7/1 - 7/5 From a Good Source
Extensive Twitter logs and other contacts

Index to all "From a Good Source" Twitter Logs

SEARCH the site with Google Site Search, at the top right of the page; here is more information on how to effectively search this site or this page.

BROWSE for pages of interest with the index  Site Map or the drop-down menus above.

SUMMARY JULY 1st 2011

7/1/2011
7/01/2011
7.01.2011

God give us strength to be our family’s strength

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible,” John Kennedy once said, “make violent revolution inevitable.”

Reshaping NATO’s Command Structure
NATO’s Command Structure has been reviewed, as part of a major reform process, to make it more efficient, flexible and responsive. While the Alliance’s level of ambition remains the same, the changes will make its Command Structure more affordable, reducing the overall number of staff from 13,00 to 8,800 posts.
The reform will also create a more deployable, streamlined command configuration. Keeping its two Strategic Commands – Operations and Transformation – the new structure will have two Joint Force Headquarters (JFHQs). For the first time, each JFHQ will be able to deploy into theatre to exercise Command and Control up to the level of a major joint operation.
The reforms “will make NATO more effective – focusing on the capabilities and command systems we need,” said Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in a statement on 8 June 2010.
The review process took into account the Command Structure’s core functions such as planning of operations, conduct of operations, development and transformation, military cooperation, and support activities. It also considered a number of new tasks stemming from the 2010 Strategic Concept and key principles such as the ability to conduct Article 5 operations, deployability and sustainability, as well as Alliance cohesion. Greater interaction between NATO headquarters and national headquarters will also be developed as a result of this reform.
Brigadier General Patrick Wouters, Deputy Director Plans and Policy Division, International Military Staff, gave a technical briefing on the reforms on 9 June 2010.
He said the reform aims to make the command structure “more fit for purpose”.
“It will be able to meet the current and the future challenges and it is designed in a forward-looking way.”

Niz_FGM Niz
by LIBYA_WIN
30/6/11-Dawn prayer calls over a silent & seemingly peaceful #Tripoli.Soon,there’ll be a different kind of dawn… by the grace of God, soon

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Earleir G forces fled from Ber ghanam after attack by FFs. now FFs had to retreat again under Grad shelling.

Skeptical4 Skeptic
Liberating coast west of #Tripoli: not only cuts G from #Tunisia &refinery, but also establishes direct supply for #Zawiya FFsv from Tunisia
Question is what and how much does #Algeria supply to #Gaddafi via #Ghadamis #Mizdah #Gharyan?

MisrataPatriots PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
#AFP: #France insisted Frid that weapons it supplied to FFs fighting #Gaddafi were for ‘self-defense’ in line with a #UN resolution #Libya

Skeptical4 Skeptic
Fierce fighting at #Bir #Ghanam near #Zawiya road junction shows #Gaddafi won’t give up coast W of Tripoli easily, he know it’s critical

AJEnglish Al Jazeera English
Libya casts shadow over AU summit aje.me/imJIUB
The Nato intervention in Libya is winning few friends at the African Union summit that is being held in Equatorial Guinea.
Members there have been criticising foreign interference – and have warned it will only make the situation worse.
Al Jazeera’s Yvonne Ndege reports from the summit in the capital of Equatorial Guinea, Malabo
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
@NATO Situation Critical Grad launchers 32.3103488N 12.5724792E

Skeptical4 Skeptic
Gaddafi you like playin chess, let’s see how good you’re at it! I predict you lose coast W of Tripoli soon, endgame nearing for u

Niz_FGM Niz
1/7/11 – Jets flying very low over #Tripoli…..

I.O.M .
Long-Term Psychosocial Problems Affecting Migrants Fleeing Libya Need Addressing
Posted on Friday, 01-07-2011
Libya – Migrants fleeing Libya and suffering psychological stress will not be able to fully recover without continuous care once they have returned home or are resettled to another country, says IOM.
Of the nearly 1.2 million people who have fled Libya since the start of the crisis in February, more than 603,000 are migrants, many of whom have lived through traumatic experiences as they escaped the violence.
They display fear; disorientation; anger and sadness because of direct or indirect experiences of violence, the abrupt changes in daily routines and life plans and the stress and dangers of fleeing Libya and ending up in a transit country as well as experiencing frustrations related to an unplanned return home with no livelihood.
In addition, many tens of thousands of sub-Saharan Africans have had to cope with abuses and ill-treatment that took place in Libya prior to the conflict and with the targeting of Chadians in particular over claims they were mercenaries.
www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/media/press-bri...

REUTERS:
Libyan rebels pulling back from near Bir al-Ghanam, south of Tripoli, under rocket fire from gov’t forces – Reuters photographer

2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
#NATO is back over #Tripoli today Friday, ahead of the rally for Gaddafi supporters which will supposedly take place later….

Niz_FGM Niz
Nothing ive done can b describe as anything but peaceful acts of civil disobedience,yet StateTV calls for me 2be killed.NILESAT-SHUT IT DOWN

ilibico
i hear Saif has said something from under the ground, lessons learnt very late

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Tripoli’s Freedom fighters have gone EPIC this morning : ) #1July#feb17#Libya

alchemist
Shalgam is trying 2 transform himself 4m a #gaddafi obedient tool 4 past 40 yrs into a pro-democracy leader. #SayNo2Defectors

Libyans are spilling their blood for us all!

The brute force approach to popular uprisings is now being tried in earnest in Libya. In using artillery, aircraft and navy on peaceful protesters Colonel Gaddfi is attempt to break the protest movements with massive violence.
If he is successful, this type of violent response to popular uprising will almost certainly be used elsewhere with all the terrible consequences for humanity. If he fails and is hopefully executed for his war crimes, the reigning powers around the world will favor more peaceful methods of resolving contradictions.
wlcentral.org/node/1378

Factory bombed by NATO in Bir Terfas is on the road connecting Bir Ghanam to Zawia..Indicating NATO is clearing the way for FF to advance
Factory was storage of ammunition
APACHE helos:)
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Fridays are truly blessed : ) Who would’ve thought some G forces would defect in Ber Ghanam today . Allah Akbar

Saif Gaddafi Denies He Ordered Civilians Killed
TRIPOLI, Libya — The son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, who like his father is a wanted man under an international arrest warrant, denies that either of them ordered the killing of civilian protesters in Libya as prosecutors charge.
Seif al-Islam Gadhafi told Russian news channel RT in an interview posted online Friday that “most of the people” died when they tried to storm military sites, and that guards fired on them under standing orders to protect the bases and themselves.
However, documents from the International Criminal Court outline multiple instances in which the tribunal prosecutors allege government troops fired on civilian protesters during anti-Gadhafi street demonstrations earlier this year.
The younger Gadhafi had once been viewed as a reformer by the West and was being groomed as a possible successor to his father.
Seif al-Islam wore a thick beard and traditional clothes in the interview. He denounced the international court seeking his arrest as controlled by the NATO countries now bombing Libya.
“This court is a Mickey Mouse court … For me to be responsible for killing people, it was a big joke,” he told the Russian state-funded network.
MORE HERE:
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/01/saif-...
Video Interview with Saif Gaddafi (7/1) – “US looks on Libya as McDonald’s”
USA looks upon Libya as fast food expecting a fast war and a quick victory, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the Libyan leader wanted by the ICC, told RT. But the West will never get what they want, he added.
“Many countries, Iran and North Korea are among them, told us it was our mistake to give up, to have stopped developing long-range missiles and to become friendly with the West. Our example means one should never trust the West and should always be on alert – for them it is fine to change their mind overnight and start bombing Libya,” said Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.
“One of our biggest mistakes was that we delayed buying new weapons, especially from Russia, and delayed building a strong army. We thought Europeans were our friends; our mistake was to be tolerant with our enemies”.
Gaddafi’s son was charged by the International Criminal Court on June 27 for a “state policy aimed at deterring by any means, including lethal force, the demonstrations of civilians against the Gaddafi regime” alongside his father Muammar Gaddafi and his military intelligence chief General Abdullah al-Sanoussi. However the Libyan leader’s son sees the charge differently.
“They do not accuse me of policy, they accuse me of killing people, and everybody knows it. For me to be responsible for killing people was a joke. This would have happened anywhere in the world if people in the street moved towards a military site trying to steal ammunition or arms. Of course the military would prevent them!” stated Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.
The son of the Libyan leader denied either he or his father had ordered the killing of protesters.
“No, nobody ordered to kill them, the guards just fired, that’s it. And they do not need permission to do that.”
“It’s a fake court. Under the table they are trying to negotiate with us a deal. They say if you accept this deal, we will take care of the court. What does that mean? It means this court is controlled by those countries which are attacking us every day! It is just to put psychological and political pressure on us. That’s it. Of course, it won’t work. The court is a joke here in Libya,” concluded the son of the Libyan leader.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi said the West has only one target – Libya. “The country is a like a piece of cake for them – it is rich, it has gas, oil and money, so they must kill my father to get the cake. What they don’t understand is that the fighting will not stop if my father goes. Libyans will continue fighting until one day the country will be back to the Libyans,”concluded Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.
“We told them ‘You want elections? OK – let’s do elections. We will bring observers from Russia, from America, from the African Union, from the European Union, from the United Nations to supervise the elections. And if we win – you should accept the results, if we lose – congratulations.’ They answered ‘no.’,” Saif al-Islam Gaddafi went on. “Our goal is to march to Tripoli. We have to march to Tripoli and occupy Tripoli. By force. So, you want to fight? OK, we will fight. And you will lose. And soon, because you have no chance. You have 40 ships in front of our coast, you have hundreds of airplanes, you have 17 satellites from America and France, you have everything, but you are losing every day. Why? Because the people are not with you.”
“The Libyans are united not just around my father as a leader but they are united around other moral values. They are fighting for their country, for their people. They know that NATO is here and is bombing not because they want to help us, or because it is so nice to us or because it is so generous towards the Libyan people, but because they have their own interest. And the rebels are with NATO not because they are pro-democracy or fighting for freedom. It has nothing to do with this. They have their own interests. They want to share the cake – they want to share this country,”
said Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.
The son of the Libyan leader acknowledged that the West won the media war at the outset because it planned to say Gaddafi was in Venezuela, the rebels were occupying Tripoli and the regime was gone.
“They seeded big chaos in the whole country. We are still now suffering from that chaos. But now the Libyans are winning. The Security Council issued its resolution against Libya because of fake media reports saying that the Libyan air force is bombing civilian districts in Tripoli and killing – but go there and show me any evidence of such killings. We told everyone – please, send a fact-finding mission to Libya to find out what’s happened. They said no. We are going to bomb you.”
“Nobody will give up and raise a white flag. And the Libyans will not allow them to do that. And the fight will continue,” added Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.
At the end of the interview, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi said it was time for Russia to step in to play a positive role in the escalating conflict and show that it is a superpower.
“Libya is a great opportunity for Russia to become a superpower. It’s similar to what happened in Egypt when the Soviet Union managed to stop the French and the British. It’s exactly what is happening now in Libya. And from then on the Soviet Union became a super power, because at that time it said: you stop aggression against Egypt, or we are going to bomb London and Paris. It’s the same again.”
If you can stomach it, here it is:
feb17.info/media/video-interview-with-s...

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
In Ber Ghanam there are clashes between G forces who defected and their former comrades. FFs not involved. Awesome

Ahmed
#Saif al-Islam #Gaddafi ‘#Libya is a great opportunity for #Russia to become a superpower’.He basically wants Russia to bomb London & Paris!

Cochis
He’s right, Libya ‘’will belong to Libyans.’’ It will not longer belong to the Gaddafis

Ahmed
#Saif al-islam #Gaddafi has taken a leaf out of the Osama #BinLaden hand book…grow a beard, dress like him & hide in caves/tunnels #Libya

Khiria
Woke up2 my parents talking back2 Saif #Gaddafi during his TV interview…which was at full blast . #GaddafiCrimes HAPPY #CANADA EVERYONE!

#ROFL at #Saif #Gaddafi’s beard!!! Seriously WTH? You screwed up so bad so you think #Islam is going to save you. #GaddafiCrimes #Libya

Reason why #SaifGaddafi is growing a beard: 1. He’s paranoid to the point he thinks anyone who gets to close is going to kill him

KhiriaElf Khiria
Reason why #SaifGaddafi is growing a beard: 2. too busy running around from one place to another.

Reason why #SaifGaddafi is growing a beard: 3. he’s paranoid to the point he thinks his razor has been deliberately dipped in HIV +ve blood

Reason why #SaifGaddafi is growing a beard: 4.He knows his death is coming so he’s trying to become a religious. #

Reason why #SaifGaddafi is growing a beard: 5. He’s trying to disguise himself so he can move around freely in #Tripoli

How fast things change:
Saif al Islam Gaddafi this time last year, had politicians eating out of his hands labeled as a progressive, moderate & groomed to run Libya

Khiria commenting on saif interview:
It could the title of the movie: Mickey Mouse Finds God.
rofl……

Why the heck did the reporter on RT say #SaifGaddafi has a PhD? didn’t they find out he was cheating at LSE?
Dear #Gaddafi kids, Just because you think your dad is a hero IT DOES NOT mean the world does

I saw my friends going on about the pet on his face.
SaifGaddafi is really a chia pet!

he is a piece of garbage that knows crap but they had to pass him or ELSE.this is coming from his profs at the university in Libya.

MissRed
Wow!!! Looks like NATO bombed the crap out of Saif’s razors!!! LMAO!!! This calls for humanitarian aid!! :p

ears2d
#LibyanIrony: June30 Saif “We have 100B$ depositied outside”.Feb27 UN Sanctions begin & Saif “We have no funds outside #Libya.” #GaddafiLies

N_Benghazi .
#ThingsYouMightFind in #SaifsBeard:The hair that was meant for his head

Khiria
My mom theory on #SaifGaddafi & #AishaGaddafi: they can’t find any more mercenaries to cut/dye their hair

Germany replenishes Nato’s arsenal of bombs and missiles
With the number of “smart” bombs dropped on Libya estimated at more than 2,000 some Nato allies have seen their stocks dramatically depleted.
Both Denmark and Norway are understood to have asked for more bombs through the Nato Maintenance and Supply Agency and the German defence minister Thomas de Maiziere has granted permission to release stocks.

“Germany has expressed its general willingness to make available precision weaponry components,” a German defence ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.

feb17.info/news/germany-replenishes-nat...

Khiria
“After bombings by #NATO warplanes, people can often be heard whistling from the rooftops, taunting the #Gaddafi soldiers. "-NYT #Libya
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Ber Ghanam1/2 correction: Zintan media group got it wrong earlier. Correct news even better : )
Ber Ghanam 2/2: Some G forces defected & fight is ongoing between G forces. FFs not involved today at all. Just did some recon #feb17 #Libya

Libya_Now
ALERTE nouveaux combats entre forces Kadhafi et résistants, point clé, pont de Swani 30 km sud Tripoli, ça chauffe !

Akram pro gadd picking up all your leaflets you dropping there so ppl cant read it or hear about it and get bombed by u beware Ms Revolution – a track for the women of Libya by Ibn Thabit

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylrZ0JzjQr8&fea...

PHOTO’S FB:
Tunisia – Relief convoy from Misurata of Nafousa Mount
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.18063...

septimius
BREAKING: Father Christmas decided to join Al-Qaida since the he fits all the requirment (a beard) #Libya

2011feb17
explosions few minutes ago. Smoke rises from a military storage facility in Tajoura, east Tripoli

Tunisia: "When my little brother asks about our mother, I tell him she went to the market”
Emmanuel, 15, and Jacob, 3, from Nigeria, lost their mother after a boat she was on capsized on its way to Italy.
“We were living with our mother in Libya for the past five years. She owned a hair salon in Tripoli.
When the crisis began in Libya, everything was destroyed. We decided to flee the war and cross the Mediterranean Sea to start a new life in Italy, where one of our uncles lives.
We took a ship at the end of May, but our trip went badly wrong. We spent six days lost in the sea without food or water. Some people drank sea water. People started dying.
After six days, the ship hit a rock and capsized. Tunisian fishing boats saw us and two bigger ships came to our rescue, but it was already too late for many of us.
I was wearing a life jacket and managed to swim, holding my little brother Jacob. But my mother did not wear one. We cannot find her.
We were taken to the port of Sfax and brought to the Tunisian-Libyan border. There, we received food, water and clothes.
But we want to find our mother. We don’t know where she is.
Now we live in a camp, the two of us. We don’t know where our father is. Our parents divorced a few years ago. He may be in Egypt. We have an uncle in Italy, maybe they can help us to get there. At least our lives would be okay there.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/arti...

Tunisia: “In Libya, we were treated like slaves”
Mouhaydin, 27, from Somalia, was working as a laborer and a cleaner in Libya. He arrived in Shousha in March. His wife died on a boat to Europe.
“I left Somalia in 1994 because of the war. When my father was killed, my family fled to Ethiopia. They still live there. I am the eldest child and need to support my family. I decided to go to Libya and beyond, to find work and build a future.
I arrived in Libya eight years ago. I was working as a laborer and a cleaner. Life was difficult. We were treated like slaves.
When the war broke out, the situation became very frightening for foreigners. I had to flee this country too.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/arti...

Tunisia: “I prefer dying in Libya to dying here”
Abdul, 23, spent four months in a desert prison in Libya before escaping to Shousha camp on the Tunisian border. Fearing insecurity in Shousha, he says he is ready to go back to Libya.
“I have seen too many dead people in my country. When I was 15, I was left to live in the streets. I cannot talk about my life in Ivory Coast. Even my friends don’t know about my story.
I left Ivory Coast in 2008. I traveled through many countries to escape my own.
When I arrived in Libya, the military arrested me and brought me to prison, in the middle of the desert. There were hundreds of us there. Every day, people were dying.
I spent three months and 30 days in prison. I was beaten every day. For three weeks, I could not stand up. I still suffer from my injuries. I had to bury seven people, including three pregnant girls. If you did not do it, you were thrown alive in the hole along with the corpses.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/arti...

SAIF:
In his latest attempt to shift the blame on Al Qaeda, the west, and McDonald’s, Saif Gaddafi denies playing any role in the killing of thousands of protesters and wishes the regime purchased more weapons from Russia and built a stronger army. Watch the interview here. Warning: must be capable of handling large volumes of BS to watch this video. We are not responsible if you break your computer or punch the nearest thing you see.

feb17.info/news/live-libyan-unrest-july...

Libya’s health minister, Mohammed Hijazi Wednesday travelled to Egypt to request officials for medical supplies to meet shortages in Libya, Egypt’s official news aency, MENA has reported.
Mr Hijazi made the trip to Cairo from from the Tunisian capital. It has been further reported, that his stay in Cairo is to last several days, during which he will meet with Egyptian officials and ask for medical support so that the Tripoli government can meet the increasing need for medical supplies,” MENA reported.
Mr. Hijazi, accompanied by Social Affairs Minister Ibrahim Sherif, first visited Tunisia for talks with international parties on efforts to halt the conflict in their country, Tunisia’s stte news agency TAP said on Monday.
The Libyan conflict has raged since February, pitting Libyan leader Muammar Al Qathafi and his loyalists in Tripoli against rebel forces based in Benghazi who are trying to to oust him.
Reports indicated Sunday that French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe is aware of talks are being made between the Al Qathafi regime and the rebels, notably concerning the Libyan leader’s future.

REUTERS:
Libya’s rebels have never been closer to the seat of Muammar Gaddafi’s power than this ridge, where they have gathered on high ground 80 km (50 miles) from Tripoli.
They battled their way here this week from the mountains to the southwest. Now, if they are going to fulfill their goal of marching on the capital, they will have to defeat Gaddafi’s forces massed on the desert plain below.
About 50 rebel fighters spent Thursday at an observation post 2 km outside the town of Bir al-Ghanam, using binoculars to try to assess the position of Gaddafi’s forces.
Apart from their Kalashnikov rifles, they are armed with an assortment of scavenged weapons, including pick-up trucks with anti-aircraft guns and rocket pods, normally slung under the wings of aircraft but here adapted to be carried on the trucks.
Gaddafi’s forces know the rebels are watching them from the ridge. At one point on Thursday they fired mortars and artillery, sending people running for cover.

Libya rebels prepare for fight over strategic town

NEAR BIR AL-GHANAM, Libya, June 30 (Reuters) – - Libya’s rebels have never been closer to the seat of Muammar Gaddafi’s power than this ridge, where they have gathered on high ground 80 km (50 miles) from Tripoli.
They battled their way here this week from the mountains to the southwest. Now, if they are going to fulfill their goal of marching on the capital, they will have to defeat Gaddafi’s forces massed on the desert plain below.
About 50 rebel fighters spent Thursday at an observation post 2 km outside the town of Bir al-Ghanam, using binoculars to try to assess the position of Gaddafi’s forces.
Read more:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLD...

WATCH VID:
Cynthia McKinney’s Libyan Affair…Short video on McKinney’s Libyan adventure

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk3rZ2nq52w&fea...

AFP:
France insisted on Friday that weapons it supplied to rebels fighting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi were for ‘self-defence’ in line with a UN resolution, after Russia and others voiced concern.
‘Civilians had been attacked by Gaddafi’s forces and were in an extremely vulnerable situation and that is why medicine, food and also weapons of self-defence were parachuted,’ Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said.
‘It is not a violation of the UN Security Council resolutions’ under which France and other allies launched air strikes and imposed embargoes to protect civilians from Gaddafi, he added, speaking France Inter radio.
France’s military admitted French officials delivered ‘light arms’ including machine guns and rocket launchers while providing humanitarian aid in Libya but denied supplying anti-tank missiles, as claimed in a press report.

Libye : Béchir Salah Béchir, le dernier kaddafomane
Profitant des nombreuses défections dans l’entourage du “Guide”, Béchir Salah Béchir a connu une ascension fulgurante en Libye. Au point de devenir le quasi-numéro deux du régime.
Lorsque l’émissaire russe pour la Libye Mikhaïl Margelov évoquait, il y a peu, l’existence de « contacts » entre des proches de Kaddafi et des insurgés à Paris et à Pretoria, c’est à lui qu’il pensait. Sa présence a en effet été signalée, il y a une dizaine de jours, dans la capitale française. Béchir Salah Béchir, 64 ans, directeur de cabinet du « Guide », a longtemps été négligé par les observateurs : personnalité affable et plutôt effacée, il ne pèse ni sur l’échiquier tribal ni au sein de l’appareil sécuritaire. Mais dans la Libye en guerre, alors que l’entourage fidèle au dictateur se réduit comme peau de chagrin, son ascension a été fulgurante. Au point de devenir aujourd’hui le vrai Premier ministre et le quasi-numéro deux du « Kaddafiland » assiégé.

www.jeuneafrique.com/Article/ARTJAJA263...=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:jeune_afrique_Politique%28Jeune+Afrique+Politique%29

VID:
Video: Police return to the streets of Benghazi
feb17.info/media/video-police-return-to...

iyad_
Said it before and saying it again: Old Islamic movements must go the way of old regimes. Both born out of the same womb. #ArabSpring

Skeptical4 Skeptic
#Bir #Ghanem is latest evidence that unless FFs get armored divisions, they have to retreat everytime Grads fall, they have no protection

iyad_
Happy Canada day, Republic Day (Ghana), Doctor’s Day (India), and another glorious #ArabSpring Friday!

grafixel
precise coord 31°58’59"N 12°42’14"E . Confirmed that FFs did take over the town of Gwaleesh..west of Gheryan.

feblib
Is the #AU doing anything about Bashir and the conflict in Darfur region? Of course not, they’re busy protecting Gaddafi.

NYT:
The Battle For Libya
229 PHOTO’S A living picture of the uprising…….

www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/afric...

Khiria
Oncology ward in #Benghazi Children’s Hospital lacking drugs. Most patients are not receiving right dosage.
Dear #Gaddafi, please leave so I can go back to #Tripoli and go back to school. I miss my friends and all the good time. #Libya

Russia is trying to create panic and making up stories again:
NATO is likely be preparing a ground operation in Libya, the Russian envoy to the alliance, Dmitry Rogozin, said on Friday.
“I think that now we are witnessing the preparation stage of a ground operation which NATO, or at least some of its members… are ready to begin,” Rogozin said.
He also said Russia and France should “clarify” the issue of weapons supplies to Berber tribes in Libya, which France says were for “self-defense” and in line with the UN resolution.
“If direct weapons supplies to rebels indeed take place, they can only be referred to as a serious breach of the UN Security Council resolution,” the Russian envoy said.
Libya has been rocked with anti-Gaddafi protests since mid-February. The international military operation began on March 19 following a UN resolution and was extended until late September.
UN Security Council Resolution 1970, passed in February, prohibited states from providing any kind of arms to Libya. March Resolution 1973 authorized nations “to take all necessary measures” to help protect Libyan civilians.

’
septimius_
“No more silence, no more fear, no more lies, no more tears, no more violence, no more screams.”

Gaddafi’s dream:
BOSTON REVIEW
By: Robert P. Baird
For weeks the rumor had been going around Kampala that Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi was imminently to arrive. March 30th brought news that seemed to confirm the suspicion: Uganda, Al Arabiya reported, had offered Qaddafi asylum. A spokesperson for Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni would eventually deny the report—“How can you offer to bury someone on your plot when that person is not yet dead?” he complained—but I took the excuse to drive up to the Qaddafi National Mosque.
It was a hot afternoon when I arrived at the top of Old Kampala Hill. Rains the night before had scrubbed the sky of its usual haze, leaving a clear view of the undulating capital. Though easily the most conspicuous item in Kampala’s skyline, the Qaddafi Mosque is just one of several hilltop monuments to Uganda’s past and future devotions. Kasubi Hill features the burned tombs of the Buganda kings; Namirembe and Rubaga have the Anglican and Catholic cathedrals; Nakasero gets the unfinished Hilton, a 23-story hotel that’s been due to open “soon” for going-on five years.
I parked among the circling shadows of marabou storks, big, bald trash-eating birds that look like they’ve escaped a malarial fever dream, and was greeted by a friendly young guard with a carbine on his shoulder. He introduced me to Juma, a guide in blue coveralls who had worked as a porter during the mosque’s construction.
The civil war in Libya has left many in the West scrambling to explain how Libyan oil money found its way into campaign accounts and university endowments. Among Africa’s leaders there has been less embarrassment than genuine ambivalence, a reaction captured by a rambling article that Museveni recently published. While conceding that Qaddafi’s support for Amin and his sponsorship of terrorism were “unfortunate and unnecessary,” Museveni nevertheless praises the Libyan dictator’s “independent foreign policy,” his nationalism, and his investment in Libyan development: “From the TV pictures,” Museveni writes, “you can even see the rebels zooming up and down . . . on very good roads . . . . Who built these good roads?”
This ambivalence is easy to understand. Libya has invested more than $8 billion in the rest of Africa. Like Ozymandias, Qaddafi imagines himself the king of kings, and last year he told the continent’s leaders he had $90 billion available to bring his dream of a United States of Africa to fruition. In this light the scale and prominence of the Qaddafi Mosque look more like a reflection of Qaddafi’s pan-African fantasy than any indication of Muslim influence in Uganda.
Many of the Ugandans I’ve spoken to think it’s time for Qaddafi to step down. Juma, whose coveralls bear the logo of the mosque’s Libyan-funded caretaker, not surprisingly disagrees. “We pray that God will help Qaddafi,” he told me. “He has been very good to us.”
feb17.info/editorials/op-ed-qaddafi%E2%...

NATO June 30 hits: Bir al Ghanam: 2 multiple rocket launchers – #libya #feb17 – t.co/6WdjaFV
NATO June 30 hits Tripoli: 1 Military facility, 1 radar. Gharyan: 1 military facility. Waddan: 1 military storage
NATO June 30 hits: Brega: 2 Command & control facilities. Misrata: 2 military technical vehicles

Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 81 –104) July 1, 2011

With the air campaign in Libya in progress for more than 100 days, I think it’s better to give the blog’s reader an extremely quick recap of the main political and military updates (just to recall the latest developments that can be found on mainstream media) and then focus a bit more on the many “Other interesting things, information and thoughts” section of my Debriefs.
On Jun. 27, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant on suspicion of crimes against humanity for Libyan leader Gaddafi along with his closest aides: his son Saif al-Islam and intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi. Libya dismissed the ICC warrant, rejecting the authority of the tribunal.
In the meanwhile, with the air support of NATO, rebels are continuing their advance towards Tripoli: their forces are now within 50 miles from the capital. They have recently seized some Libyan arms depots located 25 km south of Zenten and collected many weapons left on the field by the retreating Gaddafi’s troops. Actually, they have also been supplied with large amounts of rocket launchers, assault rifles, machine guns and anti-tank missiles, into the Jebel Nafusa region by France, Le Figaro newspaper reported on Jun. 28 (citing an undisclosed source). These “humanitarian drops” gave the anti-Government forces the impetus to push towards the capital and to protect undefended civilians that were threatened by loyalists. For sure such air drops could not be done without a prior coordination with NATO, required for planes deconfliction; however, as important as informing partners of such mission was a prior coordination with liaison officers on the ground (like those I talked about on my last report) who could ensure that the dropped “goods” did not go in the wrong hands.

MORE HERE:
cencio4.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/operat...

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Liberia CARGO SHIP “SIDER PINK” remains anchored inside port #AlKhums #Libya #feb17

Amazing what a war can do to change a man SaifsBeard – It really works! Look on the results – BEFORE & AFTER – Order your revolution TODAY and get a discount on your next after-shave!
yfrog.com/message/thread/id/1_868216637...

Rebels armed with blast from the past
THE rifle in the rebel’s hands first saw action 70 years ago against Rommel’s Afrika Korps . . . and it is still killing men.
“I shot one of Gaddafi’s soldiers with it on the front here at 200 yards,” boasted Raban Zanussi, 27, a fighter on the front line between Ajdabiya and Brega. Here, rebels and regime forces face each other across empty desert, their positions marked out with earth ramparts and occasional strings of barbed wire.
“It’s a British Lee-Enfield, passed down to me by my grandfather,” he said, stroking the rifle’s old wooden stock. “It’s 200 per cent better than a Kalashnikov and accurate up to 300 yards. But I’ve only got a tin of 50 rounds, so I don’t use it for joking.”
He took a bullet from the magazine to demonstrate. It is stamped “GB 1940”.

www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/reb...

bencnn benwedeman
by m0j0working
#Misrata military spokesman says they are in talks with France to obtain weapons. French Defense Ministry yet to comment.

Sultan
The difference between Arab statesmen & Israeli statesmen in the US is not who is more tolerated but in the latter case, who is more popular

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Zawiya: Rumours that NATO dropped leaflets warning residents and asking them to stay at home so that G tanks/APCs can be destroyed #libya

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Misrata: Heavy clashes between freedom fighters and Gaddafi forces west of Dafniyah this afternoon

Misrata band lays down a soundtrack for Libya’s rebels
‘People are fighting with their guns, we are fighting with our voices,’ says FB 17, named after day rebellion broke out in Libya
Bands the world over complain about how tough it was in the early years: no money, no gigs, money-grabbing producers. But such annoyances pale alongside the travails of Libya’s FB 17.
Try cutting your first CD in Misrata, with the city under siege and missiles crashing down around you, in a studio that is no more than a bombproof room and a laptop which only works between long power cuts.
That was how FB 17 – named for 17 February, the day rebellion broke out in Libya – recorded No More Lies, an album of five tracks which has become a hit across this besieged city.
AUDIO HERE:

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/01/mi...

Khiria
LOL! Someone is holding the #Canadian flag at Marty Square in #Tripoli, #Libya!! #Canada

LibyanLion17 A Free Libyan
State TV showing a huge pro-G gathering, I hate to say it, but there’s a lot of people there.

AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Libyan Leader #Qaddafi speaking to a crowd in Tripoli

Video: Woman who recently fled Tripoli speaks to CNN’s Ben Wedeman
www.libyafeb17.com/2011/07/video-woman-...

Paul Danahar Aid ship “Al Entisar” or “The Victory” arrived today in Misrata bringing doctors, medical supplies and food to the city.

Paul Danahar also writes: “Just back from #Tripoli street which was the furthest the #Gaddafi forces got into #Misurata It’s littered with burnt out tanks and APC’s. Tripoli street in Misurata was the front line for many days. Every building has taken atleast one artillery round from Gaddafi forces. Halfway along Tripoli street in Misurata is a memorial for people who died protecting their city. It has are photo’s of hundreds of dead. You enter by walking over an image of Gaddafi. Next door is huge collection of spent artillery and mortar rounds fired on the city.”

Al Jazeera Arabic The African Union gathered once more on Friday to come to a unified stance on the Libya crisis after closed-door talks in the early morning hours ended without an agreement.

Tripolitanian tweets: “NATO is warning targets in Tripoli where it will be hitting, seems counter-productive but saving many innocent civilian lives. The warning NATO gives out are through air-dropped leaflets telling residents to evacuate in Arabic, English and French. Unfortunately sometimes Gaddafi’s security agents interfere to remove the leaflets or stop residents from evacuating.”

Bent:
Gaddafi state tv showing pro Gaddafi protestes in #Tripoli, ppl r holding a 4.5 km long green rag.
yfrog.com/hso4arpjj

Pro #Gaddafi protest in #Tripoli today, still going on now t.co/b74bHI8 #libya #feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgEvpkHLP0U

#Gaddafi speaking via audio message no on Libya state tv

Gaddafispeech I did not force these ppl to come out in support for me.

#Gaddafispeech women children men all supporting Libya

#Gaddafispeech you want the petrol, you want the land of the Libyans but the Libyan ppl will not give it to you.

Gaddafispeech if you want anything from Libya go ask the Libyan ppl for it, not me.

Gaddafispeech Libyan democracy is the ppl’s democracy.

Gaddafispeech your ppl are against you (europe, US) they dont even hold up your pictures.

#Gaddafispeech you democracy is sitting on chairs, demo-cracy … LOL

#Gaddafispeech you can fight Libya but we will win.

Gaddafispeech everything is for the Libyan ppl, the petrol, the land, and the future.

Gaddafispeech you are tricked, look at the Libyan ppl here, these r the Libyan ppl (in green sq) .

Gaddafispeech your planes have done nothing to us. You are lying and not prevailing.

Gaddafispeech look at the streets here. Look at my ppl holding my pictures in the streets.

Gaddafispeech look at the ppl, they r holding a green flag that is 4,500 meters long, moammar gaddafi didnt make it, the ppl did

Gaddafispeech do not discuss Libya with me, discuss it with its ppl and here they r.

Gaddafispeech you want to find a solution for this problem, just like u crawled to green sq u crawl to the mountains, all the way to dhaiba

Gaddafispeech the Libyans have gone to Tunisia, the Libyan women r now maids for the Tunisian women.

Gaddafispeech go to Misrata free it, take away the armed gangs weapons.

Gaddafispeech we need to cleanse the mountains.

Gaddafispeech They r killing your sons with the NATO planes. Tell ur men and women to get ready.

Next tweet:
i can barely even tweet this bullshit.

we can understand that completely:)

Gaddafi to Berlusconi and Sarkozy:“Look my friends, look at state tv, just take pills before you do! this is the truth look at state tv” LOL

Gaddafi: “we do not intend to back up, look, look at the crowd, look at the children, women, men, youths.. this is Libya watch state TV”

Gaddafi : “We advise u to speak to libyan people, I don’t decide, I dont care, negotiate with the Libyan people, with its tribes&families”

Gaddafi: “There’s no play with the oil, the oil is your food and your destiny and ownership”

Gaddafi: “Free people of Libya must advance by millions on Misrata and Western Mountains”

Inphinite_ S. Al.
This prick has actually brought out all his supporters today. This is painful to watch.

#Gaddafi is barking. What a voice ! LOL shakla mreed !! #AJA

Did we all get that?
G is calling on “his people” to cleanse Misrata and the mountains!

PeterLeng Peter Leng
Libyan state TV: “Streets and squares of Tripoli crowded with steadfast masses against NATO aggression”

Khiria
Why so many people out on #Gaddafi TV? Family in #Tripoli are there because they were promised their sons will get released & not killed.

Bent
Never seen so much green toilet paper in my life…

FreeLibyanman FreeLibyan
That why we asked #Egyptian Govt, come & take ur ppl in #Libya, becz #Gaddafi useing them as human shields,as protesters.

Sultan
Huffington: We have moved from a country that makes things to a country that makes things up

Tobrouk: Explosion in the Libyan Airways building, which is near the building for local council..suspected to be work of 5th column

Video: Libyan man shares proof of violence in Tripoli

As the pro-democracy fighters advance in Libya, news of what has been going on in Gaddafi-held areas is being revealed.
Al Jazeera’s Sue Turton has met one man who has managed to escape Tripoli, carrying extraordinary pictures of violence in the capital in his back pocket.
Here is her report on Ali’s return to his hometown of Misrata.
Ali’s face is concealed in this report for the protection of his family members who are still in Tripoli.

feb17.info/media/video-libyan-man-share...

Lots of arrests on Tuesday and Wednesday of #FF and also some older protestors etc in #Tripoli

REUTERS
WRAPUP 3-Rockets push back rebels south of Libyan capital

• Fighters retreat from position 80 km from Tripoli
• Gaddafi’s daughter says prepared to cut deal with rebels
• French arms drop sharpens divisions over NATO campaign
• Libya “could be a new Somalia”: World Bank official (Updates with NATO bombing town of Garyan)

af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLD...

REUTERS:
Tunisian army stops clashes in Libya border town
TUNIS, July 1 (Reuters) – Tunisian supporters of Muammar Gaddafi and rebel sympathisers clashed on Friday in the town of Ben Gardane by the border with Libya and the Tunisian army intervened to quash the confrontations, a witness said.
Some 300 people took part in the street clashes in the coastal town, which lies some 35 km from Libya. Some men were armed with automatic rifles and hunting guns, the witness said.
No one was hurt. It remains unclear what set off the confrontations, which residents said involved rival cross-border smuggling rings. (Reporting by Tarek Amara; Writing by Joseph Nasr; Editing by Alison Williams)
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLD...

Have a look:
Everybody is praying for Libya even the baby mantisis:)

www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/baby-praying-ma...

PeterLeng Peter Leng
Mass pro-Gaddafi rally in centre of Tripoli – officials say a million people. Can’t confirm that many, certainly big number.

From what I saw it was a few hundred.
Probably bought, forced and threatened to do as they are told or else……..
Counting has never been g’s strong point, we have seen plenty examples of that

MORE PROOF that South African-manufactured sniper rifles are being and have been used in Libya:
Survey shows arms control meltdown
Survey of defence industry companies has revealed serious administrative flaws in the administration of arms control in SA
WYNDHAM HARTLEY
Published: 2011/07/01 06:40:46 AM
CAPE TOWN — A survey of defence industry companies has revealed serious administrative flaws in the administration of arms control in SA.
This prompted a call by the Democratic Alliance (DA) yesterday for Justice Minister Jeff Radebe to appear in Parliament to detail a turnaround strategy.
Arms control has been in the headlines in recent weeks, with South African-manufactured sniper rifles spotted in strife-torn Libya in the hands of soldiers loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. South African-manufactured Ratel armoured infantry carriers were also photographed in Yemen, where protesters have been demanding democracy.
This led to questions as South African law stipulates that arms transfers should not be made to repressive states.
A South African Aerospace, Maritime and Defence Association survey found errors on permits issued.
Errors included the names of importing countries and the dates for which permits were valid, and permits being issued to the wrong companies. The survey also found permits being misplaced; a lack of specialised personnel to process permits; and an obsolete computer system.
DA defence spokesman David Maynier said: "The DA believes that Jeff Radebe, chairperson of the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC), should be summoned by Parliament to present a strategy to stop the administrative meltdown of the NCACC.
“A confidential report, prepared by the Aerospace, Maritime and Defence Association, reportedly provides clear evidence of an administrative meltdown in the NCACC. The findings in the confidential report purportedly identify a variety of major problems within the Directorate of Conventional Arms Control .”
The association’s executive director, Simphiwe Hamilton, said yesterday that the survey results were confidential.
He said the idea behind the survey was to promote a good relationship with the arms control institutions in the country.
Mr Hamilton said he did not know if any South African arms companies had lost deals as a result of the reported problems at the directorate, because it was not one of the questions in the survey. He said he was confident the engagement between the industry and the authorities would improve matters.
The survey was reportedly undertaken with the knowledge and co-operation of the directorate.
Mr Maynier said: "The NCACC is clearly in deep trouble, which not only prejudices industry, whose members are sometimes forced to wait months for permit applications to be processed, but also increases the risk of dodgy arms deals falling through the cracks at the NCACC.
“The DA will write to Jerome Maake, chairperson of the joint standing committee on defence, calling on him to schedule a further hearing with Mr Radebe to brief the committee on the administrative problems within the NCACC, and present a turnaround strategy to solve problems within the NCACC. Parliament has a responsibility to ensure that the conventional arms control regime functions efficiently so that industry is not prejudiced.”

www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content....

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “BORA METE” 37.73158˚/24.21575˚ Dest: #Tripoli #Libya Speed/Course: 10.8 kn/234˚ #feb17 @NATO

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Reports of clashes taking place on the East front of #Nafusa, as #Freedomfighters try to advance towards #Gheryan. #Libya #feb17
#Nalut: Nightly shelling from #Gaddafi forces, usually starts around 1am but often lasts as late as 7am

pdanaharbbc
Halfway along #Tripoli street in #Misurata is a memorial for people who died protecting their city. It has are photo’s of hundreds of dead.
You enter by walking over an image of #Gaddafi .Next door is huge collection of spent artillery and mortar rounds fired on the city.

Aid ship Al Entisar arrived in Misrata today with food, doctors and medical supplies – #libya #feb17 – t.co/6WdjaFV

Tasbeeh
Does Saif think growing a beard will make us forget he was the same guy who wagged his finger at us and threatened a massacre back in Feb?

pdanaharbbc Paul Danahar
The Al Entisar or ‘The Victory’ aid ship is now unloading its cargo in #Misurata #Libya it’s brought Doctors, medical supplies and food.
Tripoli street in #Misurata was the front line for many days. Every building has taken atleast one artillery round from #Gaddafi forces.
Just back from #Tripoli street which was the furthest the #Gaddafi forces got into #Misurata It’s littered with burnt out tanks and APC’s

Tunisian army stops clashes in Libya border town
(Reuters) – Tunisian supporters of Muammar Gaddafi and rebel sympathisers clashed on Friday in the town of Ben Gardane by the border with Libya and the Tunisian army intervened to quash the confrontations, a witness said.
Some 300 people took part in the street clashes in the coastal town, which lies some 35 km from Libya. Some men were armed with automatic rifles and hunting guns, the witness said.
No one was hurt. It remains unclear what set off the confrontations, which residents said involved rival cross-border smuggling rings. (Reporting by Tarek Amara; Writing by Joseph Nasr; Editing by Alison Williams)
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/01/tuni...

IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ : “ Tunisia bank helping Gaddafi evade fuel embargo”

www.petroleum-economist.com/Article/285...

LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Libyan state funds in countries recognizing the NTC aren’t even freed (or minimally) for helping refugees in Tunisia. Disgusting. #Libya

Tripoli High Court issues an arrest warrant for Ocampo. Trying not to laugh. #Libya #Feb17”

LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Libyan refugees in Tunisia are selling their jewelry to stay alive while the UN & others continue to ‘worry’ about Gaddafi-controlled areas.

AlManara reports that clashes are taking place on the East front of #Nafusa, as FF try to advance towards #Gheryan
AlManara: Apparently G forces are shaken and some retreated following the FF offensive.
AlManara: This offensive by the FF took place after they repelled a G attack on #Kikla

Islam and the Arab Revolutions

There is a verse in the Holy Quran that captures what is happening in the Arab world today.
“Truly, God does not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.” (13:11).
That verse was often cited by ordinary Muslims, scholars and apathetic youth before the revolutions; now it takes on a different meaning, as people all over the Arab world are demanding more rights and changing their societies.
During the secular, Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions, protestors, hipsters, trendsetters, and individuals, filled the streets and TV screens, but that didn’t deter protestors from praying in Tahrir or many others from shouting Islamic slogans as rallying cries, and in some cases calling for more religion in their societies. In the Arab world, religion and politics are intertwined. Take for example, The Muslim Brotherhood, which is the most organized opposition movement in Egypt, with influential branches in Tunisia, Libya and Syria. Their campaign to convince the west (and Egyptian voters) that they reject violence, support women and believe in democracy may make many Muslims and non-Muslims nervous, but it also might just signify a change in the Islamic philosophy of so-called extremist groups.
In Benghazi and throughout Libya, revolutionaries passionately cling to Islam as just and Gaddafi as unjust as they countered his phrase “Allah, Gaddafi, and Libya” with “Allah, His Messenger and Libya”. Many Libyan refugees I speak with called Gaddafi’s army “blind”, referring to Quranic verse, “Whoever is blind in this life, he will be blind in the hereafter; straying further away from the path” (17:72).
Read more:
www.huffingtonpost.com/yusra-tekbali/is...

LibyanLion
Dafaniyah front in #Misrata is active, confrontations between FF + G forces there. Apparently fierce.

septimius_
Again a very coherent interview from #Zaif: “Micky mouse wants a piece of cake in McDonald!” And he is the one with higher education! #Libya

rofl…..

BREAKING:Sky Sources: Three explosions heard in Libya’s capital Tripoli, not known if from NATO

20arb
@NATO #gaddafi just gave military orders to his troops via his State TV from #Tripoli. Leading to new attacks on towns and civilians. #Libya

auder:
Dress-me-up Saif Gaddafi now comes with a detachable beard, aLibya’n dress and three new catchphrases. Only $9.99!

LIBYA_BREAKING
by 20arb11
BREAKING:Qaddafi’s battalions start bombing Nalut

BREAKING:Qaddafi’s battalions start bombing the front of Dafniah heavily.

g mentioned that that in his speech earlier today……

BREAKING BREAKING: Clashes in #Tripoli, Siahia area now. Pray for our brave FFs in #Tripoli.

What’s on the Libyan rebels’ shopping list?
Posted By Robert Zeliger
Say you’re a poorly trained rebel army battling the ruthless military and hired thugs of a dictator who has said he’d fight to the last drop of blood, you’d probably need some help. So, what would be on your wish list of supplies from the international community?
AK-47s, anti-tank weapons, night-vision goggles, body armor …and underwear.
Reports this week that France parachuted weapons in to rebel troops in western Libya re-energized the debate over supplying the anti-Qaddafi forces. The African Union and Russia both criticized the French move. So far, Qatar is the only other country that is known to have given weapons to the rebellion. The U.S. has shipped non-lethal aid, including medical supplies, uniforms, boots, tents, personal protective gear, and “more than 10,000 halal meals ready to eat,” according to State Department spokesman Mark Toner.

Anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade launchers with range of more than 25 miles
• KPV heavy machine guns — price tag: $50,000 – $100,000 each
• SPG-9 Recoilless rifles — $30,000 – $40,000
• ZU-23 anti-aircraft artillery guns - $50,000$100,000
• Towed Howitzer — $100,000
• DShK machine guns — $10,000
• PK machine guns — $5,000
• AK-47s — $300 – $500
• Plus, 20-30 million AK-47 ammunition rounds
read more:
blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/07/01...

BREAKING: It seems that there is good news from Brega. Our source told us that he was not authorized to give any statements now.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Georgia OIL TANKER “TROODOS” now in port #Misrata #Libya #feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
After #Gaddafi s speech, his thugs started firing (heavily) GRAD rockets on #Nalut and #Dafniya. #Libya #feb17 @NATO

librev2011
Usually when #Gaddafi asks for a march in #Tripoli, his men in every village collect ppl, who refuses to go will be in danger & an enemy!

Sami:
alwerfally said wait 4good news from tripoli tonight inshallah he also thinks gadafi is afrid of tripoli snippers thats why he didnt show up

Gaddafi warnt Europa vor “Katastrophe”

Muammar al-Gaddafi droht den westlichen Mächten: Sollte die Nato ihre Angriffe nicht einstellen, könnte das katastrophale Folgen haben. In einer Telefonansprache erklärte der Despot laut der Nachrichtenagentur AP, er könne “den Kampf auch nach Europa bringen”.
ripolis – Libyens Machthaber Muammar al-Gaddafi hat sich per Telefon an seine Anhänger gewandt – und Drohungen gegen die Nato und ihre Verbündeten ausgesprochen. Nach Informationen der Nachrichtenagentur AP schloss er auch Angriffe in Europa nicht aus, sollten die Luftschläge auf die libysche Armee nicht eingestellt werden.

“Wir raten euch, abzuziehen – bevor es eine Katastrophe gibt”, sagte Gaddafi in Richtung der westlichen Streitkräfte. Die Alliierten sollten ihre Flugzeuge am Boden lassen und stattdessen den Dialog mit Libyen suchen, so Gaddafi weiter. Die Rede wurde über Lautsprecher an Tausende Libyer übertragen, die sich in Tripolis versammelt hatten.

www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,7...=rss?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

OmarAlMukhtar Omar Al Mukhtar
“I shall not cease to fight against thee and thy people until either you leave my country or I leave my life…

Aisha looks older in ystrd’s interview…….
Not older, she isn’t blond anymore, sanctions on shipments of hair dye I’m afraid……..
(peroxide in blond hair dye can be used to make bombs….)

N_Benghazi .
The interview isn’t worth it, but you’re robbing yourself of the laugh of your life if you don’t check out a picture

Caravanes d’aides d’Al Watan pour les zones frontalières avec la Libye
Le parti Al Watan a organisé, jeudi matin, une caravane d’aides à destination des zones frontalières tuniso-libyennes.
Cette caravane qui a pris le départ de la ville de Sousse exprime, selon ses organisateurs, la solidarité avec les réfugiés libyens et toutes les autres personnes ayant fui la violence dans ce pays frère.

Composée de grands camions, la caravane transporte des quantités d’aides d’urgence, notamment divers produits alimentaires, des bouteilles d’eau minérale et des médicaments.
Des associations régionales de bienfaisance ont participé à l’organisation de cette caravane en coordination avec des volontaires libyens.
Elle vise à alléger les souffrances des Libyens et d’autres réfugiés de différentes nationalités demeurant encore dans les zones frontalières, à Dehiba et Remada.

www.businessnews.com.tn/Caravanes-d%E2%...

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
FACT: FFs control 2/3 of country. FACT: G forces have not made a single military gain in 2 months. FACT: LIBYA WILL BE FREE #Feb17 #1JULY

Hearing very heaving pounding from the direction of Dafniya. Probably Gaddafi’s forces taking their cue from his speech.

LIBYA_WIN
#AU must have been bribed excessively well-they declare they will not follow through with the #ICC arrest warrant on #Gaddafi #Saif #Senossi

#African #Union fellow tyrant of the #Gaddafi club of bloodshedders have had their fair share of #Libyan wealth distributed-Won’t arrest him

Gaddafi’s 5th column of hired guns and loyal dogs still causing chaos all throughout #Libya – criminality-bombings in #Benghazi #Tubruk

01 Jul. 2011
NATO tackles threat of attacks in western Libya
In recent days, NATO-led Operation Unified Protector has stepped up its military pressure on pro-Qadhafi forces in western Libya, disrupting attempts to increase their attacks on civilians.
“We are engaging all military assets that are being used to indiscriminately target the civilian population throughout Libya,” said Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard, Commander of Operation Unified Protector.
Since 27 June 2011, NATO’s round-the-clock operations have resulted in the destruction of more than 50 military targets in the region, which stretches from the Nafusa mountains, by the Libyan-Tunisian border, to the city of Misurata.
“NATO continues to increase the pressure on the Qadhafi regime and to protect civilians, wherever they are under threat of attack”, General Bouchard stressed.
more here:
www.nato.int/cps/en/SID-71C34F76-94F6AC...

Skeptical4 Skeptic
Extra #snipers to #Gaddafi means he expects major #battles in urban emvironments! In #Tripoli, #Gharyan #Zawiya #Aziziya or #Zliten ?

Libya_United
Now we know why #Gaddafi regime keep inviting Journalist, first to use them as shield and keep his TV running , 2nd to collect info about FF

Gheddafi recluta sciamani contro ribelli
(ANSA) – ROMA, 1 LUG – Magia nera e Sciamani africani sono l’ultima trovata di Gheddafi per sostenere il suo regime. Il Rais ha chiamato sciamani e streghe di Mali, Mauritania, Gambia, Marocco e Nigeria, per allontanare i ribelli che si avvicinano alla roccaforte di Tripoli, riferisce infatti il colonnello Saleh Al Ubaidi, passato con i ribelli, citato dal quotidiano Assharq Al Awsat. Gli sciamani – racconta – mandano loro sacerdoti nei campi di battaglia con talismani magici per ‘’conservare la lealtà dei soldati’’.

NATO can only do so much @LibyanStateTV broadcasting from #Rixos hotel using the journalists as shields-#mercenaries moving through borders
Libya_United
#GaddafiTV is broadcasting from the basement of #Rixos as confirmed by ABC News correspondent

KC_
Intense bombing in #Misrata & #Nalut by #Gaddafi forces. Also fierce clashes between revolutionaries & #Gaddafi forces in Siyahia, #Tripoli

Skeptical4 Skeptic
Of course #Tunisia gov will say they cannot know what these “civilians” intend to do in #Libya, but Tun. intelligence services do!

Were u at the mass FAKE protest today! Enjoying the weather and skies without NATO for once?
Sources have said that there wasnt that much people there therefore it was edited by Computer!

sixarts
Journos out of Rixos have only days to pack, must leave now #tripoli #NATO

SNIPERS:
Skeptical4 Skeptic
Reports about 90 snipers hired by #Gaddafi from E. Europe have entered #Libya via #Tunisia, i’m tired of barking at Tunisia Gov

Libya Heavy gun fire within Gaddafi forces in Zliten, many have defected and are now in fighting.

wheelertweets James Wheeler
This is one of the many unmet needs crying out for attention. Lots of hard work ahead, in the aftermath of victory. #Libya

BREAKING: NATO in response to Gaddafis sppech they have hit his Bab AlAzaziah Compond NOW!.

IMPORTANT: Who Provided Libya’s New SAMs?

A new, much-dreaded, short-range anti-aircraft missile made in Russia has turned up in the hands of Libyan government forces.

The Russian-made SA-24 Grinch can shoot down coalition aircraft effectively at altitudes up to about 11,000 ft. That would not affect most combat patrols, which are being flown above 20,000 ft., but once humanitarian relief, refuge, medical evacuation and other low-altitude missions begin, they could be lethal, particularly in the hands of groups operating outside the bounds of legality and conventional rules of engagement.

The revelation – not yet announced by the coalition – came as a surprise to U.S. and international military analysts because there have been only rumors of a possible Igla-S/SA-24 sale to Libya and no mention of it in official sources, such as the United Nations Arms Registry. Pictures of the SA-24 have appeared on television since the start of the Libyan conflict, but were not publically identified by the intelligence community.

“The SA-24 Grinch, or Igla-S, is an improved variant of the SA-18 Grouse — or Igla — with better performance, lethality, and counter-measures resistance,” says Douglas Barrie, senior fellow for military aerospace at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. “It is believed to have a maximum slant launch range of up to 6,000 meters, and a maximum engagement altitude of 3,500 meters. Development of the system appears to have been completed in the early years of the last decade. The SA-24 represents a credible threat to aircraft, helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles operating within its engagement envelope.”

There is a question about whether the SA-24 systems sold to the Libyans can be removed from their small-truck mounts and used as man-portable air defense (manpads) or if they are considered part of an integrated system. From the pictures, the weapon’s flexibility is not apparent.

“If you were to ask me which SAMs are the threat right now, I would say the un-located mobile ones SA-6 Gainfuls and SA-8 Geckos on tracked vehicles and SA-24s welded into the beds of pickup trucks rather than the fixed site, easily targeted ones,” says a U.S. defense official. “The mobile ones are extremely dangerous – both radar-guided and manpad-based systems.”

The fixed-site weapons are the SA-2 Guideline, SA-3 Goa and SA-5 Gammon. The surviving longer range SAMs are radar-guided SA-6s (7-km altitude) and SA-8s (5-km altitude) The mobile SAMs are still on the loose, but radar-guided missile systems and their supporting communications and data links are being degraded by an active electronic attack campaign that includes jamming and some cybernetwork penetration activity, say U.S. officials who are analyzing the campaign in real time. That leaves optically guided and infrared-guided weapons as the main threat to coalition aircraft flying over Libya which makes the infrared-guided SA-24 the most potent threat remaining.

“This is not an operation without risk,” says the U.S. defense analyst. “We are putting people in harm’s way. The coalition aircraft are the only things in the sky right now, so target de-confliction is not an issue for the bad guys.”

Questions raised by the SA-24 photos involve identifying who sold the systems to Libya and when. While technically states are supposed to report to the U.N. Arms Register, many do not and they are not in violation of national or international law. Also, some transfers have been made through third parties.

“I just finished checking the U.N. Arms Register for information on the SA-24 sale to Libya and I didn’t see a single reference to missile sales to Libya in Russian declarations since 2000,” says Matt Schroeder, director of the arms sales monitoring project for the Federation of American Scientists.

“One of the key concerns regarding the SA-24 missiles and launchers is their utility to terrorists who tend to favor man-or crew-portable systems over vehicle-mounted systems should the weapons be diverted to the black market,” Schroeder says. “It’s not clear whether the Libyan missiles fit that description.

“We must first identify the model of the SA-24 missile launcher and whether it can easily be taken off the light truck on which they are currently mounted and used as a stand-alone weapon by a small autonomous crew of dismounted infantry,” Schroeder says. Another key question to answer is “whether the SA-24s used with the truck mounted launchers can be used with man-portable gripstocks. If the answer to both is no, then the danger of the system being acquired and used by terrorists is significantly diminished.

“If the answer to either question is yes, then more questions follow, including when the systems were transferred, since manpad transfers were not required to be reported before 2003 and submissions for 2010 have not been published yet,” Schroeder says. Yet another determinant would be whether “they come directly from Russia or were they transfers from an intermediate buyer?”

With reporting by Robert Wall in London.
source:
www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/i...=Blog&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog:27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post:abcd011c-bc5d-4b32-a87b-3f60b4e42e8c

JOURNOS KEEP REAL KNOWLEDGE IN YOUR HEADS plz !!!!!!!!!

Hope Journalists at #Rixos don’t keep any information about #Tripoli FFs n their laptops, apparently Mousa can make up excuses 2 stole them!

A dozen laptops were taken from locked rooms during Rixos fire, ostensibly to protect them frm water. Mine ( washington post)and CNN’s not returned.

A dozen laptops were taken from locked rooms during #Rixos fire, ostensibly to protect them from water. Mine (#washingtonPost) and #CNN’s not returned. #Libya

Basically, this all confirms what we already suspected, Rixos is Gaddafi’s answer for the WhiteHouse+Pentagon+AirForceOne. #GaddafiGons

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Reports 90 snipers hired by #Gaddafi from E. Europe have entered #Libya via #Tunisia, 30 of them still in Tunisia trying to enter.

On #LibyaAlHurra TV stating that many of the ppl out today in #tripoli were family members forced by katibas to come out #Libya

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
1/7/11 – Verified – Libyan state TV broadcasting from the basement of the Rixos…using the journos as human shields. Via @Niz_FGM

dovenews Libyan™
3 explosions were heard in #Tripoli & columns of black smoke were seen rising from the direction of #Gaddafi’s compound
Its a NATO air strikes about two hours after #Gaddafi vowed to stay on in an audio address broadcast on Gaddafi’s TV.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Closely watched the #Turkey Cargo Ship “SEREN AYANOGLU” for last 100 miles approach #Tripoli #Libya, NEVER stopped/checked by @NATO

Zlitan: Reports of defections amongst #Gaddafi forces and exchanges of fire amongst defectors and Gaddafi forces..#Libya #Feb17

JeffreyKofman Jeffrey Kofman
State TV is now broadcasting from the basement of the Rixos. Reporters conveniently being used as human shields. Many journos are leaving.

Just back from a pro-Gadhafi rally in Green Square. About 10,000 supporters. Passionate. But not massive.

oabus
#Misrata has shown me how people can be so resourceful with little they have but with determination to make things happen.

4Adam Adam
#Gharyan. NATO tackles threat of attacks in western #Libya goo.gl/lhr5A #NafusaMountains #Libya #Feb17

BREAKING: #AfricanUnion says will not execute arrest warrant against #Gaddafi and others #libya #ICC”

Bint:
OMG, I just saw it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hahahahahahahaha #SaifTheFakeSheikh and #IsGilletteUnderUNSanctions ?

FlashNews
So Gaddafi decides to ‘threaten’ Europe. So what?! He couldn’t even keep control over #Libya. Talk is cheap. Dream on Muammar!!!

McKenzieCNN David McKenzie
Lots of fireworks going on in Tripoli…and the usual ‘celebratory’ gunfire.

Unconfirmed – Breaking: There are 400 French Amazigh (Berber) Legionnaires in #Nafousa #Libya #Feb17

I heard that day b4 ystrd……..

8 large explosions now in #Misratah, #Libya. The city is completely dark. Power has been out for more than 8 hours.

NotLibyaStateTV
All is normal in Tripoli. We are enjoying great deals at Crazy Ibrahim’s fireworks. If you buy $50 of fireworks, you get $3 of gas! #Libya

NotLibyaStateTV
do not listen to the Al-Jazeera, it’s fireworks! | rt @AJELive Three explosions rock #Tripoli, #Libya, according to reports

Unconfirmed: Some FFs have entered Brega.

2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
I can’t believe Gaddafi is so paranoid he could not come out to his supporters in person today! #feb17 #Libya

PeterLeng Peter Leng
Hotel roof peppered with bullets that have come down from celebratory gunfire. Staying undercover as much as possible.

bint
Give up G twitter-mercs. Your messing w/ a student who practically did an emergency Caesarean all on her own today. G’s got nothing on me

PeterLeng Peter Leng
Lots of noise and guns firing in celebration at pro-Gaddafi rally. But bullets fired into the air must come down: biggest danger right now

Thousands of gaddafi supporters in green sq today – as gaddafi announces threat to attack europe if nato strikes don’t stop
Gaddafi says homes offices and families wld be legitimate targets in europe

CNN:
Gadhafi threatens to take war to Europe
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — Moammar Gadhafi, rallying his supporters in war-torn Libya, threatened Friday to take the fighting to Europe, according to an audio message aired by state TV.
“You are mistaken, you are involved in a battle that you don’t know what you are going to face, so withdraw, and run away,” Gadhafi told a pro-government gathering in Tripoli. “Our people is able in one day to move the battle to the Mediterranean, and able to move the battle to Europe.”
Gadhafi referred to NATO, which began bombing military targets in Libya after the U.N. Security Council approved a resolution in March authorizing force by whatever means necessary, with the exception of a ground invasion, to protect civilians.
He vowed vengeance for the bombings, saying the Libyan military could be “like locusts, like bees” in Europe. Homes and offices could be potential targets, he said.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the United States was taking seriously the Libyan leader’s remarks. “Certainly this is an individual who’s obviously capable of carrying out these kinds of threats,” he told reporters. “It’s what makes him so dangerous. But he’s also someone who’s given to overblown rhetoric.”
He said the United States would continue to support NATO’s mission of increasing pressure on Gadhafi to step aside.
The French government, meanwhile, is in talks with Libyan rebels about supplying them with weapons and ammunition, a Libyan opposition military spokesman in Misrata said late Thursday.
The French government has not confirmed the claim, which follows an acknowledgment earlier this week that its military has previously dropped light weaponry to rebels elsewhere.
www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/07/01/lib...

So now NATO can legitimately target him………………………..

BBC:
I’ve just met Rabiyeh Abidi who is busy insulting Gaddafi up and down the streets of Misurata with spectacular walls of graffitti.

Misrata est sous attaque terriblement lourd! la bataille est en cours ss 1 violent bombardement! #libye

Ahmed #Misurata: #Gaddafi forces fire 5 Grad rockets on Alhbara neighbourhood. No causalities reported

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Breaking: FF Special forces enter Brega. Liberate 2 families & take them safely back to Ajdabiya w/out firing single shot #Feb17#Libya#1July

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Tripoli: Clashes in Soug Aljuma with Gaddafi forces short while ago #Feb17 #Libya #1July Friday ain’t over yet : )

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
3 explosions in Tripoli reported. NATO like Fridays too : )

PeterLeng Peter Leng
Gaddafi said he’d attack homes and offices in europe if NATO operations continued. NATO not saying if raids carried out tonight

20arb
Gaddafi dreigt vandaag na #Libië, nu ook Europa met terreur aanslagen. Die gast is een onderschat gevaarlijke gek met veel macht en geld

PeterLeng Peter Leng
Series of loud explosions in #Tripoli tonight after Gaddafi telephone address to Green Square rally. Sound of jets overhead in the dark

dovenews Libyan™
#African Union offers 2 host #Libya ceasefire talks goo.gl/i85qc AU never been able 2 solve their own problems never mind solve ours

Mwattin
#Tripoli is like a hostage u c in the films; gun to her head and psycopath making her do and say stuff & threatening to shoot her #Feb17

LIBYA_WIN
#Misrata is under terribly heavy attack! The power has been cut off for nearly half a day, the battle is ongoing under heavy shelling!

LIBYAN SCRIPTED DRAMA
Close your window

A MOB of several hundred angry young men assembled at the front gate of the Rixos Hotel in Libya’s capital on June 27th, waving pro-government banners and firing guns in the air while demanding custody of foreign journalists living inside. After an hour they overwhelmed hotel guards and stormed across the car park into the lobby. About 80 “Crusader” journalists locked themselves into their rooms or sprinted into the lush gardens.
Guards eventually regained control, raising the possibility that they were in on the incident from the start. In Colonel Muammar’s Qaddafi’s Libya, little happens in the vicinity of foreign media that is not scripted. The government cloisters the world’s press at the Rixos to give its view of NATO bombings. Moussa Ibrahim, its bombastic spokesman, regularly holds press conferences: “Every Libyan mother will be a bomb, a killing machine.” Loudspeakers embedded in the ceiling of every room summon reporters to inspection tours of NATO targets, often in the middle of the night.
The point, repeated relentlessly, is that civilians have been killed by Western bombs and that the people remain loyal to the Brother Leader. Crowds chanting his name greet reporters everywhere they are taken on official tours.
But nowhere else. The picture presented by the regime often falls apart, fast. Coffins at funerals have sometimes turned out to be empty. Bombing sites are recycled. An injured seven-year-old in a hospital was the victim of a car crash, according to a note passed on surreptitiously by a nurse. Journalists who point out such blatant massaging of facts are harangued in the hotel corridors.
read more:
www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2011/0...

Saif #Gaddafi says ICC charges over the shooting of #Benghazi protesters may be dropped in return for secret peace deal.
Gaddafi’s son claims Nato wants deal with Libya
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi says ICC charges over the shooting of Benghazi protesters may be dropped in return for secret peace deal

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi vehemently denied that he or his father ordered the killing of civilian protesters, as charged this week by the international criminal court (ICC).
“It’s a fake court,” he told Russian news channel RT in an interview released on Friday. “Under the table they are trying to negotiate with us a deal: ‘If you accept this deal, we will take care of the court.’ What does it mean? It means the court is controlled by those countries which are attacking us every day. It is just to put a psychological and political pressure on us.”

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/01/ga...

wheelertweets James Wheeler
Some kids in #Zintan & other towns subject to extensive Grad attacks are now deaf or mute. They’re not in many photos – and not getting care

’We’ll take over Tripoli in three weeks’
While rebels are fighting a mere 70 kilometers from Tripoli, Deutsche Welle spoke with Mokhtar Milad Fernana, the main rebel commander of Libya’s western front at his headquarters in Zintan, in Nafusa mountains.

Deutsche Welle: How and when did you become the chief commander of the Western rebel front?
Mokhtar Milad Fernana: I was a colonel in the ground forces but I defected when the revolution began. Soon after, five locations in Nafusa mountains were liberated and each one set up its revolutionary council. An assembly between the five elected me as the chief representative. Today the area under my command includes the Nafusa mountain range and as well as Tripoli and the area between the capital and Tunisia.
But you are still wearing the insignia of the regime you are now struggling to oust, isn’t that a contradiction?
I am a soldier and, as such, I have to wear my uniform until we get a new one from Benghazi. That will happen when we win the war.
What is the structure of the whole Western rebel apparatus?
As I said, each district has a council leaded by a commander and we have weekly meetings to coordinate since March 15. The different councils put their queries on the table. Other than that, there’s no phone line so our communications are via satellite.
read more:
www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15203533,...

Chris_UNICEF Christopher Tidey
#Libya #Benghazi – Big peaceful crowd in Tahrir Square tonight

Amazigh_Libya
Protests in the city of #Zintan today. #Libya #Feb17 الله أكبر twitpic.com/5jrcub

LIBYA_WIN
I have confirmed that there was hundreds of executions of #Tripoli prisoners, massacres-There is no doubt left except for the great numbers.

July2
Libya: HMS Bangor joins the force on the coast
HMS Bangor arrives at Libyan coast
HMS Bangor has arrived in the Mediterranean where she will serve as part of NATO forces off the coast of Libya.
HMS Bangor (stock image)
MOD 2011
The Sandown Class vessel left HM Naval Base Clyde on 6 June 2011 and sailed over 2,500 miles (4,023 km) to arrive in the warm waters of the Med to relieve fellow mine hunter HMS Brocklesby.
In the weeks running up to the deployment, the men and women onboard HMS Bangor worked tirelessly, ensuring that the sophisticated vessel was ready for the operation.
The vessel made excellent time to the Med, making just a swift stop at Brest in France for a two-hour refuelling sop and even managed to stop at Gibraltar where the crew were allowed off to stretch their legs, with some even managing to run up the famous Gibraltar Rock.
After her brief visit, HMS Bangor was soon underway again, heading through the Mediterranean Sea to the coast of Libya.
The flat calm waters allowed the crew to undertake training and upper-deck maintenance, ensuring that the ship arrives in theatre fully trained and ready for operations.
HMS Bangor is one of seven Sandown class mine hunters – five of which are based at HM Naval Base Clyde with another two permanently deployed in the Gulf.
Built of glass reinforced plastic, the design ensures that the ship has a very low magnetic signature, essential when operating in a minefield.
The Sandown class vessels are equipped with the latest precise navigation and manoeuvring systems, allowing them to ‘hover’ over a fixed point and search for mines with their variable depth sonar.
Bangor can then deploy her clearance divers or latest state-of-the-art submersible to deal with the mines or suspicious objects.
Since Christmas, HMS Bangor has been put through her paces on Operational Sea Training in preparation for a deployment with the Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group to the North Sea later this year.
She has also completed a major maintenance period, gearing up the ship to sail from UK waters for six-months.
waronterrornews.typepad.com/home/2011/0...=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:WarOnTerrorNews%28War+On+Terror+News%29

Sudanese army seizes southern Libyan town
The Sudanese army has seized a town in southern Libya that is the gateway to oilfields crucial to rebel hopes of establishing financial independence.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...

This is a very strange story.
Nobody else seems to have any knowledge about the facts this correspondent mentions.
Could this correspondent be a few months behind with this article?
We’ve seen some weird reporting over he past few months from what should be reliable sources….
Maybe this correspondent could clarify this article? Or take some more lessons in writing a clear and UPDATED report?
Kufra was liberated June 8:)
We’ll see tomorrow……..

NotLibyaStateTV
We are hearing rumors that the Sudanese are in Kufra. We assume they are there to vacation and show off our control of the area #Libya

June 30
AlJazeera Arabic – FFs in Kufra captured 17 Somalian mercenaries today.

Libya
Explosions à #Tripoli ce soir

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Anchored just out of port #Tripoli #Libya # StVincentGrenadines “PRINCESS DINA” & Just arrived #Turkey CARGO SHIP “:SEREN AYANOGLU”. #feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
In port #Tripoli #Libya now: #Turkey CARGO SHIPS “DERIN” & “ILKE METE” & #Bahamas CARGO SHIP “ADRIATIC PEARL”. #feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
In port #Tripoli #Libya now: #Malta CARGO SHIP “GASCOGNE”, #Gaddafi OIL TANKER “ANWAAR ALNASER”. #feb17

FOOD FOR THOUGHT…….
Benghazidoc
On Thursday 30th June 2011, @Benghazidoc said:
How free is Libya’s new media?

The other day, I was watching an #NTC press conference on TV. Mustafa Abdul Jaleel was giving a statement on the #ICC’s issuing of the arrest warrants for #Gaddafi, #Saif and #AlSenussi. #Shamaam was moderating the Q&A session at the end, and I was struck by how he would plant himself at Abdul Jaleel’s podium every chance he got simply to decide which journalist could ask a question. Abdul Jaleel was forced to back away each time.

I started paying closer attention to Shamaam, the council’s chair of the media file. He’s quite visible in the media, perhaps setting himself up for a future leadership bid? (speculation) Though exact details are not known (lack of transparency?), Shamaam is rumoured to be very closely linked to one of the new Libyan satellite channels. During a recent hard-hitting interview on that channel, Shalgam was essentially blamed for the unpopular Rome meeting. Was it a legitimate attack? Or was it an attempt to discredit a potential rival?

Recently, organizers of a protest against the Rome meeting, invited local #Benghazi media to attend. The media told the organizers that they need to get permission from the NTC. This tidbit was particularly disturbing to me, particularly in the context of that draft NTC legislation I had seen last week that had some articles that, in my opinion, would be limiting the freedom of the media.

These are just some random musings, but I think it’s important to keep asking questions especially during these times of change. So here are my questions: What is Shamaam’s connection to the TV channel? Why does local media need permission from the council to report? What exactly are Shamaam’s responsibilities as the NTC’s chair of the media file? If he is connected to a to a particular channel, should he even be on the council, especially in the role he has? Will Shamaam keep the promise he made that free Libya will not have a Minister of Media?

Khiria
wowo…was it just me or did the pro- #Gaddafi people have the French flag…and the Canadian flag?

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Rallies for #Libya tomorrow Saturday July 2, 2011 #Manchester at 3pm, Picc Gardens. #London at 2pm Outside Embassy RT #libya #feb17

Pro g rally Tripoli:
Qahtani
Such huge crowd, why journalists were not allowed to see it? I think @NATO have 24/7 monitoring could reveal truth

white dots top of the screen, blur for top view of the crowd, close shots are clear… Why blur pic? G fake hand thing

g tv used tricks for the rally today?
This is how you can populate an empty stadium:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvDv6Q9AY0g&feature=player_embedded#at=69

Dr Ali #Aldurrat abducted on June 24 on way 2 hospital in E #Misurata. Father of 3 / eldest 5 yo t.co/T5u2JKD #Libya

Another Farrakhan’s rant against NATO in Libya. An insult to Muslims all over the world.

www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Nation...

More comments on art. in the Telegraph:

Sudan are not in kufra! Its bollocks! Thankfully. Confirmed on ground in kufra-see libyan youth movement page on facebook ;)

libyans_revolt omar
#ALJA TV IN FREE #KUFRA youtu.be/d69dogTGHi4 #LIBYA #FEB17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d69dogTGHi4&fea...

believe me sudan sent arms to FF in Kufra :)

came from from darfoor, hey were kicked out of kufra,also in sebha,sirte

omar:
Video: FF’s entering #Kufra! moments of victory!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYpMl1cYW_4&fea...

Glad some of us agree:)
We’ll find out the truth tomorrow……..

SUMMARY JULY 2nd 2011
7/2/2011
7/02/2011
7.02.2011

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.¬

grafixel
“Hundreds of Chadian refugees were this week reported to have fled Kufra to the Gaddafi-controlled town of Sebha.”

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Despite todays “Telegraph” article, #Kufra, #Maaten & Elsara are all controlled by #Zwaie & #Tabu #Freedomfighters #Libya #feb17

Clinton Says Libyan Rebels Strengthening
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Libyan rebels are gaining momentum and that the country’s leader, Muammar Qaddafi, should stop issuing threats against foreign nations.
“The rebels have been gaining strength and momentum,” Clinton said. She reaffirmed U.S. commitment to helping Libya’s people in their struggle against forces loyal to Qaddafi, saying “We need to see this through and we will.”
Clinton made her remarks in Madrid after meeting Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez to discuss issues ranging from Afghanistan, where Spain has 1,500 troops, to Middle East peace and the economy. Clinton stopped in Spain on her way home from a three-day visit to Hungary and Lithuania, where she attended a meeting of the Community of Democracies.
Qaddafi threatened yesterday to attack Europe if raids on Libya continue, telling his supporters via an audio message aired on state television that “if we decide, we can also take” the battle to Europe. He also warned his “enemies” of “an eye for an eye.”

www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-02/clint...

‘Iran ready to help Libyan refugees’

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast says that the Islamic Republic of Iran is ready to help the refugees of the Libyan War.

“Iran supports popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa region which happen on the basis of Islamic awakening,” a press release by the Foreign Ministry quoted Mehmanparast as saying on Friday.

He condemned the genocide of the innocent Libyan civilians by any group and under any pretext, adding that “the Islamic Republic of Iran believes that the demands of the oppressed and Muslim people of Libya must be met.”

NATO launched a major air campaign against the forces of the Libyan regime in mid-March, saying UN Security Council Resolution 1973 gave them a mandate to “protect the Libyan population.”

However, scores of civilians have been killed in Libya since the US-led forces launched aerial and sea attacks on the Arab-African country.

Libyan troops loyal to the ruling dictator Muammar Gaddafi have also killed thousands of civilians since a revolution started in the North African country in mid-February.

Experts say the main motive behind the Western attack on Libya is the vast oil reserves of the country.

www.presstv.com/detail/187093.html

NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/Nfp6H

LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
by septimius_sever
Very interesting video showing a HUGE convoy of mostly pickup trucks & some brand new jeeps. youtu.be/ov9BukcFIN0 #Libya #Misrata
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov9BukcFIN0&fea...

Saif Gaddafi: I am not in the government. I released all the prisoners.

LIBTRIP LIBYA TRIPOLI
Youth of Soug Aljuma named a school after Al-Jazeera cameraman Ali Hassan al Jaber who was killed in #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=8jrLN7… @AJE

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jrLN7b-tMw&fea...

LibyanDictator
#Ghiryan: Almanara reports NATO dropping leaflets warning civilians to stay home as they’ll be targeting Gaddafi forces in the area. #Libya

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
NATO dropped leaflets on Gheryan advising civilians to avoid streets as all G forces concentrations in city are targets

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Sabha: A freedom fighter of AlGurda neighbourhood has been killed by Gaddafi forces. His name Ismael AlSenusi Abu Sibeha. RIP

LIBYA_BREAKING Ossama
BREAKING: FFs of Misurata have found fake old currency on the dead Mercenaries, meaning that Gaddafi is paying them with old currency.

Kadhafi conseille à l’Otan de “clouer ses avions au sol” pour éviter une “catastrophe”
Dans un message sonore diffusé sur la Place verte de Tripoli, Mouammar Kadhafi a brandi la menace d’une “catastrophe” si les troupes de l’Otan ne battent pas en retraite. Les raids aériens sur le territoire se poursuivent depuis 15 semaines.
Par FRANCE 24 (vidéo)

REUTERS – Le numéro un libyen, Mouammar Kadhafi, a juré vendredi de rester au pouvoir et mis en garde l’Otan contre le risque d’une “catastrophe” en cas de poursuite des raids aériens contre son régime.

“Nous vous conseillons de battre en retraite sous peine de catastrophe”, a déclaré le Guide libyen dans un message sonore adressé à 100.000 de ses partisans massés sur la Place verte de Tripoli.

“Je vous conseille de clouer vos avions au sol (…) et d’engager des discussions avec le peuple libyen”, a ajouté le Guide en dénonçant le mandat d’arrêt lancé lundi contre lui ainsi que contre l’un de ses fils, Saïf al Islam, et contre son gendre par la Cour Pénale internationale (CPI). Les partisans de Kadhafi ont agité des drapeaux verts et des portraits du dirigeant libyen, qui a déclaré que l’importante participation à ce rassemblement était tout à fait spontanée et prouvait combien son peuple l’aimait.
www.france24.com/fr/20110702-khadafi-co...

Le Figaro
Libye: l’Otan intensifie ses frappes
AFP
02/07/2011 | Mise à jour : 12:54 Réactions (11)
L’Otan a annoncé aujourd’hui avoir intensifié ses bombardements dans l’ouest de la Libye, détruisant une cinquantaine d’objectifs militaires durant la semaine. Les opérations ont visé des objectifs situés des montagnes du Djebel Nafusa, près de la frontière tunisienne, à la ville de Misrata, à plus de 200 km à l’est de Tripoli, selon un communiqué de l’Otan.

“L’Otan continue d’augmenter la pression sur le régime de Kadhafi pour protéger les civils partout où ils sont sous la menace d’attaques”, a déclaré le général Charles Bouchard, commandant des opérations militaires de l’Otan en Libye.

Les frappes aériennes visaient à répondre au déploiement de “forces pro-Kadhafi dans des zones urbaines d’importance et sur des lignes de communication”.

Durant les quatre derniers jours, l’Otan a détruit à Gharyan, à 80 km au sud de Tripoli, huit “objectifs”, dont des chars et des véhicules militaires.
www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2011/07/02/9...

Nicholas Sarkozy: ‘I will not stop providing the rebels with defensive weapons, medical supplies and food products’

African Union offers to host Libya ceasefire talks
MALABO (Reuters) – African Union leaders offered on Friday to host talks between the Libyan government and rebels on a ceasefire and transition to democratic government, but left open whether there was any future role for Muammar Gaddafi.
The proposal was presented to representatives of Gaddafi and rebels attending a summit of the 53-nation grouping in the central African state of Equatorial Guinea.
af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE7...

Libya doesn’t need AU to interfere.

Chris_UNICEF Christopher Tidey
#Libya #Benghazi – I often wondr how the constant sound of gunfire here makes kids feel. That sound just dsnt fade into the background.

CNN
Libyan rebels, Gadhafi forces exchange fire; 11 rebels wounded
Dafniya, Libya (CNN) — Libyan rebels and troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi shelled each other for hours on Saturday in clashes at the highly contested frontline of Dafniya, an embattled town just west of the besieged port city of Misrata.
At least 11 rebels were wounded in the exchange of fire and treated at one of the two field hospitals in what has been the most active day in Dafniya this week, according to a CNN team.
Heavy government shelling on Misrata and Dafniya began shortly after Gadhafi rallied his supporters in an audio message on state TV and threatened to take the fighting to Europe in retaliation for NATO’s bombing campaign.
“As soon as Gadhafi’s speech ended, they started shelling Dafniya and around midnight there was a salvo of about eight rockets inside Misrata itself, and it continues on the front this morning,” said CNN’s Ben Wedeman, who was in Misrata Saturday.

www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/07/02/lib...

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
LPC Tripoli 1/2: City is a ghost town.Only busy in certain areas around 1.30-2pm.Even elderly are using bicycles due to lack of fuel #Feb17
LPC Tripoli 2/2: Many have left city but great solidarity. Ppl are helping each other financially. We’ll never leave till Liberation #Feb17

NATO: More airstrikes in western Libya

NATO says it has begun ramping up its airstrikes in the western half of Libya, which is still largely under leader Moammar Gaddafi’s control. The coalition said in a statement sent Saturday that it has destroyed more than 50 military targets in the west this week.

NATO says the strikes are aimed at hitting forces loyal to Gadhafi who have been massing in western cities and along “major lines of communication.” NATO has been striking Libya since March under a mandate to protect civilians. Gaddafi on Friday threatened to carry out attacks in Europe unless NATO halts airstrikes. (AP)

www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4089...

MUST READ:
After Gaddafi
How does a country recover from 40 years of destruction by an unchallenged tyrant?

Libya was on the brink of tectonic change as NEWSWEEK went to press, with the regime of Muammar Gaddafi in a state of dramatic fulmination and ruin. As we watch that country become a patchwork of liberated zones and violently defended redoubts of the regime, we should be concerned about what a post-Gaddafi transition will mean, given the fact that the man has hollowed out the Libyan state, eviscerated all opposition in Libyan society, and, in effect, created a political tabula rasa on which a newly free people will now have to scratch out a future.
Libya will begin afresh after Gaddafi, in a comprehensive reconstruction of everything civic, political, legal, and moral that makes up a society and its government. But it remains dauntingly unclear where new leadership will come from. Perhaps some of the tribal chieftains will unite behind one of their own; perhaps some of the regime’s overseas opposition figures will return, not so much as saviors but as masons who might lay a new foundation over the rubble. Or perhaps some younger Libyans, with overseas degrees under their belt, or young entrepreneurs, will rise to the occasion. There are even rumors that the heir to the country’s monarchy may want to throw his hat in the ring.

www.newsweek.com/2011/02/27/after-gadda...

Interesting:
Mercenaries in Libya – Students within the Polisario mercenaries Libya – The Moroccan education teacher j.mp/kQ0PWs (Arabic)
www.profvb.com/vb/t63620.html

Who were these people in the green sq rally yesterday in Tripoli? youtube.com/watch?v=Azfeys… www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzfeysqlVmA

Libya’s abandoned stockpiles attract smugglers

(Reuters) – Packed to its limit with crates of artillery shells, the once-secret military base in the eastern Libyan desert is now open to anyone looking for an easy way to stock up on free ammunition.
Ringed by a minefield but otherwise abandoned, the facility was once heavily guarded by Muammar Gaddafi’s troops until they fled when the site came under a NATO air strike earlier in the war.
With most of its bunkers still intact, the base near the rebel-held town of Ajdabiyah is now frequented by visitors of a different kind: from looters scavenging for scrap metal to potentially more shadowy characters.
Abandoned sites such as this are at the center of Western concerns that stockpiles of Libyan weapons and ammunition could fall into the wrong hands at a time when global trade in black market arms is thriving from Africa to Latin America.
Experts say that like dozens of other unsecured Libyan military bases, the site could attract militant groups and organized crime cartels. Rebels have tapped into the stockpiles as well, mainly to make improvised weapons for the frontline.
Read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/01/us-l...

MyFreeLibya
Photo: الله يرحمة و يبشره بجنية الفردوس يارب In memory of my beloved uncle, Abdul Hakeem..Brutually murdered… tumblr.com/xuy3abb7nz

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Breaking: Tripoli: FFs blow up a Gaddafi forces Chevrolet car in AlMarghana street killing 3 G forces #Feb17 #Libya #Jul17 Allah Akbar!

Tarhuna: HQ of Agricultural police where many mercs were based attacked by FFs completely burnt down & Independence Flag raised

Tarhuna: Freedom Fighters attack a supply convoy near the American project

wheelertweets James Wheeler
Getting a package in Tunisia is like getting a mortgage in the USA. Lots of gov’t paperwork & bureaucracy. Patience & a good attitude r key.
Actually, I’ve done loans in less time, with fewer middlemen and more transparency than the process of retrieving pkgs here.

VID
MyFreeLibya
Video: Time-Lapse showing the latest Global Relief Libya shipment

Time-Lapse showing the latest Global Relief Libya shipment in the storage room in Tataouine. (Sorry for the quality, hectic day)
www.rubiconmango.com/post/7153844251

lookatlibya
It’s sad that ppl who side with #Gadaffi don’t know the truth behind how he REALLY came to power.

www.september69.com/september.html

bob_
Ghadafi threats to Europe are not new and should not be a significant source of alarm for #EU governments

These statements are aimed at inflating support for the regime domestically and creating fears
The #AU position regarding the #ICC leaves open the possibility for Ghadafi to exile in the continent.

farah:
Off on 10K test walk/run for charity @WMCLibya – Back is hurting so will look more like Quasimodo & less like Esmeralda
www.justgiving.com/FarahAbushwesha

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
These are my countrymen youtu.be/qOpOyzf7cGs #Feb17 #Libya #Jul17

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOpOyzf7cGs&fea...

Ossama
Yesterday:
BREAKING: On Friday in Tripoli, Souq Al-Juma clashes took place between our FFs and Gaddafi forces!

BREAKING: On Friday in Tripoli, Souq Al-Juma clashes took place between our FFs and Gaddafi forces!

BREAKING: The representative of the NTC in Paris announcing the plan of the AU is welcome to resolve the crisis in Libya.

BREAKING:Col Jumaa Ibrahim, member of the military council in Nafusa denied reports of Freedom fighters retreat from Bir Al-Ghanem area

BREAKING:From Source:CONFIRMED reports of bus loads of people being brought into #Tripoli to participate in yesterdays rally.

BREAKING:In Dafnia heavy clashes betwen FFs nd Gaddafi forces, wounding 17 of our FFs and the fall of martyr,“Abdul Salam Fawzi Alchaabah”

NATO 1 July: Key Hits: #Tripoli: 1 Military facility, 3 Radars, 2 AA Guns, 1 SAM Launcher, 4 Tanks, 1 C&C Vehicle;

NATO 1 July: Key Hits: #Gharyan: 2 Tanks; #Waddan: 1 Storage Facility; #BirAlGhanam: 2 Armed Vehicles.

NATO 1 July: Arms embargo: 2 ships boarded, no denials. #IHAM: 3 ships, 4 aircraft.

Featured Videos
Tracking Down Qaddafi

video.foxnews.com/v/1034266579001/qadda...

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

Riace, un village italien qui accueille les immigrés
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IID89Ppjhe8&fea...

Lampedusa: 400 enfants bloqués
AFP
01/07/2011
Plus de 400 mineurs non accompagnés, arrivés récemment sur l’île italienne de Lampedusa (sud) parmi les réfugiés venus en bateau d’Afrique du Nord, y restent bloqués dans des conditions sanitaires précaires, a averti hier l’ONG Save the Children.

L’organisation humanitaire a appelé le gouvernement italien à prendre des mesures rapides, soulignant que, selon la loi italienne, les mineurs devraient être placés dans des familles d’accueil sur le continent et non pas rester sur l’île dans les mêmes camps que les réfugiés adultes.

“Il est absolument impossible que les mineurs restent plus longtemps à Lampedusa dans ces conditions complètement inadaptées”, a déclaré dans un communiqué Raffaella Milano, dirigeante de la section européenne de Save the Children Italie.

www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2011/07/01/9...

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Nalut: Electricity and water still cut off in town with daily shelling by Gaddafi forces

Old art:
Kenyan ‘Dogs of War’ fighting for Gaddafi
news, out of Africa >
Kenyan mercenaries are among foreign soldiers helping the besieged Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi fight off an uprising.
This was confirmed on Thursday by Col Gaddafi’s former Chief of Protocol Nouri Al Misrahi in an interview with the Al Jazeera broadcasting network.
Mr Misrahi was detailing how Gaddafi had resorted to using mercenaries against his own people after losing control of the Libyan armed forces.
When asked where the mercenaries came from and how they were recruited, the first country he mentioned was Kenya. Other countries he listed are Chad, Niger and Mali.
He described the mercenaries as jobless ex-soldiers and officers who were enticed to Libya by money.
He clarified that they were not sent officially by their governments, but were privateers recruited directly by the regime and they were being used to hunt and kill Libyan dissidents after Gaddafi’s armed police and soldiers abandoned him and “went with the people”.
He said Gaddafi has no more trust in his own armed forces because they had largely defied orders to turn their guns on the demonstrators.
“Those mercenaries are being used against Libyans, because Gaddafi has no more trust in his police and soldiers, they let him down and went to the people”.
The mercenaries from African countries, he said, were poor and homeless former soldiers who were easily recruited over the years.
The former senior official in Libya spoke as the government in Nairobi denied that Kenyan mercenaries were being used to execute Gaddafi’s brutal crackdown.
However, there was an admission that retired police and army officers could be in Libya working for private companies.
The story of Kenyan mercenaries was lent further credence by a Libyan military defector quoted in the UK newspaper — The Guardian – listing Kenya as one of the recruitment grounds for thousands of African mercenaries propping up the regime.
Air Force Major Rajib Feytouni said he had personally witnessed 4,000 to 5,000 mercenaries flown into his air force base on Libyan military transport planes since 14 February— several days before the uprising started.
“They (the planes) had 300 men at a time, all of them coming out with weapons. They were all from Africa: Ghanaians, Kenyans,” he is quoted in the Guardian.
The mercenaries are being used by Col Gaddafi to violently break down the wave of protests that is spreading across the North African country.
“That is why we turned against the government. That and the fact that there was an order to use planes to attack the people,” said Major Feytouni in the second largest city of Benghazi which has fallen in the hands of rebels.
Acting Foreign Affairs minister George Saitoti also denied the allegations when he appeared before the Parliamentary Committee on Defence yesterday.
In Parliament, Foreign Affairs assistant minister Richard Onyonka dismissed the involvement of Kenyan mercenaries in the violent Libyan crackdown on protesters.
“The only individuals in Libya are embassy staff and students who are not involved militarily,” he said.
Government spokesman Alfred Mutua also denied knowledge of any Kenyan mercenaries fighting on the side of Col Gaddafi.
Source: nation.co.ke

wheelertweets James Wheeler
I remember arguing more than 3 months ago that this was a revolutionary war, not a protest. So many young ppl outside #Libya didn’t get it.

THANKU4THEANGER
NATO destroys a. 2 checkpoints on Nuflia road (20km W of Bin Jawad) b. One checkpoint with troops & vehicles 12km E of Bunjawad c. 3 checkpoints with troops, vehicles & petrol station in Agela #feb17 #Libya #Jul17

Libya’s Rebels Grow Wary of Western Journalists

As the push to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi has stalled, journalists have increasingly borne the brunt of the frustrations of Libya’s rebels. Although the foreign press was eagerly welcomed just months ago, reporters in rebel-controlled areas have recently been harassed and intimidated. Officials of the rebel-led National Transitional Council (NTC) have steadily begun to treat correspondents as hostile elements: some have been prohibited from filming bomb scenes; others have been accused of being spies.

www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,...

Think it has more to do with journos being in the way and needing protection from ff when at battle fronts and the fact that lot of journos regurgitate what’s being said on state tv. Only few real investigative journos in Libya with open mind who report reality on the ground.

pdanaharbbc Paul Danahar
Before #Libyan war Abdel Salem Fouzy Alshaba was a 23 yrd old economics student. He had head and back wounds from #Gaddafi Grad rocket.
Doctors tried to save Abdel Salem but he died while I was there. The #Libyan rebels said Gaddafi forces pushing up 1st time in over a week.

More airstrikes in western Libya
TRIPOLI, Libya —
NATO said Saturday it has begun ramping up its airstrikes on military targets in the western part of Libya, where rebel forces claim a string of advances through territory still largely under Moammar Gadhafi’s control.
Gadhafi’s regime is determined to stand firm against opposition fighters moving from southern and eastern fronts toward the capital Tripoli. The rebels have largely solidified control over the eastern third of Libya but have struggled to push out of pockets they hold in the west.
NATO’s latest comments suggest the alliance is hoping to tip the balance further in the rebels’ favor despite threats by Gadhafi to carry out attacks in Europe unless the airstrikes stop.
Read more:
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationwo...

Libya;
BREAKING:From Source:CONFIRMED reports of bus loads of people being brought into #Tripoli to participate in yesterdays rally. #Libya #feb17

Niz_FGM: 2/7/11 – Verified reports of bus loads of people being brought into #Tripoli to participate in yesterdays rally

Misurata: Intensive shelling by #Gaddafi forces on #Aldafynia since early hours of morning…Reported 2 civilians died & 48 Injured #Libya

KC_Tripolitania: Egyptian court says order4 NileSat to shut down #Gaddafi TV will come into effect Monday July 11. #Libya #Egypt #Feb17

FINALLY!!!!

IRAN:
Iran to send 3rd aid cargo to Libya

Head of Iran’s Rescue and Relief Organization Mahmoud Mozaffar says the Islamic Republic is ready to dispatch the third humanitarian aid cargo to Libya.

“The third humanitarian aid shipment of Iran’s Red Crescent Society (IRCS) for the displaced foreign citizens of Libya living at Ras al-Jadir on Tunisian-Libyan border will be dispatched on July 15,” Mozaffar said on Saturday.

“The shipment includes 40 tons of medication, tents, blankets and different kinds of canned food,” IRNA quoted Mozaffar as saying.

Mozaffar added that an eight-member rescue and medical team would also be sent to the area to set up tents and provide medical services.

NATO launched a major air campaign against the forces of the Libyan regime in mid-March, saying the UN Security Council Resolution 1973 gave them a mandate to “protect the Libyan population.”

However, scores of civilians have been killed in Libya since the US-led forces launched aerial and sea attacks on the Arab-African country.

Libyan troops loyal to the ruling dictator Muammar Gaddafi have also killed thousands of civilians since a revolution started in the North African country in mid-February.

Iran has sent two aid shipments for the displaced Libyans who have been caught in the fight between revolutionaries and forces loyal to Gaddafi.

More than 213,000 foreign workers have fled Libya since the beginning of the uprising. Some 15,000 migrant workers from 20 countries are currently at the border camp, waiting to be evacuated.
SOURCE:http://www.presstv.com/detail/187154.html

Bismarck doctor shares his family’s experience in Libya

Every day, Dr. Tarek Dufan checks the news to see what’s happening in Libya.
He has family there, but he has had little contact with them since the uprising involving Col. Moammar Gadhafi and the rebels trying to overthrow the government. Dufan is a radiation oncologist at the Bismarck Cancer Center.
The civil unrest in the country started after the political uprising in Egypt that forced out the government. By comparison, the Egyptian uprising was peaceful, Dufan said.
“It is really chaos,” he said. “Thousands disappear every day.”
The instant messaging account that he used to keep in contact with his family no longer works because there is no Internet access in Libya.
“Now we only have the phone to call, when you can get communication. Sometimes it’s three to four weeks” between calls, he said.

READ MORE:
www.bismarcktribune.com/news/local/arti...

Pourquoi l’Union africaine ne lâche-t-elle pas Mouammar Kadhafi ?
Les chefs d’État africains réunis en Guinée équatoriale se sont mis d’accord pour écarter le colonel Kadhafi du processus de négociation en Libye sans exiger son départ du pouvoir. Une position qui risque de trouver un écho international limité.
Par Trésor KIBANGULA (texte)

Le 17e sommet de l’Union africaine, qui s’est tenu jeudi et vendredi à Malabo, la capitale de la Guinée équatoriale, a été dominé par l’épineuse question libyenne. Les chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement ont dû se mettre d’accord sur le sort à réserver à leur homologue libyen Mouammar Kadhafi et définir un plan de sortie de crise pour la Libye.

READ MORE:
www.france24.com/fr/20110701-union-afri...

Elleebi
Response from a Trabelsi (Tripolitanian) friend to yesterday’s pro-gadafi rally. In Arabic

www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2241...

L’économie du Niger pâtit de la guerre en Libye voisine
Mis à jour le 02.07.11 à 16h16
La guerre en Libye voisine coûte à l’économie nigérienne des milliards de FCA en revenus perdus sur les transactions commerciale et les mandats envoyés jadis par les plus de 200.000 Nigériens travaillant dans ce pays et contraints de rentrer.

Ce bilan est dressé par le président Mahamadou Issoufou, interviewé ce week-end par l’agence Reuters en marge du 17e sommet de l’Union africaine réuni à Malabo, capitale de la Guinée-Equatoriale.

Les analystes estiment pour leur part que l’afflux dans la bande sahélo-saharienne d’armes et de munitions venues de Libye risquent d’aggraver l’instabilité du Niger où le secteur du tourisme est déjà en berne.

Le Niger, pays producteur d’uranium, reste l’un des pays les plus pauvres de planète avec notamment une crise alimentaire quasi-chronique.

More here:
www.20minutes.fr/ledirect/751881/econom...

LibyaTrueStory
Protest planned today in #Misrata against #Gaddafi’s speech yesterday when he vowed to retake the city. #Libya #FF & families to come out!

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Court has ruled to cease broadcast of #Libya state TV channels on Nilesat starting July 11

French foreign minister: Russian contribution could be decisive in ending the conflict in Libya

“Russia could play a key role in the outcome of the conflict in Libya,” French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Friday during a panel discussion held by the Valdai Discussion Club at the Higher School of Economics. The discussion was titled “Russia and Europe: Facing Common Challenges.”

The French minister continued: “Russia and France could better coordinate their efforts toward resolving conflicts in Arab countries.”

“Yes, these events are fraught with many possible dangers, for example, the risk of extremists seizing power in Arab countries,” he said. “However, we must respect and protect the aspirations of people in the Middle East.”

Speaking about the situation in Libya, Juppe commented that every government has a responsibility to protect its citizens from crimes against humanity.

“If a government fails to do so, the international community should assume that function. This is exactly what we are doing in Libya,” the minister said.
Read more:
en.rian.ru/valdai_context/20110702/1649...

Gaddafi’s army of hackers exposed
July 2nd, 2011 | 1 Comment
•
The army of hackers that Gaddafi’s uses to attack in recent troubles in Libya

I was alerted to the list on twitter by a concerned follower who later also got a translate English list.
Over the passed year we have seen high media story’s of Gaddafi’s army of hackers and the war in Libya, this list exposes the names of these hackers, as for now i am unsure of the source of the list but its been confirmed as a real list.
www.cyberwarnews.info/2011/07/02/gaddaf...

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “FEYZA GENC” now arriving w/ supplies for #Gaddafi at port #Tripoli #Libya #feb17

Libya: Air raid on Gaddafi military camp
British Apache helicopters were involved in the raid in western Libya
Related Stories
British Apache helicopters targeted a military base being used by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.
The raid, on Friday night, targeted the al Mayah military camp, near Az Zawiyah, west of the Libyan capital Tripoli.
It came as Col Gaddafi threatened to carry out attacks against civilians in Europe unless Nato halts airstrikes.
Nato is enforcing a UN resolution to protect civilians from Gaddafi forces.
In a statement, the Nato-led international coalition said its forces had destroyed more than 50 military targets in the west of Libya this week.
MoD spokesman Major General Nick Pope said Apaches from the Army Air Corps were used in the latest raid
Continue here:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14003423

USAmbNATO Ivo Daalder
Tweet me a question on NATO operations by 4 pm (Belgium) July 5th with the hashtag #NATOSlo

Important:
Egypt Detection of organized plan by Gaddafi 2 carry out sabotage operations against W embassies in Egypt
Gaddafi did not miss the opportunity in his recent speech on Friday, to emphasize his threats to take the war to Europe, and the targeting of Western interests.
Embassy attack plans folded by Egypt:
www.moheet.com/show_files.aspx?fid=480254

bentbenghazi
AlArabiya: The Libyan prime minister acknowledges talks with the opposition in Cairo and Norway

Ahmed
#Misurata: 14 year old looses hands, shrapnel to left eye & legs due to #clusterbomb by #Gaddafi forces youtu.be/b4BCzgmnEQs #Libya

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4BCzgmnEQs&fea...

FreeBenghazi
Andrew Lucas in #Nalut with his colleagues from @MercyCorps pays a visit to @nalut17feb media centre #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=W0B4qt…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0B4qtRCAVo

somaia
#Libyan rebels in #Misurata better fighters than I saw on Brega front line. But they need real time #NATO air support 2 push on

Heinz:
US apaches are now involved in libya

Niz_FGM Niz
2/7/11 – Verified info from members of FGMovement – Khaled AlKhweldi has been shot in the leg at Ber Ghanem

pdanaharbbc Paul Danahar
As left Dafniyah hospital they were washing away blood from the new casualties. #Gaddafi warned yesterday he would take back #Misrata
Libyan rebels on #Misurata front line said there was no way #Gaddafi would ever take their city back.
Libyan rebels on #Misrata front line have to wait 6 hours after calling for help from #NATO .Say no NATO airstrikes 4 last 24 hrs
Just been down to the #Misurata rebel HQ. There they co-ord attacks and organise their defence of the city against #Gaddafi troops. #feb17
#Libyan rebels in #Misurata better fighters than I saw on Brega front line. But they need real time #NATO air support to push on. #feb17

Lots of Nato air activity over Jabal Nafusa this evening. Acc y’days log hit targets in Gharyan and Bir al-Ghanam.

REUTERS:
Libya rebels say bracing for a new Tripoli push
BENGHAZI, Libya, July 2 (Reuters) – Libyan rebels said on Saturday they were gearing up for a new advance on Tripoli from the southwest in the next two days after their forces were pushed back by government troops earlier this week.
“(It) was obviously a strategic withdrawal because of the battlefield situation and the amount of bombardment that the revolutionary forces were receiving,” said Ahmed Bani, a rebel military spokesman.
“But we hope to counter that within the next 48 hours.”
The rebels had earlier advanced to within 80 km (50 miles) of Muammar Gaddafi’s stronghold in Tripoli but retreated on Friday after coming under rocket fire from his forces.
Their push to the outskirts of the town of Bir al-Ghanam had raised the possibility of a breakthrough in a four-month old conflict in the North African nation.
Speaking in the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi, Bani said insurgents fighting in western Libya had enough supplies and manpower to counter Gaddafi forces and required no reinforcements from the east.
“Our people in the western parts have enough men, they have no shortage of ammunition and definitely no lack of bravery,” he said. “So there isn’t any particular reinforcement being sent to the west.”
In the east, Libya’s frontline near the town of Brega has been deadlocked for weeks, with rebels and Gaddafi forces dug in at more or less the same positions without any conclusive fighting. Bani said he believed that too may soon change.
“We all know that the strategic point in the eastern front is the capture of Brega,” he said. “We hope the countdown to that will start very soon, the minute that our forces start advancing from Ajdabiyah to Brega.” (Writing by Maria Golovnina; Editing by Diana Abdallah)

AJA: Spokesperson for the #NTC (Goga): We did not accept the African Union Road Map.

LisaatSky Lisa Holland
African Union calls on member states to ignore ICC arrest warrants for Col Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam and intel chief Senussi

2011feb17
Ever wondered what makes young men go to Bab Al-Azyzia? “Dancer girls” is the answer of course. youtube.com/watch?v=bdteX5… #feb #Libya

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdteX5KJgdU

septimius_
It seems that #Nato is attempting to peel away Gaddafi’s closest supporters until he & his family are left isolated #Libya
#Nato laborious plan,Gaddafi barking orders down unanswered phones 2 security forces that have fled,changed sides or surrendered.
#NATO is clearly trying to avoid the situation in which #Tripoli becomes a battlefield with high number of civilian casualties.
But #NATO is slowly getting into a nightmare scenario if the military-political juggling act goes wrong
#NATO is trying to strike a difficult balance of strengthening the FF position while gradually weakening the regime from within #Libya
Keeping FF momentum is key to #NATO,2 little gives Gaddafi more oxygen. Too much they may leap at a target too ambitiously #Libya
The question now is, has #Gaddafi played all his cards yet? #

Mustafa Tabbawi deputy chairman of #Kufra council said town lacks basic needs and interrupted electricity, but secure and calm

PJBWells Patrick Wells
LIBYAN STATE MENTIOND ME BY NAME LAST WEEK SAYING I HAD CONFIRMED THE REBELS WERE AL QAIDA. LIES! ALTHOUGH I THINK IT MAY BE TIME TO LEAVE

4Adam Adam
Nigerian Pres “200,000+Nigerians working in #Libya have returned home” He forgot to mention how many left there fighting 4 Gaddafi. #Reuters

Aya
We need fresh young Libyans same age of Presidents Obama & Clinton in office to rule Libya. We do not need anymore Old Libyan Farts #Libya

4Adam Adam
Alarabiya: Anger in #Tunisia after Gaddafi labeled Tunisian women as “maids at the Libyans” in Friday Speech is.gd/WSOfvL #Libya
www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/07/02/1...

Libyan Rebels Accept African Peace Plan

Libya’s National Transitional Council accepted an African Union plan for peace talks with the government it is battling to overthrow, saying it paves the way for a transition without Muammar Qaddafi.
The 53-member union yesterday announced a plan for a cease- fire between Libya’s warring parties, coupled with negotiations in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, which will forge a transitional administration and outline a plan for new elections. The proposal excludes Qaddafi from the talks.
“Not being part of the negotiations means that he’s not going to be part of the future of Libya,” Mansour Sayf Al-Nasr, the NTC’s representative to France, told reporters today in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. “The African Union is saying to Qaddafi ‘That is it’ — that is the way we understand it.”

Read more:
www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-02/libya...

THANKU4THEANGER
NATO destroys a. 2 checkpoints on Nuflia road (20km W of Bin Jawad) b. One checkpoint with troops & vehicles 12km E of Bunjawad c. 3 checkpoints with troops, vehicles & petrol station in Agela #feb17 #Libya #Jul17

Niz_FGM Niz
2/7/11 – Verified info from members of FGMovement – Khaled AlKhweldi has been shot in the leg at Ber Ghanem

dovenews Libyan™
#Nafusa #FF have captured 3 4×4, 2 cars full of ammunition in #Kikla. #Libya

20arb11
A goat nibbled on a satellite cable of a journalist at the #Nafusa Mountains. Luckily he hade a 2nd cable at hand.

WFP: “Food needs for the Nafusa mountains remain serious,the vast majority of the affected population now relies on food assistance,” #

FromJoanne Joanne
Fighting now for Gaddafi held Al #Ghazaya a mountain town nr #Tunisia border every night Gaddafi army shells Nalut from alGhazaia #Libya

SmithInAfrica David Smith
Taken by Libyan government to see tribal leaders swear allegiance to Gaddafi. A military band in crisp uniforms played the national anthem.

dovenews Libyan™
Fierce fight with heavy artillery between #FF & Gaddafi forces in #Alghazya. #Nalut #Libya

Alex
DISCREDITED #AU – ignores #ICC arrest warrants – even though #UN unanimously referred #GaddafiCrimes to #ICC for investigation!

Alex
#NTC need 2 get their act together – @NATO need spotters on ground in West #Libya – #NTC should set up direct #NATO contact from #Nafusa NOW
LUNACY – #Nufusa Commanders have 2 go thru #NTC in #Benghazi – 2 feed information to @NATO – MUST HAVE DIRECT ACCESS via local #NTC #Libya
Alexblx Alexblx

REUTERS:

U.S. slams Gaddafi threat to attack Europe
(Reuters) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stepped up Western calls on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to quit on Saturday, brushing off his threat to attack Europeans in their homes and offices.
In a telephone address relayed to some 100,000 supporters in Tripoli’s Green Square on Friday, Gaddafi urged NATO to halt its bombing campaign or risk seeing Libyan fighters descend on Europe “like a swarm of locusts or bees.”
“Retreat, you have no chance of beating this brave people,” Gaddafi said in his address.
“They can attack your homes, your offices and your families, which will become military targets just as you have transformed our offices, headquarters, houses and children into what you regard as legitimate military targets,” he said.
NATO announced it had stepped up strikes on Gaddafi forces in west Libya including the capital Tripoli, saying it had carried out more than 50 attacks since Monday.
“Instead of issuing threats, Gaddafi should put the well-being and the interests of his own people first and he should step down from power and help facilitate a democratic transition,” Clinton told reporters on a trip to Spain.
Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez said the alliance stance was unchanged.
“Spain’s and the international coalition’s response is to maintain the unity and determination with which we have been working these past months,” she said.
Full art. here:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/02/us-l...

LIBYA_BREAKING
Summary of Qaddafi speech : I have nothing but words and loud voice.
Summary of Clinton speech today: FF with our help will get to you soon

Hafeez Ghogah: We reject the decision of the African Summit, and we would only negotiate the issue of the departure of Gaddafi

Fighting has renewed in Algazhaia north west of #Nalut

libi4ever
Gadffi offers Zintan’s families $2 million and some kind of Autonomy for all Mafousa mount but they refused

Fierce battles now around Ber Alganem.. and unconfirmed reports of injury of the named Khalid Khuwaildi there in the battles

Mustafa Altbawi of NTC kufra denied press report that Sudan army has takenover of the city He aded that kufra is in complete control by FF

Affrontements à la frontière entre l’Egypte et la Libye, au moins deux blessés
Des affrontements ont eu lieu ce samedi entre les forces de sécurité égyptienne et des proches de Gomaa Abdel Salam, un trafiquant blessé par des garde-frontières à Salloum vendredi, puis décédé à l’hôpital samedi rapporte une source de la sécurité égyptienne. Au moins deux personnes ont été blessées au cours de ces heurts

adamschreck Adam Schreck
The international media presence is shrinking in Tripoli. Several cos. pulled staff out today, no replacements in sight.

LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
To remind: Turkish FM Davutoglu will visit Benghazi tomorrow. Give him a good reception & try to win him over.

Proudlibyandoc
on what planets do those people live? they are claiming genocide in Tawergha by NATO/Freedom fighters, when in fact g forces use them

Sami:
Khuwaildi khaled injured by fire shot in his leg and another in his shoulder in Bear Ganam battle

hardingbbc andrew harding
i’m preparing to leave misrata, #libya.

WESSIM #Libye gaddafi massacre son peuple et les arabe reste silencieux et c les occidentaut qui viennent sauver un peuple reprime

McKenzieCNN David McKenzie
If the Gov. wants us to believe that Gadhafi has no power, then they shouldn’t call him ‘the Leader’

Proudlibyandoc
Our future international friends should be amongst the countries that respect human dignity. i.e. not Russia/China/AU crooks.

LibyaLiberty
#ArabSpring analogy: Gaddafi is to every African & Black person as Kermit the Frog is to every amphibian in actual nature.

LibyaLiberty Army of One
#ArabSpring analogy: Gaddafi is to every African & Black person as Kermit the Frog is to every amphibian in actual nature.

Libya : résultats mi-figue mi-raisin lors du sommet de l’Union africaine
Réunis en Guinée équatoriale, les membres de l’Union africaine ont difficilement adopté ce vendredi un accord-cadre. Ils proposent d’organiser des pourparlers de paix entre le régime libyen et les insurgés. Mais l’offre passe sous silence tout rôle futur pour le numéro un libyen.
Les membres de l’Union africaine ont par ailleurs décidé de ne pas coopérer à l’exécution du mandat d’arrêt délivré par la Cour pénale internationale contre le colonel Kadhafi.
Cependant, l’organe de la rébellion libyenne affirme que beaucoup d‘état africains soutiennent les insurgés. “Ils ont même dit pendant la réunion à huis clos que Kadhafi devrait démissionner et partir, a ajouté son représentant Abderrahman Chalgham. Mais personne ne soutient Kadhafi, personne, ni à l’intérieur, ni à l’extérieur.”
VID:
fr.euronews.net/2011/07/02/libye-result...

dovenews Libyan™
It takes yrs to rise a child & it took #Gaddafi 3hrs to take the lives of nearly 1200 ppl who disagreed with his views in Abu Sleam prison

Ahmed:
Breaking: #Zawia: clashes between #FF & #Gaddafi forces..FF manged to kill 9 of Gaddafi forces and destroy an APC #Libya #Feb17

NAFUSA:
Friday July 1, 2011 18:08h:
Nafusa Mountains: Bir Al-Ghanam: Military Council of Al-Zintan: No clashes between freedom fighters and Gaddafi forces today.
Friday July 1, 2011 17:59h:
Nafusa Mountains: Bir Al-Ghanam: Freedom fighters withdraw from Bir Al-Ghanam south of Tripoli after heavy shelling by Gaddafi forces.
Friday July 1, 2011 17:35h:
Nafusa Mountains: Kikla: During yesterday’s battle at Ghawaleesh, freedom fighters captured 5 vehicles and destroyed a vehicle carrying a rocket launcher. 3 freedom fighters were martyred yesterday from Kikla: Walid Abdulgader AlJali, Ahmed Muhammed AlZayeer, Mayloud Milad, and one other freedom fighter from Al-Qala’a was also martyred. May God have mercy on his soul.
Friday July 1, 2011 17:34h:
Nafusa Mountains: Bir Al-Ghanam: At 5 am this morning, bombing started and clashes have re-commenced.
Friday July 1, 2011 09:38h:
Nafusa Mountains: Bir Al-Ghanam: Freedom fighters have attacked and killed tens of Gaddafi forces based in Bir Al-Ghanam. Freedom fighters captured 30 of Gaddafi forces the remaining fled. They also captured two vehicles filled with ammunition. Seven freedom fighters from Al-Zawia were injured.
Friday July, 2011 8:38h:
Nafusa Mountains: A trusted source reports fierce battles in the Eastern front of the Nafusa Mountains in an attempt of the freedom fighters and the national army to advance towards the city of Gheryan. This battle was an advance for the freedom fighters; causing the Gaddafi forces to retreat.
Thursday June 30, 2011 22:05h:
Nafusa Mountains: Kikla: Fierce battles since day break this morning in an attempt by the Gaddafi brigades to enter Kikla but freedom fighters defeated them and blocked them from entering the city. One of the freedom fighters was martyred named: Mayloud Bin Milad. May God have mercy on his soul.

VID here:
networkedblogs.com/jVzQ2

McKenzieCNN David McKenzie
Libya spokes says that ‘for the sake of argument’ that Gadhafi is ‘like the Queen’ of England…with no real power

dovenews Libyan™
3 FF were killed in Kikla fight with Gaddafi forces.

SmithInAfrica David Smith
Taken by Libyan government to see tribal leaders swear allegiance to Gaddafi. A military band in crisp uniforms played the national anthem.
Libyan spokesman Moussa Ibrahim: We offer elections and system where Gaddafi has no political or military power. We’ll even write it down.
Ibrahim: “Amazing numbers of rebels killed” at Bir al-Ghanam. Claimed soldier wept at sight. “This is the saddest event in Libyan history.”
Sign has gone up at Rixos hotel in Tripoli: “Rape Of The Libyan Women. Press Conference. 3 July 2011. 8:00pm.”
Terrific parting shot from Andrew Harding of the BBC in Misrata. “The defiance… is slowly curdling into frustration:” t.co/QUSW1px

Libya crisis: Leaving Misrata as ‘storm’ approaches
Last night I sat on the roof and watched Misrata city – blackened by a power cut – glow orange as another barrage of rockets smashed into the port area.
“The storm is coming,” one rebel military official assured me. “Our storm,” he added.
But this morning the rebel casualties were pouring, as usual, into a field hospital just behind the western front lines as Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s forces nudged closer
(Written by Andrew Harding)

I’m crouching behind a ridge of sand on the long, meandering, front line west of Misrata.
An artillery shell comes whistling overhead.
I’m told that if you can actually hear the whistle, it’s not going to hit you.
But my face is already in the sand as the shell explodes maybe 50 yards behind us.
Beside me, under a small tree, a group of young rebel fighters barely look up from their rice and stew.
They’ve been camped out in this olive grove for well over a month now, and still haven’t bothered to dig trenches.
Around them, the war that seemed at one point to be such an unpredictable, dynamic drama, has settled into something close to a routine.
I’ve met fathers driving out to the front to bring their sons home for the night.
Brothers taking turns on the battlefield, sharing one gun.
There are wounded friends to visit in hospital. And the endless scavenging for ammunition and supplies.
MORE HERE:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14002949

Sami:
70 officer defected from Gaddafi Militias www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRLvNcpYQRk

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRLvNcpYQRk

KC_Tripolitania KC
Freedom Fighters in #Sabha, say #Gaddafi forces use many types of weaponry to prevent daily peaceful protests from happening .

Chairman of National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, says there are 50,000 prisoners in #Tripoli alone! #Libya #NTC

Chairman of #NTC Mustafa Abdul Jalil says NTC has set up committees in #Egypt and #Tunisia to check up on #Libya refugee situation. #Feb17

Dutch news TV: reporter: #Nalut has food for 2 more weeks #libya . New anti tank armer has arrived for the #FF and bullet proof vests

Fares:
Breaking #Zawia clashes happening around the city right now and 9 #Gaddfi soliders killed in the areas of Saida Zanib & Qmuda #Libya

FromJoanne Joanne
#NATO bombed a network of TUNNELS storing Military Equipment about 30 miles (50 kilometers) southeast of #Tripoli #Libya

Vid. Tripoli
Petrol queue ZawiatAldhamnai
www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2107...

Ahmed:
#Sabha: Reports of clashes between FF & #Gaddafi forces in Algortha neighborhood..2 FF died & a number of injuries. #Libya #Feb17

ALzintan Channel
This Bab Azizia ..
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=563146&l...

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Heavy exchange of artillery in area of Ghazaya

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Tarhuna: Independence flag raised in Theniyat Alsawaleh Street by FFs #feb17 #Libya #Jul17 Tarhuna’ FFs have gone EPIC today : )

Muammar al-Gaddafi – Obama’s Unwanted Pen Pal
Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi has a history of sending letters to Congress. In the past, most letters have involved unusual, if not humorous, praises for President Obama. For example, he normally opens his letters with: “To our son, his excellency, Mr. Barack Hussein Obama.”

These letters have gone unanswered by Congress.
However, the Daily Caller is reporting that a June 23 letter just released indicated that the Libyan leader is willing to start negotiating on the release of $4 billion in frozen Libyan assets. These assets are to be used “to provide humanitarian relief to and for the benefit of the Libyan people in all cities and towns and through the agreed chain of supplies.”
More here:
www.christianpost.com/news/obama-gaddaf...

Amazigh_
First field clinic has been set up in Bir Ayyat near #Yefren. #Libya #Feb17 twitpic.com/5k8zko

TFF’s 2 the rescue:
Proudlibyandoc
TFF I need help against a pro ghaddafi african merc on youtube

freedom4libya
I wish the World just stops discussing #Gadhafi’s speeches, promises, ceasefires and deals and concentrate on his crimes instead. #Libya

LibyaUnited
giving an ICC WANTED mass murderer & abuser of human rights a voice goes against the ethics of journalism!

Let’s tell the journos that! I do so agree with you.

Danya
can you guys tweet about #RAMADAH camp we need to help them more!

Sure, will do:)

bint_
Another Rixos journalist making my blood boil @SmithInAfrica and the reason for the spamming! I used to be a Guardian reader, hahhaha
Yes, they pretend to need to listen to both sides of the story, but in the end only regurgitate G propaganda

Sami
Libya’s freedom fighters are regrouping & preparing to march on Tripoli after heavy resistance from Gaddafi forces.

LibyanDictator The Dictator
#Misrata: Heavy shelling and clashes at Addafniya front lead to 2 martyrs and 43 injuries.

_TheZee
I can’t believe what started as protests is now in its 5th month of war. Please God, grant us victory soon.

Pro g demo yesterday: tweeter 2 journo
bint_
@
@SmithInAfrica My God, you have actually caused an aneurysm in my brain to burst, your tweets are so awful and one sided.
@SmithInAfrica How could you tell they were ‘true’ believers? Most were bussed in from surrounding cities and promised petty cash.
@SmithInAfrica But I thought Gaddafi claimed he’s position was already like the Queen, so what’s new in Mr Ibrahim GADDAFI’s promise?
@SmithInAfrica It’s people like the BBC and the Guardian that have make it their mission paint the Libyan struggle in a very negative light
SmithInAfrica That makes no sense, since the rebels are liberating their own cities, these women would be their family, neighbours, etc.
@SmithInAfrica But of course, you will quote Gaddafi regime lies verbatim w/o questioning any of the propaganda they spout. Typical Guardian
@SmithInAfrica I’m sure far Right groups and the BNP can manage to gather a few thousands ppl to say we want all Pakis out in the UK
@SmithInAfrica pretend to need to listen to both sides of the story, but in the end only regurgitate G propaganda
Another Rixos journalist making my blood boil @SmithInAfrica and the reason for the spamming! I used to be a Guardian reader, hahhaha
@SmithInAfrica I don’t know what it is about Gaddafi that has many journalists feeling sympathetic to him

Journos don’t seem to do any logical thinking of their own, just regurgitating g spoxman. What is hidden in the coffee at the Rixos? Or are they scared? AK 47? Just wondering……

We have seen huge mistakes made few weeks ago in BBC art, we had a strange story yesterday in The telegraph about Kufra being occupied by the Sudanese army, now we have journo in Rixos telling bed- time stories……la-la-land bedtime stories.
We see journo’s sunbathing on the roof of the Rixos, but no investigative reporting at all from that place…..not even common sense.

Libya breaking: Abdul Hafeeth Ghoga: We will not accept any initiative that does not include the departure of Gaddafi of #Libya#feb17

Tweeter with heart in the right place:)
Rumle
I’m not Libyan I’m not even Arab. Still I get very touched when I see military and diplomats standing under the tricolor flag of Free #Libya

Fale;
#Libya,is trapped in Tripoli,less than 2% are pro Gaddafi the rest are being oppressed by a well armed minority and mercenaries

Alex
Great to see the brave #Zawiya #FF – many of whom returned from #Nafusa a few wks ago – R still attacking #Gaddafi in his back yard! #Libya

Ahmed:
Apathy & lack of productivity was encouraged under Gaddafi in civil institutions. Citizens don’t have a choice as everything is nationalized.

Reuters: U.S.national security adviser said :Efforts to pressure Gaddafi out of power are succeeding, & there will not be stability in Libya until he steps down

Rumored that Turkey will officially recognize NTC tomorrow in Benghazi with the visit of Foreign Minster Ahmet Davutoğlu.

NILE SAT _ STATE TV:
Link to the article about Libya state tv ban on Nilesat: is.gd/9zdNUx

www.dostor.org/crime/11/july/2/46954

4Adam Adam
#AlJazeera’s Zeina Khodr reporting from eastern Libya. Libyan rebels western advance stalled youtube.com/watch?v=qIS9d5… #Libya #Feb17 #Brega

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIS9d5NMOjY&fea...

Shabab:
Family friend arrested for 2 days in #Libya for saying in a eulogy “May God accept our dead as martyrs”.

Tripoli update:
02/07/2011 – TRIPOLI UPDATE
by The Free Generation Movement – حركة جيل الاحرار on Saturday, July 2, 2011 at 12:03pm
1-
Morale in Tripoli took a slight knock as Gaddafi staged a mass rally in the centre of Tripoli.
Initially there were numerous reports that there was various video editing involved in order to create the illusion of a larger crowd. Members of the Free Generation Movement were present at the event and can clarify that there was no video editing involved and that the crowd was indeed large.

Similarly, international media was present and felt there was no conflict between their images and that of State TV.
Cameras were placed at an angle that would present the crowd in a favourable light, but no comprehensive editing was involved.
There are verified reports from Free Generation members of multiple buses bringing people in from outside of Tripoli. Whilst this is a verified report, other rumours regarding the source of the crowd cannot be verified by us.
The crowd was estimated to be around 10,000 strong.

Whilst admittedly this was a large, pre-planned, and well orchestrated event, it still represents less than one percent of the Tripoli population, if indeed the participants were from Tripoli.
Similarly, Gaddafi’s continued reluctance to address “his people” in public and resort to audio from hidden locations is further indication that he is feeling the ever increasing pressure upon his already defunct regime.

2-
Verified reports from an FGMovement member indicate that Khaled Alkhweldi was shot in the leg in Bir Ghanem.

3-
Security men have stripped photos and portraits of gaddafi in central Tripoli in light of PROJECT BURN. The Free Generation Movement will continue to make its presence felt in the capital

4-
FGMovement engaged in one of its largest leaflet distributions around Tripoli on the day commemorating the Abusleem Massacre perpetrated by Gaddafi and his regime.

5-
State TV is calling on those who engage in what can only be described as peaceful acts of protest, to be caught and killed, including members of FG Movement. This is a clear violation of human rights and international law. This is a clear indication of threatening behaviour towards civilians in Tripoli. We call upon Nilesat to take action and for NATO to continue to protect civilians by shutting down, through any means, this mouthpiece of the regime.

6-
There continues to be worsening fuel shortages in the city with many stations now closing down.

7-
Food shortage is still not critical with the Tunisia border still patent. However imported goods are in very short supply and shops stock mainly domestic products. Inflation is still at incredible levels.

8-
There is anticipation of the impeding approach of our fighters in the western mountains and the subsequent wide scale involvement of Zawiyah in the conflict. Groups in Tripoli, such as groups in Soug al Jomaa we are in touch with, are preparing for an escalation in activity in Tripoli to compliment the activity of our heroes from the mountains.

9-
NATO activity in Tripoli has significantly reduced but FGM verified reports of raids on Bab Alazaziya on Friday 1st July before and after sunset.
NATO jets are circulating low over head as we speak – 21:00 local time

10-
Security forces in Tripoli continue to utilise civilian cars in the capital. Checkpoints are now being manned, in large part, by security who are not from Tripoli, as indicated through the well recognised accents and dialects.

11-
The Free Generation Movement continues to call on support from outside Tripoli, both morally and in terms of supply and funding. Tripoli gains inspiration from the words and the actions of our brothers and sisters all over the world and all over Libya, in the towns and cities which have broken the shackle of Gaddafis regime.
In response to Gaddafi’s rally yesterday, we would love to counter these images with rallies of our own all over the country and all over the world.
Further updates as they come in….

Sarah
Tripoli FF prepare for advancement of Nafousa&Zawiya FF so they can work 2gether.Just love that!!

20arb
#Nafus #FF being trained, organized & following lessons on war strategy. to become #NLA national libyan army. Via Dutch news TV. #Libya

Gaddafi TV is violating human rights and international law. It’s threatening people in #Tripoli & outside.’

A South African law firm that says it representes Muammar Gaddafi claims that the International Criminal Court has no jurisdiction in Libya, and hence the arrest warrants it has issued are irrelevant.
“The Libyan Arab Jamahiriya never signed or ratified the international treaty establishing the International Criminal Court,” said a statement from the Langa Attorneys in Johannesburg and Rome.
“It is clear that the ICC has no jurisdiction on the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and that the immunity of the Head of State, provided by international customary law, applies to Colonel Gaddafi,” it said.
“By issuing the warrants of arrest the ICC has complacently misled the world about its penchant to take the law into its own hands as the ICC has no jurisdiction over Libya ... Now that the ICC has issued its illegitimate warrants, we expect NATO to stop their bombings and to also abandon its threat to kill Colonel Gaddafi and allow the ICC disputed process to take course.”

Libye Libre
211.000 émigrés sont rentrés au Niger. Ils envoyaient dans leurs villages d’origine des mandats pour aider leurs familles
Le Niger reste l’un des pays les plus pauvres de planète avec notamment une crise alimentaire quasi-chronique

Alex
Once #Nafusa #FF with @NATO help – have taken vital #BirAlGhanam crossing – they have a 50k open road to #Zawiya and then #Tripoli #Libya

FromJoanne Joanne
Eastern #Libya rebel forces say they will soon make their final push towards the oil port town of #Brega

Gosport
Let freedom fighters go all the way to Green Square in #Tripoli. #Gaddafi here we come, prepare for your fate!

Alex
@NATO has increased its military support for #FF in #Nufusa this week – Now bombing #Gaddafi heavy guns @ vital #BirAlGhanam crossing #Libya

FromJoanne Joanne
#NATO bombed a network of TUNNELS storing Military Equipment about 30 miles (50 kilometers) southeast of #Tripoli #Libya

OGLOW in Bengazi tomorrow

#Gaddafi fuel supplies in #Tripoli reaching #DIRE levels – Crumbling Regime will soon be reduced 2 using troops on horses & bicycles

FromJoanne Joanne
NATO struck 2 armed vehicles on Friday near Bir al-Ghanam a town Nafusa FF are battling to take from gaddafi forces #Libya

SARAH
Tripoli update:Security men have stripped photos &portraits of gaddafi in central Tripoli in light of PROJECT BURN.looool.who wd’v thought?

Last few days #NATO Repeatedly Hit #Tripoli + #Gharyan 1 city on mountain ridge of Nafusa mountains and on a major road to #Tripoli #Libya

Joanne
#Benghazi; FF Col Ahmed Bani told a news conference FF are not sending reinforcements 2west and FF there do NOT need more weapons #Libya

Sami
electricity cuts is big problem for Nafosa hospitals

FromJoanne Joanne
NATO destroyed 50 military targets in west #Libya this wk targeting government forces in cities +along major lines of communication. #Libya

Alex
#Nafusa #FF have tanks – amoured cars – 1000’s of gun mounted vans – & unquenchable thirst 2 inflict th final humiliation on #Gaddafi #Libya

Freedom Fighters are gearing up for a new advance on Tripoli from the southwest in the next two days Libya

libyans_revolt
#GaddafiFacts: #Gaddafi + Al Qaeda = AL Qaeddafi

Khiria
My grandma is out of #Misratah and in #Benghazi!!! =D #Libya

Update
Eastern Region, Saturday 02 July
Saturday 02 July 21:35
Eastern region: Benghazi (Libya Breaking): AbdelHafeed Ghoga says the African initiative is not welcome and there is no negotiations on Gaddafi unless it is to discuss his departure.
Saturday 02 July 21:29
Eastern region: Benghazi (Libya Breaking): Mustafa AbdelJalil says that they (NTC) have formed a Crisis Management Committee in both Tunisia and Egypt to support the injured and their families whom have imigrated to those countries; he also added that there are 50k prisoners in Tripoli alone.
Saturday 02 July 21:25
Eastern region: Benghazi (Libya Breaking): Turkey is set to recognize the Libyan National Transitional Council tomorrow as the country’s Foreign Minister, Ahmed Oghlou, will be visiting Benghazi coming from Egypt.
Saturday 02 July 15:46
Eastern region: Al-Marj (Al-Tadamun): 17th of February Battalion in Al-Marj has captured a member of Gaddafi’s Fifth Column in the city of Al-Marj as he was trying to sneak into Benghazi in a stolen car. The Battalion handed him in to the 17th of February Battalion of Benghazi where investigations are still underway.
Saturday 02 July 10:30
Eastern region: Benghazi (Libya Breaking): Italy might face problems with electricity shutdowns as well as the suspension of flights if the oil coming from Libya remains to be cut off from the country till the end of this year. A reliable source confirms that NATO is following a secure plan in coordination with the NTC to avoid targeting pipelines and facilities of Brega and Ras Lanuf Oil Companies. Thus, work can commence quickly after Gaddafi’s departure from Libya, as the country’s security will stabilize.

“The humanitarian situation in the Nafusa mountains remains a top concern,” Panos Moumtzis, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Libya. “It remains imperative for UN humanitarian organisations to have continued access to the Nafusa mountains to conduct in-depth assessment missions to accurately and impartially determine the needs of the affected population and respond accordingly,”

LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
I do not believe that Egypt will stop the broadcasts. Egypt is still led by the old regime & they don’t care about the Libyan people.

MyFreeLibya
2 injuried from Qalaa yday. 1 got injured in an area just outside AlQalaa, called ppl yday telling them where exactly where he was hiding..,
went to him 2day didnt find him :( #Libya #Feb17 #PrayForNafusa

libyans_revolt
#GaddafiFacts: #Gaddafi + Freedom = enemies

libyans_revolt
#GaddafiFacts: #Gaddafi + sons = wanted #deadoralive

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Zawiya: #Freedomfighters attacked group of #Gaddafi forces in city, killed at least 7 Gaddafi thugs, destroyed an armored vehicle #Libya

septimius_
#US tells #Libya rebels: Capture the Lockerbie bomber for us bit.ly/jCFDeC (take with a pinch of salt as its the daily mail)

LY_NeverForget
Ok so journalists in #Tripoli who continuously talk about proG interviews/moments as though they are natural and spontaneous need to wake up

Libyan4life
If you dont have one,go get a #Libya n friend.They are pretty amazing(bias aside)odds are they will feed you well & keep a smile on ur face

Image: From Mickey Mouse to Religious Cleric

Its been over 4 months that Saif Gaddafi has been in hiding. He occasionally peeps through a RAT hole to spread wisdom through his unique quotes.
From:
• “Libya is not piece of cake”
• “We are not a Mickey Mouse”
• “US looks on Libya as McDonald’s”
to his latest ” They do not accuse me of policy, they accuse me of killing people….No, nobody ordered to kill them, the guards just fired, that’s it..”
Its clear with his erratic behavior and “Al Qaeda” disheveled look that he spoke to soon by calling Libyan Opposition “al Qaeda and armed gangs.” Maybe next time he should look into a mirror before spewing hypocritical memorable sayings.

feb17.info/images/image-from-mickey-mou...

feb17libya
AJ’s Sue Turton reports from #Misrata where revos say they’re in desperate need of foreign military assistance. Watch: feb17.info/news/live-liby…

CNN
Efforts to pressure Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi out of power are succeeding, and there will not be stability in Libya until he steps down, U.S. national security adviser Tom Donilon. We have put together a broad, comprehensive set of pressure efforts to see him — to pressure him to step down. I think those efforts are succeeding,” he said. “There’s almost an inevitability here, I think. There is an inevitability here building as to what the ultimate result will be.”

NATO
“We are engaging all military assets that are being used to indiscriminately target the civilian population throughout Libya,” Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard, commander of NATO’s Libya mission

NATO said Saturday it has begun ramping up its airstrikes on military targets in the western part of Libya. NATO’s comments about its latest airstrikes suggest the alliance is hoping to tip the balance further in the rebels’ favor despite threats by Gadhafi to carry out attacks in Europe unless the airstrikes stop.
The coalition said it has destroyed more than 50 military targets in the west this week. It says it is targeting government forces in cities and along “major lines of communication.”

Col. Ahmed Bani, an opposition spokesman, said Saturday that opposition fighters have pulled back in some parts of the west, in what he described as a “strategic retreat,” but said they would go on the offensive again in the coming days. Asked about the NATO attacks in the area, he said they have been helpful to the opposition, but did not elaborate

PLZ Mr Mark Stone:
bint_t
@Stone_SkyNews Please come back, you were the only reporter with enough spunk to question M. Ibrahim rather than rewording his speeches.

septimius_
“It’s a journalist’s job to be a witness to history. We’re there to try & get as near as we can,to the truth & get the truth out”Fisk #Rixos

Fadwa Oh god, Shakeer is saying someone wants to sue Aljazeera and other “mu3’aratha” channels for spreading lies. LOL!

Free Libyia
I want most foreign journalist out of Libya, they are just annoying ding bats trying to seek out discord when there’s none. fataneen

they are locked up in Rixos and all they can do is write unbalanced articles about what Musa Ibrahim says.

FromJoanne Joanne
BanatLibya- Brave, Strong, Courages, Libyan women – بنات ليبيا youtube.com/watch?v=luSg1p… #Libya #febr17

www.youtube.com/watch?v=luSg1pQts-c

Sat Jul 02, 2011 at 03:01 PM PDT
February 21st – Tripoli’s Long Night

It is a real genocide whether it is in the eastern cities of Libya or whether what is going now in Tripoli. The information that we are receiving from the people in Tripoli is the regime is killing whoever goes out to the streets… He has his mercenaries everywhere in the streets and whenever any demonstrator appears they just kill them. At least they shoot them, whether they kill them or not, but they are shooting them.
Ibrahim Omar Al Dabashi, Libyan Deputy Ambassador to the UN 21:47 Feb 21, 2011
As the rebellion in Libya enters it’s sixth month and the UN/NATO intervention enters it’s fifth month it would be good to recollect some of the key events that got us here. This narrative is especially important for those that don’t know this history and want to understand what is going on with Libya now.
The Libyan youth movement had called for a “Day of Rage” against the Qaddafi regime on February 17th. The people were more than ready to throw off 41 years of Qaddafi rule and the response was amazing. Protests were already breaking out all over Libya as early as Feb. 14-15.
Things can move extremely fast in a revolutionary period and now they moved with blinding speed. From the very beginning Qaddafi met peaceful protests with live fire, and as protesters fought back, he upped the level of violence dramatically. Still by the evening of Sunday, February 20th, it was being reported that Benghazi had fallen to the rebellion.
The next day, Monday, February 21th was a very long day in Tripoli. Qaddafi was absolutely brutal. He fought back hard with cold steel and fire. And nowhere less than Tripoli. It now appears that something like 700 people were brutally murdered by Qaddafi in Tripoli that day.
In this diary I have recounted in minute-by-minute detail some of the key events surrounding that day. To do this I have relied heavy on the AJE live blog, the WST Libya blog, Twitter, and other sources. Of special interest is some of the eyewitness reporters about these event that are starting to make their way to safety and speak out like this Tripoli mortuary eyewitness or this Libyan from Tripoli that spoke to AJE in Misrata.
Read more and vid:
www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/02/99064...

WeAreLibya
Y Gaddafi is telling western governments that in their countries ppl demonstrate only against them? Well This is democracy dumb!!

Libyan4life
I wish all journalists would leave #Libya. Giving #Gaddafi and co. a mouth piece is really unneeded and simply fuels their fires. #

septimius_sever
the breakthrough is coming, I can feel it and it is called #ZAWYA “Its always darkest just before dawn”

libyans_revolt
#GaddafiFacts: #Gaddafi + #Feb17 = Gaddafi game over

libyans_revolt
Latest pic of #Gaddafi and his Saif " G&S " yfrog.com/gz5q8jwj #Libya #Feb17

LibyanDictator The Dictator
1 cousin killed and another shot in the stomach today, both just 17 years old.

Niz_FGM Niz
2/7/11 – Second FGMovement verification on an injury to Khaled AlKhweldi, Katiba commander. Being treated in 11th June clinic. Not critical

Omar
FLASH: Gaddafi offered asylum!! NASA has confirmed that they have sent an official offer Gaddafi for safe passage to Intern. Space Station.“We feel that by offering Gaddaffi asylum here not only does it rid Libyan’s of him, it allows us to conduct interesting experiments.”

Ahmed
#Gharyan: Reports #Gaddafi forces R storing Grad rocket ammunition in lecture hall of the science college at the University

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gharyan: Reports that #Gaddafi forces are in a state of fear after #NATO dropped leaflets warning civilians of impending strikes..#Libya

#Gharyan: #FF utilized state of fear of #Gaddafi forces & attacked a checkpoint at Tagerna killing 3 & injuring 11 others.

Ahmed
Libyan state TV would have you believe that all of #Libya came out of their own free will to support our ‘Brother Leader’ on Friday #Feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gheryan: 3 #Gaddafi forces killed, 11 injured in #Freedomfighter attack in #Tagherna. Gaddafi Science College for ammo storage. #Libya

bint_
E.g. I just heard today that my cousin’s cousin (a Wershafani) got arrested last week after coming out in a protest in Janzour, Tripoli.

libyans_revolt
#Libya: #Zintan children have returned home & cheerily cleaning the streets! #Feb17 #Libyanproud yfrog.com/hsidippkj viva Libya

SUMMARY JULY 3rd 2011
7/3/2011
7/03/2011
7.03.2011

I will not let the dark dim my light, hate deter my love, or cynicism undermine my hope. We must live our truth even amidst outrageous lies

Gaddafi Welcome To Retire In Libya, Rebel Leader Says

BENGHAZI, Libya, Jul 3 (Reuters) – Libya’s rebel chief told Reuters on Sunday Muammar Gaddafi was welcome to retire on Libyan soil as long as he resigns formally and agrees to international supervision of his movements.
Libyan rebels and their Western allies have rejected any solution to the conflict that does not include Gaddafi’s resignation, saying he must quit before any peace talks can begin.
Gaddafi has fiercely resisted all international calls on him to go, vowing to fight to the end.
Speaking in his stronghold of Benghazi, rebel leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil — Gaddafi’s former justice minister — said he made the proposal about a month ago through the United Nations but had yet to receive any response from Tripoli.
“As a peaceful solution, we offered that he can resign and order his soldiers to withdraw from their barracks and positions, and then he can decide either to stay in Libya or abroad,” he said in an interview.
Read the whole story here:
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/03/gadda...

LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Many Free Libyans are seriously getting frustrated by the NTC & their statements about Gaddafi. People want him out of the country. #Libya

BreakingNews Breaking News
Libya’s rebel chief says he offered deal to allow Moammar Gadhafi to retire on Libyan soil; awaiting reply – Reuters

N_Benghazi .
I think everyone should lay off the #AbdulJalil issue for now. Either we’re going to get a debunking of it in a few hours or he has a plan.
bint_
Everybody chill out about AbdulJalil thing, it’s going to turn out like Sudan invading Libya, random scaremongering reporting.

Ossama:
BREAKING:Sudanese armed forces denied any relationship with what is happening in Libya, or intervention in the current events there. #Libya

Tom_Rayner Tom Rayner
According to Reuters, Abdul Jalil made the offer via the UN ‘a month ago’, but has yet to have a response from Tripoli. #Libya

This is going to be proven (again) to be " a storm in a tea cup" as the British say…….
just like the “invasion of Sudanese Army” story that was all over the headlines over the weekend……
Fog of war and people jumping to conclusions all over the place….

EndTyranny101
Libyan state TV would have you believe that all of #Libya came out of their own free will to support our ‘Brother Leader’ on Friday

Amnesty,&Human Rights Watch have reported evidence of extrajudicial executions by Gaddafi forces across the country

Tripolitanian Libyan
I’m done with reasoning with fellow Libyans about #Gaddafi leaving #Libya, we have to kill this monster at all cost. Enough is enough.

Dima
I dream of the day I wake up and there is no word “Gaddafi” or “Nato” or “NTC” on the news.. Instead there is a democratic and free #Libya
I heard such heroic stories about the people of Libya in their current fight. Many history books wlll be written about them. #libya #feb17

Libya: UN team finds deep humanitarian needs in Nafusa mountains
1 July 2011 –
Humanitarian needs in the Nafusa mountains in western Libya remain critical, United Nations agencies reported today at the end of their first mission to the area, where they made an assessment of safety and access to civilians who require emergency assistance.
“The humanitarian situation in the Nafusa mountains remains a top concern,” Panos Moumtzis, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Libya. “It remains imperative for UN humanitarian organisations to have continued access to the Nafusa mountains to conduct in-depth assessment missions to accurately and impartially determine the needs of the affected population and respond accordingly,” he added.
The UN team visited the towns of Wazin and Nalut yesterday and Jadu and Zintan today, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in a press release.
Read more:
www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=3...

Al Jazeera English Moussa Ibrahim, the Libyan government spokesman, says that Libya welcomes the AU offer of negotiations to end the conflict, saying “we salute their courage”. He also says that there are no plans for Gaddafi to leave the country. “We are at war with the mightiest armies in the world, and the safety of the leader is a must for us. So we need to keep him safe to lead us through this difficult time,” he said. Ibrahim confirmed that, as promised, Gaddafi would not take part in the talks, adding that he hoped a ceasefire could be reached “in the next few days, or weeks at most”.

Free Generation Movement There were various reports yesterday that Khaled AlKhweldi, a battalion commander, was injured. He was reportedly being treated in a clinic, his status is not critical.

Jan Eikelboom says they’ve discovered a landing strip belonging to the revolutionaries on their way to Jadu. One says only aid supplies are flown in, the other claims weapons are being supplied through here as well.

Al Jazeera English South African President Jacob Zuma is in Russia today for talks with the International Contact Group on Libya, his foreign ministry said. Russia has yet to confirm the visit. “President Jacob G. Zuma will undertake a working visit to the Russian Federation to participate in the meeting of the International Contact Group on Libya to be held on Sunday, July 3, 2011,” it said, adding that the visit was at Moscow’s invitation.

Libyans ‘executed’ for shunning Kadhafi rally: relative English & French Translation Included
July 3, 2011
Posted in June 2011, News, Week Commencing: June 27, 2011 | 05:30

BENGHAZI, Libya — Hours after thousands packed Tripoli’s Green Square cheering for Moamer Kadhafi, Mohammed said the still warm body of his nephew was dumped outside the family home with two bullets in his head.
Mohammed told AFP why he is certain 30-year-old’s Ahmed’s fate was sealed while green flags were waving on the other side of the capital and as Kadhafi dished out threats against Europe, NATO and Libyan “traitors” on Friday.
Ahmed’s execution, he said, was punishment for his family’s refusal to take part in the rally, a vital show of strength by the Libyan leader amid a five-month-long uprising that has pushed the regime to the brink of collapse.
“Four or five days ago a member of one of Kadhafi’s revolutionary committees approached my brother’s family in Tripoli,” the 50-something Mohammed told AFP on Saturday, his voice ringing with anger and mourning.
“They told him: ‘We have your son, he is being held at Abu Salim prison. If your family does not come out to demonstrate on Friday you will never see your son again’.”
With an extended clan of around 50 adult males alone, securing the family’s attendance would have helped Kadhafi reach his aim of putting a million people on the streets to undermine rebel morale.
But angry at the thought that Ahmed may already be dead and hearing that many neighbours had received similar threats, his family refused to go.
“My brother told them ‘whatever happens is going to happen, we are not going to go out to demonstrate for Kadhafi’,” Mohammed said, holding his head in his hands.
“We did not think it was possible that he (Ahmed) was still alive, we thought the guy was just making threats.”
Ahmed went missing in Tripoli a few days after the uprising against Kadhafi began in February, as Tripoli’s youth burned images of the self-styled “leader of the revolution” and stormed a state-run television station.
When Kadhafi hit back and Ahmed disappeared, the family assumed he had been shot by soldiers, mercenaries or one of Kadhafi’s feared security services.
They now believe he was arrested on February 22 and taken to the notorious Abu Salim prison with many others. Either way, the next time the family saw Ahmed was on the doorstep of their home on Saturday.
“The bullet wounds were fresh. He was shot this morning, even the blood was still warm,” Mohammed said from the safety of Benghazi, after reaching his brother using clandestine communications earlier in the day.
Mohammed said he knows of at least two other families in their neighbourhood of Tripoli who also received their sons’ bodies on Saturday morning. Both had also refused to attend the Kadhafi rally.
It was not possible to fully corroborate Mohammed’s account of events because reporting is severely restricted in areas under Kadhafi’s control.
However, groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have reported evidence of extrajudicial executions by government forces across the country.
Reports have also surfaced about such threats and executions inside Tripoli, but international human rights groups have no presence in the capital and have not been able to fully investigate.
A representative for the rebel National Transitional Council in London on June 26 claimed there were “confirmed reports” of 187 prisoners being killed at Abu Salim prison over the course of two days earlier last month.
Because of petrol shortages in Tripoli, Mohammed said relatives there planned to walk around four or five kilometres (about three miles) on Saturday to be able to bury Ahmed.
“There is nothing but air and God in Tripoli,” he said. “You are either with Kadhafi or you starve.”
“I just want the world to know how Kadhafi works,” added Mohammed, explaining his reasons for speaking out. Despite the dangers “we are obliged to put this out in the open,” he said.

Source- Andrew Beatty for AFP

AFP – Des libyens exécutés ce samedi en représailles du refus de leurs familles d’aller défiler pour Kadhafi la veille.

BENGHAZI, Libye – Quelques heures après que des milliers de gens aient été parqués sur la Place Verte de Tripoli pour acclamer Mouammar Kadhafi, Mohammed a dit que le cadavre encore chaud de son neveu a été jeté vers la maison familiale avec deux balles dans la tête.

Mohammed a expliqué à l’AFP pourquoi le destin de certains jeunes de 30 ans comme Ahmed a été scellé ce vendredi pendant que s’agitaient des drapeaux verts de l’autre côté de la capitale et que Kadhafi proférait ses menaces contre l’Europe, l’OTAN et les “traîtres” à la Libye.

L’exécution d’Ahmed, dit-il, a été perpétrée en représailles au refus de sa famille de participer à la manifestation, spectacle vital pour le leader libyen pris dans ce soulèvement de cinq mois qui pousse le régime au bord de l’effondrement.

«Il y a quatre ou cinq jours un membre de l’un des comités révolutionnaires de Kadhafi s’est rapproché de la famille de mon frère, à Tripoli,” confie à l’AFP ce samedi Mohammed, la cinquantaine, la voix sourde de colère et de deuil. “Ils lui ont dit:« Nous avons votre fils, il est à la prison d’Abou Salim. Si votre famille ne vient pas à la manifestation de vendredi, vous ne reverrez jamais votre fils.”

Avec un clan élargi de près de 50 seuls hommes adultes, forcer l’ensemble de cette famille aurait aidé Kadhafi à atteindre son but de mettre un million de personnes dans les rues pour saper le moral des rebelles mais révoltés à l’idée qu’Ahmed soit peut-être déjà mort et ayant vu que de nombreux voisins avaient reçu des menaces similaires, sa famille a refusé d’y aller. «Mon frère leur a dit« quoi qu’il arrive, quoi qu’il se passe, nous n’allons pas sortir pour manifester en faveur de Kadhafi “, dit Mohammed en tenant sa tête dans ses mains. “Nous ne pensions pas possible qu’il (Ahmed) soit encore en vie, nous pensions que le gars était juste venu proférer des menaces.”

Ahmed a disparu dans Tripoli quelques jours après le soulèvement contre Kadhafi qui a débuté en Février, au moment où des jeunes de Tripoli brûlaient des images du soi-disant «leader de la révolution” et prenaient d’assaut une station de télévision d’État. Puis Kadhafi a les frappés par derrière et Ahmed a disparu, la famille a supposé qu’il avait été abattu par des soldats, des mercenaires ou l’un des terrifiants services de sécurité de Kadhafi. Ils pensent maintenant qu’il a été arrêté le 22 Février et emmené à la tristement célèbre prison d’Abou Salim avec beaucoup d’autres. De toute façon, la fois suivante où la famille a vu Ahmed c’était sur le seuil de leur maison ce samedi. «Les blessures par balles étaient récentes. Il a été abattu ce matin, même le sang était encore chaud”, dit Mohammed au refuge de Benghazi, où il a pu joindre son frère par communication clandestine tôt dans la journée.
Mohammed dit qu’il connaît au moins deux autres familles de leur quartier de Tripoli ayant également reçu les cadavres de leur fils samedi matin. Les deux avaient également refusé d’aller au rassemblement de Kadhafi.
Il n’a pas été possible de vérifier entièrement les dires de Mohammed parce que les enquêtes sont sévèrement limitées dans les zones sous le contrôle de Kadhafi. Cependant, des groupes comme Amnesty International et Human Rights Watch ont apporté des preuves d’exécutions extrajudiciaires à travers le pays par les forces gouvernementales.
Des rapports ont également fait surface au sujet de telles menaces et d’exécutions dans Tripoli mais les groupes internationaux de Défense des Droits de l’Homme sont absents de la capitale et n’ont pas été en mesure d’enquêter pleinement.
Un représentant du Conseil National de Transition a affirmé le 26 Juin à Londres qu’il y avait “des rapports confirmés” de 187 prisonniers tués à la prison d’Abu Salim, sur deux jours plus tôt,le mois dernier.
A cause des pénuries d’essence, à Tripoli, a dit M. Mohammed les parents ont prévu de marcher quatre ou cinq kilomètres (environ trois miles), samedi, pour pouvoir enterrer Ahmed. «Il n’y a plus rien d’autre que de l’air et Dieu à Tripoli”, a-t-il dit. “Soit vous êtes avec Kadhafi soit vous mourez de faim.”
“Je veux juste que le monde sache comment ça fonctionne avec Kadhafi”, a ajouté Mohammed, pour expliquer pourquoi il parle. “Malgré le danger, nous devons porter ceci au grand jour”, a-t-il conclu.
Traduit Par Mimi
3 Comments »
1. FOR GOD SAKE ,SEND GROUND FORCES IN.
WHO THE HELL DOES HE THINK HE IS.
YOU STAY WITH ME OR YOU WILL DIE.
AND HE SAYS..
FOR GOD SAKE TAKE HIM OUT.
WHILE YOU ARE AT IT,CHECK HIS SUPPLY LINES
.
Comment by Tony.T. — July 3, 2011 @ 08:17
2. Definitely, take him out. Gaddafi is a mass murderer and must be killed. Take him out now.
Comment by Saleh — July 3, 2011 @ 10:05
3. Oh my god this is not a human being (ghadafi)
He needs to be pushed as side by force for god sake usa or
Nato bring in ground force to topple this devil out
were he should be the grave he’s a pure criminal to the world and wanted.
Who does he think he is a god or king.
Comment by martin — July 3, 2011 @ 10:17

Jan Eikelboom
Onderweg naar #libya, in Tunesië nog geen tourist te bekennen. t.co/6zuoxiq
Vandaag proberen we de grens over te steken. Die route wordt nog dagelijks aangevallen hoorden we gisteren.
Staan nu bij vluchtelingenkamp in tunesische woestijn, maar mogen er niet in #bureaucraten t.co/TpwhZDC
Het Libische rebellenleger wordt steeds professioneler. Vandaag waren we bij de opleiding van de rekruten. Vanavond in #nieuwsuur
En intussen houden wij ons in leven met water en koekjes. Iets anders is hier nauwelijks te krijgen
Een geit heeft het kabeltje van onze satellietverbinding doorgebeten!
Gelukkig hebben we een reservekabeltje meegenomen. Op dit moment zware explosies in de verte.#Navo?
De explosies die wij vanmiddag hoorden blijken niet van Navo-bommen te zijn, maar van Kadhafi’s troepen die deze stad weer bestoken.
Allemaal bedankt voor vriendelijke woorden. You keep us going!
Op weg naar Jadu een landingsstrip vd rebellen ontdekt.Volgens de een worden alleen hulpgoederen ingevlogen, volgens de ander ook wapens
Vanmiddag gaan we naar de berberles en naar het nieuwe berber-radiostation
morgen richting Kikla

benghazi’s bunny♥ Libya was more advanced before 1969, than it is today. #howsad #thanksGaddafi

HILLARY CLINTON:
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stepped up Western calls on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to quit on Saturday, brushing off his threat to attack Europeans in their homes and offices.
In a telephone address relayed to some 100,000 supporters in Tripoli’s Green Square on Friday, Gaddafi urged NATO to halt its bombing campaign or risk seeing Libyan fighters descend on Europe “like a swarm of locusts or bees”.
“Retreat, you have no chance of beating this brave people,” Gaddafi said in his address.
“They can attack your homes, your offices and your families, which will become military targets just as you have transformed our offices, headquarters, houses and children into what you regard as legitimate military targets,” he said.

Moussa Ibrahim:
Moussa Ibrahim, the Libyan government spokesman, says that Libya welcomes the AU offer of negotiations to end the conflict, saying “we salute their courage”. He also says that there are no plans for Gaddafi to leave the country.
“We are at war with the mightiest armies in the world, and the safety of the leader is a must for us. So we need to keep him safe to lead us through this difficult time,” he said.
Ibrahim confirmed that, as promised, Gaddafi would not take part in the talks, adding that he hoped a ceasefire could be reached “in the next few days, or weeks at most”.

Buoyed by French arms drops and intensified NATO air strikes on the regime’s frontline armour, Libya’s rebel army said it is poised for an offensive that could put it within striking distance of Tripoli.
The rebels’ announcement late on Saturday came as a prolonged deadlock on the battlefield prompted mounting pressure from countries outside the NATO-led coalition for a negotiated solution to a conflict that has dragged on for four and a half months.
Rebel fighters are readying an advance out of their hilltop enclave in the Nafusa Mountains, southwest of Tripoli, in the next 48 hours in a bid to recapture territory in the plains on the road to the capital, spokesman Colonel Ahmed Omar Bani said.
“In the next two days the (revolutionaries) will come up with answers, things will change on the front line,” he said.

S.Africa’s Zuma in Russia talks on Libya
(AFP) – 7 hours ago
JOHANNESBURG — South African President Jacob Zuma will hold talks in Russia on Sunday with the International Contact Group on Libya, the foreign ministry in Pretoria said.
Zuma belongs to the African Union’s team tasked with engaging “the opposing parties in Libya in order to find a peaceful and lasting solution to the current conflict in accordance with the will of the Libyan people”, the ministry said in a statement.
“President Zuma’s participation in the meeting follows the invitation extended to him as the member of African Union ad hoc High Level Committee on Libya by the Russian Federation,” it said.
Foreign ministry spokesman Clayson Monyela said the talks in Russia would include all members of the contact group, but could provide no details on the talks.
The announcement came as Zuma was leaving the African Union summit in Equatorial Guinea, where the continental grouping adopted a plan for negotiations between the warring Libyan parties.
“We are very happy that we have reached this point, that we can now say very soon we will be launching the talks in Addis Ababa and we believe we will get the necessary support from everyone,” Zuma said late Friday after the summit.
But the accord reached at the summit did little to bring forward earlier AU proposals, which have been rejected by the rebellion who insist that Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi must step down.
New elements in the roadmap include provisions for a multinational peacekeeping force organised by the United Nations.
The AU also says that Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi has agreed to stay out of the negotiations, but the 53-nation bloc was unable to take a position on his future, which is a key sticking point between the two sides.

British forces news:
RFA Argus returning to Falmouth

The Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) ship Argus is returning home to Falmouth in Cornwall, after evacuations from Libya and anti-piracy patrols.
The specialist support vessel to the Royal Navy, which can operate as a hospital and helicopter ship, took part in operations in the Mediterranean and Gulf of Aden for the four and a half months she has been away.
Captain Paul Kehoe, RFA Argus commanding officer, said: “The short-notice deployment to the Mediterranean and the Gulf of Aden demonstrated once again the flexibility and readiness of the Royal Navy and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary to react almost instantaneously to world events.
“The ship’s company, 820 Naval Air Squadron and A-Company 40 Commando Royal Marines quickly integrated into a cohesive team ready to undertake all the tasks the ship was given.
“During the ship’s time on patrol in the Gulf of Aden there were no successful pirate attacks. I am proud of how all on board performed throughout the last few months, not least in their efforts in raising money for various charities during this busy deployment. All on board are looking forward to getting back to the UK and seeing their families again.”
RFA Argus sailed at less than 24 hours notice to help evacuate civilians from Libya. Having successfully completed this mission, it passed through the Suez Canal to spend a ten weeks at standby to conduct evacuation of civilians from Yemen if needed.

Free Libya Daily is out! bit.ly/kgc2jf ▸ Top stories today…

Libya rebels poised for push towards Tripoli
BENGHAZI, Libya — Buoyed by French arms drops and intensified NATO air strikes on the regime’s frontline armour, Libya’s rebel army said it is poised for an offensive that could put it within striking distance of Tripoli.
The rebels’ announcement late on Saturday came as a prolonged deadlock on the battlefield prompted mounting pressure from countries outside the NATO-led coalition for a negotiated solution to a conflict that has dragged on for four and a half months.
Rebel fighters are readying an advance out of their hilltop enclave in the Nafusa Mountains, southwest of Tripoli, in the next 48 hours in a bid to recapture territory in the plains on the road to the capital, spokesman Colonel Ahmed Omar Bani said.
“In the next two days the (revolutionaries) will come up with answers, things will change on the front line,” he said.
The rebels had pulled back last week from around the plains town of Bir al-Ghanam, some 80 kilometres (50 miles) from Tripoli, in the face of loyalist bombardment.
But last week France made a series of controversial weapons drops to rebel fighters in the Nafusa Mountains and NATO has bombarded loyalist positions around Bir al-Ghanam and elsewhere on the front line around the rebel enclave.
Two armoured vehicles belonging to Kadhafi forces were destroyed in the town on Friday night.
In Gharyan, another government stronghold near the mountains, NATO aircraft struck eight targets over the past four days, including a military complex used to resupply Kadhafi troops, tanks and other military vehicles, the alliance said on Saturday.
In its daily report for Saturday, NATO said it had launched a total of 52 strike sorties over Libya, hitting a tank near Gharyan and three armoured vehicles near Zlitan, also on the Nafusa front line.
“March on the jebel (mountains) and seize the weapons that the French have supplied,” he said.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe insisted that the arms were meant only to defend peaceful civilians from Kadhafi’s forces and thus fell in line with UN Security Council resolutions on the conflict.
“It is not a violation of the UN Security Council resolutions” under which France and other allies launched air strikes and imposed embargoes to protect civilians from Kadhafi, he said.
There was no immediate confirmation from Moscow of the talks between Russian and South African officials and representatives of the NATO-led coalition but both countries have been outspoken advocates of a negotiated solution to the conflict.
The foreign ministry in Pretoria said the talks in Russia would include all members of the so-called International Contact Group on Libya but could provide no further details.
The Kremlin said in a statement late Saturday that Zuma and President Dmitry Medvedev held a telephone conversation in which they agreed on a “personal meeting in the closest time” but gave no details on when it would take place.
Pretoria said that the talks had been scheduled for Monday and that Zuma would leave for them later on Sunday.
The announcement came shortly after the South African president returned home from an African Union summit in Equatorial Guinea, where the continental grouping adopted a plan for negotiations between the warring Libyan parties.
“We are very happy that we have reached this point, that we can now say very soon we will be launching the talks in Addis Ababa and we believe we will get the necessary support from everyone,” Zuma said after the summit.
But the accord reached in Equatorial Guinea produced little movement on earlier AU proposals, which have been rejected by the rebels who insist that Kadhafi must step down before they will agree to a truce.
New elements in the AU plan include provisions for a multinational peacekeeping force organised by the United Nations.
The bloc also says that Kadhafi has agreed to stay out of the negotiations.

Al Arabiya Breaking الثوار: قوات القذافي تقصف اجدابيا صباحا بستة صواريخ Libya. F.fighters:Qaddafi forces fired 6rockets toward Ajdabiya am

youngamazigh
congratulations morocco for being the first amazigh country to officially recognise amazigh as an official language… nshallah libya next!

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

LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
There are fears that well-trained snipers will be brought to Tripoli under the pretext of tourism. #Libya #Gaddafi
No one in his right mind will go to Libya for tourism. It is extremely important that Tunisian authorities do not let unknown foreigners in.

Video: Nieuwsuur report from Nalut on foreign weapon & armor supplies

Dutch news programme Nieuwsuur reports from Nalut, about the attacks the area is suffering, the professional training that revolutionaries now receive, and weapon supplies. He also, interestingly, says that as they understand, aircraft have been landing at the various small airports in the region with supplies, although people are unwilling to say which countries these airplanes are coming from.

Newsreader: “And now Libya, Muammar Gaddafi threatens with attacks on Europe as retribution for the NATO bombardments on Libya. In Libya there is now fighting on three fronts. Benghazi in the east is
firmly in the hands of the rebels. In the surrounded city of Misrata, the rebels are withstanding despite continuous attacks from Gaddafi’s forces. And rebels now also hold areas in the west. A report from Nalut by Jan Eikelboom, Esmeralda van Boon and Joris Hentenaar.”
Reporter: It says “welcome to free Libya”, this is the border crossing and it’s basically possible to walk in uncontrolled. We’ve now entered Libya, it’s calm here but it is a crucial supply route for the rebels. It’s the only place, this road to Nalut, by which they can bring in food, medicine and weapons too and there has been heavy fighting here because of that.
Narrator: “The border may be open, it is not safe. Rockets still land near Wazin.”

Narrator: “Everything the insurgents need comes in via this route. Much of the aid comes from Libyans in exile.”

Narrator: “Even the road is unsafe says an insurgent guiding us. Gaddafi’s troops are less than 15km from here.”

Narrator: “The rebels hold the mountains; Gaddafi’s troops are down in the valley.”

Narrator: “The first stop after the border is Nalut, a ghost town. Shops, schools, offices, everything is closed. Practically no one is out on the street.”
Reporter: “Approximately 30,000 people live in Nalut, but the population has fled almost entirely for fear of the rockets that hit almost every day on indiscriminate places, like residences such as this one. And often even after the attacks the rockets still pose a threat. Rockets like these, for example, that have hit but haven’t exploded.”
Narrator: “The women from Nalut have fled. The men have remained to fight.
Commander: “Faster, faster!”
Narrator: “In one month the recruits are made ready for the frontline.”
Recruit: “I train here to free Libya from the dictator. We want to live in freedom in a civilized country. Gaddafi has abolished civilization and human rights, all of Libya has to do his bidding. But we want to be rid of this tyrant. ”
Narrator: “The new soldiers also go to school. They learn everything about the weapons with which they fight and they receive lessons in military strategy.”
Reporter: “The rebel army is less and less of a motley crew. The soldiers now have uniforms and there is serious attention for training, not just outside but also in the classroom. Here they are being taught guerilla tactics.”
Instructor: “The enemy is 60km away.. Here is our army.”
Narrator: “A former colonel from Gaddafi’s army is in charge. He defected a month ago. Because his family is still in Tripoli, he does not want to be recognizable on camera.”
Reporter: “Why did you defect?”
Colonel: “Because of the excesses committed by the troops of Gaddafi in Benghazi, Ajdabiya and Misrata. Because of this misconduct I no longer want to serve in this army. I have seen too much injustice from this regime. I had no other choice than to leave the army.
Reporter: “Did many people defect with you?”
Colonel: “Not many. They are afraid, but deep inside, the majority of the soldiers are not with Gaddafi. I know the army very well, I know what is going on inside the soldiers. I think that 95% of those who have stayed, did so because of fear or because they did not get the chance to flee.”
Presenter: “Just before this broadcast I spoke with Jan Eijkelboom and I asked him first which impressions he has of the rebel area.
Reporter: “The most important impression is that life here has come to a complete stop, in this part of the rebel areas anyway, in Nalut. The city, as you’ve just seen in the report, is deserted and has turned into a ghost town but even beyond that all life has come to a complete, a really complete halt. The shops are closed, the schools are closed, the offices are closed and even more importantly the banks are closed. There is no money at all anymore, and because there is no money there is nothing you can buy. The whole population of the mountain region at this moment lives off aid supplies.
And often when you are in an area like this as a reporter, there will always be one place where you can get something, one hotel where us journalists won’t have it too bad for example, but there is nothing like this here. Just like the rest of the population, we live off, because there is a shortage of everything, off bottles of water and packages.”
Presenter: “Yes, Jan, now NATO is also active in the west, what have you noticed of this?”
Reporter: “This afternoon when we were at the training of the recruits, we heard jets overhead. Nato, it was said, of course, those are the only planes that are left in the sky. So NATO is present, we heard heavy explosions this afternoon not very far from here. But it is not entirely clear yet whether these were NATO attacks or whether they were Gaddafi forces launching another attack on Nalut. One thing is certain and that is that last night at 3:30 this city was hit by several rockets again.
Presenter: “What you also say in your report is that the rebels now receive professional military education, we saw that, and the weapons also don’t seem like hand-me-downs, do they?
Reporter: “No, these are brand new weapons. Spick and span, we saw them come out of their packaging. For example this concerns a French anti-tank rocket, a rocket launcher, the Milan. The French themselves deny supplying them to the rebels, but we really have seem them in use here. We have seen training sessions. What we’ve also seen are brand new bullet proof vests, made in the United Kingdom. Although we cannot yet say whether they have actually been delivered by the United Kingdom. But there are countless other weapons that are brand new and they enter the country with surprising ease, I think. We saw at the border yesterday that not a single car is checked. Everything can drive through unhindered. All cars, normal cars, pickups, whole trucks, not a door is opened. As far as that is concerned, the Libyans are exceptionally grateful to the Tunisians, everyone says it.
There are also rumours that the weapons are coming in via air. The French have of course admitted that they have dropped weapons from the sky. But we also understand that on all sorts of small airports, aircraft from different countries have landed. People do not want to say which countries are supplying weapons. Either way around two weeks ago it was said there was a shortage of weapons in the Western Mountains, but now all the rebels are saying that weapons are not the problem. The problem is much more in the food, water, the medicines. For example in Nalut, we were in a storage facility today. They have supplies for another two weeks but after that they’ll run out and nothing has come in the past week.
Presenter: “Thank you, Jan, for your contribution from Nalut, Western Libya, Jan Eikelboom.”

Danya
I want to thank all of the mother’s who there son’s lost there lives fighting for #Libya’s freedom … May God give you strength I love you

Tasmin
Love this photo! Libyan women in their farashias carrying the freedom flag:
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2245147...

PeterLeng Peter Leng
#Tripoli very much feels like long waiting game. Real sense of stalemate. #libya

Stalemate according to whom?

US tells Libya rebels: Capture the Lockerbie bomber for us

A dramatic mission to capture the freed Lockerbie bomber from Libya and return him to face justice in the United States was revealed last night.
Under a secret deal between Barack Obama and Libyan rebel leaders, Abdelbaset Al Megrahi would be detained by opposition troops and then handed over to US Special Forces.
Senior Congressional sources in Washington have disclosed to The Mail on Sunday that President Obama has told the Libyan rebels through intermediaries that a condition of continued support from the US is that they must hand over Megrahi if they enter Tripoli.
Read more:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-201069...
( remember it is the Daily Mail:) )

LIBTRIP LIBYA TRIPOLI
Tripoli girls are working too against #Gaddafi and here’s the proof = #Libya— ائتلاف فتيات 17 فبراير youtube.com/watch?v=WP7fI_… via @youtube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP7fI_6vjc4&fea...

AJE
World politics and the revolution in Libya

It’s time for new thinking for Libya, or the post-revolution country may find itself as a neo-colony.

Revolts and revolutions begin locally but their outcomes are often determined globally. The rebels themselves understandably are focused on bringing down the regime that oppresses them. But the course of their struggles and the ultimate fate of their revolution can be shaped by faraway forces and events.
When the Libyan rebels and Western liberals called for intervention to stop Gaddafi’s forces outside Benghazi, many mistakenly imagined the war might end quickly with a rebel sweep through the desert to Tripoli. The problem is that, even with NATO air support, the rebels lacked the military ability to assault the regime’s strongholds.

This is no insult to the courage of the rebels or to their dedication, but a reflection of the fact that military effectiveness requires training and organisation they simply did not have. For them, NATO intervention averted a massacre; for Western publics, the intervention appeared wholly motivated by humanitarian concerns.

It was certainly understandable in the circumstances. But by bringing in NATO the Libyan revolution not only gave the West a seat at the ruling table, they surrendered the possibility of developing their own political and military autonomy.
Read the rest of the story:
english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2...

Journalism as a Weapon of War in Libya

By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

July 02, 2011 “Information Clearing House” — The truth has been turned on its head in Libya. NATO and the Libyan government are saying contradictory things. NATO says that the Libyan regime will fall in a matter of days, while the Libyan government says that the fighting in Misrata will end in about two weeks.

During the night the sound of NATO jets flying over Tripoli can be heard in the Mediterranean coastal city. Tripoli has not been bombed for a few days, but the sound of the flyovers have been numerous. The Atlantic Alliance deliberately picks the night as a means to disturb the sleep of residence in an attempt to spread fear. Small children in Libya have lost a lot of sleep during this war. This is part of the psychological war being waged. It is meant to break the spirit of Libya. This is all additional to the severing wound imposed on Libya through trickery and sedition.
More here:
www.informationclearinghouse.info/artic...

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Malta CARGO SHIP “CMA CGM RABAT” now en route to destination #Benghazi #Libya ETA: 2011-07-04 15:00 (UTC) #feb17

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu visits Libya’s Benghazi ! Turkey wants a solution with or without Gaddafi !

hominoid555
Libya Fighting in Kikla in the area of Tasmy. 5 Martyrs and 7 wounded so far.

Transitional Council, Libya: Gaddafi’s resignation offer was presented before the International Court’s decision Libya

KC_Tripolitania KC
Maybe NTC is trying 2 prove a point i.e ‘we r the ones trying 2 stop bloodshed via peaceful solution, yet Gaddafi is the one refusing’ Libya

Libya Gdaffy Troops launched 6 rockets on Ajdabiya and resulted in the death of two children 11 and 13 years old.

Obama’s Omission: Libya Not A State Sponsor Of Terrorism t.co/LVqIzEy
(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama continued to discuss U.S. military action in Libya on Wednesday, but his statements didn’t always reflect the facts.
When making his argument for getting the U.S. military involved, Obama claimed that it was in the interest of national security to get Moammar Gaddafi step down from power, “As a consequence, a guy who was a state sponsor of terrorist operations against the United States of America is pinned down, and the noose is tightening around him.”
More + vid:
romanticpoet.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/o...

Turkish FM visit to Libya’s rebel stronghold
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister is visiting a Libyan opposition stronghold in a show of diplomatic support for rebels trying to overthrow Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Ahmet Davutoglu arrived in the rebel-controlled city of Benghazi in eastern Libya on Sunday and was to meet with rebel leader Mustafa Abdel-Jalil later in the day.
Turkey has vast trade interests in Libya and longtime ties with the Gadhafi regime. The Turkish foreign minister’s visit is the most powerful signal that Turkey is throwing its weight behind the Libyan opposition.
Davutoglu’s visit comes amid calls from Libyan rebels for more weapons and funding. The foreign minister has not commented on a recent French arms shipment to the Libyan opposition.

hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_LIBY...

Libya
Keep calm, keep going…………
The world must intensify the pressure against Muammar Qaddafi—and help plan for the future
THE voices of those who prophesy doom in Libya are becoming ever louder. The fracas, they say, should never have concerned the West, which has no great interest in the place. The Americans want less and less to do with it. Barack Obama, scolded by many in Congress for getting involved in the first place, is hiding in NATO’s back seat. Generals in Britain and France, who are shouldering much of NATO’s campaign burden, are complaining about the stress and strain on their forces in trying to bring down Muammar Qaddafi. The Gulf Arabs are loth to cough up the cash they promised to support the rebels.
There is no timetable and no exit plan, say the pessimists. The rebels are a shoddy lot who are likely, if they get into power, to be no nicer than what went before. Moreover, it is all about tribes, not democracy, and Colonel Qaddafi plainly has a lot of them on his side. To cap it all, NATO, in its frustration at failing to remove the regime in a trice, is killing civilians—the very crime it was meant, under UN Security Council Resolution 1973, to prevent. In short, it is a dreadful mess, with no obvious way out.
www.economist.com/node/18897405?story_id=18897405&fsrc=scn/tw/te/rss/pe

Misuratayouth stalemate in #misurata battle field, life normal in the city, no NATO jets #Libya

LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Women throughout Libya are selling their jewelry to help. Everyone doing their bit. #Libya

Omar Al Mukhtar
#Libya @OmarAlMukhtar to Graziani: “We will never surrender, we fight or we die. There will be the next generation and the next and next. As for me i will live longer than my hangman”

This is the interview everybody is talking about today:
INTERVIEW-Rebel chief: Gaddafi welcome to retire in Libya
03 Jul 2011 12:58
Source: reuters // Reuters

• Says Gaddafi can retire under international supervision
• Rebel proposal made a month ago via U.N., no response yet
• Says no aspirations to lead Libya himself
  By Maria Golovnina
  BENGHAZI, Libya, Jul 3 (Reuters) – Libya’s rebel chief told Reuters on Sunday Muammar Gaddafi was welcome to retire on Libyan soil as long as he resigns formally and agrees to international supervision of his movements.
  Libyan rebels and their Western allies have rejected any solution to the conflict that does not include Gaddafi’s resignation, saying he must quit before any peace talks can begin.
  Gaddafi has fiercely resisted all international calls on him to go, vowing to fight to the end.
  Speaking in his stronghold of Benghazi, rebel leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil — Gaddafi’s former justice minister — said he made the proposal about a month ago through the United Nations but had yet to receive any response from Tripoli.
  “As a peaceful solution, we offered that he can resign and order his soldiers to withdraw from their barracks and positions, and then he can decide either to stay in Libya or abroad,” he said in an interview.
  “If he desires to stay in Libya, we will determine the place and it will be under international supervision. And there will be international supervision of all his movements,” he said.
  He added: “We offered this through a U.N. envoy. We haven’t received any answer.” He said the rebel council believed Gaddafi could be held in a military barracks or “a civilian building” in Libya, but gave no details.
  There was no immediate reaction from Tripoli to Abdel Jalil’s remarks but Gaddafi has so far shown no sign of backing down. He says he is the legitimate leader of the North African nation and will not leave Tripoli without a fight.
  The conflict appears to be deadlocked both militarily and politically despite moves by Western powers to step up their bombing campaign against Gaddafi’s installations across the desert country.
  With the war dragging into a fifth month, there have been moves by some nations to try to mediate a face-saving solution that would suit both the rebels and the Tripoli government. So far these initiatives have failed.
  Escalating his rhetoric, Gaddafi has threatened to attack Europeans in their homes in response to NATO air strikes.
  The rebels in Benghazi, a Mediterranean city now festooned with NATO and Libyan monarchy-era flags, say the end to Gaddafi’s 41-year rule is near.
  Sitting underneath a giant rebel flag in his modestly furnished office in central Benghazi, Abdel Jalil was unfazed when asked if he saw himself as Libya’s future leader.
  “No. I don’t hope to be in this position. I am here for the transitional period,” he said. “The leader will be decided through elections. And I don’t intend to run myself.”
  REBEL VISION
  The soft-spoken Abdel Jalil earned the respect of many east Libyans for opposing Gaddafi’s harsh line against political opponents.
  He resigned from his ministerial post at the start of the revolt over what he saw as the excessive use of violence against protesters rallying against the veteran Libyan leader.
  Seen also as a consensus builder who has leaned towards talks before, he said the rebel authority was determined to give negotiations a chance.
  “We welcome political solutions to stop bloodshed and avoid any further devastation and damage for the country,” said Abdel Jalil. “But if we find no solution then we will focus on military action.”
  Outgunned by Gaddafi’s better-equipped troops, rebel forces have struggled to make progress in past weeks but managed to advance briefly to within 80 km (50 miles) of Tripoli before being forced into a retreat on Friday.
  Rebels say they see no settlement under which Gaddafi or his entourage would be allowed to stay in Libya’s political arena after four decades of what they describe as severe repression and abuse of basic human rights.
  Jalil said his vision for a new Libya involved building a democratic state that was respectful of its Islamic traditions.
  He said he was determined to lead the country towards a post-transitional period when Libyans would be able to choose their new leader through free and fair elections.
  “Libya will be a free, democratic Islamic country,” he said. “It will be run in accordance with the moderate standards of Islam, it will ban murder of civilians and will not rob people of their money.”

BBC
Libya rebels believe tide turning against Gaddafi
By Bridget Kendall
There was wild and jubilant gunfire and a sustained blaring of car horns on Benghazi’s streets within seconds of the declaration in The Hague that the International Criminal Court (ICC) was seeking the arrest of Col Muammar Gaddafi.

This is in some way Libya’s “Wild East”.
Since the uprising against Libya’s government began in February, this has become a city stocked with arms and a population of young men eager to let off exuberant volleys at the slightest provocation.
But there was real passion in Benghazi’s reaction to the ICC’s announcement.
Many in the rebels’ eastern stronghold seem impatient to see their former leader brought to justice, not just for his attempts to crush their uprising in February, but also for what they remember as brutal oppression by his regime for more than 40 years.
And many appear to be increasingly optimistic that it could happen soon.
More here:
feb17.info/news/libya-rebels-believe-ti...

2011feb17
Very good report about Mercenaries aired by BBC (Arabic) last week if you missed it: youtube.com/watch?v=r91FDx… #feb17 #Libya

www.youtube.com/watch?v=r91FDxLXWwk
Tripolitanian Libyan
A BIG thank you to journalists who have risked their lives to let the world know of our struggle. You are our heroes :) From #Libya. #Feb17

bencnn benwedeman
More shelling in Dafniya this AM. Qadhafi may be ready to counterattack as international resolve wains and media interest dissipates. #Libya

Yesterday 4 adam:
AJE
AlJazeera’s Zeina Khodr reporting from eastern Libya. Libyan rebels western advance stalled youtube.com/watch?v=qIS9d5… #Libya #Feb17 #Brega
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIS9d5NMOjY&fea...

Mahmoud Shammam NTC’s spokesman to France24 “No political solution” in #Libya “before the departure of Muammar Gaddafi”…
Abt Aisha G “directly and indirectly negotiations between the rebels and the Gaddafi” Shammam said that’s a “wishful thinking”
Shamman “no one negotiates with Gaddafi or his family" “ Gaddafi‘s an international war criminal, let’s not forget that"
“Gaddafi is our enemy and he is a legitimate military target, his sons too" Shammam added.
“We expecting more arms and France and other countries, Russia has supplied”
more abt #Algeria he said “Algeria is the most armed country in NA with many armed groups since the Algerian recent civil war"
NTC Spokesman on Algeria, France promised revolutionaries more weapons 07.01.11[Ar] youtube.com/watch?v=or_TKe… #Libya #Feb17 #France24
www.youtube.com/watch?v=or_TKe4v0Mw&fea...

Libyan National Security personnel in #NafusaNountain back to work under National Transitional Council is.gd/fE7TxD #Libya #Arrujban
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydXOzEL5ras&fea...

4Adam Adam
#Turkey has toughened its stance on #Libya, definitively pulling its ambassador fr Tripoli & adopting fresh sanctions.Trukish FM in Benghazi

Some women in Tripoli are selling their jewelry to help refugees & revolutionaries.

Exclusive GPS interview with Tom Donilon
On GPS this week, a rare, exclusive interview with the man who brings the world to President Obama – National Security Advisor, Tom Donilon.
Donilon sat down with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria for his first in-depth interview since being named to his post. In a wide-ranging discussion on the most crucial foreign policy issues confronting the United States and the world, Donilon discussed:
Saudi Arabia
“I would be less than candid with you if I didn’t say that we didn’t have some points of friction or disagreements with some of our partners in the region. But I think this, and based on my direct conversations with the leadership of Saudi Arabia about the kinds of common strategic interests that we have that I laid out earlier in the conversation, I think that our relationship is in pretty good shape.”
Arming the Libyan rebels
“We have at this point provided a broad range of non-lethal supplies to the TNC and we haven’t made a decision with respect to lethal assistance.”
VID:http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/01/exclusive-gps-interview-with-tom-donilon/

MyFreeLibya
Just received massive shipment from Global Relief Libya…Xray machines, ultra scanner, and a lot more heavy machinery..inc 500 crutches…

First Name Friend’s brother arrested last week in Tripoli for talking to US! Pray for all those imprisoned by #Gaddafi #Libya

- Kadhafi er velkommen til å pensjonere seg i Libya bit.ly/lZ1vAz

Libya, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, fortalte Reuters søndag at Muammar Kadhafi er velkommen til å pensjonere seg på libysk jord så langt han formelt fratrer sin stilling og godtar at alle hans bevegelser blir overvåket internasjonalt, skriver Msnbc.
Må gå av

Libyske opprørere og de vestlige allierte har nektet enhver løsning på konflikten som ikke inkluderer Kadhafis fratredelse. De har hele tiden vært klare på at han må formelt gå av før fredsforhandlinger kan starte.

Kadhafi har tidligere nektet alle internasjonale forsøk på forhandlinger for å få han til å gå av, og i stedet lovet å kjempe til slutten.

Mustafa Abdel Jalil, Kadhafis tidligere justisminister, skal ha uttalt at forslaget ble presentert for rundt en måned siden. Han forklarer at det ble kommunisert gjennom FN, men at han ennå ikke har fått respons fra Tripoli.
More here:

www.dagbladet.no/2011/07/03/nyheter/ute...

US forces still flying hundreds of bombing raids over Libya as Obama says America is only playing a limited role

“Arı sürüsü gibi saldırırız”
NATO bombardımanına direnmeye devam eden Libya lideri Muammer Kaddafi, Batılı ülkeleri tehdit etti.

Başkent Trablus’taki Yeşil Meydan’da toplanan binlerce rejim yanlısı göstericiye telefon bağlantısı aracılığıyla seslenen Kaddafi, “Hava saldırılarını durdurmazsa NATO felaketle yüzleşecek. Biz de size benzer bir biçimde muamele etmeye karar verebiliriz. Buna karar verirsek, (savaşı) Avrupa’ya da taşıyabiliriz. Çekirge sürüsü, arı sürüsü gibi saldırırız” dedi. Uluslararası Ceza Mahkemesi’nin hakkındaki tutuklama emrini kınayan Kaddafi, ülkesinde kalma sözü verdi ve NATO’dan hava saldırılarını durdurmasını istedi.

Öte yandan NATO’dan yapılan açıklamada, durmaksızın süren bombardımanlar sayesinde, son bir haftada 50’den fazla askeri hedefin yerlebir edildiği vurgulanırken, “Kaddafi’ye bağlı, iletişimi sağlayan ana hatlardaki birlikler hedef alındı” ifadesine yer verildi. Libya’yla ilgili bir başka önemli gelişmeyse, Afrika Birliği’nde yaşandı. Birlik’e üye ülkeler, ortak bir açıklama yayımlayarak, Kaddafi hakkında Uluslararası Ceza Mahkemesi’nce verilen tutuklama emrine uymayacaklarını duyurdu.
Source:
www.hurriyet.de/haberler/dunya/944262/a...

McKenzieCNN David McKenzie
ICC warrants ‘seriously complicates’ efforts towards peace in #libya. African states won’t cooperate: African Union

PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
AFP: NATO says it is ramping up its airstrikes on military targets in western Libya, where rebel forces have claimed a string of advances through territory still largely under Gadhafi’s control.

LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Le corps d’Ahmed a été déposé samedi devant le seuil de la maison familiale. Les blessures étaient récentes même le sang était encore chaud

Selon Mohammed, au moins 2 familles voisines ont reçu les corps de leurs fils le matin. Les 2 avaient refusé d’aller au rassemblement.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey expected to recognize #NTC today as their Foreign Minister visits #Benghazi. #Libya #feb17

GEN Abdel Fatah Younis: Offensive in the east iminent (48 hours) (Source Libya TV) The story about how people were forced to demonstrate in pro g rally is now headlines all over the world
Gheddafi non minaccia invano! Leggete e fate circolare!
BENGASI, Libia — Qualche ora dopo che migliaia di persone si erano riversate nella Piazza Verde di Tripoli acclamando Moammar Gheddafi, Mohammed afferma che davanti alla casa della sua famiglia è stato lasciato il cadavere ancora caldo di suo nipote, ucciso con due proiettili al capo.
Mohammed ha raccontato all’ AFP che cosa lo renda sicuro che il destino del trentenne Ahmed sia stato deciso venerdì, mentre dall’altra parte della città sventolavano le bandiere verdi e Gheddafi riversava minacce contro l’Europa, la NATO e i libici “traditori”.
L’esecuzione di Ahmed, ha detto, è stata la punizione per il rifiuto della sua famiglia di prendere parte alla manifestazione, una prova di forza vitale da parte del leader libico da cinque mesi alle prese con una rivolta che ha spinto il regime a sull’orlo del collasso.

Rest story:
www.facebook.com/notes/amghar-azemni/gh...

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “KEREM AYANOGLU” 35.16592˚/28.06587˚ w/ dest. of #Tripoli #Libya Speed/Course: 8.7 kn/257˚ #feb17

LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Un comité révolutionnaire de Kadhafi avait menacé : “nous tenons ton fils. si tu ne sors pas manifester vendredi, tu ne le reverras jamais”

wheelertweets James Wheeler
Many #Libyans struggle to tell me they’d speak English if not for #Gaddafi. They’re determined to learn when this is over.

septimius_
MUST WATCH Zaif “‘In theory,#Libya is the most democratic country in the world” but then cant keep a straight face

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Agsztn0uZI&fea...
Reuters #Misrata “Gaddafi forces heavily bombarded Dafniya & Bourouia last night. Two revolutionaries were martyred and 12 others wounded,”

McKenzieCNN David McKenzie
AU also says they will not abide by Gadhafi ICC arrest warrant (even though more than 20 have signed Rome Statute) #libya

The arrival of snipers from East Europe was already announced some days ago. Probly already there :-(( #Libya

We know, we heard about the plans about 10 days ago and last week we were alerted that they were entering Libya……..

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
#Nafusa #Yefren 07/03/11: only power ‘source’ are few v old generators Hospital of #Yefren serves #Kikla #Yefren #AlQala & surrounding areas

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Malta CARGO SHIP “PURKI” now departing port #Misrata #Libya #feb17

Turkey recognizes Libya rebels, gives $300 million

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister says his country recognizes the leadership of the Libyan rebels as the sole legitimate representatives of the country.
The show of diplomatic support by Turkey, a key regional player and the only Muslim-majority member of NATO, gave a boost to the rebels. The nod comes amid growing international isolation of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu visited the rebel stronghold of Benghazi in eastern Libya on Sunday. He says his country has given the rebels’ Transitional National Council $300 million, two-thirds as a loan and one-third as a grant.
France, Italy, Qatar and several others in the region have already recognized the rebel government.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister is visiting a Libyan opposition stronghold in a show of diplomatic support for rebels trying to overthrow Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Ahmet Davutoglu arrived in the rebel-controlled city of Benghazi in eastern Libya on Sunday and was to meet with rebel leader Mustafa Abdel-Jalil later in the day.
Turkey has vast trade interests in Libya and longtime ties with the Gadhafi regime. The Turkish foreign minister’s visit is the most powerful signal that Turkey is throwing its weight behind the Libyan opposition.
Davutoglu’s visit comes amid calls from Libyan rebels for more weapons and funding. The foreign minister has not commented on a recent French arms shipment to the Libyan opposition.

www.newstimes.com/news/article/Turkey-r...

dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi forces have landmine the eastern gate of #Kikla. #Nafusa #Libya #Gaddaficrimes

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
#Nafusa #Yefren 07/03/11: severe electricity shortages since April 3. Hospital of #Yefren lost power while Drs operating on injured FF.

septimius_
Photos of new AK103-2 found with Gaddafi soldiers !!! via @libyanproud wp.me/a1ACed-f #Libya #Feb17
libyanproud.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/ak...

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
#Nafusa #AlQala: FF martyred in the battle of #Gawaleesh yesterday was: #Musa #Ali #Musa #Grada. RIP He was buried Saturday July 2, 2011.

dovenews Libyan™
13 yr old boy was killed & many other ppl were injured due to #Gaddafi forces attack on #Ajdabyia this morning using grad missiles #

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
#Nafusa #Kikla 07/03/11: FFs & G forces fierce fighting, 7 FFs injured 2 severely wounded. NB: G forces raid & burn homes as they advance.

dovenews Libyan™
ALERT! 160 snipers from Ukraine will be traveling on Tunisair to enter Libya via Tunisia. PLZ RT #Libya #Tunisia #Ukraine Tunisia Plz Act

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
#Nafusa #Kikla 07/03/11: G forces bombarding city w/rocket launchers & grad missile. One shell hit civilian home killing 1 civilian inside.

libyanproud libyanandproud
#Sebha:#Algurda:Protests chanting anti #Gaddafi slogan last night last night met with heavy gunfire

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
#Nafusa #Kikla 07/03/11: heavy bombardments of this city has been continuous for a few days now. G forces shelling from base near Gawaleesh.

LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Les sanctions visent notamment la Libyan Foreign Bank, qui possède 62,37% des parts de la banque turco-libyenne A&T Bank.

LibyeLibre Libye Libre
La Turquie a publié samedi un décret adaptant au droit turc les sanctions décidéespar l’ONU contre Kadhafi, sa famille et des proches
La Turquie a annoncé un prêt de 100 millions de dollars au CNT, en plus d’investissements du même montant dans des projets de BTP
FreeLibyanman FreeLibyan
Great respect 2 freeworld #UK #France #USA &others who cd ve turned blind eye but they believed in/supported our cause.Thier ppl shd b proud

88simon
NTC RECOGNITION BEFORE : imageshack.us/photo/my-image… and NOW: img98.imageshack.us/img98/7162/new…

Khiria
Penicillin is too weak for any contact with Moussa Ibrahim. We might need Augmentin :S

N_Benghazi .
As the sun sank on the horizon silence fell on the group as they contemplated what tomorrow would bring. “Maybe tomorrow I will be dead,”

NTC pres Abel Jalil on AJA says #Gaddafi “retirement” offer 2 stay in #Libya made a mnth ago now void due 2 ICC arrest warrant

LIBYA_BREAKING Ossama
Western Mountains: The battle to liberate Alsoadana west of Alqala from forces Gaddafi. youtube.com/watch?feature=… #Libya #feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_em...
LIBYA_BREAKING Ossama
Part 2: West-Mount: The battle to liberate Alsoadana west of Alqala from forces Gaddafi #Libya #feb17 youtube.com/watch?feature=…
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_em...

AJA: Abdeljalil: offer was made a month ago before ICC arrest warrant, now the offer is nul and void b/c Gaddafi is wanted for war crimes.

Ben:
A plane was leased in Tunisia by Gloyalists to bring in mercs frm Ukraine as “tourist group” tmrw/after tmrw to Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Brega: Reports of 6 vehicles each w/ 5 #Gaddafi forces on board handed themselves over to #Freedomfighters in #Aljdaeba #Libya #feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “YILMAZ AYANOGLU” 34.91407˚/25.6418˚ Speed/Course: 7.5 kn/271˚ Dest. #Tripoli #Libya #feb17 @NATO

septimius_sever septimius severus
V for Vendetta has arrived to #Libya Feb17 twitpic.com/5kpf0h

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “FEYZA GENC” yet remains in port #Tripoli #Libya after resupplying #Gaddafi yet again. #feb17

Khiria
#Tukey’s government needs to seriously stop supporting #Gaddafi ‘material’ TODAY because ships are heading to #Tripoli as we speak.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “FEYZA GENC” yet remains in port #Tripoli #Libya after resupplying #Gaddafi yet again. #feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Now if the government of #Turkey would just stop the material support of #Gaddafi through it’s ships… #Libya #feb17 @NATO

Libyan4life Jeel Ghathub
#GaddafiWontStayInLibya bc global warming is raising the temperature in #Libya and his hair cant take the heat/humidity

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey recalled its ambassador in #Tripoli, permanently, & adopted the sanctions imposed by the Security Council against #Libya.

AHMED:
Questions:

1) Should a previous member of #Gaddafi’s regime, who did not necessary kill and torture with his/her bare hands yet was aware of the facts of the regime’s crimes against #humanity and was extremely loyal and an integral part of the regime for the past 4 decades – yet, who has now switched sides and joined the very people which his/her previous employer (Gaddafi) #tortured, #imprisonment, and #killed; should they be allowed to lead our #future?

2) Are the likes of Abdulrahman Shalgam, Shokri Ghanim, Farhat Bengdara, Mohamed Al Huni, Jamal Al Barig, Hafid Gadoura, Embarek Al Shamik, and other defectors capable of understanding #human #rights principles, a #democratic governing system, #transparency, #integrity and #honesty?

3) Why must we resort to the regime’s foul #defectors to lead our future; i.e. the #Libyan National #Dialogue Conference in #Rome – July 9th, 10th & 11th?

4) Why is the #Italian #Government keen on the above mentioned individuals and is supporting them to speak on behalf of the #Libyan people from the 9th to the 11th of July in Rome under the banner of the Libyan National Dialogue; whilst the legitimate representative of the Libyan people; i.e. the National Transitional Council (#NTC)has been excluded?

5) Please note: The #West; i.e. #EU & #US should realise that there are plenty of dignified, honest, and professional Libyans who are more than capable of leading our future, and there is no need for the West to resort to regime’s tainted defectors to #secure their #interests?

Please help us to make sense of our #dilemma!

MyFreeLibya
Nothing quite like the sight of a bearded man crying..suddenly crack a smile …#Moment4Life #Libya #Feb17

USAmbNATO Ivo Daalder
This year, #July4 is #Feb17 and #Jan15 — the day people of Libya and Egypt determined they would be free.

OpEd: Now is not the time!

By Ibrahim Mohamed

“Now is not the time” has become the favourite phrase of those who do not want the rest of Libya to know what they are up to, adhere to any sense of transparency, or simply are not fully aware of what is happening around them.

If you want to comment on the ineffectiveness of the NTC, “now is not the time.” If you want to question the criteria used to select the ever increasing number of members, “now is not the time.” If you want to challenge the dominance of the Gaddafi/Saif men in the NTC and the Executive Committee, “now is not the time.” If you want to understand how most members of Executive Committee came to be selected, “now is not the time.” If you want to know why those who have kept the Libyan issue alive for more than 30 years, and who are more qualified to serve their country than some of the current members, were left out of any significant role in the NTC or EC, “now is not the time.”

If you ask about the effectiveness of a head of government managing remotely, hardly being on the ground of the country he leads, “now is not the time.” If you ask the simple question “are the current people leading us the best we can produce, even in a crisis?, “now is not the time.” If you want to scream when you find out that yesterday’s agents of oppression and tools for the dictatorship are becoming today’s organizers and facilitators of national dialogues and forums on Libya’s future constitution, foreign policy, disarmament, oil, etc., “now is not the time.”

If you try to point out that yesterday’s thieves, who made out with millions from the Libyan people’s treasury, are today being given responsibility for managing the millions coming in for relief, and raise a flag, “now is not the time.”

If you try to highlight the fact that a small circle of “elites” are working on small rooms and putting together the final touches on the future of Libya as far as its constitution, development roadmap, etc., shutting out the rest of the Libyans who are actually doing the fighting and the liberating of Libya, “now is not the time.”

If you simply attempt to state the obvious that some are working very seriously and hard to highjack this revolution, “now is not the time.”

If you as much as suggest that the NTC and EC are, in some ways, starting to operate more like exclusive clubs, “now is not the time.” When you bring to light the fact that these non-democratically selected, transitional bodies have far exceeded their mandate and are operating way beyond their scope, “now is not the time.”

But…If we are fighting for justice, democracy and the rule of law, I’d say, now IS the time. If we want to protect this precious freedom for which thousands of our young people are paying with their lives, I would say, there is no better time than the present time.

LIBYA_BREAKING
Important to note #Sebha and #Sirte are facing a severe media black-out, God knows what’s happening in these cities.

dovenews Libyan™
Clashes between #FF & #Gaddaf forces in #AlGawaleaish area. #Nafusa #Libya

Libyan4life
#GaddafiWontStayInLibya because possession is nine-tenths of the law and we hold #Libya NOT him.

libyanproud libyanandproud
#Sebha : #Algurda : after burial of martyr Ismail Alsanussi Absbeha FF r blocking entrances to algurda st. from funerals

Breaking News Report:
A huge demonstration is now in Al-Gurda district after the funeral of Esmail Essunussi Abu-Sbeha. Revolutionists are now blocking all of Al-Gurda entrances from the grave yard up to the end of Al-gurda street, the independence flags are also being raised now…We’ll keep you updated.

NAlS
by grafixel
#Gaddafi’s spending spree & strategy in #Africa apparently worked. The African Union seems to be on his side up to now.

dovenews Libyan™
#Gaddafi forces are using some rooms in #Sabha’s hospital as a command & control centers for their military operations. #Sabha #Libya

LibyanLion17 A Free Libyan
Libya TV: Some districts in #Sabha have been liberated. Many FFs were injured in the fighting.

Libya TV: Mass protests in #Sabha. Confrontations between G forces and FFs. Things heating up a lot.

dovenews Libyan™
#FF in #Almansheya & #Alghurdha have joined together and pushed Gaddafi forces out of these districts

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Sabha: After funeral of Ismail Abusebiha killed by G forces yesterday, a massive protest in Gurda. Heavy fire exchange ongoing

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gaddafi’s Libyan State TV reporting #NATO attack on #Wedan #Libya #feb17

Heinz: Satellite pix show only 12,400 to 12,800 people were at Qadafi rally. Also 3,468 cars making rally look larger. FAIL

Turkish FM recognizes Libyan rebels, promises $200 million more in aid

ENGHAZI, Libya — Turkey’s foreign minister recognized Libya’s rebel leaders as the country’s legitimate representatives and promised them an additional $200 million in aid during a visit Sunday.
The visit by Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu signaled a further policy shift for Ankara. Turkey, a key regional power, had initially balked at the idea of military action in Libya, but as a NATO member is now supporting the alliance’s air strikes there. Turkish companies were involved in construction projects worth billions of dollars in Libya before the February outbreak of a Libyan anti-government uprising that has evolved into a protracted armed conflict.
More here:
www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-eas...

The Citizen. TANZANIA

Sunday, 03 July 2011 13:33

One hundred days into the illegal and unjustified war against the legitimate government of a sovereign African state, namely Libya, the madness from the West seems to increase exponentially.
Recently the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, urged Africans to ‘isolate’ Gaddafi as if she were a schoolmistress, and the Africans children, under her control and discipline. Then we have the ludicrous display of pomposity and hegemonic imperialism from the so-called International Criminal Court ICC which exclusively targets Africans issuing an ‘arrest warrant’ for the legitimate leader of a legitimate country for ‘crimes against humanity.’ Surely there must be more to this than meets the eye.

Bashar el Assad shoots down his own people, cordons off population centres and massacres civilians in the full glare of the world’s press and neither Clinton nor Obama say anything beyond meaningless platitudes. The Yemeni autocrat brings his nation to the edge of a civil war causing the death of hundreds but neither the US nor the self-appointed guardians of ‘world peace and order’ the so-called ‘international community,’ say anything.
The ruler of Bahrain summons Saudi mercenaries to crush his Shia majority, sentencing protesters to life imprisonment and the usually garrulous world press when it comes to Gaddafi remains mute as a log.

The government of Libya is attacked by a band of instantly-armed thugs and defends itself as it has the right to, and immediately, as if reading from a pre-planned script, Britain and France call for a no-fly zone. The UN heads get together to cobble up a UN resolution which presents them with the wiggle-room to reverse-engineer the resolution to suit whatever circumstance arise. Egged on by Hillary Clinton, the US steps into another military mess to spend billions of taxpayer dollars while its citizens face rising employment and economic uncertainty.

Why the relentless targeting of Libya, Gaddafi in particular? The stakes are extremely high and the ‘coalition of the ruthless’ are determined to spin everything to convince the undiscerning public that ‘Gaddhafi must go’ else the world would end. Apart from the obvious question of who gives them the right to dictate who rules their country, what is in it for them?

The economies of France and Britain threatened by the uncertainties of the European economic pace in Greece, Portugal, Ireland and bailouts yet to come, need distraction to keep social discontent dormant. Greece has already burst that bubble with social protest rising. Encouraged by Gaddafi who has never shirked his pan-African responsibilities, Africans have been slowly easing the heel of Western economic pressure off their necks.

China has made inroads into the African political psyche and economy and this threatens the West. Their centuries old-stranglehold on the minds and resources of Africa is severely undermined.
Gaddafi’s influence and investment has weaned Africa away from dependence on European satellites for the continental communications, saving the Continent more than a billion dollars annually. Libyan proposals for an African Monetary Fund flew in the face of Western economic planners as did the attempts to set up a single African currency which would have dealt a death blow to the CFA through which France has manipulated and controlled its West African neo-colonies.

Then, of course there is Gaddafi’s call for a million-man African army. This is the stuff of nightmares for the West, since ideas, once rooted, are almost impossible to uproot. So Gaddafi has to ‘go.’ Africa becomes a clear and present danger and no one personifies this more than Muammar Gaddafi, the man Nelson Mandela defied the United Nations sanctions to visit and thank for his support during the anti-apartheid struggle. Long demonized by the West, Gaddafi has gone too far in their eyes.
The author is a specialist in Spanish, Latin American, Caribbean as well as African History
Questions:
Why does this “author” hide him/herself behind vague descriptions like above?
Another G media manipulator / propagandist?
Conclusion:
No doubt the money/propaganda machine at work again, it’s tiring……….

OnlyOneLibya ProudLibyan
I hate this supeficial uneducated generalizations I hear from some ppl, look at Tripoli, they came out for Gaddafi, no, they didn’t!
We have to understand the context, the numbers and how politicians manipulate the media to make it seem that the millions are with them!

Bishop in Libya proves unlikely source of international controversy
The Catholic figure has criticized the NATO campaign, calling it immoral and ineffective. ‘Kadafi is a Bedouin: You can’t change his mind by bombing him,’ the bishop says.
Reporting from Tripoli, Libya—
For more than a quarter of a century, the soft-spoken padre with the almost beatific glow and more-than-passing resemblance to Pope John Paul II has presided over the soothing confines of St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Church here.

As the bishop of Tripoli, Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli has quietly counseled the capital’s small Roman Catholic community from the stately, whitewashed edifice built at the height of Italian colonial rule under Benito Mussolini, its 100-foot bell tower soaring into a skyline bristling with minarets.
But since Western bombs began raining down on Moammar Kadafi’s Libya, Martinelli, 69, has become an unlikely source of international controversy.
Art. here:
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/...

libyanproud libyanandproud
#Sebha : #Algurda : Snipers have been stationed on afriqia hotel and the alFurjli hotel

dovenews:
Gaddafi forces are collecting NATO’s leaflets & arresting anyone who read it. #Brega #Tripoli #Libya

ALzintan Channel | English
Furious fighting is going on east of town Kiklah between rebels and Gaddafi forces. It has been reported that 5 people martyred and 7 others wounded. The mercenaries are gathering near Gawalish ( another small town east of Kiklah) reservoir that is used by snipers. Attempts are underway for cleansing the area from those mercenaries.
May Allah help our brave fighters.

SABHA:
Breaking News:
Some of the revolutionists were wounded as some of the troops were also wounded and taken to the hospital, some of them’s cases are reported critical. Many snipers are now standing on the high buildings in Sabha.
Breaking News:
A child was shot and hurt; he is in need to blood . Two of the troops were also wounded after the fighting with revolutionists. Telecommnunications are now poor. We’ll keep you updated.

La rébellion libyenne rejette l’accord-cadre de l’Union africaine

BENGHAZI (Libye) – Les rebelles ont rejeté dimanche un accord-cadre préparé par l’Union africaine (UA) pour la Libye parce que, ont-ils dit, cela permettrait à Mouammar Kadhafi de rester au pouvoir.

Nous l’avons rejeté, a déclaré un porte-parole des insurgés, Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, car le document de l’UA n’inclut pas le départ de Kadhafi, de ses fils et de son cercle rapproché. Nous avons réitéré (cette exigence) à plus d’une occasion.

Les chefs d’Etat africains réunis en sommet à Malabo, en Guinée équatoriale, ont difficilement adopté vendredi un accord-cadre proposé aux parties libyennes prévoyant notamment que le colonel Kadhafi devait être écarté des négociations pour sortir son pays de la crise et une force de maintien de la paix.

Mais le document de l’Union africaine n’appelle pas explicitement Mouammar Kadhafi à céder le pouvoir, contrairement à ce qu’exige le Conseil national de transition, la direction politique de la rébellion.

Les membres de l’UA ont par ailleurs décidé de ne pas coopérer à la mise en oeuvre du mandat d’arrêt émis par la Cour pénale internationale contre le colonel Kadhafi, jugeant qu’il compliquait le règlement de la situation.

L’UA est un des rares médiateurs acceptés par le dirigeant libyen.
source:
www.romandie.com/news/n/_La_rebellion_l...

_TheZee
“May Allah protect our beloved women, we are proud of you, hold your head high up with pride, your a Libyan, a FREE LIBYAN !”

LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Water tank where Gaddafi’s snipers have probably positioned themselves & from where they attacked revolutionaries today. maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=…
maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=32.00468,12.709213&spn=0.001347,0.003433&t=h&z=19

G’s people have become very predictable, another water tank as hide out……

Rumours in the last week and a half about snipers were true……..
SNIPERS:
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
AlArabiya:Ibrahim Dabashi NTC deputy UN spokesman say he has info 160 professional snipers from Ukraine to enter Libya in next 2 days #Feb17

The found AK_103’s info:
BNN_News_Intl BNN News Int’l
CONFIRMED – Gaddafi’s AK-103s in Libya are MADE IN RUSSIA, factory of origin: Izhevsk Mechanical Plant

(as expected)

Images of Ak47s & serial numbers confirm that Gaddafi is killing us usng weapons received from Russia

Have a look, here are pics:
libyanproud.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/ak...

BNN_News_Intl BNN News Int’l
I 100% CONFIRM them as being RUSSIAN manufactured models

KC_Tripolitania KC
by Unknown7771
Al Ghurdah district in the city of Sabha is now completely blocked by Gaddafi forces – residents refusing to take down independence flags.

NTC Justice Minister speaking in #Benghazi – FFs attacking #Gheryan from 3 directions since morning

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Nafusa: Cabao is getting shelled with Grad Missiles and mortar by Gaddafi forces in Tiji

NotLibyaStateTV
We hear al-Qaeda crusader rebel promises to make a drive in 48hrs towards Tripoli. We will top them and win it all in 46hrs. Guaranteed

20arb
West #libya town Terhouna declaring their unity with the #feb17 revolution & agenst the attacks of gaddafi ( in arabic)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iobvIUSCP6k&sns=em

EXPLANATION:

THANKU4THEANGER
Video: Mustafa AbdelJalil explains offer from a month ago to allow G to stay in Libya under supervision is void now with ICC decision is.gd/gn1RVy #feb17 #Libya #Jul17
www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1430...

#AJA: Gaddafi forces in Brega have been under attack today by NATO Apache helicopters and Sea to Ground missiles

Daily Star, but this is worth reading.
GADDAFI’S GOLDEN PLUNDER
Colonel Gaddafi is smuggling bullion into Britain to fund his murder spree, the Daily Star Sunday can reveal.

Gold coins stamped with the tyrant’s face and Audemars Piguet watches worth up to £100,000 have been sneaked into the UK.

And the crazed despot is plotting to use the cash from sales to buy arms for his war.

Scores of coins and a handful of gold and diamond-encrusted watches have been seized by Customs crimebusters but hundreds more are believed to have slipped through.

As Gaddafi was dragged into a bank bribery probe last week, our investigator was shown bags full of 1oz krugerrands, worth £1,000 apiece, at a seized goods storage stash at Gatwick airport.

The coins were among sparkling timepieces in a safe marked “Libyan watches”.

A UK Border Agency source said: “The gold and the watches were seized from a passenger flight.

“It was an attempt to smuggle them into the country without paying taxes, presumably to sell on for cash to fund his army of mercenaries.

“As VAT or duty has still not been paid, the goods are being detained until the Colonel coughs up. It’s likely they’ll then be exported back to Libya.”

The gold-smuggling scandal comes as megabucks Gaddafi faces claims he paid off global banks, including HSBC, to hoard his millions.

A fraud investigation has been launched after leaked figures showed HSBC’s Libyan cash account shot up from £182million to £870million in just three months. All Libyan money held by HSBC and other banks has been frozen.

But Gaddafi, 68, is sitting on a pot of gold.

The Libyan central bank – under the dictator’s control – holds 143.8tons of gold worth an eye- watering £4billion, according to the International Monetary Fund.

That’s enough to finance his bloodthirsty troops for years and puts the African nation’s reserves among the top 25 in the world.US and European governments have frozen billions of dollars in Libyan assets in a bid to cut off his funding.

With trading houses reluctant to deal with war-ravaged countries, the only way Gaddafi can cash in is by shifting his gold reserves into countries like the UK to be sold on the black market.

Adrian Ash, head of research at London online gold trading firm Bullion Vault, said: “It is going to be difficult for Gaddafi to convert his gold wholesale because the international market is not going to speak to him.

“He is going to have to find a friendly regime and they will need to be in a position to get it physically out of Libya.

“I would be surprised if the gold was still in Tripoli. I would imagine that, similar to the French in the Second World War who moved their gold reserves out of Paris and deep into the mountains, the gold won’t be available any more.

“It will be somewhere tucked away. So I don’t think it’s going to be particularly easy.”

Walter de Wet, head of commodities research at Standard Bank said: “If Libya wants to make its gold liquid it would probably be in the form of a swap – whether arms, food or cash.”

Remember the source is the Daily Star……

www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/199007/Ga...

USA has asked the TNC to arrest and handover to American Special Forces in Benghazi :
Abdelbaset Al Megrahi for a re-trial in the USA.

Almanara reported that the fighters in Kiklah managed to repel the attack, and Gaddafi forces have been pushed back towards Qualish. The report says that support from Zintan, Alqala’a, Alriyana, Alrojbal, Yefern and some other towns joined the battle, and the fighters are determined to head towards Gharyan town.

Turkish Airlines eyes return to Benghazi

Turkish Airlines will begin operating flights to Benghazi if circumstances allow, Turkish Airlines General Manager Temel Kotil said Sunday.
“There was some damage at the Benghazi airport; once it is repaired, the flights will start. We would start today if it were available. Right now, the businessmen are facing difficulties,” Kotil told a group of journalists in Cairo while waiting for the Foreign Ministry officials’ contacts in Egypt ahead of the ministry-led visit to Libya. After the flight ban to Libya’s capital Tripoli, Turkish Airlines stopped all flights to the city.
read more:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=turki...

LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
The snipers at the water tank I showed were the main reason for the 6 killed & 7 wounded today between Kikla & Al Gawalesh.

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Sabha: Widespread arrests and house raids NOW in ALGurda. Protests were filmed by G forces

LibyanLion17 A Free Libyan
reports that G forces in #Brega are taking another beating from NATO. Apparently Apaches involved.

SMILE:
Video: momonews interviewing #Gaddafi spokesman " Mossa Ibrahim" tinyurl.com/6y7wuu7 #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUqEsPSCX8&feature=playerembedded#at=74

Son of Libya’s Gaddafi tells West: “You cannot win”

PARIS (Reuters) – Western powers are doomed to lose their military campaign to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, one of his sons said in an interview with French television, and their air strikes against government forces had made them “legitimate targets.”
Saif al-Islam told the private French television station TF1 that his father had no intention of leaving the country as part of negotiations to end the conflict with rebels wanting an end to his four-decade rule.
Asked if he had a message for French President Nicolas Sarkozy, one of the driving forces behind the Western intervention in Libya, Saif said:
“You are not going to win. You have no chance, zero chance, to win the war here,” he told TF1.
“If you are angry with us because we are not buying the Rafale airplanes, you should talk with us,” he said, a reference to the Dassault-built French warplane that Paris had been trying to sell to Tripoli before the uprising against Gaddafi.
“If you are angry with us because oil deals are not going well, you should talk to us. Rebels will not give you anything because they are not going to win,” Saif said.
The Libyan leader’s son, like his father subject of an international arrest warrant on charges of crimes against humanity for his role in the deaths of civilians demanding Gaddafi’s ouster, said the Libyan authorities were prepared to make concessions to some western demands but would fight for their country.
“You want democracy, we are ready. You want elections, we are ready. You want, what, a new constitution? We are ready. Ceasefire? We are ready. But, the other side is refusing, all the time,” he said.
“But to tell my father to leave the country, it’s a joke. We will never surrender . We will fight. It’s our country.”
“We have to fight for our country and you are going to be legitimate targets for us,” he added.
In a telephone address relayed to tens of thousands of supporters in Tripoli’s Green Square on Friday, Gaddafi urged NATO to halt its bombing campaign or risk seeing Li
source:http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/03/us-libya-france-son-idUSTRE7622BL20110703

G PLANNED TO BUILD (IN LIBYA) A FACTORY FOR PRODUCING AK-103 MACHINE GUNS:
Russian Military Reform
Tracking developments in the Russian military
Russian arms sales to the Middle East and North Africa

I have seen a bit of discussion here and there about how Russian leaders are reluctant to support anti-government protests in the Middle East and North Africa because of fears that similar protests may occur in Russia. While fear of domestic instability is a major aspect of the calculus for Russian politicians on this issue, it’s not the only issue. Russian defense industry stands to lose a great deal of money from military contracts should some of the existing regimes collapse. Libya, Algeria and Syria are particularly important customers for Russia, while there are smaller contracts with Yemen, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon.
The New York Times reported a couple of days ago that lost opportunity costs from unfulfilled arms contracts with Libya amount to $4 billion, while total losses in the region if other regimes fall could add up to $10 billion, which is equivalent to the total value of Russia’s military exports in 2010.
The Times report did not list specific export programs, but some information (though incomplete) is readily obtainable from SIPRI and from CAST. SIPRIs databases are currently offline for an update, so the following is based exclusively on the tables in CAST’s Eksport Vooruzheniia journal from November 2010.
Known contracts with Libya include (prices listed where available):
• modernization of Libyan S-125 Pechora-2 SAMs (SA-3 in NATO parlance) to the Pechora-2M level
• modernization of 145 T-72 tanks
• purchase of BMP-3M infantry fighting vehicles ($300 million)
• purchase of 6 Yak-130 training aircraft ($90 million)
• building a factory in Libya to produce AK-103 machine guns under license ($600 million)
• purchase of 9M123 Chrystanthemum self-propelled anti-tank missile systems
• purchase of Molnia missile boat
Known contracts with Algeria are even more extensive:
• purchase of 16 SU-30MKI fighter jets ($1 billion)
• modernization of 250 T-72M tanks (150 already completed) (total value $200 million)
• purchase of at least 10 Yak-130 training aircraft
• modernization of one Koni-class frigate and one Nanuchka-class corvette ($100 million)
• Purchase of 3 S-300 air defense systems and 38 Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile systems (part of $8 billion deal signed in 2006)
Other contracts with potentially vulnerable states in the region include:
• Syria: MiG-29 modernization
• Syria: purchase of 8 battalions of Buk-M2E missile systems ($1 billion)
• Syria: modernization of S-125 Pechora-2 SAMs to the Pechora-2M level
• Syria: modernization of 200 T-72 tanks to T-72M1M level (part of $500 million contract to modernize 1000 tanks, 800 already completed)
• Syria: purchase of 9M123 Chrystanthemum self-propelled anti-tank missile systems
• Syria: purchase of 30 Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile systems (part of 2006 contract)
• Yemen: purchase of 100 BTR-80A armored vehicles and 50 120-mm towed mortars ($60 million)
• Egypt: modernization of 20 S-125 Pechora-2 SAMs to the Pechora-2M level
• Kuwait: purchase of BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles
• Jordan: construction of factory to make Khashim RPGs
• Lebanon: purchase of Mi-24 helicopters
Obviously, Russia is not unique in this regard. I’m sure that a list of U.S. arms deals with vulnerable Middle Eastern states would be much longer. (And notice the contortions that U.S. leaders have gone through to act like they’re supporting popular protests while maintaining channels of communication with friendly regimes in Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, etc.) So please don’t take this post as a condemnation of Russian actions. I’m just trying to spell out some of the specifics behind the top-line numbers.
source:
russiamil.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/russ...

LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Gaddafi forces apparently did a large transfer of weapons, ammo & vehicles in Zawiyah, from 1 farm to another. Hopefully NATO took note.

Al-Gurda:
Breaking News:
Ghadafi troops set fire on Abna Essegir (Al-aela) market in Al-gurda and also set fire on the house of the owner’s market after breaking into it.

Sanad
my inlaws are out there and just called on satphone, they vow gadaffi will never see Misrata again

OnlyOneLibya ProudLibyan
Old power hungry men from whatever side always fear the youth, so they send them 2 front lines 2 die 4 them 2 gain power & lose competition

That is so true.

wewantlivefree
Gaddafi militias sabotaged the houses of the Libyans who fled to the westren mountain

KC_Tripolitania KC
AL Jazeera Mubashar is currently showing a recorded footage of big anti-#Gaddafi protests in #Ajdabiya that took place on 15th June. #Libya

Suzanne
Because Gaddafi has more heavy equipment & isn’t afraid to commit atrocities, NTC cannot win war without international support

UNCONFIRMED: East Qawaleesh liberated. 5 martyrs & 19 G forces killed. Gheryan is currently under advance by FFs from 3 directions

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Unconfirmed: Qawaleesh has been liberated. Some FF killed/injured and 20+ G soldiers killed. Gharyan under attack from 3 directions

Zawiya: Tonight Freedom Fighters have bombed a major G forces check point in Khartoum street

Sabha:
Breaking News:
4 of Ghadafi troops were reported injured now.
Breaking News: Troops prevent Algurda locals from entering the hospital. Also, 3 revolutionists were arrested after they aided the kid with the need to blood and a doctor was also arrested for treating the wounded revolutionists.

Ahmed
#Zuwara: #Apache Helicopters shelling locations of #Gaddafi forces. No reports on what was targeted. Zuwara is 68 miles west #Tripoli

More info on found AK-103:
BNN_News_Intl BNN News Int’l
AK-103 pics: wp.me/p1ACed-d – the arrow-in-triangle left of the SN in pic 4 and 6 = Izhmash Factory in #Russia. #libya #feb17 #gaddafi

tnx 4 all ur help!

In Tarhouna, the local Agricultural Police Station was attacked by the Tarhouna FF who then completely burnt it down as it was housing,….
some of Gaddafi’s mercenaries. The independence flag was then flown above the station and it was then cleansed of the remaining mercenaries
Clash in the city of Tarhouna, the Alkhadra’ District, where 5 FF’s were martyred: 1) Muhammad Ali Algharari 2) Fathi Sha3ban 3aqil
3) Nuri AbdulFattah Al3ashuri 4) Muhammad Khaled Na3amah 5) Saber Nasr AbdulLatif Alma3mari
The clashes and fights between Tarhouna FF and G Forces are ongoing

Elleebi
Man responsible for killing Sheikh Abdel Aati Gadour(who’s burial turned in2 a mass anti g protest last month) was killed by Sug ilJumaa FF.

Khiria
#Benghazi, #Libya: We are planning a HUGE protest on Wednesday. #Feb17

Amazigh_
Corrected Map of #Kikla & #Qawaleesh. Red star marks Gaddafi snipers earlier that killed 5 FF & injured 7 #Libya twitpic.com/5ku956

libyanproud libyanandproud
#Sebha : #Algurda : FF of sebha hv killed Muamaar Mohamed Algohsi al-Gaddafi , 1 of the attackers on Algurda

mijami2 Mike
by septimius_sever
Sheikh Eid Foundation Doha provides humanitarian assistance to 2000 Libyan refugees j.mp/lOj2YW (Arabic)

FromJoanne Joanne
@
@Doylebytes Al Gawalesh is liberated announced LIVE by #NTC Justice minister El Allaghiabout from TahrirSquare in #Benghazi #Libya #Qwaleesh

Doylebytes Mark Doyle
“Liberation” of Qawaleesh?Hmm. Was very near there today. Big explosions all over area and rebels didn’t claim this to us

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes

@Doylebytes Thank you Mark, that’s what I was thinking too. Seemed a bit premature to me when he announced it.

septimius_
Gaddafi invented names to cities, #Sebha was “first spark” but is it going to be the “last straw” that will break him?

Alex
#Gaddafi suffers major losses in #Nafusa – #Ziwiya – #Brega – #Sebha and #Misrata today – from both @NATO and #Libya #FF.

Amazigh_Libya
NTC members visit the hospital in #Yefren. #Libya #Feb17 twitpic.com/5ktv4w

Gotta love this:
libyaoutreach Libya Outreach
The flag raised high at a concert in Malta…very cool #Libya twitpic.com/5ku6uw

SUMMARY JULY 4 2011
7/4/2011
7/04/2011
7.04.2011

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

paper.li/freedomgroupTV

Turkish fin. min. meets Libya rebel economy experts
In the meeting, Simsek told the Libyan experts that Turkey could send experts to Libya in restructuring the Libyan economy.
Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek received Libya’s National Transitional Council economy experts in Ankara on Monday.
Simsek’s meeting with the Libyan delegation lasted close to an hour.
In the meeting, Simsek told the Libyan experts that Turkey could send experts to Libya in restructuring the Libyan economy.
Libyan experts told Simsek that they wanted to look at the Turkish economic model in managing the Libyan economy.

source: www.worldbulletin.net/?a&Arti...

FromJoanne Joanne
#Tripoli Detention Map twitpic.com/5hfsq9/full #Libya @NATO #GaddafiCrimes

Ahmed:
Secret photo of gaddafi and jacob zuma’s meeting twitpic.com/5kyv91

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

NATOlibrary NATO Library
‘NATO and Libya – Special Focus’ daily update is on ! goo.gl/WlGCq #Libya #NATO #OperationUnifiedProtector
LibyaAlHurraTV LibyaAlHurra
#Misrata faces severe food shortage in coming days. URGENT need for basic food supplies.

Libya: David Smith in Tripoli on Saif Gaddafi, negotiations, and prospect of Tripoli uprising. Interview: Paul Owen
audioboo.fm/boos/403920-libya-david-smi...
or:
boo.fm/b403920

NAMES:
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Exclusive: As promised the names of Gaddafi’s Electronic mercenaries translated into English #Feb17 #Libya twitdoc.com/BBE

A UK housewife living in Tripoli has been risking her life in the campaign to oust Colonel Muammar Gaddafi by taking supplies to rebel fighters and sending out news updates.
Most expatriates fled at the start of the uprising in February, but “Mary” – her true identity cannot be revealed for her own safety – chose to stay in Libya and help the rebels.
The mother of six, from Barnstaple, in England’s southwestern county of Devon, is married to a prominent Libyan businessman, The (London) Sunday Times reported. She joined the early anti-Gaddafi demonstrations in Green Square in Tripoli.
“The security forces fired on the crowd, and a close friend of ours dropped dead in front of my husband,” she said.
Mary became an unidentified reporter for news organisations, documenting the regime’s crackdown against the protesters.

“Because my husband is well known, no one suspected us, Gaddafi’s soldiers would often come to talk to us. ‘The rats are coming at us, even from the drainpipes,’ the security forces would say of the rebels,” she said.
Her kitchen became a workshop for the protesters, who cut out and stitched revolutionary flags and fashioned stickers.
Almost every day she and her husband would travel to Zawiya, 29 kilometers from Tripoli, to supply rebel fighters. “We would take SIM cards, food, phones, even cars,” her husband said.
As the fighting spread across the country, Mary encouraged her husband and sons to join the rebel forces. “I always tell other women you have to be strong and let your men fight,” she said. Her husband and two sons fought in Brega in eastern Libya and Nalut in the west before moving to the besieged city of Misrata, which they reached by fishing boat.
Remaining in Tripoli with her daughters, Mary wore a full burqah to keep hidden from the secret police. “Tripoli is a prison now,” she said. “There are constant arrests and raids by Gaddafi’s regime.”
Her daughter-in-law had a baby in early June but was unable to give birth at her preferred hospital. “It was taken over by security forces, who have turned it into a weapons base to hide from NATO.”
Mary reported growing signs of disaffection with the regime in Tripoli. “When NATO bombs, some people have started to cheer,” she said.
Her parents, who live in Devon, have been begging her to return.

www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news...

Turkish A&T BANK DIRECTOR GEN.+ ALL BOARD MEMBERS representing Libyan Foreign Bank @ A&T were REMOVED
www.aa.com.tr/en/arab-turkish-bank-conf...

Rebel chief clears way for Gaddafi to stay in Libya

In an effort to end the bloody civil war, Libya’s rebel administration publicly accepted for the first time yesterday that peace talks could start without Colonel Muammar Gaddafi being forced into exile.
The insistence of the opposition, and its Western sponsors, that the Libyan leader and his family must leave the country before negotiations can take place has been one of the main obstructions to a ceasefire.
But the head of the Transitional National Council (TNC), Mustafa Abdel Jalil, said yesterday that Colonel Gaddafi could stay in Libya, under “international supervision”, while talks got under way.
Speaking in Benghazi, Mr Jalil disclosed that an offer to this effect had been made to the Libyan regime via the United Nations almost a month ago, without, so far, any response.
“As a peaceful solution, we offered that he can resign and order his soldiers to withdraw from their barracks and positions, and then he can decide either to stay in Libya or abroad,” Mr Jalil said. “If he desires to stay in Libya, we will determine the place and it will be under international supervision.”

peaking in Benghazi, Mr Jalil disclosed that an offer to this effect had been made to the Libyan regime via the United Nations almost a month ago, without, so far, any response.
“As a peaceful solution, we offered that he can resign and order his soldiers to withdraw from their barracks and positions, and then he can decide either to stay in Libya or abroad,” Mr Jalil said. “If he desires to stay in Libya, we will determine the place and it will be under international supervision.”
peaking in Benghazi, Mr Jalil disclosed that an offer to this effect had been made to the Libyan regime via the United Nations almost a month ago, without, so far, any response.
“As a peaceful solution, we offered that he can resign and order his soldiers to withdraw from their barracks and positions, and then he can decide either to stay in Libya or abroad,” Mr Jalil said. “If he desires to stay in Libya, we will determine the place and it will be under international supervision.”
The move by the TNC is seen as an indication that with no military victory in sight after three months of Nato bombing, there is a growing push for a diplomatic solution. According to senior French and British military commanders, President Nicolas Sarkozy has demanded a “successful ending” to the war in time for an announcement on Bastille Day, 14 July.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa...

Libye: la rébellion se prépare à une offensive, Zuma en Russie

La rébelllion libyenne se prépare à lancer une offensive majeure sur le front ouest avec l’objectif d’être à coup de canon de Tripoli, bastion du régime de Mouammar Kadhafi, remontée par le parachutage d’armes françaises et des frappes accrues de l’Otan.
Parallèlement, le président sud-africain Jacob Zuma devait s’entretenir en Russie avec le groupe de contact international sur la Libye, à l’invitation de la Russie en tant que membre du comité ad hoc de l’Union africaine (UA) sur la Libye, selon les Affaires étrangères à Johannesburg.

More here:
www.vousnousils.fr/2011/07/03/libye-la-...

pdanaharbbc Paul Danahar
#Libyan rebel radio station on #Misrata front line runs 6 hours daily late afternoon to evening. People phone in from #Gaddafi held areas.

Cœurs sans frontières : comment soutenir les réfugiés libyens en Tunisie

Les initiatives de soutien en faveur de nos frères libyens réfugiés en Tunisie se multiplient. Si certaines familles sont aisées et parviennent à se prendre en charge, d’autres n’arrivent pas à y subvenir. C’est pourquoi un groupement d’ONG constitué essentiellement de : «Femmes & Leadership», ENDA interarabe, le Croissant Rouge Tunisien et l’association Tunisienne de lutte contre le HIV/AIDS, organisent ce mardi 5 juillet un dîner gala (musique et poésie engagée, Hôtel Le Palace). Les recettes seront distribuées directement aux familles concernées par le biais des antennes ENDA dans le sud ainsi que le CRT.
Depuis le début du conflit en Libye, le 17 février 2011, la Tunisie a fait face à un flux de quelque 500 000 réfugiés de toutes nationalités. Près de 3 000, principalement des Érythréens et des Somaliens, séjournent encore dans les camps de réfugiés en attente d’un rapatriement qui tarde.

www.leaders.com.tn/article/coeurs-sans-...

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Ahmet Davutoglu: We will help Libyans find a solution to their problems before the holy month of Ramadan (August)

Mediacircle:
NATO aircrafts bombed military positions in “Bani Waled” town, targeted Gaddafi’s troops gates, also caused burning a lot of military cars. Yesterday NATO bombed locations in “Zwara” city until now there is not much information about the location.

LibyaInMe Libya In Me
There’s a prediction going around in Benghazi that the end of Gaddafi is July 10

Danya
Did U know that #Gaddafi makes the children he brings in from other countries say " La ellha ela allah and Mu3ammer rasol Allah" #ESFERALLAH

Anton Hammerl honoured
Anton Hammerl, the photojournalist killed in Libya on April 5, will not easily be forgotten. Family, friends and the media fraternity yesterday packed His People Church in Parktown North to bid farewell to a man well loved.
The moving service would have brought only partial closure for the grieving family, whose hearts have been ripped to shreds in the past months. His wife, Penny Sukhraj, his sons Neo, 7, and Hiro, three-and-a-half months, his mother Freda and brother Alex Hammerl had travelled from London to attend the service, with close friend Bronwyn Friedlander.
Hammerl’s daughter, Aurora, and his father, Ludwig Hammerl, were present, along with the who’s who of newsmen and women – almost everyone who has worked in journalism since Hammerl arrived at The Star photo desk in the 1990s.
More:
www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng...

Libya: Wishing the way to victory
The intervention saved Benghazi but as we predicted four months ago, it has produced partition and military stalemate
With the Libyan civil war now dragging on into its fifth month, and the western involvement into its fourth, the airwaves have been thick with entreaties that Nato should stay the course, as if the only impediment to pursuing a successful intervention these days is faint hearts and empty coffers back home. There are others. One is that the rebel army is stuck in the woods, 15 miles outside Misrata and 130 miles east of Tripoli. Another is that, despite a stream of high-level defections, rising bread prices, a naval blockade and long queues at the petrol stations, Muammar Gaddafi has held firm. Describe his ruling clique as you will – a family clan, the men of the tent, war criminals – but the fact is they are still there, and what’s more, they appear to enjoy a measure of support. Assessing how much is an inherently flawed activity in a rump state under siege, whose prisons are filled with torture victims, but it is an inconvenient truth that Tripoli has just seen one of the biggest demonstrations of the campaign.
Read more:
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/j...

I keep on wondering where these journos get their facts from……..
It seems that just a few “real” journos understand what is going on,
the rest is just filling newspapers with “old thinking” , g propaganda and guessing….

BFBS: UK #Apache #Helicopters targeted the #Al #Mayah Military camp near Az #Zawiyah to the west of #Tripoli.

20arb
#Gaddafi morally & juristically bankrupt. Politically heading to bankruptcy Now sill waiting 4 financial & military bankruptcy.

Media circle:
Gaddafi’s forces transferring huge amount of weapons, vehicles and ammunition from a farm belongs to one of Gaddafi’s men ‘’Naji Shifsha’’ to another farm close to the “University of Africa” on the eastern side of ’’Zawiya’’ city towards the “Jaddaem” area, and the revolutionaries are carrying out some simple operations the latest of them bombing a gate of mercenaries in ’’Khartoum’’ Street in ’’Zawiya’’ city .

Misrata photo’s:
ishtaproductions.com/2011/06/misrata-li...

Talked to my dad a couple of days ago and he was heading to Nalut then Zintan, but haven’t heard from him since :(
Libye: série de raids de l’Otan
Des raids de l’Otan ont visé ce lundi à l’aube le port de Zouara et des points de contrôle “civils” dans cette ville située à 120 km à l’ouest de Tripoli, a annoncé la télévision d’Etat libyenne, faisant état de morts et de blessés.

“La coalition atlantique croisée colonialiste a bombardé des sites civils, notamment le port de Zouara et des points de contrôle sur la route côtière de cette ville, faisant des martyrs et des blessés”, a indiqué la télévision sans autre détail.

L’agence officielle libyenne Jana, a indiqué pour sa part qu’un raid “croisé” avait visé lundi matin des points de contrôle à Bani Walid, à 180 km au sud-est de la capitale libyenne, “faisant plusieurs morts et blessés”. La télévision libyenne a dénoncé une “guerre d’extermination” et de “crimes contre l’humanité” commis par l’Otan en Libye.

L’Otan a affirmé samedi qu’elle continuait d’augmenter la pression sur le régime de Kadhafi pour protéger les civils partout où ils sont sous la menace d’attaques". Les frappes aériennes visent à répondre au déploiement de “forces pro-Kadhafi dans des zones urbaines d’importance et sur des lignes de communication”, selon l’Otan.

L’Otan a indiqué ce lundi avoir visé la veille trois véhicules armés dans la zone de Zouara. Elle a également mené des frappes notamment dans la région de Brega (800 km à l’est de Tripoli) où 19 cibles militaires ont été visées mais aussi dans les zones de Misrata (200 km à l’est de Tripoli), Syrte (360 km à l’est de Tripoli) et Gharyan (une cinquantaine de km au sud de Tripoli).

www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2011/07/04/9...

Libya crisis: On the front line in the Nafusa mountains
Turkey is the latest country to say it recognises Libya’s rebel Transitional National Council as the true representative of the country’s people.
As his government pledged a further $200m in aid for the rebels, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said it was time for Colonel Gaddafi to go.
Mark Doyle reports from the Nafusa mountains.
Vid:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14...

Skeptical4 Skeptic
#NTC slowed offensive on #Tripoli, knows #that Gaddafi mil. resources must b exhausted first&supplies cut b4 launching all out assault

I just wish that journos would understand simple things like above…….

Germany comes to NATO party in Libya

Germany has agreed to supply munitions for the NATO air-strikes in Libya. The move comes despite Berlin not originally backing the operation, and some suggest peer pressure has caused the shift in its position.
After just over 100 days of air strikes and with just over 2,000 bombs dropped by NATO allies on Libya, the mission has run into an unexpected
problem: a lack of shells to drop.
And where there is demand, there is supply.
In this case, Germany has agreed to provide the much needed ammunition. Previously, Berlin abstained from voting in favor of UN Security Council Resolution 1973 on Libya – a move that surprised some, and angered others. But it may now be backing out of its decision.
“The Germans may not want to participate, but they have decided that their position does not preclude them from supplying weapons in this case, or assistance,” says Edward Hunt from Jane’s Defense and Security Intelligence and Analysis.
Some believe Germany is under pressure from other NATO members, particularly the US, France and the UK, to take a more active part in the Libyan campaign.
“At first hand our ministries told the foreign affairs minister ‘Don’t go to Libya. It is a very bad conflict. It was started by the CIA, and it is a dirty business. Don’t go there!’ So this is why he voted with Russia and China. Now the backlash from Washington is so tough that obviously we are under pressure to do something to make up for this decision,” says government consultant and political analyst Christoph Horstel.
Aside from peer pressure, Germany may be lured by the possible financial benefits of making its weapons available for NATO’s use in Libya.
Out of the 28 NATO members, only eight are actively participating in the Libyan campaign. With civilian deaths, to which NATO recently admitted, too, a shortage of weapons and the ever-relentless Muammar Gaddafi still at the helm, the coalition may be facing just the beginning of its problems.Berlin is in a tough spot: on the one hand, it has disappointed NATO by refusing to support the mission in Libya in March. On the other, by agreeing to supply bombs, it may now lose friends in other high places. Whatever the real reasons for its contradictory policy may be, Germany could find that by trying to please everyone, it may end up pleasing no one.
Source:
alhurriyya.com/en/index.php?news=5348

somaia
Fighting around #Misrata today on ‘Southern’ front at Abdul Raouf. Med teams say 2 #feb17 rebels dead 4 injured. #Gaddafi figures unknown

Now we have it from a newspaper:
Sudan repudiates reports on occupying Libyan town
July 3, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) on Sunday denied a report carried by the UK-based Daily Telegraph newspaper claiming that it took control of a town in Southern Libya.
The newspaper quoting officials enforcing the United Nations mandated No Fly Zone (NFZ) over Libya as saying that Sudan’s occupation of the town of Kufra and nearby military base granted the Sudanese a key strategic foothold between the regime and the opposition Transitional National Council (TNC) which holds the eastern seaboard and a series of rebel enclaves in a bid to topple the 41-years rule of Muammar Gaddafi.
“Our surveillance shows that they are not moving oil, so its not about money in the short term,” said one Western official.
“The commercial oil companies monitoring is reporting that there has been no movement of oil out of Libya.
But SAF spokesperson Colonel Al-Sawarmi Khaled Sa’ad said in a statement described the report as “untrue”.
“We have nothing to do with what is going on in Libya or elsewhere and we are committed in our security work to defending Sudan’s borders with neighbors,” he said.
Sudan has unofficially given its blessings to the TNC and president Omer Hassan al-Bashir has slammed Gaddafi in recent months and accused him of conspiring against his country in the past.
Last March Reuters quoted unidentified diplomats at the UN as saying that Khartoum has given NATO permission to use its airspace in enforcing the NFZ.

www.sudantribune.com/Sudan-repudiates-r...

Libya Now Confirmed Qawaleesh in Nafusa has been liberated as announced by NTC Justice minister Al Ilagy in Benghazi.

NATO Ships delivering Humanitarian Assistance 03 JULY
2 Aircrafts delivering Humanitarian Assistance 03 JULY

CombatAir
Apaches used Hellfire missiles and cannon to destroy or disable a command and control vehicle, a bunker firing position and three MBTs.
Last night, British Apaches targeted Al Mayah Military camp near Az Zawiyah to the west of Tripoli.

NATO 03JULY: nr #Tripoli 1 Armoured Fighting Vehicle, 1 AA Gun, 2 C&C bldg nr #Gharyan: 1 Armd Vehicle nr #Zuwarah: 3 Armd Vehicles
NATO 03JULY: nr #Brega: 13 Armed Vehicles, 2 C&C nodes, 2 Mil Store Fclty, 1 Tank, 1 Artillery piece nr #Sirte: 1 Tank #libya
NATO 03JULY: nr #Waddan: 1 Mil Store Fclty nr #Misurata: 2 Armed Vehicles, 1 AA Gun nr #AbuQurayn: 1 Armoured Fighting Vehicle #libya
NATO Sorties conducted 03 JULY: 143 Strike sorties conducted 03 JULY: 71 #libya

libyanproud libyanandproud
#Nafusa : #Nalut : Freedom Fighters in are using recently fixed tanks to Pound #Gaddafi forces in #Ghazaya ! #Feb17 #Libya Pay Back Bitches!

libyanproud libyanandproud
OK it’s confirmed: #Gaddafi’s assets in A&T bank (owned at 62,37%) in #Turkey have been confiscated.”
Richard Fleming
Value of #BirAlGhanem is it applies pressure to #Zawiya, #AlAziziyah & #Gharyan and reduces avenues for #Gaddafistas to attack #BirAyyad, #Yefren & #Kikla.

FromJoanne Joanne
MUST SEE: HOW NEWS on #Twitter SPREADS during 1 hour goo.gl/q5LCM Original Tweets in red; RT Tweets displayed in green #Libya #Japan

Could Gaddafi stay in Libya?
July 4, 2011
Posted in News, Week Commencing: July 4 | 13:16
The opposition’s offer to the Libyan dictator of internal exile may be pragmatic but it raises some tricky issues

Colonel Gaddafi can stay in Libya if he gives up power, the head of the opposition movement said on Sunday in a move that could ease the way towards a political solution of the conflict that has now been raging for more than four months.
Mustafa Abdel Jalil, chair of the Transitional National Council, told Reuters: “If he desires to stay in Libya, we will determine the place and it will be under international supervision. And there will be international supervision of all his movements.”
The Libyan leader has so far insisted that whatever happens he will not leave the country. One of the objections to allowing him to stay is the fear that he could continue to manipulate Libyan politics after his official departure from power, but strict supervision of his movements and contacts could overcome that. Jalil suggested, for example, that Gaddafi could spend his retirement under guard in a military barracks.
Some Libyans certainly welcome that idea. One quoted in the New York Times described it as “the perfect move to save Libyan blood”, though another said Gaddafi should either leave the country or go to jail.
Providing dictators with a face-saving exit may be a pragmatic solution but it does raise some tricky issues.
The Tunisian president, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, was allowed to flee the country. He took refuge in Saudi Arabia but is now wanted for trial in Tunisia. In Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak was allowed to “retire” to the Sinai resort of Sharm el-Sheikh but also faces prosecution along with other members of his family. Meanwhile, Yemen’s president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, has been insisting on immunity from prosecution as one of several pre-conditions for stepping down.
However, the situation in Libya is complicated by the arrest warrants for Gaddafi and his son issued last month by the International Criminal Court. Letting him stay in Libya under “international supervision” is probably impractical, since it would amount to protecting him from arrest – in defiance of the ICC.
The transitional council’s offer was apparently made privately a month ago, before the ICC issued its warrants, and there is some speculation as to why Jalil has raised it in public now.
His remarks coincided with a visit from the Turkish foreign minister which resulted in Turkey throwing its weight more firmly behind the Libyan opposition – recognising the transitional council as the country’s legitimate representative and promising a further $200m in aid.
Talk of internal exile for Gaddafi may also be connected with attempts by the African Union to set up negotiations between the regime and the opposition. An apparent concession by the regime is that discussions could be held without the colonel’s direct involvement.
Another possibility suggested by Ranj Alaaldin, an analyst and contributor to Comment is free, is that the opposition could be giving him “one last chance” before launching an offensive on his Tripoli stronghold.
Some media reports have suggested that opposition forces are preparing to attack the capital but are concerned about the risk of bloodshed if they do so.
Source The Guardian

Niz_FGM Niz
4/7/11 – A CALL TO RALLY FOR THE UPRISING IN THE LIBERATED TOWNS OF LIBYA AND IN TUNIS. SPREAD THE WORD FAR AND WIDE….facebook.com/event.php?eid=…

www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=15817685...

CFKlebergTT Carl F Kleberg – TT
#Norway not confirming (or denying) reports that they witnessed negotiations between #Gaddafi regime and rebels in #Libya.

This is a Swedish journo, can anybody tell me how this is news?
Not confirming nor denying something sells news ?

FromJoanne Joanne
MAIN OIL PIPE LINE from Al SHARARA oil field supplying Tripoli IS CUT

I thought that was cut a week ago?

MAIN OIL PIPE LINE from Al SHARARA oil field to Tripoli IS CUT Libya Gaddafi now LESS then month supply oil via Channel5News

This is old news, tv stations have just picked up on it, how comes it takes soooo long b4 media picks up on news?

Was announced on several tv stations today, in different countries

I am under impression that one channel or one paper picks up on something and the rest copies it, regardless whether it’s old or up to date. Nobody has the brilliant idea to do a tiny bit of research to confirm accuracy or date……

LibyaTrueStory
My premier on #Libya AlAhrar TV youtube.com/embed/KWcs3OXd… (in Arabic) w/ host @Libyaonline17 talking about situation in #Misrata #Feb17

www.youtube.com/embed/KWcs3OXdLWw

Danya
#Libya scholars, and islamic students touring south #Tunis raising awareness about rights, women abuse & current situation affairs

Reuters:
The Istanbul story headlined “Turkey cuts diplomatic ties with Gaddafi’s Libya” is wrong and is withdrawn.
Turkey’s Official Gazette stated only that Turkey’s ambassador to Tripoli had been given a new appointment in Ankara. There was no mention of any break in diplomatic relations. The envoy had in fact been withdrawn from Tripoli two months ago for security reasons.

FromJoanne Joanne
#BENGHAZI Tahrir Square Part of SPEECH from Minister of Justice Mohamed Allaqi on 07/03 goo.gl/W9UzZ #Amazigh #Libya

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaUlxQUXN4k

Gaddafi’s fate is notable absentee in AU peace plan
In an online article published by the French-language Slate Afrique on Tuesday, Moustapha Niasse, a former Senegalese prime minister and current opposition figure, explained that many African leaders were not ready to forsake Gaddafi.
“Gaddafi has invested heavily in Africa and in African culture. We don’t turn our back on an ally or a friend when he is in trouble,” Niasse was quoted as saying.
The embattled Libyan leader has not only invested heavily in the economies of regional neighbours and offered money directly to their leaders. Regional experts have been quick to remind that Gaddafi is also largely responsible for the AU’s very existence.
“It was in Libya, in Colonel Gaddafi’s own village of Syrte, that the idea of establishing the African Union was first drawn up,” said Francis Laloupo, a journalist and geopolitics professor in Paris.
“Libya is a huge financial contributor to the African Union, and has earned significant political influence. As a consequence, the AU today is very embarrassed to deliver a moral and political decision on the Libyan crisis,” Laloupo told FRANCE 24.
source: www.france24.com/en/20110703-african-un...

Skeptical4 Skeptic
Cannot search for latest postings on a particular subject on google web search, option removed from more tools!
Google really pisses me off

FromJoanne Joanne
#Nalut lives on Water+Cookies +1Plate Of Rice A day&Lost contact wth OutsideWorld due 2goat Chewing our Satellite cable

BNN_News_Intl BNN News Int’l
Another repeat by the #NTC: #Gaddafi will not remain on Libyan soil when the war is Over

‘No possibility for #Gaddafi to remain in #Libya’: #NTC chief #Alarabiya

Monde 02/07/2011 à 00h00
Libye : des missiles «livrés à dos d’âne»

Ali al-Azzabi, un rebelle du nord du djebel, montre un bout de bitume calciné recouvert de morceaux de tôle tordus, en contrebas d’une tour romaine du plateau de Sofit. «Voilà, c’est dans ce virage que l’on a utilisé pour la dernière fois, début juin, un missile Milan. Trois véhicules de l’armée libyenne, dont un tank, s’étaient regroupés. Un seul a suffi pour tous les détruire. C’est vraiment une très bonne arme, particulièrement efficace. On peut tirer à deux kilomètres en restant très précis.»

Rest of the story::
www.liberation.fr/monde/01012346704-lib...

Some back ground on G sons and action taken by g:

Le fils Kadhafi trouble la Suisse
Suite à l’arrestation par la police helvète d’un des fils Kadhafi pour mauvais traitements sur des employés, la tension est grandissante entre la Suisse et la Libye. Entre menaces et passages à l’acte, Tripoli met la confédération helvétique sous pression: fermetures d’entreprises suisses, suspension des livraisons en pétrole, et surtout emprisonnement de deux ressortissants.

Hannibal Kadhafi fait à nouveau parler de lui. Il y a un an, il était impliqué dans une affaire de réseau de call-girls, démantelé sur la Côte d’Azur. Cette fois, c’est la Suisse qui est confrontée aux frasques du fils du colonel libyen: il a été arrêté dans un hôtel de Genève pour mauvais traitements à l’encontre de ses employés. Depuis, la tension, censée s’apaiser depuis plus d’une semaine, ne fait que s’aggraver entre la Libye et la Suisse.
Motassim Bilal Kadhafi de son vrai nom, qui occupait une suite dans un hôtel de Genève, a fait l’objet d’une plainte de la part de ses deux domestiques. Le personnel de l’hôtel, inquiet des nombreuses disputes qu’il entendait venir de sa suite, a averti la police. Les deux employés du couple, une Tunisienne et un Marocain, ont alors déposé plainte pour mauvais traitements. Il a immédiatement été arrêté, le 15 juillet, par les forces de l’ordre helvétiques. Son avocat, Robert Assael a déclaré qu’"il a été inculpé pour coups et blessures, séquestration d’un employé dans une suite d’hôtel et menaces verbales", ajoutant qu’il “considère qu’il s’agit de calomnies et rejette toutes ces accusations”. Sa femme Aline, hospitalisée car sur le point d’accoucher, a également été inculpée pour mauvais traitements. Après deux nuits passées en prison, l’homme a été libéré sous caution, contre 500 000 francs suisses (312 000 euros). Alors que la Libye demandait des excuses afin d’oublier cet épisode, la Suisse a refusé et entend bien poursuivre le concerné devant la justice.
Chantage au pétrole
Pour les Comités révolutionnaires libyens, ça ne pouvait pas passer. Suite à des manifestations devant l’ambassade de Suisse, ils ont menacé la Suisse d’un boycottage des banques suisses en Libye et de stopper les livraisons de pétrole. Dès le lendemain, les menaces étaient mises à exécution: la Libye a suspendu les livraisons de pétrole vers la confédération helvétique. De plus, les navires transportant des produits suisses ne peuvent plus décharger dans les ports libyens. Et la Libye menace encore de nouvelles sanctions.
En effet, Hannibal Kadhafi, 32 ans, est officiellement le “conseiller” de la Compagnie libyenne de transports maritimes qui exerce un quasi-monopole du transport du brut en Libye. De plus, la Libye est le premier fournisseur de pétrole à la Suisse. Cependant, les spécialistes helvétiques du secteur tentent de minimiser l’impact d’une telle mesure pour limiter la crise. Ils expliquent que cette mesure “n’aurait pas de sens” et surtout que la Suisse dispose de suffisamment de réserves et d’autres sources d’approvisionnement.
Conditions “absolument dramatiques”
Mais la Libye n’entend pas en rester là. Les liaisons aériennes ont été réduites. Et surtout, les entreprises suisses ont reçu un ordre de fermeture. Les bureaux de Nestlé et d’ABB (Asea Brown Boveri) ont ainsi dû fermer, et leurs responsables ont été interrogés par la police et accusés d’"infraction sur l’immigration et le séjour". Selon le porte-parole du DFEA (Département fédéral des Affaires étrangères), Jean-Pierre Jeannerat, ils ont été arrêtés le week-end dernier, et sont détenus dans des conditions “absolument dramatiques”, ils sont “traités comme des immigrants illégaux”. Selon RFI, la mère de l’employé qui a dénoncé à la police suisse les mauvais traitements a été arrêtée en Libye.
Le DFAE (équivalent du ministère des Affaires étrangères en Suisse) a conseillé à ses ressortissants de renoncer à tout déplacement en Libye, d’autant plus que les autorités ont suspendu l’octroi de passeports aux ressortissants helvétiques. Berne aurait mis en place une cellule de crise, a déclaré RFI, et la ministre des Affaires étrangères, Micheline Calmy-Rey, aurait interrompu ses vacances pour gérer le dossier. L’ambassadeur suisse à Tripoli, Daniel Von Muralt, tente d’apaiser quelque peu les tensions. Il a précisé que “la Suisse n’a cherché à aucun moment à blesser les sentiments du peuple libyen”. Une délégation diplomatique a également été envoyée sur place.
source:
www.lejdd.fr/International/Actualite/Le...

EndTyranny101
#Tripoli: Clashes between FF & Gaddafi forces in the area of #Fashloom, which has been under a virtual lock down for past 10 days. #Libya

20arb
Journalist was heading to #Kikla, saw ghost towns, smoke plumes & #FF on the run Then we had 2make a U-turn Hope all go’s well #Libya #feb17

Chris_UNICEF Christopher Tidey
#Libya #Benghazi – Vistd IDP centrs ystrdy. Needs r great as their resources dwindle. Accss 2 clean H2O + rec for children urgntly needed

pdanaharbbc Paul Danahar
Anger with #NATO at Abdul Raouf. Want faster response to fighting on #Misrata southern front. Said 5 hours after call for help no action

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
BREAKING: 4 loud explosions heard in Tripoli few minutes ago. Sources gave these co-ord:32°48’30.03"N, 13°13’28.41"E #Libya via @2011feb17

(some tweets say is at +32° 48’ 30.03", +13° 13’ 28.41" Military barracks with Toyota Tundra in it)

2011feb17
Yes they are and neighbors say they seen Toyota Tundra cars used 4 oppressing protesters stored inside #feb17 #Libya

LibyanHawk
#Gaddafi’s troops are hiding in the #Egyptian embassy in #Tripoli. #Cairo is furious of such acts. #Libya.

If true there are some strange people around< maybe g ppl?
On Sunday 26th June 2011, @shamone1969 said:
RT @BritishLebanese: EXPOSED TWITTER ACCOUNT GIVING INSTRUCTIONS TO NATO TO BOMB #CIVILIAN AREAS IN #LIBYA #NAMEANDSHAME @2011feb17 #WARCRIME #ILLEGAL #VIOLATION

CFKlebergTT Carl F Kleberg – TT
#Italy denies that #Libya opp. has met #Gaddafi regime in Italy. Spokesman: “There have been no contacts or negotiations.”

Does this journo write anything else but: denied and/ or refused to confirm?

Sentletse
Muhammad Gaddafi says Western forces have deployed commandos to Tripoli to kill his father.

Gaddafi’s say a lot of things, invariably a lot of untrue things……

janeikelboom Jan Eikelboom
Op weg naar het front zagen we spookstadjes, rookpluimen en rebellen op de vlucht. Toen zijn wij ook maar omgekeerd.

Niz_FGM Niz
4/7/11 – multiple explosions in #Tripoli

wheelertweets James Wheeler
2 FFs from #Zintan died today in fighting around Kikla. Yesterday, 1 from Zintan & 1 from Arryayna died. Plus 10-15 injured. #libya #feb17

sKikla FFs also suffered casualties, but figures are not readily available.

mmgeissler martin geissler
Series of distant explosions heard around #Tripoli #Libya this afternoon. 6 “crumps” in past hour. No way of verifying from #Rixos prison!!

FromJoanne Joanne
Its a lovely day in Tripoli a sunny 24°C and a Fair wind Ideal @Nato Weather #Libya

hamrooni
#Djerba Last night : Battle between Three Libyans and a tunisian > evolved to smash cars. #tunisie

EndTyranny101
#Sabha: 2 of #Gaddafi forces died & 5 inured in clashes with #FreedomFighters yesterday. 3 FF were abducted by G Forces..#Libya #Feb17

GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
FF use tanks against Gaddfai’s forces.Tanks are firing from the top of Jabal Nafusa towards Area 40 (Alghezaia)youtu.be/GEZzH5crafE

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEZzH5crafE&fea...

2011feb17
NATO keeps hitting some military storage facilities many times ’cause Gaddafi keeps moving stuff into them. #feb17 #Libya

Reuters:
Analysis: Behind “mad dog” image, Gaddafi may accept a deal
(Reuters) – Behind his image as a crazed tyrant, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi is fiercely intelligent, loves his family and just might do what everyone is least expecting and let go of power.
The battle over Libya, now in its fifth month, is a contest of Western military technology, money, oil, diplomacy, rag-tag rebels and a stubborn system of government that has refused to be swept away by the wave of “Arab Spring” uprisings.
Ultimately though, it is a battle whose outcome could boil down to the decisions made by one man: Muammar Gaddafi.
The view of Gaddafi commonly held outside Libya — with his safari suits, retinue of female bodyguards and his ruthless repression of opponents — is of a volatile and violent dictator who will fight to the last drop of blood.
Former President Ronald Reagan coined the phrase “Mad Dog” of the Middle East to describe Gaddafi. Some of Gaddafi’s personal behavior lends support to that view.
Read story:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/04/us-l...

Ossama
BREAKING NEWS: The sound of #NATO aircratfs over #Misurata now and air strikes. #Libya #feb17

BREAKING: The FFs in #Benghazi have found bombs planted in a car in front of the Tibisti Hotel, were the NTC is based and Journs. #Libya

NoahSinking
I checked to see when the #EU announced sanctions on the 6 Gdfi ports. It was on June 7, with 1 month grace given to comply.

freelibyasoon
Can’t wait for #Libya to be free of all the #Gaddafi Regime Bullshit that we have been dealing with for so long!

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gwaleesh: #Gadaffi forces headed from #AlGiryat towards #AlAsabaa to reinforce Gwaleesh troops

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Misrata: #Gaddafi forces shelled this morning w/ GRAD rockets causing injuries to civilians & damage to a number of buildings #Libya #feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “HACI MEHMET KAPTAN” 34.20022˚/24.2316˚ Speed/Course: 8.1 kn/260˚ Dest: #Tripoli #Libya #feb17

Sir David Frost paid to promote Gaddafi
Sir David Frost was paid £57,000 by a management consultancy to help boost the image of Colonel Gaddafi’s Libyan regime, it has been revealed.

The broadcaster was among a number of influential people in the west recruited by the US based Monitor Group to help enhance the profile of Libya between 2006 and 2009 when Muammar Gaddafi was attempting to improve international relations.
In addition to Sir David Frost, documents released by the Monitor Group, reveal that Anthony Giddens, a former director of the London School of Economics (LSE), who was ennobled by Tony Blair, was also on the payroll.
Lord Giddens was paid £41,500 after making two visits to Tripoli during which he took part in a public discussion alongside an American academic, chaired by Sir David.
One of the aims of the strategy was to help change Libya’s international image as a sponsor of terrorism and pariah state and also to portray Colonel Gaddafi as an intellectual and a thinker.

The Monitor Group also undertook a series of interviews on behalf of Gaddafi’s son, Saif, while he was undertaking research for his 2008 PhD
The doctorate has since become the subject of scrutiny amid allegations that it was partly plagiarised.
Last week the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Gaddafi, accusing him of crimes against humanity and of ordering attacks on civilians in Libya following the uprising.
Arrest warrants have also been issued for his son Saif and the regime’s intelligence chief, Abdullah Senussi.
Other recipients of payments from the management consultancy include American intellectuals who paid regular visits to Libya between 2006 and 2008.

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

FreeBenghazi
Electricity restored in Nalut.Heroic engineers&technicians entered battlezone 2 repair tower damaged Jun17 by Gaddafi shells

EndTyranny101
#Tarhouna: 5 #FF died in the town yesterday, reports that FF are trying to escalate operations against #Gaddafi forces in the town. #Libya
Misurata: #Gaddafi forces shelled this morning with Grad rockets, causing injuries to civilians & damage to a number of buildings
#Zlitan: Citizens R suffering due to the lock down implemented by #Gaddafi forces, who R roaming streets & snipers R on roofs of buildings

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
While #Turkey yesterday recognized the #Libya #NTC & pulled it’s Embassy from #Tripoli it would be nice if these were not empty acts/words.

CNN
New Arab League chief acknowledges change, vows probe on Libya

(CNN) — Less than two months after being tapped for the position, Nabil Al-Araby has formally become the head of the Arab League, Egyptian state media reported Sunday.
In his first comments since taking over as the alliance’s secretary-general, Al-Araby acknowledged that the region’s political landscape has changed significantly in recent months.
He touched on a number of hot-button subjects in his interview with the state-run Al-Ahram news agency, including the hostilities in Libya and strife in Syria.
Now that he is the Arab League’s secretary-general, Al-Araby, 75, said he plans to order investigations into alleged human rights abuses perpetrated by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadflies. He also urged Syrian authorities to implement real reforms and transition to democracy.
Full story:
edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/07/03/...

Qatar negotiated with Egypt to withdraw the front runner May 15 2011 , on the condition that Nilesat would shut down G tv. Leaving nr 2 Nabil al Araby to be the only candidate left in the race……..
( Just a reminder how the ex fm of Egypt came to be appointed to the position of Arab League Chief)
Nilesat STILL hasn’t shut down G tv, court order is finally in place for Nilesat to be shut down as from July 11 2011. ( www.dostor.org/crime/11/july/2/46954)

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Panama CARGO SHIP “INDRA II” 35.11397˚/14.25895˚ Speed/Course: 9.8 kn/200˚ last port: #Istanbul #Turkey, dest: #Tripoli #Libya @NATO

KC_Tripolitania
I have been enlisted as a ‘Rebel Against Libya’ by Libyan #Gaddafi goons who claim they are ‘searching 4 the truth about #Libya’. Welcome !

I am being followed by Libyan #Gaddafi goons :)

dovenews Libyan™
NATO strikes on a weapon depot in Zwara earlier today. #Zwara #Libya

LibyaFTW
A view from the last rebel checkpoint on the road to Haraba. The freedom fighters have managed to drive Colonel Qaddafi’s forces back from a number of cities in the Nafusa Mountains.
libya17th.tumblr.com/post/7231791006/a-...
BBC:
Libya: Why is it taking so long?

Rebels holding military positions some 90km (60 miles) from the Libyan capital, Tripoli, have expressed frustration that Nato commanders are holding them back from attacking the approaches to the capital.
“For Nato, the right position is to expedite our move to Tripoli and freedom for us,” said Ashour Abu Deir, a young rebel fighter.
“I think Nato is a little way behind because, when we reach Misrata, they say stop, when we reach Bir Ghanem, they say stop, when we reach Brega, they say stop.
“They can do more than this, instead of holding us back,” said Mr Abu Deir.
The rebels holding a strategic pocket of territory in the western Nafusa Mountains, or Jebel Nafusa, are in a loose alliance with the opposition Transitional National Council (NTC) with headquarters in Benghazi, eastern Libya.
I reached their easternmost front-lines in the Jebel Nafusa by driving through high, winding roads that thread through rocky terrain.

“Start Quote
Nato doesn’t want us to move forward – they are afraid of a huge massacre that might happen in Tripoli by Gaddafi forces, because he’s using civilians as a shield”
End Quote Muhammad Rebel fighter
Their front-line positions are typically mounds of earth, or simple trenches to protect them from incoming fire.
Local commanders say they liaise with Nato through a command centre in Benghazi.
Because Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s forces control most of the heavy weapons, the rebels count on Nato to destroy these before they can move forward more easily on the ground.
Col Gaddafi’s heavy artillery – mainly Soviet-era Grad missiles with a range of 30-40km – can pin down a force armed mainly with small machine-guns, typically AK-47 Kalashnikovs.
“Nato doesn’t want us to move forward,” said a former computer engineer who gave his name only as Muhammad, for fear that his family in Tripoli could be targeted if his full name were known.
“They are afraid of a huge massacre that might happen in Tripoli, by Gaddafi forces because he’s using civilians as a shield,” he claimed.
Caution
Part of this frustration may be born of bluster. Some rebels, highly motivated to advance on Tripoli, do not like to admit the weaknesses of their position.
But others are more circumspect.
Cdr Ali el-Hajj and his men have fought fiercely against a better-armed force of Col Gaddafi’s troops
“Sometimes Nato is right to be cautious,” said Commander Ali el-Hajj, a wiry, energetic man in charge of the rebel front in Yefren, near the easternmost points of rebel control in the Jebel Nafusa.

Whole story:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14016620

ears2dgrwnd
2 all our friends in the US we wish u a v HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY from your Libyan family #Libya #Gaddafi6ftUnderIsOur4thofJuly

Ossama BREAKING: 30 people, including a high ranked #Gaddafi oficer, who were based in #Brega have surrended to FFs in #Ajdabiah today. #Libya

LibyaFTW
Photo: The Turkish foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, center, greeted Libyans in Benghazi during his… tumblr.com/xs73bll98a

libyans_revolt
Video: #Nafusa #Kabaw DIY Rocket Launchers youtu.be/Q2wEXZ1nRxU #Libya #Feb17
¬
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2wEXZ1nRxU&fea...

Nice story
Weblog Jan Eikelboom: Omar

Verslaggever Jan Eikelboom reist sinds het begin van de onrust in de Arabische wereld met regelmaat naar de brandhaarden. Momenteel is hij met Esmeralda van Boon en cameraman Joris Hentenaar in het westen van Libië om verslag te doen. Volg Jan ook op Twitter.
Jadu, 3 juli
Met Omar, onze chauffeur is altijd wel wat aan de hand. Hij komt te laat, krijgt autopech, verdwijnt plotseling of is zijn sleutels kwijt. En toch willen wij Omar niet kwijt.
Vanochtend verschijnt Omar drie kwartier later dan afgesproken bij het huis in Nalut waar we de nacht hebben doorgebracht. In dit deel van de wereld geldt dit overigens als ‘redelijk op tijd’, dus we maken er niet echt een punt van. Minder leuk vinden we het dat hij de schitterende nieuwe Mercedesbus waar hij gisteren mee reed, heeft verruild voor een aftandse Toyota met doorzakkende stoelen en een voorruit vol barsten.
Tot halverwege de reis houdt de Toyota het vol. Nadat we opnames hebben gemaakt bij een landingsstrip die door de rebellen wordt gebruikt voor de aanvoer van hulpgoederen en mogelijk ook wapens, hangt opeens een hele rare lucht in de auto.
Het blijkt dat de airconditioning is opgeblazen. Misschien was het niet zo handig om die te laten loeien met alle deuren open bij 45 graden in de woestijn. Misschien was die gewoon versleten. Hoe dan ook: vanaf dat moment hebben we het erg warm.
Vlak voordat we Jadu bereiken doet het volgende probleem zich voor: de rem is kapot. Niet handig en al helemaal niet, als je zoals wij door de bergen rijdt. Het laatste stukje naar de stad remmen we met de hand. Dat gaat maar net goed, een paar keer komen we precies op tijd tot stilstand.
Terwijl wij ons installeren in ons appartement in Jadu gaat Omar op zoek naar een nieuwe auto en komt even later voorrijden in een goednieuwe Hyundai Sonata, die hij van een vriend heeft geleend en die zo uit de showroom lijkt te komen.
Helaas: nadat we bij een openluchtschooltje hebben gefilmd is de Sonata verdwenen. Samen met Omar. En in de Sonata zitten nogal wat zaken die we moeilijk kunnen missen, ons geld en onze apparatuur, bijvoorbeeld.
Er zit weinig anders op dan te wachten en we gaan zitten op een muurtje van een gebouw dat het streekmuseum blijkt te zijn. De directeur, blij met eindelijk weer eens een bezoeker, nodigt ons binnen en geeft een rondleiding. Net als soortgelijke Nederlandse musea: veel potten en pannen.
Dan is Omar terug. Met alweer een andere auto. De Sonata moest terug naar zijn vriend. Helaas zitten onze spullen er nog in, dat die in die wagen lagen was Omar vergeten.
Op naar de vriend van Omar dus, om onze apparatuur op te halen. Helaas: vriend niet thuis. Op naar de stad dus, om de vriend te zoeken. Het zweet parelt Omar op het voorhoofd. Hij ziet wel in dat dit niet echt slim is geweest. Gelukkig vinden we zijn vriend snel terug en kunnen we binnen een half uur weer aan het werk.
Als we ’s avonds om half elf uitgeput en uitgehongerd na een lange dag werken in ons appartement terugkeren, zegt Omar dat hij zo terugkomt. Een half uurtje later staat hij weer voor de deur. Met in zijn handen een heerlijke warme maaltijd: spaghetti met tomatensaus en tonijn. Omar mag soms een kluns zijn, maar wij houden van die man.

Libya NATO aircrafts are NOW heading to attack Qaddafi’s battalions in the surrounding cities of Misurata.

Libya Turkish diplomats say they closed the channel with Qaddafi when “we didn’t receive the response we were seeking”

Alexblx Alexblx
@NATO @NATOpress @MajGenLorimer @africom @AndersFoghR “large military convey fm Al #Garyat heading towards #Kikla & #ElGawaleash” #Libya

wheelertweets James Wheeler
July 4th: #Libyan friends here are asking me what this American holiday is all about. We call it Independence Day. Our national birthday.

degner Egypt Photographer
The main square in Tobrouk, Libya is populated by 15 people with laptops, kids playing soccer, and patriotic songs. Free wifi makes me happy

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Reports of #Gaddafi rockets landing in #Misrata in last few minutes. Unclear if any casualties at the moment.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “YUSUF CEPNIOGLU” now departing #Tripoli #Libya after having resupplied Turkey’s best friend #Gaddafi. #feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Italy ship of unspecified type “CARTAGINE” 34.9314˚/13.93366˚ Speed/Course: 9.4 kn/157˚ #Libya #feb17 @NATO

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
STRANGE: #Italy ship of unspecified type “CARTAGINE” departed #MazaraDelVallo #Sicily, apparent destination #Misrata #Libya. #feb17 @NATO

Libyan Rebels Keeping Track of Who’s Helping Now

“The Qataris took the best approach, which is ‘advance today, win the hearts and minds, and later on you’ll get your rewards.’ It’s a philosophy that is working and that is very smart,” said elGalal.

“After liberation, paradise will appear in North Africa,” he said. “This paradise is Libya. No one will be in this paradise if he didn’t support us now – that’s all.”

Such score settling is not shared by everyone in the opposition, and perhaps reflects only a passing frustration. But it just could be a sign of the kind of intemperate policies many hope a future Libya will avoid, and what help now could prevent.
Whole story:
www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Lib...

PeterLeng Peter Leng
#Libyan dep foreign minister says talks have been going on with rebels for 2 months – by phone and in european citiies.
But Khaled Kaim says rebels not speaking with one voice, TNC is many different factions. And talks won’t work while NATO bombing continues

PeterLeng Peter Leng
Libyan minister: TNC is shortsightled, lacks credibility, no support in many tribes. Just fyi!! Don’t shoot the messenger (me!)

mmgeissler martin geissler

Just back from #Tripoli port, Gov’t showed us cache of arms and ammo they say was seized as it was being taken ashore by rebels.
The arms were, apparently, delivered to the rebels by a Tunisian registered boat. The ammo cases had Qatari military stamps.
We were shown 100 assault rifles and thousands of rounds of ammo. Govt claim it’s ten per cent of total haul. No sign of the rest though.
#Libya government claiming #NATO supervised arms delivery. “Another breach of their mandate”, they say.
As ever, difficult from this end to cut through the usual rhetoric and independently analyse. Now pre-conditioned to doubt everything!
That said, the story and the evidence we were shown did seem to stack up. Interesting, if true, but not entirely surprising!
It was seized along the coast, apparently and brought to port here for investigation.
the gov’t claim it was to be used to open up a new front to the east of Tripoli (between here and Misrata).
Yes, moving pictures, none I can post. You’ll see pretty wide coverage I’m sure. Lots of journos there.
like so much here, not clear or easy to establish!

pdanaharbbc Paul Danahar

Atleast Three rockets have hit the outskirts of #feb17 rebel held city of #Misrata

Rockets landed in rebel held #Misrata in last few minutes fired by #Gaddafi forces. Unclear if any casualties at the moment
Several rockets landed in Al Ghiran area of #Misrata #Libya . Sound of rocket landing in distance every few minutes.
Two clouds of smoke sitting over Ghiran after two more rockets land in the #feb17 held city of #Misrata fired by #Gaddafi forces.
Locals tell me this heaviest concentrated bombardment of #rebel held #Misrata in weeks. Now puffs of smoke east, west, south of where I am
I can see rockets landing in distance in #Misrata . Lots of low rumbling as they hit. No evidence of #NATO aircraft reacting to it yet

KC_Tripolitania KC
A big peaceful anti-#Gaddafi protests took place today in #Sabha after a funeral -protesters were met with live ammunition rounds.

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Mustafa Farhat & Hamuda Genefed (Sukna FFs) arrested on AlJufra road. Now held in Sirte #Feb17#libya

BREAKING: #Nalut FFs NOW begin shelling the tyrant’s battalions in Ghazaiah with tanks and new missiles.

SOMEONE GETS IT!!!!!!!!
According to President Obama – ‘Gaddafi has killed more Americans than anyone else’.
Thank you Pres. Obama

Libya NATO is NOW bombing locations in Brega,this morning NATO aircraft bombed more than 15 military vehicles and tanks in the region

United4Libya
7 killed and 22 injured in attack by #Gaddafi’ forces on #Misrata today. #Libya

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Misrata: Fierce clashes on the southern front ( #AbdulRaouf area) resulted in 7 martyrs, 22 injured. #Libya #feb17

McKenzieCNN David McKenzie
Let’s just say I wasn’t given much of a choice about leaving. #libya

4Adam Adam
A Look Inside the Libyan Rebel “Military Machine” youtube.com/watch?v=nqRf0G… #Libya #Benghazi #Feb17

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqRf0G7TLbA&fea...

wheelertweets James Wheeler
American Revolutionary history includes Patrick Henry’s famous ‘Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death’ speech in 1775. In #Libya, history lives.

McKenzieCNN David McKenzie
Have left #libya … somewhat unexpectedly. Met some wonderful and brave people. Met some not so wonderful people too.

dovenews Libyan™
S. #Africa: #Zuma is currently in #Russia, he is running like a headless chicken trying to find out a solution for his #MASTER #Gaddafi.

Ossama BREAKING: Gaddafi TV says that #NATO is now bombing military sites and zones in the Western Mountains. Allah Akbar! #Libya

NOTE FAKE EMAILS:
PLZ NOTE:Gaddafi thugs r sending fake emails saying they are from Mustafa Abdul Jalil ’s wife, asking for help to transfer money out of Libya.

Ossama
BREAKING: Yesterday in #Brega Aprox. 250 #Gaddafi soldiers were killed due to #NATO bombardment. #Libya #feb17

BREAKING: New arrests in Sarraj area of #Tripoli and #Ennjila area in the Sout Western suburb of the capital

septimius_sever septimius severus
Good article and photos by @degner in Eastern #Libya incendiaryimage.com

dovenews Libyan™
ALERT! A large military convey have moved from Al #Garyat heading towards #Kikla & #ElGawaleash. Confirmed #Nafusa #Libya @NATO

Ossama
BREAKING #TRIPOLI: 4 explosions from #NATO have rocked the capital NOW in the area of Salah Al-deen.

Libye : le régime appelle les volontaires à lutter contre “les croisés”

Le régime libyen a appelé lundi les volontaires à s’enregistrer pour combattre les forces “croisées” et les rebelles, au moment où ceux-ci s’apprêtent à déclencher une offensive majeure sur le front Ouest avec l’objectif d’être à portée de canon de Tripoli, bastion du régime de Mouammar Kadhafi.
“Le comité général pour la défense annonce l’ouverture de bureaux pour enregistrer les combattants, femmes et hommes, qui veulent lutter contre les forces croisées et les bandes de traîtres”, selon la télévision d’Etat.
Cette annonce intervient trois jours après un discours du colonel Kadhafi dans lequel il a décrété la mobilisation et incité ses partisans à marcher sur des positions occupées par la rébellion pour les récupérer.
Parallèlement, la Russie et l’Otan sont toujours en désaccord sur l’interprétation de la résolution 1973 de l’ONU qui a ouvert la voie aux raids aériens contre le régime du colonel Kadhafi en Libye, a indiqué le ministre russe des Affaires étrangères Sergueï Lavrovlors d’une conférence de presse dans la ville de Sotchi, sur les bords de la mer Noire.

tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualite/monde...

Room to Grow: Free Libya’s Emergent Civil Society

“Who’s actually running things in free Libya?”
Such was the question posed by PhD candidate Ryan Calder in a recent article for Foreign Policy, “The Improvised State.” Eastern Libya’s Transitional National Council (TNC) has shouldered much of the burden, Calder writes, but it has mostly had its hands full with top-down management – particularly of its ad-hoc military and oil facilities.
When it comes to daily life, tasks as mundane as traffic control and critical as emergency medicine have been taken over largely by volunteers. Calder’s article was the product of recent travels throughout Free Libya. One of the women he interviewed, a chemist at Libyan International Medical University named Nuha Naas, said doctors she knew asked for her help as soon as the protests against the Qaddafi regime turned violent.
“When I got to the hospital everything was a mess,” Naas said. “There was no one to tell us how to help. We cleaned blood off the floor, carried food, made beds for patients, took people to get X-rays ... I saw lots of medical students at the hospitals who could be more helpful, but who didn’t know what to do. And I saw people on television carrying wounded patients or trying to stop bleeding, but they were doing it the wrong way.”
Source:
blog.bridging-the-divide.org/news/room-...

Russia: Libya, missile defense hinder NATO ties

Russia’s foreign minister says Libya, missile defense issues hinder NATO-Russia cooperation

(AP) — Differences over the war in Libya and missile defense plans are hindering efforts to build a strategic partnership between NATO and Russia, Russia’s foreign minister said Monday.
“The dialogue is not proceeding as easily as we expected after the Lisbon summit,” Sergey Lavrov said, referring to the meeting of Russia’s and NATO’s heads of state in the Portuguese capital in November,…
www.newsday.com/news/russia-libya-missi...

LibyaYouth Libya Youth
Tripoli Update: My Cousin skyping me. Says Gaddafi forces going around looking for men who didn’t join Gaddafi’s last rally. #Libya

LibyaUnited1944
Got an email 2day claiming 2 b from Mohamed Gadafi needing my help 2 move some cash…those Nigerians sure r creative!

Send them NATO’s email address!

libyanproud libyanandproud
#Nafusa : #takut : #NATO have bombed #Gaddafi forces stationed in Takut . #Feb17 #Libya via FB

Libye Libre:
Libya stretches along the northeast coast of Africa between Tunisia and Algeria on the west and Egypt on the east; to the south are the Sudan, Chad, and Niger. It is one-sixth larger than Alaska. Much of the country lies within the Sahara. Along the Mediterranean coast and farther inland is arable plateau land.
Today, I received a shocking email from a dear friend of mine. Here is what she sadly informed me in her email:

‘’ My aunt was abducted from her home. The following day she was found thrown on the ground in a nearby city beaten, stabbed, shot with several bullets. She is my dad’s sister. She was in her 50s with a son in college. She is from the city of Tajura and has been reported on in AlJazeera and Libya Alhurra. I am requesting that you kindly take a few minutes to make sincere duaa for her. May a swt grant her the highest Janna. May a swt have mercy on her and all the shuhada!!!!’’
This is truly sad and only Allah know the whole truth about the situation in Libya. In fact, the situation is continuing to escalate and it’s clear that it’s rising critically and we need to pray. Libya is still experiencing an increasing shelling and gun fire, and the number of children and women involved is shockingly growing. There are people in the country that could normally help but they are still too frightened to act. Libya is intoxicated by massive confusions because of that Satan called ‘’GADDAFI’’. I keep wondering sometimes, do we need a miracle to get rid of Qaddafi once and for all? I have faith in God that no matter what, Gaddafi sooner or later shall pay for every drop of Libyan blood that is shed through his orders. I also know that Gaddafi is finished, his time is up. This rat has nothing to offer to the Libyan people and we as Libyan people are tired of his autocratic rule, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
Plz. read the whole story:
nafissa82.blogspot.com/2011/07/enough-i...

Libya_from_FR
by librev2011
Motassim #Gaddafi – JetSet Life – youtu.be/10bj14Pdiw0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=10bj14Pdiw0&feature=youtu.be

NIZ:
مسيرة ضد الدكتاتور – RALLY AGAINST THE DICTATOR
Wednesday, July 6 • 5:00pm – 11:30pm
بنغازي، تونس ، مصراتة, نفوسة, وجميع المدن المحررة – BENGHAZI, TUNIS, NAFUSA, MISRATA AND ALL THE LIBERATED TOWNS AND CITIES

www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=15817685...

17022011libya 17022011libya
by librev2011
Fundraising Dinner for Libyan Refugees at Tunisia Boarder 29-6-2011: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCeAKfCkzB0 http://bit.ly/lXigQu

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCeAKfCkzB0
www.17022011libya.com/vb/showthread.php?p=7139#post7139

EnoughGaddafi Enough Gaddafi
This #Libya revolutionary left his pizza business in Stockholm 2 serve pizzas to freedom fighters in #Libya goo.gl/JKJwV #Feb17

Pizza delivery service caters to Libya’s front-line rebels

By Ruth Sherlock, Daily Telegraph July 4, 2011

What is likely to be the most dangerous pizza delivery beat in the world is thriving in besieged Misurata, Libya, where scores of youths shuttle piping hot orders to rebel fighters on the front line.
The fast-growing team of volunteers make and deliver up to 8,000 pieces of pizza daily to the hundreds of rebel fighters on Misurata’s three front lines against Moammar Gadhafi’s forces.
The mastermind is Libyan chef Emad Daiki, 32. For years, Daiki ran a successful pizzeria in downtown Stockholm, selling his 12-inch pizzas.
The wartime pizzeria is hidden in an olive grove, within shelling range of the western front line. In the side room of a farmhouse with decor reminiscent of an old English country home, burly young men don chef aprons and knead giant balls of dough. Boys sprinkle the cheese and tomato sauce on the bases.
When he returned to his home in Misurata one month ago, Daiki made it his mission to feed the revolution: “I heard on Free Libya radio that the fighters needed food, so I decided to set up this restaurant.”
Daiki brought industrial ovens from the city’s bombed-out hotels and charmed shop owners for ingredients.
“Most people, when they heard it was for the fighters, gave many onions, tomatoes, tuna and olives, all for free,” Daiki said.
The fare is turned over to men such as Mohammed Ali, 21, whose beaten pickup truck has a bullet hole in the windshield, and metal work that is dented and torn by shrapnel.
Cooking is also a perilous practice: the rip and boom of incoming rockets often shakes the cooking pots, and mortars regularly fall nearby.
In the holes and sand banks that make up Misurata’s stalemate front lines, rebels wait and watch the enemy stationed across the fields. Tea pots, blankets, guitars and shisha pipes are strewn on the ground after more than a month of inhabitancy. For them Daiki’s piping hot slices are manna from heaven.
“We have to keep the fighters strong and their morale up; they cannot just eat bread,” Daiki said.
© Copyright © The Edmonton Journal

ALzintan Channel | English
The martyrs of Quawalish battle today:
1- Altaher Ahmed Mansour ( Zintan)
2- One from Alqala’a still not known
Three wounded people from Zintan. Two have been mildly wounded and the third has been so seriously injured that his both hands have been amputated.

septimius_
While Gaddafi &his propaganda machine are working, his rockets have killed 7 in #Misrata & still counting in #Nafusa!!! #Libya

THANKU4THEANGER
100% Confirmed: Pro Gaddafi who killed FFs in this video has been captured by Tripoli ’s FFs. Message to all you Pro- Gaddafi s ," We Know Who You Are."
VID:
www.tweetdeck.com/twitter/Thanku4theAng...

Israel trying to create problems here? Just think, what would Israel gain from publishing an article like this? Firstly the art. I stumbled upon followed by the original art.:
Report: Ground Invasion of Libya Within Two Weeks

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, July 4, 2011

A hawkish Jerusalem-based news outlet with reported links to Israeli intelligence that has proven accurate in its forecast of future geopolitical events claims that the war in Libya is approaching a “coup de grace” and that French, British and American troops will land on Libyan soil within the next two weeks to spearhead a full ground invasion.
In a piece entitled, US and NATO prepare final assault on Qaddafi, DebkaFile cites military sources for its contention that NATO powers are finalizing plans for a “large-scale, all-out military bid to kill or oust” Colonel Gaddafi.
“The coming coup de grace, expected in the next couple of weeks, is the hottest topic of discussion in the corridors of power and high-level military and intelligence get-togethers in London, Paris, Brussels, Moscow, Oslo, The Hague and Rome. It is expected to start in a couple of weeks with French and British troop landings on Libyan soil, to be followed in its last stages of by American forces,” states the report.
In military terms, “coup de grace” is a synonym for ‘death blow’, and Debka views France’s announcement that it is providing weapons to anti-Gaddafi rebels as a precursor for a ground invasion and “the opening shot of the final act in the scenario for removing him.”
If the report is correct in its claim that a ground invasion is imminent, it would mean that a plan for boots on the ground originally scheduled for the end of October has been dramatically accelerated, which is perhaps a reflection on the fact that Al-Qaeda-affiliated rebels have thus far failed to depose Gaddafi.
As we reported last month, sources from Ft. Hood, Texas as well as CENTCOM contacted us to reveal that the 1st Calvary Division (heavy armor) and III Corps were being deployed to Libya in late October and early November, and that a total of 30,000 US troops would be in place by that time.
DebkaFile is a pro-Israel intelligence-gathering website run out of Jerusalem. It has been labeled a media arm of Mossad, yet claims published on the website in the past have proven accurate, including a 2000 prediction that terrorists would attack the World Trade Center in New York.

Stock up with Fresh Food that lasts with eFoodsDirect (AD)
In addition to Israeli sources, Russian Envoy Dmitry Rogozin told RIA Novosti on Friday, ““I think that now we are witnessing the preparation stage of a ground operation which NATO, or at least some of its members… are ready to begin.”
According to a report in the Pakistani Observer, US, French and British Special Forces arrived in Libya on February 23 and 24, weeks before the UN “no fly zone” was even announced. More recently, Al Jazeera broadcast footage showing armed western military officials in Misrata appearing to converse with and instruct Libyan rebels.
Back in April, the EU announced that it had readied an invasion force for Libya that would work to “secure sea and land corridors inside the country.”
Despite the fact that President Obama ignored his own constitutional lawyers to launch a war without congressional approval, promising the conflict would last “days, not weeks,” US involvement has now entered its fourth month, with the Air Force and Navy, “still flying hundreds of strike missions over Libya despite the Obama administration’s claim that American forces are playing only a limited support role in the NATO operation,” according to the Air Force Times.
Lawmakers in Washington are increasingly irate at an intervention that has already cost nearly a billion dollars, particularly with regard to how the administration has ludicrously attempted to argue that America’s role in a bombardment does not represent a “war,” in addition to Obama’s arrogance last week in claiming he doesn’t “even need to get to the Constitutional question” while justifying the war.
If these reports turn out to be accurate and an invasion force is dispatched to topple Gaddafi, Obama could leave himself open to impeachment proceedings because of his brazen lie to the American people when he publicly stated that a land invasion was “absolutely” out of the question.
This is where it originated from:
ISRAEL DEBKA FILE:
US and NATO prepare final assault on Qaddafi. He threatens terror
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 2, 2011, 10:45 PM (GMT+02:00)

Qaddafi’s game of chess – or end game?
Libyan Ruler Muammar Qaddafi may have been bluffing when he said “The Libyan people are capable one day of taking the battle to Europe and the Mediterranean chiefly Italy and France” if NATO continues its air strikes, and …"throwing ourselves on Europe like swarms of locusts or bees" to attack “your homes, your offices, your families who would become legitimate military targets because you have transformed our offices, headquarters, homes and children into military targets which you say are legitimate.”
But the threat he relayed by audio to a huge pro-government rally in Tripoli Friday, July 1,may not be just a scare tactic but his last warning for NATO to abandon its large-scale, all-out military bid to kill or oust him, which debkafile’s military sources report is in its last stage of planning.
The coming coup de grace, expected in the next couple of weeks, is the hottest topic of discussion in the corridors of power and high-level military and intelligence get-togethers in London, Paris, Brussels, Moscow, Oslo, The Hague and Rome. It is expected to start in a couple of weeks with French and British troop landings on Libyan soil, to be followed in its last stages of by American forces.
Despite US President Barack Obama’s denials of direct military intervention in the Libya war – “American forces are playing only a limited support role in the NATO operation” – US sources made the following disclosure Thursday June 30: “The US Air Force and Navy aircraft are still flying hundreds of strike missions over Libya.”
Qaddafi views France’s supply of weapons to Libyan rebels as the opening shot of the final act in the scenario for removing him. He is convinced now that NATO will not be thrown off course by diplomacy or political concessions – even his recent offer of UN-supervised elections to decide whether the Libya voter wants him to stay or go.
If nothing else avails for his survival, debkafile’s military and counter-terror sources report that Qaddafi has the options and resources for making good on his threat before or after being forced out of power.
He could retire to the Sahel Desert, the desolate belt running north of the Sahara and stretching from the Atlantic to the Red Sea, and mount terrorist operations against Europe from there. He would operate from a sanctuary with the Tuareg tribes, which have links with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb – AQIM and many of whom have been fighting for him as mercenaries.
Incidentally, Western anti-terror agencies have never revealed that the July 7, 2005 London transport attacks, in which 56 people died and more than 700 were injured, were backed logistically by – and received their explosive devices from – al Qaeda’s Tuareg followers.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Qaddafi was a notoriously proactive anti-West terror-master and facilitator who sanctioned such operations as the blowing up of the Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish village of Lockerbie in which 250 people died; and the La Belle discothèque explosion in Berlin which killed two US army sergeants.
Among the European and Asian extremists who were trained and supported by Libya were the radical left-wing Red Brigades’ Italian, German and Japanese offshoots and the Irish Republican Army, the IRA.
Libyan agents also took a hand in the East German external intelligence branch’s covert operations in Europe.
Some of the Libyan agents employed in this far-flung campaign of violence are still idle.
It is not known whether or not Qaddafi has decided to reactivate his terror machine which almost certainly retains sleeper cells in parts of Europe – either to pre-empt or to avenge the massive NATO end-game for his rule.
Saturday, July 2, in another bid to avert the offensive, the African Union announced Qaddafi had agreed to transitional negotiations between government and rebel representatives in Addis Ababa under the AU aegis. They would discuss “a consensual and inclusive transition” via an interim government and elections.
This initiative left the way open for Qaddafi to seek refuge on the continent but not to be removed by force.
But the Libyan ruler gave up on the NATO powers accepting any diplomatic solutions to the conflict after his own negotiations with rebel commanders in early June and the truce accord they reached (which was first revealed by DEBKA-Net-Weekly 493 on May 20) were roundly rejected by NATO which urged the rebels to fight on.
In Madrid Saturday, July 2, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton saidthe United States and Spain won’t let Qaddafi’s threats of retaliatory attacks in Europe deter their mission to protect Libyan civilians and force him to leave power. “Instead of issuing threats, he should be putting the well-being and interests of his own people first,” she said. “He should step down from power.”
Qaddafi has often been called unpredictable. On June 12, Russian chess master Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, having just played a game against the embattled Libyan ruler, warned that he was capable of catching his opponents off-guard with surprise moves.
But in his war with NATO, he has just laid his pieces out on the table.

Questions:
Would it be possible that Israeli Government is scared out of it’s wits by a free Libya?
Or possibly by a free North Africa?
Does a free North Africa give hope for Palestinian State?
How much money is involved here?

Articles raise more questions than they give answers….or do they?

Ossama
BREAKING: FFs have libearted an area 8km south of #Brega called Al-Arguwb. Allah Akbar!

NotLibyaStateTV
We hear that power rockets are being fired all over America right now. We urge NATO to end their Libya crusade & go stop America’s civil war

grafixel:
Medics in #Misrata says no injuries from tonight’s rocket attacks though 7 killed across day on the 3 front lines fighting G thugs #libya

Niz_FGM Niz
4/7/11 – Misrata to join the push…. scribd.com/doc/59306719/T…

www.scribd.com/doc/59306719/Tarabulus-T...

Libye: des armes interceptées
AFP
04/07/2011 | Mise à jour : 20:38 Réagir
Le régime libyen a affirmé aujourd’hui avoir intercepté à Zanzour, à 30 km à l’ouest de Tripoli, deux embarcations transportant des armes qataries destinées à la rébellion.

“Après le parachutage par les Français d’armes à la rébellion, nous assistons à une nouvelle forme de livraisons d’armes, par voie de mer”, a déclaré à la presse à Tripoli le vice-ministre aux Affaires étrangères, Khaled Kaaïm. “Nous dénonçons ces livraisons car leur but est de provoquer des affrontements entre Libyens et le chaos dans le pays. Nous avons averti maintes fois les Occidentaux que ces armes pouvaient tomber aux mains d’Al-Qaïda”, a-t-il ajouté, sans préciser l’origine ou la destination exacte du bateau.

Les deux embarcations ont reçu une cargaison d’un bateau portant un drapeau tunisien puis se sont dirigées vers les côtes de Zanzour, où elles ont été interceptées par les gardes-côtes et les militaires libyens dans la nuit de dimanche à lundi, a précisé le porte parole officiel Moussa Ibrahim. Onze rebelles, parmi lesquels deux officiers, ont été arrêtés, a-t-il ajouté.

www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2011/07/04/9...

Danya 1 of the many reasons our freedom fighter’s need weapons are because of people like this youtube.com/watch?v=WhXA-5…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhXA-5PZtGY&feature=player_embedded#at=45

Sanad
Current map of the west of #Libya as you can see the FF have an excellent strangle hold on the west yfrog.com/h3grrljj

Gaddafi sent a letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel congratulated pass any of the Security Council presidency
BEIJING, July 4 (Xinhua) British media quoted the Libyan state news agency (Jana) of news, local 3, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to send information to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, expressed as Germany holds the rotating UN Security Council chairman of congratulations. The message did not disclose the reasons for this Qaddafi or more details. German side, said on receiving such a letter knowledge. From July 1 this year, the German presidency of the United Nations Security Council, one month duration in Germany last held the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council in February 2003. Germany has been refused to participate in NATO military intervention against Libya in March this year, the UN Security Council, Germany’s no-fly zones set up in Libya abstained from voting on the issue. The move to bring allies to its range of criticism. But the German government to the stand and the weariness of their society in line, thereby gaining public support.
However, with the developments in Germany have gradually changed the attitude of the German Foreign Minister Westerwelle June 13 visit to Libya, Benghazi, where he met with opposition leaders and representatives of the National Transitional Council meeting, said recognizing its position as the representative of the Libyan people the German Representative Office in Libya has also officially opened the same day(www.f-paper.com/).
June 28, the German Defense Ministry confirmed that, in view of NATO’s military action in Libya gradually running out of weapons, NATO, Germany has been made to reinforce the current requirements. German Ministry of Defense has to make sure this position. Defense Ministry spokesman said, always ready support for NATO in Germany, a basic attitude.
Source:
www.f-paper.com/?i513693-Gaddafi-sent-a...

FreeLibyanman
Mr #Rasmussen Thanks for your help, but plz do n’t exaggerate things. we are fine without #Gaddafi & his family. we ve govt NOW called #NTC
Tripolitanian
#Libyans need to stop saying “now is not the time.” NOW is the time, NOW is the time for change, demand change, not more of the same. #Libya

dovenews Libyan™
#FF have burned most of #Gaddafi pictures in #Sabha if not all. Also reports his house/compound was set on fire…#Sabha #Libya

Mushu
Youth Helping Children of #Libya: A Fundraising and Libya Awareness Dinner on #July17. Sacramento, CA. More info: goo.gl/9IOFr #Feb17

ArmchairArab
If you are questioning the sincerity the #Feb17 Libyan uprising, I refer you to this article – foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/…
Libya: Libyan leader and international pariah Muammar al-Qaddafi came to power after overthrowing pro-Western King Idris in 1969. Political power in the oil-rich state theoretically lies within committees, but in practice Qaddafi rules unopposed. This February, protests calling for Qaddafi’s resignation began in Benghazi after a human rights activist was arrested. Qaddafi refused to step down and ordered forces to violently retaliate against protesters. The U.N. Security Council implemented a no-fly zone and demanded a cease-fire in March — and over the following months the United States, the United Nations, and the European Union have conducted air raids and voiced increasingly urgent public calls for Qaddafi to step down. In June, as rebel forces consolidated their gains and moved ever closer to Tripoli, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Qaddafi and his son on charges of crimes against humanity against the Libyan people.
Read on:
www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/07/...=0,1

septimius_
I still can’t figure out why a Rhino but the more painful the better I guess! #Libya #Gaddaficrimes twitpic.com/5l9huy

Le mystère des “millions” de Jörg Haider agite les médias autrichiens

Des millions prétendument cachés au Liechtenstein, un journal intime compromettant, une disparition mystérieuse, des liens avec Kadhafi… deux ans après sa mort, révélations et rumeurs sur l’ex-leader d’extrême droite Jörg Haider alimentent le feuilleton médiatique de l’été en Autriche.
Des millions prétendument cachés au Liechtenstein, un journal intime compromettant, une disparition mystérieuse, des liens avec Kadhafi… deux ans après sa mort, révélations et rumeurs sur l’ex-leader d’extrême droite Jörg Haider alimentent le feuilleton médiatique de l’été en Autriche.
La cascade de spéculations a débuté le week-end dernier avec les révélations de l’hebdomadaire Profil: Haider, ancien gouverneur de Carinthie (sud) qui dénonçait régulièrement la corruption des politiques, aurait placé pas moins de 45 millions d’euros au Liechtenstein, sur des comptes de plusieurs sociétés. Il n’en resterait aujourd’hui que 5 millions.
Selon le site internet du magazine Falter, sortant en kiosque ce jeudi, ces informations figurent dans le journal de bord de Walter Meischberger, ancien proche de Haider et ex-secrétaire général de son parti FPÖ. Ces carnets avaient été saisis en février dans le cadre d’une autre enquête sur des soupçons de corruption.
Non seulement Meischberger y évoque les virements vers Vaduz, la capitale de la principauté, mais il révèle également l’origine des fonds: parmi les donateurs pour le FPÖ figuraient le chef de l’Etat libyen Mouammar Kadhafi et les fils de l’ancien dictateur irakien Saddam Hussein.
Il tiendrait ces informations de Franz Koloini, ex-secrétaire du gouverneur de Carinthie, qui aurait admis avoir fait entrer en Autriche d’importantes sommes d’argent.
Au Liechtenstein, les autorités démentent que Jörg Haider, mort à 58 ans dans un accident de voiture le 11 octobre 2008, y ait détenu des comptes. En Autriche et en Suisse, la justice déclare n’avoir aucun élément prouvant l’existence de telles sommes détenues par le leader historique de l’extrême droite autrichienne.
Le parquet de Vienne confirme lui l’existence du journal privé de Walter Meischberger, mais sa véracité reste à prouver.
Franz Koloini explique que ses propos relatés dans le journal intime en question ne concernent que des “rumeurs”.
La personne la mieux placée pour savoir si Jörg Haider a procédé à de tels virements – et qui avait elle-même accès aux comptes – est depuis plusieurs années introuvable: Gerald Mikscha, secrétaire particulier de Haider dans les années 1990, a disparu depuis 2004 et avec lui plusieurs dizaines de millions d’euros, avance le quotidien Der Standard. Il vivrait aujourd’hui, selon les quotiens viennois, soit au Paraguay, soit en Suisse sur les rives du lac Léman.
Grâce à son intermédiaire, selon Der Standard, le fils de Kadhafi, Saïf, rencontré lors de ses études en Economie à Vienne, aurait ainsi pénétré le cercle d’amis proches de Haider.
“(Saïf) Kadhafi nous envoyait toujours de l’argent avant les élections, c’était en liquide”, a déclaré une source proche de Haider au magazine Profil.
Jörg Haider faisait déjà l’objet de soupçons de corruption, concernant notamment d’éventuelles commissions sur le rachat par la banque HGAA, dont la Carinthie a été actionnaire jusqu’en 2007, de biens et de terrains acquis à bas prix.
Si sur le plan juridique, ces révélations n’ont, pour l’instant, mené à rien de concret, elles auront au moins ouvert le débat sur la nécessaire réforme du financement des partis politiques.
L’Autriche n’oblige pas à publier le montant des dons aux partis ni l’identité des donateurs, jusqu’à concurrence de 7.260 euros. Toute contribution au-delà de cette somme doit être déclarée, mais aucune sanction n’est prévue si les partis ne s’y plient pas.
Une nouvelle loi pourrait voir le jour en 2011.
Source:
www.lepoint.fr/monde/le-mystere-des-mil...

misrati_free
#Tripoli A frnd saw a bound vy yng grl in a car screaming “I’ve been kidnapped!” after a chase check pt told him to frgt what u saw or die

Amazigh_Libya
Like one man said, a #Qaala license plate in #Tripoli is enough to get you arrested. #Libya #Feb17

Amazigh_Libya
Many families in #Tripoli from #Nafusa are directly targeted by the #Gaddafi regime. #Libya #Feb17

libyanproud
apparently nilesat has to shut down 10+ channels on the 11th of July by court order

FromJoanne Joanne
#Benghazi FF discovered a Pickup truck laden with around 30-40 kilograms of plastic explosives in car park of #Tibesti Hotel #Libya

OnlyOneLibya ProudLibyan
Areas free in #Libya: Benghazi: ☑, Misrata: ☑, Nafusa: ☑, #Tripoli: Imminent Tick □. #Libya: Imminent Tick □

m_madi
Back in #Yifrin now, last update was from #Qala’a. Saw a tank next to ancient monument, will upload pics

Einstueckkaese
Gehen Sie in das Bett, gehen sie direkt dorthin, gehen sie nicht über die Twitter-Startseite und ziehen sie sich keine Tweets mehr rein!

lol

4Adam Adam
Every freedomfighter in AbuSalim prison has a great story of courage & great love to the country might not get told. #Libya #Feb17 #Tripoli

Breaking News:
Sukna-Jufra
Ghadafi troops in Sukna are tracking and arresting revolutionists. Names of arrested people are as follows:
1- Zaroug Abdulrahman Beshir
2- Elmabrouk Bin Khalil
3- Beshir Mohammed Beshir

Once we get more information, We’ll keep you updated.

4Adam Adam
Gaddafi officers from army, air force and police defected from the his regime and joined to #FF in #Yefren via @AlArabiya_Brk #Libya #Feb17

4Adam Adam
Al-#Qalaa – Martyr Hussein Khalifa Suleiman al-Atrash 07.04.2011 twitpic.com/5l8j5o #RoadToTripoli #Libya #NafusaMountains #Feb17

4Adam Adam
A desperate cry from #Tripoli – NATO jets should target the main gate of AbuSalim prison.
Everyday prisoners sent to a hospital in #Tripoli after either tortured to death or in serious condition because of the lack of medication.
No one can estimate the number of FF in the notorious AbuSalim prison because the number hasn’t stopped growing.

Strange serie of tweets from Canada in connection with rep. NTC there.
Tripolitanian
IMPORTANT: To all Libyans living abroad, please do not sign any papers from Libyans claiming to be part of the #NTC. They are fakes. #Libya

The #NTC has hired Sufyan Maghur as rep in #Canada – we believe he is still working with #Gaddafi. Please revise decision.

Anyway, I hope some #Libyans in #Canada can take up the challenge of getting the Canadian gov to reject #Maghur as #NTC rep. #Libya
Omar:
RT Petition rejecting Sufyan Maghur as a rep of the #TNC to Canada t.co/tsYrRzE Urgent signatures required #Libya

Getting details that Sufyan Maghur was SELF-appointed and then asked the #NTC to be the “official” rep in #Canada

Sufyan Maghur: Son of Kamal Maghur, former Oil Minister and top lawyer for #Gaddafi. #Libya

Sufyan Maghur: Recently appointed rep for #NTC in #Canada, handing out “petition” for Libyans in support of #NTC – he works for #Gaddafi

she is in Canada now – its very suspicious they are handing out papers for Libyans to sign to join NTC

Sufyan Maghur, which the #NTC has assigned as representative in #Canada is related to Kamal Maghur, Lockerbie bomber lawyer for #Megrahi

Davutoğlu delights Libyans in Benghazi’s Tahrir Square

En route to Benghazi’s airport on Sunday after a successful trip to northeastern Libya, Turkey’s foreign policy architect, Ahmet Davutoğlu, made a sudden change of plans, catching his entourage off guard. The minister got out of his official car and waded into Tahrir Square – “Liberation” Square, like its more famous namesake in Cairo – to demonstrate his support for a group of local citizens shouting for more freedom and democracy.
Eschewing the bulletproof vests worn by his security detail, Davutoğlu dove into the crowd in Benghazi – the city that has come to symbolize the resistance to the regime of Col. Moammar Gadhafi – becoming the first foreign leader to do so.
Proceeding to a podium with dozens of journalists amid a crowd shouting, “Thank you, Turkey” and “Erdoğan, Turkey, Muslim,” Davutoğlu told the Libyan people in Arabic: “I salute you all, the sons of Omar Mukhtar.”

Read story:
www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=davut...

FromJoanne Joanne
Mahmud #Jibril, will arrive in the Turkish capital late Tuesday for a Meeting on Wednesday, said FM Davutoğlu #Libya

OnlyOneLibya ProudLibyan
#Tripoli will be free soon, and I am sure its men and women will play THE major part in freeing it.
The moral of the Libyan ppl inside is higher than the ones living outside despite hardships,just to show u how brave and determined they are

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Sniper location 32.004669,12.709218 at water tower in #Gawalesh near #Kikla killed 5, injured 7 yesterday. #Libya #feb17 @NATO

Please Give thanks to all the members and their families of OP UNIFIED PROTECTOR (Libya- NATO)
www.change.org/petitions/please-give-th...

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Malta CARGO SHIP “MAE YEMANJA” still anchored 20.0 NM out side port #Misrata #Libya. #feb17

Video: Guma Gumati interview – Rebuilding Libya after Gaddafi
Guma Gumati in a recent interview with sky said : Gaddafi watching Libyans building a new democratic country is beyond comprehension
feb17.info/media/video-guma-gumati-inte...

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tanzania CARGO SHIP “AMAL” has departed #Benghazi #Libya, apparent destination now #Misrata. #feb17

pdanaharbbc Paul Danahar
#Libyan rebels on #Misrata front line have to wait 6 hours after calling for help from #NATO .Say no NATO airstrikes 4 last 24 hrs. #feb17

NATO defends its air campaign in Libya against Gaddafi forces after Russian criticism tinyurl.com/3od6xy2”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14010305

LibyanBent
And I say Kremlin has overstepped its intrusion into #Libyan affairs. Kremlin says #NATO air campaign in #Libya has overstepped its mandate.

Libya’s transitional council not ready to revive oil industry
Abu Dhabi: Libya’s Transitional National Council (TNC) on Monday said it is not in a position to extract or refine oil.
But the Benghazi-based rebel council said it will look for major refiners once it is ready to tap into the country’s oil market.
“When we do, the price will be set following negotiations with those major oil companies that have refinery capabilities. It should be noted that in the short term, we will only export enough crude to meet our needs during these difficult times,” the TNC said in a statement..
Libya’s oil exports are down to a trickle following a public uprising earlier this year to overthrow the Muammar Gaddafi-led regime. This has put pressure on other states of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) to make up for the shortfall.
Full story:
gulfnews.com/business/oil-gas/libya-s-t...

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Libya: Journos at Rixos need to leave. Basement is #Gaddafi State TV studio. Journos human shields. To stay makes you complicit.

septimius_
“A reporter’s supposed lack of ‘bias’ has become the antidote to personal feeling, the excuse to avoid the truth” #Journalist

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Heinz: #NATO will turn its attention back to #Tiji/ #AlGhazaya soon. Also, #Gharyan is an important battleground.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Kabaw: #Gaddafi forces dressed as civilians, driving civilian car approached #Freedomfighter checkpoint shooting & killing 2 FF. #Libya

4Adam Adam
The independence flag in one of #Surman streets youtube.com/watch?v=qxlFnf… #Libya #Feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxlFnfU7SXM&fea...

dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi govt says in talks, NTC says he must go. buying/wasting time

Khiria
#GaddafiCrimes: Targeting #Palestinians in Libya due to Yasser Arafat’s signing of the Oslo accord
GaddafiCrimes: bombing of the Pan Am flight over Lockerbie
GaddafiCrimes: Gaddafi funded and sponsored some anarchists groups such as the Red Brigades. #Libya #Feb17

ilibico
#Misurata has been the most prosperous Libyan city, i’m absolutely convinced they will prosper again, they have it in them

sixarts
Journos staying at Rixos r now seen as enemy propaganda machine even if u do not like it#libya #tripoli

ALzintan Channel
Libya Free
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=565659&i...

EndTyranny101
#Sabha: If reports that #FF are taking control of the city are true, then this will be a huge blow of a large magnitude to #Gaddafi

BEAUTIFUL!
sixarts
This is #libya journos of the world اطول علم فى العالم علم الأستقلال youtube.com/watch?v=qKsuGi… #Benghazi #Libya credit @septimius_sever

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKsuGiOfBC8&fea...

More Qaddafi officers defect as NATO steps up airstrikes
A group of officers in Muammar Qaddafi’s military defected on Monday and joined rebel forces in the strategic Western town of Yefren as NATO warplanes stepped up their bombing in territory controlled by the Libyan leader.

The rebels—who pulled back from the plains on the road to Tripoli to the Nafusa Mountains last week—have been buoyed by an arms drop by France and said they would move to retake a key gateway to Tripoli.

Meanwhile in Benghazi on Monday, a large car bomb was found outside an upscale hotel used by Western diplomats and rebel politicians, security officials told AFP, which could fuel fears about a pro-Qaddafi cell operation in the rebel stronghold.

But the fighting on the ground is still making slow progress. The rag-tag force of rebel fighters is bogged down on three fronts and unable to break through to the capital.

In Misrata, a rebel-held city 200 km (130 miles) east of Tripoli, there was renewed fighting on the southern outskirts. A Reuters journalist at a hospital in the city saw the bodies of five fighters who had been killed on Monday.
Full story:
www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/07/05/1...

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Reports of major arrest campaign going on in #Janzour over past few days. #Libya #feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Early Monday morning #Freedomfighters carried out surprise attack on #Gaddafi’s #BaniWalid supply base in #AlMajr. #Libya #feb17

Niz_FGM Niz
5/7/11-hundreds of posters around the city,thousands of leaflets delivered hand2hand,banners,TV,radio. promises to be a big revolution rally

Mushu
Too busy and worried to go to sleep. I suppose these dark circles are here to stay. Sigh. #iblameitongaddafi

Marc_Herman_ Marc Herman
by libyaoutreach
Tunis hotel cable gets Libyan state TV. Good beat, flashing text, forced confessions, bomb injuries. Imagine Saw IV+ Peruvian music video.
…nope, can´t handle it. Turns out the difference between morbid fascination and just morbid is about 120 seconds.

4Adam Adam
Recording of a wireless reporting btwn Gaddafi soldiers in Brega abt many deaths and injuries after Apache attack youtube.com/watch?v=87VTUi… #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=87VTUiDeqZQ&fea...

wheelertweets James Wheeler
An injured FF wanted to see sum of my photos @ the hospital tonight. He spotted his brother n a Shakshuk pic & his cousin’s truck in another

SUMMARY JULY 5th 2011
7/5/2011
7/05/2011
7.05.2011

NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/6CIt4

NATO On July 4th
NATO aircraft flew 145 sorties, including 59 strike sorties. Some of the key targets included: In Tripoli: 1 Command and Control Center. In the vicinity of Brega: 1 Tank, 1 Artillery piece. In Brega: 1 Military Storage Facility. In the vicinity of Waddan: 1 Military Storage Facility. In the vicinity of Misurata: 1 Tank. In the vicinity of Nalut: 1 Military Camp. In the vicinity of Zintan: 2 Armed Vehicles, 1 Armoured Fighting Vehicle. In the vicinity of Zlitan: 1 Armed Vehicle. In the vicinity of Sirt: 2 armoured
Fighting Vehicles.

Ali
#Libya #feb17 impressive work by Libyan man and women doctors whom working V.hard to provide health care and most needed
in Tataouine meeting up with health care comty to discusses the day’s work and what is needed
Libya children’s Some and only some of the problems facing the children’s in the refugees camps bed wetting and aggression
Kabaw G forces faking in civilian car approaching FF chk point in kabaw shooting killing 2 FF.

very important and respected religious figure from #tripoli will give statement and announce his defection

CFKlebergTT:
On first regular #WFP ferry to #Misrata #Libya: 26 passengers, 1 ambulance, 1 sewage truck, 1 medical supplies truck.”

Niz_FGM Niz
5/7/11-hundreds of posters around the city,thousands of leaflets delivered hand2hand,banners,TV,radio. promises to be a big revolution rally

Here is AJE story on the intercepted weapons :
AJE:
Gaddafi forces ‘intercept arms from Qatar’

Government spokesman says two boats carrying weapons for rebels seized from west of Tripoli.

Libyan officials are claiming to have intercepted two boats carrying a cache of weapons from Qatar, reportedly intended for rebels fighting forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.

On Monday, Moussa Ibrahim, a government spokesman, said 11 rebels were captured from the boats close to shore near the town of Janzour, just west of Tripoli.

“In the early hours of this morning around 4 o’clock our security forces intercepted the submission of many weapons from a ship that raises the Tunisian flag to two small Libyan boats with some Libyan rebels on board the boats,” he said.

“I was told that this was the load of one major container, so this would be something like one out of ten or something like that,” Ibrahim added.

Foreign reporters were later taken to Tripoli’s port where they were shown a cache of rifles and ammunition displayed in a tent, but not the captured boats.

The weapons included about 100 Belgian-made FN assault rifles, as well as thousands of rounds of ammunition of the same calibre used in the guns.

Several of the ammunition boxes were marked in English as coming from the armed forces of Qatar.

Qatar has emerged as one of the main supporters of the rebels. And its involvement in the country’s civil war has enraged Libyan officials.
Mahmoud Jibril, of Libya’s Transitional National Council, said on Thursday that foreign deliveries of military hardware would give the rebels a chance to win the battle against Gaddafi quickly and with the least amount of blood spilt.

French supplies
Colonel Thierry Burkhard, French military spokesman, said last week that France had airlifted weapons to Libyan civilians in a mountain region south of Tripoli.

The deliveries of guns, rocket-propelled grenades and munitions took place in early June in the western Nafusa mountains, when Gaddafi’s troops had encircled civilians.

China and Russia have both questioned whether the supplying of weapons breached the terms of the United Nations Security Council resolution that authorises international action in Libya.

Britain’s government has insisted that the French decision to supply weapons fell within the terms of the UN resolutions.

Last week, William Hague, British foreign secretary, announced that the UK was sending 5000 sets of body armour, 6,650 uniforms, 5000 high-visibility vests and communications equipment, to police officers in rebel-held areas.

The rebels have been battling Gaddafi’s forces since February in a bid to end his more than four decades long rule.
They swiftly managed to secure a number of military arms depots, and have turned those weapons on forces still loyal to the Libyan leader.

The conflict has turned into a civil war, with the rebels now controlling much of the eastern third of Libya.

They also hold pockets in the west, including the vital port city of Misurata, about 200km from Tripoli, and a number of mountain towns southwest of the capital.
But they say that they are ill-equipped and are in dire need of fresh supplies to break the current stalemate in fighting and drive out Gaddafi from power.
vid:
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...

sixarts camilo
Journos staying at Rixos r now seen as enemy propaganda machine even if u do not like it#libya #tripoli

dovenews Libyan™
#TRIPOLI: The latest thing, if u dont hv a green cloth in ur car, u R a traitor & must be arrested & questioned. This is Shakear’s invention

Khiria
We hear statistics everyday of those killed by #Gaddafi. Let’s change that & let’s tell their story on twitter with the hash tag #giveaname

septimius_s
Gaddafi in the nutshell: mmmm….140 characters not enough! #Libya

emadkt
Just spoke with a friend in misurata FF staged huge attack on GF moving forward on all fronts including 5 km on dafnia front

Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
When Gadhafi says giving up power in exchange for safety as per russian paper what about his sons? We repeat G and all children r 1 package!

septimius_
Musa ibrahim in the nutshell: what a waste of skin and organs ! #pathetic #fail #Libya

The Jasmine Revolution
Libya: In the Brother Leader’s bunker

On the surface, life goes on. Beneath it, Libyans nervously watch and wait
HOURS after Colonel Muammar Qaddafi was indicted by the International Criminal Court at The Hague on June 27th, a rebel group calling itself the Free Generation Movement furtively torched a billboard in the heart of Tripoli, Libya’s capital, showing him in dress uniform. The impoverished residents of Souk al-Juma, one of Tripoli’s rubbish-strewn suburbs, quietly cheered the news of the arrest warrant. “I saw it on a television,” whispers a delighted video-games salesman. “He’s finished—game over, Qaddafi.”
Maybe so. But his security service is still cracking down on Tripoli’s restive suburbs. Every night armed checkpoints ensure that whole districts are locked down. Plain-clothes policemen still go from house to house, taking away suspected rebels or their sympathisers. “Some never come back,” says a young man who was detained for three days. …

46 000 Libyan pupils sit for exams in Tunisia

TUNIS (TAP)- A special exam session started Saturday for Libyan pupils in Tunisia, in accordance with the Libyan syllabuses.
The session, due to last till next July 9, is meant for 46 000 pupils and held in different regions.
It is worth reminding that some 3 400 Libyan children had integrated Tunisian schools in Médenine, Tataouine and Gabès. Likewise, a group of voluntary school inspectors had been tasked by the Education Ministry to enable children of Libyan refugees to attend schools in Tunisia after they fled their country.

Reuters:
Top News
Gaddafi would go in exchange for security: report
Tue, Jul 05 03:24 AM EDT
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian newspaper said Tuesday that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was willing to give up power in exchange for security guarantees, citing a high-level Russian official.
The report in the respected daily Kommersant, which did not identify its source, came a day after the search for ways to end the war in Libya dominated Russia’s talks with NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen and South African President Jacob Zuma.
“The colonel (Gaddafi) is sending signals that he is prepared to relinquish power in exchange for security guarantees,” Kommersant quoted what it called a high-level source in the Russian leadership as saying.
The source said in the report that other nations, potentially including France, were willing to provide those guarantees.
The Kommersant report also said Gaddafi wanted his son Saif al-Islam to be permitted to run in elections if he steps down, a condition the rebels might not accept.
The Libyan government said Monday that it was in talks with opposition figures, but the other side stuck to entrenched positions on Gaddafi’s fate.
Saif al-Islam told a French newspaper there was no question of negotiating an end to his father’s 42-year rule, and the rebel National Transitional Council backtracked on its statement that Gaddafi could stay in Libya if he gave up all power.
(Reporting by Steve Gutterman; editing by Ralph Boulton)

20arb
#Tripoli a lot of youth were killed the last months, a lot of mothers lost their sons due to the acts of Gaddafi thugs. And still r #Libya

More Qaddafi officers defect as NATO steps up airstrikes

By MUSTAPHA AJBAILI
Al Arabiya With Agencies
A group of officers in Muammar Qaddafi’s military defected on Monday and joined rebel forces in the strategic Western town of Yefren as NATO warplanes stepped up their bombing in territory controlled by the Libyan leader.

The rebels—who pulled back from the plains on the road to Tripoli to the Nafusa Mountains last week—have been buoyed by an arms drop by France and said they would move to retake a key gateway to Tripoli.

Meanwhile in Benghazi on Monday, a large car bomb was found outside an upscale hotel used by Western diplomats and rebel politicians, security officials told AFP, which could fuel fears about a pro-Qaddafi cell operation in the rebel stronghold.

But the fighting on the ground is still making slow progress. The rag-tag force of rebel fighters is bogged down on three fronts and unable to break through to the capital.

In Misrata, a rebel-held city 200 km (130 miles) east of Tripoli, there was renewed fighting on the southern outskirts. A Reuters journalist at a hospital in the city saw the bodies of five fighters who had been killed on Monday.

“The (pro-Qaddafi) brigades carried out an attack today in the area of Abdul Raouf, south of Misrata, using heavy artillery and Grad rockets,” said a rebel spokesman who identified himself as Abdelsalam.

“The revolutionaries managed to repel the attack and blocked the advance of the brigades,” he told Reuters.

Russia and NATO, meanwhile, failed to narrow their differences over the Western air campaign in Libya, as alliance warplanes stepped up their bombing of regime targets.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused NATO of interpreting a UN resolution any way it wished, after talks with NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen that showed up differences rather than secure any agreement on a solution.

The scheduled NATO-Russia Council meeting in the Black Sea city of Sochi was joined at the last minute by South African President Jacob Zuma, fresh from an African Union summit that tried to forge a regional peace plan to end the conflict.

“So far, there is no common understanding over how the resolution is being implemented,” Mr. Lavrov said, referring to the UN Security Council resolution that paved the way for the air campaign.

“We want this resolution to be fulfilled literally, without expanding its interpretation.”

Russia abstained in the resolution vote at the Security Council but has since expressed growing anger over the duration and intensity of the strikes against targets of Colonel Qaddafi’s Libyan regime.

Last week Russia was particularly angered by a direct French arms drop to rebels fighting Colonel Qaddafi’s forces.

But Mr. Rasmussen vehemently defended the arms drop which he said was in line with the resolution.

“The delivery of weapons has taken place as part of protection of civilians and the ability to protect themselves against attacks,” he told reporters.

Libyan officials on Monday said they had intercepted two boats west of Tripoli loaded with Qatari weapons bound for the rebels.

Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaaim told reporters that following the weapons drop Mr. Qaddafi’s regime is “witnessing a new form of arms shipments by sea,” and warned that the weapons “could fall into the hands of Al Qaeda.”

Russia accuses Nato of ‘expanding’ UN Libya resolution
The differences between Nato and Russia over the West’s bombing campaign in Libya were laid bare yesterday after Moscow accused the alliance of interpreting a UN resolution on military intervention to suit its own ends.
Tense talks between Nato and Russian officials on the sidelines of a Nato-Russia Council meeting in Sochi come as the West seeks with increasing urgency a military breakthrough in the Libyan conflict amid indications that Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, has little intention of relinquishing power in the face of opposition to his 41-year rule.
“So far, there is no common understanding over how the resolution is being implemented,” Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, said yesterday, referring to the UN Security Council resolution in March that sanctioned the enforcement of a no-fly zone to protect civilians from retaliatory attacks by the regime. “We want this resolution to be fulfilled literally, without expanding its interpretation.”
Read more:
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa...

NATO feels the pressure from Libya campaign
Even as Libyan rebels make gains against Moammar Kadafi’s regime, Western allies fear their coalition may split before he is ousted. And pressure for a negotiated settlement may leave Kadafi with some leverage.
Reporting from Washington—
With victory still elusive after 15 weeks of bombing, Western allies arrayed against Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi are racing to crack his regime before their own coalition fractures.

Even as Libyan rebel fighters begin to show improvement and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization increases airstrikes in the western part of the country, signs of friction have appeared within NATO. Members have expressed concern about declining munitions inventories and warned that the costs and stresses of the campaign cannot be sustained.

The eight nations shouldering the military burden have been pushing in vain for the other 20 NATO members to take on a larger role. Behind the scenes, meanwhile, major players disagree among themselves on the best strategy. The urgent desire for a breakthrough has caused some members to take riskier steps in the hopes of defeating Kadafi quickly, including airdrops of weapons to rebels, which the French military recently announced it had carried out.

More here:
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/...
septimius_
#Zaif in the nutshell, Qualifications: Gaddafi son , Achievements:err pre-paid PhD, Goals:one day be as big as Micky Mouse #fail #Libya

Paul Danahar
The World Food Programme is now running an aid ferry from Benghazi to Misrata once or twice a week in July for humanitarian supplies and staff.

UK Ministry of Defense
On Sunday NATO aircraft mounted a coordinated strike on two large warehouse complexes being used to store military supplies in Brega. RAF jets also destroyed a main battle tank near Gharyan in the Djebel Nafousa. The T55 tried to shelter in an alleyway between buildings but the Brimstone missile’s guidance system allowed it to be attacked successfully. During Sunday night, HMS Ocean launched @BritishArmy Apache helicopters in a strike against regime positions at Zuwarah airfield. Four armed vehicles and a command post were successfully attacked using Hellfire missiles and cannon fire. Throughout these operations, support was provided by NATO tanker and surveillance aircraft, including RAF VC10s, Sentries and Sentinels. HMS Bangor maintained counter-mine patrols off Misratah, while RFA Fort Rosalie continued to provide afloat logistic support.

Al Jazeera English
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen will meet with the leaders of the NTC in Brussels next week. It will be their first visit to NATO headquarters. “NATO countries agreed to invite the rebels because there is no NATO representation in Benghazi yet,” the diplomat said on condition of anonimity. Separately, a European diplomat said that a member of the NTC will most likely meet senior European officials next week.

AFP
The Libyan government has denied the accusation that it has executed detainees as a form of punishment for families who refused to attend the big pro-Gaddafi rally in Green Square. “This report is baseless and no newspaper or (other) news agency reported anything of the kind,” Tuesday’s statement from the government said, accusing the AFP news agency of “putting its credibility at stake.”
“There has been no resort to violence against the population and a million people took part in the rally” in Tripoli’s Green Square on Friday, the statement said.

20arb
around #Tripoli there are GRAD launchers placed facing Tripoli centre for if things go out of hand and for threats.

wheelertweets James Wheeler
Salem. 32. FF. Pre-war: English teacher in #Kikla #Libya. Shot twice in the arm, once in the leg. Same battle as Rida. twitpic.com/5lk41r

BBC
Waiting game for rebels in western Libya

The front line in Jebel Nafusa, the magnificent mountain range in western Libya, is not a good place to fight a war in the height of summer.
The temperature is in the high 40Cs (104F), and there is no shelter from the powerful sun. By 1000, the metal parts of an AK-47 which has been set down in the open are too hot to touch.
The rebel soldiers rarely seem to start before 0700, and by midday fighting has usually become impossible by mutual agreement.
Sometimes, an entire day goes past without a shot being fired.
Yet there are reasons for this which go well beyond the discomforts the soldiers have to endure.
Morale on the government side seems to be very low. There are indications on the front line in the mountain village of Kikla, for example, that the pro-Gaddafi soldiers would surrender quickly if their officers let them.
And many of the officers continue fighting because they are afraid their families will be killed or imprisoned if they go over to the other side.
Col Mohammed Tahish, a senior figure in the ministry of defence in Tripoli, defected to the rebels a fortnight ago. He explained how he had had to get his family out of the capital and into western Libya, which is largely controlled by the rebels. Only then could he leave himself.
He said he knew many people in Tripoli who wanted to go over to the rebels, but had to wait for a long time until their families were safe. “They’re afraid that Gaddafi will kill their families or put them in prison,” he said.
Tripoli uprising
The rebels have pushed the pro-Gaddafi forces out of most of Jebel Nafusa, and our GPS indicated that from the front line at Kikla they were only 52 miles (84km) from the capital, Tripoli – close enough for some of the soldiers to be able to pick up a phone signal from there, and speak to their families.
But for the time being, the rebels seem unwilling to push the Gaddafi loyalists any farther back. The second in command of the entire western front, Col Moftah Ali Abdullah, explained why.
His bosses in the rebel capital, Benghazi, are worried that if their forces push on to the outskirts of Tripoli, which are only a couple of hours’ drive away, there could be panic and widespread bloodshed in the city. Hundreds of civilian, perhaps more, could be killed.
So the rebels’ high command wants to wait until the sizeable number of people who sympathise with them in Tripoli are prepared to start a rebellion there.
The hope is that at that point the Gaddafi regime will simply collapse, and the rebel troops here can simply push the pro-government troops aside and head straight for the capital.
When is this likely to happen? Most of the senior officers I have spoken to here are agreed: it will take something between a month and a month and a half.
In other words, they expect that by the end of August, they will be in control of Tripoli, and therefore of the country as a whole.
Timetables like this can often be wrong, of course.
Between now and then, starting at the end of July, the fasting month of Ramadan will begin: twenty-eight days, during which no-one will be able to eat or drink from dawn to dusk, in temperatures which may well be even higher than they are at present.
“We will continue to fight during Ramadan,” said one senior rebel officer. “Nothing will change.”
Well, perhaps; but the already slow pace of the fighting will surely become even slower.
Tamazight resurgence
Nevertheless, there is a sense of inevitability about the way the campaign is going.
Driving around the steep, twisting roads of the Jebel Nafusa, looking down on the plain which leads directly to Tripoli, it seems impossible to think that the Gaddafi regime will ever be able to recapture this area.
After 40 years of often severe repression, the Berber people whose heartland this area is (though it is not, it has to be stressed, theirs exclusively) have finally decided that it is safe for them to come out and express their Tamazight culture and language.
The curious Tamazight alphabet can be seen on walls right across the area, in jubilant slogans welcoming the revolution.
Exhibitions and workshops have sprouted up in towns and villages to teach people about their ethnic heritage, after the long years during which there were severe punishments for speaking and writing Tamazight openly.
The summer heat is intense, and many of the villages in Jebel Nafusa have been abandoned because of the fighting.
All the same, there is starting to be a real sense of rebirth here, even though the war is not yet over.
Source: BBC

20arb
#Tripoli Gaddafi Thugs threatening the youth and abducting them preventively especially after his last speech 1 July

AFreeLibyan
#Zliten last night: FF went to Sooq al Thulath and ambushed G forces. Reports that 30 G men killed + 7 vehicles destroyed. #Libya #Feb17

20arb
#Tripoli Price of water-bottles has tripled. Price of car gas has goen sky high. #Libya this is on going.

A Free Libyan Libya TV: 7 died during the indiscriminate shelling by G forces last night. #Libya #Feb17
Gaddafi Thugs are threatening ppl in #Tripoli. Snipers at checkpoints, Thugs buy gas and sell it on black market in #tripoli.
tripolitano
Many ppl left cus of stress of having to C ur city occupied by thugs, criminal, and #Gaddafi chanting strangers which we hadnt seen b4
tripolitano Tripolitano
#Tripoli:nearly all ppl that can afford to leave tripoli did.#Gaddafi claims million came out in support.Maybe in Tunis thy did.TIP empty

LibyanDuda
I love the interviews because Zaif gets to show off the extensive vocabulary he acquired from many years at LSE

Dima_
I dream of the day I wake up and there is no word “Gaddafi” or “Nato” or “NTC” on the news.. Instead there is a democratic and free #Libya

Tripolitano
#Gaddafi ppl claim thy r holdin talks & wantin 2 reconcile.at da same time abductions, robbings, terror 2 all residents in Tripoli goes on

Where Can Qaddafi Go If He Decides To Flee Libya?

Turkey is the latest nation to recognize Libya’s rebel movement as the country’s legitimate representatives. Since Turkey had at one point tried to set itself up as a potential honest broker between the two sides, this closes down yet another avenue for Qaddafi.
The rebels went public Sunday with details of a pact they had offered Qaddafi around a month ago. Under this agreement, he would be allowed to remain in Libya in return for ceding power.
However, that offer was made before the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Qaddafi and his son, Saif al-Islam.
That means if Qaddafi were to hand over the reigns now, yet remain in the country, then the country’s new leaders would be in violation of the ICC.
Qaddafi’s lawyers have argued that the country is not bound to honor the warrants, given that Libya is not a signed-up member of the court. The Sudanese said the same when their leader, Omar al-Bashir, was indicted by the court. Like the Sudanese, the Libyans are wrong. The court does have the authority to act in countries that are not members if the UN Security Council asks it to do so. The only times it has made this request to date have been in the cases of Sudan and Libya.
Link here:
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/whe...

tripolitano
#Tripoli:Abdulla Sanussi’s son &his thugs hv robbed a marble warehouse worth 9 million LY &sold it to tunisian company.Owner frm #Misrata

wheelertweets James Wheeler
@
@wheelertweets ..being treated at the Yefren hospital. He was in a #Gaddafi sec brigade. The fight was 3 wks ago between Kikla & Qwaleesh.

AlJazeera Eng. NATO; Rasmussen will meet with the leaders of NTC in Brussels next week. It will be their first visit to NATO headquarters

Provocative art:
Op-Ed: Libya: The Stolen Revolution
Revolution is when people take control of their destiny into their own hands. Is that still the case in Libya? Is the revolution still in the hands of the people? Or has it been hijacked ? Indeed, is it still a revolution at all?
Back in February, at the beginning of the revolution, hundreds of unarmed youths stormed the Birka Barracks in Benghazi. Facing intense machine-gun fire, they kept coming in wave after wave until they finally overpowered Gaddafi’s forces and took control of the base. The dead littered the grounds, but at the time it seemed worth it.
Read more:
www.digitaljournal.com/article/308744

Libye: l’Otan invite des membres du CNT pour des discussions à Bruxelles

BRUXELLES (© 2011 AFP) – Le secrétaire général de l’Otan a invité des représentants du Conseil national de transition (CNT), l’opposition libyenne, à des discussions le 13 juillet, pour la première fois, au siège bruxellois de l’Alliance atlantique, a indiqué mardi un diplomate allié.

Leur visite a été approuvée par les ambassadeurs des 28 pays de l’Otan, “car il n’y a pas encore de représentation de l’Otan à Benghazi”, siège du CNT dans l’Est de la Libye, a-t-il précisé à l’AFP
Un diplomate européen a indiqué de son côté qu’un membre du CNT rencontrerait de hauts responsables de l’Union européenne la semaine prochaine à Bruxelles, sans donner la date.
L’Otan n’a pas voulu confirmer officiellement l’invitation de M. Rasmussen aux rebelles libyens, mais, a fait remarquer un de ses responsables, “le secrétaire général a déjà rencontré des représentants du CNT lors des réunions du Groupe de contact” sur la Libye à l’extérieur.
“L’Otan a eu des contacts avec le CNT dans le cadre des efforts internationaux pour trouver une solution à la crise libyenne”, a-t-il souligné.
Après la France, qui avait ouvert le bal, de nombreux pays de l’Otan -l’Allemagne, les Etats-Unis, l’Italie et la Grande-Bretagne notamment- ont reconnu le CNT comme légitime représentant du peuple libyen, la Turquie ayant été lundi le dernier en date à le faire.

Source:
www.afriquinfos.com/articles/2011/7/5/b...

WFP Accesses Western Mountains – Starts Ferry Service To Misrata
CAIRO – The World Food Programme has distributed more than 6,000 metric tons of food assistance to more than 543,000 people across Libya since the start of its North Africa Emergency Operation, four months ago. Working with partners, including the Libyan Red Crescent, more than 282,000 people in eastern Libya, and 261,000 in western Libya have received food assistance.
The first UN joint mission to access the Western Mountain region in Libya has found that food security is vital for many in the devastated region, with markets not functioning due to limited fuel and cash, and basic services such as electricity and water also lacking in some areas.
• The World Food Programme (WFP) was part of the UN mission that visited the towns of Wazin, Nalut, Jadu and Zintan.
• According to the inter-agency mission – that also included OCHA, UNHCR and UNICEF – people remaining in the four towns now depend entirely on food assistance provided by WFP and others, including Libyan organizations, international NGOs and private contributions
• Working through NGO partners, WFP is providing food assistance to the most vulnerable people in the devastated Western Mountain area, reaching more than 125,000 people so far.
. WFP has dispatched almost 800 metric tons of food to the Western Mountain region via supply routes across the Tunisian border as well as from inside Libya. As part of the regional emergency response WFP has pre-positioned more than 21,700 metric tons of food assistance for Libya alone inside the country and on the border in Tunisia ready for immediate dispatch.
. In Misrata, WFP has so far provided food assistance to around 125,000. The first Inter-Agency report on the humanitarian siutation in Misrata recently highlighted that while there is no immediate food crisis there, the city continues to rely on external support for all its food needs
• On 1 July, WFP launched the first regular vessel from Benghazi to Misrata port to transport humanitarian cargo and workers. The vessel will make one to two trips each week between the two cities during July.
• In Tunisia, WFP is distributing food assistance to Libyan refugees in five regions in the south (Tataouine, Medenine, Gabes, Kebili and Sfax ) through WFP’s national partner, the Tunisian Red Crescent. Several weeks ago it began providing bread, while other basic food commodities have been added last week. So far more than 13,300 refugees in Tataouine and Medenine have received the full food ration.
• A three-month Special Operation for the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) has already carried more than 1000 passengers from 115 different organisations on 31 flights between Malta, Cairo, Benghazi and Djerba, at a total cost of US$4 million.
Source:
WFP.org

Le prêtre de Tripoli a-t-il peur de Kadhafi?

Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, le prêtre de Tripoli, dérange. L’Italien, à la tête de l’église catholique romaine Saint François d’Assise de la capitale libyenne depuis plus de 25 ans, est fermement opposé à l’intervention de l’Otan, qui selon lui provoque une guerre aveugle sans s’intéresser aux raisons socioculturelles du soulèvement contre Kadhafi. Il fait régulièrement connaître sa position par des communiqués de presse. Rien d’indéfendable jusque-là; sauf qu’à trop critiquer l’Otan, l’ecclésiaste finit, peut-être malgré lui, à devenir le porte-parole de Mouammar Kadhafi.
C’est ce que soulignait le 3 juillet 2011 le quotidien américain Los Angeles Times, qui a rencontré ce véritable sosie de Jean-Paul II qui, comme son prédécesseur, considère toute guerre comme «immorale». S’il estime que l’Otan ne fait qu’aggraver la situation en Libye, le prêtre reconnaît que le Guide aurait pu éviter cette situation en se souciant davantage des difficultés socioéconomiques de l’est du pays, d’où est partie la rébellion.

More:
www.slateafrique.com/8263/le-pretre-de-...

CFKlebergTT Carl F Kleberg – TT
#WFP give food “to the most vulnerable people in devastated Western Mountain area, reaching more than 125,000 people so far.”

Libye: fin des parachutages d’armes françaises, statu quo sur le terrain
La France a renoncé à parachuter des armes aux rebelles libyens, même si ces derniers peinent à progresser sur le terrain, tandis que la Russie et l’Otan ont de nouveau affiché leurs divergences sur l’intervention militaire internationale.
“Les parachutages ne sont plus nécessaires”, a déclaré à la presse le ministre français de la Défense, Gérard Longuet.

Full art. here:
www.leparisien.fr/flash-actualite-monde...

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Why the hell is there still an arms embargo on FFs.15000 killed and over 40000 prisoners not enough reason to arm FFs openly?#Feb17

wheelertweets James Wheeler
The guy who shot Rida’s left arm multiple times, till the bone was severed & it was hanging by shreds of skin, is now twitpic.com/5ljtyx

LIBYE. Quand le régime expose une “prise de guerre”
“Sous un grand chapiteau, en bordure du port de Tripoli, une centaine de fusils semi-automatiques…” Opération de communication dans la capitale libyenne. Par Christophe Boltanski, à Tripoli.
Sous un grand chapiteau, en bordure du port de Tripoli, une centaine de fusils semi-automatiques FAL et des milliers de cartouches de 7,62 millimètres, rangées par boîte de vingt, sont alignés par terre, offerts aux caméras. Selon Moussa Ibrahim, le porte-parole du gouvernement libyen, cette cargaison était destinée aux rebelles.
Elle aurait été transportée par un bateau battant pavillon tunisien, déchargée sur deux embarcations légères, avant d’être saisie par des gardes côtes et des militaires libyens à proximité de la ville côtière de Zanzour, à une trentaine de kilomètres à l’ouest de la capitale. Pour la cinquantaine de journalistes étrangers débarqués d’un bus climatisé, c’est la sortie du jour.
Cette prise de guerre leur a été annoncée une heure plus tôt, au Rixos, un hôtel de luxe transformé en centre de presse, par le vice-ministre des Affaires étrangères, Khaled Kaaim.
Nouvelle livraison
“Après le parachutage par les Français d’armes à la rébellion, nous assistons à une nouvelle forme de livraison d’armes par voie de mer”, a-t-il déclaré avant d’accuser l’Alliance atlantique et le Qatar de chercher à “provoquer des affrontements entre Libyens et le chaos dans le pays”.
Les autorités libyennes en veulent pour preuve ces caisses exposées sous la même tente blanche et marquées au nom des “Qatar Armed Forces”, les forces armées du Qatar. L’une d’elles porte un numéro d’immatriculation : “130301/2”. “Tout cela n’est pas destiné à protéger des enfants, mais à répandre la mort”, proclame Moussa Ibrahim, debout au milieu des munitions. “Onze rebelles dont deux officiers ont été arrêtés lors du raid”.
“Je dois vérifier”
Peut-on connaître leur identité ? “Je vais me renseigner”, promet le porte-parole. Quel était le nom du bateau tunisien ? “Je dois vérifier”, ajoute-t-il. Les armes étaient, d’après lui, destinées à fomenter des troubles autour de Zawiya et Zuwara. Elles ne sont pas récentes. Un journaliste versé dans la chose militaire observe que le FAL, un fusil belge, est en service dans l’armée libyenne.
Finalement, l’information la plus importante est sans doute la reconnaissance par le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi que les rebelles déjà présents dans les montagnes de Nafoussah, à 80 km au sud de Tripoli, disposent aussi de partisans à l’ouest de la capitale.
Christophe Boltanski – Le Nouvel Observateur
Source:
tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualite/monde...

CFKlebergTT Carl F Kleberg – TT
#WFP after #UN visit to #Nafusa #Libya: People “now depend entirely on food assistance from WFP and others.”

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
FFs offered to purchase jet fighters & helicopters. But were refused. 6 jets would end this #Feb17 #libya

NATO wants UN to help Libya move to democracy – Rasmussen

15:07 05/07/2011
ST. PETERSBURG, July 5 (RIA Novosti)

NATO wants the United Nations to play the leading role into Libya’s transition to democracy once leader Muammar Gaddafi steps down, the military alliance’s secretary general said on Tuesday.
Speaking at a news conference in St. Petersburg, Anders Fogh Rasmussen said NATO “would like the UN to head the efforts that will help the Libyan people during the transition to democracy.”
He added that “there should be no security vacuum during this period and the process should be all-embracing.”
Rasmussen reiterated that the conflict in Libya needs a political resolution and Gaddafi must resign from his post.
“It is clear that there cannot be a one and only possible military solution in Libya. A political solution is needed, of course,” he said.
“Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s exit has no alternative. Gaddafi must step down and satisfy the people’s legitimate aspirations.”
Libya has been rocked by fighting between pro- and anti-government forces since mid-February. The international military operation began on March 19 following a UN resolution and was extended until late September.
UN Security Council Resolution 1970, passed in February, prohibited states from providing any kind of arms to Libya. Resolution 1973, passed a month later, authorized countries “to take all necessary measures” to help protect Libyan civilians
Source:
en.rian.ru/world/20110705/165032866.html

RAF Leuchars Typhoon crews back home from Libya
Pilots from closure-threatened RAF Leuchars are safely back in Scotland after a series of crucial operations in battle-scarred Libya.
The first Fife-based Typhoon crews to have deployed in support of NATO’s Operation Unified Protector to defend the civilian population in the troubled region have returned from their makeshift base in Italy.
Having successfully completed their deployments, the pilots have rejoined their colleagues of Number 6 Squadron at the base.
With a decision on the future of RAF Leuchars said to be “imminent,” the airmen are part of the significant contribution the base makes to defence operations around the world. Approximately 15% of personnel are deployed abroad.
In addition to the ground crew, support personnel and pilots that Leuchars is providing to maintain the no-fly zone over Libya, members of Number 6 Force Protection Wing — an RAF regiment unit also based in Fife — are in war-torn Afghanistan.
They have been given the task of protecting the strategically vital airfield at Camp Bastion.
Squadron Leader Scott Loughran is the executive officer with 6 Squadron. He is among those to have returned to Scotland following a gruelling a two-month deployment to Gioia del Colle in Italy, from where RAF Typhoons and Tornados launched missions over Libya.
He said, "Together with the Tornado GR4s, the Typhoons are providing a very capable RAF presence protecting the civilian population of Libya in accordance with the United Nations Security Council resolution.
“As a pilot I have been doing the best job I can to make a positive contribution in support of the NATO mission. However, I was just one of a number of personnel from Leuchars who have been supporting the RAF’s Typhoon element in southern Italy.
“We are all focused on the task at hand, be it the mission to protect the civilian population in Libya, the regiment gunners in Afghanistan or the guys on Quick Reaction Alert duties here in the UK.
Source:
www.thecourier.co.uk/News/article/15413...

LibyeLibre
Tripoli expose des armes destinées aux rebelles saisie sur deux bateaux selon M. Ibrahim, porte parole gvt libyen.
Il accuse d’accuser l’Alliance atlantique et le Qatar de chercher à “provoquer des affrontements entre Libyens et le chaos dans le pays”.
Peut-on connaître l’identité des rebelles arrêtés? Ibrahim: “Je vais me renseigner” Quel était le nm du bateau tunisien? "Je dois vérifier

CFKlebergTT Carl F Kleberg – TT
WFP say they have dist. 6,000+ tonnes of food in #Libya to 543,000+ people. Now regular ferrys from #Benghazi to #Misrata.

SMILE:
idillionaire
Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.

Free Libya Daily Paper is out! bit.ly/kgc2jf ▸ #Benghazi #Tripoli

Noir = mercenaire

C’est un sujet qui n’intéresse personne, ou presque. Ni les chefs d’État africains réunis en sommet à Malabo, ni les médias – ou si peu –, ni Abdoulaye Wade en visite à Benghazi, ni MM.Sarkozy et Juppé, ni Bernard-Henri Lévy, ni Kaddafi dans son bunker. Pas opportun, pas d’audimat, politiquement incorrect. Des scories de la petite Histoire sans impact aucun sur la grande, des anonymes aux semelles de vent à peine bons à remplir de leurs témoignages tragiquement répétitifs les rapports des ONG. L’une d’entre elles, la Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l’homme (FIDH), de notre amie Souhayr Belhassen, vient pourtant de publier une enquête fouillée et accablante, malheureusement passée inaperçue, sur ces damnés de la terre que sont les immigrés d’Afrique subsaharienne, victimes collatérales, dont nul n’a cure, de la guerre en Libye. Et elle n’y va pas par quatre chemins : les exactions à caractère raciste – assassinats, viols, lynchages, pillages – commises à l’encontre des Tchadiens, Nigériens, Soudanais, Nigérians dans la zone libérée par les rebelles du Conseil national de transition (CNT) sont à ce point «massives et systématiques » qu’elles peuvent être qualifiées de « crimes de guerre relevant de la Cour pénale internationale (CPI) ». En cause: l’assimilation mortelle Noir = mercenaire de Kaddafi, mais aussi, en filigrane, le rejet viscéral du tropisme africain du « Guide » honni, perçu comme la source de tous les maux, du sida à la drogue en passant par la folie des grandeurs et le gaspillage des pétrodinars.
« De Tobrouk à Benghazi, les gens nous regardent comme des chiens », confie un ouvrier agricole. C’est que le mal est à la fois profond et ancien. Le dictateur traqué ayant toujours considéré cette main-d’oeuvre servile et privée de droits comme une soupape de sûreté, les Libyens étant en quelque sorte « autorisés » à déclencher des pogroms ponctuels, histoire de trouver un exutoire à leurs frustrations. Boucs émissaires hier, boucs émissaires aujourd’hui. En cinq mois d’exercice du pouvoir, les insurgés du CNT n’ont toujours pas ouvert la moindre enquête officielle sur ces violations, ni même prononcé une seule déclaration appelant leur peuple à cesser de voir en chaque immigré à peau sombre un mourtazaka (« mercenaire ») en puissance. Pour des dirigeants censés incarner la « nouvelle Libye », c’est inquiétant. Le procureur de la CPI, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, qui, après avoir inculpé à juste titre Mouammar Kaddafi, vient d’appeler ses proches à le livrer, faute de quoi ils pourraient être eux aussi poursuivis (trahison contre impunité : le deal est aussi immoral qu’efficace), jure qu’il se penchera le temps venu sur ce douloureux dossier. On espère seulement que cette promesse-là ne fera pas pschitt, comme l’histoire du même Moreno-Ocampo et de l’ambassadrice américaine à l’ONU, Susan Rice, sur les pseudo-conteneurs de Viagra destinés à servir d’armes de pénétration massive aux soldats de Kaddafi, ou celle de Kaddafi menaçant de produire les preuves du financement de la campagne de Sarkozy en 2007. Que voulez-vous, depuis la magistrale intox des bébés koweïtiens étouffés dans leurs couveuses par les hordes de Saddam Hussein, on se méfie un peu des effets d’annonce…

Source:
www.jeuneafrique.com/Article/ARTJAJA263...

MOD:
News Article
HMS Brocklesby returns from Libya mission
A Military Operations news article
5 Jul 11
Royal Navy minehunter HMS Brocklesby was given a hero’s welcome by friends and family yesterday as she returned to Portsmouth Naval Base after five months supporting operations against Libya from the Mediterranean.
HMS Brocklesby’s Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Jim Byron, said:
“The Royal Navy has always had a great reputation for mine clearance and it is precisely this type of operation that shows the world just how good we are.
“We are extremely proud that we could use our skills and knowledge to open that port and allow humanitarian aid back into Libya where it is so desperately needed. Without this capability there could have been hundreds of lives lost through the detonation of that mine.
“I am so proud of my team – they just got on and did their business and they did it really, really well.”
More here:
www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/...

septimius_
Actually I have started loving media Interviewing #Zaif ! introducing him simply as Gaddafi son! that sum up his life achievements!

Longing4Libya
FF in Tripoli: “There is nothing but air and God in Tripoli” “You are either with Gaddafi or you starve.”
LibyanDuda
Hmm……I wonder what #Zuma & #Gaddafi used to do together in their good old days b4 #Feb17 ?
Imagine how many #SA issues could have been resolved if #Zuma put in as many hours into them as he is on #Gaddafi

AJE blog Separately, a European diplomat said a member of the TNC will likely meet with senior European Union officials next week #libya

AJE blog NATO’s Rasmussen to meet #Libya n opposition members in Brussels July 13 at NATO HQ

Libyan4life Jeel Ghathub
Anyone NOT in awe, inspired or humbled by the bravery, will, and determination of the Libyan people is not human

wheelertweets James Wheeler
Tunisian hospital last night: Left to right: Hosam 14, Mohammed 22, Rida 25, Ridwan 21. All from #Kikla #Libya. twitpic.com/5ljkrw

20arb11
if #FF push on to #Tripoli, there could be panic & widespread bloodshed in Tripoli. 100s of civilian, perhaps more, could be killed.

Libya accuses Nato of undermining negotiations with rebels
The Libyan government has accused Nato of undermining secret negotiations it claims are under way with senior rebels in order to prevent a peaceful solution to the four-month conflict.

Khaled Kaim, Libya’s deputy foreign minister, said in Tripoli that progress had been made “in some areas” but hopes for a breakthrough had been dashed because of unspecified Nato obstructions.
“The only part we have to blame here is the Nato,” he said. “Some member states of Nato don’t support talks between the government and the rebels. That is the reason why there has been come delay in the outcome of the talks.”
Whole story here:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...

Monde
Libye: Le gouvernement dément que Kadhafi serait prêt à partir
Mis à jour le 05.07.11 à 13h15
Le gouvernement libyen a démenti ce mardi l’existence de négociations sur l’abandon du pouvoir par Mouammar Kadhafi.
«Les informations sur des négociations à propos d’un abandon du pouvoir par Kadhafi, qui chercherait à se retirer dans un endroit sûr à l’intérieur ou à l’extérieur de la Libye, sont tout simplement infondées», a dit à Reuters le porte-parole du gouvernement libyen, Moussa Ibrahim.
«Il n’y a rien à négocier»
«Les discussions portent sur un cessez-le-feu, l’aide humanitaire et l’ouverture d’un dialogue entre Libyens. Une quatrième phase serait une période de transition engageant des réformes politiques, sur lesquelles seuls les Libyens peuvent se prononcer», a-t-il ajouté.
«Il n’y a rien à négocier à propos de Kadhafi, c’est notre position de principe. L’avenir de la Libye ne peut être décidé que par les Libyens. Kadhafi est un symbole historique, les Libyens mourront pour le défendre.»
Le journal russe Kommersant de ce mardi affirmait que Kadhafi était désormais prêt à quitter le pouvoir avec des garanties de sécurité.
Reuters
Source:
www.20minutes.fr/ledirect/753343/libye-...

Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Soon there will be an articulate NTC spokesman from Rixos tripoli not throwing up lies! Forgn. journalists will b free 2 roam all of Libya!

20arb
Many Gaddafi officers continue fighting because they r afraid their fam. will be killed or imprisoned if they go over to the other side.

Mouammar Kadhafi, “tyran rigide” qui pourrait écouter sa famille
Au-delà de son image de despote imprévisible, le colonel Mouammar Kadhafi – ceux qui le connaissent bien le savent – est un homme redoutablement intelligent, attaché à sa famille et capable de prendre tout le monde à contre-pied en acceptant de se retirer.
Entrée maintenant dans son cinquième mois, la bataille pour le contrôle de la Libye entremêle tout à la fois la technologie militaire occidentale, l’argent, le pétrole, la diplomatie, une insurrection composée au départ de gueux en haillons et un système politique plus résistant et solide qu’on aurait pu le penser de prime abord.
Story:
www.lexpress.fr/actualites/2/monde/moua...

Sabha:
What do you think ?….. is it soon we gonna see it real ? Abu Ali

www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=231276&l...

LibyaDiaspora
Its really very amazing how exponentially better your hijab looks if you iron it before wearing it. #Lazy

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Liberia Tanker – Hazard A (Major) “DELOS” now en route to dest. #Tobruk #Libya ETA: 2011-07-07 08:00 (UTC). #feb17

KC_Tripolitania KC
‘In Solidarity With #Libya’ protest outside Libyan Embassy in #Cairo, #Egypt at 1pm. Plz attend & show your support. #SupportLibya #Feb17 RT

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY: #Syria CARGO SHIP “LADY SEHAM” from #Istanbul #Turkey has changed dest. twice & now headed to #Tripoli #Libya @NATO

Mwattin
@allThoseWhoCriticiseTripoli
Did u know that thr r 27 brigades in Tajoura alone? Can u imagine how many in Bab Aziziyah & rest of #Tripoli?

Reuters: HEAVY SHELLING NEAR LIBYA’S MISRATA KILLS AT LEAST FIVE REBEL FIGHTERS, 35 WOUNDED — REUTERS REPORTER AT MISRATA HOSPITAL

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Syria CARGO SHIP “LADY SEHAM” now under way 35.88467˚/22.41733˚ is headed on current course to #Tripoli #Libya. #feb17 @NATO

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Syria CARGO SHIP “LADY SEHAM” now under way 35.88467˚/22.41733˚ w/ new dest of #Valletta #Malta. #Libya #feb17 @NATO

LibyaLiberty
Do they provide catering for The Hague? RT@BloombergNews The hotel that offers fine dining for dogs?

KC_Tripolitania
Thank u #Tunisia ! “@libyanproud: @KC_Tripolitania Tunis: #Tripoli Calling Demo in front of Libyan embassy at 17:00 tomorrow!” #SupportLibya

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Syria CARGO SHIP “LADY SEHAM” yesterday reported w/ dest. of #Tripoli #Libya upon reporting dropped anchor in #Kythira #Greece/chngd dest.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Malta ship “MAE YEMANJA” currently hovering 16.9 NM outside of port #Misrata #Libya. #feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Georgia OIL TANKER “TROODOS” remains anchored in port #Misrata #Libya. #feb17

LibyanDuda
Goin bout life & pretending like there is no mad man ruling our beloved #Libya was always the better option

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Panama CARGO SHIP “INDRA II” 33.16117˚/13.25673˚ 25.1 NM out from dest. of #Tripoli #Libya #feb17 @NATO

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Bahamas CARGO SHIP “ADRIATIC PEARL” remains anchored in port #Tripoli #Libya. #feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIPS “FEYZA GENC”, “SEREN AYANOGLU” & “DERIN” anchored in port #Tripoli #Libya. #feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gaddafi OIL TANKERS “ANWAAR LIBYA” & “ANWAAR ALNASER” both remain anchored in port #Tripoli #Libya. #feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Georgia OIL TANKER “TROODOS” now anchored in port #Misrata #Libya. #feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Panama CARGO SHIP “MSC GRACE” has recently departed port #Misrata #Libya. #feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#MarshallIslands CARGO SHIP “KOZA” & #Liberia CARGO SHIP “SIDER PINK” both anchored in port #AlKhums #Libya. #feb17

1000s in Libya running out of food

Geneva – Tens of thousands of people living in Libya’s western mountains region are running short of food and are increasingly dependent on food aid to survive, the World Food Programme said on Tuesday.

The first evaluation mission by the United Nations to this region “has found that food security is of major concern for the people there”, said Emilia Casella, spokesperson for the UN food agency.

“People were depending entirely on food assistance for their survival,” she added.

The mission travelled to Nalut, Wazin, Jadu and Zintan and “found only two cows during their entire mission, they found no sheep, no goats”.

“People have been selling off their livestock or consuming their livestock,” said Casella.

The mission was “really shocked there is really no trade going on, shops are closed, civils servents have not been paid since February,” she described.

As a result, the people are left with a “very restrictive diet” with no access to eggs, meat or fish.

The WFP has sent 800 cubic metres of food in the region where it has reached 125 000 of the most vulnerable people.

The UN refugee agency warned in June that an aid crisis appeared to be looming in Libya and more international relief may soon be needed, as the prolonged conflict and sanctions stymie the regime’s ability to deliver aid.
- SAPA
Source:
www.news24.com/Africa/News/1-000s-in-Li...

Refugee Aid in Tunisia is Supplying Libyan Rebels

NALUT, Libya and TATAOINE, Tunisia — The rebels don’t like it when you call them rebels. That’s Qaddafi’s term, they say, and prefer Reagan’s: freedom fighters. This matters only for public relations purposes, because among themselves, members of anti-Qaddafi militias don’t speak English, but rather Arabic and Amazir — the Berber language — and call themselves thwar, which roughly means revolutionaries. Fair enough, it’s their war.

In April, the thwar based in Libya’s desert interior attacked a border crossing 300 kilometers southwest of Tripoli; found it inexplicably lightly-defended; and seized it, opening an escape route to neighboring Tunisia. Over the next month, more than 60,000people drained from Libya into Tunisia, according to Kamel Derich of the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, who runs that agency’s efforts near the crossing. Three refugee camps, one run by Derich’s UNHCR team, one by the government of the United Arab Emirates, and one by the kingdom of Qatar, housed fewer than 10,000 Libyans, he estimated. The majority found private shelter with families in Tataoine, a rural town on the edge of the Tunisian Sahara.

“It is a Muslim obligation,” said Ehmansouva Naouifel, a clerk in Tataoine’s city Commerce Department, while shopping in a grocery store downtown. “We wish to help, but also, you must help.” Since March, Tataoine families have been hosting the 60,000 of more than 400,000 Libyans who came to Tunisia since February, often in spare rooms vacated by family working abroad in Europe.
Story here:
www.theatlantic.com/international/archi...

Call for rallies across Libya in support of Tripoli

I don’t know how to start, except to say that no willingness or strength except with Allah.

Because unfortunately….I am not upset about the protest nor his speech that he the crazy psycho made speaking from a hole. But because unfortunately Gaddafi was successful in causing uproar even if it is in the level of facebook, because yesterday I saw comments about the people of Tripoli, disagreeable comments about them.

First of all, first the people that demonstrated are around 30,000. When we got out at the beginning of the events our number was far larger, then he was shooting at us. The people that demonstrated for him couldn’t fill the river stadium.
Rest and vid. here:
libya-alhurra.tumblr.com/post/725699843...

Mass protests planned 4 tomorrow ‘In Solidarity With #Tripoli’ -show your support by protesting outside Libyan Embassies in your country. RT

CFKlebergTT Carl F Kleberg – TT
Man in #Misrata, #Libya tells me shelling heard in several places. “We listen, and we hear the bombs in different areas.”

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Calling all Libyans in UK! Rally tomorrow at Libya London Embassy 15 Knightsbridge SW1X 7LY from 2-6pm.Your country needs you #Feb17 Plz RT!

UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
On Saturday, Royal Air Force Tornadoes and Typhoons badly damaged a tank near Sirte
RAF Tornadoes and Typhoons also knocked out an armoured personnel carrier and three armed pick-up trucks south of Misratah.
On Sunday NATO aircraft mounted a coordinated strike on two large warehouse complexes being used to store military supplies in Brega. #Libya
An RAF Tornado struck three of the target buildings. #Libya
The T55 tried to shelter in an alleyway between buildings but the Brimstone missile’s guidance system allowed it to be attacked successfully
During Sunday night, HMS Ocean launched @BritishArmy Apache helicopters in a strike against regime positions at Zuwarah airfield.
Four armed vehicles and a command post were successfully attacked using Hellfire missiles and cannon fire. #Libya
Fleet Air Arm Sea King helicopters provided radar surveillance for the Apache strike.
On Monday, two armed trucks were destroyed by an RAF patrol using Paveway bombs. #Libya
The armed trucks were located by NATO surveillance assets in a compound north of the Djebel Nafousa, near Jadu. #Libya
Throughout these operations, support was provided by NATO tanker and surveillance aircraft, including RAF VC10s, Sentries and Sentinels.
HMS Bangor maintained counter-mine patrols off Misratah, while RFA Fort Rosalie continued to provide afloat logistic support.

wheelertweets James Wheeler
I’ve visited and worked with plenty of disabled veterans in the US. Many have regrets and mixed feelings about what they were fighting for.
I’ve yet to meet an injured #Libyan FF who is depressed or says they would not do it all
over again. Thats sustainable energy

Ahmed
On Tuesday 5th July 2011,
Libyan ‘National Dialogue’ Conference in Rome – July 9th, 10th & 11th?#Feb17 #Libya #NTC #US #EU #UK #UN:

After nearly 42 years Abdulrahman Shalgam, Shokri Ghanim, Farhat Bengdara, Mohamed Al Huni, Jamal Al Barig, Hafid Gadoura, Embarek Al Shamik, and other defectors have been selling their souls to Gaddafi – are those (regime defectors) truly capable of reform, dialogue, and the creation of a ‘balanced’ country based on the ‘rule of law’ and a ‘civil society’?

Are those men and women capable of understanding human rights principles, a democratic governing system, transparency, integrity and honesty?

Why must we resort to these men and women?

Undoubtedly, those mentioned above (on various degrees) hold many secrets of the regime’s vial past and to Libya’s oil wealth; including ALL of Libya’s foreign investments over the past 42 years; however should those previous LT members who have allegedly ‘defected’ since the 17th of February uprising be entitled to participate and/or lead Libya’s?

Are there NO dignified, honest, and professional Libyans left to lead our future except the regimes foul defectors?

The questions are not based on second guessing the intentions of those mentioned above? The question is based on the reality of the 41 years of Gaddafi’s Libya, which we Libyans must debate and reach a consensus upon on how best we could reconcile with the regime defected members or possibly completely denounce, reject or allow the ‘rule of law’ to take its course to either exonerate or condemn these individuals.

The answer should be an obvious one – for me personally it is the latter, however the names mentioned above still owe the Libyan people a great deal of explanation and most certainly owe our Freedom Fighters dearly – if it was not for our Freedom Fighters and their dear sacrifice; those whose names are mentioned above would have never had a second chance to manipulate their way through for a possible career change.

Libyans deserve more than a mere defection scenario even if that defection was a public and tearful one under the roof of the United Nations assembly hall. Hence, it is imperative for those who have defected from the regime to be forthcoming and offer their assistance, information, contacts, and more in a tangible and transparent manner to the official representative body of the Libyan people; NTC prior to pretending to have repented and to announce themselves as a voice of the Free Libyans and a true patriot.

Shalgum pretending to be a patriot is a disgraceful sight. His presence around NTC is a shame and a complete contradiction to Libya’s Feb 17th uprising. A week prior to Shalgum’s alleged patriotic defection from the regime; his first comments to the media were as follows: “the leader is not to be blamed; it is us who should be blamed”. Referring to the causes behind the Feb 17th which according to Shalgum’s statement is a result of Libya’s politicians and not Gaddafi himself. A few days later, Shalgum was urging all diplomats who had defected to return to their post to serve the Leader and the greater good of Libya.

Needless to mention, Shalgum’s deceiving tearful scene at the UN does not add to his personal legitimacy nor did his little charade at the UN speed up the collations’ military support in Libya. Ibrahim Al Dabashi is the person worthy of respect for (a) being the first Libyan diplomat to resign and denounce Gaddafi’s regime (b) for encouraging his phony boss (Shalgum) to finally make a respectable stance for Libya – for once in his life!

Let’s not forget Shalgum rushing to Moussa Kussa’s defense when news of Kussa’s alleged defection was announced. Shalgum defended Moussa Kussa by saying the latter had nothing to do with the regime’s terrorist activity in the UK in the early 1980’s. Even if this was true, why in the world would anyone try to defend a sinister murderer?

Could the above be because Mr. Shalgum served as Libyan Ambassador to Italy during Al Lijan Al Thwryia’s assassinations spree across Europe and some Arab countries.

It is truly heartbreaking to watch supposed honorable Libyans eagerly rushing to stand by one of the regime’s biggest (ex) embezzler in the name of ‘National Dialogue’.

‘To each his own’, however as far as I’m concerned for those supposed honest Free Libyans; I suggest you spend less time unconstructively criticizing and condemning the National Transitional Council (NTC) and more time actually aiding NTC during this complicated and difficult period – be literally part of your country, community and amongst your society as a whole. Make a real and honest difference by being present where you are most needed – inside Libya.

Please note, I’m the first to admit to NTC’s inadequacies and sometimes inefficiency, yet I still owe them a great deal of appreciation and a sincere thank you for what they have been able to achieve so far, and I will continue to support and aide NTC by any means possible. After all, NTC is the legitimate representative of the Libyan people to approximately more than 30 Sovereign nations.

If I may add, irrespective of how unappealing Benghazi may seem to some, it is more honorable to be a patriot and to aide your Libyan brothers and sisters, NTC, the Local Councils and the various communities in the Eastern region, Musrata and elsewhere rather than to rally behind the regime’s recently defected opportunists in more and covenant touristic locations such as Rome (with A. Shalgum) and Istanbul (with F. Bengdara) – possibly for the sake of a ‘piggy back ride’ with one of the regime’s long time loyalist – turned defectors err patriot!

Again, ‘to each his own’.

Radio Misrata on Medium Frequency (MF) radio band broadcasting on MW 1449 . Misrata Libya

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER says:

FFs must not rely on NATO. They should have confidence in their own strategy & follow through even if it goes against NATO

NATO air support is a great advantage & much appreciated. Military strategy however must be led by FFs on the ground

NATO’s strategy is to work towards regime crumbling from within as opposed to decisive military victory. FFs must realise this

Hence the reluctance to arm FFs for past 5 month with heavy artillery. Weapon embargo excuse as proven by France supplying arms

FFs must realise their strategy is different from NATO ’s. Must take control of military ops. Where there is a will there is a way

Psycholocial & operational reliance on NATO must end now. If NATO hit its bonus, if not so be it.

NATO is not under FF command. Very difficult to progress if you do not have complete unity under one command. FF must lead way

NATO will not fall under FF command & FF have proven ability against G forces e.g. Nafusa. Must have confidence to act solo

NATO need to act according to FF movements not the opposite. Ofcourse on ocassion FFs would change course if neccesary

NATO has been great help but they simply have a different strategy to FFs leading to frustration of FFs.

FFs must ask themselves if NATO did not exist what would their course of action be. Their inegnuity is amazing & it can be done

Why the hell is there still an arms embargo on FFs.15000 killed and over 40000 prisoners not enough reason to arm FFs openly?

every body breaks arms embargos : )

Libya Military ops must have one strategy, one command centre. Now we have NATO & FFs. A ship with 2 captains sinks. FFs must lead

NATO prefer political settlement, FFs want military victory. One strategy must prevail. Now aims of neither is being achieved

NTC must focus on one strategy, military victory or political settlement. Each choice has different miltiary implications

FFs are fighting on basis of pursuing military victory which would also ensure the greater level of future independence for Libya
Victory comes from beign single minded about strategy, aims and actions. Otherwise resources are wasted

We must pursue a military victory if we can. Political settelment wld lead to Gaddafi & co getting away literally with murder

Calling all Libyans in UK! Rally tomorrow at Libya London Embassy 15 Knightsbridge SW1X 7LY from 2-6pm.Your country needs you Plz RT!

6 July will not be a good day for Gaddafi.

There are going to be #Feb17 rallies in all liberated cities of Libya,Tunisia & in some cities abroad like London on 6th July

Aid worker:
Gaydity
I’ve got 5days left, don’t remind me plz! I’m in a city near Djerba, if u get chance u shuld defo pay a visit, its been inspiring

The school is practically empty compared to the first week we were here. Even though I’m happy most are going home I just hope its safe

Today the kids made cards for their parents. SO cute with envelopes and all. Played some twister, they love it lol #tunisia

Now were just waiting to help one of Wafa’s distributors, the weather is BOILING hot… &everything sticks #meh

wheelertweets James Wheeler
little building has an old banana box inside, on the floor, sheltering kittens from these stray cats. FFs r gentle guys.

Tunisian hospital last night: Left to right: Hosam 14, Mohammed 22, Rida 25, Ridwan 21. All from #Kikla #Libya. t.co/gFK7SdS

The guy who shot Rida’s left arm multiple times, till the bone was severed & it was hanging by shreds of skin, is now t.co/N8aljDa

..being treated at the Yefren hospital. He was in a #Gaddafi sec brigade. The fight was 3 wks ago between Kikla & Qwaleesh.

Rida was operating a 14.5mm. It jammed so he got another. He was trying to find the best position for it when 3 G men opened fire

The Gaddafi guy who shot Rida had been paid 50,000 Libyan dinars. Foreign mercenaries aren’t the only ones fighting for money.

m0j0
W diplomats caution that it is in Gaddafi’s interests to send out conflicting signals abt possible deals – indeed! #libya misinfo & disinfo

EnoughGaddafi Enough Gaddafi
You may oppose NATO’s intervention,but don’t let that blind you to who #Gaddafi is and what he has done to Libyans

Benghazi to receive fuel shipment on Tuesday: sources

(Reuters) – Rebels in east Libya will receive a fuels tanker on Tuesday into Benghazi, trade sources said, indicating the rebel government is still able to secure vital fuel supplies despite a lack of financing.
The Liberian-flagged oil products tanker Fidias is sailing south in the Mediterranean and due to arrive later on Tuesday, AIS Live ship tracking data on Reuters showed.
Industry sources said the tanker was carrying around 30,000-40,000 tonnes of diesel. Previously, the tanker was anchored off Malta for over a week and the source for the fuel was unclear, they said.
One industry source said the vessel was chartered by oil trading firm Vitol which has delivered regular shipments into east Libya for the past two months.
A Vitol spokesman declined to comment on Tuesday.

read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/05/us-l...

4Adam Adam
Please Give thanks to all the members and their families of Operation Unified Protector (Libya- NATO) is.gd/VTOTq3 #Libya #Feb17

FRANCE adds new wrinkle to Libya conflict

French government officials, following a report in the Paris newspaper Le Figaro, said tons of small arms — rifles, machine guns, anti-tank rockets — and ammunition had been airdropped early in June to rebels in the Nafusa Mountains, a Berber tribal area, under pressure from Gadhafi forces.
The mountains are about 40 miles from Tripoli.
Humanitarian aid was also airdropped, they said.
The delivery of weaponry was the first by a NATO country to combatant forces in the Libyan conflict since hostilities began in March. It could mark more aggressive tactics to help strengthen rebels and topple the Gadhafi regime.

Full story + vid. here:
www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2011/07/05...

g buying more weapons :
KC_Tripolitania KC
RT ! #Algeria still in business with #Gaddafi – Almanswery & Albaghdadi are meeting with an Algerian official to buy more weapons 4 #Gaddafi
septimius_
twitpic.com/52uca4 – #Libya: John Simpson: Driving around the steep, twisting roads of the Jebel #Nafusa, looking down on the plain w

EnoughGaddafi Enough Gaddafi
Most Libyans see legitmcy of concerns about NATO & remain vigilant, as r they vigilant about the x-Gaddafi & x-Saif maneuvering #libya

_Tripolitania
66 Freedom Fighters injured today in #Misrata after ongoing battles with #Gaddafi forces who continue to shell the city on a daily basis.

dovenews Libyan™
BREAKING! Abdula Almanswery & Abdul AlGadar Albaghdadi are in Tunisia with an #Algerian official to buy more weapons for Saif Gaddafi

US Senate weighs Libya resolution
(AP) – 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is weighing whether to give President Barack Obama the authority to continue U.S. military action against Libya.
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid has scheduled a vote Tuesday on whether to proceed with debate on the measure this week.
Some Senate Republicans intent on debating spending cuts and raising the debt limit could upend Reid’s plans and vote against going forward on the Libya legislation. The Senate abandoned its recess week to deal with the unresolved financial issue.
The Libya resolution sponsored by Sens. John Kerry and John McCain has strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Not so in the House, where last month lawmakers overwhelmingly rejected a similar measure but stopped short of cutting off funds for the operation.
Copyright © 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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

dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi forces are using ppl’s homes to attack, reports that rocket launchers are placed in civilians homes in #Tawargha. #Misrata

LibyaFTW
Photo: Pimp My Ride, Libyan Style tumblr.com/xs73c60rt9

dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi forces when they got defeated they keep their injured behind, exactly like their Master Mad Dog!

Libya_United Libya_Awake_United
ICRC alarmed by situation in Libya, says fears worse | A measles outbreak is also sweeping through #Sabha reut.rs/k0WiRl #Feb17 #Libya

4Adam Adam
Libyan rebels wage radio war, Al Jazeera’s Sue Turton reports fr the frontline near Misurata. youtube.com/watch?v=MNK8XI… #Libya #Feb17 #Misrata

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNK8XIK7GWU&fea...

dovenews Libyan™
#FF R trying 2 push Gaddafi forces away from #Misrata, Gaddafi forces continue 2 attack the city using mid range missiles..Cowardly attacks

dovenews Libyan™
Clashes still going on between #FF & #Gaddafi forces mainly in west #Misrata.

hominoid555
Libya A 54 yr old woman in Tajura was stabbed to death & dragged to BinGasr as punishment for sewing a revolutionary flag on July 4.

dovenews Libyan™
#Gaddafi forces attack on Misrata have killed 12 civilians and injuring many others. Medics can’t cope with the number of casualties

20arb
When NATO bombards a military target in #Tripoli, ppl at gas station start celebrating. gaddafi thugs come & start shooting on them. #Libya

pdanaharbbc Paul Danahar
Written on Dafniyah front line, #Misrata- Anti aircraft guns on back of trucks driven up defensive bunker & being fired at #Gaddafi troops.

Rockets which have been stripped from helicopters are being launched by #feb17 every few minutes. This front line hasn’t moved in weeks.

Fighters skirmish just in front of huge sand wall and then retreat back. 2 mortars just landed 400 m from me fired from #Gaddafi side

#feb17 rebels say today they advanced and connected south and west frontlines. They say suffered 15 injured 1 dead and captured 4 soldiers.

Captured #Gaddafi troops were still wearing #Libyan army fatigues. 1 had bullet in back. 3 had light injuries. 2 dead taken for burial.

Captured #Gaddafi troops got good medical attention. No aggression towards them.1 rebel asked tho’ why had been shooting at fellow #libyans.
#feb17 rebels said after treatment four captured #Gaddafi troops be put with 200 other POW’s in #Misrata #Libya held since fighting began.

Localism in #Libya is one key reason why #feb17 rebels not making faster gains. Other is open areas between towns favor #Gaddafi artillery

to be fair, when you’ve just been captured and you’ve got a few bullet holes in you, you try not to get into a row.

KC_Tripolitania KC
‘In Solidarity With Libya’ protest in Trocedaro, #Paris tomorrow at 3pm. Plz attend and show your support. #SupportLibya #Libya #France RT

Lebeeya
I don’t understand how Journalists can meet/interview Saif, but #NATO cannot find him or his family?

Ahmed
#Libya #Feb17 #NTC Finance minster Ali Tarhouni says that the $505 million, found in Benghazi branch of Libyan central bank, was spent on the liberated areas to maintain a basic standard of living for the people (including paying for salaries, benefits, subsidized commodities and of course fuel, electricity, water and other public services).

MsEntropy
#Sahrawi man today told me how sadly misinformed Westerners that back #Gaddafi are, RE: racist policy towards #Amazigh community in #Libya

Libyan rebels hire Washington’s No. 1 lobby firm for ‘advice and assistance’
By Rachel Leven – 07/02/11 07:14 AM ET
Washington’s No. 1 lobbying firm is going to work for the Libyan rebels who are fighting to unseat Moammar Gadhafi.
Patton Boggs, perennially the top-earning K Street firm, is lobbying for the rebels to be accepted as the “legitimate government of the sovereign nation of Libya,” according to documents filed this week with the Justice Department.
The firm signed a contract with the Interim Transitional National Council of Libya to provide “advice and assistance on U.S.-Libya bilateral relations,” according to the documents.
Patton Boggs signed the agreement with Ali Suleiman Aujali, the Council’s representative to the United States. Aujali resigned as ambassador to Libya after Gadhafi tried to quell the uprising and started to advocate for the opposition group, which is based in Benghazi, Libya.
Other than formal recognition, the Transitional National Council also wants access to the frozen funds from Gadhafi’s regime that are being held by the United States.
Patton Boggs has been handling legal issues for the council and will continue to do so, outside counsel David Tafuri told The Hill.

Read full story:
thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/169509-...

British fire power strikes Gaddafi’s forces

Five rebels are said to have been killed in fighting around the town of Misrata in Libya.
It comes after the Ministry of Defence revealed new details about operations involving British forces.
Yesterday (Monday) two armed trucks were destroyed by an RAF patrol using Paveway bombs after NATO surveillance identified them in a compound north of Djebel Nafousa near Jadu.
On Sunday allied aircraft carried out a coordinated strike on two large warehouse complexes used to store Gaddafi’s military supplies in Brega, with an RAF Tornado striking three of the targets. RAF jets also destroyed a battle tank using Brimstone missiles.
The night before HMS Ocean launched her detachment of British Army Apache attack helicopters in a strike against regime positions in Zuwarah airfield.
Four armed vehicles and a command post were destroyed using Hellfire missiles and cannon fire, while Fleet Air Arm Sea King helicopters provided radar surveillance.
Meanwhile HMS Bangor is continuing counter-mine patrols in Misrata while RFA Fort Rosalie brings logistics support.
Source:
www.bfbs.com/news/worldwide/british-fir...

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
People in the #US need to remember, what people R fighting 4 in #Libya is what we celebrated yesterday. This is Libya’s version of our 1776

Khiria
Dear @NTC_of_Libya, there is one thing you can learn from the #Gaddafi government & that is having daily press conferences. #Libya #Feb17

Ben
On Tuesday 5th July 2011, said:
Concerns about the DEFECTORS Rome conference.

The choice by NTC of Sufyan Maghur who was & may still be working for Gaddafi as representant in Canada is puzzling to say the least and completes the picture that all NTC ambassadors are “defectors” / Gaddafi men..
This suggests M. Jibril prefers to work only with defectors, people of the same culture (installed by the brother leader).
Speaking of defectors, the Rome conference well be held July 9th-11th & is organized by Shalgam & Jibril & sponsored by Eni & Finmeccanica. The 2 Italian companies Eni & Finmeccanica will pay the airline tickets & hotel rooms & transport for all attendees of this conference. It’s important to note that the Gaddafi’s own shares in these companies. Therefore if U think about it Gaddafi is paying for this conference. Although NTC says they have nothing to do with this conference, Shalgam & Jibril are the brains behind it & Mr. Abdel_Jaleel did not denounce it!
It’s also important to note two most important agenda items of Rome conference: 1- reconciliation (immunity for defectors) 2- disarming the rebels! There is of course a more sinister agenda pursued actively & secretly by the organizers – the formation of a rival council to the NTC!
I truly believe the DEFECTORS are the ones running the NTC. Mr. Abdel_Jaleel isn’t even aware he is being manipulated by these old hands. All DEFECTORS outside of Libya should be suspected as FAKE until they prove the opposite. DEFECTORS can help only in the transition to another dictatorship; that is their natural environment. They won’t survive otherwise.
“Libyans respect USA , that is why I painted my car in US flag” Salem says.

Who dose not know Weeluse Air force base in the north African country Libya, I still remember the black and white small TV we use to have on the 60′s , the only TV chanel we receive is Weeluse TV from the US base in Tripoli.
All the Libyans have a nice memories with the Americans who lived in Libya , unlike any other nationality , the Americans did not have any problems adapting to the Libyan culture and environment, that is no surprise , Americans do respect any culture or religion and respect the freedom of whatever god made.
This leave no doubt that our future as a US allied country will help to build a Libyan state in which citizens will enjoy a non endless kind of freedom.
On the other day when I was driving towards the western front line I spotted a car that was covered completely with the American flag , I made a quick U turn and flowed it , there was four young men in car ,an they stop a side as I asked them with a smile on my face.
Salem was the owner of the 70′s old DATSUN , he said” American flag deserves more than this old Japanese car, but Gaddafi left nothing for us , he took all the money”
When I asked him who did the painting , he told me that he did it with his friends who where in the car with him, Khaled , Mohamed and Mohamed.
They said” we did this as a revenge for Gaddafi and to tell the world that we as Libyan youngsters finally had the chance to say to the Americans, Thank you for helping us and we will not let you down”
Source + PIC:
www.freemisurata.com/EngArt/?p=267

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Electricity & water has been cut in #Janzour. HEAVY arrest campaign, with Milad Daman & Touhami Khaled leading interrogations. #Libya #feb17

Reuters
Libya peace efforts appear to gather pace
By William Maclean, Security Correspondent
LONDON (Reuters) – The search for a political solution to Libya’s war has quietly moved up a gear despite tough-looking declarations by Muammar Gaddafi and his rebel foes suggesting they can fight on.
In part, the impression of a quickening behind the scenes peace effort stems from the sheer number of statements made by the combatants urging a settlement, aggressive and sometimes contradictory though some of these communiques are.
Speculation, analysts say, that a deal may be in the works has also been heightened by unconfirmed talk that rebels have eased some operations against Gaddafi, as either a short-term military tactic or, possibly, to facilitate negotiations.
And some say an arrest warrant for Gaddafi issued by the world court at The Hague has spurred deal-making by giving the West potential new leverage in the form of a possible offer of immunity in return for him stepping down from power.
“My hunch is that we’re not far from the end game,” Oliver Miles, a former British ambassador to Libya, told Reuters.
“There’s definitely something going on,” said UK-based opposition journalist and analyst Ashour Shamis, referring to his belief that political efforts had been stepped up.
“There are now more efforts to bring things to a conclusion and avoid an armed struggle for Tripoli, which would be very messy,” he said, referring to the capital, a Gaddafi bastion.

Full story:
mobile.reuters.com/regional/article/idA...

lebeeya
A friends aunt was taken from her home in Tripoli (Tajura), stabbed than shot to death. Allah yerhamha. #protectthelibyanwomen #freelibya

20arb
Dutch news from Kikla & Jadu #nafusa video (2 parts – interview & report from location Dutch & english) nieuwsuur.nl/video/253513-l… #Libya #feb17
Video:
nieuwsuur.nl/video/253513-libische-rebe...

Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Misrata & Zlitin FF join in clashes with Gadhafi forces now on 3 sides and entrances 2 city as FF’s attempt 2 penetrate city and liberate it

Tripolitanian Libyan
11 martyrs as #Gaddafi shells #Misrata. #Libya #Feb17

MilitantNews
#Libya Fierce fighting Misrata Faraj Akwedeir- Gadhafi’s troops “tried to enter Misrata from several fronts but our fighters stopped them”.

LibyanDictator The Dictator
#Misrata: Unexploded cluster bomb in residential area in Gheran lead to injury of 3 children; 1 lost an arm and an eye, other 2 with burns.

Tripolitanian Libyan
Ongoing clashes in and around #Zliten and freedom fighters make push from #Misrata – #Libya #Feb17

MilitantNews
#Libya Gaddafi troops putting up rebel flags to trick NATO in W.Mtns-Zintan, Nalut+Kikla under heavy rocket fire.

Libyan
cluster bomb explodes in #misrata :/ God bless you kids

July 5
Kadhafi shelling kills 11 in Misrata, most civilians: rebels
BENGHAZI, Libya (AFP) – Shelling by forces loyal to Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi killed 11 people and wounded another 57, almost all civilians, in the western rebel enclave of Misrata, insurgents said.
Earlier, the sources said five rebels were killed in fighting at the western entrance to the city, the sources said.
“Eleven people were killed and 57 wounded, almost all of them civilians,” a rebel source told AFP by telephone from Misrata. 200 kilometres (120 miles) east of Tripoli.
The news came as Paris said the rebels, increasingly confident on the ground, no longer need weapons drops from France, and as a senior Russian official reported that Moamer Kadhafi is conditionally ready to step down.
Story:
old.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110705/wl_af...

libyanproud
#Jufra : #Sokna :#Gaddafi thugs have killed FF Hamuda Saleh Gnayfid after arresting him and other FF yesterday via @sabha17feb #Feb17 #Libya

dovenews Libyan™
#Gaddafi has bought a house worth 2,200,000LYD ($1,819,234.21USD) for his TV presenter #Yousif #Shakear. Document was showing on #LibyanTV

Reports that Abdulla #Senoussi war criminal & head of #Gaddafi Intelligence was the subject of an unsuccessful assassination attempt #Libya

Iman
The last time my cousin left tripoli for #Libya he was not checked, this time is car was subjected to a thorough examination #feb17

Tunisia is a second libya, full of fleeing libyans, the hotel my cousin is staying in is only occupied by libyans

wheelertweets James Wheeler
This is 14 year old Ahmed Algtani from Ajdabiya #Libya in a Tunisian hospital. Kids like Ahmed r not like injured FFs. twitpic.com/5lnuwv

Kids like Ahmed didn’t volunteer for anything & know they don’t deserve this. Pain & depression show clearly on their faces.

On June 19, Ahmed was in bed toying with part of a cluster bomb he’d found in the street. It exploded in his hands.

Ahmed’s left hand was amputated. Part of his right hand is gone. His groin and both thighs have massive injuries. #gaddafi

This is Ahmed Algtani’s brother Suleiman. 11 yrs old. He was getting up to use the toilet when the explosion occurred. t.co/LDt5re4

His back was turned to his brother. The worst injury was to the middle of his spine. Both legs are now paralyzed. #libya

It took some coaxing from his uncle and me to get that weak but heart-breaking smile. He’s in pain. Mental and physical.

UN NEWS CENTRE
Libya: UN introduces regular vessel to ferry aid from Benghazi to Misrata

5 July 2011 –
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched the first ship with a regular schedule to ferry relief supplies and aid workers from the Libyan city of Benghazi to Misrata, which has seen some of the heaviest fighting since an uprising broke out in the North African country four months ago.
The vessel will make one or two trips each week between the two cities this month, the agency said in an update of its operations in Libya.
The agency also reported that it has distributed more than 6,000 tons of food aid to at least 543,000 people across Libya over the past four months. Working with partners, WFP said that more than 282,000 people in eastern Libya and 261,000 in the west have received food assistance.
Story:
5 July 2011 –
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched the first ship with a regular schedule to ferry relief supplies and aid workers from the Libyan city of Benghazi to Misrata, which has seen some of the heaviest fighting since an uprising broke out in the North African country four months ago.
The vessel will make one or two trips each week between the two cities this month, the agency said in an update of its operations in Libya.
The agency also reported that it has distributed more than 6,000 tons of food aid to at least 543,000 people across Libya over the past four months. Working with partners, WFP said that more than 282,000 people in eastern Libya and 261,000 in the west have received food assistance.
Story:
www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=3...

libyans_revolt
#Misrata: #Soqalthalath area on suburbs of #Zliten is under Freedom fighters control after heavy Battle with #Gaddafi forces today. #Libya

A Free Libyan
On Tuesday 5th July 2011,
#Libya #Feb17 Regarding E Europeans at Sousse: The report on FB has been clarified. What really happened, is that they arrived at Sousse via plane. They then tried to enter Libya overland but were denied access by the Tunisian authorities. That makes much more sense now!!

That is a relief!!!!!!
Where did they end up?

In Libya, curious children suffer from ordnance explosions

Paul Jeffrey
Catholic News Service

MISRATA, Libya — Fifteen-year-old Mohammed Majeed had grown so accustomed to the war raging around him that he lost his fear of the ordnance scattered on the ground in his neighborhood. One day in April, he found a rifle grenade just outside his front door and carried the projectile inside. The next day, as he played with it, it exploded in his hand.

“We heard a sudden roar from his room and went running to see what happened. We found him crying, and there was blood and parts of his hand on the ceiling,” said his father, Abdul Majeed.

Mohammed lost four of the fingers on his left hand and has had several operations since the accident.

Throughout this city, which was liberated by rebel fighters at a high cost and still remains under rocket fire from soldiers supporting Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, children have paid a high cost in the conflict. Besides suffering directly during the combat that raged in the city center, they have suffered as they picked up debris that is, at times, unexploded ordnance.

Moreover, citizens have collected weapons and ordnance, setting up impromptu displays of war paraphernalia at several places around the city. Stacked in front of houses and piled in city parks, everything from boxes of bullet casings to fire-gutted tanks recall what Misrata’s fighters faced.

Yet the monuments also pose a serious danger to the people of Misrata. According to an explosive ordnance team from a network of Christian church agencies, the museums contain a variety of items — such as fused artillery shells — that could easily explode and cause considerable death and injury.

“I understand the sentiment behind the museums, but it’s like the worst-case scenario in a course on explosive ordnance disposal,” said Fred Pavey, a British member of the Christian ACT Alliance humanitarian mine action team.

Pavey said the museums, by making ordnance seem more interesting, can encourage children to pick up war debris they find in their homes or in the streets. That can lead to tragedy, as in Mohammed’s case.

Yet Mohammed’s father says people are learning from the mistakes of others.

“Because of what happened to my son, most of the children of our neighborhood are now afraid of these things, of strange things. We tell everyone not to touch strange things or any weapons. So now they’re careful,” he said.

“Kids are very bored in Libya, but they get bombs instead of toys from Gadhafi. He has destroyed everything.”
Source:
www.catholicherald.org/news/newsitem.as...

LibyaLiberty He’s sounding more & more like dad.And looking more & more like Rasputin. #SaifsBeard

Khiria:
Saif VID June 22:
#SaifGadaffi speaks again! bit.ly/kZDLjn
He’s asking for more troops
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BUqqVtHZw&feature=player_embedded#at=17

libyanproud libyanandproud
Breaking : #Gadaffi forces caught 32 Defecting Officers on a boat on coast of #zwara on the way to #Tunisia . #Feb17 #Libya

MyFreeLibya
Internet in the Media centre is a joke…damned nytimes and washington post journos hogging the net….#Libya #Zentan

BREAKING: Our FFs are stationed just 20km from #Brega. #Libya #feb17

MyFreeLibya Rubicon Moad
Zintan has become a city returned to its hectic lifestyle….Such contrast from last time, it was a ghost town just last month..#

BREAKING: FFs of #Misurata have established themselves in an advanced position today, but it will not be mentioned for security reasons!

PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
Breaking: #Misuratah: #Qaddafi’s troops were defeated on the Western Frontline #AlDafina, and freedom fighters advanced to Tholatha Market area.
30 soldiers of #Gaddafi troops were killed, and 12 were arrested some of them are mercenaries. FFs seized ammunition & mechanisms, including 23-mm cannon fitted in 4×4 vehicle.
#Libya#Feb17

Ossama Today for the second day in a row #NATO has bombed the city of #Wadan intesively

NohaZayed
Everytime we are about to travel my children 6 & 4 years old still with a hopeful gaze ask if we are going back to Libya :( #libya

Ossama:
BREAKING NEWS: #NATO aircrafts are bombing locations of the battalions in #Brega intensely NOW.

Ossama
BREAKING: Now heavy fighting in #Ber-Alghnam, next city before #Zawia is Bin Ashib. #Libya #feb17

libyanproud libyanandproud
BREAKING : #Nafusa : #BirGhanam : Freedom Fighters have pushed forward toward #zawiya now in #Hrarat (10 km from zawiya). #Feb17 #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
FF in #Dafniya area on #Misrata W outskirts came under heavy ArtilleryFire Tuesd 11 Martyrs 42 FF Injured some in Critical condition #Liby

Well, well:
EndTyranny101
Le Monde – Iran’s head of intelligence in the revolutionary guard sent a team of officers to work with the #Gaddafi regime. #Libya #Feb17

AU chief Ping chides West over Libya intervention
Jul 5, 2011, 12:10 GMT
Berlin – Jean Ping, the African Union head, chided western nations Tuesday in Berlin for pressing Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi to leave, saying Gaddafi’s future was for Libyan people only to decide.
After a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Ping said his 54-nation group had always supported a political solution. The AU has criticized NATO’s bombing of Tripoli.
‘We want a ceasefire. Without a ceasefire, nothing is possible,’ said Ping, who is chairman of the AU commission.
‘The Libyans must decide which people are acceptable to them,’ he said. ‘It should not be up to us to say who is acceptable and who is not.’
Germany has dissociated itself from the NATO operations against Gaddafi and abstained from the UN Security Council resolution that authorized them, but has also taken the side of the Benghazi-based rebels, recognizing them as the legitimate government of Libya.
‘A solution must be found where Gaddafi no longer leads Libya,’ Merkel said at the joint news conference.
Merkel is to tour Africa next week, visiting Kenya, Angola and Nigeria. She said Ping briefed her on what to expect.
Source:
www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/...

FromJoanne Joanne
#NATO: France Britain UnitedStates Each Fly ONE #AWACS Command-and-Control Plane aDay for 8 to 9 Hrs at a time goo.gl/cBePC #Libya

Two kilometre independence flag and a million people expected in Benghazi rally
In a full-bodied sign of unity, Libyans in Benghazi and other liberated cities and towns are planning for a massive rally which has not been seen since the beginning of the uprisings in mid-February.
Benghazi residents are expecting a million people to come out and rally in support of liberated Libyan cities as well as to express support for cities currently besieged by Gaddafi forces.
This comes less than a week after Gaddafi held a rally of his own in his strong base of Tripoli, where people attended in order to help him reach his aim of putting a million people on the streets to undermine revolutionary morale.
There are reports of families in their Tripoli neighbourhoods who had received their sons’ bodies the following morning, because they had refused to attend the Gaddafi rally.
According to NTC spokesman Mahmoud Shammam, the Benghazi rally, expected to be attended by many living outside of the city limits comes as the revolutionaries are making their advance towards the capital Tripoli.
The rally is expected to begin at 2p.m. in front of the Tibesti Hotel which overlooks harbour in the city centre of Benghazi. By 5p.m. the masses are expected to march towards Benghazi’s Tahrir Square, where they will hold up a revolutionary flag projected to be as long as 2 kilometers long.
Similar rallies are set to take place in the liberated cities of Ajdabiya, Misrata, Shahat, Ras Lanuf and the (Western) Nafusa Mountains.

Short URL: english.libya.tv/?p=6579

Source:
english.libya.tv/2011/07/05/two-kilomet...

freelibyanyouth Shabab Libya
Musbah Aroosi did not defect, he is sick at his farm, and he did not die. Talked to his aunt right now.
I hope that Musbah Aroosi does not die, so that he can be brought to justice for giving the sentence to the shuhadaa of the 1993 coup.

LIBYA_BREAKING Ossama
BREAKING NEWS: #NATO NOW bombed and severly degraded #Gaddafi troops stationed in #Gheryan, FFs advance into city iminent. #Libya #feb17

hominoid
30 soldiers of Gaddafi troops were killed, and 12 were arrested some of them are mercenaries. FFs seized cont
ammunition & mechanisms, including 23-mm cannon fitted in 4×4 vehicle.
Libya Misuratah Qaddafi’s troops were defeated on the Western Frontline AlDafina, and freedom fighters advanced to Tholatha Market area.

Halwasa anyone?:
The Gaddafi government says it was in foreign-mediated talks in Italy, Egypt and Norway but Rome says no such talks took place.

feb17voices tweets:AJA: Updated number of rebels killed in action today in #Misrata: 14 #Libya

Reuters:
Opposition in Benghazi will receive a fuels tanker on Tuesday, trade sources said.The Liberian-flagged oil products tanker Fidias is sailing south in the Mediterranean and due to arrive later on Tuesday, AIS Live ship tracking data on Reuters showed. Industry sources said the tanker was carrying around 30,000-40,000 tonnes of diesel. Previously, the tanker was anchored off Malta for over a week and the source for the fuel was unclear, they said

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday pulled a resolution to authorize the U.S. military conflict in Libya from the Senate schedule, saying senators needed to work on the U.S. budget and debt issue instead. A procedural vote had been planned for Tuesday evening on the Libya resolution, but Reid canceled that. He told senators he had just spoken with the Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, and “we agreed notwithstanding the broad support for the Libya resolution, the most important thing for us to focus on this week is the budget.”

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, his UAE counterpart Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan and representative of the Libyan opposition Mahmoud Jibril met in the Turkish town of Ankara Tuesday and discussed developments in the troubled north African country. The meeting was held at the behest of Sheikh Abdullah, who arrived in Ankara earlier today on an unannounced visit, coinciding with arrival of Jibril who is president of the Executive Office of the Transitional National Council (TNC).

”If he (Gaddafi) is a real leader of the Libyan people then he should show the world that he can sacrifice for Libya … but instead we regrettably see him sacrifice with the Libyan people,” — Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs

BBC:
At least 11 people have been killed in fighting around the Libyan port city of Misrata, rebel forces fighting Muammar Gaddafi say. Journalists in Misrata said rebel positions to the west of Misrata, in Dafniya, came under heavy shelling from Col Gaddafi’s forces. Meanwhile, rebel commanders told the BBC they had linked up their positions to the south and west of Misrata.

bint_
Apparently on Hamza Altouhami’s show on Ganfooda, he bought a ‘captured’ FF, but this man has gel in his hair!!!!LOOOL

dovenews Libyan™
#Nafusa Man said: “Gaddafi you can bomb our homes we will live in caves but FREE” #Nafusa #Libya

mosaa:
Saw a couple buses in Cairo airport packed with awfully war-injured Libyans to be hospitalized here. sad.” #Gaddaficrimes

Tasbeeh
We have to start asking ourselves why the most prominent Middle East experts are WHITE. MEN.

Worth reading:
Iran, which fears the repercussions of the U.S. intervention and the EU in North Africa had developed a plan through which to transform the cities of Tripoli and the sparkle Allebian into a quagmire for NATO and its allies, in order to prolong the survival of Qaddafi in power:
In Arabic:
www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/07/05/1...

That picture fits, wheels within wheels……

dovenews Libyan™
Russian official: Gaddafi would go in exchange for security english.libya.tv/?p=6513 Gaddafi can go to #HELLLLLLLLLLLL!
Russian official: Gaddafi would go in exchange for security

A Russian newspaper said today that Muammar Gaddafi was willing to give up power in exchange for security guarantees, citing a high-level Russian official.
Muammar Gaddafi is sounding out the possibility of handing over power, a Russian newspaper said today, but Gaddafi’s government denied it was in talks about the veteran autocrat stepping down.
Five months into a conflict that has embroiled NATO and become the bloodiest of the “Arab Spring” uprisings, there has been a flurry of reports about talks on Gaddafi ending his almost 42 years in power in exchange for security guarantees.
Russia’s respected Kommersant newspaper based its story on a high-level source in Moscow. But the report was denied in Tripoli and Italy expressed scepticism.
Read the full story here:
english.libya.tv/2011/07/05/gaddafi-wou...

libyans_revolt
Over 200 soldiers of #Gaddafi forces killed in today’s battle on western front line in #Misrata &15 captured, mostly Chadians.

A journo with a big heart:
wheelertweets James Wheeler
“Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.” -Lafayette, a French hero from American history. I long to say this in Tripoli.

KC_Tripolitania
#Gaddafi ‘s son #Saif Al Islam doesn’t even carry a proper degree (he forged his thesis) let alone hold any official position in #Libya.

Tasbeeh I’ve been compelled to unfollow so many so-called “Middle-east experts” in the past few days. Culturally insensitive jacka**es.

Worth a read:
Mad hatter politicians and the lies they peddle
NICKOLAUS BAUER – Jul 05 2011 15:35
In his latest foray into the Libyan regime’s attempts to deal with the rebels at the gate, president-cum-dictator Muammar Gaddafi ’s second eldest son Saif Gaddafi has told the media his old man is ready to talk.

Sporting an earnest beard, Saif told French television on Monday that the only reason pops wasn’t at the negotiating table himself, was that those pesky rebels had thrown every meaningful move by the government to end the conflict back in its face.

Saif also told the broadcaster that the state was ready to cease hostilities immediately — and even hold an election, but complained that Nato and its allies were using the conflict to get a leg up in the country’s oil industry.

Source:
mg.co.za/article/2011-07-05-mad-hatter-...

Arabic Saif “The traitors can go live in Doha, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Paris, London, anywhere. But #Libya, no. … you have no place here.”

Food for rebels in Libya
“Food for rebels in Libya” is categorized as “world”. This video was licensed from Grab Networks. The copyright notice of this video is “© 2011 Reuters.” For additional video content, click the “video” tab at the top of this page.
Vid.:
www.americanbankingnews.com/2011/07/05/...

Le Monde. The French article:

Le jeu de l’Iran dans les crises en Libye et en Syrie

L’intervention armée en Libye a-t-elle conduit à une alliance secrète entre l’Iran et le pouvoir du colonel Mouammar Kadhafi ? C’est ce que qu’avancent désormais des milieux de renseignements occidentaux. La République islamique, craignant les conséquences de cette opération européenne et américaine en Afrique du Nord, aurait élaboré un plan pour transformer la Tripolitaine et la Cyrénaïque en bourbier pour les alliés de l’OTAN. Du moins, pour y faire durer le plus longtemps possible la résistance des forces de Kadhafi.

L’Iran cherche à tirer profit des bouleversements dans le monde arabe, y voyant un facteur d’affaiblissement de la position des Occidentaux au Moyen-Orient, ainsi qu’une diversion détournant l’attention de la communauté internationale de son programme nucléaire, disent ces sources.
Selon cette analyse, dans une directive émise début mai, le Guide suprême iranien, Ali Khamenei, a donné instruction à la force Al-Qods du corps des Gardiens de la révolution (pasdarans), l’armée idéologique du régime, d’apporter une assistance militaire au pouvoir du colonel Kadhafi dans sa guerre contre “l’axe du Mal Etats-Unis-France-Royaume-Uni”.
Ce plan comporte des transferts d’armes, dont des missiles sol-sol et sol-air, ainsi que des lanceurs de grenades, devant être utilisés contre les forces de l’opposition libyenne. Ces transferts ont été confiés à des membres de la force Al-Qods basés en Algérie et au Soudan, une centaine d’entre eux ayant pénétré en Libye jusque dans des zones de la Cyrénaïque proches de l’Egypte, affirment ces sources occidentales.
Toujours selon cette version, le chef des renseignements des pasdarans iraniens, Hosain Taeb, a dépêché à Tripoli, la capitale libyenne, une petite équipe de commandants de haut rang des Gardiens de la révolution, placés sous son autorité. Leur mission étant de conseiller le régime libyen en matière de surveillance des communications et de renseignements.
Les Iraniens auraient par ailleurs conseillé le pouvoir de Mouammar Kadhafi dans sa tactique de dissimulation de matériel militaire et de combattants sur des sites civils. La directive du Guide suprême affirme que des frappes de l’OTAN sur ces lieux permettraient à Tripoli de répliquer par “des attaques de propagande, affaiblissant les agresseurs”.
La stratégie de Ali Khamenei, ajoutent ces sources occidentales, consiste à “fixer” le plus longtemps possible les Occidentaux sur le théâtre libyen, dans l’objectif d’amoindrir leur capacité à réagir face à la répression en Syrie, allié majeur de l’Iran au Moyen-Orient.
L’intervention de l’OTAN en Libye suscite de vives critiques de la Russie, qui, en réaction, bloque toute résolution de l’ONU concernant la Syrie. Le ministre français des affaires étrangères, Alain Juppé, en visite à Moscou le 1er juillet, a essuyé des remontrances de son homologue russe, Sergueï Lavrov, sur ce dossier. La France met en exergue le fait que les agissements du pouvoir syrien font courir un fort risque de déstabilisation de toute la région.
Les Etats-Unis avaient accusé, dès avril, le régime syrien de rechercher l’aide de l’Iran dans sa politique d’écrasement de la contestation de rue. Du matériel de répression policière et des techniques de censure d’Internet auraient été fournies. Le 24 juin, l’Union européenne (UE) a endossé cette accusation, en décidant de frapper de sanctions trois hauts responsables des Gardiens de la révolution.
L’UE a accusé le commandant des pasdarans Mohammad Jaafari, le commandant de la force Al-Qods Qassem Soleimani, et Hosain Taeb, d’avoir “fourni une assistance au régime syrien dans la répression des manifestations”.
Les manoeuvres régionales de Téhéran, sur fond de révoltes arabes, ont accru l’antagonisme entre l’Iran chiite et l’Arabie saoudite, puissance sunnite. La crainte des ambitions iraniennes a poussé les monarchies du Golfe à intervenir en mars au Bahreïn, pour consolider un pouvoir aux prises avec un soulèvement à dominante chiite.
En Syrie, le soutien iranien vise à préserver un appui stratégique, le régime allaouite, d’obédience chiite, qui sert de plaque tournante pour de nombreux transferts d’armes iraniennes vers l’étranger.
L’aide de l’Iran à la Libye du colonel Kadhafi, telle que la décrivent ces sources occidentales, peut apparaître paradoxale. Des responsables politiques et religieux iraniens ont multiplié ces derniers mois les déclarations de soutien à l’opposition libyenne, tout en taxant l’intervention des Occidentaux de visées néocoloniales. Historiquement, les relations entre Mouammar Kadhafi et le régime des mollahs ont toujours été détestables. L’Iran tient le colonel pour responsable de l’enlèvement et de la disparition en Libye, à la fin des années 1970, du charismatique chef religieux chiite libanais, Moussa Al-Sadr.
Ce contexte explique pourquoi, selon ces sources occidentales, le choix d’aider Mouammar Kadhafi a donné lieu à des dissensions au sein du pouvoir iranien, opposant le Guide suprême au président Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, qui était favorable à un soutien à l’insurrection anti-Kadhafi. Le débat a été tranché par Ali Khamenei et son entourage, qui a insisté sur le caractère clandestin de l’aide à Tripoli.
En portant secours à un pouvoir libyen avec lequel il n’a pas d’affinités, l’Iran ferait une démonstration de sa capacité de nuisance face aux Occidentaux, comme cela a été le cas en Afghanistan, où il a été accusé par les Etats-Unis d’avoir livré des armes et des explosifs aux talibans.
Natalie Nougayrède Article paru dans l’édition du 06.07.11

www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/20...

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: Reports of explosions being heard now. #Libya #feb17

tweets4peace
Photo: #AidTrip: A little #Libya refugee holds up the peace sign at the school we worked at in #Tunisia…. tumblr.com/xto3cgbf6u
maybeyourcupoftea.tumblr.com/post/72833...

dovenews Libyan™

Approx 200 – 300 #Gaddafi forces were killed and injured in today’s fight in #Misrata.

FF have destroyed 1 tank, 1 rocket launcher, some cars & captured 3 cars with mounted anti aircraft gun. #Misrata

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “EFENDI BABA” now en route to dest. #Benghazi #Libya ETA: 2011-07-07 04:30 (UTC) #feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Syria CARGO SHIP “LADY SEHAM” 35.27183˚/20.33317˚ #Istanbul #Turkey – #Tripoli #Libya Speed/Course: 12.1 kn/248˚ #Libya #feb17 @NATO

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Bahamas CARGO SHIP “ADRIATIC PEARL” now departing port #Tripoli #Libya. #feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “HACI MEHMET KAPTAN” 33.60365˚/18.79043˚ Speed/Course: 8.9 kn/262˚ Dest. #Tripoli #Libya #feb17 @NATO

Libyans who fled Tripoli describe furtive protests
Rebel sympathizers, driven underground by a security clampdown in Tripoli, have resorted to furtive protests such as writing “No” next to pro-government wall graffiti and releasing balloons with rebel flags attached, according to two Libyans who have escaped the capital.
The two men spoke after reaching the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi, offering a rare snapshot of anti-government resistance in the capital. Tripoli residents, fearing regime reprisals, are generally reluctant to speak to foreign reporters based there who can only move with government minders and are almost never allowed access to rebel sympathizers.
Read full art.:
www.blueridgenow.com/article/20110705/A...

BBC:
Three days of farce in Gaddafi’s Libya
More than 700km (435 miles) is a long way to go on a maybe.
But, up until this week, none of the foreign journalists locked up in our five-star gilded cage in Tripoli had been offered a chance to see Col Muammar Gaddafi’s loyal fighters up close on the front lines.
So it was that my cameraman and I found ourselves piling aboard a white minibus and heading out into the sweltering heat of the Libyan desert.
Libya is an enormous land, and virtually empty. It took most of one day, and a good chunk of the next, to get there. For hour after hour we saw nothing but sand, scrub and the occasional group of scraggy camels.
But we all remained excited by the prospect ahead, a real encounter with the men still prepared to fight and die for the Libyan leader.
Imagine our surprise then when, hot and exhausted, mid-way through day two, we drew up next to a destroyed mobile phone tower 30km outside the little coastal town of Brega.
The mangled mass of steel lay prostrate beside the road, the control room shattered and burned.
“This,” our guide told us, “was destroyed by a Nato bomb last week. Five workers were killed and a family in a passing car.”

Read more here:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14035281

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Numerous GRAD-type rockets hitting #Misrata’s #Dafniya area right now. #Libya #feb17

Tripolitanian Libyan
HUGE gains on the #Misrata front for freedom fighters – stalemate successfully broken :D #Libya #Feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Liberia OIL TANKER “FIDIAS” now anchored in port #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Interesting: #NATO ship “235007808” now approaching #Sirte #Libya. Currently 21.5 NM off shore and closing. #feb17

libyanproud libyanandproud
#TripoliCalling Washington DC: Rally in front of the White House 18:00-21:00 . #Feb17 #Libya #TripoliCalling

Niz_FGM Niz
6/7/11-7000 leaflets distributed, hand2hand, in Benghazi&Derna for the massive rally. By gods grace, the world will hear our voice tomorrow.

Obama warning to Kenya on Gaddafi

US President Barack Obama is warning Kenya not to give besieged Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi access to money generated by Libya’s investments in the country.
Obama wants Kenya to freeze all of Gaddafi’s assets and those of the Central Bank of Libya, as directed by the United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973.
The US Embassy in Nairobi has also asked the Government to remove the diplomatic status of Libyan diplomats loyal to Gaddafi, and instead help the Transitional National Council opposing the former strongman to “open a representative office in Kenya”.

Full story:
www.standardmedia.co.ke/politics/Inside...

Shahrazad
#Gaddafi is losing day after day..Keep up the fighting for #freedom our heroes in #Tripoli.. Our love and prayers are with you..