British national Anas Ramadan, who was filmed inside the house, came across a coffee set and said he would auction it to raise money for Libya.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15173493
Lisa
#freeLibya #PrayforSirte! #PrayforFreedomFighters….. #Feb17
20arb11 Souffian Tripoli
Daily Arabic #Tripoli news on “طرابلس” goo.gl/1FXb4
Please have a look here:
Amazing website displaying many pictures of Libya,
from before Libya’s independence up until this revolution!!
albakour.com/album/index.php
Yesterday’s rain:
Ali Tweel
#Gaddafi u r amazing! ur efforts of building #Libya is unbeatable worldwide! this is the capital ladies & gentle men
bit.ly/qpADnE
Tweeting Tripoli
A rare video from Tripoli (Feb 20)
found in the Intelligence building.
Protesters heading to Green (Martyrs) Square:
youtube.com/watch?v=uJ2Ge-…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ2Ge-tf6j0
Star Africa
Germany / The Federal Foreign Office supports the destruction of landmines in Libya
BERLIN, Germany, October 4, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — As a result of the civil war unleashed by Colonel Gaddafi against his own citizens, the security situation in Libya is still precarious. This applies in particular to the securing of arms, munitions and to the remnants of munitions, landmines and other explosives left behind after the conflict.
The Federal Office is therefore making available approximately 291,000 euro for a project to destroy of about 500,000 landmines and fuses. The project is to be carried out by the Swiss non-governmental organization ‘Fondation Suisse de Déminage’ (FSD). The landmine stockpiles have been taken over from the Gaddafi regime.
Read more:
www.starafrica.com/en/news/detail-news/...
Libya outreach Group
SITUATION REPORT
Libya – October 3, 2011
Executive Summary
Humanitarian situation in Sirte, Libya further deteriorates as citizens flee the city. International Red Cross (IRIC) tries to deliver much needed aid.
As the battle for Sirte continues, thousands of civilians have been caught in the cross
fires. Hundreds of residents scramble to flee the city after the NTC announced a 48-hour suspension of fighting to allow them safe passage out of the city.
Patients at Ibn Sina Hospital have died on the operating table as a result of power cuts triggered by a lack of fuel for generators. Medics said oxygen and medicines also were running low.
Tripoli Revolutionists Council formed in Tripoli
Additional News:
David Gerbi, the Libyan “rebel Jew”, returns to Libya. He visited Tripoli’s main synagogue with the intention of cleaning and restoring it
NTC working on new Libyan interim cabinet, they assign three positions.
Twitter: Via:libyanproudlibyanandproud: Bani : Mutassim #Gaddafi is in Ibn Sina Hospital in #Sirte. #Feb17 #Libya
Production of oil increases across Libya. Read here for details of who and where:
Monday fighting resumes in Sirte. NTC forces have captured the Bouhadi district in the southern part of the city where it is believed one of Gaddafi’s sons is hiding.
NATO continued its campaign of air strikes Sunday, hitting multiple targets in Sirte including a rocket launcher and an armed vehicle.
Misrata TV reports Moussa Ibrahim, Gaddafi regime spokesman, has been captured fleeing Sirte, Libya. Footage of the arrest to be released once he has been transported to a secure location.
Niger to allow NTC to questions Saadi Gaddafi who is in Niger. The Niger government has refused to disclose Saadi’s location and are not willing to extradite Saadi back to Libya saying the NTC was not an elected government and said they would be willing to hand him over to an elected Libyan government.
Saadi Gaddafi denies allegations that he engaged in “armed intimidation” when he headed Libya’s football Federation.
The International Organization for Migration (IMO) says it has begun evacuating more than 1,200 African migrants from the Libyan town of Sabha, one of former leader Muammar Gadhafi’s longtime strongholds.
NATO urges NTC to secure arms caches across Libya to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands.
Libya’s former Prime Minister,Baghdadi Mahmudi, was arrested after crossing into Tunisia from Libya. He was charged with illegal entry and sentenced to 6 months in jail but was later acquitted. Since that time, he has been in detention waiting an extradition request but the NTC. The Tunisian authorities are concerned about handing Mr. Mahmudi over to the NTC because they fear he will not receive a fair trial and will be executed if returned to Libya which would be a crime against humanity. He is expected to stand trial for embezzlement of public funds, possession of weapons, and attempted murder.
Individual articles available here:
us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=5f65a9cec4...
septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya plans to ramp up #Oil production, particularly from undamaged fields, raising output to… bit.ly/qjlcqc
alexrossiSKY alex rossi
Morning by the way! This was sunset in #Misrata last night. #Libya pic.twitter.com/SsPb6lTZ
MOD UK
RFA Fort Rosalie finishes her Libya mission
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) vessel Fort Rosalie has completed her tasking under Operation ELLAMY, the UK’s contribution to international efforts to protect Libyan civilians from attack by the former Gaddafi regime.
For the past four months, RFA Fort Rosalie has been supporting helicopter carrier HMS Ocean and other Royal Navy warships by providing stores and ammunition, and has also undertaken a vital shuttle service – known as a ‘Del Boy’ run – between the
Task Group and NATO bases in the Mediterranean.
Full art.:
www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/...
Libyan Duda
Director/actor #Sean #Penn in #Benghazi #Libya today – Really hope he is researching for a movie about #Feb17
Words of wisdom
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Total JV chief wants Libya oil sector freed goo.gl/MHXbG
Libyan Duda
A woman & a child are amongst the 18 bodies found in Tripoli hospital morgue from 1984 #Libya #Feb17 #Gaddaficrimes
Anaya
A group of Libyans carrying weapons arrested in #Tunisia. Intended to go to #Algeria. LeNouvelObs. #Libya
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
today in #Sirte east front much more fighting that in the west 3 dead at midday and more than 10 wounded main danger snipers #Libya
hoy en la guerra de los hoteles de #Sirte nunca estuve en la de Beirut pero me ha recordado todo lo que leí sobre ella #Libia
milicianos armados con RGs y ametralladoras pesadas n medio d techos d cristaleras, palmeras, piscinas y un spa con fuentes d mármol #Libia
mañana en la edición impresa de EL MUNDO “un hotel con vistas a los francotiradores” un escenario surrealista #Libia
another encounter with Matthew Van Dyke he is fighting in a 5 stars hotel converted in a battle front crazy seen war in the luxury #Libya
“keep your head down some days ago 1 guy was killed meanwhile he was praying” Matthew Van Dyke in #Sirte Hotel #Libya
NTC fighters “no problem no problem” then 1 bullet smashed the window of the ambulance they missed 3 guys by inches #Sirte #Libya
photo: 1 NTC fighter near the swimming pool of #Sirte 5 stars Hotel yfrog.com/nudg4bj
Moez
I need a hovercraft to get around #tripoli these days #Libya #feb17
FromJoanne Joanne
#Libya NOC Nuri Berruien saya NOC likely 2 Issue a Tender 2Sell a Shipment of abt 500,000 barrels of crude from #Tobruk in coming3Days
The economist
All creatures great and small
During the war in Libya, the animals of Tripoli’s zoo suffered along with the rest of the city’s residents.
Photo’s:
www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2011/1...=scn/tw/te/bl/allcreaturesgreatandsmall
UPI
U.S. reacts to Megrahi claims from Libya
While the primary concern in Libya is reconstruction, transitional leaders are examining the case of the Lockerbie bomber, the U.S. State Department said.
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer, was convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, in which 270 people were killed. He was released from prison by Scottish officials in August 2009 on compassionate grounds because of a terminal prostate cancer diagnosis.
Read more:
www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2011/10/04...
National Review
Sudanese in Libya
Our allies in Libya, it turns out, include the people accused of genocide in Darfur
In a further sign of the close relations between Sudan and the new rulers in Libya, Sudan’s first vice president, Ali Osman Taha, met with the chairman of the executive board of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC), Mahmoud Jibril, in Tripoli on Thursday. The same Ali Osman Taha has been accused by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of complicity in what the court’s chief prosecutor has identified as
genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur — the crimes for which Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir is under indictment by the court. Taha’s visit coincided with a visit to Libya’s new rulers by John McCain and three other Republican senators.
Full report:
www.nationalreview.com/articles/279049/...
Moez
Wow the thunder is so heavy it’s setting off car alarms in our ‘saanya’ (try translating that!) #Libya #tripoli
Signon san Diego
Fleeing Gadhafi bastion, bitter at the new Libya
SIRTE, Libya — Families flowed out of Moammar Gadhafi’s besieged hometown Tuesday, exhausted and battered by weeks of hiding from shelling and gunbattles with no meat or vegetables or electricity – but unbowed in their deep distrust of the revolutionaries trying to crush this bastion of the old regime.
Read more here:
www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/oct/04...
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Looks like more rain in #Tripoli tonight, God has come to purify the land from Gaddafi
Nusaybah
Libyan kid on Libya TV : Deero makroona deero makroona, ethowar greeb bee joo, nibooha skhoona nibooha skhoona, to7reg Saif ou to7reg boo :D
Khadija Ali
At the moment there are over 90 registered NGOs. #Tripoli #Libya
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Many stories of dead people here in Tripoli as well as Benghazi due to celebratory bullets falling down
This image left me speechless. While some of us argue over politics, our FF continue to give everything for #Libya
facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…
#Libia:
Sean Penn a #Bengasi per aiuti ‘Fantastico quello che accade in questa parte del mondo’
ansa.it/web/notizie/ru… #feb17
Fadwa
Amin Budra’a, martyred yday in Sirte, his mom telling him to salem 3ala his other brother who was martyred in Benghazi
youtube.com/watch?v=rj4rYm…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj4rYmW_lX4&fea...
Reuters
WRAPUP 3-Libyan forces plan “final” attack on Gaddafi hometown
Ex-PM believes former leader still in Libya
Anti-Gaddafi forces say they are ready for final push
NTC says Gaddafi’s son may be hiding in hospital (Adds ex-PM, other details)
Read more:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
If u r Libyan + proud OR just suport the Libyan revolution RT
BentBenghazi G
There is no way that we will ever be able to repay those Freedom Fighters who don’t even hesitate while fighting #Gaddafi . #libya #feb17
Ahmed
This lightening is scr***** up my wimax! A full day of fixing it only to get it ruined by the weather! Alhamduliilah! #libya #tripoli
Imglesi
BBC’s Jonathan Head outside Sirte with evacuee from city
Audio:
goo.gl/Nh00U
Reuters
Libya army recruits march in capital full of gunmen
Libya’s new rulers on Tuesday unveiled a group of fighters trained to serve in a national army, in a step toward bringing armed groups under central authority in a
capital bristling with revolutionary volunteers who ousted Muammar Gaddafi.
More here:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/04/liby...
Arabic Spring book
Boekbespreking Arabische Lente van BikeWriter @JanEikelboom op Nu.nl bit.ly/pV2qcv **** sterren!
Abeidi
#Libya,#Sirte Egyptian driver left Sirte confessed & felt v guilty when G goons forced him to drive 8 containers full of ppl buried alive.
Anaya
“If you look at history, women have always had to fight " Huda Abuzaid a filmmaker who returned to #Libya to help #NTC
npr.org/2011/10/04/141…
FromJoanne Joanne
UK #Dumfries and #Galloway Police ask for a Copy of #Megrahi’s Television Interview
goo.gl/btv1h #Lockerbie #Libya
#NTC fighters decreased shelling on Tuesday To allow residents to leave #Sirte #Libya #Feb17
globalpost.com/dispatch/news/…
Slate FR
Kadhafi était prêt à se mettre en retrait comme la reine d’Angleterre
Le quotidien britannique The Guardian révèle que Mouammar Kadhafi, sur la fin de son règne despotique en Libye, «voulait secrètement devenir une figure symbolique du pays “comme la reine d’Angleterre”» tout en abandonnant ses pouvoirs.
Read more here:
www.slate.fr/lien/44553/kadhafi-libye-r...
RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
AJA Col Ahmed Bani: ‘speaking of days concern. liberation of Sirt was a strategic vision.’ (I m glad I explained it as psychol. warfare;)
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
People in #Sirte don’t know what is happening in the rest of #Libya. power cut means no TV.
libyahmed Ahmed Bin Lasher
for anyone who is wondering, the author of ‘Can libyan #jews return? –
libya-ya-biladi.blogspot.com/2011/10/can-li…’ is @redahmeid -let him know your thoughts #libya
SUMMARY OCTOBER 5th 2011
10/5/11
10/05/11
10.05.11
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/bZVvQ
NATO
Press conference by the NATO Secretary General
NATO HQ, Brussels, Belgium
On Wednesday 5 October at 15h45, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen will hold a press conference following the meeting of NATO Ministers of Defence
www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/events_673...
NATOlibrary NATO Library
Looking for #Videos on #Libya? Take a look at the #NATO and #Libya LibGuide! goo.gl/NBrIi
Tripolitano
in a phone call 2 LIBYATV Jalil launched attach on Ahrar&hurra tv 4 spreading rumor that he’s resigning just after liberation
Mustafa Abd Al Jaleel confirmed he’s staying on after liberation until new government is in place.
MAJ described 5th column working in the new media spreading rumors and having hidden agendas. Naming Libya ahrar tv and hurra Tv
Mustafa AJ also strongly denied rumors of allowing private security firms to work in #Libya. Again during the call to LibyaTV
I think NTC members have to always come out to clarify news floating around which r not true. It puts ppl minds at rest.
Today I made a point of asking FFs from Souq Jumaa, misraata and Nafousa. None of them had ever heard of Naker b4 his presser 2days ago
benghazifeb ali libyan
the power of media and the lack of coverage from NTC, always been our weak point
Tripolitano
he spoke about this too. Saying the delay in launching a channel for NTC was due to fighters taking over facilities!!
FreeBenghazi
Zawara commander says Rajaban & Zintan fighters heading to Zawara, to strip Jmail & Rigdaleen of weapons #Libya v @AlmanaraMedia
Fighters from Arab cities(Rajaban&Zintan) chosen especially, so it wouldn’t appear like settling of scores/racial #Libya v @AlmanaraMedia
Firas Askar Khalifa, martyred in Tiji Oct2, “by remnants of ousted regime” الله يرحمه #Libya v @nalut17feb pic.twitter.com/1gSUa3gf
Aisha Gaddafi would rather go to Venezuela or else where, after Algeria warns her against any more interviews #Libya
Aisha Gaddafi reportedly resented warnings & harsh tone w which Algerian officials spoke to her & her family #Libya
Aisha upset Algerians imposed restrictions on her & family, taking away mobiles & monitoring their movements.
Please read:
www.alquds.co.uk/index.asp?fname=today\04z499.htm&arc=data\2011\10\10-04\04z499.htm
Iman
Please Aisha Gonedaffi, go to Venezuela and stay there forever. We don’t want you for a neighbor! :)
4Adam Adam
VIDEOS fr Zuwara’s hospital “we were talking w/ friends then shells fell behind us” " Grad shells come fr Reggdaleen"
youtube.com/watch?v=ZncTFj…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZncTFjzKH8o
BBC
Libyan casualties treated at Middlesbrough hospital
Three casualties of the conflict in Libya have arrived at a Teesside hospital for treatment.
The men, whose injuries include gunshot and shrapnel wounds, are being assessed by specialists at Middlesbrough’s James Cook University Hospital.
They are among 50 civilians who will be receiving specialist advanced surgery and rehabilitation at UK hospitals, the Department of Health said.
The full cost of their care is being met by the Libyan government.
Read more:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-1517...
KhadijaTeri wants to start a WEBSITE or a Blog with #Libya Wall #Art Is anyone interested in collaborating with her ?
goo.gl/DKH2S
FromJoanne Joanne
#Sirte audioboo GaddafiForces lied to residents about #NTC Fighters Tell them to fight or they will be killed
goo.gl/Nh00U #Libya
Sirtawi
Some evacuees from #Sirte report Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology (Ibn Sina hospital) was bombed. Many women, newly born dead. #SirteCrisis
Witness who left #Sirte says wounded die due to bleeding/lack of medical aid. Hospital practically empty with no medical staff. #SirteCrisis
Even wounded Gaddafi loyalists brought to Ibn Sina hospital were left to die. Many bodies lying on the streets. #SirteCrisis
Abdullah
Mortar attack by Gaddafi Thugs in Regdaleen results in death of 10 Civilians in #Zwara. #Libya
LPC: Clashes now between remaining #Gaddafi loyalists south of #Zwara and revolutionaries from #Zwara
LPC: Heard that #Tripoli and #Zintan military councils are sending reinforcements to support revolutionaries from #Zwara
LPC: Clashes started after several GRAD rockets hit residential areas, revolutionaries went looking for source. #Zwara
Syria
Dear Libyans, please make sure Russia and China don’t get any contracts.
Sarah
How many stories been told about Mercenaries founded totally scared on front saying"We heard something horrible shouting!" #Takbeer #Islam
4-10-2011 Sky in Tripoli at 4:30 PM … my colleague took the shot from his office !
twitpic.com/6v7wwg
Lucie
Russia uses #LIbya as a reason NOT to support #Syria. Are they for real????
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
I personally don’t want #AbdulJalil to resign once #Sirte liberated. I want him to oversee government formation till Libya is on right track
Ahmed
The veto system is a major #Fail4UN! I don’t even understand the logic behind it! All people are equal, except for the elite few?
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Feels so weird to actually here passenger planes flying over #Tripoli.Life is slowly but gradually crawling back to normality.#Libya
The conversation
After Gaddafi, will Libya’s ‘resource curse’ become a blessing?
With the collapse of Muammar Gaddafi’s autocratic regime, the transitional government in Libya is prompting hopes for a new era of democracy in the country.
While a swift transition to democracy is certainly desirable, a question arises: to what extent is democratisation going to help the economic development of Libya?
This question has a complicated answer.
Read more:
theconversation.edu.au/after-gaddafi-wi...
The Epoch Times
Libya: NATO Concerned Over Missing Missiles
NATO has expressed concern over a report that thousands of missiles have gone missing in Libya after six months of civil war, according to media reports.
The 28-member coalition urged Libya’s transitional authorities to take immediate action to try and secure at least 10,000 surface-to-air missiles, The Associated Press reported
Full art.:
www.theepochtimes.com/n2/world/libya-na...
Tripoli military chief says militias must pull out
The military commander of Tripoli, a key figure in the revolution that overthrew Muammar Gaddafi, called on other militias to pull their weapons out of Tripoli, accusing them of terrorizing the city’s population.
Read more here:
feb17.info/news/tripoli-military-chief-...
Older article:
Times live
‘Tuaregs hiding fugitive Gaddafi’
Muammar Gaddafi is believed to be hiding near the town of Ghadamis, near the Algerian border, under the protection of Tuareg tribesmen, a senior Libyan military official said.
“The Tuareg are still supporting him and he is believed to be in the Ghadamis area in the south,” Hisham Buhagiar, a senior military official of Libya’s new leadership, said late on Tuesday.
Read more:
www.timeslive.co.za/africa/2011/09/29/t...
Cyrenaican ياسين بنغازي
George Galloway was a supporter of Seif Gaddafi and worked against the Libyan revolution…and he knows better
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
A picture of our dear friend and brother, Ghassan, at Misrata hospital. Tomorrow morning (Wednesday), Ghassan will be going to Jordan for treatment. We ask Allah to heal Ghassan, and for his return to our homeland.
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=349591&l...
FreedomGroup, News in English
The heroic martyr, Firas Askar Khalifa, martyred in Tiji by remnants
of the ousted regime, 10/02/2011. We ask Allah to accept him as a martyr and admit him to paradise. Amen.
The first of the three photos, was taken in the battle for Al-Marabh, 5/17/2011; the second in the battle for Badr, 9/17/2011; and finally at Martyrs Square in Tripoli, during the Celebration of the Amazigh, 28/09/2011.
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=349618&l...
mbi3000 LIBYA☾✰ليبيا
On the 19th of March, Qaddafi Grad Rockets were raining on Benghazi from 4 to 7 AM non-stop. I don’t mined the same happening to #Sirte NOW.
OttawaReporter Kathleen Harris
Canada plans post-conflict assistance, diplomatic expansion for Libya | iPolitics ipolitics.ca/2011/10/04/can… #cdnpoli #ipca
Qatar accused of interfering in Libyan affairs m.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/04/qata... #Libya #feb17
Libyan
Seems there is a smear campaign well underway against prominent liberals on the #NTC. #Libya
HOW A PARIS MOSQUE SHELTERED JEWS IN THE HOLOCAUST madeinnablus.tumblr.com/post/1103988985...
FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#MatthewVanDyke after 5Mnths in AbuSalim Prison Now Holed up in 5★ Hotel Fighting along his best Friend to Free #Libya goo.gl/aEVi4
#Sirte man called Al Fatouri (so deluded) says “This country has been built around 1 man. If he is over, Libya will be over”
LibyaUnited1944 Walid وليد
This has got 2 be the best Shafshofa impersonator yesterday in #Zliten tiny.cc/4jq3w via Naser Mahjoob kooora.com #Libya #Feb17
United Sports Club visited #Zliten yesterday & the pics were taken by Naser Mahjoob amongst the celebrations
Reuters
Sirte residents turn anger on Libya’s new rulers
Many residents of Sirte, Muammar Gaddafi’s birth-place, blame Libya’s new rulers and their Western allies for the death and destruction unleashed on their city by weeks of fighting.
Read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/05/us-l...
NTC forces Mounting Final Push 2seize Sirte Only mercenaries + die-hard fighters and Mu’atassem their Mil. Commander is left in city #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#AlHarati the Deputy of #Belhadj says: Its time for #Libya Revolutionaries 2Fall under #Tripoli Military Council Umbrella and NationalArmy
France 24
NATO allies hold talks on Libyan, Afghan wars
NATO allies begin two days of talks Wednesday on the lessons drawn from six months of bombings in Libya and their goal of withdrawing combat troops from Afghanistan within three years.
While the air war continues in Libya, defence ministers will debate acute shortcomings they witnessed while carrying out the operation over the past six months.
Read more:
www.france24.com/en/20111005-nato-allie...
News 24
NTC unveils Libya’s national army
- Libya’s new rulers on Tuesday unveiled a group of fighters trained to serve in a national army, in a step toward bringing armed groups under central authority in a capital bristling with revolutionary volunteers who ousted Muammar Gaddafi.
More than 500 new recruits marched behind a military band in Tripoli’s Souq al-Jumaa district at a ceremony attended by a senior military officer to mark the end of their training for service in the national army.
Full art.:
www.news24.com/Africa/News/NTC-unveils-...
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
Libya fighters are besieging Abdul Hakim Belhaj at his base in Mitiga for suspicions of buying and stockpiling weapons for his own purposes, and other suspicions.
10 fighters martyred (6 from Benghazi, 2 from Derna, 1 from AlRajmah, 1 from Turka), & 74 wounded on Sirte’s eastern front, Oct4.
Al Arabiya :
Sirte : Heavy clashes between the Freedom Fighters and Gaddafi forces in the city center.
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
The right of Veto for the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council must be abolished. This is 2011 not 1911 #syria #yemen #palestine
blabeen
On the road to Sirt, pray for me.
NYT
Back to School in Libya, and Struggling to Adjust
The classrooms at the Dawn of Freedom middle school were empty. Teachers shuffled around aimlessly outside or gossiped in the halls. A small group of bored teenagers sat in the theater and hatched a plan to coax their classmates back.
The revolution was the problem, they figured. Just weeks after the liberation of Tripoli, their neighborhood, Abu Salim, remained a bastion of support for Libya’s deposed
leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. The loyalists’ children — including teenagers who were recruited or had volunteered for military service — had little interest in learning the history of the uprising or the new national anthem, their friends said
Full story:
www.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/world/africa...
CNN
Once allies against Gadhafi, now fight in new Libya
Old feuds and divisions are surfacing among armed groups and local military council members of Libya’s National Transitional Council, officials told CNN.
One controversial figure is Abdelhakim Belhaj, head of the Tripoli Military Council.
On Monday, Belhaj opened a news conference with a clear message calling all other military brigades to take their weapons out of Tripoli.
Read more:
goo.gl/DQGGQ
Khadija
Why do most of us Libyans speak about Libya and other Libyans in third person?? #awkward #lostidentity
Palestinian and Libyan flag waving side by side at #Tripoli university.
Our meeting is being interrupted because they think we’re planning a coup.
We’re are a charity foundation and they are about to kick us off campus.
Ha! We win! Libya hurra you can’t make us leave!
we are in the arts faculty & a gang of young men, some in army clothes, claiming they’re in charge tried to kick us out.
Nigerian Guardian
Three Nigerians fighting for Gaddafi killed in Libya
THREE Nigerian immigrants allegedly fighting for ousted Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Gaddafi, were reported killed by forces of the National Transition Council (NTC) at the weekend.
According to Hamada Radio International monitored in Kaduna yesterday, those killed were Ugochukwu Okafor, aged 33; Emeka Aloysius Mohammed, 33 and Braimoh Robinson Garba, 30.
Full story:
goo.gl/xEgcQ
Via Feb17
Heritage deal marks first move on Libyan oil
Heritage Oil has bought control of a Benghazi-based oil services firm, striking the first upstream deal in Libya since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi and building on the British explorer’s reputation as a first mover into political hot-spots.
Heritage said on Tuesday it had bought 51 percent of Sahara Oil Services Holdings for $19.5 million. Reuters reported last month it was touting for business in Libya.
More:
feb17.info/news/heritage-deal-marks-fir...
Malta
Today
Gonzi awaits response from US Senator on suggested Libyan convoy
During U.S. Senator John Mc Cain’s visit to Malta last week, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said he suggested that the US sends a naval hospital convoy to take on more Libyan war victims as part of their contribution to the much needed humanitarian assistance.
Addressing Parliament yesterday evening, Gonzi announced developments regarding the situation in Libya and government’s in assisting in the evacuation of Libyan citizens, his participation in the 66th United Nations General Assembly and the Eastern Partnership Summit held in Warsaw.
Full art.:
www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/2011/1004/go...
Biz Community
Zambia investigates telecom sale to Libya
LUSAKA: New Zambian President Michael Sata on Friday, 30 September 2011, launched an investigation into the sale of public telecommunications company Zamtel to a Libyan state firm.
Following up an election campaign pledge, Sata said authorities would look into the Zamtel deal and the sale of Finance Bank to South Africa’s First Rand Bank.
“We want to see whether the sell of Finance Bank was transparent or if it was fraudulent,” he told new justice minister Sebastian Zulu at the swearing in of his new cabinet in Lusaka.
Full story here:
www.bizcommunity.com/Article/237/20/651...
AP
Actor-activist Sean Penn says he admires Libyans for their courage in overthrowing Moammar Gadhafi. Penn spoke during a visit to Tripoli on Wednesday. He declined to comment on details about what he plans to do in the Libyan capital. But he told Associated Press Television News that he admires “the courage to say we want freedom. It’s an extraordinary thing.”
Standing outside a hotel, Penn also expressed confidence in Libya’s efforts to make a transition to democracy. He says that “an enormous price has been paid but I think that there is no question that they can follow it through.”
Times Live
Libya rulers name new cabinet
The announcement Monday was made jointly by the head of the National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, and de facto Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril in a news conference following weeks of political infighting and delays over the formation of a new government.
More:
www.timeslive.co.za/africa/2011/10/04/l...
Reuters
Volunteers care for sick animals at Gaddafi’s menagerie
WADI BAI, Libya, Oct 5 (Reuters)- Flopped in the baking sand, deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s ostrich thrashes wildly, then lays its beak in the dust to die.
“Gaddafi didn’t care for people, he killed them with tanks. How can you expect him to care about his animals?” rebel commander Abu Bakr Essa asks indignantly.
The dying bird is among around 1,000 ostriches abandoned without food or water at Wadi Bai, Gaddafi’s vast private menagerie in the sun-blasted desert west of Sirte.
Full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...
Iman
Inshallah by the time I visit libya in december, all of libya will be free from north to south and east to west #Libya #feb17
Praying for all our brave freedom fighters they will not be forgotten! Allah yunsurhum w eysaberhum inshallah! #Libya #feb17
Praying for #syria and #yemen the world seems to be ignoring the heinous crimes being committed there! Inshallah raby yunsurkum w eysaberkum
Waiting for the end of my exams in November, so that I can actively tweet and get involved in libya news again! I miss #feb17 ♥
My favourite libyan accent award goes to: drumroll BENGHAZY its all about the BENGO LINGO sim7 bikil ♥
Jerusalem Post
Libyan Jew demands new regime tackle anti-Semitism
David Gerbi to ‘Post’: Failed bid to reopen synagogue in Tripoli has transformed debate on rights of Jews in country
Read more:
www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeature...
Libyan4life
Again, no news on #Libya. Just the Libyan Jew story again with different adjectives. Even the missile stories are gone now. #Libya #Feb17
Sirtawi
Some of those who’ve evacuated #Sirte in past couple of days say they didn’t know about truce for families to leave. #SirteCrisis
Libyan fighters launch final assault on Sirte
In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, the commanders leading the battle for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, say they have begun a final assault to seize the town.
A senior commander in charge of the mission also claims most civilians have now fled the city.
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports from Sirte.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky9ux56I7DI&sns=fb
@bucketofsoda from Poland
Under the circumstances, Red Cross should evacuate patients from Sina hospital. Why don’t they do that?
Zeina Khodr
that is the question many fighters on the front line have been asking
freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today
This morning, God willing, an aircraft from the State of Jordan will arrive to transport the wounded fighters for treatment in Jordan. Many thanks to Jordan, and to our Local Council.
jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
Mohamed had spent twenty years in #Sirte and yet his only Libyan passport was the green cover over his Sudanese one.
LIBYA☾✰ليبيا
#Qaddafi’s 42 Year Infrastructure flood #Tripoli After Rain, this is the Capital imagine the situation in other Cities. pic.twitter.com/L4DKMj18
Qaddafi made Billions nuclear deal with russia, he give it away for free in 03 so he can stay in Power
Sirte:
They Must Show the utmost self-control and patience at this difficult time the important battle has just Began. Alah Help Us All
MSNBC
Analysis: Gaddafi determined to avoid Saddam Hussein’s fate
When Muammar Gaddafi ponders his future from his hideout somewhere in Libya, he will probably recall the fate of another fallen Arab autocrat, Saddam Hussein, pulled bedraggled from a hole in the ground.
With that precedent in mind, Gaddafi will be adamant, say people who know him, about two things: he will not give up the fight against Libya’s new rulers and, if the end comes, he will not allow himself to be captured alive.
Story:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44784495
Time World
Twists of Fate: The Towns That Loved Gaddafi Face an Uncertain Future
Three children crowd around the parked car, thrusting their little heads through the open window on the driver’s side. “Do you love Gaddafi?” they demand to know from a foreign reporter. When the question is turned around, they nod vigorously. “Yes,” they all say. Then, with an almost intimidating seriousness: “What are you doing here?”
Full story;
www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,...
Lusaka Times
Jacob Arrives, Libya Expected on Wednesday
Jacob Mulenga has finally joined the Zambia national team in camp in Kitwe.
And Libya are expected to arrive tomorrow ahead of Saturdays 2012 Africa Cup Group C qualifier against Zambia to be played at Nchanga Stadium in Chingola.
Source:
www.lusakatimes.com/2011/10/04/jacob-ar...
Fox News
Panetta: NATO Must Work Together to Sustain Libya, Afghanistan Operations
Facing deep budget cuts, the U.S. will no longer be able to make up for the significant shortfalls that have plagued NATO’s operations in Libya and Afghanistan, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Wednesday, exhorting allies to work together or risk losing the ability to take on such missions.
More:
www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/05/panetta-n...
MSNBC
Panetta presses NATO allies to address defense needs
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta urged NATO allies on Wednesday to avoid sharp cuts in defense spending, pointing to this year’s war in Libya as an example of NATO’s vital role in responding to global military crises.
NATO, whose warplanes have bombed Libya since March in line with a U.N. resolution authorizing military action to protect civilians, is under pressure to find ways of offsetting the impact of tighter budgets on both sides of the Atlantic.
Story:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44783530
Newsvine
NATO urges Libyan authorities to seize arms caches
NATO said Monday it is concerned about the possibility that large numbers of portable surface-to-air missiles, previously in the armament of Moammar Gadhafi’s army, are missing in Libya.
“It is a matter of concern if stockpiles of weapons are not properly controlled and monitored,” Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.
He was responding to a report that thousands of SAM-7 shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles allegedly went missing after the defeat of loyalist forces by former Libyan rebels, who were supported by NATO air strikes.
Read more:
www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/03/81212...
Newsvine
Group: Migrants evacuated from Libyan city to Chad
The International Organization for Migration says more than 1,200 migrant workers and family members sheltering in the southern Libyan city of Sabha are being evacuated to Chad.
IOM chief of mission in Chad, Qasim Sufi, said Monday the group of people from 11 different nations are “extremely relieved” after enduring weeks of hardship and anxiety while trapped at a transit center in the embattled city.
Source:
www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/03/81155...
FP
Mideast Brief: Libya’s NTC names new cabinet amidst ongoing fighting
Libya’s NTC names new cabinet amidst ongoing fighting
The National Transitional Council named a new cabinet to take over a month after the country has been secured.
The head of U.S. Africa Command answered rumors that NATO would soon pull out
Canadian Defense Minister, Peter MacKay, said that Canada will maintain a presence for at least 90 more days due to civilian security and growing humanitarian concerns.
Source;
mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/10...
Commentary Magazine
Beware Missile Stockpile in Libya
What’s wrong with this picture? On the one hand, Gen. Carter Ham, head of U.S. Africa Command, says (as the Associated Press puts it) that “the military mission in Libya is largely complete and NATO’s involvement could begin to wrap up as soon as this coming week after allied leaders meet in Brussels.” On the other hand, the Wall Street Journal reports:
Read more:
www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/10/04/m...
AJA reporting from inside #Sirte. Fierce street fighting.
AJA:
only few civilians were able to escape #Sirte today comparing to thousands the last few days.
BBC
UK Libyans mourn rebel’s death
There are no exact figures for the number of British Libyans who went to fight Gaddafi forces in Libya, or how many died there.
Today reporter Zubeida Malik goes to Birmingham to meet one family who have decided to speak about their loss.
Audio:
news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_96...
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya anti gaddafi fighters pounding the besieged city of #sirte with heavy weapons
Libyan4life
Dear Russia and China, I hope you enjoyed your relationship with #Libya’s economy, the buck stops here. You bet wrong. #TeamFreedom
Change In Libya
Libya: On the road to Sirte… via AFP
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Reuters
INSIGHT – On the run, Gaddafi leaves few footprints
Dressed in rags and holding a cellphone, Muammar Gaddafi sits in the shade of an oasis palm in the southern Libyan desert. He gazes wistfully at signs that say “Niger 450 km”, “Burkina Faso 2,700 km”, “Algiers, 650 km”.
The cartoon, displayed on an easel in the lobby of Tripoli’s Mahari hotel, raises a smile from patrons checking their AK-47 assault rifles and machine pistols in the wooden gun rack behind the security desk.
Full art.:
in.reuters.com/article/2011/10/05/idINI...
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
new push from east #Sirte heavy shelling and some casualties arriving in field hospital #Libya
alexrossiSKY alex rossi
A captured Gaddafi soldier recovers in a makeshift prison in #Misrata. My pic of the day #Libya #Feb17
pic.twitter.com/XfiuYcRb
Sky News
Libya: Fears For Civilians Trapped In Sirte
It is feared many civilians may be trapped inside the war-torn Libyan city of Sirte – unable to escape because they have no fuel for their vehicles.
The birthplace of deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi, it has been without electricity or clean water for days and medical supplies are also running out.
A steady stream of people are continuing to flee the fighting – many of them women and young children.
They said bombs are falling on their homes and civilians are being killed by the revolutionary offensive.
We do not want to hit innocent people or hurt innocent people but you know this is a war.
NTC soldier Ahmad Ibrahim
Read full report, see photo’s and video:
news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16...
FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
Reports that Aisha Gaddafi wants to leave #Algeria to #Venezuela or other countries #Libya
20 minutes
Libye: Le CNT libyen espère contrôler Syrte d’ici deux jours
Les forces du nouveau régime libyen contrôlent plus de la moitié de la ville de Syrte et espèrent venir à bout d’ici deux jours de la résistance des partisans de Mouammar Kadhafi, a déclaré mercredi à Reuters un commandant militaire du Conseil national de transition (CNT).
Source:
www.20minutes.fr/ledirect/800320/libye-...
Zainab
We’re actually excited! Free Libyan Football is epic! XD RT @StayStrongLibya: Can’t wait for our next game! #Football #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
Want to get RICH Fast ? Go 2 #Libya $1.5 million #Reward is on offer for information leading to #Gaddafi’s Capture goo.gl/u0Wdb
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
#Tunisian National Guard arrests seven #Libyan “terrorists” en route to #Algeria (newspaper Le Temps d’Algerie)
FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
Satellites or HumanInformers report several HUGE ArmedConvoys with blackedout windows Cross in2 #Algeria #Niger
goo.gl/u0Wdb #Libya
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
A Martyr with the name Abdulla Fathi AlShiriksi is in AlJalaa hospital in #Benghazi but no one knows his family.if you do please help #Libya
ZeinakhodrAljaz Zeina Khodr
#Libya, Anti #Gaddafi fighters using heavy artillery to weaken the defences of loyalists inside #Sirte, #Libya
#Libya, Commanders say the final push into #Sirte will be on Friday or Saturday, #Libya, #Gaddafi
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
el CNT libio dice que ya controla + de la mitad de #Sirte y q concluirá la batalla en las próximas 48 horas #Libia
Le Figaro
Vienne: l’ONU hisse le drapeau du CNT
Les Nations unies à Vienne ont hissé aujourd’hui le drapeau du Conseil national de transition libyen (CNT), reconnu officiellement en septembre par la communauté internationale comme le nouveau régime libyen.
Le nouveau drapeau rouge-noir-vert a remplacé l’étendard vert de l’ancien régime de Mouammar Kadhafi, se joignant aux couleurs des 192 pays membres qui trônent dans la cour du siège de l’ONU à Vienne, selon un communiqué des Nations unies.
Source:
www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2011/10/05/9...
Mariam
It looks like Ashahed Libya’s page on Facebook has been hacked by Gaddafi’s clowns.
Nasr
Unconfirmed: ICRC helped #Muatassim #Gaddafi escape from #Sirte #NTC fails.
Esteri
Frattini: “A Mission to Libya to revitalise Italy’s role” (Il Messaggero)
Tomorrow I will be visiting the “new” Tripoli, liberated by the Libyan people. A mission
that I’d like to use as the basis for some considerations on our policy towards Libya and, more in general, towards the Mediterranean. A focus on the Mediterranean has been, and continues to be, one of the three principle lines followed by Italian foreign policy, along with our focus on Europe and the Atlantic. And it could not be otherwise: it is in the Mediterranean that our political, economic and cultural presence has its roots; it is to the Mediterranean that our civilisation has for centuries been linked.
Read more:
www.esteri.it/MAE/EN/Sala_Stampa/Archiv...
Marianne 2
Libye: deux guerres pour le prix d’une…
Malgré les images gaulliennes d’un Sarkozy libérateur défilant dans les rues de Tripoli, les violences sont loin d’être terminées et la bataille de Libye toujours pas gagnée. Si la visite-éclair de Sarkozy et Cameron à Tripoli sonnait symboliquement la fin de la guerre, dans leurs derniers fiefs de Syrte et Bani Walid, les pro-Kadhafi repoussent les assauts du CNT.
Art.:
www.marianne2.fr/Libye-deux-guerres-pou...
NYT
Libyan Rebels Clarify Steps to New Rule
Libya’s provisional leaders said Monday that they would resign once the former rebels defeat the vestiges of armed support for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in his home city of Surt, a move that would clear the way for a new interim government that would run the country until elections can be held.
More:
www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/world/africa...
Digital Journal
Inspectors investigate claim of missing chemical weapons in Libya
Inspectors with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons are investigating claims by the interim government in Libya of missing chemical weapons from a munitions storage site that was once under the control of strongman Muammar Qaddafi.
Art. and video:
www.digitaljournal.com/article/312220
All Africa
‘Nato Intervention in Libya an Attack On Africa’- Hugo Chavez Foundation-SL
The Sierra Leone chapter of the Hugo Chavez International Foundation for Peace, Friendship and Solidarity has added its voice to those calling the military intervention by the Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO in Libya as an attack on Africa rather than upholding human rights.
More:
allafrica.com/stories/201110040889.html
CBS News
NATO urges Libyan authorities to seize arms caches
NATO said Monday it is concerned about the possibility that large numbers of portable surface-to-air missiles, previously in the armament of Moammar Gadhafi’s army, are missing in Libya.
“It is a matter of concern if stockpiles of weapons are not properly controlled and monitored,” Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.
He was responding to a report that thousands of SAM-7 shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles allegedly went missing after the defeat of loyalist forces by former Libyan rebels, who were supported by NATO air strikes.
More here:
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/03/ap/e...
VOA
Libya’s NTC Launches ‘Final Assault’ on Gadhafi Stronghold
Libyan interim government fighters have launched what they say is the “final assault” on Sirte, one of the few remaining strongholds of former leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Residents are pouring out of the the coastal town as National Transitional Government (NTC) fighters push into neighborhoods
Read more:
www.voanews.com/english/news/Libyas-NTC...
Here is la-la land:
How twisted can you get?
Russia lost a lot of arms trade ( over4 billion $ was ordered by G ) and they are angry:
Pravda
Libyan conflict lurches out of NATO control
What do you get when a British public schoolboy with a proven record of a seriously flawed judgement as regards choosing his advisers and choosing his policy gets embroiled in conflict in a tribal society utterly beyond his comprehension? You get David Cameron’s 2 billion-pound nightmare.
Read more:
english.pravda.ru/hotspots/conflicts/04...
bilal
Tell me one negative thing in Libya and i bet i can prove it’s not a negative thing.
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Reuters report that the FF’s are now pushing there way into the centre of #Sirt #Libya
I think part of the attack on #Sirt from the FF’s point of view is to provide a safe passage for aids to reach civillians in the City #Libya
Khadija
we r a charity foundation holding a meeting on campus with permission, then the feb17 coalition told us we had to go …
because we didnt have their permission even though they have nothing to do with us.
unfortunately we did not take any videos :(
FraCicardi Francesca Cicardi
#Misrata Military Council:“we’re bombing #Gadafi mercenaries in Ouagadougou hall by all our artillery,tanks & Grad rocket launchers” #Libya
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
The United Nations cultural organization UNESCO recommended that the world body accept Palestine as a full member with the rights of a state
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Palestine has not yet been admitted to UNESCO. It is still awaiting the General Assembly voting with 193 countries.
And announced just now:
Palestine has been admitted to UNESCO, one of the UN’s important organizations. 4 countries voted against. Guess who was 1 of them. #UNESCO
The United States, Germany, Romania and Latvia voted against. Germany still trying to punish Palestinians for German crimes against Jews.
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Secularism is defined as “seperation between church & state”. What the French call ‘laicite’ however, is used as excuse to repress muslims.
LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
When a muslim tells a christian/atheist Englishman that he doesn’t eat pork & doesn’t drink wine, it’s no problem & they go on like before.
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
As we speak the Wagadogo Hall in #Sirt is being attacked by the FF using Tanks,MRLs and other heavy weapons. #Libya
Ahmed
Yes Libyan Jews who were forced from their homes have the right to return but I’m uneasy bout this one man show Gerbi.
How come we haven’t heard from other Libyan Jews other than Gerbi? Anytime 1 prsn is in the spotlight spkng for an entire group I’m skptkl
Also pics surfacing of Gerbi shaking #Gaddafis hand pisses me off. Any Libyan (Jew or not) who does/did that is a punk in my eyes
Good news:
annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
#Zwara and #jumayl shelling each other in continuing asrab- #Amazugh feud. Zwara commander Senussi Mahrez says Jumayl +Rig Dalin attacked
No deaths in #Zwara-Jumayl-Rig Dalin conflict acc to Zwara commander Senussi Mahrez – Al Jaz report wrong
Osama
the fighting between #zwara and #ejmail has absolutely nothing to do with Arab against amazigh!! It is purely HISTORICAL!
I listened to penetrated Qaddafi Phone Calls, Qaddafi seems to be so so so far from reality.
www.facebook.com/GaddafiPhonegate
MSNBC
Libya’s oil-rich east bids for power
Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi would risk fading back into obscurity after a six-month interlude as the seat of the rebel government were it not for one powerful asset: oil.
Benghazi residents are struggling to convert their wartime sacrifices into economic clout to restore the status of a city once deemed on a par with the capital, Tripoli, and rescue it from its relative obscurity in the Muammar Gaddafi era.
More here:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44786168/ns/world_...
TFMLibya TFM Libya
Tomorrow is our launch event for the Libyan NGO Fund. Anyone interested in attending & finding out more email NGOFund@tfmlibya.org
LibyanPilot
Under Gaddafi, Benghazi was at the mercy of Tripoli for its share of state funding (cont)
even though most of this is generated from nearby eastern oil fields. Libya’s economy is almost entirely reliant on oil and gas revenue.
“Gaddafi took it (NOC) to Tripoli because he wanted control. But where are the fields?” complained Mahmoud, jabbing his finger at a map
showing a large clump of black circles representing oil fields in the eastern Sirte Basin.
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
Reuters #Libya #NTC Forces control more than 1/2 of of #Sirte & believe they will have the city under their complete control within 48 hours
Reuters
WRAPUP 2-Libyan government forces push into centre of Sirte
Half of Sirte under interim government control: local commander
Gaddafi birthplace will be captured “within two days”
Residents angry at bombardment by anti-Gaddafi forces
Red Cross trying to get new aid convoy into the city
Full report:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/05/liby...
Libya’s NTC forces are bombing Sirte now #Libya #Feb17 “liberation” seems to be near
NATO NATO
Photos of #NATO Defence Ministers meeting can be found on our Facebook page goo.gl/0h5iJ
Euronews
Libyan govt forces claim to control half of Sirte
Interim government forces in Libya claim they now control half the city of Sirte, the birthplace of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Commanders say they expect to have total control of the city within 48 hours.
Sirte is one of the last strongholds of Gaddafi.
A Red Cross convoy is preparing to enter the city for the second time to deliver urgent medical aid.
A hospital there is reported to be struggling to cope with the number of wounded after weeks of fighting.
Elsewhere, support for the new Libya is coming from many different quarters.
More and video:
www.euronews.net/2011/10/05/libyan-govt...
United4Libya LIBYAN
More #FF’s were killed in #Sirt today.
Triploli scream
I posted a new photo to Facebook
fb.me/17AOQvGoY
MushuThaLohari
Assad has even less guts than #Gaddafi, hence the extremely violent attacks on the children and women specifically. 1/2
He wants to scare the Syrians into submission because he KNOWS that if they continue,he’ll be the next dictator to fall. 2/2 #Syria
SerajElalem Seraj Elalem
Sean Penn in #Benghazi on #Wednesday ! and I missed my flight to #Benghazi on #Tuesday ! So I won’t get to meet him, Woe is me !
WSJ
Libyans Loot Weapons From Desert Cache
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970...
WSJ
In Libya, Have Truck, Will Proliferate
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970...
ArmchairArab Armchair Arab
Jalil doing an interview on l-tv.tv right now.
NATO presser
Rasmussen
05 Oct. 2011
Press conference
by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen following the Defence Ministers meeting
Good afternoon. I am very happy to hear that we have with us a group of journalists from the new independent Libya, welcome to NATO.
We have just had a productive session reviewing several of our current operations: for Libya, in Kosovo and off the Horn of Africa.
Six months ago, we launched Operation Unified Protector to prevent threats against civilians in Libya. Today, ministers agreed that the operation has been a great success.
In Libya, NATO and our partners have made the difference. For countless civilians, we have literally made the difference between life and death. We have fulfilled the mandate of the United Nations. And we are close to completing our mission.
Tomorrow, when we meet with our partners in the operation, we will discuss the prospects for ending mission.
Today, we began discussing the lessons we should draw from this operation.
There are many things which we did right: we acted fast. We were flexible. We engaged with our partners. And together, we continue to be effective.
But we cannot be complacent. The operation also showed we lack certain critical capabilities, especially in Europe. European Allies and Canada took the lead. They provided most of the assets. But they had to rely on the United States to deploy critical enablers to get the job done. I’m talking about intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and air-to-air refuelling.
NATO, as an Alliance, rose to the challenge. But if we are to respond to the challenges of tomorrow just as effectively, more Allies should make sure they obtain and maintain those kinds of critical capabilties.. One is not enough.
Looking ahead, we also agreed that NATO should be ready to assist the new Libyan authorities with defence and security sector reforms, if they request our support.
NATO has long experience of supporting the move from dictatorship to democracy. And if asked, we would be happy to share that experience.
Nous avons aussi parlé des événements au Kosovo. Nous estimons que la KFOR a
agi avec prudence, fermeté et impartialité, en respectant pleinement le mandat de l’ONU. Nous continuons d’attacher une grande importance à cette mission.
La KFOR est un bel exemple de réussite. Grâce à nous, un point chaud a pratiquement été pacifié en douze ans. Et nous ne laisserons pas la violence se réinstaller. La KFOR continuera de remplir son mandat en garantissant un environnement sûr et sécurisé, et en préservant la liberté de circulation.
Nous nous félicitons de la coopération étroite entre la KFOR et la mission EULEX de l’Union européenne sur le terrain. Elle est essentielle à notre réussite commune. Mais de nouveaux progrès sont nécessaires sur le plan politique. Le calme, la modération et le dialogue sont indispensables à la sortie de crise. Le dialogue politique entre Belgrade et Pristina, sous les auspices de l’UE, est la seule solution pour tous les habitants du Kosovo, quelle que soit leur origine ethnique.
Finally, we discussed the challenge of piracy. International efforts to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia are having an effect.
Overall, the number of successful pirate attacks is down. And in the Gulf of Aden, there has not been a single successful attack since the start of the year.
But challenges remain and the solution will take an international effort. NATO is an integral part of that international effort. We agreed that Operation Ocean Shield makes an important contribution. And that we will continue the mission with the commitment, and the capabilities, which our commanders need to undertake their role.
With that, I am ready to take your questions.
APPABLOG
Libye / Point de presse du porte-parole du Quai d’Orsay
PARIS, France, 5 octobre 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Point de presse du 5 octobre 2011
France – Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Q et R:
appablog.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/libye...
20arb11 Souffian Tripoli
Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا”
goo.gl/aM65o
AliTweel Ali Tweel
this is where everything happened
flickr.com/photos/tweel/4… #libya #feb17 #GoogleEarth #nato @nato
sabha17feb ثوار 17 فبراير سبها
I posted 4 photos on Facebook in the album “05 October 2011”
fb.me/FQK56GMJ
MOD UK
HMS Bangor destroys bombs off Libya
The Royal Navy minehunter HMS Bangor has destroyed a 2,000-pound (907kg) mine and a torpedo lying on the seabed off the port of Tobruk in eastern Libya.
The ship has conducted exhaustive surveys of harbours in eastern Libya in recent days, helping to ensure that the waters are safe for merchant shipping. A residual threat remains from mines and other unexploded ordnance left behind as a legacy of the former Gaddafi regime.
Read full report:
www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/...
Al Arabiya
Tripoli Brigade Salutes New Members
Friends and family gather together to celebrate the graduation of the new members added to the Tripoli brigade in the Libyan capital on Tuesday night.
Graduates of the Souk al-Jumah Brigade marched proudly as supporters cheered from the stands.
Despite the encouragement and celebratory atmosphere, this event for some people is conveyed as an attempt to rectify the political limbo left after the ousting of Muammer Qaddafi over a month ago.
More and video:
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/10/...
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
just coming back from inside #Sirte urban area really heavy fighting I stopped counting RPGs after 20 lots of snipers #Libya
at he hospital right now 1 body being transfer to ambulance “Ala Uakbar Ala Uakbar” shout the crowd of NTC fighters #Sirte #Libya
some fighters crying others shooting in the air even RPGs #Sirte #Libya
Public Broadcasting
Libyan government forces push into centre of Sirte
SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan government forces fought their way, street by street, into the center of Muammar Gaddafi’s birthplace of Sirte on Wednesday after their commanders said the battle for the city was entering its final hours.
Taking Sirte would be of huge symbolic importance to Libya’s new rulers because it would dispense with the biggest pocket of pro-Gaddafi resistance, and allow the interim government to switch its focus to preparing democratic elections.
“More than half the city is under the control of the (anti-Gaddafi) rebels,” said Adel Al-Hasi, a local NTC commander. “In two days, God willing, Sirte will be free.”
More here:
www.publicbroadcasting.net/wxel/news.ne...
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
crazy street fighting inside NTC fighters in Mauritanian neighborhood all buildings damaged explosions all around #Sirte #Libya
afelyun aphelion
The North Africa Daily is out!
bit.ly/dRzwj9
Mushu
#FF spokesman on #Libya Alahrar: Yesterday 11 martyred in the battle of #Sirte, none today (only some injured). #Feb17
HannahAllam Hannah Allam
Not sure why #Libya interim officials continue to damage their credibility w/ false or overblown claims of mass graves, but same story today
Taken to 1 graveyard but worker there said the bodies (no IDs, interred, not visible) were dumped there a few at a time, not en masse #Libya
Site of actual mass grave said to be in Tajjoura but wasn’t taken to that site. Some of the pics they provided as “evidence” were from NYT!
No doubt there are lots of missing & presumed dead but #Libya interim govt doing disservice by spreading false/misleading info.
malonebarry Barry Malone
Know probably old news he’s here. But just walked past a strutting Sean Penn in Tripoli – not something you see every day… #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#Libya’s #oil -rich East bids for Power #Libya #Benghazi goo.gl/SlUny #NOC #Agoco #Jalil #Ghoga #Tripoli #Libya
Have a read:
GRAFIXEL guess what
appears to be an interview with Russian mercenary
is.gd/QPXWz3 #Libya
AliTweel Ali Tweel
Now reading : Sean Penn travels to “inspirational” Libya : bit.ly/mY1xPc via @CBSNews
FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#Feb17 #Oil Committee Group is #obbying #NTC 4 Greater Say in #Oil Policy they want NOC headquarters move from #Tripoli 2 #Benghazi #libya
goo.gl/SlUny #Benghazi residents hope #oil rev. worth around $130 million a day @current Brent prices 2fuel economic revival in East
#Libya’s #oil -rich East bids for Power #Libya #Benghazi goo.gl/SlUny #NOC #Agoco #Jalil #Ghoga #Tripoli #Libya
#FLASH #Libya #NOC pursuing International #oil Firms 4 Bills Worth around $6 billion left unpaid this year #Libya #OPEC goo.gl/9eAAH
#NOC list of Debtors: #oil Firms: #ConocoPhillips #Exxon Mobil Corp #BP #OMV #Vitol #Eni #Saras goo.gl/9eAAH #Libya
eur0phile Jonathan Twigg
Executive transport on the front line at Sirte. Then again, the parking’s free and there are no traffic wardens. #Libya
pic.twitter.com/V5RZs9Wi
NATOpress NATO Press
LIVE 19:00CET: Joint announcement cooperation new capabilities – PM of Spain Zapatero and US Defense Secretary Panetta goo.gl/qPw0Y
LibyaInMe حنين ~ Hanin
This past weekend we lost the closest person to our hearts. She was our mother, our angel, & the life of the family, my grandmother :’( </3
Never in my life have I thought someone so dear to me would go.I am having a hard time saying she “died” because it’s too hard, unbelievable
Life is never going to be the same, she was our go to person, she was our prayers angel, she was everything to us. She’s gone?
I am write and crying. Because only when I write do I realize it’s real, it’s very real. :’(
How did she die you ask? The day Gaddafi entered Misrata, months ago, she spent the day crying & later in the evening got a stroke
She spent months in bed, couldn’t speak, couldn’t walk, couldn’t eat. Healthcare is zero to nill in Libya.
Thank you for your condolences. Thought I’d update you to explain my disappearance.
LibyaInMe حنين ~ Hanin
My brother lost two of his friends yesterday near Sirte…
www.feb17martyrs.com/hassan-messmari-os...
JOINT MINE ACTION COORDINATION TEAM – LIBYA www.mineaction.org/downloads/1/JMACT%20...
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Tripoli military council: We have found two sites with a total of 900 unidentified corpses- 700 buried in Tajoura & 200 in Gergash. #Libya
hominoid555 Russell
Libya A man was arrested with 502 gold coins he was trying to smuggle them out, no information of their value.
ReutersIndia Reuters India
Libya back to school, but without Gaddafi teachings
reut.rs/n4pP8R
libyanproud libyanandproud
WOW! 14 year old boy from tripoli who had a bullet wound to the spine and couldn’t move month ago, is now recovered, walking, and smiling.
British Forces News
UK
David Cameron pays tribute to armed forces
Prime Minister David Cameron has paid tribute to British Forces at the Conservative conference in Manchester.
In his speech closing the Conservative Party conference, he told delegates, intervening in Libya to help remove Gaddafi was the right thing to do.
Earlier, Defence Secretary Liam Fox told the party that he is determined to get the Ministry of Defence “back on track” but that the government is investing in defence.
He also used his speech for a broadside against the defence plans of some European allies.
Video:
www.bfbs.com/news/uk/david-cameron-pays...
BintTarablis KC
Allah is ever aware of the evildoers, each one will have their time – He never forgets them. #Libya #Syria #Bahrain #Yemen #TheWorld
yasmarah ياسمين
‘You cannot build a nation without recognizing minorities and finding a solution to acknowledge all parts where minorities are present.’
javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
photo: one NTC fighter with his Mad Max style vehicle #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/ob6qej
photo: american Matthew Van Dyke fighting inside #Sirte in the mauritanian neiborghood #Libya yfrog.com/mek4rlj
photo: street fighting happening in this neighborhood inside #Sirte today 2 dead and 45 wounded at 6:00 pm #Libya yfrog.com/h36bwlsj
photo: NTC snipers using a room at a 5 star hotel as platform to shoot #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/h71s2rnfj
photo: 2 NTC fighters resting in the same 5 stars hotel in the middle of the battle #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/h3co8wlj
they stay at night now they control a big area of the city
well let’s say Gaddafi forces just control an small area near city center but battle is still not over
Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Another call for a big protest on Friday in different parts of Libya against " return of Jews to Libya" Youth distributing flyers in town
Tweeting Tripoli
Graduation ceremony of Tripoli’s 1st batch of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Oct 4th, 2011. pic.twitter.com/4ix4Uieq
An officer speaking at the ceremony of Tripoli’s 1st batch of the Libyan National Army (LNA). pic.twitter.com/kRPgOenm
Officer Bani at the graduation ceremony of Tripoli’s Libyan National Army (LNA) Oct 4th, 2011. pic.twitter.com/It1Bs0Mh
Some of the guests at the graduation ceremony of Tripoli’s 1st batch of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Oct 4th, 2011. pic.twitter.com/kPZqDFVl
hominoid555 Russell
United Nations in Vienna has raised the flag of Libya’s National Transitional Council
Guardian
Libya mass grave discovered near Misrata
Bodies of five bound and executed men found wrapped in military blankets and buried in shallow sandy scrapes
Whoever buried the five men, discovered on Wednesday in graves a little way outside the Libyan coastal city of Misrata, had a sense of order.
The bodies were buried neatly in a row of shallow sandy scrapes, each wrapped in a green military blanket, the last one of them interred on the stretcher on which he was, in all likelihood, killed.
Someone – no one knows who – had marked the place, leaving a sign next to the grave site saying: “Five dead.”
All of them were men, wearing civilian clothes.
Read full article:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/05/li...
hominoid555 Russell
NATO is close to halting its 6-month-old bombing campaign in Libya
Sirte: Over 50% of the city is under FF control with steady progress continuing #feb17 #Libya
Sirte:
raggzeb was ystrdy injrd n battle wit shrapnel frm a bazooka (RPG) and a sniper bullet . he was today treated in Benghazi & is alot better.
he was yesterday injured but was operated on today and is getting better
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
by MatogSaleh
I will be on Alarabiya PANORAMA programme from their studio at 8.30pm london time (7.30 gmt) shortly today inshallah
Tweeting Tripoli
Another pic from graduation of Tripoli LNA…
pic.twitter.com/UXl5cFbh
Tripolitanian Libyan
Protest in #Zwara demanding #NTC play more active role in treatment of injured revolutionaries.
youtu.be/hrB3szsanBA #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrB3szsanBA&fea...
ARABIC One of the f fighters talking about the situation in #Zwara yesterday: bit.ly/o6N0mQ #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4vMBdOsDTI&fea...
Tripolitanian Libyan
Tripoli Military Council leader Naker: 75% of #Tripoli is secured by the Tripoli Military Council, 25% secured by our revolutionary brothers
Tripoli Military Council leader Naker: #Tripoli is #Libya’s capital, every Libyan is welcome to stay here.
Tripoli Military Council leader Naker: When the revolutionaries entered #Tripoli, they found the residents already liberated it. #Libya
#Tripoli Military Council Leader Naker: No individual can say they liberated Tripoli, Tripoli liberated Tripoli. #Libya
#Tripoli Military Council Leader Naker: We thank Qatar and NATO but we believe some figures in Libya are being influence by them
#Tripoli Military Council Leader Naker: and are pushing for their own agenda. We want Libyans to be nationalists.
#Tripoli Military Council Leader Naker: We hope that soon everything will calm down and elections will take place so that democ can flourish
#Tripoli Military Council Leader Naker: We are working with Misrata and Benghazi
brigades, they have asked us for help in BW and Sebha
#Tripoli Military Council Leader Naker: We have helped them to the best of our abilities
#Tripoli MC Leader Naker: We would like to collect and register weapons as soon as possible.
End of interview.
Tripolitanian Libyan
My take: Naker seems a good leader, however I can see the potential of friction btwn him & Belhaj, would like them to work together.
4Adam Adam
FYI – Abudallah Ahmed Naker is the head of Tripoli Revolutionists Council and he is NOT the head of Tripoli Military Council.
Tripolitanian Libyan
Correction, he’s the leader of the Tripoli Revolutionists Council, not Military Council via @4Adam . #Libya
Armchair Arab
We should include the fact that oil must be managed at a national level in the constitution.
Biggest challenge facing #NTC now is uniting #Libya
Tripolitanian Libyan
#MAJ on #Libya Ahrar
#MAJ: We are proud of the work Libyans have done.
#MAJ: Everyone played a role in the liberation of #Tripoli, a variety of factors led to the liberation of the capital
#MAJ: I have talked with Sallabi and Jibril, they both have the same goals
#MAJ: Liberation of #Libya will be announced after liberation of #Sirte, hence borders, land and sea will be liberated
#MAJ: BW is land locked and we will continue work on the liberation of BW. #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
Reason 4 #Jibril ’s eminent resignation after liberation #Sirte is that #NTC members did NOT agree with his New trans Gov. Proposal #Libya
FreeBenghazi
Heads up: @AshahedLibya has been hacked by gaddafi’s green algae #Libya
FreeBenghazi
5 people were found buried in a mass grave in Assikit area, in Misrata #Libya pic.twitter.com/mvxhDfFl
Col.Bani: Mutassim Gaddafi fled Sirte 2 unknown destination. 1 car in his convoy captured, &those arrested admitted he’s in convoy #Libya
bunbunbunnyyy ارنوبة بنغازي ♥
#NTC halts fire to allow the Red Cross to deliver vital medical aid to the besieged city of #Sirte Oct 5.
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
#Jaleel: The new government will be announced after the fall of #Sirt and we wont be waiting for the fall of #BinWaleed #Libya
Jaleel: We have arrested people who are suspects in the killing of #AbdulfatahYounis and are making progress on that case #Libya
#Jaleel: I want to thank the AlAbaidaat Tribe for their patience of waiting to find out the verdict of #Abdulfatah’s case is #Libya
#Jaleel: I am carefully following the updates of this case personally.The people involved will all be dealt with according to the law #Libya
Jaleel: Every injured person in #Libya will be treated abroad and their will be no differences between anyone #Libya
#Jaleel: There are nearly 3000 injured in #Libya so it is a slow process.800 are now being treated in different countries #Libya
#Jaleel: The injured are now being treated in hospitals in France,the UK,Italy,Germany,Jordan and other countries #Libya
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
AbdelJalil: All Military councils will be dissolved once Sirte liberated
AbdelJalil: We are working to ensure all FFs in Tripoli fall under the Supreme Security Committee #feb17 #Libya
AbdelJalil: Foreign countries including NATO countries will play no role in deciding Libya govts, transitional or otherwise #feb17 #Libya
AbdelJalil: Supreme Security council will be responsible for Tripoli’s security and its forces will have distinct uniform #feb17 #Libya
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
BW will fold in on its own. It is in the middle of nowhere and has no source of supplies
bint_tarhouna
President Jimmy Carter is offering the services of the Carter Centre to oversee elections in Libya (they’re overseeing Tunisian elections)
BintTarablis KC
It seems like all the people missing in Libya are being discovered in mass graves – tragic and horrific ! #Libya
KhadijaMAli Khadija Ali
#Aid #Volunteer #Help #Libya #Tripoli #Benghazi #Misratah facebook.com/groups/feb17ai…
United4Libya LIBYAN
We have not lost the feeling of sorrow and sadness of discovering new mass graves every other day in #Libya since #Feb17
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Rigdaleen & Jameel still not cleared of G forces. FFs awaiting decision by Military council of Western area #feb17 #Libya
aabeidi
#Libya, #Benghazi,just home from city very sad atmosphere between ppl of Benghazi cuz rising No of loss FFs yesterday&today@#Sirte frontline
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Yesterday remaining G Forces in Rigdaleen shelled Zuwara leading to clashes with 4 FF injured. 7 G forces were captured #feb17 #Libya
live2Tripoli live2Tripoli
Are we finding any missing people? Or have they all ended up in mass graves!!? #DISGUSTING
Ahmed
Just got back from the maydan … a bit boring tonight. #tripoli #libya
But i did see the revolutionaries making their way out going back to their homes… not sure yet if this is good or bad #libya #tripoli
LibyanPilot
Seeing a few articles regarding ‘fighting for power in #Libya’ if one city or another did much for the revolution does not mean (cont)
they should have more ministers or a prime minister from them in the new cabinet, that isn’t how this democracy thing works man
AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
#NTC discovers two mass graves containing up to 900 bodies near Tripoli. #Gaddafi goo.gl/Sh3Fd
Tweeting Tripoli
Juma Gmati on Alarabya (Panorama) now… One of the best analysts.
Juma Gmati: Members of the infamous Gaddafi Revolutionary Committees should not be allowed to get high profile positions for 5 or 10 years.
Juma Gmati: Libya’s Islam is and always will be moderate its purpose is to serve people. Any extremism is not accepted by most Libyans.
WEELULE
5 or 10 years, try never
Tweeting Tripoli
I am sure he meant people who have no blood on their hands. 5 or 10 years to prove that they are weaned of Gaddafi, But I get u.
Jonathan
Part of rebel tank barrage into southern Sirte on Tuesday. Heavy weaponry more in evidence. Phenomenally loud. #Libya
pic.twitter.com/6baHw2J0
Gaddafestrophe أمل ~
Best quote from Jalil: “#Tripoli’s victory was not because of Jibreel or Sallabi. It was from Allah.” Allahu Akbar! #Libya #Feb17
Sami
Beautiful. Jalil says #Libya is big enough to accommodate every Libyan regardless of race, religion or ethnicity.
Ahmed
Saying moderate islam is like saying round circle. Can u have circle that is not round?Likewise you cannot have #islam that is not moderate?
Therefore ‘extreme’ islam is one of kindness and moderation, and ‘extremism’ is one that is NOT of islam! Why are we embarrassed to say so?!
Therefore, islam in libya is of the extreme kind! We r extremely honest, respectful, tolerant,moderate.These r the characteristics of islam!
So all please, for #islam, next time you have a conversation with someone about islamists, stop and ask them to define the word!
For surely you cannot have a conversation about a topic that no one can define? It’s a fools discussion! #islam
Sarah
“Medias said I’m an extremist I answered : … (cont)
…Yes, I’m an extremist ..I’m extremely kind, extremely merciful, extremely honest, extremely fair.” Dr.Zakir Nazik
You might like this » Misconceptions about Islam – By Dr Zakir Naik
bit.ly/qIX4Mt
feb17libya Feb17Libya
Surreal: Kayaking the streets of Tripoli – #Libya #Feb17
pic.twitter.com/X5CzNAYu
FreeBenghazi
17 bodies found in refrigerator of Tripoli Hospital (on Zawiya St). Victims ages between 6mths to 50yrs. They were killed 28yrs ago #Libya
LibyaFromFrance Sarah LFFR
Al Jazeera – Sirte and BaniWalid updates earlier today –
youtube.com/watch?v=HqB_Mj… #Libya #17feb #BaniWalid #Sirte
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqB_Mj0gi0k&fea...
Sarah
FathAllah Jibril El Breki 21years old,my uncle’s friend from #Benghazi martyred in Brega on 11Aug #LibyanHeroes #17feb
twitpic.com/6vna4d
Khadija
Tomorrow there’ll be a demonstration at UofT demanding postponing the school year until all students come back from the front lines.#Tripoli
I went to the TMC today to donate blood but I couldn’t because they don’t have the materials for a CBC nor do they have the right apparatus.
GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
#Libya’s NationalOilCompany denied that any new deal involving Libyan oil has been struck with Britain’s #Heritage Oil
reut.rs/rtDEIm
somaya
Recently spoke with my cousin who informed me that his best friend (23 yrs old) & medical colleague just passed away in Ben Walid.
Hamza (my cousin) couldn’t even finish a sentence without crying, which broke my heart b/c he NEVER shows his emotions
Hisham (the martyr) and my cousin acted like blood related brothers. They went everywhere and did everything together.They were inseparable
Hamza
#Libya should straight up not do Amy business with #China and #Russia for the trouble they caused them and #Syria
4libya
Gaddafi is getting help if not directly @ least moral support frm countries who fear revolution &want #Libya conflict 2 last as long as poss
OPEC Risks Bear Market as #Libya Output Recovers: Energy Markets – Businessweek
buswk.co/nboR3M
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
#Tripoli will only become the City it was when all the FF’s from all around #Libya leave and let the FF in Tripoli keep their Capital safe
feb17libya Feb17Libya
NATO chief says Libya mission doesn’t hinge on Gadhafi’s capture
bit.ly/pk5BOi #libya
Tweeting Tripoli
Hey lets go play hide and seek at Bab Al-Azyzia tunnels, cool?
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Libya Forever
The land of Omar Al-Mukhtar and the heroes of Feb 17th. May Allah bless this land forever
For you is your way of life and for me mine……
While growing up in London during the 80’s, I dreamt about the time Gaddafi would go and allow the Libyan nation to be an Islamic nation. After all, it is a 100% Muslim nation, populated by a people whose level of practising may vary but whose staunch belief never wavers. In my youthful, beautiful naivety I never imagined this could ever be controversial. After all, Libya is 100% Muslim nation. Why should that be an issue to anyone?
Obviously, I now know that the secular and democratic ideals of “Tolerance” and “Live and Let Live” are only meant to apply domestically and have no place in foreign policy. And so, with victory against Gaddafi assured, the scaremongers come crawling out to inform the world that alot of the fighters are “Islamists”, with ties to al-Qaeda. And with that they play to the fearful prejudice that has been instilled within their people.
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Libya militia says finds mass grave with 200 bodies
A military unit allied to Libya’s new rulers said on Wednesday it had discovered a mass grave in Tripoli containing the bodies of more than 200 people who died in the chaos surrounding the rebel assault that ousted Mummar Gaddafi.
Naji al-Issawi, a commander in a unit of Tripoli’s military council, showed reporters two corpses exhumed from a cemetery which he said contained between 200 and 300 corpses.
Issawi said officials planned to dig up more of the site in the Gargarish district and start identifying the remains.
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Noit
The bodies found in the Tripoli mass graves could be those who lost their lives when Tripoli was liberated.
Estimation was that around 1000 people were killed then.
Forbes
Libya fighters loot Gadhafi tribe, showing divide
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Aisha
Civilian safety key to ending #Libya mission: #NATO m.yahoo.com/w/news_america… #feb17
Khaled M
One of the 18 #Freezerbodies in #Tripoli has been identified as Mohammed Hisham Alhadher, an #NFSL member martyred in 84 #Libya
FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
GRAPHIC: 6mth old victim in Tripoli Hospital refrigerator for more than 26yrs. He was shot in right cheek #Libya pic.twitter.com/FIhb6zd6
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
A Martyr with the name Abdulla Fathi AlShiriksi is in AlJalaa hospital in #Benghazi but no one knows his family.if you do please help #Libya
Sarah
#EpicHelmet :) a Freedom Fighter today in #BaniWalid front. (AFP) – pic.twitter.com/8yU3sFWe