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SUMMARY JULY 11th 2011

7/11/2011
7.11.2011


LibyanDuda
#GaddafiTV – AlRiyadiya is playing the “Allahu Akbar” song which I believe is a signal to strike. Rabi yester

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Reports that #Gaddafi forces placed landmines surrounding #Tripoli (80 Km out) to keep #Freedomfighters away

Video: #Tripoli, #Libya in 1964 before any of #Gaddafi’s corruption and violence:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkPFOTwiZqo&fea...

#Gaddafi OIL TANKER “MAETIGA” now anchored in port #Hamriyah #Dubai #UAE. #Libya #feb17

#Freedomfighters that liberated #Majer (S of #Zliten) from #Gaddafi forces youtu.be/vI2ncwCCYnM #Libya #feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI2ncwCCYnM&fea...

#Zawiya: #NATO dropped leaflets in Zawiya last night warning them not to leave their houses

NATO:

pdanaharbbc Paul Danahar
Huge jump in NATO hits around misrata and zlitan This may be the ‘new tactic’ feb17 rebel told me was coming. Libya goo.gl/GbrXR

NATO 10JULY Brega: 3 Armed Vhcle nr Misrata: 8 Artillry Pces 1 Tank, 8 Mil Vehicles, 3 Mltpl 3 Rocket Launchr 1 Mil Compound
NATO 10JULY Tripoli: 3 Radar, 3 SAM Launchers Zlitan: 3 Mltpl Rocket Launchr Okba: 1 Radar 1 Mil Store Facil

NATO Sorties conducted 10 JULY: 139 Strike sorties conducted 10 JULY

littlelisa
RT“@dovenews: One of Gaddafi’s seniors military figure was injured and is getting treated in #Alasabah hospital

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER

Zawiyaaaaaaa! FFs blow up petrol station used by G forces with several G forces injured #feb17 #libya Allahu Akbar

The Seattle Times
In rebel-held Libya, men find themselves changing
KIKLA, Libya — He is a soft-spoken 22-year-old with a massive Belgian machine gun.
“Allahu akbar!” Radwan Othman cries out as he opens fire in response to a barrage of rockets fired by Moammar Gadhafi’s troops less than two miles across the valley.
Afterward he goes silent, staring into space with glazed eyes. He doesn’t talk much, and his friends at this front-line position at the far eastern edge of rebel-controlled territory in the Nafusa Mountains worry for him.
Until the uprising against Gadhafi’s 42-year rule ignited in February, he sold women’s clothes at a shop in Tripoli and had never handled a gun in his life.
“The war changes you,” said Mesbah Sassi, a 28-year-old fighter who was unemployed before the war began and is among the volunteer fighters here in Kikla. “It turns you from a nice person into an aggressive person. I was a civilian. Now I have a gun and shoot to kill, and for us it’s getting too easy.”
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationwo...

littlelisa
G: Monday is finally here!!! Hala and Shakeer say your goodbyes! #LibyaStateTv”

#Gaddaficrimes GADDAFI stations not shutting down until 7/18?! Anyone can confirm? Why in the world wld they wait?!?

Niz_FGM Niz
11/7/11 – Inside info from Internal Security – Katiba given 72 hour deadline to find Free Generation Movement…….. that was 14 days ago!!

inglesi Piers Scholfield
#NATO update on 10th July ops incl 21 targets nr #Misrata and 3 nr #Zlitan – another huge rise in strikes: bit.ly/rjnWWg

libyanproud libyanandproud
BREAKING : Egyptian court orders 15 #Gaddafi channels to stop broadcasting on #Nilesat !

#Gaddafi TV channels will go offline on the 18th of July #Feb17 #Libya

Niz_FGM Niz
11/7/11 – AljazeeraEnglish live with FreeGenerationMovement at 1pm Tripoli time, (35 minutes from now). Tune in for the latest from #Tripoli

Gsquare
There are also some Libyans protesting here at Magles El Dawla for some case they had against a TV channel #libya #egypt

H.M. FORCES
Rebel Tech: Four Wheelers and Rockets
Defense Tech
July 11, 2011
Check out these pics of what appears to be the latest in Libyan rebel weaponeering; a four-wheel ATV chassis with four rocket launchers mounted on top.
At first glance, I was hoping this was a remotely controlled weapon system like these , but after looking at the image closely, I can’t see anything that looks like a power plant for the chassis.
However, the last picture in the collection shows what might be a remote launching device for the rocket quad. Let’s hope they’ve put an engine on it since the pictures were taken.
While this may not be a shining example of engineering, it’s a small example of the passion and dedication a lot of these rebels are putting into fighting against a despised ruler. This video showing a rebel re-powdering ancient rifle ammunition with powder taken from kids cap guns is another small example of the rebels’ determination.
Check out pics here:
www.hmforces.co.uk/news/articles/8461-r...

This needs to be addressed by TNC:
C.J. Chivers:
Scenes from Qawalish, Libya.
The destroyed gas pumps, which were intact and functional when the Forces of Free Libya captured the town from the military forces of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi last week.
Bryan Denton and I were in the town within minutes after it fell, we returned the day after and we returned again today. During this time the town was solely under rebel control. And during this time it has been looted extensively, including by armed men we observed in rebel attire and in vehicles bearing rebel stickers or flags. During this same time, many houses have been burned. We have been unable to locate a single civilian in the town. Perhaps a few are there, well-hidden or checking briefly on their belongings. Most have fled. Rebels roam the town and man checkpoints that control access to Qawalish, and have not shown concern for this.
cjchivers.com/post/7473082598/scenes-fr...

Reporter’s Notebook: Reading the Rebels in Western Libya, Pt. I
By C.J. CHIVERS
Looting and Arson in Qawalish
A rebel tried to shoot the lock off a door as rebel forces scavenged and looted buildings in Qawalish, after Qaddafi loyalist forces fled their positions there earlier in the day.
The village of Qawalish sits on the rolling high ground of the mountains of western Libya, a small collection of houses, shops and a mosque astride a single two-lane asphalt road. By the time the fighters opposed to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi had chased away pro-Qaddafi forces last week, the battle for this tiny place, all but unknown by outsiders until that day, had provided several scenes that offered insights into how the rebel campaign is being conducted here.
Like those elsewhere in Libya, the fighters here share a sense of common purpose: the belief that their uprising represents a long-awaited chance to topple an ossified, brutal and corrupt regime. But also like that of rebels in the east, their performance on the battlefield is uneven, often unnerving, and at times at odds with the interests of their cause.
All of this emerged in the kaleidoscopically mixed picture they presented as they pressed forward last week. In Qawalish, rebel bungling and crime played out beside pockets of militarily impressive behavior. And then matters turned worse. Ultimately, the contradictory scenes along a single stretch of road underscored a shortage of strong commanders at the front, or at least of commanders who adhered to the pledges of the National Transitional Council, the de facto rebel authority, to respect human rights and the laws of war. And this raised worrisome questions.
Read more:
atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/repo...

tripolitano Tripolitano
Only town Gaddafi announced taken is Qawalesh. then this happens.tomorrow will b on state TV.smearing of FFs?!

Khiria
If this is true, I’m very disappointed in our freedom fighters

FromJoanne Joanne
STILL MISSING: Dr. Rida Mazagri of #Charleston #Canada Grew up in #TRIPOLI last seen leaving #Ajdabiya on March16 goo.gl/7MF3P

FLASH Egypt Administrative court BANS 16 Libyan TV channels brodcasting on Nile Sat via Ahram #Libya #GaddafiCrimes #LibyaStateTV

FLASH 20 FF shut the Valves of pipeline to #Zuwarah Refinery off near Khamassa which were used to supply Gaddafi forces #Libya

#ZLITEN FF lost 1 FreedomFighter and 32 were injured by the laid landmines of the retreating Gaddafi forces to Al Khums

#Australia Paul Grigson visiting #NTC in #Benghazi Sunday vowed to keep up humanitarian aid to #Libya

BBC
Video
Libya crisis: Long fight for freedom in Misrata

After weeks of stalemate, Libyan rebels near Misrata are once again fighting their way west towards the capital Tripoli.
The rebel-held city remains surrounded, accessible only by sea, but morale is high as people embrace their new found freedom.
Gabriel Gatehouse reports.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14103143

Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Egyptian court order nilesat 2 shut down 15 Gadhafi tv satellit broadcasts because they incite murder! hope nilesat actions it immediately!

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Video of NATO bombing 3 Ammo depots in Gheryan . Video uploaded on 11 July #Feb17#Libya youtube.com/watch?v=xlkewl…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlkewlkVIkk

Amazing : Misrata FF who had part of arm amputated returns to the frontline only 3 days after operation. #feb17#libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2i0KLMrB-I&NR=1

m_madi Mohamed Madi
by Thanku4theAnger
News: Rebels have been in Bir Ghanam for a few days now, heavy shelling of Gawaleesh today, could hear it all morning

AFP:
Clashes in Libya’s Zliten kill 4 and injures 22

BENGHAZI, Libya (AFP) – Four rebels were killed and 22 wounded in overnight clashes against forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi in the western town of Zliten, rebels said on Monday.

Rebels were advancing to the centre of Zliten, 60 kilometres (36 miles) from their western coastal enclave of Misrata, Libya’s third city, they said in a statement.

The clashes flared in Souk al-Thulatha district near the centre of Zliten, a strategic gateway town for the rebels seeking to march on to Tripoli, 200 kilometres (125 miles) further east.

“Four of our fighters were martyred and another 22 were gravely injured in clashes with loyalist forces,” the statement said. Kadhafi’s forces had used “heavy weapons and cluster bombs banned by international conventions.”

In west Libya, rebels are fighting Kadhafi’s forces on two fluid front lines: in and around the Mediterranean coastal town of Zliten and hamlets of the Nafusa mountain range, west of the capital.
Source: AFP
www.modernghana.com/news/339137/1/clash...

AlManara:
This morning clashes renewed in Tarhuna city centre today

m_madi Mohamed Madi
Yifrin hospital needs more doctors, more nurses, more cleaning staff and more equipment as it is the main hospital for the western front now

Ahrar TV:
Clashes in Janzur & indpendence anthem played from Welad Hamad Mosque. Part of mosque burnt By G forces as a result

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Egyptian Supreme court headed by Hamdi Yaseen Okasha give verdict to close 14 Gaddafi regimeTV channels on Nilesat #Libya #feb17 Allah Akbar

m_madi
Lots of airstrikes last night too, seemed to be coming from the Assabaah area

Yifrin’s hospital receives most of the casualties from Gawaleesh/Bir Ghanam fighting but does not have adequate facilities

Area around Gawaleesh contains landmines, saw pictures from HRW yesterday showing chinese-made mines, also saw 2 cars on fire near there

bint_
All these #SaifsBeard jokes, but don’t forget it was practically illegal to have a beard in Gaddafi Libya, so is Saif breaking daddy’s laws?

LIBYA_WIN #ihavenotolerance for #saifsbeard someone please help him shave it off with a big sharp rusty blade dipped in salt, lemon&99degrees ethanol

MOD UK:

HMS York returned to cheering crowds of families and well-wishers at Portsmouth Naval Base last week following a varied and wide-ranging deployment to the South Atlantic and Libya.

The Royal Navy Type 42 destroyer sailed into the base in spectacular style, with a powerful 15-gun salute to the Second Sea Lord, Vice Admiral Charles Montgomery, a flypast by her Lynx helicopter, and an arc of water heralding the ship’s arrival, fired from the jets of the tugs pulling her in.

The warship began her deployment from the UK back on 11 February 2011; originally destined for Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. However, this was quickly altered as events began to unfold in Libya, and HMS York was diverted to Malta to collect 1.5 tonnes of medical equipment – a gift from the Swedish Government – and tasked to take it to the port of Benghazi in Libya.

On her arrival at Benghazi, York’s Force Protection Group Royal Marines set up a cordon on the port to protect the ship and allow the lorries to take the aid to local hospitals, providing much needed first aid. HMS York also picked up 43 refugees, many of them women with young children, and also oilfield workers who had travelled more than 250 miles (400km) in the hope of evacuation.

Full story;
www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/...

abe
Highly valuable supply of med equipment coming in this week to be shipped to #Libya. Pls donate to LibyanEmergencyAid.com to help.

Libye Libre
Niz_FGM en ce moment sur AJE live
Niz_FGM sur AJE live: “le régime recherche activement les membres de notre groupe à #Tripoli et a demandé à travers la TV de nous tuer.”

Libya_Now
#SaifAlIslam new lies through Algerian media:“Sarkozy sent troops & said HE created the NTC & HE is the person we should speak to, not NTC”

befroggled
Just a heads up ; the kids LOVE Play-Doh/Plasticine, I was just with the refugees in Tunisia & the kids went crazy over it!

2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Nilesat was ordered today to close Gaddafi’s hate channels: shorouknews.com/ContentData.as… #feb17 #Libya
Source:
www.shorouknews.com/ContentData.aspx?id...

The Telegraph:
Libya: Nato ‘will stop as soon as Gaddafi loyalists and rebels begin direct negotiations’
Nato will stop their bombardment of Libya as soon as Gaddafi loyalists and rebels sit round a table and begin direct negotiations, according to the French defence minister.
Gerard Longuet also said that Nato would stop their bombardment as soon as the Libyans speak to each to other.
His comments appeared to be a significant shift on France’s position the Libyan uprising, although Paris said its objective was still that Col Muammar Gaddafi must eventually give up power.
France has spearheaded the Nato-led air campaign in Libya with Britain under a United Nations mandate to protect civilians, and was the first to launch air strikes against troops loyal to Gaddafi in March.
After more than three months of bombing, international leaders are stuck over how to end the war, where rebels hold large parts of eastern Libya and have loosened a siege of the city of Misurata, but are unable to make decisive inroads towards the capital Tripoli despite Nato strikes on Gaddafi’s forces.
Gaddafi has resisted calls to give up power in the face of a rebel offensive aimed at ending his 41-year rule.

Full story here:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...

Alexb
I guess in times of crisis – U turn to your family – & #Gaddafi has many close members of his family mother was Jewish in #Israel #Libya

U know U R desperate for friends – when u have to suck up 2 the #Israelis – So much 4 #Gaddafi line that #FF r #Zionists-AQ-Crusaders #Libya

Sarah
inside city attacked checkpoints in Ghweelat&AlZamazma,clashes ensued

Handelsblatt:

Mindestens 17 Tote bei Kämpfen in Misurata
Adschdabija/Berlin
Die Truppen des libyschen Machthabers Muammar al Gaddafi sind nach tagelangen Kämpfen bis ins Zentrum Misuratas vorgedrungen, der einzigen von Rebellen gehaltenen Stadt im Westen des nordafrikanischen Landes. Sie hätten dabei schwere Waffen eingesetzt und würden von Scharfschützen unterstützt, berichteten Einwohner und ein Aktivist.
Mindestens 17 Menschen seien allein am Sonntag getötet worden. Der Aktivist Rida al Montasser sagte über den Internetdienst Skype, in einem Krankenhausbericht sei die Zahl von 17 Toten und 74 Verletzten genannt worden.
Ein Mitarbeiter einer Nichtregierungsorganisation, der nach eigenen Angaben das Krankenhaus am Sonntag besuchte, bestätigte die Zahlen. Unter den Toten sei ein Mädchen mit einem Kopfschuss. Unter den Verletzten seien mehrere Kinder. Der Mitarbeiter einer ausländischen Nichtregierungsorganisation wollte aus Sicherheitsgründen seinen Namen nicht genannt wissen.
Montasser sagte, bis in die späte Nacht seien Explosionen in Misurata zu hören gewesen.

In Tripolis wies Regierungssprecher Mussa Ibrahim am Sonntag erneut Vorwürfe zurück, Gaddafis Truppen hätten in Misrata international geächtete Streubomben eingesetzt. Er warf de NATO vor, mit Luftangriffen Partei für die Rebellen ergriffen zu haben. In deren Reihen befänden sich auch Kämpfer des Terrornetzwerks Al Kaida, sagte Ibrahim.
Source and full story here:
www.handelsblatt.com/politik/internatio...

BBCWorld BBC Global News
French Foreign Ministry says any political solution in #Libya requires Col Gaddafi to leave power, from Reuters

LibyanGirly
AZYYY YESTERDAY WHEN THE INTERNET WORKED AGAIN! ALHAMDULILLAAAAAH :D

hominoid
Libya 10 Jul Zliten FFs captured 9 G troops and destroyed G machinery.Heavy shelling by G forces killed 5FFs and injured25 (many seriously)

AlertNet AlertNet
French foreign ministry says any political solution in Libya requires Gaddafi to leave power #libya

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

LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Selon Seif El Islam, l’Algérie “a toujours joué le rôle d’unificateur (…) Le peuple libyen n’oubliera jamais cela” bit.ly/rrkpTh

El Watan.com:
Seif El-Islam : “La médiation de l’Algérie est la bienvenue”

Seif El Islam Kadhafi, le fils du leader Libyen, Mouammar Kadhafi, a déclaré lundi dans un entretien accordé à notre confrère El Khabar que la Libye accepterait de voir l’Algérie jouer un rôle de médiateur entre les rebelles et le régime de Tripoli. “La médiation de l’Algérie est la bienvenue pour le rapprochement entre les frères libyens”, a assuré à ce sujet Seif El Islam.
Par ailleurs, selon Seif El Islam, l’Algérie “a toujours joué le rôle d’unificateur”. “Je tiens à préciser que les positions des pays arabes sont indignes, l’Algérie figure parmi les quelques pays arabes ayant pris une position complètement différente. Le peuple libyen n’oubliera jamais cela”, a-t-il encore indiqué.
D’autre part, le fils du colonnel Kadhafi a fait savoir dans cette interwiev que le gouvernement libyen négocie en ce moment avec la France et non pas avec les rebelles libyens ! " Nous tenons des négociations avec la France et non avec les rebelles. Nous avons reçu par l’intermédiaire d’un envoyé spécial qui a rencontré le président français, un message clair de Paris", explique Seif El Islam.
Selon lui, “le président français a très franchement dit à notre envoyé que c’est nous qui avons créé ce conseil et sans le soutien de la France, l’argent et les armes, il n’existerait pas” ! Seif El Islam va jusqu’à révèler qu’un round de négociations a été tenu récemment avec les représentants des rebelles de Benghazi au Caire en Egypte.

Full art:
www.elwatan.com/actualite/seif-el-islam...

Around the world updates on Libya:

AFP:
Libya’s rebel council issued a blunt warning to neighbouring Algeria on Sunday, insisting that it must “stop supporting Kadhafi,” as tensions between the North African countries bubbled to the surface.
Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, vice president of Libya’s National Transitional Council, accused Algeria of supporting Moamer Kadhafi militarily in the early days of the near five-month-long war, and that it continued to support him politically.
“Our only response to Algeria is: stop supporting Kadhafi and stop helping him terrorise and kill innocent civilians and our loved ones,” he said.
Algeria has not officially recognised the rebel council, nor has it called for Kadhafi to go.
“(Kadhafi) had military air support from Algeria” said Ghoga, recalling the early days of the war, adding that 4×4 vehicles

AUSTRALIA:
Australia vowed on Sunday to keep up humanitarian aid to Libya, as a senior official from Canberra visited the country for the first time since the revolt against Moamer Kadhafi erupted in mid-February.
Paul Grigson, Australia’s deputy foreign affairs and trade secretary, met members of the rebel National Transitional Council for talks, underscoring Australia’s role in providing aid and its recognition of Libya’s rebel council.

France:
France appeared on Sunday to shift its position on the Libyan uprising, suggesting that there could be no military solution and that Muammar Gaddafi loyalists and Libyan rebels should begin direct negotiations.
However, Paris also said its objective was still that Libyan leader Gaddafi must eventually leave power – a condition virtually certain to be rejected by a hitherto defiant Gaddafi.

USA:
The United States remains firm that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi must give up his 41-year rule, the state department said on Sunday, after France’s defense minister advocated a compromise with Libyan rebels.
“The Libyan people will be the ones to decide how this transition takes place, but we stand firm in our belief that Gaddafi cannot remain in power,” the department said in a written reply to a query.

REUTERS:
UniCredit SpA has had signs of interest in Libya’s roughly 7 percent stake in the Italian bank, Chief Executive Federico Ghizzoni said in an interview published on Monday.
UniCredit, Italy’s biggest bank by assets, also will keep its stake in investment bank Mediobanca SpA “at the same level”, he told Corriere della Sera.
Asked about a capital increase, Ghizzoni said: “Today we all agree that capital should be higher than in the past. But I don’t agree about raising capital to such a level that there will be significant problems with profitability.”
He said of financial markets that the “situation is extremely volatile and delicate”.

Greece:
The new Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, Stavros Lambrinidis, will attend the Libya Contact group meeting July 15/16 in Turkey.

CANADA:
HMCS Vancouver departs CFB Esquimalt on Libyan mission. The deployment is part of Operation Mobile, Canada’s contribution to NATO’s arms embargo and no-fly-zone enforcement in Libya. It will take the ship about three weeks to get to the Mediterranean, via the Panama Canal and a trip across the Atlantic Ocean. It is slated to stay for about six months.
The crew would not go into specifics about their mission, but it will include searching vessels for weapons, drugs and human trafficking, Matt Gariepy, a sonarman on the ship, said last week during preparations for the ship’s departure.

EU:
Following the request of the EU’s External Action Service (EEAS) for foreign affairs, Hungary’s embassy will continue representing the European Union in Tripoli, Libya during the second half of 2011, the foreign ministry told MTI, reports Politics.hu.
The Hungarian embassy has been the EU’s sole representation in Tripoli since January 1 of this year.
It added that the mission also represents Canada, Greece, Croatia, Italy and the United States, on request by the respected countries.
The embassy has been instrumental in coordinating the rescue operation of citizens of EU member states and non-EU countries and in providing them consular services during the instability in Libya. The ministry noted that in May Libyan authorities had released two American, a Spanish and a British journalists thanks to persistent pressure from the Hungarian embassy in Tripoli.

RAF:
Gaddafi forces have been feeling the full force of precision strikes from RAF Tornado and Typhoon aircraft. The British Ministry of Defence has revealed units loyal to the dictator were targeted as they tried to use rocket launchers and howitzers to strike at the port of Misrata.
The aircraft fired on a former grain farm where multiple rocket launchers were being concealed south of the city near Tawurgha. Another air strike south west of the city saw a battery of four howitzers that were threatening the city destroyed, as well as an armed pick-up truck.
One of the RAF flights went on to take out a field gun at the Djebel Nafousa, 120 miles to the west near Mizdah. Out at sea the destroyer HMS Liverpool engaged regime forces on the coast at Zlitan with a number of high explosive and illumination rounds from her 4.5 inch gun.

ISRAEL:
Two Gaddafi diplomats visited Israel to ‘change their country’s image’ MK Meir Sheetrit, who met with the two diplomats during their visit, told Army Radio that they had come to “change Libya’s image”. The diplomats, both businessmen reportedly affiliated with Muammar Gadhafi, also met with MK Tzipi Livni, MK Danny Danon and other top Israeli officials.
The Israeli Embassy in Paris, which issued the visas, would not comment and it is not yet clear who authorized the stamp.

Libyan leader Muammar Al Qathafi’s son, Seif al-Islam said that his father’s government was in talks with the French government. Though there was no immediate comment from Paris about his revelation, on Sunday, France appeared to shift its position on the Libyan uprising, suggesting that there could be no military solution and that Muammar Al Qathafi loyalists and Libyan rebels should begin direct negotiations.
In the first interview he granted to an Arab newspaper since the start of the conflict in Libya in mid-February, speaking from Tripoli, Seif al Islam told Algerian newspaper El Khabar: “The truth is that we are negotiating with France and not with the rebels.
If France wants to sign oil deals with Libya and wants its companies to return to the country, then it would have to talk to the Qaddafi government, El-Khabar cited Saif as saying.
Seif al-Islam welcomed any mediation from Algeria. It has always played the role of unifier. He said that beside being Arab, Libya and Algeria have one thing in common: in the past they fought against the France, and Libya is doing the same thing today.
He went on to say that Algeria took a completely different position to other Arab countries, and as such, the Libyan people would never forget it. That is why that mediation efforts by Algeria to reconcile the brothers in Libya are welcome.

France:
France denied on Monday being in direct talks with Muammar Gaddafi’s government, but said it had told the Tripoli government the Libyan leader must relinquish power in order to reach a political solution to the country’s crisis.
“France wants a political solution, like we have always said,” foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said in an online media briefing. “There are no direct negotiations between France and the Gaddafi regime, but we pass messages through the rebel council (TNC) and our allies.”
Saif al-Islam, a son of the Libyan leader, said Gaddafi’s administration was in talks with the French government, according to an interview published on Monday in an Algerian newspaper.
Source:
Feb17

Libya_from_FR
Les #FF de #Zawiya on fait sauter une station d’essence utilisé par les forces de #Gaddafi. Plusieurs #GF blessés . #AllahuAkbar #Libya

m0j0
NATO Ships delivering Humanitarian Assistance 10 JULY: 1 Aircrafts delivering Humanitarian Assistance 10 JULY: 9 #libya

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Manara: Khoms FFs attacked Alzawayed Checkpoint killing 2 G forces & burnt down the rest house of Omar BuJanah a big G goon #feb17 #libya

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Map: The situation in Nafousa mountains as of 10-July-2011 #libya #feb17 fb.me/18RXBkzMd
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=269070&l=156cac76bc&id=137199749688243

Der Spiegel online:
Krieg in Libyen
Gaddafi-Sohn verkündet Verhandlungen mit französischer Regierung

Der Nato-Einsatz in Libyen hat noch keinen Sieg der Rebellen gebracht – nach Angaben eines Gaddafi-Sohnes verhandelt das Regime mit der französischen Regierung über eine Friedenslösung. Unter den Nato-Ländern wachsen Konflikte über die Zukunft des Landes.

Paris – Die Nato wirft Bomben gegen Gaddafi – nach Angaben eines Gaddafi-Sohns hat Frankreich parallel dazu direkte Verhandlungen mit dem Regime des Machthabers aufgenommen. “Die Wahrheit ist: Wir verhandeln mit Frankreich, nicht mit den Rebellen”, sagte Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi der algerischen Zeitung “El Khabar”. Frankreich habe dem libyschen Regime versichert, dass es den Übergangsrat der Rebellen zu einem Waffenstillstand bewegen werde, sobald es ein Abkommen zwischen Tripolis und Paris gebe, erklärte Gaddafis Sohn. Die französische Regierung bestätigte dies zunächst nicht.

Allerdings ließ der französische Verteidigungsminister Gérard Longuet erkennen, dass Frankreich die Angriffe einstellen könnte, sobald es Verhandlungen zwischen Gaddafis Regime und den Rebellen gebe. “Wir beenden das Bombardement, wenn die Libyer untereinander verhandeln und die Soldaten beider Seiten in die Kasernen zurückgekehrt sind”, sagte Longuet dem Sender BFM TV am Sonntagabend. Auf die Frage, ob dies auch für den Fall gelte, dass Gaddafi selber sich nicht geschlagen gebe, antwortete er: “Er wird dann eben in einem anderen Raum seines Palastes sein und einen anderen Titel führen.” Die Rebellen lehnen allerdings Verhandlungen mit dem Gaddafi-Regime ab. Sie verlangen einen Rücktritt des Machthabers.
Full story here:
www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,7...

wheelertweets James Wheeler
Kudos to the Canadian #Libyan Assoc (Ottawa). Their name is up in this Tunis hospital room bcuz they paid some expenses. twitpic.com/5okgri

Lisa
#Feb17 I think it’s worth mentioning that #FreedomFighters looting n burning houses is speculation at this pt..no solid confirmation they
Did ths! That being said, if it turns out to b true, hv faith they will b dealt w accordingly! #FreedomFighters r now held to very high
standards n there r bad eggs in every large grp of ppl so let’s give FF commanders chance to sort things out n give statement!!

m_madi Mohamed Madi
Hospital situation here in #nafusa was dire evenpre-revolution, equipment old/in disrepair, buildings crumbing, inadequate staff

LibyeLibre Libye Libre
Le PAM lance une liaison ferry régulière vers #Misrata. Jusque’ici, + de 6.000 tonnes d’aide alimentaire en #Libye bit.ly/o82cze

UN.ORG:
Libye : le PAM lance une liaison ferry régulière vers Misrata

Le Programme alimentaire mondial des Nations Unies (PAM) a lancé le 1er juillet en Libye la première liaison ferry régulière entre Benghazi, fief de l’opposition au régime du colonel Mouammar Qadhafi, et le port de Misrata pour le transport de fret et de travailleurs humanitaires.
« Le navire fera un à deux voyages par semaine entre les deux villes pendant le mois de juillet », a précisé le PAM dans un communiqué publié mardi.
A Misrata, le PAM a jusqu’ici fourni une aide alimentaire à près de 125.000 personnes. Le premier rapport inter-agences sur la situation humanitaire dans la ville a récemment souligné que, s’il n’y a pas crise alimentaire immédiate, la ville continue de compter sur un soutien extérieur pour couvrir ses besoins alimentaires.
Full report:
www.un.org/apps/newsFr/storyF.asp?NewsI...

free_misurata FREEMISURATA
by librev2011
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GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
المحامي حسين مريد والتاكيد علي اغلاق قنوات القذافي فورا Lawyer confirms closure of GaddafiTV on Nilesat TODAY youtu.be/mLZZkwLTcik

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

Skeptical4 Skeptic
DON’T UNDERESTIMATE IMPORTANCE OF THIS: #Misrata FFs turn metal workshop into weapon repair site. youtube.com/watch?v=zxGRh1… via @youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxGRh1jh5c8&fea...

Danya
A lot of Libyan’s have witnessed there families die in front of them ..this is going to cause a lot of problems for them in the future
Learning about post traumatic stress in order to help treat the Libyan people who suffered at the hands of the evil #Gaddafi

ChangeInLibya
Egyptian lawyer to @LibyaTV: We will hopefully get the official papers in the next couple of hours & channels should go offline today #libya

Egyptian lawyer to @LibyaTV: As soon as we receive the stamped, official ruling, we will go to Nilesat HQ & force them to take action

FreeLibyanman FreeLibyan
aft failing 2 quell our rev 4 democracy despite mil support 2 G #Algeria now spreading rumours abt negotiation betn FF & ICC wanted #Gaddafi

ALJAZEERA:
Gaddafi regime ‘in talks with France’

Saif al-Islam’s comments came a few hours after French defence minister said the rebels should negotiate with Tripoli.

Muammar Gaddafi’s regime is in talks with the French government, one of the Libyan leader’s sons said in an interview published on Monday.

“The truth is that we are negotiating with France and not with the rebels,” the Algerian El Khabar newspaper quoted Saif al-Islam as saying from Tripoli, the Libyan capital.
A spokesman for the French foreign ministry denied the government was in direct talks with Gaddafi but said “we pass the Libyan regime messages in liaison” with the rebels and other allied countries.
“These messages are simple and without ambiguity: Any political solution must begin with Gaddafi’s withdrawal from power and abandonment of any political role,” said spokesman Bernard Valero.
The opposition National Transitional Council (NTC) said it would not negotiate with Gaddafi until he stepped down from power. A spokesman said the Council believed Saif al-Islam was bluffing in order to harm relationships between the NTC and France.
But the French defence minister said on Monday that it was time for the rebel Council to come to the negotiating table with Gaddafi’s administration.
“Our envoy to Nicolas Sarkozy said that the French president was very clear and told him ‘We created the rebel council, and without our support, and money, and our weapons, the council would have never existed’,” the newspaper quoted Saif al-Islam as saying.
“France said: ‘When we reach an agreement with Tripoli, we will force the council to cease fire’,” the newspaper quoted Gaddafi’s son as saying.
‘Another title for Gaddafi’
Longuet said the rebels should not wait for Gaddafi’s defeat, while signalling Paris’s objective was still that the Libyan leader must eventually leave power.
The rebels have so far refused to hold talks as long as Gaddafi remains in power, a stance which before now none of NATO’s major powers has publicly challenged.
“We have … asked them to speak to each other,” Longuet, whose government has until now been among the most hawkish on Libya, said on French television station BFM TV.

“The position of the TNC is very far from other positions. Now, there will be a need to sit around a table,” he said."

Asked if it was possible to hold talks if Gaddafi had not stepped down, Longuet said: “He will be in another room in his palace with another title.”

Soon after, the US state department in Washington issued a message that gave no hint of compromise.

“The Libyan people will be the ones to decide how this transition takes place, but we stand firm in our belief that Gaddafi cannot remain in power,” it said in a written reply to a query.
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...

License for War in Libya
It is too easily forgotten that warfare is not primarily a matter of law. Under international law, the UN Security Council blessed NATO’s Libya campaign without the necessary debates over its consequences, says Chase Madar.

Middle East Online
A vision of international law, centralised and standing above all nations, regulating and upholding a pacific world order, has guided much thought and action in international relations since the end of the second world war. Peace Through Law, published in 1944 by the Austrian jurist Hans Kelsen, is the classic exposition of this vision; Forging a World of Liberty Under Law by G. John Ikenberry and Anne-Marie Slaughter is the latest iteration. Diplomats, politicians and bureaucrats have built legal institutions (multilateral but based in New York) by which sovereign states can settle disputes lawfully, with military force exercised only in self-defence, and as a last resort.
More recently this vision of multilateral world order has been buttressed by the rise of human rights law and non-governmental organisations. These momentous legal developments should surely bring us ever closer to world peace. And yet a growing number of jurists worldwide have come to see international law less as a force for peace than as a supple instrument of war.
A case in point is the deployment of international law in NATO’s Libya campaign, now into its fourth month and fighting far beyond its initial mandate of “civilian protection.” Security Council resolution 1973 blessed, under international law, this act of war: the approval of the United States, with France and the UK, as well as seven other nations (representing 600 million people) was enough to stamp Operation Odyssey Dawn with the UN’s great seal. China, India, Russia, Brazil and Germany, which represent nearly three billion people, abstained from the vote to authorise military force, but formal compliance with UN Charter law has convinced many that this act of war is just and necessary. Middle East writer Juan Cole supports the war because it is legal and multilateral, as have many others across the political spectrum. “The Libya intervention is multilateralism at its best,” said Stephen Szabo, director of the Transatlantic Academy in Washington.

Chase Madar is a lawyer and journalist in New York, and author of The Passion of Bradley Manning, O/R Books, September 2011.
Copyright ©2011 Le Monde diplomatique — distributed by Agence Global
Source: Via NATO:
www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=...

Libya: Visiting Tripoli, UN envoy stresses need to heed calls for democracy
10 July 2011 –
The Secretary-General’s special envoy for Libya, Abdul Elah al-Khatib, has had talks in the country’s capital, Tripoli, with both the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister, stressing the need for a political solution to the ongoing conflict to spare the people of further suffering.
Mr. Khatib, who visited Tripoli yesterday, emphasized that a settlement must address the legitimate demands and aspirations of the people of Libya for a democratic future.
“The Special Envoy raised ideas with respect to the management of a transition in Libya. [He] also listened to the views of the Government of Libya regarding the impact of sanctions and NATO operations,” said a statement released by Mr. Khatib’s office.
He will travel to New York over the weekend to brief the Secretary-General and the United Nations Security Council on Monday on his efforts to find a solution to the Libya crisis.
Libya has been engulfed by fighting since a pro-democracy movement opposed to the regime of Muammar al-Qadhafi emerged in February following similar protests in Tunisia, Egypt and other countries across North Africa and the Middle East.

www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=3...

wheelertweets James Wheeler
@
@wheelertweets The CLA paid 10,800 DT for 5 injured FFs to stay 10-14 days each. But alas, that money has run out for guys like Salem.

m_madi Mohamed Madi
I met up with libyanrev yesterday, he’s in Yifrin now at the hospital

Beautiful video, must watch:
Kathphlox Phlox White
This is my favourite vid about #Libya.. time to replay for a boost, bookmark it.. youtube.com/watch?v=25mMPG…
AP video journalist Raul Gallego on the ground with fighters taking on Moammar Gadhafi. (April 22)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=25mMPG8ytMs&amp

A must read:
TIMES LIVE:
Libyan youths from Gaddafi towns join rebels
Scores of youths who fled towns and cities held by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces have joined rebels on the front line in the Nafusa mountains, armed with local knowledge and enthusiasm.
The youths from around Tripoli, Zawiyah and Gharyan have trekked long distances to deliver information and moral support to rebel fighters in Libya’s western mountains.
The majority of the recruits have never held a gun and have scant military training but say they have acquired a taste for freedom and the will to fight.
Shenber, a 27-year-old computer scientist from Tripoli, braved the desert for a whole day to reach a port, take a boat, enter Tunisia without papers and return to the front line southwest of the capital.
“I had to leave the county illegally to avoid loyalist forces catching me. There are channels to help youths from Gaddafi-controlled towns to join the combatants,” he said.
Full art:
www.timeslive.co.za/africa/2011/07/11/l...

Sky news:
4Adam Adam
Stuart Ramsay, fr Nafusa- #FF Prepare Assault On Strategic Town Of Gharyan In #Libya Ahead Of #Tripoli – Sky News news.sky.com/skynews/Home/W…
Stuart Ramsay, chief correspondent, in Gharyan
Anti-Gaddafi rebels have told Sky News an assault is being planned on the strategic town of Gharyan in the western Nefusa mountains as a precursor to an all-out attack on Libya’s capital
The rebels say they want to close off supply routes from the south and hope to link up with rebel elements in the town of Zawiyha, scene of some of the worst attacks on civilians by pro-Gaddafi forces in the February uprising.
But in a rare organised trip to Libya’s Nefusa mountain range, about 50 miles south of Tripoli, it is clear that the government and its militia are preparing to defend Gharyan.
Women’s militia groups are being trained to use weapons and the whole area is being flooded with government-supplied guns.
Full art. here:
news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/An...

ChangeInLibya
Another gem from Gaddafi’s State TV channels… No comment #libya #feb17 fb.me/FByEMKc3
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=269075&l=20bf6e28c1&id=137199749688243

anitamcnaught Anita McNaught
Now in Ben Ghazi. As of last night, Libyan engineers reconnected landlines in Eastern cities back to the internet. Much joy.
Benghazi astoundingly normal, compared to Tripoli. No tension. No anxiety. No fear in people’s faces. The future for rest of country.

Skeptical4
CNN Video report frm #Bir #Ghanem frontline, 50 km frm #Zawiya, which FF try 2 liberate youtube.com/watch?v=h-DrIr… via @youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-DrIrSTb5s&fea...

m_madi Mohamed Madi
I have seen houses set alight, these are usually the houses of well known gaddafi loyalists though

Skeptical4
#France impatient with #Libya bc Gov needs 2 get permission frm #Parliament 2 continue mil operations, which complicates situation

ChangeInLibya
Map: The situation in Nafousa mountains as of 10-July-2011 #libya #feb17 fb.me/18RXBkzMd

Skeptical4 Skeptic Video: #Nafusa FFs r 20 km frm #Gharyan, part of push 2 #Tripoli youtube.com/watch?v=Jf5BrQ…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf5BrQNAZS8&fea...

Yefrenia
First thing I would do if I go to Libya is to go all the way to Yefren just to find out whether my house is still standing…I have no idea…
even though I never lived in it…it was always there when I visited, spent many summers there…my home since I was a child…

Tasbeeh I wish writers would do a better job of distinguishing between regime diplomats and “rebel” diplomats. Things are getting ambiguous.

France24:
Paris dément mener des “négociations directes” avec Tripoli

- La France fait passer des “messages” au régime de Mouammar Kadhafi, mais “il n’y a pas de négociations directes”, a déclaré lundi le porte-parole du ministère français des Affaires étrangères, Bernard Valero.
Le porte-parole était interrogé sur des déclarations de Seif al-Islam Kadhafi, fils du dirigeant libyen et porte-parole officieux du régime, qui a affirmé que Tripoli menait les “véritables négociations” sur le conflit en Libye avec la France.
“La France est favorable à une solution politique comme elle l’a toujours dit. Il n’y a pas de négociations directes entre la France et le régime de Kadhafi, mais nous lui passons des messages, en liaison avec le CNT (Conseil national de transition, instance de la rébellion, NDLR) et nos alliés”, a déclaré Bernard Valero.
“Ces messages sont simples et sans ambiguïté: toute solution politique passe par le retrait de Kadhafi du pouvoir et son renoncement à tout rôle politique”, a-t-il ajouté.
Seif al-Islam Kadhafi a déclaré au journal algérien El Khabar que le régime de Tripoli avait des contacts directs avec le président français Nicolas Sarkozy.
Full art. Here:
www.france24.com/fr/20110711-paris-deme...=editorial&ns_source=FB&ns_mchannel=reseaux_sociaux&ns_fee=0&ns_linkname=20110711_paris_dement_mener_negociations_directes_tripoli?ns_campaign=editorial&ns_source=twitter&ns_mchannel=reseaux_sociaux&ns_fee=0&ns_linkname=20110711_paris_dement_mener_negociations_directes_tripoli

LibyaTrueStory
Doctors & nurses here in #Misrata are among the unsung heroes, facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… Day after day they work to save victims of #Feb17 rev.

Oya_
Fighters in west #Libya aiming to cut highway from south to #Tripoli. When that happens, I was told, “Qadhafi is finished.”

NPR:
A More Complex Picture Of Gadhafi’s African Fighters

In the remote Nafusa mountains of western Libya, rebel forces are holding dozens of captured soldiers from Moammar Gadhafi’s army. Many of these prisoners are sub-Saharan Africans, paid to fight for the beleaguered Libyan leader.
After the rebels took the village of Gualish from Gadhafi’s forces this week, they captured 14 sub-Saharan Africans. A young Ghanaian, who was dressed in civilian clothes speckled with paint, said he was a plasterer who had been caught up in the fighting.
“I don’t have any gun,” he said. “I don’t even know how to hold a gun.”
It’s long been a question here: Is Gadhafi using African mercenaries in his fight against rebel forces?
Millions of foreign workers lived in Libya before the civil war erupted, many of them Africans working in all sorts of menial jobs. After the fighting started, some of these Africans were mistaken for mercenaries and killed by angry mobs of anti-Gadhafi protesters or rebel fighters.
Full art.:
www.npr.org/2011/07/08/137695040/questi...

Did anybody hear about hala misrati tried to escape tripoli but was forced back at the checkpoints to ras Ijder? I also heard from ppl in Tripoli that hala recorded herself on a mobile phone saying that everything she is presenting is a lie

Obviously I cannot confirm these stories but am wondering whether anybody has heard anything, or is hala trying to cover her back?

We’ll try to find out 4 u:)

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Freedomfighters are roughly 4km from #Zliten centre and well placed to enter the city and liberate it soon. #Libya #feb17

freelibyasoon
State Dept. “#Libyan people will decide how this transition takes place, We stand firm in our belief that #Gaddafi cannot remain in power,”

freelibyanyouth
So Hala Misrati (the witchy looking presenter) on Libyan state tv got married this week, that’s why she isn’t on tv. Loool.

Bent:
The day after Hala Misrati’s wedding her husband left her cuz the next morning she washed her face & revealed her true self. #joke

Sarah
Hala Misrati wedding- interesting to see Algeria’s flag in Bab Al Aziziya. Speaks volumes methinks… youtu.be/Izb0lO8UA_Y
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izb0lO8UA_Y&fea...

Khiria
I was disappointed because I’ve been talking to non-Libyans who escaped in the last couple of days and they said the one thing they were astonished by was that there were absolutely no looting. They added that because of that they were sure that Libya was going to one of the best places to live in the near future.

Peter
#Libya FFs enrage #Gaddafi troops by singing them tunes from #PinkFloyd’s "The Wall " album.

libyanproud libyanandproud
#Nafusa : #Kikla : #NATO jets flying low over kikla ! Grads stopped , origin of grads were #Alasabaa and vicinity of #Witya. #Feb17 #Libya

Ganfood not going offline already is because #Egypt gov is busy with #Tahrir ! #Feb17 #Libya

ARAB TIMES:
Egyptian court orders suspension of broadcast of 14 Libyan channels via NileSat
CAIRO, July 11 (KUNA) — The Administrative Court issued an order Monday to suspend broadcast of 14 Libyan television channels via NileSat in response to legal suits filed by a number of Egyptian lawyers and Libyan citizens.

The law suits were based on the argument that the channels were airing material against Libya’s uprising and supporting and attempting to cover up the crimes of Libyan dictator Muammar Al-Qadhafi. The channels were also accused of deliberately false reporting events regarding the Libyan state of affairs.

The group demanded that the NileSat board, General Authority for Investment, and the Egyptian Media Free Zone be ordered to suspend the broadcast of the offending channels.
Source:
www.arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tab...

dovenews Libyan™
Sarkozy ‘We created the NTC, & without our support, & money, & our weapons, the council would have never existed’," Saif Gaddafi quoted

Saif “The truth is that we are negotiating with France and not with the rebels,” “TRUTH” he means “Lies”

France impatient on Libya but denies Gaddafi talks. Govt dismisses Gaddafi son saying that talks taking place

France has passed messages that Gaddafi must step aside

Gaddafi is seeking help from his homeland Israel & Saif wants to sell planes & oil to the west..for what…? Gaddafi & Saif u can go to HELL

I have never seen anyone lies like Saif & his Dad. #The #World #No1 #Lying #Prize goes to …………joint 1st…. ▼▼▼#Gaddafi & #Zaif ▼▼▼

LibyanLion
FFs in #AlKhoms attacked a G checkpoint in the city. Killed 2 men. #Libya #Feb17

(via FB) #Zawiya FFs destroy a fuel station in the city, which G forces commonly used.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Egypt CARGO SHIP “TABA” now approaching dest. of #Tobrul #Libya ETA: 2011-07-11 16:00 (UTC) #feb17

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
BREAKING NEWS: Rixos install new metal detector and scanner at entrance. workers testing it now. lots of bleep bleep noises to be heard

THE NEW AGE:

Rebels cut oil pipeline in west Libya

Rebels on Sunday cut off an oil pipeline they said was used to supply troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in the west of the country, an AFP correspondent said.

Around 20 rebels shut off the valves of the pipeline to Zuwarah refinery near Khamassa.

“The oil belongs to all Libyans, not Gaddafi. He will no longer be able to use it against us,” one of the rebels was heard telling loyalist forces contacted by telephone.

It was the second such action this month, after another pipeline was cut off to the east of Zenten. Both are normally used to service the capital. -Sapa-AFP
Source:
www.thenewage.co.za/22676-1019-53-Rebel...

A must read:
REUTERS:
FEATURE-Libya’s wealthy use cash to take fight to Gaddafi

• Misrata businessmen funding arms supplies for rebels
• Food manufacturer provides rations for troops
• Entrepreneurs say they have to stand and fight
  By Nick Carey
  MISRATA, Libya, July 11 (Reuters) – When the battle for Misrata began in late February, Mahmoud Mohammed Askutri started out with a Kalashnikov rifle and four bullets.
  Standing alongside his former schoolteacher, who was armed with a sharpened piece of metal, Askutri spotted and shot a soldier loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
  He took the dead soldier’s Kalashnikov and bullets, thereby adding much-needed firepower at a time when most Libyans participating in the uprising against Gaddafi were fighting with knives, petrol bombs and hunting rifles.
  In the subsequent months, Askutri, a local businessman who owns a construction company, has formed the rebel 1st battalion of the Al Marsa regiment, which he funds and supplies with weapons and ammunition bought on the black market.

Read full story here:
in.reuters.com/article/2011/07/11/libya...

littlelisa
#Gaddaficrimes 23 ppl refused entry into Libya from Tunisia, they were fr Belarus! Mercenaries? Of course

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
by littlelisa8
We successfully filed a lawsuit against Gaddafi’s state TV channels for getting us killed and we won. Good riddance

This tweet made me smile today:)
If she’s amazing, she wont be easy. If she’s easy, she wont be amazing. If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, ur not worthy.

littlelisa
BTW…what hpn to GADDAFI state TV! Huh? It’s alllllllllll gone just like all of his loyalists will be!!!!

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Egypt CARGO SHIP “TABA” now approaching dest. of #Tobrul #Libya ETA: 2011-07-11 16:00 (UTC) #feb17

#Malta CARGO SHIP “GASCOGNE” now anchored at dest. of #Misrata #Libya. #feb17

LibyanLion
AlManara reports fighting in centre of #Tarhuna. Highly doubt it’s liberated as some have tweeted. Can’t be that easy…

hominoid
Libya Major General Khalifa Hfter Tarhouna liberated from Gaddafi forces, now under the control of our Freedomfighters.

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
This will make all my BBC colleagues laugh: SIEMENS are going to do the electrical re-wiring of the #Rixos Hotel in Tripoli after the fire.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Major General Khalifa Hfter: #Tarhouna liberated from #Gaddafi forces, now under the control of our #Freedomfighters.

Only source is Major General Khalifa Hfter, otherwise I have nothing on it

Waiting 4 conf. Then:)

Danya Many of the Libyan’s in Libya have witnessed there children HUNG in front of them & on TV ..because they stood up against #GaddafiCrimes

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Still no power or communications in #Qalaa & #Yefrin, the only internet link in town is also out of action. #Libya #feb17

Please read this blog from Fissa:

LIBYE LIBRE:

Qaddafi, Gadhfi, Khadafi…Whatever, let’s just call him the dude with the sick shades, the ripper of the 21st century, or the African version of Hitler. As for me, my favorite is Gerr-dafi. Recently Gerr-dafi has been threatening to carry out attacks in Europe against ‘’homes, offices, families’’, unless NATO halts bombing campaign. Gerr-dafi is still adamant that people love him; why are they rioting then? Sources of intelligence in Gerr-dafi’s regime confirmed that they retrieved all foreign communities of Moroccans, Algerians, and Africans to the martyrs’ square on Friday 1st July, 2011. Gerr-dafi’s regime also compelled and blackmailed families of the detainees to come to the martyrs’ square, he also brought some of his thug supporters from other cities and security forces in civilian clothes to come up with that artificial crowd.

Today, I received a shocking email from a dear friend of mine. Here is what she sadly informed me in her email:

‘’ My aunt Sabriya Sasi Dredar 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 studies Medicine in Alfateh University in Tripoli. 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!!!!’’

The brave martyr Sabriya was a school teacher who memorized the Qur’an; she fasted every Monday and Thursday (and was hence fasting at the time of abduction).May she rest in peace.

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!

LIVE LONG FREE LIBYA.
PLEASE READ THE WHOLE STORY HERE:
nafissa82.blogspot.com/2011/07/enough-i...

Mc17

وكالة أنباء التضامن : نقلا عن مرسلنا في مدينة اجدابيا : حدوث حالات تسمم في الجبهة دون وقوع أي حالات خطيرة

News Agency of solidarity: quoting Mrslana in Ajdabiya: the incidence of poisoning in the front without causing any serious cases

EndTyranny
Tunisia denies entry to 23 people from Belarus, with tourist visas to Libya…via Almanara media,

More “tourists” from Belarus, stopped like the other group of “tourists” last week.
Were they going to visit the beach in Tripoli?
Holiday in a war zone, how stupid does g think we all are?

On Monday 11th July 2011, @IamLibya said:
“To my surprise we were checked twice at two different points for bombs or weapons” @LibyaInMe describing the liberated side (the East) of Libya’s new security check points on their way to the million march last week in Benghazi. #Gaddafi has yet to leave the country, nonetheless, extreme measures have been initiated already for the better of the people and the country! Change is good!

PUZZLE SOLVED:
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Apologies: Earlier report that #Tarhuna has been liberated is not true as the Libyan rev web page was HACKED.

Danya So many children have been exposed to death and there sister’s being raped in front of them, or there houses bombed

m_madi Mohamed Madi
I also met a friend from Tripoli who had been imprisoned for taking part in a peaceful sit-in, he says you can still get out to Tunis

People from Tripoli telling me that it now takes 2 weeks to get fuel and that tension is very high in the queues

The press centres here in #nafusa are very active and staffed by young keen volunteers, but noone wants/knows how to use twitter, all fb

They also don’t coordinate very well between different towns, meaning there are loads of individual facebook pages, often in Arabic

I mean the volunteer online media groups that get information and content online, not the press centres. No twitter, only fb, mostly arabic

dovenews Libyan™
China has sent $73 million worth of aid to Libya. #Libya #Thanks2China

GERMANY DEUTSCHE PRESSE:
Egypt court orders removal of pro-Gaddafi TV channels from NileSat
Jul 11, 2011, 13:44 GMT
Cairo – An Egyptian court Monday ordered the removal of 14 Libyan TV channels, believed to be owned by leader Moamer Gaddafi’s regime, from Egypt’s transmission satellite NileSat.

The ruling was in response to a lawsuit filed by Libyans staying in Egypt who cited the Gaddafi regime’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, said judicial sources.
Source:
proxify.com/p/011010A1000100/687474703a...

Danya
A Doctor in #Tunsia: A father in Tunsia saw his wife and 2 daughter’s raped in front of him then killed, & his son kidnapped #GaddafiCrimes

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Found out why old metal detector was replaced at #Rixos.. Hotel had a chinese machine and they couldn’t understand the instructions to fix.

Can’t they translate the manual?
Man oh man…….

Ossama
Rixos new policy: no food or drink to be consumed on premises that was not purchased here.

LIBYA TV confirms tarhona city is free allahu akbar

dovenews Libyan™
Apparently #Gaddafi’s seniors 2 #Israel handed a CD (Gaddafi’s Album “Zanga Zanga”) to opposition leader Tzipi Livni. She didnt like

3 #FF were killed in #Misrata. #Libya #GaddafiCrimes

Saif Gaddafi is spreading lies to question the creditability of the #NTC & #FF. No PLACE FOR GADDAFI & HIS SONS IN #LIBYA. END OF

Gaddafi has placed tanks in restaurants on the coastal road facing Suq Aljum’a. #Tripoli

Once Gaddafi falls, I am wondering who is going to help the Algerian gov??

Libyan Freedom Fighters pick over seized Gaddafi arms cache AFP
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B48UJgxIT5M

Noah
@Jonny_Hallam Keep an eye out for someone in colourful flowing robes rising out of that trap door in the main ballroom. #Rixos

inglesi Piers Scholfield
#Misrata military spox Ibrahim Bait Al Mal tells us no serious casualties so far today. 7 dead, 20 injured on Sunday. #Libya

inglesi Piers Scholfield
#Misrata western front today: 6 killed, 20 injured – 5 seriously. 2 amputations: main Al Hikma hospital.

LibyanLiberal LibyanLiberal
Update from #Misrata , fight continues in Dafniya area. 5 dead 40 wounded from FF side , 1 dead 3 wounded from #Libya armed forces.

Numbers of casualties are not totally clear…….
Conflicting reports, let’s hope for the best……

septimius_
Now tell me this is not an awesome flag! #Libya twitpic.com/5oo19n

Wheelertweets:
Brothers Ahmed &Suleiman,frm Ajdabiya #Libya,in the lobby of Tunis hospit 3 hrs ago.They’re looking better t.co/KtLCyoi via @twitpic

libyans_revolt
youths who fled towns & cities held by #Gaddafi forces have joined FF’s in #Nafusa front line, armed w/ local knowledge & enthusiasm. #Libya

Foreign Policy
Whatever happened to the war in Libya?

Vacation is over, and as I took the bus to my office this morning I had a sudden thought: whatever happened to the war in Libya? You know, the one that used to be on the front pages every day? The one that was critical to preventing a humanitarian bloodbath and to preserving the momentum of the “Arab spring?” The one that Obama’s obedient lawyers claimed didn’t involve “hostilities,” in a transparent effort to evade the requirements of the War Powers Act? Oh, right: that one.
Obviously, the war is still going on, and it sometimes rates a new story buried deep in the middle of the newspaper, but the hopes of a rapid and cheap victory were dashed a long time ago. Assuming NATO continues to back the rebels, they will probably succeed in slowly grinding the Qaddafi family/regime into the ground.

Sourece and read on:
walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/07/11...

AJE via youtube:
TRIPOLI UPDATE – 11/7/2011 youtube.com/watch?v=16ga40… via @youtube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=16ga4020hqY&fea...

REUTERS:
Libya rebels boost firepower with homemade weapons
(Reuters) – Sadiq Mubakar Krain’s blue overalls are soaked with sweat as he works on an improvised rocket launcher for the rebels fighting Muammar Gaddafi.
“This is the first time I make one of these,” said Krain, 52, pointing to a launcher that consists of 16 rocket tubes scavenged from a military helicopter.
A bespectacled former foreman at an oil company, Krain has fixed the tubes in a welded frame and is working on the electronics that will allow rebel fighters to fire individual rockets at will.
“I have learned to make other things and to weld, so God willing, I have got this one right,” Krain said at workshop where he and his colleagues build weapons out of whatever they can lay their hands on.
Read here:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/11/us-l...

FromJoanne Joanne
EXCELLENT ! Niz speaking Live @Niz_FGM #TRIPOLI REPORT JULY11 on Algezeera Salaries not been paid 4 3months #Libya goo.gl/6epaE

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Egypt CARGO SHIP “TABA” now anchored at dest. #Tobruk #Libya. #feb17

#Gaddafi CARGO SHIP “ALMARWA” now departing #Tartus #Syria for dest. #Antalya #Turkey. #Libya #feb17

Is #StVincentGrenadines Passenger Ship “AZZURRA” w/ dest. of #Tripoli #Libya carrying one of #Gaddafi’s friends from #Turkey? Hmmm #feb17

#StVincentGrenadines Passenger Ship “AZZURRA” now departing #Tasucu #Turkey for dest. #Tripoli #Libya ETA: 2011-12-07 08:00 (UTC) #feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Bolivia CARGO SHIP “NASEM” turned off transponder shortly after leaving port #Sousse #Tunisia. #Libya #feb17 @NATO

LIBTRIP LIBYA TRIPOLI
The most important element of our struggle is that we have broken the barrier of fear of #Gaddafi & his brutal regime. Long Live Free #Libya

4Adam Adam
CBS’ Mark Phillips reports from Qawalish – FF press on toward Tripoli, battle continues youtube.com/watch?v=byVWsg… #Libya #Feb17 #Nafusamountains
www.youtube.com/watch?v=byVWsgWN8UI&fea...

BBCBarbaraPlett Barbara Plett
by grafixel
#UN #Libya envoy says govt & #TNC examining his proposal for an “all-inclusive” body to manage a transitional period…

denisfitz Denis Fitzgerald
UN Libya envoy Al-Khatib says he is urging direct talks between Gaddafi and TNC
Al Khatib said both sides in #Libya want to use assets frozen by Western gov’s for food & medicine, esp with Ramadan approaching

MyFreeLibya

Photo: Zintan Protest, a set on Flickr.A Freedom Square in #Zintan…#Libya #Feb17 09/07 tumblr.com/xuy3ff12sj

www.rubiconmango.com/post/7462584163

James Wheeler:
Brave Faces in Gaddafi’s war on his own people @WheelerTweets
This is Mohammed. 9 yrs old. He was hit by a Gaddafi Grad while playing outside his house at 5 pm on June 5 in Zintan Libya. His left hand and two toes were ripped off in the blast. His face was pummeled. A piece of shrapnel remains in his eye.
I’ll never forget the way Mohammed looks at his left arm and feels it with his right hand during quiet moments.

This is 14 yearol Ahmed Algtani from Ajdabiua in a Tunisian hospital
The photo below of the kid in the saucy Free Libya hat with two damaged hands is 14 year-old Ahmed Algtani from Ajdabiya, Libya in a Tunisian hospital. Kids like Ahmed didn’t volunteer for anything and they don’t deserve this. Pain and depression show clearly on their faces until we can coax them to smile.
It is a privilege to meet every one of these brave Libyans and tell a bit of their stories. There’s a rush of emotion seeing them, and then again reliving it to tell people who aren’t here. There’s much to say beyond Twitter.
note: the above article is compiled from tweets from James Wheeler, an American hero in Libya doing everything he can to help the Libyan people realize their dream of a life of dignity. FREE LIBYA!!!
James Wheeler
Read art. and see the photo’s:
Source: www.sandraoffthestrip.com/2011/07/06/br...

LibyanLion17 A Free Libyan
NATO today bombed ammo depots south of #Gheryan.

hominoid

Libya Zliten Souk Al Thalatha FF statement 4 martyred 22 gravely injured G troops used cluster bombs and Heavy weapons.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Zliten: #SouqAlThalatha area: Reports that all civilians have been evacuated to clear way for #Freedomfighters to assault #Gaddafi #Libya

Inglesi:
History keeps fighters’ morale high in Misrata
Audio:
audioboo.fm/boos/409928

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Misrata: Reports that Tuesday market civilians are being evacuated to safer areas by FF so that they reduce civ casualty risk

Reuters:
FEATURE-Libya’s ragtag rebels discover discipline in battle

• Rebels near Misrata no longer scatter under fire
• They are forming units with a clear chain of command
• New discipline helping rebels push towards Tripoli
  By Nick Carey
  EAST OF ZLITAN, Libya, July 11 (Reuters) – Midway through the morning, as Grad rockets whooshed through the branches of trees overhead, some of the young men of the 1st battalion Al Marsa regiment began to sing.
  A slow, melodic and gentle version of the Muslim call to prayer that begins “Allahu Akbar” or “God is greatest,” drifted along the front line.
  Some of the men who were hunkered down behind the sand bank that forms the front line looked tense. Others, between songs, told jokes to pass the time. No one broke ranks.

Read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/11/liby...

nuna_
Wefaq #Libya: Tadamon News Agency: Trusted source said #Tripoli Revolutionaries attacked Salahuddin camp in Tikbali and seized some weapons.

ChangeInLibya
More pictures of the lovely Gaddafi State TV presenters we’re going to miss so much #libya fb.me/x7Fer6Kl

Egypt Pulls Plug on Libyan TV after “Al-Qaeda” Jibes
In response to months of protests by Libyans living in Egypt, the authorities in Cairo on 11 July ordered Egypt’s state-owned operator Nilesat to pull the plug on Libyan state TV satellite broadcasts to the Middle East and North Africa.

State-run media in Libya today initially ignored the Egyptian decision, filling their bulletins instead with the usual denunciations of the rebels and NATO strikes.
But before long Gaddafi, not known for championing media pluralism in Libya during his 41-year rule, will very likely claim that his country’s state-run TV channels are now the victims of media censorship imposed by his Arab brothers in neighbouring Egypt.
Full art. and source;
technorati.com/politics/article/egypt-p...

Check it out:
20arb
nieuwe web over #Libie met #nieuws muziek sites.google.com/site/tarablis/…

EndTyranny101 Ahmed Sanalla
#Tripoli: confirmed from multiple sources that a group of #FF attacked Salaheddin military barracks & took weapons & ammunition #Libya

FromJoanne Joanne
#MISRATA Gaddafi forces Shelling Port area right now Follow @inglesi who just heard 8 Grad rocket thuds #Libya

WESSIM
#Libye – Kadhafi : Paris fait passer des “messages”, pas de négociations directes (MAE) tinyurl.com/5t4f4a6 #libye

BBC correspondent Misrata Gaddafi troops have now been forced by the FF out into the open making them an easy target for both NATO and FF

inglesi Piers Scholfield
Deep thuds of grad rockets exploding – 8 in a couple of minutes. Looks like most landing in #Misrata port area. #Libya

FromJoanne Joanne
#BenWedeman talking to FF in the hills outside Bir Al #Ghanem See map ; goo.gl/aSJz0 Report : goo.gl/7eJ5n #Libya

KC_Tripolitania KC
Freedom Fighters Prepare Assault On Strategic Town Of #Gharyan In #Libya Ahead Of Liberation of #Tripoli Sky News bit.ly/p1EXJR

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Radio free #Misrata 1449kHz | Internet stream | #Libya #feb17 (Broadcasting live at ustre.am/xacW)

inglesi Piers Scholfield
Saw last two exploding – bright flashes on horizon by the sea. #Misrata #Libya

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Ahrar TV: Tripoli: FFs attacked Salah AlDeen Military camp in ElTikbaly area managing to get hold of some weaponry

UnfitToPrint
The Qaddafi Warrant: why ICC did right thing by issuing warrants 4 Qaddafi & others 4 crimes against humanity goo.gl/s2blA

Ossama
#Misurata: The fall of 7 martyrs in the battles of yesterday but today in the battles there are no deaths neither serious injuries

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
by LibyanLion17
Tripoli: Reports that a large group of freedom fighters attacked Salaheddin barracks and took large amounts of weapons & ammo

AMERICAN THINKER:
Western Intelligence: Iran Helping Gaddafi in Confrontation with NATO
According to a report by Le Monde, the armed intervention in Libya has led to a secret alliance between Iran and Colonel Moammar Gaddafi. That is the conclusion by sources within the circles of Western intelligence.
The Islamic Republic of Iran, fearing the consequences of the NATO operation in North Africa, has developed a plan to transform Libya into a quagmire for the NATO allies.
Iran seeks to take advantage of the upheavals in the Arab world, seeing it as a factor in the weakening of the West’s position in the Middle East, as well as a red herring to divert attention away from its nuclear program, say these sources.
According to this analysis, the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei (in a directive issued early in May), has instructed the Quds forces (special units of the Revolutionary Guards responsible for extraterritorial operations) to provide military assistance to Gaddafi’s forces in its war against what they call the “the axis of evil: the United States, France and the United Kingdom.”
The plan includes the transfer of weapons, including surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, along with other arms to be used against the forces of the Libyan opposition. The operation has been entrusted to members of the Quds forces based in Algeria and Sudan. Hundreds of them have already penetrated Libya in the area of the Cyrenaica close to Egypt, affirm these Western sources.

Full art.:
www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/western...

acarvin Andy Carvin
Video reportedly showing NATO bombing of ammunition depots south of Gheryan. Quite an explosion. youtu.be/pjYaTQlaKds #libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjYaTQlaKds&fea...

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Moldova CARGO SHIP “HAJ-SAYED” departing port #Tobruk #Libya. To owners/captain & crew: Thank you! #feb17

KC_Tripolitania KC
9 civilians killed today and over 50 injured in city #Misrata after #Gaddafi forces bombed Dafniyah and Qasr ahmed civilian areas. #Libya

libyaoutreach Libya Outreach
French officials: Paris had sent msgs 2 Gaddafi via intermed making clear he must relinquish power & withdraw troops 4 political solution.

FromJoanne Joanne
FF Khalifa 20yrs FF since 2Wks: Most important thing I’hv learned since I got @theFront was how 2b brave I am not frightened anymore #Libya

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
GADDAFI STATE TV RULING TODAY states that it must be carried out immediately bit.ly/qdQdBa yet NILESAT STILL HASN’T REMOVED THEM!

Noah
It’s remarkable. As #Arab nations take (painful) steps towards achieving #democracy, #Israel pisses it away in one paranoid measure.

Example below:

der_bluthund
‘Legislation will stain Israeli democracy’ bit.ly/n1urQv What fxxxxxx Israeli democracy? #Israel is an Apartheid Police State.
The Knesset discussed Monday the “boycott law”, which proposes penalizing persons or organizations who call for a boycott of Israel or the settlements. Later on Monday the MKs will vote on the law.
MK Nitzan Horowitz from Meretz blasted the proposed law, calling it outrageous and shameful. “We are dealing with a legislation that is an embarrassment to Israeli democracy and makes people around the world wonder if there is actually a democracy here,” he said. Ilan Gilon, another Meretz MK, said the law would further delegitimize Israel.
Read more:
www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/...

ALERT:
LibyanLion
AlManara – Unconfirmed – Presence of Iranian officers in #Sirte, #Tripoli and #Gheryan. Helping G military in tactics etc. #Libya #Feb17

Ossama
FACT: During the 1 Million March #Benghazi day over 200 #Gaddafi Sleeper Cells were caught preparing for various bombing operations

Sanad
heres another picture of it from my cousin who was there #Libya #Benghazi yfrog.com/kf3csvpj

ChangeInLibya
Photos de la révolution postées par @ChangeInLibya

www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.14599...

DEUTSCHE WELLE:
Defectors line up in Libya’s Western mountains rebel stronghold
Formed by defectors from the Libyan army, the Western mountains’ first National Army battalion is the most experienced group among opposition rebels fighting at the frontline close to Tripoli.

“We will capture and judge all those responsible for war crimes when we get to Tripoli. And we will be implacable.”
Such was the advice of rebel military official, Abdullah al Mehdi, to “all those Libyan soldiers who have not yet defected.” A colonel with the Libyan air force until last February, Mehdi was presiding over an unprecedented event in Zintan: the graduation of the first battalion of soldiers based in Libya’s Western mountains as part of the newly created National Army.
“Among the 350 soldiers who deserted the region, 70 re-graduated again this afternoon,” Abdulla al Mehdi told Deutsche Welle. The rebel leader added that their training had been fast “because everyone already had military training.”
Former Libyan Air Force technician, Mohamed Ali Abusah, was among the 70 chosen.
“I defected at the very beginning of the revolution. It’s much easier in the mountains because there is less pressure than in cities like Tripoli or Zawiya,” the 47-year-old graduate told Deutsche Welle. He said he would remain as a soldier in the new Libyan army even when the war is over. “I’ve been a soldier for my whole life, there is nothing else I can do,” he added.

Hamza Hamad is yet another of the soldiers in the new battalion. He is 25 and didn’t have much military experience when the uprising against Gadhafi began in February.
“We are struggling to be in Tripoli before Ramadan next August, otherwise everything will painfully go on until September, and even onwards,” the young soldier told Deutsche Welle.
Today there’s only a 70-kilometer-strip of flat land between the rebels in the desert location of Bir Ghanoum and Moammar Gadhafi’s residence.

Abdul, who didn’t want to reveal his last name for fear of reprisals against his family in his native Sorma, said he was captured by rebel troops after being shot in his right leg:
“We were told we were fighting foreign mercenaries – Algerians, Chadians, Ethiopians – and also al-Qaeda terrorists. But then we realized they were all Libyans like us… Why didn’t I defect? First we had no real information about our enemy. Besides, those who tried to defect got trapped between Ghadafi’s troops on the frontline and the forces holding the positions in the rearguard.”
He added he had already spent 25 days at the hospital and that he was being well-treated by both rebels and the medical staff.
Read the full art.:
www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15213963,...

FromJoanne Joanne
Amazing shot of the empty ammunitions shells in #Tripoli Street #Misrata goo.gl/aGwt7 who took all these pix ?

Libya_Now
AMAZIGH marocains en solidarité avec la #Libye libre à PARIS / Moroccan amazigh solidarity with Free Libya PARIS twitpic.com/5o8i3t

That must have been the picnic:)

Un tribunal égyptien ordonne la suspension de chaînes libyennes
La cour administrative du Caire a ordonné l’arrêt de diffusion de ces chaînes à la suite de procès intentés par des expatriés libyens et des avocats égyptiens. Selon ces derniers, le dirigeant libyen Mouammar Kadhafi utilise ces chaînes pour inciter à la violence contre les rebelles qui tentent de renverser son régime.
Les dirigeants des rebelles libyens à Benghazi (est), fief de l’insurrection, ont accusé Kadhafi, à plusieurs reprises, d’utiliser les médias comme arme dans le conflit qui a fait plusieurs milliers de morts depuis la mi-février.

maroc.senego.com/un-tribunal-egyptien-o...

If Libyan TV is stopped on NileSat, it wld only be available on Rascom, in which Libya Africa Investment Portfolio holds a majority stake.
Well, well……

FromJoanne Joanne
FF says : Right now we are waiting 4 ammunition Getting ready 2 go but IMO if we had more ammunition we could already b in #Zlitan #Libya

Amazigh_
Gaddafi never acknowledged the word #Nafusa because it is an #Amazigh word. He called it Jabal Gharbi (Western Mountains). #Libya #Feb17

Doylebytes Mark Doyle
Sorry to say have left #libya now. Hope to be back. Other bbc correspondents replace me. Thanks

freedom4libya Khalifa Leebee
#Saif (#Zaif) at it again. youtube.com/watch?v=KN-gId…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN-gIdmVj3E&feature=player_embedded#at=29

Libya united
A:ny chance Ruppert Murdoch can ask one of his staff to hack into Gadafi’s phone to find out where he’s sleeping tonight?

The story of weapons g “intercepted” by sea:
Libya united:

The story of weapons seized by Gadafi isn’t as he wants the World 2 believe. From an eye witness the weapons were not seized at
The port as claimed by Gadafi but from a farm in Janzour. The weapons didn’t arrive by sea but smuggled by Nafousa FF 2 b used
In final assault on #Tripoli if not 4 some1 giving away the location of the weapons. All FF involved in Janzour were arrested
my eye witness is willing 2 speak 2 media with an alias anytime 2 provide a true account of events.
unfortunately what happened is even more tragic…it was 1 of the FF’s uncles that led Gadafi right 2 them!

Skeptical4
there must b some moles infiltrated in the opposition movement in #Tripoli, that should be alarming to all

bint_
of course there are moles, there’s people who handed in their own brothers to G thugs in Tajura :(

ChangeInLibya
Libyan lawyer Abdellatif El-Gamaty is one of the lawyers that filed the lawsuit against Nilesat. He just spoke to libya.fm
Abdellatif El-Gamaty: Nilesat is breaching UN resolutions 1970/1973 as well as arab league resolutions by allowing Gaddafi channels
Abdellatif El-Gamaty: Today, the court ruled in our favour. Effective immediately, all Gddafi state tv channels must be removed from Nilesat
Abdellatif El-Gamaty: Gaddafi might try to find loopholes & use another satellite in Nilesat’s constellation or might launch other channels
Abdellatif El-Gamaty: Nilesat should remove all channels tomorrow. If they refuse to, the general manager/CEO will be held liable #
Abdellatif El-Gamaty: However all 14 currently broadcasting Libyan State TV channels should cease to exist tomorrow on Nilesat #
Abdellatif El-Gamaty: I can promise your listeners (of libya.fm ) that the channels will be removed tomorrow inshallah.

alchemist
Reports from #egypt indicate frantic activity over the past few days by #GaddafEddam boys trying to influence the court ruling on #Nilesat
One of #GaddafEddam’s boys has been virtually camping at #Nilesat’s headquarters in #Cairo. Isn’t he banned from playing politics in #egypt?

SmithInAfrica David Smith
by Skeptical4
Now in Zintan, Libya. Rebel flags and graffiti, gutted police station, pick-up trucks with artillery, checkpoint soldiers in football shirts
Rockets fall like rain in Nalut, Libya, in a nightly lottery for those who still remain. I saw damage to a backyard, a roof and a truck.
Big signs in Nalut thanking Nato and Sarkozy. But rebels here and at the border complain they now ask Nato for help and get nothing.
In Tatouine in Tunisia. No sign of Luke Skywalker, Jabba the Hutt or intrusive CGI, but lots of Libyan rebel flags and hostility to Gaddafi.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “KURUOGLU 3” 35.0654˚/17.90965˚ dest. #Tripoli #Libya direct from #Istanbul Speed/Course: 10.9 kn/252˚ @NATO #feb17

Iman
Mabrook abu-drehba a #tarhuni poet, who was on the programme sha3er el million was held and questioned for 3 days pt1 #Tarhuna #Libya
This was because he took part in protests in #Tarhuna in the first days on the revolution, in which they tore down gaddafi photos
Him and other #trahna set up a volunteer team to help those fleeing #misrata, he was held for three days and questioned for his role
Mabrook abu drehba was then asked to take part in a poetry evening praising gaddafi which he refused #tarhuna
Saif also sent someone to mabrook abu drehba asking to use his popularity and convince people that what’s happening in #libya is muamara
He left his house, as he did not want to take part in any propaganda, on his return 850 people from #Tarhuna were imprisoned
He also foubnd out that he was on top of the wanted list, and he was also imprisoned for 20 days, which were the worst days of his life
The poet was then interrogated by a top lieutenant in the army, who pressurised him to phone in libyanTv and praise gaddafi #Tarhuna
He did so worried for his families life, then ran for his life and crossed into tunisia #libya there are anti-gs in #tarhuna

Read story here:
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Iman
Prisoners released in #libya arnt the same after their ordeals, we know of one who now when he moves jumps around like a rabbit
He sits in the corner covered with a blanket and won’t show his face, and he crawls into the toilet on his knees and hands.

libyanproud
zliten not full liberated , ff control whole line from coast till suq al thalat , zliten center in g hands

FF are 4 km from Zliten centre (not liberated yet-snipers on top of buildings). Turhuna not liberated
yet.
ff also control strategic almajr checkpoint/intersection connecting misratt/zliten/baniwalid

gaddafi forces still in ghazaya , tiji , badrsorry I mean front lines are in asabaa and miskah

navyjoc

Intertribal politics complex in Qawalesh and Gaddafi forces were refueling vehicles there.

FromJoanne Joanne
The road UP to #Gharyan goo.gl/cICTq Gaddafi held since March2 goo.gl/bpStF #Libya

Aisha:
Colour, Life and Hope.. A Great article :-) written by my brother Tawfik in Libya

Nowadays, I drive around town in Benghazi and I see colours and faces of real people on the many billboards around the city. Not so long ago, there weren’t many colours just a green rag flapping everywhere you went from the city streets, hotels and even tied to car antennas. The only face you saw was that of the menacing Gadhafi glaring down into your car as you drove by.

The flow of traffic was even cut off by Gadhafi’s Compound being built in the centre of Benghazi dividing the main street of Jamal Abdulnaser. Most destinations required that you snake around the base to get there; so wherever you went, you had see Gadhafi the sinister clown and all his green book propaganda.

I always remember cursing under my breath – to avoid being seen by the many intelligence gatherers – about what an ugly pessimistic face we had to look at day in and day out throughout our city.

His pictures hung everywhere from schools, hospitals, all public buildings and public and private offices – anything less was a sign of being a traitor to Gadhafi’s one and only party.
TV and radio programmes were also all about the glory – gory – of Gadhafi and his odd green book that was supposedly going to save the world.

The liberation flag of 1951 with its lively tricolours of red, black and green was changed by Gadhafi to a plain green flag – everything green belonged to him including all of Libya’s wealth.

Libyan currency not surprisingly was printed with pictures of the delusional leader. The Libyan Dinar has a picture of ‘the philosopher’, as he liked to call himself, with his hand placed on the left side of his face as if in deep thought about what else he could do to humiliate the Libyan people. The 20 Dinar bill has a picture of the self-proclaimed ‘King of African Kings’ standing in the middle of his African subjects who were happy to pose for millions stolen from the Libyan people.

Stamps also featured the one and only Gadhafi and his green book propaganda. Even the shutters of all shops in the city had to be painted green. Everything was Gadhafi and the only colour was green. Libya was a country alien to its people who could only look on in suppressed silence.

It’s no wonder that even during the protests while still under heavy gunfire and artillery fire, the people tore down all his pictures, green book propoganda and burned down the buildings which were the offices that Qaddafi used to repress them for so long.

Today, in place of all the pictures and billboards of Gadhafi and his alien green world, now stand pictures of Omar Al-Mukhtar – The commander of the Senussi force (who fought against the Italian occupation in the 1920s and was executed in 1931). You also see images of real heroes of everyday people standing up to liberate their country.
Instead of the billboards and many signs painted on all buildings and schools advertising the warped ideas of the green book, such as “the home belongs to its occupant” (which was another way of saying the government supports squatters) or ‘people who join political parties are traitors to the regime’; these days, the signs are used to inform people of their role in the new Libya from keeping the city clean, to taking care of public property, to slogans of freedom and patriotism.

The green rag of a flag was burned and the liberation flag with its tricolours now flutters proudly with the many other flags of the world that have brought colour, life, and hope to the people of Libya.

All of this has brought back the Libyan peoples’ true identity; whereas, previously you would hear people –behind closed doors- swearing at the country, its green rag and all it stood for; nowadays, you see contentment on people’s faces, you can almost feel the solidarity of the people.

These days, as I drive around Benghazi, I rarely mutter under my breath anymore – except for the odd driver. Instead of the feelings of shame and despair I used to have, now, I drive around with my head up high in honour of all those brave people who were gunned down on these same streets to make all this possible.
I feel a sense of pride and belonging to this beloved city and country such as I’ve never felt before. Today, a burden has lifted from my chest.

We pray to the Lord Almighty to liberate our brothers and sisters in the West and South of Libya from the shackles of one of the most brutal dictatorships the modern world has ever known. May God protect the people of Libya and give them strength. #libya #Feb17#Gaddaficrimes

Aisha
two Martyrs with both their lower torso’s blown off by Gaddafi’s thugs were brought in to Misrata field Hospital .I asked my brother
Who is currently working there, To take pictures so we could send them to human rights groups, He said how can I when their families are in
so much pain standing around them crying .. He didn’t want to be insensitive, A reminder that we barely see anything of the reality there.
He spoke of a 22 year old Libyan British who came from England to help out , And my brother would often ride with him in ambulance he drove
He had to have his arm amputated today ,as a result of Gaddafi’s thugs firing rickets, missiles ..etc at the front lines
He spoke of how our injured FF’S couldn’t wait to recover to get back to front lines ,that they were not afraid to die & the morale was high
Despite the rising death toll and the many injured brought in daily .
He said elderly #Libya n men were risking their lives to bring freshly cooked food to our FF’s at front lines.

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
#Libya. French Defence Min Longuet has said that four months of military intervention had proved that “violence is not the solution.”

isra
tarhuna is not just full of pro-g supporters i know some of my family there are planning big things just not enough media coverage there

live2Tripoli live2Tripoli
I understand that some “thuwar” revolutionaries have done wrong things, and this about Qawalish needs to be cleared up. That what happened..
..Is the result of actions by few, & those who do not represent the free Libyan people. I hope that news media makes clear of these reports

libyanandproud
tarhuna and ghiryan have received ammo and guns , is confirmed ! Liberation imminent

libyanandproud
ghiryan not firmly with gaddafi , even saw video of celebrations at NATO strikes , and ppl saying Allah Akbar

cjchivers C.J. Chivers
More arson in rebel-held Qawalish, Libya tday. 2 more homes & auto-parts store burning midday. Details of larger pattern, reasons – soon.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Freedomfighter in #SouqAlThulat, outskirts of #Zliten, says 4 FFs were killed, 22 injured. #Gaddafi forces using cluster bombs.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#SierraLeone CARGO SHIP “TRADER” now approaching dest. of #Benghazi #Libya ETA: 2011-07-12 08:00 (UTC). #feb17

bint_
Khweldi Elhemedi had an amazing horse stud for his own private greedy use, horses worth $$$$$$ bought by Libya’s stolen money

bint
One good thing of Libya becoming an amazing country is that Libyan guys won’t marry expat girls just for their passports to escape Libya!!

libyanproud
wazin in ff control , mrabeh mountains gets shelled every once in a while , crossing closes for hour during shelling mntn

septimius_
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.” Benjamin Franklin

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Freedomfighters should beware of GPS devices planted in military vehicles & heavy weapons.

‏وكــالة التواصل الإخبـــارية Tawasul news agency’s Photos – Wall Photos‏
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معلومات ممكن ان تفيد الثوار في مناطق المحررة

سيرات الكتائب او الغنائم ممكن ان تحتوي جهاز جديد موجود الان في طرابلس وتم تطويرة من قبل شاب ليبي قبل الثورة هو جهاز تتبع سيارة عبر جي بي اس الاول في ليبيا بدقه عاليه ..تركيب الجهاز هو عباره عن صندوق اسود من حديد بحجم علبه السجائر (دخان) ليه توصيلات كهرابائيه تركيبه ((تحت الدومان مكان تركيب لرم السياره متبت جدا .)),, يعمل بشفرات ليبيه ليبيانا ومدار ,,,طريقه عمله يعمل بنضام متل قوقل ارت يعطي احداتيات دقيقه لمكان وايضا يعمل متل جي بي اس ويمكن مراقبه السياره تتحرك بكل سرعات ومكانها بدقه وممكن تحكم مراقبه مجموعه كبيره من سيرات في نفس وقت من اي كمبيوتر ..

الجهاز لم ينزل الاسواق بكتره لانه محدود وشخص واحد قام بتطويره … ونحن نعطي هده معلومات فقط لحرصنا علي سلامه ثوارنا الابطال في جبهات ،،،،،ﻻ تنسو الدعاء ان النصر لقريب الله اكبر ولله الحمد
ارجو نشر معلومات كما هيا ،،،،، ادارة الصفحة
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translation being:
The news agency communication Tawasul news agency’s Photos – Wall Photos
Photo 245 of 245 Back to Album • news agency communication Tawasul news agency’s Photos • news agency communication Tawasul news agency’s Profile

Information as possible to benefit the rebels in the liberated areas

Sirat battalions or booty as possible to contain a new device is now in Tripoli, was developed by a young man Libby before the revolution is a track car via GPS the first in Libya, with high accuracy .. installation of the device is a black box of iron the size of a pack of cigarettes (smoke ) Les connections Kahrabaúah installed ((under Aleduman place of installation of rum car Mtpt very .)),, working blades of Fact Libyana and over,,, the way his works Bndham metal Rank Art gives Ahdhatiat minutes to place and also worked metals GPS and can control the car is moving all the speed and location accurately and possible control monitoring a large set of memoirs at the same time from any computer ..

Device did not come down markets Bkatra because it is limited and one person has developed … We give information only to this topic on the safety of our heroes in Thoarna fronts ,,,,, do not forget to pray that victory soon, Allah Akbar and thankfully
I hope the publication of information also come on ,,,,, administration page

denis
Al Khatib said both sides in #Libya want to use assets frozen by Western gov’s for food & medicine, esp with Ramadan approaching
UN Libya envoy Al-Khatib says he is urging direct talks between Gaddafi and TNC

Iman
R.I.P. Salem from the london protests who was martyred today in #misrata libya our thoughts are with his family

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#NATO strikes on #Gaddafi forces check points in #Almaya in west #Tripoli. #Libya #feb17

NorthAndrew andrew north
Libyan PM in Le Figaro: Sarkozy “our friend”, as he welcomes latest Fr proposal. bit.ly/pVF9bZ . Classic ‘wedge’ tactics

Le premier ministre libyen envisage des négociations

Près de six mois ont passé depuis le début de la crise libyenne, cinq depuis celui de l’intervention de l’Otan, mais la situation sur le terrain reste dans l’impasse: la rébellion ne parvient pas à s’étendre au delà des zones qu’elle contrôle déjà, les forces gouvernementales ne peuvent pas reprendre le contrôle de parties entières du territoire libyen, et les bombardements de l’Otan n’ont pas fait tomber le régime du colonel Kadhafi. Pour le premier ministre libyen Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, un homme à la réputation de pragmatisme, il est temps de négocier. Et notamment avec la France.
LE FIGARO. – Le ministre français de la Défense, Gérard Longuet, vient de demander aux rebelles du de négocier . Êtes-vous prêts aussi à entamer aussi le dialogue?
Read the full story:
www.lefigaro.fr/international/2011/07/1...

Khiria
#Gaddafiworshippertheories: Everyone is a #CIA member except those who want /like #Gaddafi.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Bolivia CARGO SHIP “NASEM” 34.43971˚/12.14952˚ listed dest. #Sousse #Tunisia actual dest. #Tripoli #Libya Speed/Course: 8.9 kn/146˚ @NATO

THREE MAPS:
iyad_
Latest #Libya strategic maps: bit.ly/oLTefr bit.ly/nSvtyG bit.ly/q5wMd4 bit.ly/qHhJI8
twitpic.com/5otwpk

Herald Sun
US to back Russian deal if Muammar Gaddaf steps down
THE US will support Russia’s bid to resolve the conflict in Libya provided Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi steps down, President Barack Obama told his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev.
Obama on Monday thanked the Russian leader “for Russia’s efforts at mediation in Libya” and said he looked forward to welcoming Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday, a White House statement said.
“President Obama spoke with Russian President Medvedev today to discuss a range of bilateral and international issues and to express his condolences on the tragic sinking of the MS Bulgaria,” the statement said.
“President Obama thanked President Medvedev for Russia’s efforts at mediation in Libya, emphasising that the United States is prepared to support negotiations that lead to a democratic transition in Libya as long as Gaddafi steps aside.”
Full story:
www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/us-to-b...

Reuters
WRAPUP 1-Italy calls for political solution in Libya

• Italy calls for political solution
• Eight rebels killed in renewed shelling
• U.S. says some NATO allies face exhaustion
• Differences widening inside Western alliance
  By Nick Carey
  MISRATA, Libya, July 12 (Reuters) – Italy wants a political solution to the war in Libya that would see Muammar Gaddafi “leaving the stage”, its foreign minister told an Algerian newspaper on Tuesday after a rebel campaign ran into resistance
  Full report:
  in.reuters.com/article/2011/07/11/libya...

LibyaAlHurra;
Urgent request from #Zliten:
People living abroad with family in Zliten are asked to record messages of encouragement for radio broadcast to citizens of trapped city. Info at www.facebook.com/pages/اللجنة-ا

SUMMARY JULY 12th 2011

7/12/2011
7.12.2011

Never lower yourself to other peoples levels.

iyad:
Priceless tweet: “All my life my parents told me older people are wise. Now I know they were just taking me for a ride.”

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

La Norvège décide de mettre fin à ses opérations en Libye / hélicoptère abattu à Zlitan1
La Norvège a annoncé hier qu’elle mettra fin à partir du 1er août prochain à sa participation aux opérations de l’Otan en Libye, alors que l’envoyé du président russe est attendu dans les prochains jours dans la capitale libyenne Tripoli pour y rencontrer des officiels libyens.
Dans un communiqué reproduit par des médias, le ministère norvégien de la Défense a indiqué que « le gouvernement a décidé de prolonger la contribution aérienne norvégienne avec jusqu’à quatre avions de combat F-16 jusqu’au 1er août 2011. Après quoi, la mission prendra fin ». « Nous devons pouvoir compter sur nos alliés pour qu’ils comprennent que la Norvège, avec une armée de l’air limitée, ne peut pas maintenir une grosse contribution aérienne pendant beaucoup de temps », a affirmé la ministre de la Défense, Grete Faremo, citée dans le texte.
Source: El Moudjahid/Algérie
Full story:
www.alterinfo.net/notes/La-Norvege-deci...

Libye: L’Otan à court de moyens dans 90 jours (Pentagone)

Libye: le Pentagone appelle les alliés à augmenter leur capacité de combat. Certains membres de l’Otan participant aux opérations en Libye seront venus à bout de leurs moyens d’ici 90 jours, si bien que Washington sera obligé de leur venir en aide, a annoncé lundi le secrétaire américain à la Défense Leon Panetta.

“Le problème en Libye réside actuellement dans le fait que la plupart des participants à l’opération militaire auront épuisé leurs moyens au cours des 90 jours à venir, les Etats-Unis devront alors combler la brèche”, a déclaré le chef du Pentagone.

Le ministre de la Défense a, en outre, souligné que les partenaires des Etats-Unis au sein de l’Otan devaient augmenter la capacité de combat de leurs forces armées.

“Ils doivent, par ailleurs, investir dans ce type de partenariat. Nous ne pouvons pas porter seuls le fardeau financier de toutes ces situations, il faut le partager”, a conclu M.Panetta.
fr.rian.ru/world/20110712/190122524.html
Link:
www.alterinfo.net/notes/Libye-L-Otan-a-...

Libye: les rebelles ne prendront en compte que les “initiatives sérieuses”

La rébellion libyenne a affirmé mardi qu’elle n’était intéressée que par les “initiatives sérieuses” portant sur un départ de Mouammar Kadhafi, en réaction aux informations sur les contacts du régime libyen avec la France.
“Le Conseil national de transition ne prendra en compte que les initiatives sérieuses qui prévoient, sans équivoque, un départ de Kadhafi et de ses fils”, a déclaré par téléphone à l’AFP l’un des porte-parole des rebelles, Mahmoud Chammam.
M. Chammam a assuré que c’est Béchir Saleh, un proche de Kadhafi qui était allé récemment en France pour proposer que le leader libyen soit placé en résidence surveillée en Libye sous protection internationale.
Link:
www.elwatan.com/depeches/libye-les-rebe...

MisrataPatriots PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
Sheikh Khalifa Azwawi #Misrata leader of NTC tells us no talks with any #Gaddafi. People will continue fight with or without #NATO

Libye
le Parlement Francais vote pour la continuation de la mission en #Libye
Source: France 24.

Libya_Now
“There is a consensus on the solution of the Libyan crisis, it is the departure of #GAddafi from power” Juppé, FM #France

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

Feb17
Libya around the world:

FRANCE:
France said Muammar Gaddafi was ready to leave power, according to emissaries, the latest sign contacts were underway between the Libyan leader and NATO members to find a way out of the crisis.
“Emissaries are telling us Gaddafi is ready to go, let’s talk about it,” French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said, without revealing who the emissaries were. “The question is no longer about whether Gaddafi goes but when and how,” Juppe said.

Reuters
USA:
New U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Monday that some NATO allies operating in Libya could see their forces “exhausted” within 90 days.
“The problem right now, frankly, in Libya is that … within the next 90 days a lot of these other countries could be exhausted in terms of their capabilities, and so the United States, you know, is going to be looked at to help fill the gap,” Panetta said, speaking to troops in Baghdad.
He did not say which countries he was referring to, or what the U.S. response would be to calls for help.

U.S. President Barack Obama told his Russian counterpart Monday that the United States is prepared to support Moscow’s mediation in Libya provided it leads to a democratic transition and the departure of leader Moammar Gadhafi.
The White House said Mr. Obama spoke with President Dimitry Medvedev by telephone, thanking him for Russia’s negotiation efforts in the North African nation.

The WHITE HOUSE:
The White House says President Barack Obama told Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that the U.S. is prepared to support Russian-led negotiations in Libya.
However, Obama told the Russian president the U.S. would only back the negotiations if they lead to a democratic transition and longtime Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi steps aside.
Medvedev has joined the West in urging Gadhafi to step down, and envoys from the Kremlin have traveled to Libya to meet with representatives of Gadhafi’s government.
Obama and Medvedev spoke Monday. Obama also expressed his condolences for the sinking of an aging cruise ship on a river near Moscow. As many as 129 people were killed in the incident.
The two leaders also discussed Sudan, Afghanistan and Russia’s pending accession to the World Trade Organization.

ABU DHABI:
Abu Dhabi’s First Gulf Bank has severed ties with its Libyan unit after political unrest in the country and its investment has been classified as “available for sale,” a filing from the lender showed.
FGB, majority owned by Abu Dhabi’s ruling family, has suspended its management agreement with former subsidiary, First Gulf Libya Bank, adding the investment had a net carrying value of 396 million dirhams ($107.8 million).
“FGB has no involvement in the day-to-day operations of FGLB and FGLB is no longer classified as a subsidiary of FGB,” it said in a prospectus filed to the London Stock Exchange and dated July 11.
“FGB’s investment in FGLB is now classified as an available for sale investment.”

SWITZERLAND:
Switzerland said Tuesday it is dispatching a diplomat to the rebel-held Libyan city of Benghazi to open an office aimed at strengthening its ties with the Libyan National Transitional Council.
“By sending a special envoy to Benghazi, Switzerland is signaling its intent to strengthen its presence there, and to intensify its political relations with the Libyan National Transitional Council,” said the Swiss Foreign Ministry.
“The special envoy is entrusted with the task of safeguarding Switzerland’s interests in Benghazi, promoting and intensifying contact with the NTC, and with opening a liaison office,” it added.
Switzerland stressed that the NTC is its “sole legitimate partner for contact” before strife-hit Libya is able to elect a government.
Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey had met a member of the rebel leadership in Bern as early as 9 March, just four days after the NTC was set up. The Swiss embassy in Tripoli has been closed since 27 February due to security reasons, said the ministry.

AFP.
FRANCE:
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Tuesday that France had had “contacts” with the Libyan regime concerning the departure of leader Moamer Kadhafi but no real negotiations had taken place.
“There have indeed been contacts, but it has not turned into a real negotiation,” he told France Info radio station. “The Libyan regime is sending messengers everywhere: to Turkey, New York, Paris,” he said.
“We are meeting envoys who say to us: look, ‘Kadhafi is ready to go, let’s talk about it’,” he added.
Kadhafi’s son Seif Al-Islam told the Algerian daily El Khabar in an interview published Monday that Tripoli was “holding real negotiations with France and not with the rebels”

ITALY:
Italy called on Tuesday for a political solution to the war in Libya that would see Muammar Gaddafi “leaving the stage”, as the rebel campaign to oust him ran into stiff resistance from government forces.
With rifts already apparent within NATO, the United States warned that some allies engaged in the campaign against Gaddafi could see their forces “exhausted” within three months.
Rebel fighters are seemingly unable to make much progress in their fight to end Gaddafi’s 41-year rule and calls for a diplomatic resolution have mounted.
Rebels took more casualties on Monday, stalled in their advance towards Tripoli. Shelling by forces loyal to Gaddafi killed eight rebel fighters and injured 25, according to hospital sources in the rebel stronghold of Misrata.
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini’s call for a political way out came after his Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi exposed rifts within NATO by saying he had not supported the war on Libya, and France bridled at the slow pace of efforts to end the crisis.

EGYPT:
AP:
Egypt’s state news agency says a court has ordered the state-owned satellite operator Nilesat to take 14 Libyan TV stations off the air.
The court decision Monday follows a lawsuit by Libyan citizens and Egyptian lawyers who said the stations owned by the regime of Moammar Gadhafi incite against the rebels fighting to topple the leader, in power for 42 years.
The stations are off the air until they can find another satellite to beam them.
Libya’s rebels have launched their homegrown satellite TV station in May to counter the regime’s powerful media machine, which depicts the opposition as terrorists and drums up patriotic fervor by beaming images of burning buildings hit by NATO airstrikes.
Source: Feb17

LE FIGARO
«La Libye est une épreuve de vérité pour les Européens»
INTERVIEW – Le ministre de la Défense, Gérard Longuet, défend la légalité des parachutages d’armes aux rebelles libyens et tire les leçons du conflit, tout en excluant une intervention du même type en Syrie.

LE FIGARO. – La France avait l’objectif officieux d’arriver à un résultat militaire probant face à Kadhafi pour le 14 juillet. Où en est le plan de marche des alliés en Libye?
Gérard LONGUET. – Le mandat de la résolution 1973 de l’ONU est strict: protéger les populations civiles. Cela impliquait de mettre fin à toute agression à partir du ciel. Le résultat est atteint pour la Cyrénaïque, la zone de Misrata et le Djebel Nefoussa, c’est-à-dire les trois régions où des oppositions clairement affirmées ont été confrontées à l’usage de la force par Kadhafi. À partir de là, le plan de marche est de permettre aux Libyens de trouver eux-mêmes leur nouvelle charte politique. De ce point de vue, la progression est constante: nous sommes passés d’une opposition spontanée, désorganisée et assez largement éclatée, à un Conseil national de transition (CNT) qui est une autorité de fédération désormais reconnue par plus d’une vingtaine de pays.
Full interview here:
www.lefigaro.fr/international/2011/07/1...

PETROLEUM ECONOMIST
QADHAFI REGIME TELLS OPERATORS TO START PUMPING OIL:
Full report here:
www.petroleum-economist.com/Article/286...

MisrataPatriots PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
landline phones up and running in #Misrata, mobile networks almost ready to go – #Misrata top politician tells BBC

NPR.
Rebels In Libya’s Western Mountains Face Shortages
July 12, 2011
Rebels in the Nafusah Mountaiins of western Libya have made substantial gains in recent weeks against forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi. But the fighting has prompted a growing humanitarian crisis in this isolated region southwest of Tripoli.
A fighter on the frontline of a recent battle in the western mountains points at a rusted rifle. “This one very old, more than 100 years,” he says. “Our grandfathers before us use it in front of Italian army in 1911.”
Fighting across Libya has been characterized by a lack of sophisticated weapons. But ask Col. Juma Ibrahim, a senior commander of the military council in Zintan, what he needs most, and it’s not guns.
“Water, fuel, food, shoes, clothes, many things,” Ibrahim responds.
In Zintan and across the western mountains, there is an acute shortage of everything. The only way to bring supplies in is through the border with Tunisia, which until recently was rocketed daily by Ghadafi’s army. Government forces are still trying to take it back, and if they do, the mountains will be cut off.
Most supplies now come in on the back of pick ups and in the trunks of cars — a trickle of items supplying a population in the tens of thousands.
Those cars park outside the main mosque in Zintan — a few every day with the drivers selling whatever they’ve managed to bring across.
Men crowd around a cluster of lambs ready for the slaughter. Fresh meat is hard to come by and the bidding is fast and furious. Two of the young ones are going for 200 dinars about $130, a fortune in a place where no one has worked for months
Abdul Hamid Mohammed Mehdi is looking for fresh meat. He does odd jobs he says to make money and then takes that cash straight to the market to buy whatever food he can find.
Apart from the lamb-seller, there is only one other merchant and he’s selling a few vegetables, which are worse for wear after their journey over the mountains in the boiling heat. The tomatoes are mostly rotten, and there is only a small cache of fresh fruit.
Mohammed says his family mostly survives on pasta and other dried or canned foodstuffs. A typical dinner he says is rice, and if they are lucky some watermelon.
But he doesn’t buy the pasta and rice in a shop because most are shuttered. The World Food Program and other humanitarian groups are providing food aid. But it simply isn’t enough.
At a warehouse on the edge of town, workers load bundles on the back of a large flatbed truck.
Mohammed used to work at an oil company but now he’s coordinating food distribution. He lists what he has in stock: macaroni, oil, tomato sauce.
As supplies come in, they get sent out into the neighborhoods, and what they get, depends on the size of the family.
The deliveries of aid though aren’t regular Mohammed says. Sometimes nothing comes in for weeks, and what they get is potluck.
The problem he says is that there are too many mouths to feed. Zintan has become a hub: fighters are congregating here, as are refugees from other areas, plus the local population already in residence.
“We are suffering from an extremely serious food crisis here,” Mohammed says.
Drinking water is also in short supply in many areas, as is medicine.
At a pharmacy in Zintan a man walks in and asks for a Panadol, a brand of painkiller.
Pharmacist Masoud Abdul Salaam says he doesn’t have any. He doesn’t have what the next few customers ask for either.
He says he hasn’t been able to get stocks in since the uprising began; he’s just selling whatever he has left. People with serious illnesses he says — diabetes, high blood pressure – aren’t finding the medication they need. We have nothing Masoud adds.
And the pumps aren’t working either. Fuel is also brought in on the back of pick up trucks — in large 100 liter plastic containers.
It’s sold for 50 dinars for 20 liters – that’s a 10 fold price increase since the rebellion began. As a result most people can’t afford to use their cars.
Mohammed Barka, a fuel seller, says he goes to get the gas in Tunisia. But sometimes he has to wait for days to fill up because there’s no fuel in the border town at the other end.
When he finally gets what he needs, he has to make the treacherous border crossing back with what he says is a mobile bomb. He’s constantly terrified that the car will explode.
But at least we can bring in some supplies, he says. If the border gets closed off, we will all die.
SOURCE:
www.npr.org/2011/07/12/137783976/libyan...

(AUDIO will be available later today)

Reuters:
Abu Dhabi lender FGB ends ties with Libyan unit – filing

• FGB says it is not currently in talks on sale of unit
• Lender’s shares down 1.67 percent in Abu Dhabi
  DUBAI, July 12 (Reuters) – Abu Dhabi’s First Gulf Bank (FGB.AD: Quote) has severed ties with its Libyan unit after political unrest in the country and its investment has been classified as “available for sale,” a filing from the lender showed.
  ART.:
  af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLD...

Libyan gov. envoys tell France Gadhafi ‘prepared to leave,’ says French foreign minister
PARIS — France’s foreign minister said Tuesday Paris has had contact with emissaries from Moammar Gadhafi who say the embattled Libyan strongman is “prepared to leave.”
LINK:
www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-eas...

InjusticeFacts Injustice Facts
4.5 million people have been killed directly or indirectly by the ‘war’ on terror, if they held hands, they would extend from NYC to L.A.

ATLANTICO
“La France restera en Libye jusqu’au départ de Kadhafi”
Yves Boyer : Politiquement, il me semble hors de question que l’Assemblée Nationale vote contre l’engagement français dans la coalition, décidé par le Président de la République. On restera en Libye jusqu’à la conclusion de l’affaire, c’est à dire le départ du pouvoir de Kadhafi.
On est relativement proches d’un dénouement sur le terrain : les forces rebelles progressent vers Tripoli par le Sud-ouest et par l’Est, l’armée de Kadhafi voit la corde se resserrer chaque jour davantage et l’on verra bientôt les effets de l’action combinée de la coalition et des insurgés. Ce n’est donc pas au moment où l’on s’apprête à tirer les dividendes de l’engagement que l’on va se retirer
LINK:
www.atlantico.fr/decryptage/libye-depar...

inglesi Piers Scholfield
Al Hikma hospital boss: no casualties from Monday grad rocket attacks on #Misrata. #Libya #feb17

MisrataPatriots PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
Al Hikma hospital in #Misrata tells us 70 injured, 10 killed on Monday. Enough supplies for 2-4 weeks at current rate

Again like yesterday the numbers posted are inconsistent……..

inglesi Piers Scholfield
#Misrata rebel leader Sheikh Khalifa Azwawi: “we are disappointed by European countries” – because they won’t release Gaddaffi frozen assets

abe
Highly valuable supply of med equipment coming in this week to be shipped to #Libya. Pls donate to LibyanEmergencyAid.com to help.

Libya_Now
#France is at the forefront. Very dangerous signal: suggest that unlimited force may be used without European reaction.Def M #France #Libye

France says contacts underway on Gaddafi exit | Reuters
France: Libya emissaries say Gaddafi ready to go

(Reuters) – France said Muammar Gaddafi was ready to leave power, according to emissaries, the latest sign contacts were underway between the Libyan leader and NATO members to find a way out of the crisis.
“Emissaries are telling us Gaddafi is ready to go, let’s talk about it,” French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said, without revealing who the emissaries were. “The question is no longer about whether Gaddafi goes but when and how,” Juppe said.
NATO powers have until now been focused firmly on air strikes and backing the rebels trying to overthrow Gaddafi, but five months into the insurrection and with

LINK:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/12/us-l...

DEFENCEWEB
Libya’s wealthy use cash to take fight to Gaddafi
When the battle for Misrata began in late February, Mahmoud Mohammed Askutri started out with a Kalashnikov rifle and four bullets.

Standing alongside his former schoolteacher, who was armed with a sharpened piece of metal, Askutri spotted and shot a soldier loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

He took the dead soldier’s Kalashnikov and bullets, thereby adding much-needed firepower at a time when most Libyans participating in the uprising against Gaddafi were fighting with knives, petrol bombs and hunting rifles, Reuters reports.

In the subsequent months, Askutri, a local businessman who owns a construction company, has formed the rebel 1st battalion of the Al Marsa regiment, which he funds and supplies with weapons and ammunition bought on the black market.

While Libya’s third-largest city was under siege, he raised money, including a donation of a kilogram and a half of gold his mother had been saving up since 1998 to build a mosque, to help bring a first shipment of weapons to ammunition here.

Misrata has traditionally been one of Libya’s biggest centres of commerce and industry, and businessmen like Askutri are now using their wealth — once invested in palatial homes and business empires — to finance the fight to end Gaddafi’s 41-year rule.

“The young men on the front line are not fighting for money or power,” said Askutri, speaking at his former summer house, which now serves as the 1st battalion’s command centre. “They are doing this for dignity and freedom.”

“I’m ready to give everything for them, even to sell this house,” he added, waving at the home with its immaculate lawn.
FULL ART.:
www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17096:libyas-wealthy-use-cash-to-take-fight-to-gaddafi&catid=3:Civil%20Security&Itemid=113

LibyanLion
#Misrata FFs are present past Sooq alThalath, They are holding a defensive line they captured a day or 2 ago.

#Nafusa FFs are near #BirGhanam. Apparently about 2KM away from it, so closing in on it slowly

Nafusa FFs are also holding the area of Miskah, which is west of Alosaabah

Eastern FFs have received reinforcements of tanks, but still in their defensive areas (40s – 60s), perhaps preparing.

Last night also saw heavy clashes take place between FFs and G forces in the city of #Zawiya

Unfortunately, many have said that the death of Musa Koussa is not true. Guess it’s the noose for him if he turns up in #Libya

US says that some NATO countries may exhaust their capabilities within 90 days of the mission. They were not named.

#Switzerland to send a diplomat to #Benghazi to open an office in order to improve ties and connections.

Obama says to the Russians – He will support them as mediators, on condition it includes democ. for #Libya + G departure.

Italy encourages the need for a political solution, as military will take time

dovenews

9 #FF were killed & 35 injured in #AlNa’ama area in #Misrata.

Libya_Now
The French Parliament vote today the continuation of the French intervention in #Libya #France. No surprise: a “yes” is expected.

carolv
I heard someone say it might take days! Gaddafi’s channels still working on Nilesat as of 2.15pm Libya time

Damn
Consider this: Journos in Tripoli paying ~ $400/ day X 50 Js = $20,000/ day for G to pay mercenaries with

BreakingNews Breaking News
Al-Qaida extremists exploiting chaos in Libya, smuggling weapons to its base in the Sahara – Italian minister on.msnbc.com/pPg8CN

wheelertweets James Wheeler
Brothers Ahmed & Suleiman, from Ajdabiya #Libya, in the lobby of their Tunis hospital 3 hrs ago. They’re looking better twitpic.com/5onnl4 every day. Ahmed’s arm bandages have been removed & he can walk better. He stopped to visit with me & was happily surprised
.to be able to speak to Worldloverpeace a #Libyan in the US who called my mobile phone to talk to us. A real treat. Ahmed brought his brother Suleiman down to say hi a few minutes later. Glad he can get up more now, even if its in a wheelchair.

Had a homecooked lunch a few hrs ago with 12 injured FFs from #Kikla #Libya in a flat they’re now sharing in Tunis. So many war stories.

wheelertweets James Wheeler
This man was tortured in prison in #Tripoli for 84 days. Electrocuted in his groin. Gun shafts twisted in his stomach. twitpic.com/5p0qj6
Burned with cigarettes. Beaten. Ligaments crushed. The list goes on. Too much for Twitter.. He was shot in the foot on Feb 19 in those early protests in #Tripoli. The bullet wasn’t removed until yesterday, here at this hospital in Tunis.
He left prison with a friend, who then commit suicide. Hung himself in Ben Gardan. #Gaddafi forces had raped his wife, and then she jumped to her death out a window. They burned his house, destroyed his car & shop. Said he had nothing to live for.

Philip
Today in #Paris: parliamentary debate on military involvement in #Libya. A much less divisive issue than in the #US Congress.

AL ARABIYA
Will he and won’t he? Libyan prime minister says ‘The Guide’ will not take part in talks with rebels. Stay tuned
Libya’s Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi said that the country’s embattled leader will not take part in proposed talks with the rebels.

“The Guide will not take part in these discussions. Everything must be open,” he told France’s Le Figaro newspaper, referring to Muammar Qaddafi.

“We are ready to negotiate unconditionally,” he said, adding it was not for him to say “in which room … the Guide will find himself.”

But the Linyan prime minister said a halt to the bombing was a pre-condition for any dialogue.

“We simply want a stop to the bombardments so that one can talk in a serene atmosphere,” he said. “We cannot talk as bombs rain down.”

Abdelilah Al-Khatib told reporters after briefing the UN Security Council behind closed doors that one of the key issues to be negotiated is agreement on an institutional body that would manage a transition.

“This would have to be all-inclusive and involve representatives from all political and social groups, as well as a wide range of factions, regions and tribes,” he said.

Mr. Al-Khatib said he discussed these ideas with Libya’s prime minister and foreign minister in Tripoli on Saturday, as well as with members of the rebels’ National Transitional Council. He said both sides expressed readiness to examine the ideas.

Council diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity because the briefing was private, said the major difference between the two sides is what comes first: The government is demanding a cease-fire followed by a political transition, while the rebels insist on political change, including Colonel Qaddafi’s departure, which they say would lead to a halt in the fighting, now entering its fifth month.

(Dina Al-Shibeeb, a senior editor at Al Arabiya English, can be reached at: dina.ibrahim@mbc.net)
LINK FOR FULL ART.:
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/07/...

WASHINGTON POST
As Ramadan approaches, Libyan rebels worry about mounting odds

ZINTAN, Libya — Rebels battling Moammar Gaddafi’s forces in Libya’s western mountains fear that supply shortages and other hurdles could prevent them from making major headway before fighting is likely to slow for Ramadan next month.
Rebel leaders say that limited fuel, water and food could take a toll on the fighting force as temperatures soar in the arid mountain ridge where the rebels have been slowly but steadily gaining ground on troops loyal to Gaddafi.

FULL ART.:
www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-eas...

BBC
Libya: Frontline folklore keeps Misrata rebels going

After weeks of stalemate, Libyan rebels in the town of Misrata are once again fighting their way westwards. But progress is slow. The city itself is still surrounded, and the only way in or out is by sea.
There seems no imminent prospect of an end to the fighting. Yet inside Misrata itself, morale is high as the people of the city construct an image of themselves as the invincible underdogs of the Libyan revolution.
On a recent weekday evening, thousands of Misratans took to the streets of their city. “Free Libya,” they chanted, as they waved their revolutionary flags of red, black and green.

LINK FULL ART.:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14109000

libyans_revolt
#Switzerland recognizes the @NTC_of_Libya as “sole legitimate partner for contact” in #Libya and open an office in #Benghazi. #Feb17 #AFP

hominoid
Libya Misrata 9 FFs were killed and 35 injured in AlNa’ama area

Skeptic
#NATO: #Nafusa: #Gaddafi forces r in defensive positions, from which they are shelling opposition positions

GHOSTS in RIXOS, it’s spooky there:

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
#Libya: BBC team in #Tripoli has had TV equipment we use for Live 2ways ‘removed’ while we were asleep. why would someone do that?

LIBYA TRIPOLI
Some friends and relatives are kidnapped, it’s getting terrible there.

dovenews Libyan™
“I was raped by 8 of Gaddafi forces, thy were asking me 2 tell thm info abut #FF in #Zwara, I hv 3 kids & I have fled 2 #Tunisia” Nadia Said

dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi’s TV presenter Hala Almisrati guest: Released prisoners, rapist & criminals. Thats how bad! #GaddafiToHell
Niz_FGM Niz
12/7/11 – Confirmed by FGMovement – 2 female soldiers injured by male katiba soldiers in Gergarish, #Tripoli. Infighting on the increase…

wheelertweets James Wheeler
Visited a tortured man from #Tripoli #Libya in a Tunis hospital today. Can’t show his face or disclose his name. #Gaddafi forces destroyed his house, car & shop, and emptied his bank account. But he still has family at risk in Tripoli. For now, an anonymous story.
When he describes his own torture, his eyes r closed & his voice is quiet. But when he speaks of the prison rapes by #Gaddafi thugs, he breaks into tears. 11 female med students were raped in the prison. And the guards raped any guys who were ‘pretty’
He witnessed the #Gaddafi thugs not only rape these 11 young women, but also cut off their breasts and murder them.
This occurred in #Tripoli’s notorious Abu Salim prison. He said they were divided into groups & tortured in stages…
At one point, electrocution. At another, burning. At another, hanging by their toes. At another, rape… #gaddafi #libya

FreeLibyanman FreeLibyan
#Isreal TV ch 2 talk about the visit of #Gaddafi envoys to #Levny. youtube.com/watch?v=TWBE4l…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWBE4lpL8_w&fea...

Niz_FGM Niz
70% shops closed, prices x5,uni empty,wages unpaid,banks turning people away,no fuel, mass arrests, checkpoints everywhere. #Tripoli normal?

Somaia
When we travel somewhere, we often prepare for that journey and we make sure we are ready for it. And if there’s one journey we know we’re going to take for sure, it’s the journey of death. So ask yourself, “What have I prepared for that journey? Am I ready for it if it comes today or tomorrow?”

LibyaInMe Libya In Me
Libyan and Egyptian flags flying over a quick stop in Libya flickr.com/photos/6161595… #Libya #Egypt

STForeign Sunday Times Foreign
Three @STForeign nominations at Prix Bayeux award for war correspondents @HalaJaber for dispatches from Libya & @MilesAmoore on Afghanistan
As well as video footage from the front line in Libya presented by Marie Colvin and shot by Paul Conroy (Prix Bayeux nominations)

LibyaInMe Libya In Me
Upon our arrival at the Libyan/Egyptian border flickr.com/photos/6161595… #Libya

VID.
CHILDREN OF LIBYA:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rho-6XlM8vw

libyans_revolt
Nowhere to hide col #Gaddaffy yfrog.com/kj55yqdj #Libya #Feb17

alchemist
#Gaddafi TV addressing FF & #NTC: Surrender, don’t be afraid, we won’t kill you. Just let us talk! #Libya #GaddafiCrimes

LIBYANVOICE
they said on libya fm yesterday that tonight peopple will witness shutting down of gadafi tv inshallah

FRANCE24
By David THOMSON (video)
FRANCE 24 (text)
Libyan rebels claw their way towards Tripoli
Rebel forces nestled in the Nafusa mountains have made the first significant advances in weeks against forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. FRANCE 24’s reporters followed in their tracks.

With the pro-Gaddafi resistance still strong, this remote region in the south-west of Libya is the only area where the rebellion is making any serious progress at the moment, FRANCE 24’s David Thompson reports.

VID and FULL ART.:

f24.my/o4fKdx
or:
www.france24.com/en/20110712-libya-rebe...=editorial&ns_source=FB&ns_mchannel=reseaux_sociaux&ns_fee=0&ns_linkname=20110712_libya_rebels_push_front_westwards_nafusa?ns_campaign=editorial&ns_source=twitter&ns_mchannel=reseaux_sociaux&ns_fee=0&ns_linkname=20110712_libya_rebels_push_front_westwards_nafusa

CBS BALTIMORE
Mother Works To Free Her Missing Son In Libya

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The uprising in Libya is at the center of a local mother’s search. Her son, a Baltimore journalist disappeared during the first weeks of the struggle. Mary Bubala reports she’s traveled to the other side of the globe and won’t give up until she brings him home.
Violent uprisings to overthrow Moamar Khadafi in Libya tore apart a Baltimore mother and her son, an independent journalist who’s now at the center of an international mystery.

The last time she heard her son’s voice was on March 12. He told her he was heading from Benghazi to Brega and they’d talk the next day. When she called him, she only got a recording.
“There was a recording in Arabic. We’re assuming it said the call couldn’t go through,” she said.
FULL STORY and VID.:
baltimore.cbslocal.com/2011/07/11/mothe...

JOURNALIST FR24
awtodd Tony Todd

At French National Assembly to cover parliamentary debate on continued military intervention in #Libya. #France24

#Libya debate constitutional rqrmnt in #France after 4 months military intervention. Continued intervention likely to be approved

Only Greens and Communists expecited to vote against continued intervention in #Libya debate, which begins 3pm gmt+2 #France

Ahead of #libya debate socialist M.P. Jean-Christophe Cambedelis: “Afghanistan was wrong (intervention)-Libya is right” #France24

Cambedelis adds: “After four months of bombing it’s time to see some results” #Libya #france24

Communist Party spokesman Roland Muzeau, voting against intervention, tells me: “Diplomacy is always preferable to war without end.”

P.M. Francis Fillon opens #Libya debate, reminds that #gaddafi promised ‘rivers of blood’ in rebel held Benghazi." #france24

Fillon says ‘since the start if the mission on march 19 the military situation constantly improving’ #Libya france24

Fillon: ‘Libya are gaining ground everywhere while Gaddafi is in constant retreat.’ #Libya #france24
Fillon:‘#gaddafi has his back to the wall.’ #Libya #france24

Philippine Folliot of new Centrists party says: ’Sarkozy’s quick action prevented a bloodbath in Benghazi.’ #Libya #france #france24

Folliot echoes Fillon’s support for #syria protests, condemns #assad response, in #libya debate. #france24

Folliot calls for assurances from govt. budget, equipment, special forces for #libya

Christian Jacob of ruling up party says rebels are taking the fight to #gaddafi

Christian Jacob: without france’s help, #gaddafi would have massacred his people. #libya #france24

Christian Jacob: #gaddafi must go. We are convinced of the justice of this intervention. #libya #france24

Bernard Cazeneuve, of the SRC grouping of left wing parties including Socialist Party, addresses #libya debate

Cazeneuve: time to withdraw our troops from #afghanistan ( #libya debate)

Cazeneuve: calls for a further debate on #libya intervention in September if still ongoing

Cazeneuve: we were the first to call for a no fly zone. #libya #france24

Cazeneuve: france needs to show greater political clarity re #libya

Cazeneuve: socialists support continued intervention in #libya under strict adherence to un resolution 1973

Jean-Jaques Candelier for the Greens and Communists addresses the debate #libya

Candelier: real reason for intervention was to get better terms for #libya oil.

Candelier: it is not too late to stop this military madness #libya debate #france24

Candelier calls for end of #libya bombardment, withdrawal of all nato forces and for a ceasefire to be negotiated

Defence Ministry spokesman Axel Poniatowski addresses debate on french interventionin #libya

Poniatowski: all gadaffi’s hopes of reconquering lost ground have been dashed #libya

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe tells #Libya debate there had been huge progress in four months military intervention

Juppe adds that progress in #Libya not just military, also diplomatic, pointing at number of countries recognising TNC as legitimate govt

Socialist lawmaker Henri Emmanuelli tells us he’s voting against: #gaddafi posed no international threat #libia debate

Emmanuelli says he supported inntervention in Iraq and Afgan as there was an international threat…

…but that France had no reason or right to violate #libya ‘s sovereignty, neither could it violate #syria’s sovereignty

French debate on continuing military intervention in #libya ends. Partie briefly explain voting intentions. Vote in next half hour.

Only Greens and Communists likely to vote against continued intervention in #Libya.

French national assebly votes to continue #Libya military intervention by 482 votes against 27 – senate to vote this evening 9.30pm gmt+2

IsaMadesclaire Isabelle Madesclaire
OK it’s voted assemblee-nationale.fr #Libye: l’Assemblée se prononce pr autoriser la prolongation de l’intervention des forces armées #Libya

French Parliament : 482 voices OK / 27 voices against op in Libya

FRANCE24 FRANCE 24
BREAKING #Libya : French Parliament approves prolongation of French military involvement f24.my/9Eh7e7 #gaddafi
Vid:
www.france24.com/en/livefeed

Doylebytes Mark Doyle
After 3 weeks of walking on #libya sand and rock my boots just absorbed an entire tin of #shoepolish

Daily Kos
Blog
Gilbert Achcar on the Libyan situation and the Left
The debate on the Libyan case is a legitimate and necessary one for those who share an anti-imperialist position, lest one believes that holding a principle spares us the need to analyze concretely each specific situation and determine our position in light of our factual assessment. Every general rule admits of exceptions. This includes the general rule that UN-authorized military interventions by imperialist powers are purely reactionary ones, and can never achieve a humanitarian or positive purpose. Just for the sake of argument: if we could turn back the wheel of history and go back to the period immediately preceding the Rwandan genocide, would we oppose an UN-authorized Western-led military intervention deployed in order to prevent it? Of course, many would say that the intervention by imperialist/foreign forces risks making a lot of victims. But can anyone in their right mind believe that Western powers would have massacred between half a million and a million human beings in 100 days?
If you want to read more, here’s the link:
www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/11/99354...

United4Libya LIBYAN
#Nilesat is above the law in #Egypt.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
I am neither Arab, Islam or Libyan but if NATO pulls out I will move to #Libya and join the Freedom fighters as will others

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Driving around in #Rixos minibus I see no sign at all that people of Tripoli are about to overthrow #Muammar Gaddafi.
too many to answer all of you but thanks for replies.. yes i only see what i’m shown and that is all i can describe to you. But..

is not happening here. just saying what i’m seeing

SecularLibya
Heinz: Most #NATO action last night were in Zawiya (helis & naval) & Gharyan. Some in Khums. NATO to work on North Tripoli. #Libya

Skeptical4 Skeptic
2 quote a frmer US President, well all have “misunderestimated” #Gaddafi, he prepared 41 yrs 4 the long haul survival fight, devil genius

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
I can go on forever. Dear NATO & #world, stop playing around with Libyan lives and get this damn thing over with by helping #FF #libya

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Regardless of @NATO, @UN or any nation, there can & will be NO peace w/ ANY Gaddafi or his regime leadership in power

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
One thing is certain, I for 1 will NOT stop fighting #Gaddafi, on here or on the ground & I WILL defy anyone, even my government to do so.

#NATO may continue bombing #Gaddafi targets during Ramadan #Libya #feb17

#Gaddafi CARGO SHIP “ALMARWA” now en route to dest. #Antalya #Turkey from #Tartus #Syria. #Libya #feb17

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Tarhuna: Several clashes in the city wih 2 Gaddafi forces killed in Hay AlAzaymia #Feb17#Libya

Beni Walid: Reports of FFs atacking a troop carrier on Intilaqa road with several of these troops killed and injured #feb17#libya

Misrata: Number of clashes on Eastern front today with one martyr. RIP #libya #feb17

inglesi Piers Scholfield
95-99% of patients in #Misrata hospitals are war casualties – everything else put on hold. Hospitals getting v short of capacity.

WASHINGTON POST
Libyan officials warn rebel-held east could be cut off from water supply without cease-fire

TRIPOLI, Libya — Adding muscle to their demands for a cease-fire, Libyan officials warned Tuesday that the rebel-controlled eastern half of the country could be cut off from water supplies without a truce to allow for maintenance work on a power plant pumping water up from the desert.
About 70 percent of the country relies on water brought up from underground aquifers deep in the southern desert, and the plant powering it in the east is falling apart, said the Libyan agricultural minister.

“Out of six turbines, we are using one turbine in the plant because of lack of maintenance,” said Abdel-Maguid al-Gaud, who is also head of the system known as the Great Man-made Water Project, which supplies water to both halves of the country. “It’s going to close itself.”
FULL ART. HERE
www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-eas...

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Kenya rebuffs pressure to isolate Gaddafi

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 8 – Kenya said on Friday that it would not bow to pressure from the international community to severe links with conflict-ridden Libya where Western-backed rebels are fighting to oust besieged leader Muammar Gaddafi.
“As regards the freezing of assets belonging to the Libyan government, this is a matter that requires expert advice for purposes of due diligence,” he said adding that “The matter has been submitted to the African Union Commission on International Law (AUCIL) for interpretation and guidance to avoid legal complications. Kenya will thereafter take the necessary measures on the basis of the recommendations that will be provided by the AUCIL.”
FULL ART.:
www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/Kenyanews/Keny...

Danya
Does anyone have updates about Dr. Ali Al Durrat ?? One of the many doctor’s who left his home and family in the states to help #LIBYA

Khiria
Journalists at the #Rixos need to realize that #Tripoli is not normal. Normal would be traffic jams till 2am & not over gas. #Libya #Feb17

Nusiba
The power turns off twice every day…a few hours in the morning and a few hours at night in order to save electricity. #Libya #Benghazi

EndTyranny
March 2010, #Sirte, #Gaddafi: "We can no longer hide or seek refuge behind our security apparatus,

because they have become futile in the face of popular uprising & resistance….#Libya #Feb17 Ibn
youtube.com/watch?v=PfEAT_… they should keep this vid for future #libyan children to teach them to never do drugs. #libya #feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfEAT_NnpyQ

hominoid
Libya French PM 40 aircraft, 6 aircraft support,8 ships and 18 attack helicopters involved, France is the largest contributor.

KC_Tripolitania KC
French PM in National Assembly on #Libya ‘We never said this intervention was going to be easy and that it would be over in a few days’

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Prisoners in Tripoli suffering from TB,Scabies,Torture, Malnutrition & even reports of Rape of females & males prisoners #libya #feb17

Zahrat
Insurance building #Misrata #Libya yfrog.com/kghgbhwj

Another view of insurance building #Misrata #Libya t.co/4nAhSZA

Back of the court building #Misrata #Libya t.co/vqkoa9J

Front of the Court building #Misrata #Libya t.co/D0RJSIq

Court building #Misrata #Libya t.co/gdE7OYF

Area for children to color and play in #Misrata #Libya t.co/NcCbqam

Graffiti cont’d #Misrata #Libya t.co/gHjmbSm

Graffiti cont’d #Misrata #Libya t.co/QKTVFVE

Shopping center in #Misrata #Libya t.co/OQOP0xk

libyanproud libyanandproud
We will not quit till #Gaddafi and his family are DEAD ! #Feb17

IamLibya
I want to spend Ramadan in Tripoli, Libya. Becuase of Gaddfi, that will not happen. bit.ly/qxG1Ov I miss you:(…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYMOR5ecenA&feature=player_embedded#at=10

ZahratTrablis Zahrat Trablis
banner in #Misrata thanking USA France Italy #Libya #Feb17 yfrog.com/kgxgvhwj

Wall of martyrs and missing in #Misrata #Libya t.co/3KVnv4H

Continued wall of martyrs and missing in #Misrata #Libya t.co/yAR1Hsm

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Malta CARGO SHIP “GASCOGNE” & #StKittsNevis CARGO SHIP “MAP K” both now anchored at #Misrata #Libya. #feb17

#Panama CARGO SHIP “MSC BROOKE” now anchored in port #AlKhums #Liya. #feb17

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
God I hope we free Tripoli asap if only for the sake of the prisoners in these horrific conditions #libya #feb17

They say you can tell how civilised a country is by how they treat their prisoners. If so, Gaddafi’s regime is truly barbaric

Understand negotiations for G exit to prevent more blood shed. but I feel Libya won’t be able to move on properly with out his trial.

libyanproud
How can the world expect us to negotiate with a person that caused death , kidnap, rape ,mutilation , displacement, trauma? #

Danya one of the thousands of prisoner’s in #TRIPOLI , I don’t know how he escaped but this is what the man said: “we are taken into a room
everyday and beaten …I don’t want to talk about what they did to us, but each cell is filled with at least 8 to 10 people ..
..when we want to sleep we sit squashed together or lean standing on someone’s shoulder…we get one small bowl of soup a day
.we are not let out and many of us are sick ..many people have died because of the condition there ..the prison is filled with teenagers
,old men & people my age..around 45 …if anyone wants to leave prison they can ..but they have 2 say we ♥ Gaddafi & what we did was wrong”
this is a first hand account from the person themselves …

Aisha
#Gaddafi ceasefire means #NATO stops bombing his tanks,ammo storages ..etc while his thugs continue to rape ,torture and murder .

Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
I just interviewed the son of a Libyan opposition figure who disappeared in Gaddafi’s jails.. Painful to just hear the story. #libya #feb17

LY_NeverForget Ms.Fairy
The other side realises that all of those men who have lost lives, limbs and loved ones, can’t give up b4 Gaddafi is dies #libya

Pro-Gaddafi forces feel the full strength of the Royal Navy

THIS is the moment HMS Liverpool let rip on Colonel Gaddafi’s forces, blasting a gunboat to smithereens off the coast of Libya.
The Portsmouth-based destroyer came within range of Gaddafi rockets to take on three gunboats near Zlitan harbour – 100 miles from the Libyan capital Tripoli.
Liverpool was alerted to the three boats by a US Navy patrol aircraft on Friday and went in eight miles from the coast to investigate.
‘We don’t know what they were up to,’ Liverpool’s captain, Commander Colin Williams told The News yesterday.
‘But we do know they were manned by pro-Gaddafi forces and may have posed a threat to the Libyan people.’

THIS is the moment HMS Liverpool let rip on Colonel Gaddafi’s forces, blasting a gunboat to smithereens off the coast of Libya.
The Portsmouth-based destroyer came within range of Gaddafi rockets to take on three gunboats near Zlitan harbour – 100 miles from the Libyan capital Tripoli.
Liverpool was alerted to the three boats by a US Navy patrol aircraft on Friday and went in eight miles from the coast to investigate.
The boats have been used by Gaddafi to transport weapons and lay mines. But there could have been an ulterior motive on Friday, Cdr Williams said.
‘There was the worry that we were actually the target,’ he admitted. ‘It was possible they were trying to tempt us closer into the coast into a killing field.
‘The closer we get to the shore the higher the danger is we may come under fire. But we do take extreme caution before we go into something like this.’
In position eight miles out to sea, Liverpool sent radio warnings in an attempt to scare the boats away.
But when no response came, she opened fire with the big gun, raining down shells at twice the speed of sound.
‘Two of the vessels took heed of the warning shots,’ said Cdr Williams who was in the operations room at the time.
‘But the third vessel beached itself and the crew ran off on to the beach.’
Satisfied there was no-one left in the boat, Cdr Williams was instructed to destroy the vessel.
‘There wasn’t a great deal left of it once we’d finished,’ he said.
It’s the second time in a fortnight that Liverpool has forced Gaddafi’s forces back to port by firing her main gun.
It comes after repeated attempts by Gaddafi forces to sortie along the coast from Zlitan to the rebel-held city of Misrata 40 miles to the east.
The Type 42 destroyer left Portsmouth Naval Base at the end of March to relieve the Type 22 frigate HMS Cumberland and has been on a war footing since April 8.
Read more and source:
www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/local/east-ha...

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Bolivia CARGO SHIP “NASEM” w/ listed destination of #Sousse #Tunisia now arriving in #Tripoli #Libya. Again @NATO not doing its job. #feb17

LibyaOneLove
They cut off water and electricity in #Waddan . My mom said they have other means, inshallah #FreeLibya

AP
NATO suggests a Ramadan cease-fire in Libya
By SLOBODAN LEKIC, Associated Press –
BRUSSELS – NATO suggested Tuesday that it would be willing to stop bombing Libya during Ramadan, if Moammar Gadhafi’s forces also honored a cease-fire during the Muslim holy month.
“We need to wait and see whether Gadhafi’s forces continue to shell and inflict harm,” said a NATO spokesman, Wing Cmdr. Mike Bracken.
“If they do, and we believe there is risk to the lives of Libyan people, then I think it would be highly appropriate to continue to use the mandate that NATO has to protect those lives,” Bracken said during a teleconference from NATO’s operational command in Naples, Italy.
NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said, “It is hoped that Gadhafi’s forces will stop attacking and threatening to attack civilians, not just for Ramadan but immediately. As long as attacks and threats continue, NATO’s mission remains to protect civilians in Libya.”
Read report here:
old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110712/ap_on_...

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Barbados CARGO SHIP “TASMAN START” 34.74˚/25.68227˚ from #Istanbul #Turkey to dest #Tripoli #Libya Speed/Course: 16.4 kn/261˚ @NATO

2011feb17
Thank you Qatar, UAE, France, USA, UK, Italy, and many others for saving my life. Signed: Libyan citizen living in Tripoli #feb17 #Libya

libyanproud
#Gaddafi and clan are responsible for the death and imprisonment of several of my personal friends . #Feb17 #Libya negotiate my ass !

What the world doesn’t understand is we know gaddafi and clan better than anyone . They say one thing and do the opposite !

FromJoanne Joanne
#Misrata = Cashless & In Ruins Ppl live off charity & humanitarianAid Hospitals overtaxed & Overwhelmed Over 70 casualties a day #Libya

Switzerland to strengthen its presence in Benghazi
Bern, 11.07.2011 – Switzerland strengthens its presence in Benghazi, and sends a diplomat to the East Libyan city for the purpose of opening a liaison office. This will be in addition to the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit programme office which has already been up and running for the last four months.
In mid-March 2011, Switzerland became one of the first countries to open a Humanitarian Aid programme office in Benghazi, and to make a contribution to alleviating the suffering being experienced by the people of Libya. Switzerland will continue with this humanitarian commitment.
By sending a special envoy to Benghazi, Switzerland is signaling its intent to strengthen its presence there, and to intensify its political relations with the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC). The Special Envoy is entrusted with the task of safeguarding Switzerland’s interests in Benghazi, promoting and intensifying contact with the NTC, and with opening a liaison office. This will be situated in the premises of the Humanitarian Aid programme office.
Until such time as a legally elected government is in place, the NTC is the sole legitimate partner for contact between Switzerland and Libya. So far the Federal President Micheline Calmy-Rey, Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, has met with representatives of the NTC for discussions in Bern and Tunis. For security reasons the Swiss Embassy in Tripoli has been closed since 27 February 2011.

SOURCE:
www.news.admin.ch/message/index.html?la...

inglesi Piers Scholfield
and this might sound flip but walking around the city of #Misrata I feel a lot safer than in #Guatemala City or San Salvador.

2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Yifrin heroes sing a song of freedom after liberating their city. You can hear NATO jets flying over head: youtube.com/watch?v=cXttoG… #feb17 #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXttoGSewIs

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
We’ve been struggling for 5 months & we feel its been too long. Palestinians been struggling for more than 60 years #FreePalestine

NATO
Visit to NATO of the Head of the Executive Body of the Transitional National Council of Libya (TNC), Dr. Mahmoud Jibril
Press Release (2011) 085
Issued on 12 Jul. 2011
The Head of the Executive Body of the TNC, Dr Mahmoud Jibril will visit NATO Headquarters on Wednesday 13 July 2011 and meet with the Secretary General, Mr. Anders Fogh Rasmussen. He will also be addressing an informal meeting of the NATO Council and contributing partners to operation Unified Protector.
There will be no media opportunity. Video images and still photographs of the event will be available on the NATO website after the event.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “KURUOGLU 3” 34.16173˚/14.54876˚ #Istanbul #Turkey to dest. #Tripoli #Libya Speed/Course: 11.1 kn/251˚ #feb17 @NATO

BBC
Italy is rocky shore for Europe’s boat people

LAMPEDUSA, Italy: The half moon hung low in the Mediterranean sky. It was a calm, clear night for the crossing from Tripoli to Lampedusa.
The boat was more like a barge, without cover, not even for the wheelhouse or engine room.
The Africans were quiet, patient, packed in, absorbed in their escape, their knees drawn up in the confined space as they had been for 30 hours at sea.
On board were 299 men and 14 women. Although they did not know it they were on the fifth boat to arrive in Lampedusa in 24 hours – part of a continuing exodus from war-ravaged Libya.
Only snippets of conversation were possible with the migrants. The Italians whisked them away. They wanted them out of sight. The “clandestini” have become ghosts, to be shuttled between reception centres that are now off-limits to the media.
Read on here:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14103752

LIBYA_WIN
There can be no mercy shown to those who still openly support and dance for #Gaddafi at this point they are just as responsible as brigades!

NATO
Press briefing on Libya
by the NATO Spokesperson and by the Military Spokesperson of Operation Unified Protector
On 12 July, Oana Lungescu, the NATO Spokesperson, briefed the press on events concerning Libya. She was joined by Wing Commander Mike Bracken, Operation Unified Protector military spokesperson, who briefed by videoconference from Naples on NATO’s operation in Libya in support of UNSCR 1973.
Vid:
www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/news_76352...

Yefrenia ’ The news anchor at the time joked that like it or not, Israel would be obligated by its own laws to provide Gaddafi with asylum’ ..lol

cjchivers C.J. Chivers
NATO airstrikes audible east of Qawalish, Libya today. Aircraft overhead. Three large explosions midday.

inglesi Piers Scholfield
#TNC head to visit #NATO Wednesday

IamLibya
Just received horrific news about my two cousins who have been missing in tripoli for 5 weeks now
just a little insight of what #gaddaficrimes has done to my family, and the rest of the Libyan nation

ThisIsHumanity
Like many other Westerners I read your post, felt my heart sink 2 my stomach & started 2 tear. So sorry 4 your losses 2 Evil.

Regine
i am really sorry to hear about your cousins. May Allah / God bless them and your family.

IamLibya
I can’t even imagine my aunt & grandmother’s reactions when they hear that her sons and grandsons have been tortured to death #gaddaficrimes

LibyanDuda Libyan Duda
Great picture compilation of Feb17 — ليبيا صمود3 youtube.com/watch?v=rYfQoh… via @youtube #Libya #Feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYfQohY__to&fea...

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey is NOT sending humanitarian aid to #Tripoli as ALL food goes to #Gaddafi forces. Store shelfs reported EMPTY! #Libya

Arabs: 90% say Qaddafi illegitimate, 75% Want him Forcibly Removed
I received this press release from the Doha Debates (a member of the Qatar Foundation) by email. The results vis-a-vis Libya are not surprising, since Qaddafi is widely hated in the Arab world and everyone watched in horror as he had tank salvos and cluster bombs fired at non-combatants. But that last bit about being willing to consider a NATO intervention in Syria is astonishing. The poll is based on 1,000 respondents from 16 Arab states; it is not scientific because respondents replied to a call to fill out the form, which means that the sample is skewed to those who felt strongly enough to do volunteer to do so.
“HUGE MAJORITY OF ARABS WANT GADDAFI REMOVED FROM POWER
Full art. and source:
www.juancole.com/2011/05/arabs-90-say-q...

libyanproud
Mobile phones will start working in #nafusa within 48 hrs, connected to bengo and FREE !

Thank You Canada and France and all other countries that voted to extend their mission to protect Libyans asking for freedom #Feb17 #Libya

brunehel Hélène Brunel
“Arab Spring is a new step of history” writes Frédéric Lenoir in “Islam in Arab Spring” 1/6

“Aspiration for freedom of consciousness & democracy is gaining the whole planet & each ppl want 2 choose its gvnants while being his freedom of expression & of real consciousness guaranteed” Frédéric Lenoir in “Islam in Arab Spring” 2/6

“After the arab world, this democratic spirit will likely spread to the asiatic dictatures, even if it takes decades”, F. Lenoir in “Islam in Arab Spring” 3/6

“It doesn’t mean Islam will disappear (…) Islam imbues all societies & has a strong cultural & social part, giving to ppl an identity & an history that differentiate them from the West” Frédéric Lenoir in “Islam in Arab Spring” 4/6

“But no more political party, islamist or not, will be able to impose a dictature” Frédéric Lenoir in “Islam in Arab Spring” 5/6

“Islamists will play the democratic game bcuz they know that if they don’t, they may be swept out by another revo” Frédéric Lenoir in “Islam in Arab Spring” 6/6

Hello, libyan woman ! : ) I wish u a happy future in Libya !

PM joke : “Libya had not to be the winter of the arab spring” said PM Fillon after french Parliament agreed 4 op in Libya (France Inter)

France gets ready to leave Afghanistan while continuing op in Libya & encouraging UN 2 take reso of sec council abt Syria.

Libya, Rafale to operate from Sigonella Air Base

Air&Cosmos reveals that 5 Rafale (4 B and 1 C) has been transfered, last weekend, from the Solenzara Air Base (Corsica, France) to Sigonella Air Base (Sicilia, Italy).
The Italian AB is at about 550 km from Tripoli compared to 1080 km for Solenzara. This should save about 1 hour of transit for each sortie.
According to Air&Cosmos those Rafale will mainly conduct Recce missions. Data receiving stations dedicated to the Reco-NG pod have also been installed at Sigonella.
Source:
rafalenews.blogspot.com/2011/07/libya-r...

So french Parliament & Senate allow the gvt to use military forces in Libya for a unlimited time, as Constitution makes it possible.
L’Assemblée vote la poursuite des opérations en Libye
L’Assemblée nationale a voté, mardi 12 juillet, la prolongation de la participation française à l’opération militaire sous commandement de l’OTAN en Libye, la majorité UMP et les députés socialistes s’étant prononcés en faveur de la poursuite des opérations.
Full art. Here:
www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2011/07/...

dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi is keep lying about wanting to talk & leave power. After what he did ppl expect us 2 talk 2 a criminal. Criminals need 2 be jailed
We WILL NOT accept any deal does not include the departure of the Mad dog & his vicious puppies.

NTC: We will not accept an deals dont include the departure of Gaddafi, sons & his regime from Libya.
NTC: We will not be forced into any deals dont include our demands. We support the peaceful solution.

wheelertweets James Wheeler
Recent inmate at Abu Salim prison: If we asked for water, they would urinate on us and say, ‘Here is your water. This is your vodka.’

Niz_FGM Niz
12/7/11 -Rumours we have been arrested in #Tripoli are false & very far from reality.We’re currently very very secure & we continue our work

Terri
good to hear you are safe. prayers of peace and protection for you all.

Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
by ChangeInLibya
Rumour Gadhafi is willing 2 go 2 S Africa but his sons remain! Read our lips G and all sons r one package they r all criminals and must go!!

libyanproud
Negotiate with #Gaddafi ? Negotiate with the person who did this to Benghazi Men? GRAPHIC twitpic.com/5p5bt6 #

4Adam Adam
NTC’s spox Abdul Hafiz Ghoga on Gaddafi departure Arabic youtube.com/watch?v=TmJn-o… #Libya #Feb17 #NTC
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmJn-oXxP9A&fea...

m_madi
greetings all, back in zintan after spending the morning in yifrin. not much to report, accompanied my dad and some other doctors
They’re working on setting up another field hospital to treat those injured in battles, for details of the last one see my last blog post

LibyanLion
I’m expecting a great increase of @NATO activity in the coming days. It’s in their interest to finish before Ramadan
portia_walker Portia Walker
Can anyone tell me if mobile phones are up and running again in #Misurata ? #Misrata

EndTyranny
#Gaddafi’s support from outside #Libya comes from communists & national socialist fascists..

libyanproud libyanandproud
Negotiate with #Gaddafi ? The person that bulldozes #Zawiya mosques ? Lets negotiate inside the Mosque ! youtu.be/-wEPHkSZIOc #Feb17 #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wEPHkSZIOc&fea...

LibyanLion
G & his family must all unquestionably be held accountable. Don’t worry Saadi, there’s a safari reserved for you in hell :) #Libya #Feb17

libyanproud l
Negotiate with #Gaddafi ? Negotiate with the person that Shelled our Places of Worship in #Zawiya ? youtu.be/lFPMy1ksYwU #Feb17 #Libya

LibyanLion
AMAZING VID: youtube.com/watch?v=gnTPh6… – FFs fighting for Sooq alThalath in #Zliten. LIONSSSSSSSS. #Libya #Feb17

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnTPh69UaVU&fea...

libyanproud
Negotiate with #Gaddadi ? Negotiate with person that this to #Tripoli protesters? youtu.be/iP-XKBsVQD8 #Feb17 #Libya
www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DiP-XKBsVQD8%26feature%3Dyoutu.be

LibyanDuda
Civil society is flourishing Museum/library/women’s groups/language centre all being set up in #Yefren #Libya #feb17

Zahrat
To call #Misrata land lines it is now +21895x This will not work on mobile phones #Libya Thx to all the people who helped get the lines up!

Sarah
Zliten:Sun night-exchange of gunfire btwn city’s FF&GF at Zliten bridge(nr city centre)

libyanproud libyanandproud
Negotiate With #Gaddafi ? Why don’t we negotiate with these children of #Misrata ? Oh wait they can’t ! youtu.be/_ry_JcIAB3E #Feb17 #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ry_JcIAB3E&fea...

Carol
I’ve heard G has a huge bunker complex in Sabha, almost as big as the one in Tripoli.

Aisha
Ironic Enough, Al Jamahiryah Tv of Gaddafi Airs one of the Rebels songs as one of theirs #Gaddafi #Libya”

NATO: We will not stop our mission during the month of Ramadan unless Gaddafi complies with UNSC resolution.

Iyad
Ghadamis very quiet and total Gaddafi control. Sabha same.

libyansrevolt Libyans Revolt
Thanks to all those that asked. Hopsitality and courage of amazigh in Yefren is beyond comprehension

Helping out with set up of the hospital and field hospitals near the front line. Seems to be quiet before the storm now

Front line is now just past Gawaleesh – there is one more town between that and #Gharyan which is v.strategic

Have also met some of G soldiers that were in hospital and talked to them – most of them born after 1990

One that I talked to lives 40km from nearest paved rd, shepherds goats and can’t read/write – was asking for his mum

The revolutionaries treat them with full respect, performed lifesaving ops and then contact their families to come pick them up

Yesterday also saw in the distance near #kikla the impact of 3 or 4 @NATO bombs – could see the red explosion on horizon

If anyone wanted evidence of the true story, I guarantee they’ll be totally safe if they came to Nafusa – the ppl here so organised

libyans_revolt
“#Gaddafi must go. There is no place for him in a new Libya. The rest is the subject of discussions,” #Russian FM

Tripolitano
al Qaeda for external audience and Christianity for internal. They r firing in all directions.

That way g keeps everybody confused and scared, remember: divide and conquer was the way he ruled…………

LIBYANVOICE
gadafi turns 2political solution now cause he felt his loosing d battle on d ground just continue 2put military pressure on him he will go!

SmithInAfrica David Smith
Checkpoints in Nafusa mountains improvised from plastic bin, car seat, tyre, gas canister, dining chair. Sign says: “Welcome to Freedoom.”

Ghost towns with shattered windows, abandoned mosques, buildings blackened by fire, cars blown upside down and tanks destroyed.

Rebels in Libya’s Nafusa mountains have set up ‘media centres’. The one in Kikla has a doormat with Gaddafi’s face that’s getting dusty.

Went to rebel frontline at Qawalish. Eight young men – some 21 – in a mix of t-shirts and military fatigues, under rocket fire every night.

Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Seif G says NTC will convert libyans to christianity! With secular constitution What hapened 2 NTC is Alqaeda setting up islamic emirates?!

ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
FLASH: #France Air Force Mirage Dassault 2000 fighter jets make (another) emergency landing in #Malta

FLASH 2: ‘Parachutes have been deployed’ in #France Air Force emergency landing in #Malta

FLASH 3: Parachutes deployed in #France AF Mirage 2000 fighter jets after refuelling probe breaks in mid-air over Med in #Libya ops

#France AF Mirage 2000 jets emergency landing followed mid-air refuelling incident and another jet’s tyre burst on landing in #Malta

#France Mirage 200 jets to ‘overnight’ fully armed in #Malta

Fatm
My little cousin was trying to open a bottle of pills so i explained to her that its childproof. She replied “How does it know it’s me?”

LibyanLion
Contact Group to be held in #Istanbul to discuss #Libya and chances of a political solution. Will also consider AU roadmap.

Libyan PM says Tripoli is ready for unconditional talks – Le Figaro Politics 7/12/2011

PARIS, July 12 (KUNA) — More than five months into the Libyan conflict, with the loss of thousands of lives, Tripoli is now ready for unconditional negotiations to end the crisis, Prime Minister Al-Bagdadi Ali Al-Mahmudi said in an interview here Tuesday.
As opposition forces painfully fight their way to the Libyan capital, and NATO operations appear to be marking time, Al-Mahmudi asserted that his government would open talks but wants NATO bombings halted first.
“We are ready to negotiate, without conditions,” the Prime Minister told French daily “Le Figaro.” “We just want the bombings to stop and that we can talk in a serene climate. We cannot dialogue under bombs,” he added.
Al-Mahmudi claimed that Tripoli “has nothing” faced with the opposition rebels who have military, financial and supply support from the international community.
“But we are saying: we are ready to talk,” he stressed.
The Prime Minister said that over 70 percent of Libyan military capacity had been destroyed, as claimed by NATO.
“We have no planes, no navy, no anti-aircraft. Most of our tanks and our army are out of the fight. We have no rifles. Today we are the most weak,” he claimed.Read full story:
www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/...

NTC minister opens Western Mountains air link
A senior minister in the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) opened an airfield today linking the revolutionary capital Benghazi with a remote Western Mountain stronghold south of Tripoli, and promised a military breakthrough within days.
Ali Tarhouni, oil and finance minister in the council opposing Muammar Gaddafi, arrived and departed by air at the Rhebat air strip, a stretch of mountain highway, where a giant yellow arrow painted on the tarmac marks out the runway, next to a blue and white shack flying the revolutionary flag.
He told Reuters he was bringing aid to the mountains, a region where the revolutionaries have made significant military gains in the last few weeks against Gaddafi’s forces and are preparing for another major advance.
“I am hoping you will hear very good news in the next 24-48 hours on all fronts, economic, military, all fronts.”
Asked later to clarify, he said he said he was expecting a “military breakthrough” that would see Gaddafi driven from power by the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which begins in about two weeks.
Tarhouni landed at the airstrip in a jet with the words “Air Libya” painted on the side. According to its Internet site, Air Libya is a small private airline based in Benghazi.
The air strip could play a big role in resupplying the mountains. The area was once seen as a minor front in the five-month-old revolution to topple Gaddafi, but is increasingly a strategic battlefield as the revolutionary fighters press eastward from the Tunisian border towards the southern outskirts of the capital.
“The importance of this airport is bringing humanitarian aid and military supplies for our rebel brothers… in the Nafusa Mountains,” said Mohammed al-Bujdidi, the revolutionary forces commander in the airport’s vicinity. He was using the term many local people use to describe the region.
He said it was the third time the landing strip had been used, although it was the first time it has been publicly acknowledged.
Revolutionaries in the mountains seized the village of Al-Qawalish from Gaddafi’s forces last week and are pushing towards the town of Garyan which controls the main highway leading north to the capital.
The previous week, the mountain fighters drove Gaddafi’s troops back to the village of Bir al-Ghanam on another road southeast of Tripoli.
The advances mean large parts of the mountain area are now outside the range of Gaddafi forces’ artillery, allowing some degree of ordinary life to return to the region, though food and fuel are scarce.
“You go around to a lot of these small villages and you see that there is hardly anything to eat,” said Tarhouni.
He repeated calls from the NTC for Western countries to send economic aid, including frozen Gaddafi funds, which he said had been repeatedly promised at international conferences but not yet made available.
“The problem is, I don’t have any assistance. We’ve got a lot of promises. That’s what we have.”
In addition to their advances in the mountains, revolutionary forces are also pushing towards Tripoli along the coast road from their stronghold in the port of Misrata.
They have the assistance of NATO forces, which have been bombing Gaddafi targets since March but have yet to deliver a decisive blow.
Gaddafi has described the revolutionaries as terrorists and criminals, and says the Western military intervention is a colonialist scheme to steal Libya’s oil.
SOURCE:
Short URL: english.libya.tv/?p=7370

libyanproud
Negotiate with #Gaddafi ? Let this Mother of two sons killed in #Abusleem negotiate for us ! youtu.be/wuYTKXUJ8z4 #Feb17 #Libya

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuYTKXUJ8z4&fea...

Iyad
My hand hurts from all the mouse-handling last night with the #Libya maps. Boy do I need a new mouse.

libyanproud
Negotiate With #Gaddafi ? Let Gaddafi negotiate with this Mother in #Nalut ! youtu.be/5Euu4vEzAd4 #Feb17 #Libya

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Euu4vEzAd4&fea...

Libya and the Problem with The Hague
By George Friedman
The war in Libya has been under way for months, without any indication of when it might end. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s faction has been stronger and more cohesive than imagined and his enemies weaker and more divided. This is not unusual. There is frequently a perception that dictators are widely hated and that their power will collapse when challenged. That is certainly true at times, but often the power of a dictator is rooted in the broad support of an ideological faction, an ethnic group or simply those who benefit from the regime. As a result, naive assumptions of rapid regime change are quite often replaced by the reality of protracted conflict.
Full story:
www.stratfor.com/weekly/20110711-libya-...

walid
#Misrata landline phones are accesible now instead +218-5-NUMBER now its +218-95-NUMBER #Libya #prayforlibya

awtodd
French DM Longuet says the allies have “neutralised” all of #Libya ’s air and naval forces, and 2/3 of Libyan ground capability

ChangeInLibya
Gaddafi channels still up and running on Nilesat

Mmadi
If you’re in the paint business, Libya is the place to be right now. On every possible surface (and also some very improbable ones) the symbols, colours and slogans of the revolution can be seen. Here in Jabal Nafusa, the uprising has changed the streetscape completely.
Most of the artwork consists of revolutionary slogans like “The blood of the martyrs will not go in vain” and “down with Gaddafi”. The popular “The people want to topple the regime” is also everywhere, a reminder of the links between this uprising and the ones in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen which used the same slogan. Even animals have been caught up in the fervour. Driving past Jadu we saw a donkey with “Mu’ammar” daubed on it in white paint and a green scarf tied around its head. “Tomorrow we’ll put a wig on him and turn him into a real Bushafshoofa” one of the boys told me with a grin (you can find the picture on my flickr page)
Anti-regime graffiti is nothing new in Libya and can be found even in Tripoli, but in Jabal Nafusa the artwork also draws on the culture and language of the Amazigh people. The most striking example I’ve seen is the transformation of the “Mataba”, or regime headquarters, in Yifrin into a museum and cultural centre. A team of volunteer painters and artists are working flat out to transform the Mataba in time for a ceremony marking 5 months since the start of the revolution. The rooms of the mataba, which is burnt out and has a gaping hole in the wall, are being turned into exhibitions. One room is dedicated to Gaddafi’s crimes against the Libyan people, another room is full of children’s drawings, while another showcases the munitions and weapons found in the town after the army withdrew. Along one wall, the old Libyan national anthem is written in Arabic and Amazigh.
Revolutionaries are not the only ones doing the painting, however. In towns like Yifrin, and Zintan, which were occupied by Gaddafi’s troops for more than a month, you can still find pro-Gaddafi graffiti and artwork if you look closely. Slogans like “Long live the Al-Fatah revolution” and “Forward, forward” can be found scrawled on houses and shops. In Yifrin hospital, someone has scratched “Allah, Moammer and Libya only” on a windowsill in English, only for someone else to come and scratch out the word Moammer. The scene is repeated across towns in Jabal Nafusa, where pro-regime graffiti has been hastily daubed over in white paint. In other places, teams of volunteers are repaiting green doors, railings and walls. People rarely miss an opportunity to tear down the inane catchphrases of Gaddafi’s Libya that adorn most public buildings here, like “No democracy without popular committees”. People have been seeing these for years and yet only know can they freely show what they think of them.
The battle fought with paintbrushes and spraycans runs in parallel to the one using heavy munitions and missiles. For everyone here, however, it’s a war that won’t be won until the independence flag plasters the streets of Tripoli as it does the streets of Jadu.

The Telegraph
Libya’s rebels prepare for critical battle on road to Tripoli
Libya’s rebels say they are poised to launch an imminent attack on a strategic garrison town near Tripoli whose fall could turn the tide in their campaign against Muammar Gaddafi.

After months of stalemate, opposition fighters have begun to make slow but steady gains in the Jebel Nafusa, a sand-swept mountain range in Libya’s west that is increasingly seen as the most promising of the rebels’ three principal battlefields.
The prize now lying in front of them is Garyan, a heavily fortified town whose capture would bring the rebels within 50 miles of the capital city and hand the opposition control of the main southern road leading from the capital.
The planned assault to liberate the Nafusa’s biggest town represents the most ambitious offensive since the rebels finally captured Libya’s third city of Misurata at the end of May.
Senior rebel commanders said they believed an attack could come “within days”.
Full report:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...

LibyaLiberty Now Beard Free
NATO suggests a Ramadan cease-fire in Libya.

Guess who won’t be fasting.Or cease-firing…..

4Adam Adam
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports from Benghazi – Libya volunteers help fighters on frontlines youtube.com/watch?v=XrUKtH… #Libya #Feb17 #Benghazi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrUKtHV5r3Y&fea...

CNN
Libya Military Falling Apart?
Libyan prisoners of war say their former army is disintegrating. CNN’s Ben Wedeman reports
VIDEO:
www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/...

Hoda
After a wonderful 18 hours sail, HELLO MISRATA

dovenews Libyan™
BREAKING! Gaddafi’s envoy discussed the possibility that #Gaddafi could leave to #Israel. OMG

BREAKING! Gaddafi’s envoy discussed a possible arrangement that #Gaddafi could leave to #Israel. OMG UPDATED

The Guardian

Libyan rebels make gains against Gaddafi forces in western mountains
A flattened lamp-post, two neat rows of bullets and a no-left-turn sign lying on the tarmac road mark the frontline in Libya’s western mountains.
Nearby are seven young men, leaning against a battle-scarred building they say was once a guardhouse for Italian soldiers during the second world war. Another sits on a rock, gazing into the desert of no man’s land in search of Muammar Gaddafi’s forces, said to be little more than a mile away.
The advance in the Nafusa mountains has raised hopes of a significant breakthrough for rebels striving to reach Tripoli and topple Gaddafi. Whereas the battlefields in eastern Libya have reached a virtual stalemate, rebel soldiers have seized 25 miles of this arid, hot, rocky terrain in recent weeks, putting government troops on the defensive.
But it is a hard campaign, an attritional struggle unlikely to meet Nato’s timetable for an end to the war, especially with a further slowdown expected for Ramadan next month. The rebels are forced to consolidate their incrementalgains before they can think about moving forward.
The young men guarding the frontline post at Qawalish said Gaddafi’s troops tried to retake it two days ago and subject them to a nightly bombardment of Grad rockets, peaking from 11.30pm to 4am.

FULL ART.:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/12/li...

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Rare Footage from fighting on Brega front from 9 July showing FFs youtu.be/lEV6rhzKNww #libya #Feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEV6rhzKNww&fea...

LIBTRIP LIBYA TRIPOLI
A #Libyan lives in #Canada joins freedom fighters in Western Mountains in #Libya- سياف مقاتل ليبي قادم من كندا youtube.com/watch?v=Xcy7TM…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcy7TM0odWk&fea...

SecularLibya
Heinz (7/11): #NATO blew up checkpoints and Daffi installations in #Zawia. FFs are fighting in Zawia.

SecularLibya
Heinz: Daffi has lost communicaiton with Brega and Gharyan fronts. Libyan gov. sat phones were all disabled in April.

Back off to Yifrin now, may not tweet for a couple of days.

MisrataPatriots PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
Misrata child asking Gaddafi to leave طفل من مصراته يوجه رساله للقذافي youtu.be/X28393hOHoQ #Libya #Feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X28393hOHoQ&fea...

m_madi
Mountain meeja – Here in the middle of an armed uprising, it’s not the lack of power or water that people… tumblr.com/xxw3gr8ycj

Surreal moment in Yifrin last night – drinking tea and watching NATO airstrikes in the direction of Gwaleesh, 4 explosions followed by booms

Hajoor_
tres bien! J’espere gaddafi serra mort inshallah..

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
On #Jul17 Gaddafi and co will be very nervous : )

NotLibyaStateTV
Some are suggesting that Gaddafi will leave power but not #Libya. Don’t they know that he gave up all power in the 80s? Mission accomplished

der_bluthund
I heard that Hala Misurati is quite the dominatrix. I almost feel sorry for the poor sap who is marrying her

LibyaLiberty Now Beard Free
Libyan gov envoys:Gadhafi ‘prepared to leave’
I’m ‘prepared to diet’ but haven’t seen any results in that department either. RT@bnnNEWSLIVE

Human rights investigations

Peace is the only option

Dr Mahmoud Jibril and Mr Anders Fogh Rasmussen meet tomorrow. Given the atrocities committed in Misrata and Benghazi the option of allowing the rebels to conquer pro-Gaddafi population centres is inconceivable – there is now only one option – and that option is peace.
NATO press release:
The Head of the Executive Body of the TNC, Dr Mahmoud Jibril will visit NATO Headquarters on Wednesday 13 July 2011 and meet with the Secretary General, Mr. Anders Fogh Rasmussen. He will also be addressing an informal meeting of the NATO Council and contributing partners to operation Unified Protector.
Abdul Elah al-Khatib, U.N. special envoy for Libya has said:
“I’m urging the parties to increase their focus on working towards a political solution. We would like to see indirect negotiations evolve into direct ones. Enough Libyans have lost their lives. It should be clear that any lasting end to the conflict will require a political solution, and this solution must fulfill the Libyan people’s legitimate aspirations for a peaceful and democratic future. Fighting to the bitter end will only lead to more unnecessary suffering.”
Source:
humanrightsinvestigations.org/2011/07/1...

LibyaLiberty Now Beard Free
2 stun guns found in passenger luggage at airport
Guess Hala Misrati took them on her honeymoon.The groom’s been difficult.

LibyaLiberty Now Beard Free
#HalaMisratisBridalRegistry specifically forbid anyone from buying any gifts w/watermelon designs-because they’re green,red,and black.

Lisa
Unfortunately, for Libyans to let guard down even for 1 day of Ramadan is what #Gadaffi is counting on!

4Adam Adam
Bill Neely from Gharyan – Gadhafi recruits his last loyalists but not nearly ready to hold FF advance youtube.com/watch?v=0bT1M0… #Libya #Nafusa
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bT1M0pmPx4&fea...

dovenews Libyan™
Libya.tv is the source for my last tweet about it does say its a special source to them.

BREAKING! #Holland, #Belgium & #Luxembourg expected to recognize the Libyan NTC tomorrow. #NTC #Libya

NATO to bomb Libya in Ramadan if Gaddafi poses threat
Jul 12 (Reuters) – * NATO calls for Libyan forces to end attacks immediately

• Alliance looks for “realistic and pragmatic” ideas
  By David Brunnstrom
  BRUSSELS, July 12 (Reuters) – NATO said on Tuesday it would keep bombing Libya even in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan if Muammar Gaddafi’s forces continued to threaten civilians, but it wanted a pragmatic solution to the war as soon as possible.
  Full art.:
  af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLD...

bentbenghazi
BREAKING! Gaddafi’s envoy discussed a possible arrangement that #Gaddafi could leave to #Israel.via libya alahrar

ibn
in most places in the nafoussa mtns there IS power, and there’s a crew working on a new comm system as we speak!

U.S. sees “contradictory” messages on Gaddafi future

(Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday expressed doubts about contacts between emissaries for Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi and NATO members, saying the messages being received were contradictory and unclear.
State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said the United States was aware that “a lot of folks” claiming to speak for Gaddafi were in touch with various western countries.
Nuland said the “messages are contradictory” and there is no clear communication that “Gaddafi is prepared to understand that it’s time for him to go.”
Full story:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/12/us-l...

walid
#Zintan telecom is connected to #Benghazi & #Misrata now #Libya #prayforlibya

Thanku4theAnger
SABHA HAS NOT USED FORCE YET GADDAFI

Libyan opposition says to form interim gov’t after Gaddafi’s fall
BENGHAZI, Libya, July 10 (Xinhua) — Libya’s opposition National Transitional Council (NTC) will establish an interim government within one month after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime, a NTC spokesman said Sunday.
NTC spokesman Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, who emphasized the opposition’s readiness for the post-Gaddafi era, said the NTC will also form a specific organization to work out a draft constitution in three months.
After the draft is issued, the whole country will be divided into a certain number of electorates, and a parliamentary election will be held, he said, adding a presidential election will be conducted afterwards.
The spokesman said all those tasks will be finished within 15 months after Gaddafi’s fall, and the NTC will end its mission after the presidential election.

SOURCE:
news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/20...

MONTREAL GAZETTE:
U.S. builds up e-warfare arsenal
LOS ANGELES — In the skies above Libya, the U.S. Navy has been deploying a small fleet of supersonic EA-18 Growler jets to “jam” Moammar Gadhafi’s ground radar, giving NATO fighters and bombers free rein to strike tanks, communication depots and other strategic targets.
It’s the latest demonstration of “electronic attack” hardware — the “EA” in the Growler’s name. Armies have been waging electronic warfare since World War II, but today’s technology packs a strategic wallop unforeseen even a decade ago.
With a price tag of about $74 million each, Boeing Co.’s Growler is a showpiece of American electronic know-how, with high-powered radar systems made by Raytheon Co. and tactical radar jammers produced by ITT Electronic Systems and Northrop Grumman Corp.
FULL ART.HERE:

www.montrealgazette.com/news/WARFARE/50...

SecularLibya
Heinz: End plan for Tripoli: Cut off supply roads from East and South. Then push from the West to Tripoli

LIBTRIP LIBYA TRIPOLI
#BBC’s #GavinHewitt reports – From #Tripoli, #Gaddafi sends #Africans to #Italy to immigrate to #Europe youtube.com/watch?v=XVKL4J… #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVKL4JXVtYc&fea...

N_Benghazi .
Libya has turned out to be the exception to everything we’ve held to be true about war.

SecularLibya
Heinz 7/11-12: Daffi concentrations in Zawia including petrol trucks hit hard by helis last night. G troops on the run in Zawia

SecularLibya
Heinz: #NATO now has 60 Apaches and Tigers in service. Helis will be working on Tripoli Daffi concentrations

MilitantNews
#Libya As France pushes negotiations 4ward it is no coincidence that a French lawyer is challenging the legitimacy of ICC warrant on Gadaffi

Times online:
China, Russia invited to Libya talks in Istanbul
ANKARA, July 12, 2011 (AFP) – Turkey has invited China and Russia to join for the first time discussions on Libya as part of a contact group of major powers, to convene this week in Istanbul, a Turkish official said Tuesday.
“Russia and China have been invited as permanent members of the UN Security Council. We think they will participate but no information has reached us so far on what level,” foreign ministry spokesman Selcuk Unal told reporters.
The so-called International Contact Group on Libya, scheduled to meet Friday in Istanbul, includes the countries participating in the NATO-led campaign targeting Moamer Kadhafi’s regime and regional players.
FULL STORY:
www.sundaytimes.lk/index.php/world-news...

REUTERS
Factbox: Libya’s military: what does Gaddafi have?

• GROUND FORCES – STRENGTH ON PAPER:
  Numbers: 50,000 including 25,000 conscripts.
  Main Battle Tanks – 800 (many thought to be inoperable)
  Reconnaissance vehicles – 120.
  Armored Infantry Fighting vehicles – 1,000.
  Armored personnel carriers – 945.
  Artillery pieces 2,421
  Mortars – 500.
  Air Defense surface-to-air missiles – at least 424.
• GROUND FORCES – REALITY:
  - Even before the uprising, Libya’s military was undermined by sanctions and neglect although Western powers had begun to sell it weapons again. Much equipment is poorly maintained or unusable, leaving it hard to estimate genuine numbers.
  - Analysts have said Gaddafi tried to emasculate the regular army to avoid the emergence of commanders who might rival his immediate family, relying instead particularly on three loyal “regime protection” units often of his own tribe.
  - That leaves him with what most estimated to be some 10-12,000 loyal Libyan troops. The most reliable formation is seen to be the 32nd Brigade commanded by Gaddafi’s son Khamis.
  - Repeated reports from witnesses, rights groups and others talk of African mercenaries flown in by Gaddafi to help put down the revolt. Exact numbers are impossible to obtain.

FULL ART.:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41759498/ns/busine...

ggatehouse
As well as thuds of rockets the sound of anti-aircraft fire in #misrata. First time I’ve heard that inside the city. #Libya

SecularLibya
Heinz: Tonight action is in Brega and Gharyan. #NATO has 60 helis and 120 jets. NATO is revving up attacks.

FromJoanne Joanne
#NTC Tarhouni Oil Min Opened #Rhebat air strip which links Benghazi with Nafusa Tarhouni says Military Dreakthrough within Days ! #Libya

vdesc
rencontre avec une famille qui vient de fuir tripoli pour se réfugier à #zenten 1/3
des hommes de kadhafi viennent dans les écoles demander quelle chaine les parents regardent. Répondre Al Jazira = arrestation #libya 2/3
appels téléphoniques pour savoir si les gens sont pro kadhafi. et menace pour vérifier à la maison si portrait de K et drapeau 3/3
Lisa
#Feb17 Free media, newspaper, airports, legitimate law enforcement, self made military..is there anything #FreeLibya can’t do?!? Viva #Libya

LibyaLiberty Now Beard Free
#TitlesForGaddafiFamilyBiographicalMovie Crouching Baldie,Hidden Shafshoufa

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Liberia OIL TANKER “DELOS” now departing #Tobruk #Libya. #feb17

N_Benghazi .
#TitlesForGaddafiFamilyBiographicalMovie: The Lying King

Forbes
Associated Press
AP sources: Rebels gaining on Gadhafi regime
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that Libyan rebels have seized a number of western mountain towns, cutting off the Gadhafi regime’s access to a key oil pipeline.
The U.S. officials estimate that fuel for the military and the public in Tripoli will start running out within one month. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss matters of intelligence.

Source:
www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/07/12/gene...

Libyan martyr executed publicly on May 1984
in Benghazi , Libya while his brothers and family were watching during Ramadan
Archives vid.
Source:
www.archive.org/details/ShaheedSadiqShw...

libyaoutreach Libya Outreach :
Niz_FGM call for extreme vigilance using mobile netwrks in regime contrled areas. verified reports of calls being recorded & trans leaked.

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Israeli TV Ch 2 reports Gaddafi delegation visits Israel & meets Livni to put pressure on NATO to stop action. is.gd/2AObEr #Feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWBE4lpL8_w

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Good night all … Lions once roamed the deserts of Libya … They’ve returned #Feb17 #Libya

bencnn benwedeman
#Libya TNC Finance Minister Ali Tarhouni visits Zintan, says received promises but little real support from international community. #Feb17
Tarhouni flew from #Benghazi, over #Tripoli, landed on a strip of road outside #Zintan.
Cell phone system (Libyana) will soon resume in western #Libya again. Young Libyan-Americans on leave from work here to make it happen.

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
MISRATA: BREAKING: Freedom fighters at western front near Zliten managed to seize 2 BMP tanks & one 106mm RCLR after Gdfi forces fled #libya
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ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Freedom fighters training in Cabao (Nafousa mtns) #libya #feb17 fb.me/1a0fvEmbn
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=270551&l=43ee971195&id=137199749688243

And
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=270553&l...

www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=270554&l...

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
A video of freedom fighters doing basic training in Cabao (Nafousa mountains) #libya #feb17 fb.me/16g4JpXNr
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fWetIxcaPc

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
#BBC website has been blocked on #Rixos hotel internet. but they let us watch BBC World News on TV. any reason?

UPDATE FGM:
12/7/2011 – Tripoli Update
by The Free Generation Movement – حركة جيل الاحرار on Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 3:09pm
1
Two female katiba soldiers injured by two male katiba soldiers in an episode of infighting in Gergarish district. Reason is as yet unverifiable by FGMovement.

2
A vast increase in check points on outskirts of soug al jomaa, fashloum, araada, dahmani, ben ashour, furnag, ein zara. Check points heavily armed.

3
Checkpoint soldiers between Tripoli and Zawiyah excitedly announcing to all drivers that “France has withdrawn from combat”. Todays majority vote in French parliament favouring continued support for Libyan civilians likely a huge morale blow to very same soldiers and remainder of security..

4
Mini exodus from Tripoli as families leave the capital leaving behind the shabab (youth) in anticipation of a new phase. Many youth who are discovering themselves on wanted lists are also escaping the capital.

5
FGMovement confirms continued defections from internal and external security in Tripoli. Now defectors are not abandoning posts in an effort to serve the uprising now and at zero hour.

6
Whilst FGMovement confirmed the vast decrease in regime capacity to monitor phone calls, we still call for extreme vigilance when using mobile networks in regime controlled areas. We have today received verified reports of phone calls being recorded and transcripts being leaked.

7
Rumours of 16 youth in tripoli being arrested have reached us. We cannot verify the reliability or accuracy of this rumour. We confirm that none of the members of FGMovement have been arrested and are safe, well and busy. We wish those who have been kidnapped by the regime protection from Allah.

FromJoanne Joanne
Aboard a #NATO aircraft tinyurl.com/5tn8vnz #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8mSRFW1iPQ

Yefrenia
He asked politely they never heard him;he asked angrily they never heard him;he burnt himself & sent the whole Arab world raging #ArabSpring

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
In regards yesterdays #Egypt court ruling against #Libya State TV, I was informed this morning it must be down in a weeks time.

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Still not found our missing TV kit. asked minders if they could help find it and was told to ‘write a letter’. who thinks that will help?

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
I posted 6 photos on Facebook in the album “Humanitarian flight landing in makeshift runway – Nafousa mtns” fb.me/13bbw64QF
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.146502092091342.36568.137199749688243&l=f826a9b7a1

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Liberia OIL TANKER “DELOS” now departing #Tobruk #Libya. #feb17

Libyan4life
Im all about Human Rights and keeping ppl accountable, but I think the situation isnt as cut and dry as HRW has made it.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#NATO airstrikes audible east of #Qawalish today. Aircraft overhead. Three large explosions midday. #Libya #feb17

GihanTadreft Gihan Badi
father-and-son pair from Pennsylvania among Libyan Rebels Fighting For Zawiya!! n.pr/pBRj53 #Libya #Feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
,#Gaddfi forces ambushed in #AbdulRauf south #Misrata, #Freedomfighters captured 30. Remainder of Gaddafi forces fled.

NPR
Expat Pair Among Libyan Rebels Fighting For Zawiya
In western Libya, rebel fighters are continuing to battle forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi on several fronts.
Rebel commanders say one of their objectives is the city of Zawiya near the Mediterranean coast, the site of a major oil refinery. But for some rebel fighters, the battle for Zawiya is about much more than a refinery.
In the boiling sun, at a dusty concrete factory that is littered with shrapnel, members of the Zawiya Brigade are holding the line. Zawiya was one of the first cities to rise up against the Libyan regime, but because it is located so close to the capital, Tripoli, the rebellion was brutally crushed. Many who fought there ended up fleeing.
Full report:
www.npr.org/2011/07/12/137799678/americ...

IamLibya
If someone tells me #Tripoli “isn’t coming out” or “tripoli has no men/fighters” I will throw eggs on your face & tell u 2 go jump a cliff

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Heavy machine-gun fire in #Misrata 15 minutes ago. #Libya #feb17

FromJoanne Joanne
Training a FF battalion at Camp Martyrs #Kabaw Nafusa Libya youtube.com/watch?v=_fWetI…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fWetIxcaPc&sns=tw

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Some of the excuses that Gaddafi supporters come up with for censorship, murder & imprisonment of activists are simply mind boggling #libya

bint_
I seriously can’t believe that some people are still calling the situation in Libya, esp in Nafusa a stalemate. People need to get real.

IamLibya
You be the judge. Is it fair to be tortured until death simply because you were putting up revolutionary flags?

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
by sixarts
#Tripoli: #Gaddafi Command centre 32°44’12.86"N 13° 8’42.20"E #Libya #feb17 @NATO

#Tripoli: #Gaddafi Control centre 32°46’42.14"N 13°10’35.73"E #Libya #feb17 @NATO

#Tripoli: #Gaddafi Storage 32°41’6.47"N 13° 5’42.38"E #Libya #feb17 @NATO

BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
having a hard time accessing the net at #zintan media center, good times with the french and new buddies Ayman & Johnny

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Rixos “journalists” are nothing but Gaddafi shills in that they know they are human shields and do not care. NATO should bomb

simon88
LATEST NTC RECOGNITION MAP img52.imageshack.us/img52/7162/new…
img52.imageshack.us/img52/7162/newmap15...

freedom4libya Khalifa Leebee
News that #NileSat will pull the plug on #Gadhafi Channels Wed.July 13,2011.

Sumayyah
Fundraiser Sunday 7/17 in Sacramento for Children of #Libya Aid Foundation goo.gl/5nMlv Tix here goo.gl/ao6Z4

Amazigh_Libya AmazighLibya
Great photo. FF jumps through a ring of fire. #Libya #Feb17 twitpic.com/5pax43

Sumayyah
The Martyr Mohammed Omar Burderbala الشهيد محمد عمر بودرباله Allah Yar7ama May he rest in Peace goo.gl/BlTOx #Libya #Feb17

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Please Like & pray for my cousin’s son #Muhammad #Omar #Boderbala from #Derna martyred fighting in #Misrata goo.gl/PPpQs RIP

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “KURUOGLU 3” dest. #Tripoli #Libya now anchored 67.9 NM 245˚ North/Northeast of port. #feb17 @NATO

bint_
If the FFs were bent on revenge attacks and score settling, there would be no captured Gaddafi soldiers still alive.

Nafusa Mtns gave HRW unrestricted access to their detainees.

bint_
Dear World and pseudo-human rights activist, if you gave us our frozen assets, we won’t have to ‘loot’ basic equipment from empty villages.

bint_
The FFs with this ’’looted’’ medical equipment would be treating both FFs and Gaddafi soldiers, so win/win either way.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “SEREN AYANOGLU” now anchored in port #Tripoli #Libya after re supplying Turkeys’ great friend #Gaddafi. #feb17

malvern
Lots of TV reporters up in #Nafusa! Seems they’re all fed up with Rixos and are expecting developments from the mountains, want to be there.

Libya_from_FR
17feb Tarhouna page : Clashes in #Tarhouna between #FFs and #GFs .

libyarebirth
G losses his grip.Zintan area mobilenetwork re-established,comunicating with Misrata&librated east without passing thu G control&censorship

Khiria
Passed by about at least 13 refugee camps right after the #Tunisian border with #Libya: yfrog.com/kentempj

EndTyranny
Breaking: #Zawia: FF burn a petrol station that is being used by Gaddafi forces to refuel..Via Press solidarity Benghazi

bint_
If Gaddafi had actual support in un-liberated Libyan cities, then there would be no need for women to come out, esp. in our society.

4Adam Adam
#Kabaw – Interview with school children during the final exam of art class youtube.com/watch?v=fZDyJL… #Libya #Feb17 #Nafusa
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZDyJLdNvXc&fea...

SUMMARY JULY 13th 2011

7/13/2011
7.13.2011

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

NATO
Statement by NATO Secretary General after meeting with delegation of the Libyan Transitional National Council
We have just had an informal meeting between the North Atlantic Council, contributing partners in operation Unified Protector, and members of the Libyan Transitional National Council, to discuss
he way forward in Libya.

NATO Allies and partners briefed on the progress of our military mission to protect civilians. The members of the Transitional National Council thanked us for the mission’s indispensable humanitarian role. And they briefed us on their vision of their country’s future – one based on democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights.
They have a great reponsibility for the smooth transition to a democratic and inclusive future in Libya.
We agreed on three things.
First, that NATO’s operations to protect civilians must continue. Qadhafi’s forces are still threatening innocent people. And as long as that threat continues, we must continue to deal with it.
Second, that the Qadhafi regime has lost all legitimacy.
Third, that there has to be a political solution. Led by Libyans. Supported by the international community. And fulfilling the legitimate demands of the Libyan people – as the United Nations Security Council demanded.
The time to find a solution is now.
For the people of Libya – who have the right to live without violence and fear; the right to plan their own future; and whose legitimate aspirations must be met.

Source:
www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/news_76383...

Chivers:
Human Rights Watch has just published its findings on abuses and apparent reprisals by rebels against suspected Qaddafi loyalists and their property in four recently seized towns in mountainous western Libya. The rebels’ regional military commander has confirmed that some of the abuses occured in spite of orders directing the rebels not to harm civilians or civilian property.
In Rayayinah, one resident who stayed said that rebels had looted medical equipment from the polyclinic after taking the town. Human Rights Watch visited the facility on July 2 and saw vandalized rooms, broken windows and doors, and evidence of missing medical equipment, including an x-ray machine and possibly an electrocardiogram machine.
The hospital in al-Awaniya, inspected by Human Rights Watch on July 3, was in a similar condition, with missing equipment, broken windows and damaged furniture.
A medic sympathetic to the rebels told Human Rights Watch that he had participated in the looting of the al-Awaniya hospital after rebels took the town:
”The al-Awaniya Hospital was very well equipped, and we basically took everything. It was well equipped for Gaddafi troops. Rebels said that Zintan would be the central hospital for the region…. I heard that the equipment from the Rayayinah polyclinic went to Zintan too.”
Full art:
cjchivers.com/post/7551425646/rebels-lo...

HRW:
Libya: Opposition Forces Should Protect Civilians and Hospitals

(Zintan, Libya) – Rebel forces in Libya should protect civilians and civilian property in areas they control, Human Rights Watch said today. The rebel forces should hold accountable anyone from their ranks responsible for looting, arson, and abuse of civilians in recently captured towns in western Libya, Human Rights Watch said.
In four towns captured by rebels in the Nafusa Mountains over the past month, rebel fighters and supporters have damaged property, burned some homes, looted from hospitals, homes, and shops, and beaten some individuals alleged to have supported government forces, Human Rights Watch said.

Human Rights Watch witnessed some of these acts, interviewed witnesses to others, and spoke with a rebel commander about the abuses.
“Opposition leaders should halt and punish all rebel abuses” said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “The rebel authorities have a duty to protect civilians and their property, especially hospitals, and discipline anyone responsible for looting or other abuse.”

Rebel forces seized control of al-Awaniya, Rayayinah, and Zawiyat al-Bagul in mid-June 2011, ousting government forces that had used the towns as a base for attacks against rebel-held territory – some of them indiscriminate attacks on civilian-inhabited areas. Rebel forces captured al-Qawalish on July 6.
In all four towns, some residents had left when government forces first arrived to fight the rebels in April and May. In all the towns but Rayayinah, most of the remaining residents fled when government forces withdrew, apparently fearing reprisals from rebel forces.
Al-Awaniya and Zawiyat al-Bagul are home to members of the Mesheshiya tribe, known for its loyalty to the Libyan government and Muammar Gaddafi.

The rebel military commander in the Nafusa Mountains, Col. El-Moktar Firnana, admitted that some abuses had taken place after rebels captured the towns, but said such attacks violated orders issued to the rebel forces not to attack civilians or damage civilian property. He claimed that some people had been punished, but did not say how many people or for what offenses.
“If we hadn’t issued directives, people would have burned these towns down to the ground,” he told Human Rights Watch.

n al-Qawalish on July 7, Human Rights Watch saw people with rebel t-shirts and hats, some of them armed, loading items looted from stores onto trucks with rebel markings. Five houses, which Human Rights Watch had seen intact the day before when government forces withdrew, were on fire. Three more houses and one shop were on fire during visits on July 10 and 11, and at least six other houses appeared to have been newly burned.

Al-Awaniya and Zawiyat al-Bagul appeared empty of residents during several visits by Human Rights Watch between July 2 and 10. Houses on three streets in al-Awaniya and two streets in Zawiyat al-Bagul that Human Rights Watch inspected had been ransacked. The stores along the main streets in both towns had been broken into and looted.
Local residents told Human Rights Watch that the Libyan government had brought members of the Mesheshiya tribe to al-Awaniya from other towns approximately 30 years ago, a resettlement that continues to cause tension with neighboring towns.

In Rayayinah, one resident who stayed said that rebels had looted medical equipment from the polyclinic after taking the town. Human Rights Watch visited the facility on July 2 and saw vandalized rooms, broken windows and doors, and evidence of missing medical equipment, including an x-ray machine and possibly an electrocardiogram machine.
The hospital in al-Awaniya, inspected by Human Rights Watch on July 3, was in a similar condition, with missing equipment, broken windows, and damaged furniture.
A medic sympathetic to the rebels told Human Rights Watch that he had participated in the looting of the al-Awaniya hospital after rebels took the town:

The al-Awaniya Hospital was very well-equipped, and we basically took everything. It was well equipped for Gaddafi troops. Rebels said that Zintan would be the central hospital for the region…. I heard that the equipment from the Rayayinah polyclinic went to Zintan too.
Human Rights Watch visited the Zawiyat al-Bagul medical clinic on July 3. It had also been attacked and looted by vandals.

The removal of the medical equipment and damage to the facilities would hinder the return of the civilian population to those towns, Human Rights Watch said.
Residents of Rayayinah told Human Rights Watch that between 300 and 400 people stayed in the town when the rebels arrived, including in the western part, which government forces had used to shell rebel-held Zintan. One of the residents told Human Rights Watch that he saw the injuries of three people from the western part of town who claimed to have been beaten by rebels, and one person who said rebels had shot him in the foot:

Their wrists were tied with dusty wire and they had been beaten. I saw three cases but there are more than that. One lost two toes when a fighter from Zintan shot his foot. I saw a lot of bruises on the face, hands, everywhere. Most of them have left now.
Some of the damage in Rayayinah was also caused by government forces during their presence in the town. Mohamed el-Mizoughi, a local resident, told Human Rights Watch that government soldiers had punished rebel supporters by arresting them, burning down their houses, and looting their stores.
The rebel commander, Colonel Firnana, explained the rebel violations as a consequence of the victims’ alleged support for government forces. “People who stayed in the towns were working with the army,” he said. “Houses that were robbed and broken into were ones that the army had used, including for ammunition storage.” He continued, “Those people who were beaten were working for Gaddafi’s brigades.”

It was dangerous for residents of the four captured towns to return because of anger in the rebel-held towns that government forces had attacked, Colonel Firnana said.
“Opposition forces have an obligation to protect civilians and their property in the areas they control so people feel they can return home safely and rebuild their lives,” Stork said.
Two other towns in rebel-held territory in the Nafusa Mountains, el-Harabah and Tamzin, are known to include Gaddafi supporters, but they have managed to maintain relations with both the Libyan government and the rebels. These towns have not been used by government forces since the February uprising began.

Opposition fighters in the Nafusa Mountains have detained roughly 200 government fighters over the past month. Human Rights Watch had unrestricted access to detention facilities in Zintan, Yafran, and Kikla. Some detainees complained of physical abuse at the time of capture, but said that conditions since then had been adequate.
Human Rights Watch has documented repeated indiscriminate attacks by government forces on civilian areas in the Nafusa Mountains over the past two months, as well as the use of landmines. In the town of Yafran, government forces unlawfully occupied a hospital for six weeks.
“Opposition forces say they are committed to human rights, but the looting, arson, and abuse of civilians in captured towns are worrying,” Stork said. “This raises concerns about how civilians will be treated if rebels capture other towns where the government has support.”

wheelertweets James Wheeler
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@wheelertweets How do I tell them that the press & public aren’t much interested in the post-battlefield side of the #Libya drama?

WH says Obama and Lavrov will discuss Libya and Russia’s efforts to join the World Trade Organization.

US sees ‘contradictory’ messages on Gaddafi future

(Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday expressed doubts about contacts between emissaries for Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi and NATO members, saying the messages being received were contradictory and unclear.
State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said the United States was aware that “a lot of folks” claiming to speak for Gaddafi were in touch with various western countries.
Nuland said the “messages are contradictory” and there is no clear communication that “Gaddafi is prepared to understand that its time for him to go.”
Nuland was speaking after French officials said that Gaddafi’s emissaries were indicating that the embattled Libyan leader was prepared to go and that a political solution was “beginning to take shape” for the country. ID:nLDE76A1NC.

Full story:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/12/liby...

Via Sahabab;
Libya’s other crisis: 2 million children at physical and emotional risk as conflict drags on

BENGAZHI, Libya, 12 July 2011 – After months of media coverage of the conflict in Libya, one could be forgiven for thinking that the country is devoid of children. The vast majority of images in the media feature soldiers on the front lines, a defiant Muammar Gaddafi, NATO fighter jets streaking across the skies, and queues of mostly male migrant workers crossing the borders into Tunisia and Egypt.
Before I left for Benghazi, a colleague asked me sarcastically why I was going to cover the crisis for UNICEF when it was clear from newspaper and television reports that there were no children in Libya anyway.
Of course, there are children in Libya. In fact, there are more than 2 million of them under the age of 18, accounting for roughly a third of the entire population. As the conflict drags into its fifth month, they are feeling its impact more deeply every day. This is undoubtedly a children’s crisis.
Children at risk
With most of Libya’s major cities and towns either now or previously embroiled in violent conflict, children have been greatly affected since the uprising began on 17 February.

The most obvious threats to children are the weapons around them. Landmines and explosive remnants of war contaminate areas around Misrata, Ajdabiya and the Nafusa Mountains. Cities and towns are now awash in small arms from weapons caches that were opened following the start of the conflict.
These dangers cannot be overstated. When children come across these weapons, they sometimes collect them as trophies or for scrap metal, putting their lives at grave risk. Just three weeks ago, two boys aged 10 and 15 were injured by a grenade in the Ajdabiya area.
Psychological wounds
In some cases, the damage done to children by the conflict is not physical, but psychological. Many Libyan children who have been through traumatic experiences are now in urgent need of psycho-social support.
Parents at two displacement camps I visited recently, near the coastal city of Al-Bayda, told me stories of their young children’s near-constant nightmares and insomnia. In Benghazi, a three-year-old girl at a children’s recreation club burst into tears because she thought the camera hanging from my shoulder was a gun.

Experts agree that in addition to psycho-social support, a sense of normalcy should be restored to children’s lives as quickly as possible in such situations. One way to achieve normalcy is through the daily routine of school, but the formal education system in Libya has ground to a halt. Schools from Tripoli to Benghazi have been closed since the onset of the crisis.
One 11-year-old boy, Hassan, told me that he and his friends are desperate to return to the classroom. It is unclear when that will happen, however.
Child safety and well-being
As the conflict persists, UNICEF and its partners are working to secure the safety and well-being of Libyan children in various ways, including the following:
 Engaging with the authorities in Benghazi to ensure that schools reopen on 5 September, as scheduled
 Supporting children’s clubs in more than 125 schools in eastern Libya to provide children with a variety of recreational activities
 Helping to facilitate mine-risk awareness workshops for children and families in areas contaminated with explosive remnants of war
 Collaborating with authorities to maintain access to clean water
 Sending urgently needed vaccines to besieged cities such as Misrata.
But these efforts are not nearly enough, given the heavy toll the crisis is taking on Libya’s children. Aid workers do not have access to the areas currently in conflict, and support from the international community is needed to help UNICEF and its partners on the ground expand their reach.
Children are the most vulnerable during humanitarian emergencies, and the conflict in Libya is no different – no matter what the images in the daily news might lead us to believe.

Source- Christopher Tidey for UNICEF

the telegraph:
Libya’s rebels prepare for critical battle on road to Tripoli
Libya’s rebels say they are poised to launch an imminent attack on a strategic garrison town near Tripoli whose fall could turn the tide in their campaign against Muammar Gaddafi.
After months of stalemate, opposition fighters have begun to make slow but steady gains in the Jebel Nafusa, a sand-swept mountain range in Libya’s west that is increasingly seen as the most promising of the rebels’ three principal battlefields.
The prize now lying in front of them is Garyan, a heavily fortified town whose capture would bring the rebels within 50 miles of the capital city and hand the opposition control of the main southern road leading from the capital.
The planned assault to liberate the Nafusa’s biggest town represents the most ambitious offensive since the rebels finally captured Libya’s third city of Misurata at the end of May.

Full art.:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...

Washington Post
Gaddafi forces are struggling, U.S. intelligence reports say
Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi is sending fresh signals through emissaries that he is ready to discuss stepping down, Western diplomats said Tuesday, as new intelligence assessments pointed to worsening conditions among his troops.
The overtures by aides close to Gaddafi appeared to reflect a deepening pessimism inside a government that is under assault on two fronts and faces shortages of critical supplies, according to U.S. and European analysts and government officials.

New U.S. intelligence assessments conclude that government forces, already beset with morale problems and a steady stream of defections, are now hard-pressed to find fuel for military vehicles after rebel troops shut down a key pipeline. If current trends continue, loyalists troops will run out of fuel by summer’s end, and the Gaddafi government will face a worsening cash and credit shortage because of international sanctions, the reports say.
Full art.:
www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-s...

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Picture of the day goo.gl/eZJ1f #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes

SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Sky Sources: Ministry of Defence to extend operational allowances to military personnel involved in the Libya campaign

Chivers
More on looting, arson in Libya
pics by @bdeontonphoto, shown below, photographing the rotting remains of five men whose bodies had been hidden in a cement basin on the road outside Qawalish.
cjchivers.com/post/7567576954/on-the-ny...

BBCWorld BBC Global News
UK military personnel in #Libya will receive the Operational Allowance, extra money for serving overseas, the #MoD says

septimius_sever septimius severus
So the spell is broken! The brave #Nafusa FF are only human and make mistakes!

AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Rebels in west Libya say deal ‘impossible’ as Qaddafi refuses to go #Alarabiya

feb17libya Feb17Libya
Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands recognise the NTC as the Libyan people’s legitimate representative feb17.info/news/live-liby… #Libya #Feb17

MyFreeLibya
There seems to be a serious lack of english speakers here, seems like all are at checkpoints, foreign press is getting frustrated lol #Libya

billneelyitv Bill Neely
Every day in #Tripoli traffic seems 2 diminish.Fuel shortage really biting.In a week,I haven’t seen any military vehicles moving here.#Libya

AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands recognize Libya’s opposition National Transitional Council #Alarabiya

MOD:
Operational Allowance extended to Libya operations
A Defence Policy and Business news article
13 Jul 11
Service personnel operating within the landmass, airspace and territorial waters of Libya are now eligible to receive the Operational Allowance (OA), Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox announced today.

The Ministry of Defence conducts a review of the locations eligible for OA on a six-monthly basis – the most recent of which led to today’s extension and means that personnel working as part of the ongoing campaign to protect civilians under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 will now receive the Operational Allowance.
The Operational Allowance is already paid to all Service personnel serving in Afghanistan on Operation HERRICK.
Full art.:
www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/...

Feb17
Reuters:
Clashes broke out on Wednesday on the frontline south of Libya’s capital after advancing rebel fighters came under an ambush from troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, rebels said.
Rebel fighters seized control of the village of Al-Qawalish last week, and are planning to push on east to the town of Garyan, which controls access to the main highway leading north into the capital Tripoli, less than 100 km (60 miles) away.
One rebel fighter said the fighting started after a rebel unit tried to advance from Al-Qawalish. “We were moving forward and suddenly we were ambushed,” said the fighter.
A Reuters team in the village heard small arms fire and shelling and could hear explosions from shells landing inside Al-Qawalish on its eastern edge.
Several truckloads of rebel fighters sped west out of the village, with one shouting: “Go, go, it is not safe here!”
Outside the village another rebel fighter said: “There was fighting and we are waiting for support.”

AFP:
Libyan rebels in the Nafusa Mountains south-west of the capital said on Wednesday that a peace deal was ‘impossible’ as veteran leader Muammar Gaddafi refuses to step down.
‘Up to now it is impossible to get a political solution. Gaddafi wants to stay, the rebels don’t want,’ said Colonel Juma Brahim, head of the rebels’ operational command for the region.
‘To the last moment Gaddafi is looking for a peace solution because he is weak, all the soldiers and equipment are coming to our side one by one,’ Col Brahim told AFP.
He was speaking after French and Libyan officials on Tuesday talked up the chances of negotiating Gaddafi’s withdrawal from power and an end to the conflict still wracking the country after months of military stalemate.
Col Bruma said it was ‘difficult to understand’ the position of France, which has been one of the main players in the Nato-led coalition which has been conducting an air war against Gaddafi’s forces.
French aircraft even carried out controversial arms drops to fighters under Col Bruma’s command in recent weeks

AFP:
Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands recognise the opposition National Transitional Council as the Libyan people’s legitimate representative, the Belgian foreign minister said Wednesday.
“We recognise the NTC as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people during the transition period,” Steven Vanackere told reporters before meeting with a rebel delegation along with his Dutch and Luxembourg counterparts.

AP:
A delegation of Libya’s National Transitional Council headed by its diplomatic chief Mahmoud Jibril is meeting with top NATO officials as the allied bombing campaign nears the end of its fourth month.
NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said the meeting would be an opportunity to hear from the Libyan opposition “about how they see the situation on the ground and how they see the way ahead.”
The Libyans will also meet with top European Union officials, including Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission. In May, EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton extended de-facto recognition to the transitional council when it opened a diplomatic office in Benghazi and pledged support for a democratic Libya.

AP:
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is facing dramatic shortages of fuel for his soldiers and citizens in Tripoli, and he is running out of cash to pay his forces and what is left of his government, according to the latest U.S. intelligence reports. In France, the foreign minister reported that Gadhafi is prepared to leave power.
Rebel forces that captured towns from Nalut to Kikla in Libya’s western Nafusa mountains cut a key crude oil pipeline that feeds one of the regime’s major refineries in the town of al-Zawiya, U.S. officials told The Associated Press. They cited U.S. intelligence estimates that fuel shortages could occur within as little as a month.
The cash shortage follows Turkey’s move last week to seize hundreds of millions of dollars held in the Arab Turkish Bank, the U.S. officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss matters of intelligence.
While the Libyan strongman could not access actual cash, he had been issuing letters of credit to pay his debtors, including fuel importers, the U.S. officials said.
Read more here:
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/AL...

SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Defence Secretary attacks other NATO countries who are not doing enough to help with the Libya operation.

NATO meets with Libyan Transitional Council
There were certain things agreed at the meeting, said Rasmussen, firstly that NATO’s operations to protect civilians must continue.
“Gaddafi’s forces are still threatening innocent people,” he said. “And as long as that threat continues, we must continue to deal with it.”
He also reiterated that the regime had lost all legitimacy.
“Everybody is in contact with everybody. The Libyan regime is sending messengers everywhere, to Turkey, New York, Paris,” Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said. “There are contacts but it’s not a negotiation proper at this stage.”
The US doubted such contacts, stating that messages were still contradictory.
Source and read more here:
www.businessandleadership.com/leadershi...

Via Shabab
Rebels clash with Gaddafi troops south of Tripoli

AL-QAWALISH, Libya (Reuters) – Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafiappeared to have launched an offensive on Wednesday to retake the frontline village of al-Qawalish seized by rebels last week.
One rebel fighter said the fighting started after a rebel unit tried to advance to the town of Garyan, which controls access to the main highway leading north into the capital Tripoli, less than 100 km (60 miles) away.
“The other side was ready and they were planning for this,” one fighter said.
Another fighter, on the western edge of the city, said: “We ran out of bullets and we had to pull out.”
A Reuters team in the village heard small arms fire and shelling and could hear explosions from shells landing inside al-Qawalish on its eastern edge.
Several truckloads of rebel fighters sped west out of the village, with one shouting: “Go, go, it is not safe here!”
Source Reuters

Reuters
Fox criticises some NATO members as Libya pressure mounts

(Reuters) – Some European NATO members are not pulling their weight in the Libyan air campaign, Britain’s defence minister said on Wednesday in one of his strongest attacks yet on the alliance.
Defence Secretary Liam Fox said Britain’s military was being stretched by the near four-month-old United Nations mandated Libya campaign and that he would seek to shift more of the strain to others in the 28-member NATO alliance.
“The United States is willing to spend on defence, Britain is willing to spend on defence and deploy. Far too (many) of our European partners inside NATO are still trying to get a free ride, and they should regard Libya as a wake up call,” Fox said, labelling some NATO members’ contributions “pathetic.”

Read more here:
uk.reuters.com/article/2011/07/13/uk-br...

Nato to bomb Libya during Ramadan – video
Nato confirms it will keep bombing Libya during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan while Muammar Gaddafi’s forces continue to threaten civilians

Video here:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011/jul...

Libya: Misrata orphans may be abroad – News24

News24—-Tripoli- – A Libyan government minister has voiced concern about the whereabouts of 105 orphans from the rebel-held city of Misrata, saying there were reports they may have been taken abroad. Social Affairs Minister Ibrahim Sharif told reporter

R Rolando Segura Según gobierno #Libia los niños fueron vistos por última vez en canal árabe TV Al Jazeera

Beneluxlanden erkennen Libische Overgangsraad
Erkenning geldt voor de periode totdat Khadaffi van het toneel is verdwenen
Nederland, België en Luxemburg hebben de Nationale Overgangsraad die in handen is van de Libische opstandelingen erkend. Dat betekent dat de Benelux de Overgangsraad nu ziet als de wettige vertegenwoordiger van Libië.
In Brussel sprak minister Uri Rosenthal samen met zijn Belgische en Luxemburgse collega’s met Mahmoud Jibril, één van de leiders van de Libische opstandelingen. De Beneluxlanden hebben hun erkenning uitgesproken voor de transitieperiode, dus tot het moment wanneer Khadaffi werkelijk van het toneel is verdwenen en er een ‘vrij en democratisch Libië tot stand is gekomen’.
Groot-Brittannië, Frankrijk en Duitsland gaven de Overgangsraad al eerder hun erkenning. Den Haag vond het lange tijd nog te vroeg om de raad van de Libische opstandelingen te erkennen.
Leden van de Libische Overgangsraad praten op het hoofdkwartier van de NAVO verder met 28 NAVO-leden over de voortgang van hun land. Later vandaag zullen zij ook met Barosso, de voorzitter van de Europese Commissie in gesprek gaan.
NOS: NL erkent Libische Overgangsraad

Source:
www.joop.nl/wereld/detail/artikel/benel...

Lawmakers slam Obama over Libya war
Published: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:40:30
US lawmakers on Capitol Hill have criticized President Barack Obama’s handling of the war in Libya.
The US congressmen said the Obama administration has used hundreds of millions of dollars in Pentagon accounts to cover the costs, despite the US economic challenges, a Press TV correspondent reported on Wednesday.
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presstvmobile.com/blog/?s=VIDEO%20Lawmakers%20slam%20Obama%20over%20Libya
Source: presstv.ir

Libya: Misrata orphans may be abroad
2011-07-13 12:56
Tripoli – A Libyan government minister has voiced concern about the whereabouts of 105 orphans from the rebel-held city of Misrata, saying there were reports they may have been taken abroad.

Social Affairs Minister Ibrahim Sharif told reporters in Tripoli late on Tuesday that the government had opened an investigation into what had happened to the 52 boys and 53 girls, who were listed as resident at a state-run orphanage in Misrata, Libya’s third-largest city.

“Some witnesses have reported seeing them on board a Turkish boat, others say it was an Italian boat, others still a French boat,” the minister said.

“We want the truth and we hold those countries responsible for the well-being of these children who are neither soldiers nor combatants.”

Sharif added that a rebel doctor captured by government troops had told his captors that the orphans had been taken to France and Italy.

One of two rebel-held enclaves in western Libya, Misrata is surrounded by government forces and is entirely dependent on supply by sea.

A number of European vessels have docked in the port to deliver relief supplies and bring out civilians injured in the fighting and other hardship cases.

France was at the centre of a scandal in 2007 when aid workers from the Zoe’s Ark charity attempted to fly 103 children out of Chad who they said were orphans from the war-torn Darfur region of neighbouring Sudan.

International aid staff later found that almost all the children were Chadian and had at least one living parent.
Source and read more:
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Another dirty g trick? Seems like it………

Photo: Zintan, Libya. Waiting in line for bread at one of the few bakeries left open. Photo Credit: Marco Longari. tumblr.com/xvb3h7955s
www.thepoliticalnotebook.com/post/75704...

У Каддафи кончаются деньги и горючее
У правительства Муаммара Каддафи кончается горючее для войск и населения, а также наличные деньги для выплат сохраняющим лояльность солдатам, заявили в разведке США. Перебои с поставками бензина и солярки в Триполи могут начаться уже в текущем месяце.
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www.chas.lv/world/theme/conflicts/10481...

As long as it sells news. Is this going to be tomorrow’s headline?
Ahh sensationalism at its best: Libyan Rebel babies learn how to shoot ak-47’s in mothers womb. givemeabreak

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Rebels-in-waiting: The children as young as SEVEN being trained to fight on the front lines against Gaddafi
With smiles on their faces, these young boys could be playing soldiers with their friends.
But the youngsters are in fact helping rebel fighters in Libya to overcome Colonel Gaddafi’s troops as the bitter civil war rumbles on.
Boys as young as seven have been pictured carrying automatic weapons and cleaning rifles in Misrata as rebel forces battle loyalist troops in the outskirts of Zlitan.

Although they do not appear to have been involved on the front line, the boys are clearly being trained to operate the weapons.
Since the uprising broke out in February, armed rebels have seized control of much of Libya’s east – where they set up an administration in Benghazi.
They also control the coastal city of Misrata and much of the Nafusa mountain range south-west of the capital Tripoli.
After a string of victories in recent months, rebel forces have expanded the area under their control in the mountains.
Story and pics here:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-201423...

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
The ruling to ban Gaddafi channels from broadcasting on the Egyptian satellite, NileSat, will come into force starting today #Libya

UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
British Army attack helicopters struck Colonel Qadhafi’s troops early yesterday morning #Libya #Gaddafi

Apaches helicopters launched from HMS Ocean targeted three vehicle check points between Zuwarah and Az Zawiyah #Libya
Libyan military vehicles and structures were identified and attacked using Hellfire missiles and cannon fire #Libya #Gaddafi
Four military structures, seven vehicles and at least one multiple barrelled rocket launcher were destroyed #Libya #Gaddafi

Alone in Tripoli tells us what happened in Ben-Walid:
Requiem
I just learned that a colleague and friend of mine has perished at the hands of Gaddafi’s militias in Ben-Walid. This happened weeks ago but I only heard of it very recently.

My friend, and around 20 other men had been arrested/kidnapped after they held a peaceful demonstration in their little hometown of Ben-Walid, they were crammed into a dark room in a house used by the militias as a detention center, and kept there for hours while Gaddafi’s grunts apparently were waiting for orders.
don’t know if the orders came, but I do know that the men crammed in that dark room were gunned down with Kalashnikov AK-47 machine guns in that very same room, and some were finished off with 9mm rounds from pistols since their bloodied bodies were still trembling and not quite dead.
Salah, my friend, you will not be forgotten, and you will be avenged, rest assured.

iyad_
Map of eastern Nafusa mountains in #Libya showing control & front lines, as of 12 July 00 GMT: twitpic.com/5otwpk

Map of Nafusa mountains in #Libya showing control & front lines, as of 12 July 00 GMT: t.co/22bwV2r

Africa: Libya, Sudan And Faltering African Unity

This week I would like us to turn our attention to different but equally urgent questions – the war in Libya and the break-up of Sudan. I will briefly examine the implications of both developments for African Unity and especially their potential impact on the future of Afro-Arab relations in Africa. It is my contention that the African Union has not handled these happenings with the prudent leadership and foresight that they deserve. This is bound to bear untold and undesirable consequences and may cause irreparable damage to African Unity.

Strategically, the west would like to define the region more as the west of the Arab world rather than the North of Africa.Meanwhile, the situation in Libya continues to pose daunting challenges for the AU which has failed dismally to take a principled and consistent stand.
As the war drags on, however, western intervention has turned into an open war of naked aggression violating the fundamental principles of the UN. To maintain at least a semblance of organizational integrity and solidarity with Libya, a vital link with N. Africa, the AU must oppose the NATO war resolutely.
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Professor Mwesiga Baregu.

Source and full art. Here:
allafrica.com/stories/201107130841.html

Reuters
Libya’s wealthy use cash to take fight to Gaddafi
(Reuters) – When the battle for Misrata began in late February, Mahmoud Mohammed Askutri started out with a Kalashnikov rifle and four bullets.
Standing alongside his former schoolteacher, who was armed with a sharpened piece of metal, Askutri spotted and shot a soldier loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
He took the dead soldier’s Kalashnikov and bullets, thereby adding much-needed firepower at a time when most Libyans participating in the uprising against Gaddafi were fighting with knives, petrol bombs and hunting rifles.
In the subsequent months, Askutri, a local businessman who owns a construction company, has formed the rebel 1st battalion of the Al Marsa regiment, which he funds and supplies with weapons and ammunition bought on the black market.

Full story here:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/11/us-l...

Evgenios
In #Crete for conference, watching all these #nato aircrafts taking off from Chania airport. Locals say they head to #Libya

Reuters
Gaddafi troops in counter-attack south of Tripoli
(Reuters) – Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Wednesday tried to re-take a village south of the capital seized by rebels a week ago, delivering a set-back to rebel plans for a march on Tripoli.
The fighting in the village of Al-Qawalish, about 100 km (60 miles) from the capital, underlined the faltering pattern of the rebel advances that has led some of the rebels’ Western backers to push for a political solution to the conflict instead.
A Reuters team in the village heard small arms fire and shelling and could hear explosions from shells landing inside Al-Qawalish on its eastern edge.
Several truckloads of rebel fighters sped west out of the village, away from the attacking government forces, with one shouting: “Go, go, it is not safe here!”
One rebel fighter said the fighting started after a rebel unit tried to advance east from Al-Qawalish in the direction of the town of Garyan, which controls access to the main highway leading north into the capital Tripoli.

Source and read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/13/us-l...

4Adam Adam
Rec. the recent #HRW’s report on #Libya, what happened is indefensible. No doubt there’re many reasons why they did it in 3 places not 4.
Definitely it is not the way to earn hearts in those towns that are ahead of them.

Globe and Mail
Libya’s rebels ‘live and die by oil’
As she changed the dressings on a burn victim at this Libyan city’s main hospital, Intensive Care Unit head nurse Judith San Pedro patiently listed all the things she’s missing.
“Antibiotics, we’re out of the good ones and we’ve got two days’ supply of the others. Sutures and gauze, we’re down to five days. Most cancer and HIV drugs, we’ve run out. Plasma and albumin, there’s none. We can’t perform most operations, just keep people alive. Our blood-analysis machine has run out of cartridges. We’re re-using examination gloves and oxygen masks.”

Oh, and she hasn’t been paid for three months. She has to go to the local refugee agency shelter to pick up lunches for her fellow nurses, most of whom are also Philippine immigrants. When she gets home, there’s no electricity until 9 p.m., when the government turns it on for three hours. And this is the region’s most advanced hospital.
“We are short of everything – food, medicine, fuel, weapons. Yet still we manage to live,” said Abdul Hafiz Ghoga, the former human-rights lawyer who is vice-chairman of the Benghazi-based National Transitional Council, the rebels’ interim government. “It has become a volunteer society, because nobody has been paid since March but still we keep working and fighting.”
Full art.:
www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/afri...

A must read
AJE OPINION:
Psychosis of the Arab revolution

Peaceful protesters of the Arab Spring have evolved past oppressive dictators whose actions reveal mental impairment.
Conscious action by individuals on behalf of systems intended to hurt, punish, dehumanise and humiliate – of which there has been plenty of in the Arab revolutions – discloses a type of mental impairment.
In these cases, it is easy to say that the political body has gone ‘bonkers’.
Such a body fails with respect to communication with the public, and is not aware of its moods. It behaves as if delusion were some kind of divine vision. It atrophies while not knowing what to morph into – in so doing, it surrenders to a total psychosis – baring a serrating machine that cuts reason into shreds and eats innocent lives.

The psychosis of the Arab revolution, notwithstanding its epic journey and gains, has not been spared examples of such violent cutting and eating.
english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2...

The Finance Professional Post
Worldview: Summer Perspectives on the Arab Spring
It’s been scarcely six months since the start of what is now being called the “Arab Spring” : a series of revolts and, in some cases, the overthrow of authoritarian regimes in the Middle East. The conclusion of these events is yet uncertain even where revolts have thus far seemed “successful.” In this Wordlview special report, we offer some perspective on these events and suggestions on how to think about them as they evolve.
Story here:
post.nyssa.org/nyssa-news/2011/07/summe...=4161&zidType=CH&zid=7259344&zsubscriberId=1032364307&zbdom=http://nyssa.informz.net

MyFreeLibya
In the last few hours…G forces tried to out-flank FF in Qawleesh…it failed epically…they managed to stop it quite easily.#Libya
They have now managed to capture a very large number of prisoners..currently being held in Kikla..unsure what to do with them..#Feb17 #Libya

The Guardian
Syria, Libya and Middle East unrest – live updates
• Obama to Syria: ‘Nobody can be messing with our embassy’
• Libyan rebels accused of human rights abuses
• Egyptian revolution has stalled says novelist Ahdaf Soueif
Read art.:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-li...

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Tarhuna: Clashes in Hay AlDaman. 3 G forces captured. Also 1 G force killed by FF sniper in AlHay AlSena3y #Feb17 #Libya Allahu Akbar

SKY NEWS
Gaddafi ‘Running Out Of Fuel And Cash’
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is facing dramatic fuel shortages, and is running out of cash to pay his forces and his government, according to the latest US intelligence reports.

Rebel forces that captured towns from Nalut to Kikla in Libya’s western Nafusa mountains could cut a vital crude oil pipeline that feeds one of the government’s major refineries in the town of al Zawiyah, US officials said.
US intelligence suggested fuel shortages could occur within as little as a month.
The cash shortage in Libya follows Turkey’s move last week to seize hundreds of millions of dollars held in the Arab Turkish Bank, the US officials said.
While the Libyan strongman could not access hard cash, he had been issuing letters of credit to pay his debtors, including fuel importers, the US officials said.
Story and pics:
news.sky.com/skynews/Article/2010091160...

LibyaInMe Libya In Me
France has indicated that Gaddafi agreed to leave Libya. In the mean time, he sent reps to Israel to try to coordinate his departure #Libya

News Busters
Open Thread: Is Libya Intervention Undermining War Powers Flouting the Law?
During former President George W. Bush’s time in office, he was regularly described as fascist, murderous, and a war criminal for his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even if people didn’t support the wars, though, Bush obeyed the law and received congressional approval to be in the countries. President Barack Obama is the one acting above the law, having yet to seek approval for being at war with Libya and ignoring the War Powers Act, but the media remains absent on labeling him with the same names.
Art.:
www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2011...

FromJoanne Joanne
its confirmed just posted reuter link Qawalish retaken by Gaddafi troops #Libya Nafusa

2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Was just watching the UK parliamentary row over phone hacks and was wondering when will we experience similar thing in Libya?

hominoid
Libya Nalut Under attack again today.

REUTERS
Gaddafi forces retake village south of Tripoli
(Reuters) – Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi retook on Wednesday the village of Al-Qawalish, south of the capital, which was captured by rebels a week ago, rebel fighters said.
A rebel driving an armoured pick-up truck who was refuelling in the nearby town of Zintan said Gaddafi’s forces had swept through Al-Qawalish from the east and now controlled as far as the checkpoint on the western edge of the village.
“We are fuelling up, preparing and, God willing, we are going to take it back,” the fighter said.
(Reporting by Peter Graff; Writing by Christian Lowe; Editing by Elizabeth Piper)
Source:
uk.reuters.com/article/2011/07/13/uk-li...

Video
How it all started:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TiKkvbuk-E&fea...

LibyaInMe Libya In Me
My 11 year old cousin is sitting next to me relaying what his father did in the beginning of the revolution :P

Did you know?
InjusticeFacts Injustice Facts
In a survey of the most evil governments in the world 94% of people voted for either the United States, Israel, China or Saudi Arabia.

LIBYA_WIN
See, the kind of FEMALES #Gaddafi brings in to protect himself and kill our people is a species with nothing feminine or maternal about it.

MUST WATCH:
AJE
Sue Turton
Video
Gaddafi’s female soldiers on the frontline .
Some seem to be ex prisoners…….
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R12hbmv27RU&fea...

MyFreeLibya Rubicon Moad
Back from death’s door…whirlwind of three days…only made better by all the injured legends i met…

Catching up on a lot of stuff that happened in my absence! Okay so basically Ali Tarhouni came to Zintan, and Free Libyana is being set

The internet is still as slow as ever…There is a fight today at Bir Ghanem, don’t know if its FF advancing or retaliating..

There seems to be a serious lack of english speakers here, seems like all are at checkpoints, foreign press is getting frustrated lol

if you find your self in a fix, go to Jadu hospital, zintan one is seriously lacking!

There is a front there, with intense fighting, I’m told its its only 40km from AzZawiya

Last i heard, Gaddafi forces were bombing it heavily from Miskah…but they are looking to change that soon

In Zintan there is serious animosity towards LibyaAlHrar…They are now called it Libya AlAshrar (from the freeones to the evil ones)

Apparently it reports things which aren’t true…noticed my self a few lies to be honest…

Apparently Libya AlHrar is reporting a lot of news which isn’t true…but overall personally i think it is doing a good job..just relaying

just thought i would relay ppl’s views before the problem festers…scared it might turn irrational…

Allah yarhumhum…i hope my intentions aren’t misunderstood. Just trying to make discourse, so i know how to deal with it here

people’s views here…Like a military protest a few days in Zintan..AlHrar said it was a celebrating kicking G forces from city..

Still waiting for sim cards to start working with the new network…seems to be taking longer than usual..

Food is becoming seriously scarce here in Zintan…Ppl havent had salaries for at least 5 months now..and food is no longer being given out

People are getting fed up…InshAllah it doesnt last much longer…ramadan is coming

And when Qwaleesh was freed, 8 died from Zintan, and 1 from Kikla..they called it 9 dead from nafusa..Zintanis say they want their due…
In the last few hours…G forces tried to out-flank FF in Qawleesh…it failed epically…they managed to stop it quite easily.
They have now managed to capture a very large number of prisoners..currently being held in Kikla..unsure what to do with them..
Internet here is actually so terrible..though apparently they are setting up Free Libyana network coverage, which works with beng
As in they are setting up cell phone towers like they did for benghazi and tying the two together!
Do you get internet via cell phones in the east…..so lucky to be eastern :P hahaha
i am in Zintan, as in press also expect there to be hotels…but yes more translators and drivers would help a lot!
how does credit work for the libyana phones?
i think the problem now is Zintan is full of prisoners..bt is relatively secure..eg Kikla is getting bombed
there is no more bombardment…no fighting any where near Zintan anymore….but obviously still a war zone..
well France 24 is here…they understand english..so been translating a bit for them, but yeah there is a lot of french press
The Shigaga front (southEast) is gunna get a lot more attention. If FF reach mizdah then would cut off the main supply route to sirte &north
The Shigaga front is full of Emshashya….They are the bane of the mountain at the moment..
I am told not many were actually killed…praise to the FF fighting tactics..most were actually captured alive!
some ‘tribe’ who i have only heard of now…they are very big proGs….i think G promised them rule of the mountain…

And fog of war too……

Serious conflicting reports on earlier news…hope it isn’t true…gunna try to confirm it again…

Being told that actually the opposite has happened about the captured G forces.

Looks like G forces might of actually captured some FF…or both events happened…still digging up some info…hectic chaos

Libya_from_FR
They are broadcasting a lot of childs(~100) – The assembly of the young of Tripoli live(they’re saying) – Guys Yester Allah ! #Nilesat

FreeLibyanman FreeLibyan
#gaddafi;1st step in negotiation is by shelling civilians in #egdabya

KC_Tripolitania KC
Freedom Fighters advancing 60 miles south of #Tripoli are ambushed by #Gaddaft troops, opposition say – #Reuters

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

FreeLibyanman FreeLibyan
#Gaddafi forces shelled #egdaby with 4-5 rockets

2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
CNN’s Ben Wedeman speaking fluent Arabic to FF on Nafousa mountains: youtube.com/watch?v=101PGw… #feb17 #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=101PGw8Kii0&fea...

thegeedee
#Libya,FF impeccable record for the humane way they have treated their prisoners of war,and burrying the dead IslamicallyLibyan or otherwise

thegeedee alwaten alhur
#Libya,bypass all the heinous crimes committed by Gaddafi and harass FF for crimes they have not been proven of committing,conveniently

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Kikla under attack from #Gaddafi forces.

Breaking: at 1:00 pm this afternoon, the landlines service is back in Zintan& linked with all Eastern liberated cities #Libya #Feb17

Ossama
Military reinforcements are now heading from the cities of the western mountain toward #Qwaleesh #Libya #feb17

hominoid
Libya News Misurata Several Grad rockets fell on the area just Al davniyah we have not received reports of casualties.

Quoriana
“Hearing about #NileSat cutting off #Libya StateTV been held in Administrative Court instead of “normal court” so verdict not binding!"

Ossama BREAKING: Mahmoud Jibril denies #HRW reports for potential violations of human rights by #FFs in the western mountain. #Libya #feb17

FromJoanne Joanne
Geek detail: the #Benghazi bureau’s satellite comms / Twitter provider twitpic.com/5pg99g #Libya #Canada

libyanproud libyanandproud
#Nafusa : #Gwaleesh : Freedom Fighters heavy machinery moving up to #kikla intersection from the rest of nafusa. #feb17 #libya

FromJoanne Joanne
#QAWALISH FF Commander; Ppl who stayed inTown wr working WITH army Ppl who were Beaten were working 4 Gaddafi brigades

#QAWALISH Houses that were robbed and broken into were ones that the army had used, including 4 ammun. storage

SmithInAfrica
Libyan rebel colonel M. Khabasha:Gaddafi trps retook villages of Qawalish & Ganima this morn but 600 FF’s regained Ganima.
Khabasha: Gaddafi forces gained about 3km. No details on casualties. “We heard Gaddafi troops captured some of our guys.”

AFP
vid. Kikla
Libye: vivre sous les roquettes à Kekla
Une fillette à Kekla, sous les bombes de #Kadhafi : “J’ai peur, quand ça tombe, je me cache avec mes frères et sœurs”
www.2424actu.fr/actualite/2790848/#read...

EndTyranny
#Gaddafi State TV is not coming down anytime soon. NileSat says hearing was in wrong court & has appealed finding.

GADDAFI SON:
Source affirmed that Moatassem #qaddafi, leader of Briga forces, stays at a friend’s farm in #Sirte & visits troops occasionally.

Le Point. Fr
Guerre libyenne à RFI
La direction veut former des journalistes chez les rebelles anti-Kadhafi. Les syndicats dénoncent une atteinte à l’indépendance de la station.

Débarrassé de Christine Ockrent, Alain de Pouzilhac, P-DG de l’AEF (Audiovisuel extérieur de la France), n’en a pas moins, de nouveau, du fil à retordre avec l’intersyndical de RFI (SNJ, FO, CGT techniciens et journalistes). Cette fois, le conflit se déplace sur les terres libyennes, zone déjà très conflictuelle au sein de laquelle les reporters de la station prennent de gros risques. L’incident déclencheur vient d’un accord signé par Alain de Pouzilhac avec le gouvernement provisoire libyen qui prévoit la formation, à partir de septembre, de journalistes parmi les zones rebelles, à Benghazi d’abord, puis dans d’autres villes libérées par les forces anti-Kadhafi. France 24 et RFI offriraient leurs compétences techniques pour formater aux normes occidentales de nouveaux reporters radio et télé de nationalité libyenne.
Full art. Here:
www.lepoint.fr/chroniqueurs-du-point/em...

FromJoanne Joanne
#QAWALISH G Army advanced by Road and Fired Grad Rockets at abt 50FF + 2 pickup trucks/MachineGuns @Checkpoint #Libya Nafusa

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#US MILITARY OPS SHIP “ROBERT E PEARY” now headed apparently to area of #AlKhums #Libya. #feb17

SecularLibya
BREAKING: Katiba fired 2 manpads at helis with no effect. Helis use 4 rockets and 30mm canon to wipe out the 100 Daffis. 2/2 #Libya #Feb17

Belgium:
“We want to announce that we want to further deepen our relations with the TNC (rebel council) and we officially consider it as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people in the transitional period.” –Belgian Foreign Minister Steven Vanackere

Libyan opposition minister Mahmud Jibril meets with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Brussels, the first time the rebel leadership was invited to the alliance headquarters

NTC
A Libyan opposition leader denied Wednesday that the rebels are negotiating with Moammar Gadhafi’s regime to find a way to end the conflict.
“All this talk about negotiations taking place between the regime and the National Transitional Council are totally false claims,” said Mahmoud Jibril, the rebels’ diplomatic chief. The National Transitional Council is a political body created by the rebels.

Funds for NTC:
International donors to Libya’s National Transitional Council, or NTC, will discuss a variety of options to send funds to cash-strapped rebels in the North African country during a meeting in Istanbul later this week.
One of the key issues that will face members of the International Contact Group on Libya when it meets Thursday and Friday in Istanbul is how to legally free up billions of dollars frozen in foreign bank accounts owned by the government of Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Khabasha: #Gaddafi forces gained about 3km. No details on casualties. #Libya #feb17

NATO
NATO Secretary General released a statement after meeting with delegation of the Libyan Transitional National Council. This informal meeting between the North Atlantic Council, contributing partners in operation Unified Protector, and members of the Libyan Transitional National Council, was intended as a forum to discuss the way forward in Libya. Three points were agreed upon:
 First, that NATO’s operations to protect civilians must continue. Qadhafi’s forces are still threatening innocent people. And as long as that threat continues, we must continue to deal with it.
 Second, that the Qadhafi regime has lost all legitimacy.
 Third, that there has to be a political solution. Led by Libyans. Supported by the international community. And fulfilling the legitimate demands of the Libyan people – as the United Nations Security Council demanded.

Russia Today:
The Libyan rebels’ Transitional National Council says in a statement that it has set up a joint command. From now on, the troops of the former national army and revolutionary council will report to the Defense Minister.
The Transitional National Council believes that the move will help avoid major losses in attacks by the troops that are loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. The commander of Libyan rebels, Fauzi Bukatif, says that the creation of a joint command will help coordinate action by all forces.

AJE:
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has made no secret of his preference for women in his personal security detail. And now he is being accused of sending women to the frontline, including women released from prisons. Some claim that snipers deployed by government forces in Misurata were also women, brought in from Colombia.

Gharyan:
Libya’s rebels say they are poised to launch an imminent attack on the strategic garrison town of Gharyan, near Tripoli, whose fall could turn the tide in their campaign against Col. Moammar Gadhafi. This heavily fortified town whose capture would bring the rebels within 80 kilometres of the capital could potentially hand the opposition control of the main southern road leading from Tripoli.

Reuters:
Clashes broke out on Wednesday on the frontline south of Libya’s capital after advancing rebel fighters came under an ambush from troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, rebels said.
Rebel fighters seized control of the village of Al-Qawalish last week, and are planning to push on east to the town of Garyan, which controls access to the main highway leading north into the capital Tripoli, less than 100 km (60 miles) away.
One rebel fighter said the fighting started after a rebel unit tried to advance from Al-Qawalish. “We were moving forward and suddenly we were ambushed,” said the fighter.
A Reuters team in the village heard small arms fire and shelling and could hear explosions from shells landing inside Al-Qawalish on its eastern edge.
Several truckloads of rebel fighters sped west out of the village, with one shouting: “Go, go, it is not safe here!”
Outside the village another rebel fighter said: “There was fighting and we are waiting for support.”

AFP:
Libyan rebels in the Nafusa Mountains south-west of the capital said on Wednesday that a peace deal was ‘impossible’ as veteran leader Muammar Gaddafi refuses to step down.
‘Up to now it is impossible to get a political solution. Gaddafi wants to stay, the rebels don’t want,’ said Colonel Juma Brahim, head of the rebels’ operational command for the region.
‘To the last moment Gaddafi is looking for a peace solution because he is weak, all the soldiers and equipment are coming to our side one by one,’ Col Brahim told AFP.
He was speaking after French and Libyan officials on Tuesday talked up the chances of negotiating Gaddafi’s withdrawal from power and an end to the conflict still wracking the country after months of military stalemate.
Col Bruma said it was ‘difficult to understand’ the position of France, which has been one of the main players in the Nato-led coalition which has been conducting an air war against Gaddafi’s forces.
French aircraft even carried out controversial arms drops to fighters under Col Bruma’s command in recent weeks
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gaddafi forces are in #Qwaleesh, many in civilian clothes. Residents have left. #Libya #feb17

THN : The Hacker News
International Organization For Migration database hacked by Inj3ct0r Team for GREEN LIBYAhttp://www.thehackernews.com/2011/07/international-organization-for.html?m=1
This is the data base that was hacked:
www.iom.int/jahia/jsp/index.jsp

Strange that this comes after g government tells the world that more than 100 children from Misrata are missing and “might be abroad”.G regime hints that children might be kidnapped……..

hominoid
Libya The NTC hope to start pumping 300,000* barrels a day by 1st August.

LibyaSteadfast
Tarhuna FF Brigade entered #Tarhuna via Tirgalat and is now clashing with #Gaddafi forces there. Confirmed by TawasulMC

globalnews
Women face the fire in Libya village: On a wall at the entrance of the hill village, a tag proclaims "Free Libya… bit.ly/pdUVDM

Women face the fire in Libya village
Kikla – Nearly all the men of Kikla are on the front line fighting Muammar Gaddafi’s forces, leaving their womenfolk to brave the almost daily rocket salvos from loyalist troops.
On a wall at the entrance of the hill village, a tag proclaims “Free Libya”, although the streets are empty but for a handful of guards manning checkpoints and a few cars speeding past shops shuttered in Gaddafi green.
Kikla, which sits at the base of the Nafusa Mountains southwest of the Libyan capital, was seized by rebels from Gaddafi loyalists in a ferocious battle six weeks ago.

“Gaddafii’s soldiers dream of retaking Kikla,” says Walid. They are only 10km away and could come by road or over the mountain. On Monday a battle took place very close by.
When they are not at the front, the men come to guard the checkpoints protecting the village while the women cook for the fighters.
“We’re proud of them. We would never abandon them,” Halima says.

More and source:
www.news24.com/Africa/News/Women-face-t...

veritaz
Flying south to Rome for 2 days of meetings with Italian leaders – main topics will be #Libya & #Afghanistan #NATO

United4Libya LIBYAN
Just have been told by an Iranian man that l’m not Arabic! Libyan aren’t Arabic!

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Liberia OIL TANKER “DELOS” now apparently en route to #Tobruk #Libya. #feb17

#Malta CARGO SHIP “GASCOGNE” has just departed #Misrata #Libya & is en route to #Benghazi ETA: 2011-07-14 09:00 (UTC).

#Belize CARGO SHIP “SAKHALIN” now departing port #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17

#AntiguaBarbuda CARGO SHIP “ATLANTIC PRODIGY” has recently departed #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gaddafi CARGO SHIP “FARWA” now anchored # Kopara

#Barbados CARGO SHIP “TASMAN START” N33°48’37.77”/E018°34’25.18” Speed/Course: 16.3 kn/260˚ dest. #Tripoli

wheelertweets James Wheeler
Numerous friends here from Kikla. Some injured, some not. All in close contact w/Kikla by phone. Better info than media center

inglesi Piers Scholfield
Dr on field hospital on #Misrata-#Dafniyeh front line tells me today has been quiet. 30 injuries Tuesday. #feb17

Noah
As the #arabspring began and progressed I gained more and more hope for ultimate peace in the medeast & justice for the #Palestinian people.

But as #Israel’s reaction came out and with it’s recent statements and legistlative moves I feel as though the prospects of a peaceful settlement and justice for Palestine are as low as it was the day Israel was founded.
Thankfully the prospects for freedom, democracy and true self-determination for the rest of the Arab peoples remain high.

Reuters
FACTBOX

• Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Wednesday retook a village south of the capital seized by rebels a week ago, delivering a set-back to rebel plans for a march on Tripoli.
• Libyan rebels have held no negotiations so far with Gaddafi’s government on a solution to their five-month conflict, a senior rebel official said on Wednesday.
• Some European NATO members are not pulling their weight in the Libyan air campaign, Britain’s defence minister said on Wednesday in one of his strongest attacks yet on the alliance.
• Defence Secretary Liam Fox said Britain’s military was being stretched by the near four-month U.N.-mandated Libya campaign and that he would seek to shift more of the strain to others in the 28-member NATO alliance.
• Rebel leaders met NATO officials in Brussels.
  Full art. Here:
  af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLD...

AJE
JamesBays says town of Kikla under attack from Gaddafiforces.Thawar reinforcements brining fresh supplies of weapons to Kikla Libya

Libya Contact Group meeting to focus on common stance: experts
ISTANBUL, July 13 (Xinhua) — Forging a common stance on how to best assist the Libyan rebels hasten the departure of leader Muammar Gaddafi is likely to be the main objective when the Libya Contact Group meets here on Friday, according to experts.
“The most important item on the agenda most likely will be to develop a common stance to help the Libyan rebels financially, militarily and otherwise,” said Mesut Ozcan from the international relations department of the Istanbul Commerce University on Wednesday.
“Turkey’s recently reviewed position on Libya will allow it to propose to the U.S. and the French in particular that a common policy be sought among all players,” he added.
Huseyin Bagci from the international relations department at the Middle East Technical University, told Xinhua “Turkey will look to use this meeting to play the role of mediator and get widespread recognition for the Libyan opposition.”
Full story:
news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/20...

OmarAmer
Italian repair companies are working round the clock on the rest of the oil fields in East Libya after they were heavily bombed #Libya

FromJoanne Joanne
#Benghazi, Manager of the Great Man-made River project, Abdel Razek al-Zlitni, said there are NO water supply problems in eastern #Libya

freelibya10
the FF dont execute prisoners. the mercenaries probably killed the soldiers who wanted to defect, thats their job anyway

Glorianne Military amunition movement was done this weekend ,passed not through Garyan but through longer distant Sirt to south,

This is the media for you:
Chat about Tunesian refugee hospital and question: are you in touch with any other journos there who can cover the real human stories ?
wheelertweets James Wheeler
I’m in touch with plenty of reporters & producers. That’s not the issue. This isn’t the kind if story their bosses want.

Real human stories aren’t of any interest to media bosses…..
Just makes you sick………..

James seems to be the only journo with his heart in the right place……….
Thank you for covering the real human tragedies, James!

Ossama
Rasmussen: Libyan Transitional Council agrees for NATO to continue military operation in Libya

EndTyranny
According to US intelligence, #Gaddafi is issuing letters of credit to pay his debtors, including fuel importers. Who will pay them?

Hanan
#Tripoli man says Gaddafi released women prisoners, giving them military training; to use them as a line of defense #Libya

That seems to be true, see Sue Turton video on AJE
G imports female prisoners too from other countries……
They are promised freedom and money to fight for him……
Remember the female Colombia snipers from Misrata?

PeterClifford1 Peter Clifford
#Libya #Gaddafi Government sending messages worldwide on “negotiations”. Is Gaddafis’s “end time” near? bit.ly/PCOLibya

Skeptic
#NILESAT (controlled by #Egypt state / #SCAF) will use every possible legal loophole in order 2 continue broadcasting #Libya #State #TV

Rasmussen
NATO Secretary General Statement on Libya meeting
Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJdPjzw3MHo&fea...

Tweeting Tripoli
Have called some friends from different parts of Tripoli and they have no electricity since early morning. Now it’s 5:35 pm. #feb17 #Libya

dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi forces tried to enter #AlGawaleaish today fortunately they were defeated by #FF. #Nafusa #Libya

FreeBenghazi
Ambulance packed with medicine, donated by Libyan expats in Spain, arrives in #Nalut. #Libya facebook.com/media/set/?set…

www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.25471...

Russia FM Lavrov: no room for Gaddafi in new Libya

During a visit to the United States, Sergei Lavrov said there is no room for Muammar Gaddafi in Libya’s future.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has confirmed Russia’s position, according to which the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has to leave power.
“He (Gaddafi) had to go, as there is no room for him in the new Libya. All the rest is another topic for discussion”, said Lavrov during an interview with the Washington office of the radio station Voice of Russia.
As previously reported, on July 4, President Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia shares the opinion of the international community of Libya.
“We have almost the same take on the future of Libya. We would all like Libya to be a modern, sovereign and democratic state”, said the Russian President.
Source: News BCM

septimius_
Must see heard #Gaddafi released criminals from prisons #Tripoli on Feb 22 here’s the evidence youtube.com/watch?v=gblgqE… #Libya via @2011feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gblgqEqL_Fg

Tripliano
ffs are using improvised missile launcher in #Qawalish #Libya yfrog.com/kfv6fifj”

Reports that FF from Zintan backed with some heavy artillery have joined FF at the front around Qawalish & Miskah..

MyFreeLibya
So far…confirmed 2 martyrs from Zintan, and 15 injured from the fighting at Qawleesh…cant confirm anything about the actual fighting

dovenews Libyan™
If Gaddafi wants 2 step down he tell us Libyans, not to France, US or anyone else, its we are losing blood & lives every day not every1 else

Joke:
MuammarLGaddafi
How are you planning to kill me this time ? Ctrl+alt+delete didn’t work!!! Now you have to find another way

N_Benghazi .
I think we’re forever doomed to have every major event proceeded by an article explaining social media’s role in it.

Khiria
#Libya would have been liberated by now if countries like #Algeria #Chad #Niger flippin’ stopped helping #Gaddafi!! #annoyed

bint_
#Tarhuna: Reports of FFs using handheld grenades to attack Gaddafi checkpoints inside the city. via @LibyaTV Things are picking up there iA

Jonny Hallam
Chief Libyan Prosecutor Mohammed Zakri Mahjoubi is sueing NATO Sec Gen Rasmussen ‘for the killing of innocent civilians and other warcrimes’

tripolitano Tripolitano
Today reports of electricity cuts in different parts of tripoli. May Allah b with our people. Things getting dire& will worsen Till G goes

freedom4libya Khalifa Leebee
Looks like #Nefusa #FF are fed up and now attacking #Gadhafi forces in #Assabaa.

QWALEESH ;
Retreated from Al-Qawalish,now fighting on western edges of town,GRADS falling fast 20 in last 10 mins,2 dead 6 injured #Tripoli #feb17
Getting hit by heavy mortars but holding our fight,indiscriminate shelling inside #Qawalish #
Have retaken 60% of #Qawalish heavy fighting north of my position
Slow progress forward every step we take 5 GRADS fall on us,readying barrage of 70 GRADS on Gaddafi soldiers #Qawalish
Barrage of 70 GRADS ready,first 15 have been fired off #Qawalish #Tripoli #feb17
35 of 70 GRADS fired off fighting still fierce just north of me

iyad_
Unfortunately “Islamist” has become a fighting word, forcing us to use it politically rather than spiritually. Sad.

Khalifa
Iyad you might wanna use the term “true Muslim” instead.

Libye: violents combats dans l’Ouest, la rébellion reprend Goualich
GOUALICH (Libye) – Des violents combats avaient lieu mercredi soir à une centaine de km au sud de Tripoli, dans une région montagneuse où des centaines de rebelles pourchassaient les troupes loyalistes après avoir repoussé leur contre-offensive sur le hameau de Goualich.

Arrivés par centaines en fin d’après-midi des villages voisins du Djebel Nefoussa, les insurgés ont repris cette localité qui avait été sous contrôle des troupes de Mouammar Kadhafi quelques heures au prix d’affrontements intenses, a constaté un journaliste de l’AFP sur place.
Full report:
www.romandie.com/news/n/_Libye_violents...

freedom4libya
The political solution will be IMPOSED on #Gadhafi and Company by the Freedom Fighters. We refuse any political solution dictated by anyone.

LIBTRIP
A relative religious preacher fled #libya today after was forcibly asked to preach what #gadaffi people wanted.

meshelmay Michelle May
spent disturbing time in Tunis hospital w/ @wheelertweets & Misrata freedom fighters the past 24 hs. raw sewage covered floor & broken AC.
for those already in excruciating pain, they also had to deal w/hottest night yet this summer & the foul smell permeating hospital.

Skeptical4
#Al #Asabeah will b more difficult 2 liberate than #Miskah because it’s much more densely populated

Khiria
Why this person should NOT lead #Libya: #SaifGaddafi said to the French that if they’re going to drop weapons they should drop them booklets on how to use them in ARABIC because #Libyans are UNEDUCATED. In other words, he is admitting to ruining our education system & ruining Libyans in general!

youssefg
by LIBTRIP
Minutes before we get shot at near Gwaleesh #libya yfrog.com/kl4m7zj
Opposition fighters firing home made rockets at #Gaddafi forces in Gwaleesh #libya yfrog.com/kfkkfvgj

Libyans in Sacramento area stage fundraiser for medical aid for children
Jamal Buzayan had not spoken to anyone inside Libya since an airport customs agent smuggled him out of the country in 1975.
Buzayan, a retired biochemist who has lived in Davis since 1980, had been publicly tortured by Moammar Gadhafi’s government, and anyone associated with him could be imprisoned or killed. He spoke with his family only once or twice a year, when they were able to leave the country.
Then one night in February, his older brother Ahmed called around midnight from Benghazi to say the country was revolting against its ruler. Since that night Buzayan has not heard from his brother, who with his son has left home to fight Gadhafi’s army.

Full story:
www.sacbee.com/2011/07/13/3765834/libya...

James W. Foley
NATO spends weekly on Libyan no-fly = $1,930,000. Estimated value arms sent to Gaddafi by NATO since ’69 = $10,000,000,000- Harpers Index

Skeptical4
Even #Russia says #Gaddafi has no place in #Libya, but #Algeria still supplies him with arms, ammo& mercs! #Bouteflika u r delusional!

Ossama
Security in #Tripoli has been stepped up dramatically in recent days! #Libya #feb17

tripolitano Tripolitano
#Gaddafi trying 2 drag things until NATO and west get fed up and leave. Talk of stepping down&negotiations is part of this tactic

inglesi Piers Scholfield
Al-Hikma main #Misrata hospital – no deaths on frontline so far today, 9 injuries. #Libya #Feb17

FromJoanne Joanne
journo reported 50 FF and 2 pickup with mounted weapons trucks were defending the checkpoint of #Qawalish

Libya_Now
Mahmoud Jibril assure que toute violation des droits de l’homme sera sanctionnée, quelque soit son auteur. #Libye

tripolitano Tripolitano
BBCarabic reporter: there were only 40 FFs protecting #Gawalesh. They retreated after ammo ran out.

FromJoanne Joanne
Qawalish in last hrs FF brought MissileLaunchers from #Zintan to West side of Qawalish G Forces firing missiles+rockets @ them #Libya Nafusa

Ali El-Ehmer
#Libya #feb17 Moscow decline to join Libya communication group in #Istanbul #Turkey

baysontheroad
Had a good handover from @jonahhull, and fully briefed on Nefusa situation after my two week holiday. Mountain news first here and on #AJE.

Sorry I was not tweeting from frontline. Sat equipment was playing up. Fixed now.

shaheera
Reports from Zintan that FF used MILAN missiles in the Qwaleesh area today. #Libya

baysontheroad baysontheroad
in the last hour – Gaddafi forces still firing many rockets and missiles. Some landing 25 km west of Qwaleesh beside road to Zintan.

Skeptical4
If #Nafusa FFs push on #Gharyan while leaving their supply line frm #Wazin with no tank defense against G, this could b a fatal mistake

Ossama
BREAKING: Large reinforcements of heavy weapons have reached Qwallesh for the push to Asabah tonight or tomorrow, God willing.

Skeptical4
Diversion: #Gaddafi sending reinforcements 2 prepare 4 #Wazin offensive while #Nafusa FFs send their small armored force 2 #Qwaleesh

Ossama
Primary outcome of #Qwallesh Libeartion: complete destruction of mercenaries of #Gaddafi …. No martyrs among #FFs but some wounded.

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Ahrar TV: Reports FFs control parts of the city with a number of G forces checkpoints overcome #Feb17 #libya Allah Akbar

MyFreeLibya
its 14 known injured who have been brought to Zintan..maybe 15 though altogether.

Alarabiyah: Clinton says Gaddafi’s days in power are numbered Libya

BBC
Libyan rebels face counter attack from Gaddafi’s forces

Colonel Gaddafi’s forces have begun a counter attack in western Libya, against rebels who have been fighting hard to advance towards the capital of Tripoli.
Civilians in the area have already fled their homes as the front line of the conflict moves back and forth in the Nafusa mountains.
Paul Wood reports from Gualish, a village caught in the crossfire.
VIDEO:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14...

4Adam Adam
According to FF sources 2 martyrs and several wounded, FF regained Qawalish village, G forces regrouped in Assabaa. #Nafusa #Libya #Feb17

LibyaLiberty Now Beard Free
AJEnglish Americans splurge on pets despite recession

What a reversal.Libyans are sanctioning the national donkey.

Guma El-Gamaty
FF took Qwaleesh back from G forces & Miska as well & now on western gate of Alasabea 20km west of Ghariyan city next target for liberation!

AFP reporting:
Rebel fighters on Wednesday recaptured Gualish, a hamlet on the road 2 Tripoli

QAWLEESH:
MyFreeLibya Rubicon Moad
One of the martyrs name’s is AbdulGader Barooni …Allah yarhumhoo ya rab…
The injured from the hospital include 2 injured from Jadu, and 1 from Qalaa
They are still looking for the other martyr’s family…To properly identify him…thought also to be from Zintan
They posted a notice outside Zintan hospital saying only 2 died from those brought there..doubt 44
its 14 known injured who have been brought to Zintan..maybe 15 though altogether.

4Adam Adam
#FF military commander Col Firnana admitted that some abuses had taken place after rebels captured the towns, edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/afr… #Libya

edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/07/13...

LibyaLiberty Now Beard Free
Reuters Debt deal: How to kill three birds with one stone

Can we borrow that stone for Muammar,Saif,and Musa?

Careful:
A lot of strange tweets coming from Libyan liberal ( claims he has family there, gets info through phone calls and feeds a lot of inaccurate info to journos)

LibyanLiberal
@cjchivers . Qwaleesh 44 dead 67wounded 9captured from the FF side.

LibyanLiberal
@
@cjchivers can you confirm the number i gave about the rebels losses in al qwaleesh?

C.J. Chivers
We’re near hospital and will try to get casualty #s for reb side. But 44 dead? That feels far, far too high.

ChangeInLibya Not true – 5 dead and very few injured. Gaddafi army losses huge.

LibyanDictator The Dictator
#Nafousa Mtns.: Battle for Gwalish resulted in 2 martyrs and 8 injuries. #Libya #Feb17

Numbers inconsistent…..
Let’s hope for the best….

Khiria
Just when I think I have #Gaddafi & co all figured out I discover their minds have another room full of hate & evil. #psychos #Libya #Feb17

dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi has released all African prisoners, criminals, fraudsters & illegal migrants. Also Libyan prisoners were released. #Tripoli

4Adam Adam
EU offers support for Libyan transition | Reuters reut.rs/puF2NW #Libya #Feb17 #Gaddaficrimes

SMILE:
LibyaLiberty Now Beard Free
Reuters Bin Laden was in on 2005 and 2006 London plots

He better not be in on 2012 plot.

iyad_
The girls in the table behind me are so loud that I can’t write. But at least they’re making fun of Gaddafi.

Rebel radio Libya FM says Nilesat will stop transmitting State TV on 26 July, as Nilesat contested the ruling & the court is “very busy”

Well, what can you say? How much was the bribe?

cjchivers C.J. Chivers
Both sides shelling each other in afternoon in and around Qawalish. Mortars and rockets. Most missed, but several rebel casualties/hour.

ALERT 1:
dovenews Libyan™
#Gaddafi’s thugs: Hussian Ali Alkelani & the son of Abdulla Al Sanusi are stealing foreign companies in Tareak Almatar (Airport St).

ALERT 2:
dovenews Libyan™
Reports that Gaddafi forces are doing some maintenance to the sewage in #Tripoli. Some ppl said G forces are landmining sewage. Unconfirmed

bencnn benwedeman
Photo: Libyan army vehicle destroyed by fighters in Qawalish, western #libya. After battle town free of Qaddafi forces. yfrog.com/kes67zlj

Damn
The ravings of a mass murdering madman do not actually qualify as news.

C.J. Chivers
Battle 4 Qawalish tday. Qad forces counterattacked late a.m., retook town. Rebs massed and by evening had most of Qawalish back. More on NYT

ALERT:
Warning:
Someone on Twitter and Facebook, and his name is called, “David Wright” spreading Link .. saying that Gaddafi’s daughter Aisha, and in fact is just a nick to spy and find out where you and your computer piracy automation Please take caution Foraa
Please Circular

#Libya – #Russia declines invitation to up and coming contact group meeting on Libya tinyurl.com/5udpu7r

Russia turns down offer to join Libya contact group talks
Russia on Wednesday turned down an invitation to join upcoming Libya discussions as part of the contact group of major powers and insisted that all decisions on the conflict be made by the UN.
Turkey had earlier invited China along with Russia to attend a meeting scheduled for Friday in Istanbul.
But the Russian Foreign Ministry said Moscow had received other such offers and had always turned them down in the past.
“We are not a part of this group and do not take part in its activities. And the same holds true for the upcoming meeting in Istanbul,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.
Source:AFP
www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.a...

ChangeInLibya
Gaddafi forces that thought qualeesh was empty and saw scout team running away fell for a huge ambush

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Chief Libyan Prosecutor Mohammed Zakri Mahjoubi is sueing NATO Sec Gen Rasmussen ‘for the killing of innocent civilians and other warcrimes’
Zakri Mahjoubi went on to say that: ‘It is obvious NATO wants to directly target Col Gaddafi and bring about a regime change in #Libya.’
The question I want answering is does the Libyan Gov Prosecutors office really think Rasmussen is going to come #Libya to face a trial?
The court we visited had a large cage for defendants and i think a jury box for 6 jurors. is this right? only 6 jurors and not 12 in #Libya?

AJELive AJELive
#Libya’s prosecutor general charges #NATO secretary general of war crimes in court aje.me/mVWywp

4Adam Adam
May 2011 – Video II – of #Yefren Center shows looted shops by #Gaddafi soldiers youtube.com/watch?v=ZECpHE… #Libya #Gaddaficrimes

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZECpHEhl6aY&fea...

Came across several sources that claim:

Rupert Murdoch owns a stake in Nilesat.

Murdoch is personal friends with other investors in Nilesat….

G + Murdoch and $$$$$$? hmmmmmmmm

Maybe nice puzzle for investigative journos, who are locked up in Rixos?

Children of Libya: Davis Resident Launches Aid Foundation
Two of Jamal Buzayan’s six brothers spent years locked up as political prisoners of the Gadhafi regime.

Jamal Buzayan, 55, is a retired UC Davis research scientist who lives comfortably with his family in Davis. But his focus is to help people in Davis and beyond to better understand the discomfort of Libyan youth suffering in that nation’s civil war.

Buzayan told the stories of two young Libyan victims: Ayman, 14, lost both hands and suffered widespread burns after picking up a cluster bomb outside his home in Misrata in early June. He is receiving treatment in Tunisia.
In early June, Ali, age one and a half, took a bullet to his brain in Misrata. Egyptian doctors have cared for him, deciding not to remove the bullet to avoid further harm to the infant.
Ayman and Ali are among the hundreds of youth injured in the
Libyan conflict (exact numbers are unclear due to issues of access) who are receiving care in neighboring Egypt (east) and Tunisia (west). These injured children are traveling abroad for medical treatment because the health care system in Libya has collapsed as hostilities there have spiked, according to Buzayan.
He knows a thing or two about conflicts and their consequences there. Buzayan left his hometown of Benghazi, Libya in 1975in political exile for the U.S. What made Buzayan a dissident in Libya?
“I couldn’t tolerate a dictatorship that used force against people to govern them,” he said. “People should be able to choose their elected leaders.”
Today, government violence during Libya’s popular uprising over the
past five months has resulted in scores of wounded children. The demand for their health care far exceeds the available supply of it.
Such conditions propel Buzayan to help Libya’s youngest victims of war

“Children are innocent,” he said. “They don’t have political opinions. Under any circumstances, children should not be military targets.”
For more information on the July 17 fundraiser in Sacramento for injured Libyan youth, visit www.childrenoflibya.org

Full art.:
davis.patch.com/articles/children-of-li...

Video: The Mental Toll of Libya’s War (Must Watch)
Benghazi Psychiatric Hospital has seen a rise in new patients with post traumatic stress from the ongoing battles in Libya
feb17.info/media/video-the-mental-toll-...

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Gaddafi’s Regime spent ca 3.5M$ on mercenaries and is “still actively looking to recruit more fighters”
From Shabab:
Libya: Col Gaddafi ‘has spent £2.1m on mercenaries’
Col Muammar Gaddafi’s regime has spent $3.5 million (£2.1m) hiring hundreds of mercenaries from north Africa to help defeat anti-government rebels, according to senior Nato officials.

Suspected mercenaries sit inside a prison in Benghazi.
Details of a deal to recruit 450 fighters from the disputed Western Sahara region have been passed to Nato officials by a former Gaddafi loyalist who was involved in the negotiations before defecting to the rebels.
According to the defector, who has not been named, the mercenaries are being paid $10,000 each to fight for Col Gaddafi for two months. The deal with the mercenaries was arranged last month after serious anti-government protests threatened to overthrow the regime.
The majority of the fighters are reported to be members of the Sahrawi tribe who are based in the Western Sahara, and have been fighting a war of independence against Morocco as members of the Polisario Front.
Col Gaddafi’s officials have also recruited scores of fighters from rebel movements in Niger and Mali that have close links with the Gaddafi regime.
In the past Nato officers have received reports that Col Gaddafi has relied heavily on foreign mercenaries to defend his regime, but the documents produced by recent defectors show he is still actively looking to recruit more fighters.
“Gaddafi is using all his contacts in the region to bring more mercenaries into Libya to defend his regime,” said a senior Nato officer.
Col Gaddafi is also believed to have recruited mercenaries from Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and possibly even Asia and eastern Europe.
Libyan opposition groups have accused the mercenaries of being responsible for some of the worst excesses committed by the regime, including the murder of women and children.

• Dr. Sidi M. Omar, Ambassador of the Sahrawi Republic (SADR)to Ethiopia and the African Union, responds as follows:
  The article claims that members of the Frente POLISARIO were involved in the ongoing conflict in Libya. We categorically deny these baseless allegations and challenge all those parties that propagate these kinds of preposterous accusations to bring forth any evidence in their possession to prove their claims. Needless to say, these unfounded allegations emanate from those quarters that have vested interest in discrediting our liberation movement.
  The Frente POLISARIO is an internationally recognised liberation movement whose sole aim is to liberate Western Sahara from Morocco’s illegal occupation and to enable the Sahrawi people to exercise their internationally recognised right to self-determination and independence. Moreover, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) is a full and founding member of the African Union. Its position as to the on-going conflict in Libya stems from the same policy of the African Union, and thus it has publically reaffirmed its strong commitment to the respect for the unity and territorial integrity of Libya as well as its full support for the efforts deployed by the AU High-Level ad-hoc Committee on Libya.
  Source The Telegraph

Sarah
Zliten(2day):FFs attacked G checkpoints in #Ghweelat & #AbuJreeda (W Zliten).FF unharmed.Damage 2 Gs unknown

Guma El-Gamaty
Heavy clashes now between FF & Gadhafi forces includ. mercenaries in Alasabea 20km west Ghariyan ambulances seen carrying injured on G side!

Libyana Americana
Today Gaddafi troops pushed on Gil’a. The thoowar retook Gil’a & pushed them back into al-Asaab3a by sundown today #Libya #Feb17

FromJoanne Joanne
#Nalut s new school of Tamazight teacher is 15-yr old #MiraDugha who Taught Herself Tifinagh using the Internet #Libya #Nafusa

KEEP HANDY:
List of pro tyrants, pro dictators, racists, on twitter courtesy of @eggcollector bit.ly/nmrLBJ #Freedom #Libya
eggcollector.tumblr.com

HodaAbdelHamid Hoda Abdel-Hamid
first impression: the people of #Misrata would fight GF even they only had forks, knives and spoons. they r resourceful and determined

FromJoanne Joanne
#Jadu a pretty town set among olive + fruit trees is now a surreal Haven of Peace on a mountain range still Surrounded by G forces

Ahmed
#Nalut: 2 brothers 1 died & 1 injured playing, #Gaddafi rocket fell near them.. yfrog.com/h7l94yhj http://yfrog.com/kjqqftij #Libya

TOBACCO FACTORY:
hominoid
by Skeptical4
Libya July 13 Sound of gun shots at 2am in the Tobacco Factory, another execution of soldiers who refused orders to kill and torture

FromJoanne Joanne
#Nalut was taken 1Night when FF rolled down mountain Engines cut Lights Dimmed & Surprising G army Pushed them back outOfGrad missile range

FromJoanne Joanne
Long report but WELL worth Reading: In Libya’s west, rebels rise amid rights concerns, growing pride goo.gl/q4mmX #Libya #Nafusa
or:
www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/201...

inglesi Piers Scholfield
head doctor at #Misrata – #Dafniyeh front line hospital: 3 dead, 9 injured today. #Libya #feb17

inglesi Piers Scholfield
Big explosion in #misrata about 20 mins ago. Different to normal grad sound. Jet plane far above afterwards. #NATO?

C.J. Chivers
Zintan Hospital says 27 injured, 8 dead. Not sure count from Yefren. Bloody day in Qawalish. Uncmfd eports of captured rebels, too.

Freedom_7uriyah
Heard from fam that many of the criminals released were on death row, policing the streets & protesting in favour of Gaddafi #Tripoli #Libya

FromJoanne Joanne
#Nafusa Colonel Moktar Lakder; " If @Nato gave me HELICOPTERS, I could be in #Tripoli within 3 days We need them for freedom.” #Libya

4Adam Adam
Hundreds rescued from migrant boat | Video reut.rs/qZFOqW #reuters #Libya #Feb17 #Gaddaficrimes

bint_
I got a feeling talking to my uncle today that people in Tripoli are prepared to put w/ alot more so that they can be free.

Alex
#Gaddafi still paying foreigners to kill #Libya peole: “In the past #Nato officers have received reports that Col #Gaddafi has relied heavily on foreign mercenaries to defend his regime, but the documents produced by recent defectors show he is still actively looking to recruit more fighters…”

MyFreeLibya
Zentan Hospital
Just came from the hospital again….Number of martyrs has increased to 8…and the number of injured to 28
I will name the martyrs…but from the 8, 6 from #Zintan…1 from #SouqAlJumma…and 1 from #See3an
The FF have now reached Asabi3a…but told that Gaddafi forces have actually captured some Kikla FF who were holding the checkpoint there..
Such chaos at the hospital..was allowed in…but found it so hard to video..thought it was puddles of water i was stepping on..was all blood
Name of the Zentan Martyrs: AbdulRaouf Khalifa, AbdulGader Rooni, Khalid Nasr, Aseel Mabrouk, Taher ElDou..#Libya Allah Yarhumhum ya Rab…
Won’t name the Souq AlJumma martyr and the See3an one..The last one from Zentan is still unidentified…but keep them in your prayers please

BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
Some guys in uniform just came in very upset that aljazeera, arabiya, and others only covering #kikla #gwalish fighters and not #zintan

MyFreeLibya
A freelance photographer who just came back from the front said that the FF reached within 5km from #Asabi3a, but retreated a bit #Feb17

bint_
According to family in Tripoli if you cross into Libya via Ras Jedir w/ a passport that has stamps from UAE or Qatar, you get imprisoned

Alex:
Col Juma Brahim #Nafusa #FF Commander: “To the last moment #Gaddafi is looking for a peace solution because he is weak, all the soldiers and equipment are coming to our side one by one…” www.rnw.nl/international-justice/bullet... #Libya

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Qawaleesh Summary: G forces captured it this morning but following arrival of reinforcements from Zintan with FFs & heavy weapons it was retaken by FFs later in day. 8 martyrs, 27 injured. 6 martyrs from Zintan,1 from Tripoli (Soug Juma) & 1 from See3an as a result of this battle. The FF have now reached Asabi3a but G forces have captured some Kikla FF who were holding the checkpoint ther

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Tripoli: Clashes in AlHadba AlShergya between FFs & convoy of G forces. 1 vehicle damaged & large no. of G forces injured

Brega: 3 G forces vehicles destroyed in Khurgega area by FFs #feb17 #libya

Tarhuna: Separate clashes in different areas of city reported in Hay AlSena3y, Hay AlAzaymia and Hay AlHilal

bint_
Family in #Tripoli say there no crisis in regards to food and basic goods at the moment, but as usual no fuel.

Alex
#Amnesty & UN Human Rights Commisr must insist on access 2 ‘Tobacco Factory’ – whr 20000 #Tripoli youth r dying in #Gaddafi Con Camps #Libya

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
The #EU supports the #NTC as a key political interlocutor in #Libya. #feb17

#Panama CARGO SHIP “INDRA II” now anchored at destination #Tripoli #Libya pier 26. #feb17

#Tripoli: Many reports of power outages across city since early this morning. #Gaddafi has’nt the fuel to operate power plants.

bint_
Called my uncle today who was released from Tripoli prison 3 weeks ago, still hasn’t got his passport back from G thugs so can’t leave Libya

FreeLibyanman FreeLibyan
Confirmed G #Alzagrat’s thugs in #Alasabaa wandering around ppl houses, calling them 2 come out 2 protect thier women from FF. #disgusting

billneelyitv Bill Neely
.All well here though access is terribly limited by severe gov’t clampdown and monitoring.
We tried to film at gate of #Rixos Hotel 2nite.Security called.#Libya minder pulled gun on cameraman.Tried 2 bundle me in2 car.8 thugs @ end
Outrageous conditions @#Rixos 4 foreign journos.Treated like criminals by some #Libyan minder-thugs. Imposs. 2 talk direct to camera @ gate!
All well, except for some rough handling by thuggish #Libya minders.
All well. No bruises! No damage. Just think they have little idea how to run successful propaganda op!
No bruises so far. Many journos leaving now. Not worth hassle,money or story for many news orgs.

#AJE JamesBays earlier report from Qwalish which Gaddafi forces regained #Libya #Nafusa youtube.com/watch?v=8085Yx…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8085YxCMKUU&fea...

Dima_
Are we supposed to still keep a life out there with our families while being on Twitter, Facebook & Google+ .. and God knows what else? !!
I can hardly deal with just Twitter and Facebook … I don’t think I can handle yet another like G+. It is like a getting a third wife :)

FromJoanne Joanne
European Commission President Jose Barroso PRAISED #NTC the transitional government created by opponents of Gaddafi Regime in #Libya

Chivers:
…this man rushed past us with a Kalashnikov in hand. A mortar round had just landed across the road. Rockets were flying over the olive groves and hillsides, moving in both directions. The rebels were eager, disorganized, and busy. But this man’s necklace, if you can call it that, caught my eye. I called out to him to stop. As it happened, the man spoke English, and so we crouched while the firing continued and had a quick conversation. He showed me the photograph on the clip at the end of his lanyard. “This is my brother,” he said. “Martyred on June 1.” Then he ran off to join the others, all looking for a fight. The human costs of the war in Libya grow each day. At least eight rebels died today in the latest battle for Qawalish, along with an unknown number of Qaddafi soldiers. Our report of the fighting will be on the NYT site soon. We’ll post a link here when it’s live.Source and pic:
cjchivers.com/post/7586530852/at-the-ba...

Ahmed
There’s also a flight from #Benghazi to Tunis daily, for injured & sick to receive treatment in Tunisia.NATO opens an air corridor

bint_
Journalists and other media people need to realise that Zintan is not a holiday resort, nerves are frayed, people are dying.

Brian Conley
things are getting a bit tense at the #zintan media center, management issues, now no running water, media becoming frustrated #libya

Tripolitania
Medical supplies running low in #Nalut and #Zintan – pleas donate to @WMCLibya to support medical relief. wmclibya.org/donate/ #Libya

SecularLibya MargBar Khamenei
Heinz 7/12-13: #NATO Helis wipe out up to 100 Katiba men near Zawia. The men were on Tundra trucks going W. to Zawia. Katiba fired (cont)

2/2 – Katiba fired 2 manpads at helis with no effect. Helis use 4 rockets and 30mm canon to wipe out up to 100 Daffis. #Libya #Feb17

SmithInAfrica David Smith
Night time in Zintan: a full moon, the drone of traffic, Al Jazeera on TV, pasta and water again and the occasional bang-bang of gunfire.

_Tripolitania
Reports of 1 child killed, 3 civlians injured near #Nalut after shelling by #Gaddafi forces. #Libya #Feb17

freedom4libya
The number of #FF killed in battle of #Assabaa today has risen to 8 with 28 injured. #Libya.

Tripolitanian
Revolutionaries in #Tripoli have just launched a number of attacks on #Gaddafi checkpoints across the city! #Libya

race2jannah
I can’t believe how many Muslim men have said on FB that the rapist should not be exposed because this is shameful.
Absolutely it must be exposed! Otherwise we are condoning the act of rape and abuse of women.

Real men do not rape!
They protect and care for and respect women!
If those “men” themselves agree thet rape is a shameful act, then why let the rapists get away with it in the first place?
Rapists should not be named so they can rape again and again and again?
By that definition, murderers should not be named either? Murder is shameful too.

septimius_
To all Gaddafi supporters: you better start looking for another tyrent to back up cause ur idol is toast. Mugabi is an option!

libyanproud libyanandproud
The 4 FF arrested in #Gwaleesh checkpoint this morning are from #Ghiryan ! FF pushing towards #asabaa 2 release prisoners.

lSecularLibya
Heinz 7/13: Khamis Katiba in Ghazaya and Takut have been struck. Not much left of them.

ChangeInLibya
Spot the real Gaddafi fb.me/1aKDSy9wu

IamLibya
So heartbreaking to hear of young men dying, yet very proud and comforting, knowing that they will be in a better place InshAllah.

IamLibya
The battle at #Qwaleesh was a total bloodshed. My relative, including other family friends have martyred, Allah yarhamhom.

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
The battle 2 retake Qualeesh saw fighters from all over the mountain taking part today. Reinforcements arrived all the way from Cabao #libya

NYT
Battle for Libya
July 13 2011 new photo’s:
www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/13/wo...

CNN
CNN crew caught in Libyan firefight
Libyan rebels lose, then retake village during dramatic five-hour firefight in Libya. CNN’s Ben Wedeman reports during the firefight and after he and the CNN crew reach safety.
cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/13/c...

james Wheeler
@
@wheelertweets One of the freedom fighters killed today was the brother of my friend Massoud from #Zintan.
This is Ridwan (21) from #Kikla #Libya at a Tunis hospital on July 4th. He went back home this weekend — and got shot
.in the shoulder. Now this brave young man is on his way bak to Tunisia 4 care. btw, he wants to c the US when this is over
Ridwan is one of the 28 good guys injured at Qwaleesh today. He was previously shot on May 27th in fighting at #Kikla #Libya.
The #Libyan FF whose face & neck were slashed at the Qwaleesh checkpoint today came from Canada just 3 days ago. @libyanproud
Yes, he was in a photo I posted w/ Rida. New injury is bad enuf 2 b sent out to Tunisia, but hopefully not 2 bad. Will know tomorrow
Money is a great way to help. Need it to cover hospital stays & related expenses. But visiting FFs n the hospital is good too
Hamza. An injured freedom fighter from #Kikla #Libya. Patient at a different Tunis hospital than other guys I’ve shown.
Hamza was hit in the face by 106 mm last week at Qwaleesh. Shrapnel removed is in that jar. His jaw is broken.
yeah, but he’ll go back as many times as it takes. that kid is not a quitter.

Aid worker:
Nusaiba
I’ll never forget when a man from Benghazi came up2 me at Rmada camp n asked me2say something 2 Gaddafi: I looked at the kids around (1/2)
Sometimes I don’t actually like to think about the reality of what’s going on cos if I do I may drive myself insane #libya
How many have died, how many are homeless, struggling, in agony, in pain. Allah is great. We must go on.
Reading about something as it unfolds is nothing like its reality. #libya I’ve heard seen too many people that r suffering. Struggling

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Reports that freedom fighters in Zawiya had a busy day today as well. Multiple Gaddafi checkpoints raided and weapons seized #libya #feb17

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Qualeesh: Very bloody day today. 8 FF dead 20+ injured. Gaddafi casualties in the dozens. FF advanced some 10-15km
Qualeesh: Freedom fighters lost the town early in the day bt regained it 2-3 hours later and advanced all way to asab’aa near Gheryan #libya

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
Arrived Tripoli.Drove past scores of checkpoints,battle-scarred Zawara,long gaslines & pockets of Gadhafi supporters. 1st time bk since ’08

live2Tripoli live2Tripoli
It seems that when #Tripoli explodes it will have a big shockwave, as tension still builds, people still being hunted inside. God have mercy

Amazigh_Libya AmazighLibya
Wish even one journalist can cover the daily shelling in #Nalut by Gaddafi forces. Grad killed one little boy today & injured his brother.

SUMMARY JULY 14th 2011

7/14/2011
7.14.2011

A life without cause is a life without effect

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

ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#NATO spokesman has ‘appealed’ to #Malta and #Italy to accept rescued refugees

NATO Secretary General travels to Istanbul to attend the Libya Contact Group meeting
The NATO Secretary General, Mr. Anders Fogh Rasmussen will be travelling to Istanbul, to attend the fourth meeting of the International Contact Group on Libya on Friday 15 July 2011.
He will also meet with the Prime Minister of Turkey, Mr. Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister of Turkey, Mr Ahmet Davutoglu.

BBC
Libya unrest: Caught in the crossfire with the rebels
Rebels in western Libya have been thrown into confusion after Col Muammar Gaddafi’s forces staged a day of counter attacks against their lines in the Nafusa mountains.
Vid.:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14147341

iyad_
Gaddafi can hold as much empty desert as he wants, the vast majority of #Libya’s population live in the upper third of the country.

ENI could not pull off Rome conference, so No Business!
ENI had been selling fuel MT @Reuters FLASH: Govt of Libyan leader Gaddafi has halted all cooperation with Italy’s ENI – Libyan PM #Libya

Arab World:
EU recognizes Libyan rebel council, offers its support

A delegation of Libyan rebels, led by the leader of the National Transitional Council (NTC), has met with NATO and EU officials to discuss the ongoing situation in Libya.
For a long time, European governments treated the NTC with caution, as they did not know what it was or what its members wanted.
However, the NTC has now been recognized by several countries as the only legitimate representative of the Libyan people, and in recognition of this, its leader Mahmoud Jibril was received in Brussels on Wednesday.
Jibril held talks with NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at NATO headquarters, and Rasmussen expressed the importantance of the visit.
“They the NTC have a great responsibility for the smooth transition to a democratic and inclusive future in Libya,” said Rasmussen.
‘Unimaginable destruction’
In his discussions with Rasmussen, Jibril painted a dark picture of the state of affairs in his country.
Barroso said the EU would help rehabilitate Libya, if needed
“The magnitude and scope of destruction is beyond imagination,” he said. “Libya today needs all types of rehabilitation – physical, psychological, social, economic.”
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the EU would be happy to help but “Libyan leadership” is important.
“Libyan ownership is essential,” said Barroso. “But European expertise can play a key role, for instance in support of free and fair elections.”
Abuse allegations
During his visit, Jibril countered accusations made by the organization Human Rights Watch that the rebels were responsible for looting, arson and abuse of civilians.
He admitted a “few incidents” took place in the early days of the insurrection but “this is no longer the case in the liberated areas.”
The abuses were said to have taken place in June and July – as recently as last week – as rebel forces pushed through the Nafusa Mountains.
Jibril affirmed that the NTC are “against any human rights violations.”
Author: Christoph Hasselbach, Brussels / cb
Editor: Martin Kuebler
Source:
www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15233283,...

Nato appeals to Malta and Italy to accept migrants rescued by Spanish warship
NATO has appealed to Malta and Italy to open up their ports to accept a Spanish frigate to disembark some 110 refugees fleeing Libya who have been rescued last Sunday but have since been at the centre of a diplomatic row between Malta and Libya.
SEE MIGRANT BOAT PICTURES BELOW – SOURCE: SPAIN MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
MaltaToday is informed that the stand-off has been ongoing since Sunday and involved the medical evacuation of a 10-month old baby from on board the Spanish ship and brought by helicopter to Mater Dei Hospital for urgent medical care.
Military sources have confirmed that the Spanish warship Almirante Juan de Borbón rescued the migrantson Sunday morning from a drifting boat south of Lampedusa, but when the ship attempted to take the migrants to Lampedusa, an Italian aircraft carrier – the Giuseppe Garibaldi – also active in the Mediterranean as part of Operation Unified Protector – was heard ordering the Spanish captain not to proceed towards the island.
Read full story:
Source:
www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/nat...

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Trust me FFs in Tripoli have not used force yet. Zero Hour will surprise the world & there is nothing G can do about it #Feb17

Reuters:
Libya rebels regroup after battle exposes weakness

AL-QAWALISH, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan rebel fighters prepared for a new offensive south of Tripoli on Thursday but tactical errors raised new questions about whether they will be able to march on the capital.
Western states are frustrated by a five-month rebel campaign that — despite support from NATO warplanes — has failed to overthrow Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and some governments are now looking instead to talks as a way out of the conflict.
Rebel commanders in the village of Al-Qawalish, about 100 km (60 miles) from Tripoli, said they were massing their forces and preparing to advance east towards the town of Garyan, which controls access to the main highway into the capital.
But only a day earlier, the handful of rebels defending Al-Qawalish ran out of ammunition and fled when forces loyal to Gaddafi staged a surprise attack. The rebels took back the village before nightfall, with the loss of seven men
Read more:
af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE7...

iyad_
I’m really worried about Tripoli.
Yesterday there was a report from a Russian paper that claimed that Gaddafi had plans to “blow up Tripoli” if taken over by FF.
I dismissed this “Gaddafi is booby-trapping Tripoli” report, as I now dismiss much of what I see on Russian media.
But today, there are reports of Gaddafi’s men “cleaning” Tripoli’s urban sanitation system. In summer in the middle of war?
Could Gaddafi be booby-trapping Tripoli from underneath?
Yes
I wouldn’t put anything beyond this monster and his psychopath sons
There it is: Arabic report about Gaddafi’s “suicide plan” to blow up Tripoli if taken over by FF: on.fb.me/qlpENx #Libya
or:
www.emaratalyoum.com/politics/news/2011...

Gaddafi’s “suicide plan” to booby-trap and blow up Tripoli, via AFP (English): t.co/pfdB9yI
#Libya
Here is the art.:

Kadhafi has ‘suicide plan’ for capital: Russia envoy
(AFP) –
MOSCOW — Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi has a “suicidal plan” to blow up the capital Tripoli if it is taken by rebels, the Kremlin’s special envoy to Libya told a Russian newspaper Thursday.
“The Libyan premier told me: if the rebels seize the city, we will cover it with missiles and blow it up,” Kremlin envoy Mikhail Margelov said in an interview with the Izvestia daily.
Margelov met Libyan Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi last month.
“I imagine that the Kadhafi regime does have such a suicidal plan,” he added, saying that Kadhafi still had plentiful supplies of missiles and ammunition.
But Margelov, who has had rare access to senior Libyan officials, questioned reports that Kadhafi could be running out of arms in the drawn-out conflict.
Kadhafi had still not used a single surface-to-surface missile, he argued.
“Tripoli theoretically could lack ammunition for tanks, cartridges for rifles. But the colonel has got plenty of missiles and explosives.”
Margelov met the Libyan prime minister on June 16 in Tripoli after holding talks in Benghazi earlier the same month. He has not met Kadhafi himself.
Russia abstained from a vote on a March UN Security Council resolution that opened the way for foreign involvement and has since criticized the campaign — particularly arms drops by France.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday for talks on Libya, where Lavrov sought to play down differences between the countries.
However, the Russian foreign ministry said earlier Wednesday that Moscow would not take part in talks on Libya later this week in Turkey, which has also seen itself as a mediator in the conflict.

Leaks about Gaddafi “booby trapping” Tripoli can only mean that he knows he can’t hold the city much longer.

Add FF advances in Zlitan, and their plans for Tarhuna; Gaddafi from Tripoli to Zwara will be practically under siege. #Libya

The Nafusa mountains completely surround the north-west coast (Zwara to Tripoli).

If Gaddafi is pushed out of Gharyan, the Nafusa will be like a noose around his neck in the north-west, esp. Tripoli.

Add FF advances in Zlitan, and their plans for Tarhuna; Gaddafi from Tripoli to Zwara will be practically under siege. #Libya

ArmchairArab Armchair Arab
Pro-Gaddafi dancers entertaining Gaddafi Troops before they go off to massacre their own people – youtube.com/watch?v=8xQD6M…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xQD6MIYM0A

dovenews Libyan™
1 child was killed & a little girl was injured from Gaddafi forces grad missile attack on #Nalut yesterday.

Eyewitness: Approx 100 cars belong to #Gaddafi forces were seen in #Alghazya. #Nafusa

#Gaddafi is blackmailing families in #Azzawya & is forcing to go out tomorrow to support him. Support the IDOL (صنم)

Some1 askd me if #FF recruit 7yr children in #Misrata? The answr is NO, we R not like Gaddafi who recruits minors like he did in #Chads war!

Libya.tv just showed some of #Gaddafi forces intoxicated & dancing with a provocative female dancer. #Libya #GaddafiCrimes

8 #FF were killed in yesterday’s battle with Gaddafi forces in #AlGawaleaish.

Russia’s envoy to #Libya "Gaddafi has a suicidal plan to bomb Tripoli if the #FF reached the capital, he has land mined sewage canals 1/2
& he still has lage quantities of ground-to-ground rockets to fully destroy the capital. 2/2

Gulf_of_Sirte
We’ve had great support from our fellow brothers & sisters Sabha… Truly all Libyans are one!

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Breaking: Tripoli: Clashes in Hay AlAndalus with gun fire heard near the police station of HAy AlAndalus #Feb17 #Libya Allah Akbar

ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
PHOTOS: Refugees pictured by #Spain navy before Sunday’s rescue in Med
yfrog.com/kjrajrvj
yfrog.com/ki7k8pij

Danya
You cannot kill the truth. You cannot kill justice. You cannot kill what we are fighting for.

Karl Stagno-Navarra
Tunisia is also being involved in talks in bid to accept refugees

Turkey proposes ‘road map’ to end Libyan crisis

ANKARA, Turkey—Turkey will present a “road map” to help end the Libyan crisis when countries backing NATO’s military mission in Libya gather in Istanbul to rev up pressure on Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to step aside, Turkey’s foreign ministry said Thursday
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and some 40 other members of the so-called Contact Group on Libya will hold their fourth meeting on Friday to support a post-Gadhafi era, boost support to the Libyan main opposition group and plot steps for a political transition.
A Turkish Foreign Ministry official said Thursday nations participating in the fourth Contact Group meeting were expected to discuss a Turkish plan delineating political options to end the Libyan crisis despite Gadhafi’s refusal to stand down, and to set the stage for a democratic transition.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with the ministry’s rule, would not provide further details of what Turkey was bringing to the table.
Full art.:
www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articl...

Karl Stagno-Navarra
SHOCKING: #Spain rescued the refugees on SUNDAY!…Stand-off is in its fifth day and no solution yet!

Libya: psychological services in Misrata

Médecins Sans Frontières MSF (Doctors Without Borders) has helped established a network of 30 local psychologists as part of its medical support projects in the city of Misrata, which has been the scene of fierce fighting for more than four months.
In a country which has not experienced war in over four decades, has few psychiatrists, and where psychology is an often neglected and undervalued aspect of mental health, MSF focused its psychological activities on helping to build and support a network of local psychologists with access to both patients receiving treatment in the city’s main health facilities, as well members of the community outside the medical system.
Child psychologists
Following months of fierce conflict, parents and medical staff are concerned for the mental well-being of the children of Misrata. © Eddy McCall/MSF
“Prior to the war, there were only child psychology services in Misrata for treating conditions such as Down’s syndrome or autism, nothing else, and even psychiatry wasn’t really being offered effectively,” said MSF psychologist Elias Abi-Aad.
“They had no experience in normal clinical psychology at all, let alone trauma and war-related mental health disorders.”
In addition to providing training in conducting basic therapy and consultations, MSF psychologists shared the psychological treatment tools developed throughout the organisation’s 40-year history of intervening in war contextsFull art.:
Full Art.:
www.msf.org.uk/articledetail.aspx?fId=L...

LIBIA: INVIATO CREMLINO, GHEDDAFI HA PIANO SEGRETO SUICIDA

(AGI) Mosca – Muammar Gheddafi avrebbe in animo un “piano suicida” segreto per distruggere Tripoli in caso la capitale sia conquistata dai ribelli. Lo ha raccontato a un giornale russo l’inviato speciale del Cremlino per la Libia. “Me lo ha detto il premier libico: sei ribelli si impadroniscono della citta’, la colpiremo con missili e la faremo saltare in aria”, ha raccontato Mikhail Margelov. “Posso immaginare che il regime di Gheddafi abbia davvero un tale piano suicida”, ha aggiunto .
Source:
www.agi.it/rubriche/ultime-notizie-page...

Karl Stagno-Navarra
#NATO sources say migrants on board #Spain ship Almirante Juan de Borbon need ‘urgent medical attention’

MOD
British forces continue attacks on Gaddafi’s troops
A Military Operations news article
14 Jul 11
The Royal Navy, Army and RAF have continued to protect Libyan civilians at risk of attack from Gaddafi’s forces over the last few days with a number of strikes on key targets.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, British Army attack helicopters struck Colonel Gaddafi’s troops engaged in the repression of the civilian population of western Libya.
Having launched from the helicopter carrier HMS Ocean, the Apaches penetrated the Libyan coast between Zuwarah and Az Zawiyah. Fleet Air Arm Sea King helicopters provided radar surveillance, while NATO fixed-wing aircraft provided overwatch for the operation
Flying inland, the Apaches targeted three vehicle checkpoints, which had been located in advance by intensive NATO reconnaissance operations and were being used to prevent free movement by local people.
At each checkpoint, military vehicles and structures were identified and successfully engaged using Hellfire missiles and cannon fire, as well as infantry positions. In total, four military structures and seven vehicles were destroyed, including at least one multiple-barrelled rocket launcher.
A particular focus of operational activity on Saturday was the wider area around Misurata. To the south of the city, near Tawurgha, Royal Air Force Tornado and Typhoon aircraft successfully attacked a large former grain farm, which NATO surveillance operations had revealed was being used by the regime as a base for multiple rocket launchers to bombard Misurata with.
To the south west of the city, two RAF reconnaissance patrols located a battery of four howitzers also threatening the city, and attacks with precision-guided weapons destroyed all four, as well as an armed pick-up truck.
One of the RAF flights followed up this action with a patrol over the Jebel Nafusa region, 120 miles (193km) to the west. Near Mizdah, it located yet another of Colonel Gaddafi’s field guns, which was duly destroyed.

At sea, to the west of Misurata, the destroyer HMS Liverpool engaged regime forces on the coast at Zlitan with a number of high explosive and illumination rounds from her 4.5-inch (114mm) gun. See Related News to read more on this.
Yesterday, 13 July 2011, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, after meeting with a delegation of the Libyan Transitional National Council, made a statement on ‘The Way Forward in Libya’.

Source:
www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/...

Karl Stagno-Navarra
PICTURE: #Spain NATO navy frigate ’Almirante Juan de Borbon that is being denied entry to #Lampedusa #Malta
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BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
#zintan funerals planned for 1, apparently pushed to 2p, (ie 1p #Libya time) should have libya/zintan media center reporter there

hudduh
I was on this historic flight direct from Benghazi to Nafusa Mountains, in awe at Libyans resourcefulness
tinyurl.com/5s5tfnw

Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Spain #Malta #Italy diplomats continue ‘talks’ over where rescued refugees are to be taken as #Spain warship awaits orders

Gihan
الثوار دخلو الاصابعه وحرروها بالكامل @TawasulMC Tawasul News: Jabel Nafousa: FFS liberated El Asabeaa town completely #Libya #Feb17

Karl Stagno-Navarra
Refugees are on board #Spain #Nato vessel Almirante Juan de Borbon – Nationalities are #Ghana, #Tunisia, #Libya. Their boat left #Misurata

carol
Libya’s FFs are not soldiers with military training. What they know of warfare is what they’ve learned in the past 5 months.
I know the FFs are “Epic” but they are not Marines. And even if they were, what could Libyan FF Marines do in this situation?

hominoid
Libya The flight of numbers of al-Gaddafi, soldiers and volunteers. The rebels have the help of some of those fleeing out of Zliten.

MisrataPatriots
Zlitin feb17: load explosions heard in the town Zlitin where Nato air force targeted Gaddafi troops today #Libya #Feb17

Libia: combattimenti nell’ovest, 8 morti
I ribelli alle porte di Al Assaba,ultima citta’ prima di Gharyan
(ANSA) – ZENTEN (LIBIA), 14 LUG – Almeno otto insorti sono rimasti uccisi e una trentina feriti in combattimenti ieri contro le truppe fedeli al regime di Muammar Gheddafi nell’ovest della Libia.. Lo hanno riferito medici dell’ospedale di Zenten.

Dopo aver respinto una controffensiva dei lealisti, gli insorti sono arrivati ieri sulle colline sovrastanti Al Assaba, ultima città prima di Gharyan, che con le sue guarnigioni è una delle ultime difese della capitale Tripoli.
Source:
www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/topnew...

omar
#Italy: We’re gradually building the conditions for a democratic & united #Libya, Italy fully backs the #NTC democratic credentials. #Feb17

Libye Libre
Confusion et peur à #Yefren hier,vu voitures pleines de familles fuyant Qalaa et des résistants allant vers d’autres directions

Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Italy aircraft carrier Garibaldi told #Spain navy capt not to proceed to #Lampedusa

m_madi Mohamed Madi
i’ll be in zintan press centre for most of today, upstairs in internet room

Greetings all, in Zintan now after a crazy, crazy day in Yifrin/Qalaa/Gawaleesh yesterday

I’ll do a schoolboy style chronological tweet update

I accompanied the doctors to an abandoned clinic about 10km from Gawaleesh to set up a new field hospital there

We set about cleaning and preparing the place (well, I was taking pictures, which I will upload if the connection allows)

In the clinic’s courtyard we found ammo crates and unused rockets with LAAF (Libyan Arab Air Force) labelling

Found three unopened crates at the clinic, opened one and found a delivery note dating the rockets to 1974, from France

I have video of someone opening one of the sealed crates, which I’ll upload once I’m back in UK.

Rocket type – 68mm, for use with JL100 launchers (I think this is for the “Mirage” missile pod)

Anyways, halfway through cleaning the clinic we hear heavy fire, getting closer

Minutes later we are told to evacuate immediately, which we promptly did in the back of a Mitsubishi Canter

(BTW, these are the homeboys we found in the clinic’s courtyard in Firendiz near Gwaleesh www.saairforce.co.za/the-airforce/weapo...

www.saairforce.co.za/the-airforce/weapo...

So, we evacuate to Qalaa’s school-turned-clinic, the doctors treat one, non-severe injury there before we need to evacuate again

So 6 doctors and myself cram into a tiny Mazda hatchback with crap brakes and drive through winding mountain passes to Yifrin

Just to clarify, these tweets are about yesterdays events, no internet in Yifrin hence delay

I fear the driving in Libya far more than I do the random shelling

(sorry for slow tweeting, net keeps cutting off here, but still, grateful for free internet)

Yifrin hospital received around 20 injuries yesterday, several of them serious. Most of them were moved onto Zintan hospital

Confusion and fear in Yifrin yesterday, saw cars full of families fleeing Qalaa and rebels heading other way

Before sunset yesterday I hitched a ride down to the front, which was well beyond Gwaleesh. Both sides exchanging rocket and mortar fire

Gunfire now in Zintan as some of the dead from yesterday’s fighting are being buried. Zintan death toll stands at 8, some missing

One wonders what purpose celebratory gunfire serves, unless you are celebrating the waste of ammunition

I haven’t heard anything about Asabeah today, though confirmed and trustworthy reports are hard to come by

In fact, the best indicators of whether there is fighting at the front is whether there are truckloads of fighters and weapons headed there

And today there were certainly truckloads of fighters and weapons headed to the Gawalish area.

Unclear whether this is a new offensive or just defensive reinforcements, but either way, more troops at the front than in recent days

I almost forgot to say – electricity returned to parts of #Yifrin yesterday, specifically the Souk (town centre) and Shgarna areas

Power back in #Yifrin is big news – there has been no power for months and it is the main reason most families have not returned

Engineers from Benghazi and Nafusa worked around the clock to reconnect the power, and may get power up in other areas b4 i get back 2 nite

WilliamJHague William Hague
Key meeting of the #Libya Contact Group in Istanbul tomorrow. Support for ITNC, post-conflict plans & work of UN Envoy Khatib all on agenda

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

NATIONAL POST
Why we’re fighting for a better Libya

John Baird, National Post • Jul. 14, 2011 | Last Updated: Jul. 14, 2011 2:04 AM ET
Twenty thousand martyred, another 50,000 ’ injured."
That was the answer given, via translator, to the question I posed to Dr. Mustafa Abdul Jalil. The chairman of the National Transitional Council said it matter of factly. That is the number of Libyans believed killed or hurt at the hands of a man who calls himself their Brother Leader.
Roughly the same number of people call Sarnia, Ont. home.
Later, meeting with Abdul Jalil’s National Transitional Council (NTC), I asked the group: Who knew someone who had fallen victim to Colonel Gaddafi and his thugs in recent days? Thirty or so people raised a hand. Each had lost a relative, a neighbour or a friend.
Each joined the rebellion knowing that if they are unsuccessful in getting Gaddafi out, they and their families are likely in even greater danger.
I can honestly say their courage and their resolve are remarkable.
The people around that table in Benghazi didn’t look like rebels -at least not as I picture rebels. That may be because up until a few months ago, they weren’t rebels. Until a few months ago, they were doctors and engineers, professionals and parents.
Then -something changed. People, I’m told, decided for themselves they’d had enough.
Doing so prompted threats of a brutal crackdown from Tripoli. The international community was compelled to act, and did, thankfully. Canada -through NATO -has been front and centre in the military mission to protect the Libyan people.
We have committed more than $10-million in humanitarian assistance.
And we are stepping up our diplomatic efforts as well.
That’s what took me to Libya late last month. I wanted to meet senior members of the NTC for myself. I must say they and their organization impressed me.
That is not to say that anything to do with Libya in the coming weeks or months will be easy. No one should be under any false illusions of that.
Nor is the NTC likely to be a perfect interim government once Gaddafi is gone. They will likely make mistakes. All governments do from time to time.
But their intentions are good. I honestly believe that.
The vision they have laid out for a free Libya is admirable. Their timeline for transition to democracy is aggressive.
They have committed to the rule of law.
They are promising to ensure women -who are a key part of the rebellion -have a major role in public life.
Perhaps most importantly, they have pledged to distribute Libya’s immense natural resource wealth more equitably. They want to find people jobs. They want all Libyans to prosper.
A columnist in another newspaper called my support for the rebls “naïve.”
It is not given blindly. Nor is Canada’s threepronged engagement with the NTC (mil-itary, diplomatic and humanitarian) assured forever.
The NTC must deliver on the promises it has made. The world expects it. The Libyan people require it.
A new Libya will by no means be perfect. There is no history of democracy there. But the NTC has the capacity to begin to change course and try to do better
While the NTC’s success ultimately depends on support from within Libya’s borders, it is more assured with help from outside.
And, for now, I am more sure than ever that Canada’s help is required and is making a difference.
John Baird is Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister. He is travelling to Istanbul, Turkey, today for a meeting of the Libya Control Group. Canada’s engagement was extended by three-and-a-half months by a 294-1 vote in Parliament in June.
Source:
www.nationalpost.com/news/fighting%20be...

septimius_
Libyan rebels (after they reorganized, retrained and rearmed) make major push for #Brega youtube.com/watch?v=O4F9j9… #Libya #AJE by @anitamcnaught

www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4F9j9pdSOc&fea...

Souffian Tripoli
Gaddafi has always threatened by killing #Libya ns. now he is threatening by distorting #Tripoli. after attaking #Benghazi #Misrata #Nafusa

Niz_FGM Niz
13/7/11 -Witnessed by FGMovement. Artillery on trucks leaving #Tripoli & heading south to Alazaziyah. Gaddafi preparing last line of defense

14/7/11- Streets of #Tripoli are quiet, with the absence of check-points, except near the MFA.

14/7/11-FGM FB page has suddenly vanished.It appears somebody is trying to block it.Will fix it; should be up and running again very soon.

SUMMARY LIBYA NEWS AROUND THE WORLD:
Feb17
Reuters
The government of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has halted all cooperation with Italian energy firm ENI, Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali Al-Mahmoudi said on Thursday. ENI is the biggest foreign oil company in Libya and has had a presence in the North African country since the 1950s, but it angered Tripoli by suspending operations and establishing ties with rebels trying to overthrow Gaddafi. The Prime Minister said the Gaddafi government was prepared to let U.S. firms invest because Washington is not taking a direct role in the NATO bombing of Libya.
“We have now ended all cooperation with ENI,” Al-Mahmoudi told a news conference in Tripoli.

Bankok Post
Libyan rebels pulled most of their fighters back from an assault on a gateway to Tripoli on Thursday to regroup. ”Yesterday, we got to within six kilometres (four miles) of Asabah, but most of our forces have returned” to Gualish, where rebels repulsed a bid by Gadhafi forces on Wednesday to recapture the desert hamlet, said local commander Abdel Majid Salem.
Asabah is strategically located 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of the capital, serving as the last barrier between the rebels and the garrison town of Gharyan. Salem said the bulk of the rebels had returned to “secure the area” around Gualish, some 17 kilometres (11 miles) further south, but that some remained outside Asabah and that they now held a checkpoint six kilometres north of Gualish.

Deutsche Welle
Turkey initially opposed military action in Libya and for weeks continued a dialogue with the Gadhafi regime to secure Turkish interests. But in a major policy shift Ankara has cut ties with Tripoli. The Turkish government is now actively pursuing a policy that lends full support to Benghazi, as Turkey seeks a larger say in shaping the future of Libya.

Reuters
Britain is running short of military targets in Libya as the forces of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are increasingly using civilian infrastructure and vehicles, a defence ministry source said on Thursday. ”We’ve had credible intelligence that Gaddafi is using civilian warehouses. He’s definitely changing his tactics,” said the source, who also echoed NATO claims that Gaddafi’s forces were using civilian vehicles to deter air strikes.

ALJAZEERA
Opposition fighters in rebel-held eastern Libya say they are preparing to launch another major offensive against Muammar Gadaffi’s regime. They plan to push along the coastal front within days, perhaps even hours, with the aim of recapturing Brega, a strategic oil town.

Washington Post
Four months after intervening on the side of anti-government rebels, Western governments are expressing optimism that the regime of Moammar Gaddafi may be close to crumbling. But the dictator has not yet surrendered.

Ahram Online
The International Contact Group on Libya will ponder the chances of negotiating a political settlement to the conflict with representatives of the regime — excluding Gaddafi and his inner circle — and the rebels, officials said. The UN envoy for Libya, Abdul Ilah al-Khatib, will brief participants on his recent talks with both Tripoli and the rebels at their stronghold of Benghazi, a Turkish diplomat said.
“Ideas are maturing on how to launch a political track through the mediating role of the United Nations,” Italy’s foreign ministry spokesman Maurizio Massari said. ”The fundamental point is that Gaddafi is not part of this political process. A dialogue with members of the regime who are not Gaddafi’s family or officials on the sanctions list could be the basis for this process,” he said.

USA
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insisted on the eve of the talks that Gaddafi’s days were numbered, with the colonel hanging on in Tripoli despite four months of NATO-led bombings backing up rebels battling his four-decade regime.

Turkey
Turkey says it will propose a “road map” to help end the Libyan crisis when nations backing NATO’s military mission gather in Istanbul.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and some 40 other members of the so-called Contact Group on Libya will hold their fourth meeting on Friday to support a post-Gadhafi era, boost support to the Libyan main opposition group and plot steps for a political transition.
A Turkish Foreign Ministry official said Thursday participants will take up a plan outlining options to end the Libyan crisis and set the stage for a democratic transition in “line with the just expectations of the Libyan people.”
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with ministry rules, would not provide further details.

China
China said on Thursday that it would skip a meeting in Turkey this week between Western powers, Arab governments and leaders of Libya’s opposition National Transitional Council, saying that the way the group worked needed “further study”
Istanbul is set to host the contact group meeting on July 15 as part of an international effort to bring stability to a post-Gaddafi Libya.
“China has already received the relevant invitation,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a regular news briefing.
“But because the function and method of operation of this contact group need further study, China will not be attending this meeting,” he added, without elaborating.
AP
US officials said cite intelligence estimates that fuel shortages could occur within as little as a month. Gaddafi is also facing a cash crisis after Turkey cut off his access, on July 4, to hundreds of millions in Libyan funds held in a Turkish-Libyan bank. While Gaddafi could not access actual cash, he had been issuing letters of credit to pay his debtors, including fuel importers.

Reuters
Libyan rebel fighters were digging in to this village south of Tripoli on Thursday after losing it then taking it back in a see-saw battle that exposed the military frailties of rebel forces.
Rebel fighters took the village, a staging post on the way to the capital about 100 km (60 miles) north, a week ago, then they lost it to government troops on Wednesday morning, and by nightfall they were back in control.
On Thursday morning there were scores of fighters manning defensive positions throughout Al-Qawalish, and they were supported by trucks with heavy machine guns mounted on the back.

G REGIME
Gaddafi’s prosecutor general Mohammed Zikri al-Mahjoubi files charges against the secretary general of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen of war crimes against Libyans before a Libyan court in Tripoli July 13

AFP
Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi has a “suicidal plan” to blow up the capital Tripoli if it is taken by rebels, the Kremlin’s special envoy to Libya told a Russian newspaper Thursday.
“The Libyan premier told me: if the rebels seize the city, we will cover it with missiles and blow it up,” Kremlin envoy Mikhail Margelov said in an interview with the Izvestia daily.
Margelov met Libyan Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi last month.
“I imagine that the Kadhafi regime does have such a suicidal plan,” he added, saying that Kadhafi still had plentiful supplies of missiles and ammunition.
But Margelov, who has had rare access to senior Libyan officials, questioned reports that Kadhafi could be running out of arms in the drawn-out conflict.
Kadhafi had still not used a single surface-to-surface missile, he argued.
“Tripoli theoretically could lack ammunition for tanks, cartridges for rifles. But the colonel has got plenty of missiles and explosives.”

AP
Clinton departs Washington on Thursday for Turkey, where she will attend a meeting in Istanbul of senior officials from the more than 40 nations supporting NATO’s operation to protect Libyan civilians.
The fourth meeting of foreign ministers from the so-called Contact Group on Libya will be looking not only at stepping up pressure on Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to leave power, but also boosting support to the cash-starved opposition Transitional National Council.

Telegraph
The campaign was originally mandated for 90 days but it is now approaching four months with little sign of Col Muammar Gaddafi’s regime collapsing.
Although the Nato mission has been extended to continue until September the Defence Secretary suggested there was no guarantee that the Libyan government would have been toppled by then.
“We can, and have, planned for operations such as those we are undertaking but no one can predict how long a complex intervention will take,” Dr Fox told an assembly of top ranking RAF officers during an Air Power conference at the Royal United Services Institute.

TNC
A senior minister in the Libyan rebel Transitional National Council opened an airfield on Tuesday linking the rebel capital Benghazi with a remote Western Mountain stronghold south of Tripoli, and promised a military breakthrough within days.
Ali Tarhouni, oil and finance minister in the council opposing Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, arrived and departed by air at the Rhebat air strip, a stretch of mountain highway, where a giant yellow arrow painted on the tarmac marks out the runway, next to a blue and white shack flying the rebel flag.
He told Reuters he was bringing aid to the mountains, a region where the rebels have made significant military gains in the last few weeks against Gaddafi’s forces and are preparing for another major advance.
“I am hoping you will hear very good news in the next 24-48 hours on all fronts, economic, military, all fronts.”

Reuters
Rebel fighters said they had retaken the village of Al-Qawalish in western Libya from forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi on Wednesday.
The village fell to pro-Gaddafi forces earlier on Wednesday, but the rebels said they had staged a successful counter-attack to seize it back, rebel spokesman Abdurahman Alzintani told Reuters.
The village lies about 100 km (60 miles) south of Tripoli and is key to rebel plans to advance on Gaddafi’s stronghold in the capital.

EU
A European Union executive offered Libyan rebels help with democratic reforms on Wednesday once their war with Muammar Gaddafi’s government was over and said their Benghazi-based council was gaining credibility.
Speaking after meeting a rebel representative, Mahmoud Jebril, in Brussels, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the EU was ready to assist with organising elections and setting up state institutions in Libya.
“I think this visit is a sign of the growing authority and credibility of the Transitional National Council (TNC) on the international scene,” Barroso told reporters.
“It is also a sign of the EU’s engagement in supporting the TNC as a key political interlocutor.”

Reuters
President Barack Obama told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday he supports Moscow’s efforts to mediate a political solution in Libya and is ready to support talks toward a democratic transition as long as Muammar Gaddafi steps aside, the White House said.
Obama’s press secretary, Jay Carney, said in a statement that the president made clear his position on the matter in a White House meeting with Lavrov.

baysontheroad baysontheroad
IN QWALEESH. IN HANDS OF OPP FORCES. QUIET FOR NOW

ALERT:
Patriots of Misratah:
From Reliable source: Khuwaildi is arming Al-Mahadhen tribe in Ben Gardan, Tunisia via Massoud Kazzouz from Al-Jamil city in Libya by giving them money and arms

baysontheroad baysontheroad
Opp fighters claim they have been told not to advance beyond Qwaleesh today by NATO. They say NATO planning to attack Gaddafi lines.

Claims of atrocities committed by Gaddafi troops around Qwaleesh and road to Kikla. I am told there are photos. Haven’t found them yet.

Claims of executions and one fighter beheaded with eyes gouged out. Cannot confirm independently.

m_madi
Yesterday three separate “Thuwwar” (rebel fighters) condemned burning of houses and looting in Qawalish, said it harmed their cause
They all told me that young, inexperienced fighters were responsible

inglesi Piers Scholfield
Back from #Misrata #Dafniyeh front line. Morale high though many casualties yesterday. Gaddafi troops just a few hundred metres away.

Frequent heavy machine-gun fire, rockets & mortars landing on & behind #Dafniyeh frontline. Rebels dug in well and laugh after explosions.

Libya #NATO ops for Weds – bit.ly/eJojnv – 6 strikes nr #Misrata. One rebel leader told us he’s v annoyed w/ NATO for not doing more

Patriots of Misurata
Reliable source: Gadhafi Forces begins clean-up operations of the sewage pipes of the city of Tripoli (in the summer) that after Russian newspaper mentioned on Thursday that Gadhafi has a “suicidal plan” to blow up the capital Tripoli if it is taken by rebels

HodaAbdelHamid Hoda Abdel-Hamid
4 rockets land in #Misrata fired from the GF on the southern front about 30km away. No injuries or dead. Just cars burnt.

Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Malta minister ‘to explain #Malta government position’
Malta PM reportedly in telephone conversation with #Spain’s #Zapatero over rescued migrants

Reuters
Special report: How fuel smuggling keeps Gaddafi machine running

ZOKRA, Tunisia (Reuters)- Yacine, a 24-year old Tunisian in jeans and an oil-stained red T-shirt, has been busy since war broke out next door in Libya.
Yacine is the owner of a corrugated iron shack on the side of the road that cuts through the desert from the Tunisian town of Ben Gardane to the border with Libya.
Every day, hundreds of Libyan vehicles come to the shack, and a dozen others like it clustered in the tiny village of Zokra. There, they fill up with gasoline from jerry-cans Yacine has lined up on the roadside, then head to the Ras Jdir border crossing.
Once on the other side, they are in territory firmly under the control of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. A short distance from the crossing, the cars stop on the side of the road at informal collection points. Using lengths of tubing, they siphon the fuel out of their tanks and into blue and green jerry-cans.
Then, according to a Reuters reporter who witnessed the operation, they head back into Tunisia to collect another tank of gasoline.
“Business is good,” said Yacine, who declined to give his family name because his business operates without a license. Asked where the fuel comes from, he replied: “The gasoline is Algerian, and it’s available now.”
This is the lifeline that is helping Muammar Gaddafi cling to power in spite of a five-month-old rebellion against his rule, a NATO bombing campaign, and international sanctions.
Full art. Here:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/14/us-l...

Globe and Mail
Canadian general plays down reports of Gadhafi suicide plan

With Russia warning that Moammar Gadhafi has a suicide plan to blow up Tripoli, NATO’s commander in Libya says he has heard no inkling of such a scorched-earth strategy.
Mikhail Margelov, the Russian envoy to Africa, said senior regime figures told him that if rebels seize the Libyan capital, the Gadhafi regime will “cover it with missiles and blow it up.” The Russian envoy indicated he believes it.

But Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard, the Canadian in charge of NATO’s mission in Libya, said that while he knows that Col. Gadhafi issues orders to his retreating forces to blow up things like oil refineries, he’s heard nothing of a Tripoli suicide plan.
“I do not know of any plan of the magnitude that you’ve discussed,” he told reporters in a conference call from his headquarters in Italy.
“I can report that the Gadhafi regime has given direction to its forces to destroy certain facilities as they withdraw back, such as fuel refineries and other aspects. This is a leader that will not hesitate to kill his population to achieve his personal goal.”

Lt. Gen. Bouchard:
“Let’s be clear. Just because Gadhafi has given a direction, that does not mean that that direction is being undertaken by his troops,” the Canadian officer said.
Full story:
www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/c...=Feeds:%20RSS/Atom&utm_source=World&utm_content=2097040

wheelertweets James Wheeler
Today in Tunis: Tarek (21) from #Misrata #Libya. Injured May 29. 1 of 4 FFs hit at same time by #Gaddafi tank in Dafniya twitpic.com/5q0m7n

One guy had minor injuries. Another lost an arm. Tarek & another guy both lost a leg. #gaddafi #feb17

Tarek was sent to Alexandria #Egypt for care. They wanted to amputate his right leg too. He & his brother Mohammed refused.

They came 2 Tunis from Egypt last Saturday. They said the healthcare is much better here—and Tarek’s right leg will be saved

billneelyitv Bill Neely
#Libya PM says it is negotiating with 4 #US #Oil co’s. “We are seeking new partners for our oil industry”.For #Italy it’s “game over”.

MwattinLeebi Mwattin Leebi
Does he really think he will still be in #Libya after this is over? These r mind games 2 weaken #Italy
the sad thing is they will probably fall for it! Watch this space as they say! #Libya

billneelyitv Bill Neely
Libya PM,Oil Min,Fin Min and #Oil Co’s meet in #Tripoli & agree “our oil policies will be linked 2 our politics from now on”.
Libya PM says "we will no longer have any #oil dealings with countries that killed our citizens. But “we’re prepared 2 deal with #U.S.”
Libya PM says #US "withdrew most of its contribution to war.Libya respects this & will deal differently & do business with US #Oil Co’s.
Libya PM says re #oil “we will deal with each country as it reviews its position on the war”.#France is reviewing so"we will deal with Fce"
Libya PM says re.#oil “the #UK is still quite late in reviewing its position” but “still a chance in the future for UK Co’s”
Libya PM says of David #Cameron “he is a young man but he is very slow in moving forward” to review UK position re war.
Libya PM says “we are negotiating with #Oil Co’s from #China,#Russia and #US” for future deals. “We will restructure our oil policy”
Libya PM says it is negotiating with 4 #US #Oil co’s. “We are seeking new partners for our oil industry”.For #Italy it’s “game over”.
Libya PM says “#Gaddafi’s stay in Libya is eternal.No-one can discuss it”. Talk of him leaving is “silly.He is Lib.citzn,#Tripoli his home”
Libya PM asked “How much of #oil industry has fallen into hands of rebels?” “Big Zero”,he says.
Libya PM says Gov’t has stopped co-oprtn with #Italy Co. ENI,the biggest foreign #oil co in Lib. & thr since 1950’s.No mr business with it.
Libya PM says Gov’t is doing business with 4 #US #Oil Co’s. “US contribution to the war is now much weaker,so we deal with them”.

Manipulation cookie anyone?

CBC
Canadian troops getting results in Libya: MacKay
Canadian troops in Libya are saving lives and helping to mount pressure on the country’s dictator Moammar Gadhafi, Defence Minister Peter MacKay says.
MacKay praised the Canadian Forces personnel involved in the NATO-led mission in Libya during a teleconference Thursday from Naples, Italy, calling them “our greatest citizens and our best ambassadors.”
The defence minister met Wednesday with some of the 650 troops who are stationed at bases in Italy for the operation. Despite the ongoing violence in Libya, MacKay said the Canadian military is helping to achieve “tangible results.”
“Our operations in Libya, to be very frank, are saving lives, and they are setting the conditions for the Libyan people to determine their own future,” said MacKay. “Because of our operations and other NATO allies, there is mounting pressure on the Gadhafi regime to come into compliance with the UN resolutions. And to be very clear, that is our goal.”
Gadhafi ordered destruction of refineries
Bouchard told reporters that Gadhafi is ordering his forces to destroy facilities, including refineries, if they are forced to retreat from their positions. He wouldn’t provide further details about the orders or what other infrastructure might be targeted but said just because Gadhafi has given the instructions, doesn’t mean they will be followed. He added that NATO has observed a number of Gadhafi’s troops abandoning their posts.
“This is a leader that will not hestitate to kill his own population to achieve his personal goals. He has lost all legitimacy to lead his people,” said Bouchard.
Full art.:
www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/07/14/...

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
UNCONFIRMED reports of heavy clashes at outskirts of Brega with significant % of G militias retreating to Bishr area #feb17#libya

m_madi
Only a couple of days left in #nafusa, its been the most interesting holiday I’ve had in a while

ArmchairArab
Watching documentary about children Gaddafi PURPOSELY infected with AIDs when they were infants. Over 400 infected intentionally.

Khiria
Urgent: freedom fighters on the front lines request you’re prayers

Karl Stagno-Navarra
Notice to all #Spain #Italy and other media on #Spain ‘Almirante Juan de Borbon’ ; I will be tweeting from #Malta press conference at 17:30

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
Libyan PM:this is “last chance” for NATO countries to reconsider bombing or they’ll be cut out of future oil deals,“But Italia is finished”

Tropoli Post
Russian Envoy Says Al Qathafi has ‘Suicidal Plan’ for Tripoli

Russia’s special envoy to Libya Mikhail Margelov talks of “plan” to destroy Tripoli

Some of the stories carried in the international press by way of reporting on the Libya conflict between the rebel forces wanting to oust the Libyan leader Muammar Al Qathafi, and the pro-government force are incredible. They are so hard to believe. One such is a report in the Russian newspaper, Izvestia that Muammar Al Qathafi has a “suicidal plan” for Tripoli.

The Russian daily reportedly quoted Kremlin’s special envoy to Libya Mikhail Margelov saying that the Libyan leader has a “suicidal plan” to blow up the capital Tripoli if it is taken by rebels.

Margelov, who met Libyan prime minister Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmudi last month has been quoted saying in an interview with Izvestia: “The Libyan premier told me: if the rebels seize the city, we will cover it with missiles and blow it up.” Kremlin envoy Mikhail Margelov said in an interview with the the Izvestia daily.

“I imagine that the Gaddafi regime does have such a suicidal plan,” he added, while stating that Al Qathafi still had plentiful supplies of missiles and ammunition.

The French news agency AFP that reproduced the story added that Margelov, who has had rare access to senior Libyan officials, questioned reports that Al Qathafi could be running out of arms in the drawn-out conflict.

Margelov continued to paint a rather bizarre picture by arguing that the Libyan leader has still got surface-to-surface missiles that he has not yet used. “Tripoli theoretically could lack ammunition for tanks, cartridges for rifles. But the colonel has got plenty of missiles and explosives,” he said.

Margelov met Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmudi on June 16 in Tripoli after holding talks in Benghazi earlier the same month. He has not met Al Qathafi himself.

Russia abstained from a vote on a March UN Security Council resolution that opened the way for foreign involvement and has since criticised the campaign – particularly arms drops by France.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday for talks on Libya, where Lavrov sought to play down differences between the countries.

However, the Russian foreign ministry said earlier Wednesday that Moscow would not take part in talks on Libya later this week in Turkey, which has also seen itself as a mediator in the conflict.

Libya’s prime minister, Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmudi could not be reached for comment.
Source:
tripolipost.com/articledetail.asp?c=1&i...

MyFreeLibya
Photo: Zintan Funeral, a set on Flickr.Burying yesterday’s 8 martyrs…#Zentan #Feb17 tumblr.com/xuy3hxhdqg

Khiria
NATO Please do #Libyans, #Libya and the world a favor and blow up #Gaddafi & his family! We’ve had enough of their massacres

IamLibya
Idea, let’s all compose du3a/prayer tweets for those on the front lines in #Libya.One can pray too little,but never too much

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
It began in BENGHAZI, It ends in TRIPOLI

Danya
Thank you to all the libyans and non libyans for helping libya …every person makes a difference #DOWNwithGaddafi

Ibrahim Tumi is on TV …around 14 to 15 years old … His left leg and arm amputated #Misrata #GaddafiCrimes …his mom is asking “why”

Watch al2an news now … Showing men with peace signs who’s legss and arms have been amputated … They have so much faith …mashallah

Khiria
For 42 years #Gaddafi has been ripping #Libya & its people apart not including the last 5 months of massacre & now he wants 2blow up Tripoli

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Bolivia CARGO SHIP “NASEM” now departing port #Tripoli #Libya. #feb17

ben3
Dont let gaddafi’s media fool you. he is alone and desperate for help, he is loosing and we are winning

Nusaiba
Demo to mark the 5 month anniversary of the start of the #Feb17 #Libya(n) revolution. At the Libyan embassy in #London 2-6pm Sunday 17/7

libyanproud libyanandproud
Ugly stories about the Fate of Freedom Fighters that were caught by #gaddafi forces yesterday , I hope they’re not true !

MwattinLeebi
Many Tweets abt activities in last cpl of hrs in Hay Andalus etc.; Please confirm

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Moldova FERRY “GUNIZ” now in port #Misrata #Libya and boarding for #Benghazi. #feb17

tripolitano Tripolitano
Here is a map of oil fields in #Libya. The biggest in East and west. Both Under FFs tinyurl.com/5sp4v39

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tucson #Arizona: Eid of Hope bake sale/fundraiser facebook.com/event.php?eid=… Friday 15th 12:30 – 2pm Islamic Center of Tucson. #Libya #feb17 #UA

Todays Zaman
Reuters
Libyan government halts cooperation with Italy’s ENI
The government of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has halted all cooperation with Italian energy firm ENI , Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali Al-Mahmoudi said on Thursday.
ENI is the biggest foreign oil company in Libya and has had a presence in the North African country since the 1950s, but it angered Tripoli by suspending operations and establishing ties with rebels trying to overthrow Gaddafi.

“We have now ended all cooperation with ENI,” Al-Mahmoudi told a news conference in Tripoli.

Al-Mahmoudi also said the government in Tripoli was in talks with Russian, Chinese and U.S. firms over new projects in Libya, though he did not give details.

He said the Gaddafi government was prepared to let U.S. firms invest because Washington is not taking a direct role in the NATO bombing of Libya.
A senior Libyan official told Reuters earlier this month that the governemnt had begun negotiations with Russian and Chinese firms on taking over ENI’s projects in Libya after the Italian firm withdrew its staff.
ENI, like most other international oil companies with investments in Libya, suspended operations there after violence broke out in February following a rebellion against Gaddafi’s rule
Other big investors in Libyan energy include Royal Dutch Shell Plc , France’s Total , BP Plc, Norway’s Statoil and Austria’s OMV .
Source:
www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsB...

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Freedomfighters claim told not to advance beyond #Qwaleesh today by #NATO. They say NATO planning to attack #Gaddafi lines. #Libya #feb17

4 GRAD rockets land in #Misrata fired from #Gaddafi forces on the southern front about 30km away.

MisrataPatriots PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
Reuters: FFs ran found a minefield when recaptured QAWALISH 4m Gadafis forces, another evidence the G.troops are using mines in the uprising

MwattinLeebi Mwattin Leebi
#Gaddafi built a mosque in Kampala, Uganda that holds 40,000 ppl. No such mosque in Libya. All mosques built by locals #Libya

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
UNCONFIRMED #Freedomfighters’s lost 1 tank to land mine, many #Gaddafi soldiers killed on #Brega front lines.

MwattinLeebi Mwattin Leebi
#Gaddafi still has billions in Uganda called Tropical Africa Bank. Pressure needs to be put on #Uganda gov.t to freeze assets #Feb17 #Libya

tripolitano Tripolitano
2 travel from Tripoli 2 border,fill up & bk can bk done in half a day,Qing for fuel at least 5 days.get 2 Xtracans u r in profit

Robert Rowley
Gaddafi has trash (besides his mercs), Freedom fighters weaponry continues to get bigger, better and more of it

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Brega: #Freedomfighters bombing #Gaddafi filth w/ missiles, FF tanks are advancing now. #Libya #feb17

Reuters
Libyan rebels dig in to hold front line village

• Fighters fled village, then fought their way back
• Al-Qawalish is a stepping stone towards Tripoli
   Rebels say won’t be forced to flee again
  
  AL-QAWALISH, Libya, July 14 (Reuters) – Libyan rebel fighters were digging in to this village south of Tripoli on Thursday after losing it then taking it back in a see-saw battle that exposed the military frailties of rebel forces.
  Rebel fighters took the village, a staging post on the way to the capital about 100 km (60 miles) north, a week ago, then they lost it to government troops on Wednesday morning, and by nightfall they were back in control.
  Read more here:
  af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLD...

4everLibya
I worry about the 30K prisoners in #Tripoli. What will G do 2 them when he falls? May God protect Tripoli and its ppl.

Karl Stagno-Navarra
#Spain helicopter brings 2 migrants off ‘Almirante Juan de Borbon’ to #Malta.

m_madi
What I’ve seen is an extraordinary mix of bravado, perseverance, anger, joy and confusion. Jabal #Nafusa is the place to be right now.
baysontheroad baysontheroad
#LIBYA My audio Diary from Qwaleesh: audioboo.fm/boos/412508-au…
or:
audioboo.fm/boos/412508-audio-diary-fro...

wheelertweets James Wheeler
Tunis Today: Chabbah (20) from #Misrata #Libya. Hit by #Gaddafi missile in Dafniya on Sunday July 3. Reached Benghazi..
twitpic.com/5q2lmx
by boat on Wed July 6. Flew to Tunis on Sat July 9. Lower leg very bad. May be amputated. Needs to go to Europe or N America.
11 other FFs were also hit by the same missile. 2 died. 1 was Chabbah’s little brother, born in 1993. #gaddafi #libya

FromJoanne Joanne
NOW : FF Still 40KM Outside but Slowly Moving in on #Brega with few WorldWar2 Repaired T72Tanks Clearing mines Shelling G troops #Libya

#NOW: #BREGA FEW Civilans left Abt 2 or 3,000 #Gaddafi troops holding the City Gtroops forces using Grad Missiles Trying 2 Repel FF #Libya

#BREGA This FF attack on #Gaddafi Held Brega was PLANNED @Nato bombed abt 6 heavy Arms Equipment of G Forces #Libya

Nato said it hit 6 targets in #Brega: 1 command and control node, 1 tank and 4 armed vehicles #Libya

FFs repaired and rehabilitated in the last months more than 150 WorldWar II Tanks which are now aiding the attack on #Brega #Libya

#Brega apart from the repaired WW2 Tanks FF use pickup trucks fixed with anti-aircraft guns Machine guns and Rocket launchers

Revolutionaries find mines after Gaddafi troops flee
Revolutionary fighters, collectively known as the National Liberation Army (NLA) ran into a minefield when they recaptured a frontline village from Muammar Gaddafi’s forces, they said today, providing fresh evidence Gaddafi troops are using mines in the uprising.
Libya is not party to the international treaty that bans the use of landmines, but rights groups say its use of the weapons violates established norms, especially if they are laid in areas where they pose a threat to civilians.
NLA mine-clearers showed Reuters a pickup truck with a mounted anti-aircraft gun they said had been destroyed by an anti-vehicle mine during a assault to recapture the village of al- Qawalish, which was briefly seized by Gaddafi’s troops yesterday.
Several dozen anti-personnel mines and anti-vehicle mines were lined up nearby. The NLA said they had piled them after digging them out earlier today.
A revolutionary vehicle was also destroyed by a landmine in the area last week when the village was first captured by the revolutionary fighters.
Libya denies it has used landmines during the five-month uprising in areas where civilians could be harmed.
New York-based Human Rights Watch, in a report released last month, said it had found evidence Gaddafi forces have laid dozens of landmines in the same Western Nafusa Mountains region where Al- Qawalish is located.
“These anti-personnel landmines pose a huge threat to civilians,” Steve Goose, arms director at Human Rights Watch, was quoted as saying in the report.
“More than 150 countries have banned landmines, but Libya continues to defy this global trend.”
Short URL: english.libya.tv/?p=7594
english.libya.tv/2011/07/14/revolutiona...

FF ready to take Brega:
En Libye, les insurgés veulent reprendre la ville pétrolière de Brega
Par RFI
Les insurgés, qui ont déjoué une offensive kadhafiste sur le front du sud-ouest le 13 juillet 2011, ont renforcé leur position près d’Al-Assaba, ville stratégique à 80 kilomètres au sud de Tripoli. Les insurgés ont conservé le contrôle de Goualich à l’issue d’intenses combats qui ont fait au moins huit morts et une trentaine de blessés dans les rangs des rebelles. Sur le front de l’est, statique depuis plusieurs mois, les rebelles annoncent viser la ville de Brega.
Des responsables militaires du côté des insurgés, à Benghazi, ont indiqué à des journalistes qu’ils s’apprêtaient à mener une offensive pour reprendre Brega, un site stratégique qui abrite un important complexe pétrochimique et qui a changé plusieurs fois de mains depuis le début du conflit.
A Bruxelles le 13 juillet 2011, Mahmoud Jibril, numéro deux du Conseil national de transition (CNT), l’avait déjà indiqué : pour les rebelles, les prochaines échéances majeures se joueraient à Tripoli et à Brega.

Des journalistes, dans la ville d’Ajdabiya, à quelques dizaines de kilomètres de Brega, ont fait état d’importants mouvements du côté des rebelles dans cette zone. Les insurgés ont sensiblement renforcé les « checkpoints » à la sortie ouest de la ville, et ont positionné des blindés et des pick-up sur lesquels ont été montées des mitrailleuses.
Source:
www.rfi.fr/afrique/20110714-insurges-ve...
septimius_
A must read Pundits and the Permanent Snark Overdrive. bit.ly/qnyoR2"

Libya, Pundits and the Permanent Snark Overdrive
July 14, 2011 by Jari
Lot of ignorance in there, but:
What puzzles me is not the yawning gap between analysis and reality. It’s the bloodthirsty glee with which pundits, particularly Americans, pounce on any morsel of news that might show the Libyan uprising in an unflattering light, be it AQ influence, tribal vendettas or extra-judicial violence (the rebels are assumed to be the executioners). It’s almost as if the misadventure in Iraq and the bungling of Afghanistan have left the analysts in permanent snark overdrive, wishing ill on everyone and finding disaster where it doesn’t yet exist, to hell with facts.
Read the art.:
stupidest.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/liby...

ALERT:
Sarah
Zliten:Several G forces fleeing battlefront.FF helping them leave city
Zliten(11pm):NATO bombings heard in city
Zliten:Ppl kidnapped secretly&even family unaware.Some taken from Gcheckpoints.Nmbr imprisoned unknown
Zliten:released prisoners r in bad condition due2severe&barbaric torture.Families unable to obtain info
Zliten:GF’s gathering youth from other cities(who r unaware of attacks inside city)2fight Dafniya front
This recruitment is required to compensate G losses&GF’s disobeying orders
Zliten:G forces preparing 2detonate bombs in planned proG rally,in order 2make FF look bad

Libyan youth: #whenihavekids i will ensure they have no #Gaddafi traits… #Libya #Feb17

FB from Zliten Arabic:
www.facebook.com/pages/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%...

Joanne
I wish these Darn Journalists would get their FACTS right before they publish their reports

m_madi
NATO’s daily press briefings do not detail all airstrikes, only “key targets”. There have been strikes in the vicinity of Assabaah recently

baysontheroad baysontheroad
Opposition fighters in Qwaleesh yfrog.com/kglv7obj ##LIBYA

diceylee
It sounds like #Gaddafi has rigged the sewers of #Tripoli w/ explosives &/or booby traps, not sure on specifics, but it is a serious threat.

Littlelisa
Many embassies are still controlled by pro-G. Students are still losing their funding & visas are expiring

hominoid
Libya Tripoli Tanks and SUVs carrying Grad rockets and artillery in the center of the capital and its suburbs.

baysontheroad baysontheroad
Damage on road from Yefren to Zintan yfrog.com/khkezpxj

FB:
PROTEST to mark the 5th month of the Libyan revolution
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=13101001...

libyanfsl
Military Council in West Mtns says the news about FF entering Alasaba’a is not correct

baysontheroad baysontheroad
What happens when you press these doorbell switches? yfrog.com/kjursesj
Each switch fires a missile in this improvised launcher yfrog.com/kk36034578j ##LIBYA

4Adam Adam
V angry G today! “We can live w/o food, fuel. Sarkzy is not a French”. “ICC’s should issue arrest warrant for Sarkzy and all NATO members”.

LY_NeverForget
forced to to fight a ‘leader’ whos only goal is to murder, exterminate as many of #libya ’s civilians and cause as much pain as he can…

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
UNCONFIRMED: Rumor #Gaddafi planning to set off bombs at PRO Gaddafi rally in #Zliten and then blame #Freedomfighters. #Libya #feb17

Free Libyia
@
@m_madi Can I just say that your quite nice for a BBC Arabic reporter! I used want to break my TV whenever they had Libya reports early on.

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Be wary of all those who call Libya situation a stalemate.

Libya_from_FR
#Gaddafi is barking on #GanfoodTV – Thank you #Nilesat .. – They are showing a “million protest” on alajeelat .. HAHA ! A gift for #14jul

Reuters
NATO chief calls for more planes to bomb Libyan targets

• NATO chief wants more commitment
• Dutch PM supports airstrikes, but won’t participate
• British defence minister critical of some NATO members
  THE HAGUE, July 14 (Reuters) – NATO members should supply more warplanes to bomb Libyan military targets, the alliance’s secretary-general said on Thursday, increasing pressure on states to contribute more to the mission
  Art.:
  af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLD...

Japan to recognize Libya’s rebel council as legitimate on Fri.+
TOKYO, July 14 (AP) – (Kyodo)—Japan will declare on Friday its recognition of Libya’s main antigovernment group, the Transitional National Council, as the sole legitimate representative of the Libyan people, State Foreign Secretary Chiaki Takahashi said Thursday.
Parliamentary Vice Foreign Minister Hisashi Tokunaga will announce Tokyo’s recognition of the political body as “the legitimate interlocutor” at an international meeting on Libya in Istanbul, Takahashi said.
Japan has been working with the international community to stop fighting between the rebel group and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces and will follow decisions by some European countries, the United States and Turkey to support the council, the state secretary said.
The Istanbul meeting will mainly discuss reconstruction steps after the situation in the conflict-ravaged country stabilizes, according to the Japanese Foreign Ministry.
Source:
www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9OFCBOO0

BentBenghazi
#GaddafiSpeech supposedly speaking by phone at million man march in Aujaylat call sounds like it has a lot of static

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
The clashes at #Brega are reported to be very heavy. G trying to repel the advance. Big battle going on. #Libya #Feb17

#Brega: Reports of very heavy clashes taking place as #Gaddafi tries to stop #Freedomfighter advance (Fail).

#Turkey CARGO SHIP “DERIN” now departing port #Tripoli #Libya. #feb17

Reports that #NATO was active in #Zliten earlier.

#Egypt CARGO SHIP “TABA” now departing #Tobruk #Libya. #feb17

Joanne
#ASABEAH Gaddafi Owns Country House + its home to Prominent families close&Loyal to Gaddafi regime+ Has Large MilitaryBase #NAFUSA #Libya

libyans_revolt
couple of grad rockets exploded nxt 2 central (disused) hospital in #Misrata arnd 1530 2day. No casualties except 6 cars

Qadhafi’s Days in Libya Are Numbered
Libyan leader Col. Moammar Qadhafi may finally be on his way out. Strapped for cash and fuel for his regime, reports from Libya suggest that the violent ruler may be willing to accept defeat—that is, if he’s allowed to walk away unpunished.

Earlier this year at the height of the Arab Spring protests, Qadhafi seemed unrelenting in his campaign to suppress the opposition in Libya. But after nearly five months of war, both he and the NATO-backed rebels of eastern Libya appear ready to reach a conclusion. Western nations, represented together in this conflict by NATO, are pushing for a political solution, but how and when that compromise will happen still remains in the hands of the Libyans.
Source and read more:
www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/07/14...

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Another journalist staying at #Rixos on return to uk discoverd he had money removed from his paypal account and his password changed.

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
More Hotel from Hell stories: one journalist at #Rixos has had his wallet taken from his room with money and Credit Cards.

FromJoanne Joanne
#BREGA VID goo.gl/vdZRG OnJuly6 GaddafiForces fired #FrogRockets On2 #Brega terminal + abt 40smaller GradRockets #PreventFfEarn$
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vLyQyms0xY

dovenews Libyan™
Fierce fight between the Free Libyan Liberation Army & #Gaddafi forces in the #40 area west #Ajdabyia.

Libye : Cinq Rafale déployés sur la base de Sigonella, en Sicile
Il en avait été question depuis plusieurs semaines et c’est désormais devenu une réalité : l’armée de l’Air a déployé 5 avions Rafale sur la base de Sigonella, en Sicile, afin de rapprocher ces appareils de la zone des opérations et d’augmenter ainsi leur temps de présence au-dessus de la Libye, dans le cadre de l’opération Harmattan.
Les rotations aériennes pour amener tout le matériel nécessaire ont commencé le 23 juin dernier, après une reconnaissance de la base et de ses installations pour en évaluer ses capacités d’accueil pour les matériels de l’armée de l’Air.
www.opex360.com/2011/07/14/libye-cinq-r...

KC_Tripolitania KC
#Gaddafi gave a speech on #Libya State to a large “rent-a-million man protest”.Gaddafi still vows 2 cleanse #Nafusa & #Misrata from traitors

AJE:
Western powers and Arab states meeting in Istanbul on Friday will seek a political solution to end the civil war in Libya, amid conflicting signals over whether Muammar Gaddafi intends to fight on or surrender power.
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton and the EU’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton are among more than a dozen ministers attending the Libyan contact group meeting, its fourth since an emergency summit in London in March.
“The main aim is to find a political solution to accelerate efforts to end the bloodshed,” said Selcuk Unal, spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry hosting the talks in Istanbul.
Heads of NATO, the Arab League, African Union and Gulf Cooperation Council will also attend along with representatives of the Libyan opposition.

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Another speech by Gaddafi and more shouting today… I think. I wasn’t really following but I could hear it 3 rooms away from Tv

bint_
While journalists getting high on what might have happened or not in a deserted Qawalesh,children are being killed in Nalut by Gadafi shells

IamLibya
Reports claiming that #Gaddafi’s army is forcing ppl of the city of #Ajelat to come out and praise the regime using force #Gaddaficrimes

hominoid
Libya Brega heavy fighting between the LNA and G troops in the 40 area and there is air cover from NATO.

Wheelertweets:
Muspah Sassi: 27 yr old FF from #Kikla #Libya: Killed at Qwaleesh checkpont yesterday. #Gaddafi forces cut off his head & cut out his heart.

His head and heart were found last night, along with another heart. His body was taken by #Gaddafi forces"

His brother was shot at home in Kikla n April & taken prisoner. #Gaddafi then put him on Libyan TV & said he was from Misrata

I had a late lunch today with injured FFs from #Kikla #Libya. They knew Muspah Sassi. This gruesome news is hard to take.

portia_walker Portia Walker
Back in #Libya. Arrived in Nafusa Mountains, now in Nalut. Town still being shelled.

bint_tarhouna Free Libyia ( older vid)
Video showing anti-Gaddafi protesters raising Free Libya flag in middle of #GHERYAN, goo.gl/ybCbQ #Libya They will free soon iA

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMvdl1Bh6_I

Karl Stagno-Navarra
We campaigned to have #Nato ships rescue migrant boats, and now that they are doing it we shut our ports

MyFreeLibya
Just came back from Yifren….today is the first day electricity has been turned back on across the whole city!

Fatwa:
they’re setting a network up now in Zintan, it should be working soon. Will let you know when that happens.

Thx

Free Libyan LIBYA: travel visas now required for Libyan men between 18 – 45 yrs coming to Egypt. This has been in effect public without announcement

LIBYA: ADSL is back in Benghazi, WIMAX is expected to operate within days. Even Madar cellphones are expected to return soon

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Nalut: #Gaddafi filth continue their shelling of this town today. #Libya #feb17

bint_
I feel even more devastated when I hear of Freedom Fighters being captured, at least if they are martyred their suffering&torture is over.
libyanproud libyanandproud
#Nafusa : #NATO bombed targets in #Alasabaa a while ago .

BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
just short stop in #yefren then back to #zintan planning @alivein training saturday-sunday in yefren if it works out

aabeidi
I think zero time has started, big defection in Tripoli with heavy artillery inside the city and in all front lines together.

The front line n Brega is about 27KM across moving steady. with good preparation& dealing with mines with latest tech available2 them Benghazi, G men were criminal from the begging of this revolution watch this video recorded on 20/02/2011 thieves www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pOPvRVu0pU

From Ministry of Defense in Benghazi, Brega will be liberated soon in the next few hours or days. High commands are in Ajdabyia now. Kuwait,Oman,Saudi,Bahrain all will recognize NTC as the sole legitimate representative of the people of Libya tomorrow n Istanbul BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
road between #yefren and #zintan many checkpoints, however most unmanned today, easy-going but rumors of limiting front access soon #libya

REUTERS:
FEATURE-Misrata wounded impatient to get back to the fight
Clinic patients say shot by pro-Gaddafi forces

• Many hope to go to front line after treatment
• “We’re part of the war effort” – clinic staff
  By Nick Carey
  MISRATA, Libya, July 14 (Reuters) – When Omar Suasi surrendered to the soldiers loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, he expected them to arrest him.
  The 26-year-old truck driver had taken up arms against Gaddafi after soldiers about a month earlier opened fire on a crowd of unarmed people in Misrata who had been protesting for greater freedom. He says that when the troops surrounded him, he put down his gun and lay on the ground.
  “They shot me twice in the stomach as I lay there,” Suasi says, pointing to his abdomen, while undergoing physiotherapy treatment at a new clinic in the rebel-controlled city.
  Had his friends not come to rescue him, he says he would have died. “Allah gave me a second chance.”
  He is now driving vehicles to help the other rebel fighters who are seeking to end Gaddafi’s 41-year rule and have pushed the front line against his forces to around 35 km (22 miles) west of Misrata.
  But as he lifts a light weight with his right leg, Suasi says he has only one desire for how to use his second chance: he plans to return to the front line to fight. He has four brothers serving there and a fifth was killed fighting Gaddafi’s troops.
  “I will fight so that I can live with dignity,” he said. “And if I die, then it will be so my children can live with dignity.”
  The clinic Suasi and other men are attending was set up and is run free of charge by the University of Misrata’s Faculty of Medical Technology, which was occupied by Gaddafi loyalists until late April.
  The clinic opened in late June, has a staff of 10 volunteers and has around 60 patients, 40 men and 20 women.
  Agila Erfaida, a physiotherapy lecturer who runs the clinic, says more than 2,000 people have been wounded so far in the city and he expects demand for the services here to rise.
  “Many of the wounded have been treated outside Libya,” he said. “But when they return they will need our help.”
  Read more:
  www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/14/liby...

MUST WATCH!
ALJAZEERA
James Bay
Baysontheroad.
Nafusa
video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5gVtdJ6fi0&fea...

abe
I met genuine altruists, great minds/workers who didn’t think twice, dropping everything at my approach to help end the suffering in Libya.

I’ve learned so much from them and I’m forever indebted. 2011, year of the free.

Someday I’ll be able to look back at Libya 2011 and know that I did the best I could for my country.

Rant rant rant. *disappear. *UN-sized explosions. *reappear. Rant rant rant. #startingToSeeAPatternHere #Gaddafi idiot

libyans_revolt
Re How fuel smuggling keeps #Gaddafi running.! " Fuel serum" yfrog.com/kiitzwaj #Libya #Feb17

dessie
Brega ,not reports , al-Jaz tv screened it , 20km out and moving in,

Libya_from_FR
Deux martyrs de plus dans les affrontements à #Brega ce qui fait maintenant 3 martyrs et +10 blessés #AllahuAkbar

Currently 6 miles outside Asablah,heavy gunfire NE about 2km from me

Guardian
Turkey asks Libya summit to back peace negotiations
Turkey is proposing a “roadmap” for the Libyan crisis of an immediate ceasefire and a negotiated political solution, as international pressure mounts on Muammar Gaddafi to step down.
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, warned Gaddafi’s days were numbered, while diplomats revealed that Libyan state TV has been virtually forced off air because foreign satellite broadcasters have stopped providing their services to comply with UN sanctions.
Ahmed Davutoglu, Turkey’s foreign minister, will table the proposal on Friday at a meeting in Istanbul of the Libya contact group. “The main aim is to find a political solution to accelerate efforts to end the bloodshed,” said a spokesman.
Clinton will be joined by William Hague, Britain’s foreign secretary, and colleagues from other Nato member states who are anxious that the military campaign has not yet succeeded and are keen to explore a political solution.
Read more:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/14/li...

In the battle for Libya the last and final front will be in Tripoli and it will be the most difficult.

Heaviest fighting #Brega right now, a lot of ambulances rushing to front, 3 went past us back to #Adjabiya, casualties heavy no numbers yet

Tripoli : On rapporte des affrontements entre les “déserteurs” et les forces de #Gaddafi #Libye

weddady
Can someone pls give the Arab League’s secretary general a sock for him to stuff his dumb mouth? #syria #StupidArabLeague

Guardian
DAVID SMITH IN ZINTAN:
Libyan rebels capture demoralised Gaddafi troops
The six barefooted men trooped into the school library, their faces uneasy and downcast. Not so long ago this room, with its Arabic texts and Webster’s dictionary, was for studious children. Now it is home to prisoners of war.
Some said they were promised an escape from poverty if they fought for Muammar Gaddafi, but never saw the cash. Some, thrown into the frontline with no military experience, suggested that Gaddafi’s forces were running short on resources and morale.
The youngest was Issa Yousef, 17, a student and steelworker of Malian origin who joined a month ago. Speaking through an interpreter, he said: “They said we’ll give you money when this attack has finished: 1,000 dinars (£500) a month and Libyan citizenship.” He never saw either.
When rebels launched a surprise attack on the village the following morning, the men were lost in the confusion. “We didn’t know who is Gaddafi army and who is revolutionary,” one said.
They said they gave up their Kalashnikovs without a fight. They had been well treated by their captors, they added, although it was impossible to verify this independently.
“Gaddafi’s army is weak,” said Hassan Mohamed, 25, of Nigerian descent. “They don’t have equipment or a lot of money. After seven months they still didn’t pay me. Most soldiers have deserted, some escaped, some left, some stayed. It’s so bad.”
The newest detainee is Ahmed Brahim, 22, previously a painter and decorator. He was captured on Wednesday after the rebels lost the village of Qawalish only to retake it a few hours later – an exchange which underlines the difficulties they face in advancing towards Gharyan and Tripoli itself.
For the full story
SOURCE:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/14/li...

Khiria
Why does #Gaddafi have to speak every week? He should really save up the #oxygen for when he really needs it!

Littlelisa
Rebel spox on fighters from Benghazi: they are ready to advance on SWest front

ChangeInLibya
Tripoli: Rumours that a group of army defectors and Gaddafi soldiers are exchanging fire near Syala school in Tripoli #libya #feb17
littlelisa8
Dogs bark when they are frightened or are trying to assert their dominance over another person or animal. Exactly Like Gaddafi”

Tripolitanian
Clashes between defectors and #Gaddafi forces in #Tripoli right now. #Libya #Feb17

4Adam Adam
“Millions of Libyans to march to liberate … " G promised – I’ve seen only African mercenaries in #Nafusa Mtns youtube.com/watch?v=qo_1N1… #Libya
Reutersvideo:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo_1N17V9xg&fea...

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
FFs attacking Brega from North, South & East. Clashes led to 1 martyr & around 10 injured.FFs intend to pray Friday in Brega #Libya#Feb17

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Brega: Reports that columns of freedom fighter tanks and artillery moved towards Brega today – G forces may be retreating to Bishr #libya
Reports of advances by National Liberation Army (Freedom fighters) in both Brega and Nafousa mtns. #libya #feb17 Awaiting confirmation

Khiria
NATO today’s threats should make #Gaddafi a legit target! Please, do us the favor and just kill the freak.

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Aljazeera Mubasher is live from Ajdabiya right now – Some injuries arrived from Brega front. Doctors say they are 100% ready for anything

michael
Good luck in #brega freedom fighters:-) #libya #feb17

DougSaunders Doug Saunders
A lot of fighting in Libya’s third front of Brega tonight – rebels and NATO helicopter gunship support. Many casualties coming to Benghazi.

Ossama
Three martyrs in the battles of #Brega so far . ارتقى ثلاثة شهداء حتى الآن في معارك البريقة …… #Libya #feb17

Frank
Reports of advances by National Liberation Army (Freedom fighters) in both Brega and Nafousa mtns. #libya #feb17 Awaiting confirmation

Brega:
NATO helicopter gunships aiding ff’s in Brega

DougSaunders Doug Saunders
Reports of Brega being liberated must be qualified with knowledge that rebels have been claiming all week they’d do exactly this today.

LIBYAN
This is what I could confirm for now, they are attacking Brega

LibyanFreedom
Pray for the safety and victory of our brave men in Brega….Rubi a7mekum inshAllah!!

Fadwa FFs near #Brega are attacking #Gaddafi forces via land, sea & helicopters, full scale attack of epic proportions

nuna
Libyan Youth Movement “1000s #FF s waiting between #Brega & #Ajdjbiya for #NATO & heavy artillery & tanks to clear the way in” Pls pray

FF near Brega attack G forces via land, sea & helicopters, full scale attack, Surrounded?

hominoid
Libya brega Navy ships are also bombing G troops around brega. Do not forget that brega is a large area not just a town.

libyanandproud
Nafusa caller to me said “u still listen to him? He doesn’t exist in nafusa anymore”

ChangeInLibya
Misrata caller to @LibyaTV: Gaddafi forces heavily bombarded Dafniyah today – 1 rocket burnt 6 vehicles without any casualties #libya #feb17

Misrata caller to @LibyaTV: Our fighters are still at the outskirts of Zliten, dug in at Tuesday market area

francois
During the night it is time for nato helicopters.

omar
#Nafusa Report: Freedom fighters take over control of the West/East/South checkpoints of #Alasabaa town. #Gheryan #Libya #Feb17

Niz_FGM Niz
14/7/11-Hi all, attempts to hack our sites are just minor inconveniences. Will try & get things back asap.A lot of gun fire now in Gergarish

HodaAbdelHamid
Long speech of #Gaddafi on state TV. He calls opp. fighters " cowards". Says GF must enter w. mountains,misrata,Benghazi and end this movie.

ChangeInLibya
Aljazeera Mubasher is live from Ajdabiya right now – Some injuries arrived from Brega front. Doctors say they are 100% ready for anything

m_madi
Could something big be cooking in Brega tonight?

Getting a ride on a GRAD truck with 5 other FF’s advancing on Asablah in column some Gaddafi shells falling inaccurately #Tripoli

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gatroun region liberated as #DeraSahra brigade currently controlling #Waig port is conducting daily patrols in #AlGatroun area.

Bentbenghazi
Great festive atmosphere in #Misrata freedom square tonight. Singing, poetry, cheering, cartoons of #Gaddafi. #Feb17

dovenews Libyan™
After Ashia Gaddafi appearance on France24 crying 4 her dad’s regime, Fathallah wrote an article about her tears. Arabic goo.gl/ut39z

LIBYA_WIN
@NATO thank you for finally help move the #Brega line, reports fo their jet firing the way so our #FFs can move forward and save dear #Brega

Somaia
Brega: spoke to source at front. The front is 20Km wide from sea to River road, 80+ Tanks &BMP for FF, Apache helicopters involved #Libya

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
LPC Tripoli Now: Gun fire since the morning with heavy G forces presence in Gergaresh

hominoid
Libya The fight for Asablah near Qawaleesh has begun, FFs advance under protection of mortars and GRADS on the road to Gharyan.

SecularLibya
BREAKNG Heinz: East Brega has been cut off by the FFs with coordinated Heli attacks from the west. Daffis under fire from both sides. #Libya

Jake
gaddafi forces are gathering at #Bishr

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Clashes in #Tarhuna today in #HayAlSinai.

SecularLibya
Heinz: FFs now have Kevlar vests, night vision goggles, and night rifle optics. They are equipped to fight at night.

dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi’s envoy is meeting with #US officials on Saturday. via #NTC #US #Libya

kirril
Commander says"onward men,lets not keep Tripoli waiting anylonger!"

Tripolitanian Libyan
Doctors in #Ajdabiya preparing for injuries.

KC_Tripolitania KC
Freedom Fighters have launched an attack on #Gaddafi forces attacking them by land, air (NATO) and sea near #Brega. #Takbeer #AllahuAkbar

sabha:
Breaking News:
Confirmed News: Gatroun region is considered now free from Ghadafi troops as dera Sahra brigade currently controlling Waig port is conducting daily patrols in Algatroun region and its suburbs
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=241934&i...

Heinz: 3000 pieces of nightvision goggles were delivered to FFs last month. #Libya #Feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#AlGatrun is in control of #Freedomfighters w/ the FF brigade Shield of the Desert based in #AlWegh on daily patrols there.

Heinz: Bishr is only a death trap for Daffis fleeing Brega. Should not be a problem for #NATO.

aabeidi
libya, Brega welcome back sweet heart join the freedom you most welcome we missed you for 3 months you will never go away again from us

Israa
Can I just say libyans make my life complete <3 #soproud

libyanproud libyanandproud
Im so tempted to work on the Brega front ….. but my credibility is already on the line because of reports from #NAFUSA today !

littlelisa8
BREAKING: Heavy fighting in the area of Gargaresh, Tripoli NOW! Last final Goodbye!”RT

Hanan
#BecauseofyouGaddafi my brothers picked up and left their lives and went to free #Libya

BecauseofyouGaddafi I may never see my nephews again who are fighting to free Libya

BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
@
breaking news @m_madi fails to walk 40m and double verify his claims. 1 source does not equal facts #citizenmedia #justsaying

SMILE:
NotLibyaStateTV
If we recall the rules of combat in the East, with combat in Brega, we’re minutes away from claiming that we are within 5 miles of Benghazi

blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Lots of Libyan tweeps saying there’s action in Brega tonight. Nothing yet from reporters on the ground, that I’ve seen.

We have been asked to stay silent… shhhhh, shhhhhhhh
Statement tomorrow…..

Is there a journo on the ground in Brega? Any idea who?

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Report clashes between #Freedomfighters & #Gaddafi forces in #BierAlganem

wheelertweets James Wheeler
KIKLA #LIBYA: I understand the Canadian was also decapitated by #Gaddafi forces. Getting more info. Journos on scene: Contact me pronto.

Shabab
In pictures, Freedom Fighters Set-Off to Retake #Brega, 14/7/2011.
Pics on the road to Brega today!
t.co/Hk70qYQ
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.175333075865850.48372.133738650025293

Lisa
GRAD attacks on #Misrata today, more than usual. Being launched from #Tawarga according to rebel spokesmen. #Libya #feb17”

Good news:
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
63 revolutionaries freed in #WadiAlRabee in #Tripoli by #Freedomfighters helped by defected #Gaddafi security forces.

m0j0working mojoworking
good ole Moussa Ibrahim is declaring attack on #Brega has been repulsed. bit.ly/p4zq8c didn’t waste any time #libya

We don’t get it, they are still fighting right now!
Well, at least it’s a “ DANGEROUS DEVELOPMENT” ( to Moussa of course:) )
Libya: Rebel and NATO attack on oil city repulsed
AP
TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya’s government spokesman says that a coordinated land, sea and air attack by rebels and NATO forces against the eastern oil city of Brega was repulsed.
Moussa Ibrahim told journalists late Thursday that NATO forces attacked government positions at Brega by both sea and land, while rebels attacked from the ground.
He said the attack was repulsed but described the close combat coordination of NATO and the rebels as a “dangerous development.”
NATO is carrying out a U.N.-sanctioned campaign against Libyan government forces to protect civilians.
Rebel forces in the country’s eastern half have been stuck outside Brega for months, unable to take the strategic oil terminal.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.

Read the rest:
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all...

iyad_
Thrilled to say I just got word from Tripoli. My sources from Feb & March are safe. I had feared for the worst but they’re safe.

wheelertweets James Wheeler
Injured FF who just got to Tunis from that battle yesterday says #Gaddafi forces were a mix of #Libyans and mercenaries.

wheelertweets James Wheeler
KIKLA #LIBYA: I understand the Canadian was also decapitated by #Gaddafi forces. Getting more info. Journos on scene: Contact me pronto.

Confrontations in #Tripoli between #Gaddafi’s forces and other who defected from Qaddafi’s forces. Press solidarity reports

Asablah advance temporarily halted due to our grads running out of fuel but we will not pul back 2 miles outside Asablah #Tripoli

MyFreeLibya
Typical @M_Madi and @BaghdadBrian make coffee and leave me none……#JustSaying
Serious tension with internet….Forget media in Zentan, gunna gain $ translating….FT and guardian gunna get a shock tmrw when i ask for $

MyFreeLibya
Photo: Zintan Funeral, a set on Flickr.Burying yesterday’s 8 martyrs…#Zentan #Feb17 tumblr.com/xuy3hxhdqg

LibyanYouthMovement
ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Message to Libyan tweeps and others providing info,it is requested from Benghazi & Brega to keep silent on info until tomorrow
There seems to be major developments tonight and through the night. It is believed there will be a statement tomorrow #Libya #Brega

Freedom_7uriyah ღ.¸¸Libeeya¸¸.ღ
Mainly ongoing in #Brega, tune into Libya.fm or check their fb group for blood types, more info coming there soon #Libya #PrayforLibya

Kamaran
reports of #FF entering #Brega are unbased.Please confirm the news with the sources before spreading them

Heinz: 26 Ghaddafi vehicles moving East of Ras Lanuf and being air attacked by #NATO

FromJoanne Joanne
#BENGHAZI URGENT BLOOD DONORS NEEDED especially type O PLS go to Al-Jala hospital in Benghazi ASAP #Brega FF NEEDS YOUR HELP #Libya

FromJoanne Joanne
TONIGHT #LIBYA BOILS

ALERT:
Citizens of #Ajdabya and #Benghazi BLOOD DONORS Requested for #BREGA casualties #Libya

#TRIPOLI Fighting between Katiba (security police) and former Katiba turned Freedom Fighters has been Reported in #Dahmani district

#Qatar is said to have Promised to Rebuild Tunisia’s TOURISM Industry if it cuts ALL ties with Gaddafi Regime #Libya

Captured G soldiers are saying new G army recruits dont have much training and just fire and their heart isnt in it ThankGod

inglesi Piers Scholfield
Been a lot of grad attacks on #Misrata today, more than usual. Being launched from Tawarga according to rebel spokesmen.

Sanad Attia
16th july it finishes remember i told u that all those weeks ago ;)

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
#Gaddafi said tonight on TV that he ‘would destroy the EU and NATO.’ but French say he is ‘stepping down’.. doesn’t sound like it to me

I am under the impression jouno’s should be forced to study psychology for a while, it would improve their take on things dramatically:)

LibyaTrueStory Rachel Beth Anderson
Not every life can be saved on the frontline. A #Libyan doctor upset after an emotional loss at #Misrata field hospital ishtaproductions.com/wp-content/gal…

Les résistants ont encerclé #Brega. Pas mention de morts ni de blessés pour l’instant.

Merci beaucoup:)

Eastern front is on the move, although they are being slightly hindered by the weather! Mini sand storms!

PLZ:
Libya tweeps who have updates from Brega, be discreet about what you share.

BREGA:
News being controlled.

Careful what you tweet.

No reporters allowed anywhere near front line.

Many casualties. ( g)

All hospitals are on standby.

Blood donors needed.

Brega is surrounded:)

FF’s fighting as we speak.

Sea and air support provided by NATO.

We pray for you!!!!!!!!

La Libye ferme son pétrole à l’Italie
TRIPOLI, Libye (AP) — La Libye a annoncé jeudi que l’Italie, l’un de ses principaux investisseurs, n’aurait plus accès à son pétrole en raison du rôle joué par Rome dans la campagne de bombardements aériens de l’OTAN sur ce pays.
“Le gouvernement italien doit complètement oublier le pétrole libyen et tous les accords que nous avons signé par le passé”, a déclaré le Premier ministre libyen, Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, à des journalistes à Tripoli. Quant au géant italien du pétrole, ENI, “il devra aller faire des affaire ailleurs”, a-

t-il ajouté.
“C’est la dernière chance pour quiconque contribue à l’agression contre notre pays de revoir sa position aussi vite que possible pour avoir une chance à l’avenir d’avoir des contrats pétroliers avec la Libye”, a-t-il lancé. M. Mahmoudi a affirmé que Tripoli négociait déjà avec des sociétés russes, chinoises et même américaines.
Full story:
tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualite/monde...

jamal
GOOD Breaking NEWS:The free #Libyan army & revolutionaries are now conduction sweeping & combing operations within the city of #Brega

I can’t believe that:
What is your source plz?
As far as we know they are still in full battle!
Battle isn’t over yet……
Brega can’t fall in a matter of a few hours.

#Tarhouna: Revolutionaries are Fighting Gaddafi Mercenaries nearby the Red Cross Building

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Some students in Nafousa mountain areas are already returning to school #libya #feb17 No more green book studies fb.me/10mfRP5rB

LibyanLion
State TV and officials trying to claim they repelled the attack. So clearly, things going well for FFs.

FromJoanne Joanne
CAPTURED G Soldier 3 to 400 Troops all heavily armed Left #Sirte 6am this Morning arrived in #Brega and started Firing at FF

LibyanLion17 A Free Libyan
NATO hitting G supply lines at Beshr, which is between #Brega and #RasLanuf #Libya #Feb17

1 Lion confirmed dead – Muhammad Ibrahim Misrati. Allah Yarham. Few more reported to have been martyred, no solid number yet. #Libya #Feb17

The advance on #Brega is still continuing. NATO providing firepower from air + sea, FFs on land. Making progress.

Clashes started earlier tonight at #BirGhanam

LPC:
Zliten FF attacked checkpoint tonight in SuqAlJuma.
3 g forces severely injured (1in coma in ICU).
FF unharmed

Tripoli: 2 Gaddafi Security forces cars in janzoor were attacked by revolutionaries ,1 burnt, & 1 had Light arms/weapons, was looted

Interview
Captured soldier from Al Brega battle today:
Interviewer: You are part of…
Soldier: broken sound …. foot soldiers
Interviewer: Which base?
Soldier: Safsaf in Sirt
Interviewer: Where is it’s base?
Soldier: Sirt
Interviewer: Who is it’s commander?
Soldier: Mabrook Al Forjani
Interviewer: From Sirt?
Soldier: From Sirt yes
Interviewer: Tell us about your brigade’s movements
Soldier: I will tell you about its movement in from the beginning when I arrived at the checkpoint in Raas Lanuf. From there the officer asked me for my ID and I gave it to him. They took us to the scouting camp there, the Abu Hdem camp. We arrived at the camp and they gave us our clothes. I wore my clothes and from there they brought us to Brega today. We passed Bishr, Al Agela and we arrived at Al Brega. We were approximately 30 or 40 cars. The cars were equipped with machine guys, Anti-aircraft machine guns, A Hauser (M60 Machine gun), A quad machine gun (?) and RPGs. We were in total 300 to 400 soldiers. All armed with heavy weaponary.
Interviewer: Alright..
Soldier: When we arrived at Brega, they started shooting. Shooting right, shooting left, right, left.
Interviewer: When did you leave the battalion base exactly?
Soldier: We left at around…6 in the morning
Interviewer: 6am
Soldier: 6am yeah, it was still a little dark
Interviewer: Right. And you came from Sirt towards the east
Soldier: correct
Interviewer: And you passed Bin Jwad and Ras Lanuf
Soldier: correct, we passed Bin Jwad and Ras Lanuf
Interviewer: Right, and what was there in Ras Lanuf exactly? Is it true that there’s a battalion there?
Soldier: There is a scouting battalion there yes.
Interviewer: Your total count was 400?
Soldier: Our number is in the region of 400 yes
Interviewer: What arms and weaponry
Soldier: The honest fact of the matter is that they gathered us yesterday and told us you are going to Brega
Interviewer: They gathered you?
Soldier: Yeah, they told us at x hour, you will be going to Brega. Get into the cars, get into the cars, we found ourselves in Brega.
Interviewer: get into the cars, get into the cars….did they take you from your houses or…
Soldier: No, from the barracks.
Interviewer: You were in the barracks right
Soldier: I have told you my story from the very beginning. We were soldiers on reserve. They told us to get into the cars, we wore our gear and were taken to Brega.
Interviewer: On what basis?
Soldier: On the basis that we were going to make base there or clean it or something..
Interviewer: What do you mean clean it? You guys were coming here to clean Brega?
Soldier: Yeah, we were coming here to clean Al Brega
Interviewer: Clean it from what?
Soldier: They said people were coming to live in Brega
Interviewer: To clean means to kill? Or does to clean meaning remove the wrappers and dirt?
Soldier: Clean meaning to sweep it so they can control it
Interviewer: Meaning whoever is in front of you kill them
Soldier: Whoever is in front of us…I won’t lie to you….they told us we were going to do some military cleaning..
Interviewer: I am sure that you understand military language. Cleaning…what does that mean?
Soldier: It means whoever attacks you with bullets…shoot them with bullets
Interviewer: Right, carry on
Soldier: And this is what God taught me
Soldier: I tell you that my county is Ajdabya. Let me explain to you my reality. My county is Ajdabya…unclear and it remains my county and whatever happens in the end, may God be with them (meaning: in the end, I will side with my people. Gaddafi can go to hell). And if I were to be tried, I’d be going to the cells there with the other military personnel. I can stay and jump with the army, I can stay with them. But I want to get away because I am walking with the truth.
Soldier: I can tell you about it but earlier I saw a plane, you get me? I saw a plane but did it fire or not I didn’t see it do that with my eyes.
Interviewer: What is your rank?
Soldier: I have no rank
Interviewer: You have no rank..right.
Soldier: Their guns were aimed at any car. A Toyota or whatever, they would fire at it with machine guns and 106 and the light rifles. Anything that is on top of the car they would fire at as well, and this I saw with my own eyes.
Interviewer: In exchange, what did they give you in exchange to do this?
Soldier: As for something in exchange I swear I saw none of that. They didn’t give me anything. Not a dime.
Soldier: What else can I tell you, I swear I don’t know anything. I am a soldier, they held me against my will, they took me and brought me.
Interviewer: Against your will? Where is your family? Where are your brothers?
Soldier: My mother still lives in Ajdabiya, my siblings are still in Ajdabiya and my county is Ajdabiya.
Soldier: O Muslim youth, a piece of advice for the sake of God and none else. Any person who is defending something unlawful or false, then distance yourself from the problems. You are all brothers and..
Interviewer: We want you to be clear
Soldier: Right
Interviewer: Say I came here and found fire facing me.
Soldier: I came and found a firey resistance impossible to defeat, and when I fell I found mercy and people who treated me kindly. All praise be to God!
Crowd: God is Greater!
Interviewer: Your colleagues, did they run away or not?
Soldier: They ran away
Interviewer: Did they leave you or not?
Soldier: I testify in front of God that they left me

LISA HOLLAND:
Libya: The West ‘Ignoring Rebel War Crimes’
The regime has insisted the West is turning a blind eye to war crimes committed by rebels – and took Sky News to meet civilians who they say have fled to Tripoli.
We were taken to temporary accommodation on the outskirts of the capital, which used to house Chinese labourers working in the now collapsed construction industry.
The Chinese are long gone – and instead families who have come from the western mountains and the east of the country live here now.
We met sisters Abir and Raja who told us they had brought their sick mother to the capital for fear of persecution.
They said their mother Saida has a serious heart condition – but still wanted to make the drive from Benghazi because the family were in fear of their lives.
Abir says they feared being attacked because they are Gaddafi supporters – she has the Colonel’s name tattooed onto her hand.
Vid. And full report here:
news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Vi...

4Adam Adam
US officials say they are preparing to strengthen ties with Libya’s main opposition movement- Will it be a formal recognition of NTC? #Libya

Tripolitanian Libyan
by LIBYA_WIN
#Gaddafi trying to hire more mercenaries from #Belarus after #Tunisia refused them entry into #Libya, and others apparently defected

wheelertweets James Wheeler
Some injured FFs from recent fighting around Qwaleesh have been told by their town councils not 2 come 4 care 2 Tunisia. Out of money

Amazigh_Libya AmazighLibya
Grave in #Zintan, growing each day. #Libya #Feb17 #GaddafiCrimes twitpic.com/5q878d

libyanfsl Libya NFSL
by Ummustafa78
Rev’s in Tripoli carrying attack pin-point attacks on Gaddafi forces all through the night, including near Martyr Square

SecularLibya
Heinz: #NATO will continue attacking Brega and Ras Lanuf overnight. #Libya #Feb17

Youth in Benghazi have asked Libya tweeps to hold to Brega news till tmrw


Summary July 15 2011

7/15/2011
7.15.2011

You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/4Kkh7

NATO:

On July 14th, NATO aircraft flew 132 sorties, including 48 strike sorties. Some of the key hits included:
In the vicinity of Brega: 1 Command and Control Node, 1 Tank, 1 Armoured Fighting Vehicle, 1 Multiple Rocket Launcher, 1 Armed Vehicle.
In the vicinity of Gharyan: 3 Multiple Rocket Launcher, 1 Anti-Tank Gun.
In the vicinity of Sirt: 2 Tanks
In the vicinity of Tripoli: 3 Command and Control Posts.
In the vicinity of Waddan: 1 Military Storage Facility.
In the vicinity of Zlitan: 1 Armed Vehicle.

MOD:
Additional RAF Tornados for operations over Libya
A Defence Policy and Business news article
15 Jul 11
The Ministry of Defence has announced that, in the coming days, the UK will deploy an additional four RAF Tornado GR4s to Gioia del Colle air base in Italy, primarily in the reconnaissance role to further support operations over Libya.
The aircraft are in addition to 12 RAF Tornados already deployed at Gioia del Colle. This latest deployment is intended to bolster NATO’s reconnaissance capability. Equipped with RAPTOR (Reconnaissance Airborne Pod for Tornado) pods, RAF Tornados can provide extremely detailed reconnaissance imagery over large areas.
The deployment will have no effect on operations in Afghanistan.

n an update on Libya operations, Major General Nick Pope, the Chief of the Defence Staff’s Communications Officer, said:
“British forces have again been in action over Libya, protecting civilians from the depredations of Colonel Gaddafi’s regime.
“Yesterday morning Thursday 14 July 2011, a Royal Air Force patrol located a BMP armoured personnel carrier near Zlitan, to the west of Misurata. A precision attack by a Typhoon multi-role fighter, using a Paveway guided bomb, successfully destroyed the vehicle.
“The precision, accuracy and weight of NATO’s air strikes have caused significant damage to Gaddafi’s regime forces attacking Libyan people – the RAF alone has to date damaged or destroyed more than 500 military targets including command and control sites.
“But, as the campaign has progressed, the regime is increasingly attempting to conceal troops, equipment and headquarters, often in populated areas.
“Gathering the intelligence needed to precisely target these forces remains a key part of NATO’s efforts in prosecuting this campaign.
“That is why in the coming days the UK will deploy an additional four RAF Tornado GR4s to Gioia del Colle, primarily in the reconnaissance role to further support this effort.
“As a formidable attack aircraft this deployment will also provide a useful secondary increase to NATO’s overall strike capability.
“NATO already benefits from the twelve RAF Tornados already deployed at Gioia del Colle. This latest deployment will bolster NATO’s reconnaissance capability. The deployment will have no effect on operations in Afghanistan.”
Source:
www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/...

UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
RAF patrol located a BMP armoured personnel carrier near Zlitan, west of Misratah, yesterday #Libya

Precision attack by Typhoon multi-role fighter, using Paveway guided bomb, successfully destroyed the armoured personnel carrier

RAF has to date damaged or destroyed more than 500 military targets including command and control sites

Qadhafi’s regime is increasingly attempting to conceal troops, equipment and headquarters, often in populated areas

UK will deploy four more RAF Tornado GR4s to Gioia del Colle to further support NATO’s efforts

RAF Tornado GR4s will also provide a useful secondary increase to NATO’s overall strike capability

This latest deployment will bolster NATO’s reconnaissance capability and will have no effect on operations in Afghanistan

Rumor:
the pro democracy forces have gained the city of Brega…the forces are searching the area at the moment…there was one fatality, and six injured during the large attack on the oil city..

freeourlibya jamal tripoli
#Tarhouna :Clashes are continuing in three areas, & revolutionaries have burned the headquarters of the city’s Homeland Security #Libya

Fissa
Gerr-dafi’s constipation level is hitting the roof. The mad man’s crap is highly increasing…keep it up ya “bahim”!

Tripolitanian
Concerning source for Tripoli sewer bombs, i’ll clarify-source in Tripoli said he talked with a friend abt Russian comments abt G bomb

The friend then said he was wondering why there was extensive “sewer maintenance” the past few weeks

Many others have heard abt this before me, wld appreciate any more details. This is rather distressing

septimius_
Gaddaf’s options
1.Killed by inner circle
2.killed by Nafusa FF
3. killed by Misrata FF
4.Captured in Tripoli as he ran out of petrol #Libya

DougSaunders Doug Saunders
(Hand-delivered from Brega. Chinese 1Y coin shown for scale & likely source of manufacture) twitpic.com/5q6wek

Saloumeh
Gaddafi “suicide plan" for Tripoli seems likely to be propaganda designed to keep FF from attacking Tripoli #Libya
Purpose of the Gaddafi “suicide plan”. To scare the FF into not attacking Tripoli, which Gaddafi is not well prepared to defend.

Libyan Forces Attack Strategic Oil City
Libyan rebel forces have attacked the government-held coastal town of Brega, a strategic oil hub in the east of the country.
Medical sources in nearby Ajdabiya said Thursday that one rebel was killed and at least five wounded in the clashes as opposition fighters reported the first columns advancing beyond a front line that had stagnated for weeks.
A Libyan government spokesman said forces loyal to leader Moammar Gadhafi had defeated what he called a coordinated attack by NATO forces and rebels. Moussa Ibrahim told journalists that opposition fighters backed by NATO air and sea forces had attacked Brega. He said the assault violated the alliance’s U.N. mandate to protect civilians.
Source and full story here:
VOA
blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2011/07...

DougSaunders Doug Saunders
Friday Imams here are sermonizing around the awkward fact that Brega does not appear to have been liberated despite rebel assurances.

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
NATO denies Libyan gov’t claims it mounted coordinated attack w/rebels on Brega Thurs, says NATO has “no direct contact w/opposition forces”

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Received indication best not to tweet more about Brega or Eastern front ops till official declarations made. Sensitive time

Joanne
still outside #Brega but moving again #Libya

Joanne
#Ajdabiya Lorries with arms Tankers full of Water&Fuel Pickups filled with FF headed through Biting Sand Storm 2wards #Brega Front

The Australian
Libyan rebels divert raid from Tripoli to oil town of Brega
“Yesterday, we got to within six kilometres of Asabah but most of our forces have returned” to Gualish, where rebels reversed a bid by loyalist forces on Wednesday to recapture the desert hamlet, said local commander Abdel Majid Salem.

In eastern Libya, rebels were poised to launch an offensive on the oil town of Brega, hoping to dislodge dug-in loyalist troops, rebel military sources said.
One rebel fighter was killed and five more were wounded on Libya’s eastern front line on Thursday, a doctor said in the rebel-held town of Ajdabiya, 80 kilometres from Brega.
“We are preparing to enter Brega. The attack will come soon,” said one rebel official.
Read story:
www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/lib...

drminfo
How hard is it not 2 announce to world that you are going to attack Brega in time for Friday prayers? This was official line!

Revolutionary forces continue to battle for Brega
Revolutionary forces in Libya’s east say they have fallen back after a failed advance on the oil town of Brega that left one fighter dead.
Fighter Abdel-Hamid Badein said today that revolutionary forces advanced on the town only to be pushed back by Muammar Gaddafi’s troops. After yesterday’s clash, revolutionaries returned to their positions farther east.
Revolutionary military spokesman Ahmed Bani said one fighter was killed and eight injured.
Gaddafi’s government yesterday described the advance as “a full-scale attack” and said it was repelled.
Fighting in Libya’s east between government troops and revolutionary forces, known collectively as National Liberation Army (NLA) , seeking to oust Gadhafi has stagnated for months, with the Gaddafi’s government holding Brega and NLA battling against them.
Short URL: english.libya.tv/?p=7662
or
english.libya.tv/2011/07/15/revolutiona...

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
#Rixos, I asked a #Libya gov minder if we could go to front line? he said ‘absolutely not, we know how strong we are, dont need to show you’

Hayat Hello, #Brega! How are you today? Please don’t leave us hanging for good news too long. God is great, may this friday be the one. #Feb17

MisrataPatriots PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
Misrata : A report about Qaser Hamad medical center , which provides huge medical services to the civilians youtu.be/EwtTr1my3kY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwtTr1my3kY&feature=youtu.be

Via Shabab
Act on oil now to stop future Gaddafis
The Libya contact group must push for transparency to prevent leaders treating oil resources like a personal piggy bank
Muammar Gaddafi has prevented oil revenues flowing to the people of Libya. Photograph: Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters
The 40-nation Libya contact group is meeting the Interim National Transitional Council to decide how best to support the rebels against Muammar Gaddafi’s forces. Top of a fairly extraordinary agenda will be how to unfreeze Libya’s assets so that its oil revenues can flow to the insurgents.
One of the clearest lessons from the Arab spring is that a lack of transparency over how a country manages its resources helps keep dictators in power, and creates the conditions for new ones to emerge. It’s what allowed Gaddafi to exert his stranglehold over the Libyan oil sector and what enabled the collusion of foreign companies and banks in his doing so.

Essentially, because oil companies do not currently have to disclose what they pay to foreign governments for resource deals, and banks do not have to report on their financial dealings with sovereign funds, it’s very hard for citizens to know how their leaders are using their countries’ natural resource wealth
Read full story here:
shabablibya.org/news/act-on-oil-now-to-...

PETROLEUM ECONOMIST
Exclusive: Libya pro-democracy ready to begin pumping after repaired the Sarir & Misla oilfield.
www.petroleum-economist.com/Article/286...

hominoid
Libya National Liberation Army (NLA) Fight it’s way to Brega.

Reuters
Western and Arab powers began talks in Turkey on Friday aimed at finding a political solution for Libya that would persuade Muammar Gaddafi to give up power and end a conflict that could otherwise drag on interminably. “Countries are starting to look past Gaddafi. He’s going to go, and the meeting can be a useful place to take stock of and prepare for that transition,” one senior U.S. official told reporters aboard Clinton’s plane before landing in Istanbul.

CNN
NATO disputes Libyan claim of coordinated push on al-Brega
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — The Libyan government is claiming that NATO and anti-government rebels were carrying out a coordinated air, sea and land attack on the strategic town of al-Brega, but the alliance sloughed off the assertion.

In an unexpected late-night appearance before a hastily assembled group of journalists, a Libyan government spokesman on Thursday called the attack “heavy, merciless and surprising.”

The government spokesman, Musa Ibrahim, also issued a warning that he said he hoped would make headlines around the world.
“We will die for oil. We will kill for oil,” Ibrahim said. “We will kill everyone who comes near our oil. Rebels, NATO, we don’t care. We will defend our oil to the last drop of blood that we have.”
Full story:
www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/07/15/lib...

LibyanLion
3 Martyrs confirmed on the #Brega front today.

A Free Libyan
#AlKhums: A high ranking officers has recently fled the city and gone to Tunisia. #Libya #Feb17

PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
Arabya: Turkey: oglu: we call the Libyan Contact Group to release the frozen assets to the pro-democracy in Libya

Sarah
Zliten FF entered military camp in city&captured weapons.Also,a FF raised indep flag over SuqAlThalath school

drminfo
If #Brega assault is indeed a full on attack & not decoy frm FF,then NTC have hard chance winning war.NEVER leak your troop movements #Libya

Libya Quote of the Week: #Gaddafi says President of #France, #Sarkozy, is “mentally disturbed” !

BLOG

Things Are Not “Normal” In Benghazi
That’s my uncle in the photo above (on the right) at the Libyan people’s answer to Gaddafi’s Million Man March (which reports say didn’t exceed more than 10,000). Demonstrations broke out in Benghazi (where my uncle is), Misrata, Tobruk, Darna and other liberated cities. Mustafa Abdul Jalil, NTC leader, also took the time to address crowds and reminded them not to allow our revolution devolve into a violent cycle of revenge and vigilantism.
The mood in Benghazi, which has been liberated from regime rule since February 19th, is mercurial. DSL internet was finally reinstated a few days ago since it had been cut off by Gaddafi back in February, so we’ve been seeing increased internet activity, particularly on Facebook and Twitter, from the Libyans there and in other rebel-held cities. I got to talk to my uncle for the first time since my cousin Hamadi passed away in March at the hands of Gaddafi forces.
“You can’t describe the fearless feeling,” he wrote me, “after people started dying. Everyone felt like has (sic) to do something and felt fearless. [We] just wanted to stop them.”
My uncle was engaged to be married before the revolution, but the celebrations for his impending wedding have been postponed. They’re going to have a small modest ceremony in the Fall – nothing big, he says, because they’re still mourning the death of Hamadi.
I don’t know if I ever talked about the details of Hamadi’s death on this blog. He was shot in the head, unarmed, by Gaddafi forces. Him and some other young guys in their early 20s from the neighborhood had learned that a group of pro-Gaddafi soldiers were occupying the school across the street from my grandfather’s house. They heard that the soldiers were preparing for an attack on the neighborhood, and my cousin, among others, headed to the school to confront them. My cousin was instructed to kick down the door. The soldiers stormed out and shot him in the head.

This is the school where he was shot. A dedication to him has been painted on its walls – “The hero Ahmed Ali Herwees: you have left us in this physical world, but you are still in our hearts.”
Things are still not “normal” in Benghazi. I get irritated sometimes with some of the cutesy articles that emerge from there because they rarely reflect the gloomy malaise to which many of my family members in Benghazi have felt themselves prey. The stench of death and grief permeates the walls of every household. Not one family, says my cousin, hasn’t felt the cold sting of loss. A young man who’d come asked for her hand in marriage a few months ago had died in battle. One cousin’s entire group of friends were killed. They bitterly await the end of this war, this war that was never meant to be a war, this war that had its birth in revolution.
They won’t give up, though. They’re willing to fight until the end. Back in March, my aunt told me they were willing to fight for years if that’s what it took. She still stands by that.

Source and pics:
abudai.tumblr.com/post/7631194760

Today is t day of the planned million-man march in Zliten. Ya Rabb protect our civilians and our freedom fighters&turn Gs plans against him

benghazi’s bunny♥
Exclusive: TNC ready to begin pumping oil as early as today.

Reuters
Turkey backs unfreezing $3 bln for Libya over Ramadan

ISTANBUL, July 15 (Reuters) – Turkey said on Friday it supported a proposal to release $3 billion of frozen Libyan assets to help civilians on both sides of the civil war prepare for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
Speaking at the opening of a international contact group on Libya meeting in Istanbul, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the humanitarian situation was a cause of “grave concern”.
The request for access to the frozen funds had come from the Libyan opposition Transitional National Council (TNC) in Benghazi.
“We see merit in the suggestion of the Transitional National Council for the release of $3 billion from the frozen assets of Libya under U.N. supervision,” Davutoglu said in an address to delegations from 27 countries and representatives of international and regional organisations.

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

Libya news around the world today:

AP
Libya’s government spokesman says that a coordinated land, sea and air attack by rebels and NATO forces against the eastern oil city of Brega was repulsed.
Moussa Ibrahim told journalists late Thursday that NATO forces attacked government positions at Brega by both sea and land, while rebels attacked from the ground.
He said the attack was repulsed but described the close combat coordination of NATO and the rebels as a “dangerous development.”
NATO is carrying out a U.N.-sanctioned campaign against Libyan government forces to protect civilians.
Rebel forces in the country’s eastern half have been stuck outside Brega for months, unable to take the strategic oil terminal.

USA
Traveling with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to an international meeting on Libya in Turkey, the officials said that Washington would bump up its relations with the Transitional National Council once it presents detailed plans for a democratic, transparent and inclusive government.
The council is expected to lay out plans for moving forward at Friday’s meeting of the Contact Group on Libya in Istanbul. The officials said it was not yet clear if the presentation would satisfy concerns that the initial post-Gaddafi regime represent the full spectrum of Libyan society: all regions, all tribes and all political parties.
When and if it does, the US will move to upgrade ties, freeing up financial assistance and improve the council’s credibility although it would not likely amount to formal diplomatic recognition, the officials said. It would, however, be a step up from where the council stands now, they said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal administration plans.

ALJAZEERA
Libyan forces repelled a coordinated attack by NATO forces and rebels against a strategic oil town in the east of the country, the government spokesman said on Thursday.
The announcement came as Libya also barred Italy, one of the country’s largest investors, from its oil sector because of Rome’s role in the NATO airstrikes.
Moussa Ibrahim told journalists that rebel forces attacked the town of Brega backed by NATO forces in the sea and air in a coordinated attack that he said violated the alliance’s UN mandate to protect civilians.

USA
The Obama administration is preparing to strengthen ties with Libya’s main opposition movement as it becomes increasingly clear that the group will govern a post-Gaddafi Libya, senior US officials said on Thursday.
Traveling with US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to an international meeting on Libya in Turkey, the officials told reporters on the plane that Washington would bump up its relations with the Transitional National Council once it presents detailed plans for a democratic, transparent and inclusive government.

AFP
Some 15 top diplomats including US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meet Friday in Istanbul to discuss a political solution to the conflict in Libya while coordinating aid for the rebels.
The fourth meeting of the Libya contact group will also include British Foreign Secretary William Hague, his French counterpart Alain Juppe and Franco Frattini of Italy.
France, which has played a key role in rallying international support for the rebels fighting to topple Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi, on Tuesday said a political solution to the fourth-month-old conflict could be within reach.
Juppe said there had been contacts with Kadhafi’s regime and that the veteran Libyan was ready to step down after 42 years in power, but the US cautioned many of the diplomatic signals coming from Tripoli have been contradictory.
The prospect of Kadhafi’s peaceful departure will head the list of topics at the Instanbul talks, a Turkish diplomat said.

ALJAZEERA
Al Jazeera’s Anita McNaught reports from Benghazi, the rebel stronghold, where, despite the locals’ best efforts to return to normal daily life, a lack of funding is putting everything at risk.
“We have the beginnings of a normal state here,” McNaught said, “but behind all that is a big potential crisis.”
They need money to keep life going.
If they don’t have that cash, they will grind to a halt.
There’s a lot of dismay here that a lot of the money pledged by countries – particularly from Middle Eastern countries – has failed to materialise.

AP
The Libyan government is denying a Russian newspaper report that allegedly quoted the Kremlin’s special envoy to Libya as saying Moammar Gadhafi has threatened to blow up Tripoli if it falls into rebel hands.
Kremlin envoy Mikhail Margelov was quoted in Thursday’s edition of the Izvestia newspaper as saying Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmudi recently told him “if the rebels seize the city, we will deluge it with missiles and blow it up.”
But Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim later denied the report, saying Gadhafi’s government would never destroy Tripoli or any other Libyan city. He said Margelov’s office also told him they never issued any such statement.
“This is absolutely unfounded, untrue. We would never bombard our cities,” Ibrahim told reporters in Tripoli.

AP
Delegates from nearly 40 countries seeking an end to the Libyan conflict met in Istanbul on Friday to discuss more financial aid and diplomatic support to Libya’s main opposition group as the rebels struggled to defeat Gadhafi-loyal forces.
Senior U.S. officials have said the Obama administration is preparing to strengthen ties with the Transitional National Council once it presents detailed plans for a democratic, transparent and inclusive government as it becomes increasingly clear that the Council will govern a post-Gadhafi Libya.
The council is expected to lay out plans for moving forward during the meeting of the Contact Group on Libya and seek more financial aid as well as diplomatic recognition. However, there was uncertainty whether the presentation would satisfy concerns that the initial post-Gadhafi regime represent the full spectrum of Libyan society: all regions, all tribes and all political parties.

Reuters
Britain said on Friday it will send four more Tornado warplanes to support the NATO mission in Libya, in addition to the 12 already deployed.
“These are the aircraft which are particularly well equipped for surveillance and reconnaissance, and as the conflict has gone on and the targets have become harder to detect it is important to have this capability available,” Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt told Reuters on the sidelines of an international Libya contact group meeting in Istanbul.
“They have the capability to launch airstrikes,” he said.
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen called on Thursday for members of the alliance to provide more aircraft to bomb Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in order to protect Libyan civilians and enforce a no-fly zone.

ALJAZEERA
Missile attacks between forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi and rebel fighters west of Ajdabiya, where rebels have launched an ambitious offensive, as reported by Al Jazeera’s Anita McNaught yesterday.

ENI
Libya looks to have brought the curtain down on a 61-year relationship with Italian oil giant Eni as it called a “total halt” to dealings with the company. The embattled regime of Muammar Gaddafi is curiously, however, still willing to consider oil deals with US and French companies, despite their heavy involvement in NATO bombing of the country.
China, Russia and Latin America are at the front of the queue when it comes to future oil deals with the current Libyan administration but Italy is completely out of the picture.
Libyan Prime Minister, Baghdadi Mahmudi, said yesterday: “Italian warplanes have been killing our children, destroying our houses and our country’s infrastructure.”
Mahmudi accused Italy of violating a non-aggression pact with Libya penned three years ago and called an end to any future oil deals with Eni which has been involved in the North African country’s petroleum industry since 1950.

Turkey
Turkey called on Friday for billions of dollars of frozen Libyan funds to be released to ease a worsening humanitarian situation across the war-ravaged country during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

KC_Tripolitania KC
Ex-#Gaddafi soldiers who were captured in #Misrata say they’re well treated & fed well. They are being thought the Holy Quran by Sheikhs.

Reuters
U.S. sees Libya pivot point in anti-Gaddafi struggle
(Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Turkey on Friday for a Libya conference marked by growing hopes the international campaign to topple Muammar Gaddafi is nearing its goal and rebel forces can mature into a legitimate government.
Clinton will confer with leaders of the NATO-led coalition to assess the political road map for Libya’s future and discuss further steps to support the Benghazi-based National Transitional Council (TNC), officials said.
“Countries are starting to look past Gaddafi. He’s going to go, and the meeting can be a useful place to take stock of and prepare for that transition,” one senior U.S. officials told reporters aboard Clinton’s plane before landing in Istanbul.
“That’s the way we’re thinking about this meeting: trying to see it as a pivot in this process.”
Full art. here:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/15/us-l...

abe
Photo: Snaps I took of the old 1963 Libyan Pound currency that my mother’s stored for decades. #Libya tumblr.com/x303ihhk4x

loworbit.tumblr.com/post/7648110897/sna...

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

dovenews Libyan™
BREAKING! The Libya contact group countries recognize the #NTC as the legitimate power in Libya. #NTC #LibyaContactGroup

suzyc
question? how come all gaddafi male supporters in green square, tripoli are not in the army fighting for him??

Telegraph
Libya: new exit strategy that would allow Col Gaddafi to stay after leaving power
World leaders are discussing a new exit strategy for Colonel Gaddafi which would allow him to stay in the country after leaving power.
As the fighting on the ground in Libya comes to a stalemate, NATO and other leaders meeting in Istanbul are considering proposals that allow for a peaceful resolution to the conflict without the Libyan leader’s unconditional surrender or flight.
French ministers have argued in favour of immediate negotiations, even while Col Gaddafi stays in power. They are said to be in favour of allowing him to step down but be found a “safe haven” inside Libya.

“An exit strategy for Gadhafi to leave power, but not necessarily the country, should be sought by revising the U.N. Resolution 1973 if necessary,” he said, according to reports of the briefing in leading Turkish newspapers.

The regime has put out “feelers” to NATO, in which it talks of a democratic transition, but US officials accompanying the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, to Istanbul were sceptical that these could meet the coalition’s “red lines” – stopping all violence and handing over all power.
“There are a lot of straws in the wind,” one said. “We are not persuaded yet that any of this is decisive in terms of the red lines that we have laid out.”
Full art.:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Libya Ahrar TV : All members of the contact group now recognise TNC as sole rep of LIbya

KC_Tripolitania KC
Nearly 200 ex-#Gaddafi soldiers, now prisoners in #Misrata. They were captured or surrendered since the battle for the city began. #Libya

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
goo.gl/FYd2x Picture album – The Fourth Libya Contact Group Meeting, 15/7/2011. #Libya
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.17564...

Al Arabiya news
Benghazi’s Amusement Park
In Libya’s rebel held city, Benghazi, many families visit the “Revolutionary Amusement Park” daily to spend few hours of entertainment, away from the ongoing battle between the rebels and Gaddafi.

The amusement park attracts teenagers, adults and children.The park visitors enjoy the large inflatable bouncy castles, all-terrain vehicles and table football games.

Khaled Mohammed (resident): “The children are going about their normal daily life, we take them to centers where they teach the Koran, and places where they can play, and we take them on trips to the seaside, and everything is going well, thank God.”

The admission to the park is free. The park was set up by the help of the donations collected by a civilian committee of volunteers.

Abdelhamed Ahmed (volunteer): “This current atmosphere is so hard, so we are doing this for … We are doing this to give people a sense of stability and to draw the attention of the people away from war. At the same time, this helps heal rifts amongst people, and the situation is good nowadays.”

The volunteer entertainers at the park wish that this project will bring the community together and make the people’s lives easier under the current unstable conditions.
Source and vid.:
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/07/...

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
@
i’m hoping that BBC team in #Tripoli will be permitted to speak to still serving #Gaddafi soldiers too. hear what they have to say

What do expect they are going to say?

UN news centre
Libya: UN mission to Misrata reports need for continued humanitarian assistance
4 July 2011 –
A United Nations humanitarian assessment mission to the Libyan port city of Misrata has found that high food prices, lack of money and shortages of medical supplies and other essential items have left residents in need of continued assistance.
Misrata has seen some of the heaviest fighting between Government forces and the armed opposition bidding to oust the regime of Muammar al-Qadhafi. The Libyan uprising started in February following similar mass protests in Tunisia, Egypt and other countries across North Africa and the Middle East.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in press release that although some normalcy had returned to Misrata, the city itself is still surrounded by Government forces and exposed to sporadic rocket attacks.
The four-day humanitarian mission, the second one to the city so far, assessed the population’s need for food, health, water, sanitation, hygiene and shelter, with members noting that some shops and markets had reopened. Community leaders told the UN team that people did not have enough to eat due to rising food prices, a shortage of supplies, and a lack of cash.
The mission found that large quantities of explosive remnants of war remain in Misrata, with local leaders saying that there is a 15-kilometre minefield between Misrata and Zlitan town, which they said had killed two civilians and injured 30 others.
According to the UN World Health Organization (WHO), the interruption of the delivery of supplies of life-saving medicines and other medical items had caused acute shortages throughout Libya. WHO was particularly concerned over the lack of children’s vaccines.
“The only way we can reach the population is by sea,” said Azhar Mehdi Salih of the UN World Food Programme (WFP). “The road from Benghazi to Misrata is too dangerous due to the ongoing fighting,” he said. WFP has distributed 2,634 tons of food to 125,000 people in Misrata since April.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is assessing the extent of the destruction of homes in Misrata and considering helping with some reconstruction.
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) identified an urgent need for psycho-social support for children and is working to create child-friendly spaces where they can play safely, learn and express themselves.
The Misrata Inter-Agency Humanitarian Hub, which was established a month ago, is providing logistical support, mapping, and humanitarian coordination. The UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) and the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) also participated in the assessment mission.
Source:
www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=3...

inglesi Piers Scholfield
Thursday evening prayers, Freedom Square, #Misrata. twitpic.com/5q6yvf

inglesi Piers Scholfield
went to see former Gaddafi soldiers, now prisoners in #Misrata. Nearly 200 captured or surrendered since battle for city. #Libya

Prisoners say they’ve been well treated, fed well and are being taught about the Koran – cared for by sheikhs. Most seem happy. #Misrata

I was reporting figures given to us by rebel spokesman. I’m not sure they’re accurate.

#Misrata prisoners – former Gaddafi soldiers – from all over #Libya, and a couple from other countries. Met one from Chad.

70 injuries were reported on one day last week, so rebel figure of 83 for whole week prob not right.

prisoners say they were told #Misrata was crying out to be rescued from foreign forces. some surrendered after rebels shouted Allahu Akbar.

Youssef
Going to Gwalish to check the frontline! Nothing is happening today, but an attack is expected soon”

ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
Rescued migrants still on board #Spain ship ‘Almirante Juan de Borbon’ as #NATO has still not resolved issue
#NATO spokesman says: ‘seekink legal advice’ on where to take rescued migrants on board #Spain ship
#Spain government says ‘#NATO did not instruct Almirante Juan de Borbon’ to sail to #Malta with rescued migrants
#Malta government to recieve official reply from #NATO later today (spokesman)
Reports that #Nato has removed #Spain ship ‘Almirante Juan de Borbon’ from under its command, passing the buck onto #Madrid
Removing Almirante Juan de Borbon from under #Nato command means that #Spain is ‘lumped’ with a big problem
#Spain defence ministry spokesman says ‘unaware that Almirante Juan de Borbon’ has passed under Spanish command
#NATO has still not given replies to #Malta government as to who and why was order given for #Spain ship to take migrants to #Malta

100 inmigrantes africanos fueron rescatados por la fragata española Almirante Juan de Borbón cuando su embarcación se hallaba a la deriva, a 100 millas de las costas de Libia

Spain NATO navy frigate ’Almirante Juan de Borbon that is being denied entry to #Lampedusa #Malta yfrog.com/kkqupcsj

Malta exige a la OTAN explicaciones x el rescate d una embarcación inmigrante llevado a cabo x l fragata española “Almirante Juan de Borbón”

Lisa
#Feb17 Anyone who has to assault those tied up is nothing but a coward! GADDAFI forces r below the scum of the earth!

USA recognizes NTC #Libya as sole legitimate government!!!!! It’s about time ;) report fr Reuters via Hillary Clinton!! Thank you #USA!

#USA #Libya In your face, GADDAFI!!!! USA wants you gone!! Get out of #Libya! Preferably via coffin!!!!! Bye bye GADDAFI!

jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
by littlelisa8
U.S. recognizes #Libya rebel council as country’s legitimate government: SECRETARY OF STATE CLINTON REUTERS

MisrataPatriots PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
Reuters: An international contact group on Libya meeting in Istanbul has agreed to recognize the Benghazi-based… fb.me/DpyCgJiX

Reuters: An international contact group on Libya meeting in Istanbul has agreed to recognize the Benghazi-based opposition as the “legitimate government authority in the territory of Libya,” France’s Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Friday

inglesi Piers Scholfield
#Misrata grinds to a halt for Friday prayers.. #Libya

VOA
Turkey Hosts International Talks on Libya
International talks on Libya have started in Turkey, where the United States is expected to strengthen its ties with opposition forces fighting to overthrow Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

Delegates of the Contact Group on Libya, including U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, will lay out plans Friday to increase support to the North African country’s rebel Transitional National Council.

Senior U.S. officials traveling with Clinton said Washington would enhance its relations with the council once it presents detailed plans for a democratic, transparent and inclusive government at Friday’s meeting.
The United States and a growing number of countries consider the council the legitimate representatives of the Libyan people but have yet to offer full diplomatic recognition. That step could eventually unlock Libyan assets frozen in the U.S. for the cash-strapped government-in-waiting in Benghazi.
Source and full story:
www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Dip...

Robin
Will people stop calling #Libya TNC ‘rebels’ now? Surely #Gaddafi is the rebel against the recognised government

NATO
Video blog
Roadmap for New Libya
AndersFogh Rasmussen
andersfogh.info/2011/07/15/roadmap-for-...

inglesi Piers Scholfield
Question is, now the US officially recognises TNC, will it release some of #Gaddafi’s frozen assets? That’s what leaders here really want.

Al Jazeera:
More than 30 countries declare that Gaddafi’s regime is “no longer legitimate”

NYT
U.S. Formally Recognizes Libya Rebels
ISTANBUL (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the Obama administration has decided to formally recognize Libya’s main opposition group as the country’s legitimate government. The move gives foes of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi a major financial and credibility boost.
Clinton announced Friday that Washington accepts the Transitional National Council as the legitimate governing authority of the Libyan people. Diplomatic recognition of the council means that the U.S. will be able to fund the opposition with some of the more than $30 billion in Gahdafi-regime assets that are frozen in American banks.
Clinton made the announcement at an international conference on Libya in Istanbul.
www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/07/15/wor...

AndersFogh Rasmussen
Future to be shaped by Libyan people. @NATO will support international efforts if requested and needed

Washington Post
U.S. to recognize Libyan rebels as legitimate government

ISTANBUL—The United States has reached a deal to give Libyan rebel leaders full diplomatic recognition as the governing authority of Libya, after months of fighting to oust longtime ruler Moammar Gaddafi, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said.
The move – announced here Friday at a meeting between Western and Arab powers and Libyan rebel leaders – paves the way for the rebel’s council to receive some of Libya’s frozen U.S. assets, which total more than $30 billion.
“I am announcing today that, until an interim authority is in place, the United States will recognize the TNC as the legitimate governing authority for Libya, and we will deal with it on that basis,” Clinton said, using the acronym for the rebels’ governing Transitional National Council.
Other Western and Arab countries in the international contact group that is meeting in Turkey also said they fully recognize the rebels as the governing authority, with France and Italy pledging on Friday to unfreeze $250 million and $100 million in frozen Libyan assets and give the money to the rebels in coming days.

The United States decided to change its position after a presentation here by Mahmoud Jebril, the foreign representative of the transitional council, who walked through the rebels’ post-Gaddafi plans for governing Libya.
For the first time, China and Russia were invited to the contact group. But the two countries have been less critical of Gaddafi, and both declined to attend.
Full report:
www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-eas...

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
All Countries of Contact group including USA recognising NTC as sole rep of Libya is a fantastic political achievement by NTC

AlArabiya_Eng:
Clinton says Libya council has given assurances on transparency, democratic reforms #Alarabiya”

LEBANON DAILY STAR
West, Arab powers to recognise Libya rebels
By Tulay Karadeniz

ISTANBUL: Western and Arab powers in the Libya contact group are to recognise the rebel leadership as representing the Libyan people, Italy said on Friday, giving a boost to the rebels as their military campaign falters.
The decision at a meeting in Istanbul of more than 30 countries and international bodies meant Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi had no option but to stand down, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said.
The U.N. Secretary-General’s special envoy to Libya, Abdul Elah Al-Khatib, will be authorised to present terms for Gadhafi to leave power, but the British foreign minister said military action against Gadhafi would be stepped up at the same time.
The political package to be offered Gadhafi will include a ceasefire to halt fighting in the five-month-old war.
There have been reports that Gadhafi is quietly exploring a diplomatic solution under which he would end his 41-year rule, but in public the Libyan leader has remained defiant
“Today, we will see the final document where the contact group recognizes TNC (the rebel Transitional National Council) as the interlocutor representing Libyan people. So (there is) no other option but for Gadhafi to leave,” Frattini said
British Foreign Secretary William Hague told Reuters that at the same time as al-Khatib pursues a political settlement, “the military pressure on the regime will continue to intensify.”
The Libya contact group, established in London in March, is trying, at its fourth meeting, to find a political solution that would persuade Gadhafi to quit.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said he hoped a political solution could emerge by the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins at the start of August.
“There has been progressive improvement of the situation on the ground,” he said. “What we need to
do now is consolidate our achievements and move into the phase of conflict resolution.”
The rebels urgently need cash and contact group members should consider opening credit lines to the rebel Transitional National Council (TNC) in Benghazi, he said.
He also backed a rebel proposal for the release of $3 billion of frozen Libyan assets to alleviate a “grave” humanitarian situation during Ramadan in areas of Libya controlled by the rebels and by Gadhafi.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton were attending the Istanbul talks.
China and Russia, which have taken a softer line towards Gadhafi, were invited to the contact group meeting for the first time, but decided not to become involved.
Speaking in The Hague on Thursday, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen called on alliance members to provide more warplanes to bomb increasingly elusive Libyan military targets.
Britain said it was sending four more Tornado reconnaissance planes to beef up the NATO mission. Such aircraft have become vital as Gadhafi’s forces have hidden their armour and artillery from NATO warplanes..
“But as the campaign has progressed, the regime is increasingly attempting to conceal troops, equipment and headquarters, often in populated areas,” a British military spokesman, General Nick Pope, said.
Full art.:
www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2...

Libya_Now
Important : Les pays du groupe de contact reconnaissent le Conseil National de Transition comme représentant du peuple libyen. #Libye

Washington Post
Libyan rebels hampered by lack of weapons
KABAW, Libya — From the street, the operation run by a former army engineer known to the Libyan rebels as Rambo looks like an ordinary auto repair shop. Inside, a dozen of Omar Said’s mechanics are busy turning pickup trucks into armored fighting vehicles, complete with aging anti-aircraft guns.
What the Libyan rebels lack, they scavenge. Popular now: a portable launcher for firing an old Russian S-5 air-to-surface rocket from your shoulder. Components: four feet of drain pipe and a trigger made from a hair dryer. Range: about 2 1 / 2 miles.
Sitting next to a cannibalized Volvo sedan are two confiscated Libyan army tanks. “They were broken,” said Takek Issa, a local fighter. “It took us only a day to get them running.”
“Our problem is weapons. We need them, but we don’t have them,” said Col. Tarek Zanpou, who commands the 250 fighters in the Berber town of Kabaw. “Half of my men go into battle without a gun.”
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www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-eas...

Libya_from_FR
#France : Les opérations militaires de la coalition continuent en #Libye pendant le Ramadan

ousama #Misrata fixed lines are now connected to Du in UAE, Qtel in Qatar, also Zain Jordan. From US and Europe various calling cards from IDT

carolv
This is how I feel right now —→ j.mp/ruq0UT
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Mimi explains to journos:
Is it because Western education systems are slowly decaying since a decade or two that since a year or two journalists – by their ignorance of the definition of the terms they use when it is not altogether their lack of vocabulary – come to try to justify their pedantic and ridiculous neologisms and language errors? Possible.
Is it a “cultural difference” on the meaning of similar terms among different languages? Not sure.
Is the pressure of a deaf and occult will designed to intimidate and enslave the present and future emerging governments springing out the fall of dictators themselves born after the Western more-or-less-decolonizations? Likely.
A “revolutionary” is not a “rebel”
- A rebel, or insurgent, is a person who refuses an established order, whatever it is, legitimate or not. He fights for his freedom.
- A revolutionary is a person who refuses an established order and who wishes to see the change of the whole of his country. He fights for the freedom of all.
So, dear Western journalists, English speakers, French speakers or other, if you are not one of those addressed by the three questions opening this article, if you know what Freedom means, please, stop the wrong term, stop maintaining a confusion not only semantically shocking and ridiculous, but also physically dangerous to people lives and degrading for just honest peoples.
Thank you to call a cat a cat, for the sake of Dignity and Respect, for the life of humbles.
Source:
www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=13008...

andrewquinn
US recognition of Libya rebels may not mean immediate cash infusion — still UN sanx to consider and takes time to set up credit line

Andy Carvin
NATO’s support wasn’t enough for the opposition to take Brega yesterday. Will today’s recognition assist them beyond a morale boost? #Libya

Sarah
#WhenInFrance ensure u demonstrate ur hatred for #Gaddafi as clearly as Sarkozi does.Free #Libya

WldSougAlJumaa
Allah u Akbar an incredible day of political victory 4 Free Legitimate #Libya !!!!!!!!! Alhamdulillah

PJCrowley Philip J. Crowley
U.S. recognition of the transitional council as the legitimate #Libyan government gives them a vital political and financial lifeline.

Danya
1 of the sad things about this revolution is thePPLwho died be4 #Feb17 never knowing that 1day the world would be on our side 4 a #FREELIBYA

REUTERS
UAE will send a representative to #Benghazi and will welcome a representative of the #NTC in Abu Dhabi -

Abeidi
Libya, Please news agencies don’t call us rebels anymore WE ARE LIBYA, Gardaffi and his men are the rebels and the criminals ie الخوارج

libyanfsl
NFSL Deputy Sec. General Moh’d Ali Abdallah on @AlArabiya next news hour to talk about Contact Group meeting developments #Feb17 #Libya

USAmbNATO Ivo Daalder
Pressure on Qaddafi is building. #SecClinton: US to “recognize the TNC as the legitimate governing authority for Libya.”

Alex
#Gaddafi commits treason – by rebeling against #Libya ‘s lawful ruling authority the #NTC – he’s now an outlaw subject to capital punishment

JomanaCNN
#TNC spox:“Prophet Mohammed had great battles during Ramadan so there is nothing religious will ban us from fighting for our freedom.”#Libya

libyanfsl
Libya’s Liberation Army is positioned in Alnajm Alsata’a University (Shooting Star Univ.) , 7 km outside center of Brega

Danya
My business partner is in #China now ..trying to hold rallys for china to support #Libya ..I wonder if its legal though …

acarvin Andy Carvin
Here’s the list of Libya Contact Group members from April. Question: does this mean African Union recognizes NTC? fco.gov.uk/en/news/latest…
www.fco.gov.uk/en/news/latest-news/?vie...

Ahmed
#Gaddafi leads an armed militia that is terrorizing people, a wanted war criminal, he should be a Legitimate target for #NATO. End this.

bent
UK Vodafone International Freebee Top up just £15 and get 100 minutes of free calls to libyana alhura(benghazi) #Feb17

Alex
We are no longer ‘rebels’ – We are the legitimate national authority – WE ARE #Libya!!! Well we always have been - but now its legal! #NTC

Globe and mail
30-nation bloc recognizes Libyan rebels as legitimate government
More than 30 nations have declared that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s regime is no longer legitimate.
The nations, including the United States, declared Friday in a final statement following a meeting of the so-called Contact Group on Libya that the “Gadhafi regime no longer has any legitimate authority in Libya,” saying Mr. Gadhafi and certain members of his family must go.
Read more:
www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/afri...

NYT
ISTANBUL, Turkey – The United States formally recognized the rebel leadership in Libya as the country’s legitimate government on Friday, news agencies reported. The move ratcheted up the diplomatic pressure on Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi amid a continuing NATO-led bombing campaign to push him from power.Speaking at an international gathering here to discuss the four-month-old conflict in Libya, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that the United States would join more than 30 countries in extending diplomatic recognition to the main opposition group, known as the Transitional National Council, The Associated Press reported. “The United States views the Qaddafi regime as no longer having any legitimate authority in Libya,” Mrs. Clinton said. “And so I am announcing today that, until an interim authority is in place, the United States will recognize the T.N.C. as the legitimate governing authority for Libya, and we will deal with it on that basis.”The step allows the United States to turn over to the rebel group some of the Libyan funds that have been frozen in American banks, to finance its efforts to oust Colonel Qaddafi and to administer the part of the country that the rebels control.
Read full art.:
mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=816789&f=19

EA World View
The US State Department has officially recognized the National Transitional Council as the official representatives of the Libyan people. This move also unfreezes $30 billion dollars in frozen assets that once belonged to the Gaddafi regime and now belong to the rebels.
Source:
www.enduringamerica.com/home/2011/7/15/...

wheelertweets James Wheeler
Yesterday, a #Zintan #Libya FF friend in his Tunis hospital room was soaked in urine from a clogged catheter. All morning.

A clinic staffer came in mid-morning and opened the window to reduce the odor. The FF stayed in urine-soaked linens till noon

I grabbed a friend from Misrata to help. One of the female aides told us she wouldn’t clean the patient, because he’s a man.

This is the same private hospital (“clinic”) that had raw sewage and no air conditioning on the ground floor 3 nights ago.

The upper floors are a better physical environment and have more regular and attentive nursing care.

I was disappointed that none of his relatives in Tunis were with him to help. Sigh…

Many injured Libyans are in fact feeling price gouged.

Went with #Libyan friends last night (all injured FFs on ‘early-release’ from hospital) to buy clothes (mainly shirts) 4 a few new arrivals.

Injured #Libyan freedom fighters typically arrive in Tunisia from #Misrata & the #Nafusa Mtns with no money or extra clothes.

I’m sitting in the hospital room of the #Zintan FF who was soaked in urine all morning yesterday from a clogged catheter. Catheter gone now.

Helped him out of bed & to the toilet. He wanted to change his hospital gown 4 a shirt. He has 2 in a plastic bag. Both dirty

I’ll go buy him a couple shirts with money people donated. Can’t hide my disappointment with some of his cousins here.

Brian Conley
quiet friday in #zintan – I heard #NYTimes planned to go out to #kikla but sounds like their translator is MIA

Abdullah
#USA recoginze #NTC , now we will see rest of the world follow this decisions because most of them waiting USA to do this #Libya #Feb17

Serpent
#FF vehicles going out of #brega area, towards #adjabiya, counted at least 30 in the last 10 minutes, we’re pulling back to #Adjabiya #Libya

bencnn benwedeman
Almost 5 months after outbreak of revolution US finally gets around to recognising TNC as legitimate government of #Libya.

Aiman
What a slap #Gaddafi received today by the #US. After all that oil flirting he had to go through yesterday. Didn’t pay off. #NTCRecognition

Hague:
In Istanbul strong international unity on #Libya from more nations than evr.R deployment of moreTornadoes is welcomed enthusiastically

pdanaharbbc Paul Danahar
Britain has said for some time it regards the TNC as the legit’representative of #Libyan people but it recognises states, not governments.

Tasbeeh
My sis & I were in the car listening to NPR when the NTC recognition report came on. We pulled car over, zaghratna, & proceeded tweeting.

Danya
OKAY reality check …if the #USA has really recognized #LIBYA’s #NTC then we need to be prepared for what #Gaddafi might do to #TRIPOLI

hominoid
France Coalition military operations will continue during Ramadan in Libya

Libye: La rébellion veut mettre le cap sur Brega
Les rebelles libyens, soutenus par l’Otan, préparent une offensive de grande envergure contre l’armée régulière pour le contrôle de la ville de Brega. Entre-temps, une réunion du groupe de contact sur la Libye va se tenir à Istanbul (Turquie) pour la recherche d’une solution politique dans ce pays où la crédibilité de l’Occident est plus que jamais mise en cause.
Les rebelles libyens consolidaient hier jeudi 14 juillet leurs positions dans l’Ouest près d’Al-Assabaa, ville stratégique à 80 km au Sud de Tripoli, se préparant ainsi à lancer une offensive sur la ville pétrolière de Brega, a constaté l’AFP.
Ces développements sur le terrain interviennent à la veille de la tenue à Istanbul, en Turquie, d’une quatrième réunion du groupe de contact sur la Libye, au cours de laquelle une quinzaine de ministres des Affaires étrangères sont attendus pour discuter d’une solution politique au conflit et coordonner l’aide internationale à la rébellion.
Sont notamment attendus Hillary Clinton pour les Etats-Unis, Alain Juppé pour la France, Franco Frattini pour l’Italie et William Hague pour le Royaume-Uni. Moscou a décliné l’invitation.
A Benghazi, les insurgés ont indiqué à l’AFP qu’ils pourraient lancer plus tard jeudi ou tôt vendredi une attaque sur Brega, actuellement aux mains des forces gouvernementales. Brega a été reprise puis perdue plusieurs fois par les forces loyales au régime de Mouammar Kadhafi.
Read more:
fr.allafrica.com/stories/201107150384.h...

brunehel
Rome claims had supplied yet 1rst rank of 100 millions euros as credits guaranteed by frozen assets & 300 millions will follow in 2 weeks.

Gigarev
Intense video of yesterday’s assault on #Brega #Libya #Feb17 youtu.be/afaFmcwcL-0 youtu.be/q_lbijJ0jYQ youtu.be/kde-ZFQCo5c
www.youtube.com/watch?v=afaFmcwcL-0&fea...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_lbijJ0jYQ&feature=youtu.be
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kde-ZFQCo5c&fea...

Tripoli weather:
Tripoli #Libya Jul 15 16:50 Temperature 91°F fair Wind N 22 km/h Humidity 30%

Military action against Gaddafi to intensify: Hague
(Reuters) – Military action against Muammar Gaddafi’s government will be intensified while a U.N. envoy presses for negotiations to end the conflict in Libya, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Friday.
Hague said the U.N. secretary-general’s special envoy to Libya, Abdul Elah Al-Khatib, would be authorized to present terms for Gaddafi to leave power and bring an end to the bloodshed that began with a popular uprising against his 41-year rule in February.
“He (special envoy) has taken a central role in this contact group meeting and we see him as the channel for negotiations and for political settlement, while the military pressure on the regime will continue to intensify,” Hague said in an interview with Reuters during an international Libya contact group meeting in Istanbul.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, were among more than a dozen foreign ministers attending the Istanbul talks, along with heads of NATO, the Arab League and other regional organizations. More than 30 governments and international organizations were attending the one-day meeting.
Full report:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/15/us-l...

Serbian & Ukrainian experts are helping Gaddafi in Tripoli to prepare battle against FF

Des experts serbes et ukrainiens aident le régime du colonel Kadhafi à préparer la bataille de Tripoli face aux rebelles.

« La Libye a recours à des experts serbes et ukrainiens qui épaulent les loyalistes à miner des lieux stratégiques de la capitale et à piéger des véhicules en vue de tenir le siège de Tripoli », révèle un membre des services de renseignements français.

Jeudi, un émissaire russe chargé de négocier une sortie de crise a évoqué un plan
« suicidaire » pour faire sauter la capitale libyenne en cas d’attaque des rebelles. « Le Premier ministre libyen m’a dit à Tripoli : si les rebelles prennent la ville, nous la couvrirons de missiles et la feront sauter », a expliqué ce diplomate arabophone qui s’est rendu en Libye le mois dernier.

Depuis de nombreuses années, le régime de Tripoli entretient des relations obscures avec d’anciens officiers serbes, que l’on avait déjà retrouvés en 2003 à Bagdad pour secourir la dictature baassiste irakienne avant sa chute.
Source:
blog.lefigaro.fr/malbrunot/2011/07/des-...

NPR
In Gadhafi’s Tripoli, Libyans Cautiously Voice Dissent
The Libyan government maintains that the capital, Tripoli, is a stronghold of support for leader Moammar Gadhafi.
The government routinely organizes pro-Gadhafi demonstrations, and state-run TV channels keep up a steady flow of videos that portray Libyans as victims of NATO aggression.
But for reporters who manage to slip away from their government minders, pockets of opposition aren’t hard to find.
The dissidents say opposition to the government is widespread, despite a state security crackdown that keeps them in a constant state of fear and distrust.
Full art.:
www.npr.org/2011/07/15/137822225/in-gad...

Tripolitano
Next contact group meeting will be in New York

dovenews Libyan™
UAE: Gaddafi has decided to kill his own ppl using missiles & mercenaries, lets not forget who are the victims here, the Libyan ppl are

Plz. Read this blog
Libyan Dispatch Borders / BLOG / ABU RAY:
The Tunisia-Libya border
Today we inaugurate a new series of dispatches from Libya by our intrepid war correspondent Abu Ray, who is headed to Tripoli where bored journalists await the final battle.
Coming into Libya again, once again I was greeted by graffiti, but this time it was “God, Gadhafi, Libya and that’s it.” And in fact that was pretty much it for the spray painted slogans for the whole trip from the Tunisian border to Tripoli. As the Palestinian TV producer I was traveling with pointed out, it was somewhat heartening that God at least came before Gadhafi in this instance.
It was certainly a contrast to the jubiliant, riot of “Libya is free” graffiti on the eastern side that I saw four months ago when I came to cover a nationwide rebellion that has since turned into a stalemated civil war and a cautionary tale for any would be Arab democracy activists.
Across Morocco, and elsewhere in the region, ordinary people are suddenly praising the advantages of the go slow approach for fear of sinking into the bloody fighting that has convulsed Libya since March.
There was one similarity to the east, aside from the scrub filled desert landscape, and that was the soldiers at checkpoints. Weeks with the rag tag rebel irregulars had convinced me that somewhere out there was a disciplined, uniformed Libyan government force hurling artillery shells at us with deadly accuracy. Instead, at least at the dozens of checkpoints on the two hour drive to the capital, it was the same mish mash of t-shirts, fatigue pants, some camouflage, the odd beret and the ubiquitous Kalashnikov dangling from their hands.
Gadhafi’s Libya is apparently not about spit and polish uniforms.
For miles along the Tunisian road leading to the border, there were young men selling large jerry cans of gasoline. Once upon a time, these were Libyans, smuggling over their super subsidized gasoline, selling it to the Tunisians.
Now gasoline has vanished from Libya and it’s the Tunisians and Libyans loading up the trunks of their car and driving across the border to sell it. During the drive to Tripoli, every gas station was surrounded by earthen walls or barb wire and a long line of cars. In some cases it seemed as though maybe everyone had given up, as the gas stations were deserted and the dozens of cars covered in sand and empty of inhabitants — like some sort of post-apocalyptic harbinger of the day the world runs out of oil.
As we sat for hours on the border, our bags getting searched and subject to the weird time warp that seems to exist at the frontiers of authoritarian countries, we watched ramshackle Tunisians cars held together by twine with backseats filled with gasoline driven through the border by cigarette puffing young men.
They were followed by the gleaming SUVs of rich Libyans taking some time out to relax at the Tunisian resorts before returning home.
The nearby Tunisian resort island of Djerba is apparently overrun by rich Libyans, residents told me as I spent a not unpleasant day there waiting to cross into Libya. One taxi driver groused how they were renting houses at outrageous rates and buying up all the food, driving up prices even more right before Ramadan. And even worse, they brought their own cars and didn’t need cabs.
Meanwhile the people that needed cabs, the tourists, were just staying away. Even if Europeans had reconciled themselves to Tunisians uprising, they were now spooked by months of fighting just across the border and hotel occupancy rates were an anemic 50 percent, a far cry from last year when they were calling around the island to find rooms for their overflow numbers of guests. Probably the one city in Tunisia that isn’t hurting from the drop in tourism is Sfax, the commercial capital and center of the country’s business community. In fact it’s these people that are probably profiting from all the food that Tunisia is sending to Libya.
It’s also the home of the Libyan consulate in Tunisia and primary contact point for the hundreds of thousands of poor Libyans stuck in the country. A non descript apartment building just a few blocks from the town center, it is surrounded by barbed wire to help control the crowds of desperate Libyans that gather around it every day. It’s almost a microcosm of Libya’s woes as uncaring officials shout at pleading crowds through locked iron bars.
I’m not sure if anyone is ever allowed into the consulate, but on the two days I sat outside pleading for my visa, that was not the case. The windows are all barred and the doors have heavy rolling gates in front of them.
It became clear throughout the days why those gates where there as periodically someone would just completely lose it and start throwing themselves against the bars. At one point a bunch of revolutionary sympathizers showed up and tried to start a demonstrations, rattling the bars, much to the fury of people waiting outside, clustered in the fast diminishing shadows as the awful July sun climbed to its zenith.
See, the Libyan government wants to take care of its people abroad, so it pays for medical care and in some cases accommodation, but only if you are a loyal citizen and not a rebel sympathizer. So most of the crowd is clutching x-rays and medical notes begging for the funding for their operations, one man showed up with an enormous fleshy goiter overtaking much of his chin and neck and overflowing an inadequate bandage. All subject to the whim of the embassy employees.
The various officials I talked to just kept telling me my fax approving my visa had never arrived, even while my counterpart in Tripoli, desperate to escape, told me it had been sent three times.
At one point, I shoved the phone with a Tripoli-based official on the line to talk to the embassy employee. He nodded his head and said in Arabic, “yes yes, we will stamp them, it will be taken care of,” then got off the line and said to me in French. “Sorry, they haven’t sent the fax yet.”
I suggested at one point that maybe a tip was in order to ease the process, which the embassy official thought was a capital idea as we spoke through a barred window around the corner from the shouting mobs, but “wait until I get your visas, you see I’m Tunisian, and we only take money once we’ve have results – we’re not like the Libyans”…..
More stories here:
Source:
www.arabist.net/blog/2011/7/14/libya-di...

Clarification Libya Contact Group:
In addition to the U.S., the Contact Group on Libya includes members of NATO, the European Union and the Arab League.

BoothWilliam William Booth
In western mountains #Libya, rebels have a makeshift media center, a photocopied newspaper, and talk about Thomas Jefferson…

Rebel teens in western #Libya, when asked where they learned to fight, told me “Medal of Honor” – the video game on PlayStation

In #Libya met former #Gaddafi army engineer nickname Rambo making shoulder-fired missile launcher from 4 feet of drain pipe and a hair dryer

Guardian:
“#Algeria has ability 2 decisively pull the rug frm under #Gaddafi’s feet, by blocking supplies crossing border at #Ghadames”

mz
If #Gadafi mouth is moving, he’s lying. Notice he didn’t say he would stay until his last drop of blood-just everyone elses! #Libya #Tripoli

FromJoanne Joanne
#AGOCO We r NOT READY 2 PRODUCE OIL says Info Manager to Reuters in response to a report in #PetroleumEconomist goo.gl/CGOrj #Libya

Libya:
“Million Man March” rally on LJBC Television in the city of #Zletin #Libya more like a few hundred rally I wonder if #Gaddafi will talk
Gaddafi’s regime was never a legitimate govt. but a Mafia family, with G as #Godfather #Saif as consigliere & Senusi/Khamis etc as capos
Majority of those that still stand with #Gaddafi are not true or real #Libyans but naturalized Africans or 3aidoon & w/ dodgy legitimacy
The first person I learnt to love as a baby was my mother and the first person I learnt to hate as a child was #Gaddafi.
Gaddafi is the terrorist that hijacked my country & now he must hand it back to us & die, return to us back our freedom & dignity #Libya
Libya needs to be deshlatyized & deshafshufized & cleansed of the corrupt & useless ppl that head its various departments #Gaddafi
It is a shlafty and abushafshufa lowclass & lowlife crowd, so think about it
Gaddafi insulted and looked down on the King of Qatar, Qatar wanted to get rid of this tyrant
Well, at the Zletin rally, there are more camels than ppl
I count more camels than ppl on the screen

Gaddafi now talking on #Libya State TV
Gaddafi is not barking from his #Sewer at the #Zletin small crowd
Gaddafi is claiming that there are 5 million #Libyans in #Zletin right now

4Adam Adam
AJE [ar] interview with Radi Ramadan a victim of Gaddafi battalion torture in Libya youtube.com/watch?v=nBHM8j… #Libya #Feb17 #Zawrah

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBHM8jyF6zE&fea...

AndrewBeatty andrew beatty
Three military sources and one political source telling AFP that rebels will move on Brega soon, most likely tomorrow morning
great Opsec indeed. My inner hack loves it, but part of me is cringing
Libyan rebels have launched a three pronged attack on Brega. At least three dead rebel fighters and 73 wounded since assault began 24h ago
They are being tight lipped! But 3 pronged attack is well underway, lots of injured on the south prong, but ‘only’ 3 deaths

Aljazeera:
NATO
Rasmussen: “Prepared to continue for as long as it takes to complete our mission”.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uesqKRwxcog&fea...

FromJoanne Joanne
#Brega Battle Still Ongoing FF captured and inflicted many casualities on Gaddafi troops FF have entered Brega Today so far 3 Martyrs #Libya

Wait time visa to Egypt:
Egyptians are now insisting Libyans get visas to enter which take 7-8 weeks & others are attacking Libyan cars @ border

KC_Tripolitania KC
To all #Gaddafi supporters/slaves/goons, four words: LIBYA WILL BE FREE. #Libya viva la revolution tahya Libya. 3ashet Libya hurraaa. #Feb17
LONG LIVED FREE #LIBYA – DEATH TO #GADDAFI. Gaddafi is finished. Gaddafi is history. Consider him dead. Arfa3 rasek foug, enta Libee hurrrr.

LibyanDuda Libyan Duda
Dear media, #Gaddafi regime is no longer the govt of #Libya, plz start calling them ‘outlaws’, ‘illigitimate’ or more fitting ‘terrorists’

FromJoanne Joanne
~Agoco info Manager Abdeljalil Mayouf; #Libya Eastern Oilfields still Under Repair We r not producing I can’t tell you a date to restart,"

TWITTERFACT:
There were 224 Tweets sent on July 15, 2006. Today, users send that many Tweets in less than a tenth of a second.

Tarantino
FFs, NTC no longer rebels or revolutionaries. Simply the Libyan people. You’ve already done it. G now the insurgent. #feb17

libi4ever
3 martyrs in Briqa today,
ABdulmula 34 yrs from Benghazi,
Alsnosi 21yrs Ajdabia,
Sobhi 25yrs from Albida
2 heaven inshalla #Libya

Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Only countries still recognise Gadhafi r Algeria Cuba Venezuela & some african banana republics! NTC is the legitimate government in Libya!

dovenews Libyan™
Now the #NTC is officially the only political party governs Libya & Gaddafi is a Mad Dog shooting everyone. #GaddafiMadDog

Libya17Feb Tripoli Youth
freedom fighters are progressing inside Brega city and feirce clashes are taking place. Some G forces captured

carol
I’m thinking of Perditta, Mo’s wife. I will see Benghazi’s shoreline one day and I will pay her a visit. Mo would be so happy today #Nabbous

feb17libya Feb17Libya
Recognition of a government as opposed to “representative” places contractual obligations in hands of the TNC, crucial to accessing funds

Sarah
We thank the women of #Misrata for their kindness&generosity in sending homecooked food to #Zliten FF stationed in Misrata

LibyanLion
#Gaddafi speaking: Woof woof bark bark kill kill fight fight threats threats die die woof woof. Inspiring speech…#Libya #Feb17

libyanfsl Libya NFSL
Gaddafi ranting on Libya TV!! Upset about recognition of TNC!! Someone must have hit a nerve…

AJE
AnitaMcNaught
UN resolution froze Libyan assets, so 2nd resolution required to unfreeze them. Requires China&Russia support #Libya

AJA
vid 2day:FF advancing frm Misrata 2Zliten.Mis FF’we will not leave the women of Zliten-they r our sisters’ #oneLibya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFDcxFBLQ90&fea...

LibyanFreedom
Family friend’s cousin(in G army)committed suicide yestrdy 2 avoid killin his own bros when they were forcing him to go fight, sad situation

CIL
BREAKING: GADDAFI FORCES tried to attack Jalu oil fields south of Ajdabiya today and failed miserably – all captured or killed #libya

nuna
Reuters- Libya’s rebel-held oil firm Agoco completed Sarir & Misla oilfields repairs and is ready to start pumping oil

KC_Tripolitania KC
#Gaddafi: ‘I will put children upon each tank and car and #NATO can’t target them’ – Quick call #NSPCC (and #RSPCA for good measure)

LibyanLion17 A Free Libyan
G telling forces to use human shields? He said he’ll put civilians on tanks, so it would be murder/illegal to kill them. #Libya #Feb17

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
I swear, Gaddafi’s speeches will probably be scrutinized and taught at psychiatry classes for decades to come..

Change In Libya
These #Gaddafi speeches are a crime against humanity in their own right… I’m pretty sure suicide rates go up every time he barks on TV

AJE:
Libyan leader Gaddafi tells NATO alliance that he rejects the West’s recognition of rebels. Earlier on Wednesday, the US joined 30 other nations in formally recognising Libya’s main opposition group as the country’s legitimate government until a new interim authority is created.
Gaddafi said Libyan peopel rejected the recognition by the US and other world powers of rebel leaders as the legitimate representatives of the country’s government.
In an audio speech carried on Libyan television, Gaddafi addressed tens of thousands of supporters in the town of Zlitan who gathered in a rally broadcast on Libyan television.
“Trample on those recognitions, trample on them under your feet … They are worthless,” he said. The Contact Group on Libya met at Turkey’s Ciragan Palace in Istanbul.

Zliten speech:
libyanproud libyanandproud
The person giving the speech is not #Gaddafi , it is Mutassim Gaddafi ! #

Libyan
Watching the feed on LJBC I feel that I’ve seen it somewhere before. I feel that the video is old but the audio & the Gaddafi speech is live

Nilesat is 40% owned by the Egyptian army and Egyptian Army is now in charge, think about it

Ahmed Gaddafi ad-Damm is still in Cairo with pockets full of money

wheelertweets James Wheeler
Tunis Today: #Misrata #Libya FF Ibrahim (25 #) in the hospital room of a #Zintan FF. Ibrahim was hurt on April 21. twitpic.com/5qjl68

Ibrahim’s metal brace was removed earlier this week. He kept the (heavy) metal as a memento. He’s happy with his new cast.

That writing on his cast is from my trusty Sharpie marker. I started a new tradtion here of putting fun signatures on casts.

Ibrahim was in a Toyota with 14.5mm driven by his friend Abubaker, and Gassem & Walid were also there (shown n previous pics)

They were hit by 106mm gunfire from #Gaddafi forces at 3 am on April 21. 3 guys in their group died, 17 were injured.

The gaping chasm of need is called money. But the little things mean a helluva lot around here.

Can’t pay bills at home anymore. But can’t abandon these guys either.

All the nurses & aides in that hospital are women. Those who have a problem cleaning men they neglect should work elsewhere.

Libye: l’Otan détruit trois centres de communication et trois chars
Les avions de l’Otan engagés dans l’opération militaire en Libye, ont effectué jeudi 132 missions, dont 48 de combat, et détruit trois centres de communication, trois chars et trois lance-roquettes multiples, rapporte vendredi le service de presse de l’Alliance.

Depuis le 31 mars, jour où le commandement de l’opération a été transmis à l’Otan, l’aviation de l’Alliance a effectué 15.193 missions, dont 5.721 de combat afin de protéger la population libyenne et d’assurer la zone d’exclusion aérienne au-dessus du pays.

17 navires otaniens ont patrouillé jeudi en Méditerranée centrale afin de surveiller l’embargo sur les livraisons d’armes en Libye. Depuis le début de l’opération, les militaires de l’Alliance ont vérifié 1.763 cargos, dont 13 ce jeudi. Neuf navires ont été déroutés.
fr.rian.ru/world/20110715/190156066.html
Read more and link:
www.alterinfo.net/notes/Libye-l-Otan-de...

Libyans Revolt
I have lived the most amazing days of my life amongst some truly blessed people this week #Libya #feb17

Also saw some horrific war injuries, lots to tweet about.

Just met a young boy (about 8) victim of #G force shellings – broken legs+burns. Worst thing is he wouldnt speak…

His younger brother was martyred in front of him and his sister was sent to Tunisia for treatment. #mentalscars

Almost got caught up on Wednesday in battle at Gwaleesh/Soffit – had to evacuate field hospital due to G troops closing in #libya

We learned later that it was an epic escape – G troops were near field hospital 1 hour later

Retreated to Yifrin and saw #FF from Zintan Rujban Nalut Qala’a all going towards front lines in 10s of cars to help their brothers #libya

Battle lasted for few hours and #FF succeeded in pushing G troops even further back than before towards borders of AlSawaaba’

Saw all sorts of horrific injuried, broken legs, gunshots to leg, abdomen, chest but the #FF were courageous. Captured G troops treated well

In the battle, at least 3 #FF werecaptured by G troops – next morning all 3 found dead. One had throat cut, one had liver removed and…

one was crushed by a car. One of those was an Libyan/Australian citizen of 20 yrs and had arrived in #libya 2 weeks before

FromJoanne Joanne
#Brega Battle is not being helped by the Bad weather the sand storm has hindered #NATO heliciopters and jets but 2day was better #Libya

Al Arabiya News
Mary E. Stonaker:
What formal recognition given to Libyan rebels means for the oil markets
Europe received 85 percent of Libyan exports prior to the revolution, its refineries optimized to Libya’s uniquely high quality crude. Italy and Spain consumed the majority of Libyan natural gas exports.

Not only is this a great move for European markets, desperate not to become reliant on Russian oil and gas, Libya’s 6.5 million people will also gain access to key food and medical supplies as well as precious national revenue from the sale of oil and gas.

In January 2011, Libyan oil revenues hit $32 billion or 92 percent of national income.
Read more here:
english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/07/...

SABHA:
Breaking News:
Citizens of Al-gurda district are not allowed to receive treatment or medication at Sabha Medical Center including women and children. A doctor from Al-gurda was reported terminated from work because of treating some revolutionists. The green square of Sabha is used presently as a gathering place for pro-Ghadafi individuals just as Bab Al-Aziziya in Tripoli.

Sumayyah
You never see Free Libyans turn their face away from the camera, or quickly cover their faces. You only see people do it on Libyan State TV

libyanandproud
Tanks from Czech Repuclic used in Amnesty sponsored movie “Lord of War” were delivered 2 Gaddafi after filming.

Reuters
Canada says unable to free up Libyan assets
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada cannot unlock frozen assets to help fund the Libyan rebels even after world powers Friday recognized the National Transitional Council (TNC) as the country’s legitimate government.
Foreign Minister John Baird said any attempt to free up locked Libyan government money unilaterally could run up against complex legal constraints and conflict with United Nations sanctions, leaving it helpless to act on its own.
“We believe that the overwhelming amount that’s been frozen in Canada is under U.N. Security Council sanctions and so our legal ability with Canadian law is that we can’t release it to either them (the TNC) or a third party until the security council lifts the freeze or makes another decision in that regard,” Baird told reporters via teleconference.
Read story:
ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idC...

SecularLibya
Heinz: the weather yesterday hampered the action of Helis & #NATO. Today weather is a little better and NATO full deployment. #Libya #Feb17

IamLibya
I love the #British, and I love them even more know that #UK has recognized the #NTC as the sole rep. of the #Libyan people heart #Feb17

septimius_
So is this rumor that GaddafiTV was hack by the Ninja turtles true? apparently the head turtle made another ranting speech!

Gaddafi latest recruits! be afraid, very afraid!!!! crawl crawl crawl #Feb17 #Libya twitpic.com/5qmm0m dovenews Libyan™
Libya’s eastern oilfields still under repair – Arabian Gulf Oil Company (Agoco)

hominoid
by Unknown7771
Libya Qaddafi’s regime issued a resolution of 4 days on the granting of Libyan nationality and family booklet to all Tabu non-Libyans
is now the influx of many of them to apply for citizenship and some of them arrived from Chad, Niger, the last two days.

inglesi Piers Scholfield
just back from Al Hikma, #Misrata main hospital. 18 wounded so far today & no dead

dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi forces attacked #Misrata killing 4 ppl & injuring many others, this attack comes after Gaddafi barked in a prerecorded audio message

Baysontheroad
Audio Diary From Nefusa
audioboo.fm/boos/413610-audio-diary-fro...

JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
#Gaddafi audio msg: “I give a chance to the traitors and to the #NATO to leave #Libya to its families.”

1/2 #Gaddafi :“The traitors must give up.They must abandon their weapons &turn themselves in from #Benghazi to #Misrata to #Zintan"#Libya

2/2 #Gaddafi :We will not hold anyone who turns in his weapons accountable. If this does not happen, the march of millions will take place.”

nuna_
Only #Libya: fighting stopped temporarily on the #Brega front to allow #FF s to care for wounded & bury over 100 #qaddafi fighters

#Brega: #FF s found abt 150 land mines on the Nahr (river) road on the way to Brega. Search on-going. Some FF vehicles damaged #Libya

rebroger
oil town of brega falls to anti #gaddafi forces in #libya. Wonder if they keep it? #justsaying

Adam
I Just called Yefren, The power has been restored. many families have returned.

nuna_
#Ajdabia Lions correspondent: God is Great! #FF s & National Army in #Brega 1st zone, battle on-going, 95 wounded & 1 martyr from #Benghazi

Tripolitano
Today I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. it might b a long tunnel but at least there is a glimpse of a light.

dovenews Libyan™
#Gaddafi orders to his forces if you defeated set the oil fields on fire before your retreat. How stupid these forces. NO BRAIN AT ALL.

inglesi Piers Scholfield
just back from Al Hikma, #Misrata main hospital. 18 wounded so far today & no dead.

Sarah
I think there will be a new level of delirium named ‘Gaddafi stage’. Just to do his uniqueness justice…

Libya from FR
Correction#GF on essayé d’attaquer le “champs de pétrole” de Jalu au Sud de Ajdabiya aujourd’hu, lamentablement échoué – tous capturé ou tué

hominoid
Libya Breaking FFs are in control fully of the road between Ajdabiya and Brega slow but steady advance for FFs.

Danya
A friend of mine had a call from #TRIPOLI right now…says people are really scared of what #Gaddafi might do because #USA recognized #Libya

God please please pleeeaseeee keeep my family safe …I don’t want then to die ..because of some lunatic

omg I can’t stop crying … When is this going to end …to many people mato ..5ala9 …shene yebe feehna …why doesn’t he just leavveee

I’m actually just walking around my neighborhood …I just couldn’t keep watching the news …

My family friend of mine, said her cousin was kidnapped yesterday …he managed to call his mother …he told her leave because there

Coming for her sons (his brother’s) …what if ur son called u becauase #Gaddafiforces were going to kill or kidnap them ..

US State Dept.
Travel Diary: Secretary Clinton Addresses Reporters After Libya Contact Group Meeting in Istanbul

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed reporters after participating in the fourth Libya Contact Group Meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 15, 2011. Secretary Clinton said, "Before I discuss today’s events, I want to express my sincere condolences for the soldiers killed in Southeast Turkey yesterday. As friends of Turkey, the United States grieves with the people of Turkey. As allies, we salute the resolve not to be intimidated by terrorists who threaten the stability of the entire region, and we will continue to stand with Turkey in its efforts to defeat this threat. This is a message that I will be conveying directly to President Gul when we meet later this evening.

“We accomplished important things in today’s meeting of the Libya Contact Group. We heard from the TNC about its plans for setting Libya on a path toward security and progress in the post-Qadhafi era. The TNC gave us important assurances regarding its intention to pursue democratic reform that is inclusive geographically and politically, and to uphold Libya’s international obligations and to disburse funds in a transparent manner, to address the humanitarian and other needs of the Libyan people.

“The United States is impressed by the progress the TNC has made in laying the groundwork for a successful transition to a unified democratic Libya which protects the rights of all of its citizens, including women and minority groups.

“The assurances the TNC offered today reinforce our confidence that it is the appropriate interlocutor for the United States in dealing with Libya’s present and addressing Libya’s future. That is why I announced earlier that until an interim authority is in place, the United States will recognize the TNC as the legitimate governing authority for Libya, and we will deal with it on that basis. In contrast, the United States views the Qadhafi regime as no longer having legitimate authority in Libya.

“We still have to work through various legal issues, but we expect this step on recognition will enable the TNC to access additional sources of funding. We will be consulting with the TNC and our international partners in the most effective and appropriate method of doing this. In the meantime, we are pleased that our partners have contributed money to the temporary financial mechanism or they have provided direct financial support to the TNC.

“Today, I also had the opportunity to meet with colleagues from Europe and the Gulf, across the region, on the full range of issues we are dealing with from Yemen to Syria to Egypt and Tunisia. So it’s been a full and very constructive day here in Istanbul, and I am very grateful that Turkey has hosted this important meeting and welcomed us to Istanbul so warmly. And I thank our partners in the Contact Group for another meeting that has advanced our shared goal of a peaceful, stable, democratic Libya.”
Complete remarks here:
blogs.state.gov/index.php/site/entry/tr...

dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi has promised to kill & starve more Libyans.

hominoid
IOM starts air evacuations of stranded migrants from southern Libya | Libya TV english.libya.tv/2011/07/08/iom…

english.libya.tv/2011/07/08/iom-starts-...

2011feb17 Tweeting Tripoli
Gaddafi’s solution for Tripoli’s fuel crisis. Problem solved: img98.imageshack.us/img98/3023/ful… #feb17 #Libya
img98.imageshack.us/img98/3023/fulltank...

libi4ever
4 martyrs & 90 injured in Briqa coaches so far,FF found many of G forces were slaughtered by their leaders need 2b confirmed #libya

REUTERS
FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
#Misrata, an organised group of children clean the fighters’ weapons for them. #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=pp1Ta5…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp1Ta5m0CGs

by: BBC Worldwide
In Libya, Colonel Gaddafi’s government has been holding crisis talks over the country’s supply of fuel, following reports that the rebels have cut a major oil pileline to the capital.

Pretty calm day today,not much activity except for a few skirmishes outside #Qawalish where we captured 2 Gaddafi MRL’s.

Gaddafi forces were spotted planting mines from the halfway point to Asablah on the highway,will blow when we advance.

hominoid
Libya Misrata Doctor 4 Killed, 25 injured in today’s fighting in Dafniyah.

Joanne
Military Briefing from Col. Ahmed Mismari About #BREGA #BATTLE Brega last night & this morning
www.ustream.tv/recorded/16010797

MUST READ:
Spiegel Online
The Vienna-Tripoli Connection
Austrian Right-Wing Populists in Libya for Mediation Effort
An emissary of the right-wing populist Austrian Freedom Party is currently in Libya at the invitation of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. The relationship between the party and the dictator has a history.

But perhaps the most bizarre feeler sent out by the Gadhafi regime extends to Vienna — and the right-wing populist Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ). In June, a senior official in Tripoli sent an invitation, which SPIEGEL ONLINE has seen, to FPÖ leader Heinz-Christian Strache , inviting him to the Libyan capital “to follow up closely the reality of what has been happening in my country Libya and the NATO’s aggression.”
Weeks of e-mail traffic followed. And on Thursday, David Lasar, an FPÖ member of the Vienna city-state government, travelled to Tripoli at Strache’s behest in an effort to prepare the way for an eventual mediation effort between Gadhafi and the rebels by the FPÖ leader himself.
On Friday, he was visiting sites near Tripoli in the company of Foreign Ministry officials. He said he had been to hospitals to visit what he had been told were victims of NATO bombs and spoken with pro-Gadhafi protesters.

www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,15...

LibyaLiberty Now Beard Free
tonight,i will not be making any Libyan commentary,so i will be even more useless then usual.

Yefrenia
The No Fly Zone in Libya would not have gone ahead without the Libyan’s consent & the Arab League…
Is there any other leader other than Gaddafi who has underground tunnels all over his country just for him to use?
I mean wouldn’t it have been better if he built metro links or trains for his people instead of tunnels?
It seems Gaddafi has been preparing for Feb17 all his life…‘let me see how long I can get away with it hehehe’ evil bastard.

Wedeman CNN:
Nafusa FFs want 2 capture Gharyan 2 stop military supplies frm Sabha reaching Tripoli on highway passing Gharyan

NYT
Chivers

Reporter’s Notebook: Reading the Rebels in Western Libya, Part II
The capture last week by Libyan fighters opposed to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of the mountain village of Qawalish signaled a shift in the front lines in the rebels’ slow advance toward Tripoli, Libya’s capital. It also provided a fine-grained view of the western rebels at war, offering insights into their leadership, logistics, tactics and conduct on the battlefield.
Read more:
atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/repo...

FromJoanne Joanne
Brega Battle FF spokesman M #Zawi Fighting now north of main road between Ajdabiya & Brega and the south + the middle

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
UNCONFIRMED: #Freedomfighters have entered and captured #Brega. #Libya #feb17

Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Libyan FF slowed down in their march on Brega by sandstorms and land mines! A temporary hick up! outcome will always be same G down & out!!

We will have to wait to see if confirmed:
Only ONE source : PRESSTV.IR

Libyan revolutionaries capture oil town

Libyan revolutionaries have managed to take control of an oil-rich town in the country’s east as anti-regime forces continue advancing towards government positions.
The Libyan revolutionary forces on Friday captured Brega, some 800 kilometers (500 miles) east of Tripoli, a Press TV correspondent reported.

The news comes as representatives of countries involved in the NATO-led war in Libya have decided to recognize the Libyan opposition as the legitimate authority of the country and end the rule of embattled Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Read more:
www.presstv.ir/detail/189262.html

Hanan 17,000 Freedom Fighters in #Brega, #Libya. Beat that #Gaddafi. They took over the oil port and they’re coming for you.

Ahrar tv:
Libya ahrar tv is reporting FFs entered and captured Brega.

Nosap
No more rebels: the new Libyan govt is going to liberate #Libya from illegal occupation by #Gaddafi family and its military and police corps

NIZ
Tripoli Update 15/7/2011 تطورات طرابلس

1-
83 (eighty three) truck convoy seen entering military base in Ein Zara, near AlNasar University. Approx 50% large Toyota Tundra trucks, 40% Toyota pick-up trucks and remainder were civilian cars with blacked out windows and large antennas. Approximately half the vehicles did not have license plates. Three of the vehicles were unmarked, ambulance-style vans.

2-
FGMovement monitoring RF security communications in Tripoli:
Arguments over how many people to man check points
An urgent call to check all taxis
Disjointed and poorly motivated force
Check points are being monitored by more senior security men. Paranoia evident.

3-
Positive reaction in Tripoli to the news that Washington has recognized the National Transitional Council a day after State TV was praising US “reluctance” to engage the NTC and to be involved in the conflict.

4-
Reliable source to FGMovement has informed us of recently treating soldiers who did not speak Arabic. Their ID identified them as soldiers of The African King of Kings Defense Force.

Below is the link to their ID.
imageshack.us/photo/my-images/9/7351567...

SecularLibya
Brega has 4 parts.FFs capture only Univrsity 2 days ago

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
10s of 1000’s of Gadhafi supporters, many bussed in, rally in Libyan town of Zlitan,burn French/Brit flags, cheer camel painted gov’t green

libyansrevolt Libyans Revolt
Just hooked up with the guys at Nalut media centre and TV centre – impressive setup – studios, newspapers, social media, classrooms #Libya
The future of #Libya being fought by the youth on all fronts from the frontlines to the aid workers journos and backroom staff #libya
In terms of NTC – vast majority fully support and behind it but have not seen any material support (mainly due to lack of funds) yet
This is no criticism of NTC because vast majority of pledged funds has not reached them yet – countries need to act on pledges
People of Jebel Nafusa have mainly been getting by due to their own hard work and toil – also Tunisia border has been their saviour
The Wazin-Dheiba border crossing is essentially the umbilical cord of Jebel Nafusa. People of #Tunisia have been immensely helpful
Many #Libyans commented it is a gift from God that Jasmine revolution happened 1st. Ben Ali would have choked supplies to #libya #ff #feb17
I have met and talked with many captured G soldiers. Many are innocent teenagers corrupted by Gaddafi
I saw the hue of 4 NATO bombs on Monday night on the horizon. Immense sounds
I dont think I mentioned about Gawaleesh battle the other day the Chad soldier I treated and spoke to
The reason why G troops made surprise attack on #FF was this guy from Chad who was promised $1,000 and never received anything
He pretended to be a goat herder and managed to pass behind #ff front lines and scout their positions posing as a shepherd
At night he ran back naked to govt positions so that he wouldnt be seen in the pitch dark + reported #ff positions
During the battle he received a gunshot wound to his right shoulder but I can confirm he was treated humanely by #ff and @ hospital
Near frontline on Wednesday, the seniors NTC reps of Nafusa region were going around #ff and pouring them glasses of milk
Some of these guys are 65+ yrs old and the hard work/leading by example they do is a sight to behold
Ok, thats all folks for a few days, sorry to fill your timelines with bursts of mass tweeting. Internet availability sporadic @ best. Gnight

LibyaSupreme
RIP Taha AlMaghrabi. U will b remembered inshallah الله يرحم شهيد ليبيا #FEB17 #LIBYA Salute real heros who sacrafice ALL

Tripolitanian
NOTICE: Doctors and ambulances (trucks are good enough) r needed in #Ajdabiya for #Brega casualties-pls translate to Arabic, am using phone

der_bluthund
Beware of tactical withdrawals and ambushes in Tripoli

Alex
#Tripoli is on fire again 2night – gun fights all over the city btwn #FF & #Gaddafi rebels – Regime unable 2 contain this much longer

tripolitano Tripolitano
Apparently passports R confiscated from any1 staying out of #Libya for more than a month. Can any1 confirm?

Oya_
multiple, ongoing clashes happening now in #Tripoli

LibyaSupreme
Alot o casualties suffered in #brega 2 take down first line of #gaddafi forces. Some R celebrating but this is a sad day 4 me

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Freedomfighters have entered #Brega from 3 directions, won 30 tanks & still continuing forward. #Libya #feb17

#Gaddafi forces radio chatter has them asking 4 reinforcements & 4 people to come & collect the dead &wounded in the north

tripolitano
Again #Libya ahrar tv reporting FFs enter #Brega from 3 directions, destroying 15 tanks

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Brega: Heaviest fighting taking place past half-way point between #Brega & #Ajdabiya South of the main road.

#Tripoli: Reports of sudden withdrawal of checkpoints in city. No further clarification provided #

3 explosions just now heard in #Misrata, no further info as yet.

Reports General Ali Sharaf AlDeen executed upon the order of Abdalla Senusi.

Ambulance service in #Brega asking 4×4 car drivers 2 call 0612221416 so they can take the injured from the battle field. #Libya #feb17

dovenews:
BREAKING! Number of #FF were killed & injured & Gaddafi forces have suffered massive losses in #Brega. #Libya”

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Clashes between #Freedomfighters & #Gaddafi forces in several areas in #Tripoli happening now.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Malta CARGO SHIP “GASCOGNE” now departing #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
#Gaddafi tonight: ‘more than 5 million participated in the marches that took place of late.’ judging by #Zlitan this is an overestimate.

bint_
Not going to think about Brega until it’s 100% confirmed, for now just pray and make du’aa rabi yensorhoom.

UPDATE:
Today’s update, extended version, special edition #Libyaupdates via @al_omari #Libya #Feb17
Libya, Jul 15, 2011
by Hussein Al-Omari on Friday, July 15, 2011 at 5:45pm
(Sources: Aljazeera)

1. The United States recognized NTC today. The United States will now recognize the main opposition group in Libya “as the legitimate governing authority” in a country that Moammar Gaddafi has long ruled with an iron first, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday.

2. The Libya Contact Group recognized NTC as a legitimate government representing the Libyan people. The announcement came out in their fourth conference which is held this time in Istanbul.

3. Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini announced that the conference of more than 30 countries and International entity and recognizing NTC leaves no room fro Gaddafi but to step down.

4. The Libya Contact Group agreed on a roadmap for the resignation of Gaddaf and leaving all his military responsibilities and the transformation to democracy. There will be a ceasefire implied as part of the proposed solution.

5. The submitted reports state that Gaddafi is secretly seeking a diplomatic way out albeit being defiant in public.

6. French foreign minister, Alain Juppe, said that NATO operations will continue during the month of Ramadan,

7. Britain decided to send four more planes to add to NATO allied forces participating in the operation.

8. Gaddafi forces bombed the area of Al-Nuaimeh west of Misrata and killed 9 of the revolutionary fighters and wounded 35.

9. The revolutionary fighters had a plan to attack Tripoli from the south yesterday but had to postpone it due to technical mistakes.

10. The revolutionary fighters recaptured the town of Al-Qawalish yesterday after 7 of them were killed in fights with Gaddafi forces.

11. The revolutionary fighters were planning to move on to Gharyan but their ammunition ran out after Gaddafi forces attacked them in Al-Qawalish.

12. The United Nations mission announced that Misrata is in bad need for sending more humanitarian aid due to higher prices, less buying power, and shortage of medical supplies.

13. NATO planes heavily bombed and destroyed 6 military targets in Brega belonging to Gaddafi forces prior to the attacks on Brega by the revolutionary fighters. They captured the 40 km region (Al-Arbaeen) between Ajdabiya and Brega. They lost 5 killed and 75 wounded and now are advancing toward Brega to capture the town in their way to Tripoli. Their progress in the Brega area is slow and costly because of the fierce defense by Gaddafi forces.

14. Gaddafi forces bombed Ajdabiya and killed one person and wounded several others.

15. NTC spokesman, Abdul-Hafiz Ghouga, said that NTC will not allow the presence of armed militias during the post Gaddafi era.

16. Ghouga said that hey unified the fighting brigades under one ministry of defense that reports to NTC.

17. He added that what has been circulating around about some extremists trying to control the freedom fighters units in the western fronts is too exaggerated. However, he acknowledged the presence of some extremist members fighting alongside the revolutionary fighters.

18. Gaddafi rejected the recongition of NTC by the 30 countries in the Libya Contact Group and asked his followers to step on this recognition with their feet.

19. USA officials said that this recognition is a big step in the way for lifting the freeze of $34 billion in the US banks.

20. The Libya Contact Group urged NTC to form a transitional government as soon as possible.

21. The Turkish foreign minister expected the solution to be achieved by the start of Ramadan (around Aug 1).

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Reports of hundreds of G forces killed in the battle of Brega #Feb17 #Libya #Jul17

libyans_revolt
Manowar – Fight for Freedom youtu.be/BfEuN2d5Bz8 To hear the sound of freedom many gave their lives They fought for you and me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfEuN2d5Bz8&fea...

SmithInAfrica David Smith
Zintan town square has a wall memorial to 95 residents killed in fighting, most with pictures. People often stop there to look and reflect.

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
Libyan troops/civilians shoot guns in celebration at pro-gov’t rallies. Saw lady fire accdntlly into an overhanging balcony kids had been on

Libya_from_FR
On rapporte de violents affrontements à #Tarhouna entre les #FF et les #GF . #Libya (FB)

KC_Tripolitania KC
#Pray4Tripoli #Pray4Brega #Pray4Misrata #Pray4Zliten #Pray4Ajdabiya #Pray4Tarhuna #Pray4Zawiya #Pray4Libya #AllahuAkbar #Libya #Feb17

EndTyranny
#Tarhuna: reports of intense clashes between #FF & #GF in Alsharshara & Algasei neighborhoods. Tarhuna FF been active all week. #Libya

libyanproud libyanandproud
#brega in not fully liberated YET, but it has been penetrated by more than a scout team ! Had to break silence sorry .

SmithInAfrica David Smith
by ChangeInLibya
Libyan rebels a branding triumph. Saw three boys playing football: one with cap, one with scarf, one with shirt in the red, black and green.

Video: Tripoli – Revo FlagBadge Distribution

The Free Generation Movement badges in their thousands being packages and distributed door to door…. (in secret)
feb17.info/news/video-tripoli-revo-flag...

More reports that 100s of #Gaddafi forces were killed and many casualties amongst the Freedom Fighters during fierce battles in Al #Brega today.

Tripolitanian Libyan
Lots of gunfire in #Tripoli – source can’t tell which direction but thinks its clashes between defected soldiers and #Gaddafi security

Libya: Mohamed Emhessen: fierce battles on-going now between #FF s and #qaddafi brigades in the middle of #Tarhouna, Qasseea & Shirshara

Reporters: how to respond when taken captive
WASHINGTON – Global Post reporter James Foley spent six weeks as a captive in Libya. The Taliban held David Rohde, then of The New York Times, for seven months. French journalists Hervé Ghesquierè and Stéphane Taponier were held hostage in Afghanistan for more than a year.
The organization Human Rights Watch may condemn the act of taking journalists hostage as a war crime, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a very real danger for reporters in war zones. Journalists heading overseas to cover conflicts should be aware of the risks and how to respond in a situation if taken captive.
Read more:
nationalsecurityzone.org/site/reporters...

Les troupes de #Kadhafi quadrillent #Tripoli #Libye

Lisa
#Nilesatcriminals Misrata ppl r suffering because GADDAFI TV gave orders thru station to attack Misrata!! Nilesat Egypt u r responsible!!!!!

Breaking: 32nd brigade that belongs to Khamis Gaddafi has spread in some areas of the Libyan capital Tripoli.
Troops are at: qassir bin ghashir, airport road, green hill area at salah il diin, bifi traffic lights road at tajura, hishan and arada
further spread is signaled in the western end at siyhaya subrbs and janzur

tearsforfreedom
I bet #Gaddafi sleeps in #superman PJs and terrorised his #teddy #bears. They ought to stage a #revolution and kick him out of bed..

UAE Foreign Minister today called for greater international pressure on #Gaddafi to force him to leave

TV5MONDEINFO TV5MONDE.COM INFO
Monde Libye: percée des rebelles à Brega: Une unité légère des rebelles libyens s’est introduite vendredi soir …
Une unité légère des rebelles libyens s’est introduite vendredi soir dans la ville stratégique de Brega, qui abrite de nombreuses installations pétrolières, avant de se retirer à quatre kilomètres pour préparer une nouvelle attaque, a annoncé un porte-parole des rebelles.
Read on:
www.tv5.org/cms/chaine-francophone/info...

AlManara has reported from a medical source in #Ajdabiya that 10 were martyred in the fight, with many more injured

KC_Tripolitania KC
Violent clashes between Freedom Fighters & #Gaddafi forces being reported in central #Tarhouna -who said Tarhuna was pro-Gaddafi ?? Exactly!

Lisa
Several sources confirm Brega has been liberated. It was also announced in Benghazi Court Sq

LibyanLion17 A Free Libyan
VIDEO – #Zawiya FFs at #BirGhanam –
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwxLp4Jo0hI&feature=player_embedded#at=89

You gotta LOVE this;
Sumayyah
Love it, Translation: The Syrian revolution recognizes the Libyan NTC Libya Feb17 Syria twitpic.com/5qr2tf #Freedom