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SUMMARY OCTOBER 11th 2011

10/11/11
10.11.11

NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya –
goo.gl/XzRZy

Key Hits 10 OCTOBER:
In the vicinity of Bani Walid: 2 ammunition and vehicle storage facilities and 1 missile storage facility

UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Mon am: RAF aircraft dropped 7 Paveway bombs scoring direct hits & inflicting severe damage on Qadhafi’s forces’ missile depot nr Bani Walid

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
Back in #LIBYA. fourteen hours door to door from London to Tripoli hotel.

perfect journey to the Libyan border. Always so much easier flying from London City rather than Heathrow. Transit through Paris and Djerba

Border formalities no hassle, but on Libyan side traffic very slow. Checkpoints, surface water but more worryingly recent violence.

#LIBYA I am told attacks (including shelling) on western coastal highway have been occurring for more than a week.

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Member of Syrian National Council speaking to Libya Awalan now. Says he is very happy and proud to know #Libya 1st to recognize.

Reuters
Militia hands over Tripoli airport to government

Libya’s interim government took over the country’s main international airport from a group of regional fighters on Monday as part of its efforts to consolidate control over strategic infrastructure.

Read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/10/liby...

Reuters
Mountainous terrain hampering Gaddafi hunt: NTC

Mousa Alkoni, NTC representative for the nomadic Tuareg tribe, said the ousted leader might be moving around a “prism” of the country’s vast southern deserts that straddles Libya, Algeria and Niger.
“We fear that they may have taken refuge in this area as it’s well secured by the surrounding mountains and it used to be a refuge for Gaddafi troops in the past,” Alkoni said, speaking to reporters in Arabic through a translator.

Read more:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...

Xinhuanet
Refugees ask to return home as Libyan war approaches end
Some 100 refugees in Libya rallied in the capital Tripoli on Monday, demanding assistance from the ruling authorities to return home, as the violent domestic conflict seems to have entered its last stage.
The protesters, from Alawyneh in the Nafusa mountains in western Libya, said they were displaced in June as the area turned into a major front between fighters of the now ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) and the security forces of fallen leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Read more:
news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/20...

raggzeb raggz ‘e-b
For all the pain it’s given me, the bullet wound looks tiny.
twitpic.com/6yg93r

hominoid555 Russell
The cut looks really bad.

Hana S.
This is me getting myself warmed up for blog-sphere again (Visions of A Libyan: Um… Help ?)
The beginning of the end. Freedom of speech as we know it!
visionsofalibyan.blogspot.com/2011/10/u...

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Allah let us capture Gaddafi soon #libya #Feb17

Isa Libya recognition of SNC will have a snow ball effect. Can’t wait for day we recognise a transitional council for Russia & China

Bashar what you gonna now that Libya recognised SNC? Send us Shabeeha? Plz do & We’ll show them what Allahu Akabr really means #feb17#Syria

Allahu Akbar … It’s raining heavily in Sirte … Allahu Akbar #feb17

God is in the rain … Allahu Akbar #feb17 #libya #sirte

You Can’t VETO a REVOLUTION #Syria

My parents tell me the heavy rain this year reminds them of their youth before Gaddafi. Wow #feb17 #libya

Ameer
#Syria The second star in our flag now is for #Libya <3

Hamza Malek
youtube.com/watch?feature=… #Syrians demonstrating in #Tripoli #Libya. #Syria
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_em...

Wefaq Libya
SIRTE:
11 martyrs
6 wounded

Freedom Group
Misrata Commander Adel BenGhazzi confirms the arrest of Mohammed Omar Al-Gaddafi Al-Gahsi, commander of tank brigade, in Sirte. He is now in Misrata

Tarek
When #Gaddafi is finished for good, they will learn to live together, I’ve seen many signs already in #Tripoli, #Libya

Lisa
#feb17 Libyaaaaaaa! Happy happy day for my #Libyan friends! God bless you all :)

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
Opening of the Tripoli International Airport 10/10/2011. Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Dr. Anwar Fitouri & Ali Tarhouni #Libya
pic.twitter.com/bxzDMnsp

Pro-#Gaddafi’s caught in #Sirte today
yfrog.com/odn0aoj

yfrog.com/obed3plj

yfrog.com/nvi5pbej

yfrog.com/nyt7pghj

#FF playing the guitar while fighting goes on in #Sirte #libya
yfrog.com/h8r5kpwj

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Al-Ra’y reporting: ’ #NATO agents entered #Sirte from the east and desecrated homes.’

paulocoelho Paulo Coelho
Life is like Twitter. Follow. Unfollow. Block.

SMILE:
LibyanDictator فاطمة الزهراء
Those who think the US and EU have ‘taken control’ of #Libya probably know a lot about both, but they know nothing about Libyans.

#NTC said it believes #Gadhafi is hiding in the southwestern desert near the borders wth #Niger & #Algeria on.msnbc.com/oIP97k

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
#Gadaffi i know we dont have swimming pools in #Tripoli or #Libya but we really didnt ask for these kind !! youtube.com/watch?v=CGMT8U…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGMT8UsxTHg

Join this to show your support to our #NTC in #Libya www.facebook.com/help.Libya?sk=app_1068...

Tweeting Tripoli
Here he says tombs should be leveled to the ground:
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPw7DSN_QVw&fea...

Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Libyan Jew David Gerbi, will leave Tripoli tomorrow morning on a military plane headed to Italy " For the sake of a better Libya" He said

YESTERDAY:
HebaShi_Mub
eastern front Libya :
23 Martyrs today !
RIP Heroes FFSirte

Sarah
In #BaniWalid , #Gaddafi forces are burning people houses as almost all residents have left the city. #Libya

Fadwa
My distant cousin, Murad El-Feituri,martyred in Sirte.He said the Shahada 7 times b4 he passed away.#Libya #AllahuAkbar
pic.twitter.com/EcrBtByG

Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
Its a relief that the term “#Libya Forces” in media doesn’t refer any more to #Gaddafi forces. Blood has been paid to achieve this. #Feb17

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
I don’t think Mohammed Gaddafi knew how to run LTT, Libyana & Madar very well. It’s about time we got some real companies/competition #libya

I don’t want to complain because @LibyaTT have been nice enough to make internet free for now but we need to look to the future #libya

Freedom Group
From Bent El Moujehed Bargan
There will be a sit-in at 1:30pm, October 11, at the Ministry of health, which is located behind the hospital at Tripoli Medical Centre.
It is in support of the wounded fighters who are now dying as a result of a lack of interest, and not because they were martyred on the battlefield. It is as a result of the failure of the Ministry of Health with regard to provide even ambulances. The doctors and the relatives of the wounded will be there.
We appeal to all charities and institutions of civil society, together in solitary, to demand that the Ministry of Health that the Minister of Health to takes concrete measures that will satisfy the Libyan people who have sacrificed their sons in order to wrest freedom for their country. Or to resign and give the office to someone who is qualified for this position.
I hope you will spread this message.

Banks opened today in #Sabha city #Libya v @Fazzan17feb

LYForum Libyan Youth Forum
In your opinion, what are the main challenges that ‎#Libyan‏ youth face today? ما هي التحديات التي يواجهها الشباب الليبيون في الأيام الراهنة؟

freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
Essam Ali Shaibani is a fighter from Zawiya. He was wounded in Bani Walid and is being treated at the Oil…
fb.me/12hxbtvYc

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ce9Sm6ox-4

Musa Yakhlif Al-Akhrash is a fighter from Jadu. He was wounded in Bani Walid. He says that fighters were being… fb.me/13o8IRuSq
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a6Dkv9AIr0

Essam was wounded in his leg (bone) and his back by a mortar rocket. He was wounded in the morning between… fb.me/VKh34Aes
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLpmNbStYWE

The Freedom Group Daily is out!
bit.ly/fGJIFt

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
A wounded NTC fighter looks shocked as he waits at a field hospital in #Sirte to be taken to #Misrata
pic.twitter.com/azdE8q1x

A mobile operational command centre on the Southern frontline in #Sirte – my pic of the day #Libya
pic.twitter.com/TMcVISf8

Tweeting Tripoli
Clarification: This is not an “Action Man” soldier toy. :)
yfrog.com/me7uhrj

edward dark
thank you free #Libya, for recognizing the Syrian National Council – brother revolutionaries! other countries, your turn now #Syria

zaidbenjamin Zaid Benjamin
Ibrahim al-Dabbashi, #Libya ambassador to UN, commenting on his country’s recognition of #SyriaNC
Audio:
soundcloud.com/zaidbenjamin/ibrahim-al-...

evanchill Evan Hill
Very interesting story on #Libya coming today as NTC opens its finances for review. WSJ had a sneak peak:
ow.ly/6TmRA

Tarek
Empty bunkers inside #Khamis #Gaddafi 32 Brigade in #Tripoli, they are still intact. #Libya
twitpic.com/6xuq1b

Inside one of the empty bunkers at #Khamis 32 Brigade in #Tripoli, #Libya www.twitpic.com/6yfg39

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Angelina #Jolie will be arriving in #Misrata soon. #Libya

Source: Misrata al horra

A #Tunisian Organisation has sent 20 surgeons to sent to help dealing with the casualties in #Sirt. Thank you #Tunisia #Libya

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
10/10/2011: AJA:Eastern front of #Sirte #libya
youtube.com/watch?v=x18nqK…

or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x18nqK7OdjE&fea...

Yusuf Shakeer حلقة عشم الوطن للدكتور شاكير 10/10/2011 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToZEsEpb5s0

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
AFP: Libya’s NTC fighters seize police headquarters in #Gaddafi’s hometown of #Sirte. #libya

Mousa Koussa got a new Jordanian passport & is moving from #Qatar to Jordan. #libya

Open_Oil OpenOil
looking for #tripoli based media interested in discussing their coverage (future/current) of the #oil industry in #libya…get in touch!

SerajElalem Seraj Elalem
So… no sight of weapons in #Benghazi so far, I’ve been here for 5 days now.. still can hear random gun fire around twice a day

libyanproud libyanandproud
#BaniWalid: Gas price 1000LYD/car, Diapers=160LYD. #Feb17 #Libya

Sarah
Why are they broadcasting live from #Sirte just when I’m going to Uni. #NotFair

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Misrata: Reports that actress Angelina Jolie will be visiting the city today to entertain and speak to children #libya #feb17 #misrata

septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya NTC spend 1.2 Billion Dinars since march (of which 60 million dinars ($49 million) on defectors)
#Libya Rebels’ Books Detail Fighters’ Pay
on.wsj.com/ou89aD via @WSJ

fieldproducer Neal Mann
Telegraph journo c-bombs his News Editor on Twitter
tweets run on the Telegraph website
twitpic.com/6yi2o7

septimius_sever septimius severus
Great to see a journalist saying it like it is R. E. S. P. E. C. T. @robcrilly

Noit
Not surprised, editors rewrite a lot of stories to fit the editors message.
We have seen this regularly over the past 8 months.
I think it’s bigger than just the one paper, looks like an organized campain to me…….
Telegraph pulled the Telegraph’s website now.
There is nothing like an honest paper…………

fieldproducer Neal Mann
Hope Telegraph sensible over Rob Crilly. Seems like good reporter doing stressful job. Having copy ruined is frustrating

petersbeaumont peter beaumont
Misrata moment: hotel reception calls us a cab. Young guy arrives in a shot up technical explaining his taxi is being serviced.

Two audioboo’s:
Peter Beaumont in Sirte:
Listen here:
audioboo.fm/boos/500949-peter-beaumont-...

and:

Gaddafi fighters occupy only a small area in Sirte:
boo.fm/b500954
or:
audioboo.fm/boos/500954-gaddafi-fighter...

SMILE:
LibyaLiberty Hend Bashir Amry
@TunisianAmazigh Now use in a sentence: Gaddafi determines which outfit to wear based on which one makes him feel like a.. FERTATTU.

FreeBenghazi
FF dying due2 lack of basics like ambulances. PLS join sit-in by docs & FF families at Ministry of Health #Tripoli. 1:30pm,Oct11 #Libya

PLS SIGN & RT: Petition by YemeniYouth calling on Int’l community 2 support Yemen ppls’ legit demand 4 rights #Yemen www.change.org/petitions/its-time-to-pu...

Amin AlAkhrash(Jadu):Wounded in leg&back by mortar,BaniWalid(Oct10). Says most wounded by shrapnel,not gunfire #Libya
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLpmNbStYWE&NR=1

7yr old Saath Ibrahim lost both eyes when something she picked up outside her house, in #Ruwais, exploded #Libya
www.alwatan-libya.com/more.asp?ThisID=1...

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Libyans in Jordan have kicked out Pro Gaddafi employees from embassy. In past these employees prevented student & health funding#feb17

Only one third of frozen Libya assets pledged to be released by various countries have been released #feb17

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
Militia from Zintan hands over Tripoli airport to NTC government #Tripoli #Libya

Libya forces drive to centre of Kadhafi hometown

Libya’s new regime forces were battling block by block towards the centre of Sirte on Monday, eyeing the symbolic prize of finally capturing Moamer Kadhafi’s hometown after a month-long siege.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTa6O-zqUQw

AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libya will set up a committee to examine all past oil contracts to reveal the scale of corruption practiced by the previous regime

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
1 NTC fighter “I don’t think we can take #Sirte before 1 week it’s full of snipers 1 Gaddafi soldier told us they have 400” #Libya

inside #Sirte heavy shelling just now from NTC troops against city center dozens of pick-up advancing the house shaking #Libya

AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
RIM restores BlackBerry services day after outage. goo.gl/NOXyT #bbm

Aljazeera
After what is being described as “a fierce battle”, National Transitional Council fighters have advanced to the southern gate of Bani Walid, the stronghold of Muammar Gaddafi loyalists.
However, a lack of co-ordination led to a heavy toll, as many of the fighters were killed or seriously injured by those still loyal to deposed Libyan leader.
Now based out of the nearby town of Shameekh, the anti-Gaddafi forces say they will capture the northern Libyan city at any cost.

Al Jazeera’s Anu Nathan explains.

Video:
goo.gl/tjJA9

AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
#bbm service now restored in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, but complaints still coming in from the #UAE. #Alarabiya

Euronews
TRIPOLI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT BACK IN CIVILIAN HANDS

Tripoli’s international airport is back in the hands of Libya’s civilian authorities after a ribbon-cutting ceremony to formally mark the reopening of the terminal.
Revolutionary fighters had seized control of the airport a day before they captured the entire capital on August 23. Transitional government forces have now handed it back.
“After they liberated this important location, they are handing it over to the technical people who will now take care of organising flights from this important place,” said NTC Chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil

More and source:
www.euronews.net/2011/10/10/tripoli-int...

BBC
Stabilisation Unit: UK civilians working amid conflict

In his first interview, the UK’s stabilisation adviser in Libya has told BBC News the world must show “courageous restraint” and allow the country to choose its own future.
Publicly at least there are no British boots on the ground in Libya, but “suits” – civilians experts – have been there for months.

The UK also has civilians – lawyers, doctors, police officers – in a host of countries, including Bosnia, Georgia, Haiti and Afghanistan – all of them part of the government’s Stabilisation Unit.

Full story:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14763483

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#MITIGA; the silent witnesses to the unfolding Revolution #Caught in crossfire for 18 hrs Fall of #TRIPOLI
goo.gl/rsLcs #Libya

Syria Embassy demo was on Sept15 Tripoli I think Smurf meant he hadn’t seen any demo last few days
goo.gl/q6y47
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvO4zi1p3aI&fea...

#TRIPOLI AlFateh University: Students petition 4classes 2b Suspended till war is over many students Fight @Front
goo.gl/Q2sjd #Libya

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#NTC Spending Details Revealed #NTC spend approx 1.2 billion #Libya n dinars ($975 million) from March to end Sept
goo.gl/r3nRe #FT

#Matrough 73 #Egypt -ians were held for 4days and Fined 4 illegally trespassing border (without visa/workpermit) 2 go back 2 work in #Libya

Irish Times
Libyan-Irish commander resigns as deputy head of Tripoli military council

THE LIBYAN-IRISH commander who led the main anti-Gadafy brigade into Tripoli in August has resigned from his position as deputy head of the Tripoli Military Council. Mahdi al-Harati’s decision to step down from the council which had worked to establish control of the Libyan capital after it fell to revolutionary forces comes amid growing tensions over long-term security in the city.
The Tripoli Military Council is headed by the controversial Abdel Hakim Belhaj, a former leader of the now defunct Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, a militant organisation that posed the greatest threat to Col Gadafy in the 1990s.
Fighters from some revolutionary brigades, mostly those from outside Tripoli who have remained in the city since late August, say they are not willing to recognise the council or Mr Belhaj.

Read more:
www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011...

Guardian
Libya: Sirte battle flushes out pro-Gaddafi fighters
Once-feared fighters are revealed as frightened ordinary men, who now want only to survive by surrendering, or hiding.
The stories of some of those inside Ibn Sana hospital in Sirte do not add up. Hamad Ashrak Ali from Sudan is lying on a bed in the hospital’s basement. He shows us his wound before explaining the circumstances of it. He has been shot through the side. The bullet exited through one buttock – the wound is becoming septic.
Read more and watch video:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/11/li...

Sky news
‘Dogfight’ For Heart Of Gaddafi Stronghold
Libya’s interim government forces are preparing to push into the heart of Colonel Gaddafi’s home town where 1,000 loyalists may be holed up.
Art. and video:
news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16...

malonebarry Barry Malone
#Libya’s NTC says to investigate corrupt Gaddafi-era oil contracts and publish results. A lot of rich men now need a change of underwear..

20arb11 Souffian Tripoli
Free Libya Daily is out! bit.ly/kgc2jf ▸ Top stories today

Afriquejet
News-Libya: ’Libya’s NTC forces control most of Sirte’

Tripoli, Libya – Fighters of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) now control 80 per cent of the city of Sirte, after days of heavy fighting, military sources said. Sirte, which is located 450 km East of Tripoli, is one of the last remaining strongholds of forces loyal to former Libyan leader Mouammar Kadhafi.

The NTC fighters have taken over many parts of the city, including the University of Attahadi and the University Hospital of Ibn Cinna, despite fierce resistance by Kadhafi forces.

In another development, at the Beni Walid front, 180 km South-East of Tripoli, the NTC forces have abandoned the city’s airport – which they took on Sunday – because

of a counter-attack launched by the loyalist soldiers.

However, the NTC forces have taken two more neighbouring cities of Beni Walid – Cinemay and Chemikh.
Source:
www.afriquejet.com/news-libya-libyas-nt...

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA National Transitional Council have published their accounts online – they say to show complete transparency.

malonebarry Barry Malone
Big Tripoli news conference on Gaddafi whereabouts involved lots of maps and discussion to tell us this: They don’t have the foggiest #Libya

NTC says closing in on Gaddafi son Mo’tassim in “Dollar” area of Sirte where he is heavily protected by loyalists #Libya

Despertar Dominicano
Libia: combatientes del CNT prosiguen su avance, controlan 90% de Sirte
SIRTE, Libia (AFP).- Las fuerzas del nuevo régimen libio, determinadas a tomar rápidamente el control de Sirte, principal feudo de los últimos hombres fieles a Muamar Gadafi, continuaron el lunes su avance, un día después de la conquista de la universidad y del centro de conferencias Uagadugú.
“Los revolucionarios están a menos de un kilómetro de la plaza central. Controlamos cerca de 90% de Sirte. Los combates se desarrollan en una superficie de pocos kilómetros cuadrados solamente”, declaró Majluf el Ferjani, miembro del Consejo militar de Sirte.

Los combates de los últimos días han causado cerca de 70 muertos y centenares de heridos entre los combatientes del Consejo Nacional de Transición (CNT), entre ellos al menos 17 muertos y más de un centenar de heridos este lunes, según el personal de los hospitales de campaña establecidos al este y el oeste de la ciudad.
En el frente este de la ciudad, los pro-CNT progresaron lentamente el lunes en dirección del centro, de manera desordenada, bajo el fuego de los bombardeos de artillería pesada y de numerosos tiradores emboscados, según un periodista de la AFP.
Read more here:
Source:
www.despertardominicano.com/noticias/no...

NYT
Anti-Qaddafi Fighters Face Stiff Resistance in Surt

From the windows of an apartment overlooking this seaside town, a commander peered through binoculars and yelled orders into a walkie-talkie, directing fire at a white building in the distance flying Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s green flag.
The commander, who called himself Rake, said he was helping to coordinate a multipronged attack on the colonel’s loyalists, who still control a large swath of central Surt weeks after the anti-Qaddafi fighters launched an attack to capture the town.

Read more:
www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/world/africa...

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
News that #Mostafa #Abduljaleel will be making a visit to #Sirt today #Libya

Libya alahrar Reporter In sirt confirms that Al Motasem Gadaffy is in #Sirt #Libya

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
#FFs from Dara’a (درعا)Battalion in #BaniWalid
yfrog.com/oe32609489j

Mustafa Abduljaleel fera une visite à #Syrte aujourd’hui. #libya

Brilliant idea:
finriswolf
We need to get Guitar Playing Soldier together with ’OHMYGOD #Gadaffi Hat guy along with Epic Beard Man and form a #FF band. #Sirte #Libya

11/10/2011: Fighting in #Sirte #libya
yfrog.com/mentkbvj
yfrog.com/khv32wij
yfrog.com/ocnagrj
yfrog.com/nz4jcgfj

Heba
Belhaj on Aljazeera:
Belhaj : Tripoli’s military council is now in charge of BaniWaleed front .
what Belhaj said was that Tripoli council will have a BIGGER role in Baniwaleed & Uniting efforts of city’s FF &other fighters
he was on Aljazeera just now, said that council commanders r headed there to handle the situation the best way possible

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Abdelhakim Belhadj on AJA now

Belhadj AJA: Gaddafi forces are living in chaos and our brave FF are advancing on all fronts in Bani Walid and Sirte

Belhadj AJA: We as a Tripoli Military Council will be helping FF at #BaniWalid front over the coming days and will send them reinforcements

Belhadj AJA: We will be helping with the reorganization of all FF at the #BaniWalid front to make sure that the city is liberated quickly

Belhadj AJA: A new executive committee is being formed in #Tripoli to command all local FF in the city and to keep it secure

septimius_sever septimius severus
Seriously, its called in-flight entertainment NOT in-fight entertainment!! #epiclibyanman is.gd/ytdyjp #Libya

Nachrichten RP
Deutschland hilft Kriegsopfern aus Libyen

Die Bundesregierung will mehr verletzte Kriegsopfer aus Libyen zur medizinischen Versorgung nach Deutschland holen. Ein Außenamtssprecher sagte, dass Verwundeten “schnell und unbürokratisch dringend benötigte Hilfe” geleistet werden solle. In der libyschen Hauptstadt Tripolis, in Tunis und Kairo werden Visa ausgegeben. Die Revolutionstruppen in Libyen meldeten bei ihrem Vormarsch auf die Stadt Sirte weitere Geländegewinne.

Source:
nachrichten.rp-online.de/politik/deutsc...

Fighting in Sirte is the most intense urban warfare that Peter Beaumont has ever witnessed #Libya
Audioboo:
audioboo.fm/boos/501142-fighting-in-sir...

malonebarry Barry Malone
Sean Penn, Angelina Jolie. #Libya is the new black.

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Ammun News: Gaddafi’s #Libya Spy Chief, Musa #Kusa has obtained a Jordanian passport and is moving to #Amman from #Qatar

AJA:
Images from inside Ouagadougou Hall, #Sirte.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x71XdOCRqNM

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Al-Ra’y TV are reporting that Gaddafi Loyalists have taken back ‘all the ground’ they lost in #Sirte. (no evidence on ground for this claim)

MariaGolovnina Maria Golovnina
Gaddafi loyalists in a pretty sorry state…emaciated, exhausted, defeated looking guys being driven out of (sirte).
guardian.co.uk/world/middleea…

Guardian
Libya: the battle for Sirte continues – live updates
Moussa Koussa, Muammar Gaddafi’s former foreign minister, intelligence chief and high-level defector, is about to move to Jordan after being spurned by Libya’s rebel government, according to reports, writes Ian Black.
According to al-Arab al-Youm, Koussa has been given a Jordanian passport. He had been living in a hotel in the Qatari capital Doha after fleeing Libya for Britain in March.

Local commanders say Gaddafi loyalists are holed up in a neighbourhood known as “Dollar” and another called al-Shabiya, their forces weakened after nearly two months under siege and near-constant bombardment by Nato-backed NTC forces.

Gaddafi loyalists are putting up less resistance and the city appears on the brink of falling, according to our correspondent in the city. Most of key buildings in the city have been seized by forces loyal to the new government, Peter Beaumont reports

“It is in the centre that the advance seems to be taking place at the moment,” Peter Beaumont reports from central Sirte after visiting four locations on the front line.

PLEASE RT: do any one knows anything about @tripolinights ? he is #missing and I would like to collect any info to locate him. Thanks.

NATO and Libya – Press Briefing, 11 October 2011, Part 1/2

On Tuesday 11 October, Oana Lungescu, the NATO spokesperson, briefed the press on events concerning Libya. She was joined by Colonel Roland Lavoie, Operation ‘’Unified Protector’’ (OUP) military spokesperson, who will brief by videoconference from Naples on NATO’s operation in Libya in support of UNSCR 1973.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycHAAbTxt4c&fea...

Reuters
Libya forces say closing in on Gaddafi’s son
SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan government forces said on Tuesday they believed they had one of Muammar Gaddafi’s sons cornered in the centre of the deposed leader’s home town, but determined resistance was keeping them at bay.
After weeks of fighting, forces of the National Transitional Council (NTC) have taken most of Sirte and driven Gaddafi loyalists into two neighbourhoods in the north of the city.

Full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTR...

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FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
Fall of #Sirte will mark an “iconic” moment in #Libya but it will NOT spell the end of NATO’s air campaign

NATO CHANNEL
Libya: The Search For The Missing.
Every day people arrive at associations and committees filing documents in the hope of finding their friends and relatives. A task that seems quite hopeless at the moment given the facilities in place to carry out the demand.
Video:
www.natochannel.tv

IIP DIGITAL
Panetta Details Guidelines for Ending Libya Mission

Consensus exists among NATO members about how to decide when to end Operation Unified Protector in Libya, based on guidelines that can be used to evaluate conditions on the ground there, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said today.
At his final press conference of the Oct. 5-6 NATO defense ministerial here, Panetta listed the four guidelines, which ask the following questions:
• What happens in Sirte? This is the hometown of former Libyan leader Muamar Gadhafi and heavy fighting is underway there.
• Does the Gadhafi regime maintain the capability to attack civilians?
• Does Gadhafi maintain command capability with his regime’s remaining forces?
• Are opposition forces able to provide security and confront challenges that may arise?

Read more here:
iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/art...

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#ArabSpring >Any country can secure human rights implement political and economic reform and establish better future for their ppl #Libya

#Sirte Gaddafi forces mostly concentrated in DollarArea where Mu’atassim is said 2b and in al-Shabiya are being pushed toward the sea #Libya

Guardian
Libya: gun battles continue in Sirte – video

Pro-Gaddafi fighters continue to resist National Transitional Council forces, who parade men they accuse of supporting the ousted leader in his birthplace. Meanwhile, a local hospital surgeon tells of a lack of resources and of the struggle to cope with the numbers of injured people in the city of 75,000 inhabitants

Video:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011/oct...

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#Sirte NTC fighters found building that leads down into a large maze of reinforced tunnels with conference rooms and air conditioning #Libya

#SIRTE will be a while yet before #NTC controls #Sirte City is Teeming with Snipers Captured Gaddafi men say atleast 400 on the loose #Libya

#Sirte Freedom Fighters captured the Police Head quarters in #Sirte today #Libya #NTC

Noticiero Digital
Libia: Los rebeldes capturan a un general gadafista en el centro de Sirte
Las fuerzas del Consejo Nacional Transitorio (CNT) de Libia han capturado hoy a un general gadafista en el centro de Sirte, la ciudad natal de Muamar al Gadafi, indicaron a Efe fuentes de la insurrección.
El general, identificado como Mohamed Omar Gadafi El Gohsi y presentado como miembro de la familia del líder libio huido, dirigía un batallón de blindados, según las fuentes
Su captura tuvo lugar en el centro de la ciudad, durante la incursión de un escuadrón rebelde para localizar las posiciones de elementos fieles al antiguo régimen.
Full story:
www.noticierodigital.com/2011/10/libia-...

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#TRIPOLI 1 NTC fighter Fired @ crowd Killing 1 wounding another during a meeting of Libyan national army Brigades He was Arrested #Libya

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#Sirte Have a Good #Laugh : THIS; goo.gl/jl3Ww is the “NEWS” the PRO Gaddafi Supporters are reading #Libya

khalidkhan787 Khalid Khan
Dead body of rebel killed near police headquarters
twitpic.com/6yrz2m

twitpic.com/6yrz41

twitpic.com/6yrz61 Sirte Libya

#Reminder —Major Twitter Reset After Thousands Of Accounts Hijacked: bit.ly/qocWOj

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
#FF’s in #Sirt have managed to square the #Gadaffi loyalists in our area called the “Dollar” which is about 3km2 #Libya

Guys.We really dont care where #Gadaffi could be.If you think he is there then go and get him.We Want him not his whereabouts!!

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA #NTC Chair Mustafa Abdel Jalil has condemned recent attacks on mosques and shrines. “such acts not in the interests of revolution.”

#LIBYA i visited one place that was attacked. Bodies of two clerics were exhumed and taken away, books burned. Witnesses blame militia men.

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
these r from #Sirte tday
yfrog.com/hsvrtflsj

yfrog.com/obo92nmj

yfrog.com/ny96ziqj

yfrog.com/h8y6zqpnj

yfrog.com/nxw6duxj

Aljazeera
NTC fighters have breached the last line of Gaddafis loyalist defence in Sirte

TheyCallMeSof Sofyan Amry
Thank God for Aljazeera

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#Tripoli official; Whoever provides money is going 2control Tripoli militias and it obviously wasn’t the #NTC ;
goo.gl/r3nRe #Libya

NTC Provided money 4medical treatment Food 4Front Supporting families of those killed or wounded 21.6 million Dinars went to such aid #Libya

20arb11 Souffian Tripoli
Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا” goo.gl/aM65o

BentBenghazi G
Al-Ra’y TV is just as credible as #GaddafiStateTV ;) ITSALLBS

Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
" Tripoli International Airport officially reopens, flights to resume soon. NTC to meet with NATO to partially remove no fly-zone " #Libya

Sky News
‘Final Onslaught’ On Gaddafi’s Home Town
Anti-Gaddafi forces have been pushing further into the ousted dictator’s home town of Sirte, according to Sky’s Alex Rossi at the scene.
Fighters loyal to the National Transitional Council have reached residential areas in the centre of Sirte.
They have also seized the police headquarters without much of a fight.
But Gaddafi loyalists continue to be holed up in the heart of the town.
Rossi said he followed behind a digger as it smashed down a perimeter wall.

news.sky.com/home/article/16087088

Reuters
U.S.-based oil services company Schlumberger will be returning to Libya shortly said chairman Andrew Gould, speaking on the sidelines of the Oil & Money Conference in London on Tuesday. “We will be back working in Libya to some extent in October,” he said. Schlumberger supports other companies working in the oil and gas industry by supplying technology and project management services for activities such as drilling and well cementing.

NOC
Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) said it will give priority to sending crude oil to domestic refineries in the early stage of ramping up production and has no immediate plans to export crude oil from ports other than Tobruk. “This is the plan: priority will be given to our refineries to satisfy local demand and if something is left we will export it,” said a senior source in the NOC.

Reuters OIL
Libya will set up a committee to examine all past oil contracts to reveal the scale of corruption practised by the previous regime, Libya’s oil and finance minister Ali

Tarhouni said. “The committee will scrutinise all contracts and projects to provide a view of the size of the corrupt dealing and all that emerges will be investigated and published,” Tarhouni told a news conference.

Aljazeera BANI WALID
After what is being described as “a fierce battle”, National Transitional Council fighters have advanced to the southern gate of Bani Walid, the stronghold of Muammar Gaddafi loyalists. However, a lack of co-ordination led to a heavy toll, as many of the fighters were killed or seriously injured by those still loyal to deposed Libyan leader.Now based out of the nearby town of Shameekh, the anti-Gaddafi forces say they will capture the northern Libyan city at any cost.

Canada
Canada’s foreign minister John Bairdis is in Libya meeting with Mustafa Abdel Jalil in Tripoli. Canada is committing $10 million to help Libya recover and secure all arms stockpiles, including Gaddafi’s unaccounted for weapons of mass destruction. The money will also help the country’s new leaders with their efforts to hold elections and establish democracy, as well as assist Libya’s civil society and women’s groups. This is Bairdis’ second trip to Libya

Reuters SIRTE
Libyan government forces said they believed they had one of Muammar Gaddafi’s sons cornered in the centre of the deposed leader’s home town, but determined resistance was keeping them at bay. After weeks of fighting, forces of the National Transitional Council (NTC) have taken most of Sirte and driven Gaddafi loyalists into two neighbourhoods in the north of the city.

WSJ
Libyan Rebels’ Books Detail Their Fighters’ Pay
Libya’s ruling rebel National Transitional Council, opening its books to try to fight questions over its legitimacy and allegations of corruption, revealed how little funding passed through its hands to the militia forces that helped depose Col. Moammar Gadhafi.
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970...

20arb11 Souffian Tripoli
Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا” goo.gl/aM65o

DougSaunders Doug Saunders
So @robcrilly made the UK papers for his Twitter contretemps with the editor… which reached 2 million readers via web is.gd/7Ntu3O

Before you believe what the media tells you, read the article below:
This is what is happening to the “free press”.
Stories from on the ground journos are being TWISTED (beyond recognition) by others and sold to you, the reader as “news”.
We are, and have been, seeing this on a daily basis. This doesn’t only happen in dictatorships anymore…….
Motto: readers beware and find out the real truth for yourself!

London Evening Standard
Reporter’s Twitter rant to 2 million readers: Boss screwed me over story
The number one unwritten rule of the office is: if you feel like screaming at your boss, take a deep breath and walk away.
But freelance journalist Rob Crilly broadcast his distress to millions when he complained about his line manager on Twitter.

The Cambridge-educated journalist, who is based in Pakistan and writes for the Daily Telegraph, was livid at the rewording of an article he wrote on the Libyan civil war. He then tweeted his anger, saying: “Hate being a freelancer when you’ve just got to suck it up.”

However, his incendiary comments were not just transmitted to his 7,800 Twitter followers – they were also published on the Telegraph website which is read by more than two million people every day. The newspaper uses automatic feeds of reporters’ tweets as content for its online publication.
Last night, readers of the website could see Crilly’s comments next to his piece titled: “Libya: rebel fighters push on as battle for Sirte looms.”
Initially, he complained directly to Daily Telegraph editor Tony Gallagher about his foreign news chief. He tweeted: “Neville Dean has twisted my copy beyond all recognition.”
Crilly added: “I’ve just told the editor about his foreign news editor and how he screwed me on a story. Think I’ll be sacked.” Crilly, 38, then told his followers: “I said NTC (National Transitional Council) hadn’t decided policy. Neville Dean rewrote that new Libyan govt had refused to work with western gov.”
Becoming increasingly agitated, the foreign correspondent, who is an expert on Darfur, appeared to lose all semblance of control and tweeted: “Neville Dean is a c***.”
In another Twitter gaffe, Chris Huhne revealed himself as the source behind a story that undermined Home Secretary Theresa May. He accidentally published a private message using the micro-blogging website.
The Telegraph had not commented by the time the Standard went to press.
Source:
www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article...

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Today would come to a beautiful ending if we saw #Gadaffi’s son #Moatassim on all the TV channels being arrested #Libya

Bloomberg
Libya Fighters Set to Gain Full Control Over Sirte, Nato Says

Libyan fighters advanced to the center of Sirte, Muammar Qaddafi’s hometown, pushing out forces loyal to the former leader, North Atlantic Treaty Organization spokesman Colonel Roland Lavoie said.
“Qaddafi forces have been dislodged from the university, the conference center and the main hospital,” Lavoie told reporters today via video link from the mission’s headquarters in Naples, Italy. “They have lost key positions and cannot effectively control the city or be reinforced or resupplied.”

Read more:
www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-11/li...

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
11 Oct: #FFs firing heavy machine gun in #Sirte #Libya
yfrog.com/nyjt1gdj

Angelina Jolie visits #Libya
goo.gl/RI154

ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Libya to investigate #Gaddafi era oil deals. #Tarhouni to delve deep into corruption web
yhoo.it/rdNiw4

Telegraph
Libyan fighters seize Gaddafi’s luxury cars in Sirte
Fighters loyal to Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) show off a pair of convertibles believed to have belonged to deposed leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi
NTC fighters claim they found the white two-seat open top vehicles during the push into Col Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte.
“They used to use these cars to travel with African presidents that he used to buy with his money. Thank God we defeated him and we took the cars and God willing we’ll be able to get his head,” an NTC fighter said.
More and video:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...

BBC_WHYS World Have Your Say
We’ll also be hearing from British singer-songwriter and activist @billybragg, and Libyan American rapper @thisisKhaledM at 17GMT!

KhadijaMAli Khadija Ali
Salams back. He is in Tripoli right now.

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
The rope is getting tighter round ur neck #Moatssim #Gadaffi.What are you going to do now? #Libya

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
by MatogSaleh
A little boy crying over his father who martyred #Sirte #libya. الله يرحمه yfrog.com/nxrnaozj

Free Libya ♔☾✰
abduljalil doesnt wanna be president but alot of ppl would like to see him just for a yr or so till kel 7aga is back

Khadija Ali
The Tripoli Post is going to start publishing next Saturday. Anyone interested in having their work published? #Libya

Sarah
#AJA – Les Thuwars ont annoncé avoir terminé leurs préparatifs pour lancer une nouvelle attaque sur les forces de G à #BaniWalid. #Libye

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
NTC Funded Suraya al-Thuwar Shortly after they formed the militias received 2 one-time cash transfers total 696,000 dinars ($565,000) #Libya

Mushu
Oh Allah, please keep our #Freedomfighters safe, and make them victorious. #Libya #Syria #Yemen

Oh Allah, we have many martyrs, please have mercy on their souls. Oh Allah, we have many wounded, please heal them. #Libya #Yemen #Syria

Oh Allah, we have only You, please keep our intentions pure and guide us to the path that leads us to You. #Libya #Syria #Yemen

USAmbNATO Ivo Daalder
Just met with 10 journalists visiting #NATO from Arab countries discussed #Libya, partnerships, other issues.

My msg to journalists from #NorthAfrica and the #MiddleEast at #NATO today: Time is right to reinvigorate security dialogue.

Just hit 4,000 followers. Thanks to all of you. How long will it take to hit 5,000?

BentBenghazi G
I love how our freedom fighters kept their promise to #Gaddafi… Insha’Allah soon #Sirte will be theirs. #libya #feb17

LibyaLiberty Hend Bashir Amry
Jolie: “Libya..challenges of refugees,rule of law,security, sanitation,education,health,& humanitarian needs”. That was pre #Feb17 too…

TheyCallMeSof Sofyan Amry
“I can almost see the sea from here, and thats the G forces only way out! SWEET!
Aljazeera video:
j.mp/oWEYA5 #Feb17 #Libya #Sirte

bucketofsoda from Poland
Bad boys, boys what you gonna do what you gonna do when they come for you… ;) Great news!

Danya B Mohammed
#BBC is doing a program on artists who supported the Libyan uprising..if U or some1 U know has done something plz tweet me:) viva #FREELIBYA

PeterBiles Peter Biles
#Libya. NATO spokeswoman tells BBC World the end is near in #Sirte but fighting still ongoing

ksnavarra:
Libya boy from #Misurata receiving treatment in #Malta hospital dies of injuries. Body flown back home today”RT

Defence News
Sirte’s Fall Won’t End NATO Mission: Official
BRUSSELS – The fall of Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte will mark an “iconic” moment in Libya, but it will not spell the end of NATO’s air campaign, the alliance’s top military officer told AFP on Oct. 11.
Adm. Giampaolo Di Paola, head of the NATO military committee, said Gadhafi loyalists were like a “cornered beast” as the new regime forces took control of key

positions in the coastal town.

“When the ferocious beast is cornered, she will fight until the end,” Di Paola said in an interview at NATO headquarters. “On the one hand, yes, I am surprised by their capacity to resist but, on the other hand, they have no other choice.”

The Italian admiral said NTC victory in Sirte “will be an iconic moment” but that NATO will only end the mission once civilians are definitely out of harm’s way and the NTC is capable of keeping the whole country safe.
“The fall of Sirte is an important element, but like any decision, it will not be the only factor,” he said.
Di Paola said any decision to end Operation Unified Protector will be taken in concert with the NTC and the United Nations, which provided the mandate for the air war that started in March.
Full art.:
goo.gl/FGjDD

Feb17
Video: Battle for Sirte rages on
National Transitional Council forces bombard Sirte after weeks of trying to capture one of the last remaining pockets of loyalist control. NTC commanders say they’re using light weapons, but government tanks and pickup trucks line the road mounted with rockets.
Video:
feb17.info/media/video-battle-for-sirte...

ICRC
Libya: situation desperate in Sirte hospital

On 10 and 11 October, staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) evacuated a total of 25 war-wounded and other patients from Ibn Sina Hospital in Sirte. The patients had been left with only a few health-care personnel to care for them following fierce fighting in recent days.
“The situation inside the hospital is very chaotic and distressing,” said Patrick Schwaerzler, the ICRC delegate in charge of the evacuations. “When we arrived there, we found patients with severe burns and shrapnel wounds. Some had sustained recent amputations. A few were half-conscious. They were lying among crowds of other people who were also asking us for help.”
The hospital has been partly destroyed and is not functional any more. It was urgent to move out wounded patients requiring intensive care or specialized treatment. “Today we even brought out a newborn baby in its incubator,” said Mr Schwaerzler.
Full news release:
www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/ne...

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Does Mustafa #Abduljaleel’s visit to #Sirt mean that the new government can now be announced? #Libya

Tripolitanian Libyan
The #NTC health minister is pathetic and disgusting.
Fire Naji Barakat now!

CS Monitor
Libya’s interim leader predicts Sirte victory by end of week
A Sirte victory would end the protracted battle for Qaddafi’s hometown and allow a new government to be established. Delay could increase the likelihood of rifts in Libya’s future leadership.
Source:
www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-secur...

bint_tarhouna Free Libya
I advice all Gaddafi goons in Sirte to go jump in the sea……..and the goons in Bani Walid…..well they’re sc****d. #Stranded #NoWayOut

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
#Angelina #Jolie is in #Misrata? Who fancies betting on her adopting another kid by tomorrow? #Libya

libyanproud libyanandproud
Mohamed #Gaddafi got allot of SMS no emails on phone :(

Fadwa
I was right infront of the Kateeba, I saw almost everything. When the shabab first broke into the kateeba
they brought out a framed picture of G & smashed it 2 the floor then stepped on it. WOW that was 1 great moment

VIDEO:
Mustafa Abdul Jalil from the center of the Sirte 18:18 PM مصطفى عبد الجليل من وسط سرت الساعه 18:18
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahCSEVL6yTg&feature=feedu www.libyauprisingarchive.com/sirte.html

QuickMichael
Fascinating!Even at the 11th hour, the Gaddafi regime is churning out propaganda. #Sirte #Libya

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#Reuters: Head of Libya’s National Transitional Council #Jalil visits Gaddafi’s hometown of #Sirte

#BREAKING RT @ChangeInLibya Abdul jalil live on #aljazeera visiting the sirte FF!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #Libya

#NOW : #Gaddafi Goons must be Crying in their helmets now #NTC Head Abdul Jalil is in #SIRTE live on AJA #Libya

Now tweeting from #SIRTE Read timeline of @petersbeaumont : #NTC forces making Rapid Advances in the centre of the city #Libya

petersbeaumont peter beaumont
NTC forces making rapid advances in the centre of the city. Resistance becoming less and less. Seeing more pro-Gaddafi forces surrender

Some houses had large weapons caches. Saw suitcase full of ammo. Six to seven weapons. Not all prisoners being treated properly

Some incredible large bunker systems with tunnels leading under the city of Sirte

After talk of no food saw four yellow warehouses piled to ceiling with flour, canned tomatoes. If civs had no food because not distributed

Twitter silence for last few days due to complex and exhausting nature of working in Sirte. Level of destruction in some areas intense

Hoping battle for Sirte now nearly at an end. Losses lessening and sense of optimism among NTC fighters

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
Mustafa AbdulJaleel, Chairman of the National Transitional Council in #Sirte. #Libya pic.twitter.com/SusZqAfL

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
el jefe del CNT libio Mustafa Albel Jalil visita #Sirte llegó hace una hora a un hospital de campaña situación cerca de la ciudad #Libia

interesting conversation today with a pro-Gaddafi doctor: “he is our father and they will fight until the last drop of blood” #Sirte #Libya

pro Gaddafi doctor in #Sirte: “most of the fighters inside are civilians defending their houses many from Area 2” #Libya

pro Gaddafi doctor: “we used to call Area 2 Colombia they only smoked hashish now we are proud of how they are resisting” #Sirte

pro Gaddafi doctor use religious argument to attack NTC followers: “they ask for support from infidels that is haram” #Sirte #Libya

pro Gaddafi doctor: “this is only the beginning of hell we will have a civil war for 20 years” #Sirte #Libya

malonebarry Barry Malone
Jalil, in Sirte, says NTC fighters still need two more days to fully control it #Libya

Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Ongoing clashes between pro-Gaddafi forces and rebels South of Sabha after a protest in support of Gaddafi waving green flags. #Libya

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Yesterday we heard them say"The Libyans fight like Heroes" But now its changed to “Heroes fight like Libyans”. Proud to be Libyan :)

The area in #Sirt that goes by the name “Dollar” has now been freed by the #FF and they say that the City will be free by tonight #Libya

#FF’s that freed the “Dollar” area are helping families out of the area so that they can search for any #Gadaffi Loyalists. #Libya

Total CEO Sees #Libya Oil Comeback Quicker Than Expected | Fox Business www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/10/11/... via @foxbusiness

HebaShi_Mub HebaShi Mub
Angelina Jolie in #Libya . lol #5alas ya =)) #lmao @ someone said we should do a headcount of the kids here when she’s gone

#Sirte will be liberated in hours since ajazeera reporter AbdulAzeem Mohammed is there. #FF’s #GoodLuckCharm #ProvenTrue ;p

malonebarry Barry Malone
Mustafa Abdel Jalil in Sirte standing on the back of a truck as fighters shout “Libya! #Libya!” and fire in the air

Khadija Ali
Any body watch LibyaTV last night? They said that people in al-Hadba and AbuSleem went out in a pro-Gaddafi demo.
FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#Sirte NTC fighters found building that leads down into a large maze of reinforced tunnels with conference rooms and air conditioning #Libya

ceoDanya:
’Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.; Abraham Lincoln”

Sarah
We can hear the Libyan anthem while #AJA reporter in speaking live from #Sirte :’) #Libya

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Is trying to figure out the reason behind Mustafa #Abduljaleel’s visit to #Sirt. There is something behind it.What am i missing?

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
Shurouq visiting injured #FFs in #Benghazi hospital #Libya pic.twitter.com/6S28FRey

#TwoThingsThatDontMix: Arab rulers & freedom. #Syria #libya #Yemen

omar almukhtar showed true courage and was a real man facin battle and fightin..but wheres gaddafi now ??

HebaShi_Mub HebaShi Mub
just heard the news that pilgrims from #Libya still not Approved & not allowed to come ! #SaudiArabia . what’s the deal #Tal3mrk ?

Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
#CNN Video: By: @NicRobertsonCNN Libyan Jew returns to anti-Semitism edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/… “Gerbi left Libya today to Italy”

#AJA –
The Freedom Fighters said they had completed their preparations to launch a new attack on #Gaddafi forces in #BaniWalid. #Libya

Sarah
What a beautiful scene :’) – M.AbdelJelil interviewed in #Sirte by Mohamed AbdelAdheem. <3 In your face #Gaddafi. #Libya #AllahuAkbar

AJA:
NTC Fighters breach Gaddafi forces last line of defence in Sirte 16.10GMT 11/10/2011 …Allahu Akbar #feb17 #libya
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_em...

libyanproud libyanandproud
Photo: The SMS notifying Mohamed #Gaddafi that his loyal servant switched off the Internet in all of #Libya . #Feb17
twitpic.com/6yv44e

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Look at this, Gaddafi and weep. Abdul Jalil is with the FF at the front lines :) may god bless him and protect him

Alweddani
Abdul #Jalil Visits #Gaddafi’s hometown of #Sirte … Just an AMAZING person.

Libyan4life
Mustafa AbdelJalil in #Sirte #Libya #Feb17
twitpic.com/6yufy9

petersbeaumont peter beaumont
Just blocked an unpleasant Gaddafi supported called @Vroom7777 who hoped i would die covering Sirte battles!

John smith
While Gaddafi hides in a bunker, Interim leader Jalil visits the troops in Sirte. #libya

libyanproud libyanandproud
After looking through 2 of #Gaddafi children phones, conclusion: people that kissed their ass are the ppl that made them believe they win

AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Head of Libya’s NTC visits battle-torn city of #Sirte: Reuters witness #Libya english.alarabiya.net

AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libyan Capital Museum Reopens
alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… Video #Libya #NTC

Axolotl
@riskability No end to your lies. I suppose when G is hanging from a rope, you will say he is making a tactical retreat to Paradise? #libya

bint_tarhouna Free Libya
Another lovely looking charity bazaar! At the Faculty of Sciences, Tripoli University. goo.gl/QGICc #Libya <3 via @OnlyLibyaa

Khadija Ali
There will be a demonstration on Friday in Tajoura calling on the TNC to pay more attention to the thuwar. #Libya

Sheikh Sadeq al-Gheriani says that the reason Liberation has taken so long is coz the TNC didn’t meet the demands of the thuwar.

malonebarry Barry Malone
#Libya’s main airport to reopen within month: NTC I Reuters af.reuters.com/article/commod…

ArmchairArab Armchair Arab
Liberation of #Sirte will provide important physiological boost for libyans, finally connecting the free west and east. #Feb17 #Libya

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Im not being greedy but i really want a personalised Number Plate in #Libya (( 17-02-2011 ))

karlaokane
#Sirte advancing fighters had found a lot of discarded weapons and uniforms and caught a number of black Libyans w/said they were civilians

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
VIDEO- Mustafa AbdulJalil in #Sirte #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahCSEVL6yTg

I ♥ Mustafa AbdulJalil!

libyanproud libyanandproud
SMS from Aysha #Gaddafi to Mohamed #Gaddafi making fun of #mubarak on the 11th of February 2011. #Libya #Feb17
twitpic.com/6yvl73

Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
#CNN NTC fighters, pro-Gadhafi holdouts slug it out in Sirte edition.cnn.com/2011/10/11/wor… #Libya " Tripoli airport reopens"

Aljazeera
Libya fighters ‘punch through Sirte defences’
Al Jazeera’s frontline correspondent says NTC fighters have made a major breakthrough in battle for Gaddafi’s hometown.
National Transitional Council (NTC) forces have made a breakthrough in their campaign to capture Sirte, the hometown of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi that has become the key battleground in their final push to control the country.
Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley, reporting from close to the frontline on Tuesday afternoon, said that fighters had “punched through the last line of defence”, a wall surrounding the heart of the city, and were within 200 metres of the centre.
The fighters had so far encountered light resistance and suffered no casualties but the fighting ahead was much more intense, our correspondent said.

Read more and video:
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...

MalikAlAbdeh Malik Al-Abdeh
On #BaradaTV: Juma’a Gumati, spokesman for Libyan NTC in UK, says #Libya will support Syrian revolutionaries & #SNC in any way they can.

RasmusTantholdt Rasmus Tantholdt TV2
Refugees still leaving #Sirte. Saw about ten cars with families including many children. #Libya
Went to Ibn Sina hospital where Red Cross evacuated patients including a 2-3 year old wounded child with no parents anymore. #Sirte #Libya

#NTC fighters told us that most of the patients at #ibnsina Hospital are #Gaddafi soldiers. The patients told us they were just civilians.

Todays story from #ibnsina Hospital in #sirte nyhederne.tv2.dk/article.php/id-4454529...

BBC
Libya: NTC head Jalil visits embattled Sirte
The head of Libya’s interim authority Mustafa Abdel Jalil has appeared in the embattled city Sirte, say reports.
Mr Jalil was greeted by cheering National Transitional Council (NTC) troops, firing weapons in celebration, said Reuters news agency.
Sirte is the home town of fugitive leader Col Muammar Gaddafi and one of the last loyalist strongholds.
The anti-Gaddafi forces have cornered the loyalists in a small area of the city but are facing stout resistance.

Read more and watch video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15263873

Tuareg rebel: Fighters from Libya are organizing
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The spokesman for a hardline Tuareg rebel group in Mali says that his group is working with Tuareg fighters recently returned from Libya, and they are organizing for a possible rebellion.
Hama Ag Sid’Ahmed, spokesman for the North of Mali Tuareg Movement, told The Associated Press in an interview by satellite phone Tuesday that his group was holding meetings with the Tuaregs who just returned from Libya. He said there were discussions going on about a “common position.”
More and source:

www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/AL...

Libyan4life
Angelina Jolie says #Libya visit outside of role as UN goodwill ambassador and wants to “express solidarity” in a personal capacity.

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Ahrar TV: FFs have liberated the Dollar neighbourhood in Sirte and are now helping families in area to leave .. Allahu Akbar #Feb17

Arish Said: Ahrar TV reporter: Muatassim Gaddafi thought to be in Dollar neighbourhood with fighting still ongoing there
Arish Said: Ahrar TV reporter: Unconfirmed reports that Abu Bakr Yunis has been captured in Sirte
Arish Said: Ahrar TV reporter: After change in military tactics much fewer casualties today in comparison to yday w/ 3 martyrs #Feb17
( fyi: secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/... )
Abu Bakr Yunis
1940 – …..
Libyan general.
A brigadier general and de facto chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Abu Bakr Yunis Jabir was born in 1940. Educated at the military college in Benghazi, he was a classmate of Muammar al-Qaddafi and a founding member of the Free Unionist Officers movement. Yunis Jabir participated in the September 1969 coup that overthrew King Idris and was one of the original members of the Revolutionary Command Council (1969 – 1977). He has served the Qaddafi regime in a variety of military positions since 1969, most recently as chief military commander.

2 first cousins of Gaddafi :Mohammed & Rabiya Abu Menear,were captured in the back seat of a family car as it tried to leave #Sirte #Libya

MUST READ:
Telegraph
Libya: high ranking Gaddafi officials ‘leading defence of Sirte’
Pro-Gaddafi radio traffic described three significant figures inside the town with one thought to be Mutassim Gaddafi.
A revolutionary fighter who said he monitored the intercepted messages said they described an “asset” code-named “zero one” who is believed to be Mutassim, national security adviser to his ousted father.
Commanders speculated that another figure, code-named “zero two”, was Abdullah al-Senussi, intelligence chief, though he had not been heard of for some days and may have fled. Another senior figure is code-named “zero three”.
Other relatives of Gaddafi were caught fleeing on Tuesday as the net on the loyalist city closed
Two first cousins, Mohammed and Rabiya Abu Menear, were spotted in the back seat of a family car as it tried to leave the city.
“We found them sitting in the back between two women, hiding their faces and without documents,” said an eyewitness who declined to be named.
Rabiya Abu Menear had been heard on radio exhorting loyalists to continue fighting.
Read more:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Pro G trolls greatest enemy : REALITY

Le Monde
Au cœur de la bataille de Syrte
Les combats se poursuivent à Syrte, en Libye. Proches du but, les combattants rebelles gagnent peu à peu du terrain sur les forces kadhafistes. Enrico Dagnino et

Cécile Hennion ont suivi, pour “Le Monde”, un assaut rebelle sur la médina de la ville.
Video:
www.lemonde.fr/libye/video/2011/10/11/a...=RSS-3208

libyanproud libyanandproud
#Tripoli : Stand off between FF and Group of salafis trying to demolish a Murabit’s grave (Sage’s Grave) in front of Mahari Hotel.

#Libya Ex-Gaddafi Tuareg fighters returning from Libya 2 Mali, say they are organizing 2 overthrow the Mali government
apne.ws/p6uPhP

LibyaUnited1944 Walid وليد
Biggest mistake right now being made by #NTC is not forming a government. This isn’t criticism I’m actually begging them 2 do it NOW #Libya

If #Libyans had a government in place it would wipe out Gadafi from their minds once & for all. It would b government forces v armed gangs

Not NTC forces v Gadafi loyalists as the media like to put it. It would help in so many ways that forming an interim government is priceless

karlaokane
#Sirte Pro-Gaddafi radio traffic described three significant figures inside the town with one thought to be Mutassim Gaddafi

#Sirte Other relatives of Gaddafi were caught fleeing on Tuesday as the net on the loyalist city closed
tinyurl.com/3qwtrcm

#Sirte Abdul Rahman Abdul Hamid, a nephew of Gaddafi and president of Sirte University, was captured on Saturday
tinyurl.com/3qwtrcm

Mr Zaida said revolutionary fighters had also stopped a fleeing vehicle on Sunday containing suitcases filled with foreign currency #Sirte

Col Kamel El-Magrabi said We have them in two or three square kilometres the good news today is that the G/family is starting to flee Sirte

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#Sirte #NTC Head #Jalil Arrived outside the ConferenceCenter Ouagadougouin in the back of truck in convoy of about 20 cars #Libya

Idil
Instead of wiping away tears, wipe away the people who cause them.

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
photo: 1 front line not far from Ibn Sina Hospital #Sirte #Libya
yfrog.com/oc3kpdnj

photo: red cross evacuating some wounded patients from Ibn SIna Hospital terrible situation there #Sirte #Libya
yfrog.com/ntujzyj

photo: 1 NTC command post inside a house in #Sirte #Libya
yfrog.com/h72k7dxj

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
1 NTC fighter today meanwhile offensive going on: “¿spanish? ah! where is your guitar?” #Sirte #Libya

la resistencia d ls tropas gadafistas n #Sirte stá sorprendiendo a ls revolucionarios y a la OTAN “no tiene sentido” dijo 1 coronel #Libia

Maredudd2
Is Sirte going to be a replay of Tamil Tigers’ last stand on a Sri Lankan beach? Hope Mutassim remembers to pack his bucket & spade. #Libya

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#Tripoli NTC Jalil reveived #Canada Foreign Minister today Canada contributes $10million 2Help #Libya restore secure all weapons stockpiles

#Sirte Fighters Heard on Radio Mu’atassim referred as 1 IntelChief #Senussi as 2 General MansourDhou as 3 and No price 4guessing: The ASSET

#Sirte The Ultimate betrayal : a Sniper detonated a grenade after laying down his weapon, killing himself and 2 Freedom fighters #Libya

#Sirte #NTC Head #Jalil Arrived outside the ConferenceCenter Ouagadougouin in the back of truck in convoy of about 20 cars #Libya

TonyBirtley reports from the Sirte front line in #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug-zWQW6Q6E&fea...

#BBC Video of NTC ♥ Mr #Jalil ’s ♥ StUNNING Visit to #Sirte
bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr… Annoying the Hell out of #Gaddafi Goons ! #Libya

#Sirte Battle Rages “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” :
goo.gl/wy2wd #Libya

#Sirte Civilians Fleeing R Checked: 4 calluses on hands or bruises on shouldersn Crude but telltale signs they may have been firing weapons

#Nato Roland #Lavoie: #Gaddafi Forces LOST their command-and-control capabilities in #Sirte Now only left with some in #Bani Walid #Libya

Minister of Transport Communication AnwarElFeituri NTC Main Priority is 2get injured fighters to #Tunisia #Jordan +rest of world 4treatment

#AirFrance, #AustrianAirlines and #RoyalJordanianAirlines are expected to start flying through #Tripoli Int by end of this month #Libya

The Weird and Wonderful Ways of a Human Mind : #Libyans struggle to win over# Gaddafi loyalists
goo.gl/KIF3w #Libya

Do U think Muammar #Gaddafi is too busy running with his tail between his legs to Squeak a new Msg via #Syria RaiTV ? #Libya

#DavidGerby The man who broke into synagogue in #Tripoli was deported to #Italy on Italian military plane at request of #Libya #NTC via CNN

#SIRTE Man in Wheelchair Comrade pushed him in2 Main Street He Fired his #KalashnikovRifle @GaddafiGoons Was then Pushed Back 2Safety #Libya

#Sirte Brave #NTC Fighters would dash from hiding Dodging Snipers Shout “Allah Akbar !” Fire their guns and rush back to safety #Libya

jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
saw the wheelchair guy, wished I could have crossed the street to meet him

sirte looks like could fall in two days, while men still being killed by snipers as rush forward

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#SIRTE
goo.gl/isKVS @SkyNews VideoReport Freedom fighters seize #Sirte Police HQ

#FLASH #Arrested In #Sirte this evening; Mohammed Gaddaf 1st cousin of #Muammar Gaddafi #Misrata fighters have taken him to #Misrata #Libya

UN Goodwill ambassador #AngelinaJolie was in #Libya Tues 4 a 2day visit to help agencies bringing aid to Libyans in #Tripoli and #Misrata

FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
Fierce battles this evening in Hay Dollar #Sirte. Commanders expect to control entire city before dawn tomorrow v @free_misurata #Libya

Fighters heard Mutassim Gaddafi over walkie-talkie. He’s holed up in 1km2 area in #Sirte, yet2 b liberated. His top aide killed. #Libya

Fighters surrounded Mutassim Gaddafi in 1km2 area, w “only sea in front of him.” Expected2 b killed or captured by morning #Sirte

Holed up in #Sirte with Mutassim Gaddafi, in area less than 1km2, are Muftah Kuayba & Ahmed Ibrahim v @freedomgrouptv

Sarah
Yaaaaaa Rab ! Make those hours the last hours for Mutassim #Gaddafi ! I hope we’ll wake up tomorrow on footage of him arrested or killed !

Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Angelina Jolie is in Misrata today, & in Tripoli tomorrow #Libya #Jolie


SUMMARY OCTOBER 12th 2011

10/12/11
10.12.11

NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya –
goo.gl/AtdTZ

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Reuters: #Libya’s main airport to reopen within month: NTC
goo.gl/Apx6t #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes

Reuters: Head of #Libya’s NTC visits battle-torn #Sirte
goo.gl/PAEtJ #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes

Reuters: #Angelina #Jolie visits #Libya to show solidarity
goo.gl/d2FZl #feb17 #gaddaficrimes

Check out the Libyan Youth Forum’s latest poll question here, join, follow & participate:
goo.gl/aOhrP @LYForum #libya #feb17 RT!

AFP: Plotters recall failed plan to kill #Gaddafi
goo.gl/ICf4D #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes

AKI: #Libya: Former foreign minister #Moussa #Koussa to settle in Jordanian capital Amman
goo.gl/2SfyC #feb17 #gaddaficrimes

Moez
Imagine this- Family engagement: nawba/zokra + thuwwar firing their guns in the air + AirFrance 747 taking off in background. Crazy #Libya

Revolutionary murals #SoogEljumaa #tripoli #Libya
twitpic.com/6yxa1x

twitpic.com/6yx6jf

twitpic.com/6yx6fn

twitpic.com/6yw7pt

Oct. 11
FreedomGroup
An update from Sirte:
- Clashes have now moved to Dubai St, after Gaddafi forces fled Dollar suburb.
- NATO jets pounded Gaddafi forces in Sirte.
- Mustafa Abdul-Jalil visited fighters at the front, further raising morale
- 5 fighters were martyred (2 of Misurata and 3 of Tripoli), and 44 were wounded
May Allah have accept out martyrs into heaven, and heal our wounded.

Mohammed Gaddaf, first cousin of Muammar, was arrested in Sirte this evening by Misrata fighters and taken to Misrata. (via Free Misrata)

Tarek
While talking to @lindseyhilsum in the Souk in #Tripoli today I met @Gheblawi by a chance and was a great to see him. coincidences!!

Police is now more visible and taking over in #Tripoli and less checkpoints. Law and Order will be fully restored soon. #Libya

Revolutionaries at checkpoints have been so polite and respectable, something we never experienced when #Gaddafi was there in #Libya

Revolutionaries will receive salaries soon, it was sent by a txt message today from #Libyan Telcom Company.

Mail Online
Now that’s a real guitar hero: Libyan soldier strums away as battle for Sirte rages around him

This fighter is clearly keeping calm amidst the fierce battle to take control of the Libyan town of Sirte, one of the last strongholds of fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafi.
As he stands surrounded by gunmen in front of a pock-marked wall, the area around his feet strewn with bullet casings, the man seems to be simply playing his guitar while his comrades attempt to gain ground from pro-Gaddafi forces.

Earlier, images emerged of a rebel dressed in camouflage and armed with a rifle, lounging in a four-poster bed formerly owned by Gaddafi himself.
Read more and see the photo’s:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-204788...

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
photo: watching how the press watch the war #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/o0x7toj

The Goodwill Ambassador U.S. actress Angelina Jolie visited Misurata today and also visited the wounded in Misurata Hospital
Photo:
goo.gl/vwlwC

bunbunbunnyyy ارنوبة بنغازي ♥
Libyan Freedom Fighters rest as they read the holy Quran after heavy fighting in the center of Sirte October 11, 2011.
pic.twitter.com/gSqWobGQ

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
To heavy critics of NTC, NTC was crucial to sucess of Feb17.In what revolutn in hx have salaries been paid by a revolutionary body? #Feb17

I don’t work for NTC but i am sick & tired of the ridiculous criticism.It’s only a 7 month old revolutionary body for ****sake #libya #Feb17

Now is still the time for unity around NTC. Our FFs are still dying on the battlefield. You want power, Wait till election

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
I can’t confirm this but I a deal is in the works to have NATO offer NFZ free corridors for flights when #Tripoli international reopens

Basically, with the NFZ in action, insurance companies have premiums which are way too high for most carriers to accept #libya

If the NFZ is lifted, or if NATO creates corridors for which permission is not required, insurance premiums are expected to decrease

Insurance premiums on flights to Libya will also decrease if the NTC can prove that the international airport is safe and secure #libya

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Epic FF convoy heading to Beni Walid … Allahu Akbar #Feb17 #Libya

All this running and hiding in the desert must be playing havoc with Gaddafi’s shafshufa #Feb17 #Libya

I wonder if Berlusconi and Tony Blair will visit Gaddafi in prison?

#Feb17 = Day Libya decided to be awesome again #libya

#Feb17 together we defeated an army & in years to come we must treat & love each other like the brothers in arms we once were #Libya

Arish Said: Ahrar TV: 90% of Sirte is under control of FFs with aim of complete control in next 48 hours

Ali Tweel
This is me at the first science exhibition of the Faculty of Nuclear in 1986 Tripoli, my brother made that plant!
twitpic.com/6yzn9f

Gheblawi Ghazi Gheblawi
The second installment of my (Libyan Chronicles) on Imtidad blog
bit.ly/ngK7PM #Libya

tripolitano Tripolitano
Arrived in London from tunis tonight. Need a couple of weeks holiday after months of stress and since business is still slow in #Libya

FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
Ahmed Ibrahim: Pres. of Gaddafi’s “World Center 4 Studies & Research of Green Book” #Libya. Led operations in #Sirte
pic.twitter.com/lJ7cU3s8

Khadija
Is it just me or is anyone else not comfortable with Jolie in #Libya? I don’t know why but I don’t like seeing her here, I don’t trust her.
I guess I am just worried she’ll take Libyan kids to adopt. I don’t want that to happen.
as a Muslim Libyan I believe Libyan Children should be raised by Muslim parents.
if it weren’t for NATO we would have no orphans …. because we would all be dead.

An important thing I learnt yesterday is that we should use volunteer work as a tool to build #Libya. #Tripoli

libyanfood l
Our Libyan Recipe, Tuna, Harissa and Olive Stuffed Bread goo.gl/Ys7uL is today’s FoodBuzz featured
goo.gl/JjKSL!

Reuters
Gaddafi resistance crumbling in Libya’s Sirte

Resistance from fighters loyal to ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi crumbled in his home town overnight, government commanders said on Wednesday, and just two small pockets still held out.
Fighters from the interim Libyan government’s volunteer army walked slowly up the same battle-scarred streets strewn with empty ammunition cases where they had fought fierce clashes a day before. Other fighters searched the partly destroyed houses as a few dazed civilians emerged from their basements.

Read more:

uk.reuters.com/article/2011/10/12/uk-li...

Tweeting Tripoli
Guy filming G’s army 2 Bengazi March 19:
youtube.com/watch?v=ScMYfg…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScMYfgkbJuQ&fea...

Is caught with his BW’s version of Musa Ibrahim father: youtube.com/watch?v=B6dseP…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6dsePPHma4&sns=em

Apparently, General Hafter will be leading the offensive on BW next few hrs. BW frontline finally getting attention after 1 mth neglect.

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
#BBC Monitoring has observed that Al-Ra’y TV is no longer on it’s normal channel and hasn’t been found on a new one yet!

FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
Maj.General MohamedMilad Omar, Gaddafi cousin, tank battalion commander, arrested in #Sirte v @free_misurata #Libya
youtube.com/watch?v=JOO88r…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOO88rfEd2s

MUST READ
Sky News
Fall Of Gaddafi’s Home Town ‘Hours Away’
Anti-Gaddafi forces are attacking the final area of Colonel Gaddafi’s home town Sirte where loyalists remain holed up – amid signs that the battle is nearly over

Sky’s Alex Rossi, reporting from the front line, said fighters loyal to the National Transitional Council (NTC) have advanced deep into the city, taking the university, conference centre, hospital and main police station.
Read moire and video:
news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16...

matthew_weaver matthew weaver
Audioboo: Fighting in Sirte could be over today, Peter Beaumont predicts
Audio:
audioboo.fm/boos/502245-fighting-in-sir...

CNN
Libya’s NTC fighters stage final advance in Sirte holdout

Forces loyal to the new Libyan government were staging a final advance into the last area in Sirte still controlled by pro-Moammar Gadhafi fighters.
National Transitional Council field commander Ibrahim Ashour said Wednesday that his forces control 90% of the city, but are encountering stiff resistance in securing the rest of it.
Read more and video:
edition.cnn.com/2011/10/12/world/africa...

katsndogs
“My feature on the Tripoli Zoo, which appeared in The Star. Have a read…” scr.bi/nGlyQF #TripoliZooAnima

Skynews Exclusive: Intense street battle in #sirte EXTENDED 11/10/2011 #Libya

Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5dLl4VnmpY

libyatv Libya TV
english.libya.tv/2011/10/11/noc… NOC to prioritize oil for domestic use in Libya #Libya

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Postmedia news: #Ottawa to give #Libya $10M to neutralize weapons goo.gl/W0kxz #feb17 #gaddaficrimes #libya

AFP: Anti-Gaddafi fighters seize #Sirte police headquarters goo.gl/FHJA6 #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
Situación desesperada en el hospital de #Sirte Cruz Roja evacuando a decenas de heridos
bit.ly/o78609

AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libya’s NTC fighters seize police headquarters in Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte

AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Head of Libya’s NTC visits battle-torn city of Sirte: Reuters witness

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
So proud to see Libya’s flag held in Syrian demonstrations :)

LibyaMartyrs Libya Martyrs
Mohamed AbdulQader Al-Dhabea’ Al-Ferjany martyred in the Battle of #Sirte on 09/10/2011 #Libya. الله يرحمه
yfrog.com/nwrndsj

AbdulRahman Al-Zway from Gergaresh, Tripoli passed away in the Battle of Al-Quoleesh #libya الله يرحه و يغفرله
yfrog.com/hwnrhmmj

FreedomGroup
Fighters have surrounded three senior Gaddafi regime figures in an area that’s less than one square kilometre:
1. Muttasim Gaddafi
2. Ahmed Ibrahim: President of Gaddafi’s “World Center for Studies and Research of Green Book." New Quryna reported that he was leading operations in Sirte.
3.Muftah Kuayba: Secretary General of Gaddafi’s “General People’s Congress of Libya”

UPDATE: Nine martyred on Sirte’s western front (Oct 11)
1. Abdul Rahman Zutu (of Ghina, Khoms)
2. M’Hamed Al-Saghir (Zawara)
3. Fadel Al-Gorgi (Tripoli)
4. Mustafa Al-Janfawi (Al-Alus)
5. Salah AlGneidi (of Misrata)
6. Ahmed Abdullah Al-Haj (Misrata)
7. Mukhtar M’Hamed Fitouri (Misrata)
8. Mohamed Salim Ben Sassi (Misrata)
9. Mohammed Soussi – Misurata
May Allah forgive them their sins and accept them as martyrs.

The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today

ceoDanya Danya B Mohammed
Libyan Students in #UAE / #Dubai are organizing a Libyan Fair this Monday in the American University in Dubai/ Media City … at 1pm Local Time, you are more than welcome to join, please post your names so we can add them on the guest list.. cheers

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Whilst the #Blackberry People are fixing their service can they please add #Libya to the countries that can use the #BBM service

#AlAan TV is not only among the top, but it is also deeply loved by the #Libyan people. #Libya is.gd/vqSww0 via @bikyamasr

Manchester evening News
Libya prisoner back home to Chorlton – to cuddle his daughter for first time
A religious leader imprisoned during the uprising in Libya is back with his family in Manchester – including a baby daughter who was born while he was held captive.
Mustafa Graf was held in a Tripoli jail after returning to his native country to help family members escape when war against Colonel Gadaffi’s regime broke out.
Seven months ago, wife Aman gave birth to their fourth child Ahmad – not knowing if her husband was alive.
Mustafa is now resting at the family’s home in Chorlton and is understood to be traumatised by his experiences in jail at the hands of Gadaffi loyalists.
Muhammad Khayat, from the Manchester Islamic Centre in West Didsbury where Mustafa is an Imam, said: "We are all very glad he is back home safely.
“He has a child he has never seen before and will need to spend time with her and his other children who have been without him for eight months.”
Source:
menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/ne...

Seattle pi
Rebel: Tuaregs from Libya organizing in Mali
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A hardline Tuareg rebel faction in Mali is working with ethnic Tuareg fighters who recently returned from Libya after fighting for ousted strongman Moammar Gadhafi, and is organizing for a possible rebellion against Mali’s government, the spokesman for the rebel group said Tuesday.
Read more:
www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Rebel-Tu...

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
I’ll be back in Libya very soon too

Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Museum Director: “7000 pieces have gone missing from Benghazi museum sometime between Feb-March. 90% coins, 10% antiquities” #Libya

Ahmed
Spoke to one of the FF yday. He said for him it was too late, he has missed his education but this is for the kids #libya #sacrifice

Many of the FF have risked their lives, many lost their lives, to save the lives of future generations. #Libya will be forever grateful

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Mustafa AbdulJalil speaks to freedom fighters outside Sirte’s Ouagadougou conference hall #libya #feb17
fb.me/15GRAWVQF

Miloud
#TwoThingsThatDontMix Gaddafi and Libya #libya

ousama
First ever #TED conference in #Libya. Sign up at TEDxTripoli.org for updates. #Tripoli #Feb17 #TEDxTripoli

Sumayyah
Hella pretty outside my window right now. It’s perfect mashaAllah
yfrog.com/obqdijj

flyingbirdies أكرم
Apple still using “Libyan Arab Jamahiriya” in their website & I wonder when this nightmare will end

Des Grant
Gadaffi forces hold only 50% of territory they held 24 hours ago, tightly surrounded on all 4 sides, 90% city in #FF hands #Sirte

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Freedom fighters in Sirte and in checkpoints all over #Libya to be extremely vigilant we don’t want another regime figure to escape

Ahmed
Seeing more & more of the #Qatar police jeeps sent to #Libya to help with securing the capital. Thank you Qatar (still have Qatari colours!)

TripoliFestival TripoliFestival
Our trailer for this Saturday’s event #Tripoli #Festival
youtube.com/watch?v=rFQu5G… by @live2Tripoli

or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFQu5Gs0Quw

Many exciting things going on this Saturday!! It all starts 10:30 am Be there bring your family and your friends :)

#Tripoli #Festival will host many exhibits including over 40 NGOs #Libya

2 More Days until #Tripoli #Festival #Libya !! :)

There will be zero tolerance to gun fire on #Oct15, let alone carrying any weapons into

the premises. Please spread the word.

Absolutely zero tolerance to any type of weapon or violence. There will be families and the world is watching. Please respect yourselves.

Come out and have a great time. !

The day starts during the morning around 10:30am. #Tripoli #Festival #Libya

annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
Background on #Zwara -Jumayl tension – another part of a complex puzzle. on.wsj.com/qNQuSu via @WSJ

annmarlowe Ann Marlowe
Please Libyans continue to be an example to the world of Muslim democracy fairness and good sense. Stop the fanatics destroying gravestones!

khald02 kha02
Tibesti #Benghazi #Libya
twitpic.com/6z3x7h

Omar Mukhtar Square #Benghazi #Libya
twitpic.com/6z482e

Armchair Arab
@alexrossiSKY Your latest report from Sirte was awesome. Thanks for taking the significant risk to bring the world the story from #Sirte

TheDailyOrgan The Daily Organ

VIDEO: Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie visits Misrata #Libya as UN Goodwill Ambassador
goo.gl/oaXZp

FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
Muftah Kuayba, is Secretary General of Gaddafi’s “General People’s Congress of #Libya” pic.twitter.com/Z4bBQvgQ

Fighters in #Sirte have full control of DubaiSt; main police station internal security HQ. No prisoners were found v #AjdabiyaLions

Snipers positioned in buildings in #Sirte, looking for way out but fighters have them surrounded from every side v #AjdabiyaLions

Algerian Foreign Ministry: #Libya’n delegation, headed by Jibril will visit “soon”. Gaddafi family not part of talks
www.elkhabar.com/ar/politique/267774.html

Cartoon of Gaddafi & son in disguise: “Shut up, Saif, Keep walking.” … hee, hee :)
goo.gl/bkC3S

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
AlArabiya: #FF’s in #Sirt have taken control of most of the area named “Dollar” & Moatassim #Gadaffi’s son had been seen today #Libya

BBC
Libya: NTC head Jalil visits embattled Sirte

The anti-Gaddafi forces have cornered the loyalists in a small area of the city but are facing stout resistance.
Nato officials have said they are surprised that the pro-Gaddafi fighters are continuing to fight with such resilience in the city.
The NTC says that once Sirte falls, they will declare Libya to be fully liberated.

“There remains still 2 sq km (0.8 sq miles) to take to free the city completely,” NTC commander Wissam bin Ahmid told the AFP news agency, adding that they were still facing sniper fire in the streets.

Another man told AFP there had been 35 people in his house, mostly women, living on bread and rice for the past two months.
“The Gaddafi forces prevented us from leaving, slashing the tyres of cars in garages and forcing us to turn back,” he said.

Full art. and video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-1526387...

Rumor: Mutassim #Gaddafi has been caught in #Sirte .

markito0171:
Libya map of #Sirte #FF now in all areas of city-center & no secure areas for GF anymore
twitpic.com/6z6no2

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
The Libyan Youth Movement would like to extend our deepest condolences to the family of the fallen freedom fighter and shaheed Jamal Al-Tunali who was martyred on Saturday October 10th, 2011 fighting for the liberation of Sirte. He is survived by his wife Sandra James and family in Tripoli.

May Allah have mercy on his soul and accept him in Janat Al Firdous. Ameen.

Please pray for Jamal Al-Tulani and his family.
goo.gl/h819E RT!

Portsmouth UK
HMS Liverpool to return from Libya in weeks
HMS Liverpool is set to return home from the war in Libya next month, The News can reveal.
A heroes’ welcome is expected for the ship’s 200 sailors who have played a major role in the warzone since April.
News that the warship will return to Portsmouth soon comes as she marks her 150th day on patrol off the Libyan coast.
The ship’s commanding officer, Commander Colin Williams, told The News: ‘We can’t wait to get back and see our families.
‘I’m hoping we get a tremendous welcome and I’m sure we will.

Full story:
www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/local/east-ha...

Le Figaro
Les patrons français en Libye
Des responsables de 80 entreprises françaises ont accompagné Pierre Lellouche pour prendre contact avec les nouvelles autorités et tenter, face à une vive concurrence, d’obtenir les marchés de la reconstruction du pays.

Le secrétaire d’état au commerce extérieur, Pierre Lellouche, est arrivé tôt ce matin à Tripoli avec une délégation de 80 entreprises françaises dont la moitié de représentants de PME. C’est la première visite d’un ministre français depuis le déplacement du président de la République, Nicolas Sarkozy, il y a deux semaines dans la capitale libérée de la Libye.

Read more:
goo.gl/TCDqU

Video and translation:
Rapes by Snipers in Sirte

Gaddafi merc admits to raping 4 girls and was awarded a pound of marijuana from Gaddafi’s force.
Original video rapist caught:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IoKB5quWSs
Names:
Abdel-Rahman Abdel-Hameed Al-Qooothee
Ahmad Adam Al-Turshanee
Ahmed & Mohamed Shereef Al-Turshanee
Translation:
pastebin.com/3adhgH1a

20arb11 Souffian Tripoli
Daily News on #Tripoli #Trables #Libya goo.gl/r9L0i

Tripoli airport opens:
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNI-0GWpF3A

Damien
10 photos de F2000 belges trouvés en Libye:
tumblr.com/Z7RQZxAagQtH

Reuters
TIMELINE-Libya’s civil war nears end

Here is a timeline of the civil war in Libya since protests against Muammar Gaddafi’s four-decade rule began in February:
From Feb. 15/16, 2011 The arrest of human rights activist Fethi Tarbel sparks a riot in Benghazi, Quryna newspaper reports.
until
Oct. 12 – More than 80 percent of Sirte is under NTC control.

Read full timeline:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/12/liby...

20arb11 Souffian Tripoli
Libyan bourse catches the eye of investors. Libya’s fledgling stock market is attracting investor. trunc.it/i37jo #Libya

BBC
Libya: Sirte ‘pummelled into submission’

Forces loyal to the new interim government are hopeful of taking control of one of the final Gaddafi strongholds.

Sirte is the home town of fugitive leader Col Muammar Gaddafi and anti-Gaddafi forces have cornered the loyalists in a small area of the city but are facing stout resistance.
The BBC’s Wyre Davis reports that the city is being “pummelled into submission” by the National Transitional Council authority forces.

Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15275749

20arb11 Souffian Tripoli Ayman al-Zawahiri calls on Libyans to adopt sharia law
trunc.it/htr1x #Libya ( we don’t want your “advice” & don’t steel the #Feb17 )

Nasr
#Libya n eagle is expected to catch the big rodent soon pic.twitter.com/HzTDjY6Z

hominoid555 Russell
Camels Caught in Libyan Clash on.wsj.com/qjJyzc via @WSJ

Tweeting Tripoli
My good friend Musbah (Dr Ali Daeki’s brother) Martyred at #BaniWalid southern

frontline few mins ago. RIP Musbah :( #Feb17 #Libya

Musbah died of his wounds next to his brother Dr Ali.

he died of his wounds in the arms of his brother.

lindseyhilsum Lindsey Hilsum
Old man in the #tripoli souk said #gadaffi really believed people loved him. He thought #Libyans didn’t know what he was doing.

A lot of tension between the #tripoli fighters and those from #misrata and #zintan. Many in capital want fighters back in their own towns.

20arb11 Souffian Tripoli
Website with News Links photo’s on #Libya #Tripoli #Trables Trables.net

LibyaLiberty Hend Bashir Amry
So is his face, I hope,without his botox booster shots. RT@bnnNEWSLIVE Gaddafi resistance crumbling in Libya’s Sirte

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
#Mahmoud #Jibreal.A man that many people tend to criticise. Here are a few facts about him #Libya

1) #Mahmoud #Jibreal has a Phd in Crisis Management. One of the rarest Certificates in the world. #Libya
2) #Mahmoud #Jibreal was the actual founder of the Road Map set for #Qatar in the 90’s. #Libya
3) 3) #Mahmoud #Jibreal was also a member of the “Tsunami organisation” that had mixed help from Europe,the USA and Arab world. #Libya
4) 4) #Mahmoud #Jibreal was the man behind the project “We stand together for the New Libya” that #Gadaffi’s son #Saif stole from him
5) 5) #Mahmoud #Jibreal left his contract in #Oman that was worth Millions and headed to #Libya as soon as the revolution started.

6) #Mahmoud #Jibreal is ranked fifth in the world in #“International Planning”

matthew_weaver matthew weaver
Audioboo: Captured Gaddafi loyalists are being beaten in Sirte, as NTC closes in on 1km sq area, Peter Beaumont rep…
boo.fm/b502566

m_madi Mohamed Madi
#Libya tweeps, can anyone confirm the location of District 2 and Hay al-Dollar in Sirte r accurate on this map? j.mp/oa6bYB thanks

TripoliFestival TripoliFestival
The location (Asha3ab) will be where the old fair rides use to be. Next to the coastal road (treeg ishat)Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
Libya Street Art
libyanstreetart.blogspot.com #Libya #Feb17

Participate by sending a picture for Libya Street Art to [email protected] libyanstreetart.blogspot.com/p/do-you-h... #Libya #Feb17

Older video:
Dr. Fathi Abu-Zakhar “our families were not afraid of dying, they were afraid of rape”
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfVDf-NsX-Y&fea...

acarvin Andy Carvin
Mustafa Abdul-Jalil says he hopes to declare victory in #Libya within the next week. Anyone placing odds on this?

Libyan4life
I guess it depends on the ‘’fightin’ spirit’’ of the last 20% of #Sirte. Although since he visited, he’s probably right.

AJC
Libyan leader hopes to declare victory within week

BENGHAZI, Libya — Libya’s de facto leader said Wednesday he is optimistic the ex-rebels will declare total victory over forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi in less than a week, opening the way for a new transitional government to be formed within a month.

Despite heavy resistance, revolutionary forces are closing in on Gadhafi’s forces in the ousted dictator’s hometown of Sirte, the most important of two major cities yet to be cleared of armed supporters of the old regime
Full art.:
www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/libyan-le...

Today’s Zaman
Gaddafi’s resistance in city of Sirte crumbling

Resistance from fighters loyal to ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi crumbled in his home town overnight, government commanders said on Wednesday, and just two small pockets still held out.

Fighters from the interim Libyan government’s volunteer army walked slowly up the same battle-scarred streets strewn with empty ammunition cases where they had fought fierce clashes a day before. Other fighters searched the partly destroyed houses as a few dazed civilians emerged from their basements. “It looks as though there is no resistance from Gaddafi’s men. There are no clashes on Wednesday,” said government field commander Mustah Hamza. “More than 80 percent of Sirte is now under our control. Gaddafi’s men are still in parts of neighborhood Number Two and the “Dollar” neighborhood,” he said.

Full story:
www.todayszaman.com/news-259702-gaddafi...

Guardian
Libya: battle for central Sirte – live updates

The battle for Sirte appears to be reaching its final stages with resistance from Gaddafi loyalists crumbling, according to troops loyal to the interim government and observers. Fighting has become focused on a fort-like high rise building in district two. One commander of the revolutionary forces claimed that they were in control of 80% of the ousted dictator’s hometown.

“One fighter I walked passed said ‘Sirte is free’,” Peter Beaumont reports from the city.
“That’s not quite true,” he says. Gaddafi forces occupy an area of about 1km square, which includes a fort-like structure where the fighting is concentrated today

The BBC’s Wyre Davies says Gaddafi forces are being “pummelled into submission” in Sirte.

His account of the fighting differs in a few details, from Peter Beaumont’s but it appears to have been made further from the front line. Davies says Gaddafi forces occupy 2km square rather than 1km square and that progress has been slow.
He also says Gaddafi’s men have their “backs to the sea”, whereas Peter said the coast road was beginning to be cleared and that Gaddafi loyalists were based at a position set back from the coast.

Nato jets have continued to bombard Gaddafi’s other former stronghold of Bani Walid. Nato planes have only hit one target in Sirte in the last 10 days.

Human Rights Watch called on NTC fighters not to harm civilians and treat all prisoners humanely. Our reporter in Sirte has witnessed captured Gaddafi loyalists being beating by forces of the new government.

The battle for Sirte is reaching its final stages with Gaddafi loyalists pushed back to an area 1km square. Fighting has become focused on a fort-like high rise building in district two

English Libya tv
Spain withdraws F-18 planes from NATO Libya mission

Spain will withdraw the four F-18 aircraft deployed as part of its contribution to the NATO operation over Libya now that the governing National Transitional Council (NTC) controls most of the country, Defence Minister Carme Chacon said today.
Spain sent the four fighter jets to the Italian air base of Decimomannu on the island of Sardinia in March.
The F-18 aircraft will return to Spain on Saturday but will be ready to leave again should there be a need for them to rejoin the NATO effort, Chacon said in a videoconference with troops serving abroad to mark Spain’s National Day.
Two refuelling planes, a frigate and a sea patrol plane will remain as part of Spain’s contribution, she said.
The decision to withdraw the F-18 planes has been agreed with the leaders of the NATO mission in Libya, and is based on the fact that airports which were closed there are now operational and the number of civilian flights are increasing, Chacon said.

WAPO
Libyan leader optimistic total victory will be declared over Gadhafi forces within a week

BENGHAZI, Libya — Libya’s de facto leader said Wednesday he is optimistic the ex-rebels will declare total victory over forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi in less than a week, opening the way for a new transitional government to be formed within a month.

Art.:
www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-eas...

Reuters
Libya tour operators eye post-war boom for neglected industry

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – A holiday in Libya may sound like an absurdity now, but many of the country’s tour operators and officials are already starting to predict a bright future for the travel industry once the dust of war settles.
The coastal country has all the makings for a vibrant tourism business, they say: warm weather, beaches, antiquities and proximity to Europe — all factors that helped the industry thrive in neighbouring Egypt and Tunisia.

Read more:
af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTR...

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
A pro- #Gaddafi captured in #Sirte #libya yfrog.com/kl48152437j

LibyaLiberty Hend Bashir Amry
#TwoThingsThatDontMix #Saif Gaddafi and valid Doctoral degrees

#TwoThingsThatDontMix Aisha Gaddafi and Estrogen

#TwoThingsThatDontMix All-You-Can-Eat buffets and my wardrobe.

libyatv Libya TV
Angelina Jolie praises Libya’s revolutionaries
english.libya.tv/2011/10/12/ang… #Libya

BBC
Libya action to cost UK £300m, says Liam Fox
The total cost of UK operations in Libya is likely to be about £300m, Defence Secretary Liam Fox has said.
He said the costs of Operation Ellamy from March 2011 up to December were estimated at £160m.
In a written ministerial statement he said a further £140m was the estimated cost of replacing ammunition used.
Link:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15275202

Tweeting Tripoli
I am going 2 BW frontlines tomorrow with my friends from Soug Guma who will be transporting much needed supply there.

Reuters blog Africa News
Were NATO strikes on Gaddafi’s home town justified?
Britain’s defence secretary, Liam Fox, sounded a little scripted in Misrata at the weekend when I asked him whether NATO’s airstrikes in Muammar Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte were staying within its remit to protect civilians in Libya.
“NATO has been extraordinarily careful in target selection.”
“NATO has been very careful to minimize civilian casualties.”
“NATO has stayed within its mandate throughout.”
It’s a mantra that NATO, and the countries that have contributed to its Libyan adventure, have had to learn well. They’ve been accused of stretching the legality of the mission “to protect civilians by all necessary measures” before.
But the problem with sticking to a script, is that the Libyan conflict hasn’t really progressed with any sort of predictable narrative since the fall of Tripoli on the night of August 23rd.
Full art.:
goo.gl/DKYAu

Raw Video: Fighters Destroy Gadhafi Symbols
Revolutionary fighters in Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte are destroying symbols of his rule. However there is still a resistance by forces loyal to Gadhafi, more than two months after the fall of the capital, Tripoli. (Oct. 12)
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nUUqrSyX8k&fea...

Older art. from Sept. 14
Saadi Gaddafi binged on drugs and hookers
Tyrant’s playboy son … arrogant Saadi Gaddafi
ONE of Colonel Gaddafi’s vile sons went on a sex and drugs binge in London as his dad’s regime crumbled.
Story:
feb17.info/news/saadi-gaddafi-binged-on...

libyatv Libya TV
NATO: Continued resistance in Libya ‘surprising’
english.libya.tv/2011/10/11/nat… #Libya

BBC
Libya: Gaddafi forces ‘pushed back’ in Sirte

Heavy fighting has continued in the Libyan city of Sirte, with loyalist fighters holding out in just two small areas, anti-Gaddafi commanders say.
Forces with Libya’s interim authority say 80% of the city – Col Gaddafi’s home town – is now under their control.

Link:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-1527750...

MOD UK
Gurkhas help support Libya operations
A small but highly-motivated team of Gurkhas is working hard behind the scenes with the RAF at Gioia del Colle, in southern Italy, to provide essential communication lines for the NATO-led missions over Libya

Without the specialist communications expertise provided by the members of 248 Gurkha Signal Squadron, part of the Queen’s Gurkha Signals, the RAF’s dealings with NATO commanders leading the operation would be slowed dramatically.
248 Gurkha Signal Squadron is equipped with NATO’s advanced Richelieu digital communications systems, primarily used to support the NATO ARRC (Allied Rapid Reaction Corps) Headquarters.

Lieutenant Alex Cave, Officer in Charge of the 248 Gurkha Signal Squadron detachment at Gioia del Colle, explained:

“We are working in support of the RAF; the RAF provide the majority of the communications systems through the Tactical Communications Wing, but because this is a NATO-led operation, NATO personnel based at Headquarters in Poggio use a unique NATO communications network which is something the RAF do not usually cater for; that’s where we fill the gap.”

Personnel based at Gioia del Colle and Trapani receive Air Tasking Orders (ATOs) containing classified information from the Command Allied Operations Centre based in Poggio.

248 Gurkha Signal Squadron personnel ensure the ATOs are received by those that need them, facilitating the free flow of essential ‘comms’. The Gurkha signallers’ skills, kit and experience – gathered over more than 60 years in the British Army – allow for a highly focused and efficient operation.
Sergeant Lalit, second-in-command of the detachment, said:

“We’re here to do a job; our training ensures that we’re very focused on the task and we just get on with what we need to do.
“Working with the RAF is a great privilege for us, and we’re enjoying working together in a friendly environment.”
One of the soldiers from the squadron in Italy at the moment is Lance Corporal Agnesh Rai who joined the British Army in 2005. Like many young men growing up in Nepal, he had always wanted to join the Gurkhas, and relishes the opportunities it presents:
“I wanted to see the world and maintain my family tradition, as my uncle was in the Gurkhas too,” he said. “It’s adventurous, I get to deploy to lots of different places, meet different people and keep fit.”
“My family in Nepal are very proud that I’m in the British Gurkhas, and I am proud to serve,” he added.
Source:
www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/...

All Africa
North Africa:
Zawahiri Calls for Algeria Revolution in New Video

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri called on Algerians to overthrow the government of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, and praised Libyan rebels for seizing Tripoli, in a new video
Osama bin Laden’s successor Zawahiri urged Libyans to adopt sharia law as they rebuild the country after the NATO-backed rebels’ ouster of longtime leader Moamer Kadhafi

“The first thing that this NATO will ask of you is to relinquish your Islam,” Zawahiri said according to a translation provided by US monitoring service SITE, dismissing the military alliance as a “Western gang”.
allafrica.com/stories/201110120133.html

Telegraph
Ayman al-Zawahiri calls on Libyans to adopt sharia law

“The first thing that this Nato will ask of you is to relinquish your Islam,” Zawahiri said according to a translation provided by US monitoring service SITE, dismissing the military alliance as a “Western gang”.

Link:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/al-q...

libyatv Libya TV
Germany to evacuate wounded Libyan’s from Tunisia english.libya.tv/2011/10/11/ger… #Libya

M&C
Red Cross: Situation in Sirte hospital is "desperate

Beirut – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Wednesday that the situation of a major hospital in the Libyan port city of Sirte was ‘desperate’ due to fierce fighting.
‘The staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross evacuated a total of 25 war-wounded and other patients from Ibn Sina Hospital in Sirte between October 10 and 11,’ said an ICRC statement released in Beirut.

Link:
www.monstersandcritics.com/news/africa/...

Asharq
Gaddafi claims credit for Wall Street protests
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat- “Chaos for chaos” is the title of a bizarre message from Libyan fugitive Muammar Gaddafi addressed to the United States and the West that included senseless threats saying some of them were in fact implemented. Gaddafi claimed that his supporters were the ones who instigated a recent demonstration by Americans in Wall Street even though Libyan sources from various cities, among them Sabha, are saying that Gaddafi’s remnants in the city failed to organize a demonstration supportive of the ousted leader who fled from Tripoli at the end of August after ruling the country with iron and fire for 42 years. Many countries accused his regime of being behind bombings and secessionist and armed movements abroad. Gaddafi’s son Al-Mutasim meanwhile threatened in a separate message to target oil and civilian planes.
Link:
www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=...

l”Expression
Libye: violents combats à l’ouest de la place centrale de Syrte

De violents combats « à l’arme automatique et aux roquettes anti-char» faisaient rage

mercredi à environ 2 km à l’ouest de la place centrale de Syrte, à 360 km à l’est de la capitale Tripoli, faisant au moins 6 morts et des dizaines de blessés, rapportent des médias.
Les combats sont concentrés autour d’une école où se trouvaient des éléments des forces loyales au colonel Maamar El Gueddafi, tandis que les forces du Conseil national de transition (CNT) cernaient dans le centre-ville de Syrte un bastion des forces loyalistes. La zone d’environ 3 km2 est constituée de trois quartiers, précisent les mêmes sources citant des témoins.

Read more:
www.lexpressiondz.com/linformation_en_c...

Reuters
Libya should create an oil ministry – Badri

The ousting of top Gaddafi-era oil officials has left a power vacuum in Libya and it is unclear if an oil ministry or the formerly all-powerful National Oil Corporation (NOC) will rule.
“They should have a ministry. If you have a contract with the NOC, you need someone independent to supervise it,” al-Badri told Reuters on the sidelines of an industry conference on Wednesday.

More here:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...

Defense Update
France Spent Over 1,000 Bombs and Missiles in the 7 Month Libyan Campaign

The War in Libya has not ended yet, but seven months after the beginning of the conflict the French Ministry of defense is summarizing the ammunition it spent through the conflict. According to Mr. Gérard Longuet, Secretary of Defense and Veterans

Affairs, 950 guided guided bomb were dropped by French Air Force and Navy Rafale and Mirage 2000s, these included an unspecified number of laser guided bombs and 240 air-launched missiles – including 15 SCALP cruise missiles and 225 GPS guided Hammers (AASM); in addition, French helicopters have launched 431 HOT missiles. The French Navy vessels Tonerre and Mistral have also fired 3,000 rounds from 100mm and 76 mm guns. Other ordnance used included an unspecified number of rockets fired by helicopters and naval vessels.
Read more:
defense-update.com/20111012_france-spen...

BBC
Libya conflict: Gaddafi forces ‘cornered’ in Sirte

Heavy fighting has continued in the Libyan city of Sirte, with loyalist fighters holding out in just two small areas, anti-Gaddafi commanders say.
Forces with Libya’s interim authority say 80% of the city – Col Gaddafi’s home town – is now under their control.
The BBC’s Wyre Davies in Sirte says the tactic seems to be to pummel the city into submission with barrages of shells and rockets.
Meanwhile, hundreds of civilians are still trying to flee the city.

Read more and video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15277507

Scotsman

Being shot won’t stop me rejoining Libyan fight

A FORMER Capital bouncer who is fighting with rebels in Libya has vowed to return to the front line despite being shot by pro-Gaddafi forces.
Ragab Ballali, from Marchmont, flew to north Africa to join the uprising despite having no military experience.
The 36-year-old was almost killed last week when a rocket propelled grenade and a

sniper’s bullet killed two men standing beside him, and he is now being treated in a Tunisian hospital.
But despite narrowly escaping death, he is working his way back to health and wants to return to his homeland as soon as possible to “see the job through”, his family has said.

Read more:
www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news...

Platts
Italy’s Eni to restart Libyan gas export pipeline Oct 13: report

Italian oil major Eni is planning to resume Libyan gas imports through the Greenstream subsea gas pipeline on Thursday, Italy’s Correra della Sera reported Wednesday without citing sources.

A spokesman for Eni declined to comment on the report.

The Greenstream pipeline, operated by Eni and Libya’s National Oil Corp., was shut by Eni on February 22 in the wake of the uprising against the regime of Moammar Qadhafi.
More here:
www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSF...

Gleaner
Gaddafi hiding near Algeria

An official on Libya’s governing council says he believes Moammar Gaddafi is hiding in the southwestern desert near the borders with Niger and Algeria, but denied allegations that the Tuareg minority ethnic group is protecting the fugitive leader.
Moussa al-Kouni, who is a Tuareg representative on the revolution’s leadership body, claimed on Monday that Gaddafi had sent his son Khamis to the area to set up a radio station and make preparations for a possible escape route two months before Tripoli

fell to revolutionary forces in late August.

Read more:
jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111012/in...

Green eggs:)
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
HaHaHa .. Watch this if you want to laugh at #Shakeer #Libya (its in arabic btw) youtube.com/watch?v=MN4q8_…

or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN4q8_TugbI

RasmusTantholdt Rasmus Tantholdt TV2
Just found 7 bodies close to #sirte city center. They were all handcuffed. Looked like they had been dead for some days.

Next to them we found the remainings of 3 bodies burned with tires around them. #Sirte

Libya: fighting continues for control of Sirte – no comment
VIDEO
No Comment | euronews: watch the international news without commentary | www.euronews.net/nocomment Fighters of Libya’s National Transitional Council said they were seeing evidence that members of Muammar Gaddafi’s tribe were beginning to flee Sirte, as heavy fighting continued in a residential neighbourhood near the centre of Gaddafi’s hometown.
Link:
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_em...

20arb11 Souffian Tripoli
Free Tripoli Daily is out! bit.ly/jXMewE ▸ Top stories today

SMILE:
MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Hello .. Have You Had Your Hair Cut? .. NO .. Iv Just Died The Ends Invisible?? Duhh !! :D

Mail Online
Gaddafi son’s lingerie model wife in racy photographs… as more decadent snaps emerge of Libya’s first family

Racy photos have emerged of the wife of one of Muammar Gaddafi’s sons posing in lingerie in luxury hotel rooms during the tyrant’s brutal rule.
In the dozens of photographs, found on a laptop belonging to Gaddafi’s 36-year-old son Hannibal, he and his Lebanese wife Aline Skaff are shown partying on a private jet, on a yacht off the Egyptian coast and in some of the shots are surrounded by alcohol, which is banned in Libya.
The couple are infamous for having provoked diplomatic tensions with Switzerland when they were arrested in 2008 in a luxury hotel in Geneva for allegedly assaulting two former servants.
Art.:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-204809...

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
25 corpses in plastic bags were found in a southern area of #Sirte #libya

The Atlantic
Libya’s Revolution TV

The Qatar-based station that began in support of the Libyan uprising now faces, like the nation it covers, large and difficult questions about what comes after Qaddafi
DOHA, Qatar — When I first visited the offices of the Libyan rebels’ television channel, tucked into a corner of the old souk in Doha, Qatar, I expected a ramshackle operation run by a scrappy young crew with jerry-rigged equipment.

Instead, what I found was a small but state-of-the-art TV studio surrounded by a series of bustling offices, littered, like any good newsroom, with doodled-on rough drafts, rattling Blackberries, and cartons of leftover fries from Hardee’s.
Read more:
www.theatlantic.com/international/archi...

Reuters
Eni sends team to west Libya oifield-govt source

Italian oil and gas company Eni sent a team of engineers to work on the restart of its Wafa field in western Libya on Wednesday, a source in the interim government said.

Link:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/12/idUS...

libyatv Libya TV
Libyan oil to hit 1 million BPD english.libya.tv/2011/10/12/lib… #Libya

Reuters
Libya’s NTC fighters find 25 corpses in Sirte

The corpses of 25 people wrapped in plastic sheets were found on Wednesday in the city of Sirte by government forces, who accused militias fighting for deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi of execution-style killings.
A Reuters team counted 25 corpses in plastic bags in a southern area of Sirte called “Neighbourhood 2”. Five corpses shown to the team had their hands tied behind their backs and gunshot wounds to the head. They wore civilian clothes.
A commander with the National Transitional Council (NTC) said the corpses had been there for at least five days.

Source:
af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE7...

Sirtawi
#Sirte, SkyNews: NTC fighters pounding the city over Gaddafi men’s heads — الثوار يهدون الاسوار فوق رؤوس اعوان القذافي
Video:
youtube.com/watch?v=aGhj72…

or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGhj72o-1e4&fea...

Sarah
Photo: Sticker on our door. “I am Libya” #Proud2BeLibyan #Libya #France (Taken with instagram)
tumblr.com/ZPvHvwAazkju

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
Libyan #FFs on the #Sirte front with the Palestinian flag. #Palestine
yfrog.com/nvpy5uj

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
To Libyans:

THE MAN IN THE ARENA
Excerpt from the speech “Citizenship In A Republic”, delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
#Sirte battle is almost over NTC fighters control Green Square I was there also Hay Dollar and the center of the city #Libya

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
Los revolucionarios libios capturan la Plaza Verde d #Sirte y l centro d la ciudad ls gadafistas sólo resisten ya en 2 barrios #Libia

photo: NTC fighters walking aroun Green Square in #Sirte still you can see there some greens flags #Libya
yfrog.com/h7u20zxj

only Area 2, some parts of Area 1 and Zaafran, all near seaside, under control of last Gaddafi supporters #Sirte #Libya

“this is like Abu Slim in Tripoli they kept fighting for a while after everything was over in Tripoli” 1 NTC fighter #Sirte #Libya

photo: NTC fighters in Hay al Dollar destruction is really amazing water cover many streets #Sirte #Libya
yfrog.com/kh7zrfjj

MAP REMINDER SIRTE:
twitpic.com/6z6no2/full

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#Sirte #Update by Tony Birtley of @Skynews : “Coup de Grace” is about to be delivered goo.gl/Fhe2j #Libya

With Gaddafi on the Run, the focus turns to #Sahara’s #Tuareg Long Report: goo.gl/awvd7 #Libya #Niger

#TRIPOLI Dutch Ambassador Gerard #Steeghs and his team have opened the Dutch Embassy today #Libya

Ennahar online
Sirte, soon in the hands of pro-NTC fighters
Libyan NTC fighters were about to take control of the city of Sirte, the bastion of the old regime, where the forces loyalist to Colonel Gaddafi are pushed to their limits, after a long siege and heavy fighting.A senior military official of NATO forces said that the fall of Sirte is a very important moment but would not be the only factor in deciding to terminate the operations launched by the alliance in March last.
The other bastion of Gaddafi, the town of Beni Walid is also besieged by the NTC fighters who wish to release it along with Sirte.
Link:
www.ennaharonline.com/en/international/...

Telegraph
Libyan rebels ransack home of Gaddafi daughter in Sirte
The latest footage from Sirte shows Libyan revolutionary forces breaking into the seemingly abandoned home of Aisha Gaddafi, one of the daughters of the deposed dictator
Aisha is Muammar Gaddafi’s only biological daughter, her mysterious sister Hana having been adopted. She is believed to have fled to Algeria along with other members of the Gaddafi family after the fall of Tripoli.
Video and more:

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...

#Libye:
la production de pétrole reprend plus vite que prévu, dit l’AIE – romandie.com/news/n/_Libye_… via @Romandie

AJE:
Update report on battle for Sirte 17.10GMT 12/10/2011 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhrmWKkKkYE&fea... via @youtube

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
photo: house on fire in Hay al Dollar #Sirte #Libya
yfrog.com/h0ey3nhj

photo: NTC fighters patrolling Hay al Dollar in the center of #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/oeh4mnj

Libyan4life
Medical workers at a hospital outside #Sirte said four NTC fighters were killed and 43 others were wounded today. #Libya #Feb17

NTC says they control all of #Sirte except from two areas: The Number Two and The ‘Dollar’ neighborhoods. #Gaddafi forces hold those areas

LibyeLibre Libye Libre
25 corps dans des sacs plastiques découverts à Syrte
20minutes.fr/ledirect/80475…

ShimElYasmine ياسمين
One thing I love most about Libyans is the respect and love they always show for their parents.

Mushu
So… where the heck is #Gaddafi, I wonder. #Libya #Feb17

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
photo: nothing like going to war on a bicycle #Sirte #Libya
yfrog.com/h6hrtrej

Aljazeera
Libya fighters take last Sirte escape route
NTC fighters reach the coast and isolate remaining loyalists in two pockets of Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown

National Transitional Council (NTC) forces have reached the coast near the city of Sirte, cutting off the last remaining land escape route for forces loyal to deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and isolating them in two remaining pockets inside the city.
Sirte, Gaddafi’s hometown, has become the key battleground in the NTC’s final push to control the country.

Though the town of Bani Walid, south of the capital Tripoli, remains in loyalist hands, NTC leaders have said they will declare Libya liberated once Sirte falls.

Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley, reporting from close to the frontline, said that fighters had “punched through the last line of defence”, a wall surrounding the heart of the city, and were within 200 metres of the centre.
Read more and video:
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...

Kansas City
With Gadhafi on the run, focus turns to Sahara’s Tuareg

Stragglers on the march to modernity, swords at their sides, the nomadic Tuareg of West Africa, long a footnote in world affairs, may be about to take a more central role in counter-terrorism policy, thanks to the ouster of Libya’s former leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Where the Tuareg once manned camel convoys of salt and slaves across the Sahara desert, today they’re surfacing as shadowy agents in a global game of drugs and terrorism, in a corner of the world that’s suffering from the aftershocks of the war in Libya.
Full art.:
www.kansascity.com/2011/10/12/3202446/w...

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
photo: a tank moving near the park of Hay Al Dollar in the center of #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/kl3zrpnj

photo: praying in the midst of battle in Hay al Dollar #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/nxin4fsj

photo: 1 NTC sniper shooting against Area Number 2 #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/kkhfemvyj

photo: NTC fighters running under sniper fire #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/ntb3ppj

photo: NTC fighters replaced Gaddafi flag by the revolutionary in Hay Dollar center of #Sirte #Libya
yfrog.com/oca1zvj

photo: NTC fighters Gaddafi burn a green flag in the center of #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/j2c14gbdj

more photos of the new national revolutionary cycling team today running on flat #Sirte #Libya
yfrog.com/kh3dhawj
photo: A sophisticated sniper rifle confiscated from Gaddafi troops yfrog.com/nxqexkuj

photo: NTC fighters patrolling the center of Sirte still holding green flags yfrog.com/o096xsgj

photo: another sophisticated weapon confiscated to Gaddafi Army like a grenade launcher Rambo style #Sirte #Libya
yfrog.com/obg66ymj

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
Hoy una jornada muy simbólica en #Sirte la victoria de los revolucionarios es un hecho al final se abrazaban y disparaban al aire #Libia
as last resort Gaddafi forces are launching a kind of mines with parachutes we saw them before in Misrata no sound but deadly #Sirte #Libya
same type of mines that @cjchivers saw also in Misrata my friend Ricardo G Vilanova saw 1 NTC car destroyed 2 days ago by 1 #Sirte

HodaAH Hoda Abdel-Hamid
i saw them in misrata. They’re rocket dispersed mines. ultra sensitive. They self implode,usually after 72hrs.

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
yes they are the same in Misrata they wounded a couple of guys in the port

markito0171 Mark
GF leave S&E&Center of #Sirte & move westward in direction 2 #Misrata #FF -roadblocks
twitpic.com/6zc3q2

IOL ZA
SA sniper rifles in Libya – report
South African-made sniper rifles have found their way into the hands of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces, according to Sunday’s Rapport newspaper.
A video seen by the newspaper shows rebel fighters displaying the rifles after they were taken from pro-Gaddafi troops.
The rifles have “seven or eight highly unique characteristics” that prove they came from Truvelo Manufacturers in Midrand, Gauteng, according to Tom Wolmarans, a

former police officer who used to work for the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague.
According to the paper other weapons and forensic experts agreed with this opinion.
Art.:
www.iol.co.za/news/africa/sa-sniper-rif...

moez معز
Huge crisis of patients needing to be transferred out of #Sirte – field hospitals working at max capacity #Libya #feb17

#Misrata also full capacity and so cannot accept any patients there – many still injured in #sirte #Libya #feb17

Ibn Sina hospital in very bad shape – obstetrics/gynae and neonatal departments completely destroyed by rockets #sirte #libya
Resources very stretched between already stretched #Libyan resources and intnl NGOs #sirte #libya
Unconfirmed reports that some medical (nursing?) staff may have been injured or killed in rocket damage to Ibn Sina hospital #Sirte #Libya
Large capacity chinook helicopter finally got NATO clearance to evacuate patients #sirte —> #tripoli direct today #Libya #feb17

jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
shown bodies of at least 30 men executed in #sirte, just found today but estimated 2-3 days old, all bound with zip ties and gun shot wounds

executed men may have been revolutionaries from #sirte, killed when Gaddafi forces pulled back. Hopefully more answers on identities.

Tarek
More presence of police all over #Tripoli and less checkpoints and guns around in the last week or so while I’m there. #Libya

Video:
#NTC fighters enter #Sirte- الثوار يدمرون رموز للقذافي فى سرت 12/10/2011 youtube.com/watch?v=imKwep…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=imKwepKLQx4&fea...

Tarek
Two huge #Libyan flag waving in the sky over #Tripoli. #Libya twitpic.com/6zc1xs
Another brilliant graffiti in #Tripoli, #Libya
(Graffiti) How to get rid of the biggest rat in #Libya and who can do it in #Tripoli
JW #Marriott Hotel #Tripoli was not looted after the capital fell & here is a photo I took on Wed 12/10/11. #Libya
twitpic.com/6zd0d7
#Tripoli today morning (Wed 12/10/11), I like how the skies look. #Libya twitpic.com/6zd1pt

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Sheikh Mohammed Al Araify in Misrata who famously spoke about #Gadaffi wearing the Libyan traditional clothes #Libya
pic.twitter.com/8jVFakuS

#Angelina Jolie today in #Tripoli with some very happy ladies.Its time to smile Libyan people. #Gadaffi is fading away
pic.twitter.com/LFlrPSnZ

Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Angelina Jolie visited pro-Gadafi prisoners, orphans, and several hospitals in Misrata, yesterday #Libya

Angelina Jolie left to Qatar today from Tripoli, visited a school,African refugees, & Abdul Hahkeem Belhaj, head of Tripoli military council

Sarah
#Libye : L’Autriche dégèle les avoirs Libyens d’un montant d’1 milliard d’Euro sans conditions ni restriction.

Open_Oil OpenOil
unusually sad graffiti in #tripoli-“muammar is a child whose mother did not raise him” #libya

lufthansa,turkish airlines and bmi have cancelled flights in/out of #tripoli-is anyone still flying?or anybody know why?

IMC_Worldwide Intl Medical Corps
Our field hospitals are near the frontline in Libya, helping families fleeing violence @guardian_world reports:
guardian.co.uk/world/middle-e…

septimius severus
The head of OPEC has urged #Libya to set up an effective Oil Ministry as soon as possible
bit.ly/neBo1Y

AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Video: Angelina Jolie Visits Libya
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… #AngelinaJolie #Libya #Misrata #Qaddafi #NTC #AlArabiya

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#TRIPOLI Press Conf #Jalil today English
goo.gl/i5mZ4 #Tunisia and #Libya agreed to make security and secure borders a Priority

#SIRTE Hospital Ibn Sina Desperate and Distressing Scenes
goo.gl/EPdIL #Libya

#Bani Walid Lieutenant Gen #KhalifaHaftar leads convoy of 100 SUV s full of FFtowards #BaniWalid where Saif Al Islam said 2b HoledUp #Libya

#BaniWalid more than 20,000 civilians are still in BW Mercenaries and militia roam the streets There is no DR no water or electricity
Bani Walid in recent days received reinforcements from #Tripoli + #Nafusa mountains the fight for BW was resumed today #Libya
#Tripoli 12/10 #French Foreign Trade Minister #PierreLellouche together with a business delegation was on a 1day visit to #TRIPOLI #Libya

#Jalil : after we free #Sirte Within less than month we will form Transitional government The youth & women will have a role in that #Libya

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
Back from a long day in #BaniWalid – Fighters expecting fresh NATO strikes, while “reorganising” their forces

#BaniWalid Fighters on south side from Zawiya and Jadu joined by members of new National Army
#BaniWalid fighters say their final offensive will come “soon”. Maintain timing is separate from events in #Sirte

WyreDavies Wyre Davies
Some media outlets jumping the gun. #Sirte is not “liberated” yet nor is the fighting over, even according to NTC army commanders. #Libya

RasmusTantholdt Rasmus Tantholdt TV2
#NTC fighters celebrating victory in #Sirte.
nyhederne.tv2.dk/article.php/id-4458727...

Rediff News
AMAZING PHOTOS! Gaddafi’s last bastion set to fall

Amid a pitched battle, Libyan rebel fighters are heading for, what many say, ‘the final assault.’
Libyan National Transitional Council chairman Mustafa Abdul Jalil has said that their fighters have reached the centre of Sirte, the hometown of former dictator Muammar Gaddafi, and hope that they will be able to capture the entire city by the end of this week. Jalil also informed the Bani Walid, another stronghold of Gaddafi, was under siege ‘from no fewer than five sides.’
However, lack of co-ordination has hit the NTC fighters hard, also known as the ‘Revolutionaries’, with many killed or seriously injured by pro-Gaddafi soldiers. In

short, the bloody war is just about to reach its climax.

See more photo’s:
www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-sh...

China Daily
NTC financial chief stresses transparency
TRIPOLI – Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) will treat transparency as a priority in its future economic work in the worn-torn country, a finance official from the NTC executive office said Tuesday.
At a press conference in the capital Tripoli, NTC oil and finance chief Ali Tarhouni said they will publish a 150-page report on the financial situation of the executive office which shows the usage of every penny of its revenues.
Art.:
www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2011-10/12/...

Reuters
Prominent Libyan Islamist joins NTC-linked group
An influential Libyan Islamist cleric who has criticised the country’s new leaders joined a group affiliated with the interim ruling National Transitional Council on Wednesday, in what could be a sign of the growing clout of religious figures.
“I joined the National Group for Work to cooperate with them … as I think that all political forces should be involved in building the nation,” Ali al-Sallabi told Reuters.

More:
uk.news.yahoo.com/prominent-libyan-isla...

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Every Libyan needs to watch this .. It is so #FUNNY :
Libya Muammar Gaddafi, Islamophobia 4 Dummies, Jon Stewart Daily Show Colbert
Islamophobia for Dummies goes to Libya to cover the Libyan Revolution and Muammar Gaddafi, with funny clips from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert The Colbert Report, Libya Protest, Mess O’ The Whole Potamia Region, Mess O’ North Africa, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Morocco, Danny Trejo, Lionel Richie, dancing on the ceiling, Rihanna, Now that it’s raining more than ever, You can stand under my white umbrella, Green Square, NBC Richard Engel, President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, ABC News, African Mercenaries, Aliens vs. Predator, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, actual monster.com, hallucination pills, nescafe with milk, Anderson Cooper, CNN AC360, Al Qaeda pill-popping theory, Zanga Zanga song, BBC, You can’t fire Muammar Gaddafi, PressTV, U.N. General Assembly, suspended from the Human Rights Council, Gaddafi’s Ukrainian nurse, strategic crazy reserve. 40 to 50 women bodyguards, Bengazi, no-fly zone, cease fire, baby war, Abdel Bari Atwan, Mervat Mohsen, War in Libya, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, NBC Meet The Press David Gregory, Aasif Mandvi

Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixxOarCajd0

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#BaniWalid Fighters on south side from Zawiya and Jadu joined by members of new National Army

libyans_revolt omar
#Misrata hospital received 5 martyrs and 44 injured in today’s #sirte liberation battle.

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo

#BaniWalid FrontLine NorthSide
goo.gl/90nSl FF reorganising #Libya Civilians got another day to escape #Nato strikes expected #Libya

#Tripoli Tunisia PM #Essebsi met Jalil today 2Restore Trade Ties Tunisia workers will b given Priority 4 any re Construction Projects #Libya

#FLASH #Spain announced Wednesday that it is bringing back the four F-18 Fighter Jets it sent to #Libya to help enforce its no-fly zone
#Spain will continue contribute 2 #NATO with 2Refueling Planes Keep Frigate + Coast G Surveill plane but will withdraw its #Submarine #Libya

#FLASH #FLIGHTS from #Tripoli resumes from November #Italy “Alitalia” has agreed to resume flights from the 2nd of #November #Libya

#NTC got requests from #AiRFrance #EgyptAir #RoyalJordanianAirlines #Tunisair #AustrianAirlines all will resume flights in Nov or asap

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
Near the frontline outside BANI WALID
yfrog.com/18a55ftj ##LIBYA ##AJE ##BANIWALID

Tarek
#Radisson Blu Al Mahary Hotel & Eye Hospital in #Tripoli today Wed 12/10/11. #Libya
twitpic.com/6zdmf7

SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: Three NTC officials say Gaddafi’s son Motassim has been captured in Sirte and is being held in Benghazi

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Libyan city of Sirte on the brink of falling is.gd/X5t5L2 #Libya

AFP: Libya forces drive to centre of Gaddafi hometown www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZVa7nw006g #Libya (youtube video)

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#Sirte on Brink of Falling Gaddafi fighters Trapped Tight Pocket 500Mtr by 1Km District 2 is deliberately flooded
goo.gl/zg9Mg Libya

Tarek
I am heading back to #London tomorrow and it was lovely to be back with family, friends etc in #Tripoli, will be back soon in #Libya

Another photo from #Tripoli today Wed 12/10/11. #Libya twitpic.com/6zdnb9

Another view from #Tripoli today Wed 12/10/11. #Libya
twitpic.com/6zdohv

I’ve been here for more than 13 days and I’m so happy to see #Tripoli behaving very well. Safer than expected.

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
News that #Moatssim #Gadaffi’s son has been arrested and taken to #Benghazi #Libya

yfrog.com/kg7xhykj

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#Sirte field hospital more than 600 patients have been seen at field hospital, 359 seen in 1st week of October 226 on October7 alone #Libya

After phone calls:
NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
NTC officials say #Gaddafi’s son Motassim has been captured in #Sirte and is being held in #Benghazi

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
All hell just broke loose outside in Tripoli. Celebratory gunfire, ululations, children running around, whistling.. holy s**t. #libya

HebaShi Mub
Muatasem here ? in #Benghazi ! really ?!!! #LetMeAtHim >x(

everyone .. please don’t go gaga about any Muatasem news. no wait Ok go xD #GotNoThingToLose

Khadija Ali
WE CAUGHT MUTASSIM GADDAFI!!!!!!!!!!!! #LIBYA #FREEDOM
I can’t wait to see Mutassim Gaddafi in court!!! #Libya #Sirte

Tarek
What is going on in #Tripoli now? Lots of gun fire in the skies

OMG, #Tripoli is so crazy out there now, I am loving it. #Libya
The skies are so fun of gun shots. #Libya
So celebrations in #Tripoli now. #Mustassam is captured but I want to see him first

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
All you can hear in #Tripoli right now is Gunfire and the Ladies Zaghroota!! Lets hope this is True. #Gadaffi ur next!! #Libya

Sarah
So Mutassim #Gaddafi have been captured.. Rumors or not I want to believe it ! Let me enjoy :D & if it’s a rumor then ma3leshi next time..

Ahmed
Tripoli is going mad!! Allahu akbar!!!! #tripoli #libya (Prays for this not to be a unfounded rumour!!)

Ismael Zmirli They captured Mutassim ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
MUTASSIM GADDAFI HAS BEEN CAPTURED AND WAS MOVED TO BENGHAZI. SOURCE: NTC OFFICIALS

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
All hell has broken loose in Libya .. Everyone is celebrating the capture of Muatassim Gaddafi

flyingbirdies أكرم
Gunfire & fireworks & cars honking celebration once again in Tripoli, hope the news about the capture of gaddafi’s son are true. #Libya

Hana S.
I’m online with my folks in #Misurata and can hear gunfire. Waiting to see Mutassim for real. #Feb17 #Libya

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Breaking: Reuters: NTC Officials confirm Muatassim Gaddafi has been captured in Sirte & taken to Benghazi #libya #Feb17 Allahu Akbar!!!!!!!!

#AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #libya #Feb17

AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Three Libyan NTC officials in Sirte and Benghazi say #Gaddafi\‘s son Mo\’tassim captured in Sirte, being held in Benghazi

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Reuters: Three NTC officials say Gaddafi’s son Motassim has been captured in Sirte and is being held in Benghazi” #Benghazi #Sirte

Mutasam is being taken from Sirte to Benghazi by NTC forces #Libya

Celebrations in Benghazi and Tripoli to the news that Mutasam al Gaddafi had been caught by NTC Forces #Libya

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#Tripoli is going Crazy with Celebratory gunfire right now News is out that #MU’ATASSIM #Gaddafi has been Captured #Libya

Aljazeera
Libya’s NTC claims capture of Gaddafi son
Mutassim Gaddafi, one of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi’s sons, has been arrested in Sirte, according to three officials from Libya’s National Transitional Council who spoke to the Reuters news agency.
He is currently being held in Benghazi, the NTC’s eastern power base, the officials said.
Mutassim served as his father’s national security adviser while the regime was still in power, but was not seen as being as prominent as Saif al-Islam and Khamis, two of his other brothers.
Saif was considered Gaddafi’s likely successor, while Khamis controlled the country’s most powerful military unit, which was named after him.
Both Said and Khamis’ whereabouts are unknown, though the NTC reported months ago that it had arrested Saif, only to be proven wrong hours later when he made a public appearance in Tripoli, the capital, then still under Gaddafi’s control.

Reuters
NTC officials:Gaddafi son Mo’tassim caught in Sirte

TRIPOLI Oct 12 (Reuters) – Three officials representing Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) told Reuters on Wednesday that Muammar Gaddafi’s son Mo’tassim was captured in Sirte on Tuesday, trying to escape the town in a

car with a family.
He was taken to Benghazi on Wednesday morning where he was questioned, they said. They gave no further details.
The NTC officials, based in Sirte and Benghazi, declined to be named but have provided accurate information to Reuters before. (Reporting by Barry Malone; Editing by Louise Ireland)

Sky News
Gaddafi’s Son Mutassim ‘Captured In Sirte’
Ousted Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s son Mutassim has been captured in Sirte, National Transitional Council officials have told the Reuters news agency.
He was reported to have been taken to Benghazi, the power base of the revolution, on Wednesday morning to be questioned.
During the battle for Tripoli in August it was reported that three of Gaddafi’s sons – Sai al-Islam, Saadi and Mohammed – had been seized by anti-Gaddafi fighters but they either escaped or the claims were incorrect.
The former dictator’s fifth son was widely reported to be leading the defence of Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte, which the interim Government’s fighters say they are slowly bringing under their control.
“More than 80 percent of Sirte is now under our control. Gaddafi’s men are still in parts of the Number Two and the ‘Dollar’ neighbourhoods,” National Transitional Council commander Mustah Hamza said.
Source:
news.sky.com/home/article/16088032

AJEnglish
Jazeera English keeps putting up Hannibals picture saying it’s Motassim .

Khadija Ali
I feel more free (never thought that would be posstible), like something has been lifted off my chest. #ThankGod #WeCaughtMutassim

Tarek Alwan
So loud party in #Tripoli tonight, I don’t want to sleep. Celebration in whole #Libya

the whole city of #Tripoli is so crazy now, party time in whole

This is my first time to witness such a huge celebration in #Tripoli, ppl are so happy to see Mutassam captured.#Libya

the amount of ammunition is fired tonight in #Tripoli is unbelievable. so crazy down here. Party time in #Libya. Mutassam is captured.

I am talking to #London on skype and the noise is so loud that it’s heard over there.
Takbeer is also heard everywhere in #Tripoli, #Libya

I have to leave #Tripoli so early tomorrow and I don’t want to sleep and not to miss the celebrations

Now we want to see the proof. #Mutassem is reported to be captured.

Jamal
Suddenly right after mo’tassim’s capture, #Gaddafi trolls disappeared, I can’t see any of them on twitter!

RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Just spoke fmr Libyan gen Faez Gebril, he confirms that Mu’tasim Gaddafi is captured.

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#BREAKING #Mo’tassim was captured #Sirte on Tuesday trying 2escape town in car with a family Taken 2 #Benghazi Already Questioned #Libya

AJELive AJELive
James Bays says military spokesman says he has not been in touch with anyone who has seen Mutassim Gaddafi in custody. #Libya

AJE: James Bays: we’ve spoken to many high level NTC members and they have all heard the news about Motassim but cannot confirm it.

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#Muatassim Gaddafi was Captured YESTERDAY in #Sirte and NO PHOTO or Video as #Prove in 24 Hours ? UGH We have gone down this road b4 #Libya

#LibyaAhrar: Capture #Muatasim 100% confirmed Was catured by member of military police on FrontLines then brought to #Benghazi @MwattinLeebi

#SIRTE Tamer Almzhal CONFIRMS news of arrest Mu’tasim 12/10/2011 #Sirte Celebrates #Video
goo.gl/QVftf #Libya

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
Back in Misrata here everybody celebrating news about Mutasim capture shooting in the air even with heavy machine guns #Sirte #Libya

columns of cars driving like crazy people celebrating in streets skies full of red tracer bullets ¡Ala Uakbar! shout people #

but remember that many other news like this were never confirmed for example Musa Ibrahim captured #Sirte #Libya

afp también dice q Mutasem Gadafi, el hijo del ex dictador, ha sido capturado en #Sirte pero todavía no hay imágenes que lo confirmen #Libia

“Mouatassim Gaddafi a été capturé á Syrte et il a été transféré á Benghazi” déclaré á l’AFP ce responsable, Abdelkarim Bizama #Sirte #Libya

this guy Abdelkarim Bizama is their source at the NTC

they mention this guy Abdelkarim Bizama as a high rank member of the NTC

fuegos artificiales en #Misrata para celebrar el anuncio de la captura de Mutasim Gadafi más sano q los disparos al aire #Sirte #Libia

Abdelaly
ENOUGH SAID YES WE NEED PHOTOS SO WE CAN SLEEP AND NO RACING MIND

Photo’s or video first before I believe it!



SUMMARY OCTOBER 13th 2011

10/13/11
10.13.11

NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya –
goo.gl/v95Fs

UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Wed pm: RAF aircraft identified a pick-up truck, armed with an anti-aircraft artillery piece, in use by Qadhafi’s troops in Bani Walid.

A Brimstone missile, launched from a Tornado GR4, scored a direct hit on the vehicle and left it ablaze.

Wed pm: Patrol over Sirte engaged armed vehicle NATO surveillance had spotted. A direct hit from a Brimstone missile destroyed the vehicle.

Khadija Ali
@HomelandYouth #NoToCeleBullets #NoToCeleBullets #NoToCeleBullets #NoToCeleBullets #NoToCeleBullets #NoToCeleBullets #NoToCeleBullets

Aljazeera:
One of Mutassim’s bodyguards was captured yesterday in Sirte.
He then told the ff his whereabouts.

RenaNetjes Rena Netjes
Just spoke fmr Libyan gen Faez Gebril, he confirms that Mu’tasim Gaddafi is captured.

Gebril: Revol. Fighters discovered his walkie talkie signal around 2 wks ago, so could track and follow him, his walkie talkie code was 01

AJA correspondent: ‘All military sites celebrate in Sirt. Muta’sim has been captured in Dolar neighbourhood, he has been trying to escape..

the last 2 days, Mu’tasim has been trying to escape by the sea.’

AJA corresp: ’Mu’tasim has been captured after Rev Fighters have been combing the areas acc to Field commanders.’

Reuters
Libyan forces make chaotic advance into Sirte
Obaid pulled up in his pick-up truck keen to fire the multiple rocket launcher mounted on the back at Gaddafi loyalists holding out in the Libyan city of Sirte, but just as he was about to shoot, he stopped to ask which way to aim.
Read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/12/us-l...

Reuters
Libya fighters capture Gaddafi son in Sirte: NTC
Libyan government fighters captured Muammar Gaddafi’s son Mo’tassim in Sirte on Wednesday after he tried to escape the battle-torn city in a car with a family, officials with the National Transitional Council (NTC) told Reuters.
More:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/12/us-l...

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
We are just waiting for #Mustafa #Abduljaleel to see #Moatssim with his own eyes before they announce it. #Libya

If #Moatssim is being driven back from #Sirt it will take at least 4 hours.So we are going to have to be patient #Libya

Lets all wait for an official statement by our #NTC. The news has been given by REUTERS and not any NTC official #Libya

People asking the #NTC for video proof. Have you ever seen them on twitter !! #Libya

#Moatassim caught or not? Im more interested in #Sirt and #BW and the Libyans there #Libya

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
Al Arabiya:3 other people were captured with Motassiam: Bashir Saleh, Ahmed Ibrahim &Saleh Greim #libya

An injured #FF in #Sirte #Libya
pic.twitter.com/rvNJIJ43

Tweeting Tripoli
I can confirm this guys capture… Khalid Tantoosh!
yfrog.com/nui0llwj

yfrog.com/nwoufkj

He is one of Gaddafi’s mullahs who orders people to kill the revolutionaries/protesters missusing religion!!!

This is so sad. Have been going from place to place to look for Ammu to send to BW, and they waste zillions of bullets all in the air #fail

A friend from told me casualties from #celebullets started to arrive to Tripoli Medical Center! This is crazy.

I will not comment on Mutassam Gaddafi’s capture news, till I see a photo evidence…. Oops I just did!

Why do I have a feeling that all those #celebullets were in vain? The amount was so huge it could have liberated BW in no time!!! :(

Will we hear a message from Mutassim tomorrow, laughing at us? Or will NTC show us some evidence?

I still hear #celebullets in Ain Zara :(

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Rumor or not, people are having a blast. This revolution is special because it’s so damn random lol. #libya #Tripoli

Nasr
Once da news is proven wrong #NTC must punish / suspend whoever among its members started the rumor or contributed 2 spreading it. #Mutassim

bint_tarhouna
Why are people losing scope of the big picture, we have Sirte…..that little cockroach/ zigriloo is an extra bonus. #libya

Last night:
septimius_sever septimius severus
Some more damage from celebratory gunfire tonight! #Libya #Tripoli pic.twitter.com/RCXqM7bp

malonebarry Barry Malone
Some men in Tripoli’s old city offered me some alcohol they were swigging to celebrate reports of Mo’tassim’s capture #Libya

AmazighLibya
Why cant the idiots celebrate like this dude/FF in #Sirte? #notocelebullets twitpic.com/6zfopr

Salma
The celebratory gunfire here in Benghazi is both non-stop and ridiculous. Can’t we just have cake or something?

Mike
The person who called AlArabiya with news of Mutassim Gaddafi is Essa AbdelMajid Mansur. AlArabiya said he was NTC via Thanku4theAnger

Heba
LibyaTV he just said that #Mutassim was caught trying to jump in the sea to make a run through swimming away =))

Aljazeera #Breaking :
Rebel sources #FFs say they CAN NOT confirm #Muatassim’s arrest. #Libya

One Field commander from #Sirte says that #Muatassim’s Arrest might be a rumor to facilitate his escape from #Sirte

Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Abdulla Naker: Tripoli Comander “Mutasem Gadafi arrested in 4hr battle” Col. Ahmed Bani, ministry of defense " We have no confirmation yet "

iHallucinate¯\(ツ)/¯
#PleaseBeTrue #PleaseBeTrue #PleaseBeTrue #PleaseBeTrue #PleaseBeTrue #PleaseBeTrue #PleaseBeTrue #PleaseBeTrue

Heba
OK PEOPLE. Forget all news agencies & “NTC Sources” crap. MY SOURCES in #Benghazi through several Calls tell me #Muttasim arrested >>NOTTRUE

I called to check the three most possible places in #Benghazi where #Muatassim could be taken to. ALL SAID NOTHING GOING AROUND . #Libya

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Landed #Malta

#Malta independent newspaper is reporting that #mutassim #gaddafi is in dollar st #Sirte. #Libya

#Malta independent newspaper is reporting that #mutassim #gaddafi is in Dollar St #Sirte. Extremely precise location, how do they know?

Ha! Sounds like the Maltese knew where #mutassim was all along. clever #Malta. #Libya

maltese indi said he was in dollar st. now everyone tweeting he was captured (as ever unconfirmed)

Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
Abdulla Naker, is one who started this Gadafi “arrest” saga. Defense ministry & senior NTC members either cannot confirm or deny.

#CNN Gadhafi son reported captured
edition.cnn.com/2011/10/12/wor…? #Libya #Sirte

Reuters started the “Mutasem Gadafi” arrest quoting Abdulla Naker, head of Tripoli Revolutionary Council, NTC senior members clueless #Libya

Heba
#Libya’s future : how on earth r we going to turn back those cars, pick up trucks, vans & buses the way they were
yfrog.com/mepgapj

According to @tripolicouncil 5 injured arrived to Alkhadra Hospital in #Tripoli so far, because of celebratory gunfire! #Libya

Sarah
And I have an exam tomorrow and I didn’t revise yet.. #BlameItOnReuters?
When I see how Libyans are celebrating for an unconfirmed news I wonder how they do for a confirmed now.

Amir
#Libya NTC spox Shamsiddin Abdelmollah told me report about Motassim’s capture is unconfirmed. Another official denies it. #Sirte

Hamza
Last known picture of #MutassimGaddafi seen here fighting against Ash Ketchum. #Libya #Feb17
yfrog.com/ob6mvp

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Can we use Angelina Jolie to lure Gaddafi out of his hole? .. and no you can not adopt a Libyan child #Feb17

If Mutassim news is rumour its pure genius. Scares crap out of the Tahaleb and we get to party at the same time : )

I really don’t care now if Mutassim news is right or wrong. Everyone is Libya is loving it and having an EPIC PARTY : )

Video of Tripoli tonight celebrating
youtu.be/un8FM_C9Vu8 #Feb17 #libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=un8FM_C9Vu8&fea...

Never a boring day in #Feb17 : ) #Libya

AJA: Mustafa AbdelJalil: Tunisia government will hand over AlBaghdadi AlMahmudi

Abdallah Naker NTC Colonel confirms Capture of Mutassim Gaddafi #Feb17 #Libya #sirte

FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
#AJA NTC confirms fighters captured Muttasim Gaddafi in Sirte. He’s been taken to Benghazi. #Libya
aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/60B0…

Fighters refused to announce the capture of Muttasim Gaddafi before he was transferred to Benghazi for fear attempts to rescue him #Libya

you should tell the @Telegraph online editors that this pic is of Hannibal, not Muttasim www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...

Ahmed
#Tripoli art … Loving it!
pic.twitter.com/uJ1jDwAI

Another piece of Libyan art in #tripoli
pic.twitter.com/UOFL4ymE

Interesting point, when #tripoli was about to fall we got news of Saif’s ‘capture’. Now Sirte is about to fall and we get Mutassm

AJA Benghazi correspondent says NTC officials still not sure & that Mutassim news arrived over radiocomm but no mil commanders cnfirm #libya

Field commanders in Sirte deny capture of Muttasim Gaddafi #Libya v @alssomood

Hana S.
My folks are celebrating news of #Sirte liberation … this is all surreal

Libyan city of Sirte on the brink of falling gu.com/p/32t37 via @petersbeaumont from #Sirt #Libya

Amnesty: “Detention Abuses Staining the New #Libya ” Report (PDF) www.amnesty.org.uk/uploads/documents/do... #NTC

Zlitniya
Almanara:since news of #MutassimGaddafi capture 13 injured ppl hv bn admitted2markiz tubbi in #Tripoli due2stupid #celebratorybullets #Libya

#Libya struggling to win over Gaddafi loyalists – @FT
on.ft.com/pJO8ia #feb17 via @borzou

Libya says working on border security with Tunisia | Reuters
reut.rs/oFumnI

septimius severus
a couple of minor details photo is of Hannibal & moutasim is 37, doesn’t inspire confidence in the report really @Telegraph

septimius_sever septimius severus
#Libya FF carried the body of a comrade who was killed during a mortar attack in #Sirt pic.twitter.com/cTS37HtO

Mawadda Elmabruk
Guys this is dangerous! Come on this is the second bullet to enter my house! Please stop! #Tripoli #Libya

AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libya’s #NTC claims it has captured #Gaddafi son in family hometown Sirte goo.gl/bSOtm

Free Libya
You’ve got to hand it to them, G goons are the best actors when they get captured, it’s all puppy dog eyes and vulnerable postures. #puke

Commanders in Sirte say no evidence Muttasim was captured in Dollar suburb. Tightening security for fear he’ll escape #Libya v @alssomood

AP: Libyan Leader Hopes To Declare Victory Within Week
goo.gl/vWGH0 #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
NTC Colonel Abdullah Naker confirms capture of Mutassam Al Gaddafi in Sirte, he has been taken to Benghazi #Libya #Sirte #Benghazi

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Reuters FACTBOX-Latest developments in Libyan conflict
goo.gl/EokJL #Libya

Swiss say trying to release dictators’ stashed loot
goo.gl/PhC7R #Libya

Libya: Gaddafi loyalists forced into tiny pocket in last stand
goo.gl/kGt0j #Libya

hominoid555 Russell
Takbeer might be a good name for a beverage to give to tourists in Libya

FYI: Mutassim Gaddafi’s name in Arabic literally means: “Sit-in Bomber”. “Gaddafi” in Arabic means "the one who bombards’.

Friedrich
Breaking: yet another spectacular piece of news from #Libya without any picture or video evidence.

Capture Mutassim:
Ahmed
guessing it’ll turn out to be fake! either that or NTC are asleep :P

WyreDavies Wyre Davies
When all else fails, blast the heck out of the place you’re trying to take – current NTC thinking in #Sirte. Intense shelling again today.

FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
Misrata fighters surrounded Suburb No.2 & will continue pounding it w heavy weapons. Only area of Sirte not liberated v #SwatLibya #Libya

Moment Gaddafi’s witch doctor, Khaled Tantoush, capture in Sirte #Libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=iExBYHSLn44

guardian
Libya – the battle for Sirte: interactive
New government forces have captured a series of key strongholds near the city centre
www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/20...

Aljazeera
Libya’s National Transitional Council fighters have reached the costal route in Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, cutting off the last escape route for loyalists.
Gaddafi combatants are now surrounded in the city and are said to number no more than 2,000.
However, they are still putting up stiff resistance and inflicting casualties.
Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley reports from Sirte.

Video:
blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/libya-oct-...

You have to watch this:
FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
Liberation of families of Libyans & foreigners in apartment block in Sirte. One lady hands out candy #Libya
youtube.com/watch?v=bGCmnZ…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGCmnZa3IP4

Sheikh Salah Salam shows the talisman found in the eastern Sirte gate, after it was demolished #Libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5ZmNLNCXpM
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5ZmNLNCXpM

Reuters
UPDATE 2-Gaddafi’s son Mo’tassim caught in Sirte | Reuters
Wed Oct 12, 2011 8:10pm EDT

“I can confirm there is an important figure who was arrested and is being transferred to Benghazi,” Mohammed Bouker of the National Working Group, an NTC committee, told Reuters.

“The name will be announced tomorrow for security reasons.”
More:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/13/liby...

Reuters
Factbox: Gaddafi’s children

Oct 13 – The capture by Libya’s new rulers of Muammar Gaddafi’s son Mo’tassim has put the spotlight on the former leader’s children, whose reputation for extravagance, violence and dysfunctional behavior almost equaled his.

As the anti-Gaddafi rebellion gathered force, and eventually took over most of the country, some of his offspring sought refuge in friendly states. One son, Saif al-Arab, was killed.
Below are details on some of Gaddafi’s children:

www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/13/us-l...

Sky News
Gaddafi’s Son Mutassim ‘Captured In Sirte’
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s son Mutassim has been captured, Libyan officials have said – as anti-Gaddafi forces continue to pound the ousted dictator’s last supporters in the city of Sirte.

The National Transitional Council said Mutassim Gaddafi was arrested trying to flee the city in a car with his family.
There were celebrations on the streets of Benghazi, the power base of the revolution,

where reports said he was taken on Wednesday morning to be questioned.
During the battle for Libyan capital Tripoli in August, it was claimed three of Col Gaddafi’s sons – Saif al Islam, Saadi and Mohammed – had been seized by anti-Gaddafi fighters.

But they either escaped or the claims were incorrect.

Read more and video:
news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16...

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
Hopefully some photos in a bit – if the sand and dust has not finally killed my poor camera.

Muttasim Gaddafi story i’ll believe it when we see the pics – the NTC have stated b4 they’ve captured Moussa Ibrahim and Saif Gaddafi

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
Battering down the final wall into #Sirte Central
pic.twitter.com/VwPlmoYb

Laying down cover with bullets before the revolutionaries move through into the main citadel #Sirte #Libya
pic.twitter.com/Eb1fiRpg

And then the big guns roll into town #Sirte #Libya
pic.twitter.com/jBricmAw

They were soon tearing down all the symbols of #Gaddafi’s rule #Sirte pic.twitter.com/fNX3Cttg

And checking buildings #Sirte pic.twitter.com/aqTtVrOY

A commander signals that resistance is crumbling and orders everyone forward #Sirte pic.twitter.com/LxBlNCM6

Gaddafi’s showpiece city has been badly damaged #Sirte pic.twitter.com/eOg7KK8n

Rescued from the ruins – is this the start of a free #Libya? My pic of the day #Sirte pic.twitter.com/ZuNrxh6I

A fighter holds a rabbit amid the battle #Sirte
pic.twitter.com/72AaRXAY

Rocket man – revolutionaries with RPGs stalk the streets for #Gaddafi loyalists #Libya pic.twitter.com/rdvNdkp4

Prisoners – #Sirte #Libya
pic.twitter.com/LHFTmBdv

Moving street to street #Sirte #Libya
pic.twitter.com/Qlh7nh0x

The city falls – #Sirte #Libya
pic.twitter.com/2T8rCMIW

Mutassim
Fighters said caught in #Sirte but no confirmation from #Benghazi where supposed to have been taken #Skylibya

Brown_Moses Brown Moses
Did you come across any Americans fighting with the NTC forces? Matthew Van Dyke or Kevin Dawes for instance.

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
no Americans but plenty of British educated Libyans mainly from the NW #Skylibya

Cambo
Sirte is a city of 500,000 people, he could be anywhere

Ougadogou
How do NTC fighters treat refugees who are openly pro-Gaddafi? Any stories of reprisals or harrassment?

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
I visited one jail – appeared well run but many prisoners told me they’d been beaten and tortured when arrested

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
refugees seem to be well looked after – given food and drink and petrol to escape. Red Cres also finding homes

S. Al.
How many people do you estimate are still in the city? And how is their treatment by FF?

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
hard to say i saw hundreds of civs on Tuesday. None yesterday but quite a few young men in civ clothes who were arrested

S. Al.
Are FFs following a defined military strategy, or does it seem a little chaotic/improvised as it goes?

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
a bit of both but looks more chaotic

blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
did they have pics?

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
not of muttasim no. I won’t believe till they do. Remember all the others they said they caught #skylibya

bucketofsoda from Poland
Alex, do you have any evidence that FF carry out executions on Gs fighters. Venezuelan reporter claimed so yesterday.

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
i saw no evidence of this

Alison Roberts
In yr report of 12/10 1 prisoner (striped top) had face blurred – who and why (apart from obvious hiding identity) ?

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
geneva convention

DomnikTweet Girl in Dominica
be careful!

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
will do – in Misrata now so all good #skylibya

KayKas007 Kå¥ Kå$™®
where is Gaddafi’s son ( the one that was captured) at the moment?

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
supposed to be in #benghazi but officials say they have no knowledge. Capture may be a false report #skylibya

CamboDonut
Venezuelan reporters work for Chavez……nuff said

Axolotl
How much of Sirte under NTC & did they really capture Mutassim G? #libya

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
Muttasim maybe false report. we wait for vid or pix. Virtually all of it if not all by now #skylibya

Okunola taofeek
Libya,guy what the situation of libya right now and the citizen? sorry i learnt that most nigerian die in the conflict.

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
entire country under NTC control except Bani Waleed. don’t know about fate of Nigerians #skylibya
Ramirez
News from Black Libyans taken in Sirte? Did you check on ethnic cleansing of Tawerghas refugees there?

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
i’ve heard the rumours but can’t confirm #skylibya

alan cooper
treatment of POW ???

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
diff ?. saw some roughed up. Visited one jail appears well run but plenty of stories of torture on interogation #skylibya

Ramirez
Caught? So how is he speaking on Bani Walid radio????

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
as i say i’m sceptical unti definite confirmation. Remember the capture of Saif gadafi and Moussa ibrahim.

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Is is true FFs can slam shut revolving doors?

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
probably

mcmcdowel mcmcdowel
all Sirt under NTC control? no more tactical withdrawal?

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
u mean retreat! looks that way. still needs to be sealed off checkpoints etc but city has fallen #skylibya

weeladybird1981 weeladybird1981
so what happens now, when NTC have sirte? do they try to take bani walid,or declare governance having taken sirte?

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
declare a new government they’ve got all the ports and the oil and can now get the country back to business

Ramirez
So sorry but TeleSur is quicker than you. Reported Muatassim not caught.

Okunola taofeek
but u believe everything is in order because i ve lot friends over there not heard anything from since the conflict.

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
I can’t say. There were lots of African workers here when conflict started. In Feb i saw loads leaving via Egypt

CamboDonut
Alex do you prefer tea or coffee?

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
coffee in mornining tea after that. but beer mainly and that i very much on my mind at mo

olive2tun olive2tun
What is the situation of civilians in #Sirte ? Something to eat ?Hospital working again? injureds? Bombings? NGO ? #skylibya

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
Situation not good for civilians inside. They are getting out. Don’t know about deaths. Hospitals in bad shape

Ramirez
Well NTC announced they didn’t caught him.

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
if that’s the case there u have it. As i said NTC not very reliable on issues of captures

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
you need to ask a Libyan if you can try Aseeda with honey. Greatest dessert EVER . The dessert of champions : )

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
is that made into a drink – a seed like concoction. If it is I had it y’day. Breakfast of champs #skylibya

LeeJohnBarnes Lee John Barnes
Why are you hiding the anti-black racist pogroms of the NTC terrorists ?

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
i’m not

KayKas007 Kå¥ Kå$™®
thanks. Any possibility the anti-Gaddafi forces are gonna take over the whole town today? #benghazi #skylibya

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
highly likely if not already #skylibya

Brown_Moses Brown Moses
Does Misrata still have stringent entry requirements? Do they accept NTC issued press cards?

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
u need the right paperwork. NTC Tripoli then Min Info in Misrata #skylibya

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
No, you tuck into it with your hand. Life will never be the same again. Weetabix ain’t got nothing on Aseeda

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
I’ll ask my good friend and translator extrordinaire, abdel-basset

Ramirez
Well seems NTC has hard time controlling anything.

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
How long do you personally think it will be till the whole of Libya is free?

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
not sure Bani waleed not so important, tribal areas in sth even less so NTC have the important bits. I guess Bani will fall soon

CamboDonut CamboDonut
are there expected to be any prominent figures in Bani Walid or dead end again?

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
I personally doubt – my guess is gaddafi and his mob are either in sth or have legged it abroad

LeeJohnBarnes Lee John Barnes
Yes you have – all you have done is act as NATO’s media propaganda wing and acted as NTC racist atrocity apologists.

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
an interesting point and i’m sure others will agree. Dif to defend in 140 characters

Sierrasverdes1 Ramirez
How about the rebels fighting each other in Misrata?

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
not seen any of that – people seem very happy here not to have Gaddafi. Also very friendly and hospitable.

BealesysBoy Paul Beales
has Gadaffi’s son been seen yet and put in prison? as they said they had one of them a few months back but he escaped!

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
not sure what the latest is on this but i’m sceptical about the capture #skylibya

LeeJohnBarnes Lee John Barnes
The tragedy is that Libya will collapse into civil war once NATO stops bombing as Al Qaeda / Gaddfi loyalists begin insurgency

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
not sure about that – unlike Iraq, Libya does not have neighbours trying to destabalise it

CamboDonut
and Gaddafi and his family were a peace loving, flower-giving kinda people? You need to wake up Lee…

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
thankyou all for your questions. It has been fun but gotta go to Tripoli. Wife and kids calling – take care and best wishes alex #skylibya

Sky News
Loyalists Flee Villas In Gaddafi’s Home Town
Alex Rossi, Sky News correspondent, in Sirte
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s home town is now at the mercy of the revolutionaries as they tighten their control of Sirte.

AlThe streets are not secure but they are owned by fighters loyal to the interim government.
There may be a few loyalists still alive but most have fled or been blasted into submission.
Moving through the city is a dangerous occupation – you can hear bullets fizz over your head and ricochet off buildings.
It is hard to know what direction they are coming from as enthusiastic but badly trained National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters have moved in from three fronts backing the loyalists into a small area against the sea.

Full report and video:
news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16...

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
People!! The #NTC didnt say #Moatssim was caught !! it was #REUTERS !! So lets all keep that in mind !! #Libya

dont REUTERS need 2 sources before announcing something ?

When the NTC official spokesman comes and an announces it then we can moan about them lying

bint_tarhouna Free Libya
Feeling sorry for Jalil, having to set right the antics of minor NTC (or even random ppl w/ NTC connections and big mouths) #Libya

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
في جميع المعدلات تساوي سفر ‎#Gaddafi‏ ‎#libya‏ ‎
yfrog.com/meyfhzj‏

AJA: Bani Walid 13/10/2011 تقرير حسن الراشدي من يني وليد #Libya
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rQrA_frixE&fea...

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
In #malta waiting to get on #UN flight. Until we see photo evidence of #Mutassim capture must assume is another hoax.

Managed to get on the UN flight to #Libya. Next tweet will be from #Tripoli !

English Libya TV
Gaddafi’s son captured in Sirte

Celebratory bursts of gunfire and fireworks lit up the skies over Tripoli early this morning as word spread that NTC fighters had captured Muammar Gaddafi’s son Mo’tassim in Sirte.
The capture of the deposed leader’s national security adviser, and the first member of the Gaddafi family, is a big boost to Libya’s new rulers whose forces are still battling pro-Gaddafi fighters in his home town of Sirte.
National Transitional Council (NTC) officials told reporters Mo’tassim was captured yesterday after he tried to escape the battle-torn city in a car with a family.

“He was arrested today in Sirte,” Colonel Abdullah Naker, head of the Tripoli Revolutionary Council, told Reuters. Other NTC sources said Mo’tassim was taken to Benghazi where he was held and questioned at the Boatneh military camp. He was uninjured but exhausted.
As news of the capture spread, hundreds of people gathered in the capital’s old city, singing, waving Libya’s new flag and shouting “God is greatest”.
Ships sounded their whistles in the harbour and car drivers honked horns, many with passengers hanging from the windows.
“Now we have one Gaddafi,” shouted Mohammed, a 23-year-old engineer, who, despite it being banned in Libya, swigged from a bottle of alcohol with three friends. “Soon we will have the old man Gaddafi and all the Gaddafis.”

“But fair trial, fair trial,” said his friends.
One man hoisted a small girl on his shoulders, as men nearby unleashed volleys of gunfire into the air, sending some fleeing into doorways. Local reports said several people injured by celebratory gunfire were taken to hospital.
“Look at this child,” the man told reporters in English. “For her, there will be no memory of Gaddafi. He will be an old dream, just a bad dream. That is all.”
DISGUISE
Hundreds of NTC fighters took to the streets in other cities and fired into the air after Arab television channels broadcast news of the arrest.
Gaddafi loyalists have fought for weeks in Sirte, one of two major towns where they still have footholds, two months after rebels seized Tripoli.
But NTC fighters have made significant advances in Sirte in recent days. Yesterday, they said they were fighting pro-Gaddafi fighters in two small areas.
Many people who study Libya believe Mo’tassim belongs to a conservative camp — rooted in the military and security forces — which resisted his brother Saif al-Islam’s reform attempts.
A senior NTC military official told reporters that Mo’tassim had cut his usually long hair to disguise himself.
Gaddafi and his most prominent son, Saif Al-Islam, have been on the run since the fall of Tripoli. Gaddafi is believed to be hiding somewhere far to the south in the vast Libyan desert.
His daughter Aisha, her brothers Hannibal and Mohammed, their mother Safi and several other family members fled to Algeria in August. Another son, Saadi, is in Niger.
Libyan prosecutor Abdullah Banoun said yesterday the NTC had given approval for an investigation to be opened into Saadi over his role in the 2005 murder of a soccer

player.
NTC fighters in Sirte on Wednesday walked up the same battle-scarred streets strewn with empty ammunition cases where they had engaged in fierce clashes a day before. Other fighters searched houses as a few civilians emerged from basements.
“More than 80 percent of Sirte is now under our control. Gaddafi’s men are still in parts of the Number Two and the ‘Dollar’ neighbourhoods,” said NTC commander Mustah Hamza.
In the “Number Two” neighbourhood, government forces found 25 corpses wrapped in plastic sheets. They accused pro-Gaddafi militias of carrying out execution-style killings.
Five corpses shown reporters wore civilian clothes and had their hands tied and gunshot wounds to the head.
Green flags, the banner of Gaddafi’s 42 years in power, still flew above many buildings in the neighbourhood, but all appeared quiet.
Medical workers at a hospital outside Sirte said four NTC fighters were killed and 43 were wounded yesterday.
The NTC has said it will start the process of rebuilding Libya as a democracy only after the capture of Sirte, a former fishing village transformed by Gaddafi into a showpiece for his rule, replete with lavish conference halls and hotels.
NTC chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil said on a visit to Sirte on Tuesday that it would take two more days to take the town.
But the remnants of Gaddafi’s forces, surrounded on three sides in Sirte and with their backs to the sea, have fought tenaciously, perhaps believing they face mistreatment or worse.
Back from the front line, NTC fighters jostled as one man tried to punch a wounded prisoner and others struggled to keep him off. The prisoner repeatedly shouted that he was a civilian.
Any male of fighting age still in Sirte was under suspicion.
“We were staying in a basement,” one man, Gamal Ammar, said alongside family members. “Some of us were hit. If we had died it would have been better. We had no water and no food. We couldn’t get out.” As NTC fighters drew near, he fell silent.

Islamic hard-liners attack rival shrines in Libya

Islamic hard-liners have attacked about a half-dozen shrines in and around Tripoli belonging to Muslim sects whose practices they see as sacrilegious, raising religious tensions as Libya struggles to define its identity after Muammar Gaddafi’s ouster.
The vandalism has drawn concern at the highest levels as Libya’s new rulers seek to reassure the international community that extremists will not gain influence in the North African nation.
Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, head of the National Transitional Council, reacted with alarm to reports that graves were being desecrated and appealed to a top Muslim cleric, al-Sadek al-Gheriani, to issue a fatwa, or religious ruling, on the issue.
Full art.:
english.libya.tv/2011/10/13/islamic-har...

Football murder probe opened against Gaddafi’s son
The NTC have approved a request to open an investigation into Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saadi over the murder of a footballer who played for the national team in the 1980s, prosecutor Abdullah Banoun said yesterday.

Banoun told people gathered at the player’s club for a memorial service that the National Transitional Council (NTC) had agreed the investigation into the murder of former midfielder and coach Basheer Al-Rryani could go ahead.
Al-Rryani was known as ‘number nine’ because of a law forbidding any players but Saadi Gaddafi, who had a brief career as a soccer player, from being mentioned by name. He was tortured and killed in December 2005.
During the Gaddafi-era there had been no independent judiciary and no attempt had been made to investigate the role of Saadi Gaddafi, who is also the subject of an interpol arrest warrant, the prosecutor said.

Read more:
english.libya.tv/2011/10/13/football-mu...

AJELive AJELive
AJ’s Tony Birtly reports from Sirte #Libya on the fate of Pro-Gaddafi loyalists in the deposed leader’s hometown.
aje.me/qIDiAM

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
ahora otro comandante del CNT libio desmiente la captura de Mutasim Gadafi la credibilidad de los revolucionarias en cuestión

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Thanks Reuters & AlArabiya 4 false news on Mutassim. Libya had an awesome party & G trolls were shitting bricks. Totally worth it : ) #feb17

Death once had a near FF experience

FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
Moment Gaddafi’s witch doctor, Khaled Tantoush, capture in Sirte #Libya CORRECTED link:
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_em...

Gaddafi witch doctor, Tantoush: Saw Muttassim & other senior figures “yesterday morning” in suburb No.2 Sirte
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDo055dzZgk

Tantoush: Hanna Gaddafi called him2 see body of Saif AlArab & Gaddafi grandkids at Zawiya hospital #Libya
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDo055dzZgk

Tantoush: Something odd happened during funeral. Bodies of “Gaddafi grandkids” taken away (not buried) #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDo055dzZgk #Libya

#AJA
Some Gaddafi soliders trying2 escape Sirte in civilians clothes & carry false documents v @Free_misurata #Libya
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBiKa3Tr_Os

Tanks from Nalut (Nafusa Mt) heading to Bani Walid to join battle there #Libya
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryZhoa9X14o v@nalut17feb

#Nalut Society for Social Cohesion sponsoring mass wedding for Feb17 fighters. All r invited! Oct20, AlRahma Mosque v @Nalut17feb

Pic1: “When the clouds hug the mountain, Nalut” v @nalut17feb #Libya pic.twitter.com/BXupcTGU

Pic2: “When the clouds hug the mountain, Nalut” v @nalut17feb #Libya pic.twitter.com/tbjReq0Q

Ahmed
Ok, still in libya. The border to tunisia is closed. An argument between Libya and Tunisia… interesting mormimg! #libya

There’s an area in tunisia which is still waving green flags. Since last night, any #Libya they see drive through has been getting attacked

This caused a lot of friction between the tunisian and the Libyan freedom fighters at the border. They wanted the safety of #libya first

The tunisians then closed the border to all Libyans trying to get through, either direction. Libyans responded by stopping tunisians #libya

Then the Tunisians started saying how we need them, they don’t need us… so FF confiscated the goods from tunisian drivers #libya

Eventually, after a lot of shouting (hours), we were all told to leave and the FF called in their battalion. #libya

While driving out, must’ve seen around 30 FF come in to the border gate with their klashinkovs and anti aircraft guns #libya

Some very strong words from the FF of Zwara. they were adamant that the libyans would be protected in tunisia before discussions #libya

I loved the respect of the Zwara FF. They would not let Tunisian guards act bigger than Libyans! They put them back in their place #libya

Then they made sure to walk around announcing that there must not be any revenge attacks on Tunisians for their attacks the previous nights

They made very very clear, that the attacks were from an extremely small minority paid by Gaddafi and that Tunisia is still with #libya

gonna try booking a flight for Sunday inshaAllah now that this ones gone down the drain, and i’ll update tunisia situation then

I got my passport stamped to say I have left #libya but i never entered anywhere else. I am the designated homeless :p

foreignoffice Foreign Office (FCO)
WilliamJHague:
In contrast with progress being made in #Libya, appalling violence & repression continues in #Syria

WilliamJHague: We will go on working with other nations to intensify the pressure on the regime. #Syria

ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
BREAKING: #Libya to sign air navigation systems agreement with #NATO. #NTC delegation in #Mlata for signing

Reuters reporting :)
libyanproud:
Reuters: 2 NTC figures confirm ! #Feb17 #Libya

foreignoffice Foreign Office (FCO)
Read the full transcript of Foreign Secretary @WilliamJHague’s statement to Parliament on #MiddleEast & #NorthAfrica
ow.ly/6W2p4

libyanproud libyanandproud
I will be going to a funeral of Wissam a Dahra resident who died of Celebratory gunfire last night #Feb17 #Libya #NoToCelebratoryGunfire

Open_Oil OpenOil
v happy for celebrations in #tripoli but wish they’d do it without armed weapons-nonstop gunfire outside hotel last night #putthegunsaway

read all about it-libyas #oil industry,candidly discussed in recently released wikileaks cables #libya
bit.ly/njsJ7r

protest by workers at waha oil at PMs office in #tripoli wanting to get of chairman-tarhouni currently talking to them

msg on poster:“the statement no.18 issued by NTC protects the corruption”-ie,not automatically getting rid of management from #gaddafi era

misrati_free Alaeddin Muntasser
is it Bashir Alashhab they protesting?

OpenOil
yes think so! going back to pm’s office later so will confirm and let u know…

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#Oil #Tarhuni DENIED granting any oil contracts 2 #French Comp #Total nor grant any new contracts until after elected #Libya government

#Mo’tassim Gaddafi is exhausted & cut his long hair short 2disguise himself goo.gl/FgKrw Held in Boatneh Mil Camp #Benghazi #Libya

#Never Too Soon : goo.gl/2XkQU UK Travel company offers short break in #Libya a tour of #Tripoli as fighting rages

LibyaUnited1944 Walid وليد
A memorial was held 4 Bashir Elreyani yesterday in his memory. This is his son at the memorial
tinyurl.com/65fjf3o #Libya

LibyaNewMedia
injured: 5 in Alkhadra & 12 in Tripoli medical center..and still counting :(

#Canada’s foreign affairs minister was accompanied by Two Calgary firms executives on his visit to #Tripoli
goo.gl/fb/OrD1O #Libya

BBC Arabic live from #Sirte #Libya

Jalil: The news of the capture of Mutassim #Gaddafi is NOT TRUE via @AJArabic #Feb17 #Libya

libyanproud libyanandproud
#Tripoli :
Reuters as credible as @LibyanStateTV

Le point
Libye: les forces du CNT reculent à Syrte sous le feu pro-Kadhafi

Les forces du Conseil national de transition (CNT), qui avaient cerné les derniers fidèles de Mouammar Kadhafi dans deux zones de Syrte, ont reculé de deux kilomètres jeudi à la mi-journée sous leur feu nourri, a constaté un journaliste de l’AFP sur place.

“Nous avons dû nous retirer vers le QG de la police (près de la place centrale de la ville) et nous allons utiliser l’artillerie lourde pour frapper les forces de Kadhafi”, a déclaré Hamid Neji, un combattant pro-CNT sur la nouvelle ligne de front.
Full art.:

www.lepoint.fr/monde/libye-les-forces-d...

NYHEDERNE
Tantholdt finder lig i Sirtes gader

Kampen om Sirte er ved at være slut. Oprørerne er ved at have kontrol over byen. Men mens oprørerne sejrer over Gaddafis styrker i Libyen, er der nu et andet opgør, der venter.
Rasmus Tantholdt befinder sig nær centrum af Sirte og her gør oprørerne nogle uhyggelige fund
Two video’s bodies found:
nyhederne.tv2.dk/article.php/id-4460324...

Guardian
Reports of the arrest of Mutassim cannot be confirmed and could be a deliberate hoax, according to former NTC spokesman Gama el-Gamaty

Matthew Weaver
Audioboo:
goo.gl/VMxn2

Belfast Telegraph
Hague: Libya mission will continue

British forces will continue operations in Libya for as long as necessary as “intense”

fighting continued in the last strongholds of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime, William Hague has told MPs.
In a statement updating the Commons on progress in the campaign, Mr Hague said there had been a “profound transformation” in the country.
But he acknowledged that the whereabouts of Gaddafi was not known and urged other countries not to provide him with shelter.

Art.:
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-n...

Telegraph
Libya: confusion surrounds ‘capture’ of Gaddafi’s son

A Libyan spokesman said revolutionary forces had captured some fighters close to Mutassim in the fugitive leader’s hometown but that he had no information that the son himself had been seized.
Jalal el-Gallal, a spokesman for the National Transitional Council in the eastern city of Benghazi, said that his office called commanders in the besieged city of Sirte and “so far as we are concerned there is no confirmation that Mutassim Gaddafi has been captured.”
El-Gallal was commenting on reports that the son had been seized, which prompted heavy celebratory gunfire in Tripoli and the eastern city of Benghazi.

Read more:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
Is it not Time 2Amend yr #MidDay report on #Muatassim Gaddafi ?@ReutersGaynor goo.gl/r1alk #Reuters Jalil Denies his Capture #Libya

libyatv Libya TV
Britain: Libya could cost UK 473 million
english.libya.tv/2011/10/13/lib… #Libya

libyanproud libyanandproud
#NoToCelebratoryGunfire protest in #Misrata today in Freedom Square after Asr prayers. #Feb17 #Libya

S. Al.
I should start packing for #Libya.

Adi
#Freedom is contagious. #ArabSpring

acarvin Andy Carvin
Libyan Civilians Trapped In The Battle For Sirte
n.pr/prONJS #libya

Mwattin
#Reuters have lost credibility with me! I will never believe any news they report or are a source for!

AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Today’s News in Pictures: October 13th, 2011
goo.gl/4weWQ #Blackberry #RIM #Libya #Yemen #Saudi

AJELive AJELive
Italian firm #Eni reopens #gas pipeline from #Libya to #Italy
aje.me/jQEpiq #AJE

Aljazeera: Mustafa Abdel Jalil DENIES that Mutassim Gaddafi has been captured. – aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6894C818-95F1-4... #Libya

#Libya ENI testing the gas pipe between Libya and Italy for first time in 8 months.

AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Al Arabiya correspondent: the withdrawal of the NTC fighters from central Sirte was tactical

Matt_ForcesNews Matt Teale
Don’t forget to tune in to #bfbs R2 1630 (UK) 1830 DAB (the world!) Legality of Libya, piracy & role of BFC covered in one fell radio swoop!

derek_brower Derek Brower
Reuters getting a lot of flak about poor #Libya coverage. Bit unfair.

Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
Someone should get the statistics of last night deaths and injury in #Libya as a result of celebratory gunfires. #FEb17

weddady weddady
Weapons of mass depression: cold rainy weather + james blunt…

Ahmed
NTC have alot to answer for, a senior official should have denied the story, they are just as culpable, if not more so..

moez معز
Whats latest on #Motassem story? Problem is everyone makes claims claiming to be ‘NTC’ – too many chiefs not enough indians #libya #feb17

Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Why does Reuters news agency put out false reports on arrest of Gadhafi’s sons. It was Seif in August and now Muatassim?! Who leaks 2 them?!

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
1/2: While back I asked some FFs very politely in Martyr Sq to stop celebratory fire.Turned my back & they started firing away #feb17 #libya

2/2: Only sure way is to stop celebratory gunfire is to get rid of the guns But I heard in Benghazi somehow they controlled it#feb17

feb17libya Feb17Libya
7 reported dead and 110 wounded from celebratory gunfire last night in #Libya on information that was FALSE. #NoToCelebratoryGunFire

libyanproud libyanandproud
Video : #NATO chopper lands to take a n independence flag from a little girl fbcdn-video-a.akamaihd.net/cfs-ak-ash4/34… #Feb17 #Libya
or:
goo.gl/CzrNb

Malik
around 6o injured and 6 deaths so Ive heard #Libya

feb17libya Feb17Libya
7 dead and not a single Gaddafi son captured. Was it worth it? #NoToCelebratoryGunFire

libyanproud libyanandproud
WT*? I still have a credible source claiming mutassim was actually captured

Nameer
reuters really sucks even when they were quoting gaddafi regime

Aljazeera
Libya
Islamic hard-liners have attacked about a half-dozen shrines in and around Tripoli belonging to Muslim sects whose practices they see as sacrilegious, raising religious tensions as Libya struggles to define its identity after Muammar Gaddafi’s ouster.

The vandalism has drawn concern at the highest levels as Libya’s new rulers seek to reassure the international community that extremists will not gain influence in the North African nation.

Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, head of the governing National Transitional Council, reacted with alarm to reports that graves were being desecrated and appealed to a top Muslim

cleric, al-Sadek al-Gheriani, to issue a fatwa, or religious ruling, on the issue.

He also called for restraint. “I ask those destroying these mosques to stop doing that because this is not the time to do that,’’ Abdel-Jalil said on Tuesday at a news conference. “What they did is not on the side of the revolution.”

Aljazeera
Reports claim the capture of Gaddafi’s son
Conflicting reports emerge on detention of Motassim Gaddafi, one of the deposed Libyan leader’s sons
Conflicting reports have emerged on the capture of Motassim Gaddafi, one of Muammar Gaddafi’s sons, in the Libyan city of Sirte.
A senior military commander inside Sirte said on Thursday that Motassim remained on the run, denying
reports that he was in custody.
“It is not true that Motassim was captured,” said Wesam Bin Hamid, brigade commander of the Martyrs of Free Libya Brigade, one of the new regime’s main units inside Gaddafi’s hometown.
“But some prisoners we have captured are saying that Muammar Gaddafi is in Sirte,” Bin Hamid added.
A National Transitional Council (NTC) official told the Reuters news agency that Motassim was being held in Benghazi, the Council’s eastern power base, after being arrested on Wednesday.
Colonel Abdullah Naker of the Tripoli Revolutionary Council was quoted as saying: “Motassim was arrested today in Sirte.”

Read more and video:
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...

Khadija
Anybody know how I can reach Angelina Jolie in Libya? #Tripoli #Libya #Feb17

She left yesterday.

FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
Fighters in Sirte have surrounded Gaddafiforces in a school in No.2 suburb & neighbouring buildings v @ICFMMC #Libya

Guardian
Pro-soldiers fighting back in Sirte but they have no where to go, Peter Beaumont reports Libya.

Audioboo:
audioboo.fm/boos/504230

freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
الله لا يربحك يا معمر #Gaddaficrimes
pic.twitter.com/WIKAmgj3

Papakila:
Here’s a present. I hope you enjoy it!
youtu.be/JNjyz8YGM_0" #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNjyz8YGM_0&fea...

septimius_sever septimius severus
I wonder how long will it take before obvious incompetence will start blaming the good old 5th column? #NTC #Libya

if all fails just blame the 5th column! #NTC #Libya

Open_Oil OpenOil
just been at press conference w/ tarhouni (oil minister)berrouin (head of NOC) and shakmak-the NTC faces of libyan #oil
pic.twitter.com/jhvuPkFz

FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
@ICFMMC says report of Muttassim Gaddafi capture untrue. Also Omar Hariri in Sirte; many wondering why NTC figures r in Sirte #Libya

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
#EpicLibyanMan is … EPIC #feb17 #Libya
pic.twitter.com/QjyltkGY

IF Reuters and Alarabiya joined forces … your TV would shut down automatically and refuse to let you watch #Feb17

KhadijaMAli Khadija Ali
On Friday the 14th of October , Wafa relief organization is hosting a fund raising dinner at Farhati hall. Its part of a global campaign…

for medical and financial help for the injured freedom fighters. Many high profile figures will be attending and giving speeches. There.

will also be an honoring for the martyrs’ families and injured freedom fighters. Your attendance will be highly welcomed . All proceeds…

will go to therapy and medical treatment of the injured freedom fighters. Spread the word to your families and friends. Ticket price…

is 50 L.D. per person. For further information call: 091-404-9104 092-501-0327 #Libya

I just got a message from Libyana telling me to go out in a demonstration supporting the TNC & the local & military Tripoli council. #Libya

Reminds of of Gaddafi’s propaganda; very discomforting!

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
Amnesty report on detainee abuse in the new #LIBYA : bit.ly/qp1mML

LibyaMartyrs Libya Martyrs
The Martyr Khaled Zeglam شهيد خالد زقلام May God rest his soul in peace #Libya pic.twitter.com/MZ1cG5Zp

Salim Ali Bin Hamouda Al-Sheikhy martyred on 13/08/2011 in Gemines near Benghazi. #Libya May God grant him in paradise
pic.twitter.com/0eNfwYnN

Tawfik Bashir Al-Fakhry martyred on 10/10/2011 in #Sirte #Libya. الله يرحمه و يغفرله pic.twitter.com/aDP0ItiN

Left: Amir Al-Tuahny, Mahmud Al-Omami & Hussein Al-Tuahny.
The 3 are from Benghazi & martyred together in Brega. #Libya
pic.twitter.com/P5UqvNRl

Akram Ali Qazeet from Misratah. He martyred in the Battle of Zliten on Friday 19/8/2011 #Libya
pic.twitter.com/WiUGempN

Hossam Al-Deen Ehmaida Ali Talha(1980) from Zawyet Al- Dahmani,Tripoli martyred on 30/4/2011 in Misratah #Libya
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Mussa Al-Abar(Benghazi,1972)with a Masters degree in engineering from the UK. He martyred on 28/9/2011 in #Sirte #Libya
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Idris Mohamed Othman (19/2/1987) from Sabha and passed away on 26/8/2011 #Libya رحمة الله عليه
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Business recorder
NTC forces pull back in Sirte under heavy Qadhafi fire

SIRTE: National Transitional Council forces pulled back under ferocious fire from Moamer Qadhafi loyalists in the fugitive strongman’s hometown Sirte on Thursday, an AFP correspondent reported.
The NTC forces, which had been hoping to mop up the last pockets of resistance in two residential neighbourhoods in the northwest of the city, withdrew at least two kilometres (more than a mile) to the central police headquarters they captured on Tuesday, the correspondent said.

Read more:
www.brecorder.com/world/africa/31630.html

ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
BREAKING:
NATO meets #NTC in #Malta and announces ‘partial lifting’ of #NFZ allowing flights to #Tripoli and #Benghazi. Talks for #Misurata

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
#FF’s raise the Syrian flag as they entered the #Sirte #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=vRbp4N…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRbp4N4ery4&fea...

Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
NTC: " Parts of the Libyan airspace are now open to commercial flights after agreement with NATO to partially remove No-Fly Zone. #Libya"

The story of a bullet. #NoToCelebratoryGunFire #Libya #Feb17 #FF pic.twitter.com/G9cpJxFi via @Sirte_Feb17

#BaniWalid : Reports that el Soug area, textile factory, airport communication building are under Freedom Fighters control. v @baniwalid1

Libya Al Ahrar broadcasting live footage from #Sirte – Smoke can be seen.

4Adam Adam
Instead of blaming Reuters on Mu’tasim arrest. The #NTC should denounce those who speak on behalf of the Council and hold them accountable.

SIRTE
Dan Rivers CNN
Bodies found in civilian clothes
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-lBiJSGblc&fea...

Open_Oil OpenOil
a freedom fighter just walked into the hotel lobby-“i’ve just come from sirte-it’s liberated!” #gameovergaddafi !!!

FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
2 fighters martyred in BaniWalid. Both from Tajoura. 1.Yunus Mhd Mhd AbdelSalam Ramadan 2.Ibrahim AbdulGhani AlDjaana v @alssomood #Libya

Rolling Stone Politics
Inside Obama’s War Room
How he decided to intervene in Libya – and what it says about his evolution as commander in chief
Art.:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/insi...

Tripoli Post
Breaking news: NTC to Confirm Capture of Muatassim Al Qathafi
The National Transitional Council is shortly expected to announce officially at a press conference on Thursday that former Libyan leader Muammar Al Qathafi’s third son, Muatassim has been captured by the revolutionaries in Sirte.

Muatassim, who has acted as special military adviser to his father’s regime was captured Wednesday after a four-hour battle in Sirte. He had been leading the defence of the city of Sirte.

The NTC was very cautious about confirming the news and wanted to make doubly sure that he was in the hands of the interim government before making the announcement. Now, The Tripoli Post has learnet from sources very close to the NTC that Muatassim is in their hands and a formal announcement is to be made shortly.
Muatassim is reportedly being held in safe custody in the Council’s eastern power base of Benghazi.

At the news of Muatassim’s capture last night, which up till then was only a rumour, Libyans celebrated in the streets of the major cities, particularly in Tripoli, Benghazi and Misurata, firing their guns in the air and chanting slogans against the fugitive leader and his family,

There had previously been similar reports of the capture of former Al Qathafi aides and family members that later proved to be untrue. Soon after the start of the conflict revolutionaries had reported the arrest of Al Qathafi’s sons, Seif al-Islam and Saadi. Both were later seen on the streets of Tripoli, with Saadi even fleeing to Niger.

Then a few days ago, NTC fighters also reported the capture of the fugitive leader’s spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim. At the time it was said that he was caught fleeing Sirte in a car dressed as a women. The report proved unfounded as he was later heard on Syrian-based TV station Arrai saying he was safe and that the news of his arrest was baseless.

Meanwhile, the head of Libya’s National Transitional Council, NTC, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil has again said that he expected and hoped to be able to declare victory for the free Libya in less than a week. That, he said, would pave way for a new intrim government to be named that would lead the country to elections within eight months.

At a joint press conference with visiting Tunisian prime minister Caid Essebsi in Benghazi, he said: “I hope that liberation will be declared in less than a week, after we free Sirte, and within less than a month we will form a transitional government and the youth and women will have a role in that.”

For Libyans, that sounded as sweet music to their ears. It means that the complete liberation of the whole of Libya was in hand despite the former dictator, Muammar Al Qathafi still being on the run and his loyalists are holding fort in the desert city of Bani Walid.

Sirte’s capture, which is imminent, will give the NTC full control of the country, and with the ports and harbours in its hands, it would be able to move forward in its efforts to

restore normalcy and establish a democracy for the new, free Libya.

However, despite the large gains in Sirte by the NTC forces, AFP reported early afternoon that the revolutionaries, who had been hoping to mop up the last pockets of resistance in two residential neighbourhoods in the northwest of Sirte, withdrew at least two kilometres to the central police headquarters they captured on Tuesday under ferocious fire from Al Qathafi loyalists

Hamid Neji of the Martys of Free Libya Brigade told AFP on the new front line>:“We have been told to retreat to the police HQ and will be using artillery cannon to hit Al Qathafi’s forces,”

CNN
Libyans battle to protect ancient treasures from looting
- Walking along the tree-lined gravel track towards one of the Roman Empire’s greatest architectural legacies, little can prepare you for what you are about to experience.
As you emerge from the shade of the tall poplars the towering stone edifice that guards Leptis Magna’s approaches appears. It is simultaneously stunning and evocative. Like a blow to the sternum, it quickens the heart.
Read more and video:
edition.cnn.com/2011/10/13/world/africa...

Guardian
Libya: Mutassim Gaddafi reported arrested – live updates
Fighters from the new government had hoped to take Sirte today, but they were forced to retreat under heavy fire from Gaddafi loyalists according to AFP.
“We have been told to retreat to the police HQ and will be using artillery cannon to hit Gaddafi’s forces,” fighter Hamid Neji told the agency.
We’ve been trying to reach Peter Beaumont in the city, but he has been having difficulty getting through. The only place Peter can get a phone reception is where there is also a danger of gunfire. He spoke briefly to a colleague to confirm that

Gaddafi loyalists are putting up stronger resistance in Sirte today.

• Reports of Mutassim Gaddafi’s arrest in Sirte have been questioned by several leading NTC figures. Jalal el-Gallal, a spokesman for the NTC in Benghazi, told AP that “so far as we are concerned there is no confirmation that Muatassim Gadhafi has been captured.” Guma el-Gamaty told the Guardian he did not believe the report was accurate. But Reuters remains convinced that Mutassim was arrested while trying to flee the coastal city.
• NTC fighters in Sirte have been forced back in places as they fight for control of Gaddafi’s birthplace. But the battle for Sirte is all but over, according to Peter Beaumont in the city, who reported a new advance by government forces on the coast road.
• Concerns over the treatment of suspected Gaddafi loyalists and alleged mercenaries- – highlighted in a new Amnesty report- continue. A Norwegian journalist reported the discovery of the bodies of seven bound Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte, as well as three other bodies which appeared to have been burned. (See 11.02am.) Peter Beaumont again witnessed Gaddafi loyalist who had been beaten.
• William Hague has warned border countries from providing refuge to any of Gaddafi’s relatives and close supporters. The foreign secretary told the House of Commons: “No state should harbour any of these fugitives from justice.”

Kadhafi loyalists hit back in Sirte
SIRTE, Libya (AFP) – Libya’s new regime fighters retreated on Thursday under heavy fire from Moamer Kadhafi diehards in his hometown Sirte as their leaders backtracked on an announcement they had captured one of his sons.
The fighters, who had been hoping to mop up the last pockets of resistance in two northwestern residential districts, withdrew at least two kilometres (more than a mile) to the police headquarters they had captured on Tuesday, said an AFP reporter.
“We have been told to retreat to the police HQ and will be using artillery cannon to hit Kadhafi’s forces,” fighter Hamid Neji of the Martyrs of Free Libya Brigade told AFP on the new front line.

Read more:
au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/10461...

Telegraph
William Hague: Colonel Gaddafi’s location is unknown
Foreign Secretary William Hague says scores of the former Libyan dictator’s family have been seen fleeing the country but the former Libyan leader is “still at large”.

Colonel Gaddafi is still on the run and has the continued support of the desert enclave of Bani Walid, the Foreign Secretary told the Commons.
Nonetheless, he said the Transitional National Council’s capture of Sirte will give the new government full control of the country’s ports and harbours, allowing them to move forward with efforts to restore normalcy and establish a democracy.
Read more and video:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...

Upstreamonline
Restart for Greenstream pipeline
The Greenstream pipeline connecting Libya and Italy has initiated testing to resume gas transportation between the two countries.

The pipeline, which is a 50/50 joint venture between Italy’s Eni and Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC), has been halted for the past eight months by the conflict in the north African state.
In a statement on Thursday, Milan-based Eni said that first tests were being run with 3 million cubic metres of gas per day along the pipeline, which transports gas between the Mellitah treatment plant in western Libya to Gela in Italy.
The gas is being drawn from the Wafa field 500km southwest of Tripoli. The field is operated by the Mellitah Oil & Gas company, another 50/50 joint venture between Eni and NOC.
The field, which largely serves to supply gas for domestic power generation, has been producing throughout the conflict to supply electricity locally, Eni said.
Read more:
www.upstreamonline.com/live/article2836...

Video Essay: At the Front in Libya’s Revolution
The Associated Press is at the front to document Libyan Revolutionary forces attempt to take one of the last Pro-Gadhafi cities left in the country, Bani Walid. (Oct. 13)
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCCNKkqpzUE&fea...

moez معز
NOC = National Oil Corporation (previously headed by Shukri Ghanem) #Libya #feb17

NOC employees demonstrating for 3 days outside offices against the management they accuse of corruption #Libya #tripoli #feb17

WyreDavies Wyre Davies
Another tough day for all sides in #Sirte. #NTC forces actually pushed back this morning, bullets etc flying e’where. Many wounded. #Libya

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
until this afternoon no progress in #Sirte NTC fighters still not able to break resistance of Area 2 and last pro Gaddafi positions #Libya

heavy shelling with tanks cannons and rockets NTC using a restaurant in a park in the center of the city as firing position #Sirte

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Please join the Libyan Youth Forum’s facebook page for important updates. goo.gl/hBfkI Follow them on twitter as well @LYForum

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Tantush, one of Gaddafi’s main men in #Sirte was arrested yesterday. He said he saw Mutassim a day before in Neighborhood 2 #libya #feb17

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
photo: NTC fighters keep finding ultra modern weapons in #Sirte used by Gaddafi forces #Libya yfrog.com/nxdnifqj

photo: some NTC fighters shooting and others take pictures of the battle in center of #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/kk575lkj

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
photo: using a rocket launcher in a former restaurant in the center of the city #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/ob3hoaj

Indiegogo
Rebirth: 17th February Music Festival
Video:
www.indiegogo.com/17th-February-Music-F...

Times of Malta
Thursday, October 13, 2011, 15:35
Updated: Libya, Nato sign air corridors agreement in Malta
Libyan and Nato officials meeting in Malta have signed an agreement on the establishment of air corridors to be used by civil aviation.
The air corridors will cover flights which will link Benghazi to the rest of the world and Benghazi to Tripoli and Misurata. Air services will be managed by the Libyan Civilian Aviation Authority and aircraft using these routes will not need prior Nato clearance.
The agreement applies with immediate effect, despite the United Nations no-fly zone

over Libya.
The signing took place at the Hilton Hotel during a conference which grouped air traffic controllers from Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Nato and Malta.
Read more:
www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011...

M & C
Germany to treat 150 Libyans wounded in fighting
Germany signed a pledge Thursday to give medical treatment to 150 Libyans wounded in the fighting to topple dictator Moamer Gaddafi, with the first patients set to be flown out next Tuesday.
German Economics Minister Philipp Roesler signed the arrangement while on a two-day visit to Tripoli, the first by a German minister since Gaddafi was ousted. Libyan officials say about 2,000 people need treatment for serious war injuries.

More and source:
www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/...

Telegraph
Gaddafi loyalists hit back in Sirte with Mutassim still at large

Libya’s new regime fighters retreated under heavy fire from Muammar Gaddafi loyalists in his hometown of Sirte on Thursday as their leaders backtracked on an announcement they had captured one of his sons.
The setback came as the National Transitional Council backtracked on claims it had captured Gaddafi’s son Mutassim.

The advancing fighters, who had been hoping to mop up the last pockets of resistance in two residential neighbourhoods in the northwest of the city, withdrew at least a mile to the central police headquarters they had captured on Tuesday, according to reports.
“We have been told to retreat to the police HQ and will be using artillery cannon to hit Gaddafi’s forces,” fighter Hamid Neji of the Martys of Free Libya Brigade said on the new front line.

Full art.:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...

Niz_FGM Niz
The Libyan Youth Forum has provided the means for a team to assist the Yefren based Freedom House Arts Project to carry on its great work..

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
13Oct: Burial of #FFs in #Benghazi #libya
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javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
photo: more of the revolutionary cycling team today running on a hill
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Ali El-Ehmer
#Libya #feb17 Enough destruction, enough bloodshed, no Drumming for war, let’s build our home

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
photo: 1 NTC tank before shelling Area Nº 2 from a hill in the center of #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/mejd0aj

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
“Ce n’est pas vrai que Mouatassim a été capturé”, a affirmé le commandant NTC Wissam ben Ahmed a AFP

No Name
“Of Ghaddafi’s sons, 23 have been captured, 12 killed, and 78 are still at large.” #libya #sirte

Libyan4life
Since #Feb17 this month has been my lowest mobile bill yet!!

Afrique en ligne
Tunisia-Libya road, air traffic re-opened

Tunis, Tunisia – Road and air traffic between Tunisia and Libya, suspended as a result of the war between Mouammar Kadhafi’s loyalists and the National Transitional Council (NTC) forces, has been re-opened, according to the Tunisian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Radouane Nouicer. He said that buses had started playing between Tunis, the Tunisian capital, and the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

Nouicer indicated that vehicles would begin to ply the Sfax-Tripoli route in the coming days. Sfax is in southern Tunisia.

Nouicer also announced that the Tunis-Benghazi air route would be operational as from next Monday.

Read more:
www.afriquejet.com/tunisia-libya-road-a...

Reuters
Libya owes $1 bln for fuel for revolution

TRIPOLI Oct 13 (Reuters) – Libya imported $1.6 billion worth of fuel during the six months of revolution, including from Qatar and Turkey, and has yet to repay $890 million, the interim oil and finance minister said on Thursday.
Libya paid back $660 million of which $125 million was in Sarir grade crude, $95 million in Abu Attifel crude, $40 million in naphtha and $400 million in cash.
During the conflict Libya imported 600,000 tonnes of gasoline, 830,000 tonnes of diesel, 410,000 tonnes of heavy fuel, 45,000 tonnes of LPG and 20,000 tonnes of jet fuel.

Full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...

The Australian
Sirte commander says Gaddafi son Mutassim still on run

A senior military commander inside Sirte said this evening that Muammar Gaddafi’s son Mutassim remains on the run, denying an announcement by the political leadership in Tripoli that he was in custody.
“It is not true that Mutassim was captured,” said Wesam Bin Hamid, brigade

commander of the Martyrs of Free Libya Brigade, one of the new regime’s main units inside Gaddafi’s hometown.
“But some prisoners we have captured are saying that Gaddafi (himself) is in Sirte,” Bin Hamid added.
A top adviser to the new Libyan leadership, Abdelkarim Bizama, had said in Tripoli late last night that the feared Mutassim, who served as Gaddafi’s national security chief, was in custody.

Read more:
www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/sir...

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
people complaining in the local radio about rumors of Mutasim Gaddafi arrest and celebrations firing in the air that lead to wounded

photo: guitars now spreading in the battle front of #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/kk5hmzcj

photo: smoke rising from heavy shelling in Area Number 2 in #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/kjlh0ttj

photo: playing table football in the middle of the battle #Sirte #Libya yfrog.com/nufa0xj

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Mr. Mustafa Abduljalil’s Visit to #Sirte. Photos:
goo.gl/wYDkW #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes

Patrick_Baz patrickbaz
Reports about pro-Kadhafi mobs setting up checkpoints in Tunisian towns on the main road leading to the Libyan border #Tunisia #Libya

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
FFs Take Over Ouagadougou Conference Center in Sirte (photo album) facebook.com/media/set/?set… #Libya #Sirte

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
Whenever I’m caught between two evils, I take the one I’ve never tried.

The youngest #FF (1998) in the Battle of Gheryan. #libya ربي يحفظه yfrog.com/o0l4cdj

#FFs at #Sirte University. #libya
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#LibyaAlAhrarTV :
Jalil ‘there will be an investigation concerning the #NTC officials who falsely confirmed #Muatassim’s arrest." #Libya

China’s Red Cross
In response to the situation in Libya, China’s Red Cross Society (RCSC) will send 50 million yuan (about 7.8 million U.S. dollars) in humanitarian aid to the north African country, the society said on Thursday.
The first relief shipment reached Benghazi, Libya’s second largest city, on Aug. 18, the society said in a statement, adding that the second shipment, which will include medicine, rice and cooking oil, will arrive in Tripoli by Oct. 15.

AFP
A senior military commander inside Sirte said on Thursday that Motassim remained on the run, denying reports that he was in custody. “It is not true that Motassim was captured,” said Wesam Bin Hamid, brigade commander of the Martyrs of Free Libya Brigade, one of the new regime’s main units inside Gaddafi’s hometown. “But some prisoners we have captured are saying that Muammar Gaddafi is in Sirte,” Bin Hamid added.

ENI
The Italian firm Eni oil has started transferring natural gas through the Greenstream pipeline connecting Libya and Italy for the first time in eight months. Eni said on Thursday that it will run initial tests of 3 million cubic meters worth of gas a day during the preliminary phase.

AFP
National Transitional Council NTC forces pulled back under ferocious fire from Muammar Gaddafi loyalists in the fugitive leader’s hometown Sirte on Thursday, an AFP correspondent reported. “We have been told to retreat to the police HQ and will be using artillery cannon to hit Gaddafi’s forces,” fighter Hamid Neji of the Martys of Free Libya Brigade told AFP on the new front line.

Aljazeera
Islamic hard-liners have attacked about a half-dozen shrines in and around Tripoli belonging to Muslim sects whose practices they see as sacrilegious, raising religious tensions as Libya struggles to define its identity after Muammar Gaddafi’s ouster.
Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, head of the governing National Transitional Council, reacted with alarm to reports that graves were being desecrated and appealed to a top Muslim

cleric, al-Sadek al-Gheriani, to issue a fatwa, or religious ruling, on the issue.
He also called for restraint. “I ask those destroying these mosques to stop doing that because this is not the time to do that,” Abdel-Jalil said on Tuesday at a news conference. “What they did is not on the side of the revolution.”

AMNESTY
:Recent Amnesty International report claims it had uncovered evidence of torture and ill-treatment of thousands of people detained in recent months. Sub-Saharan Africans suspected of being Col Muammar Gaddafi’s mercenaries were particularly targeted, it said. The NTC pledged to look into the claims.

Bangladesh
Bangladesh on Thursday officially recognized Libya’s new leadership as ‘the only acceptable interim authority,’ a statement from the Foreign Ministry said. It said Dhaka welcomed an ‘imminent resolution of the conflict’ and supported a peaceful transition that reflected the aspirations of the Libyan people ‘who have been fighting for justice against an authoritarian regime.’

ceoDanya Danya B Mohammed
Does anyone have information on the 30,000 people missing in #trablus via @AJArabic

20arb11 Souffian Tripoli
New meeting in #Tripoli tomorrow regarding the miss information from one man out of tripoli regarding Muatassim. #Libya

Libya to investigate ‘every penny’ in oil graft probe
TRIPOLI — Libya’s new government vowed on Thursday to investigate “every penny” of suspicious oil contracts signed under the former regime, responsible for what it described as “unbelievable” corruption.
“Any corruption under the previous regime will be investigated… There will be specialised committees that will look into all these contracts and agreements starting with the oil sector,” the National Transitional Council’s oil and finance minister, Ali Tarhuni, told a news conference in Tripoli.
He did not give details of specific contracts or companies under suspicion and said that, due to the ongoing conflict, the investigation had yet to begin.
Tarhuni said the NTC would publish details of past contracts at the end of next week, and promised to turn a leaf on the practices of Moamer Kadhafi’s regime.
“There was an unbelievable amount of corruption. What the size of this corruption was is the question. We will investigate every penny openly and transparently,” the minister insisted, adding the interests of Libya’s people would be paramount in future contractual negotiations.

Read more:
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/A...

ceoDanya Danya B Mohammed
Wondering where the missing people of #LIBYA are … Mass graves are still being found till this day and mothers don’t know if there sons are dead or alive

live2Tripoli live2Tripoli
If you’ve not seen it then take a look CityLife. #Tripoli
youtube.com/watch?v=JOleDh…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOleDhK5FII

Al Arabiya
Die-hard Qaddafi loyalists in last ditch Libya battle; NATO deal reopens airspace
Fighters loyal to Muammar Gaddafi fought a last-ditch battle in an ever shrinking pocket of resistance in the ousted leader’s hometown Sirte on Thursday, as Libya’s interim government said that parts of the war-torn country’s airspace has reopened to commercial flights

National Transitional Council (NTC) commanders moved up tanks to fire at buildings from close range to try to dislodge the remaining Gaddafi snipers who are now surrounded on all sides in one small part of the city.

“We have control of the whole of the city except neighborhood ‘Number Two’ where the Qaddafi forces are surrounded,” said Khaled Alteir, a field commander in Sirte.
“This operation is on its dying breath,” said another commander, Colonel Mohammad Aghfeer.

The siege of Sirte, which began after the capital Tripoli fell to the NTC two months ago, has held up Libya’s transition to normality as the country’s new leaders say they will only start building a democratic system after the city is captured.
Read more:
www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/10/13/1...

SecularLibya
Sirte has been liberated ! #Libya #Feb17

WEELULE
NOT TRUE…..NOT TRUE……..NOT TRUE……NOT TRUE

Libya Tunisia border:
AmmarParis Ammar ABD RABBO
I had reports of foreigners stopped by men with metal bars who forced driver to kiss Gaddafi portrait and threaten him !

Ahmed
I’m gonna just ignore reuters for a while until they begin confirming facts (after last nights commotion!)

Reuters

Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte last stand (1:12)
Oct.13- National Transitional Council forces in Libya continue to bombard small pockets of Sirte where Gaddafi loyalists are in a last stand. Simon Hanna reports.
Video:
uk.reuters.com/video/2011/10/13/gaddafi...

English Libya TV
NTC: No confirmation Gaddafi’s son caught

An NTC spokesman said revolutionary forces have captured some fighters close to one of Muammar Gaddafi’s sons in the fugitive leader’s hometown but that he has no information that the son himself has been seized.
Jalal el-Gallal, a spokesman for the National Transitional Council in the eastern city of Benghazi, said yesterday that his office called commanders in the besieged city of Sirte and “so far as we are concerned there is no confirmation that Muatassim Gaddafi has been captured.”
El-Gallal was commenting on reports that the son had been seized, which prompted heavy celebratory gunfire in Tripoli and the eastern city of Benghazi.
Anti-Gaddafi fighters have been closing in on armed supporters of the fugitive leader in Sirte, the most important of two major cities yet to be cleared of loyalists more than two months after the fall of Tripoli. Libyan officials have said they believe Muatassim Gaddafi and other high-level former regime figures are hiding in Sirte and that is the reason for the fierce resistance.

Read more:
english.libya.tv/2011/10/13/gaddafis-so...

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
photo: 1 NTC fighter walking around one of the Gaddafi relatives home “this is our money look how they live”
yfrog.com/j2424hdj

#Sirte s 1 ejemplo del lujo n l q vivía l clan Gadafi hoy estuve n la casa d su primo lámparas d cristal jacuzzis cerámicas etc #Lib

lección práctica del día: no es lo mismo “dicen que han capturado” q “han capturado” prq lo q dicen puede ser mentira #Gadafi #Libia

photo: street fighting in center of #Sirte yesterday #Libya
yfrog.com/h83edzhj yfrog.com/nxeregj

Very good article:
Alakhbar
Bernard-Henri Lévy in the Eyes of Arab Commentators
By: Mohammed al-Asfar

Bernard-Henri Levy stuck his nose into the business of the Arab Spring from the outset. The French philosopher with Zionist leanings made an appearance in Tahrir Square, visited Benghazi to support the rebels, and organized a conference in support of the Syrian uprising in Paris. Al-Akhbar asked several Arab analysts and commentators for their opinions.
ripoli — Political science professor and established Libyan novelist Saleh Sennousi says that Levy “cares more about politics and the media than he does about

philosophy.” According to Sennousi, “Levy is one of the biggest defenders of Israel because of his Holocaust complex. He also considers it the only democratic state in the Middle East and advocates founding a Palestinian state on Israel’s terms.”
Sennousi adds that Levy “supported the Arab revolutions because he’s infatuated with the media, fame, and his public image. He’s also a friend of President Nicholas Sarkozy, who for his part is trying to find a place for himself and France in the Arab revolutions.”
Sennousi speculates that Levy realized these revolutions would change the course of history. “He wanted to make his position known and establish friendships with the makers of these momentous events,” adding that Levy’s connections “could be useful for Israel as well.” But Sennousi tempered his criticism with a dose of reality: “These revolutions face bigger challenges than the friendship of Bernard-Henri Levy.”
Read full story here:
english.al-akhbar.com/content/bernard-h...

Problems Libyan Tunisian border:
Ahmed
there are pro g lot in Tunisia who were attacking Libyans since last night which started the whole headache

but resulted in tunisians not letting libyans pass into Tunisia. So we did the same back to Tunisian drivers
but confiscated their goods (petrol). because tunisians started acting all big towards the FF on the border

and you know us libyans and pride! everyone had their say on how to act to resolve the issue, true democracy :P

very worrying, but inshaAllah I’ll be at the border tomorrow night again. I heard it’s all ok again (I hope)

I chose not to go to Dehaba when I left Ras Djar. Was such a mess this morning, did you see the arguments this morning?!

Tarek
so terrible, went to ras Djar and then closed. Went do Dehaba, now near Madnin after more than 14h travel. #Libya

I didn’t see it but it was such hustle at Dehaba border, heading to #tunis now, so tired and still driving. #Libya

So busy today at Dehaba border with #Tunisa after shutting down Ras Djedar board, I’m still driving since 7am this morning.

I don’t why the #Libyan and #Tunisian border was ordered to close after my passport was stamped by immigration, had to change route. #Libya

I spent more than 6 hours today at Dehaba border between #Tunisa and #Libya, there were too many ppl to cross, some very ill.

There are no facilities at Dehaba crossing such as working toilets, cafes, food stores, resting rooms etc. #Libya #Tunisa

BBC’s Caroline Hawley reports from #Tripoli uncovered evidence of ill-treatment of ppl detained in recent months
bbc.in/npGvZR #Libya

4Adam Adam
#Sirte (1/3) 10.13.2011 #Libya #Feb17
pic.twitter.com/GowEp0Ui

#Sirte (2/3) 10.13.2011 #Libya #Feb17
pic.twitter.com/OHdpTnPR

#Sirte (3/3) 10.13.2011 #Libya #Feb17
pic.twitter.com/NG9mCcKz

Feb17 pic.twitter.com/4U7esUff

CNN
Libya’s rival military commanders fight war of words
After emerging from the rubble of Moammar Gadhafi’s Baba az’ Azia palace late in August, Abdul Hakim Belhaj seized control as the military commander of Tripoli.
An Islamist who had taken little public part in the spring uprising against Gadhafi, he claimed his soldiers had won the symbolic battle for the palace, the heart of the Libyan strongman’s regime. By taking control of Tripoli, Belhaj gained authority over a third of the country’s population and a major slice of its wealth.

It was a power play that other opposition fighters bitterly resented.
Abdullah Naker, one of several rival commanders, claims his fighters endured far tougher and more significant battles than the siege of Gadhafi’s palace, not least the struggle to win control of Tripoli’s main international airport that lasted several days.
Full story:
edition.cnn.com/2011/10/13/world/africa...

Guardian
Libya war reaches endgame with 100 loyalists left fighting
Sirte stronghold edges close to falling with pro-Gaddafi troops stranded as rebels prepare to declare total victory

The two men are singing in the back of a pick-up truck, sitting on the rails, their legs resting on a blanket that seems oddly lumpy. Sticking out from beneath it are two pairs of feet, one bare, one wearing socks. They are the feet of two pro-Gaddafi fighters killed in the fighting in the coastal city of Sirte.
Thursday was a day of deaths on both sides. Government forces trying to enter the last pocket of Sirte held by pro-Gaddafi fighters were bogged down in a narrow street flooded with sewage and water.
Read m ore here:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/13/li...

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
People in BinGirdaan In #Tunisia are breaking any cars that have anything to do with the 17th of February revolution #Libya

jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
Gaddafi forces holed in around district 2 #sirte, less than a square kilometer, the neighborhood is flooded, sniper fire still killing

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#NTC Approved Investigation #SAADI Gaddafi 4MURDER of former midfielder & coach Basheer #AlRryani tortured &Killed 2005 goo.gl/qdMym

#WilliamHague warned that NO Country should give shelter 2Fugitives: #MuammarGaddafi #SaifalIslam + Intell Chief #AbdullahSenussi #Libya

#UK tells #Libya 2form Interim Government after taking over Sirte and investigate Torture & Human Right Abuses
goo.gl/dlUCV



SUMMARY OCTOBER 14th 2011

10/14/11
10.14.11

NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya –
goo.gl/uKWln

Guardian
Lessons from Libya: how Cameron and Sarkozy got lucky
This war was a one-off, ‘feelgood’ example of interventionism. For seriously oppressed people elsewhere, it means nothing.

The Libyan war, which began in earnest in February and edged towards a ragged conclusion on Thursday in the dusty, blood-specked alleyways of Sirte, was, in its most hyperbolic aspect, a victory for democracy, freedom, and the Arab spring – that unexpected, mostly unfulfilled uprising of long-oppressed peoples inhabiting the crescent arc of the Middle East from Yemen to Tunisia.
This is how Britain’s foreign secretary, William Hague, who reported to parliament on the regime’s death throes on Thursday, habitually chooses to portray the nine-month struggle to oust Muammar Gaddafi, Libya’s dictator-in-residence since 1969, and his Addams family of murderous retainers.
Read more:
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/o...

The Story Behind the Libyan Guitar Hero Photo

Earlier this week an amazing picture from the Libyan conflict came to light. It showed a man in combat fatigues playing guitar and apparently singing, while his colleagues not

yards away were engaged in a ferocious gun battle for the control of Sirte, the last stronghold in Libya held by forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi.
It was impossible to hear his music because the distance between me and him was some 50 metres and the ‘Boom! Boom!’ was too loud.
The picture was taken by Aris Messinis, a photographer for the AFP agency from Athens, and the caption information said the men were fighters of the National Transitional Council (NTC). Former “rebels” who were now the de facto government forces.

But what set of circumstances would lead a musician to wield his guitar, rather than a weapon in the midst of a firefight?
Read full story:
shabablibya.org/news/the-story-behind-t...

jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
Gaddafi forces holed in around district 2 #sirte, less than a square kilometer, the neighborhood is flooded, sniper fire still killing

check out Manu Brabo’s photography of #sirte
gu.com/p/32tv6/tw via @guardian

Tarek
I’ve passed through #Zultan, #Jameel and #Ragedaleen and saw no sign of pro #Gaddafi loyalists although we were warned. #Libya

A photographer, a poet, an author and a mental patient
How does a woman live with 100 separate personalities who appear and disappear on a whim? How does a 6 foot 8 – more than 2 m – tall photographer cover the war in

Libya, where “the higher (something) rises from the ground, the more likely it is to be struck” by bullets or shrapnel? How does an author consistently manage to find the most compelling stories, amassing acclaim and wealth for both himself and his subjects?
These stories fascinated me this week, and I highly recommend you take a moment to delve into them.
It’s Good to Be Michael Lewis – If you don’t know Michael Lewis, you know of him.

Read more:
curiousontheroad.com/2011/10/bryan-dent...

BBC
Making sense of the chaos in Libya’s prisons

In the chaotic fallout from Col Muammar Gaddafi’s ousting as Libya leader, allegations have swirled that the country’s prisons have become hotbeds of abuse and injustice. The BBC’s Caroline Hawley in Tripoli meets one civilian who is determined to buck the apparent trend.
Fifty-five-year old Taher Husnein used to live in the Californian city of Sacramento, where he sold cars and volunteered as a Muslim chaplain in jail. Now he runs al-Judaida, one of the biggest prisons in the Libyan capital.

Full art.:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15293899

Tweeting Tripoli
Hi Guys, I’m back from #BaniWalid Frontlines. Will upload some pics tomorrow. I’m too exhausted now ;)

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
The Libyan Karate Kid #Libya
pic.twitter.com/4G0BSoTc

Zuma: AU better without #Gadaffi .. is that because he wont be giving you any money now.That isnt nice!!he’s your friend #Libya

Sarah
<3 Sunset in Zawiyat el Dahmani #Tripoli #Libya – Aug27 Taken by my cousin. – pic.twitter.com/DmCkPWU3

#EpicFreedomFighter fires an RPG :) – #Sirte #Libya –
pic.twitter.com/UVUMg4Bw

News 24
AU better without ‘intimidating’ Gaddafi – Zuma

Pretoria – The African Union will work better without Libya’s ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi, who repeatedly tried to convince members to form a pan-African government, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday.
“The African Union will have more time to implement its programmes now, because Colonel Gaddafi spent a lot of time discussing a unity government for Africa that was impossible to implement now,” Zuma said in a foreign policy speech.
“He was in a hurry for this, possibly because he wanted to head it up himself,” Zuma added.

Read more:
www.news24.com/Africa/News/AU-will-work...

RasmusTantholdt Rasmus Tantholdt TV2
Tantholdts tur gennem et smadret Sirte
TV 2 Nyhedernes Rasmus Tantholdt og fotograf Anders Bach kunne i dag bevæge sig gennem Sirte, der de seneste uger har været skueplads for voldsomme kampe mellem de libyske oprørsstyrker og resterne af de Gadaffi-tro styrker.
Det blev en tur gennem en smadret by, hvor skudhuller og granatkratre præger hvert eneste hus.
Civilbefolkningen er flygtet og som det tydeligt ses på billederne i videoen øverst i artiklen, er der ikke ret meget at vende hjem til.
Nu venter et enormt genopbygningsarbejde her så vel som i resten af Libyen.

Video
Sirte completely destroyed after days of intens fighting. Watch it here. nyhederne.tv2.dk/article.php/id…

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Another call but betn Saif Gaddafi & ALtayeb AlSafy discussing situation in East after revolution started is.gd/4TNf7g #LIBYA #Feb17

What is shocking in these phone calls is the sheer arrogance, detachment from reality & Altayeb Alsafy’s epic brown nosing : ) #Feb17 #libya

Reuters are ****

AJA:
Sirte: Dollar Neighbourhood completely under FFs control.
Only Area 2 left to free
(its the wealthy district where Gaddafi’s close relatives and supporters lived like his sister Atiqa & Ahmed Gadaf aldam )
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Wevtaqzns

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Reuters: Battle for Libyan city exposes #Gaddafi decadence
goo.gl/53h4L #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#Sirte Caught: a Burly Bearded Bruised Gaddafi Goon was Crying with Fear #Libya goo.gl/FehK7

#Gaddafi Loyalists Fight on Capture of Son in Doubt “Its NOT true #Mutassim was captured” says Brigade Commander Hamid
goo.gl/ADaR9

Channel 4
As the NTC claims that the conflict in Libya is drawing to a conclusion,
Channel 4 News understands that fighting continues in major cities previously said to have been captured.
“The remaining Gaddafi supporters are concentrated in Bani Walid and in Sirte, where there has been intense fighting,” Mr Hague said.

Perhaps, but those towns and cities deemed captured by the NTC are still seeing skirmishes, occasional heavy fighting, and deaths, according to a nurse in Zawiya, which has seen some of the bloodiest battles of the Libyan war.
The nurse at the main hospital in the city told Channel 4 News that Zawiya was “not safe at all, still fighting all the time, but not as bad as before”.
Read full report:
www.channel4.com/news/end-of-war-in-sig...

Hana S.
This man, Muhammad Dou, is known to be mentally ill in #Sirte. We hope he’s not harmed, PLZ RT!! Pic via #TheGuardian
pic.twitter.com/QWPw9uTd

CBS
Revolutionaries, coffee, and the fall of Qaddafi

SIRTE, Libya – Being assigned to cover the fall of Sirte is beginning to have a “Waiting for Godot” feel about it. Predictions range from “a few days” to “any moment,” neither of which can be relied upon, or discounted. So, every day, journalists make the run from wherever they are staying and try to get as far into Sirte as possible and not get killed.
Our first stop on the way in is “the coffee mosque.” We dubbed it that because volunteers have set up stall outside a mosque on the main highway a few miles from the city, where they hand out free biscuits, tuna rolls and Arabic coffee to anyone who comes by. It’s a gathering place for fighters and journalists going to and coming from the front lines, ideal for swapping information and rumours. And the coffee certainly gives a kick-start to the day.
Read more:
www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-2012010...

bunbunbunnyyy ارنوبة بنغازي ♥
Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people. -Malcolm X

CNN
Courts to open in Libya, council promises

- The Higher Security Council, in charge of “organizing and securing Tripoli,” announced Thursday that courts in the city will start operating next week.
“People must realize that the country’s system has been destroyed and is being rebuilt now,” said Lt. Colonel Mustapha Nooh, head of the council.
He said detained prisoners will be directed toward the general prosecutor for “clearer” due process.

Read more and video:
www.cnn.com/2011/10/13/world/africa/lib...

OnlyLibyaa Triploli scream
I posted 7 photos on Facebook in the album “ثوار جنزور في جبهة بن وليد” fb.me/1ggEVNIH5

Aljazeera
Muammar Gaddafi’s loyalists now control just one small area of the city. It is thought there are around 2,000 fighters left there.

They have been pushed back as the frontline has moved in recent days. But they are still offering strong resistance, and NTC forces even had to draw back slightly on Thursday because of heavy shelling.

Noit
I heard that there were around 100-200 Gaddafi soldiers left.
Is my local info that far out or has Aljazeera typed one 0 too many?

Libyan4life
I really have very mixed feelings about calling #Libya fully liberated w/the fall of #Sirte. It just doesnt seem right or complete somehow

Nasr
#Brazilian Pepe Escobar claims that real war is yet to begin in #Libya; #Gaddafi resistance movement is being organized in #Niger & #Algeria

Border problems:

Tarek
A beautiful scenery while driving up through #Nafousa mountains to #Nalut to Dehaba today, #Libya
yfrog.com/ntbhxqhj

I don’t why it was closed but later we’ve heard it was reopened, no statements so not to scare ppl I guess. #Libya

Most ppl say the closure of Ras Djdar border crossing was due to unrest in Bengerdan, no confirmed info about the type of unrest.

معركة تحرير مدينة سرت الليبية 12 10 11 Sirte city liberation
The battle for sirte city gaddafi home town 12 10 11
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hmMOvMswLg

FF arrive in Bani Walid
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBWWPBQzLYg

AFP –
Alleged mercenaries arrested, held in #Sirte
Video:
youtube.com/watch?v=DyQ2lB… #Libya
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyQ2lBfkZX8

Guardian
Libya needs a truth and reconciliation commission

‘De-Ba’athification’ was disastrous in Iraq. Libyans must choose how far to purge public life of those linked to the old regime
The most contentious popular debate in post-Gaddafi Libya concerns the role that former regime officials and government bureaucrats should be allowed to play in public life. As the last resistance crumbles in Sirte, successfully resolving this issue is key to social harmony and economic viability.

Although Libya under the Colonel had no government party equivalent to the Ba’ath, Gaddafi’s ideology and cronies nonetheless infused the governance apparatus, determining its structure and functions. The most crucial difference with post-Saddam Iraq is that Libyans rather than foreign occupiers will decide how far they wish to purge society of anyone connected with the previous regime.
Read more:
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/o...

Aid for ff’s in Bani Walid
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScsZGkf1eWE

Zliten Children Festival
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsZ1LNke9Wc

Khadija
“They’re going to put our pictures on facebook!” my lil sis told me. Thats apparently the coolest thing in Libyan schools right now,

Tarek
A glimpse of what was happening today at boarder crossing of Dehaba. #Libya #Tunisa
yfrog.com/g0lncerj

Two many different stories we’ve heard about why boarder crossing between #Libya and #Tunisa at Ras Djdar was closed.

Due to Ras Djdar closure I’ve missed my #London flight and still driving to capital #Tunis to hopefully catch another one 2morow. #Libya

I don’t why it was closed but later we’ve heard it was reopened, no statements so not to scare ppl I guess

Most ppl say the closure of Ras Djdar boarder crossing was due to unrest in Bengerdan, no confirmed info about the type of unrest.

We’ve just passed by Sidi Buzaid in #Tunisa the city of Mohamed Buazizi where all started, couldn’t enter cuz of time restrain. #freedom

Aljazeera
Abdul Hafiz Ghoga, the vice-chairman of the National Transitional Council, told Al Jazeera that satellites are tracking the former Libyan leader in the desert south of Sabha and that it is only a matter of time before Gaddafi is captured.

“We have confirmed reports that Gaddafi is in the southern Libyan desert. He’s not staying in one place. He is moving around with a small convoy which consist of his closest aids and bodyguards.”
Ghoga added that the fighters’ priority now is to take full control of Sirte. “Once the liberation of Sirte has been achieved – our fighters will track down Gaddafi himself.”

Battle for Sirte rages
NTC commanders have moved up tanks into the ousted leader’s hometown to fire at buildings from close range to try to dislodge the remaining snipers loyal to Gaddafi who are now surrounded on all sides in one small part of the city.
Die-hard loyalists to the deposed leader have not given up the fight, answering NTC attacks in the city with small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades. An NTC commander said Gaddafi’s besieged forces were no longer using heavier weapons.
“We have control of the whole of the city except neighbourhood ‘Number Two’ where the Gaddafi forces are surrounded,” Khaled Alteir, a field commander in Sirte, said on Thursday.
“This operation is on its dying breath,” said another commander, Colonel Mohammad Aghfeer.
The siege of Sirte, which began after the capital Tripoli fell to the NTC two months ago, has held up Libya’s transition to normality as the country’s new leaders say they will only start building a democratic system after the city is captured.
Green flags, the banner of Gaddafi’s 42-year rule, still fly above many buildings in Sirte, but, another NTC commander said, the defending forces appear to have lost their cohesion.
“We’ve noticed now they are fighting every man for himself,” said Baloun Al Sharie, a field commander. “We tried to tell them it’s enough and to give themselves up, but they would not.”
NTC officers say Gaddafi loyalists fear reprisals if they give themselves up.

NTC ‘abuses’
Some captured fighters have been roughed up by NTC forces and Amnesty International issued a report on Wednesday saying Libya’s new rulers were in danger of repeating human rights abuses commonplace during Gaddafi’s rule. The NTC condemned practices highlighted in report.

“Such acts could have possibly been perceived as acceptable at the beginning of this revolution, given the brutal crimes committed by Gaddafis mercenaries – however today – they are unjustifiable,” Ghoga said.

Close to the centre of the fighting in Sirte, government forces found 25 corpses wrapped in plastic sheets. They accused groups loyal to Gaddafi of carrying out execution-style killings. Five corpses shown to a Reuters news agency team wore civilian clothes, had their hands tied behind their backs and gunshot wounds to the head.
As the tanks pounded the apartment blocks where Gaddafi’s men are holed up, pick-up trucks mounted with heavy machine guns moved in behind, then infantry armed with AK-47s began their assault.
One field hospital received two NTC dead and 23 wounded on Thursday. One of the dead men had been hit while taking food up to the fighters on the frontline, doctors said.
In the skies, NATO aircraft have been carrying out reconnaissance missions and Britain said its jets had bombed and destroyed two pick-up trucks belonging to Gaddafi’s forces in Sirte on Wednesday.

Air corridors
But as the battle for Libya draws towards what the NTC and NATO hope will be a close, both the new government and the Western alliance which helped topple Gaddafi are looking towards a return to normality.
The provisional Libyan government and NATO signed an agreement on Thursday to immediately open air corridors for international civilian flights from Benghazi, and domestic flights between the second city and Tripoli and Misrata.
This is one of the first steps toward NATO lifting its no-fly zone over Libya imposed after Gaddafi began a military assault on civilians protesting his one-man rule.
Philipp Roesler, Germany’s economy minister, said 150 wounded Libyans would be treated in Germany. Berlin plans to support Libya with medical supplies and aid and help in training and educating young Libyans, he said.
“We are here because we see the most important raw material of Libya, it is not oil and gas…it is the younger people who started the revolution here. They need future and perspective after their victory,” Roesler told a news conference in Tripoli.

Suspicious oil contracts
In another development, Ali Tarhuni, the NTC’s oil minister, vowed that Libya would investigate “every penny” of suspicious oil contracts signed under Gaddafi’s regime, which was responsible for what he called “unbelievable corruption”.
“There will be specialised committees that will look into all these contracts and agreements starting with the oil sector,” Tarhuni said, without giving details on contracts or companies.

Libya’s oil production, which collapsed after the uprising in February, is expected to rise to nearly one million barrels per day by April from the current 400,000, Nuri Berruien, the head of the state-run National Oil Company, said.

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
A recorded call between #Gaddafi & Tayeb Al-Safi after Obama’s speech #libya
youtube.com/watch?v=rNcbrm…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNcbrmUJBqo&fea...

A recorded call between Saif #Gaddafi & Tayeb Al-Safi #libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKPIiAg1SyU&fea...
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKPIiAg1SyU&fea...

bunbunbunnyyy ارنوبة بنغازي ♥
Quranic verse written on the walls of Babalazizya:“& they thought that their fortresses would protect them from Allah”
yfrog.com/mfoduaxj

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
13 Oct: Fighting in #Sirte #libya
Photo’s:

yfrog.com/ntnklgoj

yfrog.com/nu3owabj

yfrog.com/nwezycxj

yfrog.com/nygfotj

yfrog.com/oe4npoj

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
NTC have re-introduced visa system to #Libya; unfortunately i didn’t have one and waited 3 hours to be allowed in. but good news..

BBC fixer Ahmed managed to convince the immigration officer to let me in without a visa which means i have no exit date!

don’t worry was all above board. I have an entrance stamp.

My first time back to #Tripoli since the fall of the #Gaddafi Regime. NTC flags on shops, cars, hotels, people… everything. #Feb17

Was warned to bring my rain coat; but Tripoli is bathed in wonderful sunshine today. :)

Walking freely around #Tripoli will take a couple of days to get used to. Feels odd to not be constantly accompanied by gov minder.

Tunisian Libyan border closed after shots fired and customs officer injured yesterday.

US backed Radio Sawa now broadcasting on 100 fm in #Benghazi #Libya

FreedomGrouptv
Nalut commanders on Bani Walid’s front-line confirmed the following:
 there are sporadic and light clashes

- Supplies continue to stream in from Nafusa Mountain, Zawiya and Tripoli.
- Fighters are on standby, awaiting their commanders orders to launch a full attack on the city.
- Commanders do not believe the battle for Bani Walid will be more fierce than Sirte, but Bani Walid presents a unique problem because of it’s terrain. The city is located on elevated ground and surrounded by open terrain. This makes the fighters exposed to sniper fire, and the city difficult to enter.
- Coordination between the fighters of Jadu, Al-Rajaban, Zawiya, Tripoli and Gharyan who are at the Bani Walid front, is very high.

Fighters use a hydraulic jack-hammer to destroy the gate that divided Libya, East from West
إزالة بوابة سرت Remove the gate of Sirte
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4dKsyDY6o0

Convoy of tanks from Nalut, heading to Bani Walid
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryZhoa9X14o

Gaddafi’s gold-plated chair from Sirte, is now in Misrata. It’s on display in the ‘Martyr Ali Hassan AlJaber Gallery’ on Tripoli St.
Photo:
goo.gl/ywyz1

A report on the weapons caches set up by the Gaddafi regime around the area Waden in Fazzan, and the chemical…
Video:
fb.me/u2uX7lZe
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=14XOji91ASw

FreedomGroup

3 fighters from Tajura were martyred in Bani Walid today;

1.Yunus Mhd Mhd AbdelSalam Ramadan
2.Ibrahim AbdulGhani AlDjaana
3. AnisMhd Karia

We ask Allah to forgive them their sins and accept them into heaven.

Gaddafi witch doctor, Khaled Tantoush, says an intermediary of Hanna Gaddafi called him to the Zawiya St…
Video:
fb.me/1kgHk1qbL
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDo055dzZgk

Sheikh Salah Salam shows the talisman that was found in the eastern Sirte gate, after it was demolished. Sheikh…
Video:
fb.me/JzT3UQSg
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5ZmNLNCXpM

Video shows the liberation of families, both expat and Libyan, who were living in a military apartment.
fb.me/Cp38BWs9
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGCmnZa3IP4

freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
صباح الخير ليبيا الحرة / Good morning free Libya
fb.me/1kbiZnW2k

The Freedom Group Daily is out!
bit.ly/fGJIFt

Repent11 Mohamed Fadel Fahmy
2 Syrian National Transitional Council members have arrived to #Libya today.

Military Council" 9 foreign & American security companies are in Libya with no permission, we informed UN. Libyans want them out " #Libya

Military Council: " Judicial procedures and courts will start next week in Tripoli " #Libya

All Love 4 All Libyans…Cant wait to be breath Cairo’s de-Nile! Home!

#Benghazi Grafitti “U wish u were a Libyan like me” – #Proud2beLibyan #Libya via @khald02 –
pic.twitter.com/WaFnptov

libyans_revolt omar
#Libya revolutionaries on Thursday mopped up pockets of resistance & continued to consolidate control over #sirte #feb17 #FF’s

LibyaMartyrs Libya Martyrs

Anas Agraya’a from Tajoura martyred yesterday on 13/10/2011 in the Battle of #Sirte #Libya الهم اغفر وارحم جميع شهدائنا
pic.twitter.com/BxATebAe

Tarek
At #Tunis airport catching a flight to #London after an unforgettable day crossing from #Libya

v @assomood
SIRTE:
37 Misrata fighters wounded & 3 martyred:

Mohammed Mustafa AlAmels

SalehOmar bin Saleh

AbdullahKhairi AlAtrush

Fighting in Sirte
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5KeW0zaFgM&fea...

USA Today

Libyan revolutionaries tighten hold in Sirte

SIRTE, Libya – Libya’s revolutionaries on Thursday mopped up pockets of resistance and continued to consolidate control over what was the last significant stronghold of forces loyal to former dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

Fighters inside Sirte fired assault rifles at posters of the man who was once their leader. At one intersection, they torched a billboard bearing a huge poster of Gadhafi in Bedouin garb.
Sirte is Gadhafi’s birthplace, and he had rewarded what was once a sleepy fishing village richly, building hotels, villas and ornate conference centers here. Now it lies in ruins after weeks of fighting.
PHOTOS: Libya: Battle for Sirte and Bani Walid

Read more and photo’s:
www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-...

Guardian
Matthew Weaver

Still days of shelling ahead in Sirte as tanks move in, Peter Beaumont reports #Libya
Audioboo:
audioboo.fm/boos/505284-still-days-of-s...

lindseyhilsum Lindsey Hilsum
bit.ly/oa3YWD

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BBC
Report: Arab Spring upheaval cost $55bn

The popular protests this year in North Africa and the Middle East – known as the Arab Spring – have cost the region more than $50bn, a new report says.
The report, by consultancy group Geopolicity, says Egypt, Syria and Libya paid the highest financial price.
It warns that without a regional support programme, the effects of the Arab Spring could be regressive.

Read more:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15...

CNN
Benghazi airspace reverts to Libyans
The skies over the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, controlled by NATO for months, reverted to Libyan authority Thursday, a sign of progress in rebuilding the nation after four decades of Moammar Gadhafi’s rule.
Read more:
edition.cnn.com/2011/10/13/world/africa...

Reuters:
BA says too early to resume #Libya flights
goo.gl/PN1Ed #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes

Reuters: #Gaddafi loyalists in #Sirte last stand. Video:
goo.gl/Iu02L #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
A little boy escapes from #Sirte
– my pic of the day #Libya
pic.twitter.com/KH8E0GQX

Sunset Tripoli last night’s run on the coast road
hpstm.tc/p/2fcjj #hipstamatic

BANIWALID:
Nalut commanders say fighting light & sporadic. Supplies continue2 stream in from NafusaMt, Zawiya & Tripoli #Libya v @BRQNews2

Fighters waiting orders 4 full assault. High coordination btw Jadu,Rajaban,Zawiya,Tripoli,Gharyan fighters v @BRQNews2

Commanders say fighting in BW won’t be as fierce as Sirte, but terrain poses special challenges v @BRQNews2 #Libya

City is on high ground & open terrain. Leaves fighters exposed to sniper fire & making it difficult2 enter v @BRQNews2

Libyana’s free in East #Libya only. @Assomood ask: is it due2 tech difficulty? Fear network will b overwhelmed? Lack of specific policy?

BANI WALID:
Northern front-line of Bani Walid doesn’t have field hospital, says fighter who was wounded by mortar there #Libya

Gaddafiforces in BaniWalid fired RPGs,mortars,C5s,Iranian multi-launchers etc. at fighters for 3mins, nonstop
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iup-mpUtBZw

Open_Oil OpenOil
byebye #tripoli-thanks for an amazing trip!next stop, djerba.fingers crossed all goes well at the border…!#stopthecelebullets !!

Aljazeera
Al Jazeera Arabic reports that Tunisia will extradite a key figure under the fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafis regime to Tripoli shortly.
Mustafa Abdul Jalil, head of the Libyan National Transitional Council said that al-Baghdadi al-Mahmudi, the former Libyan prime minister will be extradited.
Speaking at a joint press conference with Tunisian prime minister al-Baji Qaed al-Sabsi in Benghazi, Abdul Jalil cited an agreement signed by the two countries authorising the extradition of fugitives and criminals, which applies to al-Mahmudi’s case.
Abdul Jalil, has expressed gratitude to Tunisia’s stance in supporting the Libyan revolution, saying the Tunisian revolution was a source of inspiration to the Arab people in their uprising against dictators.
For his part, al-Sabsi, who arrived in Libya in a short visit on Wednesday, has reaffirmed that the two countries were linked by historical connections. The tow countries would be working to maintain bilateral relations in line with the Tunisian people’s support to the just cause of the Libyan people, he added.

Libyus Yusra T.
Happy Birthday to my mama !! ♥ Without our mamas nothing would be possible. #Libya

You need to watch this:)

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
This is so funny :) ..
Little child laughing at #Gadaffi
#Libya
Video:
youtube.com/watch?v=zG14L0…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG14L0Ua63o

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Snipers in #Sirt are using guns that have a range of 5 to 6 Kms which is slowing down the attack of the #FF’s #Libya

The New Libyan One Dinar HAHA #Libya
pic.twitter.com/JiAJTezl

Oh and this is the old one so you can check out the difference #Libya pic.twitter.com/6Tc87PnM

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#Flash #Sirte NTC Troops had to RETREAT from Dollar and Area 2 full of snipers

They R regrouping for final push Not In a Hurry though #Libya

#Sirte NTC troops R looting Gaddafi Goons homes in Retaliation 4 Them WRECKING & Stripping their own homes in #Misrata e.o. #Libya @SkyNews

#Sirte Looting oh so understandable Sure it will stop when war is over #Libya

NATO
NATO and Libya – The artistic revolution

Libya has taken to creative expression in a big way since the revolution, with new art, newspapers and music. Now street art is sweeping the capital, Tripoli.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjzRb5gnarY&nor...

#Sirte #NTC Commander says; #Gaddafi men will 1st Face Tanks + Heavy artillery Then pickup trucks + anti aircraft guns Then Infantry #Libya

MOD UK
UK operations over Libya continue
Royal Navy ships and Royal Air Force aircraft have continued operations this week to help safeguard the Libyan people as part of NATO’s Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR.

Yesterday afternoon, an armed reconnaissance patrol of RAF Tornado GR4s was

alerted by another NATO surveillance platform to the presence of three former Gaddafi regime armed trucks hidden beneath trees to the east of Bani Walid.
The vehicles were successfully engaged by our aircraft, using Paveway guided bombs, and destroyed.

On Wednesday, RAF aircraft formed part of NATO’s continuous armed reconnaissance presence over the disputed cities of Sirte and Bani Walid.
During the course of the afternoon they succeeded in identifying a pick-up truck, armed with an anti-aircraft artillery piece, in use by Colonel Gaddafi’s remaining troops in Bani Walid. A Brimstone missile, launched from a Tornado GR4, scored a direct hit on the vehicle and left it ablaze.
Three hours later, a similar patrol over Sirte was tasked to engage a second such armed vehicle which a NATO surveillance asset had spotted. Once again, a direct hit from a Brimstone missile destroyed the vehicle outright.
In the early hours of Monday morning, two formations of RAF Tornado GR4s mounted a strike on a missile depot still held by Colonel Gaddafi’s forces near Bani Walid. Our aircraft dropped seven Paveway laser and GPS guided bombs, scoring direct hits which inflicted very severe damage on the facility.
At sea, HMS Bangor is currently conducting maritime security patrols off Misurata, helping maintain confidence in the safe movement of merchant vessels to and from Libya’s ports as the new authorities work hard at restoring normal commercial operations.
With her advanced minehunting equipment, Bangor is very well suited to identifying and neutralising any legacy threats from Colonel Gaddafi’s regime, such as the abandoned mine and torpedo which she located and destroyed on the seabed off Tobruk earlier this month.
UK missions over Libya are undertaken as part of NATO’s Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR to enforce United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973 and protect Libyan civilians at risk of attack.
UK forces currently deployed on this operation include:
 RAF Tornado GR4 aircraft based at Gioia del Colle in Italy
 RAF VC10 and TriStar air-to-air refuelling tankers based in Sicily and the UK
 RAF Sentry and Sentinel surveillance aircraft based in Italy
 HMS Liverpool (Type 42 destroyer)
 HMS Bangor (Sandown Class minehunter)
RAF air transport aircraft provide extensive logistic support to the deployed bases in Italy, Sicily and the Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus.

WAPO
AP Interview: NATO chief says Libya operation showcased Europe’s commitment to alliance

The seven-month bombing campaign in Libya is a “positive story” that showcased the commitment of the alliance’s European members, who conducted most of the combat missions for the first time in the organization’s history, NATO’s top official said Friday.
Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen also said the alliance’s 28 members need to improve the way they spend money at a time of declining defense budgets, promoting his idea of “smart defense” under which nations pool resources to increase cost efficiency.

Please read more here:
mcaf.ee/39dlb

Libya government tanks try to end Sirte resistance

SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan government forces pushed tanks deep into the city of Sirte on Friday to try to smash the last pocket of resistance by loyalists of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi in his home town.
The mostly untrained militia army of the National Transitional Council (NTC) has gradually tightened its strangle-hold around Sirte for weeks in a chaotic struggle that has cost scores of lives and left thousands homeless.

Full report:
in.news.yahoo.com/libya-government-tank...

Tripoli festival:
tearsforfreedom
I disagree with any kind of festival. Were not ready to celebrate. People are STILL dying. I refuse to party while someone’s dying for us.

my issue isn’t the safety, it’s honestly ok during the day, but the nerve to celebrate and have a carefree time while our men1/2

are out there prepared to die for us.. A little respect :(

Iyad
Gaddafi says this is the last day before he releases the operation that will liberate Libya.
The people of Libya have a few hours to decide if they are with me or if they will fight under the crusaders flag

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Fighting has broken out in Abu Salim area of #Tripoli. NTC fighters engaged with Pro-Gaddafi supporters. AAA and AK47 fire.

#Gaddafi Loyalists are shooting at an #NTC katiba in Al-Zohowor Area of #Tripoli. Fighting continuing as i write this.

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
All #G4 nations except #Brazil RECOGNIZE #NTC All #NATO members except #Iceland formally recognise #NTC (as Of October13) #Libya

#Libya Road Traffic on #Tunisia side of #Border Disrupted all day by GaddafiGoons armed with clubs Waving Gaddafi portraits and stop Cars

WyreDavies Wyre Davies
Fighting continues in #Sirte #Libya. Heavy shelling & fighting all day. At least 20 NTC casualties – mortar attack. Possible friendly fire.

Ahmed
Does anyone know what the state of Ras Djar border is today to #tunisia? I need to go and hearing conflicting reports everywhere! #Libya

AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Senior US official: US, EU and NATO allies see need for urgent action to prevent anti-aircraft missiles from Libya falling into wrong hands

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Small amount of black smoke can be seen rising from the #Zohowr Area. #Tripoli.

We can hear the gun battle from our hotel balcony. fighting has been going on for one hour now. #Tripoli #Libya

BBC are being told that there are 20+ Pro-Gaddafi loyalists taking part in the fighting in #Tripoli.
Getting reports of a 2nd area of fighting near Zawiyah Road in #Tripoli.

libyanproud libyanandproud
I’m in zawiya road, nothing here

Calm in : Hay Andalus and Gurji and Syahya and Drebi and Ghot sha’al

Monirly
Calm in #Alfornaj & #AinZara too .. The clashes seems to be in #Abusleem area only! #Libya #Tripoli

Sarah
Sigh Cousins never online when we need them. #AbuSleem
Any tweeps went to #Abusleem ?#Tripoli

Ahmed
which news agency announced all these skirmishes? Same news agency that ‘confirmed’ Mo’tassim was captured? (rhetorical)… #libya #tripoli

FULL REPORT MUST READ:
Al Arabiya
NTC and pro-Qaddafi forces fighting in Tripoli; intensive assault launched on Sirte
A gun battle broke out in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Friday between 20 to 50 armed supporters of deposed leader Muammar Qaddafi and forces of the National Transitional Council (NTC), a Reuters witness and residents said.

NTC fighters mounted on pick-up trucks raced towards the scene in the Abu Salim neighborhood, a center of support for Qaddafi. The two sides exchanged automatic and heavy machinegun fire, the Reuters witness said.

Local residents said the group of armed men had appeared in Abu Salim earlier and had begun chanting pro-Qaddafi slogans.

“Qaddafi told them in a message last night to rise up after Friday prayers,” said an NTC fighter, Abdullah. “That’s why these few people have come out and are causing this problem.”
Qaddafi has released a number of audio recordings calling on loyalists to fight the new government which ousted him from power when its forces captured Tripoli two months ago.

“I urge all Libyan people to go out and march in their millions in all the squares, in all the cities and villages and oases,” he said in one such message earlier this month.

“Go peacefully … be courageous, rise up, go to the streets, raise our green flags to the skies,” Qaddafi said.
Fighting in Sirte
Forces from Libya’s new regime, meanwhile, launched an intensive assault on two areas of Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, bombarding his diehards with artillery, mortars and rockets, AFP reported.

Their latest offensive, aimed at mopping up remaining pockets of stiff resistance, came a day after NTC combatants were forced to withdraw under a hail of withering sniper fire.

An AFP correspondent said that shortly before 1:00 pm (1100 GMT), a large column of NTC forces, some in trucks and some on foot, pushed out of the central police HQ towards loyalist positions in the Dollar and Number Two neighborhoods.

“Qaddafi snipers are trapped in area Number Two and we surround them. Right now, we are shooting randomly just to frighten them, but a lot of snipers changed their positions last night,” said Mustafa al-Abyad, an NTC commander.

Huge plumes of thick black smoke billowed above both neighborhoods amid an intense grenade and mortar bombardment and almost continuous machinegun fire.

NTC scouts had earlier probed loyalist defenses, advancing as far as two kilometers (just over a mile) west from the central police headquarters before pulling back.

They had remained there overnight after retreating there under heavy fire on Thursday.
Heavy bombardment
Advancing NTC troops seized a school on the edge of the Dollar neighborhood from which it launched a heavy bombardment. The 100-strong force came under intense return fire.

NTC fighters later opened up with 130 mm cannons, after their troops pulled back a bit to allow for the bombardment.

Defiant Qaddafi fighters in the two areas of northwest Sirte have been staging a fierce last stand that has put paid to NTC hopes of a swift mop-up.

“They are shooting at us. They have good positions in buildings and they have snipers,” said NTC fighter Amed al-Figi from Misrata.

“We are making progress but it is difficult.”

Ahead of the latest assault, one fighter at the police HQ was dismissive of the Qaddafi hold-outs.

“We still have to clean some rubbish that is left in the city. We are waiting for orders.

Very soon the Sirte battle will be over, but the Libyan war will be over only with the capture of Qaddafi,” Abdul Salam Farjani said.

NTC commanders said on Thursday the Qaddafi remnants were cornered within about two square kilometers (500 acres) of the city.

An AFP journalist reported at least two regime fighters killed in Friday’s fighting and around 15 wounded, some gravely and several by shrapnel.

Four NTC fighters were killed on Thursday, including two by friendly fire, and another 40 were wounded, mostly by snipers, said Rawad Friwan, a surgeon at a field hospital on Sirte’s western outskirts.

Sirte is a key goal for the NTC, which has said it will not proclaim Libya’s liberation and begin preparing for the transition to an elected government until the city has fallen.

The regime began its siege of Sirte on Sept.15 before launching what it termed a “final assault” last Friday that has seen at least 95 of its fighters killed and hundreds wounded, according to medics.
NATO operations
NATO said that warplanes on Thursday hit four military vehicles and a multiple rocket launcher in the other remaining Qaddafi bastion of Bani Walid, an oasis town southeast of the capital.

A top adviser of NTC chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil, meanwhile, backtracked on his announcement that they had captured Qaddafi’s feared son and national security chief Mutassim in Sirte, after it was denied by military commanders.

“There was some confusion about the reports of Mutassim’s capture,” Abdelkarim Bizama said. “As soon as we have confirmation, there will be an official announcement of his arrest.”

However, regime fighters said they did capture the Qaddafi regime’s top cleric as he tried to flee Sirte on Wednesday with his beard shaved off.

Khaled Tantoosh, Libya’s mufti under Qaddafi, made broadcasts in his support through the long uprising that ended the despot’s 42-year rule.

Meanwhile, NTC oil minister Ali Tarhuni vowed Libya would investigate “every penny” of suspect oil contracts signed under Qaddafi’s regime, which was responsible for what he called “unbelievable” corruption.

“There will be specialized committees that will look into all these contracts and agreements, starting with the oil sector,” Tarhuni said, without giving details on contracts or companies.

Libya’s oil production, which collapsed after the uprising in February, is expected to rise to nearly one million barrels per day by April from the current 400,000, according to the state-run National Oil Co.

SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: Between 20 and 50 armed Gaddafi supporters fighting govt forces in Tripoli

WyreDavies Wyre Davies
Field hospital in #Sirte treating #NTC wounded from today’s mortar attack. The battle for this city isn’t over yet.
pic.twitter.com/NwALM7xs

Guardian
Several killed in “horrendous” friendly fire incident in Sirte, Peter Beaumont reports #Libya
Audioboo:
audioboo.fm/boos/505448-several-killed-...

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
Road to #RasJdir border: Libyan Cars stopped Fear of attacks in #BenGuerdan Incidents" between Traders + Border Guards #Libya #Tunisia

Jpost
‘Egypt intercepts Libyan surface-to-air missiles in Sinai’

Weapons smuggling has boosted the black market in Sinai; Egyptian source says Palestinian in Gaza struck a deal with Libyan rebels.
More:
www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?i...

Fox Business
Libya Waha Oil Output May Resume On Dismissal Pledge-Officials

-Workers on strike, demand ouster of chairman
-Waha official says oil minister promised to heed their demand
-Production at two fields could reach combined 50,000 bpd when strike ends
(Adds details about strike in second paragraph and comments from oil companies in 11th-13th paragraphs.)

Art.:
www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2011/10/...

Times of Malta
Actavis sending €2 million worth of medicines to Libya
Pharmaceutical company Actavis will be sending about 600,000 packs of medicines, worth over €2 million, to Libyan hospitals.
Daniel Vella Friggieri, from Actavis, said the company contacted the Libyan health ministry to determine what types of medicines were mostly needed as the country

battled with casualties of the civil war.
The Maltese branch then sent out a request to all its European offices that shipped several consignments to Malta to be sent to Libya. The company collected 170-pallets-worth of about 22 different medicines that treated heart and gastrointestinal conditions as well as pain relievers and anti-infection medicines that could be administered intravenously.
Mr Vella Friggieri said that 20 per cent of the products being sent were manufactured in Malta. He was speaking at the Civil Protection Departments’ humanitarian aid stores in Marsa where the medicines are being kept.
CPD director Patrick Murgo said the department had contacted the World Food Programme that, weather permitting, will be sending a ship to Malta on Sunday to pick up the consignment. The cargo would be taken to the port of Tripoli from where members of the National Transitional Council would take it to hospitals.
Mohamed Sayeh, a senior member of the council, thanked Malta for its help while Health Minister Joseph Cassar said the island was always happy to help during such moments.

Reuters
UPDATE 1-govt and pro-Gaddafi forces fight in Tripoli
A gunbattle broke out in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Friday between 20 to 50 armed supporters of deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi and forces of the National Transitional Council (NTC), a Reuters witness and residents said.

Local residents said the group of armed men had appeared in Abu Salim earlier and had begun chanting pro-Gaddafi slogans.

NTC fighters said fighting had also broken out in the nearby Hadhba neighbourhood.
Full report:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...

Aljazeera
A Libyan citizen was arrested in Sousse on Wednesday evening for possession of a kalashnikov and 25 bullets, the Tunisian Press Agency (TAP) reports.
The head of the anti-terrorist agency in Sousse told TAP that a foreign arms dealer had been travelling back and forth to Tunisia regularly.
Sources in the city of Sfax told Al Jazeera that there is a busy black market trade in weapons from Libya in the south of the country, and that the going price of a kalashnikov is 500 Tunisian Dinars. In Ben Gharden, closer to the border, the price is 300 TND.

Fighting breaks out in Libyan capital Tripoli, a witness tells Reuters news agency. Our team in Tripoli is urgently checking these reports.
Fighting breaks out in Tripoli’s Abu Salim neighbourhood.
More soon…

Al Jazeera’s James Bays, reporting from Tripoli, said he can see smoke coming from the Abu Salim area in the capital. The sound of gunfire and heavy weapon being fired was heard in the neighbourhood.
There was a pro-Gaddafi rally held in Abu Salim earlier on Friday. The rally was followed by clashes, Bays said.

More soon….

A gun battle has broken out in the Libyan capital Tripoli between 20 to 50 armed supporters of deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi and forces of the National Transitional Council (NTC), a witness and residents have said.
NTC fighters mounted on pick-up trucks raced towards the scene in the Abu Salim neighbourhood, a centre of support for Gaddafi.
The two sides exchanged automatic and heavy machine gun fire, the witness told the

Reuters news agency.
Al Jazeera’s James Bays, reporting from Tripoli, said he could see smoke over the Abu Salim area in the capital.
“The sound of gunfire and heavy weapons being fired also was heard in the neighbourhood,” he said.
Local residents said a group of armed men had appeared in Abu Salim earlier and had begun chanting pro-Gaddafi slogans.
That rally was followed by clashes, Bays said.

A senior UN human rights official says there is a risk of serious abuses occurring when the last strongholds of ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi fall to revolutionary forces.
Mona Rishmawi, the head of the UN human right’s office’s rule of law section, says perceived Gaddafi loyalists face persecution when fighting in the towns of Sirte and Bani Walid ends.
Rishmawi says Libya’s transitional government is trying to ensure the rights of captured Gadhafi fighters are protected but “the system that is currently in place is not adequate”.
She said in Geneva on Friday that “there is a lot of room for abuse” of the estimated 7,000 people detained in sometimes makeshift prisons throughout Libya.
Rishmawi recently visited Libya as part of a UN delegation.

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Few clashes between IDIOTIC #Gadaffi supporters and #FF’s in Busleem and Hathba. Hallucination pills anyone? :D #Libya

i have no idea whats on their minds ? :S Wake up in the morning “So lets free Tripoli from the rats” HAHA

Some #Gadaffi loyalists shoot at some FF’s cars in #Binghsheer area in #Tripoli #Libya

Mutassim:
blabeen
im certain he s not in FF hands but G’s cleric Tantoush is I saw him with my own eyes :), Mutasm report s a trick by FF @hlk01

some prisoners frm GF in #Sirte said G s there, personally I doubt it.

I’m in #Misrata now , Saturday back 2 #sirte ’ en sha Allah ’ #Libya

some G men tried to flee Sirte bcuz of Mutasim report #Libya

Yes many of them. 2 Of them tried to kidnap a family & cross the checkPoints but they failed.

I can’t tell exactly , but we also noticed an increase on the rate of civilians leaving the city after the report !

After being on the ground in #Sirte I noticed that many reports by sm ArabicSatTvs r inaccurate. sm journos can’t c da complete pic

Stay tunned for sm pix frm #Sirte, sorry for the ok quality cuz i`m using my mobile, my camera will not survive the conditions there.

We captured a prison trailer,conditions inside r horrible,dirty,bottles full of urine,brokn mobilePhones #Sirte #Libya
pic.twitter.com/XREC7WTP

We used the prisonTrailer as a mobile ammo storage. #Sirte #Libya pic.twitter.com/dexGE8bJ

Some burned weapons after NTAO strike on a storage bunkers south of #Sirte pic.twitter.com/SZIFdyyQ

Fixing burned weapons, very high successful rate :) specially with FN FAL rifle. #Sirte

#Libya pic.twitter.com/vM0swO6Z

Our temp base inside #Sirte vry close 2 the front line, note 2 G dogs: we r not there any more :P
pic.twitter.com/7mPHZrWQ

We captured 3 T55 tanks ready&loaded after we advanced & GF ran away to their sniping nests as usual.
pic.twitter.com/PbnIWU0w

We used 1 of the tanks to make way for the other 2. the frontLine s at the trees in the back. #Sirte #Libya
pic.twitter.com/ZWE0ekwc

Signs of the clashes which took place before we manage to push GF back #Sirte #Libya pic.twitter.com/adVwOPil

Trying to flank some snipers hiding in some buildings. #Sirte #Libya pic.twitter.com/IGsltLJf

Locating snipers, man in the front s the 2nd in command in my unit he has a lot of combat experience #Sirte #Libya
pic.twitter.com/EamxNKEK

More to come l8ter, time for lunch :)

Monday1:00am wokeUp 2 a hugeBang,thoughts were anthr GF mortar hit theBuilding. appeard 2b #FriendlyFire #Sirte #Libya
pic.twitter.com/VMl8zfRQ

a Wounded comrade by not so #FriendlyFire, apart from the cars thankfully no Body s hurt. #Sirte #Libya
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An exit wound. #FriendlyFire #Sirte #Libya
pic.twitter.com/8P0cTYFT

Our special forces guy evaluating the damage. #Sirte #Libya pic.twitter.com/b033NuX9

Shrapnel holes. #Sirte #Libya
pic.twitter.com/2vNgZxbj

Lightly damaged, #FriendlyFire #Sirte #Libya
pic.twitter.com/QEqXupe7

From the impact hole, most likely a launcher like this was the source of the attack. #FriendlyFire #Sirte #Libya
pic.twitter.com/Ug1HtpMs

All of our 5 cars needed repairs, so we lift the forward post to our main position on the outskirts of #Sirte #Libya
pic.twitter.com/UG4jbBsP

More shrapnel holes. #Sirte #Libya
pic.twitter.com/Vb6m711T

And as always #Gaddafi is the blamed :)) #Sirte #Libya (1) pic.twitter.com/4veIPE4W

Thanx my friend :))

And as always #Gaddafi is the blamed :)) (2), this guy is very funny even when we r under enemy fire #Sirte #Libya
pic.twitter.com/OD41Q5kk

And as always #Gaddafi is the blamed :)) (3). Morale is skyHigh. #Sirte #Libya pic.twitter.com/nZy1LmJM

Captured field kitchen. #Sirte #Libya
pic.twitter.com/K5PbbUOW

Behind my lens. securing someone’s home. #Sirte #Libya. pic.twitter.com/x30oUhPn

More pix 2 come l8ter.

BANI WALID PICS:
Tweeting Tripoli
OK guys and gals, if you are ready for some exclusive pictures from #BaniWalid Northern front lines, I am ready :)

BaniWalid is around 180 KM south-east to Tripoli. It is a desert-mountain terrain sort of place… will take you in a tour now :)

On the way to #BaniWalid. Just 20KM away from Frontlines. You can prop see the smoke hanging over city in the distance.
pic.twitter.com/PgkDQrgH

I am following my friend’s SUV to take me to their camp. He’s the other brother of Musbah (RIP) Martyred few days ago.
pic.twitter.com/EcsuH9eB

My FF friends from Soug Guma (these guys overtook Mateega Airbase back in Aug 20 with rocks, Jalatina and few AK47s.
pic.twitter.com/fX84Ik97

Here, smoke seen rising from #BaniWalid in the distance… pic.twitter.com/Q9OyeB8a

By the way, those two guys, one is an accountant, the other is a lorry driver. They will go back to being civilians after the war is over :)

some of the supply we took with us there… Juice and biscuits can come handy as a morning snack :) pic.twitter.com/M62wk5UR

#FF ready to push further into main #BaniWalid, the spirits were very high. Confident that it will be over soon :) pic.twitter.com/b9z9ua0q

This #FF looks like he enjoyed the ride over a 14.5 caliber gun… pic.twitter.com/8RTkzFkK

Finally we reach one of the #FF camps… they were too many distributed over large are…
pic.twitter.com/353qliYY

DIY #FF in one camp. They fix what ever they can fix. #BaniWalid #feb17 pic.twitter.com/BY1dkeRN

This Animal-feed factory was hit by Gaddafi grads from #BaniWalid fed days ago. 2 FF resting nearby were killed.
pic.twitter.com/zVZzrroS

A close-up of the Animal-Feed factory storage tank hit by a Grad from Gaddafi forces in #BaniWalid…
pic.twitter.com/DQwe74vW

Air-ambulance ready to take off with a wounded #FF. #BaniWalid #feb17 pic.twitter.com/XsDhImLn

More pics Air-ambulance (if you are a Heli-Fan like myself) :) pic.twitter.com/Qevm2nOn

and another one…
pic.twitter.com/6Juxpy74

Disappearing behind a hill top… #BaniWalid
pic.twitter.com/OvHNYQqX

The Red crescent visible under the belly of the Heli :)
pic.twitter.com/wQ48Woaj

Glad to tell you, that Tweety Bird bird is safe :)
pic.twitter.com/2GLMY9JD

OK tweeps, I think the other photos might be dangerous to reveal. Gaddafi thugs can target their camps.

Will post a video of the Air-ambulance taking off from northern frontlines of #BaniWalid shortly.

All I can say is that the guys think they are on a holiday and having fun, that’s how high their spirits …

Tweeting Tripoli
My video of the Air-Ambulance from #BaniWalid frontlines…
youtube.com/watch?v=7pOtQi…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pOtQimxEqU

Note the near-miss (at 0:48)… lol lucky birdy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pOtQimxEqU

Tweeting Tripoli
Via Soug Guma #FF: Some G-loyalists opened fire on checkpoints in AbuSlim area. Its all under control now

Smoke seen in Sug Guma due to some people burning up trash. Unhealthy and they shouldn’t do that. Just to let u know. No problems in SG :)

desertrose5505 Desert Rose
heavy gunfire in #Tripoli area also loss of power – situation is very tense.. #prayers @Libya

Someone pls translate Gaddafi-TV newsflash?
www.ustream.tv/channel/ilibya-tv#utm_ca...=synclickback&source=http://www.ilibya.tv/ilibyaarrai.htm/&medium=9141224 @JonaRenz

#Tripoli Allot of small clashes around #RaddisonBlueHotel but #NTC fighters will bring them under control quickly #LivecallJamesBay #Libya

#SIRTE British Ministry of Defense says #NATO is conducting “intensive overwatch missions” around #Bani Walid and Sirte #Libya

#Tripoli #BA SAYS TOO EARLY TO RESUME #LIBYA FLIGHTS news.airwise.com/story/view/131… #Libya

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Report from source in #Tripoli: “Lots hurt in #Sirte today, my son has gone back to #Misrata with the injured”

Report from source in #Tripoli: “I’m in Sarraj and can hear gun fire and explosions”
area in #Tripoli between Janzur and Al Saya7eeya

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
#Tripoli.This is the first reaction after nearly 2months of freedom and it was pathetic so we shouldnt worry anymore.They are history #Libya

we have all known that busleem hadnt been cleared out so now is the time seen they started attacking !!
apparently saif promised them to make busleem like dubai so thats why they want him.HAHA
calm in hay alandalus too, odd gunfire one in a while wa khalas.

Will be on bbc in seconds :)

#Gadaffi Loyalist woke up today and said “Lets free #Tripoli!!!” So he got up with 20 others and they went on Mission Impossible #Libya

will hopefully have some footage of the clashes today and RPG’s being fired off in Busleem #Tripoli #Libya today

#Gadaffi .. From having Millions of supporters to just 20-50 in #Tripoli. You must have made a mistake somewhere down the road #Libya

Tweeting Tripoli
AinZara, Fernaj, Soug Guma, Tajoura all safe and quiet :)

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Hundreds of #FF’s are spread around the Busleem area to make sure that no more pathetic attempts are made #Libya

After investigating a prisoner caught today in #Busleem.He said there are people within #FF brigades trying to cause disruption

SMILE:
People .. dont miss out and just watch this !! it is amazing !! :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP4abiHdQpc&fea...

Thinks what happened in #Tripoli today is good because now we know who wants #Gadaffi and who doesnt.More names to arrest

OMG LOOOOOOL:
moez معز
Breaking? صح النوم “@m_madi: Breaking: Foreign journalists discover Hanaa #Gaddafi was NOT killed in 1986 airstrike”

jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Plane ticket of #Gadhafi daughter Hana. @HaraldDoornbos found in her room.On it written:“Daughter of Revolution leader”
twitpic.com/704qli

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
A doctor at the Tripoli Medical Centre (MTC) says 9 seriously injured today. #Tripoli #Libya

Fighting has now stopped in the Zohowr area. Unconfirmed reports that between 20 and 100 pro-G fighters were involved. #Tripoli

I have seen over 200 NTC fighters currently in the streets from 8 different Katiba #Tripoli #Libya

Streets are swamped with pro-NTC in #Tripoli. Many more checkpoints too. I’ve just gone through at least a dozen. #Libya

Just drove past a barrage of small arms fire. People scurrying to get cover. #Tripoli #Libya

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Those of us sitting here in Tripoli can tell you thatthere’s nothing wrong and only abuSlim saw clashes which were dealt with

Some Gaddafi troublemakers arrested in AbuSlim – area is totally safe now and everything is under control

There’s nothing going on in AbuSlim now. Area is safe.

flyingbirdies أكرم
Am with #FF #Tripoli #Libya . Only iPhone cam with me
pic.twitter.com/4RhIIiOO

Heavy gunfire can be heard – #AJA live footage from #Sirte #Libya

kenneth
What would these rogues possibly think they can accomplish with this, other than getting themselves arrested?

Sarah
Abu Salim is calm now except for celebratory fire. #Tripoli #Libya”

#AJA Mubasher & #AJE broadcasting live from #Sirte –
pic.twitter.com/BJfYkLRA

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Libyans ARE united.
Gaddafi called for “millions” of supporters and 20 people came out in all of Tripoli. 3 million residents = 20 troublemakers. Lol

They are less than 20 people, still thinking that Gaddafi will save them or return to Tripoli. Hahahahahahaha. #

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
The best thing here is the pro-Gaddafi tweeps from Serbia. “DERP DERP MILLIONS OF BROTHER LEATHER SUPPORTERS RECLAIM #TRIPOLI”. Oh really?

It’s amazing how the only Gaddafi supporters in AbuSlim are drug addicts & those he showered with drugs, alcohol, money & homes. #libya

Reuters
Up to 7,000 held in Libyan prisons, U.N. says
Up to 7,000 prisoners are held in dozens of makeshift detention centers in Libya more than two months after rebel forces toppled Muammar Gaddafi, amid serious allegations and some evidence of torture, the United Nations said on Friday.

More:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/14/us-l...

BBC
Libya conflict: Interim forces regroup for Sirte push
Interim government forces in the Libyan town of Sirte have regrouped for another attempt to capture the last streets occupied by soldiers loyal to Colonel Gaddafi.
Buildings and infrastructure across the ousted leader’s hometown have been damaged, but the resistance coming from the small area held by pro-Gaddafi forces has been fierce.

The BBC’s Wyre Davies, reporting from Sirte, said it was difficult to see "when this is going to end.

“They’re going to run out of ammunition or they’re going to run out of food, because they’ve been holding that position for a couple of days.”
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15305760

MSF .org
Libya: fighting, trauma and health care in Sirte
The night after this interview, six patients died at Ibn Sina hospital because they could not be operated on. In the north part of town, thousands of civilians remain completely trapped by the fighting.
But brave and determined staff are helping hundreds of people as the violence rages around them.
Dr Gabriele Rossi, MSF emergency coordinator, describes a very serious situation in Sirte. This interview was conducted on 13th October 2011.
Read more here:
www.msf.org.uk/Libya_Sirte_interview_20...

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA small explosive device went off outside Radisson Blu hotel – used by diplomats and journalists.

#LIBYA not major incidents – but shows there are still some Gaddafi supporters in the city prepared to take up arms

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
now back to hotel. security guard here accidentally shot himself in the foot has been rushed to hospital. #Tripoli

Daily Mail
Last stand in Sirte: Extraordinary pictures show Libyan city shelled to smithereens

Buildings are crumbling, heavily armed fighters stand on every street corner and snipers lurk on rooftops – welcome to Sirte.
The home city of Libya’s fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafi is one of the last area’s not to have succumbed to the militia army of the National Transitional Council.
These astonishing photographs show how the rebel fighters, as the NTC was previously dubbed, are slowly tightening their strangle-hold around the city – with pro-Gaddafi fighters now only occupying a tiny section.
Full art. with pics:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-204910...

BBC
Libya: Gaddafi loyalists continue to fight off NTC troops
Government forces in Libya have regrouped for a new push to capture Sirte, where soldiers loyal to Col Gaddafi are still holding out in the former leader’s hometown.
The National Transitional Government’s forces have control of the centre of the city and have surrounded the Gaddafi loyalists, but have struggled to hold on to their gains.
Wyre Davies report.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15308065

Fox News
Terrorists Seeking Missing Libyan Missiles, U.S. Official Says
- Terrorist groups have expressed interest in obtaining some of the thousands of shoulder-launched missiles that have gone missing in Libya and the issue has become a priority for the Obama administration, a senior U.S. official said Friday.
Andrew J. Shapiro, Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, said Friday the missiles “could pose a threat to civil aviation.”

Read more:
www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/14/ter...

WAPO
NATO: Libya action shows Europe’s commitment
As revolutionary forces continue fighting to capture Moammar Gaddafi’s hometown in Libya, NATO’s top official is calling a seven month bombing campaign a “positive story.” (Oct. 14)
Source:
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nato-libya...

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
Still tense. Fighters on the street in Abu Salim, #TRIPOLI yfrog.com/khd2esuj ##LIBYA ##AJE

pixelpipe.com/ticket/rGu-fUw-0Lk/HX2WFn...

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Ayman Masoud.Such a young child who died fighting for freedom in #Libya pic.twitter.com/qPTPM8ZG

This picture says it all. #FF’s we are so proud of you.
pic.twitter.com/j9vIY8oa
Video showing fighting in #Busleem today
www.twitvid.com/DXLNF #Libya
or:
www.twitvid.com/DXLNF
it wasnt as big as everyone made out.Main event was in busleem so most areas were quiet

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
One of our brave #Tripoli FF was shot in his leg today in AbuSlim. Wishing him a speedy rcovery inshallah. AFAIK no casualties alhamdullilah

tearsforfreedom Rukaya El-Turki
Impressive high-level security checkpoints dotted around #Tripoli tonight. Definitely proves new #Libya is handling the country well.

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
#FF’s in #Sirt capture a sniper and take him into custody #Libya pic.twitter.com/kA7boZ90

News that a #Scad missile was launched from #Binwaleed heading to #Misrata but #Nato blocked it #Libya

Video of #Busleem today
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSwYWEK21HQ&fea...

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Another reason why celebratory shooting has to stop: There was confusion in some #Tripoli areas, people thought it ws clashes when it wasn’t

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
#Gaddafi loyalists don’t stand a chance here in #Tripoli, massively outnumbered by #NTC who are still in control. #Libya

Sarah
Asked cousin who lives in #AbuSleem what happened, told me “Didn’t hear?:D G is in MartyrSQ haha”. _ Do Libyans stop joking some times ?

Gheblawi:
Now a pro-revo rally in MartyrsSQ #Tripol, a crowd is gathering, supporting NTC & calling for unity,no for sectarianism #Libya

Sarah
(AFP) – Jean-Marie Le Pen salutes the “bravery” of the Pro-Gaddafi Fighters in #Sirte #Libya #France
For those who don’t know Jean-Marie LePen, he is a Big French Racist !! Lol. He HATES Arabs.. #JustSaying
That’s not incroyable at all :p that’s JM lePen ^^ Actually thanks God he didn’t say I salutes Freedom Fighters bravery !
He is a french racist politics !
You know our cause is noble when even J-M Le Pen, an Arab haters, is supporting #Gaddafi forces :)

libyanandproud
lePin is an idiot and proves more so by supporting GADDAFI

Matog Saleh
he can hate us all he wants :) we really dont need his love :)
Amazigh Forever
He is just a racist sick mind. He’d endorse any cause that would contribute in killing Arabs

Khadija Ali
This morning almost nobody was at any checkpoint on the road to #Zliten. After #AbuSleem this afternoon there are a million checkpoints.

Stuck in traffic in the outskirts of Tajoura. I should’ve been home an hour ago.

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Has there ever been a revolution in hx where a revolutionary council agreed not to take part in next government? Yes, the NTC #Libya

LPC:
Tripoli was suddenly full of FFs securing the city. Today is a blessing in disguise. It will keep us alert. We are ONE #feb17 #Libya

HACKED:
AlJazeera:
Aljazeera mubashar on facebook has been hacked. Don not trust any news on it at the moment

Guardian
Liam Fox’s resignation letter
The defence secretary writes to David Cameron: ‘I now have to hold myself to my own standard’
I am proud also to have played a part in helping to liberate the people of Libya, and I regret that I will not see through to its conclusion Britain’s role in Afghanistan, where so much progress has been made.
Read more:
www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/oct/14...

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#LiamFox Another bloody #Politician bites the dust At least they get caught out in the #UK #Goodriddance #Dodgy #DoubleFaced #Untrustworthy

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Reuters: #Gaddafi gunmen, government forces clash in Libyan capital #Tripoli goo.gl/g9OAd #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
PHOTOS: Battle for #Sirte goo.gl/tPQWz #Libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes
Please watch all the photo’s:
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
PHOTOS: Battle for #Sirte
goo.gl/tPQWz

Khadija Ali
When I’m waiting in a lane that means I can’t move. Creating another lane only creates choas. #Libya #WhenWillTheyUnderstand
Security wasn’t doing it’s job this morning. Somebody should tell them they can’t make up for it now #itsTOOlate
Alhamdulilah, thank God, we’re finally through. #OnTheRoad2Tripoli
my dads driving :)

RasmusTantholdt Rasmus Tantholdt TV2
Very Quiet at the #RasJdir border. No cars, no people, no fighting as reported in some media. #libya

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
British Airways say it is still to early to re-open their flights between the UK and #Libya

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
Saif #Gaddafi saying #Libya is very sexy
youtube.com/watch?v=q4m3CM…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4m3CM0c_K8&fea...

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
yeah its a lot SEXIER than all his girlfriends thats true :p

Who fancies a chocolate bar? Newest bars out there .. LEGENDARY pic.twitter.com/3ws9I3sb
or:
goo.gl/GbZuz

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
NTC remain in complete control

Reuters: NTC fighters dragged one man out of an apartment in AbuSalim.. he was kicked and punched. #Tripoli

AFP: Deputy head of the supreme military council in #Tripoli, Khaled Sharif, insisted the fighting was “very limited” in scope.

#NTC fighter then attempted to stab the man with RPG. #Tripoli

CLARIFICATION: #NTC fighter attempted to stab with a knife a #Gaddafi loyalist found in possession of an RPG. #Tripoli

looking at video he could have killed him. not the way to behave when you arrest someone. that FF should have his weapons removed.

iyad_elbaghdadi Iyad El-Baghdadi
Today, a bunch of pro-Gaddafi goons tried to wreak havoc in Tripoli. Unfortunately for them, Tripoli youths still have their guns. #Libya

Darreg
#gaddafi supporters have to be the dumbest people in the world, tweet old videos, claim they are today, but people are wearing winter coats

david_bachmann_ AC Tripolis
Road Ras Ajdir – #Tripoli: Mafish mushkila

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Sirte: “Hay Dolar” district of #Sirte has been liberated, all that remains now is “Neighborhood 2” which is controlled by #Gaddafi fighters

LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Before feb 17 people didnt know where Libya was on the map, but now they where Libya is + all the cities

LibyaLiberty Hend Bashir Amry
Grilled Gaddafi enflambé. RT@NatGeo 10 favorite national dishes. What’s yours?

Vanguard
NTC pounds Kadhafi fighters in Sirte, clashes in Tripoli
SIRTE (AFP) – Forces from Libya’s new regime launched a fierce assault on two areas of Moamer Kadhafi’s hometown of Sirte on Friday, as their comrades clashed with supporters of the fallen strongman in the capital.

The latest offensive in Sirte, aimed at mopping up remaining pockets of stiff resistance, came a day after National Transitional Council (NTC) combatants were forced to withdraw under a hail of withering sniper fire.
At least four people were killed and 46 wounded in Friday’s fighting, said Abdulsalam Abdelkani, a medic at a field hospital in eastern Sirte. “All the injuries are sniper shots and bullet wounds.”
Read more:
www.vanguardngr.com/2011/10/ntc-pounds-...

EndTyranny101 Ahmed Sanalla
18 die & 62 injured due to celebratory gunfire after fake news of Muttasim #Gaddafi arrest in #Sirte. 6 N #Benghazi & 12 N #Tripoli..#Libya

flyingbirdies أكرم
Question. we don’t have water tab since 10AM! is this the same for all Tripoli?

Desert Rose
water has been closed for the Busaleem area and power is also down… benashour where my daughter lives also no water…

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#Tripoli in todays limited clashes 8 people were wounded, NTC fighters among them said sources at the #Abu #Salim hospital #Libya

#Sirte Dollar and nr 2 District were shelled for 6 Hrs today with Grad rockets and some artillery shells but got no similar response #Libya

#Sirte Gaddafi’s men have little hope of victory but still fight on inflicting dozens of casualties with rocketpropelled grenades & mortars

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Wish some Libyans wld be less blaze’ about accusing ppl of being Pro G with no evidence & on hearsay. If u r not 100% sure then STFU

I’ve come across ppl who accuse others of being Pro G for no reason but to stain them out of spite, ignorance or envy.Its despicable #feb17

Gheblawi Ghazi Gheblawi
Tap water is weakening or stopped running in many parts of #Tripoli, filling up containers with water in case it doesn’t come back tomorrow

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
as ever majority common sense prevails in libya.

blabeen blabeen
Lists of KIAs & Wounded at the field hospital main door. #Sirte #Libya pic.twitter.com/7qhlcwv4

Washing the blood at the gate of the hospital. #Sirte #Libya pic.twitter.com/pOy9DU0B

Face of a capturd mercenary frm Mali, has the ‘Arabic’ nationality which G normaly gives 2 subSaharan ppl #Sirte #Libya
pic.twitter.com/7eX7cAiJ

The best meal we had so far :)). #Sirte #Libya
pic.twitter.com/lyQpgMA5

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#Tripoli Gunbattle Video
goo.gl/SoQ3s #Libya #Reuters

#SIRTE Battle wounds and Friday Prayers in #Libya
goo.gl/GKMmQ

#Beware #Facebook groups are crawling with #Gaddafi rats #Libya

misrati_free
There was a fire fight at Hay Islami which is not far from Gurgi etc

#Sirte Photojournalist: #ManuBrabo #Spanish-born Manu Brabo works with Associated Press in #Libya
goo.gl/rAsnE #Photos

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
CNN: U.S. expands efforts to secure Libyan anti-aircraft missiles
goo.gl/bSrvE #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes

Tripoli Post
Fugitive Libyan Leader Being Tracked by Satellite
As the fighting goes on in the former Libyan leader’s hometown of Sirte, Al Qathafi remains in hiding, but although his whereabouts are still unknown, it has now been learned that satellites are tracking him in the desert south of Sabha.

Abdul Hafiz Ghoga, vice-chairman of the National Transitional Council, told Al Jazeera
that it is only a matter of time before Al Qathafi, wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, is captured to face justice.

“We have confirmed reports thatAl Qathafi is in the southern Libyan desert. He’s not staying in one place. He is moving around with a small convoy which consist of his closest aids and bodyguards,” Ghoga said.

The NTC official went on to say that the fighters’ priority now is to take full control of Sirte. “Once the liberation of Sirte has been achieved – our fighters will track down Al Qathafi himself.”

In the coastal city itself, the Al Qathafi loyalists are reportedly confinced to an area, known as No. 2, less than a kilometre square. The few remaining pockets of stiff resistance, came under heavy fire Friday. The NTC fighters launched their attack with artillery, mortars and rockets, shooting randomly in order to scare off the snipers still on some of the buildings.

The siege of Sirte began on September 15 before the NTC forces launched what it termed a “final assault” a week ago that according to medics has seen at least 95 of its fighters killed and hundreds wounded,.

An AFP journalist on the frontline reported at least two NTC fighters killed in Friday’s fighting and around 15 wounded, some gravely and several by shrapnel. They follow on Thursday’s casualties when four were killed, including two by friendly fire, and another 40 were wounded, mostly the result of snipers.

Sirte is a key goal for the NTC that has said it will not proclaim Libya’s liberation and begin preparing for the transition to an elected government until the city has fallen. In the early days of this week NTC chief Mustafa Abdul-Jalil has said that the within days Sirte, now his target is, that by the early days of next week it will be in the hands of the interim government forces.
Al Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi to be Extradited

Abdul Jalil has in the meantime has announced that the former prime minister in the Al Qathafi regime, now being held in Tunisia, al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, will be extradited to Libya.

Speaking at a joint press conference with Tunisian prime minister al-Baji Caid Essebsi in Benghazi, he cited an agreement signed by the two countries authorising the extradition of fugitives and criminals, which therefore applies to al-Mahmoudi’s case.

Abdul Jalil expressed his gratitude to Tunisia’s stance in supporting the Libyan

revolution, saying the Tunisian revolution was a source of inspiration to the Arab people in their uprising against dictators.

For his part, during his short visit to Libya, Essebsi reaffirmed that the two countries were linked by historical connections. He said the two countries would be working to maintain bilateral relations in line with the Tunisian people’s support to the just cause of the Libyan people.

live2Tripoli live2Tripoli
Oh don’t forget @TripoliFestival is tomorrow. I know the team preparing it has worked extremely hard.!! Definitely something to visit.

Behind the Scenes (time-lapse) 2
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iz2NdCJVS8&fea...

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Very interesting interview with Shalgham on Al-Alarabiya now. Gaddafi used to wear heels to look taller, hence the African clothes.

Gaddafestrophe أمل ~

Shalgam:
Gaddafi despises leaders taller than him & wears traditional African clothing to hide his heels. #Libya #Feb17 LOOOOOOL ! ! !

queen_sarah Sarah
#tripolifestival tomorrow and i’m participating in the charities section #excited to see my posters and designs finally brought to life

AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
U.S., allies see urgent need for action on Libya missiles before falling into militant hands goo.gl/nD92J

KhadijaMAli Khadija Ali
Over two hours later and we’re still stuck in traffic. :( #Tripoli #Libya #ThanxAlotAbuSleem :s

thuwar at a checkpoint ‘the TNC confirms catching ’him’ Allahu Akbar!’ Anybody got an explanation?? #Tripoli #Libya

Tweeting Tripoli
Apparently (via #Tripoli local FM radio), earlier this afternoon Gaddafi loyalists opened fire on general public too, not just check points.

Worth reading:
KhadijaTeri Blog
And the truth shall soon be known: Mis/Dis-information and Libya
Libya is awash in misinformation and disinformation. Today, in my blog’s email I received an interesting letter from someone in Malaysia who is searching for the truth in some interesting ‘facts’ that someone had sent him about the ‘charitable’ former leader of Libya. After having a good laugh I decided to post his letter in it’s entirety on my blog and let my readers answer his questions. Please feel free to comment!

Here’s the email:

Plese read further:
khadijateri.blogspot.com/2011/10/and-tr...

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
2300 and #Tripoli sounds very quiet. i’m hearing crickets not guns.



SUMMARY OCTOBER 15th 2011

10/15/11
10.15.11

NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya –
goo.gl/hO5db

moez معز
Colleague trying to leave #Libya earlier had to come back due to Tunisian riots in #BenGerdaan. Locals blocked roads and smashing cars

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
they were gaddafi supporters carring his pics

RasmusTantholdt Rasmus Tantholdt TV2
Young Tunesian men blocking the road in #BenGardane. They hoisted #Gaddafis green flag and are stopping libyans on the road. #libya

In #Djerba we met a libyan man with his old mother. They had to return from #Ben Gardane trying to go to #Tripoli for first time in 8 month

They were forced to return by the #Tunesian men in #Bengardane. They let us past because we are not libyans. #libya

jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
how a handful of snipers is holding back a block of hundreds. We’re not a trained army! #sirte

Tweeting Tripoli
This is me :)
That song, uploaded back in April was just being a rebel. Gaddafi wanted to split Libya, and wanted to stress that Libya is 1 ;)
I have written many songs when I was in my twenties but never recorded them. May be I should try to remember the chords :)
My rhythm guitarist is my nephew who is in Sirte frontlines now. When he comes back safe, he’ll have a lot of energy :P
My nation will remain free سيبقى وطني حر
This is a “Rock version” of the now famous song written by Freedom Fighter Masoud from Benghazi. His Kalashnikov in one hand and his guitar in the other strumming and singing loudly his inspiring words fascinated us ever since we saw him on TV. This humble version is dedicated to the Rock and Metal music fans. We hope they enjoy it. One Libya for all Libyans. Long live Libya.
Please listen:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKng4Z-d76w

live2Tripoli live2Tripoli
#TripoliFestival today people. See you there! #Libya

Tweeting Tripoli
Tweeps, this is Tripoli (or as @bjoernen_dk calls it, Tweepoli)… pic.twitter.com/7cz9Hy3O

david_bachmann_ AC Tripolis
Quiet sunny morning in #Tripoli

blabeen
Our pets yfrog.com/g0s3rdcj

FF added an extension to the 14.5mm gun to produce the sound of a 23mm gun which feared by GF.
twitpic.com/70cdva

Repairing some of the damage made by friendly fire #sirte #libya twitpic.com/70cgni

A father of 2 & 14.5mm gunner, a very dangerous post. May Allah keep him safe twitpic.com/70cguo

Remotely operated machine gun, designed to fire while the car protected behind walls. twitpic.com/70cl9z

#Gaddafi’s mail box. #sirte #libya
twitpic.com/70cm83

Some of the widely used ammo in the battles . #Sirte #Libya
twitpic.com/70cpio

His name is Ahmad, his broken leg didn’t stop him from being with us in the frontLine. twitpic.com/70cqhx

Waiting for the orders to push forward. The operation was aborted bcuz of fears of friendly fire #Sirte #libya
twitpic.com/70cxa9

Waiting for the orders to push forward. The operation was aborted bcuz of fears of friendly fire #Sirte #libya
twitpic.com/70cxif

Waiting for the orders to push forward. The operation was aborted bcuz of fears of friendly fire #Sirte #libya
twitpic.com/70cxnj

@NATO leaflet asking GF to lay their arms or face destruction . #Sirte #libya twitpic.com/70cy33

Waiting for the orders to push forward. Lots of enemy bullets flying over our heads #Sirte #libya
twitpic.com/70cy3s

Home sweet home :). Me & my daughte. #Misrata #libya
twitpic.com/70cyia

3 days ago a boat tried to flee #sirte FF targeted it, the boat went back to the city’s harbour .

Tweeting Tripoli
Exclusive photo (courtsy of my good friend Wisam frm Soug Guma FF). I wonder what was Jalil reading? #jalil #NTC #feb17
pic.twitter.com/oR2Uvtyh

moez معز
Damn you wasp-sized mosquitos :( #Libya

Hope to make it down to @TripoliFestival at some point

I’ll probably be helping out at the @wmclibya stall at some point :)

all I know is that there’ll be 30-40 NGO stalls which is positive. Agree shouldn’t be a celebration

Water from mains has slowed down to a trickle in our household. Anyone else in #tripoli experiencing same problem? #Libya

Anaya
Heard water cut off in Tripoli because a power supply line (high voltage power tower) near #BaniWalid was hit today

Sarah
#BaniWalid :
Reports that Freedom Fighters entered in the city center as many Gaddafi forces have withdrawn to Al Mordem Valley.(East BW)

SEEMS the FFs are advancing well in #BaniWalid. Advancing from North & South repelling in that way Gaddafi forces to the East of the city.

abdulhelal Abdul Helal
water is cut off in #tripoli bcuz a power supply line (high voltage power tower) near #baniwalid was hit in the clashes yesterday. #libya #Sirte

LibyaFromFrance Sarah LFFR
#BaniWalid : Freedom Fighters are in almost full control of the city center. They have now to cleanse up the area from any #Gaddafi forces.

When I get bored I read GGoons tweets. That’s so damn funny! In which world are they living ? And the worriest is the people who trust them.

#AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar

Sirtawi
PIC: Destruction in #Sirte #Libya
pic.twitter.com/mklzzQvJ

Libyan4life
The world is holding #Libya to an unrealistic standard. Expectations are too high. This is a country of ppl who knew NOTHING but #Gaddafi

#Libya is a MASSIVE country, there are a LOT of pissed ppl who are dealing with their own feelings of anger and revenge. How to regulate?

We’re STILL in war. Its not 8 months after that these things havent been sorted. That alone is reason enough to allow leeway #Libya

Nothing, NOTHING short of praise and support should be given to #Libya for what has been accomplished considering all the constraints.

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Speachless #Libya
pic.twitter.com/xr57AXCd

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
look at these.. Third one was infront of police hq in #Sirte
yfrog.com/j2yrfaj

yfrog.com/nya5kwfj

yfrog.com/nu6njaj

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
3 words describing every Libyan .. I HATE #GADAFFI !!!!!

Why .. Can someone please tell me Whyyy?
pic.twitter.com/LCld5kAt

N_Benghazi ن
Wow. #AllahuAkbar.
pic.twitter.com/lvoO2vk9

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Thinks #Tunisia needs to get its act together and stop the Libyan people in #BinGirdaan being attacked by #Gadaffi supporters #Libya

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
News that Waleed AlKhatrooshy member of our football National Team was injured today in the clear out of BuSleem #Libya
pic.twitter.com/R9A1nboi

Apparently the reason people in #BuSleem want #Gadaffi is that Saif promised them to make #BuSleem like #Dubai .. Yeah RIGHT !!

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
does anyone know the name of this new #Syrian Pro- #Gaddafi TV channel that the Colonel was on recently? and the Frequency? thanks

I thought Al-Ra’y is off the air no?

i spent more time out of the hotel than in the hotel today at Bab Alaziza and abusalim ;)

Thanks for all the frequency information… new #Gaddafi station is called Al-Muqawama TV 10911/27500/v/ 3/4

Does anyone know why Al-Ra’y TV is off the air?

Al-Hurra Tv: 1 FF killed and 2 Gaddafi loyalists killed today in #Tripoli fighting.

Bilhajj: ‘Some supporters of #Gaddafi regime tried to cause chaos (in #Tripoli today ) but they were firmly dealt with.’ #Libya

Al-Hurra TV: #NTC forces made 27 arrests today in #Tripoli after the earlier street fighting.

#Libya – Now is not a good time for formal sit down dinner… blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/2011…

Fighting in #Tripoli has now stopped; but this is the film we made earlier for #BBC News

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15...

Sirtawi
News that electricity’s back in: Jarif, Gubayba, 30, Gharbiyat. Chapeau to all personnel working hard to make this happen. #SirteCrisis

bint_tarhouna Free Libya
Basically a bunch of drug dealers and pimps in AbuSelim are annoyed their Godfather Gaddafi is over. #Libya

Because you seriously have to have a nasty agenda to support G if you live in AbuSelim, a mostly deprived neighbourhood

Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
“Omdurman” an area in Tripoli’s Abusaleem district is known for drugs & other crimes! Its residence should b relocated & place made a park!

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
I used to hate coming to tripoli pre- #Feb17 … Now I don’t even want to think about leaving… I love this city too much #Libya #Tripoli

I just don’t know how much effort it will take to get things moving in the right direction. Some people still have Gaddfi’s rotten mentality

42 years of no community work, no patriotism and a mentality of caring about today and not planning for the future is a big problem

Sometimes I wonder what we need to have a UAE style transformation.. From crappy infrastructure and desert to an amazing country #Libya

Anyway, we’ve shown the world that we have an iron will… I hope we stick together all the way to a better future #Libya #Feb17

Unconf. Reports:
Moussa Ibrahim’s brother, Khamis, was reportedly killed yesterday during fighting in
Sirte ( in area 2).

Sarah
#Libye : Le Figaro – Carte résumant la situation à #Syrte mise à jour aujourd’hui – pic.twitter.com/VlqIkTNb

SMILE:
Proudlibyandoc Hussam Muntasser
I worry if Ghaddafi is extradited to the ICC, they would release him on count of insanity.

#Libya n forces clash with gunmen in #Tripoli – The Washington Post on the Abusleem events
wapo.st/pjI5RZ

Image of intense water fighting in Sirte – #Libya #Feb17 – pic.twitter.com/bvE72xRw

Video: Fighting in Tripoli breaks out between pro-Gaddafi forces and NTC fighters
It is the first time that fighting has broken out in the Libyan capital since rebels took hold of the city in August.
Forces of the new government, the National Transitional Council (NTC), exchanged heavy gunfire with pro-Gaddafi fighters in the first sign of resistance to the NTC for months.
Hospital sources say that at least eight people were wounded in the gunbattle.
“A group of Muammar’s troops went through the Abu Salim area and started attacking from above the buildings where protesters were holding green flags and pictures of Muammar,” an NTC fighter said.

Read more and watch video:
feb17.info/media/video-fighting-in-trip...

blabeen
GF damaged water mains to flood the city center & to prevent FF cars frm moving freely. #sirte #libya
To #Sirte again, c u in few days ‘en sha Allah’.

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#NTC #Ghoga says; We got confirmed reports Gaddaffy moves around South desert in small convoy trusted ppl He is Tracked by Satellite #Libya

#NTC #Jalil has announced former Prime Minister in Gadaffy regime now held in #Tunisia al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi will be extradited to #Libya

Gaddafi can go around in circles in the desert till #NTC fighters have the time to go after him #Libya

#NTC Statement "Parts of #Libya airspace are now open to commercial flights it helps

guarantee provision of humanitarian #Aid to Libyans

#Libya Civil Aviation Authority takes control of flights in airspace of 80 km radius above #Benina International #Airport #Benghazi

Khweldi had a heart attack is in Tunis hospital under heavy guard but #Libya #Tunisia agreement from 1961 to extradite wanted

What is left of Sirte report and video:
Nyhederne
Tantholdts tur gennem et smadret Sirte

TV 2 Nyhedernes Rasmus Tantholdt og fotograf Anders Bach kunne i dag bevæge sig gennem Sirte, der de seneste uger har været skueplads for voldsomme kampe mellem de libyske oprørsstyrker og resterne af de Gadaffi-tro styrker.
Det blev en tur gennem en smadret by, hvor skudhuller og granatkratre præger hvert eneste hus.
Civilbefolkningen er flygtet og som det tydeligt ses på billederne i videoen øverst i artiklen, er der ikke ret meget at vende hjem til.
Read more and video:
nyhederne.tv2.dk/article.php/id-4462795...

Iman
My nephew Ayub is on the frontlines in Sirte as well. He is my favorite in the family. Allah protect them.

Nato
NATO: Libya Action Shows Europe’s Commitment

As revolutionary forces continue fighting to capture Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown in Libya, NATO’s top official is calling a seven month bombing campaign a “positive story”. (Oct. 14)
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1tvWq3qRUU&fea...

AP
Video Essay: At the Front in Libya’s Revolution

The Associated Press is at the front to document Libyan Revolutionary forces attempt to take one of the last Pro-Gadhafi cities left in the country, Bani Walid. (Oct. 13)
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCCNKkqpzUE&fea...

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#Bani #Walid NTC fighters control the entire Industrial district # Libya

Tripoli current Mains #Water problems caused by #Gaddafi men yesterday who fired missilesat Pump station Water Power Tower in #BaniWalid Batlle for #Libya #Photos
goo.gl/dwAVP

#Tripoli Abdelhakim Belhaj pledges tough action against the Pro-Gaddafi fighters and “dormant cells” of the former regime #

#Tripoli Abdelrazaq al-Aradi vice Pres security committee 3ppl killed in yesterday clashes 2 Gaddafi loyalists 1 NTC fighter 30 ppl wounded.

#TRIPOLI CLASHES 27 including 2 “African mercenaries,” were arrested of 50 armed Gaddafi supporters who started the violence #Libya

javierespinosa2 JAVIER ESPINOSA
after 5 weeks in #Libya back in Beirut

flying with #Misrata Inshala Airlines much better than Maybe Airlines (Sarajevo) or Flying Carpet (Iraq) that I used in the past #Libya

Sirte_Feb17: PIC: Destruction in #Sirte #Libya
pic.twitter.com/GbxU0kHv”

ibn Thabit
I’m pretty sure ta7aalib escaping abu salim wouldn’t be driving around with foreign license plates. oh but that’s the perfect disguise right

something happens and there are 3 roadblocks in a 500m stretch. false news that muatissim is captured & roadblocks turn into block parties.

seriously the dudes at the roadblocks need training. not re-training, training. half of them don’t even know how to hold a rifle

PLEASE WATCH THIS:
Libya Al Hurra TV crew sing ‘We are today’s youth’
Song by Libya Al Hurra TV crew:
goo.gl/Z5rwL #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes RT!

or:
Song by Libya Al Hurra TV crew: goo.gl/Z5rwL #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes RT!

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Malta Today: US Secretary of State Hillary #Clinton will be visiting #Tripoli next week to hold meetings with the NTC #libya #feb17

Shoot Out Tripoli Libya تبادل اطلاق نار كثيف في طرابلس ليبيا

Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv5VDNQfbss

Huffington Post
Libya: Mass Graves Found In And Around Tripoli (PHOTOS)

GENEVA — The International Committee of the Red Cross says at least 13 mass graves have been found in Libya over the past three weeks.
The Geneva-based Red Cross says its staff assisted in the recovery of 125 bodies found at 12 different sites in and around Tripoli.
It says remains of 34 people were also recovered from a site in the Nafusa mountain village of Galaa in western Libya.

More here:
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/libya...

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Yesterday, Gaddafi’s thugs in BaniWalid fired missiles at the electricity lines feeding the pumps that supply Tripoli with water #libya

Today, a city of over 2 million residents is once again facing a water shortage until the electricity is restored to Hasawna’s pumps #libya

If you have family in Tripoli ask them to conserve water for the next 2 or 3 days, which is how long the fixes might take #libya #feb17

In other news: I bloody hate Gaddafi’s man made crap river. Would it kill to have a desalination plant or two? #libya #tripoli #stupid

Suzanne
The capacity of Gaddafi troops to inflict suffering on civilians is beyond my comprehension. Attacking water supplies is evil

misrati_free
The amount we wasted in his river we could not only supply the whole region with desalination, could advance the technology

CNN

In Gadhafi’s hometown, his once opulent house lies in ruins

On the outskirts of Sirte, a mansion with a columned facade lies in ruins, though its opulence is still evident under shattered glass and chunks of concrete. This was Moammar Gadhafi’s home in the city of his birth.
The house had its own salon with barber chairs and massage tables. Ornate four-poster beds furnished the bedrooms and there were lavish decorations all around.

Read more and video:
www.cnn.com/2011/10/14/world/africa/lib...

CNN
Libyans find voice in new era of press freedom

Before the start of Libya’s civil war, you could count the number of newspapers in the country on one hand and all were heavily controlled by the government. Now there are 120 independent newspapers in the city of Benghazi alone, according to local journalists.
These newspapers are mostly run and staffed by engineers, doctors and students, said International Media Support, one of several foreign organizations that is helping train journalists in Libya.
One, called “Sowt” — “Voice” in Arabic — was launched by five medical, engineering and economics students in their early 20s in February.
It began as an eight-page magazine, now increased to 12 pages and selling 3,000 copies a week across eastern Libya and beyond.

Read more:
www.cnn.com/2011/10/12/world/meast/liby...

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
Beach – Tripoli #morningrun
yfrog.com/odht5lj

Nasr
AlbdelMunem alHuni, 1 of # Gaddafi’s original dirty dozen instructs #Libyan embassy in #Cairo 2 issue Ali #Treki a new regular passport

Ali #Treki, #Gaddafi’s former FM, is trying to escape extradition to #Libya as requested by the #NTC. #Cairo is weighing the request.

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
عبد الحكيم بلحاج حول احداث بوسلم 14/10/2011 – The last warning to Gaddafi’s terrorists to give up their weapons…
fb.me/1heMNTihz

ceoDanya Danya B Mohammed
When you see the freedom fighters in #Libya i cant not help but think of the AMAZING mothers who raised them.

‘’A champion is someone who gets up, even when he can’t ‘’..this man & all the Libyan FF’s are my champions. #FREELIBYA
pic.twitter.com/7jRgPBXr

Khadija Ali
I am a dreamer and will always continue to be one. #PositiveLibyaTweets

We had a revolution against a 42 year dictator, shouldn’t be so hard to have one against and 8 month council. #PositiveLibyaTweets

I walk with my head held high, a smile across my face and above me a flag flutters in the sky. #PositiveLibyaTweets
4 hours ago

I feel like a puzzle piece that has found the right picture and is now looking for it’s place. #PositiveLibyaTweets

Thanks you for the idea, now every time I get frustrated I do ten #PositiveLibyaTweets

I have met more people since Tripoli has been liberated than my whole time in Libya. #PositiveLibyaTweets

We can have a second, third, fourth and even a millionth revolution. We are determined to get it right. #PositiveLibyaTweets

I went to a Libyan school for the first time. #PositiveLibyaTweets

TripoliFestival really sunny

Met a lot of NGOs at @tripolifestival not so much of a celebratory atmosphere which is something I like.

mtawfeeqCNN Mohammed Tawfeeq
#Libya-#Sirte: A filed commander with the logistic support committee: I call on Libya NTC to do something to stop the looting in the city.

Friday fight in #Sirte left at least 3 killed & 37 others wounded from #NTC fighters.

NYT
U.S. Sending More Contractors to Secure Libya’s Weapons Stockpile

WASHINGTON — The State Department is sending dozens of American contractors to Libya to help that country’s fledgling efforts to track down and destroy heat-seeking antiaircraft missiles looted from government stockpiles that could be used against civilian airliners.
Read more:
www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/world/africa...

freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
More tears shed after losing another friend #Libya
pic.twitter.com/PT9h7Qmb

Might be making an appearance at the @TripoliFestival today to see what New Libya has brought us #Libya

Hillary Clinton is going be in #Tripoli next week to hold a meeting Mustafa Abduljaleel and Mahmoud Jibreal #Libya

A Lack of Medicine and Medical equipment in #Sirt #Libya . So if anyone can help please do !!

Thinks the #NTC should speak to the Tunisian Government now and tell them to stop the attacks on Libyan cars in Bingirdaan #Libya

Libyan girls are apparently the 3rd most beautiful #girls in the world according to a british survey #Libya

pic.twitter.com/WiW2yhWu

Only a Libyan would have thought of this :D #Libya
pic.twitter.com/Lu3rNJba

ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#US sec of state Hillary Clinton will travel to #Tripoli from #Malta

libyans_revolt omar
Dr. Mahmoud Badi director of the General Directorate of Foreign Investment resigns. #Libya #NTC #Feb17

Resigns from Libya Foreign Investment Company.

Sarah
“We fight, but we too are civilians” – Field commander in #Sirte #Libya #FreedomFighters

Egyptian who was stuck in #Sirte : "When we saw that it was #Gaddafi’s end in TV we were so happy for our Libyans brothers but… (1/2)

(2/2)… we were lowering the volume to listen to the news, if not ProGs would’ve killed us." #Sirte #Libya

TV5MONDEINFO TV5MONDE.COM INFO
#Afrique Libye: terrés un mois dans Syrte assiégée, à attendre les “révolutionnaires”: Tétanisés par le vacarme …
bit.ly/p6YL1I

Sarah
What a beautiful wheather ! mA #France –
pic.twitter.com/I6YApA8q

Guardian
In the chaos of Sirte, anti-Gaddafi fighters are killing each other
Fight for last uncaptured ground made more deadly by Libyan government forces’ rivalries and inexperience
Death and injury arrive suddenly and randomly on the Libyan city of Sirte’s frontline. Sometimes, however, they come with a gruesome symmetry.
On Friday, an rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) fired by pro-Gaddafi forces, defending their last pocket of resistance in the city, caused some of the casualties. But it was a mortar fired by the government’s own fighters that caused the most. Both incidents occurred within a few seconds.
The fighters were bunched near the frontline on Dubai Street on the southern front occupied mainly by fighters from Misrata when the two rounds came in.
Art.:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/14/si...

Libya: will not spend emergency funds on refugees

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Thousands of Libyans fleeing fighting in the besieged cities of Sirte and Bani Walid are straining the resources of struggling nearby towns, but the emergency relief fund set up by foreign donors says it is no longer its job to help.
The fund was set up in a Qatari account to circumvent sanctions in order to help the erstwhile rebels during the war against Muammar Gaddafi.
It has swollen to more than half a billion U.S. dollars, but only a fraction of the money donated, unfrozen or on loan has been spent.

Read more:
news.yahoo.com/libya-not-spend-emergenc...

Reuters
Libyan government steps up security after clashes in capital

Libya’s new government increased security in Tripoli on Saturday with extra roadblocks and house-to-house searches after fighting in the capital with supporters of Muammar Gaddafi raised fears of another insurgency.
At most a few dozen pro-Gaddafi fighters appeared on Friday in only a few neighbourhoods of the Libyan capital that are known to be sympathetic to the deposed ruler.
But it was still the first sign of armed resistance to the National Transitional Council in Tripoli since its forces seized the city in August and ended Gaddafi’s 42 years of one-man rule.
More and video:
goo.gl/COki0

@MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
#Gadaffi kept saying he earned 450Libyan dinars a month.Is that why you have cutlery made out of gold? #Libya
pic.twitter.com/Ohynm8A3

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
I find it hard to believe that he could finance Bab Al aZizia on 450LYD a month.

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
Injured #FFs in #Sirte yesterday #libya
yfrog.com/obiatwj

yfrog.com/nti83chj

yfrog.com/kg1ihhcj

yfrog.com/h6w53zgrj

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the Police! #JustSaying

MatogSaleh Matog Saleh
Vote for our Libyan girl in Miss Arab London2011.Lets help Libya win something and give us a reason to celebrate #Libya
goo.gl/iQ5i8

and:
goo.gl/4yUJg

MUST VIEW .. Libyan Bravery shown in a different way here #Tobruk #Libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKNNnVk_04s&fea...

Intercepted call between Tayeb Al-Safi & Al-Baghdadi #Libya http://www.youtube.com/user/LibyaWikileaks17Feb#p/a/u/0/llPqFyPaobI

Intercepted call of Tayeb Al-Safi leading a plan in destroying Misratah Libya http://www.youtube.com/user/LibyaWikileaks17Feb#p/a/u/2/lz0WGmZBhds

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
King Idris :) yfrog.com/h8m4rgyj

Lockerz
JAMES BAYS | baysontheroad
Quiet and peaceful in #tripoli after yesterday’s fighting.
Photo:
lockerz.com/s/147331349

AbdullahTarhoni Abdullah Tarhoni
Some of the Pro Gaddafi thugs captured today in Abu SalIm area. #Tripoli #Libya pic.twitter.com/Zc7hkR8R
or:
goo.gl/zGCHG

Eight out of this list alone were found/reported dead in Sirte.

visionsofalibyan.blogspot.com/2011/09/u...

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
ALjazeera mubashar now reporting from Misurata hospitals. Heart breaking and inspiring at same time #LIBYA #Feb17

Follow this youtube channel for intercepted calls between top Gaddafi regime figures. is.gd/wdOtX8 #libya #feb17

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Beni Walid: Industrial area, Wool factory in the East of town & residential area 1 under FF control w/ fighting in Soug area #libya

AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Gunfight Breaks Out in Tripoli
alarabiya.net/articles/2011/… Video #Libya #NTC

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#Misrata + Nafusa FF are dealing with Unrest in #TRIPOLI and Arrested more Gaddafi Goons due to Confessions of their comrades #ThankU #Libya

Stuff NZ
Gaddafi cash gift confirmed

The New Zealand government banked $4000 cash handed over at the border by the “playboy” son of deposed Libyan tyrant Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
The extraordinary “gift” was passed to a Customs officer at Christchurch Airport last year after a boozy New Year’s Eve jaunt by Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and his entourage.
Saif was living large at the time of the incident, but is now in a fight for survival as his father’s regime collapses under a rebel assault backed by the United States, the United Kingdom and endorsed by our government.
Saif has been accused of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court and would be arrested if he tried to come back to New Zealand.
In December 2009, however, he was snapped by photographers on the tarmac at Christchurch Airport with his entourage, including Australian businessmen Tony and Charif Kazal. They went on to a big-spending week of partying in Queenstown, where they reportedly splashed cash around for specially chosen blonde beauties.

Full art.:
www.stuff.co.nz/national/5791887/Gaddaf...

M & C
Libyan government fighters advance on Bani Walid
Cairo – Troops loyal to Libya’s transitional government said on Saturday they were advancing on Bani Walid, a day after clashes with forces loyal to deposed leader Moamer Gaddafi left nine people killed in the area.
Troops had crossed through residential areas, and snipers were the only obstacle to further advance, military commander Omar Salem told the Benghazi-based Quryna news website.
Salem said he expected his troops would take the town in two days.

More and source:
www.monstersandcritics.com/news/africa/...

RNW NL
Libya leaders mop up after deadly Tripoli clashes

Libya’s new leadership on Saturday pressed a campaign to clear the capital of armed loyalists of Moamer Kadhafi after fierce gunbattles killed three people in the first fighting to rock Tripoli since its capture in August.

The head of Tripoli’s supreme military council, Abdelhakim Belhaj, pledged tough action against the pro-Kadhafi fighters and “dormant cells” of the former regime, which he said would be targeted in the clean-up operation.
Pro-Kadhafi gunmen on Friday clashed with fighters loyal to the National Transitional Council in Abu Salim, a district around 10 kilometres (six miles) south of the city centre known to harbour supporters of the fugitive strongman.
Abdelrazaq al-Aradi, vice president of the security committee in Tripoli, said three people had been killed in the clashes — two Kadhafi loyalists and one NTC fighter — and another 30 people wounded.
Aradi told a news conference that around 50 armed Kadhafi supporters were behind the violence, 27 of whom, including four “African mercenaries,” were arrested.
Abdel Rahman Bussin, the military spokesman for the new regime, told AFP the fighting broke out in the Abu Salim district after pro-Kadhafi demonstrations.
He said Kadhafi supporters had clashed with NTC fighters in other parts of the capital on Friday, without giving details. Residents of Abu Salim said there had also been violence in Al-Hai al-Islami, west of the city centre.
A senior official in the military council said earlier that the fighting was “very limited” in scope and that the military had brought it under control by late afternoon.

More here:
www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/libya-leade...

Tweeting Tripoli
Mutassim Gaddafi underground bunker:
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wup3hqQd7W8&fea...

Mussa (Pinocchio) Ibrahim’s house in Tripoli…
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMjPkD0c5jw&NR=1

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
Lake at Amajena hotel in Marrakech where Saadi #Gaddafi jumped in when he was on drugs in 2010
pic.twitter.com/nHLYlAGA

And this is Khamis #Gaddafi’s place at the same hotel… It was around march or april 2010
yfrog.com/nwr55rzj

Sarah
I reached a point where my friends are more likely to reach me by Twitter than by phone call or texting…

تقرير عامر لافي من بن وليد، اليسبت الساعه 15October –
‎BaniWalid

Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPFi4dufTZY&amp...

flyingbirdies أكرم
Traffic , #tripolifestival #Libya 17:40
pic.twitter.com/WaUt7gLP

Sirtawi
One of the worst things about this war is that not even a single city was spared the damage… We’ve got a long road ahead. #Feb17

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Wondering about our injured abroad… have the NTC’s promises come into action yet? Are they being treated and cared for better? #libya

WaterproofAhmad أحمد
there are several in the hospital near my uni here in the UK, planning to visit next week

libyaoutreach Libya Outreach
there are some in London, Paris and Rome and they would love some visitors :)

Sarah
And we would love to visit them. Could you tell where are they in Paris exactly ?

raggzeb raggz ‘e-b
the problem with Tunisia is so many of us have come here, i get the feeling they’ve started to get fed up with us.

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
May god heal all our injured.. and hopefully in the future we’ll have a great healthcare system so we don’t have to beg anyone

PatrioticLibyan
In the #UK, treatment is already underway for some FFs. #NTC even paying weekly allowances. Numbers are still small though.

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
We flat out refuse any “contractors” to secure our weapons for us. This is our job. They should stay out of it.

Niz_FGM Niz
Please visit and complete the survey which our friends at Libya Outreach have put together…
Click here:
www.libyaoutreach.org/survey

BANI WALID:
BANIWALID: Nalut fighters report clashes yesterday at entrance to Souq area with “light & medium weapons”. #Libya v @nalut17feb

BANIWALID: Fighters fighting war of attrition against Gaddafiforces who are fortified in homes residential areas v @nalut17feb #Libya

BANIWALID: Fighters have opened up more than 4 fronts in various parts of BW, largest being front south of the city #Libya v @nalut17feb

BANIWALID: Fighters shelled Military Factory in the south, & advanced on neighbourhoods in southern part of BW v @nalut17feb #Libya

BANIWALID: Nalut fighters say no truth to reports of differences between fighters or reports of lack of ammunition v @nalut17feb #Libya

BANIWALID: Fighters will launch their offensive on BW in coming days & sweep into city to control v @nalut17feb #Libya

SIRTE:

Fighters found 11 charred & dismembered bodies on outskirts of Hai Dollar, #Sirte. Bodies show signs of torture v @freedomgrouptv #Libya

Charred bodies found in Sirte, believed2 b civilians executed by Gaddafiforces before they could flee Hai Dollar v @freedomgrouptv

SCUD missile launched yesterday from BaniWalid, at residential area in Misrata, was intercepted by NATO. #Libya v @freedomgrouptv

Oct13:Gaddafiforces in BaniWalid shelled power-grid, stopping Hasawinah water pumps. Sth #Libya w/out water+electricity v @almanaramedia

Minister Barassi: Team sent2 fix grid shelled by Gaddafiforces, which cut water&electricity2 Sth #Libya v @Qrynanew
pic.twitter.com/WKeixvRv

freedomgroupTV Freedom Group
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt ▸ Top stories today

ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Malta national carrier ‘Air Malta’ to send technical team to #Benghazi #Tripoli next week to pave way for resumption of commercial flights

david_bachmann_ AC Tripolis
Best (serious) rumour heard today about no water in Tripoli: “G.is coming back through the pipe system” #Libya

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
by 2011feb17
#SIRTE There was MEETING today of all NTC Commanders in Sirte Decided; 2Delay Final Assault on last Square to Capture M Gaddafi ALIVE #Libya

Tweeting Tripoli
I have a feeling Mutassim has escaped to the south during last Wednesday’s capture joke, if not long ago :(

Guardian
Street battles in Sirte – in pictures

Battles between Libyan rebels and pro-Gaddafi forces continue as the National Transitional Government fighters look to liberate Sire

Photo’s:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/o...

IMPORTANT:

FromJoanne Joanne ♌ Leo
#SIRTE NTC Commander Meeting: Confident Mouatassim + exDefenseMinister #AbubakarYounis + #Saif and Muammar #Gaddafi are All in Sirte #Libya

#Sirte “We want capture Gaddafi Top Brass ALIVE so they go 2Court rather than KILL them that’s why we do NOT engage in massive attack #Libya

Asharq alawsat

Tripoli security a red line – Tripoli Revolutionary Council leader

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat – At the same time that fighting is raging between Libyan National Transitional Council NTC forces and pro-Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte – the last

remaining stronghold of the Gaddafi regime in Libya – unexpected clashes also broke out in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. A group of up to 50 armed men appeared in the Abu Salim district of Tripoli, chanting pro-Gaddafi slogans and denouncing the NTC, resulting in a fire-fight breaking out between the pro-Gaddafi loyalists and the Libyan rebels in control of the capital. Speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat via telephone from the Libyan capital, leader of the Tripoli Revolutionary Council, Abdullah said that this conflict was “planned” by “remnants of the Gaddafi regime.”

Read more:
www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=...

MUST READ:
Egyptian Gazette
Libya fighters aim to take top Kadhafi men

SIRTE – Libyan fighters besieging the last pockets of resistance in Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown Sirte are holding back because they want to capture top regime figures alive, a senior commander said on Saturday.

“The resistance from the two neighbourhoods is high because we believe there are four to five important people inside,” eastern front operations chief Wesam bin Hamaibi said after a meeting of National Transitional Council commanders. “We are sure that (Gaddafi’s son and his national security chief) Mutassim and (ousted defence minister) Abu Bakr Yunis are inside,” he said.
"We also believe that Seif al-Islam (another of Gaddafi’s sons) and Gaddafi (himself) are possibly inside.
“We want to capture them alive to hand them over to the judiciary rather than killing them, which is why we are still not going to have a massive attack.”
Gaddafi’s diehard fighters are holed up in two residential districts of the northwest of the Mediterranean coastal city ��" the Dollar and Number Two neighbourhoods.
“The plan is to keep the neighbourhoods surrounded,” Hamaibi said.
An AFP correspondent on the front line heard small-arms exchanges on Saturday, together with some rocket and rocket-propelled grenade fire, but not as intense as earlier this week.

Source:
goo.gl/PHEeh

Sarah
Seems my mom miss #Libya a lot ! She removed all the sofas ! xD

lindseyhilsum:
The revolution will be merchandised. Never seen so many red green and black tshirts

libyanproud libyanandproud
Waiting for rebel action figures

Lindsey Hilsum
It is fantastic to be in Tripoli… everyone has a story they’re desperate to tell, which they’ve had to keep to themselves for their whole lifetime under Gadaffi.

My blog from #tripoli about the #Zintan rebels still roaring around the town having fun.
blogs.channel4.com/world-news-blog/tens...

The Tanjara Interview
interview with Libyan writer Mohamed Mesrati

An interview with the Libyan writer Mohamed Mesrati
“The only thing I’m in life for is to be a writer.”

Around five years ago the London-based Iraqi writer and journalist Samuel Shimon – founder of the Arabic literary website Kikah.com and cofounder of Banipal magazine – received by e-mail a short story from a then unknown Libyan writer named Mohamed

Mesrati living in the northern English city of Manchester

Shimon found Mesrati’s short story “fantastic”, and had no hesitation in publishing it in a prominent position on Kikah. He asked Mesrati to send him more stories, and said he might arrange for some to be translated into English and published in Banipal, the magazine of modern Arab literature of which Shimon is now editor.
Read more:
thetanjara.blogspot.com/2011/10/intervi...

Al Arabiya
More Bodies Found in Sirte
Libya’s National Transitional Council said on Friday that it had discovered 11 unidentified bodies, some burnt and some that had been run over by vehicles.

The corpses, believed to have been killed by forces loyal to former leader Muammar Qaddafi, were found face down and piled up, in an area in Sirte known as “Dollar Neighborhood”. NTC fighters said they found more bodies in a similar state in other parts of Sirte, Qaddafi’s birthplace, and one of his last remaining strongholds.

Abdel Ati al-Barouni, an NTC commander, said that aid agencies have been unable to recover the bodies from the area due to intense fighting which has been going on for weeks.

Snipers hidden in numerous buildings have been the biggest hindrance for NTC fighters trying to gain control of the city, along with other bastions, which they say is essential before they can begin the process of rebuilding a democratic government.

Rebels say that since the uprising began in February, tens of thousands have lost their lives or been displaced. Qaddafi meanwhile went into hiding a few months ago and his whereabouts remain unknown. He was recently believed to be located somewhere in the south of the country.

Video:
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/10/...

libyansrevolt moez معز
Extremely impressed at level of organisation at @TripoliFestival – great attendance and all credit to the organisers! #libya #feb17

In other news – preliminary reports from IbnoSina hospital in #Sirte say that it is completely beyond use due to damage #libya #feb17

Many bodies have been in some sections of the hospital for weeks. Building will need complete decontamination #Sirte #libya #feb17

malonebarry Barry Malone
WRAPUP 1-Libyan govt beefs up security after clashes in capital | Reuters reut.rs/rqOljX #Libya

Le Figaro
Les snipers de Kadhafi résistent au cœur de Syrte
Décidés à vendre chèrement leur peau, quelques centaines de combattants sèment la mort parmi les rebelles.

L’alignement d’immeuble gris n’est qu’une ruine. De temps à autre, un gros nuage vient s’écraser sur les murs, ajoutant un trou aux façades déjà presque méconnaissables. Le bruit de l’explosion de la roquette se perd dans la canonnade générale. Aujourd’hui, au cœur de Syrte, la première ligne de défense des kadhafistes a été pilonnée sans relâche, comme depuis deux jours. Mais les ultimes défenseurs du Guide, jouant un va-tout insensé, ne cèdent rien. Retranchés dans l’ouest de la cité, dans un quartier qui ne fait pas plus de quelques kilomètres carrés, ils ne donnent même pas l’impression de se laisser gagner par la panique.
Read more:
www.lefigaro.fr/international/2011/10/1...

WD in Tripolis.
Blog des österreichischen Wirtschaftdelegierten in Tripolis. Informationen über Wirtschaftsleben und Alltag aus Libyen
AC Tripolis von Wirtschaftsprominenz eröffnet
So, da wären wir wieder.
8 lange Monate später hat am vergangenen Sonntag eine kleine, aber feine Gruppe der österreichischen Industrie das AC Tripolis offiziell wiedereröffnet.
Richard Schenz (Vizepräsident Wirtshcaftskammer), Heimo Scheuch (CEO Wienerberger) und Kurt Asamer (Vorstand Asamer Holding) haben selber Hand angelegt und die Flagge gehisst. Das ist dann auch der Startschuss für die Wiederaufnahme meiner Tätigkeit geworden (in aller Hinsicht). Die Rueckkehr hat allerdings noch bis gestern gedauert, denn es handelte sich am vergangenen Sonntag nur um einen Eintagesausflug (mehr dazu morgen).
Würde mich freuen Euch auf dem neuen Blog wiederzusehen !
David Bachmann (seit gestern in Tripolis)
Source:
wdintripolis.blogspot.com/2011/10/ac-tr...

Reuters
Restarts of 2 Agoco oilfields delayed -official
Two Libyan oil fields, which were due to restart on Saturday, will not resume pumping crude for another few days because some pipeline leaks have been discovered, Benghazi-based oil company Agoco told Reuters.
More and source:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5...

Song of the Freedom Fighters

Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1OVnNXR0rY

Sarah LFFR
+1000 :D “I think this is way cooler than celebratory gunfire, but that’s just me… pic.twitter.com/yQ2GD0SO #Sirte

I found a book with pictures of beautiful places in #Libya. MashAllah didn’t thought we have such amazing places. #Acacus #WawElNamus ect

it’s written in French and seems to be a book for the tourist published by “Gaddafi international foundation for charity association” xD name of the book : “Images de la Grande Jamahiriya Libyenne” Photos by : Hakim Madi

Tweeting Tripoli
Alrai TV is gone? Did Nilesat have a change of heart?

This lucky FF escaped unharmed after the cannon was fired while the back-door was not shut properly (Feww close call): www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VWsIJnyARo&fea...
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VWsIJnyARo&fea...

Tantoosh captured in Sirte said (sec 5:13) he saw Muttasim the day b4 he was captured (which was around Oct 12):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDo055dzZgk&fea...

I hear NATO planes overhead, Tripoli. Have not heard them for the last 2 months…

Oh no it does not sound like a big airplane. It is a fighter jet. I have 7 months experience :)

Telegraph
NTC forces bombard Sirte
Libyan government forces shell pockets of Gaddafi loyalists holding out in the city of Sirte.
Battles continued between supporters of deposed leader Colonel Gaddafi and the forces of the National Transitional Government in Gaddafi’s coastal hometown of Sirte today.
Government forces said small pockets of Gaddafi supporters were still holding out after weeks of fighting in the city.

Video:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...

Times of Malta
Air Malta to send technical delegation to Libya next week
Air Malta is making arrangements to send a technical delegation to Tripoli and Benghazi next week to assess the situation at these airports.
The delegation will be meeting the highest authorities of these airports and carrying out audits to assert their operational conditions.
The Air Malta team will include representatives from the airline’s commercial, security, ground services, flight operations and engineering sections.
The visit follows a meeting held between Air Malta’s chief executive Peter Davies and

the Libyan Provisional Government Transport Minister Anwar El Feitori in Malta during the signing of the agreement between Libyan and NATO officials on the establishment of air corridors to be used for civil aircraft.
Air Malta is closely working with the Maltese government and Libyan officials to facilitate travel arrangements and restart flights as soon as possible.
Since it is likely that its first flights will be to Benghazi, Air Malta said it was important to have the visa issuance process from Benghazi facilitated.
This is critical for the feasibility of this route, the airline said.

Source:
www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011...

Malta Today
City of Sirte to be liberated within the week – NTC
Final assault slowed down by street fighting, Gaddafi still at large and liberation is expected within the week according to the National Transition Council.

The National Transitional Council (NTC) have said that national liberation will be declared once Sirte falls even if Gaddafi is not found.

Heavy street fighting is still being observes around Sirte’s city centre and pro-Gaddafi forces have also taken control of the desert enclave of Bani Walid but is not considered important since it does not lead to any exit routes from Libya.

“I do believe, God willing, that the liberation of these cities Sirte and Bani Walid will happen within this week,” NTC chairman Mustafa Abdul Jalil said.

NTC forces launched a “final assault” on Sirte on Friday to push pro-Gaddafi fighters back towards the city centre but were slowed down on Saturday by street fighting in order to take control Gaddafi’s city.

The main hospital, the university and the Ouagadougou conference centre have been captured by NTC.

“We took 50 prisoners. They were mostly mercenaries. They were lying in beds pretending to be wounded. Some were wounded. We found Kalashnikov and other weapons under their beds,” NTC field commander Osama Swehli Muttawa said.

Source:
www.maltatoday.com.mt/node/14575

NYT
Qaddafi-Era Flag Is Said to Have Set Off Gunfire in Tripoli
Hundreds of anti-Qaddafi militiamen converged on several neighborhoods of Tripoli on Friday, firing heavy weapons on residential streets in a rare outburst of violence that may have started with demonstrations in support of the deposed leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
There were reports of gun battles between Qaddafi loyalists and former rebel fighters, though it was not clear who started the fighting. Adam Ahmed, an anti-Qaddafi fighter, said he and his colleagues had come under fire on Friday afternoon after responding to reports that loyalists were trying to raise Colonel Qaddafi’s green flag. At least seven armed men were arrested, he said, including one who was carrying a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
Full art.:
www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/world/africa...

Trend AZ
Libyan government fighters advance on Bani Walid
Troops loyal to Libya’s transitional government said on Saturday they were advancing on Bani Walid, a day after clashes with forces loyal to deposed leader Moamer Gaddafi left nine people killed in the area, DPA reported.

Troops had crossed through residential areas, and snipers were the only obstacle to further advance, military commander Omar Salem told the Benghazi-based Quryna news website.
Salem said he expected his troops would take the town in two days.

Source:
en.trend.az/regions/met/arabicr/1945272...

AFP
Kadhafi fighters mount fierce fightback in Sirte

SIRTE, Libya — Moamer Kadhafi loyalists mounted a fierce counter-attack in the city of Sirte on Saturday, forcing back new regime fighters under a barrage of rockets and shelling, an AFP reporter said.
Fighters of the National Transitional Council (NTC) fled helter-skelter two kilometres (just over a mile) to the captured police headquarters in the Mediterranean city, one of Kadhafi’s last holdouts.
“Run, run, run!” rang out from the retreating forces.
In a provisional casualty toll issued before the breakout, medics at a field hospital on the western outskirts of Sirte said one person was killed and around a dozen injured on Saturday.
“Kadhafi fighters are now concentrated in a small place but we can’t enter all at the same time. We need a plan to defeat them,” Omran Allahoyb, commander of a Misrata brigade, said before the pro-Kadhafi advance.
“We can take this place in one day but I will lose 100 men,” he said, adding that the best strategy would be to bomb the area of around 1.5 square kilometres (about half a square mile) into defeat.

Read more here:
goo.gl/nXr76

Melita
just visited #Libyan freedom fighter in hospital in the UK who’s legs amputated, like a small child laying there barely 25 yet so brave.
The # Libyan #FF gave me a huge smile when I thanked him for making Libya free 4 our children, put his hand in his heart saying Hamdullah

Yaman
Solidarity with Libya, Syria + Yemen <3

The true heroes of the all these revolutions are the people + not anyone else….

And the one who really inspired the Tunisians, Egyptians, Libyans, Syrians + Yemenis was Mohamed Bouazizi …

+ Also what about those Western hypocritical news pundits who call the fighters in Libya, Syria etc freedom fighters, but not Palestinians?

Angle from the massacre by the Brigades, Gaddafi of Libya.3gp

Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdeUI6G1N4A

fox8live
Libyan forces search capital

Libyan fighters fanned out in Tripoli to search for armed supporters of fugitive leader Moammar Gadhafi a day after a gunbattle rocked the capital.
Dozens of men combed apartment buildings for suspects in the Abu Salim

neighborhood, which is home to the notorious prison of the same name. A day earlier, a gunbattle broke out in the area when a group tried to raise the green flag that symbolizes the ousted regime.

Source:
www.fox8live.com/news/world/story/Libya...

Zeinab FT
Aloooooot of gunfire being heard in my area #gergarish lots of gates too and all checking even family cars Tripoli

ArabRevolution تباً لكم ياطواغيت
Is it just me or is the whole world order is crumbling?

alexrossiSKY alex rossi
Trapped in airport hell #needmoregin #Istanbul

SIRTE
Intense fighting continues in Sirte
PHOTO’S
goo.gl/T7pNk

Warrior’s break pic.:
goo.gl/w1kOO

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
15Oct:
Two martyred in #BaniWalid:
1)Muftah Hasan AbouDabus(Misratah)

2)Mahmud AlSayed AlWardafi AlSayed(Egypt)

10 #FFs injured #libya

jfoleyjourno James W. Foley
two revolutions? two men being arrested on wall street, two men being shot on dubai street #sirte

BBC’s @WyreDavies: Gaddafi loyalists neither have same level of manpower nor equipment as NTC fighters, may soon run out of supplies. #Sirte

liberation fr
Libye: les pro-Kadhafi lancent une contre-attaque à Syrte
SYRTE (Libye) (AFP) – Les combattants fidèles au dirigeant déchu Mouammar Kadhafi ont lancé samedi une violente contre-attaque à Syrte, contraignant les forces du nouveau régime libyen à se replier.
Les forces du Conseil national de transition (CNT), ex-rebelles ayant renversé le colonel Kadhafi, ont reculé, de façon désorganisée, de deux kilomètres, jusqu’au quartier général de la police de cette ville, l’un des deux derniers bastions pro-Kadhafi, située à 360 km à l’est de Tripoli.
“Courez, courez, courez!”, criaient les “révolutionnaires” dans leur repli, selon un journaliste de l’AFP sur place.

Read more:
www.liberation.fr/depeches/01012365903-...

Libyahh7urra. I love Libya so so much.

Khiria
You see a lot of people walking on the streets carrying the Libyan independence flag in any shape or form. #Tunisia #Libya #Feb17

Most of the cars on the streets have Libyan licence plates #Feb17 #Libya #Tunisia
#Tunisia is the new #Libya.

Le Monde
Syrte : la victoire amère des rebelles

Le ciel de Syrte a continué de tonner, vendredi 14 octobre (voir notre reportage vidéo ci-dessus). Depuis deux jours, les troupes rebelles qui ont désormais investi le coeur de la ville se jettent à l’assaut des tout derniers bastions kadhafistes, où d’ultimes poches résistent encore.
Après plus de deux semaines de frappes aériennes de l’OTAN, de bombardements à l’artillerie lourde et de combats de rue, Syrte est une cité dévastée dont chaque bâtiment officiel, maison, magasin, trottoir affiche les stigmates de la violence qui s’est déchaînée entre ses murs. Autour de la rue Dubaï, le centre-ville a été transformé en un champ de ruines inondé par les eaux des canalisations crevées.
Pics, video and read more:

www.lemonde.fr/libye/article/2011/10/15...

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Boring day… stuck at home because I don’t have a car and most of my friends were at AbuSlim checkpoints with the FF #libya #tripoli

Carol Viana
#Libyaupdates for today coming up

Comprehensive report of latest developments #Libyaupdates, via @al_omari #Libya Oct15
Libya, Oct 15, 2011
By Hussein Al-Omari on Saturday, October 15, 2011
(Sources: Aljazeera)
1. Gaddafi sent out an audio message calling on his loyalists to get out after Friday and fight the new government.
2. About 50 of Gaddafi loyalists had a protest in support of Gaddafi in the neighborhood of Bou Sleem in Tripoli raising green flags.
3. Gaddafi loyalists started shooting and the revolutionary fighters responded to them using light weapons arrested some and chased the rest away.
4. The casualties were 2 of Gaddafi loyalists got killed, 1 of revolutionary fighter got killed, 27 of Gaddafi loyalists arrested.
5. Four of the arrested Gaddafi loyalists were Africans using fake identification cards.
6. Abdul-Hakim Belhaj, head of military council in Tripoli said the council will deal strongly with those trying to disturb peace.
7. Gaddafi forces in Sirte are now forced into a residential area of 700 m from north to south and 1500 m from east to west.
8. Gaddafi forces inside Sirte no longer use heavy weapons.
9. after preparing enough forces for the final battle of Bani Walid.

AbdullahTarhoni Abdullah Tarhoni
AL-Heemi who was leading a criminal gang in Tripoli is killed today in addition to 2 of his aides.

Gaddafestrophe أمل ~
Syrian Revolutionaries wave the Libyan flag in #Homs, #Syria
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6sH05klN5Q&fea...

HebaShi Mub
Abdullah Snoussi’s (long distant) cousin said #KhamisGaddafi + Abdullah’s son, r both dead & funeral was held 4 Both n #Sabha (b4 liberated)

LIBYA_BREAKNEWS:
On Monday 17th October at 13:00 Libya time, a 1 minute silence 4 all the Martyrs and injured in the Libyan Revolution.”

S. Al.
I’m starting my journey tomorrow and hope to be in Libya on Monday inshallah.

The road to Tripoli fierce battles.mp4
Decisive battle for me to go to me, Tripoli, Libya

Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBSiupeSsdY

LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Les chefs de guerre à #Syrte pensent que #Kadhafi pourrait lui-même y être. #Libye

Khiria
Injured Libyan freedom fighters are something else noticed on the streets of #Tunisia. #Libya #Feb17

Zlitniya
Attended the mahrajan in #Tripoli tonight. Nice atmosphere and some new #freeLibya products about :) lateral thinking includes umberellas!

I never thought I’d c rain in #Libya .definitely never imagined a thunderstorm! Fierce one now :) #Tripoli

Rukaya El-Turki
Mashallaaaaaah. seriously, is that thunder and lightening or is NATO out there tonight in Tripoli?

Ghazi Gheblawi
A thunder storm in Tripoli…

N_Benghazi ن
I always love the Libyan rainfall live-tweets.

Niz_FGM Niz
shaheed.ly

NadineFarkash Free Libya ♔☾✰
Missing my bro! :( yfrog.com/mfmj6xj

ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
pretty sure it was NATO jets or a jet of some sort. Heard it twice this evening. Unmistakable sound :)

Tweeting Tripoli
Thunders post #Feb17 have changed too… Longer and louder than usual!!!

AliTweel Ali Tweel ♈ Aries
The thunder storm is getting stronger!

SMILE:
ChangeInLibya Ismael Zmirli
Present from Tripoli:
www.twitvid.com/WG9ZR