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SUMMARY JULY 21st 2011
7/21/2011
7.21.2011
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/Jljne
Derek
I’m told a #Libya vessel, Farwa (destination Djen, Algeria), is carrying a cargo that will please #gaddafi more than #nato.
It’s alleged to be carrying weapons to regime from Croatia, via Algerian port.
Supposed to be reaching Djen on 22nd
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
BREAKING: ZLITEN SOURCE:@ 1am NATO jets fired 3 missiles at main army barracks/ammo bunkers in the centre of Zliten & destroyed them #libya
3.30 AM NATO strikes in Tripoli!
France24
Libyan rebels ask Sarkozy for more aid
AFP – Military leaders from the rebel-held Libyan city of Misrata asked French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday for extra aid to defeat ruler Moamer Kadhafi, a member of their delegation said.
“With a little bit of help, we will be in Tripoli very soon. Very soon means days,” Fortia told reporters after a meeting with Sarkozy. “We are here in France to discuss how we can do the job.”
“Insurgent commanders came to explain to the head of state that the keys to Tripoli are in Misrata,” said a supporter of the rebels, French writer Bernard-Henri Levy, who attended the talks.
White House spokesman Jay Carney on Tuesday said the Libyan strongman was “cut off from fuel and cash.”
Full art.:
www.france24.com/en/20110721-libya-rebe...
Sky news
Libya: Tension In Former Rebel Stronghold
As the Nato bombing campaign on Libya enters its fifth month, Colonel Gaddafi’s government says a series of rallies in major western cities are proof his support base is, if anything, getting stronger.
The most recent saw tens of thousands gathered in the town Zawiyah, a former rebel stronghold and the scene of a brutal crackdown in early March.
And he reports that unlike other towns, there was a distinct tension in the air: metal detectors on routes to the central square aimed at stopping anti-government attacks and soldiers watching out for rebel activity.
“There are a few thousand people in the square but one mustn’t forget that Zawiyah is a town of 200,000 people and given the level of opposition to Col Gaddafi in the past – the amount of destruction, the amount of fighting that took place here – it simply beggars belief that there’s been a collective decision by the people of this town to forgive Col Gaddafi.
Report and video:
news.sky.com/skynews/Article/2011071160...
LibyaNewMedia
Many prisoners in Tripoli are placed in farms around the capital as ordinary prisons have been over capacity for a long time
Joanne
SEBHA FF penetrated #Libya SW desert and advanced within 80 miles of Gaddafi forces occupied #Sebha
Benghazidoc
Correction: Not the Canadian-Libyan mission graduating the nurses, rather its the Arab-European Center #Benghazi 4 Human rights & Int’l law
Many Libyan Docs frm outside including surgeons arrived & r on the way 2 Libya 2 help with increasing casualties frm Brega battle & other
Euronews:
Some 5,000 people, mainly from the local Warshafana tribe gathered in the main square of al-Aziziya, south of Tripoli, and cheered wildly, waving green flags and chanting their support for Muammar Gaddafi.
At euronews we believe in the intelligence of our viewers and we think that the mission of a news channel is to deliver facts without any opinion or bias, so that the viewers can make their own opinion on world events.
Video:
www.euronews.net/nocomment/2011/07/21/p...
ITALIAN LIFE:
Four Hundred Missiles Mysteriously Disappear from La Maddalena
TEMPIO PAUSANIA – Missiles, anti-tank projectiles, Katyusha rockets, kalashnikovs and ammunition stored in the Italian navy’s cave armouries on Santo Stefano, in the La Maddalena archipelago, have vanished. The weaponry, enough to kit out an army, was on a vessel sailing from the former Soviet Union to the war-torn Balkans when it was intercepted in the Channel of Otranto. The weapons were seized and the court of Turin ruled that they should be destroyed. Instead, two months ago the assorted missiles, rockets and kalashnikovs were removed from storage, handed over to the army and taken to Lazio, where they vanished. Meanwhile for the past few days, Tempio Pausania magistrates, who had begun to investigate whether the arms had perhaps gone to Libya or Afghanistan, have been up against a wall of state secrecy. The Prime Minister’s Office has blocked all further inquiries into the weapons’ destination.
Read full art.:
www.corriere.it/english/11_luglio_19/di...
Nahla
My family in #Benghazi claim that the electricity cuts twice a day, there is lack of food products and the banks are closed
Gaddafi sends his 7th SMS to Tripoli (This time it’s about Sarkozy): t.co/dmUiSIH #feb17
or:
img688.imageshack.us/img688/1434/smsaje...
Russia, Libya foreign ministers meet over crisis solution
MOSCOW, July 20 (Xinhua) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Libyan counterpart Abdul Ati al-Obeidi met here Wednesday to discuss a political solution to the crisis in the North African country.
During the Libya-initiated meeting, Lavrov stressed the " primary" task to immediately stop the bloodshed and get into political tracks, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on its website.
Calling for early talks on future democratic arrangements in Libya, Lavrov urged Tripoli to confirm its intention to follow the UN Security Council resolutions 1970 and 1973.
He reiterated Russia’s intention to facilitate international efforts to resolve the conflict.
The Libyan foreign minister said Libya would welcome Russia’s efforts in the peaceful settlement of the conflict, stressing that “a peaceful solution should be developed by all Libyans, not by Benghazi council only.”
He added that Tripoli has not been ready to discuss Muammar Gaddafi’s leaving.
Also on Wednesday, Russia’s envoy for African affairs Mikhail Margelov said that a peaceful solution in Libya was possible only with UN and AU participation. He welcomed the start of consultations between Tripoli and Paris.
Source:
news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/20...
septimius
Is it just me, but #NATO msg 2other dictators is " the more u threaten, the more you kill the nicer the retirement home u get" #Libya
AFP
Libya rebels seek arms for pre-Ramadan offensive
BENGHAZI, Libya (AFP) – Libya’s rebels asked France for extra arms to help them overrun Tripoli within “days”, as they ramped up a pre-Ramadan offensive that has Moamer Kadhafi’s troops on the run in the east.
The request was made in Paris on Wednesday to French President Nicolas Sarkozy by military leaders from the rebel-held city of Misrata, a member of their delegation said.
Rebel leader Mahmud Jibril meanwhile was expected to seek additional aid for their military campaign from Spain during talks in Madrid on Thursday with Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez.
Sarkozy held talks at his Elysee presidential palace with rebel General Ramadan Zarmuh, Colonel Ahmed Hashem and Colonel Brahim Betal Mal, as well as Suleiman Fortia, a local representative of the rebel leadership in Misrata.
“With a little bit of help, we will be in Tripoli very soon. Very soon means days,” Fortia told reporters after the meeting. “We are here in France to discuss how we can do the job.”
Full art.:
old.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110721/wl_af...
FreePress TV:
Libya, (WARNING GRAPHIC) Rebels found executed in Ajdabiya youtube.com/watch?v=JPPdX5… #libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPPdX5WqgFo
From Big Peace:
Report: Iran Has Military Bases in Libya
In an interview on February 27th with Al Arabyia news network, an informed source within the Revolutionary Guards of Iran revealed that Iran has several military bases in Libya.
The source, who requested anonymity due to his sensitive position within the Guards, elaborated further that the Iranian military bases are located mostly along Libya’s borders with the African countries of Chad and Niger. From there, he said, the Guards actively smuggle arms and supply logistical assistance to rebellious groups in the western and Central African countries.
According to this source, Guards’ members enter Libya under the guise of oil company employees. Most of these companies are under the control of the Revolutionary Guards of Iran.
The source, who a colonel in the Guards, adds that Gaddafi and his government are quite aware of these activities and have even signed joint contracts with those Iranian oil companies so that the member of the Guards can enter Libya without any trouble.
However, the Colonel stated that with the current unrest in Libya, over 500 Guards’ members have been unable to evacuate, but are under orders to destroy all documents.
According to this source, the military collaborations between the Revolutionary Guards of Iran and the Ghaddafi’s government date back to 2006.
It is important to note that Nigerian officials recently confiscated an Iranian arms shipment destined for Gambia. The weapons included mortars, rockets and shells for anti-aircraft guns and were hidden in containers marked building materials. Nigerian officials have accused a suspected member of the Guards and a Nigerian of illegally importing arms and have set trial for later this year.
Source:
bigpeace.com/rkahlili/2011/03/01/report...
tantramancan
nato bombing of #Tripoli is making #gadaffi WEAKER & Supported by People #Libya ns have had enough of #Gaddafi & his Regime.
NYT
Problems With Logistics, Coordination and Rivalries Hamper Libya’s Rebels
KIKLA, Libya — Ahmad Harari, a Libyan rebel fighting to overthrow Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, recounted how he was almost killed last week.
He was part of a small group of fighters assigned to defend a front-line position in Qawalish, a village in Libya’s arid western highlands. Then Colonel Qaddafi’s military attacked, rushing forward in pickup trucks.
Mr. Harari said he had only 18 cartridges for his rifle, roughly the same amount of ammunition carried by everyone in his group. Within minutes he ran out.
“Every man lost all of his bullets and tried to escape,” he said. A friend was captured, killed and mutilated, he said, but the others managed to get away.
Full Chivers art. :
www.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/world/africa...=1&pagewanted=all?src=tptw
Joanne
FF Dr found msg in dead soldiers pocket. he wrote; I fear being executed due 2refusal of Mu’atasim order 2 kill civilians
RIANOVOSTI
Experten: Libyen droht Spaltung – „RBC daily“
Libyens Zukunft ist ungewiss. Das ist Quintessenz einer Gesprächsrunde zwischen russischen und italienischen Experten über die politische Situation in dem Land nach dem Ende des Kriegs, schreibt die Zeitung “RBC daily” am Mittwoch.
Selbst Machthaber Muammar Gaddafi könnte weiter eine Rolle in Libyen spielen, weil es wegen der fehlenden Geschlossenheit unter den Rebellen keine Alternativen zu ihm gibt.
„Muammar Gaddafi darf politisch nicht abgeschrieben werden, er hält weiterhin die Machthebel in der Hand“, sagte der russische Orientalist Alexej Podzerob bei einer Video-Konferenz von RIA Novosti am Dienstag. Zudem werde er nach wie vor von einem großen Teil der Bevölkerung unterstützt, so Podzerob. Vor den Toren könne ein neues Somalia entstehen, warnte der russische Experte den Westen.
Read more here:
de.rian.ru/security_and_military/201107...
BBC
Audio
Libyan refugees:
Crossing Continents joins a British doctor volunteering to help women and children stranded in Tunisian refugee camps while the men fight Gaddafi’s forces in the mountains south of Tripoli.
Listen here:
www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/cc
Le Point:
Libye: la rébellion consolide le front Est et se prépare à attaquer à l’Ouest
L’Alliance a pour sa part annoncé avoir détruit mercredi 13 objectifs militaires à Zliten, en particulier des postes de commandement et des dépôts. Ville de 200.000 habitants à 150 km à l’est de Tripoli, Zliten est dans le viseur des rebelles de Misrata, à une soixantaine de kilomètres plus à l’est.
data-location=“#photo0” mime-
La rébellion cherche à consolider son avancée autour du port pétrolier de Brega dans l’Est et affirme préparer une offensive vers Tripoli dans l’Ouest alors que la question du départ du colonel Kadhafi reste l’obstacle majeur pour un règlement négocié du conflit libyen.
Jeudi vers 10HOO (08H00 GMT), les rebelles ont tiré des roquettes depuis Bir-Ayad, dans la vallée des montagnes berbères au sud-ouest de la capitale, sur les forces pro-Kadhafi qui défendent Al-Ghanam.
Les forces gouvernementales ont répliqué avec des roquettes et du canon 106. Les rebelles ont réagi aux roquettes mais pas au canon, expliquant qu’il était caché entre des maisons et qu’ils ne voulaient pas toucher de civils.
data-location=“#photo2” mime-
Dans des échanges de tirs similaires mercredi soir, les rebelles disent avoir touché un petit dépôt de munitions des pro-Kadhafi.
Full art.:
www.lepoint.fr/monde/libye-la-rebellion...
pernambouc
#libya this “war” looks more and more like a Ponzi scheme. With the help of twitter.
omar
Video of Clean up campaign in #Misrata youtu.be/_39LZwSuUXE #Feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_39LZwSuUXE&fea...
VOICE OF RUSSIA
Libya: fighting leads to stalemate
Recently, the foreign minister in Gaddafi’s government, Mr. Abdelati Obeidi, met with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow. The meeting took place on Tripoli’s initiative.
At the meeting, Mr. Obeidi said that if some country wants to help solve the Libyan conflict, it must cooperate with both sides, not only with the opposition in Benghazi.
Some time before that, Russia announced that it doesn’t recognize the Libyan opposition’s Transitional Council as the country’s legitimate government. At the same time, Russia, like the majority of Western countries, doesn’t recognize Gaddafi’s government as legitimate either. Sergey Lavrov has called on UN’s special envoy to Libya Abdelilah Al Khatib to try to persuade the both warring sides in Libya to cease fire and start negotiations.
“Some countries supply weapons to Libyan refugees, but this is counterproductive,” Mr. Obeidi said.
Meanwhile, at the moment, the situation in Libya is far from stable. The Western coalition is still keeping to its rather senseless practice of bombing Libyan cities. Recently, NATO planes bombed the town of Marsa al-Brega. Official reports say that, as a result, dozens of pieces of military hardware were destroyed. Not a word is said about the casualties among the civilians, though, from previous similar cases, we know that the “highly precise” NATO missiles hit dozens of civilians as well.
Full art.:
english.ruvr.ru/2011/07/21/53528577.htm...
Libya,Syria on the Road to World War III
Dr. Craig Roberts – Expert/ Corbett Report/Click Show More
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRcXirz30zE&fea...
NEWS PEPPER . SU
The rebels have opened a new front in the south of Libya
Detachment of the Libyan rebels made a throw across the desert of south-eastern regions to the south-west and took up there for a few settlements, the newspaper The Wall Street Journal.
Since all major forces the government army concentrated on other fronts – in Bregy, Misurata and in the western mountains, the rebels virtually without a fight took Thumm border crossing on the border with Niger. Then, as you move north, they consistently captured the half-empty military base, “Al-vortex”, the village of Al-Katrun and came to the town Taragin – the home of many close associates of Muammar Gaddafi, including the head of his secretariat Salah Bashir.
Earlier battles in the south-west of Libya has taken place, this remote region of the country is completely controlled by the regime. The main battles are now in the east, where rebels are trying to occupy the city Brega and center, where they also launched an attack on neighboring Misurata angry. Full art.:
newspepper.su/news/2011/7/21/the-rebels...
electra diffusa
total failure of NATO & Rebels coordinated attack on BREGA: scores of casualties and many vehicules destroyed LIBYA youtube.com/watch?v=5y2u6s…
July 11
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y2u6s9OYpA&fea...
WORLD NEWS TWEETS
France: Gaddafi could possibly stay in Libya
ZINTAN, Libya — France said Wednesday that Moammar Gaddafi could remain in Libya if he agreed to step down and renounce all leadership roles. As diplomats struggle to find a political solution to end the country’s five-month civil war , French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said of Gaddafi, “One of the scenarios effectively envisaged is that he stays in Libya on one condition, which I repeat: that he very clearly steps aside from Libyan political life.” Juppe said any cease-fire and cessation of NATO bombing would depend on Gaddafi formally surrendering his roles as military and civilian leader of Libya. Though Gaddafi holds no elected office and often refers to himself simply as Brother Leader, he has ruled Libya for 42 years.
Full art:
worldnewstweets.com/2011/07/france-gadd...
MONEY PROBLEMS?
Derek
Hannibal #Gaddafi, who controls #Libya state shipping co. #GNMTC tries to sell the fleet. Story due soon at petroleum-economist.com #oil
BLOOMBERG
Lessons of History Would Help Obama Lead on Libya: View
“NATO hits one tank and then goes away,” lamented a commander of Libya’s opposition forces to the Washington Post. “But NATO could turn this war around in a day if they wanted to.” Muammar Qaddafi, by threatening to launch terrorist attacks against Europe, has given the Obama administration a solid rationale for doing just that. After four months of letting European nations show what they can do, the Obama administration should heed an important lesson from the war in Bosnia and take over leadership of NATO’s air campaign.
Full art.:
www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-21/lesso...
BRITISH FORCES NEWS
Gaddafi forces feel heat from RAF jets and Army attack helicopters
British fire power from both air and the sea has hit the Gaddafi regime hard during a series of strikes over the last three days in Libya.
Last night Apache attack helicopters launched from HMS Ocean and struck two large military vehicle sheds near Al Khums using Hellfire missiles.
Yesterday RAF jets hit 29 buildings in and around Zlitan used as command and control centres and stores for ammunition and fuel by the Gaddafi regime.
The attacks also saw five multiple rocket launcher systems and a pair of heavy infantry weapon positions in the area targeted and destroyed.
On Tuesday an RAF patrol over Zlitan identified a regime mortar position and destroyed it with a Brimstone missile. And Apache helicopters hit vehicle checkpoints and buildings in Al Khums.
Meanwhile on Monday it has been revealed that the newly arrived warship HMS Iron Duke opened fire on artillery positions that were firing on Misrata, using a number of high explosive rounds from her 4.5” gun.
It came after RAF Tornado and Typhoon aircraft carried out precision night strikes on a large military vehicle depot at Tajura, on the outskirts of Tripoli.
RAF jets also conducted a surgical strike on the military Identification Friend or Foe antenna at Tripoli airport, using Brimstone missiles.
Source:
www.bfbs.com/news/worldwide/gaddafi-for...
AP
Gadhafi calls tribes to take back rebel mountains
Al-AZIZIYA, Libya (AP) — Dozens of horsemen in flowing robes sat on their mounts cheering as men around them fired AK-47s in the air, proclaiming their allegiance to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and their readiness to march on the rebel-held western mountains.
The pomp and bravado on display during the rally in the sweltering town square in al-Aziziya south of the capital is part of a concerted effort by Gadhafi to mobilize one of the pillars of his regime — Libya’s tribes — to combat recent rebel advances.
Over the past week, Gadhafi has started injecting more and more references to the tribes in his almost daily speeches and begun talking about a popular march of “millions” of tribesmen to reclaim the lost territory.
Sometimes it is an unarmed march of men, women and children, other times it sounds like more of a military operation, but at the very least it suggests some kind of counterattack may be in the offing.
It is impossible to determine independently whether the tribesmen truly support the Gadhafi military, as the government repeatedly insists, or whether they are ready to mount an assault on the mountains.
The rebels dismiss the campaign as little more than propaganda.
In Zawiya, a town once held by rebels, Gadhafi started his speech Saturday with a nod to each of the tribes represented there before urging them to march on the mountains.
Just in the past two days, Libyan mobile phones have been deluged by text messages announcing the readiness of various tribes to attack the mountains — even though text messaging service is normally disabled in the country.
“The tribes of Ghariba region will march in the millions to cleanse the western mountains,” said one text.
“The tribes of Gharyan, Asaba and Qawalish announce their support for the popular march to liberate the cities villages and countryside of the western mountains,” said another, referring to towns on the edge of the mountains outside rebel control.
Full art.:
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/AL...
Danya
I wonder how I’m going to find out …if its a phone call from a relative, a tweet or on the news … Can’t wait for #Libya to free
WESSIM
– Gaddafi has created multiple clones of himself, see shocking photo evidence – facebook.com/photo.php?pid=… #libya
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=271313&i...
Sarah
Wefaq Libya report on Misratas western front Wed 20 July:
- FF advanced from Misrata to Zliten at Fajr (sunrise) and fighting continued until Asr (evening)
- Gaddafi forces weren’t expecting a strong attack from all directions
- Approx 13 of Gaddafi’s men were captured (incl commander of Hamza brigade: Some were injured and others surrendered after they were surrounded. Numbers of those killed unknown
- Gaddafi forces planted small brown mines on Coastal Road and the areas in which they were positioned. 1 FF was martyred by a mine and many were injured
- Most mines have been exploded by FF and they hope to make the area safe soon
- FF took two 4×4 Toyotas fitted with rocket launchers and three 4×4 Toyotas with anti-aircraft missiles
- FF lost two cars
- Zliten FF with the Misrata FF exploded one Gaddafi tank and captured another in a state that can be used
- FF position hasn’t been disclosed for their protection
Niz_FGM Niz
21/7/11 – We’re investigating reports that Abdullah Senoussi has been hurt/killed in a shooting/rocket attack in Hai Al Andulus District.
Alex
PETROLEUM ECONOMIST 2: ‘East #Libya oil fields are now ready to produce US$2million per day for #NTC – as soon as the #NTC can spare a unit to provide military protection’
www.petroleum-economist.com/Article/286...
20 MIN.CH online
Ruag-Munition in Libyen empört Linke und Grüne
Da Schweizer Munition in Libyen eingesetzt wird, fordern linke Politiker einen Waffen-Lieferstopp in den Nahen und Mittleren Osten. Der Präsident der SiK spricht hingegen von einem Einzelfall.
Die Rebellen in Libyen schiessen mit Ruag-Munition, die ursprünglich an Katar geliefert wurde. Grüne und linke Sicherheitspolitiker fordern nun einen Lieferstopp in die Krisenregion. Die bürgerliche Seite spricht von einem Einzelfall.
Libysche Rebellen setzen Munition von Ruag Ammotec aus Thun ein, wie die Sendung «Rundschau» des Schweizer Fernsehens SF am Mittwochabend aufdeckte. Katar lieferte die Munition – und hat damit das Versprechen in der Nichtwiederausfuhr-Erklärung gebrochen, die Munition aus der Schweiz nicht weiterzugeben.
«Die Nachfrage nach Waffen und Munition ist in dieser konfliktträchtigen Gegend so hoch, dass unsicher ist, ob das Kriegsgerät nicht weitergegeben wird», sagte Lang. Ausserdem könnten die Kriegsgeräte auch zur Niederschlagung von Demokratiebewegungen benutzt werden.
Read full story here:
www.20min.ch/news/dossier/libyen/story/...
AJE:
Read blog:
While France says Muammar Gaddafi could stay in Libya if he gives up power, revels on the ground were planning their next strategy.
Gaddafi loyalists have been making it hard for rebels to break the months-long seige. Opposition fighters have been aided by NATO strikes but the battle appears far from over.
Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel-Hamid reports from the western front near Misurata.
Video:
blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/libya
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES
Libya: Is France Ready to Arm the Rebels Even More?
As the Muslim world prepares to enter Ramadan, it seems that Libya’s rebels asked France for extra arms to help them overrun Tripoli within “days”, indicating they are preparing for a pre-Ramadan offensive against Muammar Gaddafi’ s forces.
The request was made in Paris on Wednesday to French President Nicolas Sarkozy by military leaders from the rebel-held city of Misrata, a member of their delegation said.
Rebel leader Mahmud Jibril indicated that he would also attempt to seek additional aid for their military campaign from Spain during talks in Madrid on Thursday with Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez.
Sarkozy held talks at his Elysee presidential palace with rebel General Ramadan Zarmuh, Colonel Ahmed Hashem and Colonel Brahim Betal Mal, as well as Suleiman Fortia, a local representative of the rebel leadership in Misrata.
Full art.:
uk.ibtimes.com/articles/184328/20110721...
ECHO NEWS
Southend Hospital doctor volunteers to treat Libyan wounded
A CONSULTANT at Southend Hospital has spent his annual leave helping casualties in his war-torn homeland.
Tripoli-born Dr Adel Rateme, 46, a consultant general surgeon specialising in breast cancer surgery, has been working round the clock to help casualties of the war in Libya.
Together with his wife, former Basildon Hospital consultant Dr Amna Tillisi, and other family members who are also medics, Mr Rateme helped set up the charity Libya Medical Relief, to take food, medicines, surgical supplies and clothes to those in need.
Dr Rateme, of Hatfield Road, Chafford Hundred, has already visited the Nafusa mountains in Libya, an active war zone, where he provided surgical care for war wounded on both sides of the conflict.
He said: “It was chaotic and the facilities were extremely limited, but we just had to work with whatever we had.
“The conditions are appalling with very basic sanitation and people are desperate.”
He saw “waves and waves” of injured rebel fighters as well as some of Colonel Gaddafi’s own soldiers – and had to restrain the freedom fighters from attacking them.
Read more here:
www.echo-news.co.uk/news/9150357.Southe...
NewsTweet
Libya, Rebels in Misrata stop fireing at Gaddafi`s forces to have a picnic 20.07.2011 youtube.com/watch?v=tRyUUx… #libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRyUUxKf_ac
CS MONITOR
Qaddafi could step down and stay? That’s not going to happen.
Growing efforts to find a negotiated settlement to Libya’s civil war got a boost of attention Wednesday, when French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said that Muammar Qaddafi could stay indefinitely in his home country as long as he steps down from power.
“One of the scenarios effectively envisaged is that he stays in Libya on one condition … that he very clearly steps aside from Libyan political life,” Mr. Juppe told French LCI TV. “A cease-fire depends on Qaddafi committing clearly and formally to surrender his military and civilian roles.”
Qaddafi and his powerful son Saif al-Islam have insisted they won’t leave the country under any circumstances, so Juppe’s comments would appear to be reaching for an acceptable compromise conclusion to an increasingly bloody war (a rebel offensive on the tiny eastern oil town of Brega, for instance, has been stalled for days, with dozens of casualties on both sides). The problem is, of all the outcomes one could imagine in Libya, Qaddafi relinquishing power and living out his days as a free man in Tripoli is the least likely.
The reason why has to do with the depth of hatred for the man among the rebels. There are no similarities between the case of Qaddafi and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, for instance. While corruption flourished under Mubarak and torture was routinely used, executions weren’t carried out on the industrial scale of Qaddafi’s Libya.
Read the full story here:
www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/20...
HUFFINGTON POST
Libya U.S. Intervention: Al Jazeera Examines Obama’s Choices In The Middle East (VIDEO)
In “The U.S. and The New Middle East,” Al Jazeera’s “Fault Lines” investigates the reasons behind the U.S. decision to intervene in Libya while it choose to remain on the sidelines in Bahrain and Syria.
Was the operation prompted by an urgent need to prevent a massacre in Benghazi, as the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated? Or were other concerns also at stake — Libya’s high-quality crude oil, for example. “Is oil the only reason they intervened? I’m not in a position to say,” Edward Cow from the Center for Strategic and International Studies says in the program. “But was it a factor? Certainly. That’s hard to ignore,” he concludes.
Watch the full “Fault Lines” documentary here:
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/21/libya...
BBC
In 1996 over a thousand prisoners were killed at Abu Salim jail in Tripoli.
Many people see the killings as the spark that eventually led to the uprising against Colonel Gaddafi’s government.
When protestors first went on the streets of Benghazi in February this year it was to demonstrate against the arrest of a lawyer who was investigating the killings.
LISTEN NOW ( 10 min)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00hws9n
Omar
the world will find a mass grave in every corner in Libya, there is still so much to dig out
LIBYA_WIN
Rumors that #Senoussi was killed by #Tripoli #FFs, I sincerely hope to see a corpse, otherwise it might be a lie to help him escape
UPI.COM
U.S. tells citizens to leave Libya
WASHINGTON, July 19 (UPI) — All U.S. citizens in Libya should leave the country immediately because of fighting between rebel and government forces, the U.S. State Department said Tuesday.
The State Department in late February issued a travel warning for Libya during an uprising against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Gadhafi’s forces responded to the uprising with brutal force, prompting the U.N. Security Council in March to sanction international military action to protect civilians.
The State Department said Tuesday that it was recommending that all U.S. citizens in Libya leave the country. The U.S. Embassy in Tripoli is closed and the Hungarian government, acting on Washington’s behalf in Libya, can’t issue travel documents to the United States, the warning stated.
“Currently, there is a risk of attacks against hotels and other public buildings in Benghazi and other opposition-held areas in Libya,” the warning read.
Read more:
www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2011/07/19...
Leonor is a Frequent Visitor to Libya – She Tells All
For the last 5 or 6 years Leanor has visited Libya 5 or 6 times a year, she was there 3 weeks ago – and is in constant touch by telephone – this is not the news we get on our propaganda news channels.
Leanor’s Blog is at leonorenlibia.blogspot.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dViTnW4sH0o
richard engel nbc’s report on ancient ruins in #Libya on todayshow
Video:
today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/4383...
feb17
Reuters
Chinese President Hu Jintao told Jacob Zuma that China will work with the African Union to find a solution to the Libyan crisis. Turkey and the African Union have proposed separate road maps aimed at establishing a ceasefire and moving through stages from Muammar Gaddafi quitting power to a democratic transition. .
China said last Thursday it would skip last week’s meeting in Turkey between Western powers, Arab governments and leaders of Libya’s opposition National Transitional Council, saying that the way the group worked needed “further study”.
AJE video:
Slow progress for Libyan opposition fighters
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_em...
MyFreeLibya
Okay no electricity for the whole of the eastern region of the mountain this morning…only returned now #Libya #Feb17
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
On Monday morning, RAF aircraft returned for a second night of precision strikes against the large military vehicle depot at Tajura.
RAF aircraft conducted a surgical strike on the military Identification Friend or Foe antenna at Tripoli airport. #Libya
The use of Brimstone missiles allowing the effect of the attack to be confined to just the military installation. #Libya
At sea, the frigate HMS Iron Duke used her 4.5” gun to fire a barrage of illumination rounds off Zlitan, to the west of Misratah. #Libya
On Tuesday morning, an RAF patrol over Zlitan identified a regime mortar position and destroyed it with a Brimstone missile. #Libya
The star shells helped NATO aircraft in accurately targeting regime positions in the area, including two rocket firing sites. #Libya
On Tuesday night, HMS Ocean launched her Apache attack helicopters against regime forces repressing the population in and around Al Khums.
Fleet Air Arm Sea Kings provided airborne radar cover. #Libya
The targets were a vehicle check point and a group of buildings which NATO missions had established as being used by regime forces. #Libya
Hellfire missiles were successfully used to destroy the group of six buildings, as well as a large building at the check point. #Libya
Iron Duke once again fired illumination rounds to assist NATO surveillance missions around Zlitan during Tuesday night. #Libya
On Wednesday RAF jets attacked some 29 buildings in and around Zlitan. #Libya
These had been confirmed by reconnaissance & analysis as command & control centres, & military supply, ammunition & fuel storage facilities
Aircraft also struck five multiple rocket launcher systems and a pair of heavy infantry weapon positions in the area. #Libya
HMS Iron Duke took action against artillery positions which she observed firing towards Misratah. #Libya
A number of high explosive rounds from HMS Iron Duke’s 4.5” gun quickly silenced the regime guns. #Libya
After dark, Ocean once again launched her Apaches, which used Hellfire missiles to destroy two large military vehicle sheds near Al Khums.
MUST READ:
PETROLEUM ECONOMIST:
Qadhafi Regime bids to sell shipping fleet.
www.petroleum-economist.com/Article/286...
SENUSSI:
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Reports that Abdalla Senussi was shot by tripoli FF and killed or seriously injured. If these report prove true it is a big blow to Gadhafi!
Ahmed
I’m loving all the unconfirmed reports regarding Abdulla Senussi’s death, but not going to believe it until I see his corpse
Nahla
I hope it’s not a rumor! That’s it! If he’s assassinated we’d finally have ONE DOWN!!! #senussi #libya
ChangeInLibya
BREAKING: RUMOUR: Reports that Abdallah Senussi, Gaddafi’s main assistant & ICC criminal has been assassinated by #Tripoli FF. Details soon.
bousuwa
Abdallah el senussi has been killed not confirmed yet
Danya
Hearing that abdullah senussi is dead …if its true then I hope #Gaddafi and safe are next. GOD please don’t let this be a rumor.
Blake Hounshell
I thought Senussi was supposed to be in Sirte?
Soliman
Unconfirmed:ABdualla Al Sanosi has been killed today morning by Tripoli’s FF #Libya #17feb
Triplino
Another report that abd Allah alsanose is not dead he is intensive care more details later #Libya #Tripoli #Gadaffi
Ahmed
Although others reports are that Abdulla #Senussi is seriously injured & is in intensive care..equally amazing news..ill take that…#Libya
ali libyan
Senussi was seen in Alasabaah (near Kikla) last few days
Kauder
Rumors (!) #Tripoli FFs killed/severely injured Abdulla #Senussi . If true, #Gaddafi & family must now live in fear. #Libya
muwanga
Unconfirmed reports of Abdallah Senussi Gaddaffi’s intelligence chief wanted by ICC has been assassinated
sanspapier
Unconf. Rumours that Abdullah Al Senussi has been killed by Tripoli FFs. Lookin fwd to see his body on Ganfood TV. iA #Libya #feb17
Nahla
I hope it’s not a rumor! That’s it! If he’s assassinated we’d finally have ONE DOWN!!! #senussi #libya
Nu Bari
Strong chance Abdullah Sanoosi was injured in Bab Alazazia, THis time Rumors flying he tried to kill #Gaddafi! #Libya
Libyan Voice BREAKING: RUMOR: Reports that Abdallah Senussi, Gaddafi’s main assistant & ICC criminal has been assassinated by Tripoli FF. And council spoke person Mr M Qanioah confirmed the killing of the criminal Abduallah Alsanousi this morning”…Details soon :)
All Voices:
Breaking: Initial reports are starting to come in, as yet unconfirmed, as to the possible death or serious injury of Abdalla Senussi, Gaddafi’s brutal right-hand-man. Responsible for many of the atrocities committed by the regime, the second-most-hated-man in Libya after Muammar himself has allegedly been shot by freedom fighters in Tripoli.
Free Libyia
Senussi’s death is like NileSat closing down LibyanStateTV……moral of the story: don’t get your hopes up
Alex
If news of killing of #Gaddafi ’s b-in-law strongman #AbdullahSenussi by #Tripoli #FF is true – REGIME will be in no hurry 2 admit it #Libya
libyanandproud
Abdallah Sanussi dies at least once a month ! If I hear he dies bi-weekly I’d be worried ! There is only 1 “kill” that makes a diff !
Skeptic
i suspect rumors abt deaths of Gaddafi sons & Senussi r being deliberately spread by Saif media machine
SENUSSI:
almanaramedia.blogspot.com/2011/07/17_2...
Wait and see approach is best for now until there is real proof or official announcement.
AJA: FF abubakar al trabelsi: attack on senussi successful but FF dont know if senussi alive/not, used anti-tank weapon
I still have my doubts, is this a set up by g?
Eyewitness LPC AJA : #FF attack on Senussi successful but don’t know if Senussi alive/not, used anti-tank weapon
AJArabic: #Tripoli #FF – Using anti tank missiles – Mount an attack on senior #Gaddafi Regime officials office in centre of capital
Niz_FGM Niz
21/7/11 – #NATO continues its bombing in eastern #Tripoli as our fighters in #Misrata edge closer to the capital…. not long to go now.
21/7/11-Collapsing regime sending sms to #Tripoli residents calling on march to #Nafusa.I wonder how many will go,no offer of cash mentioned
21/7/11 – Rixos clampdown tightened.No food from outside,no leaving hotel even to local shop,forced on trips. Now imagine what they do to us
Nu Bari
Lots to report from #Libya today – Gaddafo loyalists blow up part of The Olympic/Sport City complex in Benghazi – 2 injuries no deaths
Sleeper cell responsible for bombing in #Benghazi and were caught!
Nu Bari
In addition, Misrata FF’s advansing further towards Tripoli!!!!! Western Mountains recieve backup and will move foward!
Danya #BBC more than 200,000 libyan freedom fighter’s have been injured during these 5 months … (That’s a lot of our 6 million population)
MOD UK
RAF and Navy continue to strike at Gaddafi regime
The RAF and Royal Navy have been involved in a number of precision attacks to protect Libyan civilians over the last few days as part of NATO’s Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR.
In the early hours of Monday morning, RAF Tornado and Typhoon aircraft returned for a second night of precision strikes against the large military vehicle depot at Tajura, on the outskirts of Tripoli, which has been used to maintain Colonel Gaddafi’s attacks on the civilian population.
At around the same time, other RAF aircraft conducted a surgical strike on the military Identification Friend or Foe antenna at Tripoli Airport, the use of Brimstone missiles allowing the effect of the attack to be confined to just the military installation.
At sea, the frigate HMS Iron Duke used her 4.5-inch (114mm) gun to fire a barrage of illumination rounds off Zlitan, to the west of Misurata. The star shells helped NATO aircraft to accurately target regime positions in the area, including two rocket-firing sites.
Further military action took place on Tuesday and Wednesday. Major General Nick Pope, the Chief of the Defence Staff’s Communications Officer, said:
“On Tuesday morning, an RAF patrol over Zlitan identified a regime mortar position and destroyed it with a Brimstone missile.
“The pressure was maintained on Gaddafi’s troops in the area during the night when HMS Ocean launched her Apache attack helicopters against regime forces repressing the population in and around Al Khums; Fleet Air Arm Sea Kings provided airborne radar cover.
“The targets were a vehicle checkpoint and a group of buildings which previous NATO surveillance missions had established as being used by regime forces. Hellfire missiles were successfully used to destroy the group of six buildings, as well as a large building at the checkpoint.
“Iron Duke once again fired illumination rounds to assist NATO surveillance missions around Zlitan during the night.”
Major General Pope continued:
“Whilst allied aircraft continued to patrol the length and breadth of Libya, NATO taskings kept the UK’s operational contribution focused on Zlitan throughout Wednesday.
“RAF jets attacked some 29 buildings in and around the town which had been variously confirmed by detailed reconnaissance and analysis as command and control centres and military supply, ammunition and fuel storage facilities used by Colonel Gaddafi’s troops in repressing the local people.
“Our aircraft also struck five multiple rocket launcher systems and a pair of heavy infantry weapon positions in the area. HMS Iron Duke took action against artillery positions which she observed firing towards Misurata; a number of high explosive rounds from her 4.5-inch 114mm gun quickly silenced the regime guns.
“After dark, Ocean once again launched her Apaches, which used Hellfire missiles to destroy two large military vehicle sheds near Al Khums.”
UK missions over Libya are being undertaken to enforce United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 and protect Libyan civilians at risk of attack.
Ghazi
Had inspiring discussions with Arab and Spanish activists about Arab revolutions, #Libya, at the IDEAS foundation seminar today in #Madrid
Many Spanish politicians showed their admiration and enthusiasm with Libyan cause and would like to see more cooperation with free #Libya
somaia
SMS No. 8 from #Gaddafi 2 #Tripoli: bit.ly/oZm4U8 #feb17 #Libya ’’ @NTC_of_Libya
Feb 17
NEWS IN SHORT:
AP
The White House says it is up to the Libyan people to decide whether longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi can stay in Libya if he steps down from power.
NTC in France
Libya’s rebels asked France for extra arms to help them overrun Tripoli within “days”, as they ramped up a pre-Ramadan offensive that has Moamer Qadhafi’s troops on the run in the east.
The request was made in Paris on Wednesday to French President Nicolas Sarkozy by military leaders from the rebel-held city of Misrata, a member of their delegation said.
Sarkozy held talks at his Elysee presidential palace with rebel General Ramadan Zarmuh, Colonel Ahmed Hashem and Colonel Brahim Betal Mal, as well as Suleiman Fortia, a local representative of the rebel leadership in Misrata.
“With a little bit of help, we will be in Tripoli very soon. Very soon means days,” Fortia told reporters after the meeting. “We are here in France to discuss how we can do the job.”
SLOVENIA
Slovenia announced on Wednesday that it recognizes the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people.
The Slovenian government made the announcement two days after its Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar said in Brussels that Slovenia may recognize the Benghazi-based Libyan rebel forces after elections are held in Libya.
Addressing an EU foreign ministers meeting, Zbogar said that the recognition of the NTC should be uniform throughout the European Union and that the legal framework for recognizing the Libyan rebels should be harmonized.
Also on Wednesday, Slovenian Foreign Ministry State Secretary Dragoljuba Bencina left for Benghazi, taking with her a large shipment of medicine, according to the Slovenian Press Agency.
CHINA
Chinese President Hu Jintao told his South African counterpart, Jacob Zuma, on Thursday that China will work with the African Union in finding a solution to the Libyan crisis, state news agency Xinhua reported.
Turkey and the African Union have proposed separate road maps aimed at establishing a ceasefire and moving through stages from Muammar Gaddafi quitting power to a democratic transition. .
China said last Thursday it would skip last week’s meeting in Turkey between Western powers, Arab governments and leaders of Libya’s opposition National Transitional Council, saying that the way the group worked needed “further study”. .
“South Africa and the African Union have played an important role in pushing a political solution for the Libyan issue, which shows the resolve of African countries to ‘use an African method to solve an African issue,’” Hu told Zuma.
“China greatly appreciates this, and is willing to continue remaining in close touch and coordinate closely with South Africa and the African Union on the Libya issue.”
RAF
Four Royal Air Force Tornado GR4 fast jets have arrived at Gioia del Colle air base in southern Italy following last week’s announcement that the additional aircraft will provide further support to UK operations over Libya.
The aircraft, flown by crews from RAF Lossiemouth, mark a significant increase in the RAF’s reconnaissance capabilities as part of Operation ELLAMY over Libya.
One of the jets arrived fitted with a RAPTOR (Reconnaissance Airborne Pod for Tornado) device which enables the aircraft to provide detailed reconnaissance imagery over large areas.
As a secondary function, the Tornado GR4 jets will also be available to boost the strike capability of NATO operations over Libya.
Speaking from Gioia del Colle, Officer Commanding 2 (Army Cooperation) Squadron, Wing Commander Nick Tucker-Lowe, said:
“The arrival of the additional GR4s will be a considerable boost to the already potent combat intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capability that the Tornado GR Force already brings to Operation ELLAMY.
USA WRITER IS MISSING IN LIBYA
A U.S. congressman says that a Baltimore writer missing in Libya has been seen in a prison in Tripoli.
Matthew VanDyke went to Libya to write about the uprising against Muammar Qaddafi. He was there about a week when he disappeared in March.
Maryland Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger’s spokeswoman said Thursday there have been two independent sightings of the 32-year-old in a Tripoli prison and that the State Department is working to confirm them. The State Department did not immediately return a call for comment.
The writer’s mother, Sharon VanDyke, also said early Thursday that her son was imprisoned in Tripoli and was in good health. She says government officials will be working to bring him home.She declined to say how she got the information.
Paul Danahar
fighters in #Misrata told me Ramadan “will be tough”, expect their men to fast though Koran says don’t have to in war
libyanandproud
Breaking : #Bashar , #Saleh , and #Gaddafi trying to win “Biggest Killer” prize before Ramadan !
Karl Stagno-Navarra
Any #Libya dissident to PM me as I need to cross-check some names on business connections with #Gaddafi pls?
CBS BALTIMORE
AP
Missing Baltimore Journalist Seen In Libya
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A U.S. congressman says that a Baltimore writer missing in Libya has been seen in a prison in Tripoli.
Matthew VanDyke went to Libya to write about the uprising against Moammar Gadhafi. He was there about a week when he disappeared in March.
The writer’s mother, Sharon VanDyke, also said early Thursday that her son was imprisoned in Tripoli and was in good health.
Source:
baltimore.cbslocal.com/2011/07/21/missi...
REUTERS
China’s Hu says backs African plan to end Libyan crisis
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese President Hu Jintao told his South African counterpart, Jacob Zuma, on Thursday that China will work with the African Union in finding a solution to the Libyan crisis, state news agency Xinhua reported.
Turkey and the African Union have proposed separate road maps aimed at establishing a ceasefire and moving through stages from Muammar Gaddafi quitting power to a democratic transition. .
Full report:
af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE7...
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: Over 1800 landmines placed by #Gaddafi forces at Qwaleesh have been found & removed by freedom fighters in the past 4 days.
Guardian
Libyan rebels in Zlitan capture key government commander
Libyan rebels in Misrata say they have captured the chief of operations of government forces in Zlitan on the first day of their offensive against the town.
General Abdul Nabih Zayid was caught late on Wednesday after advancing fighters overran his command post at Souk Talat, a small village on the outskirts of Zlitan, opposition commanders said.
“We have him in custody. He is being well looked after,” said Mohamed Frefr, in charge of detainees for the rebels. “After three days talking with him we will hand him to the military prison.”
Rebels in the besieged coastal city said the general was being interviewed by intelligence officers and well looked after, with supplies of insulin procured because he has diabetes.
Full art.:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/21/li...
IvanCNN Ivan Watson
Airplanes over head. Just heard a distant thud. Sounds like NATO’s bombing around Tripoli. #Libya
NATO OVER TRIPOLI: 3.30 PM raggz ’e-b
still in #benghazi still waiting for my ride to brega. at 10am i was told it would be here in 1 1/2hrs. #libya such a punctual place.
inglesi Piers Scholfield
we will be live from #Misrata this evening – @ggatehouse your host for @BBC_WHYS at 1900 Libyan time / 1700GMT.
listen to the show later here – bbc.in/WJ6yr – send any comments to @BBC_WHYS or post here on.fb.me/rkB7g6
on the show – some guests with us here in #Misrata, Mahmoud Jibril of the TNC – and listeners from around the world.
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
Sweden #Ericsson mariobile base station in #Misurata repaired via #Malta
Government of Montenegro recognises Libyan National Transitional Council
Podgorica, Montenegro (21 July 2011) – The Government of Montenegro adopted the Decision on the recognition of the Libyan National Transitional Council (LNTC) as a legitimate political representative of the Libyan people.
The Government voiced readiness to establish cooperation with the LNTC based on the full respect for democratic development, building democratic institutions, respect for human rights and establishing lasting peace in Libya.
In this way, Montenegrin Government confirmed its support to the efforts of the international community towards resolving the situation in Libya in line with the decisions of the UN Security Council, the EU Council and the Contact Group on Libya, as well as relevant regional organisations.
www.gov.me/en/News/107518/Government-of...
AlluCemif
Munitions from Switzerland used by the FF. Bought by #Qatar.
Foreign & Commonwealth Office:
Navigating the new world order: The UK and the emerging powers
Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne spoke about how Britain should respond to the rise of emerging powers in a speech to Chatham House
How Britain, as an established power, should respond to the rise of emerging powers and the new world order their rise is creating.
he first is the Arab Spring. The scenes in Tunisia, in Egypt, in Libya, Syria and elsewhere have dominated the international headlines over recent weeks and months.
So dramatic has been their impact that the Foreign Secretary has termed the events of the Arab Spring as arguably the most historic of the 21st century to date
Full report:
www.fco.gov.uk/en/news/latest-news/?vie...
An absolute must read by: Dahr Jamail
AJE:
Murdoch’s ambitions in the Middle East
With his media empire under fire in the west, NewsCorp chief eyes the Middle East market
Embroiled in a scandal that has global implications, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is under fire due to the ongoing fallout resulting from the News of the World scandal.
But while News Corp remains under heavy scrutiny in the UK, US, and the rest of the West, the launch of Abu Dhabi-based Arabic language news channel Sky News Arabia is still on track.
For someone interested in assisting in starting a television network with a planned initial reach of 50 million viewers across the Middle East, Murdoch has an interesting perspective on regional issues that affect the would-be consumers of the new Arabic channel.
“My own perspective is simple”, Murdoch told the Anti-Defamation League on December 13, 2010. “We live in a world where there is an ongoing war against the Jews.”
Murdoch emphasised “the importance of good relations between Israel and the United States”, stating: “Some believe that if America wants to gain credibility in the Muslim world and advance the cause of peace, Washington needs to put some distance between itself and Israel. My view is the opposite.”
In a speech Murdoch gave when receiving the American Jewish Committee’s National Human Relations Award in March 2009, less than three months after the end of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, he referenced Gaza and said: “The free world makes a terrible mistake if we deceive ourselves into thinking this is not our fight. In the end, the Israeli people are fighting the same enemy we are: cold-blooded killers who reject peace … who reject freedom.”
Ari Rabin-Havt, Executive Vice President of the media watchdog group Media Matters, says Murdoch’s Fox News in the US “is one of the most bigoted, anti-Muslim channels on TV”.
“Their hosts, contributors, and guests were vocal opponents of the planned building of an Islamic cultural centre near ground zero,” Rabin-Havt told Al Jazeera. “One of those guests was anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist Pam Geller, who compared the centre to building a Ku Klux Klan ‘shrine’ near a black church in Alabama.”
Murdoch’s Middle East connection
Billionaire Prince Walid bin Talal bin Abdelaziz Al-Saud, a nephew of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, has, according to Forbes magazine, a net worth estimated to be at least $19.6bn. This makes him the 26th wealthiest person on the planet, as well as the richest man in Saudi Arabia.
He is also the second biggest shareholder (at seven per cent) in News Corporation, only behind Murdoch himself.
During a recent interview on his yacht with the BBC’s Newsnight, Prince Walid declared himself to be a “good friend” of Rupert Murdoch and his son James, and staunchly defended the men amid the ongoing NewsCorp scandal.
It is noteworthy that,while Prince Walid is the second largest shareholder in News Corp, Murdoch is also a major shareholder (ten per cent) in Prince Walid’s Rotana Media Group based in the Middle East. As recently as this May, Murdoch’s conglomerate took a significant stake in Prince Walid’s film, TV, and music business, a move that deepened the financial relationship between the two men.
Rotana television broadcasts in Saudi Arabia and via satellite to the Arab World and Arab Diaspora, and includes Fox (Middle East), a Fox film channel – and is better known for broadcasting US films, television and music videos.
Even though Murdoch is in business with Prince Walid, and the two men have a mutually beneficial relationship, many of his personal views and the views of his media outlets take a very adversarial stance towards the Arab and Muslim world
“They Muslims are much harder to integrate into a community than the average Indian or Chinese or Japanese even,” Murdoch told the Sydney Morning Herald on June 26, 2006.
Bill O’Reilly, a leading host on Murdoch’s Fox News channel, said, during his broadcast on October 18, 2010: “Folks are fed up with politically correct nonsense. There’s no question there is a Muslim problem in the world,” and “most Americans well understand the danger coming out of the Muslim world”. The on-screen text read: “The Muslim Dilemma.” The next day, O’Reilly repeated the claim that there was “a Muslim problem in the world”.
Last spring, at the exclusive three-day Abu Dhabi Media Summit, Murdoch hinted:
“We’ve also been broadcasting some of our Fox International Channels. More recently, we took another step by investing in a local media company that also is the world’s largest producer of Arab music. The company is called Rotana. To be frank, Rotana does not really need our financing. We are partnering with Rotana for something more ambitious.”
The show must go on?
Despite the phone hacking scandal in the UK, Sky News Arabia, a 50/50 joint venture with BSkyB and the Abu Dhabi Media Investment Corporation, has plans to launch next spring as a 24-hour news channel.
Days after the closing of the News of the World newspaper, senior executives Rebekah Brooks and Les Hinton resigned over the scandal.
Their resignations came after Prince Walid urged Murdoch and his son James to “cooperate fully” with inquiries into the scandal.
“If the indications are for Mrs Brooks’ involvement in this matter … for sure she has to go, you bet she has to go,” Prince Walid told Newsnight.
Possibly underscoring Prince Walid’s power in News Corp, fewer than 24 hours after that interview was broadcast, it was announced Brooks had resigned from her position as chief executive of News International.
Last week, Prince Walid said he welcomed the decision to close the News of the World.
“The rotten and defective apple News of the World has been eliminated by management,” he told Forbes magazine via text message. “Moreover, I as shareholder and the Murdochs won’t tolerate any unethical behaviour, and the fact that the newspaper was shut down is conclusive proof that News Corp wants to put this case behind it, irrespective of the BSkyB takeover. Plus, News Corp is a lot bigger than a newspaper.”
Muhammad Ahmad, a Glasgow-based media scholar who has taught journalism and politics at the University of Stirling, disagrees with Prince Walid’s “rotten apple” theory.
“The strangeness of the fact that a Saudi is the second biggest NewsCorp stockholder, and he has never taken any actions to curb or censor bad journalism, and there is no regulation whatsoever, is troubling,” Ahmad told Al Jazeera. “You have a ruthless media operation, especially now when it is being called out, and they were unapologetic to begin with. This is not a question of some bad apples. News Corp is a corrupt institution, to its foundations, and now it’s trying to get control over Sky Arabia. This should be outrageous for anyone, especially viewers.”
The channel intends to broadcast to more than 50 million households across the Middle East and North Africa region, according to network executives. It will be based in Abu Dhabi, with bureaux around the world.
The channel will enter a TV-news market in competition with Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, and BBC Arabic, among others.
Professor David Miller, a sociologist at Scotland’s Strathclyde University and co-founder of the media watchdog group Spinwatch, told Al Jazeera that he feels the Sky News Arabia venture is “unsafe”.
“I don’t know what the regulating authority would be in this case, but it certainly does not bode well for a news organisation to have Sky or NewsCorp involved at all.”
Source:
english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/...
There we have it.
Wheels within wheels……
Questions anyone?
And who is major player in Nilesat?
No futher comment needed…..
ISRAEL AND JOUNALISTS:
The Forein Press Association.
Statements
STATEMENTS 2011
The Foreign Press Association strongly condemns the continued harassment of journalists attending media events at the prime minister’s office. In the past two days, three female reporters in separate incidents were forced to undress, remove their bras and have them placed through an X-ray machine in front of a group of colleagues. In addition, pocketbooks were emptied in public, with personal items also put on display and X-rayed for everyone to see.
This type of treatment is unnecessary, humiliating and counterproductive. After repeated appeals and promises by security officials it appears that the Prime Minister’s Office does not have the desire to stop this happening and so the FPA will begin consulting its members over whether the foreign media should no longer cover events at the PM’s offfice as this is the only occasion where this type of incident occurs. The Foreign Press Association 21st July 2011
The Foreign Press Association is utterly baffled by the treatment our members received at Wednesday’s press event in Ashdod with the Prime Minister. Once again members were subject to invasive and humiliating inspections and unnecessary waits that left people in the sun for hours. Some members, fed up with the wait, left the event. Others were only able to enter after the press conference had started. Sadly this has become standard procedure when covering the Prime Minister. It is incomprehensible that a leader so concerned with his international image could handle relations with teh press so poorly. We fully recognise Israel’s legitimate security concerns and expect to undergo an inspection when covering these events. But the process is disorganised, arbitrary, humilitating andneedlessly invasive – particularly when applied to journalists who possess government-issued press cards. We repeat our call to the Prime Minister’s office to revise its security procedures and to let us do our work. The Board of the Foreign Press Association, March 17th 2011
Read the whole statement here:
www.fpa.org.il/?categoryId=73840
pdanaharbbc Paul Danahar
#Mideast Foreign Press Association (declaration: I’m on the board) says it will consult members about no longer covering #Israeli PM events
after another round of strip searches of accredited and well known female journalists at #Israeli PM events including taking bra’s off
Even WSJ had to take his trousers off recently and you can’t get a more upstanding member of the foreign media (no pun intended
But this “off with your bra” stuff keeps going on month after month despite promises from Shinbet it would stop.
Yefrenia
“If I die fighting for my country, don’t let me die in vain” …. #Feb17 the revolution lives on… twitpic.com/5tj898
MORE PROOF ABOUT EXTREME HUMILIATION and TORTURE:
ChangeInLibya
WARNING EXTREMELY GRAPHIC: La ilaha illa allah… What Gaddafi forces did to syrian journalist Rana in prison alsature.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/%D9… #libya
MUST READ:
عاجل : الجناح العسكري في ائتلاف 17 فبراير يتبنى عملية محاولة اغتيال سيف القذافي وعبدالله السنوسي ومنصور ضو والبغدادي المحمودي
طرابلس – خاص – المنارة
أفادت مصادر من ائتلاف 17 فبراير بطرابلس للمنارة بأن جناحه العسكري قد قام في حدود الساعة الثانية عشر ظهر اليوم الخميس 21-7-2011 بعملية نوعية بمحاولة اغتيال شخصيات قيادية تابعة لنظام القذافي.
وأضافت نفس المصادر بأن الشخصيات التي استهدفت في عملية الاغتيال هي سيف القذافي وعبدالله السنوسي ومنصور ضو والبغدادي المحمودي والذين كانوا مجتمعين في فندق Four Points Sheraton الكائن في حي الأندلس .
وأكدت نفس المصادر بأن منصور ضو قد أصيب إصابات خطيرة في هذه العملية وهو يوجد الآن في غرفة العمليات مشيرة بأن الثلاثة الاخرين قد اصيبوا اصابات خفيفة بحسب المصدر.
LibyanPatriots
The death of Gaddafi’s brother-in-law and chief enforcer, Abdullah Senussi, remains unconfirmed
dovenews Libyan™
#FF hv captured Gaddafis senior General #Abdul #Nabeah #Zayid near #Zlitan yesterday, he was injured & currently getting treated in hospital
Hanan
Come on Libyans! Let’s get that rodent out of our country before September 1st! IA he’ll nvr have anthr Fata7 again! #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Moldova CARGO SHIP “HAJ-SAYED” has now departed #Alexandria #Egypt for dest. #Tobruk #Libya ETA: 2011-07-23 10:00 (UTC) #feb17
Shabab:
Libya’s foreign minister has denied that Col Muammar Gaddafi’s removal was being considered in efforts to end the country’s conflict.
“Gaddafi’s departure is not being discussed,” Abdelati Obeidi told reporters after talks in Moscow with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Last week France said it had been contacted by Libyan envoys saying Col Gaddafi leader was prepared to leave.
Meanwhile fighting has continued between pro-Gaddafi and rebel forces.
There were fierce clashes on Wednesday near the eastern town of Brega – an important oil centre that has changed hands several times during the five-month-old conflict.
In western Libya, rebel forces in Misrata say Nato air support has allowed them to advance further against government forces.
Russia has been trying to mediate a deal to end the conflict.
After Wednesday’s talks in Moscow, Mr Obeidi said the Libyan government wanted to end the conflict with rebels seeking to end Col Gaddafi’s 41-year rule.
“We must all work on a peaceful solution in which all Libyans would participate and not just the council in Benghazi,” he said, referring to the rebel Transitional National Council (TNC) based in the city of Benghazi.
The rebels are holding eastern Libya and pockets in the west, but have so far not made decisive moves towards the capital Tripoli.
On 12 July, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said: “The Libyan regime is sending messengers everywhere, to Turkey, to New York, to Paris” offering to discuss Col Gaddafi’s exit.
But he added that such contacts did not constitute negotiations.
France played a key role in launching Nato-led strikes in Libya, under a UN-mandated mission to protect civilians.
Coalition countries have insisted that the Libyan leader must stand down for hostilities to end.
Via BBC
live2Tripoli
Anyone forget the zero hour? Hold on to your seats cause it’s going to be big!! I pray god watch over #Tripoli.
Abeidi
libya,a heavy battle between FF and G forces in Abo Rowaia youtube.com/watch?feature=…
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JwOGpCDT0u4#at=235
cjchivers C.J. Chivers
A Rebel Force, Running Out of Ammunition Mid-Fight. – This is Sefaou Abudeya, a low-level rebel commander in… tumblr.com/x1q3mg3shn
or:
cjchivers.com/post/7887653627/a-rebel-f...
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Misrata #Freedomfighters have advanced to #Zliten bridge on coastal road. 17 wounded,1 dead. Fighting continues w/ heavy weapons #Libya
FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
#Misurata thawar have advanced to #Zliten bridge on coastal road. 17wounded,1martyr so far. Fighting continues with heavy weapons #Libya
Inglesi:
We will be going live to Misrata in 1 hour. Do you have questions for the people there? Tweet them to us and we’ll pass on.
Reuters : Panic in Zliten front lines , Some FF surrounded by GF tanks at Souk al thulatha. GF combing villages. Shelling FF
Reuters: GF have counter attacked FF today at Zliten, backed by tanks surrounded FF at Souk al- thulatha.Tanks flatten homes
IamLibya
Grad rockets launched by #Gaddafi forces on Tunisian soil. #gaddaficrimes #Libya #Feb17 twitpic.com/5tkcb6
Aljazeera:
They found a 14 year old girl in a container on the outskirts of Brega. She had been kidnapped and repeatedly raped by Gaddafi troops.
bousuwa
Thuwar trables hit a building with RBG saif was there and he survived
Mansour Daw and Abdallah Esenussi are injured or one of them is dead
Just called a friend in Tripoli he confirmed tht Thwar hit a build wth RBG and there r casualties Mansour daw and abdalla senussi r injured
Alex
Rumor will become truth – when & if #Saif #Gaddafi & #AbdullahSanusi – present themselves in public – to dispel rumors of their death & serious injury – if they don’t front soon – we can assume the worst 4 them and best 4 us! #Libya #Tripoli #FF
Libya_El_Hurra:
House and office of #LHC Founder, Hassan Tatanaki, were ransacked by Ghaddafi forces. #libya #feb17”
Guardian
Libyan rebels find humour is the sharpest weapon against Gaddaffi
In Zintan town square, reanointed “Tahrir Square” after it became the crucible for February’s local uprising, humour is the weapon of choice against the Libyan government.
Street art depicts Muammar Gaddafi as a figure of ridicule. In the cartoons, his head variously has the body of a bat, chicken and snake, or is represented as a nail being yanked out by a hammer.
Nearby, the old police station is gutted by fire, while a former regime building is coated in graffiti such as “Vive la Révolution de 17 Feb” and “We write our history by our blood”.
Military vehicles captured from Gaddafi were paraded before crowds in the square earlier this month. Now the heart of the town is also the heart of the struggle against Gaddafi in Libya’s arid, sun-scorched western mountains.
Full story:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/21/li...
Lisa
#Feb17 Thanks to Slovania, Montenegro n Albania for recognizing #NTC as legitimate representative of #Libyan ppl!! #downwithgaddafi
Danya
I guarntee you that 89% of the people on #Gaddafi TV are not even Libyan …mostly workers from other countries looking to make some money
FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
BrigadierGeneral AbdullahSanusi was died and several others were seriously injuired during today’s assassinate attempt
No announcement from NTC yet….
Zlitniya
Unconfirmed reports that FF have been surrounded in Suq Al Thalath and As Sab’a following the arrival of GF reinforcements
Ossama
BREAKING: The Media Committee of the FFs in Zliten have anounced the arrest of M’Hamed Kherdagi a hard line Qaddafi loyalist and criminal.
REUTERS:
Full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL6...
Zlitniya
GF committing grave crimes against SuqAlThalath civil&terrifying em-incl shelling 6homes in As-Sada’iya(w ppl inside)& other areas>>ppl flee
FINALLY CONFIRMATION SANUSSI
Ossama
Mohammed Guenioh Spokesman of NTC for Tripoli: this morning Abdullah Sanusi was kiled by the National Movement for the Liberation of Tripoli
Saja
sadly #Senoussi ’s death is a false report although #Senoussi #Saifgadaffi #Baghdadi were hurt and #MansourDau was badly injured..
Armchair Arab
Mine clearing vehicles in operation around brega – fb.me/w2IBYj8l
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=487375&i...
Sarah
#Gaddafi is barking .. sounds calm .. Weird :)
Zlitniya
Zliten FF advancing frm Dafniya took weapons frm 10s of Gvolunteers in SuqAlThalath.All who handed in weapons wer treated well&none captured
LibyaFree
#Gaddafi is barking again on State TV. WOOF WOOF #Libya
Khalifa
The Fugitive is at again calling on his supporters to enter #Misrata. The question is how, how #Gadhafi, How?? #Libya.
REUTERS
FACTBOX-Latest developments in Libyan conflict
July 21 (Reuters) – Following are the latest political and military developments in the Libyan crisis.
Israel is scared of the consequences that a FREE LIBYA will bring to the rest of the world. ( for Israel that means Palestine, and all the money Israel would stand to lose)
youngamazigh
gaddafi says libyan FF’s are from alqaeda… in other news justin beiber commits suicide….
Salam
Going to interview a defected employee from the morgue at Tripoli Medical center. Rabby Yister
Revolutionary forces report Gaddafi fight backs
The revolutionary forces said a fierce counter-attack by Gaddafi’s forces had checked their gains on a frontline east of Tripoli today. A revolutionary spokesman in Zlitan, on the coast road 160 km east of the capital, said Gaddafi forces backed by tanks had surrounded revolutionaries who had seized the nearby town of Souk al-Thulatha yesterday.
The soldiers had flattened homes with tank shells, he said in an Internet posting.
“The brigades are still terrorising the families, combing villages and neighbourhoods and spreading panic in the whole region,” he said.
The revolutionary forces, known collectively as the National Liberation Army (NLA), who swiftly took much of eastern Libya after an uprising flared in February, have also taken casualties around the oil port of Brega, south of their stronghold Benghazi.
They said they were still trying to take the town fully from Gaddafi’s troops.
Gaddafi’s state TV showed what it said were fresh pictures from Zlitan and Brega in an apparent bid to show the towns were still firmly in Tripoli’s hands. In Zlitan, dozens of Gaddafi supporters were shown chanting slogans of support.
Read more here:
english.libya.tv/2011/07/21/revolutiona...
inglesi Piers Scholfield
the NTC health minister live on @bbcworldservice right now -
Le nouvel Observateur
Selon Longuet, les rebelles ne peuvent pas prendre Tripoli
Ce matin, à l’hôtel de Brienne, au cours d’un petit déjeûner avec l’Association des Journalistes de Défense, Gérard Longuet a longuement évoqué la situation militaire en Libye.
Il assure que Kadhafi est “en train de perdre le contrôle de l’énergie” puisque la seule raffinerie qui alimente Tripoli en essence utilise un pipeline dont les vannes sont dans une zone désormais tenue par les forces du CNT. Mais il ajoute – et c’est là l’important – que “les rebelles ne peuvent pas aller jusqu’à Tripoli”, car ils ne sont pas assez nombreux.
Le ministre de la Défense confirme l’information selon laquelle les forces anti-Kadhafi qui tiennent aujourd’hui une grande partie du Djebel Nefousa au sud de Tripoli sont environ 2000, “bien armés et bien encadrés”. Il ajoute que pour leur livrer des armes et des biens divers, il n’est plus besoin de parachutages puisque “les avions peuvent désormais se poser” sur des terrains contrôlés par eux.
Read more:
globe.blogs.nouvelobs.com/archive/2011/...
hominoid
Libya Zliten Free Zliten the rebels coming from the front Al Davnih seized dozens of weapons
Omar Mukhtar
Audience attending #Gaddafi audio speech look like a bunch of inbreeders. That is one shallow gene pool.
Zlitniya
GF’s frightening families in Suq Al Thalath &using them as human shields.GFs also using mosques to fire missiles from
Tripolitano
ppl r classified into anti G talk,Flag, thuraya,demonstrator,ak47 & Zawiya group. the latter with the harshest treatment
Libya_Awake_United
So #Gaddafi rant became a daily show on his NileSat sponsored TV channel, now playing. #Libya #Feb17
Liby
Too c alm, is not his voice
We like this:
AlluCemif
French Def M:#Gaddafi losing control of energy:only refinery that supplies gasoline #Tripoli uses pipeline w valves in area now held by NTC.
AJArabic: ’The #Tripoli #FF anti tank missile attack just after midday today – was on a temporary operations & command center in a recently converted building in the capital centre – with #AbdullahSenussi as the main target – whose condition AJA could not confirm #Libya
Alex
‘Civilian homes flattened at Souk al Thulatha by #Gaddafi tank shells, panic in region, #Zliten #FF surrounded in #Gaddafi tank counter attack today’ #Libya
Des Grant
#feb17 not ALL FF surrounded only those on S village outside Zliten
Dima
One day spent in Libya. I am so impressed with the revolutionaries and the people I talked to on the street including women. Such strength
LibyaNewMedia
Another day of heavy fighting on the western front on Misrata. Yesterday: 9 killed, 67 wounded. Today so far: 3 killed, 60 wounded. #Libya
ProudLibyan
News about Abdulla Sanussi being killed. Tripoli FF operation. Understandably ppl still cautious in believing news, we’ll C if it’s true.
The Dictator
In #Sfax, waiting for the 15 hour ferry to #Misrata..
dovenews Libyan™
#FF said they will not rest until they get all of them including Gaddafi himself
Tripolitanian
Revolutionaries in #Tripoli say they have plans for every one of the members of #Gaddafi’s inner circle.
Revolutionaries in #Tripoli say they will not stop until they kill every single one of them!
Revolutionaries in #Tripoli say they are tracking everyone of #Gaddafi’s rats
Revolutionaries in #Tripoli say that #Gaddafi’s rats no longer use nice cars after they realized we were following them. #Libya #Feb17
Alex
If #Saif #Gaddafi survived 2day’s assassination – If there’s justice in this world – he will at least be disfigured.
He’s an arrogant, superior, vain & utterly unlikeable individual – whose ‘born to rule’ ego condemned countless #Libya ns to rape & death – & the thought of him limping along castrated, with a broken nose, & one eye hanging out – almost seems better than his death.
dovenews Libyan™
Also Mansour Dau in hospital in a coma not dead.
AP
Libya rebels: Brega oil installations boobytrapped by Gadhafi forces
MADRID – Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi’s troops have boobytrapped petroleum installations in the strategic oil port of Brega so they can be blown up if his regime loses the town, a top rebel official said Thursday.
Mahmoud Jibril, the rebels’ diplomatic chief, also said Gadhafi’s forces have boobytrapped oil fields. He did not state which fields. While Brega is a key oil processing and shipment hub, the fields that feed it lie far to the south in the Libyan desert.
“Unfortunately, Brega is a big minefield right now,” Jibril told reporters after meeting with Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez. “We discovered that they planted mines all over the place. Even some oil establishments, some oil fields, have been full of bombs, explosives.”
Rebels hold most of eastern Libya, but their push to seize Brega since last week unraveled Tuesday when 27 rebels were killed in shelling by Gadhafi’s troops.
Full story:
ca.news.yahoo.com/libya-rebels-brega-oi...
TRIPOLI:
dovenews Libyan™
BREAKING: #Tripoli #FF attacked Saif Gaddafi, Abdula Sanusi, Albaghadadi Almahmodi & Mansour Dau while meeting in a hotel in 1/3
Alandalus district, #FF have used 2 RPG-7 in their attack, Mansour Dau in hospital in a coma & Alsanusi was injured. 2/3
Tripoli #FF have planned for this only for the last two weeks. 3/3
not NATO strike, they were attacked by Tripoli #FF using RPG
The info from confirmed military source in Tripoli.
Also Mansour Dau in hospital in a coma not dead.
watch libya.tv now you can watch it online
#FF said they will not rest until they get all of them including Gaddafi himself
BREAKING! Abdula Alsanusi & Alhadi Imbasher were killed on the hands of #Tripoli #FF in Alandalus district. via libya.tv
No news on what happened to Saif.
Libyan
National Movement for the Liberation of #Tripoli say they believe they killed Abdullah #Senussi and injured Mansur Adow
ღ.¸¸Libeeya¸¸.ღ
Libya alahraar (free libya tv) just reported breaking news about abdullah senussi death..im unsure..details to come
rebelle
Tripoli: confirme par FF Senussi tué dans l’attaque , Mansur dans le coma profond #libye
freelibya
libya al ahrar: elhadi imberish was also killed in the attack that killed senussi today
Libya Watan
FF frm tripoli:confirms senussi definitely killed in rpg attack,mansur daw in deep coma saif, baghdadi escaped
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Libya almostakbal says that a video of today’s Tripoli operation (Senussi’s assassination attempt) will be posted soon #libya
bousuwa
Visiting Thuwar Libya in Amman Jordan Hospitals
libyanandproud
BREAKING : Libyan/American activist kidnapped and returned to #Libya in #BinGirdan (#Tunisia). #Feb17 #Libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Tank turrets on 4×4s #onlyinlibya fb.me/EWTIt9qu
FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
Feb17 Movement in Tripoli said2 have claimed responsibility 4attack on four cars carrying Saif,Sanusi et.al in Andalusia #Libya
TripoliSoldier Tripoli Forces
Check this video out — We Are Libyan Freedom Fighters Not Rebels youtube.com/watch?v=7nCfC7… via @youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nCfC711ujk&fea...
Alex
8 hours have passed – & still REGIME ignores today’s spectacular assassination op by #Tripoli #FF – ‘METHINKS THEY DON’T PROTEST ENOUGH!’
Madi
Don’t give me hope! I so want it to be true!!!!!!!
Wanna hear off announcement….
Libyan Duda
Abdallah Senussi killed! I can’t wait till it’s 100% confirmed!
FreeBenghazi
Thuwar bombed Gaddafiregime meeting in Andalusia,Tripoli.Some killed/wounded. Sansui said 2b in coma,private clinic #Libya v LibyaAlahrarTV
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Rumours about Abdullah Al-Senussi being killed have been circulating all day – we can’t confirm
Freedom=Peace
I hope its true but i cnt believe it till i c a body, what if its a ploy to get out of the arrest warrant #Senussi #Libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
News of today’s attack spreading like wildfire around Tripoli but some say Senussi not dead but injured. Same for other aides.
LibyanFreedom
Dead, not dead, injured, totally fine…LORD, which is it…#Senussi
Quoriana
After hours of crazy rumours #Libya rebel TV now claims #Gaddafi’s brother-in-law Abdullah #Senussi was assassinated today.
ProudLibyan
A new Twist!!!! Libya TV now has now confirmed that Abdullah Senussi and Emberish not dead! Here we go again!
Libyan
Even if Abdullah Senussi didn’t die, he was still attacked, at least we can confirm that and that’s big news!
Sanad
FF frm #tripoli: confirms senussi definitely killed in rpg attack, mansur daw in deep coma saif, baghdadi escaped
LibyanYouthMovement
according to Libya Free TV and the council in Tripoli Abdullah Senussi dead?!
Danya
Emberish and senussi have been confirmed to be dead by libya al ahraarr TV … In #TRIPOLI
grafixel
So Abdullah el Senussi – #Gadaffi’s bumchum – is dead. Again…
how many lives do they have ?
Libyans Revolt
Abdullah Senussi attack could also be #Gaddafi ploy to try to spread lies and then ‘prove’ that they were false
dovenews Libyan™
BREAKING! Libya.tv denied the death of Abdula Alsanusi & Alhadi Imbasher.
According to the news the attack has happened but not the killing.
Libyan & Proud
No offence to the channel but not the most credible source.. Still unsure if it’s true yet. Reliable sources still denying!!
Anonymous Watcher
New Hash Tags #ZombieAbdullahSenussi and #ZombieEmberish – GO!!! #Libya #Feb17
AJA: rebel delegation from Misrata to France have requested that France provide supplies so they can enter #Tripoli ‘within days’
Alex
Unless #Gaddafi can produce #Saif #AbdullahAlSenussi & #MansourDaw live – within 24 hours – We can assume they r dead or seriously injured!
LibyanYouthMovement
Further twist, Libya Free TV seem to now be unsure. At this point the killing of abdalla sanussi remains a rumour
Souffian Tripoli
What is the news on #Tripoli yes no, no yes or yes no ? Is this part of the tactics of news, twitter? Pffffff il just wait for video proof
Very wise:)
Tripolitano
I expect saif to come out tonight or tomorrow to confirm that he’s not dead. Sanussi won’t either way
Nusaiba
My brother running around house shouting ALLAH AKBAR Snoussi MATT!! – ahhhh I hope this is 100% confirmed… it would mean 1 down 3 to go…
Muscatdaily.conm
Bulgaria evacuates Tripoli embassy: ministry
Bulgaria has evacuated its embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli following attacks on foreign missions earlier this week, foreign ministry spokeswoman Vesela Cherneva said Tuesday.
“We completed overnight Monday the evacuation of our embassy in Tripoli. Its staff arrived in the Tunisian city of Djerba shortly after midnight and will stay there until further notice,” Cherneva told journalists. She noted that the measure was prompted by the recent attacks on several foreign missions in the Libyan capital.
The embassy’s three Bulgarian diplomats will remain on stand-by in Djerba, ready to travel back to Tripoli immediately when the security situation improves, Cherneva said. “We remained in Tripoli until the very last moment possible. … And we hope to have enough reasons to reopen our mission as soon as possible,” she added.
Cherneva also confirmed Sofia’s plans to dispatch a consul-general to the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi “when the situation allows it.” Bulgaria announced in late March that it would reopen its consulate in the second largest Libyan city, but has not yet done so. Sofia denied this would be a first step towards recognition of the Benghazi-based rebel council.
AFP
www.muscatdaily.com/Archive/Stories-Fil...
IvanCNN Ivan Watson
by inglesi
Gadhafi gov’t minders pulled me in for 90 minute diatribe about mistakes in my reporting, called me a criminal, said this is my last chance
LibyanYouthMovement
thats one heck of a compliment Ivan :)
Khaled
The following was a letter found on the body of a #Gaddafi soldier:
”I saw Mu’tasim Gaddafi executing soldiers because they refused to kill civilians, and I was afraid that I might be executed"
If they do (kill me) then u will find this letter explaining to my family that I declined the order of Mutasim to kill Libyans
My name is Munir Altarhuni from Tarhunah &my fiances name’s Ayah,if my family doesnt believe u tell them the name of my fiance
LibyaAlHurraTV LibyaAlHurra
Tripoli Council’s Mohamed Ghennewa confirms death or critical injury of Abdalla #Senussi by Sniper fire in #Tripoli.
inglesi Piers Scholfield
more on Senussi – various reports of him being killed or critically injured by a sniper / by an RPG / by NATO.. all unconfirmed.. #Feb17
Hanan
The man responsible for AbuSelim Massacre and the attack on #Benghazi on Feb.17th has been killed by our brave Freedom Fighters in #Trip …
ღ.¸¸Libeeya¸¸.ღ
Why does Saif always get awayyyy, amta nftako minaaaa
Des Grant
his car was not damaged in photo , but rumor is he is injured and and private clinic
Tripolitanian
4 body guards were believed to have been killed in attack.
Libyan
Zaif AlGaddafi is believed to have escaped the attack. #Tripoli #Libya #Feb17
FreeBenghazi
Statement by the Tripoli Council confirming the death of Abdullah Sanusi. t.co/DUsPWVC .الله أكبر و الحمد لله #Libya
www.libyaalmostakbal.net/news/clicked/1...
ChangeInLibya
The body of one of my neighbours in Tripoli was released to his family today. He died in captivity – most probably due to… (cont)
torture. Family being forcd to sign papers saying he died due to a heart condition. What did he do? He had a video of #feb17 demos on laptop
LibyanYouthMovement
Gaddafi rejects any negotiations with Libyan National Council – Sirte v reuters flash #Libya
Free Libyia
Yes Abdullah Senussi is dead, only to reappear after a drastic weight loss programme and some plastic surgery in a condo in the Bahamas.
Arab Fury
In my opinion, #Saleh was a little under cooked. Hopefully the #Libya FF did a better job with Senussi. #Yemen #Gaddafi
Armchair Arab
People like Senussi might take advantage of this kind of event to fake death and avoid ICC arrest.
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
This is getting ridiculous. I’m staying away from this one till more information/pictures/videos is released.
inglesi Piers Scholfield
After a quiet day in #Misrata, a series of deep thuds echoing over Misrata now. #Libya #Feb17
libyanandproud
A girl in #Benghazi holds a sign that reads “thank you freedom fighters of the capital” on AJA
Reuters: G (to FF) : “I will not speak to them. There will not be any talks between me and them until Judgment Day”
somaya
As people bicker and get tense over the “west side and east side” topic, FF risk their lives with ppl from ALL OVER #Libya side by side.
OneLibya
Tripoli is paying a very high price! A real tragedy is unfolding in silence behind closed doors
septimius_
So #Senousi and #Zaif had a narrow escape, but HELLO #Tripoli FF got their hands on some BIG guns!!!! #Libya
Libyan_Republic this was carried out by western FF my case and point that everyone is doing their bit to free Libya even Libyans outside Libya
libyanandproud
#Gaddafi TV apparently said the martyr “Abdallah Sanussi” , didn’t see it personally , but apparently they a few mins ago ? Any1 else c it ?
Libyan Duda
Ibrahim #Sahad #Libyan dissident has not been to #Libya for 32 years and now on Libya AlAhrar!
Libya, Brega, upto date since Brega attack started, 72 FF killed and 627 wounded so far. via Almanara
Carol
Live call from Brega say they are surrounding Gaddafi forces from all sides. Wow.
CNN
Libya’s rebel leaders warn forces over looting and abuse
Rebels commanders in Libya’s western mountains have told the BBC they are taking steps to deal with looting.
Commanders denied there have been human rights abuses after five bodies were discovered after suffering brutal injuries.
Paul Wood reports.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-1424278...
Tripolitanian
#Gaddafi’s speech focused on “destroying Misrata” and saying “Misrata is a worthless city” .
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Now the sound of a #NATO jets overhead – and another series of big, very deep thuds. #Misrata #Libya
Tripolitanian Libyan
There were protests today in #Sirte, families demanding to know where their sons are.
Abdullah Senussi’s orders
Video
rajcairnsreport.wordpress.com/2011/07/2...
BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
We are editing clips from the “desert assault brigade outside” #Brega these guys are brave, and crazy
ChangeInLibya
Another week passes and another Friday comes by in the Arab world. Always hoping that this will be the last for #Gaddafi #bashar #saleh
ggatehouse Gabriel Gatehouse
Sounds like #NATO bombing nr #Misrata. Planes overhead, deep rumbles after a largely quiet day #Libya #Feb17
jd2folife
Gaddafi forces are gathering 15 tanks to attack Suq Althulata in #Zlitan. #Misrata
NATO IS ALREADY THERE!!!
libyanfsl
Gaddafi regime will counter with media campaign trying to discredit the credible news.. may not be 100% correct, but not 100% wrong either
Libya In Me
We’re Libyan, and we should be proud. We’ve made history & changed the meaning of heroism. Unity shouldn’t be an issue for us. :)
dovenews Libyan™
Libya.tv means Free Libya TV. Gaddafi TV = Gaddafi TV
libyanandproud
Even the Chavez moutpiece in #rixos @rolandoteleSUR says there were “thousands” attending “a million man” demo in #sirte ! #Feb17 #Libya
Niz_FGM Niz
21/7/11-FGMovement verified sources report Abdullah Senussi fine & is NOT injured but confirm an armed operation in Hai Al Andulus at 13:30
Danya
A very big shout out to all of the freedom figher’s in #Libya … We owe our lives to you .. #FREELIBYA
LibyaInMe Libya In Me
Two family friends have been martyred in Brega, one of whom was only 19 years old.
He called his mother on Friday and told her to pray for him and send his greetings to his family because he was going into “40 district”
At the time, the 40 district was seeing intense battles. He entered it with a tank and was killed. His mother is absolutely devastated.
Niz_FGM Niz
22/7/11 – We’re constantly receiving info on activities by our fellow activist groups but will not release anything unless verified
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Tripoli: Reports that homes in Hay Al Andalus are being randomly searched and broken into – area full of G forces right now #libya #feb17
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Senussi, Saif el Islam #Gaddafi, Daw & Baghdadi Mahmoudi now in #Khadra hospital in critical situation #Libya #feb17
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#SaudiArabia CARGO SHIP “SAUDI TABUK” now en route to dest. #Benghazi #Libya ETA: 2011-07-22 10:00 (UTC). #feb17
#StVincentGrenadines CARGO SHIP “BLUE SKY” now anchored in port #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17
#Gaddafi OIL TANKER “ANWAAR ALNASER” remains anchored in port #Tripoli #Libya. #feb17
#Moldova CARGO SHIP “HAJ-SAYED" now en route to dest. #Tobruk #Libya ETA: 2011-07-23 10:00 (UTC). #feb17
#Panama OIL TANKER “SENTOSA ISLAND” now anchored in port #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17
#Tanzania CARGO SHIP “AMAL” now anchored in port #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17
#Malta CARGO SHIP “SESTRI STAR” now anchored in port #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17
Heavy fighting in #SouqAlJumaa, #Arada, #Tajora & #ShattAlHanshir. Reports of increased check points in these area #Libya #feb17
libi4ever
G forces search each house in Hi Alandlus in tripoli,the area is surrounded by 1000s of his forces #Libya #17feb
LibyaAlHurraTV LibyaAlHurra
Getting reports that Tripoli’s Khadra hospital is undertaking high security measures and heavy patrols outside.
#NTC rep in DC, Ali Aujali,told us his sources say an attack on snr Gaddafi officials did occur & that Mansour Daw was injured.
RIXOS.
Abu Ray
THE CAGE:
The billboard in the lobby shows a smiling child waving pictures of other cute smiling children, topped by the slogan, “Stop the Bleeding!” Bleeding? What bleeding? What now?
Welcome to the Rixos Hotel, Tripoli’s finest and a gleaming, inlaid marble cage for Western journalists.
I’d heard a lot about this place over the last five months, about being trapped inside, about the mind games and the midnight summons, the hallways prowled by semi-feral minders and the press conferences by the smooth-tongued Moussa Ibrahim.
I wasn’t prepared for the opulence. In my mind’s eye, as I traveled along the coastal road from the border with a BBC reporter who’d stayed here before, I saw a tacky hotel built during the mad oil rush of the late 70s, now gone to seed, all flaking plastic and chipped gilt Barberella finery.
Of course this luxury comes at a price, together with the $60 dinner buffet and lunch the bill runs upwards $450 a night. With 40 to 50 journalists staying here, I sometimes feel we are single handedly funding Gadhafi’s war effort.
Read full story:
www.arabist.net/blog/2011/7/19/libya-di...
Caros
#Tripoli Reports of clashes on Tirsana bridge Sug Jumaa (facebook). Inshallah Kheir.# Pray for Tripoli #Pray for Libya #FreeLibya
The Dictator
Ferry to #Misrata finally at #Sfax, just 8 hours late – please pray the trip there is shorter and smoother. Tweet soon!
Free Libyia
Reports that 1000s protested today in Sirte demanding to know the whereabouts of their sons who have been conscripted in Gaddafi brigades
Free Libyia
Hmmmm, the fact that Shakir only trusted the BBC enough to invite them to his beloved studio makes me find them even more annoying.
Zlitniya
Wefaq Libya (Thu):FF on Zliten front have established new positions&most attacks in areas nr sea.Heavy GF losses&3captured
WefaqLibya (Thu):FF captured 1Jeep &1Toyota(both with weapons),Klashnikovs,RPG&ammunition
WefaqLibya(Thu):SuqAlThulatha-Zliten&Misrata FF advancing from Dafniya captured 1Jeep(w weapons),6GF&weapons.GF captured from a house #Libya
Joanne
#TRIPOLI #YosifShakeir StateTV Chat show Host Studio has been rebuilt in the bowels of RixosH says he speaks regularly with #Gaddafi #Libya
Libyans Revolt
Injured #FF I saw brought 2 hosp last week was asked: “where are u from?” He replied: “don’t ask this Q pls I am just from tribe of #Libya”
IMPORTANT:
Abdullah
Doctor from Khadra said on phone call "its confirmed they are injured and now in ICU in critical SITUATION " Saif Islam,Senussi, DAW,Bagdadi
Libya_Awake_United
What sort of #Gaddafi show we will see tomorrow in #Tripoli ?
Yellow submarine show:)
AndrewBeatty andrew beatty
Libyan rebel commander says armed + trained agents have been sent to Tripoli to strike at Kadhafi regime
SUMMARY JULY 22 2011
7/22/2011
7.22.2011
He who kills an innocent soul, has killed all of mankind. The Noble Qur’an, 5:32
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/7MXRE
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: Reports that #Gaddafi forces are surrounding #Gargaresh & #HayAlAndalus under command of Mohamed Abdulla Senussi .
#Gaddafi state TV reporting #NATO jets striking targets in #AlKhums & #Sirte. #Libya #feb17
MOOOOLIGHT22
Libya Free Forever.
14Km away from #Tawrgha Gate14 connect Srit and Tripoli,If FF control this gate then G has 2use the long road that connects Tripoli to Sabha
a eye witness #G thugs uses a tunnel in ‘’Vegetable market’’close to #sug Altalath in #Zliten to hide mercenaries
Khiria
From what #Gaddafi said in his last speech thingamajig, I say he realllly wants #Misurata. #ucanthaveeverythinguwant #Libya
Newscaster on Alarabiya was holding her laugh after she aired a bit of #Gaddafi’s speech. #canthelpbutlaugh #Libya #Feb17
Richard
It would be nice if the Sheraton attack in #Tripoli claimed some of the inner circle – but even if it doesn’t it will significantly increase the feeling of personal risk for that inner circle and consequently the pressure on #Gaddafi ’s friends to make a deal with or without their beloved leader, guide and (in some cases) father
Libya, 21, 2011
By Hussein Al-Omarion Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 7:07pm
(Sources: Aljazeera)
1. Brega has been relatively quiet while the revolutionary fighters are surrounding the city.
2. The revolutionary fighters have got some minesweepers from Qatar that will help them remove the mines Gaddafi forces deployed.
3. The revolutionary fighters are getting a huge support from the residents in the east at the time the morale of Gaddafi forces is going way down.
4. There are some reports that Gaddafi forces in Brega are holding 150 families as human shield.
5. NATO’s leader, Rasmussen, said that he expects the opposition forces in the east and west to merge soon in preparation for the attack on Tripoli.
6. The revolutionary fighters requested France to provide them with more weapons that they can use to enter Tripoli during the next few days. One of the leaders of the revolutionary fighters in Misrata submitted the request to the French President Nicolas Sarkosy during a meeting between him and delegation of the revolutionary fighters. The revolutionary fighters said after the meeting that with some little help they can reach Tripoli in a short time.
7. Gaddafi refused any negotiation with NTC; he said that in a speech to his supporters in Sirt. He said there will never be negotiations with them till the Day of Judgment. He requested his supporters to crawl to recapture Misrata.
8. Aljazeera learned that the attack that targeted Gaddafi government officials has been carried out with an anti-tank, said a witness in a telephone interview with Aljazeera that the attack targeted one of the operating rooms used by the Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah Sanusi to continue fighting against the revolutionary fighters. The witness, who gave his name as Abu Bakr Al-Trabulsi, said that there was an advance planning of the attack which has been monitoring the movements of Abdullah Sanusi across different operating rooms that used to follow the turbulent conditions in various parts of the country. The spokesman said the operation was carried out at around 12:45 local time, and guessed that the attack was successful and it was impossible for Sannusi to stay in place which left what happened to the official Libyan as uncertain.
Nafissa
All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed and third it is accepted as being self-evident.
AJE video:
Qatar sending ‘munitions’ to Benghazi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkXi_ZpyC6g
Feb17
Reuters
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday ruled out any negotiations with rebels on the future of the North African nation.
“I will not speak to them. There will not be any talks between me and them until Judgment Day,” he said, addressing a rally in his support in his home town of Sirte, east of the capital Tripoli. Foreign journalists were taken there by the Libyan government on an official trip.
AP
Libyan ruler Moammar Khadafy’s troops have boobytrapped petroleum installations in the strategic oil port of Brega so they can be blown up if his regime loses the town, a top rebel official said yesterday.
Mahmoud Jibril, the rebels’ diplomatic chief, said that Khadafy’s forces have also boobytrapped oil fields. He did not state which fields. While Brega is a key oil processing and shipment hub, the fields that feed it lie far to the south in the Libyan desert.
“Unfortunately, Brega is a big minefield right now,’’ Jibril told reporters after meeting with Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez of Spain. “We discovered that they planted mines all over the place. Even some oil establishments, some oil fields, have been full of bombs, explosives.’’
Qatar
Qatar has sent at least 200 tonnes of aid, including medical supplies, to help Libyan opposition forces since foreign support began to arrive.
The Qatari air force showed Al Jazeera a cargo plane bound for Libya containing computers, printers, rice, milk and sugar.
The main cargo on the plane were a military police unit and some intelligence personnel. Also on the plane were four trucks full of wooden boxes which were clearly marked “munitions”.
Al Jazeera was unable to find out if they were for the Qatari security forces to use or the rebels. But the trucks were driven away by men who told Al Jazeera they had recently joined the pro-democracy fighters.
Spain
Libya’s rebel group has appealed to Spanish corporates for financial aid to begin reconstruction of the North African country even as Muammar Gaddafi continues to hang on to power.
Mahmud Jibril of the National Transitional Council (NTC) urged Spanish oil giant Repsol YPF and other companies to renew operations in Libya, using frozen Gaddafi-regime assets in Spain as a financial guarantee for new projects.
If Spain and other nations fail to provide aid now, the NTC’s legitimacy in the eyes of the Libyan people “will fade”, Jibril said at a press conference in Madrid after meeting Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez.
Jimenez said Spain is considering “all the possibilities” of allowing frozen Gaddafi assets to be used as collateral for loans to the NTC or as new investment in rebel-controlled areas.
Russia
Russia has sent another load of humanitarian aid to Libya. A plane of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry is expected to land in Benghazi to deliver 36 tons of cargo, including food supplies. In early July Russia already delivered 72 tons of aid to Libya.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry`s official spokesman, Alexander Lukashevich, Moscow is deeply concerned with the conflict and intends to help all Libyans in need, no matter which part of the country they live in.
Reuters
A U.N. peace envoy is suggesting a ceasefire in Libya, to be followed by the immediate creation of a transitional authority made up equally of the government and rebels and excluding Muammar Gaddafi or his sons, a senior European diplomat said.
The authority would appoint a president, control the police, armed forces and security services and would supervise a round-table reconciliation process, leading to elections to a national assembly which would write a constitution, the diplomat said.
The diplomat, who asked for his name and location to be withheld, was outlining ideas he said were being canvassed by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s special envoy to Libya, Abdul Elah al-Khatib.
Khatib, a Jordanian senator, is seeking a political solution to a conflict that erupted in February between Gaddafi’s forces and rebels based in the east. He has visited both sides several times.
Gaddafi has been holding on to power in the face of rebel attacks aimed at ending his 41-year rule and has rejected suggestions that he quit, as demanded by the insurgents.
The Libyan leader on Thursday ruled out talks with the rebels, casting doubt on a flurry of diplomatic efforts to end the conflict.
The European diplomat said that under Khatib’s transition proposal, Gaddafi would have to step down, but rather than being a precondition it would be part of the process.
As soon as the transitional authority was created and Gaddafi no longer had control of the security forces, Libyans in Tripoli would no longer fear him and at that point his rule would in effect end, the diplomat said.
He added Gaddafi would only accept such a transition if he had guarantees on his personal fate, and so would not immediately be handed to the world court at The Hague, which has issued a warrant for his arrest for crimes against humanity allegedly committed by his security forces.
Gaddafi and his sons would be excluded from the transitional authority, the diplomat said, since the rebels would never accept s
NIZ
Tripoli Update via FGMovement 7/22
1- Yesterday saw thousands more leaflets dropped over Tripoli by NATO aircraft. Leaflets raised spirits of the residents and targeted the morale of security forces still carrying out atrocities in Tripoli, in Gaddafis name.
Security men could be seen scrambling to pick up the thousands of leaflets all over Tripoli.
2- Another convoy of katiba trucks has been followed and was observed entering a hidden military refuelling station in Ein Zara near Naser University.
3- The Free Generation can verify that an armed attack in the district of Hai Al Andulus/Gergarish was carried out adjacent to the Sheraton Hotel. The operation was excecuted on the 21st July at 1330h Local time. We can confirm that the team all returned safely after the operation, which utilised 3 RPGs.
We can confirm that Abdullah Senussi is alive and unhurt, seemingly not involved in the attack.
We cannot verify reports that Mansur Daw was injured and was taken to Alkhadra Hospital. We will try and confirm this today.
The operation was carried out by our brothers and sisters of the Feb 17th Tripoli Youth Coalition, friends of The Free Generation Movement.
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
A map showing Libyan rebel advance in the south of the country #libya fb.me/CIaaAcce
bencnn benwedeman
Out of #Libya after 6 weeks in #Misrata and Jabal Nafousa. Two weeks off—need a break.
Libya Free Forever.
The source of AlSunosi death news is ""Libya Almustkbel’’ page on FB #Gadafipropaganda. #Feb 17 #Libya
LA Times
Pentagon mulls NATO request for more U.S. drones in Libya campaign
By David S. Cloud
The Obama administration is considering sending more Predator drones and other surveillance planes to bolster the NATO air war in Libya, and has reopened a debate over whether to give weapons to the rebels seeking to overthrow Moammar Kadafi, a senior Defense Department official said.
NATO commanders requested the sophisticated surveillance aircraft after concluding that they were running out of military targets in Libya after four months of bombing and missile strikes against Kadafi’s military forces and command facilities, U.S. and NATO officials said.
The Pentagon’s willingness to consider strengthening the North Atlantic Treaty Organization force in Libya marks an apparent shift since Defense Secretary Leon E. Panettatook over the Pentagon early this month.
The Pentagon currently has assigned enough Predators to the operation to keep two over Libya around the clock, U.S. officials have said. In addition, the U.S. has provided a Global Hawk drone — an unarmed high-altitude surveillance plane — and dozens of other manned aircraft, which conduct surveillance, intelligence collection, aerial refueling and other support missions.
NATO’s formal request for more surveillance planes did not specifically ask for Predators, officials said, but alliance officials made it clear in discussions with U.S. officials that their preference was for more drones.
Read more:
feb17.info/news/pentagon-mulls-nato-req...
Tweeting Tripoli
Good map of Libya showing current situation: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm… #feb17 #Libya
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/...
Video: Libyan fighters focus on resources
Fighters say they need to sell oil in order to finance their anti-regime battle in Libya, which has shifted focus from gaining territory to winning resources.
They say they’ve surrounded the eastern oil port of Brega and they’re also trying to move west from Misurata, but that they don’t have resources to protect oil fields.
Al Jazeera’s Anita McNaught reports from Libya’s eastern desert.
feb17.info/media/video-libyan-fighters-...
AP
Boston.com
Rebels say Khadafy boobytraps oil port
MADRID – Libyan ruler Moammar Khadafy’s troops have boobytrapped petroleum installations in the strategic oil port of Brega so they can be blown up if his regime loses the town, a top rebel official said yesterday.
Mahmoud Jibril, the rebels’ diplomatic chief, said that Khadafy’s forces have also boobytrapped oil fields. He did not state which fields. While Brega is a key oil processing and shipment hub, the fields that feed it lie far to the south in the Libyan desert.
“Unfortunately, Brega is a big minefield right now,’’ Jibril told reporters after meeting with Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez of Spain. “We discovered that they planted mines all over the place. Even some oil establishments, some oil fields, have been full of bombs, explosives.’’
Read more:
www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articl...=misc:on:twit:rtbutton
Omar Mukhtar
Mohamed Abdulla Senussi was arrested in London a couple years ago for beating up hookers. A really classy guy like G et al
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
A map showing Libyan rebel advance in the south of the country #libya fb.me/CIaaAcce
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=281448&id=137199749688243
Feb17
Hope for family of U.S. journalist still missing in Libya
Yahoo News
As the headlines have turned to phone-hackings, debt ceilings and salacious murder and rape trials, it seems eons ago that The Cutline was writing regularly about the ongoing civil war in Libya; more specifically, about foreign journalists being captured, imprisoned and killed in the restive North African nation.
At least one American reporter remains missing there, Baltimore-based freelancer Matthew VanDyke, though his family has received some encouraging news.
VanDyke, who disappeared one week after his arrival in Libya in March to cover the uprising against strongman Muammar Gadhafi, was recently spotted in a prison near the nation’s capital Tripoli, his mother and a U.S. congressman confirmed to a local NBC affiliate.
LA Times
Op-Ed: Getting Kadafi to leave is Libya’s best option
A meeting between representatives of Moammar Kadafi and a senior U.S. diplomat has not produced a breakthrough in end in Libya’s civil war and the NATO bombardment of the country. But it suggests that the possibility remains for a negotiated settlement of the conflict. Four months into the campaign against Kadafi’s regime, that option is worth exploring.
The U.S. account of the meeting was that there was no negotiation and that Jeffrey Feltman, assistant secretary of State for the Near East, simply delivered the message that Kadafi must step down. But that seeming ultimatum could in fact form the basis for an
agreement that would include Kadafi’s departure and a transition between the current regime and the Transitional National Council, the rebel coalition recognized by the United States and more than 30 other nations.
Full report:
feb17.info/news/op-ed-getting-kadafi-to...
BBC
RAF airman in Libya mission killed in Italy road crash
A Royal Air Force serviceman was killed in a road accident in southern Italy on Wednesday, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.
It said the airman, of No 2 (Mechanical Transport) Squadron, was driving the lead vehicle in a convoy when it left the road in the Abruzzo region.
It was taking supplies to UK forces involved in military action in Libya.
The 23-year-old, who has not been named, was based at RAF Wittering, Cambs. His family have been told.
MoD spokesman Col Nick Orr said it was not yet known why his vehicle left the road, but the cause of the accident was being investigated.
He said: “It is with deep regret that I must announce the death of a Royal Air Force serviceman from No 2 (Mechanical Transport) Squadron in a road traffic accident in southern Italy on 20 July 2011.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this terribly difficult time.”
The convoy was travelling from the UK to air bases in southern Italy.
Depot strikes
In Libya, there has been five months of fighting between forces supporting Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi and rebel forces.
UK forces have been involved in military action in Libya since March when the UN passed resolution 1973, which permitted intervention to protect Libyan civilians against Col Gaddafi.
In recent days, the RAF has been carrying out air strikes on a large military vehicle depot in Tajura, a city on the outskirts of Tripoli.
Other RAF aircraft have also carried out a strike on military antenna at Tripoli airport.
AFP
Libya rebels seek arms amid pre-Ramadan offensive
By Andrew Beatty
Libya’s rebels asked France for extra arms to help them overrun Tripoli within “days”, as they ramped up a pre-Ramadan offensive that has Moamer Kadhafi’s troops on the run in the east.
The request was made in Paris on Wednesday to French President Nicolas Sarkozy by military leaders from the rebel-held city of Misrata, a member of their delegation said.
Rebel leader Mahmud Jibril meanwhile was expected to seek additional aid for their military campaign from Spain during talks in Madrid on Thursday with Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez.
Sarkozy held talks at his Elysee presidential palace with rebel General Ramadan Zarmuh, Colonel
Ahmed Hashem and Colonel Brahim Betal Mal, as well as Suleiman Fortia, a loca
representative of the rebel leadership in Misrata.
“With a little bit of help, we will be in Tripoli very soon. Very soon means days,” Fortia told reporters after the meeting. “We are here in France to discuss how we can do the job.”
France is taking part in NATO-coordinated strikes against Kadhafi’s military assets and was the first outside state to formally recognise the rebels’ Transitional National Council.
Full story:
feb17.info/news/libya-rebels-seek-arms-...
AndrewBeatty andrew beatty
Senior UK diplomat says the request from Libya’s rebels for arms and ammo not compelling in absence of military structure + checks
NATO hacked:
Les dossiers secrets de l’Otan piratés par les “Anonymous” – j.mp/p6kWAl #OTAN
lci.tf1.fr/high-tech/les-dossiers-secre...
ALJAZEERA
Africa Qatari munition-labelled boxes sent to Libya
Qatar has sent at least 200 tonnes of aid, including medical supplies, to help Libyan opposition forces since foreign support began to arrive.
The Qatari air force showed Al Jazeera a cargo plane bound for Libya containing computers, printers, rice, milk and sugar.
The main cargo on the plane were a military police unit and some intelligence personnel. Also on the plane were four trucks full of wooden boxes which were clearly marked “munitions”.
Al Jazeera was unable to find out if they were for the Qatari security forces to use or the rebels.
But the trucks were driven away by men who told Al Jazeera they had recently joined the pro-democracy fighters.
Al Jazeera’s Rosie Garthwaite reports from an air base in Benghazi.
Video:
english.aljazeera.net/video/africa/2011...
Danya
Once again thank you #Qatar #France and #UAE …really stepping up with the helping for #Libya
Lot of info on Arab Spring here:
freedomwar.org
Tweeting Tripoli
No news from the street about Hay Al-Andalos operation. Is it the product of Gaddafi’s rumor department 2 discredit news agencies?
Zlitniya
Zliten:Reports of a missile (possibly a Grad) landing in farms in AlJum’a near residential area. No casualties
MUST READ
PVNN
Beaten by Gaddafi’s Nephew
Elizabeth Sanderson – Daily Mail
The swaggering son of Gaddafi’s henchman hit Karen Etchebery so savagely he broke seven bones in her face – yet after a campaign of threats and Foreign Office pressure, his trial collapsed.
Here she speaks bravely about the disturbing events that saw him free to return to Libya – and led her to a cell in handcuffs.
A woman at the centre of the trial involving serious allegations of violent assault by Colonel Gaddafi’s nephew has given disturbing new evidence about how senior members of the Libyan regime were able to flout the law with impunity under Tony Blair’s Government.
Mohammed al-Sanussi was charged, in 2006, with an attack on two Brazilian escort girls, Karen Etchebery and Patricia Bech, at his London home. This paper revealed last month that the ensuing trial collapsed amid pressure from the Foreign Office, which wrote to the Director of Public Prosecutions pointing out that Britain’s financial interests could be damaged if the case was pursued. Al-Sanussi’s father, Abdullah al-Sanussi, is Gaddafi’s brother-in-law and
head of Libya’s intelligence services
At the time BP was negotiating a £15 billion contract to secure oil and gas rights in the country.
The judge ordered the jury to return ‘not guilty’ verdicts after Ms Etchebery withdrew her evidence. Now the 25-year-old has come forward to describe the reasons for her decision.
When she turned to the British police for help, she claims they did little to support her, leaving her with no choice but to drop all charges, for fear that the Libyans would harm her or her family.
She says: ‘The attack was bad but what happened next was worse. I was terrified. I told the police the Libyans were terrorising me but they didn’t help. I didn’t feel safe.
‘I would have loved to put Mohammed in jail for what he did but would I be alive right now, would my family? If the case hadn’t collapsed, I believe something would have happened to me, for sure.’
Ms Etchebery and Ms Bech first met al-Sanussi, then a student, in April 2006 at the Lanesborough Hotel at Hyde Park Corner.
The two girls – childhood friends from the relatively poor city of Maringa in southern Brazil – had arrived in London four years earlier, when Ms Etchebery was just 17.
‘Then we were on the books of the Bentley’s agency but we also had our own clients. We worked as a team and we worked well together. Once, at a party at The Dorchester, we left with £5,000 each and there was no sex. We would go to the hotels in Park Lane. We got lots of attention because we were two girls together. There were lots of Arabs, Indians, Greeks.’
So Ms Etchebery was no innocent by the time they met al-Sanussi, whom she knew only as the son of a wealthy Libyan. She says: ‘He had a sexual relationship with Patricia, not with me, although he would pay us both £1,000 a night to go to his home, a five-storey townhouse behind Harrods. We would play music and dance for him.
Full art.:
pvnn.com/ed-op/27mar2011/gaddafi-etcheb...
Zlitniya
Zliten:Previously,FFadvanced2As-Sab’a wher manyFFjoined em.Afta big GFreinforcements FF retreated2Naima&SuqAlThalath.SomeFF@front surrounded
Zliten:After FF retreat,GFcaptured ppl that joined FF&destroyed possessions.Most civilians in SuqAlThalath hv fled2relatives in centre&Majer
Zliten:Omar Al Jundi,bro Adil&3cousins(AbuBakr,Hamad,Bashir) are breaking into SuqAlThalath homes(w GF back up)
Zliten (cont):)&randomly shooting people,resulting in unknown number of deaths&injuries
Reports are FF were forced to retreat following the arrival of v big GF reinforcements.Now in Naima& SuqAlThalath outskirts
AndrewBeatty andrew beatty
NATO hit 11 targets in Zlintan last night. Rebels told Sarko taking Zliten key. Military endgame coming into focus?
Skeptic
Retreat by FFs in #Zliten is not real loss, it seems they only ventured in 2 get the Hamza cmdr & vehicles&ammo&arms, not 2 permanently gain ground
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Alkhadra hospital in Tripoli heavily guarded people r not allowed in & doctors and nurse mobile phones taken away Who is da vip in IC room?!
Ossama
#TRIPOLI:Yesterday saw thousands more leaflets dropped over #Tripoli by #NATO aircraft.
#TRIPOLI:Convoy of katiba trucks was observed entering hidden military refuelling station in Ein Zara near Naser University.
The Daily Organ
Libyan reverberations
Reema Malhotra looks at Western intervention in Libya as the Nato campaign continues in the country
it must not be forgotten that most Libyans and the Arab League not only endorse but are part of the intervention. This is not another Iraq; this is a response to pleas from a people that have long suffered the whims and brutality of a dictator that has held on to power for far too long. Too many wars have been fought to seek power, legitimacy and to further national interests. But as of now, this intervention is about protecting Libyan civilians. Additionally, it is also supporting the Arab uprising and emancipation from tyranny. These are noble aims and far from staining the conscience of the world, they may go towards redeeming it.
Full art.:
www.dailyorgan.com/2011/07/libyan-rever...
The Daily Star
Gadhafi says no to talks, rebels “infiltrate” Tripoli
TRIPOLI: Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has ruled out talks with rebels fighting to end his four-decade rule, insisting the loyalist cause will triumph even as the rebels said they had infiltrated the capital.
In a speech aired by state television late Thursday, Gadhafi said the rebels’ five-month-old uprising was a “lost cause” even as they boasted gains on the front line between the rebel-held east and mainly government-held west.
“The battle has been decided. It has been decided in favour of the masses and the people,” Gadhafi said.
“They cannot defeat us. They will be defeated and they will go home empty-handed,” he added.
“I will not talk to them. There will be no negotiations between me and them,” he said, adding they “must understand that their desperate fight is a lost cause.”
In a second speech aired by the television, Gadhafi called on tribal leaders from Libya’s third-largest city Misrata, one of two rebel-held enclaves in the west, to “march on the city to liberate it.”
The rebels said they had infiltrated armed and trained operatives into the capital to conduct missions against loyalist targets.
“There are small groups, they are good fighters, trained in Benghazi,” commander Fawzi Bukatif told reporters in the rebels’ eastern bastion late Thursday.
“We have supplied them with weapons and grenades.”
Since the revolution began in February a number of Tripoli-based groups have broadcast videos purporting to show acts of civil disobedience in the heavily controlled capital.
But the revelation that armed rebel fighters have infiltrated Gadhafi’s stronghold raises the spectre of more serious acts of sabotage.
Read full art. here:
www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2...,-rebels-infiltrate-Tripol.aspx
Yadibladi
L’officialisation de l’amazigh au Maroc réveille les Amazighs du Maghreb
L’officialisation de l’amazigh au Maroc est en train de revigorer le mouvement culturel amazigh nord-africain. En Algérie comme en Libye, où les militants amazighs luttent depuis des décennies pour la reconnaissance de leur langue et de leur culture, le leitmotiv est le même : ériger l’amazigh en langue officielle, à l’instar du Maroc.
La reconnaissance de l’amazigh comme langue officielle au Maroc est en train de redonner des ailes aux militants amazighs maghrébins. En Algérie et en Libye, l’officialisation de l’amazigh aux côtés de l’arabe est l’une des revendications les plus importantes qui mobilisent les Amazighs. Pas seulement depuis le 1er juillet dernier, mais depuis des décennies.
Full art.:
www.yabiladi.com/articles/details/6262/...
Libyan Duda
1000s have already died u SOB!“We’ll turn Brega in 2 hell will not give up even if it causes 1000s of FF deaths” Musa Ibrahim
Sarah
Zliten update 21 Jul
- Reports of a missile (possibly a Grad) landing in farms in AlJum’a near residential area. No casualties
- Previously, FF advanced to As-Sab’a where several FF joined em.Following the arrival of large Gaddafi reinforcements to Zliten, FF retreated to
Naima & outskirts of SuqAlThalath.Some FF on frontline were surrounded & their fate is unknown
- Following the tactical retreat by FF,GF captured people that joined FF. Gaddafi thugs have destroyed their possessions. Most civilians in SuqAlThalath have fled to relatives in the safer areas of Zliten centre and Majer
- Omar Al Jundi, his brother Adil, and their 3cousins(Abu Bakr,Hamad and Bashir) are breaking into SuqAlThalath homes(with GF back up)and randomly shooting people,resulting in an unknown number of deaths and injuries
- NATO Zliten hits 21 Jul: 3 Military Storage Facilities,1 Military Facility,1 Surface-to-Air-Missile Launcher,1 Multiple Rocket Launcher,1 Tank,1 Armed Vehicle, 3 Military Vehicle
Free Tripoli Daily is out! bit.ly/jXMewE ▸ Top stories today
Zlitniya
Message from FF inside Zliten:We thank Misrata FF for their huge support 2 ZlitenFF in liberating city.They proved ‘Zliten&misrata brothers’
BBC
Christian Fraser
Libya: What welcome awaits rebels in Tripoli?
Life at the Rixos Hotel, where the international media are being housed, remains much the same – a constant battle with the minders who control our every move.
But this past week, I witnessed something different – sizeable crowds in the locations to which we were taken. Tens of thousands of people who owe their allegiance to the leader we never see.
With his government teetering – Col Gaddafi is organising the tribes who stand by him, gathering the loyalties that have kept him in power these 41 years.
No doubt some of the supporters were bussed in. But there is no discounting the genuine support that exists.
Of course we don’t see the thousands of other people in Tripoli who are opposed to Col Gaddafi’s rule. Under tight restrictions, it is impossible to report accurately where the true balance of support really lies.
Read more here:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14208352
MFA_Russia MFA Russia
On July 27 Russia sent a second humanitarian aid delivery to #Benghazi. An Emergencies Ministry plane is to fly to #Tripoli on July 26
Gihan
Feb17 info: Mahmud Jibril of #NTC urged #Spanish oil giant Repsol YPF & others to renew operations in #Libya, using frozen Gaddafi assets
Des Grant
Given that 80% of those fighting are 18 – 22 years. To my mind this not civil war but a popular uprising .
Des Grant
on average 20 humanitarian cargo planes arrive in Benghazi every week. Last week 30. Qatar only sent 5 of those !
Anders Fog Rasmussen
“The path towards the future is not easy,
but you are not alone”
The Libyan conflict is a battle for the future – your future. On one side, Gaddafi and his regime are trying to keep Libya frozen 40 years in the past. On the other, the Libyan people are fighting for a new future – one based on freedom, not fear; opportunity, not oppression; the will of the many, not the whims of a few. That is the future which NATO and the international community want to see, and the future which you deserve.
How can we reach that future?
Let me assure you: NATO is playing its part. This Alliance has been in overall control of operations for almost four months, and the people of Libya know better than anyone how much we have achieved.
Our mission, under the historic mandate of the United Nations Security Council, is to use all necessary means to prevent attacks and threats against civilians. NATO will continue that mission for as long as it is needed: until all attacks and threats against civilians have ceased; all Gaddafi’s forces and mercenaries have gone back to their bases; and there is full, safe and unhindered humanitarian access to all who need it.
We will fulfil that mission whenever threats materialise, and wherever they come from. Because there is never a wrong time to protect innocent lives.
At the same time, it is important to underline what NATO is not doing. We do not target civilian infrastructure. And we do not endanger the lives of peaceful civilians. As our record shows, we are conducting our mission with utmost care and precision – unlike Gaddafi’s forces, who have been using human shields, firing from mosques, and siting bunkers next to children’s playgrounds.
We are doing our job. This is part of a bigger effort, which involves the whole international community in support of the Libyan people. Because we all know there can be no purely military solution to this conflict. The ultimate solution is political. While NATO supports efforts to find such a solution, the United Nations and the Contact Group are playing the key role.
Last week, I took part in the Contact Group meeting in Istanbul. The meeting showed the international
community’s determination to speak with one voice. The Contact Group praised NATO’s efficient and effective action and agreed on the broad principles which should guide the transition to a new Libya. And it reaffirmed its strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and national unity of Libya.
The Contact Group also noted that the Gaddafi regime no longer has any legitimate authority in Libya and that he and certain members of his family must go. Until an interim authority is in place, it agreed to deal with the National Transitional Council as the legitimate governing authority of Libya.
Just days before, Dr Mahmoud Jibril of the NTC came to NATO headquarters in Brussels to meet allies and partner nations in Operation Unified Protector. He made an impressive presentation of the NTC’s transition plans for a new Libya, committed to democracy, human rights, and the rule of law.
Indeed, the NTC has a great responsibility for the present and the future: a responsibility that Libya’s transition to democracy and freedom is smooth and inclusive; that the country stays united; and that the future is founded not on violence and reprisals, but on peace and reconciliation.
Gaddafi will go – that is not a matter of if, but when. And time is not on his side. When he goes, it will be for the National Transitional Council to manage that transition, and it will be for the international community to support them. I do not envisage NATO playing a leading role in that process. That is for the United Nations. But if required, we could provide support. Many of our Allies have experience and expertise in the transformation from dictatorship to democracy, and in the reform of the security sector after their own revolutions. We can share that experience with the Libyan people, and the other nations that have bravely risen in the Arab Spring.
The future of Libya belongs to the Libyan people. The path towards it is not an easy one, but you are not alone. NATO is fulfilling its mandate to protect you against attacks. The international community is supporting you in your endeavours for a genuine transition. And we all look forward to seeing the creation of a new Libya – a country which is free, just, and at peace.
REUTERS
Reuters reports #EU diplomat saying: #Libya ceasefire to be followed by the immediate creation of a transitional authority made up equally of the government and rebels and excluding Muammar Gaddafi or his sons
Free Libyia
I ♥ Qatar. #Libya #Feb17
Skeptic
#Tunisia still letting #Gaddafi soldiers (incl 1 general) cross border 2 assassinate FFs there! T is passive complicit 2 G crimes!
Tasbeeh
Is it coincidence that the greatest supporters of Gaddafi have never even been to Libya?
Meshelmay:
little girl from #Misrata waiting 4 the bride, spying on #Tunisia army. #Libya twitpic.com/5twql0”
Skeptic
Aljazeera video
Jalu: Libya’s fight over oil youtube.com/watch?v=CIubFq… via @youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIubFqAE6mo&fea...
meshelmay Michelle May
the bride & groom. Libyans who fled war taking opp to have mixed male/female wedding in #Tunisia. fancy-schmancy. twitpic.com/5twraw
septimius s
When did tellin half the truth that is force fed into become journalism? & top it by saying “I can only report what I see”!!! #Rixos
I couldn’t agree more……
Free Libyia
I’m in the Anatomy Dissection Room. Hmm since Gaddafi’s body will never be buried in Libya, maybe we should donate it to scientific research
Architarik Tarik El-Bakri
A humanitarian cargo plane from #Russia, has landed in #Benghazi today. Next shipment of humanitarian aid to #Tripoli scheduled for July 26
A Free Libyan
Reports that up to 700 mines were dismantled yesterday in #Brega. #Libya #Feb17
Nasr Anaizi
I am sick of pompous western journalists in or out of the Rixos hotel making veiled jokes abt oil-rich Arabs even the not-so-rich #Libya ns
Portia Walker
Back in Tunisia, very sorry to miss my freedom machiatto! next time…
British Forces News
Scotland
Future of UK’s largest missile range secured
The Ministry of Defence says the UK’s largest missile range is safe for the next five years after fears that it could be shut down by cutbacks.
Weapons tested on the Hebrides Range are being used for operations in Libya.
It was set up in the 1950s, spread across sites on Benbecula, North and South Uist and the remote St Kilda archipelago.
It gives the military its largest area in the UK for the live-firing of rockets and missiles.
The MOD and QinetiQ, which runs the range, are now working together to come up with cost effective ways of upgrading the range and its associated sites. One possibility is using it to test unmanned military and civilian aircraft and drones.
Ian Taylor, QinetiQ’s head of site, said "This is good news for the range and its users.
“Some of the facilities and equipment at the range are old or difficult to maintain, and we knew that they would be in need of replacement, either now or in the next few years.
“The decision to invest in the range means that QinetiQ and the MoD can now address obsolescence issues as a matter of priority to keep the range operational.”
Minister for Defence Equipment and Support Peter Luff said: “This further demonstrates the Government’s commitment to the MOD in Scotland and ensures the UK maintains this important capability within our shores.”
Source:
www.bfbs.com/news/scotland/future-uks-l...
meshelmay Michelle May
confirmed 4 sunday’s boat to misrata. my plan for thursday’s boat was sabotaged by over-protective (yet sweet) concerned Libyan friends.
septimius severus
To sum up, #US will think about giving us “OUR” money, #NATO trying as best as it could! & they won’t arm us cause we r all #Alquida! #Libya
FreeLibyan
#Gaddafi forces raiding houses of families in Sog Altata #Zliten. Its like hell overthere
NPR
Rebels In Western Libya Train For Move On Tripoli
By Lourdes Garcia_Navarro
Rebel commanders in the western mountains of Libya say they are supplying anti-government forces in Tripoli with weapons in advance of a march on the capital.
Claims like this have been made before, and there are still few signs that the rebels can take Moammar Gadhafi’s stronghold city. Still, interviews with Tripoli residents who have fled to the western mountains in recent days suggest that Gadhafi’s hold on the capital may be weakening.
Preparing For Urban Combat
In the western city of Zintan, the rebel army’s elite force marches in formation down the main street, training for urban combat. Their commander, Abdul Hamid, says they are being taught guerrilla warfare and street fighting.
Now that they will be moving out of the mountains and toward Tripoli, Hamid says, they need to change their tactics.
Rebel leaders in Zintan say they are in touch with rebel sympathizers in Tripoli.
“Just now, we supplied some weapons and some equipment — just guns and phone satellite,” says Col. Juma Ibrahim, one of the heads of the military council in Zintan. "Groups which I have contact with them — I told them, ‘Stay, don’t move … wait.’ "
Ibrahim says the plan is to coordinate an assault with dissident cells in the capital. But what’s not clear is how feasible that really is.
Full art. and AUDIO here:
www.npr.org/2011/07/20/138548543/rebels...
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Intermittent power outages in Zintan past few days. Seems to be over capacity issue. Not sure
Situation Report
Libya Outreach
Executive Summary
On July 20, pro-democracy forces said Gaddafi using civilians as shields; pro-democracy field commander said pro-democracy forces working to clear mines to advance near Brega; Gaddafi forces attacking in trucks disguised with Free Libya flags; pro-democracy forces launched offensive toward Zlitan from Misrata; four additional Panavia Tornado GR4s from UK arrived at Italy airbase for Libya mission; NATO extended Libya mission for additional three months; French Foreign Minister said Gaddafi could remain in Libya if he relinquishes power; Russian Foreign Minister and Gaddafi Foreign Minister met in Russia to discuss political solution to conflict; Gaddafi FM said Gaddafi leaving power not up for discussion; NTC delegation asked French President for weapons for march on Tripoli; US said up to Libyans whether Gaddafi stays in Libya;Slovenia recognized NTC; Red Cross said Western mountain hospitals lack medications, vaccines; NTC Economy Minister said NTC exporting 100,000 barrels a day to pay for fuel it must import; Turkey’s state-owned oil and gas exploration company TPAO announced expectation first oil production in Libya to take place within three years; Bank of America Merrill Lynch warned that Libya conflict could causes Brent crude oil prices to climb to $175/b in 2012; and Dubai telecoms engineers worked on providing NTC-held Libya with mobile phone network.
Full report here:
us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=5f65a9cec4...
UK FOREIGN OFFICE VIDEO
foreignoffice Foreign Office (FCO)
Video: Eyewitness #Libya – reporting on the effects of the conflict on women and children ow.ly/5KKc2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M35Y4hUb4y0&fea...
Times of Malta
Libyan Ambassador will not resign for now
Embassy should be ‘depoliticised’
The Libyan Ambassador is rejecting calls for his resignation and insists he will continue to serve as “a caretaker ambassador” until the Libyan crisis is over.
Saadun Suayeh has also asked to be perceived as being above the warring parties in the Libyan conflict. He called for the embassy to be “depoliticised” in the circumstances but admitted he did have a moral obligation to take a stand “at some point”.
Unlike other Libyan ambassadors, who switched allegiance to the Benghazi-based Transitional National Council, Dr Suayeh has so far stuck to his post and still flies the green Libyan flag on the embassy, which opponents of the regime equate with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Nationalist MEP Simon Busuttil said last month he could not understand what was keeping Dr Suayeh from denouncing the Gaddafi regime once and for all and switching allegiance to the TNC. “Several of his colleagues in other EU countries have already done so. What is he waiting for?” he wrote in The Times.
However, Dr Suayeh insisted he did not represent the regime but the Libyan people and the state “as a sovereign entity under international law”.
“The notion that an ambassador represents the regime rather than the state or the people is both erroneous and harmful. Regimes are transient but states are permanent,” he said when asked whether he would resign from his post as a representative of the Gaddafi regime.
Full art. Here:
www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011...
libyanandproud
Troll sending password phishing links → @ sormiou12
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Rebel field commander in #Misrata: #NATO took out Gaddfi tanks which were heading for #Zliten – good coordination & a big help. #Feb17
Danya
There is a libyan women who was admitted to a hospital in Sharjah yesterday ..I think the Libyan Comm should visit her because she is alone.
And see if she needs anything ..all of her family is in #Libya ..and we should all support one another .. Message me if u want more info.
Zintan Military Committee:
Official Reply Statement to Human Rights Watch Claims on Human Rights Abuses in Areas Under Libyan Revolutionary Control
In response to the Human Rights Watch report on the claims of human rights abuses in areas under revolutionary control, the Zintan Military Committee released this statement.
English
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Arabic
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Joanne
#Tripoli fled family 2 #Nafusa say plainclothes thugs empowered by secret police set up Checkpoints & many steal money + cellphones #Libya
Joanne
ZLITEN #NATO hit 11 targets in #Zlintan last night #Libya #Misuratah
BBC
Intense front-line battles stretch Libya medical services
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-1424615...
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
UK in LIBYA
DAVID CLAY
The other day, I went along to a public seminar on the National Transitional Council’s proposed Charter. The Charter aims to provide a framework for Libya’s transition to democracy after the fall of Qadhafi and talks about elections, constitution writing, a referendum etc. It also set out the rights and freedoms that all Libyan citizens should enjoy. The seminar was one of a few that are being run in different places around town, and was organised by a committee that the NTC has set up to reach out to as many ordinary Libyans as possible in the circumstances.
When I got to the hall, I was surprised to see only a couple of people there. But I should have remembered what a Libyan friend said a few weeks ago: he told me that under Qadhafi, “Libyan time” meant half an hour late. He’s hopeful that the new Libya will get that figure down to 15 mins.
Read blog:
blogs.fco.gov.uk/roller/clay/entry/deba...
Joanne
#TRIPOLI Kids were in School till June&Told forbidden 2paint FFlag or express anti-Gaddafi feelings or their parents wld B taken away
Rachel Beth Anderson
#Misrata album update w/ images of abandoned #Gaddafi camps outside #Defniya frontline, ishtaproductions.com/wp-content/gal… #Libya #Feb17
ishtaproductions.com/wp-content/gallery...
libyanandproud
#Nafusa : #Jadu : #NATO bombed #Gaddafi positions in #Albirimbikh NW of Jadu , columns of smoke seen rising . #Feb17 #Libya
misrati_free Feb17
An injured FF is visiting our office today, only survivor of a direct hit on their 4X4. A team commander.
dovenews Libyan™
Financial Times: Gaddafi asked Spain to release $145 million in frozen assets in various Spanish banks. #Libya #Spain #Financial #Times
Le Figaro
La France cherche une porte de sortie à Kadhafi en Libye
La rébellion fait mine d’accepter que le dictateur puisse, selon la proposition de Paris, rester dans son pays s’il quitte le pouvoir.
«L’ambiguïté constructive». Cette notion, qui a sa définition dans le monde de la finance et celui des relations internationales, est aujourd’hui à l’œuvre en Libye. Il s’agit, si l’on ose une explication succincte, d’atteindre un objectif en brouillant les pistes. Drapée dans de tels atours conceptuels, la diplomatie française ainsi avance, pariant tour à tour sur la force des rebelles, la défection de l’entourage de Mouammar Kadhafi, la mort ou la retraite du dictateur.
Depuis cinq mois, l’objectif demeure : il s’agit de débarrasser la Libye de son Guide. Mais comme aucune opération militaire de l’Otan ou des rebelles n’est parvenue à imposer une solution sur le terrain, la France multiplie les propositions pour tenter de convaincre Kadhafi d’abandonner le pouvoir.
Full art.:
www.lefigaro.fr/international/2011/07/2...
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: 2 reports that 2 #Russia planes have landed at Mitiga Air Base in the past couple of days. #Libya #feb17
#Gaddafi forces seen massing N. of #Nafusa: #Gheddu valley (N. of #Shakshuk), #Ghazaya & #AlBirimbikh (NW of #Jadu) #Libya
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
I’ve now left Tripoli. Hope to visit Nafusa Mountains next
Daniel Fisher BBC
has a Libyan visa.
Is in Libya and on his way to Tripoli
Des Grant
one tweeter half joked ’ how did Gadaffi manage to have 7 Million Man rallies in a country with only 6 million people !
I have several libyan friends living as doctors in the west , they reckon the support I’d about 99% for the rebels. I wonder?
I can’t help feeling that if The opposition had 99% support , the army would have had mutiny already. So clearly he has support
Des obviously hasn’t calculated the FEAR factor in. A GIFT FROM Tripoli to the world from FF ثوار سوق الجمعه بطرابس t.co/mB5oz7i
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7cxCKVL9Ts&feature=share
VIP
Abeidi
Libya, Tripoli news about VIP transfered to Dejerba in Tunisia for treatment.
Zlitniya
Family in Zliten heard&felt heavy bombing last night 10.30pm-3am and two bombs earlier today.children all scared&believe they’re going2die:(
This week on the Foreign Office Global Conversations blog
South Sudan, trade and Libya were amongst the topics discussed by Foreign Office bloggers this week.
Read more:
www.fco.gov.uk/en/news/latest-news/?vie...
LIBYA TRIPOLI
In this protest, my cousin was shot in the legs and then taken, no word of him since — ثوار سوق الجمعه بطرابس youtube.com/watch?v=i7cxCK… #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7cxCKVL9Ts&fea...
BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
very few journalists here in #benghazi now, big change from march, i guess they all went west to the frontlines #misrata #zintan #brega etc
cencio4 David Cenciotti
Although withdrawn from Unified Protector, Italian aircraft carrier Garibaldi still hosting maritime forces command (from Taranto harbour)
CNN
CNN’s Ivan Watson explains the cost of war on the Libyan people as commodities are affected by the ongoing conflict.
edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/201...
A Free Libyan
Explosion in #Oslo, #Norway. Doubt it’s G, but if he takes credit for it, NATO will have to speed up their mission
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Malta SHIP “MAE YEMANJA” now anchored just outside of port #Misrata #Libya. #feb17
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “ASPENDOS M” now anchored in port #Misrata #Libya. #feb17
#Panama CARGO SHIP “MSC BROOKE” now departing port #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17
#Malta OIL TANKER “APOSTOLOS A” now departing port #Derna #Libya. #feb17
#Syria CARGO SHIP “LETFALLAH” now anchored in port Tobruk #Libya. #feb17
#StVincentGrenadines CARGO SHIP “BLUE SKY” now anchored in port #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17
NATO ship “375699000” now arriving in port #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17
#Tripoli: Convoy of #Gaddafi trucks observed entering hidden military refueling station in #EinZara near #Naser University.
KC_Tripolitania KC
Palestinians r on our side – not only have they dedicated a song to our Freedom Fighters but have also spoken out against Gaddafi
AFP
Libya rebel casualties mount in battle for Zliten
TRIPOLI — Sixteen rebel fighters have been killed and another 126 wounded in two days of fighting for control of Zliten, the last coastal city between insurgent-held Misrata and the capital, rebels said Friday.
The news came amid reports rebels had infiltrated Tripoli and as strongman Moamer Kadhafi again ruled out talks with them — even as they boast gains in the east and in the west — saying theirs is a “lost cause.”
Full story:
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/A...
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Before I left #Rixos. someone slipped a note under my door signed by the rebels. yeah right! a rebel sneaked past the armed guards (cont)
they knew where my room was. impossible. I’m not reporting what the note said because that is exactly what the person writing it as hoping.
how would a rebel know where my room was? this man was claiming he lived in Brega and was escaping to tunisia
Threatening. it was intended to scare Brega rebels in to a retreat. i’m not going to say what it said. pathetic childish lies.
Whoever wrote the note, is not FF, has the mental age of an 8yr old and is a fool to think we would fall for it.
Would a rebel who is fleeing to tunisia stop off at the rixos go past armed security up to my room to leave a note? no way
libyanandproud
Misratta and #Zliten FF have captured another High Ranking #Gaddafi Officer
Shabab
AFP
Spain urges Libyan rebels to prepare for ‘new era’
ADRID — Spain’s prime minister Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero on Friday urged Libyan rebel leader Mahmud Jibril to strengthen his organisation to be ready for “the new political era” that Libya would face if Moamer Kadhafi is defeated.
Zapatero told Jibril that Spain supports the rebels’ National Transitional Council “as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people,” his office said in a statement following talks between the two in Madrid.
Zapatero “encouraged him to strengthen his organisation and his operations so it is in a position to successfully address the new political era that Libya will have to confront.
“The internal reconciliation process and the process of constructing a new, stable, prosperous, sovereign and democratic society will be one of the key tasks of the future,” Zapatero told him.
Read more here:
shabablibya.org/news/spain-urges-libyan...
Sarah LFFR
Le ministre des affaires étrangères français Lundi à Londres pour des entretiens sur la #Libye #UK #Alarabiya
TUNESIA SENDS MAJOR REINFORCEMENTS TO BORDER:
Arabic
Read more:
www.moknine-news.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=396:libye-tunisie-frontiere-militaire&catid=38:a-la-une-&Itemid=60
Ahmed
#Gaddafi seen making a quick appearance in #Tripoli, looking rather frail if you ask me. yfrog.com/kf27611106j #laughatgaddafi
Marcin
✔Twitter account ✔Facebook account ✔Google+1 account ✔Tumblr account ✔Youtube account. “Dude, do you have a life!?” “OMG, WHAT’S THE LINK!?”
Jonny Hallam
It is an amazing joy to be able to move around freely. to go across the road to the shops without being followed.
CHECK THIS OUT
ZlitenFree
libyaalmostakbal.net/news/clicked/11381 fb.me/H0YXHJna
septimius
Wanted individuals who can write in as many languages as possible& don’t mind being told what 2write what not. Plz apply @ #Rixos #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#SaudiArabia CARGO SHIP “SAUDI TABUK” now in port #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17
NEWS 24
Russia, Libya ‘discussed Gaddafi’s exit’
Moscow – Top Russian and Libyan diplomats discussed at a meeting in Moscow this week the exit of Muammar Gaddafi, the Interfax news agency quoted a Russian foreign ministry source as saying on Friday.
“The topic of Muammar Gaddafi’s departure from power was discussed at this meeting and discussed in fairly concrete terms, including in the light of contacts that took place between Tripoli’s representatives and Americans and the French,” the source was quoted as saying.
“The question of Gaddafi’s departure is not up for negotiation,” he said, giving no impression that any breakthrough had been reached in his talks with Lavrov
From AFP
www.news24.com/Africa/News/Russia-Libya...
AFP video
Video: Many roads to defection in western Libya
In western Libya, the rebel army largely consists of defectors, people who have taken the dangerous decision to break with Moamer Kadhafi’s regime. Braving the regime’s vast network of informers, individuals ranging from regular army officers to youngsters stuyding overseas have rallied to the armed revolt.
Watch here:
feb17.info/media/video-many-roads-to-de...
Khiria
Frattini: $350 million in aid will be transferred to #Benghazi, #Libya within days. #
Joanne
Italy FM Frattini + #Libya #NTC FM #Essawi addressing PRESS; Its NOT CLEAR WHICH Official was Seriously wounded but “probably” #MansourDaw
Joanne
#NTC Ali Essaw in Rome CONFIRMS; member of Gaddafi inner circle SERIOUSLY INJURED; #MansourDaw former bodyguard of Gaddafi #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Liberia CARGO SHIP “SIDER PINK” remains anchored in port #AlKhums #Libya. #feb17
#Gaddafi OIL TANKER “ANWAAR ALNASER” remains anchored in port #Tripoli #Libya. #feb17
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “YUSUF CEPNIOGLU” now anchored 2.0 Nautical Miles outside port #Tripoli #Libya. #feb17
Lisa
Misrata FFs: after liberation of #Zliten, we could liberate #Tripoli within weeks”
Joanne
#Benghazi trained groups of FF have infiltrated #Tripoli After yesterdays top regime ambush #Gaddafi goons are on tenterhooks #Libya
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Libya:
Gaddafi Must Be Held Accountable for Crimes Against Humanity – Any political solution must include justice bit.ly/rqfBmT
FromJoanne Joanne
#Bir Ayad strong winds started last night momentarily brought the battle in the area 2 a Halt but FF waiting to attack #Asabeah #Libya
Gaddafi aide severely wounded in rocket attack
A National Transitional Council (NTC) official said today that a member of Muammar Gaddafi’s inner circle had been seriously wounded by a rocket attack on a room in Tripoli where senior Gaddafi officials were meeting.
Ali Essawi, in charge of foreign affairs for the NTC fighting Gaddafi, said one of the Gaddafi’s sons, Saif al-Islam, Prime Minister al-Baghdadi Ali Al-Mahmoudi, intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi and an official named Mansour Daw were in the room at the time of the attack yesterday.
Daw is a former bodyguard of Gaddafi who is a close aide.
“Yesterday there was a very strong signal in Tripoli — that there was an attack (on) an operations room where there were senior and high, top-level officials including Saif al-Islam, al-Baghdadi Mahmoudi, Abdullah Senussi and Mansour, who (was) severely injured,” Essawi told a news conference in Rome.
“We confirm this.”
He did not say how he knew of the attack in the Gaddafi-held Libyan capital or who was behind it. Officials of Gaddafi’s government were not immediately available for comment.
Italy’s Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, who held talks with Essawi before they addressed reporters together, later said it was not clear which official had been seriously wounded, but that it was “probably” Daw.
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ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
How to get everyone in #FreeLibya to quit smoking fb.me/14AV0KV4U
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=281885&id=137199749688243
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Just got back from western front line, rebels arrived there yesterday nr #Zliten. All these written earlier
Lots of French & Italian flags in #Misrata. Rebels tells there would be lots of US & UK, but they’re too complicated to make
On rebels’ new frontline outside #Zliten. V quiet except sound of #NATO jets far above. Rebels relaxed, confident.
The frontline down here is new, the bulldozers are hard at work building up sandbanks. Morale sky-high.
One fighter wears a grin from ear to ear, body armour – the first we’ve seen round here – and no shoes.
As we leave at 5pm, incoming and outgoing fire start up again. Rebels are confident of winning #Zliten. They have a plan. #
stopped at Gaddafi forces’ old frontline: bedding, clothes, bread rolls, empty shells; 32mm, 23mm, mortars; torn picture of #Gaddafi
Rebel commander: it has taken so long to reach #Zliten because they want people from #Zliten to take back their own town. #
Rebel commander: it has taken a while to gather and train fighters from #Zliten to take their own town back – with support from Misratans.
Sarah LFFR
Lourds bombardements des forces #Gaddafi par l’OTAN à #Brega depuis ce matin et encore jusqu’à maintenant.
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Brega: Heavy Bombardment from #NATO on Gaddafi forces in Brega from this morning, until this very moment.
Bent
#Brega revolutionaries spend their days removing landmines & fighting #Gaddafi forces under the sweltering desert sun, positive+high morale
Ossama
BREAKING: #FFs in Western Mountains today bombed #Gaddafi forces located in the area of ‘Gadwa’ which is 25KM north of #Jadu
LibyaFeb17.com
We are very shocked by the bomb and gunman in #Oslo today. Our thoughts and prayers are with those killed and injured and their families
AFP
De Deborah PASMANTIER
Dans l’Ouest libyen, la révolution aussi pour les femmes
ZENTEN — Déjà la révolution a changé le regard des hommes sur elles. Les Libyennes du Djebel Nefoussa ont manifesté, soigné les blessés, soutenu leurs fils et leurs maris avant la bataille et espèrent mener leur propre combat vers l’émancipation dans la nouvelle Libye.
Dans les rues de la conservatrice ville arabe de Zenten, le regard des femmes ne se croise pas. Devant les murs où des graffitis proclament “Free Libya”, elles évoluent comme des fantômes noirs, cachées sous le niqab (voile intégral).
Dans les maisons, l’approche d’un homme étranger à la famille crée la panique et elles s’enfuient comme des abeilles. En ces temps de guerre, elles passent la majeure partie de leur temps cloîtrées entre quatre murs.
Pourtant, l’air de la révolution est passé par là pour elles aussi.
Au début de l’insurrection, elles ont rejoint les hommes pour crier “A bas Kadhafi”. “J’ai manifesté avec plein de jeunes femmes, certaines étaient enceintes. Les hommes ont été tellement impressionnés qu’ils ont tiré des rafales de Kalachnikov en notre honneur ! Cela leur a montré que nous étions égaux, cela a changé leur regard sur nous”, raconte Afaf Abusaa, étudiante en technologie de 20 ans.
Full art.:
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/A...
Ossama
BREAKING: #Misurata #FFs have captured 10 of Gaddafi forces and get 4 military vehicles #Libya #feb17
also managed to link southern+western fronts #libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Nalut Free #libya fb.me/17ODM2ZlA
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=281975&id=137199749688243
4libya
Revolutionaries Spksmn: 100s of thousands of landmines layed by #Gaddafi forces in #Brega delaying FF advance. FF removed approx 6000 #Libya
L’Express
AFP / Gianluigi Guercia
Libye: Kadhafi s’accroche, mais son départ est de plus en plus évoqué
TRIPOLI – Le colonel libyen Mouammar Kadhafi semble déterminé à s’accrocher au pouvoir même si la question de son départ est évoquée de plus en plus concrètement, les rebelles continuant leur progression, en particulier près de Zliten, à 150 kilomètres à l’est de Tripoli.
“La bataille est tranchée. Elle est déjà tranchée en faveur des masses et du peuple. Ils ne peuvent pas vous vaincre. Ils vont être vaincus et ils rentreront bredouilles”, a assuré le colonel Kadhafi jeudi soir dans un discours retransmis à ses partisans rassemblés dans sa ville natale de Syrte, excluant une nouvelle fois tout dialogue avec les rebelles.
Mais à Moscou, où s’était rendu mercredi le ministre des Affaires étrangères libyen Abdelati Obeidi, le ton est sensiblement différent.
“Le thème du départ de Kadhafi du pouvoir a été discuté lors de cette rencontre, et il a été discuté assez concrètement”, a déclaré vendredi une source diplomatique russe, citée par l’agence Interfax.
Full art.:
www.lexpress.fr/actualites/1/monde/liby...
hominoid
Zliten 2011 youtube.com/watch?v=AC8vRY… via @youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC8vRYywH8w&fea...
TAP
BEN GUERDANE (TAP) -
A huge explosion was heard on Friday morning from the Libyan territory near borders with Tunisia.
Inhabitants of the city of Ben Guerdane, located thirty kilometers from the borders, heard the explosion and saw a big cloud of smoke shortly after the blast, TAP local correspondent reported. The cause of the blast is still unclear for the moment.
A few days ago, a similar explosion occurred in the same region when NATO forces had bombed arms depots and military sites belonging to Gadhafi forces.
www.tap.info.tn/en/en/component/content...
Souffian Tripoli
#Pray4Oslo #pray4Oslo my hart go’s out to the Norwegian people _ #olso
AJE
Recapping the Arab revolutions
A special edition showing how news outlets around the world tried to make sense of events from the information overload.
This week we have a special edition of the Listening Post – in which we hit pause, rewind and then play – on the story of the Arab revolutions.
It has been a bit more than six months since the Arab uprisings began. It started with a slow burn in Tunisia that then caught fire and swept through Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya and Syria.
For a media show like this one, there were myriad media angles to cover: embattled governments locking out reporters, shutting down the internet and phone networks, and blocking and jamming satellite television signals, protestors commandeering the web – turning social media into the most powerful subversive tool of our time.
And news outlets, caught in the middle, dealing with torrents of information and misinformation, and trying to make sense of it.
So we’re breaking with our usual format this week and going with a full edition; a compilation of some of our previous reports that we’ve turned into a chronology of the media side of the Arab revolution story.
Source:
english.aljazeera.net/programmes/listen...
Ossama
BREAKING:MISURATA: Battalions of the tyrant in #Torghae are placing missiles launchers to attack the eastern outskirts of #Misurata. #libya
Alive in Libya
Losing your only daughter.
Video:
alive.in/libya/2011/07/20/losing-your-o...
Joanne
amwaiting 4 Gaddafi s daily bark to claim that #Norway ’s terror is all his work
AJE:
Libya: A state of terror: Libyan exiles explain how terror has long been a tool of the regime.
Video:
t.co/bboaKux #Libya or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UodjAs8mEPs&fea...
Ossama
#Kufra FFs today delivered aid to Benghazi composed of 20 camels 2 tons of dates + 1.5 tons of Mangos, one of the same planned for Misurata
Sami
Absolutely speechless! Thoughts and #prayers with all #victims and their families in #Norway.
LibyanLegends
#norway , #libya and libyan people are with u!! they are not muslims/humans they are evil twisted beings
Ali
Today-we-are-all-Norwegian
ProudLibyan
2 come out in #Tripoli 2 protest against Gaddafi & in daylight nowadays takes a huge infusion of courage, that is Suq Aljuma 4 you, courage!
4libya
Some ask why liberate #Brega it’s very far from #Tripoli. Well 1st ppl there are living in fear & anyone who isn’t supporting #Gaddafi
is under threat of being arrested or killed 4 Families R known 2 have disappeared.A 14yr old girl was found 7/21 in a container naked
She said she was raped repeatedly by #Gaddafi forces.Surely this isn’t the only case.So ppl need 2B rescued 2nd #Brega supplies G w/oil cont
If FF liberate #Brega #Gaddafi oil supply will be cut from the E & supply is already dwindling from west. This could be turning point. Libya
dhdfisher Daniel Fisher BBC
Just been over 100 foot up in the air in Tripoli’s Green square to film a 150 m long portrait of Gadaffi twitpic.com/5u42j4
KC_Tripolitania KC
There was a million man anti-#Gaddafi demonstration in the city Al #Bayda today – according to @senodizzy who attended the demo.
Nesrine Libya ☾✰
today we witness at my city Albaida a huge protest with all the surrounding areas joining us , it will began after 2 hrs . i wont miss it
i’v just came home from the million demonstration , man that was awesome and breathtaking , Albaida u always shine
2day my city was covered with ppl if not a million then 900,000 im not just saying i was there 2
And Mustafha Abduljalil was there and gave a speech
SMILE:
Boy: Who do you love?
Girl: It is a secret! ♥
Boy: You can share with me
Girl: Ok!
It starts with ‘Y’,
middle letter is ‘O’
and ends with ’U
moi a table
My thoughts go out to the Norwegian people – such a shock in such a peaceful country #Oslo
Joanne
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All Compliments to the Photographer: @dhdfisher although the ugly Subject spoils yr achievement somewhat twitpic.com/5u42j4/full #Gaddafi #Libya
Libyans Revolt
I’d only heard of but never seen this video before of AbdulJalil in 2009 #libya #feb17 bit.ly/p9CYgg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rraf_cnLyk&fea...
Libya Outreach
SITUATION REPORT
Executive Summary
On July 21, 2011, reports surfaced that Gaddafi forces have “booby-trapped” oil installations near Brega; the Pentagon continued to evaluate options in response to NATO request for more drones in Libya; Gaddafi apparently ruled out direct talks with the NTC, but a diplomat welcomed Russian-led negotiations; Montenegro officially recognized the NTC; the Tunisian Health Ministry reported that there have been 39 cases of tuberculosis and 29 cases of AIDS in camps near the Tunisia-Libya border; the missing Baltimore, MD writer, Matthew VanDyke, was sighted in a Tripoli prison; and, the Gaddafi regime is seeking to contract out the operations of its shipping firm to two Asian corporations as part of the regime’s attempt to generate much-needed revenue.
Significant opportunities remain for international policymakers to positively impact the situation in Libya
Military Developments: Gaddafi and Loyalists
Summary of News
Gaddafi troops booby-trapped petroleum installations in the strategic oil port of Brega so they can be destroyed if his regime loses the town (http://tiny.cc/c2d5w)
Military Developments: NTC and Pro-Democracy Fighters
Summary of News
Opposition commanders in Western Mountains supplying Tripoli-based forces with weapons in advance of march on the capital (http://tiny.cc/sia9b)
Pentagon mulls NATO request for more U.S. drones in Libya campaign (http://tiny.cc/10j9z)
In western Libya, the rebel army largely consists of defectors—ranging from students to military officers—people who have taken the dangerous decision to break from the Gaddafi regime (http://tiny.cc/vfrnk)
Political Developments: Gaddafi and Loyalists
Summary of News
Gaddafi apparently ruled out talks with NTC (http://tiny.cc/7wxtd)
Playing the waiting game has paid off for Muammar Gaddafi. After conducting four months of daily bombings, the NATO-led allies are willing to make a concession to persuade him to give up power: Let him stay in Libya (http://tiny.cc/lopq0)
Gaddafi diplomat says that Tripoli would welcome “any Russian role in the peaceful settlement of the Libyan conflict” that should be “equally acceptable for all Libyans, including the opposition in Benghazi” (http://tiny.cc/h5y1f)
Political Developments: NTC and Pro-Democracy Fighters
Summary of News
Montenegro (http://tiny.cc/3gxgo) recognized NTC as official government of Libya
Consensus developing among NATO allies to “allow” Libyans to decide Gaddafi’s fate once conflict ends (http://tiny.cc/prfqs)
Humanitarian Needs
Summary of News
Tunisian Health Ministry has reported 39 cases of tuberculosis and 29 cases of AIDS near Libyan border (http://tiny.cc/fmfy3)
In Libya, a person is killed or maimed by mines and unexploded devices every two hours, and children represent a third of the victims (http://tiny.cc/mg1ek)
Russia sends another shipment of humanitarian aid to Libya (http://tiny.cc/8s6su)
Communications Developments
Summary of News
A Baltimore writer missing in Libya has been sighted in a prison in Tripoli (http://tiny.cc/7s1ii)
Economic Development
Summary of News
Libya’s state owned shipping firm is asking two Asian companies to take control of its fleet as the regime steps up efforts to secure cash to sustain its war efforts (http://tiny.cc/nkcol)
Link to read whole report:
us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=5f65a9cec4...
Lisa
Many Libyan people are signing in to join the Free Libyan Liberation Army (#FLLA) voluntarily.
ღ.¸¸Libeeya¸¸.ღ
Landline telephones now working in #Misrata thanks to ff
dovenews Libyan™
UN trying to find a political solution & Gaddafi doesnt want even to talk or step down. They are just wasting their time. JUST KILL HIM!
Abdul
#libya 110 anti personnel mines collected in #Kikla in 30 minutes #Nafusa yfrog.com/ki17nnkj
150 families in #yefren now. 7 of them stayed there throughout the period of shelling. Electricity is back in the souk area #Libya #Nafusa
VOA
Italy Hosts Libyan Rebels in Diplomacy Talks
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini held talks in Rome Friday with the Vice-President of the Transitional National Council of Benghazi, Ali al-Issawi. Both made clear there is no role for Moammar Gadhafi in the future of Libya.
“Now we are preparing in the hands of Mr. Khatib to present to both sides Tripoli and Benghazi, a political offer including a road map, including a cease-fire, including a very clear and firm point: Gadhafi should relinquish the power,” said Frattini.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s special envoy to Libya, Abdul Elah al-Khatib, a Jordanian senator, is seeking a political solution to the conflict that erupted in February between Gadhafi’s forces and rebels based in the east. He has visited both sides several times.
Gadhafi said in a speech in Libya on Thursday that he would not speak to the rebels until the “day of judgement.”
Frattini and al-Issawi on Friday discussed the fighting on the ground in Libya. Frattini said there are people in Tripoli ready to join the opposition and are getting organized.
Al-Issawi told reporters later that a NATO airstrike on Thursday targeted a room in Tripoli where leaders of Gadhafi’s inner circle was meeting. He claimed one top aide was seriously wounded.
Al-Issawi said rebels continue to advance in their fight against Gadhafi.
“The Libyans rebels are moving and gaining spaces on the ground, in the Brega area and also from the western mountains towards Tripoli,” Al-Issawi said.
Full art.:
www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Ita...
Reuters
Gaddafi aide wounded in Tripoli rocket attack-rebel
ROME, July 22 (Reuters) – A Libyan rebel official said on Friday that a member of Muammar Gaddafi’s inner circle had been seriously wounded by a rocket attack on a room in Tripoli where senior Libyan officials were meeting.
Ali Essawi, in charge of foreign affairs for the rebels fighting Gaddafi, said one of the Libyan leader’s sons, Saif al-Islam, Prime Minister al-Baghdadi Ali Al-Mahmoudi, intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi and an official named Mansour Daw were in the room at the time of the attack on Thursday.
Full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLD...
Italy renews its support for the NTC
Italy has renewed its efforts for the birth of a new Libya, through economic support, civil cooperation and increased pressure on the regime to cease all violence against civilians.
This was the assurance made by Ministry Franco Frattini at his meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Rome with the Vice Chairman of the National Transitional Council (NTC) in Benghazi, Ali Al-Isawi.
On the economic front, said Frattini, the last technical problems are being resolved to send fuel and 350 million euros in cash to Benghazi.
“It’s a matter of days”, he added. Italy has approved “domestic legislation that will make it possible to deliver a huge amount of money” to meet the needs of the Libyan population in the areas under rebel control.
Frattini stressed to Al-Isawi the need for the new Libyan government to respect and implement existing contracts with Italian enterprises.
As regards to the political aspects of the situation, Frattini and Al-Isawi discussed the outcome of the Contact Group meeting in Istanbul, where the NTC was recognised as legitimate representative of the Libyan government.
Frattini explained that a plan is being drawn up that will be submitted to both sides.
It includes a road map for the restoration of peace to the country and a ceasefire, the only pre-condition being that Gaddafi must leave power.
The Minister reiterated that the United Nations must be entrusted with managing the negotiations. Only one of the two sides wants to talk, i.e. the NTC, with the regime continuing to refuse to negotiate, Frattini pointed out.
He added that the only way forward is to identify people from the government in Tripoli who are willing to sit down at the negotiating table and present Gaddafi with the condition that he must leave power.
As regards to the future of the Libyan leader, especially with respect to the international arrest warrant for crimes against humanity, Frattini said that the international community must not commit to any form of impunity for Gaddafi that would be an error.
But, at the same time, I say that it is the Libyans who should decide whether or not Gaddafi has to leave the country. We cannot decide that, certainly not if we are speaking as Italy, where the statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was laid down.
Libya, he pointed out, is not one of the signatory countries to the Rome Statute, which requires that the rules (of the ICC) be respected including the arrest warrant.
The international community will respect the decisions of the Libyan people. On this point Al-Isawi responded: our main objective is for Gaddafi to leave power. We can talk about the details later.
Turning to the situation on the ground, the NTC representative explained that the revolutionary forces are gaining ground and drawing nearer to Tripoli.
Yesterday they attacked a compound where senior dignitaries of the Libyan government were located. A very strong signal of a rebellion in the capital of Libya itself.
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Source:
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dhdfisher Daniel Fisher BBC
Libyan foreign spokesman and PM claim NATO bombed the great man made river
Fissa
I posted 16 photos on Facebook in the album “July 22, 2011” fb.me/15Rx3kS88
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.140392792709575.35678.133049600110561&l=679fbb5e7c
libyanandproud
#Gaddafi Regime confirms attack on Sheraton #Tripoli in their own specail way Mussa Ibrahim: it was a gas cylinder explosion"
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
Moussa Ibrahim denies unconfirmed reports any senior officials hurt in a rebel attack in #tripoli thurs.says its kitchen explosion
mojo
Mussa, Mussa, Mussa — your hair is deserting you, obviously your brain has already baled…kitchen gas cylinder LOL #libya
Libyans Revolt
Pray that God eases our Norwegian brothers tribulations and suffering during these difficult times #Norway #Oslo
BoothWilliam William Booth
Watched Zintani sappers in western mtns #Libya spend the afternoon pulling 100s mines out of olive grove; mines look like scary little toys.
OnlyOneLibya ProudLibyan
Gaddafi wanted by international justice poster. #Libya #Gaddafi مطلوب للعدالة twitpic.com/5u5isd
And his ego is bigger still?
Joanne
unfortunately its confirmed that Gaddafis right arm Abdalllah Senussi is still breathing
REUTERSFLASH ReutersBreakingNews
Gaddafi encourages Libyan people to talk to rebels, but he will not speak with rebels – Govt spokesman
libyanandproud
Our FF Commanders don’t hide in Rat Holes ! Here is Abd Alfatah Younis at #Brega Front Lines (18/07/2011) youtu.be/gAVYig8oi1Q #Feb17 #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAVYig8oi1Q&fea...
Joanne
#NATO Friday morning: Bombed Gaddafi military sites at Al Assa near Wazen-Dhéhiba border Huge Smoke plumes seen from BenGuerdane #Libya
Gulf_of_Sirte Sirtawi
Keep on watching Libya TV for their ongoing coverage of #gaddafi’scrimes on libya.tv They’re doing a great job!!
BEAUTIFUL PIC!!!!!!!
moooonlight22 Libya Free Forever.
#Al Beada city huge Demo today #feb17 #Libya @via FB facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2053527...
Abeidi
Libya, NATO,How NATO’s “eye in the sky” keep track on Libya youtube.com/watch?v=OCKZ4D…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCKZ4D0vaqA&fea...
HERE ARE THE BEAUTIFUL PICS FROM TODAY’S DEMO AT ALBAIDA:
BEAUTIFUL PICS, must see:
Nesrine Libya ☾✰
today’s demo at Albaida
Photo’s:
twitpic.com/5u688t
twitpic.com/5u5z6f
twitpic.com/5u5vpd
twitpic.com/5u5wfz
twitpic.com/5u5yms
SMILE, look at this pic;
twitpic.com/5u60fr
Libya Free Forever.
#BinGerdan explusion heard in #Alassa #Libya border, a common location for #Gadafi thugs #Gadaficrimes #Libya #Feb 17
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
#tripoli gov spokesman: reports of attack in the city thurs not true. Explosion near sheraton was gas cylinder kitchen explosion
mojo
That was no boating accident, er i mean exploding gas cylinder! the Gaddafi regime Jumps the Shark!! #libya #Gaddafilies
Sean
My thoughts go out to the people of Norway. Especially Utøya. A real tragedy dealt by a sick, twisted mind.
Joanne
what I found out so far is that Senusi has been lightly hurt but that Mansour Daw was eliminated
A Displaced Libyan
The Morning of Freedom has Arisen: we are all Libyans
I was about 21, and to commemorate the event I glued the relevant pages from the national newspapers including the words of the poem into my scrapbook. I still have this scrapbook in Tripoli, and I hope it will remain safe so that I can add to it and show it to my children one day. We had no Facebook, Twitter or blogs at that time and internet for me was still in the realm of crime movies and science papers, yet the day remains vivid and if I wanted to describe it in 140-160 characters or as a Facebook status I would say: “long term prisoners of conscience released & lists of those prevented from travelling torn up in Libya by Colonel Gaddafi! “
Though we hoped that all political prisoners from the various factions were released on that day in 1988, we know this did not happen because some neighbours did not benefit from the amnesty. We hoped that there will be no more political prisoners but that hope was also dashed because we know at least one in-law is there since he was 17 years old just for praying regularly at the mosque and we believe that he is among those massacred in the Abu Salim prison uprising but his parents have not been informed about it to this day. His parents died this year so will never know. see AI link for more references.
This is the source for the whole story:
displacedlibyan.wordpress.com/2011/07/2...
BBC
Life in Ajdabiya six months into conflict
In a televised broadcast to the Libyan people, Colonel Gaddafi once again ruled out dialogue with the international community over the future of the country.
The BBC’s Christian Fraser returns to Ajdabiya to revisit a family of five brothers caught up in the six month long conflict.
Video
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14254638
Ahmed
A friend & a warrior, a real leader of men colonel Tariq Eldressy commander of Martyrs of Zawia Brigade was killed in action in #Brega
Tariq Eldressy was killed via a rocket attack in late hours of Thursday night on the front lines #Brega.He always lead his men into battle
Since revolution began Tariq Eldressy never took an hour off, slept minimal hours,worked with every fiber of his being to Liberate #Libya
Son he said to me..we don’t have much..but ill fight them with this & pulls out a switchblade..#Gaddafi will never take our dignity again..
I am proud to have gotten to know him, see him work & I’m inspired by him..His death saddens me, like every Libyan he dreamed of
#Benghazi & #Libya mourns the death of another hero..gone but NEVER forgotten..The blood of our martyrs will not go in vain..
Warrior, commander & above all he died as a proud free Libyan..A Libyan hero, Tariq Eldressy yfrog.com/kerl6phj we will never forget.
That was a picture of him in his younger days..He was a colonel.
MyBelovedLibya سلام
a hundred years ago, the Libyans stood defiant and brave against the enemy. A hundred years later, we’re here again. #Libya.
Libya_Awake_United
Mobile phone service in #Tripoli is deteriorating. Frequent cut-off, some SIM lose service for hrs then the service come back. Maintenance?
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: #Gaddafi forces have fired 7 Grads into #Kikla tonight from the village of Meska. Structural damage, but no injuries so far.
Libya Free Forever.
Important #Gadafi forces give order to their thugs in #Nafusa through radio to attack Airports &civilians #Gadaficrimes #LIbya
Libya Free Forever. Gadafi thugs shelled #Wazen border town 1 hour ago #Gadaficrimes #Libya
Sabha17
Urgent Alqtron
Were attacked Al-qtron three axes after a siege and bombardment by heavy weapons lasted four days and completely cut off power supply led named Massoud Abdul Hafeez strongly in number two thousand troops, with some of the volunteers and the support of the Chadian army and heavy weapons and rocket launchers, which had been stationed on the border waiting for it, forcing the rebels to withdraw a little fear Al-Ahli in the region of the massacre that may occur after the bombing and behind the withdrawal entry Chadian forces with a certain Massoud Hafeez and the threat that he will make Alqtron debris such as what happened in Misurata and will be forcing the people to stage a demonstration in favor of the residents now in horror and anticipation Matúl him events and learned that the rebels lacked the support of heavy weapons
Abe
Oh. On my way to #Libya. Convoy – pretty huge shipment and I’m real proud of what we’ve achieved here. 2011, year of the free.
M.Ibrahim:“We explained many things to U.S.officials.They didnt have an accurate picture of the situation & we fixed a lot of false inform.”
Read story below:
Le Nouvel Observateur:
La Libye se dit prête à discuter encore avec les Etats-Unis
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Les représentants du gouvernement libyen se disent prêts à de nouvelles discussions avec les émissaires des Etats-Unis, a déclaré vendredi Moussa Ibrahim, porte-parole du gouvernement libyen.
“Nous avons expliqué de nombreuses choses aux représentants américains. Nous avons réalisé qu’ils n’avaient pas une image exacte de la situation, et nous avons corrigé beaucoup de fausses informations.”
Read more:
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Libya United 1944
#Libya LPC with mom in #Tripoli City Centre electricity only came on 4 2 hrs this afternoon & again 2 hrs this evening.
Alex
We will need more than #MusaIbrahim ’s reassurances – to convince us that all is well in #Gaddafi land – except 4 the occasional exploding #Tripoli kitchen #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
w00t they did it again. flag drop on #Tripoli’s university bridge: img269.imageshack.us/img269/2973/li… youtube.com/watch?v=hkWMOF… #feb17 #Libya #flagdrop
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Alex
Unless #Gaddafi can produce #Saif #AbdullahAlSenussi & #MansourDaw alive – within 24 hours – We can assume they r dead or seriously injured!
HR groups – say #Gaddafi must be held to account – but if we can sideline him & save lives of #FF – especially those on the front lines & in #Tripoli death camps – & still get real freedom and democracy – lets do it – & worry about him later.
It’s all theoretical in any event – Gaddafi is too mad to agree to the new #UN peace plan – which excludes his family from any political participation – but senior regime members may see this option as preferable to imminent ruin or death at the hands of #FF once Tripoli falls – & act to preserve their economic and personal interests over those of the Gaddafi family.
No one wants a mass murdering war criminal to escape justice – & I don’t doubt that #FF will win this war if this peace plan,like others before it, never proceeds – but at what cost in #FF lives – 15.000+ #Libya people are dead already & 30.000 youth are imprisoned in in extreme danger in Tripoli death camps.
#Libya
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Libyan Duda
#Gaddafi has been a terrorist before #Alqaeda & #OBL
hominoid
Libya Misrata Morale is low among troops fighting for Muammar Gaddafi on the front west of Misrata and many are reluctant to fight back against rebel attacks, a recently-wounded loyalist soldier.
The soldier said he was shot in the left thigh two or three days ago by rebel fighters on the front line that has been pushed amid heavy fighting and bombardment to around 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Misrata.
That puts the front around 6 kilometers east of Zlitan, the largest city remaining between the rebels and the capital Tripoli 160 km away.
Libyan
Stay strong, #Norway.
Libyan Duda
Sec General of @libyanfsl exiled for 32 years returns 2 #Libya ابراهيم صهد في ليبيا بعد تغييب نظام القذافي لمعارضيه youtube.com/watch?v=wIdqxe…
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bousuwa
Libyan Youth Movement Amazing Fundraising Effort today by Libyan Women of Benghazi raising 107,000 dinars in 2 hours #Libya
MUST READ:
Shabab:
Tripoli Persists; Accounts from a Libyan Doctor
July 22, 2011
Posted in News, Uncategorized | 18:24
A Libyan doctor (whose name will remain anonymous for the safety of his family) relates his experiences in Tripoli since the start of the uprising after safely leaving the city on July 7th, 2011.
LYM was able to speak to him and gather his eyewitness accounts and personal impressions of the city.
After leaving Tripoli, a city under strict control of the Gaddafi regime, the doctor describes how surprisingly difficult it was to adjust to his new found freedom to speak freely and access the internet without the fear of being traced and hunted down by the regime.
With the start of the protests in Benghazi, the doctor explains that he was in the Eastern stronghold working on a research project with his team and had to return immediately to Tripoli on the 19th of February to avoid any danger. Needless to say, he didn’t realize danger would follow them to Tripoli.
On the evening of February 20th, 2011 at 10:00 pm, internal security of the city were told to turn in their guns claiming that Gaddafi had fled to Venezuela. Until 2 am that evening, hundreds of activists believing the allegations to be true gathered in the “Green Square”. Shortly thereafter, regime forces armed with machine guns opened fire on the protesters killing hundreds. When the doctor and his colleagues boarded ambulances with the intention of aiding the wounded activists; they were denied permission by the regime and prevented from doing so.
Furthermore, anti-regime activists and anyone suspected by the regime of dissent in Tripoli were being arrested and imprisoned prior to the 19th of February and daily ever since. If a pursued individual was not located, regime forces arrested one of their family members in their place.
The doctor, expecting that medical attention would be required after the brutal onslaught of the regime on unarmed civilians, took his post at the Tripoli Medical Center.
He recalls seeing horrific wounds inflicted by anti-aircraft bullets and countless dead bodies, “I even saw a body with a bullet wound straight through the skull, half of it was gone”.
When asked about the availability of everyday basic necessities in the city, the doctor explains that although things may be available their prices have seen dramatic inflation.
For example, the price of flour, which would normally cost 5 dinars, is ten times its normal price at 50 dinars. Fuel for stoves also increased from 1.5 dinars to 30 dinars.
Fuel lines apart from being extremely long (he quoted that one can expect to wait five days and nights before buying fuel) are also extremely dangerous as tensions rise due to the restrictions enforced on regular residents in contrast with the utter lack of regulation of those working for the regime. He relates a tragic story of a man who had waited in line for fuel for days and expressed his frustration upon seeing Gaddafi loyalists cut the line. Gaddafi soldiers seized him and violently assaulted him. At one point he was pushed onto the adjacent road, run over, and killed by oncoming traffic before he was able
to get up or move out of harm’s way. An uproar erupted from others waiting in line, neighbours, and residents of the area who took part in anti-regime protests in response to this incident.
Communications and Media
The propagation of information through the use of telephones was made impossible due to the regime’s efforts to instill fear in the population and monitor any potential dissidents by tapping the phone lines. The doctor explained that news was still able spread like wildfire in Tripoli primarily via word of mouth. “If the residents of Tripoli don’t know of an event within hours of its occurrence; they would have heard it by the next day for sure”. The residents of Tripoli are well aware of the activity within the city-which he describes to be frequent and widespread-and within the nation.
With respect to the pro-Gaddafi protests (Million Man March for Gaddafi held on July 1st, 2011) just days before the doctor was able to leave the city, he reports that one of his relatives who was working near the square described the crowd as insignificant. The numbers he says were greatly exaggerated as well as the visuals plastered on Libyan State TV, “the Green Square was broadcast to be a lot wider than it truly is. Besides, a few thousand protesters are nothing against the millions who stand against Gaddafi”.
Façade of Normalcy
The doctor relates how the city is wearing a façade of normalcy, “Tripoli looks normal but it’s not”. The residents of Tripoli are scared and depressed by the actions of Gaddafi’s regime but resolute that his end is near, “it is only a matter of time before Gaddafi is gone”.
Schools are not operating normally; some principals, risking their own safety, have asked their students not to return. Al-Fateh University professors attempted –without success-to delay or prevent students from returning to school by postponing exams.
Continuous gunshot fire is heard every night from1 am until 5 am as regime soldiers fire shots into the air not only disseminating fear in Tripoli residents but harming anyone who is unfortunate enough to be outdoors at the time as falling outside who may potentially be hit by a falling bullet. The doctor describes how one of his friend’s brothers was struck on his shoulder narrowly missing his heart by a falling bullet while sitting in his car one evening.
He describes that even with Gaddafi’s iron fist of control over the city fortified with checkpoints set up throughout the city, people are doing their best to resist and aid the revolution. Confidential arrangements are being made including the collection of money and equipment in preparation for activity to come.
Media War
When asked if the residents of Tripoli were avid viewers of new independent media in Libya including the Libya Al-Ahrar channel based in Doha, Qatar he responded that although people are viewing independent media they are still weary of the regime. The doctor explained how Al Jazeera was strictly banned in the city; when a few doctors were found viewing the channel in a staff lounge of one hospital, the regime removed all televisions from that hospital.Anyone viewing independent media, like Libya Al-Ahrar and Al Jazeera, even at home, risks being discovered by the regime and arrested.
Neighbourhood Watch
The doctor also describes personal incidents where extended family members were reported to regime officials by their neighbours. “My cousins were reported by their neighbours to be harbouring weapons and anti-regime sentiments.The regime sent soldiers to their home twice to investigate finding nothing”. Residents are weary of watchful neighbours.
Treating the Enemy
The doctor’s descriptions of his experiences in hospitals reveal disturbing truths. He admits that he had to in hospitals of Tripoli where injured Gaddafi soldiers were treated; having to treat men who had just returned from the frontlines where they has just been terrorizing Libyan civilians. “It was difficult to be in such a situation but it was a humanitarian need and we treated them”. He was struck to find that some of them were very young suffering from severe injuries like missing limbs and explained how doctors would grant some cases with medical leave so that they did not have to return to the front line.
Call for Medical Expertise
Due to the shortage of specialized doctors, many patients are having limbs amputated to avoid the spread of infection. The doctor stressed a shortage of vascular surgeons and neurosurgeons and calls for more assistance from doctors with this specialization in order to provide better more effective treatment to patients.
Upon completing his work outside Libya the doctor plans on returning to the capital to continue in the struggle to liberate the country.
Account collected and written by Ayat Mneina.
Mike
Musa Ibrahim denies rebels responsible for Sheraton attack yesterday. Was a kitchen explosion. Green egg in the microwave?
Free Libyia
@NATO @NATOpress The civilians of Al Qatroun, near Sabha, South Libya are under direct attack from Gaddafi forces.
Niz_FGM Niz
22/7/11 – #Tripoli Update with short video clip…. Zaweeyat Al Dahmani District asserts itself!!
Tripoli Update 22/7/11
by The Free Generation Movement – حركة جيل الاحرار on Friday, July 22, 2011 at 7:50pm
Zaweyat Al Dahmani District has seen an increase in armed activity against Katiba forces. Recently, explosives were used on a targeted attack on a Toyato Tundra truck…the vehicle of choice for Tripoli Katiba.A few days ago, groups allied to the Free Generation Movement took up positions in the district and used sniper techniques to target trucks terrorising the neighbourhood.The below short clip shows one such truck with bullet holes along one side, parked in Zaweyat Al Dahmani. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w6t1YLf640
Free Libyia
Al Qatroun, South Libya is in danger of becoming another Zawiya. G forces surround town, cut off electricity, FFs lack weaponry. Rabi yester
bencnn benwedeman
Many “terror” experts sing from the same sheet. It’s a huge echo chamber that emits much noise, scant wisdom. #Norway
Lisa
#Feb17 I’m lv you all but I’m praying for #Libya and safety of the #FreedomFighters tonight!! Much love to Libya n prayers to #Oslo
Niz_FGM Niz
23/7/11 – Heavy #NATO bombing rocks the capital, #Tripoli – appears to be coming from central districts.
SUMMARY JULY 23rd 2011
7/23/2011
7.23.2011
NATO
23 Jul. 2011
Operational Media Update for 22 July 2011
Air Operations
Since the beginning of the NATO operation (31 March 2011, 06.00GMT) a total of 16,156 sorties, including 6,086 strike sorties*, have been conducted.
Sorties conducted 22 JULY: 128
Strike sorties conducted 22 JULY: 46
*Strike sorties are intended to identify and engage appropriate targets, but do not necessarily deploy munitions each time.
Key Hits 22 JULY:
In the vicinity of Al Khums: 1 Military Storage Facility.
In the vicinity of Brega: 1 Military Storage Facility, 4 Armed Vehicles.
In the vicinity of Tripoli: 1 Command and Control Node.
In the vicinity of Waddan: 1 Military Storage Facility.
In the vicinity of Zintan: 3 Anti-Aircraft Guns.
In the vicinity of Zlitan: 1 Military Storage Facility, 2 Tanks, 2 Anti-Aircraft Guns, 1 Armed Vehicle.
Arms Embargo Activities
A total of 17 ships under NATO command are actively patrolling the Central Mediterranean.
23 Vessels were hailed on 22 JULY to determine destination and cargo. 1 boarding (no denials) was conducted.
A total of 1883 vessels have been hailed, 181 boardings and 9 denials have been conducted since the beginning of arms embargo operations.
Arms Embargo Activities
A total of 17 ships under NATO command are actively patrolling the Central Mediterranean.
23 Vessels were hailed on 22 JULY to determine destination and cargo. 1 boarding (no denials) was conducted.
A total of 1883 vessels have been hailed, 181 boardings and 9 denials have been conducted since the beginning of arms embargo operations.
International Humanitarian Assistance Movements as recorded by NATO
Total of Humanitarian Movements**: 601(air, ground, maritime)
Ships delivering Humanitarian Assistance 22 JULY: 0
Aircrafts delivering Humanitarian Assistance 22 JULY: 6
NOAH
Mea culpa:
Seeing all the knee-jerk reactions from certain quarters in the media blaming the Oslo attack on jihadists, I would ordinarily be noting how much of a commentary on the weak standards in journalism today it is. And how narrow some people can be in their thinking. But I have a problem, when news of the attack first came across the wire I reacted in that same way. My very first thought was a jihadist attack like this would damage the Arab Spring movements across the mideast & North Africa. It angered me.
I didn’t just think it, I posted a message expressing that. True I’m not a journalist but I still have as much responsibility to be clear thinking, rational and true to my expressed beliefs. I still have the responsibility to seek truth and to not let my prejudices and preconceived ideas cloud my search for that truth. I’ve become so emotionally invested in the fight for liberty in Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and elsewhere, almost to the point of feeling paternalistic about it.
It shows how emotionalism can sometimes cloud ones better self. While it’s true that we must not allow ourselves to be numbed to the struggle and suffering of others, it’s equally true that we must not allow ourselves to get so emotionally involved as to become reactionary. In so doing, blinding ourselves to truth and letting our baser instincts rule our actions.
I have a lot to think about.
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
Moussa Ibrahim denies unconfirmed reports any senior officials hurt in a rebel attack in #tripoli thurs.says its kitchen explosion.#Libya
at least 6 loud explosions rocked #Tripoli shortly before 230am local
Air strikes in central #Tripoli have been rare in recent weeks. these strikes rattled the windows of hotel where journos staying #Libya
#Libya state TV reports “crusader aggressors” (NATO) have struck civilian &military sites in #Tripoli
IvanCNN Ivan Watson
At least 5 airstrikes just rocked central #Tripoli. Jets still flying overhead. #Libya
dhdfisher Daniel Fisher BBC
7 explosions hit Tripoli. Probable target Gadaffi compound. Blast wave felt in rixos hotel
Niz_FGM Niz
23/7/11 – Heavy #NATO bombing rocks the capital, #Tripoli – appears to be coming from central districts.
Reuters Reuters Top News
FLASH: Norwegian police say at least 80 killed in shootings at Utoeya
Adrian I am so happy to be alive. I got shot in my sholder at Utøya, but this is nothing compared to the proper who have lost their love ones.
LIBYANVOICE
At least seven strong explosions were heard in Tripoli n d early hours of Saturday morning including d area surrounding bab elazizia
It is 47.2 C now in some parts of #Tripoli the #Libyan capital.
It is absolutely warm today :-S just like an oven feeling in #Tripoli
FreeBenghazi
Thuwar car hit by Gaddafi rocket Jul21, Zliten. Over 5 martyred that day.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyzeeB5CWd0
LWB
What happened in #Norway just reminds us like Oklahoma, that muslims have nothing to do with terror! Terror has no skin nor religion. #Sad
#libyan people sends their warm condolences to the #Norwegians for what has happened to them. #Libya
libyanandproud
Exclusive : Picture showing a soldier Helping Mutassim #Gaddafi escape #Brega twitpic.com/5ui2ti #Feb17 #Libya LOL !
Zlitniya
Libya Al Ahrara TV: Guest says FF 1km from Zliten Bridge
Alexb
#Egypt will not telecast #Gaddafi STV speech to them on 23rd – what can their revolution learn – from a dictator worse than their own #Libya
libyanandproud
#Zliten : Explosion In one of the administrative building in the city heard this morning , source unknown
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Gaddafi picture torn from magazine, left by retreating fighters on outskirts of #Zliten: twitpic.com/5u37av #Feb17
FURURE FOR LIBYA
Libyan TNC Official Spokesman: “Freedom Fighters had cut off the oil production pipeline in Al-Burayqah”
Speaking during a telephone contact from Benghazi, Abd-al-Hafiz Ghawqah, the Libyan Transitional National Council’s (TNC) vice chairman and its official spokesman denied that delegations sent by Al-Qadhafi in the past days to several countries had any connection with the meeting held under the name of the “federalism for unity”.
On the participation of the foreign alliance’s forces in several fronts with the revolutionaries, he explained that “the alliance forces are playing an important role by attacking several military positions and heavy weapons but it is the revolutionaries who are leading the attacks in the battlefield without coordinating or making arrangements with the alliance forces that are providing them with air cover. But the NATO forces’ bombardments of military targets are prompting us to advance toward liberating the cities because they disrupted the ranks of the forces loyal to Al-Qadhafi.”
The TNC spokesman described the clashes in Al-Burayqah (eastern Libya) “as resolved and under the revolutionaries’ control”, saying Al-Qadhafi’s dispatch of his forces again to the city which the revolutionaries had captured earlier would not affect the latter’s advance and pointed out that Al-Qadhafi had previously massed 6,000 soldiers during his siege of Misratah (208 km east of Tripoli) but was unable to occupy even a single street. He added that the revolutionaries have cut off the oil production pipeline in Al-Burayqah which extends from south of the city to Sirte (Al-Qadhafi’s hometown), adding that the revolutionaries were encircling the city from all sides but their advance was being slowed down by the mines planted haphazardly by Al-Qadhafi’s regiments
Reuters
WRAPUP 2-Libya wants more talks with U.S. and rebels
Joanne
#ZLITEN Souq alThalatha 16 FF Martyrsand 126 injured in 2 last days battle for Zliten #Libya
Joanne
Libya ambassador to #Malta makes u-turn: “unequivocally with Libyan people in their legitimate struggle 4freedom and democracy”.
FREE DOWNLOADS of Awesome Libyan MUSIC from “Band section” #LibyanYouthMovement FB t.co/4iH37k3 #Libya
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United States is Investigating reports that a ship carrying weapons for #Libya Gaddafi’s forces was allowed to dock in #Algeria
TRIPOLI Yesterday City center only had 2 hrs electricity in afternoon 2 hrs in the evening with GIBLY U need 2Close ALL doors/windows #Libya
#Al Khums Electricity outage apart from 2 hrs yesterday @Nato bombed the General People’s Committee Secretariat yesterday evening #Libya
No wonder FF Having difficulty entering #BREGA col. #Bani estimates 400 thousand mines have been planted by Gaddafi F #GaddafiCrimes #Libya
Extreme #TRIPOLI heat My heart shivers when I I think of the poor packed tight #Gaddafi Held Innocent Prisoners without ventilation #Libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Situation in the South of Libya is dire – Reports that city of Qatrun, liberated by FF a few weeks ago is back under Gaddafi control
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Thermometer well over 40 degrees in #Misrata today, with searing hot wind whipping up the dust.
Rebel fighters rescued several #Misrata families from #Zliten this week, where they had been held by #Gaddafi forces since early May.
Senior rebel commander: fighters captured 19 Gaddafi soldiers during advance on #Zliten Wednesday, 9 more Friday. #Misrata
libyanandproud
We will never Forget what you did to #Zawiya ! youtu.be/KcDvarMoje0 #Feb17 #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcDvarMoje0&fea...
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
@NATO jets heard overhead today.. sound of a distant explosion at abt noon #Tripoli time after several strikes overnight. #Libya
Karl Stagno-Navarra
I said it yesterday and will say it again today: WE ARE ALL NORWEGIAN!
septimius
I’m no #expert, but aren’t mines as well as being a weapon of cowards, a sign of giving up the initiative of attcking?
libyanandproud
#Birghanam : Two #Zintan FF guarding a checkpoint were injured due to mortar attack by #Gaddafi forces . #Feb17 #Libya
LA TIMES
Police in Libya rebel capital pivot from oppressor to protector
The police force in Benghazi, the Libyan rebel stronghold, is 6,000 poorly trained and woefully equipped men struggling to establish law and order in the middle of a revolution
Reporting from Benghazi, Libya—
Officer Sharif Ganasi was working the 4 p.m.-to-midnight shift, cruising the trash-strewn streets of Benghazi, alert for drunks and carjackers.
His new black police uniform was too tight and too hot. He was drenched with sweat, his bulky body crammed into the tiny driver’s seat of a white Hyundai compact. His hand-held radio kept cutting out.
“We could use better equipment,” he said as he guided car 23 through evening traffic in the de facto capital of Libya’s rebels.
Ganasi doesn’t carry a gun or a badge. He rarely arrests anyone. Mostly he reports suspicious activities so that police headquarters can dispatch officers who actually do have guns.
Such is the marginalized world of Benghazi’s finest: 6,000 poorly trained and woefully equipped men struggling to establish law and order in the middle of a revolution.
Read full art here:
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feb17
REUTERS AFRICA
Wounded Gaddafi soldier says morale of troops is low
Morale is low among troops fighting for Muammar Gaddafi on the front west of Misrata and many are reluctant to fight back against rebel attacks, a recently-wounded loyalist soldier told Reuters on Friday.
“Most of them are exhausted, especially as we approach the month of Ramadan,” said the soldier, who spoke on condition his name and his hometown not be mentioned for fear of reprisals against his family. “They don’t want to fight during Ramadan.”
“They want everything to settle and we’re all Libyan brothers,” he added. “We don’t want to harm each other.”
The soldier said he was shot in the left thigh two or three days ago by rebel fighters on the front line that has been pushed amid heavy fighting and bombardment to around 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Misrata.
“There is no organisation or planning,” he said in a quiet voice. “Most times we withdraw.”
“They didn’t allow us to watch media channels,” he said. “We were only allowed to watch Libyan (state) television.”
“I was told (the rebels) were criminal gangs who mutilated bodies.”
The soldier said he had expected to be treated badly when he was wounded and captured.
“I was treated with respect,” he said. “I did not expect to be treated this well.”
Full art.:
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Dima
Al Jamahiriya TV : Gaddafi will be addressing “the people of Egypt” on Egypt’s July 23 revolution #libya #egypt
MisrataPatriots PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
West#Libya, FFs army largely consists of defectors,who have taken dangerous decision 2break with Gadhafi regime youtu.be/jVsxzJM0Ubo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVsxzJM0Ubo&feature=youtu.be
Niz_FGM Niz
22/7/11 -Last nights heavy bombing in #Tripoli targeted the Bab Alazaziyah complex of the defunct regime.Sources tell us of huge fireballs
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Not many tweeps left at the Rixos… or most of them seem to be quiet… are the Gaddafi regime’s threats and expulsions paying off? #libya
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
On Thursday afternoon, RAF aircraft patrolling near Zlitan identified and destroyed a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun. #Libya
During the night, @britisharmy Apache helicopters launched a strike mission from HMS Ocean, while other NATO aircraft provided overwatch.
Two buildings being used by regime troops at Al Khums were damaged by Hellfire missiles. #Libya
This strike was followed up by NATO fixed wing aircraft in the early hours of Friday morning. #Libya
RAF jets hit 6 ammunition storage facilities near Zlitan & a building being used as a base for rocket launchers threatening Misratah. #Libya
On Friday afternoon, RAF armed reconnaissance patrols successfully engaged one of Qadhafi’s tanks and an armed truck, near Zlitan. #Libya
Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011 was an English singer-songwriter, known for her powerful contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of various musical genres including R&B, soul, and jazz. She received extensive publicity over her substance abuse and mental health issues. Winehouse died on 23 July 2011; police have described the cause of her death as “unexplained”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Winehouse
Steen
4 #amywinehouse neil young-needle and the damage done youtube.com/watch?v=_uBjpy…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uBjpyOLjsc
Nareser
Famine in East Africa, Libya, Norway, Amy Winehouse! My heart goes out to all these people!
Wybius
90 dead in Norway, Amy Winehouse dead, and what is happening in Libya? How many dead?
Ossama
#Tripoli: From the early hours of this morning #NATO has targeted #Gaddafi sites, and 7 explosions were heard and smoke was seen rising.
#TRIPOLI Man on Libya AlAhrar CONFIRMS Abduallah Senussi + Mansour Daw dead Children are in Coma in AlKhadraHospital goo.gl/Q2hZP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q_Iv-EdA34
In western #Libya, the free #Libyan national army largely consists of defectors…: t.co/1vlsqvc #Libya #feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJvuukddwl8&fea...
BREAKING #NALUT: 6 Martys from the Thowar Tarabulus Battalion this morning in Nalut, will provide u with more details as and when i get it
Misurata: women prepare various kinds of food for freedom fighters on frontline..
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TRIPOLI FRIEND: Never seen hot day as today since born.. It is 49 C now in some areas of city, may god bless Libyaand long live free Libya
Jabel Nafousa: Message to #Gaddafi t.co/q0vx7kW #Libya #feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxyUYNVRDVM&fea...
According to sources the group of #FFs who carried out the operation which killed Abdullah Sanusi maneged to flee to #Tunisia.
Joanne
#TRIPOLI Musa #Ibrahim says Libyan Officials but not the HIDING COWARD #Gaddafi himself would be willing to hold meetings with rebels #Libya
Libia: potenti esplosioni a Tripoli
(ANSA) – TRIPOLI, 23 LUG – Almeno sette potenti esplosioni hanno scosso il centro della capitale libica, Tripoli. Le deflagrazioni hanno scosso in particolare il settore della residenza di Muammar Gheddafi al centro della citta’, gia’ obiettivo di decine di raid Nato. Al momento non ci sono notizie ufficiali su morti e feriti ne’ tantomeno su quali fossero gli obiettivi di questo raid.
www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/topnew...
Reuters
US checks reports of ship carrying arms for Libya
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is investigating reports that a ship carrying weapons for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces was allowed to dock in Algeria, which would be considered a violation of U.N. resolutions, a State Department official said on Friday.
The United States called on Algeria, if it was aware of the shipment, to stop it from reaching Gaddafi’s forces.
Libyan opposition sources expressed concern about the ship, saying it was sailing under a Libyan flag, carrying weapons, and arrived on July 19 at the port of Djen Djen in Algeria, from where the cargo was being taken over the border into Libya.
“We have heard reports that a ship carrying arms to Gaddafi’s regime was recently permitted to dock in Algeria and that these weapons are currently being transported overland into neighboring Libya,” the State Department official told Reuters.
“The United States government is working to ascertain the veracity of these claims, which have only just come to light. If true, this would likely constitute a violation of U.N. Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973.”
read more:
af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE7...
Sarah LFFR
La nuit dernière d’intense bombardement à #Tripoli qui visaient Bab Alazaziyah . #Libye #GaddafisEnd #17feb
Bloomberg
Germany to Give 100 Million-Euro Loan to Libya Council, FAZ Says
Germany plans to provide a loan of as much as 100 million euros ($143 million) to Libya’s Transitional National Council, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported, without saying where it obtained the information.
Source:
www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-23/germa...
inglesi Piers Scholfield
#Misrata man rescued from #Gaddafi territory: the people and fighters of #Zliten are ready and waiting for the rebels to arrive. #Feb17
SecularLibya
Heinz: #NATO is working on RasLanuf & Bishr. 200 GFs did a counter attack in Zlitan from Khums and were met by helis. #Libya #Feb17
Iman
My seven your old sister: when I got to libya can I climb on top of an enemy tank #libya #feb17 #kids I want to too amira :)
omar
Video: Freedom fighters entered #SukThulatha #Zliten after fierce battle & over 5 martyrs #Misrata #Libya #Feb17 youtu.be/QyzeeB5CWd0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyzeeB5CWd0&fea...
Nesrine Libya ☾✰
a good paint i saw today at my college exhibition twitpic.com/5ukf4o
Joanne
#Libya Gibly usually blows 2 to 3 days Sand gets through teeniest hole I used Wet towels in front of windows and doors and STILL found sand
#Libya When Gibly blows the heat is oppressive Unbearable Sometimes U cant see more then 25 Mtrs Everybody hates the gibly Its depressing
Souffian Tripoli
Daily News on #Tripoli #Trables #Libya goo.gl/r9L0i
hominoid
Libya Breaking News – Nalut Six Martyrs from Tripoli pro democracy fighters in Nalut city this early morning….more updates coming soon.
BBC
Libya: Show of support for Gaddafi in Sirt
Sirte is Col Gaddafi’s hometown. It’s also his heartland. For this reason, the Libyan government invited us to have a look.
It wanted to show us that – in this part of the country at least – the leader still has plenty of support.
We arrived in Sirte in time for an early evening rally in support of Col Gaddafi. Several thousand people gathered in the centre of the city. Many wore green baseball caps or waved green flags (green is the colour of those who support the colonel).
One young boy sat on the curb and diligently coloured his right forearm with a green felt-tip pen.
“Write the truth now,” one man told us. “Hundreds of thousands of people,” he said, pointing towards the crowd.
Many demonstrators carried pictures of Col Gaddafi. Behind the stage, there was a picture of a young man who had been killed in the past few months of conflict.
“He is a martyr,” another man told me approvingly.
Full art.:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-1426213...
TRIPOLI Posters around town promise High Wages FREE Car An Apartment if u sign up for 6 months with 32nd Khamis Gaddafi Brigade #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
TAP Reports HUGE clouds of Smoke seen over #TRIPOLI from #Tunisia #Libya Border Tunisia army reinforced Again its presence in border area
Soliman Albrassi
another friend from Birmingham has died yesterday in Al Briqa, may Allah accept his soul & grant him the heaven #libya #17feb
Joanne
#TRIPOLI Trash Strewn Streets Many Stores Restaurants shuttered up Massive Construction Projects MallsHousing projects R Abandoned #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
These people walked 10s of kilometers to participate in an Anti-Gaddafi march in Benghazi: img16.imageshack.us/img16/4420/mil… #feb17 #Libya
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Tribune de Geneve:
Libye: les pro-Kadhafi reprennent la ville de Katron
Conflit libyen | Katron, ville-oasis du sud-ouest de la Libye a été reprise par les forces de Kadhafi. Les partisans du leader libyens sont entrés dans la ville jeudi, forçant les rebelles à battre en retraite.
AFP
Les rebelles libyens ont perdu le contrôle de la ville-oasis de Katroun dans le sud-ouest après une attaque des forces loyales au dirigeant Mouammar Kadhafi, a indiqué samedi un membre de la tribu locale des Toubous.
“La semaine dernière, nous avons été attaqués deux fois par l’armée de Kadhafi”, avait expliqué il y a quelques jours Mohammed Sidi, l’un des dirigeants de la tribu Toubou, qui s’était rendu à Benghazi pour obtenir de l’aide.
Source:
www.tdg.ch/actu/monde/libye-pro-kadhafi...
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Rebel on phone to friend in Paris: “send my regards to Sarkozy!” he yells “I hope Cameron gets over his little problem” he tells us. #Libya
feb17
NEWS IN SHORT:
Libya
Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said senior Libyan officials had a `productive dialogue’ with U.S. counterparts last week in a rare meeting that followed the Obama administration’s recognition of the rebel government that hopes to end Gaddafi’s 41-year rule.
“We believe other meetings in the future … will help solve Libyan problems,” Ibrahim told reporters in Tripoli on Friday. “We are willing to talk to the Americans more.
AP
A Libyan rebel spokesman insisted Friday that Moammar Gadhafi stand trial at the international war crimes tribunal, despite growing Western consensus that the longtime dictator be allowed to stay in his homeland if he relinquishes power.
NATO jet planes, meanwhile, struck the capital Tripoli near Gadhafi’s headquarters at Bab al-Aziziyah in the early hours of the morning Saturday.
ALJAZEERA
The Libyan capital was rocked by a series of explosions, thought to be the result of NATO airstrikes, early on Saturday, the Reuters news agency reported.
Four blasts rocked the hotel were international media were based and a fifth was heard slightly further off, the agency quoted witness as saying.
There was no official word on what were the p
REUTERS
A Libyan official said six guards were killed in an airstrike on Friday on a pipeline production plant just south of Brega in eastern Libya.
“This will be a major setback to future projects and a great problem to the maintenance activity,” Abdul Hakim el-Shwehdi, managing director of Libya’s state al-Nahr company which runs the country’s giant irrigation project, told reporters in Tripoli.
REUTERS
The United States is investigating reports that a ship carrying weapons for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces was allowed to dock in Algeria, which would be considered a violation of U.N. resolutions, a State Department official said on Friday.
The United States called on Algeria, if it was aware of the shipment, to stop it from reaching Gaddafi’s forces.
Libyan opposition sources expressed concern about the ship, saying it was sailing under a Libyan flag, carrying weapons, and arrived on July 19 at the port of Djen Djen in Algeria, from where the cargo was being taken over the border into Libya.
“We have heard reports that a ship carrying arms to Gaddafi’s regime was recently permitted to dock in Algeria and that these weapons are currently being transported overland into neighboring Libya,” the State Department official told Reuters.
“The United States government is working to ascertain the veracity of these claims, which have only just come to light. If true, this would likely constitute a violation of U.N. Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973.”
AP
Huge clouds of smoke from NATO-led raids over western Libya could be seen in neighboring Tunisia and the official TAP news agency says the Tunisian army is reinforcing the border area to ensure there is no spillover into its territory.
TAP quoted military sources Friday as saying that NATO raids over the Al-Assa zone, just a dozen kilometers (7 miles) from Tunisia, are dropping bombs on arms depots and military sites belonging to brigades of Moammar Gadhafi.
TAP quotes its sources, who aren’t identified, as saying that reinforcements in the Libyan region of nearby Ghazaya could mean new attacks against the border post of Wazen-Dhehiba, which has been under rebel control since April 29.
Rebels use the post to get food supplies and medical help.
Le Point France
REUTERS
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – La Libye est prête à tenir davantage de discussions avec les Etats-Unis et les rebelles, mais Mouammar Kadhafi ne se pliera pas aux demandes de départ du pouvoir, a déclaré un porte-parole du gouvernement à Tripoli.
Moussa Ibrahim a qualifié de “dialogue productif” la rencontre entre des responsables libyens et des émissaires américains la semaine dernière en Tunisie, peu après la reconnaissance par Washington des insurgés, qui veulent mettre fin aux 41 ans de règne du guide libyen.
“De nouvelles rencontres, à l’avenir, contribueront à la résolution des problèmes libyens”, a déclaré le porte-parole vendredi soir à Tripoli. “Nous voulons parler davantage aux Américains”.
Des avions de l’Otan ont bombardé la capitale libyenne dans la nuit, faisant des dégâts et des victimes, selon la télévision d’Etat libyenne, qui n’a pas fourni de détails.
Read more here:
www.lepoint.fr/fil-info-reuters/tripoli...
Ahmed
#Pray4Tripoli #Pray4Brega #Pray4Misrata #Pray4Zliten #Pray4Ajdabiya #Pray4Tarhuna #Pray4Zawiya #Pray4Libya #AllahuAkbar #Libya #Feb17
And PRAY FOR NORWAY
IOL NEWS
Libyan rebels slowed by mines
Benghazi – Hundreds of thousands of mines and a fierce counter-attack by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi are slowing rebel efforts to seize two towns that are blocking their advance on Tripoli, rebels said on Thursday.
Colonel Ahmed Bani, a rebel military spokesperson, said he expected a breakthrough in Brega in a few days, and in the western town of Zlitan within two days, after rebels advanced to the edge of the town.
“We are advancing slowly and clearing the mines… but we know that at the end, we will enter it (Brega),” he told Reuters in an interview in the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi.
“The fall of Brega is the end of the regime.”
Bani estimated that 400 000 mines had been planted around Brega and said the rebels, mostly volunteers with no military experience, were working to clear them with almost no help from experts. Gaddafi’s forces have pushed back the rebels by filling trenches with petrol and setting them ablaze.
Read full art.:
www.iol.co.za/news/africa/libyan-rebels...
British Forces News:
The Ministry of Defence has released its latest pictures of NATO airstrikes on enemy targets in Libya.
Apache attack helicopters launched by HMS Ocean targeted military installations in and around Al Khums.
The targets were a vehicle check point, two large military sheds, and a group of buildings which were being used by regime forces.
RAF jets also conducted a surgical strike on the military Identification Friend or Foe antenna at Tripoli airport.
Latest video of Libya strikes by UK forces released bfbs.com/news/worldwide/latest-video-li...
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OPED NEWS
The Youth of Libya, Finally Free to Speak Out
For 42 plus years the youth of Libya have been stuffed into little green boxes by the Gaddafi regime, indoctrinated into angry, pseudo-revolutionary rhetoric, taught to glorify the State, Muammar Gaddafi and his family, told whom to love, whom to hate, what to think. And when Gaddafi’s little Green Book materialized from his psyche in 1975 and was promoted by the State as quasi-Holy Writ, that became the central focus of all officially-approved educational and intellectual life in Libya, and youth of all ages, not to mentions adults, could only criticize it and the Colonel at their peril, peril to the point of imprisonment, torture or even death. Poetry, art and literature NOT subservient to the State were as welcome in Libya as they are under any paranoid one-party or one-family autocratic state, in other words, NOT AT ALL.
Now, however, as the winds of change and revolution sweep over Libya, with more-or-less half the country already permanently free of Gaddafi’s patronizing control, censorship and repression, the youth and young adults of Libya have been, even since the earliest, dangerous days, expressing themselves, and they will continue to speak out, strongly and forcefully.
So meet just a few of these critical thinkers, writers and artists now, compliments of YouTube:
Libyan Youth Rap for Freedom:
Check out link:
www.opednews.com/articles/The-Youth-of-...
Tore
I, like most #Norwegians am in shock now. But Libyas horror is still ongoing. My thoughts go also to #Libyanpeople
Independent Malta
What, if anything, can the EU do to improve humanitarian conditions in Libya?
by david casa.jpg
In raw number terms, the European Union is collectively the largest provider of humanitarian aid to Libya, disbursing over €135 million since the rebellion against Gaddafi broke out just over five months ago. €80 million of this came directly from the EU budget, managed by the European Commission, and the rest from individual member states. This is bolstered by the work of large humanitarian organisations like the International Committee of the Red Cross (and the Red Crescent) and others such as Médicins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the International Medical Corps (IMC), which maintain large medical teams in post-conflict zones like Misurata.
From the start of the conflict one of the major concerns for the EU, after mobilising the necessary resources, was humanitarian access – that is, ensuring that the aid gets to where it is needed. With the situation on the ground prone to sudden change and bitter fighting in now rebel-held cities like Misurata ongoing, delivering aid was frought with deadly risks. According to the Commission, however, the situation has gradually improved.
Some 15,000 have so far perished in the fight to oust the Gaddafi family from power and many more have been injured. While conflict will always have its casualties, humanitarian aid will save those not killed in battle from succumbing to their injuries, to disease, or to starvation. In this the EU is at the forefront, and Malta is also playing its part in its historic role as the ‘nurse of the Mediterranean’. Though slower to action than we may have wished, we were among the first to recognise that this was a time for selflessness not selfishness and from this we should draw, even if it proves our only reward, a measure of pride.
Read full art.:
www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsite...
Libya Free Forever.
Monatov and #Gadafi, very funny, PROUD
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFP2rz71N9Q&fea...
Just smile:
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Here’s a funny #Google+ joke I found: j.mp/qTxkuR
LibyaLiberty Now Beard Free
To be paid in pasta. “Awesome!” said Libyans. RT@feb17libya: Italy announces 350-mln-euro aid package to Libya rebels
jemimah_knight Jamillah Knowles
As a journalist of only 18 years…I don’t think I have ever seen a year like this for news…
Feb17
The Peoples Daily Online
Italy announces 350-mln-euro aid package to Libya rebel
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini met here on Friday with Libya rebels’ Transitional National Council (TNC) deputy prime minister Ali al-Isawi on the Libyan crisis developments and aid package that Italy was ready to offer.
Frattini, talking at a joint press conference, announced that the Italian government was ready to allocate a 350-million-euro (about 494 million U.S. dollars) fund in financial aid and oil provisions to help assist the TNC and Benghazi’s population.
“It’s a matter of days and these funds will be transferred to Libya for humanitarian ends. The agreement has already been signed by both parties,” Frattini said, recalling that Italy had recently approved a decree which unfreezes several Libyan assets and investments in the country in favor of the TNC.
Ali Al-Isawi briefed on the progresses of the TNC’s operations in the Libyan conflict, including an attack on Thursday night against a command center of Gaddafi’s regime in Tripoli where his son Saif Al Islam was and which injured a high-level member of the government.
“Also Tripoli’s population is ready to join us against the oppressive regime,” said Al-Isawi, who added that the rebel forces were also conquering the area of Brega and the mountainous region surrounding Tripoli.
Source:
feb17.info/news/italy-announces-350-mln...
_madi
( check out the archive)
Photo: Painting the Mataba on Flickr. Volunteers paint the former regime headquarters in Yifrin in the… tumblr.com/xxw3ntn4iv
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inglesi Piers Scholfield
#Misrata man rescued from #Gaddafi territory: the people and fighters of #Zliten are ready and waiting for the rebels to arrive. #Feb17
Told us most men from #Zliten fighting for #Gaddafi were forced.. & were told that they would face 4,000 French soldiers on the frontline.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
MansurAlDaw reported in very critical condition after yesterdays attack.
UNCONFIRMED: Death of Maj. Gen. Hadi Emberesh moments ago after being attacked in the neighborhood of #HaiAlAndalus #Tripoli
Death of #Gaddafi Maj. Gen. Hadi Emberesh Thursday after attack in the neighborhood of #HaiAlAndalus #Tripoli #Libya #feb17
dovenews Libyan™
#Gaddafi wants to talk about him staying in power…..He needs new batteries for his hearing aid! I am sure @NATO will drop him some!
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
CNN BUSTED Fake video of front line in #Libya egyptday1.blogspot.com/2011/07/cnn-bu… #feb17
egyptday1.blogspot.com/2011/07/cnn-bust...
(This is the Ben Wedeman vid.)
MyFreeLibya
Hairdressers Without Borders #Demand&Supply #Libya flic.kr/p/a5UXdq
www.flickr.com/photos/myfreelibya/59628...
BEN ALI
BREAKING! Gaddafi’s General #Alhadi #Ambayrish was killed immediately after the #FF attack in Tripoli last Thursday. via #Libya.tv
dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafis spokesperson Mussa Ibrahim “Gaddafi would not leave his position nor Libya” Yeah very “productive dialogue” I can see that
MyFreeLibya
Watch out for a view of tripoli…#Moment4Life when passed over it on our way to #Benghazi rubiconmango.com/post/7972998746
www.rubiconmango.com/post/7972998746
libyanandproud
I would like to thank all the non libyan tweeps who have stood by us ! You guys are a motivation ! #Feb17 #Libya
dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi keeps saying he wont talk to us Libyans but he is ready to talk to the #US…. I dont even know what he wants to talk about??
somaia
Alhadi imberish is confirmed death acc 2 #libya alahrar . Great
dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi is ready to hold more talks with the #US and with rebels but Gaddafi will not bow to demands he quit, Gaddafi’s spokesman said.
The Daily Telegraph Australia
NATO warplanes hit Libyan capital ‘command centre’
NATO-led war planes struck the Libyan capital, with the alliance saying they hit a military command centre and the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, saying civilians were targetted.
At least seven powerful explosions were heard around 2:20am local time as state television quoted a military official as saying NATO warplanes “are currently bombing civilian sites in the capital Tripoli.”
In Brussels, an Atlantic alliance official said “NATO can confirm that we targetted military objectives in Tripoli this morning,” and that the the seven strikes were on a command and control node.
Two more explosions were heard in the same area at about midday.
The attack came after rebel forces said they lost 16 fighters east of Tripoli and that they infiltrated the capital and attacked a regime command post where a son of the strongman was among officials targetted.
“Yesterday in Tripoli, there was an attack on an operations centre of top regime officials, including Seif al-Islam Gaddafi,” National Transitional Council vice president Ali Essawy said after a meeting in Rome with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini.
“One person was left seriously injured,” he said, identifying the person as a high-ranking security official.
Mr Frattini said the “rocket attack against an operations centre” probably in a Tripoli hotel was aimed at “top officials… including Gaddafi’s son Seif, and the head of the secret service, Abdullah al-Senussi.”
Full art.:
www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking...
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Libyan pilots show their skill by landing an aeroplane on an unmarked highway near Zintan serving as a runway facebook.com/video/video.ph… #libya
www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1267...
Ali Abunimah
Of 294 attempted terrorist attacks in Europe in 2009, precisely one is attributed to “Islamists” dangardner.ca/index.php/arti… #oslo
www.dangardner.ca/index.php/articles/it...
Alex
#NTC have not yet moved into the official #Libya Embassy in #Washington – previously #Gaddafi controled – still waiting final State Dept OK
Hanan
#Jordan plane lands in Benina airport in #Benghazi to pick up injured people.
Yefrenia
When Im older my grand children will think im so ancient…was born last century,alive during ArabSpring & read Gaddafis greenbook in school
Libya rebels report loss of southern town
Libyan rebel fighters have lost control of the southwestern oasis town of Qatrun after an attack by forces loyal to Libya Moammar Qaddafi, a member of the local Toubou tribe told AFP on Saturday.
At least two people are thought to have been killed and eight wounded in the attack.
But Lino said Qaddafi’s forces had been camped on the north side of the town and rebels in the south, with an estimated 20,000 civilians trapped between the two.
-AFP/NOW Lebanon
Source:
www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.a...
chris
Christian terrorism has now killed more people in Europe this year than Islamic. Wonder if the media will reflect that?
LibyaNewMedia
Condolences to the families & friends of the victims in Norway. Feeling the pain as a human being; must be so much worse for the relatives.
Alex
Gen #HadiEmberesh –Rep 2 have died following Thurs attack in #HaiAlAndalus – #MansurAlDaw condition ‘serious’ – #Saif safe? #Tripoli #Libya
Ossama
BREAKING: #Washington: The #Pentagon: Victory for #FFs in #Libya is the first priority!! #feb17
Market Watch
Technical woes may delay Libya oil restart
LONDON (MarketWatch) — As speculation mounts that the Libyan conflict is inching closer to an end, oil-industry experts say its production could be held back by insecurity risks, war damage and the waxy texture of its high-quality crude.
Due to looting in the oil and gas fields, “even when there is peace, for a return to normal work, it will take time,” Shokri Ghanem, Libya’s de facto oil minister, said in an interview earlier this year before defecting in May.
Read full art.:
www.marketwatch.com/story/technical-woe...
feb17voices Feb 17 voices
Clarification: Souq al Thulata, while AJA referred to it as a ‘city’ is actually an area within #Zliten.
AlluCemif
#Gaddafi’s TV regularly posts official news in French in Youtube. I wont give the link, I have some mercy on my followers
KC_Tripolitania KC
BREAKING: #Gaddafi ranting on Libya State TV – he has a ‘message for Egypt’ ! #GaddafiSpeech #New #Libya #Egypt
Ahmed
#Gaddafi giving a history lesson to Egyptians about the history of #Egypt..because they want to be talked at by him..#laughatgaddafi
LIBYA TRIPOLI
Nowadays we hear more than we see #Gaddafi, we want to see him! #Libya
Wales Online
Tributes paid to Welsh RAF man killed on Libya duty in Italy
AN RAF man killed in a road accident in southern Italy was named yesterday.
Senior Aircraftman James Smart, 22, from No 2 (Mechanical Transport) Squadron, was part of a 10-vehicle convoy that was delivering vital equipment to UK Forces at Gioia del Colle on Wednesday in support of Operation Ellamy in Libya.
He was sent to Italy with the squadron which is within No 85 (Expeditionary Logistics) Wing, deployed from Royal Air Force Wittering on July 17.
SAC Smart was born in Chester and his family home was in Wrexham.
His family paid tribute to the RAF man: “James ‘Smarty’ was a small man with a big heart, no one could have had a better son. He was a much loved brother, uncle and friend.
“He brought joy and happiness to everyone who met him. He was proud to serve his country and died doing something he loved.
“He will be sadly missed by all his family and friends, and he has left a big hole in all of our lives.
“Good night, God bless, James.”
Full art.:
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2...
ALJA:
Qatar sent military & humanitarian supplies to Benghazi, including two field hospitals.
Massin
#Gaddafi the final symbol of “Arab Nationalism” … GET LOST ! #Libya will be free and prosperous by ALL #Libyans
LIBYA TRIPOLI
Does not #Gaddafi run out of words?! I guess I’m wrong again. #Libya
Ahmed
#Gaddafi talking about Arab nationalism, imperialism, colonialism…Forming political parties is committing treason against your country
AFP
Libye : les femmes espèrent prendre leur place..
Elles sont quasiment invisibles et pourtant, elles aussi participent à la rebellion. Les femmes libyennes tentent, après le soulèvement contre Kadhafi, de faire leur propre révolution. Mais les conservatismes sont bien présents et les mentalités mettront du temps à changer. Durée: 02:05
Video:
www.dailymotion.com/video/xk2z4c_libye-...
LIBYANVOICE
Tripoli FF promised more attacks on gadafi forces& top officials as Ramadan approaches they determined r 2continue 2fight thumps up 4 FF
G
#Gaddafi speaking live now to the Egyptian ppl for the 59th anniversary of the 23rd of July revolution.
libyanandproud
Woof Woof #GaddafiEgyptRant
libyanandproud
Woof Woof Woof Awoooooooo Awooof ! #GaddafiEgyptRant
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#AlQatroun (south of #Sabha) is under siege and continuous bombing by #Gaddafi forces – no media attention.
Norway:
benghazi’s bunny♥
RT @kellyoxford: So apparently, a massacre by a Christian extremist makes him a madman, but a massacre by a Muslim makes him a terrorist.
VOA NEWS
Libya Needs Long-Term Humanitarian Assistance, Aid Groups Say
As fighting continues in Libya between rebels and forces loyal to leader Moammar Gadhafi, ordinary citizens are caught in the middle. Aid groups say the humanitarian situation in Libya has stabilized to a degree in recent weeks, but that entire cities and towns remain at risk for reliable food supplies and other basic services. Relief agencies are looking to the long term in assessing Libya’s humanitarian needs.
At the Islamic Relief USA call center just outside of Washington, the staff takes donations of humanitarian aid money for the Middle East over the telephone.
The non-profit aid group operates a dozen food-distribution points along the Tunisian border, where Libyan families and foreign migrants have gathered in refugee camps.
Video:
www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/nor...
FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
Financial aid distribute in #Nalut for first time since Feb17.Each family received $30Tunisian #Libya
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.26007...
Abeidi
Libya, Benghazi, Just to change your mood have some laugh from Jokes from Benghazi in Libyan slang. youtube.com/watch?v=Vk9qYt…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk9qYtPAt8U
AFP
Arabic-web-Many roads to defection in western.
In western Libya, the rebel army largely consists of defectors, people who have taken the dangerous decision to break with Moamer Kadhafi’s regime. Braving the myriad security services and their vast network of informers built up over four decades in power, individuals ranging from regular army officers to youngsters studing
www.dailymotion.com/video/xk2xkz_arabic...
anonyma
I wish people would stop instrumentalising people’s deaths for whatever causes & pay respect to their lives instead.
Ossama
There r thousands of armed FFs in #Tripoli ready to pounce and start a revolution in the capital. #Libya #feb17
3 deaths and many more injured in an operation in #Tripoli where they boby traped a Gaddafi Viechle in Souq Aljuma NOW!
A trench dug by soldiers of the tyrant in #Breqa and filled it with oil to burn it: t.co/m3hjPKx #Libya #feb17
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Libya Free Forever.
There are many types of missiles one of them is ANTI satellite>>>>>one to Nilesat #Gadaficrimes #Libya
septimius_sever septimius severus
Demonstration in #Beda (East #Libya) supporting #Feb17 مظاهرة البيضاء 22 7 2011 youtube.com/watch?v=At7Fop…
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The War Diaries
Jebel Nafusa Imagery
Nalut- It’s hot as Hades here today but then where is it not that hot? Wilting from the temperatures with the local Nalutis, I am putting up a few snaps from my Blackberry to kill some time and illustrate part of my world. Welcome…
Photo’s here:
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Hayat
Libya is filled with #GaddafiCrimes and so is #Africa, #Europe, and even #America. Down with #Gaddafi! Kill him more seriously!
FreeBenghazi
6 thuwar from #Tripoli Brigade, based in #Nalut, martyred this morning in car accident in AlMarabah #Libya الله يرحمهم v
LIBYA_WIN
#Libya #Tripoli #Gaddafi regime promising the further empovirished people of this besieged city all kinds of wealth for joining #Brigades
AP
Le Nouvel Observateur
Alger dément tout transit d’armes vers la Libye
ALGER (AP) — Le ministère algérien des Affaires étrangères a “catégoriquement” démenti samedi les informations faisant état du transit d’une cargaison d’armes par le port de Djen-Djen (360km à l’est d’Alger) en direction de la Libye.
Dans une déclaration au journal électronique Tout sur l’Algérie (TSA), le porte-parole Amar Belani a accusé des membres du Conseil national de transition libyen (CNT, opposition) d’avoir distillé ces informations. Certains “ne reculent devant aucune turpitude ou manoeuvre perfide de désinformation pour tenter, vainement je dois préciser, de mettre la pression diplomatique sur notre pays”, a accusé M. Belani.
Depuis le début de la guerre civile en Libye, Alger est régulièrement accusée par le CNT de soutenir le régime de Moammar Kadhafi à travers la fourniture d’armes et l’envoi de mercenaires. Lors d’une visite début juin à Alger, le général Carter Ham, patron du Commandement militaire américain pour l’Afrique (AFRICOM), avait démenti les accusations du CNT, affirmant que l’Algérie a toujours oeuvré pour “prévenir et empêcher qu’il y ait des mercenaires ou bien un mouvement de personnes et d’armements dans la région”. AP
Source:
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FreeBenghazi
#Nalut Council will not be publishing names of 6 martyrs who died today, to protect their families in #Tripoli
Shabab
Libya wants more talks as NATO strikes hit capital
(Reuters) – Libya is ready to hold more talks with the United States and with rebels trying to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, but the Libyan leader will not bow to demands he quit, a government spokesman said.
Moussa Ibrahim said Libyan officials had a “productive dialogue” with U.S. counterparts last week in a rare meeting that followed American recognition of the rebel government that hopes to end Gaddafi’s 41-year rule.
“Other meetings in the future … will help solve Libyan problems,” the spokesman told reporters in Tripoli late on Friday. “We are willing to talk to the Americans more.”
He said Gaddafi would not leave his position nor Libya.
Hours later NATO planes bombed targets in the capital, causing damage and casualties, Libyan state television said, without giving details.
Rebel leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said Gaddafi must agree publicly to stand down before any talks could begin.
Ibrahim said Libyan officials – but not Gaddafi himself – would be willing to hold further meetings with rebels, who now control roughly half of Libya, only on the government’s terms.
“Nations do not negotiate with armed gangs,” he said. Gaddafi is urging Libyans to persuade rebels to disarm and rejoin the loyal fold — and to fight them if they don’t.
Full art.:
shabablibya.org/news/libya-wants-more-t...
AlluCemif
Dont like when journos say " #Libya " wants instead of #Gaddafi wants & I dont like when journos say “government” instead of Gaddafi regime
septimius_
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hominoid
Libya Three minesweepers have been repaired and are now on their way to Brega to help with the clean-up.
hominoid
Libya Misrata Liberation Army in an attack with the rebels Misurata and Zliten. On the western Front of Misurata, they stormed the al-Gaddafi troops, resulting in the defeat the enemy and drove them back for a distance of not less than 15 miles and killed a number of mercenaries and captured several others and destroying some of the mechanisms God is great. – Libya Revolution Feb 17 2011
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Tunis Hospital, 1 hr ago: Khaled Massaoud. 22 yr old #Libyan FF from #Zintan. Shot in upper jaw yesterday at Bir Ghanam twitpic.com/5unyii
The xrays show the tip of that AK47 bullet stopped about a centimeter from his brain. Hopefully he’ll be okay after surgery.
Libyano Tripoliano
Thank you #Qatar. #Libya
Press TV
Ongoing war in Libya taking heavy toll
Ajdabiyah has treated more than one thousand three hundred patients from the ongoing battle in Brega since fighting erupted between Revolutionary forces and Loyalists to Muammar Gaddafi.
It’s proximity to the National Transitional Council’s nerve center Benghazi has made it a compulsory stop for the injured returning from front line duty. Medics do what they can in gloomy conditions, patients tell tales of suffering and bravery.
The ongoing problems in Libya are not only taking a toll on soldiers needing running repairs, but its emergency services too. The paramedics, quietly contemplate their chaotic and often bloody daily routine.
And this is what loyalists should fear. The origin of new military vehicles leaving Benghazi port baring the Qatari flag remains to be seen, however, they were greatly received as they snaked off into the night.
In another convoy, more troops ready themselves to deploy ahead of revolutionary artillery positions as the conflict escalates. With Gaddafi loyalists dug into positions in the industrial area of the city and behind streets littered with minefields, more effort is needed
But for the lucky ones who survive war, it is a source of employment through troubling times, but everyone eventually returns home.
Source:
www.presstv.com/detail/190428.html
AJA: NATO struck a weapons depot this morning in #Brega; meanwhile rebels repelled attack by #Gaddafi forces from the North. #Libya
AJA: Rebels in #Zliten entered a city called Sooq Al Thultha (phonetic); had to withrdaw after heavy resistance from #Gaddafi forces. #Libya
Libya Medical Relief
Thanks to all who donated to Malak appeal. The fundraising dinner in London on 17th July 2011, raised £29700 pounds in funds. Our Libyan brothers and sisters in Ireland donated £2600 to the fund. Total funds raised from the appeal is £32300. Pledges of six thousand pounds are to be received in the coming days.
AJA: Rebels were able to damage 3 GRAD rocket launchers and clear 120 mines in #Brega #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#NATO struck a weapons depot this morning in #Brega. #Libya #feb17
Hayat Libya
Life in #Tripoli :No power or fuel, suffocating heat, sounds of bombing and gunfire, threats, mass arrests, inflation, all scarce
AlluCemif
Reuters repeating state TV parrot fashion youtube.com/watch?v=qEemfH…. And in recent article wrote “Libya wants” instead of “G regime wants”#Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEemfHJ32po
BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
power cut twice today. wonder how #benghazi supplies will hold out in coming months #libya
It’s not the people, it’s the govenments that try to keep us all divided…..
Look at photo below:
Christians protecting muslims praying..I saw the tatooed crosses on several of them. yfrog.com/h4n52qqj
Hayat
Prisoners in #Tripoli will dehydrate or simply die from the lack of ventilation in the heat wave hitting #Libya these days. Allah help them!
septimius severus
I would love to hear Mousa Ibrahim excuse for this!another kitchen explosives!! #Tripoli youtube.com/watch?v=3w6t1Y…
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RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “BANU GENC” 35.36252˚/29.73126˚now en route from #Mersin Turkey to dest. #Tripoli #Libya. #feb17
FreeBenghazi
Pictures of today’s funeral for 5 of the 6 martyrs, from the Tripoli Brigade. انشالله شهادة. الله يرحمهم #Nalut #Libya facebook.com/media/set/?set…
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KC_Tripolitania KC
#AlQatroun city (south of #Sabha) is under siege and continuous bombing by #Gadafi forces – no media attention. Suffering in silence. #Libya
AFP
via
Shabab
Libyan women fight for freedom on the home front
ZINTAN, Libya — Libyan men have had to reassess how they view the fairer sex since the start of the uprising, and when the dust settles the role of women in the north African country may well have changed for ever.
The women of Libya — especially in the Nafusa Mountains — were among the protesters before the fighting started, and since then they have readied their sons and husbands for battle and nursed the wounded.
Meanwhile, they are also fighting for their own emancipation in the new Libya they are helping their men to forge.
Women do not exchange glances on the streets of the conservative Arab city of Zintan at the foot of the Nafusa range in western Libya. Behind walls daubed with graffiti proclaiming a “Free Libya,” they move like black phantoms, hidden behind the full veil of the niqab.
At home, the arrival of an unfamiliar male guest sparks panic, and the ladies of the house scatter like bees. In times of war, they spend most of their time cloistered within four walls.
However, the ladies of Libya have felt the winds of change at their backs.
They were chanting “Down with Kadhafi” at the start of the insurrection, alongside the men, calling for veteran strongman Moamer Kadhafi to go.
“I’ve rallied with plenty of young women, even some pregnant ones. The men were so impressed they fired their Kalashnikovs in our honour! That showed them we were equal, and changed their opinion of us,” says Afaf Abusaa, a 20-year-old technology student.
With the men away at the battlefield, the women secure the home front with housework and by providing moral support.
“Men have seen the women nurse the wounded, do volunteer work and cook for the fighters. They’ve seen mothers tell their sons: ‘Go and fight. I will support you.’ They hadn’t expected that,” says Hana Akra, a 24-year-old medical intern.
Full art.:
shabablibya.org/news/libyan-women-fight...
Wife Sm My 5 yr old has told every single Egyptian we’ve met from man on street to housekeeper that he hates “Gadafni” & he lives next door in Libya
Hayat
#GaddafiTranslated: You #Egypt ians should never have given up #Mubarak! He was the best! Begged me for money to fix your trains! #Libya
Libya In Me
I am really feeling bad for the NTC, the amount of worries & struggles they have to deal with is unbelievable…
How are they expected to do anything without any money? There is too much pressure on them and not enough money to do anything :(
The electricity is off wayyyy more than often these two days because they’re lacking fuel and supplies in keeping it on.
We’ve gotten aid from Qatar and it has arrived but keeping electricity on needs constant fuel
So far many of the countries that offered aid in form of money, have yet to do so. What are they waiting for?
Ahmed
#Tripoli: #FF blew up a truck belonging to #Gaddafi forces over a bridge in Souq Aljuma, killing 3 of them & injuring others..#Libya #Feb17
FreeLibya. Painting libya flags on little girl’s nails, what did i get myself into…
Free Libyia
Asking Gaddafi officials to take part in a future gov’t of Libya is like the Allies letting Nazis play a role in transition Germany 1946.
Abdul
On his way 2 #tunis 4 trtmnt, #FF from #yefren just told me that he was using donkeys 2 supply #yafren with weapons during the time of siege
BenghaziChron
Beautiful images of Benghazi.
benghazichronicles.tumblr.com
Tripolitano
brace yourselves for another night of action. I think Drones filming more precise targets b4 strike.
LWB
Elhadi Imberish is also in ICU words are that he is “cerebrally dead” in other terms, he’s finished any way!!
Frajj Abu ghalia is in ICU after he has bleeded much yesterday in the evening!! God is great!!!!!!
Niz_FGM Niz
23/7/11 – Strange aircraft with flashing coloured lights flying over #tripoli. No noise and slow flying. Drones? #NATO
Yup, sure sounds like a drone!
ENGLISH LIBYA TV:
NTC insists Gaddafi faces trial
A Libyan revolutionary spokesman insisted yesterday that Muammar Gaddafi stand trial at the international war crimes tribunal, despite growing Western consensus that the longtime dictator be allowed to stay in his homeland if he relinquishes power.
NATO jet planes, meanwhile, struck the capital Tripoli near Gaddafi’s headquarters at Bab al-Aziziyah in the early hours of the morning today.
Several bright flashes and loud explosions split the night at around 2:30 a.m. local time while jets could be heard circling overhead.
NATO bombing raids and other military operations began this spring to protect civilians against the Gaddafi regime, but Gaddafi has managed to keep his grip on the capital, Tripoli, to the frustration of Western leaders.
NATO planes struck a factory near the embattled oil city of Brega yesterday killing six guards, Gaddafi officials said.
The plant, located 10 kilometers south of the strategic oil installation, builds the huge pipes that carry water from underground aquifers deep in the south to the coast as part of the Great Man Made River irrigation project.
“Major parts of the plant have been damaged,” said Abdel-Hakim el-Shwehdy, head of the company running the project. “There could be major setback for the future projects.”
At least 70 percent of Libyans survive on the water carried through the pipes to the coast in the project, according to government figures.
“Most Libyans drink from the Great Manmade River, most Libyan land is farmed from the water, so any harm against this vital project is a harm against all Libyans,” warned Gaddafi spokesman Moussa Ibrahim. “We believe this a very dangerous development in NATO’S attacks.”
Washington, Paris and Rome have all proclaimed their acceptance of the idea that Gaddafi remain in Libya on the condition that he give up power and the Libyan people grant their approval.
In Rome, National Transitional Council (NTC) vice executive chairman Ali al-Issawi met with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini.
Asked how the so-called “leave Gaddafi in Libya option” squares with the warrant for his arrest by the International Criminal Court, al-Issawi told reporters that there was “no contradiction between the two.”
“The first principle is that Gadhafi should step down,” al-Issawi said after a meeting with Frattini. “After that you can talk about the details.”
“We would like Gadhafi to be taken to the ICC,” al-Issawi said, referring to the Hague-based tribunal.
Al-Issawi’s office essentially serves as a Cabinet for the NTC, the Benghazi-based anti-Gaddafi front that was recently recognized by Washington as Libya’s legitimate government.
Frattini noted that Libya isn’t among the signatory countries to an agreement obligating arrest for such warrants, and he stressed that while “impunity (for Gaddafi) would be a mistake, it has to be the Libyans to decide” Gaddafi’s fate. Whatever that decision is, “we’ll respect it,” the foreign minister added.
Whether Western support to allow Libyans to keep Gaddafi in his country once out of power indicates waning desire to drive him out of Tripoli is unclear. There have been fears the civil warfare could end in a kind of stalemate, with the revolutionaries in charge mainly in eastern Libya and Gaddafi’s forces entrenched in Tripoli.
Al-Issawi said that a blast at a Tripoli hotel two nights ago where several top members of the regime, including Gadhafi’s son Saif al-Islam, were meeting was caused by a rocket launched from within the city.
“This is a good signal that people inside Tripoli are organizing” against Gaddafi, Frattini told reporters.
The revolutionary spokesman said the attack “severely wounded” Abdullah Mansour, apparently a high official in Gadhafi’s inner circle.
A Tripoli-based opposition group called the Free Generation Movement said in a statement that three rocket-propelled grenades were used to attack the hotel.
However, Gaddafi spokesman, Ibrahim, denied any attack had occurred, saying it was only an accident turned into a propaganda ploy by the NTC.
“There was no attack yesterday whatsoever, there was an explosion near the Sheraton caused by a (cooking) gas cylinder,” said. “It was a kitchen explosion that was immediately turned into an attack to boost (rebel) morale.”
Libya, a major supplier of oil and natural gas to Italy, was Rome’s biggest trading partner before the outbreak of civil war, and al-Issawi assured Frattini that Italy would regain that rank in Libya’s future.
“We invite all the Italian companies in Libya to restart their activities,” al-Issawi told reporters.
Among those eager to return to full operations is Italian energy company Eni, which the Gaddafi government has banned from operating in Libya due to Italy’s participation in the NATO attacks.
Frattini delivered some good news to the NTC. He said that within days, the first tranche of €350 million ($503 million) in cash and fuel would be transferred to Benghazi to help civilians there, while Italy and other countries wait for U.N. sanctions officials to free up billions of dollars in frozen Gaddafi regime assets.
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ENGLISH LIBYA TV:
UN envoy: No role for Gaddafi in transition
A U.N. peace envoy is suggesting a ceasefire in Libya, to be followed by the immediate creation of a transitional authority made up equally of the Gaddafi’s government and revolutionaries and excluding Muammar Gaddafi or his sons, a senior European diplomat said.
The authority would appoint a president, control the police, armed forces and security services and would supervise a round-table reconciliation process, leading to elections to a national assembly which would write a constitution, the diplomat said.
The diplomat, who asked for his name and location to be withheld, was outlining ideas he said were being canvassed by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s special envoy to Libya, Abdul Elah al-Khatib.
Khatib, a Jordanian senator, is seeking a political solution to a conflict that erupted in February between Gaddafi’s forces and revolutionaries based in the east. He has visited both sides several times.
Gaddafi has been holding on to power in the face of revolutionary attacks aimed at ending his 41-year rule and has rejected suggestions that he quit, as demanded by the revolutionaries.
Gaddafi yesterday ruled out talks with the revolutionaries, casting doubt on a flurry of diplomatic efforts to end the conflict.
The European diplomat said that under Khatib’s transition proposal, Gaddafi would have to step down, but rather than being a precondition it would be part of the process.
As soon as the transitional authority was created and Gaddafi no longer had control of the security forces, Libyans in Tripoli would no longer fear him and at that point his rule would in effect end, the diplomat said.
He added Gaddafi would only accept such a transition if he had guarantees on his personal fate, and so would not immediately be handed to the world court at The Hague, which has issued a warrant for his arrest for crimes against humanity allegedly committed by his security forces.
Gaddafi and his sons would be excluded from the transitional authority, the diplomat said, since the revolutionaries would never accept such a role for Gaddafi family members.
Khatib could not immediately be reached for comment. But on July 11 he told reporters at the United Nations he had told Gaddafi officials a body with representatives from all political parties, regions and tribes was needed to manage a transition.
The United Nations has said Khatib had put those ideas to Gaddafi’s prime minister and foreign minister.
France said earlier this week that Gaddafi could stay in Libya if he gave up power, an apparent softening of the West’s stance in a new effort to find a diplomatic end to the war.
The United States says Gaddafi must quit, but whether he remained in Libya after that would be up to the Libyan people.
Gaddafi officials have said departure was not up for negotiation and yesterday the revolutionaries said that no one seriously expected talks to end the crisis.
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Regine
massacre made by a christian, muslim, other relig or none believer is an act of terror & have nothing to do w religion . Just twisted minds
REUTERS
Special Report -How fuel smuggling keeps Gaddafi machine running
By Lamine Chikhi, Christian Lowe and Emma Farge
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 licence. Asked where the fuel comes from, he replied: “The gasoline is Algerian, and it’s available now.”
Full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTR...
LibyaLiberty Now Beard Free
“Damn!” said media,reshelving stock footage of group prayer/flag burning mobs.
RT@Firas_Atraqchi Media Reacts:Oslo Terror Suspect not Muslim
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Zliten: #SouqAlThultha is a ghost town, most youth joined & retreated w/ #Freedomfighters on Wednesday when #FF entered town #Libya #feb17
LIBYANVOICE
gadafi must ve been under effect of drugs ….& other stuff when he spoke today cause he said only 8 people were killed n libya so far
Aisha
I doubt a Free Libya will have any relations with Algeria after all the support they have been giving Gaddafi .
KC_Tripolitania KC
‘If we surrender we will bring shame to the entire Arab World’ – #GaddafiSpeech #New #Libya #Feb17 #ToLaughOrNotToLaughThatIsTheQu estion
Free Libyia
When everything gets too much, I think about Ali Badi from Misrata, this young man is a true #INSPIRATION mashallah goo.gl/Cc15C :’)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYJUUJLs5tY&fea...
LIBYAN
I know at one point I will love #Qatar as much as I love #Libya, Thank you #Qatar
Rukaya
#Mussolini #Hitler = #Gaddafi’s idols. #Machiavelli – The prince = His guidebook.
Gihan
امدادات تصل بنغازى اليوم 23 يوليو قادمه من قطر Supplies reached Benghazi today from Qatar- Thanks Gatar youtu.be/J8HnNN4IYy8 #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8HnNN4IYy8&fea...
somaia
On behalf of #Libya & all Libyans our condolences to the people of #Norway.
Des Grant
When all this is over, all the Tweeters here should meet in Libya and raise a glass to the new Libya and remember those lost
Niz_FGM Niz
23/7/11 – just back from Bab AlAzaziyah. Regime scrambling to fix collapsed wall of compound. #Tripoli
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: #Freedomfighters blew up #Gaddafi forces car in #SidiKhalifa area, near People’s Pharmacy. No reports of injuries #Libya #feb17
Souffian Tripoli
Dr. Jibrel : the international youth are closer to each other via Internet then before and exchange info very quickly. #Libya
Abdul
Life is getting back to normal in #Zintan grocery, gas and sheep market. #Libya #Nafusa yfrog.com/h49ohcpwj
HodaAbdelHamid Hoda Abdel-Hamid
it was so hot today that even the frontlines around #Misrata were relatively quiet.
Libyan Duda
Incredible moment for all of #Libya — Revolution Capital Benghazi – moment the green flags were taken down youtube.com/watch?v=U82W56… #Feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U82W56dvNnM&fea...
Reuters
Gaddafi criticises Egyptian, Tunisian revolutions
TRIPOLI, July 23 (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi criticised on Saturday the popular uprising in neighbouring Egypt that forced Hosni Mubarak from power this year as the Libyan leader battles rebels who have claimed swathes of the country.
Gaddafi, who has stayed in power despite four months of NATO-led air strikes and a rebel campaign against his 41-year rule, questioned the value of the popular movements in Egypt, and in Libya’s western neighbour, Tunisia.
“Why did you undertake the revolution? Answer me, why did you undertake the revolution?” Gaddafi said in an audio address to Egyptians on the anniversary of the 1952 coup that ended Egypt’s monarchy and paved the way for the late Gamal Abdel Nasser to take power.
“Tunisia and Egypt, what did you accomplish with these revolutions? Substitution of one government regime for another?” asked Gaddafi, who came to power in a 1969 coup inspired by Nasser’s pan-Arab ideals.
“After you looted, destroyed and damaged the country, you want a new president?”
Gaddafi defended Mubarak, hospitalised since April and due to stand trial on charges of abuse of power and killing protestors, and suggested Egyptians had been hasty in pushing him from power without a clear alternative.
Read full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/tunisiaNews/idAF...
Sultan Al Qassemi
Gaddafi to Egyptians: “Hosni Mubarak should be honoured — it would have even been better if he had remained president of Egypt” via Reuters
libyanandproud
#Khums : #Gaddafi security have a prison compound made of containers in khums, each container holds 30+ ! #Feb17 #Libya #GaddafiCrimes
libyanandproud
Nilesat will not shut them down , the vampires are also trying to start airing another G channel called alsa3a(the hour)
benghazi’s bunny♥
Can the mainstream media stop calling the Norwegian terrorist a mad man? Call him what he is: a #terrorist. #Norway #Oslo
Niz_FGM Niz
24/7/11 – Massive hits in Ein Zara District, #Tripoli.Very likely External Security HQ or nearby farms where ammunition is said to be stored
S. Al.
Heard some funny stories about bust-ups and general shenanigans at petrol stations in #Libya
A guy gave his wife driving lessons so she could join the smaller women’s queue and fill the tank up in much quicker time. #Libya
#Libya: He had only given her lessons on how to drive forward, turn corners, etc. So as her turn approached, she needed to reverse to get…
#Libya #Petrol: Around the car in front and wait at a gas pump. She hadn’t learnt how to reverse, and as she tried doing so accidentally
#Libya #Petrol: Smashed into the car behind her. The woman in that car gets out and starts shouting and screaming & making a scene
#Libya #Petrol: the husbands of both wives were nearby and went to see the commotion. When it transpired that the woman was only a learner
#Libya #Petrol: a huge fuss was kicked and the two men were on the verge of fighting, until harass al-thawry came and diffused the situation
KC_Tripolitania KC
#NATO bombing #Tripoli now. #Libya #Feb17
AlluCemif
NATO is not attacking #Tripoli right now. Attacking #Gaddafi & Co
Asma
Islam and terrorism shouldn’t be put in the same sentence, unless you’re saying that Islam is AGAINST terrorism.
TF1
01h32
Libye : nouvelles explosions à Tripoli et ses banlieues
Des explosions ont retenti dans la nuit de samedi à dimanche à Tripoli et dans ses banlieues Est survolées par des avions, au lendemain de raids aériens de l’Otan. Deux détonations ont retenti à 00H50 dans le secteur de la résidence du colonel Mouammar Kadhafi dans le centre de Tripoli, suivies par d’autres dans les banlieues est et sud-est de la capitale.
Une colonne de fumée a été vue peu après au dessus de la résidence de Bab Al-Aziziya, qui a été la veille la cible de raids de l’Otan. Samedi à la mi-journée, deux nouvelles détonations avaient retenti dans le même secteur qui avait été déjà la cible de dizaines de raids de l’Otan depuis le début en mars de l’opération militaire internationale en Libye.
L’Otan a confirmé samedi avoir mené sept raids à Tripoli, tous dans la même zone, indiquant avoir touché un centre de contrôle et de commandement.
Source:
lci.tf1.fr/filnews/monde/libye-nouvelle...
AlluCemif
1/2 Membre du CNT a confirmé aujourd’hui qu’1 officiel du cercle intime de #Kadhafi a été grièvement blessé par 1 tir de roquette à #Tripoli
2/2 L’attaque a eu lieu dans un endroit où de hauts fonctionnaires de #Kadhafi se réunissaient, dont Saif Al Islam.
Miss B #Gaddafi has truly destroyed & disrupted the lives of so many people. I hope we will all be compensated with freedom & something better soon
AlluCemif
Young woman frm Benghazi said today “What a suffring here! But for the 1st time I’m feeling the world. And I love the world”
libyanandproud
#Nafusa : #BirGhanam : #Gaddafi forces are shelling positions in BirGhanam . #Feb17 #Libya
Libyan
Residents of #Tripoli, #Zwara, etc., worried that electricity will stay off during hot month of Ramadan, cooking food will be difficult.
LA TIMES
Captured Kadafi soldiers tell rebels they have doubts
Reporting from Yafran, Libya—
Moammar Kadafi’s frontline soldiers are well-fed and well-supplied, even down to the occasional single-serving bottle of Jim Beam.
And many of his troops remain convinced that they are battling foreign extremists seeking to take over Libya.
But some recently captured soldiers are haunted by doubts.
“We talk about whether the war is right,” said a prisoner from a town near the coastal city of Zawiya who was wounded in the frontline town of Kikla in the western mountains of Libya. He spoke on condition that his name not be published for fear of endangering his family.
“We have been talking about whether what we do is right or wrong. But we don’t have any choice.”
Rebels who recently scoured houses in Kikla found abandoned assault rifles that were new and well-maintained, a dismaying indicator of how well-supplied Kadafi forces are.
They also said they found identity papers of fighters from other countries, including Niger, evidence of Kadafi’s recruitment of foreign mercenaries to fight Libyan rebels.
Military leaders, he said, “told us that we were going to fight Al Qaeda, Afghans, Algeria, and that they were using local civilians as human shields.”
Now that he’s seen that they were actually fighting Libyans, he said, he will stay “with his brothers until everything is over.”
Full art. Here:
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/...
IvanCNN Ivan Watson
Warplanes overhead. A couple of distant airstrikes at 1 AM #Tripoli
REUTERS
Airstrike hits Libyan capital just after midnight
Tripoli:
The explosion appeared to have taken place near Bab al-Aziziyah, the sprawling compound of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
At least two more rumbling blasts could be heard in the east of the city.
Source:
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/AL...
Zlitniya
Zliten:Mass arrests by GF in Zliten centre & SuqAlThalath.Those arrested range btwn 16-85 years w no reason for arrest #Libya
Zliten:NATO hit a military headquarter in the city early sat morning
Zliten(midnight Saturday):several NATO strikes including 2places GF were using to plan killing civilians,demolishing homes&displacing fam’s
dhdfisher Daniel Fisher BBC
Several more blasts felt around 1am in Tripoli further away than last night.
Ms.F
Tripoli: NATO airstrikes on Ayen Zara, 4 explosions heard #Libya #gaddaficrimes #Feb17
#Zliten: Reports of #NATO airstrikes on a number of locations used by #Gaddafi forces one of them being Alhamea military barracks..#Libya
LibyaNewMedia
Immigration, integration, intolerance…if there are problems in these fields, let’s all solve them together in a constructive fashion.
MyFreeLibya
Hectic day…Meeting representatives from different tribes here in Tibisti hotel…#Libya #Feb17 video of our arrival
www.rubiconmango.com/post/7972998746
There seems to be an overwhelming feeling in Zintan and Misrata that they are under represented.. Demands made and assurances presented
SUMMARY JULY 24th 2011
7/24/2011
7.24.2011
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/vMfE3
NATO
On July 23, NATO aircraft flew 125 sorties, including 56 strike sorties. Some of the key hits included:
In the vicinity of Brega: 1 Military Storage Facility, 1 Multiple Rocket-Launcher, 1 Command and Control Node, 1 Armored Vehicle.
In the vicinity of Al Khum: 1 Military Storage Facility
In the vicinity of Tripoli: 2 Command and Control Nodes, 2 Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher, 1 Anti Aircraft Gun.
In the vicinity of Waddan: 1 Military Storage Facility.
In the vicinity of Zintan: 1 Artillery Piece.
In the vicinity of Zlitan: 4 Military Storage Facilities, 1 Tank.
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
RAF aircraft yesterday used precision guided weapons to breach the walls of Colonel Qadhafi’s command complex in central Tripoli.
Qadhafi has for decades hidden from the Libyan people behind these walls. #Libya
The vast Bab Al Aziziyah compound is not just his personal residence, but more importantly is also the main headquarters for his regime.
Successive NATO strikes on Qadhafi’s command complex in past weeks have inflicted extensive damage on the military facilities within. #Libya
Early on Saturday morning, RAF Tornado and Typhoon aircraft, supported by allied aircraft, struck the high perimeter walls of the compound.
Paveway bombs scored direct hits in 13 places on both the outer and inner perimeter walls along the western side of Bab Al Aziziyah. #Libya
As ever, particular care was taken to ensure no civilian traffic on nearby roads was endangered. #Libya
Shortly afterwards, other RAF jets on patrol near Zlitan successfully struck four buildings. #Libya
NATO confirmed these were used as a command & control centre & staging post for regime troops mustered for attacks on the people of #Libya
During Saturday night RAF aircraft were able to conduct a precision strike on a large ammunition stockpile. #Libya
HMS Ocean launched her Army Apache helicopters against military positions between Zlitan and Al Khums. #Libya
These military positions were successfully engaged using Hellfire missiles. #Libya
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
Huge #gaddafi poster unveiled in #tripoli green sq fri.gov says its world record breaking. #Libya yfrog.com/kj4rzfj
KC_Tripolitania KC
#Nalut still under attack: #Gaddafi forces fired 70 GRAD rockets which landed in and around #Nalut at dawn today #Feb17 Jabal #Nafusa #Libya
#Gaddafi forces fired 6 GRAD rockets in the Southern part of #Misrata today – killing 2 civilians and injuring others. #Libya #Feb17
The eastern part of #Misrata was under indiscriminate and intense GRAD bombing in the early hours of today by #Gaddafi forces.
BBC
Defiance on streets of Tripoli, Libya
After more than four months of Nato bombing raids in Libya there in no end in sight in the conflict between Col Gaddafi’s forces and those opposed to his rule.
After more than four months of Nato bombing raids in Libya there in no end in sight in the conflict between Col Gaddafi’s forces and those opposed to his rule.
The rebels may have a lot of support in towns such as Benghazi and Misrata, but in the capital Tripoli tens of thousands are willing to take to the streets to show that their loyalties lie with their leader.
James Reynolds reports from Tripoli
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14259323
Mushu
No matter where you lay your eyes, you’ll see martyrs’ names written on every wall and corner around the city. So many lives lost. #Benghazi
4libya
In several ways #Gaddafi state TV is used by Qaddafi regime as a tool to kill innocent #Libya-n ppl & Nilesat is complicite in their murder.
Ossama
REPORTS: The death of al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi in #Tunisia from his wounds after an armed attack he suffered in #Tripoli on Thursday. #Libya
Prisoners from the #Gaddafi’s battalions were arrested in #Brega, see how the #FFs treated them with dignity 17/7/2011:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3FMslIMoPw&fea...
When Kufra was liberated from Gaddafi mercenaries which invaded it back in May
The convoy, which took off from #Kufra to #Brega via #Benghazi, I had talked about yesterday: t.co/X1NRSwQ #Libya #feb17 MUST WATCH!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdntEFADcuY&fea...
The liberation of the village #Khourguidh east of #Brega: سيطرة الثوار على قرية خورقيدة في الجهة الشرقية للبريقة١
www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1678...
#NALUT: Renewed indiscriminate shelling with Grad rockets and missles on the city and its suburbs last night and this morning
AJA:
NATO has been striking Gaddafi forces in Zliten from this morning to this very moment!!
MARKET WATCH
Technical woes may delay Libya oil restart
LONDON (MarketWatch) — As speculation mounts that the Libyan conflict is inching closer to an end, oil-industry experts say its production could be held back by insecurity risks, war damage and the waxy texture of its high-quality crude.
The concerns come as rebels are making headway on the military and diplomatic fronts in their goal to topple of Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi.
But any stumbling block to the resumption of Libya’s highly-sought oil exports are likely to support
crude prices going forward. The shipments’ interruption in February already brought chaos to markets, leading to an acrimonious dispute between producers and an emergency stockpile drawdown by consumers.
Once Gadhafi is gone, it would be incorrect “to expect a return to the prior status quo in Libya — either politically or in the context of the oil market,” Barclays Bank said in a recent note. The London bank warned a power vacuum could lead to chaos and insecurity and hinder the oil industry.
www.marketwatch.com/story/technical-woe...
Gaddafi wants more talks as NATO strikes hit capital.
(Reuters) – Libya is ready to hold more talks with the United States and with rebels trying to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, but the Libyan leader will not bow to demands he quit, a government spokesman said.
Moussa Ibrahim said Libyan officials had a “productive dialogue” with U.S. counterparts last week in a rare meeting that followed American recognition of the rebel government that hopes to end Gaddafi’s 41-year rule.
“Other meetings in the future … will help solve Libyan problems,” the spokesman told reporters in Tripoli late on Friday. “We are willing to talk to the Americans more.”
He said Gaddafi would not leave his position nor Libya.
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/23/us-l...
AP
Tunisia reinforcing border with Libya
TUNIS, Tunisia — Huge clouds of smoke from NATO-led raids over western Libya could be seen in neighboring Tunisia and the official TAP news agency says the Tunisian army is reinforcing the border area to ensure there is no spillover into its territory.
TAP quoted military sources Friday as saying that NATO raids over the Al-Assa zone, just a dozen kilometers (7 miles) from Tunisia, are dropping bombs on arms depots and military sites belonging to brigades of Moammar Gadhafi.
TAP quotes its sources, who aren’t identified, as saying that reinforcements in the Libyan region of nearby Ghazaya could mean new attacks against the border post of Wazen-Dhehiba, which has been
under rebel control since April 29.
Rebels use the post to get food supplies and medical help.
www.sacbee.com/2011/07/22/3787815/tunis...
Ossama
BREAKING: 6 rockets fell this morning on the southern part of #Misurata which martyred a man and a woman and others injured. #Libya #feb17
Today a high raanking delegate has arrived to #Benghazi today, but they have not released any info on who that delegate is. #Libya
The #FFs today arrested a #Gaddafi spy in the city #Ajdabiya,at the beginning of the revolution he fled to the city of ‘Mareg’. #Libya
#FFs of #Fashloum and Ben Ashoura are using #Grenades in their operations: They destroyed a car and Chekpoint today. #Libya #feb17
FFs of #Tripoli today were unfortuantly unsucsefull in another operation targeting Faraj BouGaliah. #Libya #feb17
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
No comment #gaddafi #messedup fb.me/15AokSTMx
It is so HOT today in Benghazi, you literally melt when you walk outside
cjchivers C.J. Chivers
The NYT Coverage of the Amazigh Revival in Libya… – ..has been briefly held, understandably, to make space… tumblr.com/x1q3o8o7bn
cjchivers.com/post/7996101395/the-nyt-c...
Mushu
My aunt and her two daughters made 275 sandwiches to be sent to the #FreedomFighters while the electricity was off.
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Kufra: The people of Kufra, despite the hardships, sent a large convoy of food/aid to Benghazi then to the FF in Brega to thank them #libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Zliten via AJA: FF from Misrata have some 300 local Zliten FF fighting with them. They captured 19 G soldiers (& 1 general) yesterday #libya
DIMA blog:
Libya
I did not expect I’d end up in revolutionary Libya. It occured to me out of the blues while I was in Egypt that I could go to neighbouring Libya too. Al Jazeera welcomed the idea.. and here I am. You will find here everything I have written and will write about Libya, including my Al Jazeera stories, regardless of the language
www.dimakhatib.com/p/francais_14.html
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
FRESH CLASHES ON NEFUSA FRONTLINE NR QWALEESH
Press Solidarity
reports that Gaddafi forces surrounded Hay al Andalus and Hay al Islami in Tripoli today and carried out large scale inspection of homes.
Gaddafi forces were shelling the town of Bir Ghanam this morning.
Reuters
Gaddafi criticized the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings on Saturday. “Why did you undertake the revolution? Answer me, why did you undertake the revolution?” Gaddafi said in an audio address to Egyptians on the anniversary of the 1952 coup that ended Egypt’s monarchy and paved the way for the late Gamal Abdel Nasser to take power. “Tunisia and Egypt, what did you accomplish with these revolutions? Substitution of one government regime for another?” he asked. He also defended Mubarak, saying that he should be honoured and that it would have been better if he had remained as president of Egypt.
Feb17
Several large explosions were heard in Tripoli overnight. NATO is believed to have targeted a security headquarters and Gaddafi’s compound.
Feb17
Video: NATO targeting Gaddafi forces in Zliten
Video
www.libyafeb17.com/2011/07/video-nato-t...
Derek Henry Flood
It is so hot in Nalut today, can barely function. Talked of offensive has yet to materialize.
Posted a few interesting picks from my Blackberry of this world I am temporarily inhabiting.
Qaddafists rocketed Nalut all night long in two hour intervals. Kept waking up with surges of adrenalin as ground shook. Not great.
Met with head of Nalut military council. No pre-Ramadan offensive unless NATO softens Qaddafist targets 1st. Too many anti tank mines laid,
Washington Post
U.S. struggles to free money for Libyan rebels
Despite its decision to grant diplomatic recognition to Libya’s rebels, the Obama administration is struggling to find ways to provide them with the $34 billion in frozen Libyan assets held in U.S.-controlled bank accounts, officials say.
Administration officials held at least two meetings this past week to explore ways to release the money, which the opposition Transitional National Council says it urgently needs to pay salaries and buy critical supplies. But the funds are ensnared in a thicket of legal regulations.
So far, State and Treasury department officials have identified only a small fraction of the vast Libyan holdings — estimated by some officials to be as little as a few hundred million dollars — that can be quickly freed, according to current and former officials familiar with the talks.
Read full art.:
www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-s...
Skeptic
it seems that main purpose of Gaddafi mercenaries is 2 prevent Libyan soldiers frm defecting/deserting lat.ms/psFl8v
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/...
Anything you’d like to tell Mussa Abrahim?
His private email address is: musa1274@hotmail.com
DHF
Who will fall first: Murdoch or Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi?
Kanaloni
by LY_NeverForget
The pain & damage that G has done to #Libya over 42 years, only #Libyans are truly aware of.
To rid themselves of this powerful evil & defend themselves against a rich heavily armed tyrant, #Libyans looked for help from anywhere.
FINANZ NACHRICHTEN GERMANY
Nationaler Übergangsrat in Libyen erhält 100 Millionen Euro Darlehen von Bundesregierung
Die Bundesregierung hat dem libyschen Nationalen Übergangsrat ein Darlehen in Höhe von bis zu 100 Millionen Euro für zivile und humanitäre Zwecke zur Verfügung gestellt. Es fehle an Mitteln, um notwendige Strukturen aufzubauen und Versorgungsengpässe zu beheben, begründete Außenminister Guido Westerwelle (FDP) am Sonntag die Entscheidung. Besonders die Menschen im Osten Libyens würden unter der Notlage leiden.
Gleichzeitig lägen aufgrund internationaler Sanktionen eingefrorene Gaddafi-Milliarden auch in Deutschland. “Diese Mittel gehören dem libyschen Volk, können aber zur Zeit nicht genutzt werden”, so Westerwelle. “Um das zu ändern, geben wir jetzt 100 Millionen Euro als Darlehen an den Nationalen Übergangsrat. Die Rückzahlung garantiert der von Deutschland und seinen Partnern als legitime Vertretung des libyschen Volkes angesehene Übergangsrat aus dem gesperrten libyschen Vermögen, sobald es der Sicherheitsrat für eine rechtmäßige libysche Regierung wieder frei gegeben haben wird”, fügte der FDP-Politiker hinzu.
Source:
www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-20...
Enough Gaddafi
#Algeria currently dealing w/ tenuous relationship w/ #Morocco to its west & looking at tenuous future relationship w/ #Libya to its east
libyanandproud
#Ghiryan : Clashes between Freedom Fighters and #Gaddafi forces on AbuRshada road resulted in FF loss: 1 Martyr ,12 Captured.
#Nafusa : #Nalut : #Gaddafi forces continued their Shelling on Nalut and suburbs over last night and this morning. #Feb17 #Libya
Via Shabab
Germany to loan $144 million to Libya’s rebel council for rebuilding, humanitarian use
July 24, 2011
BERLIN – Germany said Sunday that it is loaning Libya’s rebel leadership €100 million ($144 million) to help with the country’s rebuilding and humanitarian needs.
The Foreign Ministry said it is granting urgently needed funding as a loan because frozen assets related to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi cannot yet be released.
The situation in Libya is difficult because of a lack of funding “to build up the necessary structures and overcome supply shortages — from medical care to food,” Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said. “Particularly in eastern Libya, people are suffering more and more from this.”
The money will be paid back from frozen Gadhafi assets once the U.N. Security Council has released them to Libya’s new government, Westerwelle added. Germany has said it froze “several billion” euros (dollars).
Germany is not participating in NATO airstrikes on Libyan government military targets and abstained in the U.N. vote authorizing a no-fly zone.
However, it has called for Gadhafi to go, and Westerwelle announced during a visit last month to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi that Germany was recognizing the rebels’ National Transitional Council as Libya’s legitimate representative.
Source- AP via Winnipeg Free Press
libyanandproud
#Misrata : #Gaddafi forces shelled Sharqiya area with grads this morning . #Feb17 #Libya
Skeptic
#Gaddafi #Tunisia #fuel refining: "arrangements r under way 2 ship crude oil still held in storage tanks in regime-controlled Mellitah & Ras Lanuf, on the north coast of Libya, 2 As-Suhayrah, a port in Tunisia. The shipments wld follow the coastline 2 avoid sailing through international waters, which
may bring an interdiction from Nato ships patrolling the area.The source said the crude wld B refined in Tunisia’s 30,000 barrels a day (b/d) Bizerte refinery, in the north of the country, & re-imported in2 Libya." bit.ly/oKwIcc
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt
borzou
Ghadhafi admonishes #Tunsians & #Egyptians 4 rising up, urges them to establish Jamahiri system based on delusional Green Book: #feb17
Ghadhafi claims 18 million Libyans, claims parts of #Egypt up to Nile as part of #Libya. #feb17
Ghadhafi calls for establishment of single #African state, (presumably with him as its leader) #libya #feb17
Prime Minister denies reports that a Libyan missile targeted Malta
Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi denied the report published on it-Torċa that the mystery explosion heard in Dingli in June was a missile on its way to Malta.
Such reports are only aimed by the Labour Party to instil fear among the Maltese and are insensitive at a time when Maltese nationals have suffered from the current situation in Libya.
Discussing issues and events that took place over the past week, the Prime Minister spoke about the Euro area leaders meeting that discussed the euro debt crisis and hailed the breakthrough deal reached. He said that this agreement sent a positive message to the financial markets.
The Prime Minister also referred to the killings in Norway and expressed his solidarity with the Norwegian population.
Referring to the recently-held PN General Council, the Prime Minister said that he is currently working on changes that will make the Party more reachable and closer to the people.
Quilliam
Both far-right and Islamist extremists want to divide our societies along religious/cultural lines. We must resist them both.
cjchivers C.J. Chivers
Reading the Refuse of a Revolution… – …to try to determine how many heat-seeking, shoulder-fired… tumblr.com/x1q3oa2zvn
cjchivers.com/post/7998471203/reading-t...
BREGA
Skeptic
Which countries sold #Gaddafi 400,000 land #mines ? I still cant believe this figure
libyanandproud
" Letter to the Killer of My Father " (AR) youtu.be/u3XdYCpkDYQ #Feb17 #Libya
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3XdYCpkDYQ&fea...
Skeptic
I doubt this youtu.be/1q_Iv-EdA34 , could still b Saif propaganda abt deaths of Senussi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q_Iv-EdA34&fea...
The Daily Beast
BEHIND LIBYA’S FRONTLINES:
t fifty kilometers from the frontier lies the barracks of Jweibya, halfway between the Arab city of Zintan and the Berber city of Nalut. At the very beginning of the war, Gadddafi’s first defeated battalion left 200 tanks like these behind them, here, as they fled. Except that there is one thing in particular about these tanks that left the insurgents perplexed when they took possession of them. All of them are lacking the same firing pin normally necessary to function. What happened?
Read more:
www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2011/07...
Tweeting Tripoli
With all the landmines Gaddafi have planted around Libya, I would say tourism would have to wait a bit :(
EH172
JUST KILL THE Fxxxxx @UKMilOps: Qadhafi has for decades hidden from the Libyan people behind these walls. #Libya
Anaya
Que fait la #tunisie des mercenaires de #kadhafi qui sont arrêtés et envoyés a la frontière tunisienne ?
UK looks to send ‘Lusty’ to Libya
By Tim Ripley
UK military planners are preparing plans to deploy the Royal Navy’s (RN’s) remaining Invincible-class aircraft carrier, HMS Illustrious , to the Mediterranean Sea with a squadron of attack helicopters embarked to sustain strike operations against Libya into 2012.
At least one of the RN’s new Type 45 Daring-class destroyers is expected to be deployed on the type’s first combat mission to accompany HMS Illustrious if the plans are approved by the UK National Security Council. Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado GR.4 and Eurofighter Typhoon squadrons are also expected to start being rotated in September if NATO extends its Libya mission for a third 90-day period.
UK Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox hinted during a speech to the Royal United Services Institute in London on 13 July that preparations are under way to allow the country’s armed forces to rotate the contingent supporting the NATO campaign in Libya, saying that the length of operations there could not be predicted.
Source:
www.janes.com/products/janes/defence-se...
Skeptic
it worries me they anticipate strikes into 2012 while NTC says it will probably b over by summers end
Anaya
1/3 – Le slogan des pro #Kadhafi est intéressant au plan de la hiérarchie : "ALLAH, MOAMMAR, LA LIBYE ET C’EST TOUT "
2/3 – Ce slogan lui donne un statut de prophète, en tt cas placé devant la patrie. #Libye
3/3 – “… et c’est tout” renvoie à l’autisme dans lequel il a plongé son pays. On ne veut pas des autres…
Anaya
1/3 – The slogan of the pro #Gaddafi is interesting in terms of hierarchy: "ALLAH, MUAMMAR, LIBYA AND THAT’S ALL
2/3 – This slogan gives him the status of a prophet, anyway it is placed before the country. #Libya
3/3 – “… and that’s all” refers to the autism in which he has plunged his country. We do not want the others …
Hanan
A home in Yefren fb.me/174SoiH8B #Libya
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=283756&i...
Aiman
For the first time in 42 years, #Gaddafi will not be able to play politics with the timing of Ramadan. Not in free #Libya at least.
libyanandproud
NOTE : The #NATO strike seen from #Tunisia was on Alwitya , not #Tripoli . #Feb17 #Libya
PUZZLE SOLVED:
The Malta Independent Online:
First official delegation to Benghazi
The Maltese government’s first official delegation to Benghazi last Sunday, led by Foreign Minister Tonio Borg, held a series of high-level talks with the Libyan National Transitional Council.
Malta had recognised Benghazi as the “sole legitimate interlocutor of the Libyan people” at the beginning of June and last Sunday’s visit was the first of a series that Maltese ministers will be paying to Benghazi, where Malta will also be opening a representation office.
Discussions are underway with the Benghazi Attorney General regarding Libya´s frozen assets in Malta and for a line of credit to be opened against those assets for the purchase of medicine and foodstuffs.
DerekHenryFlood Derek Henry Flood
Source tells me Qaddafists are laying loads of anti tank mines on Ghazaya/Takut plain & that’s why they need airpower to help w offensive.
Zintan : Forward Zintan FF team launched a surprise attack on #Gaddafi forces in Hamada killing 4 and captured 8 vehicles.
hominoid
Libya Zintan The FFs this morning attacked G troops after they were spotted by a guard, they killed four, including an officer of Sirte
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
FRESH CLASHES ON NEFUSA FRONTLINE NR QWALEESH
I CAN SEE SMOKE & EXPLOSIONS AS GADDAFI TROOPS TRY TO ADVANCE
Audioboo: Qwaleesh latest boo.fm/b420576
Opposition fighters report that while they are under missile and mortar attack, “civilians” appear to be approaching from Gaddafi lines.
Qwaleesh latest post.ly/2cAJ1
Just sent audio report on latest. Live TV report from frontline on #AJE in a few minutes
Cannot see these “civilians” from my position. Gaddafi troops in disguise? People fleeing? Human shields? It is not clear which.
Qwaleesh latest: New boo by baysontheroad bit.ly/nIUkKF
#LIBYA NATO planes heard overheard around Qwaleesh.
#LIBYA fighter: Gaddafi troops advancing from 2 directions, from Assaba and through desert from south. He says woman civilians seen on road
#LIBYA Bombardment of Qwaleesh has eased for now. Fighters believe Gaddafi’s army have stopp ed their advance.
(17.00 hrs local)
Reuters
WRAPUP 1-Blasts rock Tripoli, NATO targets Gaddafi compound
*Gaddafi government open to more U.S. contacts
#Gaddafi cn say thank u 2 #Saudi Arabia 4 funding Al #Qaeda ! As long as AQ exists, dictators lk G cn accuse any freedom fighter of being AQ
Trending “ blamethemuslims” on twitter:
Caused a lot of misunderstanding, why don’t people read the thought behind it first?
A lot of people took it as racist, it wasn’t meant to be racist at all, other people understood it:
Sanum
I started the #blamethemuslims trend to highlight how ridiculous it is to blame Muslims for every problem in the world.
ArabObserver
#blameIgnorance should be trending instead of #blamethemuslims
ღ.¸¸Libeeya¸¸.ღ
MEDIA’s first reaction was to #blamethemuslims
justimage
Can whoever is educating next generation of “terrorism experts” please include European history in next semester’s syllabus?
Thomas
Talk about a hash tag gone wrong. #blamethemuslims is not about blaming the muslims. It’s about blaming the media for blaming the muslims.
Hamad
Almost all tweets in #blamethemuslims are positive. No one is blaming Muslims. This hash-tag is miss-understood. Read twitpic.com/5v535d
twitpic.com/5v535d
khadiijah
I found who started #BlameTheMuslims, and his aim is not to hate, it’s to show how stupid people r when they blame muslims for everything
Ruwayda
#blamethemuslims — an attempt to show the Media’s bias towards Muslims. It wasn’t started out of spite or hate.
Majik™
#blamethemuslims? No blame your parents for raising you with such ignorance towards other religions.
Charlamagne
#blamethemuslims is yet another example of why Twitter needs a special font for sarcasm.
Sanum
in May, there was a bomb scare at Kings Cross Station in London. the IRA was to blame. everyones first reaction? #blamethemuslims
Sanum:
1) I’m a Muslim.
2) I’m FEMALE.
3) I started #blamethemuslims
4) I don’t hate muslims
5) Read my TL the last 24 hours
6) Have a lovely day.
Someone had a solution to the problem:
LibyaLiberty Now Beard Free
Hmmm..#BlameTheMuslims & #BabyMakingSongs R both trending-they could be combined to #BlameTheMuslimBabyMakingSongs,to nip problem in the bud
Back to Libya tweets now:
Souffian Tripoli
#FF Never underestimate Gaddafi troops. If you don’t underestimate Gaddafi troops, your one step ahead of them. #Libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Gaddafi forces are heavily mining Brega, Zliten and areas north of the Nafousa mtn and Gheryan… desperate to slow FF advance #libya #feb17
Freedom ~ Syria ♡
:‘) just spoke to all my family in #Tunisia, they’re going back to Zintan on Friday, inshallah will visit them there asap #Libya #AidTrip
REUTERS:
Algeria denies reports of arms ship for Gaddafi
(Reuters) – Algeria denied charges that a Libyan ship offloaded weapons for Muammar Gaddafi’s troops at one of its ports.
“The foreign ministry denies categorically these allegations,” the official APS news agency quoted a spokesman for the foreign ministry as saying late Saturday.
Libyan opposition sources said the ship, sailing under a Libyan flag, arrived on July 19 at the port of Djen Djen from where the cargo was being taken over the border into Libya.
The United States voiced concern and urged Algeria, if it was aware of the shipment, to stop it from reaching Gaddafi’s forces.
Source and more here:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/24/us-l...
What a surprise! Did anybody expect a different answer?
Can someone please take a photo?
Prisoners from the al-Gaddafi in Brega 20 711 t.co/Csssrsz via @youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbPyKSpcA_4&fea...
Swami
#Zliten via AJA: FFs control 1/3 of Souq Al Thulata #Libya
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Khalifa Omar Massaoud: 75 yr old man from #Kikla (Zaret) #Libya. Shot in his shelter & left 4 dead by 3 #Gaddafi twitpic.com/5v5lei
.African mercenaries with AK47s on July 7. His neighbor (another elderly unarmed man) was killed by these same mercenaries.
.Mr Massaoud was found lying in blood in his shelter by his neighbor’s son, who ran to get help. He & another man carried
Mr Massaoud 6 kms on foot to the #Kikla hospital. He was transferred later that day to #Yefren, where he spent 4 days.
.Mr Massaoud spent 1 day in Tataouine & then arrived at this Tunis hospital on July 12. I took this photo on July 14.
hominoid
The FFs say they have chased the bulk of Gaddafi’s forces from Brega in the east and are poised to advance. Finally some news of Brega !
Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا” goo.gl/aM65o
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#LIBYA: #Gaddafi forces are trying to enter #Kikla with civilians waving white flags in front – while firing Grads into Kikla from Meska.
Hasnt eased at Kikla. Gaddafi forces r firing into Kikla from Meska & trying to enter w/ white flag waving civilians in front
The ‘civilians’ in front of the Gaddafi forces are likely just masquerading as civilians…
Correction: Gaddafi forces are trying to enter Qwaleesh, not Kikla, and firing Grads at both Qwaleesh and Kikla.
bencnn benwedeman
Greenwald: "Of 294 terror attacks attempted or executed on Euro soil in ’09 as counted by EU, grand total of 1 perpetrated by “Islamists”
FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
#Qalaa thuwar test out tank gained, along w other weapons, from fleeing Gaddafiforces. #Libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvoNvrk0sCw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvoNvrk0sCw
libyanandproud
AbdAlatti Obedi (#Gaddafi FM) departs #Cairo heading to #Tunisia after 3 day talks with #Egyptian authorities . #Feb17 #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “BANU GENC” 34.58041˚/25.98396˚ en route to dest. #Tripoli #Libya Speed/Course: 8.2 kn/263˚. #feb17 @NATO
Mohamed
guess it’s time we all unite, #Egypt #Syria #Tunisia #Libya #Bahrain #Yemen #Spain #Greece #globalrevolution
Libya In Me
Words of gold given by one of Libya’s bravest men…(Arabic) youtube.com/watch?v=SUfBMP… #Libya #Feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUfBMPfk9Nc
Libya_Awake_United
7 days, 8 nights in a row & finally a resident of #tripoli filled his car with gas the car will serve 4 families. 1/2
His color turned blackish red from the heat & allergy all over his skin.Wanted to shower find no water,no electricity to fill water tank 2/2
Nothing compared to what’s happening in front-lines … But just a view of The besieged Tripoli.
libyanandproud
#Wigh base in southern #Libya has fallen to #Gaddafi forces. #Feb17 #Libya
KC_Tripolitania KC
Tripoli: : The day Freedom Fighters attacked Government meeting at HayAlandalus, #Gaddafi forces killed 100+ prisoners #Libya’
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Reports of #Gaddafi forces dressing as civilians & waving white flags at front of armed advancing G forces in multiple towns. #Libya #feb17
Reuters
Se oyen explosiones Trípoli mientras OTAN ataca complejo Gaddafi
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Explosiones remecieron el centro de Trípoli por segunda noche consecutiva, mientras Gran Bretaña dijo el domingo que semanas de bombardeos de la OTAN generaron grandes daños a la fortificada residencia del líder libio Muammar Gaddafi.
El líder de Libia se aferra al poder pese a los cuatro meses de ataques aéreos de la OTAN y un largo
conflicto con rebeldes que piden terminar con su mandato de 41 años, quienes han capturado vastas extensiones del país norafricano.
Las explosiones remecieron a Trípoli cerca de las 01.00 horas de la madrugada del domingo, un día después de que la OTAN lanzara ataques sobre lo que dijo era un comando militar en la capital libia.
Full art.:
es-us.noticias.yahoo.com/se-oyen-explos...
As reported few days ago, seems confirmed now:
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi reported dead in #Tunisia from wounds he received in #Tripoli on Thursday. #Libya #feb17
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Cyprus CARGO SHIP “CAMELIA” has now departed port #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Zliten: #Freedomfighters have made good advance,19 #Gaddafi forces captured youtu.be/RyFB_ISY-DQ #Libya #feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyFB_ISY-DQ&fea...
FreeBenghazi
Reinforcement joined Gaddafiforces in #Nalut. Planting mines in Takut & Badr, and cut off electricity, water, telecom #Libya v @nalut17feb
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Libya OIL TANKER “AL AGAILA” remains anchored in port #Singapore. #feb17
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Arada area last night: 8 #Gaddafi troops were shot at by #Freedomfighters in #AlHishan Crossings. All FF escaped. #Libya #feb17
#Malta OIL TANKER “SESTRI STAR” now anchored in port #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17
Omar A
please pray for #Zawiya’s poet #RabeChraire, arrested back in March, the last we heard he’s being badky tortured
Libya In Me
Name: Asedeeq Ali Al-Aroosy. Born in 1967, married & has a son & daughter. Martyrdom was his only goal. Zawiya. Feb17Martyrs.com/?p=517
Reem
Sometimes you find strength in pain, sometimes frustration, sometimes inspiration and sometimes it kills everything beauitiful inside you
Libya In Me
Name: Khalifa Al-Haji. A UK resident who left his wife & children to fight in Zintan where he was martyred. Feb17Martyrs.com/?p=513 #Libya
Aiman Amer
#Gaddafi and the five stages of grief. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression & acceptance youtube.com/watch?v=9r4Q3Q… (In Arabic)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r4Q3QVkurU&fea...
BentBenghazi G
#Gaddafi forces looting shops in #Brega tiny.cc/9wvqq #libya #feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ibaZ04jusM&fea...
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
by libyanproud
been waiting for a press conf in #Tripoli since 3p local (4hrs ago)… #Libya
libyanandproud
#Nafusa : #Gwaleesh : Attack involved bus of #Gaddafi forces(civ clothes) wielding guns, when heard gun Shots they ran away
libyanandproud
CORRECTION : #Ghiryan clashes i tweeted earlier results are: 1 Martyr and 1 FF captured . Not 12 FF Captured ! #Feb17 #Libya
Skeptic
It looks like there is big G offensive towards Nafusa frm 2 directions, pre-emptive move against impending FF offensive on Gharyan!
AFP
KADHAFI COUNTER – ATTACK REPULSED, TRIPOLI BOMBED
Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi launched a counter-offensive on rebels in the southwest on Sunday but were repulsed, after NATO warplanes blitzed military targets in the capital.
An AFP correspondent reported that rebels repelled an attack aimed at recapturing the desert hamlet of Gualish on the road to Tripoli which loyalist forces lost to the insurgents in fierce fighting earlier this month.
Rebels in Gualish said they had prevented regime forces from getting within a kilometre (less than a mile) of the hamlet, and that they had been sent reinforcements from Zintan, the main rebel base in western Libya.
Before launching their counter-attack, loyalist forces sent dozens of civilians into the hamlet to announce their imminent arrival, rebel witnesses told AFP.
An AFP correspondent within earshot reported that two hours of intense fighting then took place.
In the capital itself, Kadhafi’s compound again came under NATO air attack.
Full art.:
my.news.yahoo.com/nato-bombs-tripoli-ka...
Hominoid
Dubai – Arab
Part 1
He Libyan dissident d. Mohammad Yousuf Maqrif, the founder of the National Front for the Salvation of Libya, previously, for “Arab” that “all data indicate that the system to the disappearance, and that the end will be bloody Gaddafi.”
Maqrif said in an interview with “Arab” that the crisis in Libya “has reached a stage there can be no political solution with them, and that the only solution is to eliminate the al-Gaddafi, and there is consensus on the need to get rid of it.”
He stressed that Gaddafi “was not going to leave his position by force but by force, and that the Libyan case is now before the historic moment is extraordinary, and that the will of the Libyan National is determined to get rid of the Qaddafi regime.”
He said that “Gaddafi imagined that he was born to rule Libya and remain under his control, though some tribes did not raise arms against Gaddafi for various reasons.”
He stressed that “the attitude of the Algerian regime’s shameful and condemnable, and that no mediation between Gaddafi and the Libyan people now, and that the Libyan people Mehr freedom with blood.”
Part 2
He stated that the “arbitrary actions made me opposed to the Qadhafi regime and declared a separatist for the Libyan regime and joining the opposition in 1980, and we found the possibility of the formation of opposition in Libya, so we have issued a statement of the establishment of the National Front for Salvation, which was than the overthrow Gaddafi.”
He stated that “Gaddafi Ajriah even eliminate his opponents, and that later his opponents abroad since 1981, the brothers were arrested and issued a ruling in absentia to death.”
On the international intervention in Libya, he said that “the international community realized that there is a people subjected to genocide, moved so as not to find himself in trouble.”
Libya Gaddafi, sent a number of his senior officials, to carry out the sale of all investments held by Libya in Egypt
Defense News
Belgium Probes Arms Sales to Kadhafi Regime
BRUSSELS – Belgium’s regional government of Wallonia came under fire Feb. 21 for authorizing the sale of weapons to Libya in 2009, prompting a probe into whether the arms were used against protesters.
The governments of the French-speaking region asked the Belgian ambassador in Tripoli to ask Libyan authorities how the weapons have been used, said Christopher Barzal, spokesman for Wallonia’s regional leader Rudy Demotte.
Wallonia gave an export license to Liege-based FN Herstal for the sale of 367 F2000 assault rifles, 367 P90 submachine guns, 367 Five-Seven handguns, 20 Minimi light machine guns, 22,000 rifle grenades and 1.134 million rounds of ammunition for these weapons, for a total value of 6.9 million euros.
The license also authorized the sale of 2,000 FN 303, a compressed-air gun that fires projectiles which, according to the firm’s website, can be used to stop a “hostile but unarmed individual or group” among other things.
The sale of these so-called “less-lethal” weapons was valued at 5.3 million euros.
The final use certificate states that the weapons are for the exclusive use of the Libyan army’s 32nd elite forces battalion for a mission to protect “humanitarian aid convoys to Darfur”, Barzal said.
The Belgian Human Rights League expressed fears that the weapons could have been used by the regime of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi to repress anti-government protests, but it admitted it had no proof.
“The probability is very low, but we have asked the ambassador to verify urgently,” Barzal said.
The European Union lifted an arms embargo on Libya in 2004.
In Belgium’s decentralized political system, the regions are responsible for approving licenses for arm exports.
Source;
www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=5768641
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Increasing number of ships w/ destinations in #Libya turning off transponders, listing false or no dest. Tracing any way. #feb17
libyanfsl Libya NFSL
NATO airstrikes on Gaddafi forces near Alasaba’a, explosions heard from as far as Gheriyan and smoke can be seen from more than 20 km away
BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
sitting on the internet in #benghazi at a cafe called “Friends” with the same logo as the TV show.
hominoid
Libya Zintan and the Berber city of Nalout. Has 200 tanks left in the defeat of the army of Gaddafi.Libya FFs on Sunday repelled an attack aimed at recapturing the desert hamlet of Gualish on the road to Tripoli,
libyanandproud
#NATO bombs #Gaddafi positions in direction of #Miska and #Alassabaa ! #Feb17 #Libya
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
Smoke trail from missile fired by Opposition fighters in Qwaleesh – moby.to/y9t76q
Opp field commander calling the shots. One hand on binos, other on radio. yfrog.com/kgc17gaj ##LIBYA ##AJE
Libya counsel in Bulgaria announced his defection and the digestion of his Team and supporting #feb17 rev. And Libyan #nct #Libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Nafousa: Reports that Mustafa Abdul Jalil, NTC leader is in the mountain on a surprise visit – overseeing aid & humanitarian support #libya
Abdul
#Gwalish is getting more #FF supply to defeat the counter #Gaddafi attack #libya #Nafusa yfrog.us/1gu77bz
yfrog.com/1gu77bz
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Alassaba: #Gaddafi mercs raiding houses & arresting civilians on the slightest suspicion. #Libya #feb17
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
Reinforcements from Zintan, but we only saw them in any numbers 2 and a half hours after attack started. yfrog.com/kkr1mmij ##LIBYA
FreeLibyanman FreeLibyan
just had Phon call W #FF frm #Alassaba, #Gaddafi mercenaries raiding houses & arresting civilians 4 da slightest suspicion @NATO must help
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Misrata: Freedom fighters at the southern front close to Bani Walid captured 2 Gaddafi soldiers & freed over 20 families held hostage
Benghazi: Quryna, a local newspaper reports that injured freedom fighters from Qatrun’s battles are being treated at a local hospital #libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Libyan consulate #AbrahimFaweris in the Libyan embassy in #Bulgaria has defected. #Libya #feb17
FreeBenghazi
Thuwar rescue 24families held captive near BaniWalid, capture 2 Gaddafi soldiers & gained weapons. No casualties from the thuwar #Libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Bulgaria: The Libyan consul in Bulgaria just declared that he is no longer representing the Libyan regime live on air via @LibyaTV #libya
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
Audioboo: Audio update from frontline at Qwaleesh. Pictures running on #AJE boo.fm/b420733 #aje #libya
SHIP that caused USA to contact Algeria:
Ossama
BREAKING: Reports that the ship that docked in #Algeria full of weapons originated from a country which recognised the #NTC… #Croatia.
The boat was croation and the weapons were uploaded onto the ship from Croatia
libyanandproud
#Nafusa : #Nalut : Recon teams report #Gaddafi vehicle convoy moving from #Tiji towards Nalut . #Feb17 #Libya @NATO
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS Ossama
BREAKING: REPORTS: Children’s school in #Fashloum, #Tripoli being used as safeplace for weaponry! PLZ NOTIFY @NATO #Libya
Ossama
Plz spread this FB page for all our Martyrs of the revolution: post and put photos of people u know who have martyred: facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pa…
www.facebook.com/pages/RIP-to-all-the-M...
dovenews Libyan™
BREAKING! Reports that Abdula AlSansui has died. via #Libya.tv
UPDATE: BREAKING! Reports that #Abdula #AlSanusi has died at the oil medical clinic in #Gharghor in #Tripoli. via #Libya.tv
Hominoid
Libya Somewhere in the city of Misurata was probably in one of the buildings Tripoli Street was found the body of a young man fighting for Gaddafi, they found him dead, and noted he did not use a single shot from his gun, and then found a surprise in his hand which he wrote before his death: O Misurata to give an example to those soldiers who are fighting imposed by force brothers they died their blood did not contaminate the blood of their fellow citizens Allah’s mercy and the mercy of vast and go about our people in Libya are suffering from injustice and oppression.
Libya FFs seize a military car belongs to Gadffi forces full of weapons and ammunition, the driver was arrested in the northern axis of Al brega. A clam situation for the third day due to mines being removed.
Libya G troops tried to enter Brega from the south, but were stooped. FFs after clash arrested 9 and the rest fled.
Ossama
BREAKING: FFs are NOW attacking #Gaddafi forces who are stationed on the border of Alosabah.
libyanandproud
#Ghiryan : Anti #Gaddafi protesters in the city arrested by Gaddafi Mercs and Sahban brigade, most were later helped escape .
Something big developing on front South of #Misrata, that could significantly impact other fronts, i’m waiting 4 more info
Ossama
#Zintan channel: Mustafa Abdul Jalil left #Zintan safe after a quick inspection visit to the city and its living circumstances. #Libya
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
WOW These Rebel pilots have balls. crazy landing on narrow road “Terrain ahead pull up” #Nafusa #Feb17 youtube.com/watch?v=Q-mZu7…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-mZu7e5D3M
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Gaddafi forces are massing in Ghezaya and Tekut (north of #Nalut) – perhaps preparing for an attack on Wazin or Nalut itself #libya #feb17
Ossama
#Tripoli: Power cuts getting worse and worse everyday in Souq AlJuma etc, people are wondering how they will be able to fast with this!
Ossama
BREAKING: FFs said that Gaddafi forces are using ambulances to smuggle weapons from #Sirte to forces located in industrial area of #Brega
The operations of dismantling mines are still continuous in relatively quiet day today interspersed with some intermittent shelling by FF
Abdul
Heavy shelling in #Gwalish right now #Gaddafi is trying to retake #qwalish. He’s been defeated as we speak #Grad missiles hitting everywhere
Mohammad
Video: 24 happy families after being freed by #Misratah FF #feb17 youtube.com/watch?v=MdbWD7…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdbWD7XPh9U&sns=em
National Journal
National Security Insiders Support Decision to Recognize Libya’s Rebels
Most call for releasing some of Qaddafi-linked frozen funds to the rebels.
Libyan anti-regime protesters show machine guns and ammunition confiscated from soldiers in Benghazi in February.
National Journal’s National Security Insiders strongly support the Obama administration’s decision to formally recognize Libya’s opposition government as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people. Most said they support funneling some of the billions of dollars in frozen regime funds to the rebels for whatever they need in the fight to overthrow Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi—although some cautioned against arming the rebels directly.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced recently that the U.S. decided to formally recognize Libya’s Transitional National Council as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people. Thirty-eight out of 54 respondents (70 percent) said this was the right decision, given the Obama administration’s investment in the military operation and significant contact with the rebel government over the course of several months. “Now that the United States has committed to regime change in Libya, it makes little sense not to,” one Insider said.
“Since the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant against Qaddafi for crimes against humanity, he can no longer be considered the legitimate head of state of Libya,” another Insider said. “Moreover, the 33-member Transitional National Council has a broad base of support and backs political freedoms. Its legitimacy is further enhanced by the absence of competitive anti-Qaddafi resistance group.” Or as another Insider said: “We’ve recognized worse!”
Poll result and read more here:
www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurit...
dovenews
BREAKING! #Zintan #FF have captured #Albotama gate south #Mizdah
Ossama
#TRIPOLI: Security forces who defected say that #Gaddafi has laid mines in some places of Tripoli, including Burj AlFatah, Saray AlHamra etc
IvanCNN Ivan Watson
Libyan State TV confirms fighting on Nafusa front in Qualish. Accuses rebels of attacking civilian convoy going to Qualish #Libya
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Photo: Yifrin youth hostel on Flickr. Pro-Gaddafi graffiti in Yifrin’s youth hostel. This one reads:… tumblr.com/xxw3ohp4y3
Photo: Nafusa street art on Flickr. tumblr.com/xxw3ohndxu
Photo: Tamazight art on Flickr. I think this says Libya but I’m not sure. tumblr.com/xxw3ohmtcz
WAPO JOURNO
BoothWilliam William Booth
Fighting at Qawlish in #Libya western mtns: families from Gaddafi-held town approach frontline, government troops behind them, rockets fired
IvanCNN Ivan Watson
Libyan State TV confirms fighting on Nafusa front in Qualish. Accuses rebels of attacking civilian convoy going to Qualish #Libya
Bint:
Why would a civilian in his right mind go to a frontline out of free will? Either forced or they are soldiers in civilian disguise
So yet again Gaddafi forces are using civilians as human shields. Such cowards, have to resort to dirty tactics.
Gaddafi forces know that they can never defeat the FFs in a fair match, so have to resort to cowardly tactics such as using human shields
Abdul
We heard from SEVERAL other journo’s that these people were NOT civilians, they were troops DISGUISED as civilians.
Have some journos been instructed by their headquarters to tow the line with their reporting?
Very strange that the independent journos, and also AlArabiya and Aljazeera are reporting with almost an opposing view……..
Why are these journo’s just regurgitating all these rubbish lies from G regime?
A regime that only yesterday , on tv, stated that there have only been 8 people killed in total sofar in the uprising and that this is being investigated……..
It just makes you think…….
Orders from the top at home or scared of regime?
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA Opposition repelled Gadaffi, but not a great day for them. Appear not to have learned lessons of last attack on Qwaleesh 12 days ago.
#LIBYA opp forces again had poor defences at Qwaleesh, bad comms, and very delayed reinforcements.
No longer a case of no weapons, when mortars & missiles arrived, they prevailed. Problem one of comms, organisation and ultimately command
Skeptic
#Albotama gate is captured, Supplies frm #Algeria cant reach #Tripoli anymore via #Mizdah → #Gharyan ! This is huge achievement 4 FFs!
Coordinates of Albotama, South of Mizdah bit.ly/p58U9V
Main reason 4 liberating #Gharyan is as jumping point 2 #Tripoli, now that supplies frm #Algeria frm S r blocked at #Albotama, S of #Mizdah
FFs captured Albotama bc it is junction 2 roads going 2 Mizdah – Tripoli 2 North & Bani Walid – Sirte 2 West!
Now i get it: #Nafusa FFs frm #Albotama will at some point link with those advancing on #Bani Walid frm #Misrata, 2 cut all #Gaddafi routes!
Reports abt advance on #Albotama & on #Bani #Walid r pieces in puzzle, but now the NTC strategy is clear!
NTC trying 2 cut all routes used by Gaddafi in a huge area of Tripolitania/Fezzan!
After liberating #Bani Walid, #Misrata FFs will link with those at #Albotama & isolate vast areas of Libya frm Gaddafi!
If u look on map, imagine 1 circular line running frm #Albotama to #Bani #Walid, that is the new front being prepared by Ffs
So i was right in my prediction that something big was developing South of Misrata! Gaddafi caught totally by surprise!
If they can create new front between Albotama & Bani Walid, it will b very difficult 4 Gaddafi 2 use Tripoli-Sabha & Tripoli-Sirte routes
Gaddafi will b cut off frm his forces in Sirte/Brega & Sabha region, once the new Albotama/Bani Walid front is formed!
New front S of Nafusa will b deadly blow 4 Gaddafi!
FFs spearhead not far frm Bani Walid!
If it is created, new front South of Gharyan should cut the arms of Gaddafi stretching frm Tripoli 2 Sirte/Brega & Sabha region!
So now Gaddafi will b desperately trying 2 keep Zawiya, his only connection 2 outside world via Tunisia, after losing Algeria & Sabha routes
The newly created unified command under NTC defense minister is designed 2 coordinate such large fronts like the new one being formed!
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Nafousa: Pictures of Mustafa Abdul Jalil’s visit to Cabao today to discuss aid/financial support facebook.com/media/set/?set… #libya #feb17 #ntc
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.23890...
LOOK AT THIS!
Tweeting Tripoli
NATO precision, a Tank hit by a rocket and a roman ruins meters away not touched: flickr.com/photos/nafusa/… #feb17 #Libya
www.flickr.com/photos/nafusa/5971317590...
Sarah LFFR
Freedom fighter to #Libya’s expats: “We will free this beloved country, and you can help us rebuild it.” :)”
libyanandproud
BREAKING : #Nafusa : #Mizda : MIZDA IS LIBERATED !!!! Not only butma . ALL OF MIZDA !!
Tripolitano
LibyaAhrar tv yet again reports news that Abdullah Al Sanussi died in hospital in #Tripoli. Oil company hospital
ChangeInLibya
Rumours flying around: Death of Abdallah Senussi in a clinic in Tripoli and the killing of Aisha Gaddafi’s husband by Zintan fighters
septimius_
So, am I supposed to believe that Gaddafi will send his daughter’s husband to the front line? Really? #notbuyingit
Ahmed
His death was reported by them before..after the initial attack…I have no idea how credible their reports are this time..we wait
bousuwa
He Might had much of alcohol that made him man enough to go to the front line #LIBYA
Free Libyia The Zintan Council is in Benghazi and the head of the NTC is in Zintan…Mashallah 3ala Libyan Unity ♥#Libya♥ #OneLibya #Feb17
Gaddafi used to make us paint shop fronts green… not anymore #libya fb.me/HjYZqmsG
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=284313&id=137199749688243
Freedom fighters recovering from injuries they sustained in Brega #libya #hospital fb.me/TVtSYLF0
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=284314&id=137199749688243
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
by ChangeInLibya
#Gaddafi OIL TANKER “LPG/C AISHA2” 34.1167°/022.4237° dest. #Malta but now headed E passing #Derna #Libya. #feb17
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “EFENDI BABA” en route to dest. #Benghazi #Libya ETA: 2011-07-26 00:15 (UTC). #feb17
AJA: FF reports they r 7km from Zliten bridge and correspondent relays that FFs say they control 30% of #Zliten
Mariam
I want to open a Dulux paint concession in Free Libya :-)
Afrique en Ligne
Libye-Kadhafi: La Libye est victime d’un complot colonialiste
Actualités-Libye – Le leader libyen Mouammar Kadhafi a déclaré que ce qui se passe en Libye est un complot colonialiste visant à envahir ce pays et occuper les sources de pétrole pour ensuite occuper l’Egypte, la Tunisie et la presqu’île arabique. Le guide Kadhafi a ajouté, dans un discours adressé, samedi soir, au peuple égyptien à l’occasion de l’anniversaire de la révolution du 23 juillet dirigée par le défunt leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, que « les allégations selon lesquelles la Libye a tué par balles son propre peuple sont infondées’ affirmant qu’il s’agit ’ d’un stratagème pour justifier l’occupation du pays, sous le prétexte de protéger les civils ».
‘Ils vous ont dit que les morts en Libye sont par milliers. Nous leurs disons où sont ces milliers de morts ? Où ont-ils été enterrés ? Où sont leurs cartes d’identité ? Quels sont leurs noms ? Où sont leurs familles? Et comment ont-ils disparu si vite?’ », a-t-il indiqué.
Il a ajouté que ‘le peuple libyen n’a aucun problème et que ce qui se passe en Libye est une agression extérieure avec des mercenaires recrutés par la France pour déstabiliser le pays’.
Aussi le leader Kadhafi a-t-il fait observer que le peuple libyen résistera de toutes ses forces à cette campagne néocoloniale, affirmant : «nous n’abdiquerons pas. Nous mourons debout. Nous défendrons l’Afrique qui nous soutient et défend la nation islamique et l’Islam face à cette croisade reconnue par le président français lui-même ».
www.afriquejet.com/afrique-du-nord/liby...
ALJAZEERA:
Libya_ A STATE OF TERROR
LONG VIDEO:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UodjAs8mEPs&fea...
WESSIM
Donate to UNICEF’s Libya Crisis Children’s Appeal j.mp/leTFb9 #Libya #feb17
www.unicef.org.uk/landing-pages/Libya
Anaya
Journalistes à #Tripoli tellement tenus qu’on ne peut connaître résultat de l’attentat de vendredi. Rumeurs:Senoussi et Daw y seraient morts
Abeidi
Libya, Libya Alhurar, killing of Ahmeed Bo Maniar Aisha’s Husband.الله لا يرده
Danya
Stop the bloodbath in #LIBYA … #Gaddafi needs to go.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gaddafi OIL TANKER “LPG/C AISHA2” has since Feb of this year been anchored in area W off coast of #Malta. #Libya #feb17
somaya
Goosebumps seeing head of the #Zintan council speaking to #Benghazi crowd, as ppl are chanting about unity. Aww I see ppl I know :)
N_Benghazi .
If Aisha Gaddafi’s husband is really dead then he is epitomizing the phrase “in a better place”. Anything is better than that household.
Haitham
Allah Akbarr , 7maid ,3aysha al gaddafi’s husband , and major in one of brigades gt killed , even abdulla snussi is dead , g’s right hand !!
septimius
At this rate some plastic surgeon is going to be very busy soon! #Rumour #Libya
Free Libyia
My my my so many reports of Gaddafi clan deaths today, i’m sure Satan is happy for so many to be joining him in Hell……..:S
Abeidi
Libya,I love to believe that A. Sanossi has died but i won’t beleive it until I see his corpse onTV or real picture cuz it might be a trick
Free Libyia
Appaprently Aisha Gaddafi’s husband is dead according to Benghazi Tahrir Sq speaker on @libyatv ………
Sarah LFFR
Fam. from Tripo : “In #Tripoli the price for a chicken reached 19dinars (when it was ~ 5)& the price for fruit juice 5dinars(was ~1.5)”
libya17feb
Mansour Kikhia was killed years ago, he was brought to #Tripoli in an Egyptian ceremonies(Marasim) Car. This information is from Abubakir Ibrahim Bileil Imsalati who has passed away years ago and was a colonal in the Intelligence Office and was also the manager of the Investigation Committees.
Ahmed Sanalla
Saif #Gaddafi standing on a roof of car..holding a rifle.Promising supporters weapons to kill the cowards youtu.be/FRhkpJww9vo #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRhkpJww9vo&fea...
AJE
Libya
Libyan opposition forces have repelled an offensive by government troops in the town of Qwalish.
Sunday’s attack was aimed at recapturing the strategic desert town, southwest of the capital Tripoli.
Witnesses said dozens of civilians were sent to the area just before the attack. Opposition fighters seized control of the region earlier this month.
septimius
Dear @NTC_of_Libya I know we are in a war and stuff but surely somebody can deal with THE media a bit better….PLZ… #LiBYA
Assessing and the problems of tracing the assets of dictators:
Time Magazine Business
Dictators Inc.
Among the first demands of Libya’s rebels when the revolt erupted in Benghazi in February was for Europe and the U.S. to freeze all assets of Muammar Gaddafi and his family members, who are worth billions, according to estimates by officials who defected. Just a few of those now frozen assets: an office building in London’s West End, 3% of the British publisher Pearson, a stake in Italy’s Juventus football club and a 7,000-hectare spread on Spain’s Costa del Sol.
Full art.:
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,91...
Several reports:
Gaddafi using primary schools in Tripoli, specifically in Fashloum, as safe places for hidind and storing weaponry.
Armchair Arab
so have FF freed mizdah? Or did they attack and withdraw to zintan?
According to military council they attacked and withdrew
Beautiful:
Brega: Strong wind storm uncovers thousands of landmines in brega , revolutionaries were able see them and remove them with ease .
TRUE THEN?
CIL
BREAKING: Zintan MILITARY COUNCIL: We cannot confirm or deny that it was Aisha G’s husband but a VIP was killed with large # of his guards
BREAKING: Zintan MILITARY COUNCIL: THE OPERATION took place in the valleys SOUTH OF MIZDAH – on the road to SABHA
BREAKING: Zintan MILITARY COUNCIL: The freeodm fighters that carried out the operation returned safely after seizing 8 4×4 vehicles
BREAKING: Zintan MILITARY COUNCIL: The operation was a joint op between Zintan/Nafousa FF and Bani Walid freedom fighters
Zintan military council: We denied news of Mizdah gate control earlier for safety reasons – till our FF returned safely to Zintan
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Misrata front lines..! fb.me/11NtkQhEO
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=284362&id=137199749688243
killing them with their own weapons #libya fb.me/18Je4fT46
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somaya
Gaddafi, don’t mess with Zintan or you’re death bed awaits you next. Na7nu lam nasta5dam al quwa ba3d! love using his own words against him
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
CORRECTION: Earlier reported tanker “LPG/C AISHA2” as a #Gaddafi ship, ship is in the hands of the #NTC & was in #Benghazi in April. #Libya
libyanandproud
BREAKING : Libyan Freedom Fighters kicked #Gaddafi ass today on all fronts ! #Feb17 #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Unconfirmed: #Zintan #Freedomfighters carried out an operation killing Lieutenant Ahmaid Abuzintaya (Aisha #Gaddafi’s husband) #Libya
Mustafa AbdeJalil said that Gadhafi &his family could remain in Libya as part of political solution to the conflict on.wsj.com/qmKeaF
ZINTAN, Libya—Libyan opposition leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said Sunday that Col. Moammar Gadhafi and his family could remain in Libya as part of a political solution to the five-month-old conflict, provided they give up power and rebel leaders can determine where in Libya and under what conditions they remain.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal during an unannounced visit to Libya’s rebel-controlled western mountains, Mr. Jalil confirmed reports from other rebel officials in recent days that Qatar has stepped up the flow of military aid to rebels in recent days.
Source:
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111...
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Freedom fighters in #Qwaleesh prevented an attack from #Gaddafi forces but suffered from lack of communication equipment. #Libya @NATO
Joanne
Saturday’s #NATO strikes targeted BabAl Azizyah WALLS hitting Guard Towers because they were securing the command and control centre #Libya
Zlitniya
Zliten update on Al Aan TV: youtube.com/watch?feature=…
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_em...
Yefrenia
“We don’t die for our friends, we live for them” …. #Feb17 freedom fighter urges his friends to take cover from sh twitpic.com/5vck66
“If we had met some other time, some other way…we would have had real fun”… #Feb17 freedom fighters …war brings pe twitpic.com/5vciv8
SMILE:
septimius_
Gaddafi’s nightmare! Electronic rats !!! #Libya #Feb17 twitpic.com/5vccyu
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
UNCONFIRMED: reports of Free Libyan Army jets participating in attacks against #Gaddafi mercenaries in #Brega during an 8 hrs window. #Libya
MisrataPatriots PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
Video: Pro-democracy leader Mr. Mustafa Abduljaleel in Zintan on 24 07 2011, Jabel-Nafousa youtu.be/aVuo6Zog-us #Libya #feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVuo6Zog-us&fea...
شحنة خمور كانت متجهة لكتائب الطاغية وتمت مصادرتها A shipment of wine destined to Gaddafi troops was confiscated youtu.be/Hh_e19rxoSs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh_e19rxoSs&feature=youtu.be
Sarah LFFR
by ChangeInLibya
One of the huge beautiful fresco on the airport road – “We have a dream” #Benghazi #Libya #17feb twitpic.com/5vdwmt
Libya In Me
by ChangeInLibya
My uncle’s picture in Benghazi’s Al-Tahrir Square a.k.a courthouse (bottom big picture) #Libya #Feb17 yfrog.com/gy29576261j
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Misrata: 1 freedom fighter succumbed to injuries he sustained 4 days ago & 15 people were injured due to shelling from G forces today #libya
libyanandproud
#Gumatta : Gumatta FF have killed three high profile #Gaddafi security chiefs in Gumatta ! #Feb17 #Libya via @ZlitenFree
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
A bakery very close to the Brega front lines making bread and delivering messages of support to the FF #libya fb.me/162TeMlC2
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=284370&id=137199749688243
MyFreeLibya Rubicon Moad
Just came back from an epic day at Marj…hopefully will upload my interview series…got some decent ones internet permitting #Feb17
Confirmed reports that southern passage to Giryan has been captured by Zintan FF…Allah Akbur…Before ramadan Inshallah!
Unconfirmed reports that Aisha’s husband has been killed as well…from multiple sources in Zintan council, but not akeed #Libya
#Gumatta : Gumatta FF have killed three high profile #Gaddafi security chiefs in Gumatta ! #Feb17 #Libya via @ZlitenFree
We can all leave messages for wounded FF’s at
www.facebook.com/pages/Wounded-Lions-of...
SUMMARY JULY 25th 2011
7/25/2011
7.25.2011
When you start treating people like people, they become people. Paul Vitale
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/OnyST
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
In the early hours of Sunday morning, RAF aircraft conducted a precision strike on the Central Organisation for Electronic Research. #Libya
Ostensibly an engineering academy, the COER has in reality long been a cover for the regime’s nefarious activities. #Libya
Until Qadhafi’s 2003 renunciation of weapons of mass destruction, the COER was responsible for his long-range missile development programme.
NATO surveillance revealed that the building was still being used by his security apparatus to repress the civilian population. #Libya
On Sunday morning, RAF jets successfully attacked two staging posts near Zlitan being used to muster tanks, rocket artillery and ammunition.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
NATO have targeted #Gaddafi’s security apparatus in Tripoli.
Central Organisation for Electronic Research, NATO claim it is a cover for regime activities. Designed long range missiles.
Sunday 24 July. early morning at the Central Organisation for Electronic Research Buildings, Tripoli.
septimius_
Dear #journalist, feel free to use #Gaddafi hard earned title of “WANTED Criminal by @IntlCrimCourt” anytime you want! #Libya
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Time to leave #Misrata. I’ll tweet links to our final pieces from back home. It’s been a great few weeks.
“The soil of #Misrata is irrigated with the blood of its people,” one fighter told me. The people here deserve a better future
HodaAbdelHamid Hoda Abdel-Hamid
its 9am in #Misrata. Hearing explosions in the surroundings..will check on the whereabouts
BRITISH FORCES NEWS
RAF warplanes strike at heart of Gaddafi regime
RAF Tornado and Typhoon jets have blasted the walls of Colonel Gaddafi’s command complex in Tripoli.
The operation early in the early hours of Saturday morning saw Paveway guided bombs smash into the outer and inner perimeter walls at the Bab Al Aziziyah compound in 13 different places.
Major General Nick Pope, the Chief of the Defence Staff’s Communications Officer, said: “Gaddafi has for decades hidden from the Libyan people behind these walls. The vast Bab Al Aziziyah compound is not just his personal residence, but more importantly is also the main headquarters for his regime, with command and control facilities and an army barracks all part of the same fortified site. “
He said the strike was a significant blow as the walls have “for so long been such an unwelcome symbol to the people of Tripoli of Gaddafi’s despotic rule.”
In further RAF air strikes UK warplanes on patrol near Zlitan successfully struck four buildings which NATO surveillance missions had confirmed were being used as a command and control centre and a staging post for regime troops being mustered for attacks on the people of Libya.
Armed reconnaissance patrols continued in the area throughout the day, and during Saturday night RAF aircraft were able to conduct a precision strike on a large ammunition stockpile.
At sea HMS Ocean launched her Army Apache helicopters against a number of military positions between Zlitan and Al Khums, which were successfully engaged using Hellfire missiles.
Source:
www.bfbs.com/news/worldwide/raf-warplan...
hominoid
Islamabad, July 25 Pakistan continue to extend support to Libyan dictator WHY ??? Just to get up the nose of the USA
Abdurrahaman Shalgam, one of the highest-ranking Libyan defectors, told Corriere della Sera TV he believed Gaddafi was negotiating for asylum with either another African country or Belarus.
""He is maneuvering for three things — to leave the country, to have money and to be shielded from the International Criminal Court,"" said Shalgam, who still serves as Libya’s ambassador to the United Nations.
""He is maneuvering to go to another African country or even Belarus because the president there is his friend. I think that he will leave Libya in a few weeks, in two or three weeks at the most.""
BBC
Libya unrest: Ramadan to slow anti-Gaddafi rebels
“We won’t arm cowboys”.
When Osama, a Libyan rebel commander, heard those words he knew all hope that the US was going to tip the balance on the ground in their favour had disappeared.
This, he said, came from an American government representative during a meeting in Benghazi not long after Nato’s air campaign began.
“The truth is, they’re worried about getting their weapons back,” Osama told me at his headquarters in the besieged port city of Misrata, which has been surrounded and rocketed by Col Gaddafi’s forces for months now.
“So, we’re fighting with weapons from the 1970s though we’re doing pretty well with them," he said.
Next week, Libya will begin observing the holy month of Ramadan.
The European leaders that galloped into this conflict, despite reservations from some of their senior military advisers, expected it to be over by now.
Two things have slowed it down for the rebels.
‘Widespread atrocities’
“Ramadan will be tough,” Osama tells me.
A trip to the front line on a busy day shows you how tough. I met 23-year-old Abu Bakr in a ditch as he made his way towards the neighbouring town of Zletin.
He had an AK-47 over his arm and a broad grin across his face. Before he spent his days shooting at Libyan soldiers, he was at the local university studying archaeology and tourism.
He had been on the front line for three weeks. “Right now I’m learning how to use the Kalashnikov and an RPG rocket-propelled grenade,” he said.
Misrata is the middle class at war. The fighters are businessmen, university students, farmers and shopkeepers. They fight hard and they do not run
In Misrata they pride themselves on their behaviour on the front line. I saw captured Gaddafi troops being treated well in rebel-run hospitals, and I was invited to visit them at their prisoner of war camps after they had been processed. Everyone has been fighting for their freedom, but it is their freedom.
This war is best summed up by the young men I met who had come from the UK to fight for the nation of their fathers but who were too scared of being tagged as Islamist radicals back home to allow me to name or formally interview them. For that reason I will not even say where in the UK they come from.
Read full art.:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14...
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NOVINITE
Libyan Diplomat Declared Persona Non Grata in Bulgaria
Libya’s Adviser on Consular Affairs at the Libya Embassy in Bulgaria has been declared persona non grata, according to a statement of the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry.
On Monday, a diplomatic note was handed to the interim head of the Libiyan Embassy in Sofia declaring Ibrahim al-Furis a persona non grata in Bulgaria pursuant to Article 9 of the Vienna Convention.
Under Article 9 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a receiving state may “at any time and without having to explain its decision, notify the sending State that the head of the mission or any member of the diplomatic staff of the mission is persona non grata or that any other member of the staff of the mission is not acceptable”.
Al-Furis is to leave the country within 24 hours.
Source:
www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=130555
Ibrahim al-Furis, took down the symbols of the regime of Libyan leader and waved the flag of the revolution in the Embassy in Sofia. BTV
Read:
www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n255599
HumphreyCheung Humphrey Cheung
VIDEO:
Video: I filmed this back in early June 2011 in Zintan. This wounded Ghaddafi mercenary tells us that he… tumblr.com/x053oxubg9
warjumper.com/post/8038377081/i-filmed-...
hominoid
Libya Mustafa Abdul Jalil announced that Qatar is going to build an airport in Jebel Nefoussa at Nalut.
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
These are starting to show up all over Tripoli, as well as tanks… pic from: Hay al Andalus roundabout #libya fb.me/TwnqinUd
Oh yes, I’m an idiot – the source said it’s andalsi roundabout so I assumed it’s from hay l’andalus.. blah!
Freelibyan:
actually I think this is Sidi AlIndelsi roundabout. but you are right they are popping up every where in tripoli
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES
Anissa Haddadi:
Libya: Algeria accused of supplying Gaddafi once again
Over the week endAlgeria was forced to deny charges that a Libyan ship offloaded weapons for Muammar Gaddafi’s troops at one of its ports.
“The foreign ministry denies categorically these allegations,” the official APS news agency quoted a spokesman for the foreign ministry as saying late on Saturday.
Libyan opposition sources said the ship, sailing under a Libyan flag, arrived on July 19 at the port of Djen Djen from where the cargo was being taken over the border into Libya.
Soon after the allegations emerged, a U.S. State Department official has been quoted telling Reuters: “The United States government is working to ascertain the veracity of these claims, which have only just come to light.”
Then on Friday, another State Department official this time said that the United States was investigating reports that “a ship carrying weapons for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces was allowed to dock in Algeria, which would be considered a violation of U.N. resolutions.”
“We have heard reports that a ship carrying arms to Gaddafi’s regime was recently permitted to dock in Algeria and that these weapons are currently being transported overland into neighbouring Libya,” the State Department official told Reuters.
“If true, this would likely constitute a violation of U.N. Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973.”
Read full art.:
uk.ibtimes.com/articles/186217/20110725...
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
Out on frontlines. Fighters say there was NATO strike on a Gaddafi tank at Bir Ghanem
Express Tribune
ISLAMABAD BACKS QADDAFI:
While the US pressurises Pakistan to recognise the Libyan rebels-led Transitional International Council (TIC), the Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi is seeking Islamabad’s assistance to overcome the challenges his authority faces in Tripoli.
A senior official of the Libyan ministry of foreign affairs is due to arrive in Islamabad on July 27 with a special message from Qaddafi for President Asif Ali Zardari, a highly informed source told The Express Tribune. The special envoy will also meet Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar.
Islamabad backs Qaddafi
Tripoli has appreciated Islamabad’s position that the US-led armed intervention in Libya is beyond the UN mandate.
Islamabad has told Washington that it would only recognise a government in Libya that controls Tripoli.
Pakistan has so far refused to accord recognition to ‘a state-less Transitional International Council’ as the legitimate authority in Libya and maintains that it still considered Qaddafi’s government as the lawful regime in Tripoli.
Here is the full story:
tribune.com.pk/story/216816/foreign-pol...
Skeptic
#Gaddafi can thank #Pakistan 4 supporting #Taliban, #Al Qaeda & hiding #Bin #Laden, as long as AQ exists, he can say FFs r part of it!
Why have majority of govs in predominantly Muslim countries refused 2 recognize NTC of Libya ?
International Business Times
Libya: Gaddafi’s New Weapon: Fatwa Put on Nato to Force Ceasefire?
A Saudi Muslim scholar appeared on state-run Libyan satellite television on Monday to call for a fatwa (religious ruling) by key scholars in Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries calling on the rebels in Libya to put their arms down and talk peace with the regime of Muammar Gaddafi.
Hamoud bin Nafei Al Anzi, a mosque preacher in the central Saudi town of Alasiah, criticised prominent Muslim scholars and the Arab league for joining the fight against Gaddafi five months ago.
Anzi, who is visiting Tripoli, Gaddafi’s stronghold, said he was in Libya on a personal mission and that he does not represent Saudi government views.
“I appeal for all our Moslem scholars and intellects to issue a fatwa for those who are fighting the government and their own people to put their arms down and join their brothers on the negotiating table…if you (rebels) have any demands, then sit at the negotiating table and discuss them…please do not resort to weapons to resolve your disputes…I acknowledge there are mistakes but mistakes must not be tackled by bigger mistakes…for God’s sake, stop the bloodshed.”
Anzi, said he had been taken by Libyan officials and scholars to sites bombed by NATO warplanes in Tripoli, Misrata and other towns.
Read full art.:
uk.ibtimes.com/articles/186157/20110725...
LibyanLion
VIDEO – youtube.com/watch?v=ZDJkUr… – FFs using their tank as reinforcement, when pickup trucks get attacked. #Libya #Feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDJkUrYArvM&fea...
FF effort to remove mines still continues with success in #Brega.
hominoid
Libya Field commander: al-Gaddafi has mined the buildings and houses in zliten
Nov 23, 1941 War Last Week— British Blow Off Lid In Libya As Nazis Gain On Reds . news.google.com/newspapers?id=…
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Libya Ajdabiya that the rebels were able to arrest the three cars with six members of G forces who tried to infiltrate through Ajdabiya to Brega to carry out acts of sabotage, be mentioned that the cars four-wheel-drive and were loaded with arms and ammunition.
Source: Channel Libya satellite
Dima
#Feb17 is a real revolution with real courageous revolutionaries giving up even their lives for their freedom. I salute them #Libya
I came all the way to Libya because I needed to see it for myself, I needed to understand. It is not an easy situation for any Arab
IvanCNN Ivan Watson
#Tripoli resident told me power outages started week+ ago. Black outs last 3-4 hours at a time. #Libya
TIMES OF MALTA
Many roads to defection in regime-held western Libya
In mainly government-held western Libya, the rebel army largely consists of defectors – people who for differing reasons took the dangerous decision to break with Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
Braving the myriad security services and their vast network of informers built up over four decades in power, individuals ranging from regular army officers to youngsters, studying overseas, have rallied to the armed revolt.
When the youth of the south-western hilltown of Zintan began demonstrating, Col Juma Brahim, usually based in the capital Tripoli, was in his hometown on leave.
“I saw these youths cry out against Col Gaddafi. It was magic. In the beginning, I simply watched, I didn’t demonstrate. I just watched but my heart was with them,” Col Brahim, 50, said.“One day, my nephew asked me for a gun. I went to my grandmother’s place to look for an old World War II rifle.”
Full art.:
www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011...
CIL PHOTO
The view from Zintan
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MOD Defence News
RAF strikes Gaddafi targets in Tripoli
A Military Operations news article
25 Jul 11
RAF aircraft bombed a key intelligence building in Tripoli and breached the walls of Colonel Gaddafi’s command complex this weekend, and inflicted further losses on pro-Gaddafi forces massed at Zlitan and Gharyan.
In the early hours of Sunday morning, 24 July, RAF Tornado and Typhoon aircraft conducted a precision strike on the Central Organisation for Electronic Research (COER). Major General Nick Pope, the Chief of the Defence Staff’s Communications Officer, said:
“Ostensibly an engineering academy, the COER has, in reality, long been a cover for the regime’s nefarious activities. Up until Colonel Gaddafi’s renunciation of weapons of mass destruction in 2003, the COER was responsible for his long-range missile development programme.
“Intensive surveillance by NATO over the past weeks revealed that the building was still being actively used by his security apparatus to repress the civilian population, and was thus a wholly legitimate target.”
Also on Sunday morning, other RAF jets successfully attacked two staging posts near Zlitan being used to muster tanks, rocket artillery and ammunition. Later that afternoon, an armed reconnaissance patrol located and destroyed a regime main battle tank near Gharyan, on the edge of the Djebel Nafousa, south of Tripoli.
On Saturday, 23 July, RAF aircraft used precision guided weapons to breach the walls of Colonel Gaddafi’s command complex in central Tripoli.
General Pope said:
“Gaddafi has for decades hidden from the Libyan people behind these walls. The vast Bab al-Aziziya compound is not just his personal residence, but, more importantly, is also the main headquarters for his regime, with command and control facilities and an army barracks all part of the same fortified site.
“Successive NATO strikes in past weeks have inflicted extensive damage on the military facilities within.
“In the early hours of Saturday morning, RAF Tornado and Typhoon aircraft, supported by allied aircraft, struck the high perimeter walls of the compound, which have for so long been such an unwelcome symbol to the people of Tripoli of Gaddafi’s despotic rule.
“Paveway guided bombs scored direct hits in thirteen different places on both the outer and inner perimeter walls along the western side of Bab al-Aziziya. As ever, particular care was taken to ensure no civilian traffic on nearby roads was endangered.”
Also on Saturday, RAF jets on patrol near Zlitan successfully struck four buildings which NATO surveillance missions had confirmed were being used as a command and control centre and a staging post for regime troops being mustered for attacks on the people of Libya.
Armed reconnaissance patrols continued in the area throughout the day, and, during Saturday night, RAF aircraft were able to conduct a precision strike on a large ammunition stockpile. In addition, HMS Ocean launched her Army Apache helicopters against a number of military positions between Zlitan and Al Khums, which were successfully engaged using Hellfire missiles.
On Thursday afternoon, 21 July, RAF aircraft patrolling near Zlitan identified and destroyed a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun. During the night, British Army Apache helicopters once again launched a strike mission from HMS Ocean, while other NATO aircraft provided overwatch.
Two buildings being used by regime troops at Al Khums were damaged by Hellfire missiles. This strike was followed up by NATO fixed-wing aircraft in the early hours of Friday morning; RAF jets hit six ammunition storage facilities near Zlitan, and a large building that was being used as a base for multiple rocket launchers threatening Misurata.
In addition, one deployed rocket launcher and two armed trucks were destroyed.
On Friday afternoon, 22 July, further RAF armed reconnaissance patrols successfully engaged one of Gaddafi’s tanks and another armed truck, again near Zlitan.
“Throughout these operations, NATO tanker and surveillance assets provided essential support, including RAF VC10, Tristar, Sentry and Sentinel aircraft.”
At sea, the frigate HMS Iron Duke has been relieved on station by her sister ship HMS Sutherland. HMS Bangor continues to provide NATO’s maritime task group with a vital mine countermeasures capability, ready to respond to any attempts by the regime to again lay mines off Misurata port.
Since the start of military operations to enforce UNSCR 1973, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and Army Air Corps precision strikes have destroyed over 710 regime targets engaged in the repression of the Libyan people.
UK missions over Libya are undertaken as part of NATO’s Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR, to enforce UNSCR 1973 and protect Libyan civilians at risk of attack.
UK forces currently deployed on this operation include:
• RAF Tornado and Typhoon aircraft based at Gioia del Colle in Italy
• RAF VC10 and Tristar air-to-air refuelling tankers, based in Sicily, Cyprus and the UK
• RAF Sentry and Sentinel surveillance aircraft, based in Sicily and Cyprus
• HMS Ocean (helicopter carrier)
• HMS Sutherland (Type 23 frigate)
• HMS Bangor (Sandown class minehunter)
• Royal Fleet Auxiliary Fort Rosalie
• British Army Apache attack helicopters
• Fleet Air Arm Sea King helicopters (Airborne Surveillance and Area Control role).
RAF air transport aircraft provide extensive logistic support to the deployed bases in Italy, Sicily and the Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus.
Source:
www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/...
Another G troll:
moi a table
#BadTiming – Pro-G troll @GloPeaceLibya trying to start a rumour on #NTC chief #Jalil fleeing to Turkey, just as reports show him in #Nafusa
Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
Being neutral with Arab revolutions would be like watching a movie silently. I can’t just watch! I would be as good as dead, as a journalist
RIANOVOSTI
A SECRET PLAN FOR MUAMMAR GADDAFI
The ruling five of the future Libya
International mediators, including Russia, have persuaded the warring parties to discuss the political future of Libya. This is what the guest from Tripoli discussed with his Russian colleague, Sergei Lavrov during his visit to Moscow. According to our information, the Libyan government and the rebels have agreed in principle to establish a kind of united transitional ruling council. It should include two reputable politicians from each side; these four will elect a fifth, a neutral, though influential figure that will head this transitional body.
The African Union and the United Nations — the main mediators in the settlement — suggested this scenario, and Russia supported it. On July 20, Lavrov had an urgent conversation with the Secretary-General’s special envoy to Libya, Abdel-Elah Al-Khatib from Jordan. Having visited Tripoli two weeks ago, he was pessimistic about the prospects of a settlement. He formed this impression following talks with the Libyan prime minister and the foreign minister.
But since then, the positions of the conflicting parties have improved. The Libyans have developed a desire for peace. The main task of the mediators is to help achieve this. It would be great if other international players did not interfere with these efforts. Unfortunately, it seems that among the NATO countries taking part in the war, there are those who would like it to continue until the complete annihilation of Gaddafi himself, and his regime.
Here is the full art.:
en.rian.ru/analysis/20110725/165375215....
Abeidi
Libya, Brega watchthe morals FFsave life of G man inBrega telling him sweetheart don’t worry will save urlife(EMOTIONAL) youtube.com/watch?v=J7NYzZ…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7NYzZOyRpg
To stay sane you sometimes need something to smile:
VIDEO:
Gadaffi Family Party after electionحفلات عائلة القدافي
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD6Jkw6-4O0&NR=1
DalaiLama
If you use violence, you may get temporary satisfaction. But the nature of violence is unpredictable – it gives rise to unexpected results
Feb17
ANTON HAMMERL
The family of Anton Hammerl, a South African and UK-based photojournalist killed in Libya in early April, will be holding a memorial service on 08 September in London.
Gaddafi’s forces shot Hammerl “in an extremely remote location in the Libyan desert” on 05 April. The crime was witnessed by American journalists Clare Morgana Gillis and James Foley, who were with Hammerl and were abducted by pro-Gaddafi loyalists following the shooting. For weeks, the Libyan authorities had assured their South African counterparts that Hammerl was alive and being detained in an undisclosed location.
However, when Gillis and Foley were released, they told Hammerl’s family that they had seen the photojournalist get shot and that it was highly unlikely that he had survived his injuries. His remains have yet to be located and returned to his family in the UK.
The memorial service, set for 08 September at 3pm, will take place at St Bride’s Church on Fleet Street (EC4Y 8AU) in London.
Bulgaria
A Libyan diplomat has been given 24 hours to leave Bulgaria, the Foreign Ministry in Sofia confirmed on July 25 2011.
The diplomat is Ibrahim Alfouirs, who has been declared persona non grata and has been ordered to leave Bulgaria under Article 9 of the Vienna Convention.
The note was handed to the embassy at 9am on July 25, meaning that Alfouirs has until the same time on July 26 to leave.
Article 9 specifies: “The receiving State may at any time and without having to explain its decision, notify the sending State that the head of the mission or any member of the diplomatic staff of the
mission is persona non grata or that any other member of the staff of the mission is not acceptable.
“In any such case, the sending State shall, as appropriate, either recall the person concerned or terminate his functions with the mission. A person may be declared non grata or not acceptable before arriving in the territory of the receiving State.
“If the sending State refuses or fails within a reasonable period to carry out its obligations under paragraph 1 of this article, the receiving State may refuse to recognise the person concerned as a member of the mission,” Article 9 says.
Libya’s embassy has five diplomats, according to the list on the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry’s website. Headed by charge d’affaires Mohamed Milad, there were four other staff, all listed as counsellors, including Alfouirs, listed as counsellor (consular affairs).
Bulgaria is a supporter of the UN Security Council-mandated mission in Libya and is supporting Nato operations against the Muammar Gaddafi regime. On June 28, Bulgaria – simultaneously with Croatia – announced that it was recognising the Transitional National Council, founded in Benghazi in February, as legitimate representatives of the Libyan people.
NEW YORK TIMES
In Libya’s West, Signs of Growing Frustration with NATO
By C.J. Chivers
One of the consistent experiences of reporting alongside opposition fighters in Libya is feeling the delineation between what the rank and file have to say of the NATO bombing campaign and the statements of the officials in the Transitional National Council, the de facto rebel authority.
Those closer to the fighting or who live in harm’s way, however, have a richer take. They, too, express gratitude for NATO’s early work in the war, when Col.
Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces were stopped by airstrikes from overrunning the rebels in the east and crushing the uprising in Benghazi. But they also express deep and sometimes agonized frustration at the pace and target selection of the air support, and talk often of what they perceive to be NATO half-stepping and incompetence. You hear these complaints in Misurata, where the city’s residents faced sustained shelling, and which is still shelled or struck with rockets intermittently to this day.
Full art.:
atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/in-l...
The nonsense Gaddafi makes up is utterly unbelievable:
ANOTHER G TRICK TO CREATE CHAOS:
Report: Head of rebel forces army in Libya killed
Published July 24th, 2011 – 16:36 GMT
According to press reports on Sunday, Major General Abdel Fattah Younes, head of the rebel forces army in Libya, was killed in the fighting in Brega area some 10 days ago in what was described as “mysterious circumstances.”
Younes, who served as Secretary of the General People’s Committee for Public Security and a number of other important positions joined the rebels at the beginning of the crisis. Earlier this month, Younes expected that Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi will use poisonous gas against opposition fighters, to prevent their progress in the direction of the oil city of Brega.
It is worth mentioning that there were differences between some rebel leaders and Younes as some rebels claimed he was responsible for killing and injuring hundreds of people in front of Italy’s consulate in Benghazi in 2006. This incident was related to a protest against he publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.
I found art. here:
www.albawaba.com/main-headlines/report-...
ABOVE IS UTTER LIES!!!!!!!
LIBIA: MOSCA, REGIME TRATTA PER USCITA DI SCENA DI GHEDDAFI
(AGI) Mosca – Il regime libico e’ pronto a trattare sulla possibile uscita di scena di Muammar Gheddafi: lo sostiene una fonte del ministero degli Esteri russo, secondo cui l’ipotesi e’ stata discussa nel colloquio della settimana scorsa tra il capo della diplomazia russa, Serghei Lavrov, e il collega libico, Abdul Ati al-Obeidi. “La possibilita’ di dimissioni di Gheddafi e’ stata presa in dettagliata considerazione, soprattutto alla luce dei recenti contatti (di Tripoli) con gli americani e i francesi”, ha spiegato la fonte .
Source:
www.agi.it/rubriche/ultime-notizie-page...
LIBYA TRIPOLI
In case you still have not seen it? A Hammer with (#LIBYA) plate Number in #London #UK flic.kr/p/9rRvjE
www.flickr.com/photos/jamiekitson/55434...
Twitter Gift Giveaway! Let’s save #Libya.
Or at least try. This is legit, yo.
The war in Libya, despite what media coverage might indicate, is ongoing. While words like “stalemate” and “stand-off” become reoccurring elements of the scant coverage, people continue to die, sometimes from injuries that need the most basic of medical attention. Refugee camps like the Tunisian Remada Camp are operating with minimal resources to accommodate the large numbers of war refugees and conditions are absolutely deplorable.
So here’s a way you can help withOUT money (though that would would help a lot, too). Hope Relief, a 501 (k) non-profit based here in the U.S., has been running several relief campaigns and doin’ good work inside AND outside of Libya, including in Tunisian refugee camps and with Libyans abroad who once relied of government funding to provide for schooling and other expenses. I know some of the people behind this org and they are all sorts of awesome.
HERE’S what you have to do:
abudai.tumblr.com/post/8030535393
Last week there was some confusion about number of mines at BREGA.
Rumor had it there were 400.000, which did seem an unbelievably high number.
I suspect someone needs to check their numbers before tweeting:)
AFP
Libye: les rebelles de Brega freinés par un terrain truffé de mines
Selon M. Zawahi, un prisonnier a indiqué que “plus de 45.000 mines” avaient été posées par les troupes du régime autour de la ville côtière, située à 800 km à l’est de Tripoli et à 240 km au sud-ouest de Benghazi, la “capitale” des rebelles dans l’est du pays.
Le colonel Ahmed Omar Bani, porte-parole militaire, affirme pour sa part que des experts des insurgés estiment à plus de “40.000” le nombre de mines effectivement posées au hasard dans et autour de Brega.
Read art. Here:
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/A...
Yesterday Derek tweeted:
DerekHenryFlood Derek Henry Flood
fog of war is thick here. Q is supposedly threatening to retake border tomorrow. 200 rebel technicals said 2 b 10k out of Nalut. Lots of ??
Today he tweets:
Very loud thuds out of town..getting closer. Can’t get anyone 2 drive us there. Frustrating. Arghh…
Ahmed
#Brega: Reports of #NATO airstrikes on 2 APC belonging to #Gaddafi forces & more intensive strikes Yday by NATO in & around #Brega..#Libya
Noah
The Wall Street Journal has really taken a nose dive since Murdoch acquired it. It’s getting more and more like FoxNews each day.
The Himalayan
Gaddafi compound under attack from NATO bombs
Reuters
TRIPOLI: Explosions rocked central Tripoli for the second night in a row and Britain said weeks of NATO bombardment had inflicted extensive damage on Muammar Gaddafi’s heavily-fortified compound.
Libya’s leader is clinging to power despite a four-month-old NATO air campaign and a lengthening conflict with rebels seeking an end to his 41-year rule and who have seized large swathes of the North African country.
The explosions hit Tripoli at about 1 a.m. Sunday, a day after NATO launched strikes on what it said was a military command site in Tripoli.
Major General Nick Pope, chief of the defense staff’s communications officer, said Royal Air Force aircraft struck the high perimeter walls of Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziyah complex.
“Gaddafi has for decades hidden from the Libyan people behind these walls. The vast Bab al-Aziziyah compound is not just his personal residence, but more importantly is also the main headquarters for his
regime, with command and control facilities and an army barracks," Pope said Sunday.
“Successive NATO strikes in past weeks have inflicted extensive damage on the military facilities within.”
Gaddafi’s foreign minister, Abdelati Obeidi, left Cairo on Sunday after a three-day visit without making any comments.
“Obeidi met with a number of Egyptian officials and personalities to discuss the latest developments in Libya and ways to resolve the crisis in peaceful ways,” a Libyan embassy official said without giving details. He was headed for Tunis.
Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said Friday Libyan representatives were ready to hold more talks with the United States and the rebels, but Gaddafi would not quit.
Ibrahim said senior Libyan officials had a “productive dialogue” with U.S. counterparts last week in a rare meeting that followed U.S. recognition of the rebel government.
“We believe other meetings in the future … will help solve Libyan problems,” Ibrahim told reporters in Tripoli. “We are willing to talk to the Americans more.”
Source and full story:
www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?...
Independent
RAF BOMBS GADDAFI INTELLIGENCE SITE
British jets have bombed a key intelligence building being used by the forces of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, the Ministry of Defence said today.
The attack on the Central Organisation for Electronic Research building in Tripoli came in the early hours of Sunday morning and involved RAF Tornado and Typhoon aircraft.
COER is described by the Libyan authorities as an engineering academy, but the MoD insisted that it was a “wholly legitimate” target as it had in fact long been used as a cover for the “nefarious activities” of the Gaddafi regime.
Until Libya gave up its weapons of mass destruction programme in 2003, COER was used in the development of long-range missiles, and recent surveillance indicated it was still being used by Gaddafi’s security apparatus, said the MoD.
Source and read more:
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa...
LIBYANVOICE
i miss my mom i miss my mom i miss my mom i miss my mom i miss my mom i miss my mom i miss my mom i miss my mom i miss my mom gadafi go now
ali libyan
Qatar did more than both of our neighbours, nothing special from our neighbours to be honest
mahmoud
The tenacity of the fight in #Libya ‘s youth is only eclipsed by the cowardliness of Gaddafi’s lackeys destroying their country, ppl &future
Great news and confirmed. Ali Maria Gaddafi’s ambassador in Cairo (the pervert) is being kicked out of egypt #libya
(reminder of the sex scandal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxqWNR863XU )
Abdul
Please RT: archive.org/details/Shahee… (Shaheed Sadiq Shwehdi) Images of public execution in Benghazi (!) 1984 during RAMADAN
www.archive.org/details/ShaheedSadiqShw...
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Thank you #Qatar for all your help to the Libyan people when other Arab countries just stood by and watched, or helped G against us #libya
CHECK THIS OUT:
Daily News on #Tripoli #Trables #Libya goo.gl/r9L0i
or:
tweetedtimes.com/#!/search/Tripoli/en
Reuters
WRAPUP 1-U.N. envoy to meet Libya rebels over peace plan
The final string is taking a little longer than anticipated. #TryingToBePatient
dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi’s plan to #Tripoli: goo.gl/DqK8R
FromJoanne Joanne
FYI #AISHA Gaddafi married her Cousin Ahmed alGaddafi #alQahsi in 2006 His Rank= #ArmyColonel. Aisha holds Rank of #LieutenantGeneral #Libya
#Gaddafi will NOT even ENTERTAIN the thought of CEASE FIRE in #RAMADAN a Well known Fact = #Gaddafi couldnt care LESS about RELIGION #Libya
#TRIPOLI FF using Fishermen Explosives #Jawlatina 2Attack Sec police and checkpoints Katiba trucks #binAshour eo areas goo.gl/Nms3t
Senussi reported dead might be true but Aisha s husband not …Think they have confused names
#BREGA FF Captured up to 20 regime troops since July18 One of them claimed G Troops sown “over 45 000 mines” around #Brega #Libya
Abeidi
Libya,weapons sent to our FF from Benghazi to Brega by the look of them they r the ones which were received recently youtube.com/watch?v=qxip3j…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxip3jE8FzU
The Dictator
Been stuck on a boat since the last time I tweeted. Tide was too high, now back at Gabes until it’s safe to leave to #Misrata..
Met a woman on the boat who escaped from Zliten after being kidnapped by Gaddafi brigades, she broke down in tears telling me her story.
She lived in Kirzaz, #Misrata. The whole family was kidnapped including 2 children under the age of 3, taken first to Tawargha..
then to Sirte where they escaped but were caught again and taken to Zliten. She could barely speak, I’ll blog about her story.
Chivers:
NIDO, the Battlefield’s New Pejorative.
A few days ago, a rebel field commander in Libya, discussing the pace of fighting along the several small fronts in his country’s west, allowed himself a knowing chuckle. “When we talked about NATO,” he said, “we used to call it NATO. Now we call it NIDO.”
NIDO is a brand of powdered milk, often fed to toddlers.
This commander’s insult summarized a feeling now often heard among the armed men opposed to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. After the war in Libya settled a late-spring slog that has seen only incremental progress through mid-summer, it was perhaps inevitable: NATO’s vaunted air power, in the minds of many rebel fighters, has not lived up to its billing.
There are any number of reasons for this. Some — the number and types of aircraft committed to the war, the absence of controllers on the ground to select targets and direct strikes — flow from particular decisions made in foreign capitals. Others follow unrealistic expectations, including that the mere appearance of air power should have scattered the Qaddafi army and broken the Qaddafi family’s will. The Qaddafi military, most everyone now acknowledges, has fought harder than most anyone predicted back in March.
Read more:
cjchivers.com/post/8043366570/nido-the-...
rcolebourn Richard Colebourn
A rebel commander in #Misrata says they are keen to secure city and surroundings against rockets and attack by Gaddafi before moving forward
freelibya
TARGETS FOR NATO WOULD BE:
have few locations nTripoli got them from confidential source &sent them to Gen Hafter last week 2 forward 2 NATO will send 2 u
@NATO few others will follow twitpic.com/5vmhxw
@NATO more to come twitpic.com/5vmi96
@NATO Libya 2 more to follow twitpic.com/5vmimv
@NATO libya one more to follow twitpic.com/5vmj1l
@NATO last one I have just to let u know I spoke to Gen Hafter last week and gave them to him by email twitpic.com/5vmjm9
anitamcnaught Anita McNaught
Fighting #Brega at complete standstill, according 2 our mil. sources. Landmines insuperable. Rebel forces possibly not much more than 700.
UN Libya Envoy Abdul-Elah al-Khatib back #Benghazi meeting with TNC. UN proposal will get nowhere if includes Gadaffi. TNC/NATO remain firm.
rcolebourn Richard Colebourn
Smoke from burning fuel depot over city of #Misrata #Libya. Hit by a rocket fired by Col Gaddafi’s forces yfrog.com/khpjtkj
BRITISH FORCES NEWS
HMS SUTHERLAND HEADS FOR LIBYAN WATERS
Another British warship is on its way to Libya to strengthen NATO’s mission to protect civilians and humanitarian aid shipments.
The Type 23 Duke Class frigate HMS Sutherland has been temporarily switched from the Cougar deployment and the Responsive Force Task Group.
She is cutting her way through the Mediterranean to support fellow Royal Navy and NATO units off the coast of Libya.
Her Commanding Officer Commander Roger Readwin said: ”My fighting clan of highly trained and capable sailors has been busy today putting our systems and drills through their paces in preparation for this important mission. We look forward to working with our NATO allies to deliver part of the Royal Navy’s contribution to the Operation.
“I would also like to extend my sincere gratitude to the families and friends of Sutherland, for their continued loyal support which once again will be very much appreciated.”
HMS Sutherland will assist in enforcing the arms embargo, help protect civilians under threat of attack and ultimately support the current mandate given by UN Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973; she will also guard against threats to the flow of vital humanitarian assistance.
The vessel left the UK in April as part of the Responsive Force Task Group that includes HMS Albion and HMS Ocean. Since then she has supported operations and exercises off Libya and in the Mediterranean, Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf.
Source:
www.bfbs.com/news/worldwide/hms-sutherl...
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Lots of so-called “anti-imperialists” love to bitch about Libya just because they hate NATO. I wish it ws YOUR family getting killed by Gdfi
LOOK at what Gaddafi did to Misrata before you cry against NATO
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facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… #libya
or:
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1459913...
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=145991588809059
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LOOK at what Gaddafi did to Zawiya… go back through Sky news’ reports from Zawiya in early march.. what happened to all those people?
Zawiya was imprisoned, destroyed, killed… even the graves of dead fighters were dug up by Gaddafi troops, just to cover up the atrocities
All of this happened before NATO got involved…. wake up for a minute and try to understand that it’s not all about NATO in #Libya
People who paint Gaddafi as a victim or #feb17 revolution as a conspiracy should try to spend a day in #Nalut or #Misrata before they speak
So if you hate NATO jst because it’s NATO and have no clue about what happened in Libya pre-NATO, then by all means shut up & move on #libya
#Zawiya was pummelled for weeks using #Gaddafi jets, artillery, tanks, rockets, mortars… then it fell to G forces. All before NATO #mar19
Oh and another thing.. the so called Arab nations that are the first to complain about NATO involvement.. where were you when we needed you?
MisrataPatriots PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
Reuters:#Turkey has delivered its 1st cargo of fuel to aid east Libya as part of multi-million$ free oil supply deal with FFs gov #Libya
Penny: Compiled by Mo Nabbous channel :
www.libyauprisingarchive.com/index.html
Libyan Duda
Correction: #Libyan diplomat not ambassador to #Bulgaria has announced resignation
Fissa
MY 24 terrifying BLOGS about the Libyan uprising since 15 Feb ( when i was in Libya) till today:
In memory of LIBYA’S MARTYR and my FATHER, who I love and miss dearly.
Father, in life I loved you dearly; in death I love you still. It broke my heart to lose you, but you didn’t go alone, a big part of me went with you. Your blood- that was viciously sucked by Gaddafi’s thugs shall be a pledge and an oath to honor by being the daughter you’d forever be proud of. I will never say “Good-bye” but will always say I can hardly wait to see you.
With all my love today, always and forever your daughter NAFISSA
Read Fissa’s blog here:
nafissa82.blogspot.com
Tehran Times
Leading Defector Predicts Gaddafi will Quit Libya
A former Libyan foreign minister who has defected to the opposition said on Thursday he believed Muammar Gaddafi realized he could no longer stay in Libya and may leave within a few weeks.
""He is maneuvering to go to another African country or even Belarus because the president there is his friend. I think that he will leave Libya in a few weeks, in two or three weeks at the most.""
Source:
www.turkishweekly.net/news/120001/leadi...
AP
Rebel flag flies over Libyan Embassy in Bulgaria
SOFIA, Bulgaria—The Libyan Embassy to Bulgaria has gone over to the rebel side following the Bulgarian government’s decision to expel a senior diplomat there.
Bulgaria announced Monday that it would move to expel Ibrahim Al-Furis, the embassy’s chief of consular affairs, for activities inconsistent with his diplomatic status — a phrase often used to refer to espionage.
Source:
www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articl...
libyanandproud
#Tripoli : #Gaddafi security rounding up local Divers . Reports suggest they’re arrested or used 2 recover lost weapons. #Feb17 #Libya
ALzintan Channel
Wounded Prisoners at a Hospital in Zintan fb.me/XvZ0aR8r
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkGGnA1YuNI
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Malta CARGO SHIP “SEA DREAM” now in #Istanbul #Turkey en route for dest. #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#Gaddafi CARGO SHIP “ALMARWA” now departing #Tartous #Syria for unknown/unlisted dest. #Libya #Feb17
Slate Afrique
Seif al Islam Kadhafi va-t-il succéder à son père?
Mouammar Kadhafi pourrait se retirer au profit de son fils Seif al Islam. C’est une option vers laquelle se dirigent les négociations avec le Guide libyen.
En Libye, les bombes et les missiles continuent de pleuvoir sur Tripoli mais le régime de Kadhafi résiste encore. Mieux, il a enclenché au cours des derniers jours une offensive diplomatique destinée à déstabiliser la coalition internationale et à saper les efforts du Conseil national de transition (CNT), qui cherche à gagner plus de soutien international.
Signe de l’évolution de la situation et du quasi-enlisement sur le front militaire, la France ne semble plus opposée à ce que le Guide suprême reste en Libye. Mais, comme l’a précisé le ministre des Affaires étrangères, Alain Juppé, «à condition qu’il se retire du pouvoir». Ce à quoi les proches de Kadhafi s’empressent de répondre que ce dernier «n’a aucune responsabilité politique et qu’il ne peut donc abandonner un pouvoir qu’il ne possède pas».
Dialogue de sourds? Pas si sûr! Car tout le monde est bien conscient de la nécessité de faire en sorte que celui qui a régné sur la Libye durant près de quarante-deux ans puisse se retirer de la scène politique sans perdre la face.
Source:
www.slateafrique.com/17341/guerre-libye...
Ahmed
A new baby is born to #Misrata family just hours before a #Gaddafi rocket slams into their home.
Ben Wedeman CNN
youtu.be/I3O71h2XvNo
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3O71h2XvNo&fea...
Libyan People’s Petition for a Safe, Secure, and Sovereign Libya
The Petition
We the free people of Libya, categorically
reject any proposed peace plans, which place in jeopardy the security of the
Libyan people, by allowing members of the Gaddafi family and senior regime
officials, the opportunity to reside in Libya as a condition of a sustained
peace proposal.
The safety, security, and sovereignty of Libya and its people, is non-negotiable. We, as free people, have a responsibility to
act according to the best interests of Libya. Therefore, we categorically
oppose any plans, which would risk the lives of millions, by granting members
of the Gaddafi family and senior members of its tyrannical regime any means to
continue their repeated aggression and indiscriminate attacks on innocent
civilians and the targeted destruction of cities and their infrastructures
Therefore, we categorically unequivocally and manifestly reject and refuse the creation of a new National Transitional Council containing members of the Gaddafi government.
Source:
www.ipetitions.com/petition/futurelibya
Yefrenia
A channel 4 news reporter returned to Zawiya after Gaddafi seized control again, he went bk to Zawiya hospital & all the staff have changed.
LibyaLiberty Now Beard Free
Then you’d better run. RT@Libya_SOS #libya #REBELS ARE KILLERS
Les insurgés de Zenten unis contre Kadhafi
Les habitants des villes rebelles du Djebel Nefoussa unissent leurs forces pour repousser les Kadhafistes, malgré de profonds clivages entre populations berbères et arabes.
La ville de 45 000 habitants, à 145 kilomètres au sud-ouest de Tripoli, est perchée dans les montagnes du Djebel Nefoussa. Ce massif quasi désertique s’étend en arc de cercle de Nalout, près de la frontière avec la Tunisie, jusqu’à Gharyane, à une cinquantaine de kilomètres au sud-ouest de Tripoli. Au nord, il s’interrompt brusquement, pour laisser place à la plaine, qui s’étend vers la Méditerranée.
Read full art.:
www.ouest-france.fr/actu/actuDet_-Les-i...
Le Qotidien Mutations
Visite en Chine: Une intervention de Paul Biya fâche des diplomates
Les chancelleries française et américaine y voient une condamnation des frappes de l’Otan en Libye. C’est deux petites phrases apparemment anodines, mais qui ont fait mouche. Depuis la fin de la semaine dernière, une bonne partie de la communauté diplomatique accréditée au Cameroun est en émoi, quand certains ne crient pas au scandale, à la trahison. D’autres, plus radicaux encore, en appellent à des actions coercitives contre le Cameroun dont le président vient porter un sérieux coup de canif au concept de «diplomatie de neutralité» souvent vanté par nos autorités.
Full art. here:
quotidien.mutations-multimedia.com/inde...=com_content&view=article&id=2852:visite-en-chine-une-intervention-de-paul-biya-fache-des-diplomates&catid=54:politique&Itemid=439
Alertnet
Reuters
Turkey starts fuel deliveries to east Libya
Read more and source:
www.trust.org/alertnet/news/turkey-star...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> READ HERE
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Somaia
Confirmed Mansour Daw & AbdAllah Snussi R still alive Daw only had minor injuries & Snussi not a scratch source relatives of Daw #Libya
Ahmed
#NTC chariman: That proposal had a time limit and that limit has now passed..#Gaddafi and sons must leave #Libya
NATOpress NATO Press
#NATO press briefing on #Libya on 26 July at 14:00 will be broadcast in #Arabic via live web streaming – goo.gl/Zbm0l
BenghaziBlahzi
been away from net, back in #benghazi in time 4 Ibrahim Sahad’s return 2 #Libya from a 32 year hiatus. thank u #feb17 heroes
Death Surrounds Gaddafi
Justice is word painfully carved in every single Libyan person’s mind and heart. The definition of the word or how justice could be served is individually coined now in Libya, though people agree on one thing and this thing is to punish Gaddafi and sons for what they did and still doing to the Libyan people.
The individualism in imagining the kind of justice preferred comes from the personal pain suffered under the brutality of the Gaddafi regime, but the collectivity comes from sharing tragedies and unimaginable atrocities throughout the 42 years under this dictatorship. What kind of end Gaddafi and sons will face to relinquish the thirst for justices Libyans seek remains to be seen. One thing is for sure, justice is coming very very soon.
With the latest news of the brave attack on Gaddafi’s inner circle on Friday and the death of two of his strong supporters, Alhadi Imbairish, and his chief intelligence, AbdAllah Sunwsi, people were ecstatic to hear this news. For people in Libya it is a bitter-sweet victory as they would like to see these people put to trial to answer for all the crimes committed on behalf of Gaddafi and sons. This operation targeted Gaddafi ‘s inner circle and it was a huge blow to his security forces proving the that organized military resistance exist inside Tripoli. Gaddafi continues to insist that “his people love him” and the people of Tripoli showed him what kind of love they have for him.
Last night, callers were cheerful and hopeful that Gaddafi’s end is near. They were sure that he is starting to see, feel, and smell death around him. They were proud of our Freedom Fighter on all fronts and prayed to God to protect them and grant them victory over Gaddafi’s hired forces. Callers shared poems that spoke of bright future for Libya and hoped for an end to Gaddafi during the month of Ramadan, so they can enjoy a blissful fasting.
Tonight’s show, broadcasts live at 10pm Libya time (20:00 GMT) will be an open conversation for people to share the latest events and developments.
Source:
english.libya.tv/2011/07/25/death-surro...
hominoid
It has been said that NATO are working on Ras Lanuf and Bishr. could this signal that there will be a move forward by FFs ?
Rue89
La Liberté
La caisse métallique de couleur olive est posée négligemment sur le sol caillouteux. Sur une étiquette blanche figure le nom du fabricant des 400 cartouches M80 qu’elle contient : Ruag Ammotec, filiale du groupe d’armement basé à Thoune (canton de Berne) et propriété de la Confédération helvétique. Ces munitions suisses pour fusils mitrailleurs et mitrailleuses, les rebelles libyens du front de l’ouest les
utilisent contre les troupes loyales au colonel Mouammar Kadhafi.
C’est la télévision suisse alémanique qui, mercredi soir, dans l’émission « Rundschau », a révélé la découverte étonnante en Libye du journaliste indépendant Kurt Pelda. En montant vers la ligne de front, le reporter a d’abord découvert plusieurs boîtes de cartouches estampillées « Ruag ».
Avant de tomber au milieu d’un arsenal hétéroclite sur la fameuse boîte métallique portant, côté pile, le nom du fabricant bernois, et côté face, celui du destinataire des munitions : le Qatar, via une société zougoise, FGS Frex, à Oberägeri (centre de la Suisse).
Full art. here:
www.rue89.com/2011/07/25/la-suisse-arme...
World Oil Online
World Oil News Center
Libyan rebel leader urges Spanish oil firms to return
Libyan rebel leader Mahmud Jibril called for all Spanish firms, including oil company Repsol, to return to Libya, after a majority of Spanish energy companies cut production and operations in the war torn region.
Libya’s National Transitional Council website operated by the rebels quoted Jibril as saying “the strong bilateral relations with Spain are very important for us, Spanish companies like Repsol are very important for our oil fields plus Spanish companies are helping us in rebuilding the infrastructure of the country.”
The company is the mouthpiece of the rebel forces battling Moammar Gaddafi’s regime.
Repsol has had a presence in Libya since the 1970s. In recent months, Repsol cut its oil production in half and evacuated all its nationals and experts from the country after the uprising against Gaddafi over five months ago.
Source:
www.worldoil.com/Libyan_rebel_leader_ur...
Souffian Tripoli
Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا” goo.gl/aM65o
Any salt needed perhaps?
PRAVDA :
NATO war crime: Libya water supply
A NATO terrorist attack has hit a water pipes factory in al-Brega, murdering six guards, this being the factory which makes pipes for the great man-made irrigation system across the desert which brings water to seventy per cent of Libyan homes, according to sources in Libya. The factory was hit after the water supply network was destroyed on Friday.
July 22 2011. A date for humanity to remember. NATO hit the Libyan water supply pipeline. It will take months to repair. Then on Saturday they hit the pipeline factory producing pipes to repair it.
Since when is a water pipes factory in al-Brega a legitimate target to impose a no-fly zone to protect civilians? Sine when is the water supply pipeline itself a legitimate target?
More of this art.:
english.pravda.ru/news/world/23-07-2011...
Reuters
Factbox: Latest developments in Libyan conflict
(Reuters) – Following are the latest political and military developments in the Libyan crisis:
Gaddafi forces were slaughtering unarmed protesters in front of Tripoli Museum with snipers there on Feb 19th. Non stop gunfire #libya
FreeLibyan
G. #Younis to #MENA Journal; #Gaddafi forces control only west gate of #Brega.When we launch our final attack,we gonna liberate it n hours.
MUST READ:
HAVEERU DAILY
AFP
Libyan rebels in Brega shift focus to demining
Libyan rebels fighters stop by a round about before heading towards Brega, on the outskirt of Ajdabiya.
BENGHAZI, Libya, July 25, 2011 (AFP) – Libyan rebels say demining efforts outside the eastern oil hub Brega are being hampered by a lack of specialised kit, and that fighting against Moamer Kadhafi’s forces has lost some intensity.
“We have no choice. We have to clear the sand of mines,” Mohammed Zawawy, a spokesman for the Union of Revolutionary Forces in Ajdabiya, told AFP.
Zawawi said the rebels have so far cleared some 200 mines in the Brega area, and that they do not know if the claim of 45,000 mines laid is an accurate representation of the scope of the problem or merely a scare tactic.
But military spokesman Colonel Ahmed Omar Bani said the insurgency’s expert engineers calculate that more than “40,000” mines have indeed been spread at random in and around Brega.
“We have some experts and tools to clear the land of mines, but a lot of our troops are doing it manually, without tools,” he said.
Zawawy said intercepted radio chatter suggests that the morale of the embattled strongman’s forces is sagging in the absence of an easy way out.
“We listen to all their conversations. Radio chatter suggests they are down, disappointed, and that they don’t want to fight but are sometimes forced to because Kadhafi has sent troops to shoot anyone who retreats and left groups of fighters without cars so they can’t get away.”
Rebel military officials are currently preventing journalists from getting close to Brega for security reasons, making it difficult to verify claims of shifts in the balance of power there.
Read more here:
www.haveeru.com.mv/english/details/37416
Nahla
Our Footsteps Towards Freedom Will Never Fade Away! #Feb17
Al BAWABA
Libya: Rebel chief dismisses death reports
Major General Abdel Fattah Younes, Chief of Staff of rebel forces in Libya has dismissed recent rumors about his injury or death. The former Muammar Gaddafi aide mocked these rumors and accused Gaddafi regime of distributing this false information in order to influence the morale of the rebels.
According to Younes, the rebel forces have been making great progress on the ground during firefights against Gaddafi’s battalions. Maj. Gen. Abdul-Fattah said the battle for the strategic oil city of Brega is a decisive battle for Gaddafi regime, which is defended by all its military forces to prevent it from falling completely in the hands of the rebels. Younes, who was the interior minister in the Government of Libya before defecting the Gaddafi regime added that the rebels actually control all entrances to Brega except the Western entrance, pointing out that the battle will be resolved during the upcoming hours. Younes said the operation of NATO is progressing well and is “excellent.” He praised the close cooperation with the rebels to weaken Gaddafi regime militarily.
Younes was quoted assaying on Tuesday “The lightly armed rebels wish to overthrow Gaddafi and finish (the task) before the holy month of Ramadan.” However, he stressed he could not speculate on the specific date of the completion of the military campaign.
Source:
www.albawaba.com/main-headlines/libya-r...
Misuratayouth
may allah bless him and a very special message for girls to avoid makeup and to all libyan to follow allah’s order… fb.me/XPnZREQJ
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDNhcT9aA98
Abdul
#zintan & #warfalla #FF attacked checkpoint near #Mizda, killed 4 and captured dozen of #Gaddafi troops. Way from #Hamada 2 #Zintan is clear
Khiria
I’ve said this before and will say it again… #Zawia left a hole in everyone’s heart #heartbreaking
USAmbNATO Ivo Daalder
Still true today:
50 years ago, President John Kennedy made clear in a speech that any attack on Berlin was an attack on NATO
On Libya :
WilliamJHague says UK-France share resolve that Gaddafi must leave power. Political solution must be Libyan…
Dutch Johnson
#Libya tweeps, these missiles are for air defense and are useless against towns. #Fear #Tripoli yfrog.com/kk2orsjj
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Moldova CARGO SHIP “HAJ-SAYED” now departing port #Tobruk #Libya. #Feb17
#Panama CARGO SHIP “MSC BROOKE” now departing #Benghazi #Libya. Dest. not listed but suspected #Misrata. #Feb17
UKinLibya UK in Libya
foreignoffice: French Foreign Minister Juppe says on #Libya UK and France allied from the start – committed to same aim #feb17
FreeLibyan
#Hamza on #Gaddafi Tv; Clear sms threatening #Tunisia Govt & ppl 2 face 5m suicidal & attack by #Gaddafi army on.fb.me/nJBm4P
www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1246...
pdanaharbbc Paul Danahar
Out of Mid East for 10 days unless Col Gaddafi goes, in which case back sooner…..
Malta Today
UN special envoy to Libya Abdul Khatib to address Maltese ambassadors
United Nations special envoy to Libya, Adul Elah al-Khatib is expected in Malta this week, and will address Maltese diplomats during the annual ambassadors’ meeting in Valletta.
Khatib is U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s special envoy to Libya, will be the special guest of Foreign Minister Tonio Borg who has summoned all his ambassadors from around the world for their annual meeting.
The meeting this year is said to be entirely focused on the ongoing crisis in Libya, and the proposed diplomatic solutions to it.
Borg – who has been in contact with Khatib since his appointment as special envoy – visited Benghazi last week and held talks with the leaders of the Transitional National Council led by Mahmoud Jalil.
Tonio Borg was given a very warm welcome in Benghazi by Maltese-flag waving Libyans who accompanied him through the streets of Benghazi and paid homage to the fallen rebels who stood up to Gaddafi troops at the beginning of the uprising last February.
More and source;
maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/un-spec...
foreignoffice Foreign Office (FCO)
On #ArabSpring @WilliamJHague says we will continue to support people of the region in support of their legitimate aspirations
libyanandproud
#Tripoli : The nights electricity is cut on SugAlJumaa #Gaddafi forces wake up to many independence flags
Libya Misurata the cornerstone of the Libyan Revolution
Hassan said Shobaki correspondent Al-Jazeera in an interview with the Misurata Free site: "Misurata will always be in my mind and in my mind a lot, and outstanding natural beauty, its people and its people good people of the Arab peoples of the finest I’ve seen in my life.
Via Misrata Post
Libya feb17
#Tripoli Call: Yesterday in Bint Thowra school after the girls finished their final school they decorated a classroom inside the school with independence flag and distributed leaflets which they had received from fellow Freedom fighters from outside the school. Yesterday night at 3 am Gaddafi forces went into the school arrested the security guard and smashed every glass window and computer screen in the school. The school is now occupied by G forces and no girl was harmed; only the security guard got beaten and then returned to his place, in the same school now Gaddafi forces have put old detained freedom fighters. They were brought to the school in two mini buses.
Libya Free Forever.
Amar Howidi was arrested leaving to Tunisia w his family, hiding weapons in their cloths&35000 Euro. #FF #Libya
Libyan Duda
Adnan Mraja BenAija martyred on the front line in #Brega 7/19 “To Allah we belong and to him we shall return” #Feb17 twitpic.com/5vr7uw
#Libyans are paying for freedom with the lives of their sons, brothers & fathers #Feb17
Just can’t get enough— زيد تحدى (Zeed Tahadda) t.co/dmxLKf8 via @youtube #FreeLibya #Feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DSopUJlMXQ&fea...
somaia
Resident in Tripoli has told me that local ppl turn off house lights @ nite 2 help the FF move arnd w/out being seen by Pro-G
Hominoid
Libya Mount Nefoussa: Alzentan Another widow today in the funeral Alzentan Shahid Abdul-Karim Moussa Ali Moussa, who passed away in Tunisia, of wounds suffered in battle died on 6.6.2011 ask God to accept him as a martyr RIP #braveman
Telegraph
Germany makes £88 million available to Libyan rebels
Germany has said it was making available to the Libyan rebel National Transitional Council up to 100 million euros (£88 million) in loans for civilian and humanitarian purposes.
“Because of Colonel Gaddafi’s war against his own people the situation in Libya is extremely difficult,” German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in a statement issued in Berlin.
“There is a lack of means to build up the necessary structures and to relieve supply shortages, all the way from medical equipment to food. People are suffering more and more as a result, particularly in eastern Libya.”
Gaddafi said late on Saturday in an audio message broadcast on state television that the unrest that has swept his country since a popular uprising erupted mid-February was a “colonial plot.” He did not elaborate.
“They lie to you and say, ‘Libya kills its people with bullets, that is why we have come to protect civilians’,” Kadhafi said, referring to the Nato air campaign which was mandated by the United Nations with the aim of protecting civilians in Libya.
“Only eight people have been killed and an inquiry is under way to determine who killed them. There are no protests and no gunfire. Show us where the thousands of people (reportedly killed) are buried,” Kadhafi said.
Read full story:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
libyanandproud
#Tripoli : Garbage and Trash filling the streets of tripoli (real trash not proG) even more than before #Feb17 #Libya
libyanandproud
#Nafusa : #Alassaba’a: #NATO bombed targets in and around alassaba’a today . #Feb17 #Libya
libyanandproud
#Tripoli : Hadba electricity was cut from 10:00 am till 20:00 . #Feb17 #Libya
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: Friends drove thru Wazin last night at 11pm en route from Zintan to Tunis. #Gaddafi forces were firing Grads from Gaziah.
libyanandproud
#Zintan clearing mines , #Gaddafi forces Place 7 AntiPersonnel mines on top of Antitank mine. youtu.be/OAVkJBH0CPk #Feb17 #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAVkJBH0CPk&fea...
Tripoli Youth
#Tripoli call: afternoon brigades in AlFalah area were bombed by NATO
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#RAF #Tornado makes emergency landing in #Malta. Some 15,000 sorties have flown over #Malta in #Libya ops since Feb
Anaya
British PM’S advisor for the fight against terrorism was yesterday in Algiers, when Algeria is accused of helping #Gaddafi
Hominoid
Found sky news what realy happend in Zawiyah part 1 They will pay it made me cry.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZWl2lcYUVM&fea...
Gaddafi Regime Denies Massacre In Zawiyah, But Sky News Has Evidence It … t.co/51Ts2Tt we will never forget
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3yRp4aRtys&fea...
Zawia Libya on Mar6th from Channel 4 news…الزاوية ليبيا t.co/dAcy4h2 via @youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhhV1d7Rs14&fea...
Reuters
WRAPUP 2-UN envoy, rebels say no Libya peace plan yet
“Whoever fights monsters should be careful not to become one in the process.” #Libya #Feb17 twitpic.com/5ve1az
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Cleaning up the #Libya embassy in #Bulgaria youtu.be/LCtCuD8_G64 #Feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCtCuD8_G64&fea...
A Free Libyan
Exchange of missiles reported on the #Zliten front. Casualties on both sides. #Libya #Feb17
hominoid
Libya Yefren hospital suffering a severe shortage of essential needs.
ShahrazadKablan Shahrazad Kablan
I would say that, the soil of Libya is irrigated with the blood of its people. All Libyans deserve a better future
#Freedom Fighters will not stop in #Ramadan. As #Misrata, #Zintan, #Brega, and #Tripoli Freedom Fighters..
No to #Gaddafi and sons staying Libya. Freedom Fighters will go all the way. Nothing less than Gaddafi’s head.
Freedom from #Gaddafi & sons first, everything else will fall in place later. We Libyans can detemine kind of system we want later
Ossama
#Libya TV: The ministry did not say why Al-Furis was expelled. #Bulgaria is supporting the #UN Security Council-mandated mission in #Libya.
Eyewitness Libya – reporting on the effects of the conflict on women and children
Ibrahim El Mayet, Libyan British Relations Council and Dr Amna Tillisi, Consultant Obstetrician for Libya Medical Relief report on the effects of the conflict on women and children.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M35Y4hUb4y0
Libya Free Forever.
1/2 #NATO observed movement of #23tanks& 10 4×4 driving to S #Libya to get ammu #NATO destroyed thats location 3days #Gadafithugstupidity
2/2 before. the artillery left the location and run out of fuel. all the thugs left in 4 cars and left their artillery behind.
MOOOONLIGHT:
Facts about Mustard Gas
Rabta Chemical Weapons Production Facility at Ain Er Rabta, Libya
Posted June 30, 2011 by bigenoughlie in Weapons of War.
Location: 32 09’51.39″N,12 51’46.91″E (Ain er Rabta, Libya)
85.4 km @ 201.96 degrees South of Tripoli, Libya
Source and more:
SOURCE www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/libya/...
bigenoughlie.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/r...
#Zaif house #Tripoli and his GFs #Libya #GadafiCrimes dailymotion.com/video/xeevd7_m…
or:
www.dailymotion.com/video/xeevd7_miss-n...
The Dictator
Boat hasn’t left, the tide’s still too high apparently. We get told tomorrow if it’ll leave, otherwise we wait for another boat.
Apparently out of 400, 150 of us want to carry on. A lot of people got sea sick, some were really scared, I thought it was okay..
Just got news that the weather’s looking good and we might be leaving Gabes to #Misrata today. Pray the tides stay calm!!
IamLibya
NATO IS SAVING LIVES. GADDAFI IS KILLING LIVES. DON’T GET IT TWISTED #Libya #Feb17
Moooonlight:
CHECK IMPORTANT GADAFI THUGS TO FF
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libyanandproud
Adm. Mullen: "We are generally in a stalemate in #Libya but strategy will work to remove #Gaddafi " #Feb17 #Libya #ihatelazyheadlines
A Free Libyan
Exchange of missiles reported on the #Zliten front. Casualties on both sides. #Libya #Feb17
LibyanYouthMovement
goo.gl/yBVoY A flight from a makeshift air strip near Zintan carries local council members to Benghazi, as Tripoli is seen from above
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6Wa1XrwmwY
WldSougAlJumaa
Father of good friend died 3 nights ago in #Gatrun defending the city? Allah Yirhamhum #Libya #GaddafiWeWillNeverGiveUpUhaveN oChance
BentBenghazi G
Gaddafi thugs in Canada calling the wives of freedomfighters who have gone to Libya to fight, telling them their husbnds died
Anaya
Le #Qatar va construire un aéroport international dans les montagnes #Nafusa et une piste d’atterrissage dans #Nalut #Libye
Abe
Ok. I just led an aid convoy in an ambulance across Ireland, France + a bit of Italy in 3 days. Rest. We need it. Ouch. LibyanEmergencyAid.com
Anita McNaught
But the media has no access to opposition fighter frontlines in this latest ‘Brega push’ either. Info. patchy and garbled.
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Kheder from #Misrata. 1 of many discharged injured #Libyan FFs. In the lobby of a Tunis hospital 4 an xray appt. July 21 twitpic.com/5vr9vb
France24
Gridlock, fighting continues at strategic base
South of Tripoli, in the hamlet of Goualich, Libyan rebels fought off a Sunday counter-offensive from the Libyan army. FRANCE 24 special envoys reported from the ground
After several days of calm near the hamlet of Goualich, roughly one-hundred kilometers south of Tripoli, the fighting started again Sunday between rebels and forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. This time, the soldiers backing the Libyan regime struck first.
The casualty toll after a day of clashes speaks to the inability of each side to get a leg up on the other: two minor injuries for the rebels and no ground gained by anyone.
On Saturday, the rebels had already managed to fight off a counter-offensive from pro-regime forces, thus maintaining the status quo.
For the pro-Gaddafi forces, too, Goualich is a bastion that must be defended. While our special envoys were reporting from the ground on Sunday, pro-Gaddafi forces were in the midst of the counter-offensive they had launched an hour earlier. They started out on foot before using heavy artillery.
“Today, they started advancing toward us, dressed in civilian clothes and carrying green flags,” one Libyan rebel told FRANCE 24. “But these are soldiers, I’m sure of it. We knew it was a trap, so we started to shoot and they fled.”
A correspondent from Agence France-Presse on the ground reported having spoken to several witnesses who said the pro-Gaddafi forces had indeed sent civilians in before the attack in order to convince the rebels to surrender.
Full story and video:
www.france24.com/en/20110725-libya-figh...
LIBYANVOICE
Naser Eltobooli managed 2get big ammount of$ out of libya using it 2buy communication devices & keep gadafi TV channels working
GADDAFI OFFICIALS IN EGYPT TO SELL INVESTMENTS:
By contrast, Gaddafi’s officials, according to Abdel Moneim al-Honi, Gaddafi’s former ambassador to the Arab League, have sent a delegation to Cairo to sell billions of dollars of investments held in Egypt.
Al-Honi, who now speaks for the NTC, said that the delegation included Mohamed al-Huweij, Gaddafi’s Minister of Economics and 3 other ministers.
Apparently they are hoping to return from Egypt with millions of dollars in cash to fund Gaddafi’s war effort against Opposition forces.
In another audio broadcast on state TV on Saturday, Gaddafi described the uprising against him as a “colonial plot” and denied all human rights allegations that he had brutally suppressed or killed thousands of protesters.
Commenting on the UN mandate giving NATO leave to take action to “protect civilians”, Gaddafi said, “They lie to you and say, ‘Libya kills its people with bullets, that is why we have come to protect civilians’ “.
“Only eight people have been killed,” he added, “And an inquiry is under way to determine who killed them. There are no protests and no gunfire. Show us where the thousands of people reportedly killed are buried.”
There is also a report that Libya state TV stated over the weekend said that Aisha Gaddafi’s husband had died, though how and under what circumstances, is not yet clear.
Aisha Gaddafi is Colonel Gaddafi’s “blond” lawyer daughter, known for her love of designer clothes and sometimes disparagingly referred to as the “Claudia Schiffer of North Africa”.
Source:
www.petercliffordonline.com/libya-2
Daily Arabic #Tripoli news on “طرابلس” goo.gl/1FXb4
MUST READ
Septimius:
Daily Kos
How Many Libyans has NATO Killed?
One member of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC), the rebels political body, said to me off-the-record that he disagreed with foreign military intervention in principle. “Of course I don’t like it and don’t encourage it, but this was our only choice. I know NATO comes with its own agenda, I know NATO is calling the shots now. After we get rid of Gaddafi, we will have to deal with the consequences of NATO intervention.”
Read full art.:
www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/24/99819...
dovenews Libyan™
It fascinates me that people still looking for war crime’s evidence committed by Gaddafi….
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “EFENDI BABA” now approaching dest. #Benghazi #Libya. #Feb17
#Malta CARGO SHIP “SESTRI STAR” remains anchored in port #Benghazi #Libya. #Feb17
#MarshallIslands CARGO SHIP “NAVISION IVORY” now anchored just outside port #Benghazi #Libya. #Feb17
Gaddafi OIL TANKER “BADR” now en route to dest. #JebelDhanna #UAE. #Libya #Feb17
LibyaNewMedia
I have been preoccupied by the Oslo attacks in the last couple of days. It feels like something I tried to escape has caught up with me.
Ossama
Maj. Gen. Abdel Fattah Younes: Battle of #Brega fateful and decisive and we will capture it whole. #Libya #feb17
Joanne
#UpYRSgaddafi #Turkey ’s #TPIC + #TPAO shipped 2FUEL Cargoes worth +/- $10 million of 5,000 tonnes of diesel to #Benghazi E #Libya more2come
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Freedomfighters in #Zliten have found boxes of chemical bombs. #Libya #Feb17 @NATO
dovenews Libyan™
The weapons ship to #Algeria explains the meeting which took place in #Tunisia abut a month ago with Saif’s thugs & some Algerian officials
Alex
Given de-mining delays – & small number of #Gaddafi troops left in city – #FF contingent at #Brega has been reduced to under 1000 #Libya
Ossama
BREAKING:FFs Zliten found boxes of Chemical Bombs, fears r now raisd that Gaddafi will use weapons of mass destruction just to stay in power
FromJoanne Joanne
#FRANCE24 ’s #MatthieuMabin reports from #Goualich #Qawalesh #Gawaleesh #Gwaleesh Gualish #Libya goo.gl/6Yf8I Nefusa Nefoussa #Libya
www.france24.com/en/20110725-libya-figh...
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Sabha area: 30 bunkers: “Wagon Wheels” 27.641983N 14.416337E #Libya #Feb17 @NATO
Ossama
Landmines in #Libya: Technical Briefing Note | #Human #Rights #Watch: hrw.org/en/news/2011/0…
www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/07/19/landmine...
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Tunis Now: Riding in a taxi with Salem, an injured #Libyan FF. Doctor wanted him admitted tonite 4 surgery tomorrow. But hospital was full.
MUST WATCH:
FromJoanne Joanne
#BREGA JUST LOOK @THIS ! Long Convoy of Freedom Fighters #Libyan National Army heading to #Brega through the sandstorm goo.gl/QVbDl
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa7QBQHmGTA&fea...
Libya’s women find revolution gives them chance to play role in society
Libyan men have had to reassess how they view the opposite sex since the start of the uprising, and when the dust settles the role of women in the north African country may well have changed for good.
The women of Libya, especially in the Nafusa Mountains, were among the protesters before the fighting started, and since then they have readied their sons and husbands for battle and nursed the wounded.
Meanwhile, they are also fighting for their own emancipation in the new Libya they are helping their men to forge.
Women do not exchange glances on the streets of the conservative city of Zintan, at the foot of the Nafusa range in western Libya. At home, the arrival of an unfamiliar male guest sparks panic, and the ladies of the house scattered like bees. In times of war, they spend most of their time cloistered within four walls.
Winds of change
However, women have felt the winds of change at their backs.
They were chanting “Down with Qaddafi” at the start of the insurrection, alongside the men, calling for Colonel Muammar Qaddafi to go.
Afaf Abusaa, 20, a technology student, said: “I’ve rallied with plenty of young women, even some pregnant ones. The men were so impressed they fired their Kalashnikovs in our honour! That showed them we were equal, and changed their opinion of us,” said.
With the men away at the battlefield, the women secure the home front with housework and by providing moral support.
Hana Akra, 24, a medical intern, said: “Men have seen the women nurse the wounded, do volunteer work and cook for the fighters. They’ve seen mothers tell their sons, ‘Go and fight. I will support you.’ They hadn’t expected that.”
A route towards emancipation
Women in Libya have come to see the revolution as a route towards their own emancipation, a way to break free from the jobs reserved for them: nurse, secretary or teacher, trades that leave time to take care of the family.
Not they could see a future in which they are not overlooked for a position because a man, albeit a less qualified one, has applied for the same job.
They hope that in the new Libya, their parents will allow them to select their own husbands, that their fathers and brothers will stop bossing them around and forbidding them from actively choosing their own path through life.
Najiah Hamza, 26, a medical student, said: “Society is very conservative here. Women don’t really have the chance to control their own destiny. We are always told: ’Don’t say this, don’t do that.’ I hope the revolution helps us.”
Salma Abu Rawi, 20, said her parents refused to let her marry her childhood sweetheart because he wasn’t from Zintan, while Ms Abusaa said she would rather not have to wear the veil after she is married.
Ms Akra said she has to fight to become a surgeon, a profession reserved for men. “A woman must break the glass ceiling.”
Women’s rights groups are popping up in Zintan, where there is talk of changing the laws on divorce and allowing women to participate in politics.
Anya Ali Abud, 23, a pharmacist, said: “The revolution gave us a chance to play a role” in society.
Source:
www.asafeworldforwomen.org/war-zones/pc...
Libya Free Forever.
Muhammed Alshaikh hit by RBG missile #Misurata #GadafiCrimes twitpic.com/5vsqws
IvanCNN Ivan Watson
Zlitan largely deserted,shops mostly closed. Heard artillery, saw smoke from airstrikes. Minders claimed NATO warships were shelling #Libya
Bk from Gadhafi-controld town of Zlitan,close to front line. Shown aftermath of NATO airstrikes. Gov’t claims 8 dead at bombed clinic
Our Zlitan reports soon to come. Meanwhile, hearing more gunfire than usual in central #Tripoli tonite. Natives restless? #Libya
Libya Free Forever.
1/2 #Muhammed AlHowaig went to London and to Egypt to sell #Gadafi investments in billions to support his war against #FF #Feb17 #Libya
2/2 Muahmmed AlHowaig lives in E Janzour opposite to Alramlah Martyr school. ALHowaig fortune is >1.5 billions #Gadaficurroption.
Zletin civilians were taken to #Ka’am to be human shields
#ALJ reporter talked about #Misurata #FF #Feb17 youtube.com/watch?v=5cTvKL…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cTvKL6p1Cw&fea...
dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi’s TVs continue to insult Libyan women & accusing them of prostitution, yet his TVs are still broadcasting on #Nilesat. Free #Egypt??
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
we are expecting #UN sec gen envoy to #Libya to arrive here in #Tripoli on Tuesday after his visit today to #benghazi
Skeptic
Saif’s media machine is desperately trying 2 turn the tide, i wonder how many digital mercenaries he has, how much he pays them?
We must stop Saifs propaganda machine! That monkey is still dangerous!
FromJoanne Joanne
Major General Abdel Fattah Younes says: #Gaddafi regime spread FALSE INFO of my Injury&Death trying to influence the morale of FF #Libya
Remember, G regime takes journo’s there and tell them what “happened”. Journos just regurgitate that.
Atlas Info. Fr
L’OTAN bombarde un dispensaire dans l’est de Tripoli : 7 morts
L’OTAN a bombardé, lundi, un dispensaire à Zliten (est de Tripoli) faisant au moins sept morts, ont dénoncé les autorités libyennes. Les autorités ont conduit des journalistes accrédités à Zliten où ils ont pu voir un bâtiment complètement détruit, avec le croissant rouge à l’entrée et des produits pharmaceutiques, un brancard, des gants, des bouteilles d’oxygène éparpillées. Dans l’après-midi, les secours s’activaient en quête d’éventuels survivants. Dans une autre zone, les journalistes ont constaté que des dépô ts de produits alimentaires étaient endommagés, et le 4e était en flammes. Les journalistes ont vu des centaines de sacs de riz, des tomates, de l’huile végétale partir en fumée.
Source:
www.atlasinfo.fr/L-OTAN-bombarde-un-dis...
BREGA:
NFSL mourns the loss of Martyr Adnan AbuNeiaja Al-Baraasi, who died in the battle to free Brega #Feb17 #LIbya #NFSL t.co/jyVPMFZ
www.libyanfsl.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9...
Alex
LIBERATED! In an impressive commando style operation – #Misrata #FF in a convoy of 300 gun mounted vehicles – (cont) tl.gd/bv3hgb
LIBERATED! In an impressive commando style operation – #Misrata #FF in a convoy of 300 gun mounted vehicles – rescued 24 #Misrata families – from Gararat Al Katif – a village located on a road between #BaniWalid & #Misrata – about 80 kilometres south of #Misurata
The families had fled Misrata during the Regime bombings – and were incarcerated in “horrendous” conditions by G mercenaries who fled as soon as they saw the 300 vehicle #FF convoy approaching – though 2 were caught by #FF
The families were overjoyed to be liberated and all safely returned to #Misrata – without a single #FF or family casualty.
www.scribd.com/doc/60895851/July-24-Fre...
Abeidi
Libya, Brega, I have been told the FFs are struggling&suffering from booby traps everywhere even corpse, guns, toilets and doors are mined
Nusaiba ( aid worker) tweets:
What’s Happening On The Other Side
“ I asked 4 Strength..
& Allah gave me difficulties 2 make me strong
I asked for Wisdom..
& Allah gave me problems 2 solve
I asked 4 Courage..
& Allah gave me obstacles 2 overcome
I asked for Love..
& Allah gave me troubled people 2 help
I asked for Favours..
& Allah gave me Opportunities
‘’Maybe I received nothing I wanted..But I received everything I needed.’’
♥ AlHaMdUlElAh ♥
Niz_FGM Niz
25/7/11 – Sorry for the lack of updates. Rolling blackouts across #Tripoli and illness are hampering our work.
Libya Free Forever.
Where is Gumata? FF needs help there. G forces are leaving to #Gumata now
#NTC Justice & Media ministers have just stated in #Benghazi Tahrir square that the only end to the #Libyan conflict is to end it militarily
#NTC Justice & Media ministers..Time for talking is over, final battle is looming closer..#Gaddafi only understands power & we will use it
Tweeting Tripoli
NATO have made many holes in the western part of Bab Al-Azyzia compound, but the holes were closed by large cement blocks. #feb17 #Libya
Fadwa
This is why we were able 2 liberate our city “Shabab #Benghazi praying infront of th kateeba despite what was happening tinyurl.com/3o5oaj4”
www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1145...
FromJoanne Joanne
Libya’s Lawyers Building a Case 4 war crimes against Gaddafi Al Jazeera’s HodaAbdelHamid reports from #Misrata #Libya twitter.com/#!/HaithaM9B
Gihan
AFP: Gaddafi’s regime accused Nato of killing at least 7 pple in a raid on a medical clinic &destroying stocks of food Zliten #Libya #Feb17
Tweeting Tripoli
The number of checkpoints visibly increased all over Tripoli. I traveled across Tripoli from West to East.
I checked today, there is no surface to surface missile launcher in Sidi Mendelsee square in Tajoura. Either moved or bombed,
#NTC chairman: "1.#Gaddafi will surrender, 2.He will flee #Libya, or 3.He will be killed or captured by one of his bodyguards or by FF.”
#NTC chairman: #FFs would continue their offensive during #Ramadan, which begins early next month. #Libya #Feb17
Obz
#ChangeTheWorld #ChangeTheWorld #ChangeTheWorld #ChangeTheWorld #ChangeTheWorld #ChangeTheWorld #ChangeTheWorld #ChangeTheWorld
FEB17:
MUST READ:
By: Kirsten Russell
The Boy from Mizdah
Dad’s assignment in Tripoli was to establish and direct a farm school for Libyan boys. During most of 1952 he labored to open the school, ordering school supplies and equipment, supervising construction work on the school building, writing lesson plans and reference materials, and selecting students from scattered coastal and desert communities.
On November 1, 1952, 32 teenage boys arrived by bus, truck, camel, donkey, or foot to attend the new farm school. Some had started walking three days earlier. At least half of the student body came barefoot, and many of the boys came wearing rags. But all arrived with their heads held high and their eyes aglow.
Shortly after the school opened, medical examinations revealed that two students suffered from advanced cases of trachoma.
Read the story here:
feb17.info/news/the-boy-from-mizdah
Source: AmericanDiplomacy.org
Khiria
#GaddafiCrimes: #Gaddafi granted citizenship to so many non-Libyans who have only committed crimes in our name. #Libya #Feb17
Joanne
@NATO WARNING Radio Message to Gaddafi mercenaries goo.gl/CS6gq #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY_lDfIQMxI&fea...
Please read:
DIMA blog:
Kids as young as 3 might not be able to say a full sentence or tell you a story, but they know how to say that phrase.
They also know how to say : “Muammar itlaa barra.. tawwa” , which means : Muammar leave.. now !
Children, women, men, old, young, middle-aged .. everyone repeats those phrases with such passion and such determination.
asked one middle-aged lady: “So does that mean you wanted him before?” She explained to me that although he had killed, tortured and imprisoned anyone who would criticise him, they did not mind him so much, up to the point when the first demos kicked off in Eastern Libya and were brutally crushed. She said that the turning point for her was when she saw what she describes as “foreign mercenaries” spreading fear in Benghazi’s streets. She said she was shivering in her home as she saw them coming down the street, armed. “My brother who used to be with Gaddafi and a member of his popular committees, had to go downstairs with others to the building’s entrance to protect the women and children from any harm”, she said. Then she continued with clear anger and pain: “Honestly when the rape started, that was already way too much for us to take. We can take the killing and opression, but we can’t take anything that touches our family honour, our women, our girls.”
Continue here:
www.dimakhatib.com/2011/07/maash-nibbou...
FromJoanne Joanne
#Nafusa IMPORTANT Yesterday GForces tried Retaking #Qawalish using HumanShields but FF Managed 2push them back2 #Asabeah by evening #Libya
This is a must read:
Désespéré, le régime de Kadhafi fait appel aux volontaires
Les unités militaires libyennes s’efforcent de trouver de nouvelles recrues après des mois de combats contre les forces révolutionnaires.
Pressées sur tous les fronts, les forces fidèles à Mouammar Kadhafi se tournent vers les médias pour tenter de renforcer leurs effectifs.
Les forces du régime ont récemment lancé une opération de recrutement par le biais d’encarts dans la presse, d’annonces à la radio et de spots à la télévision. Ces annonces demandent des volontaires pour lutter dans les rangs de l’armée de Kadhafi, et proposent une prime mensuelle de 1 000 dinars en plus du salaire régulier.
Les nouvelles recrues seront formées pendant une période allant de six mois à un an. En plus des primes en liquide, le régime offre l’éducation et les soins de santé pour les volontaires et leurs familles, ainsi qu’un accès à des prêts, des logements et la garantie d’un emploi à l’issue de cette formation.
Dans le même temps, la 32ème brigade renforcée, dirigée par Khamis Kadhafi, a ouvert ses portes à de nouveaux soldats. L’armée a en effet fait savoir que les volontaires bénéficieront de trois mois de formation et d’une prime de 300 dinars. Cette annonce ajoute que les recrues auront le droit de quitter l’armée après six mois.
Read more here:
www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/fr...
A Free Libyan
#Misrata FFs on the West gained a lot of ammo/equipment today. Additionally, reports of many G troops killed + captured. #Libya #Feb17
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
1 of 3 Admiral Mike Mullen praised #NATO ops in #Libya ,but says plenty of challenges associated with regime forces remain.
Mullen said in briefing- no surprise regime forces have adjusted to opposition tactics #Libya
Adm Mullen re #Libya said today “we are generally in a stalemate”.. but said more pressure has been brought on regime forces.
KC_Tripolitania KC
RIP :’((( Tripoli : #Fashloom : 4 Brothers from Fashloom were hung in #AbuSaleem Prison yesterday ! #Feb17 #Libya"
WODKA FOR G TROOPS:
Ahmed
#Gaddafi forces getting wasted on the front lines..truck captured by #FF, the proper way to fight! youtu.be/Hh_e19rxoSs #Libya #Feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh_e19rxoSs&fea...
jamal tripoli
#Nalut: G using cover of “peaceful” civilians marches to transport arms & avoid NATO Strikes.1500 mercenaries are now @ eastern gate. #libya
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Kheder from #Misrata. 1 of many discharged injured #Libyan FFs. In the lobby of a Tunis hospital 4 an xray appt. July 21 twitpic.com/5vr9vb
Najib Mahesha, 19. Injured #Libyan FF from #Misrata. In his Tunis hospital room tonite, July 25. Hit by #Gaddafi RPG t.co/bDJ7bT2
.on July 6 in Naeema (4 kms past Dafniya). The RPG busted his right arm, went thru his chest, and came out his left side.
Part of his lung was removed.. After initial treatment in #Misrata, Najib was shipped 20 hrs to Benghazi, where he languished
.for 12 days, during which his bandages were changed just twice. He was flown here to Tunis last Friday, July 22.
So frustrating & shameful that injured #Misrata FFs like Najib are still going to Benghazi. We should put a stop to it.
Emad Abu Shahma (FF from #Misrata, shot in April) told me tonight at his Tunis hospital that he’s engaged & was supposed to marry in June.
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eggcollector Sllort Ifaddag
346+5=351: svetovid , pangallion , james00049 , warfortcct , 45Zoroastro
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gaddafi fuel supplies in #Tripoli 32.896345 N, 13.215777 E & 32.851903 N, 13.235622 E #Libya #Feb17 @NATO
Tripolitano
#Gaddafi thugs broke into ppl houses in many parts of #Ghiryan in da past few days. Lookin 4 arms & abducting youth. Showin no respect 2any1
Misuratayouth
the death of Abdullah Asonousi was confirmed today on Libya alahrar TV and by other sources he is one of the most… fb.me/RrAty4ua
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=284226&id=125370887540919
Ibn
youth dressed in classical #libyan clothing. #libya #feb17 twitpic.com/5vul15
ilibico
حماه مسائية 24-7 2011 هدية من ثوار حماه الى ثوار ليبيا youtube.com/watch?v=7QP0rC… #Hama #Syria chanting for #Libya very moving scene,thanks Syria
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QP0rCIasCk&fea...
Lisa
#Feb17 I’m saying good night to #Libya! I’m praying for ur well deserved freedom tonight n safety of #FreedomFighters…bravest men on earth
Tripolitano
#Misrata FFs were in #Zliten late sunday early Mon. Then retreated. Hence the Gov organized trip for journalists to prove town still under G
Tripolitano
I asked a FF from Misrata : how r u going to fight during Ramadan? He said we are already fasting these days
“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence”
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NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/Jljne
Derek
I’m told a #Libya vessel, Farwa (destination Djen, Algeria), is carrying a cargo that will please #gaddafi more than #nato.
It’s alleged to be carrying weapons to regime from Croatia, via Algerian port.
Supposed to be reaching Djen on 22nd
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
BREAKING: ZLITEN SOURCE:@ 1am NATO jets fired 3 missiles at main army barracks/ammo bunkers in the centre of Zliten & destroyed them #libya
3.30 AM NATO strikes in Tripoli!
France24
Libyan rebels ask Sarkozy for more aid
AFP – Military leaders from the rebel-held Libyan city of Misrata asked French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday for extra aid to defeat ruler Moamer Kadhafi, a member of their delegation said.
“With a little bit of help, we will be in Tripoli very soon. Very soon means days,” Fortia told reporters after a meeting with Sarkozy. “We are here in France to discuss how we can do the job.”
“Insurgent commanders came to explain to the head of state that the keys to Tripoli are in Misrata,” said a supporter of the rebels, French writer Bernard-Henri Levy, who attended the talks.
White House spokesman Jay Carney on Tuesday said the Libyan strongman was “cut off from fuel and cash.”
Full art.:
www.france24.com/en/20110721-libya-rebe...
Sky news
Libya: Tension In Former Rebel Stronghold
As the Nato bombing campaign on Libya enters its fifth month, Colonel Gaddafi’s government says a series of rallies in major western cities are proof his support base is, if anything, getting stronger.
The most recent saw tens of thousands gathered in the town Zawiyah, a former rebel stronghold and the scene of a brutal crackdown in early March.
And he reports that unlike other towns, there was a distinct tension in the air: metal detectors on routes to the central square aimed at stopping anti-government attacks and soldiers watching out for rebel activity.
“There are a few thousand people in the square but one mustn’t forget that Zawiyah is a town of 200,000 people and given the level of opposition to Col Gaddafi in the past – the amount of destruction, the amount of fighting that took place here – it simply beggars belief that there’s been a collective decision by the people of this town to forgive Col Gaddafi.
Report and video:
news.sky.com/skynews/Article/2011071160...
LibyaNewMedia
Many prisoners in Tripoli are placed in farms around the capital as ordinary prisons have been over capacity for a long time
Joanne
SEBHA FF penetrated #Libya SW desert and advanced within 80 miles of Gaddafi forces occupied #Sebha
Benghazidoc
Correction: Not the Canadian-Libyan mission graduating the nurses, rather its the Arab-European Center #Benghazi 4 Human rights & Int’l law
Many Libyan Docs frm outside including surgeons arrived & r on the way 2 Libya 2 help with increasing casualties frm Brega battle & other
Euronews:
Some 5,000 people, mainly from the local Warshafana tribe gathered in the main square of al-Aziziya, south of Tripoli, and cheered wildly, waving green flags and chanting their support for Muammar Gaddafi.
At euronews we believe in the intelligence of our viewers and we think that the mission of a news channel is to deliver facts without any opinion or bias, so that the viewers can make their own opinion on world events.
Video:
www.euronews.net/nocomment/2011/07/21/p...
ITALIAN LIFE:
Four Hundred Missiles Mysteriously Disappear from La Maddalena
TEMPIO PAUSANIA – Missiles, anti-tank projectiles, Katyusha rockets, kalashnikovs and ammunition stored in the Italian navy’s cave armouries on Santo Stefano, in the La Maddalena archipelago, have vanished. The weaponry, enough to kit out an army, was on a vessel sailing from the former Soviet Union to the war-torn Balkans when it was intercepted in the Channel of Otranto. The weapons were seized and the court of Turin ruled that they should be destroyed. Instead, two months ago the assorted missiles, rockets and kalashnikovs were removed from storage, handed over to the army and taken to Lazio, where they vanished. Meanwhile for the past few days, Tempio Pausania magistrates, who had begun to investigate whether the arms had perhaps gone to Libya or Afghanistan, have been up against a wall of state secrecy. The Prime Minister’s Office has blocked all further inquiries into the weapons’ destination.
Read full art.:
www.corriere.it/english/11_luglio_19/di...
Nahla
My family in #Benghazi claim that the electricity cuts twice a day, there is lack of food products and the banks are closed
Gaddafi sends his 7th SMS to Tripoli (This time it’s about Sarkozy): t.co/dmUiSIH #feb17
or:
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Russia, Libya foreign ministers meet over crisis solution
MOSCOW, July 20 (Xinhua) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Libyan counterpart Abdul Ati al-Obeidi met here Wednesday to discuss a political solution to the crisis in the North African country.
During the Libya-initiated meeting, Lavrov stressed the " primary" task to immediately stop the bloodshed and get into political tracks, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on its website.
Calling for early talks on future democratic arrangements in Libya, Lavrov urged Tripoli to confirm its intention to follow the UN Security Council resolutions 1970 and 1973.
He reiterated Russia’s intention to facilitate international efforts to resolve the conflict.
The Libyan foreign minister said Libya would welcome Russia’s efforts in the peaceful settlement of the conflict, stressing that “a peaceful solution should be developed by all Libyans, not by Benghazi council only.”
He added that Tripoli has not been ready to discuss Muammar Gaddafi’s leaving.
Also on Wednesday, Russia’s envoy for African affairs Mikhail Margelov said that a peaceful solution in Libya was possible only with UN and AU participation. He welcomed the start of consultations between Tripoli and Paris.
Source:
news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/20...
septimius
Is it just me, but #NATO msg 2other dictators is " the more u threaten, the more you kill the nicer the retirement home u get" #Libya
AFP
Libya rebels seek arms for pre-Ramadan offensive
BENGHAZI, Libya (AFP) – Libya’s rebels asked France for extra arms to help them overrun Tripoli within “days”, as they ramped up a pre-Ramadan offensive that has Moamer Kadhafi’s troops on the run in the east.
The request was made in Paris on Wednesday to French President Nicolas Sarkozy by military leaders from the rebel-held city of Misrata, a member of their delegation said.
Rebel leader Mahmud Jibril meanwhile was expected to seek additional aid for their military campaign from Spain during talks in Madrid on Thursday with Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez.
Sarkozy held talks at his Elysee presidential palace with rebel General Ramadan Zarmuh, Colonel Ahmed Hashem and Colonel Brahim Betal Mal, as well as Suleiman Fortia, a local representative of the rebel leadership in Misrata.
“With a little bit of help, we will be in Tripoli very soon. Very soon means days,” Fortia told reporters after the meeting. “We are here in France to discuss how we can do the job.”
Full art.:
old.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110721/wl_af...
FreePress TV:
Libya, (WARNING GRAPHIC) Rebels found executed in Ajdabiya youtube.com/watch?v=JPPdX5… #libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPPdX5WqgFo
From Big Peace:
Report: Iran Has Military Bases in Libya
In an interview on February 27th with Al Arabyia news network, an informed source within the Revolutionary Guards of Iran revealed that Iran has several military bases in Libya.
The source, who requested anonymity due to his sensitive position within the Guards, elaborated further that the Iranian military bases are located mostly along Libya’s borders with the African countries of Chad and Niger. From there, he said, the Guards actively smuggle arms and supply logistical assistance to rebellious groups in the western and Central African countries.
According to this source, Guards’ members enter Libya under the guise of oil company employees. Most of these companies are under the control of the Revolutionary Guards of Iran.
The source, who a colonel in the Guards, adds that Gaddafi and his government are quite aware of these activities and have even signed joint contracts with those Iranian oil companies so that the member of the Guards can enter Libya without any trouble.
However, the Colonel stated that with the current unrest in Libya, over 500 Guards’ members have been unable to evacuate, but are under orders to destroy all documents.
According to this source, the military collaborations between the Revolutionary Guards of Iran and the Ghaddafi’s government date back to 2006.
It is important to note that Nigerian officials recently confiscated an Iranian arms shipment destined for Gambia. The weapons included mortars, rockets and shells for anti-aircraft guns and were hidden in containers marked building materials. Nigerian officials have accused a suspected member of the Guards and a Nigerian of illegally importing arms and have set trial for later this year.
Source:
bigpeace.com/rkahlili/2011/03/01/report...
tantramancan
nato bombing of #Tripoli is making #gadaffi WEAKER & Supported by People #Libya ns have had enough of #Gaddafi & his Regime.
NYT
Problems With Logistics, Coordination and Rivalries Hamper Libya’s Rebels
KIKLA, Libya — Ahmad Harari, a Libyan rebel fighting to overthrow Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, recounted how he was almost killed last week.
He was part of a small group of fighters assigned to defend a front-line position in Qawalish, a village in Libya’s arid western highlands. Then Colonel Qaddafi’s military attacked, rushing forward in pickup trucks.
Mr. Harari said he had only 18 cartridges for his rifle, roughly the same amount of ammunition carried by everyone in his group. Within minutes he ran out.
“Every man lost all of his bullets and tried to escape,” he said. A friend was captured, killed and mutilated, he said, but the others managed to get away.
Full Chivers art. :
www.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/world/africa...=1&pagewanted=all?src=tptw
Joanne
FF Dr found msg in dead soldiers pocket. he wrote; I fear being executed due 2refusal of Mu’atasim order 2 kill civilians
RIANOVOSTI
Experten: Libyen droht Spaltung – „RBC daily“
Libyens Zukunft ist ungewiss. Das ist Quintessenz einer Gesprächsrunde zwischen russischen und italienischen Experten über die politische Situation in dem Land nach dem Ende des Kriegs, schreibt die Zeitung “RBC daily” am Mittwoch.
Selbst Machthaber Muammar Gaddafi könnte weiter eine Rolle in Libyen spielen, weil es wegen der fehlenden Geschlossenheit unter den Rebellen keine Alternativen zu ihm gibt.
„Muammar Gaddafi darf politisch nicht abgeschrieben werden, er hält weiterhin die Machthebel in der Hand“, sagte der russische Orientalist Alexej Podzerob bei einer Video-Konferenz von RIA Novosti am Dienstag. Zudem werde er nach wie vor von einem großen Teil der Bevölkerung unterstützt, so Podzerob. Vor den Toren könne ein neues Somalia entstehen, warnte der russische Experte den Westen.
Read more here:
de.rian.ru/security_and_military/201107...
BBC
Audio
Libyan refugees:
Crossing Continents joins a British doctor volunteering to help women and children stranded in Tunisian refugee camps while the men fight Gaddafi’s forces in the mountains south of Tripoli.
Listen here:
www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/cc
Le Point:
Libye: la rébellion consolide le front Est et se prépare à attaquer à l’Ouest
L’Alliance a pour sa part annoncé avoir détruit mercredi 13 objectifs militaires à Zliten, en particulier des postes de commandement et des dépôts. Ville de 200.000 habitants à 150 km à l’est de Tripoli, Zliten est dans le viseur des rebelles de Misrata, à une soixantaine de kilomètres plus à l’est.
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La rébellion cherche à consolider son avancée autour du port pétrolier de Brega dans l’Est et affirme préparer une offensive vers Tripoli dans l’Ouest alors que la question du départ du colonel Kadhafi reste l’obstacle majeur pour un règlement négocié du conflit libyen.
Jeudi vers 10HOO (08H00 GMT), les rebelles ont tiré des roquettes depuis Bir-Ayad, dans la vallée des montagnes berbères au sud-ouest de la capitale, sur les forces pro-Kadhafi qui défendent Al-Ghanam.
Les forces gouvernementales ont répliqué avec des roquettes et du canon 106. Les rebelles ont réagi aux roquettes mais pas au canon, expliquant qu’il était caché entre des maisons et qu’ils ne voulaient pas toucher de civils.
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Dans des échanges de tirs similaires mercredi soir, les rebelles disent avoir touché un petit dépôt de munitions des pro-Kadhafi.
Full art.:
www.lepoint.fr/monde/libye-la-rebellion...
pernambouc
#libya this “war” looks more and more like a Ponzi scheme. With the help of twitter.
omar
Video of Clean up campaign in #Misrata youtu.be/_39LZwSuUXE #Feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_39LZwSuUXE&fea...
VOICE OF RUSSIA
Libya: fighting leads to stalemate
Recently, the foreign minister in Gaddafi’s government, Mr. Abdelati Obeidi, met with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow. The meeting took place on Tripoli’s initiative.
At the meeting, Mr. Obeidi said that if some country wants to help solve the Libyan conflict, it must cooperate with both sides, not only with the opposition in Benghazi.
Some time before that, Russia announced that it doesn’t recognize the Libyan opposition’s Transitional Council as the country’s legitimate government. At the same time, Russia, like the majority of Western countries, doesn’t recognize Gaddafi’s government as legitimate either. Sergey Lavrov has called on UN’s special envoy to Libya Abdelilah Al Khatib to try to persuade the both warring sides in Libya to cease fire and start negotiations.
“Some countries supply weapons to Libyan refugees, but this is counterproductive,” Mr. Obeidi said.
Meanwhile, at the moment, the situation in Libya is far from stable. The Western coalition is still keeping to its rather senseless practice of bombing Libyan cities. Recently, NATO planes bombed the town of Marsa al-Brega. Official reports say that, as a result, dozens of pieces of military hardware were destroyed. Not a word is said about the casualties among the civilians, though, from previous similar cases, we know that the “highly precise” NATO missiles hit dozens of civilians as well.
Full art.:
english.ruvr.ru/2011/07/21/53528577.htm...
Libya,Syria on the Road to World War III
Dr. Craig Roberts – Expert/ Corbett Report/Click Show More
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRcXirz30zE&fea...
NEWS PEPPER . SU
The rebels have opened a new front in the south of Libya
Detachment of the Libyan rebels made a throw across the desert of south-eastern regions to the south-west and took up there for a few settlements, the newspaper The Wall Street Journal.
Since all major forces the government army concentrated on other fronts – in Bregy, Misurata and in the western mountains, the rebels virtually without a fight took Thumm border crossing on the border with Niger. Then, as you move north, they consistently captured the half-empty military base, “Al-vortex”, the village of Al-Katrun and came to the town Taragin – the home of many close associates of Muammar Gaddafi, including the head of his secretariat Salah Bashir.
Earlier battles in the south-west of Libya has taken place, this remote region of the country is completely controlled by the regime. The main battles are now in the east, where rebels are trying to occupy the city Brega and center, where they also launched an attack on neighboring Misurata angry. Full art.:
newspepper.su/news/2011/7/21/the-rebels...
electra diffusa
total failure of NATO & Rebels coordinated attack on BREGA: scores of casualties and many vehicules destroyed LIBYA youtube.com/watch?v=5y2u6s…
July 11
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y2u6s9OYpA&fea...
WORLD NEWS TWEETS
France: Gaddafi could possibly stay in Libya
ZINTAN, Libya — France said Wednesday that Moammar Gaddafi could remain in Libya if he agreed to step down and renounce all leadership roles. As diplomats struggle to find a political solution to end the country’s five-month civil war , French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said of Gaddafi, “One of the scenarios effectively envisaged is that he stays in Libya on one condition, which I repeat: that he very clearly steps aside from Libyan political life.” Juppe said any cease-fire and cessation of NATO bombing would depend on Gaddafi formally surrendering his roles as military and civilian leader of Libya. Though Gaddafi holds no elected office and often refers to himself simply as Brother Leader, he has ruled Libya for 42 years.
Full art:
worldnewstweets.com/2011/07/france-gadd...
MONEY PROBLEMS?
Derek
Hannibal #Gaddafi, who controls #Libya state shipping co. #GNMTC tries to sell the fleet. Story due soon at petroleum-economist.com #oil
BLOOMBERG
Lessons of History Would Help Obama Lead on Libya: View
“NATO hits one tank and then goes away,” lamented a commander of Libya’s opposition forces to the Washington Post. “But NATO could turn this war around in a day if they wanted to.” Muammar Qaddafi, by threatening to launch terrorist attacks against Europe, has given the Obama administration a solid rationale for doing just that. After four months of letting European nations show what they can do, the Obama administration should heed an important lesson from the war in Bosnia and take over leadership of NATO’s air campaign.
Full art.:
www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-21/lesso...
BRITISH FORCES NEWS
Gaddafi forces feel heat from RAF jets and Army attack helicopters
British fire power from both air and the sea has hit the Gaddafi regime hard during a series of strikes over the last three days in Libya.
Last night Apache attack helicopters launched from HMS Ocean and struck two large military vehicle sheds near Al Khums using Hellfire missiles.
Yesterday RAF jets hit 29 buildings in and around Zlitan used as command and control centres and stores for ammunition and fuel by the Gaddafi regime.
The attacks also saw five multiple rocket launcher systems and a pair of heavy infantry weapon positions in the area targeted and destroyed.
On Tuesday an RAF patrol over Zlitan identified a regime mortar position and destroyed it with a Brimstone missile. And Apache helicopters hit vehicle checkpoints and buildings in Al Khums.
Meanwhile on Monday it has been revealed that the newly arrived warship HMS Iron Duke opened fire on artillery positions that were firing on Misrata, using a number of high explosive rounds from her 4.5” gun.
It came after RAF Tornado and Typhoon aircraft carried out precision night strikes on a large military vehicle depot at Tajura, on the outskirts of Tripoli.
RAF jets also conducted a surgical strike on the military Identification Friend or Foe antenna at Tripoli airport, using Brimstone missiles.
Source:
www.bfbs.com/news/worldwide/gaddafi-for...
AP
Gadhafi calls tribes to take back rebel mountains
Al-AZIZIYA, Libya (AP) — Dozens of horsemen in flowing robes sat on their mounts cheering as men around them fired AK-47s in the air, proclaiming their allegiance to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and their readiness to march on the rebel-held western mountains.
The pomp and bravado on display during the rally in the sweltering town square in al-Aziziya south of the capital is part of a concerted effort by Gadhafi to mobilize one of the pillars of his regime — Libya’s tribes — to combat recent rebel advances.
Over the past week, Gadhafi has started injecting more and more references to the tribes in his almost daily speeches and begun talking about a popular march of “millions” of tribesmen to reclaim the lost territory.
Sometimes it is an unarmed march of men, women and children, other times it sounds like more of a military operation, but at the very least it suggests some kind of counterattack may be in the offing.
It is impossible to determine independently whether the tribesmen truly support the Gadhafi military, as the government repeatedly insists, or whether they are ready to mount an assault on the mountains.
The rebels dismiss the campaign as little more than propaganda.
In Zawiya, a town once held by rebels, Gadhafi started his speech Saturday with a nod to each of the tribes represented there before urging them to march on the mountains.
Just in the past two days, Libyan mobile phones have been deluged by text messages announcing the readiness of various tribes to attack the mountains — even though text messaging service is normally disabled in the country.
“The tribes of Ghariba region will march in the millions to cleanse the western mountains,” said one text.
“The tribes of Gharyan, Asaba and Qawalish announce their support for the popular march to liberate the cities villages and countryside of the western mountains,” said another, referring to towns on the edge of the mountains outside rebel control.
Full art.:
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/AL...
Danya
I wonder how I’m going to find out …if its a phone call from a relative, a tweet or on the news … Can’t wait for #Libya to free
WESSIM
– Gaddafi has created multiple clones of himself, see shocking photo evidence – facebook.com/photo.php?pid=… #libya
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=271313&i...
Sarah
Wefaq Libya report on Misratas western front Wed 20 July:
- FF advanced from Misrata to Zliten at Fajr (sunrise) and fighting continued until Asr (evening)
- Gaddafi forces weren’t expecting a strong attack from all directions
- Approx 13 of Gaddafi’s men were captured (incl commander of Hamza brigade: Some were injured and others surrendered after they were surrounded. Numbers of those killed unknown
- Gaddafi forces planted small brown mines on Coastal Road and the areas in which they were positioned. 1 FF was martyred by a mine and many were injured
- Most mines have been exploded by FF and they hope to make the area safe soon
- FF took two 4×4 Toyotas fitted with rocket launchers and three 4×4 Toyotas with anti-aircraft missiles
- FF lost two cars
- Zliten FF with the Misrata FF exploded one Gaddafi tank and captured another in a state that can be used
- FF position hasn’t been disclosed for their protection
Niz_FGM Niz
21/7/11 – We’re investigating reports that Abdullah Senoussi has been hurt/killed in a shooting/rocket attack in Hai Al Andulus District.
Alex
PETROLEUM ECONOMIST 2: ‘East #Libya oil fields are now ready to produce US$2million per day for #NTC – as soon as the #NTC can spare a unit to provide military protection’
www.petroleum-economist.com/Article/286...
20 MIN.CH online
Ruag-Munition in Libyen empört Linke und Grüne
Da Schweizer Munition in Libyen eingesetzt wird, fordern linke Politiker einen Waffen-Lieferstopp in den Nahen und Mittleren Osten. Der Präsident der SiK spricht hingegen von einem Einzelfall.
Die Rebellen in Libyen schiessen mit Ruag-Munition, die ursprünglich an Katar geliefert wurde. Grüne und linke Sicherheitspolitiker fordern nun einen Lieferstopp in die Krisenregion. Die bürgerliche Seite spricht von einem Einzelfall.
Libysche Rebellen setzen Munition von Ruag Ammotec aus Thun ein, wie die Sendung «Rundschau» des Schweizer Fernsehens SF am Mittwochabend aufdeckte. Katar lieferte die Munition – und hat damit das Versprechen in der Nichtwiederausfuhr-Erklärung gebrochen, die Munition aus der Schweiz nicht weiterzugeben.
«Die Nachfrage nach Waffen und Munition ist in dieser konfliktträchtigen Gegend so hoch, dass unsicher ist, ob das Kriegsgerät nicht weitergegeben wird», sagte Lang. Ausserdem könnten die Kriegsgeräte auch zur Niederschlagung von Demokratiebewegungen benutzt werden.
Read full story here:
www.20min.ch/news/dossier/libyen/story/...
AJE:
Read blog:
While France says Muammar Gaddafi could stay in Libya if he gives up power, revels on the ground were planning their next strategy.
Gaddafi loyalists have been making it hard for rebels to break the months-long seige. Opposition fighters have been aided by NATO strikes but the battle appears far from over.
Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel-Hamid reports from the western front near Misurata.
Video:
blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/libya
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES
Libya: Is France Ready to Arm the Rebels Even More?
As the Muslim world prepares to enter Ramadan, it seems that Libya’s rebels asked France for extra arms to help them overrun Tripoli within “days”, indicating they are preparing for a pre-Ramadan offensive against Muammar Gaddafi’ s forces.
The request was made in Paris on Wednesday to French President Nicolas Sarkozy by military leaders from the rebel-held city of Misrata, a member of their delegation said.
Rebel leader Mahmud Jibril indicated that he would also attempt to seek additional aid for their military campaign from Spain during talks in Madrid on Thursday with Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez.
Sarkozy held talks at his Elysee presidential palace with rebel General Ramadan Zarmuh, Colonel Ahmed Hashem and Colonel Brahim Betal Mal, as well as Suleiman Fortia, a local representative of the rebel leadership in Misrata.
Full art.:
uk.ibtimes.com/articles/184328/20110721...
ECHO NEWS
Southend Hospital doctor volunteers to treat Libyan wounded
A CONSULTANT at Southend Hospital has spent his annual leave helping casualties in his war-torn homeland.
Tripoli-born Dr Adel Rateme, 46, a consultant general surgeon specialising in breast cancer surgery, has been working round the clock to help casualties of the war in Libya.
Together with his wife, former Basildon Hospital consultant Dr Amna Tillisi, and other family members who are also medics, Mr Rateme helped set up the charity Libya Medical Relief, to take food, medicines, surgical supplies and clothes to those in need.
Dr Rateme, of Hatfield Road, Chafford Hundred, has already visited the Nafusa mountains in Libya, an active war zone, where he provided surgical care for war wounded on both sides of the conflict.
He said: “It was chaotic and the facilities were extremely limited, but we just had to work with whatever we had.
“The conditions are appalling with very basic sanitation and people are desperate.”
He saw “waves and waves” of injured rebel fighters as well as some of Colonel Gaddafi’s own soldiers – and had to restrain the freedom fighters from attacking them.
Read more here:
www.echo-news.co.uk/news/9150357.Southe...
NewsTweet
Libya, Rebels in Misrata stop fireing at Gaddafi`s forces to have a picnic 20.07.2011 youtube.com/watch?v=tRyUUx… #libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRyUUxKf_ac
CS MONITOR
Qaddafi could step down and stay? That’s not going to happen.
Growing efforts to find a negotiated settlement to Libya’s civil war got a boost of attention Wednesday, when French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said that Muammar Qaddafi could stay indefinitely in his home country as long as he steps down from power.
“One of the scenarios effectively envisaged is that he stays in Libya on one condition … that he very clearly steps aside from Libyan political life,” Mr. Juppe told French LCI TV. “A cease-fire depends on Qaddafi committing clearly and formally to surrender his military and civilian roles.”
Qaddafi and his powerful son Saif al-Islam have insisted they won’t leave the country under any circumstances, so Juppe’s comments would appear to be reaching for an acceptable compromise conclusion to an increasingly bloody war (a rebel offensive on the tiny eastern oil town of Brega, for instance, has been stalled for days, with dozens of casualties on both sides). The problem is, of all the outcomes one could imagine in Libya, Qaddafi relinquishing power and living out his days as a free man in Tripoli is the least likely.
The reason why has to do with the depth of hatred for the man among the rebels. There are no similarities between the case of Qaddafi and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, for instance. While corruption flourished under Mubarak and torture was routinely used, executions weren’t carried out on the industrial scale of Qaddafi’s Libya.
Read the full story here:
www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/20...
HUFFINGTON POST
Libya U.S. Intervention: Al Jazeera Examines Obama’s Choices In The Middle East (VIDEO)
In “The U.S. and The New Middle East,” Al Jazeera’s “Fault Lines” investigates the reasons behind the U.S. decision to intervene in Libya while it choose to remain on the sidelines in Bahrain and Syria.
Was the operation prompted by an urgent need to prevent a massacre in Benghazi, as the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated? Or were other concerns also at stake — Libya’s high-quality crude oil, for example. “Is oil the only reason they intervened? I’m not in a position to say,” Edward Cow from the Center for Strategic and International Studies says in the program. “But was it a factor? Certainly. That’s hard to ignore,” he concludes.
Watch the full “Fault Lines” documentary here:
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/21/libya...
BBC
In 1996 over a thousand prisoners were killed at Abu Salim jail in Tripoli.
Many people see the killings as the spark that eventually led to the uprising against Colonel Gaddafi’s government.
When protestors first went on the streets of Benghazi in February this year it was to demonstrate against the arrest of a lawyer who was investigating the killings.
LISTEN NOW ( 10 min)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00hws9n
Omar
the world will find a mass grave in every corner in Libya, there is still so much to dig out
LIBYA_WIN
Rumors that #Senoussi was killed by #Tripoli #FFs, I sincerely hope to see a corpse, otherwise it might be a lie to help him escape
UPI.COM
U.S. tells citizens to leave Libya
WASHINGTON, July 19 (UPI) — All U.S. citizens in Libya should leave the country immediately because of fighting between rebel and government forces, the U.S. State Department said Tuesday.
The State Department in late February issued a travel warning for Libya during an uprising against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Gadhafi’s forces responded to the uprising with brutal force, prompting the U.N. Security Council in March to sanction international military action to protect civilians.
The State Department said Tuesday that it was recommending that all U.S. citizens in Libya leave the country. The U.S. Embassy in Tripoli is closed and the Hungarian government, acting on Washington’s behalf in Libya, can’t issue travel documents to the United States, the warning stated.
“Currently, there is a risk of attacks against hotels and other public buildings in Benghazi and other opposition-held areas in Libya,” the warning read.
Read more:
www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2011/07/19...
Leonor is a Frequent Visitor to Libya – She Tells All
For the last 5 or 6 years Leanor has visited Libya 5 or 6 times a year, she was there 3 weeks ago – and is in constant touch by telephone – this is not the news we get on our propaganda news channels.
Leanor’s Blog is at leonorenlibia.blogspot.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dViTnW4sH0o
richard engel nbc’s report on ancient ruins in #Libya on todayshow
Video:
today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/4383...
feb17
Reuters
Chinese President Hu Jintao told Jacob Zuma that China will work with the African Union to find a solution to the Libyan crisis. Turkey and the African Union have proposed separate road maps aimed at establishing a ceasefire and moving through stages from Muammar Gaddafi quitting power to a democratic transition. .
China said last Thursday it would skip last week’s meeting in Turkey between Western powers, Arab governments and leaders of Libya’s opposition National Transitional Council, saying that the way the group worked needed “further study”.
AJE video:
Slow progress for Libyan opposition fighters
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_em...
MyFreeLibya
Okay no electricity for the whole of the eastern region of the mountain this morning…only returned now #Libya #Feb17
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
On Monday morning, RAF aircraft returned for a second night of precision strikes against the large military vehicle depot at Tajura.
RAF aircraft conducted a surgical strike on the military Identification Friend or Foe antenna at Tripoli airport. #Libya
The use of Brimstone missiles allowing the effect of the attack to be confined to just the military installation. #Libya
At sea, the frigate HMS Iron Duke used her 4.5” gun to fire a barrage of illumination rounds off Zlitan, to the west of Misratah. #Libya
On Tuesday morning, an RAF patrol over Zlitan identified a regime mortar position and destroyed it with a Brimstone missile. #Libya
The star shells helped NATO aircraft in accurately targeting regime positions in the area, including two rocket firing sites. #Libya
On Tuesday night, HMS Ocean launched her Apache attack helicopters against regime forces repressing the population in and around Al Khums.
Fleet Air Arm Sea Kings provided airborne radar cover. #Libya
The targets were a vehicle check point and a group of buildings which NATO missions had established as being used by regime forces. #Libya
Hellfire missiles were successfully used to destroy the group of six buildings, as well as a large building at the check point. #Libya
Iron Duke once again fired illumination rounds to assist NATO surveillance missions around Zlitan during Tuesday night. #Libya
On Wednesday RAF jets attacked some 29 buildings in and around Zlitan. #Libya
These had been confirmed by reconnaissance & analysis as command & control centres, & military supply, ammunition & fuel storage facilities
Aircraft also struck five multiple rocket launcher systems and a pair of heavy infantry weapon positions in the area. #Libya
HMS Iron Duke took action against artillery positions which she observed firing towards Misratah. #Libya
A number of high explosive rounds from HMS Iron Duke’s 4.5” gun quickly silenced the regime guns. #Libya
After dark, Ocean once again launched her Apaches, which used Hellfire missiles to destroy two large military vehicle sheds near Al Khums.
MUST READ:
PETROLEUM ECONOMIST:
Qadhafi Regime bids to sell shipping fleet.
www.petroleum-economist.com/Article/286...
SENUSSI:
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Reports that Abdalla Senussi was shot by tripoli FF and killed or seriously injured. If these report prove true it is a big blow to Gadhafi!
Ahmed
I’m loving all the unconfirmed reports regarding Abdulla Senussi’s death, but not going to believe it until I see his corpse
Nahla
I hope it’s not a rumor! That’s it! If he’s assassinated we’d finally have ONE DOWN!!! #senussi #libya
ChangeInLibya
BREAKING: RUMOUR: Reports that Abdallah Senussi, Gaddafi’s main assistant & ICC criminal has been assassinated by #Tripoli FF. Details soon.
bousuwa
Abdallah el senussi has been killed not confirmed yet
Danya
Hearing that abdullah senussi is dead …if its true then I hope #Gaddafi and safe are next. GOD please don’t let this be a rumor.
Blake Hounshell
I thought Senussi was supposed to be in Sirte?
Soliman
Unconfirmed:ABdualla Al Sanosi has been killed today morning by Tripoli’s FF #Libya #17feb
Triplino
Another report that abd Allah alsanose is not dead he is intensive care more details later #Libya #Tripoli #Gadaffi
Ahmed
Although others reports are that Abdulla #Senussi is seriously injured & is in intensive care..equally amazing news..ill take that…#Libya
ali libyan
Senussi was seen in Alasabaah (near Kikla) last few days
Kauder
Rumors (!) #Tripoli FFs killed/severely injured Abdulla #Senussi . If true, #Gaddafi & family must now live in fear. #Libya
muwanga
Unconfirmed reports of Abdallah Senussi Gaddaffi’s intelligence chief wanted by ICC has been assassinated
sanspapier
Unconf. Rumours that Abdullah Al Senussi has been killed by Tripoli FFs. Lookin fwd to see his body on Ganfood TV. iA #Libya #feb17
Nahla
I hope it’s not a rumor! That’s it! If he’s assassinated we’d finally have ONE DOWN!!! #senussi #libya
Nu Bari
Strong chance Abdullah Sanoosi was injured in Bab Alazazia, THis time Rumors flying he tried to kill #Gaddafi! #Libya
Libyan Voice BREAKING: RUMOR: Reports that Abdallah Senussi, Gaddafi’s main assistant & ICC criminal has been assassinated by Tripoli FF. And council spoke person Mr M Qanioah confirmed the killing of the criminal Abduallah Alsanousi this morning”…Details soon :)
All Voices:
Breaking: Initial reports are starting to come in, as yet unconfirmed, as to the possible death or serious injury of Abdalla Senussi, Gaddafi’s brutal right-hand-man. Responsible for many of the atrocities committed by the regime, the second-most-hated-man in Libya after Muammar himself has allegedly been shot by freedom fighters in Tripoli.
Free Libyia
Senussi’s death is like NileSat closing down LibyanStateTV……moral of the story: don’t get your hopes up
Alex
If news of killing of #Gaddafi ’s b-in-law strongman #AbdullahSenussi by #Tripoli #FF is true – REGIME will be in no hurry 2 admit it #Libya
libyanandproud
Abdallah Sanussi dies at least once a month ! If I hear he dies bi-weekly I’d be worried ! There is only 1 “kill” that makes a diff !
Skeptic
i suspect rumors abt deaths of Gaddafi sons & Senussi r being deliberately spread by Saif media machine
SENUSSI:
almanaramedia.blogspot.com/2011/07/17_2...
Wait and see approach is best for now until there is real proof or official announcement.
AJA: FF abubakar al trabelsi: attack on senussi successful but FF dont know if senussi alive/not, used anti-tank weapon
I still have my doubts, is this a set up by g?
Eyewitness LPC AJA : #FF attack on Senussi successful but don’t know if Senussi alive/not, used anti-tank weapon
AJArabic: #Tripoli #FF – Using anti tank missiles – Mount an attack on senior #Gaddafi Regime officials office in centre of capital
Niz_FGM Niz
21/7/11 – #NATO continues its bombing in eastern #Tripoli as our fighters in #Misrata edge closer to the capital…. not long to go now.
21/7/11-Collapsing regime sending sms to #Tripoli residents calling on march to #Nafusa.I wonder how many will go,no offer of cash mentioned
21/7/11 – Rixos clampdown tightened.No food from outside,no leaving hotel even to local shop,forced on trips. Now imagine what they do to us
Nu Bari
Lots to report from #Libya today – Gaddafo loyalists blow up part of The Olympic/Sport City complex in Benghazi – 2 injuries no deaths
Sleeper cell responsible for bombing in #Benghazi and were caught!
Nu Bari
In addition, Misrata FF’s advansing further towards Tripoli!!!!! Western Mountains recieve backup and will move foward!
Danya #BBC more than 200,000 libyan freedom fighter’s have been injured during these 5 months … (That’s a lot of our 6 million population)
MOD UK
RAF and Navy continue to strike at Gaddafi regime
The RAF and Royal Navy have been involved in a number of precision attacks to protect Libyan civilians over the last few days as part of NATO’s Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR.
In the early hours of Monday morning, RAF Tornado and Typhoon aircraft returned for a second night of precision strikes against the large military vehicle depot at Tajura, on the outskirts of Tripoli, which has been used to maintain Colonel Gaddafi’s attacks on the civilian population.
At around the same time, other RAF aircraft conducted a surgical strike on the military Identification Friend or Foe antenna at Tripoli Airport, the use of Brimstone missiles allowing the effect of the attack to be confined to just the military installation.
At sea, the frigate HMS Iron Duke used her 4.5-inch (114mm) gun to fire a barrage of illumination rounds off Zlitan, to the west of Misurata. The star shells helped NATO aircraft to accurately target regime positions in the area, including two rocket-firing sites.
Further military action took place on Tuesday and Wednesday. Major General Nick Pope, the Chief of the Defence Staff’s Communications Officer, said:
“On Tuesday morning, an RAF patrol over Zlitan identified a regime mortar position and destroyed it with a Brimstone missile.
“The pressure was maintained on Gaddafi’s troops in the area during the night when HMS Ocean launched her Apache attack helicopters against regime forces repressing the population in and around Al Khums; Fleet Air Arm Sea Kings provided airborne radar cover.
“The targets were a vehicle checkpoint and a group of buildings which previous NATO surveillance missions had established as being used by regime forces. Hellfire missiles were successfully used to destroy the group of six buildings, as well as a large building at the checkpoint.
“Iron Duke once again fired illumination rounds to assist NATO surveillance missions around Zlitan during the night.”
Major General Pope continued:
“Whilst allied aircraft continued to patrol the length and breadth of Libya, NATO taskings kept the UK’s operational contribution focused on Zlitan throughout Wednesday.
“RAF jets attacked some 29 buildings in and around the town which had been variously confirmed by detailed reconnaissance and analysis as command and control centres and military supply, ammunition and fuel storage facilities used by Colonel Gaddafi’s troops in repressing the local people.
“Our aircraft also struck five multiple rocket launcher systems and a pair of heavy infantry weapon positions in the area. HMS Iron Duke took action against artillery positions which she observed firing towards Misurata; a number of high explosive rounds from her 4.5-inch 114mm gun quickly silenced the regime guns.
“After dark, Ocean once again launched her Apaches, which used Hellfire missiles to destroy two large military vehicle sheds near Al Khums.”
UK missions over Libya are being undertaken to enforce United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 and protect Libyan civilians at risk of attack.
Ghazi
Had inspiring discussions with Arab and Spanish activists about Arab revolutions, #Libya, at the IDEAS foundation seminar today in #Madrid
Many Spanish politicians showed their admiration and enthusiasm with Libyan cause and would like to see more cooperation with free #Libya
somaia
SMS No. 8 from #Gaddafi 2 #Tripoli: bit.ly/oZm4U8 #feb17 #Libya ’’ @NTC_of_Libya
Feb 17
NEWS IN SHORT:
AP
The White House says it is up to the Libyan people to decide whether longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi can stay in Libya if he steps down from power.
NTC in France
Libya’s rebels asked France for extra arms to help them overrun Tripoli within “days”, as they ramped up a pre-Ramadan offensive that has Moamer Qadhafi’s troops on the run in the east.
The request was made in Paris on Wednesday to French President Nicolas Sarkozy by military leaders from the rebel-held city of Misrata, a member of their delegation said.
Sarkozy held talks at his Elysee presidential palace with rebel General Ramadan Zarmuh, Colonel Ahmed Hashem and Colonel Brahim Betal Mal, as well as Suleiman Fortia, a local representative of the rebel leadership in Misrata.
“With a little bit of help, we will be in Tripoli very soon. Very soon means days,” Fortia told reporters after the meeting. “We are here in France to discuss how we can do the job.”
SLOVENIA
Slovenia announced on Wednesday that it recognizes the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people.
The Slovenian government made the announcement two days after its Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar said in Brussels that Slovenia may recognize the Benghazi-based Libyan rebel forces after elections are held in Libya.
Addressing an EU foreign ministers meeting, Zbogar said that the recognition of the NTC should be uniform throughout the European Union and that the legal framework for recognizing the Libyan rebels should be harmonized.
Also on Wednesday, Slovenian Foreign Ministry State Secretary Dragoljuba Bencina left for Benghazi, taking with her a large shipment of medicine, according to the Slovenian Press Agency.
CHINA
Chinese President Hu Jintao told his South African counterpart, Jacob Zuma, on Thursday that China will work with the African Union in finding a solution to the Libyan crisis, state news agency Xinhua reported.
Turkey and the African Union have proposed separate road maps aimed at establishing a ceasefire and moving through stages from Muammar Gaddafi quitting power to a democratic transition. .
China said last Thursday it would skip last week’s meeting in Turkey between Western powers, Arab governments and leaders of Libya’s opposition National Transitional Council, saying that the way the group worked needed “further study”. .
“South Africa and the African Union have played an important role in pushing a political solution for the Libyan issue, which shows the resolve of African countries to ‘use an African method to solve an African issue,’” Hu told Zuma.
“China greatly appreciates this, and is willing to continue remaining in close touch and coordinate closely with South Africa and the African Union on the Libya issue.”
RAF
Four Royal Air Force Tornado GR4 fast jets have arrived at Gioia del Colle air base in southern Italy following last week’s announcement that the additional aircraft will provide further support to UK operations over Libya.
The aircraft, flown by crews from RAF Lossiemouth, mark a significant increase in the RAF’s reconnaissance capabilities as part of Operation ELLAMY over Libya.
One of the jets arrived fitted with a RAPTOR (Reconnaissance Airborne Pod for Tornado) device which enables the aircraft to provide detailed reconnaissance imagery over large areas.
As a secondary function, the Tornado GR4 jets will also be available to boost the strike capability of NATO operations over Libya.
Speaking from Gioia del Colle, Officer Commanding 2 (Army Cooperation) Squadron, Wing Commander Nick Tucker-Lowe, said:
“The arrival of the additional GR4s will be a considerable boost to the already potent combat intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capability that the Tornado GR Force already brings to Operation ELLAMY.
USA WRITER IS MISSING IN LIBYA
A U.S. congressman says that a Baltimore writer missing in Libya has been seen in a prison in Tripoli.
Matthew VanDyke went to Libya to write about the uprising against Muammar Qaddafi. He was there about a week when he disappeared in March.
Maryland Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger’s spokeswoman said Thursday there have been two independent sightings of the 32-year-old in a Tripoli prison and that the State Department is working to confirm them. The State Department did not immediately return a call for comment.
The writer’s mother, Sharon VanDyke, also said early Thursday that her son was imprisoned in Tripoli and was in good health. She says government officials will be working to bring him home.She declined to say how she got the information.
Paul Danahar
fighters in #Misrata told me Ramadan “will be tough”, expect their men to fast though Koran says don’t have to in war
libyanandproud
Breaking : #Bashar , #Saleh , and #Gaddafi trying to win “Biggest Killer” prize before Ramadan !
Karl Stagno-Navarra
Any #Libya dissident to PM me as I need to cross-check some names on business connections with #Gaddafi pls?
CBS BALTIMORE
AP
Missing Baltimore Journalist Seen In Libya
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A U.S. congressman says that a Baltimore writer missing in Libya has been seen in a prison in Tripoli.
Matthew VanDyke went to Libya to write about the uprising against Moammar Gadhafi. He was there about a week when he disappeared in March.
The writer’s mother, Sharon VanDyke, also said early Thursday that her son was imprisoned in Tripoli and was in good health.
Source:
baltimore.cbslocal.com/2011/07/21/missi...
REUTERS
China’s Hu says backs African plan to end Libyan crisis
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese President Hu Jintao told his South African counterpart, Jacob Zuma, on Thursday that China will work with the African Union in finding a solution to the Libyan crisis, state news agency Xinhua reported.
Turkey and the African Union have proposed separate road maps aimed at establishing a ceasefire and moving through stages from Muammar Gaddafi quitting power to a democratic transition. .
Full report:
af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE7...
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: Over 1800 landmines placed by #Gaddafi forces at Qwaleesh have been found & removed by freedom fighters in the past 4 days.
Guardian
Libyan rebels in Zlitan capture key government commander
Libyan rebels in Misrata say they have captured the chief of operations of government forces in Zlitan on the first day of their offensive against the town.
General Abdul Nabih Zayid was caught late on Wednesday after advancing fighters overran his command post at Souk Talat, a small village on the outskirts of Zlitan, opposition commanders said.
“We have him in custody. He is being well looked after,” said Mohamed Frefr, in charge of detainees for the rebels. “After three days talking with him we will hand him to the military prison.”
Rebels in the besieged coastal city said the general was being interviewed by intelligence officers and well looked after, with supplies of insulin procured because he has diabetes.
Full art.:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/21/li...
IvanCNN Ivan Watson
Airplanes over head. Just heard a distant thud. Sounds like NATO’s bombing around Tripoli. #Libya
NATO OVER TRIPOLI: 3.30 PM raggz ’e-b
still in #benghazi still waiting for my ride to brega. at 10am i was told it would be here in 1 1/2hrs. #libya such a punctual place.
inglesi Piers Scholfield
we will be live from #Misrata this evening – @ggatehouse your host for @BBC_WHYS at 1900 Libyan time / 1700GMT.
listen to the show later here – bbc.in/WJ6yr – send any comments to @BBC_WHYS or post here on.fb.me/rkB7g6
on the show – some guests with us here in #Misrata, Mahmoud Jibril of the TNC – and listeners from around the world.
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
Sweden #Ericsson mariobile base station in #Misurata repaired via #Malta
Government of Montenegro recognises Libyan National Transitional Council
Podgorica, Montenegro (21 July 2011) – The Government of Montenegro adopted the Decision on the recognition of the Libyan National Transitional Council (LNTC) as a legitimate political representative of the Libyan people.
The Government voiced readiness to establish cooperation with the LNTC based on the full respect for democratic development, building democratic institutions, respect for human rights and establishing lasting peace in Libya.
In this way, Montenegrin Government confirmed its support to the efforts of the international community towards resolving the situation in Libya in line with the decisions of the UN Security Council, the EU Council and the Contact Group on Libya, as well as relevant regional organisations.
www.gov.me/en/News/107518/Government-of...
AlluCemif
Munitions from Switzerland used by the FF. Bought by #Qatar.
Foreign & Commonwealth Office:
Navigating the new world order: The UK and the emerging powers
Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne spoke about how Britain should respond to the rise of emerging powers in a speech to Chatham House
How Britain, as an established power, should respond to the rise of emerging powers and the new world order their rise is creating.
he first is the Arab Spring. The scenes in Tunisia, in Egypt, in Libya, Syria and elsewhere have dominated the international headlines over recent weeks and months.
So dramatic has been their impact that the Foreign Secretary has termed the events of the Arab Spring as arguably the most historic of the 21st century to date
Full report:
www.fco.gov.uk/en/news/latest-news/?vie...
An absolute must read by: Dahr Jamail
AJE:
Murdoch’s ambitions in the Middle East
With his media empire under fire in the west, NewsCorp chief eyes the Middle East market
Embroiled in a scandal that has global implications, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is under fire due to the ongoing fallout resulting from the News of the World scandal.
But while News Corp remains under heavy scrutiny in the UK, US, and the rest of the West, the launch of Abu Dhabi-based Arabic language news channel Sky News Arabia is still on track.
For someone interested in assisting in starting a television network with a planned initial reach of 50 million viewers across the Middle East, Murdoch has an interesting perspective on regional issues that affect the would-be consumers of the new Arabic channel.
“My own perspective is simple”, Murdoch told the Anti-Defamation League on December 13, 2010. “We live in a world where there is an ongoing war against the Jews.”
Murdoch emphasised “the importance of good relations between Israel and the United States”, stating: “Some believe that if America wants to gain credibility in the Muslim world and advance the cause of peace, Washington needs to put some distance between itself and Israel. My view is the opposite.”
In a speech Murdoch gave when receiving the American Jewish Committee’s National Human Relations Award in March 2009, less than three months after the end of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, he referenced Gaza and said: “The free world makes a terrible mistake if we deceive ourselves into thinking this is not our fight. In the end, the Israeli people are fighting the same enemy we are: cold-blooded killers who reject peace … who reject freedom.”
Ari Rabin-Havt, Executive Vice President of the media watchdog group Media Matters, says Murdoch’s Fox News in the US “is one of the most bigoted, anti-Muslim channels on TV”.
“Their hosts, contributors, and guests were vocal opponents of the planned building of an Islamic cultural centre near ground zero,” Rabin-Havt told Al Jazeera. “One of those guests was anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist Pam Geller, who compared the centre to building a Ku Klux Klan ‘shrine’ near a black church in Alabama.”
Murdoch’s Middle East connection
Billionaire Prince Walid bin Talal bin Abdelaziz Al-Saud, a nephew of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, has, according to Forbes magazine, a net worth estimated to be at least $19.6bn. This makes him the 26th wealthiest person on the planet, as well as the richest man in Saudi Arabia.
He is also the second biggest shareholder (at seven per cent) in News Corporation, only behind Murdoch himself.
During a recent interview on his yacht with the BBC’s Newsnight, Prince Walid declared himself to be a “good friend” of Rupert Murdoch and his son James, and staunchly defended the men amid the ongoing NewsCorp scandal.
It is noteworthy that,while Prince Walid is the second largest shareholder in News Corp, Murdoch is also a major shareholder (ten per cent) in Prince Walid’s Rotana Media Group based in the Middle East. As recently as this May, Murdoch’s conglomerate took a significant stake in Prince Walid’s film, TV, and music business, a move that deepened the financial relationship between the two men.
Rotana television broadcasts in Saudi Arabia and via satellite to the Arab World and Arab Diaspora, and includes Fox (Middle East), a Fox film channel – and is better known for broadcasting US films, television and music videos.
Even though Murdoch is in business with Prince Walid, and the two men have a mutually beneficial relationship, many of his personal views and the views of his media outlets take a very adversarial stance towards the Arab and Muslim world
“They Muslims are much harder to integrate into a community than the average Indian or Chinese or Japanese even,” Murdoch told the Sydney Morning Herald on June 26, 2006.
Bill O’Reilly, a leading host on Murdoch’s Fox News channel, said, during his broadcast on October 18, 2010: “Folks are fed up with politically correct nonsense. There’s no question there is a Muslim problem in the world,” and “most Americans well understand the danger coming out of the Muslim world”. The on-screen text read: “The Muslim Dilemma.” The next day, O’Reilly repeated the claim that there was “a Muslim problem in the world”.
Last spring, at the exclusive three-day Abu Dhabi Media Summit, Murdoch hinted:
“We’ve also been broadcasting some of our Fox International Channels. More recently, we took another step by investing in a local media company that also is the world’s largest producer of Arab music. The company is called Rotana. To be frank, Rotana does not really need our financing. We are partnering with Rotana for something more ambitious.”
The show must go on?
Despite the phone hacking scandal in the UK, Sky News Arabia, a 50/50 joint venture with BSkyB and the Abu Dhabi Media Investment Corporation, has plans to launch next spring as a 24-hour news channel.
Days after the closing of the News of the World newspaper, senior executives Rebekah Brooks and Les Hinton resigned over the scandal.
Their resignations came after Prince Walid urged Murdoch and his son James to “cooperate fully” with inquiries into the scandal.
“If the indications are for Mrs Brooks’ involvement in this matter … for sure she has to go, you bet she has to go,” Prince Walid told Newsnight.
Possibly underscoring Prince Walid’s power in News Corp, fewer than 24 hours after that interview was broadcast, it was announced Brooks had resigned from her position as chief executive of News International.
Last week, Prince Walid said he welcomed the decision to close the News of the World.
“The rotten and defective apple News of the World has been eliminated by management,” he told Forbes magazine via text message. “Moreover, I as shareholder and the Murdochs won’t tolerate any unethical behaviour, and the fact that the newspaper was shut down is conclusive proof that News Corp wants to put this case behind it, irrespective of the BSkyB takeover. Plus, News Corp is a lot bigger than a newspaper.”
Muhammad Ahmad, a Glasgow-based media scholar who has taught journalism and politics at the University of Stirling, disagrees with Prince Walid’s “rotten apple” theory.
“The strangeness of the fact that a Saudi is the second biggest NewsCorp stockholder, and he has never taken any actions to curb or censor bad journalism, and there is no regulation whatsoever, is troubling,” Ahmad told Al Jazeera. “You have a ruthless media operation, especially now when it is being called out, and they were unapologetic to begin with. This is not a question of some bad apples. News Corp is a corrupt institution, to its foundations, and now it’s trying to get control over Sky Arabia. This should be outrageous for anyone, especially viewers.”
The channel intends to broadcast to more than 50 million households across the Middle East and North Africa region, according to network executives. It will be based in Abu Dhabi, with bureaux around the world.
The channel will enter a TV-news market in competition with Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, and BBC Arabic, among others.
Professor David Miller, a sociologist at Scotland’s Strathclyde University and co-founder of the media watchdog group Spinwatch, told Al Jazeera that he feels the Sky News Arabia venture is “unsafe”.
“I don’t know what the regulating authority would be in this case, but it certainly does not bode well for a news organisation to have Sky or NewsCorp involved at all.”
Source:
english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/...
There we have it.
Wheels within wheels……
Questions anyone?
And who is major player in Nilesat?
No futher comment needed…..
ISRAEL AND JOUNALISTS:
The Forein Press Association.
Statements
STATEMENTS 2011
The Foreign Press Association strongly condemns the continued harassment of journalists attending media events at the prime minister’s office. In the past two days, three female reporters in separate incidents were forced to undress, remove their bras and have them placed through an X-ray machine in front of a group of colleagues. In addition, pocketbooks were emptied in public, with personal items also put on display and X-rayed for everyone to see.
This type of treatment is unnecessary, humiliating and counterproductive. After repeated appeals and promises by security officials it appears that the Prime Minister’s Office does not have the desire to stop this happening and so the FPA will begin consulting its members over whether the foreign media should no longer cover events at the PM’s offfice as this is the only occasion where this type of incident occurs. The Foreign Press Association 21st July 2011
The Foreign Press Association is utterly baffled by the treatment our members received at Wednesday’s press event in Ashdod with the Prime Minister. Once again members were subject to invasive and humiliating inspections and unnecessary waits that left people in the sun for hours. Some members, fed up with the wait, left the event. Others were only able to enter after the press conference had started. Sadly this has become standard procedure when covering the Prime Minister. It is incomprehensible that a leader so concerned with his international image could handle relations with teh press so poorly. We fully recognise Israel’s legitimate security concerns and expect to undergo an inspection when covering these events. But the process is disorganised, arbitrary, humilitating andneedlessly invasive – particularly when applied to journalists who possess government-issued press cards. We repeat our call to the Prime Minister’s office to revise its security procedures and to let us do our work. The Board of the Foreign Press Association, March 17th 2011
Read the whole statement here:
www.fpa.org.il/?categoryId=73840
pdanaharbbc Paul Danahar
#Mideast Foreign Press Association (declaration: I’m on the board) says it will consult members about no longer covering #Israeli PM events
after another round of strip searches of accredited and well known female journalists at #Israeli PM events including taking bra’s off
Even WSJ had to take his trousers off recently and you can’t get a more upstanding member of the foreign media (no pun intended
But this “off with your bra” stuff keeps going on month after month despite promises from Shinbet it would stop.
Yefrenia
“If I die fighting for my country, don’t let me die in vain” …. #Feb17 the revolution lives on… twitpic.com/5tj898
MORE PROOF ABOUT EXTREME HUMILIATION and TORTURE:
ChangeInLibya
WARNING EXTREMELY GRAPHIC: La ilaha illa allah… What Gaddafi forces did to syrian journalist Rana in prison alsature.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/%D9… #libya
MUST READ:
عاجل : الجناح العسكري في ائتلاف 17 فبراير يتبنى عملية محاولة اغتيال سيف القذافي وعبدالله السنوسي ومنصور ضو والبغدادي المحمودي
طرابلس – خاص – المنارة
أفادت مصادر من ائتلاف 17 فبراير بطرابلس للمنارة بأن جناحه العسكري قد قام في حدود الساعة الثانية عشر ظهر اليوم الخميس 21-7-2011 بعملية نوعية بمحاولة اغتيال شخصيات قيادية تابعة لنظام القذافي.
وأضافت نفس المصادر بأن الشخصيات التي استهدفت في عملية الاغتيال هي سيف القذافي وعبدالله السنوسي ومنصور ضو والبغدادي المحمودي والذين كانوا مجتمعين في فندق Four Points Sheraton الكائن في حي الأندلس .
وأكدت نفس المصادر بأن منصور ضو قد أصيب إصابات خطيرة في هذه العملية وهو يوجد الآن في غرفة العمليات مشيرة بأن الثلاثة الاخرين قد اصيبوا اصابات خفيفة بحسب المصدر.
LibyanPatriots
The death of Gaddafi’s brother-in-law and chief enforcer, Abdullah Senussi, remains unconfirmed
dovenews Libyan™
#FF hv captured Gaddafis senior General #Abdul #Nabeah #Zayid near #Zlitan yesterday, he was injured & currently getting treated in hospital
Hanan
Come on Libyans! Let’s get that rodent out of our country before September 1st! IA he’ll nvr have anthr Fata7 again! #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Moldova CARGO SHIP “HAJ-SAYED” has now departed #Alexandria #Egypt for dest. #Tobruk #Libya ETA: 2011-07-23 10:00 (UTC) #feb17
Shabab:
Libya’s foreign minister has denied that Col Muammar Gaddafi’s removal was being considered in efforts to end the country’s conflict.
“Gaddafi’s departure is not being discussed,” Abdelati Obeidi told reporters after talks in Moscow with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Last week France said it had been contacted by Libyan envoys saying Col Gaddafi leader was prepared to leave.
Meanwhile fighting has continued between pro-Gaddafi and rebel forces.
There were fierce clashes on Wednesday near the eastern town of Brega – an important oil centre that has changed hands several times during the five-month-old conflict.
In western Libya, rebel forces in Misrata say Nato air support has allowed them to advance further against government forces.
Russia has been trying to mediate a deal to end the conflict.
After Wednesday’s talks in Moscow, Mr Obeidi said the Libyan government wanted to end the conflict with rebels seeking to end Col Gaddafi’s 41-year rule.
“We must all work on a peaceful solution in which all Libyans would participate and not just the council in Benghazi,” he said, referring to the rebel Transitional National Council (TNC) based in the city of Benghazi.
The rebels are holding eastern Libya and pockets in the west, but have so far not made decisive moves towards the capital Tripoli.
On 12 July, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said: “The Libyan regime is sending messengers everywhere, to Turkey, to New York, to Paris” offering to discuss Col Gaddafi’s exit.
But he added that such contacts did not constitute negotiations.
France played a key role in launching Nato-led strikes in Libya, under a UN-mandated mission to protect civilians.
Coalition countries have insisted that the Libyan leader must stand down for hostilities to end.
Via BBC
live2Tripoli
Anyone forget the zero hour? Hold on to your seats cause it’s going to be big!! I pray god watch over #Tripoli.
Abeidi
libya,a heavy battle between FF and G forces in Abo Rowaia youtube.com/watch?feature=…
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JwOGpCDT0u4#at=235
cjchivers C.J. Chivers
A Rebel Force, Running Out of Ammunition Mid-Fight. – This is Sefaou Abudeya, a low-level rebel commander in… tumblr.com/x1q3mg3shn
or:
cjchivers.com/post/7887653627/a-rebel-f...
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Misrata #Freedomfighters have advanced to #Zliten bridge on coastal road. 17 wounded,1 dead. Fighting continues w/ heavy weapons #Libya
FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
#Misurata thawar have advanced to #Zliten bridge on coastal road. 17wounded,1martyr so far. Fighting continues with heavy weapons #Libya
Inglesi:
We will be going live to Misrata in 1 hour. Do you have questions for the people there? Tweet them to us and we’ll pass on.
Reuters : Panic in Zliten front lines , Some FF surrounded by GF tanks at Souk al thulatha. GF combing villages. Shelling FF
Reuters: GF have counter attacked FF today at Zliten, backed by tanks surrounded FF at Souk al- thulatha.Tanks flatten homes
IamLibya
Grad rockets launched by #Gaddafi forces on Tunisian soil. #gaddaficrimes #Libya #Feb17 twitpic.com/5tkcb6
Aljazeera:
They found a 14 year old girl in a container on the outskirts of Brega. She had been kidnapped and repeatedly raped by Gaddafi troops.
bousuwa
Thuwar trables hit a building with RBG saif was there and he survived
Mansour Daw and Abdallah Esenussi are injured or one of them is dead
Just called a friend in Tripoli he confirmed tht Thwar hit a build wth RBG and there r casualties Mansour daw and abdalla senussi r injured
Alex
Rumor will become truth – when & if #Saif #Gaddafi & #AbdullahSanusi – present themselves in public – to dispel rumors of their death & serious injury – if they don’t front soon – we can assume the worst 4 them and best 4 us! #Libya #Tripoli #FF
Libya_El_Hurra:
House and office of #LHC Founder, Hassan Tatanaki, were ransacked by Ghaddafi forces. #libya #feb17”
Guardian
Libyan rebels find humour is the sharpest weapon against Gaddaffi
In Zintan town square, reanointed “Tahrir Square” after it became the crucible for February’s local uprising, humour is the weapon of choice against the Libyan government.
Street art depicts Muammar Gaddafi as a figure of ridicule. In the cartoons, his head variously has the body of a bat, chicken and snake, or is represented as a nail being yanked out by a hammer.
Nearby, the old police station is gutted by fire, while a former regime building is coated in graffiti such as “Vive la Révolution de 17 Feb” and “We write our history by our blood”.
Military vehicles captured from Gaddafi were paraded before crowds in the square earlier this month. Now the heart of the town is also the heart of the struggle against Gaddafi in Libya’s arid, sun-scorched western mountains.
Full story:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/21/li...
Lisa
#Feb17 Thanks to Slovania, Montenegro n Albania for recognizing #NTC as legitimate representative of #Libyan ppl!! #downwithgaddafi
Danya
I guarntee you that 89% of the people on #Gaddafi TV are not even Libyan …mostly workers from other countries looking to make some money
FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
BrigadierGeneral AbdullahSanusi was died and several others were seriously injuired during today’s assassinate attempt
No announcement from NTC yet….
Zlitniya
Unconfirmed reports that FF have been surrounded in Suq Al Thalath and As Sab’a following the arrival of GF reinforcements
Ossama
BREAKING: The Media Committee of the FFs in Zliten have anounced the arrest of M’Hamed Kherdagi a hard line Qaddafi loyalist and criminal.
REUTERS:
- Political track proves tricky for West
- Gaddafi staying in Libya looks at odds with warrant
- NATO allies seeking rapid end to crisis
By William Maclean, Security Correspondent
Full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL6...
Zlitniya
GF committing grave crimes against SuqAlThalath civil&terrifying em-incl shelling 6homes in As-Sada’iya(w ppl inside)& other areas>>ppl flee
FINALLY CONFIRMATION SANUSSI
Ossama
Mohammed Guenioh Spokesman of NTC for Tripoli: this morning Abdullah Sanusi was kiled by the National Movement for the Liberation of Tripoli
Saja
sadly #Senoussi ’s death is a false report although #Senoussi #Saifgadaffi #Baghdadi were hurt and #MansourDau was badly injured..
Armchair Arab
Mine clearing vehicles in operation around brega – fb.me/w2IBYj8l
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=487375&i...
Sarah
#Gaddafi is barking .. sounds calm .. Weird :)
Zlitniya
Zliten FF advancing frm Dafniya took weapons frm 10s of Gvolunteers in SuqAlThalath.All who handed in weapons wer treated well&none captured
LibyaFree
#Gaddafi is barking again on State TV. WOOF WOOF #Libya
Khalifa
The Fugitive is at again calling on his supporters to enter #Misrata. The question is how, how #Gadhafi, How?? #Libya.
REUTERS
FACTBOX-Latest developments in Libyan conflict
July 21 (Reuters) – Following are the latest political and military developments in the Libyan crisis.
- Libyan rebels said a fierce counter-attack by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi had checked their gains on a frontline east of Tripoli on Thursday.
- A rebel spokesman in Zlitan, on the coast road 160 km (100 miles) east of the capital, said pro-Gaddafi forces backed by tanks had surrounded rebels who had seized the nearby town of Souk al-Thulatha the previous day.
- The state news agency JANA said officials met on Thursday to ensure food supplies such as barley, wheat and bananas “reach consumers as soon as possible before the start of Ramadan”.
- Libyans using the state-run cellphone network said they had been receiving text messages this week calling on them to go and fight in the Western Mountains, the front closest to Tripoli. “The clock of action has struck. The time for cleansing has come. Today the Western Mountains will burn,” ran a message sent on Thursday.
Libya has become a new source of smuggled weaponry for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, a senior Israeli official said on Thursday.
Full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLD...
Israel is scared of the consequences that a FREE LIBYA will bring to the rest of the world. ( for Israel that means Palestine, and all the money Israel would stand to lose)
youngamazigh
gaddafi says libyan FF’s are from alqaeda… in other news justin beiber commits suicide….
Salam
Going to interview a defected employee from the morgue at Tripoli Medical center. Rabby Yister
Revolutionary forces report Gaddafi fight backs
The revolutionary forces said a fierce counter-attack by Gaddafi’s forces had checked their gains on a frontline east of Tripoli today. A revolutionary spokesman in Zlitan, on the coast road 160 km east of the capital, said Gaddafi forces backed by tanks had surrounded revolutionaries who had seized the nearby town of Souk al-Thulatha yesterday.
The soldiers had flattened homes with tank shells, he said in an Internet posting.
“The brigades are still terrorising the families, combing villages and neighbourhoods and spreading panic in the whole region,” he said.
The revolutionary forces, known collectively as the National Liberation Army (NLA), who swiftly took much of eastern Libya after an uprising flared in February, have also taken casualties around the oil port of Brega, south of their stronghold Benghazi.
They said they were still trying to take the town fully from Gaddafi’s troops.
Gaddafi’s state TV showed what it said were fresh pictures from Zlitan and Brega in an apparent bid to show the towns were still firmly in Tripoli’s hands. In Zlitan, dozens of Gaddafi supporters were shown chanting slogans of support.
Read more here:
english.libya.tv/2011/07/21/revolutiona...
inglesi Piers Scholfield
the NTC health minister live on @bbcworldservice right now -
Le nouvel Observateur
Selon Longuet, les rebelles ne peuvent pas prendre Tripoli
Ce matin, à l’hôtel de Brienne, au cours d’un petit déjeûner avec l’Association des Journalistes de Défense, Gérard Longuet a longuement évoqué la situation militaire en Libye.
Il assure que Kadhafi est “en train de perdre le contrôle de l’énergie” puisque la seule raffinerie qui alimente Tripoli en essence utilise un pipeline dont les vannes sont dans une zone désormais tenue par les forces du CNT. Mais il ajoute – et c’est là l’important – que “les rebelles ne peuvent pas aller jusqu’à Tripoli”, car ils ne sont pas assez nombreux.
Le ministre de la Défense confirme l’information selon laquelle les forces anti-Kadhafi qui tiennent aujourd’hui une grande partie du Djebel Nefousa au sud de Tripoli sont environ 2000, “bien armés et bien encadrés”. Il ajoute que pour leur livrer des armes et des biens divers, il n’est plus besoin de parachutages puisque “les avions peuvent désormais se poser” sur des terrains contrôlés par eux.
Read more:
globe.blogs.nouvelobs.com/archive/2011/...
hominoid
Libya Zliten Free Zliten the rebels coming from the front Al Davnih seized dozens of weapons
Omar Mukhtar
Audience attending #Gaddafi audio speech look like a bunch of inbreeders. That is one shallow gene pool.
Zlitniya
GF’s frightening families in Suq Al Thalath &using them as human shields.GFs also using mosques to fire missiles from
Tripolitano
ppl r classified into anti G talk,Flag, thuraya,demonstrator,ak47 & Zawiya group. the latter with the harshest treatment
Libya_Awake_United
So #Gaddafi rant became a daily show on his NileSat sponsored TV channel, now playing. #Libya #Feb17
Liby
Too c alm, is not his voice
We like this:
AlluCemif
French Def M:#Gaddafi losing control of energy:only refinery that supplies gasoline #Tripoli uses pipeline w valves in area now held by NTC.
AJArabic: ’The #Tripoli #FF anti tank missile attack just after midday today – was on a temporary operations & command center in a recently converted building in the capital centre – with #AbdullahSenussi as the main target – whose condition AJA could not confirm #Libya
Alex
‘Civilian homes flattened at Souk al Thulatha by #Gaddafi tank shells, panic in region, #Zliten #FF surrounded in #Gaddafi tank counter attack today’ #Libya
Des Grant
#feb17 not ALL FF surrounded only those on S village outside Zliten
Dima
One day spent in Libya. I am so impressed with the revolutionaries and the people I talked to on the street including women. Such strength
LibyaNewMedia
Another day of heavy fighting on the western front on Misrata. Yesterday: 9 killed, 67 wounded. Today so far: 3 killed, 60 wounded. #Libya
ProudLibyan
News about Abdulla Sanussi being killed. Tripoli FF operation. Understandably ppl still cautious in believing news, we’ll C if it’s true.
The Dictator
In #Sfax, waiting for the 15 hour ferry to #Misrata..
dovenews Libyan™
#FF said they will not rest until they get all of them including Gaddafi himself
Tripolitanian
Revolutionaries in #Tripoli say they have plans for every one of the members of #Gaddafi’s inner circle.
Revolutionaries in #Tripoli say they will not stop until they kill every single one of them!
Revolutionaries in #Tripoli say they are tracking everyone of #Gaddafi’s rats
Revolutionaries in #Tripoli say that #Gaddafi’s rats no longer use nice cars after they realized we were following them. #Libya #Feb17
Alex
If #Saif #Gaddafi survived 2day’s assassination – If there’s justice in this world – he will at least be disfigured.
He’s an arrogant, superior, vain & utterly unlikeable individual – whose ‘born to rule’ ego condemned countless #Libya ns to rape & death – & the thought of him limping along castrated, with a broken nose, & one eye hanging out – almost seems better than his death.
dovenews Libyan™
Also Mansour Dau in hospital in a coma not dead.
AP
Libya rebels: Brega oil installations boobytrapped by Gadhafi forces
MADRID – Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi’s troops have boobytrapped petroleum installations in the strategic oil port of Brega so they can be blown up if his regime loses the town, a top rebel official said Thursday.
Mahmoud Jibril, the rebels’ diplomatic chief, also said Gadhafi’s forces have boobytrapped oil fields. He did not state which fields. While Brega is a key oil processing and shipment hub, the fields that feed it lie far to the south in the Libyan desert.
“Unfortunately, Brega is a big minefield right now,” Jibril told reporters after meeting with Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez. “We discovered that they planted mines all over the place. Even some oil establishments, some oil fields, have been full of bombs, explosives.”
Rebels hold most of eastern Libya, but their push to seize Brega since last week unraveled Tuesday when 27 rebels were killed in shelling by Gadhafi’s troops.
Full story:
ca.news.yahoo.com/libya-rebels-brega-oi...
TRIPOLI:
dovenews Libyan™
BREAKING: #Tripoli #FF attacked Saif Gaddafi, Abdula Sanusi, Albaghadadi Almahmodi & Mansour Dau while meeting in a hotel in 1/3
Alandalus district, #FF have used 2 RPG-7 in their attack, Mansour Dau in hospital in a coma & Alsanusi was injured. 2/3
Tripoli #FF have planned for this only for the last two weeks. 3/3
not NATO strike, they were attacked by Tripoli #FF using RPG
The info from confirmed military source in Tripoli.
Also Mansour Dau in hospital in a coma not dead.
watch libya.tv now you can watch it online
#FF said they will not rest until they get all of them including Gaddafi himself
BREAKING! Abdula Alsanusi & Alhadi Imbasher were killed on the hands of #Tripoli #FF in Alandalus district. via libya.tv
No news on what happened to Saif.
Libyan
National Movement for the Liberation of #Tripoli say they believe they killed Abdullah #Senussi and injured Mansur Adow
ღ.¸¸Libeeya¸¸.ღ
Libya alahraar (free libya tv) just reported breaking news about abdullah senussi death..im unsure..details to come
rebelle
Tripoli: confirme par FF Senussi tué dans l’attaque , Mansur dans le coma profond #libye
freelibya
libya al ahrar: elhadi imberish was also killed in the attack that killed senussi today
Libya Watan
FF frm tripoli:confirms senussi definitely killed in rpg attack,mansur daw in deep coma saif, baghdadi escaped
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Libya almostakbal says that a video of today’s Tripoli operation (Senussi’s assassination attempt) will be posted soon #libya
bousuwa
Visiting Thuwar Libya in Amman Jordan Hospitals
libyanandproud
BREAKING : Libyan/American activist kidnapped and returned to #Libya in #BinGirdan (#Tunisia). #Feb17 #Libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Tank turrets on 4×4s #onlyinlibya fb.me/EWTIt9qu
FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
Feb17 Movement in Tripoli said2 have claimed responsibility 4attack on four cars carrying Saif,Sanusi et.al in Andalusia #Libya
TripoliSoldier Tripoli Forces
Check this video out — We Are Libyan Freedom Fighters Not Rebels youtube.com/watch?v=7nCfC7… via @youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nCfC711ujk&fea...
Alex
8 hours have passed – & still REGIME ignores today’s spectacular assassination op by #Tripoli #FF – ‘METHINKS THEY DON’T PROTEST ENOUGH!’
Madi
Don’t give me hope! I so want it to be true!!!!!!!
Wanna hear off announcement….
Libyan Duda
Abdallah Senussi killed! I can’t wait till it’s 100% confirmed!
FreeBenghazi
Thuwar bombed Gaddafiregime meeting in Andalusia,Tripoli.Some killed/wounded. Sansui said 2b in coma,private clinic #Libya v LibyaAlahrarTV
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Rumours about Abdullah Al-Senussi being killed have been circulating all day – we can’t confirm
Freedom=Peace
I hope its true but i cnt believe it till i c a body, what if its a ploy to get out of the arrest warrant #Senussi #Libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
News of today’s attack spreading like wildfire around Tripoli but some say Senussi not dead but injured. Same for other aides.
LibyanFreedom
Dead, not dead, injured, totally fine…LORD, which is it…#Senussi
Quoriana
After hours of crazy rumours #Libya rebel TV now claims #Gaddafi’s brother-in-law Abdullah #Senussi was assassinated today.
ProudLibyan
A new Twist!!!! Libya TV now has now confirmed that Abdullah Senussi and Emberish not dead! Here we go again!
Libyan
Even if Abdullah Senussi didn’t die, he was still attacked, at least we can confirm that and that’s big news!
Sanad
FF frm #tripoli: confirms senussi definitely killed in rpg attack, mansur daw in deep coma saif, baghdadi escaped
LibyanYouthMovement
according to Libya Free TV and the council in Tripoli Abdullah Senussi dead?!
Danya
Emberish and senussi have been confirmed to be dead by libya al ahraarr TV … In #TRIPOLI
grafixel
So Abdullah el Senussi – #Gadaffi’s bumchum – is dead. Again…
how many lives do they have ?
Libyans Revolt
Abdullah Senussi attack could also be #Gaddafi ploy to try to spread lies and then ‘prove’ that they were false
dovenews Libyan™
BREAKING! Libya.tv denied the death of Abdula Alsanusi & Alhadi Imbasher.
According to the news the attack has happened but not the killing.
Libyan & Proud
No offence to the channel but not the most credible source.. Still unsure if it’s true yet. Reliable sources still denying!!
Anonymous Watcher
New Hash Tags #ZombieAbdullahSenussi and #ZombieEmberish – GO!!! #Libya #Feb17
AJA: rebel delegation from Misrata to France have requested that France provide supplies so they can enter #Tripoli ‘within days’
Alex
Unless #Gaddafi can produce #Saif #AbdullahAlSenussi & #MansourDaw live – within 24 hours – We can assume they r dead or seriously injured!
LibyanYouthMovement
Further twist, Libya Free TV seem to now be unsure. At this point the killing of abdalla sanussi remains a rumour
Souffian Tripoli
What is the news on #Tripoli yes no, no yes or yes no ? Is this part of the tactics of news, twitter? Pffffff il just wait for video proof
Very wise:)
Tripolitano
I expect saif to come out tonight or tomorrow to confirm that he’s not dead. Sanussi won’t either way
Nusaiba
My brother running around house shouting ALLAH AKBAR Snoussi MATT!! – ahhhh I hope this is 100% confirmed… it would mean 1 down 3 to go…
Muscatdaily.conm
Bulgaria evacuates Tripoli embassy: ministry
Bulgaria has evacuated its embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli following attacks on foreign missions earlier this week, foreign ministry spokeswoman Vesela Cherneva said Tuesday.
“We completed overnight Monday the evacuation of our embassy in Tripoli. Its staff arrived in the Tunisian city of Djerba shortly after midnight and will stay there until further notice,” Cherneva told journalists. She noted that the measure was prompted by the recent attacks on several foreign missions in the Libyan capital.
The embassy’s three Bulgarian diplomats will remain on stand-by in Djerba, ready to travel back to Tripoli immediately when the security situation improves, Cherneva said. “We remained in Tripoli until the very last moment possible. … And we hope to have enough reasons to reopen our mission as soon as possible,” she added.
Cherneva also confirmed Sofia’s plans to dispatch a consul-general to the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi “when the situation allows it.” Bulgaria announced in late March that it would reopen its consulate in the second largest Libyan city, but has not yet done so. Sofia denied this would be a first step towards recognition of the Benghazi-based rebel council.
AFP
www.muscatdaily.com/Archive/Stories-Fil...
IvanCNN Ivan Watson
by inglesi
Gadhafi gov’t minders pulled me in for 90 minute diatribe about mistakes in my reporting, called me a criminal, said this is my last chance
LibyanYouthMovement
thats one heck of a compliment Ivan :)
Khaled
The following was a letter found on the body of a #Gaddafi soldier:
”I saw Mu’tasim Gaddafi executing soldiers because they refused to kill civilians, and I was afraid that I might be executed"
If they do (kill me) then u will find this letter explaining to my family that I declined the order of Mutasim to kill Libyans
My name is Munir Altarhuni from Tarhunah &my fiances name’s Ayah,if my family doesnt believe u tell them the name of my fiance
LibyaAlHurraTV LibyaAlHurra
Tripoli Council’s Mohamed Ghennewa confirms death or critical injury of Abdalla #Senussi by Sniper fire in #Tripoli.
inglesi Piers Scholfield
more on Senussi – various reports of him being killed or critically injured by a sniper / by an RPG / by NATO.. all unconfirmed.. #Feb17
Hanan
The man responsible for AbuSelim Massacre and the attack on #Benghazi on Feb.17th has been killed by our brave Freedom Fighters in #Trip …
ღ.¸¸Libeeya¸¸.ღ
Why does Saif always get awayyyy, amta nftako minaaaa
Des Grant
his car was not damaged in photo , but rumor is he is injured and and private clinic
Tripolitanian
4 body guards were believed to have been killed in attack.
Libyan
Zaif AlGaddafi is believed to have escaped the attack. #Tripoli #Libya #Feb17
FreeBenghazi
Statement by the Tripoli Council confirming the death of Abdullah Sanusi. t.co/DUsPWVC .الله أكبر و الحمد لله #Libya
www.libyaalmostakbal.net/news/clicked/1...
ChangeInLibya
The body of one of my neighbours in Tripoli was released to his family today. He died in captivity – most probably due to… (cont)
torture. Family being forcd to sign papers saying he died due to a heart condition. What did he do? He had a video of #feb17 demos on laptop
LibyanYouthMovement
Gaddafi rejects any negotiations with Libyan National Council – Sirte v reuters flash #Libya
Free Libyia
Yes Abdullah Senussi is dead, only to reappear after a drastic weight loss programme and some plastic surgery in a condo in the Bahamas.
Arab Fury
In my opinion, #Saleh was a little under cooked. Hopefully the #Libya FF did a better job with Senussi. #Yemen #Gaddafi
Armchair Arab
People like Senussi might take advantage of this kind of event to fake death and avoid ICC arrest.
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
This is getting ridiculous. I’m staying away from this one till more information/pictures/videos is released.
inglesi Piers Scholfield
After a quiet day in #Misrata, a series of deep thuds echoing over Misrata now. #Libya #Feb17
libyanandproud
A girl in #Benghazi holds a sign that reads “thank you freedom fighters of the capital” on AJA
Reuters: G (to FF) : “I will not speak to them. There will not be any talks between me and them until Judgment Day”
somaya
As people bicker and get tense over the “west side and east side” topic, FF risk their lives with ppl from ALL OVER #Libya side by side.
OneLibya
Tripoli is paying a very high price! A real tragedy is unfolding in silence behind closed doors
septimius_
So #Senousi and #Zaif had a narrow escape, but HELLO #Tripoli FF got their hands on some BIG guns!!!! #Libya
Libyan_Republic this was carried out by western FF my case and point that everyone is doing their bit to free Libya even Libyans outside Libya
libyanandproud
#Gaddafi TV apparently said the martyr “Abdallah Sanussi” , didn’t see it personally , but apparently they a few mins ago ? Any1 else c it ?
Libyan Duda
Ibrahim #Sahad #Libyan dissident has not been to #Libya for 32 years and now on Libya AlAhrar!
Libya, Brega, upto date since Brega attack started, 72 FF killed and 627 wounded so far. via Almanara
Carol
Live call from Brega say they are surrounding Gaddafi forces from all sides. Wow.
CNN
Libya’s rebel leaders warn forces over looting and abuse
Rebels commanders in Libya’s western mountains have told the BBC they are taking steps to deal with looting.
Commanders denied there have been human rights abuses after five bodies were discovered after suffering brutal injuries.
Paul Wood reports.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-1424278...
Tripolitanian
#Gaddafi’s speech focused on “destroying Misrata” and saying “Misrata is a worthless city” .
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Now the sound of a #NATO jets overhead – and another series of big, very deep thuds. #Misrata #Libya
Tripolitanian Libyan
There were protests today in #Sirte, families demanding to know where their sons are.
Abdullah Senussi’s orders
Video
rajcairnsreport.wordpress.com/2011/07/2...
BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
We are editing clips from the “desert assault brigade outside” #Brega these guys are brave, and crazy
ChangeInLibya
Another week passes and another Friday comes by in the Arab world. Always hoping that this will be the last for #Gaddafi #bashar #saleh
ggatehouse Gabriel Gatehouse
Sounds like #NATO bombing nr #Misrata. Planes overhead, deep rumbles after a largely quiet day #Libya #Feb17
jd2folife
Gaddafi forces are gathering 15 tanks to attack Suq Althulata in #Zlitan. #Misrata
NATO IS ALREADY THERE!!!
libyanfsl
Gaddafi regime will counter with media campaign trying to discredit the credible news.. may not be 100% correct, but not 100% wrong either
Libya In Me
We’re Libyan, and we should be proud. We’ve made history & changed the meaning of heroism. Unity shouldn’t be an issue for us. :)
dovenews Libyan™
Libya.tv means Free Libya TV. Gaddafi TV = Gaddafi TV
libyanandproud
Even the Chavez moutpiece in #rixos @rolandoteleSUR says there were “thousands” attending “a million man” demo in #sirte ! #Feb17 #Libya
Niz_FGM Niz
21/7/11-FGMovement verified sources report Abdullah Senussi fine & is NOT injured but confirm an armed operation in Hai Al Andulus at 13:30
Danya
A very big shout out to all of the freedom figher’s in #Libya … We owe our lives to you .. #FREELIBYA
LibyaInMe Libya In Me
Two family friends have been martyred in Brega, one of whom was only 19 years old.
He called his mother on Friday and told her to pray for him and send his greetings to his family because he was going into “40 district”
At the time, the 40 district was seeing intense battles. He entered it with a tank and was killed. His mother is absolutely devastated.
Niz_FGM Niz
22/7/11 – We’re constantly receiving info on activities by our fellow activist groups but will not release anything unless verified
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Tripoli: Reports that homes in Hay Al Andalus are being randomly searched and broken into – area full of G forces right now #libya #feb17
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Senussi, Saif el Islam #Gaddafi, Daw & Baghdadi Mahmoudi now in #Khadra hospital in critical situation #Libya #feb17
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#SaudiArabia CARGO SHIP “SAUDI TABUK” now en route to dest. #Benghazi #Libya ETA: 2011-07-22 10:00 (UTC). #feb17
#StVincentGrenadines CARGO SHIP “BLUE SKY” now anchored in port #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17
#Gaddafi OIL TANKER “ANWAAR ALNASER” remains anchored in port #Tripoli #Libya. #feb17
#Moldova CARGO SHIP “HAJ-SAYED" now en route to dest. #Tobruk #Libya ETA: 2011-07-23 10:00 (UTC). #feb17
#Panama OIL TANKER “SENTOSA ISLAND” now anchored in port #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17
#Tanzania CARGO SHIP “AMAL” now anchored in port #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17
#Malta CARGO SHIP “SESTRI STAR” now anchored in port #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17
Heavy fighting in #SouqAlJumaa, #Arada, #Tajora & #ShattAlHanshir. Reports of increased check points in these area #Libya #feb17
libi4ever
G forces search each house in Hi Alandlus in tripoli,the area is surrounded by 1000s of his forces #Libya #17feb
LibyaAlHurraTV LibyaAlHurra
Getting reports that Tripoli’s Khadra hospital is undertaking high security measures and heavy patrols outside.
#NTC rep in DC, Ali Aujali,told us his sources say an attack on snr Gaddafi officials did occur & that Mansour Daw was injured.
RIXOS.
Abu Ray
THE CAGE:
The billboard in the lobby shows a smiling child waving pictures of other cute smiling children, topped by the slogan, “Stop the Bleeding!” Bleeding? What bleeding? What now?
Welcome to the Rixos Hotel, Tripoli’s finest and a gleaming, inlaid marble cage for Western journalists.
I’d heard a lot about this place over the last five months, about being trapped inside, about the mind games and the midnight summons, the hallways prowled by semi-feral minders and the press conferences by the smooth-tongued Moussa Ibrahim.
I wasn’t prepared for the opulence. In my mind’s eye, as I traveled along the coastal road from the border with a BBC reporter who’d stayed here before, I saw a tacky hotel built during the mad oil rush of the late 70s, now gone to seed, all flaking plastic and chipped gilt Barberella finery.
Of course this luxury comes at a price, together with the $60 dinner buffet and lunch the bill runs upwards $450 a night. With 40 to 50 journalists staying here, I sometimes feel we are single handedly funding Gadhafi’s war effort.
Read full story:
www.arabist.net/blog/2011/7/19/libya-di...
Caros
#Tripoli Reports of clashes on Tirsana bridge Sug Jumaa (facebook). Inshallah Kheir.# Pray for Tripoli #Pray for Libya #FreeLibya
The Dictator
Ferry to #Misrata finally at #Sfax, just 8 hours late – please pray the trip there is shorter and smoother. Tweet soon!
Free Libyia
Reports that 1000s protested today in Sirte demanding to know the whereabouts of their sons who have been conscripted in Gaddafi brigades
Free Libyia
Hmmmm, the fact that Shakir only trusted the BBC enough to invite them to his beloved studio makes me find them even more annoying.
Zlitniya
Wefaq Libya (Thu):FF on Zliten front have established new positions&most attacks in areas nr sea.Heavy GF losses&3captured
WefaqLibya (Thu):FF captured 1Jeep &1Toyota(both with weapons),Klashnikovs,RPG&ammunition
WefaqLibya(Thu):SuqAlThulatha-Zliten&Misrata FF advancing from Dafniya captured 1Jeep(w weapons),6GF&weapons.GF captured from a house #Libya
Joanne
#TRIPOLI #YosifShakeir StateTV Chat show Host Studio has been rebuilt in the bowels of RixosH says he speaks regularly with #Gaddafi #Libya
Libyans Revolt
Injured #FF I saw brought 2 hosp last week was asked: “where are u from?” He replied: “don’t ask this Q pls I am just from tribe of #Libya”
IMPORTANT:
Abdullah
Doctor from Khadra said on phone call "its confirmed they are injured and now in ICU in critical SITUATION " Saif Islam,Senussi, DAW,Bagdadi
Libya_Awake_United
What sort of #Gaddafi show we will see tomorrow in #Tripoli ?
Yellow submarine show:)
AndrewBeatty andrew beatty
Libyan rebel commander says armed + trained agents have been sent to Tripoli to strike at Kadhafi regime
SUMMARY JULY 22 2011
7/22/2011
7.22.2011
He who kills an innocent soul, has killed all of mankind. The Noble Qur’an, 5:32
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/7MXRE
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: Reports that #Gaddafi forces are surrounding #Gargaresh & #HayAlAndalus under command of Mohamed Abdulla Senussi .
#Gaddafi state TV reporting #NATO jets striking targets in #AlKhums & #Sirte. #Libya #feb17
MOOOOLIGHT22
Libya Free Forever.
14Km away from #Tawrgha Gate14 connect Srit and Tripoli,If FF control this gate then G has 2use the long road that connects Tripoli to Sabha
a eye witness #G thugs uses a tunnel in ‘’Vegetable market’’close to #sug Altalath in #Zliten to hide mercenaries
Khiria
From what #Gaddafi said in his last speech thingamajig, I say he realllly wants #Misurata. #ucanthaveeverythinguwant #Libya
Newscaster on Alarabiya was holding her laugh after she aired a bit of #Gaddafi’s speech. #canthelpbutlaugh #Libya #Feb17
Richard
It would be nice if the Sheraton attack in #Tripoli claimed some of the inner circle – but even if it doesn’t it will significantly increase the feeling of personal risk for that inner circle and consequently the pressure on #Gaddafi ’s friends to make a deal with or without their beloved leader, guide and (in some cases) father
Libya, 21, 2011
By Hussein Al-Omarion Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 7:07pm
(Sources: Aljazeera)
1. Brega has been relatively quiet while the revolutionary fighters are surrounding the city.
2. The revolutionary fighters have got some minesweepers from Qatar that will help them remove the mines Gaddafi forces deployed.
3. The revolutionary fighters are getting a huge support from the residents in the east at the time the morale of Gaddafi forces is going way down.
4. There are some reports that Gaddafi forces in Brega are holding 150 families as human shield.
5. NATO’s leader, Rasmussen, said that he expects the opposition forces in the east and west to merge soon in preparation for the attack on Tripoli.
6. The revolutionary fighters requested France to provide them with more weapons that they can use to enter Tripoli during the next few days. One of the leaders of the revolutionary fighters in Misrata submitted the request to the French President Nicolas Sarkosy during a meeting between him and delegation of the revolutionary fighters. The revolutionary fighters said after the meeting that with some little help they can reach Tripoli in a short time.
7. Gaddafi refused any negotiation with NTC; he said that in a speech to his supporters in Sirt. He said there will never be negotiations with them till the Day of Judgment. He requested his supporters to crawl to recapture Misrata.
8. Aljazeera learned that the attack that targeted Gaddafi government officials has been carried out with an anti-tank, said a witness in a telephone interview with Aljazeera that the attack targeted one of the operating rooms used by the Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah Sanusi to continue fighting against the revolutionary fighters. The witness, who gave his name as Abu Bakr Al-Trabulsi, said that there was an advance planning of the attack which has been monitoring the movements of Abdullah Sanusi across different operating rooms that used to follow the turbulent conditions in various parts of the country. The spokesman said the operation was carried out at around 12:45 local time, and guessed that the attack was successful and it was impossible for Sannusi to stay in place which left what happened to the official Libyan as uncertain.
Nafissa
All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed and third it is accepted as being self-evident.
AJE video:
Qatar sending ‘munitions’ to Benghazi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkXi_ZpyC6g
Feb17
Reuters
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday ruled out any negotiations with rebels on the future of the North African nation.
“I will not speak to them. There will not be any talks between me and them until Judgment Day,” he said, addressing a rally in his support in his home town of Sirte, east of the capital Tripoli. Foreign journalists were taken there by the Libyan government on an official trip.
AP
Libyan ruler Moammar Khadafy’s troops have boobytrapped petroleum installations in the strategic oil port of Brega so they can be blown up if his regime loses the town, a top rebel official said yesterday.
Mahmoud Jibril, the rebels’ diplomatic chief, said that Khadafy’s forces have also boobytrapped oil fields. He did not state which fields. While Brega is a key oil processing and shipment hub, the fields that feed it lie far to the south in the Libyan desert.
“Unfortunately, Brega is a big minefield right now,’’ Jibril told reporters after meeting with Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez of Spain. “We discovered that they planted mines all over the place. Even some oil establishments, some oil fields, have been full of bombs, explosives.’’
Qatar
Qatar has sent at least 200 tonnes of aid, including medical supplies, to help Libyan opposition forces since foreign support began to arrive.
The Qatari air force showed Al Jazeera a cargo plane bound for Libya containing computers, printers, rice, milk and sugar.
The main cargo on the plane were a military police unit and some intelligence personnel. Also on the plane were four trucks full of wooden boxes which were clearly marked “munitions”.
Al Jazeera was unable to find out if they were for the Qatari security forces to use or the rebels. But the trucks were driven away by men who told Al Jazeera they had recently joined the pro-democracy fighters.
Spain
Libya’s rebel group has appealed to Spanish corporates for financial aid to begin reconstruction of the North African country even as Muammar Gaddafi continues to hang on to power.
Mahmud Jibril of the National Transitional Council (NTC) urged Spanish oil giant Repsol YPF and other companies to renew operations in Libya, using frozen Gaddafi-regime assets in Spain as a financial guarantee for new projects.
If Spain and other nations fail to provide aid now, the NTC’s legitimacy in the eyes of the Libyan people “will fade”, Jibril said at a press conference in Madrid after meeting Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez.
Jimenez said Spain is considering “all the possibilities” of allowing frozen Gaddafi assets to be used as collateral for loans to the NTC or as new investment in rebel-controlled areas.
Russia
Russia has sent another load of humanitarian aid to Libya. A plane of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry is expected to land in Benghazi to deliver 36 tons of cargo, including food supplies. In early July Russia already delivered 72 tons of aid to Libya.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry`s official spokesman, Alexander Lukashevich, Moscow is deeply concerned with the conflict and intends to help all Libyans in need, no matter which part of the country they live in.
Reuters
A U.N. peace envoy is suggesting a ceasefire in Libya, to be followed by the immediate creation of a transitional authority made up equally of the government and rebels and excluding Muammar Gaddafi or his sons, a senior European diplomat said.
The authority would appoint a president, control the police, armed forces and security services and would supervise a round-table reconciliation process, leading to elections to a national assembly which would write a constitution, the diplomat said.
The diplomat, who asked for his name and location to be withheld, was outlining ideas he said were being canvassed by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s special envoy to Libya, Abdul Elah al-Khatib.
Khatib, a Jordanian senator, is seeking a political solution to a conflict that erupted in February between Gaddafi’s forces and rebels based in the east. He has visited both sides several times.
Gaddafi has been holding on to power in the face of rebel attacks aimed at ending his 41-year rule and has rejected suggestions that he quit, as demanded by the insurgents.
The Libyan leader on Thursday ruled out talks with the rebels, casting doubt on a flurry of diplomatic efforts to end the conflict.
The European diplomat said that under Khatib’s transition proposal, Gaddafi would have to step down, but rather than being a precondition it would be part of the process.
As soon as the transitional authority was created and Gaddafi no longer had control of the security forces, Libyans in Tripoli would no longer fear him and at that point his rule would in effect end, the diplomat said.
He added Gaddafi would only accept such a transition if he had guarantees on his personal fate, and so would not immediately be handed to the world court at The Hague, which has issued a warrant for his arrest for crimes against humanity allegedly committed by his security forces.
Gaddafi and his sons would be excluded from the transitional authority, the diplomat said, since the rebels would never accept s
NIZ
Tripoli Update via FGMovement 7/22
1- Yesterday saw thousands more leaflets dropped over Tripoli by NATO aircraft. Leaflets raised spirits of the residents and targeted the morale of security forces still carrying out atrocities in Tripoli, in Gaddafis name.
Security men could be seen scrambling to pick up the thousands of leaflets all over Tripoli.
2- Another convoy of katiba trucks has been followed and was observed entering a hidden military refuelling station in Ein Zara near Naser University.
3- The Free Generation can verify that an armed attack in the district of Hai Al Andulus/Gergarish was carried out adjacent to the Sheraton Hotel. The operation was excecuted on the 21st July at 1330h Local time. We can confirm that the team all returned safely after the operation, which utilised 3 RPGs.
We can confirm that Abdullah Senussi is alive and unhurt, seemingly not involved in the attack.
We cannot verify reports that Mansur Daw was injured and was taken to Alkhadra Hospital. We will try and confirm this today.
The operation was carried out by our brothers and sisters of the Feb 17th Tripoli Youth Coalition, friends of The Free Generation Movement.
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
A map showing Libyan rebel advance in the south of the country #libya fb.me/CIaaAcce
bencnn benwedeman
Out of #Libya after 6 weeks in #Misrata and Jabal Nafousa. Two weeks off—need a break.
Libya Free Forever.
The source of AlSunosi death news is ""Libya Almustkbel’’ page on FB #Gadafipropaganda. #Feb 17 #Libya
LA Times
Pentagon mulls NATO request for more U.S. drones in Libya campaign
By David S. Cloud
The Obama administration is considering sending more Predator drones and other surveillance planes to bolster the NATO air war in Libya, and has reopened a debate over whether to give weapons to the rebels seeking to overthrow Moammar Kadafi, a senior Defense Department official said.
NATO commanders requested the sophisticated surveillance aircraft after concluding that they were running out of military targets in Libya after four months of bombing and missile strikes against Kadafi’s military forces and command facilities, U.S. and NATO officials said.
The Pentagon’s willingness to consider strengthening the North Atlantic Treaty Organization force in Libya marks an apparent shift since Defense Secretary Leon E. Panettatook over the Pentagon early this month.
The Pentagon currently has assigned enough Predators to the operation to keep two over Libya around the clock, U.S. officials have said. In addition, the U.S. has provided a Global Hawk drone — an unarmed high-altitude surveillance plane — and dozens of other manned aircraft, which conduct surveillance, intelligence collection, aerial refueling and other support missions.
NATO’s formal request for more surveillance planes did not specifically ask for Predators, officials said, but alliance officials made it clear in discussions with U.S. officials that their preference was for more drones.
Read more:
feb17.info/news/pentagon-mulls-nato-req...
Tweeting Tripoli
Good map of Libya showing current situation: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm… #feb17 #Libya
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/...
Video: Libyan fighters focus on resources
Fighters say they need to sell oil in order to finance their anti-regime battle in Libya, which has shifted focus from gaining territory to winning resources.
They say they’ve surrounded the eastern oil port of Brega and they’re also trying to move west from Misurata, but that they don’t have resources to protect oil fields.
Al Jazeera’s Anita McNaught reports from Libya’s eastern desert.
feb17.info/media/video-libyan-fighters-...
AP
Boston.com
Rebels say Khadafy boobytraps oil port
MADRID – Libyan ruler Moammar Khadafy’s troops have boobytrapped petroleum installations in the strategic oil port of Brega so they can be blown up if his regime loses the town, a top rebel official said yesterday.
Mahmoud Jibril, the rebels’ diplomatic chief, said that Khadafy’s forces have also boobytrapped oil fields. He did not state which fields. While Brega is a key oil processing and shipment hub, the fields that feed it lie far to the south in the Libyan desert.
“Unfortunately, Brega is a big minefield right now,’’ Jibril told reporters after meeting with Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez of Spain. “We discovered that they planted mines all over the place. Even some oil establishments, some oil fields, have been full of bombs, explosives.’’
Read more:
www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articl...=misc:on:twit:rtbutton
Omar Mukhtar
Mohamed Abdulla Senussi was arrested in London a couple years ago for beating up hookers. A really classy guy like G et al
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
A map showing Libyan rebel advance in the south of the country #libya fb.me/CIaaAcce
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=281448&id=137199749688243
Feb17
Hope for family of U.S. journalist still missing in Libya
Yahoo News
As the headlines have turned to phone-hackings, debt ceilings and salacious murder and rape trials, it seems eons ago that The Cutline was writing regularly about the ongoing civil war in Libya; more specifically, about foreign journalists being captured, imprisoned and killed in the restive North African nation.
At least one American reporter remains missing there, Baltimore-based freelancer Matthew VanDyke, though his family has received some encouraging news.
VanDyke, who disappeared one week after his arrival in Libya in March to cover the uprising against strongman Muammar Gadhafi, was recently spotted in a prison near the nation’s capital Tripoli, his mother and a U.S. congressman confirmed to a local NBC affiliate.
LA Times
Op-Ed: Getting Kadafi to leave is Libya’s best option
A meeting between representatives of Moammar Kadafi and a senior U.S. diplomat has not produced a breakthrough in end in Libya’s civil war and the NATO bombardment of the country. But it suggests that the possibility remains for a negotiated settlement of the conflict. Four months into the campaign against Kadafi’s regime, that option is worth exploring.
The U.S. account of the meeting was that there was no negotiation and that Jeffrey Feltman, assistant secretary of State for the Near East, simply delivered the message that Kadafi must step down. But that seeming ultimatum could in fact form the basis for an
agreement that would include Kadafi’s departure and a transition between the current regime and the Transitional National Council, the rebel coalition recognized by the United States and more than 30 other nations.
Full report:
feb17.info/news/op-ed-getting-kadafi-to...
BBC
RAF airman in Libya mission killed in Italy road crash
A Royal Air Force serviceman was killed in a road accident in southern Italy on Wednesday, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.
It said the airman, of No 2 (Mechanical Transport) Squadron, was driving the lead vehicle in a convoy when it left the road in the Abruzzo region.
It was taking supplies to UK forces involved in military action in Libya.
The 23-year-old, who has not been named, was based at RAF Wittering, Cambs. His family have been told.
MoD spokesman Col Nick Orr said it was not yet known why his vehicle left the road, but the cause of the accident was being investigated.
He said: “It is with deep regret that I must announce the death of a Royal Air Force serviceman from No 2 (Mechanical Transport) Squadron in a road traffic accident in southern Italy on 20 July 2011.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this terribly difficult time.”
The convoy was travelling from the UK to air bases in southern Italy.
Depot strikes
In Libya, there has been five months of fighting between forces supporting Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi and rebel forces.
UK forces have been involved in military action in Libya since March when the UN passed resolution 1973, which permitted intervention to protect Libyan civilians against Col Gaddafi.
In recent days, the RAF has been carrying out air strikes on a large military vehicle depot in Tajura, a city on the outskirts of Tripoli.
Other RAF aircraft have also carried out a strike on military antenna at Tripoli airport.
AFP
Libya rebels seek arms amid pre-Ramadan offensive
By Andrew Beatty
Libya’s rebels asked France for extra arms to help them overrun Tripoli within “days”, as they ramped up a pre-Ramadan offensive that has Moamer Kadhafi’s troops on the run in the east.
The request was made in Paris on Wednesday to French President Nicolas Sarkozy by military leaders from the rebel-held city of Misrata, a member of their delegation said.
Rebel leader Mahmud Jibril meanwhile was expected to seek additional aid for their military campaign from Spain during talks in Madrid on Thursday with Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez.
Sarkozy held talks at his Elysee presidential palace with rebel General Ramadan Zarmuh, Colonel
Ahmed Hashem and Colonel Brahim Betal Mal, as well as Suleiman Fortia, a loca
representative of the rebel leadership in Misrata.
“With a little bit of help, we will be in Tripoli very soon. Very soon means days,” Fortia told reporters after the meeting. “We are here in France to discuss how we can do the job.”
France is taking part in NATO-coordinated strikes against Kadhafi’s military assets and was the first outside state to formally recognise the rebels’ Transitional National Council.
Full story:
feb17.info/news/libya-rebels-seek-arms-...
AndrewBeatty andrew beatty
Senior UK diplomat says the request from Libya’s rebels for arms and ammo not compelling in absence of military structure + checks
NATO hacked:
Les dossiers secrets de l’Otan piratés par les “Anonymous” – j.mp/p6kWAl #OTAN
lci.tf1.fr/high-tech/les-dossiers-secre...
ALJAZEERA
Africa Qatari munition-labelled boxes sent to Libya
Qatar has sent at least 200 tonnes of aid, including medical supplies, to help Libyan opposition forces since foreign support began to arrive.
The Qatari air force showed Al Jazeera a cargo plane bound for Libya containing computers, printers, rice, milk and sugar.
The main cargo on the plane were a military police unit and some intelligence personnel. Also on the plane were four trucks full of wooden boxes which were clearly marked “munitions”.
Al Jazeera was unable to find out if they were for the Qatari security forces to use or the rebels.
But the trucks were driven away by men who told Al Jazeera they had recently joined the pro-democracy fighters.
Al Jazeera’s Rosie Garthwaite reports from an air base in Benghazi.
Video:
english.aljazeera.net/video/africa/2011...
Danya
Once again thank you #Qatar #France and #UAE …really stepping up with the helping for #Libya
Lot of info on Arab Spring here:
freedomwar.org
Tweeting Tripoli
No news from the street about Hay Al-Andalos operation. Is it the product of Gaddafi’s rumor department 2 discredit news agencies?
Zlitniya
Zliten:Reports of a missile (possibly a Grad) landing in farms in AlJum’a near residential area. No casualties
MUST READ
PVNN
Beaten by Gaddafi’s Nephew
Elizabeth Sanderson – Daily Mail
The swaggering son of Gaddafi’s henchman hit Karen Etchebery so savagely he broke seven bones in her face – yet after a campaign of threats and Foreign Office pressure, his trial collapsed.
Here she speaks bravely about the disturbing events that saw him free to return to Libya – and led her to a cell in handcuffs.
A woman at the centre of the trial involving serious allegations of violent assault by Colonel Gaddafi’s nephew has given disturbing new evidence about how senior members of the Libyan regime were able to flout the law with impunity under Tony Blair’s Government.
Mohammed al-Sanussi was charged, in 2006, with an attack on two Brazilian escort girls, Karen Etchebery and Patricia Bech, at his London home. This paper revealed last month that the ensuing trial collapsed amid pressure from the Foreign Office, which wrote to the Director of Public Prosecutions pointing out that Britain’s financial interests could be damaged if the case was pursued. Al-Sanussi’s father, Abdullah al-Sanussi, is Gaddafi’s brother-in-law and
head of Libya’s intelligence services
At the time BP was negotiating a £15 billion contract to secure oil and gas rights in the country.
The judge ordered the jury to return ‘not guilty’ verdicts after Ms Etchebery withdrew her evidence. Now the 25-year-old has come forward to describe the reasons for her decision.
When she turned to the British police for help, she claims they did little to support her, leaving her with no choice but to drop all charges, for fear that the Libyans would harm her or her family.
She says: ‘The attack was bad but what happened next was worse. I was terrified. I told the police the Libyans were terrorising me but they didn’t help. I didn’t feel safe.
‘I would have loved to put Mohammed in jail for what he did but would I be alive right now, would my family? If the case hadn’t collapsed, I believe something would have happened to me, for sure.’
Ms Etchebery and Ms Bech first met al-Sanussi, then a student, in April 2006 at the Lanesborough Hotel at Hyde Park Corner.
The two girls – childhood friends from the relatively poor city of Maringa in southern Brazil – had arrived in London four years earlier, when Ms Etchebery was just 17.
‘Then we were on the books of the Bentley’s agency but we also had our own clients. We worked as a team and we worked well together. Once, at a party at The Dorchester, we left with £5,000 each and there was no sex. We would go to the hotels in Park Lane. We got lots of attention because we were two girls together. There were lots of Arabs, Indians, Greeks.’
So Ms Etchebery was no innocent by the time they met al-Sanussi, whom she knew only as the son of a wealthy Libyan. She says: ‘He had a sexual relationship with Patricia, not with me, although he would pay us both £1,000 a night to go to his home, a five-storey townhouse behind Harrods. We would play music and dance for him.
Full art.:
pvnn.com/ed-op/27mar2011/gaddafi-etcheb...
Zlitniya
Zliten:Previously,FFadvanced2As-Sab’a wher manyFFjoined em.Afta big GFreinforcements FF retreated2Naima&SuqAlThalath.SomeFF@front surrounded
Zliten:After FF retreat,GFcaptured ppl that joined FF&destroyed possessions.Most civilians in SuqAlThalath hv fled2relatives in centre&Majer
Zliten:Omar Al Jundi,bro Adil&3cousins(AbuBakr,Hamad,Bashir) are breaking into SuqAlThalath homes(w GF back up)
Zliten (cont):)&randomly shooting people,resulting in unknown number of deaths&injuries
Reports are FF were forced to retreat following the arrival of v big GF reinforcements.Now in Naima& SuqAlThalath outskirts
AndrewBeatty andrew beatty
NATO hit 11 targets in Zlintan last night. Rebels told Sarko taking Zliten key. Military endgame coming into focus?
Skeptic
Retreat by FFs in #Zliten is not real loss, it seems they only ventured in 2 get the Hamza cmdr & vehicles&ammo&arms, not 2 permanently gain ground
Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Alkhadra hospital in Tripoli heavily guarded people r not allowed in & doctors and nurse mobile phones taken away Who is da vip in IC room?!
Ossama
#TRIPOLI:Yesterday saw thousands more leaflets dropped over #Tripoli by #NATO aircraft.
#TRIPOLI:Convoy of katiba trucks was observed entering hidden military refuelling station in Ein Zara near Naser University.
The Daily Organ
Libyan reverberations
Reema Malhotra looks at Western intervention in Libya as the Nato campaign continues in the country
it must not be forgotten that most Libyans and the Arab League not only endorse but are part of the intervention. This is not another Iraq; this is a response to pleas from a people that have long suffered the whims and brutality of a dictator that has held on to power for far too long. Too many wars have been fought to seek power, legitimacy and to further national interests. But as of now, this intervention is about protecting Libyan civilians. Additionally, it is also supporting the Arab uprising and emancipation from tyranny. These are noble aims and far from staining the conscience of the world, they may go towards redeeming it.
Full art.:
www.dailyorgan.com/2011/07/libyan-rever...
The Daily Star
Gadhafi says no to talks, rebels “infiltrate” Tripoli
TRIPOLI: Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has ruled out talks with rebels fighting to end his four-decade rule, insisting the loyalist cause will triumph even as the rebels said they had infiltrated the capital.
In a speech aired by state television late Thursday, Gadhafi said the rebels’ five-month-old uprising was a “lost cause” even as they boasted gains on the front line between the rebel-held east and mainly government-held west.
“The battle has been decided. It has been decided in favour of the masses and the people,” Gadhafi said.
“They cannot defeat us. They will be defeated and they will go home empty-handed,” he added.
“I will not talk to them. There will be no negotiations between me and them,” he said, adding they “must understand that their desperate fight is a lost cause.”
In a second speech aired by the television, Gadhafi called on tribal leaders from Libya’s third-largest city Misrata, one of two rebel-held enclaves in the west, to “march on the city to liberate it.”
The rebels said they had infiltrated armed and trained operatives into the capital to conduct missions against loyalist targets.
“There are small groups, they are good fighters, trained in Benghazi,” commander Fawzi Bukatif told reporters in the rebels’ eastern bastion late Thursday.
“We have supplied them with weapons and grenades.”
Since the revolution began in February a number of Tripoli-based groups have broadcast videos purporting to show acts of civil disobedience in the heavily controlled capital.
But the revelation that armed rebel fighters have infiltrated Gadhafi’s stronghold raises the spectre of more serious acts of sabotage.
Read full art. here:
www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2...,-rebels-infiltrate-Tripol.aspx
Yadibladi
L’officialisation de l’amazigh au Maroc réveille les Amazighs du Maghreb
L’officialisation de l’amazigh au Maroc est en train de revigorer le mouvement culturel amazigh nord-africain. En Algérie comme en Libye, où les militants amazighs luttent depuis des décennies pour la reconnaissance de leur langue et de leur culture, le leitmotiv est le même : ériger l’amazigh en langue officielle, à l’instar du Maroc.
La reconnaissance de l’amazigh comme langue officielle au Maroc est en train de redonner des ailes aux militants amazighs maghrébins. En Algérie et en Libye, l’officialisation de l’amazigh aux côtés de l’arabe est l’une des revendications les plus importantes qui mobilisent les Amazighs. Pas seulement depuis le 1er juillet dernier, mais depuis des décennies.
Full art.:
www.yabiladi.com/articles/details/6262/...
Libyan Duda
1000s have already died u SOB!“We’ll turn Brega in 2 hell will not give up even if it causes 1000s of FF deaths” Musa Ibrahim
Sarah
Zliten update 21 Jul
- Reports of a missile (possibly a Grad) landing in farms in AlJum’a near residential area. No casualties
- Previously, FF advanced to As-Sab’a where several FF joined em.Following the arrival of large Gaddafi reinforcements to Zliten, FF retreated to
Naima & outskirts of SuqAlThalath.Some FF on frontline were surrounded & their fate is unknown
- Following the tactical retreat by FF,GF captured people that joined FF. Gaddafi thugs have destroyed their possessions. Most civilians in SuqAlThalath have fled to relatives in the safer areas of Zliten centre and Majer
- Omar Al Jundi, his brother Adil, and their 3cousins(Abu Bakr,Hamad and Bashir) are breaking into SuqAlThalath homes(with GF back up)and randomly shooting people,resulting in an unknown number of deaths and injuries
- NATO Zliten hits 21 Jul: 3 Military Storage Facilities,1 Military Facility,1 Surface-to-Air-Missile Launcher,1 Multiple Rocket Launcher,1 Tank,1 Armed Vehicle, 3 Military Vehicle
Free Tripoli Daily is out! bit.ly/jXMewE ▸ Top stories today
Zlitniya
Message from FF inside Zliten:We thank Misrata FF for their huge support 2 ZlitenFF in liberating city.They proved ‘Zliten&misrata brothers’
BBC
Christian Fraser
Libya: What welcome awaits rebels in Tripoli?
Life at the Rixos Hotel, where the international media are being housed, remains much the same – a constant battle with the minders who control our every move.
But this past week, I witnessed something different – sizeable crowds in the locations to which we were taken. Tens of thousands of people who owe their allegiance to the leader we never see.
With his government teetering – Col Gaddafi is organising the tribes who stand by him, gathering the loyalties that have kept him in power these 41 years.
No doubt some of the supporters were bussed in. But there is no discounting the genuine support that exists.
Of course we don’t see the thousands of other people in Tripoli who are opposed to Col Gaddafi’s rule. Under tight restrictions, it is impossible to report accurately where the true balance of support really lies.
Read more here:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14208352
MFA_Russia MFA Russia
On July 27 Russia sent a second humanitarian aid delivery to #Benghazi. An Emergencies Ministry plane is to fly to #Tripoli on July 26
Gihan
Feb17 info: Mahmud Jibril of #NTC urged #Spanish oil giant Repsol YPF & others to renew operations in #Libya, using frozen Gaddafi assets
Des Grant
Given that 80% of those fighting are 18 – 22 years. To my mind this not civil war but a popular uprising .
Des Grant
on average 20 humanitarian cargo planes arrive in Benghazi every week. Last week 30. Qatar only sent 5 of those !
Anders Fog Rasmussen
“The path towards the future is not easy,
but you are not alone”
The Libyan conflict is a battle for the future – your future. On one side, Gaddafi and his regime are trying to keep Libya frozen 40 years in the past. On the other, the Libyan people are fighting for a new future – one based on freedom, not fear; opportunity, not oppression; the will of the many, not the whims of a few. That is the future which NATO and the international community want to see, and the future which you deserve.
How can we reach that future?
Let me assure you: NATO is playing its part. This Alliance has been in overall control of operations for almost four months, and the people of Libya know better than anyone how much we have achieved.
Our mission, under the historic mandate of the United Nations Security Council, is to use all necessary means to prevent attacks and threats against civilians. NATO will continue that mission for as long as it is needed: until all attacks and threats against civilians have ceased; all Gaddafi’s forces and mercenaries have gone back to their bases; and there is full, safe and unhindered humanitarian access to all who need it.
We will fulfil that mission whenever threats materialise, and wherever they come from. Because there is never a wrong time to protect innocent lives.
At the same time, it is important to underline what NATO is not doing. We do not target civilian infrastructure. And we do not endanger the lives of peaceful civilians. As our record shows, we are conducting our mission with utmost care and precision – unlike Gaddafi’s forces, who have been using human shields, firing from mosques, and siting bunkers next to children’s playgrounds.
We are doing our job. This is part of a bigger effort, which involves the whole international community in support of the Libyan people. Because we all know there can be no purely military solution to this conflict. The ultimate solution is political. While NATO supports efforts to find such a solution, the United Nations and the Contact Group are playing the key role.
Last week, I took part in the Contact Group meeting in Istanbul. The meeting showed the international
community’s determination to speak with one voice. The Contact Group praised NATO’s efficient and effective action and agreed on the broad principles which should guide the transition to a new Libya. And it reaffirmed its strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and national unity of Libya.
The Contact Group also noted that the Gaddafi regime no longer has any legitimate authority in Libya and that he and certain members of his family must go. Until an interim authority is in place, it agreed to deal with the National Transitional Council as the legitimate governing authority of Libya.
Just days before, Dr Mahmoud Jibril of the NTC came to NATO headquarters in Brussels to meet allies and partner nations in Operation Unified Protector. He made an impressive presentation of the NTC’s transition plans for a new Libya, committed to democracy, human rights, and the rule of law.
Indeed, the NTC has a great responsibility for the present and the future: a responsibility that Libya’s transition to democracy and freedom is smooth and inclusive; that the country stays united; and that the future is founded not on violence and reprisals, but on peace and reconciliation.
Gaddafi will go – that is not a matter of if, but when. And time is not on his side. When he goes, it will be for the National Transitional Council to manage that transition, and it will be for the international community to support them. I do not envisage NATO playing a leading role in that process. That is for the United Nations. But if required, we could provide support. Many of our Allies have experience and expertise in the transformation from dictatorship to democracy, and in the reform of the security sector after their own revolutions. We can share that experience with the Libyan people, and the other nations that have bravely risen in the Arab Spring.
The future of Libya belongs to the Libyan people. The path towards it is not an easy one, but you are not alone. NATO is fulfilling its mandate to protect you against attacks. The international community is supporting you in your endeavours for a genuine transition. And we all look forward to seeing the creation of a new Libya – a country which is free, just, and at peace.
REUTERS
Reuters reports #EU diplomat saying: #Libya ceasefire to be followed by the immediate creation of a transitional authority made up equally of the government and rebels and excluding Muammar Gaddafi or his sons
Free Libyia
I ♥ Qatar. #Libya #Feb17
Skeptic
#Tunisia still letting #Gaddafi soldiers (incl 1 general) cross border 2 assassinate FFs there! T is passive complicit 2 G crimes!
Tasbeeh
Is it coincidence that the greatest supporters of Gaddafi have never even been to Libya?
Meshelmay:
little girl from #Misrata waiting 4 the bride, spying on #Tunisia army. #Libya twitpic.com/5twql0”
Skeptic
Aljazeera video
Jalu: Libya’s fight over oil youtube.com/watch?v=CIubFq… via @youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIubFqAE6mo&fea...
meshelmay Michelle May
the bride & groom. Libyans who fled war taking opp to have mixed male/female wedding in #Tunisia. fancy-schmancy. twitpic.com/5twraw
septimius s
When did tellin half the truth that is force fed into become journalism? & top it by saying “I can only report what I see”!!! #Rixos
I couldn’t agree more……
Free Libyia
I’m in the Anatomy Dissection Room. Hmm since Gaddafi’s body will never be buried in Libya, maybe we should donate it to scientific research
Architarik Tarik El-Bakri
A humanitarian cargo plane from #Russia, has landed in #Benghazi today. Next shipment of humanitarian aid to #Tripoli scheduled for July 26
A Free Libyan
Reports that up to 700 mines were dismantled yesterday in #Brega. #Libya #Feb17
Nasr Anaizi
I am sick of pompous western journalists in or out of the Rixos hotel making veiled jokes abt oil-rich Arabs even the not-so-rich #Libya ns
Portia Walker
Back in Tunisia, very sorry to miss my freedom machiatto! next time…
British Forces News
Scotland
Future of UK’s largest missile range secured
The Ministry of Defence says the UK’s largest missile range is safe for the next five years after fears that it could be shut down by cutbacks.
Weapons tested on the Hebrides Range are being used for operations in Libya.
It was set up in the 1950s, spread across sites on Benbecula, North and South Uist and the remote St Kilda archipelago.
It gives the military its largest area in the UK for the live-firing of rockets and missiles.
The MOD and QinetiQ, which runs the range, are now working together to come up with cost effective ways of upgrading the range and its associated sites. One possibility is using it to test unmanned military and civilian aircraft and drones.
Ian Taylor, QinetiQ’s head of site, said "This is good news for the range and its users.
“Some of the facilities and equipment at the range are old or difficult to maintain, and we knew that they would be in need of replacement, either now or in the next few years.
“The decision to invest in the range means that QinetiQ and the MoD can now address obsolescence issues as a matter of priority to keep the range operational.”
Minister for Defence Equipment and Support Peter Luff said: “This further demonstrates the Government’s commitment to the MOD in Scotland and ensures the UK maintains this important capability within our shores.”
Source:
www.bfbs.com/news/scotland/future-uks-l...
meshelmay Michelle May
confirmed 4 sunday’s boat to misrata. my plan for thursday’s boat was sabotaged by over-protective (yet sweet) concerned Libyan friends.
septimius severus
To sum up, #US will think about giving us “OUR” money, #NATO trying as best as it could! & they won’t arm us cause we r all #Alquida! #Libya
FreeLibyan
#Gaddafi forces raiding houses of families in Sog Altata #Zliten. Its like hell overthere
NPR
Rebels In Western Libya Train For Move On Tripoli
By Lourdes Garcia_Navarro
Rebel commanders in the western mountains of Libya say they are supplying anti-government forces in Tripoli with weapons in advance of a march on the capital.
Claims like this have been made before, and there are still few signs that the rebels can take Moammar Gadhafi’s stronghold city. Still, interviews with Tripoli residents who have fled to the western mountains in recent days suggest that Gadhafi’s hold on the capital may be weakening.
Preparing For Urban Combat
In the western city of Zintan, the rebel army’s elite force marches in formation down the main street, training for urban combat. Their commander, Abdul Hamid, says they are being taught guerrilla warfare and street fighting.
Now that they will be moving out of the mountains and toward Tripoli, Hamid says, they need to change their tactics.
Rebel leaders in Zintan say they are in touch with rebel sympathizers in Tripoli.
“Just now, we supplied some weapons and some equipment — just guns and phone satellite,” says Col. Juma Ibrahim, one of the heads of the military council in Zintan. "Groups which I have contact with them — I told them, ‘Stay, don’t move … wait.’ "
Ibrahim says the plan is to coordinate an assault with dissident cells in the capital. But what’s not clear is how feasible that really is.
Full art. and AUDIO here:
www.npr.org/2011/07/20/138548543/rebels...
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Intermittent power outages in Zintan past few days. Seems to be over capacity issue. Not sure
Situation Report
Libya Outreach
Executive Summary
On July 20, pro-democracy forces said Gaddafi using civilians as shields; pro-democracy field commander said pro-democracy forces working to clear mines to advance near Brega; Gaddafi forces attacking in trucks disguised with Free Libya flags; pro-democracy forces launched offensive toward Zlitan from Misrata; four additional Panavia Tornado GR4s from UK arrived at Italy airbase for Libya mission; NATO extended Libya mission for additional three months; French Foreign Minister said Gaddafi could remain in Libya if he relinquishes power; Russian Foreign Minister and Gaddafi Foreign Minister met in Russia to discuss political solution to conflict; Gaddafi FM said Gaddafi leaving power not up for discussion; NTC delegation asked French President for weapons for march on Tripoli; US said up to Libyans whether Gaddafi stays in Libya;Slovenia recognized NTC; Red Cross said Western mountain hospitals lack medications, vaccines; NTC Economy Minister said NTC exporting 100,000 barrels a day to pay for fuel it must import; Turkey’s state-owned oil and gas exploration company TPAO announced expectation first oil production in Libya to take place within three years; Bank of America Merrill Lynch warned that Libya conflict could causes Brent crude oil prices to climb to $175/b in 2012; and Dubai telecoms engineers worked on providing NTC-held Libya with mobile phone network.
Full report here:
us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=5f65a9cec4...
UK FOREIGN OFFICE VIDEO
foreignoffice Foreign Office (FCO)
Video: Eyewitness #Libya – reporting on the effects of the conflict on women and children ow.ly/5KKc2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M35Y4hUb4y0&fea...
Times of Malta
Libyan Ambassador will not resign for now
Embassy should be ‘depoliticised’
The Libyan Ambassador is rejecting calls for his resignation and insists he will continue to serve as “a caretaker ambassador” until the Libyan crisis is over.
Saadun Suayeh has also asked to be perceived as being above the warring parties in the Libyan conflict. He called for the embassy to be “depoliticised” in the circumstances but admitted he did have a moral obligation to take a stand “at some point”.
Unlike other Libyan ambassadors, who switched allegiance to the Benghazi-based Transitional National Council, Dr Suayeh has so far stuck to his post and still flies the green Libyan flag on the embassy, which opponents of the regime equate with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Nationalist MEP Simon Busuttil said last month he could not understand what was keeping Dr Suayeh from denouncing the Gaddafi regime once and for all and switching allegiance to the TNC. “Several of his colleagues in other EU countries have already done so. What is he waiting for?” he wrote in The Times.
However, Dr Suayeh insisted he did not represent the regime but the Libyan people and the state “as a sovereign entity under international law”.
“The notion that an ambassador represents the regime rather than the state or the people is both erroneous and harmful. Regimes are transient but states are permanent,” he said when asked whether he would resign from his post as a representative of the Gaddafi regime.
Full art. Here:
www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011...
libyanandproud
Troll sending password phishing links → @ sormiou12
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Rebel field commander in #Misrata: #NATO took out Gaddfi tanks which were heading for #Zliten – good coordination & a big help. #Feb17
Danya
There is a libyan women who was admitted to a hospital in Sharjah yesterday ..I think the Libyan Comm should visit her because she is alone.
And see if she needs anything ..all of her family is in #Libya ..and we should all support one another .. Message me if u want more info.
Zintan Military Committee:
Official Reply Statement to Human Rights Watch Claims on Human Rights Abuses in Areas Under Libyan Revolutionary Control
In response to the Human Rights Watch report on the claims of human rights abuses in areas under revolutionary control, the Zintan Military Committee released this statement.
English
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Arabic
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Joanne
#Tripoli fled family 2 #Nafusa say plainclothes thugs empowered by secret police set up Checkpoints & many steal money + cellphones #Libya
Joanne
ZLITEN #NATO hit 11 targets in #Zlintan last night #Libya #Misuratah
BBC
Intense front-line battles stretch Libya medical services
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-1424615...
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
UK in LIBYA
DAVID CLAY
The other day, I went along to a public seminar on the National Transitional Council’s proposed Charter. The Charter aims to provide a framework for Libya’s transition to democracy after the fall of Qadhafi and talks about elections, constitution writing, a referendum etc. It also set out the rights and freedoms that all Libyan citizens should enjoy. The seminar was one of a few that are being run in different places around town, and was organised by a committee that the NTC has set up to reach out to as many ordinary Libyans as possible in the circumstances.
When I got to the hall, I was surprised to see only a couple of people there. But I should have remembered what a Libyan friend said a few weeks ago: he told me that under Qadhafi, “Libyan time” meant half an hour late. He’s hopeful that the new Libya will get that figure down to 15 mins.
Read blog:
blogs.fco.gov.uk/roller/clay/entry/deba...
Joanne
#TRIPOLI Kids were in School till June&Told forbidden 2paint FFlag or express anti-Gaddafi feelings or their parents wld B taken away
Rachel Beth Anderson
#Misrata album update w/ images of abandoned #Gaddafi camps outside #Defniya frontline, ishtaproductions.com/wp-content/gal… #Libya #Feb17
ishtaproductions.com/wp-content/gallery...
libyanandproud
#Nafusa : #Jadu : #NATO bombed #Gaddafi positions in #Albirimbikh NW of Jadu , columns of smoke seen rising . #Feb17 #Libya
misrati_free Feb17
An injured FF is visiting our office today, only survivor of a direct hit on their 4X4. A team commander.
dovenews Libyan™
Financial Times: Gaddafi asked Spain to release $145 million in frozen assets in various Spanish banks. #Libya #Spain #Financial #Times
Le Figaro
La France cherche une porte de sortie à Kadhafi en Libye
La rébellion fait mine d’accepter que le dictateur puisse, selon la proposition de Paris, rester dans son pays s’il quitte le pouvoir.
«L’ambiguïté constructive». Cette notion, qui a sa définition dans le monde de la finance et celui des relations internationales, est aujourd’hui à l’œuvre en Libye. Il s’agit, si l’on ose une explication succincte, d’atteindre un objectif en brouillant les pistes. Drapée dans de tels atours conceptuels, la diplomatie française ainsi avance, pariant tour à tour sur la force des rebelles, la défection de l’entourage de Mouammar Kadhafi, la mort ou la retraite du dictateur.
Depuis cinq mois, l’objectif demeure : il s’agit de débarrasser la Libye de son Guide. Mais comme aucune opération militaire de l’Otan ou des rebelles n’est parvenue à imposer une solution sur le terrain, la France multiplie les propositions pour tenter de convaincre Kadhafi d’abandonner le pouvoir.
Full art.:
www.lefigaro.fr/international/2011/07/2...
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: 2 reports that 2 #Russia planes have landed at Mitiga Air Base in the past couple of days. #Libya #feb17
#Gaddafi forces seen massing N. of #Nafusa: #Gheddu valley (N. of #Shakshuk), #Ghazaya & #AlBirimbikh (NW of #Jadu) #Libya
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
I’ve now left Tripoli. Hope to visit Nafusa Mountains next
Daniel Fisher BBC
has a Libyan visa.
Is in Libya and on his way to Tripoli
Des Grant
one tweeter half joked ’ how did Gadaffi manage to have 7 Million Man rallies in a country with only 6 million people !
I have several libyan friends living as doctors in the west , they reckon the support I’d about 99% for the rebels. I wonder?
I can’t help feeling that if The opposition had 99% support , the army would have had mutiny already. So clearly he has support
Des obviously hasn’t calculated the FEAR factor in. A GIFT FROM Tripoli to the world from FF ثوار سوق الجمعه بطرابس t.co/mB5oz7i
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7cxCKVL9Ts&feature=share
VIP
Abeidi
Libya, Tripoli news about VIP transfered to Dejerba in Tunisia for treatment.
Zlitniya
Family in Zliten heard&felt heavy bombing last night 10.30pm-3am and two bombs earlier today.children all scared&believe they’re going2die:(
This week on the Foreign Office Global Conversations blog
South Sudan, trade and Libya were amongst the topics discussed by Foreign Office bloggers this week.
Read more:
www.fco.gov.uk/en/news/latest-news/?vie...
LIBYA TRIPOLI
In this protest, my cousin was shot in the legs and then taken, no word of him since — ثوار سوق الجمعه بطرابس youtube.com/watch?v=i7cxCK… #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7cxCKVL9Ts&fea...
BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
very few journalists here in #benghazi now, big change from march, i guess they all went west to the frontlines #misrata #zintan #brega etc
cencio4 David Cenciotti
Although withdrawn from Unified Protector, Italian aircraft carrier Garibaldi still hosting maritime forces command (from Taranto harbour)
CNN
CNN’s Ivan Watson explains the cost of war on the Libyan people as commodities are affected by the ongoing conflict.
edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/201...
A Free Libyan
Explosion in #Oslo, #Norway. Doubt it’s G, but if he takes credit for it, NATO will have to speed up their mission
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Malta SHIP “MAE YEMANJA” now anchored just outside of port #Misrata #Libya. #feb17
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “ASPENDOS M” now anchored in port #Misrata #Libya. #feb17
#Panama CARGO SHIP “MSC BROOKE” now departing port #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17
#Malta OIL TANKER “APOSTOLOS A” now departing port #Derna #Libya. #feb17
#Syria CARGO SHIP “LETFALLAH” now anchored in port Tobruk #Libya. #feb17
#StVincentGrenadines CARGO SHIP “BLUE SKY” now anchored in port #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17
NATO ship “375699000” now arriving in port #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17
#Tripoli: Convoy of #Gaddafi trucks observed entering hidden military refueling station in #EinZara near #Naser University.
KC_Tripolitania KC
Palestinians r on our side – not only have they dedicated a song to our Freedom Fighters but have also spoken out against Gaddafi
AFP
Libya rebel casualties mount in battle for Zliten
TRIPOLI — Sixteen rebel fighters have been killed and another 126 wounded in two days of fighting for control of Zliten, the last coastal city between insurgent-held Misrata and the capital, rebels said Friday.
The news came amid reports rebels had infiltrated Tripoli and as strongman Moamer Kadhafi again ruled out talks with them — even as they boast gains in the east and in the west — saying theirs is a “lost cause.”
Full story:
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/A...
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Before I left #Rixos. someone slipped a note under my door signed by the rebels. yeah right! a rebel sneaked past the armed guards (cont)
they knew where my room was. impossible. I’m not reporting what the note said because that is exactly what the person writing it as hoping.
how would a rebel know where my room was? this man was claiming he lived in Brega and was escaping to tunisia
Threatening. it was intended to scare Brega rebels in to a retreat. i’m not going to say what it said. pathetic childish lies.
Whoever wrote the note, is not FF, has the mental age of an 8yr old and is a fool to think we would fall for it.
Would a rebel who is fleeing to tunisia stop off at the rixos go past armed security up to my room to leave a note? no way
libyanandproud
Misratta and #Zliten FF have captured another High Ranking #Gaddafi Officer
Shabab
AFP
Spain urges Libyan rebels to prepare for ‘new era’
ADRID — Spain’s prime minister Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero on Friday urged Libyan rebel leader Mahmud Jibril to strengthen his organisation to be ready for “the new political era” that Libya would face if Moamer Kadhafi is defeated.
Zapatero told Jibril that Spain supports the rebels’ National Transitional Council “as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people,” his office said in a statement following talks between the two in Madrid.
Zapatero “encouraged him to strengthen his organisation and his operations so it is in a position to successfully address the new political era that Libya will have to confront.
“The internal reconciliation process and the process of constructing a new, stable, prosperous, sovereign and democratic society will be one of the key tasks of the future,” Zapatero told him.
Read more here:
shabablibya.org/news/spain-urges-libyan...
Sarah LFFR
Le ministre des affaires étrangères français Lundi à Londres pour des entretiens sur la #Libye #UK #Alarabiya
TUNESIA SENDS MAJOR REINFORCEMENTS TO BORDER:
Arabic
Read more:
www.moknine-news.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=396:libye-tunisie-frontiere-militaire&catid=38:a-la-une-&Itemid=60
Ahmed
#Gaddafi seen making a quick appearance in #Tripoli, looking rather frail if you ask me. yfrog.com/kf27611106j #laughatgaddafi
Marcin
✔Twitter account ✔Facebook account ✔Google+1 account ✔Tumblr account ✔Youtube account. “Dude, do you have a life!?” “OMG, WHAT’S THE LINK!?”
Jonny Hallam
It is an amazing joy to be able to move around freely. to go across the road to the shops without being followed.
CHECK THIS OUT
ZlitenFree
libyaalmostakbal.net/news/clicked/11381 fb.me/H0YXHJna
septimius
Wanted individuals who can write in as many languages as possible& don’t mind being told what 2write what not. Plz apply @ #Rixos #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#SaudiArabia CARGO SHIP “SAUDI TABUK” now in port #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17
NEWS 24
Russia, Libya ‘discussed Gaddafi’s exit’
Moscow – Top Russian and Libyan diplomats discussed at a meeting in Moscow this week the exit of Muammar Gaddafi, the Interfax news agency quoted a Russian foreign ministry source as saying on Friday.
“The topic of Muammar Gaddafi’s departure from power was discussed at this meeting and discussed in fairly concrete terms, including in the light of contacts that took place between Tripoli’s representatives and Americans and the French,” the source was quoted as saying.
“The question of Gaddafi’s departure is not up for negotiation,” he said, giving no impression that any breakthrough had been reached in his talks with Lavrov
From AFP
www.news24.com/Africa/News/Russia-Libya...
AFP video
Video: Many roads to defection in western Libya
In western Libya, the rebel army largely consists of defectors, people who have taken the dangerous decision to break with Moamer Kadhafi’s regime. Braving the regime’s vast network of informers, individuals ranging from regular army officers to youngsters stuyding overseas have rallied to the armed revolt.
Watch here:
feb17.info/media/video-many-roads-to-de...
Khiria
Frattini: $350 million in aid will be transferred to #Benghazi, #Libya within days. #
Joanne
Italy FM Frattini + #Libya #NTC FM #Essawi addressing PRESS; Its NOT CLEAR WHICH Official was Seriously wounded but “probably” #MansourDaw
Joanne
#NTC Ali Essaw in Rome CONFIRMS; member of Gaddafi inner circle SERIOUSLY INJURED; #MansourDaw former bodyguard of Gaddafi #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Liberia CARGO SHIP “SIDER PINK” remains anchored in port #AlKhums #Libya. #feb17
#Gaddafi OIL TANKER “ANWAAR ALNASER” remains anchored in port #Tripoli #Libya. #feb17
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “YUSUF CEPNIOGLU” now anchored 2.0 Nautical Miles outside port #Tripoli #Libya. #feb17
Lisa
Misrata FFs: after liberation of #Zliten, we could liberate #Tripoli within weeks”
Joanne
#Benghazi trained groups of FF have infiltrated #Tripoli After yesterdays top regime ambush #Gaddafi goons are on tenterhooks #Libya
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Libya:
Gaddafi Must Be Held Accountable for Crimes Against Humanity – Any political solution must include justice bit.ly/rqfBmT
FromJoanne Joanne
#Bir Ayad strong winds started last night momentarily brought the battle in the area 2 a Halt but FF waiting to attack #Asabeah #Libya
Gaddafi aide severely wounded in rocket attack
A National Transitional Council (NTC) official said today that a member of Muammar Gaddafi’s inner circle had been seriously wounded by a rocket attack on a room in Tripoli where senior Gaddafi officials were meeting.
Ali Essawi, in charge of foreign affairs for the NTC fighting Gaddafi, said one of the Gaddafi’s sons, Saif al-Islam, Prime Minister al-Baghdadi Ali Al-Mahmoudi, intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi and an official named Mansour Daw were in the room at the time of the attack yesterday.
Daw is a former bodyguard of Gaddafi who is a close aide.
“Yesterday there was a very strong signal in Tripoli — that there was an attack (on) an operations room where there were senior and high, top-level officials including Saif al-Islam, al-Baghdadi Mahmoudi, Abdullah Senussi and Mansour, who (was) severely injured,” Essawi told a news conference in Rome.
“We confirm this.”
He did not say how he knew of the attack in the Gaddafi-held Libyan capital or who was behind it. Officials of Gaddafi’s government were not immediately available for comment.
Italy’s Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, who held talks with Essawi before they addressed reporters together, later said it was not clear which official had been seriously wounded, but that it was “probably” Daw.
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ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
How to get everyone in #FreeLibya to quit smoking fb.me/14AV0KV4U
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inglesi Piers Scholfield
Just got back from western front line, rebels arrived there yesterday nr #Zliten. All these written earlier
Lots of French & Italian flags in #Misrata. Rebels tells there would be lots of US & UK, but they’re too complicated to make
On rebels’ new frontline outside #Zliten. V quiet except sound of #NATO jets far above. Rebels relaxed, confident.
The frontline down here is new, the bulldozers are hard at work building up sandbanks. Morale sky-high.
One fighter wears a grin from ear to ear, body armour – the first we’ve seen round here – and no shoes.
As we leave at 5pm, incoming and outgoing fire start up again. Rebels are confident of winning #Zliten. They have a plan. #
stopped at Gaddafi forces’ old frontline: bedding, clothes, bread rolls, empty shells; 32mm, 23mm, mortars; torn picture of #Gaddafi
Rebel commander: it has taken so long to reach #Zliten because they want people from #Zliten to take back their own town. #
Rebel commander: it has taken a while to gather and train fighters from #Zliten to take their own town back – with support from Misratans.
Sarah LFFR
Lourds bombardements des forces #Gaddafi par l’OTAN à #Brega depuis ce matin et encore jusqu’à maintenant.
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Brega: Heavy Bombardment from #NATO on Gaddafi forces in Brega from this morning, until this very moment.
Bent
#Brega revolutionaries spend their days removing landmines & fighting #Gaddafi forces under the sweltering desert sun, positive+high morale
Ossama
BREAKING: #FFs in Western Mountains today bombed #Gaddafi forces located in the area of ‘Gadwa’ which is 25KM north of #Jadu
LibyaFeb17.com
We are very shocked by the bomb and gunman in #Oslo today. Our thoughts and prayers are with those killed and injured and their families
AFP
De Deborah PASMANTIER
Dans l’Ouest libyen, la révolution aussi pour les femmes
ZENTEN — Déjà la révolution a changé le regard des hommes sur elles. Les Libyennes du Djebel Nefoussa ont manifesté, soigné les blessés, soutenu leurs fils et leurs maris avant la bataille et espèrent mener leur propre combat vers l’émancipation dans la nouvelle Libye.
Dans les rues de la conservatrice ville arabe de Zenten, le regard des femmes ne se croise pas. Devant les murs où des graffitis proclament “Free Libya”, elles évoluent comme des fantômes noirs, cachées sous le niqab (voile intégral).
Dans les maisons, l’approche d’un homme étranger à la famille crée la panique et elles s’enfuient comme des abeilles. En ces temps de guerre, elles passent la majeure partie de leur temps cloîtrées entre quatre murs.
Pourtant, l’air de la révolution est passé par là pour elles aussi.
Au début de l’insurrection, elles ont rejoint les hommes pour crier “A bas Kadhafi”. “J’ai manifesté avec plein de jeunes femmes, certaines étaient enceintes. Les hommes ont été tellement impressionnés qu’ils ont tiré des rafales de Kalachnikov en notre honneur ! Cela leur a montré que nous étions égaux, cela a changé leur regard sur nous”, raconte Afaf Abusaa, étudiante en technologie de 20 ans.
Full art.:
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/A...
Ossama
BREAKING: #Misurata #FFs have captured 10 of Gaddafi forces and get 4 military vehicles #Libya #feb17
also managed to link southern+western fronts #libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Nalut Free #libya fb.me/17ODM2ZlA
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4libya
Revolutionaries Spksmn: 100s of thousands of landmines layed by #Gaddafi forces in #Brega delaying FF advance. FF removed approx 6000 #Libya
L’Express
AFP / Gianluigi Guercia
Libye: Kadhafi s’accroche, mais son départ est de plus en plus évoqué
TRIPOLI – Le colonel libyen Mouammar Kadhafi semble déterminé à s’accrocher au pouvoir même si la question de son départ est évoquée de plus en plus concrètement, les rebelles continuant leur progression, en particulier près de Zliten, à 150 kilomètres à l’est de Tripoli.
“La bataille est tranchée. Elle est déjà tranchée en faveur des masses et du peuple. Ils ne peuvent pas vous vaincre. Ils vont être vaincus et ils rentreront bredouilles”, a assuré le colonel Kadhafi jeudi soir dans un discours retransmis à ses partisans rassemblés dans sa ville natale de Syrte, excluant une nouvelle fois tout dialogue avec les rebelles.
Mais à Moscou, où s’était rendu mercredi le ministre des Affaires étrangères libyen Abdelati Obeidi, le ton est sensiblement différent.
“Le thème du départ de Kadhafi du pouvoir a été discuté lors de cette rencontre, et il a été discuté assez concrètement”, a déclaré vendredi une source diplomatique russe, citée par l’agence Interfax.
Full art.:
www.lexpress.fr/actualites/1/monde/liby...
hominoid
Zliten 2011 youtube.com/watch?v=AC8vRY… via @youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC8vRYywH8w&fea...
TAP
BEN GUERDANE (TAP) -
A huge explosion was heard on Friday morning from the Libyan territory near borders with Tunisia.
Inhabitants of the city of Ben Guerdane, located thirty kilometers from the borders, heard the explosion and saw a big cloud of smoke shortly after the blast, TAP local correspondent reported. The cause of the blast is still unclear for the moment.
A few days ago, a similar explosion occurred in the same region when NATO forces had bombed arms depots and military sites belonging to Gadhafi forces.
www.tap.info.tn/en/en/component/content...
Souffian Tripoli
#Pray4Oslo #pray4Oslo my hart go’s out to the Norwegian people _ #olso
AJE
Recapping the Arab revolutions
A special edition showing how news outlets around the world tried to make sense of events from the information overload.
This week we have a special edition of the Listening Post – in which we hit pause, rewind and then play – on the story of the Arab revolutions.
It has been a bit more than six months since the Arab uprisings began. It started with a slow burn in Tunisia that then caught fire and swept through Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya and Syria.
For a media show like this one, there were myriad media angles to cover: embattled governments locking out reporters, shutting down the internet and phone networks, and blocking and jamming satellite television signals, protestors commandeering the web – turning social media into the most powerful subversive tool of our time.
And news outlets, caught in the middle, dealing with torrents of information and misinformation, and trying to make sense of it.
So we’re breaking with our usual format this week and going with a full edition; a compilation of some of our previous reports that we’ve turned into a chronology of the media side of the Arab revolution story.
Source:
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Ossama
BREAKING:MISURATA: Battalions of the tyrant in #Torghae are placing missiles launchers to attack the eastern outskirts of #Misurata. #libya
Alive in Libya
Losing your only daughter.
Video:
alive.in/libya/2011/07/20/losing-your-o...
Joanne
amwaiting 4 Gaddafi s daily bark to claim that #Norway ’s terror is all his work
AJE:
Libya: A state of terror: Libyan exiles explain how terror has long been a tool of the regime.
Video:
t.co/bboaKux #Libya or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UodjAs8mEPs&fea...
Ossama
#Kufra FFs today delivered aid to Benghazi composed of 20 camels 2 tons of dates + 1.5 tons of Mangos, one of the same planned for Misurata
Sami
Absolutely speechless! Thoughts and #prayers with all #victims and their families in #Norway.
LibyanLegends
#norway , #libya and libyan people are with u!! they are not muslims/humans they are evil twisted beings
Ali
Today-we-are-all-Norwegian
ProudLibyan
2 come out in #Tripoli 2 protest against Gaddafi & in daylight nowadays takes a huge infusion of courage, that is Suq Aljuma 4 you, courage!
4libya
Some ask why liberate #Brega it’s very far from #Tripoli. Well 1st ppl there are living in fear & anyone who isn’t supporting #Gaddafi
is under threat of being arrested or killed 4 Families R known 2 have disappeared.A 14yr old girl was found 7/21 in a container naked
She said she was raped repeatedly by #Gaddafi forces.Surely this isn’t the only case.So ppl need 2B rescued 2nd #Brega supplies G w/oil cont
If FF liberate #Brega #Gaddafi oil supply will be cut from the E & supply is already dwindling from west. This could be turning point. Libya
dhdfisher Daniel Fisher BBC
Just been over 100 foot up in the air in Tripoli’s Green square to film a 150 m long portrait of Gadaffi twitpic.com/5u42j4
KC_Tripolitania KC
There was a million man anti-#Gaddafi demonstration in the city Al #Bayda today – according to @senodizzy who attended the demo.
Nesrine Libya ☾✰
today we witness at my city Albaida a huge protest with all the surrounding areas joining us , it will began after 2 hrs . i wont miss it
i’v just came home from the million demonstration , man that was awesome and breathtaking , Albaida u always shine
2day my city was covered with ppl if not a million then 900,000 im not just saying i was there 2
And Mustafha Abduljalil was there and gave a speech
SMILE:
Boy: Who do you love?
Girl: It is a secret! ♥
Boy: You can share with me
Girl: Ok!
It starts with ‘Y’,
middle letter is ‘O’
and ends with ’U
moi a table
My thoughts go out to the Norwegian people – such a shock in such a peaceful country #Oslo
Joanne
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All Compliments to the Photographer: @dhdfisher although the ugly Subject spoils yr achievement somewhat twitpic.com/5u42j4/full #Gaddafi #Libya
Libyans Revolt
I’d only heard of but never seen this video before of AbdulJalil in 2009 #libya #feb17 bit.ly/p9CYgg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rraf_cnLyk&fea...
Libya Outreach
SITUATION REPORT
Executive Summary
On July 21, 2011, reports surfaced that Gaddafi forces have “booby-trapped” oil installations near Brega; the Pentagon continued to evaluate options in response to NATO request for more drones in Libya; Gaddafi apparently ruled out direct talks with the NTC, but a diplomat welcomed Russian-led negotiations; Montenegro officially recognized the NTC; the Tunisian Health Ministry reported that there have been 39 cases of tuberculosis and 29 cases of AIDS in camps near the Tunisia-Libya border; the missing Baltimore, MD writer, Matthew VanDyke, was sighted in a Tripoli prison; and, the Gaddafi regime is seeking to contract out the operations of its shipping firm to two Asian corporations as part of the regime’s attempt to generate much-needed revenue.
Significant opportunities remain for international policymakers to positively impact the situation in Libya
Military Developments: Gaddafi and Loyalists
Summary of News
Gaddafi troops booby-trapped petroleum installations in the strategic oil port of Brega so they can be destroyed if his regime loses the town (http://tiny.cc/c2d5w)
Military Developments: NTC and Pro-Democracy Fighters
Summary of News
Opposition commanders in Western Mountains supplying Tripoli-based forces with weapons in advance of march on the capital (http://tiny.cc/sia9b)
Pentagon mulls NATO request for more U.S. drones in Libya campaign (http://tiny.cc/10j9z)
In western Libya, the rebel army largely consists of defectors—ranging from students to military officers—people who have taken the dangerous decision to break from the Gaddafi regime (http://tiny.cc/vfrnk)
Political Developments: Gaddafi and Loyalists
Summary of News
Gaddafi apparently ruled out talks with NTC (http://tiny.cc/7wxtd)
Playing the waiting game has paid off for Muammar Gaddafi. After conducting four months of daily bombings, the NATO-led allies are willing to make a concession to persuade him to give up power: Let him stay in Libya (http://tiny.cc/lopq0)
Gaddafi diplomat says that Tripoli would welcome “any Russian role in the peaceful settlement of the Libyan conflict” that should be “equally acceptable for all Libyans, including the opposition in Benghazi” (http://tiny.cc/h5y1f)
Political Developments: NTC and Pro-Democracy Fighters
Summary of News
Montenegro (http://tiny.cc/3gxgo) recognized NTC as official government of Libya
Consensus developing among NATO allies to “allow” Libyans to decide Gaddafi’s fate once conflict ends (http://tiny.cc/prfqs)
Humanitarian Needs
Summary of News
Tunisian Health Ministry has reported 39 cases of tuberculosis and 29 cases of AIDS near Libyan border (http://tiny.cc/fmfy3)
In Libya, a person is killed or maimed by mines and unexploded devices every two hours, and children represent a third of the victims (http://tiny.cc/mg1ek)
Russia sends another shipment of humanitarian aid to Libya (http://tiny.cc/8s6su)
Communications Developments
Summary of News
A Baltimore writer missing in Libya has been sighted in a prison in Tripoli (http://tiny.cc/7s1ii)
Economic Development
Summary of News
Libya’s state owned shipping firm is asking two Asian companies to take control of its fleet as the regime steps up efforts to secure cash to sustain its war efforts (http://tiny.cc/nkcol)
Link to read whole report:
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Lisa
Many Libyan people are signing in to join the Free Libyan Liberation Army (#FLLA) voluntarily.
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Landline telephones now working in #Misrata thanks to ff
dovenews Libyan™
UN trying to find a political solution & Gaddafi doesnt want even to talk or step down. They are just wasting their time. JUST KILL HIM!
Abdul
#libya 110 anti personnel mines collected in #Kikla in 30 minutes #Nafusa yfrog.com/ki17nnkj
150 families in #yefren now. 7 of them stayed there throughout the period of shelling. Electricity is back in the souk area #Libya #Nafusa
VOA
Italy Hosts Libyan Rebels in Diplomacy Talks
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini held talks in Rome Friday with the Vice-President of the Transitional National Council of Benghazi, Ali al-Issawi. Both made clear there is no role for Moammar Gadhafi in the future of Libya.
“Now we are preparing in the hands of Mr. Khatib to present to both sides Tripoli and Benghazi, a political offer including a road map, including a cease-fire, including a very clear and firm point: Gadhafi should relinquish the power,” said Frattini.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s special envoy to Libya, Abdul Elah al-Khatib, a Jordanian senator, is seeking a political solution to the conflict that erupted in February between Gadhafi’s forces and rebels based in the east. He has visited both sides several times.
Gadhafi said in a speech in Libya on Thursday that he would not speak to the rebels until the “day of judgement.”
Frattini and al-Issawi on Friday discussed the fighting on the ground in Libya. Frattini said there are people in Tripoli ready to join the opposition and are getting organized.
Al-Issawi told reporters later that a NATO airstrike on Thursday targeted a room in Tripoli where leaders of Gadhafi’s inner circle was meeting. He claimed one top aide was seriously wounded.
Al-Issawi said rebels continue to advance in their fight against Gadhafi.
“The Libyans rebels are moving and gaining spaces on the ground, in the Brega area and also from the western mountains towards Tripoli,” Al-Issawi said.
Full art.:
www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Ita...
Reuters
Gaddafi aide wounded in Tripoli rocket attack-rebel
ROME, July 22 (Reuters) – A Libyan rebel official said on Friday that a member of Muammar Gaddafi’s inner circle had been seriously wounded by a rocket attack on a room in Tripoli where senior Libyan officials were meeting.
Ali Essawi, in charge of foreign affairs for the rebels fighting Gaddafi, said one of the Libyan leader’s sons, Saif al-Islam, Prime Minister al-Baghdadi Ali Al-Mahmoudi, intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi and an official named Mansour Daw were in the room at the time of the attack on Thursday.
Full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLD...
Italy renews its support for the NTC
Italy has renewed its efforts for the birth of a new Libya, through economic support, civil cooperation and increased pressure on the regime to cease all violence against civilians.
This was the assurance made by Ministry Franco Frattini at his meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Rome with the Vice Chairman of the National Transitional Council (NTC) in Benghazi, Ali Al-Isawi.
On the economic front, said Frattini, the last technical problems are being resolved to send fuel and 350 million euros in cash to Benghazi.
“It’s a matter of days”, he added. Italy has approved “domestic legislation that will make it possible to deliver a huge amount of money” to meet the needs of the Libyan population in the areas under rebel control.
Frattini stressed to Al-Isawi the need for the new Libyan government to respect and implement existing contracts with Italian enterprises.
As regards to the political aspects of the situation, Frattini and Al-Isawi discussed the outcome of the Contact Group meeting in Istanbul, where the NTC was recognised as legitimate representative of the Libyan government.
Frattini explained that a plan is being drawn up that will be submitted to both sides.
It includes a road map for the restoration of peace to the country and a ceasefire, the only pre-condition being that Gaddafi must leave power.
The Minister reiterated that the United Nations must be entrusted with managing the negotiations. Only one of the two sides wants to talk, i.e. the NTC, with the regime continuing to refuse to negotiate, Frattini pointed out.
He added that the only way forward is to identify people from the government in Tripoli who are willing to sit down at the negotiating table and present Gaddafi with the condition that he must leave power.
As regards to the future of the Libyan leader, especially with respect to the international arrest warrant for crimes against humanity, Frattini said that the international community must not commit to any form of impunity for Gaddafi that would be an error.
But, at the same time, I say that it is the Libyans who should decide whether or not Gaddafi has to leave the country. We cannot decide that, certainly not if we are speaking as Italy, where the statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was laid down.
Libya, he pointed out, is not one of the signatory countries to the Rome Statute, which requires that the rules (of the ICC) be respected including the arrest warrant.
The international community will respect the decisions of the Libyan people. On this point Al-Isawi responded: our main objective is for Gaddafi to leave power. We can talk about the details later.
Turning to the situation on the ground, the NTC representative explained that the revolutionary forces are gaining ground and drawing nearer to Tripoli.
Yesterday they attacked a compound where senior dignitaries of the Libyan government were located. A very strong signal of a rebellion in the capital of Libya itself.
Short URL: english.libya.tv/?p=8076
Source:
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dhdfisher Daniel Fisher BBC
Libyan foreign spokesman and PM claim NATO bombed the great man made river
Fissa
I posted 16 photos on Facebook in the album “July 22, 2011” fb.me/15Rx3kS88
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.140392792709575.35678.133049600110561&l=679fbb5e7c
libyanandproud
#Gaddafi Regime confirms attack on Sheraton #Tripoli in their own specail way Mussa Ibrahim: it was a gas cylinder explosion"
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
Moussa Ibrahim denies unconfirmed reports any senior officials hurt in a rebel attack in #tripoli thurs.says its kitchen explosion
mojo
Mussa, Mussa, Mussa — your hair is deserting you, obviously your brain has already baled…kitchen gas cylinder LOL #libya
Libyans Revolt
Pray that God eases our Norwegian brothers tribulations and suffering during these difficult times #Norway #Oslo
BoothWilliam William Booth
Watched Zintani sappers in western mtns #Libya spend the afternoon pulling 100s mines out of olive grove; mines look like scary little toys.
OnlyOneLibya ProudLibyan
Gaddafi wanted by international justice poster. #Libya #Gaddafi مطلوب للعدالة twitpic.com/5u5isd
And his ego is bigger still?
Joanne
unfortunately its confirmed that Gaddafis right arm Abdalllah Senussi is still breathing
REUTERSFLASH ReutersBreakingNews
Gaddafi encourages Libyan people to talk to rebels, but he will not speak with rebels – Govt spokesman
libyanandproud
Our FF Commanders don’t hide in Rat Holes ! Here is Abd Alfatah Younis at #Brega Front Lines (18/07/2011) youtu.be/gAVYig8oi1Q #Feb17 #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAVYig8oi1Q&fea...
Joanne
#NATO Friday morning: Bombed Gaddafi military sites at Al Assa near Wazen-Dhéhiba border Huge Smoke plumes seen from BenGuerdane #Libya
Gulf_of_Sirte Sirtawi
Keep on watching Libya TV for their ongoing coverage of #gaddafi’scrimes on libya.tv They’re doing a great job!!
BEAUTIFUL PIC!!!!!!!
moooonlight22 Libya Free Forever.
#Al Beada city huge Demo today #feb17 #Libya @via FB facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…
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Abeidi
Libya, NATO,How NATO’s “eye in the sky” keep track on Libya youtube.com/watch?v=OCKZ4D…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCKZ4D0vaqA&fea...
HERE ARE THE BEAUTIFUL PICS FROM TODAY’S DEMO AT ALBAIDA:
BEAUTIFUL PICS, must see:
Nesrine Libya ☾✰
today’s demo at Albaida
Photo’s:
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SMILE, look at this pic;
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Libya Free Forever.
#BinGerdan explusion heard in #Alassa #Libya border, a common location for #Gadafi thugs #Gadaficrimes #Libya #Feb 17
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
#tripoli gov spokesman: reports of attack in the city thurs not true. Explosion near sheraton was gas cylinder kitchen explosion
mojo
That was no boating accident, er i mean exploding gas cylinder! the Gaddafi regime Jumps the Shark!! #libya #Gaddafilies
Sean
My thoughts go out to the people of Norway. Especially Utøya. A real tragedy dealt by a sick, twisted mind.
Joanne
what I found out so far is that Senusi has been lightly hurt but that Mansour Daw was eliminated
A Displaced Libyan
The Morning of Freedom has Arisen: we are all Libyans
I was about 21, and to commemorate the event I glued the relevant pages from the national newspapers including the words of the poem into my scrapbook. I still have this scrapbook in Tripoli, and I hope it will remain safe so that I can add to it and show it to my children one day. We had no Facebook, Twitter or blogs at that time and internet for me was still in the realm of crime movies and science papers, yet the day remains vivid and if I wanted to describe it in 140-160 characters or as a Facebook status I would say: “long term prisoners of conscience released & lists of those prevented from travelling torn up in Libya by Colonel Gaddafi! “
Though we hoped that all political prisoners from the various factions were released on that day in 1988, we know this did not happen because some neighbours did not benefit from the amnesty. We hoped that there will be no more political prisoners but that hope was also dashed because we know at least one in-law is there since he was 17 years old just for praying regularly at the mosque and we believe that he is among those massacred in the Abu Salim prison uprising but his parents have not been informed about it to this day. His parents died this year so will never know. see AI link for more references.
This is the source for the whole story:
displacedlibyan.wordpress.com/2011/07/2...
BBC
Life in Ajdabiya six months into conflict
In a televised broadcast to the Libyan people, Colonel Gaddafi once again ruled out dialogue with the international community over the future of the country.
The BBC’s Christian Fraser returns to Ajdabiya to revisit a family of five brothers caught up in the six month long conflict.
Video
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14254638
Ahmed
A friend & a warrior, a real leader of men colonel Tariq Eldressy commander of Martyrs of Zawia Brigade was killed in action in #Brega
Tariq Eldressy was killed via a rocket attack in late hours of Thursday night on the front lines #Brega.He always lead his men into battle
Since revolution began Tariq Eldressy never took an hour off, slept minimal hours,worked with every fiber of his being to Liberate #Libya
Son he said to me..we don’t have much..but ill fight them with this & pulls out a switchblade..#Gaddafi will never take our dignity again..
I am proud to have gotten to know him, see him work & I’m inspired by him..His death saddens me, like every Libyan he dreamed of
#Benghazi & #Libya mourns the death of another hero..gone but NEVER forgotten..The blood of our martyrs will not go in vain..
Warrior, commander & above all he died as a proud free Libyan..A Libyan hero, Tariq Eldressy yfrog.com/kerl6phj we will never forget.
That was a picture of him in his younger days..He was a colonel.
MyBelovedLibya سلام
a hundred years ago, the Libyans stood defiant and brave against the enemy. A hundred years later, we’re here again. #Libya.
Libya_Awake_United
Mobile phone service in #Tripoli is deteriorating. Frequent cut-off, some SIM lose service for hrs then the service come back. Maintenance?
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: #Gaddafi forces have fired 7 Grads into #Kikla tonight from the village of Meska. Structural damage, but no injuries so far.
Libya Free Forever.
Important #Gadafi forces give order to their thugs in #Nafusa through radio to attack Airports &civilians #Gadaficrimes #LIbya
Libya Free Forever. Gadafi thugs shelled #Wazen border town 1 hour ago #Gadaficrimes #Libya
Sabha17
Urgent Alqtron
Were attacked Al-qtron three axes after a siege and bombardment by heavy weapons lasted four days and completely cut off power supply led named Massoud Abdul Hafeez strongly in number two thousand troops, with some of the volunteers and the support of the Chadian army and heavy weapons and rocket launchers, which had been stationed on the border waiting for it, forcing the rebels to withdraw a little fear Al-Ahli in the region of the massacre that may occur after the bombing and behind the withdrawal entry Chadian forces with a certain Massoud Hafeez and the threat that he will make Alqtron debris such as what happened in Misurata and will be forcing the people to stage a demonstration in favor of the residents now in horror and anticipation Matúl him events and learned that the rebels lacked the support of heavy weapons
Abe
Oh. On my way to #Libya. Convoy – pretty huge shipment and I’m real proud of what we’ve achieved here. 2011, year of the free.
M.Ibrahim:“We explained many things to U.S.officials.They didnt have an accurate picture of the situation & we fixed a lot of false inform.”
Read story below:
Le Nouvel Observateur:
La Libye se dit prête à discuter encore avec les Etats-Unis
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Les représentants du gouvernement libyen se disent prêts à de nouvelles discussions avec les émissaires des Etats-Unis, a déclaré vendredi Moussa Ibrahim, porte-parole du gouvernement libyen.
“Nous avons expliqué de nombreuses choses aux représentants américains. Nous avons réalisé qu’ils n’avaient pas une image exacte de la situation, et nous avons corrigé beaucoup de fausses informations.”
Read more:
tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualite/monde...
Libya United 1944
#Libya LPC with mom in #Tripoli City Centre electricity only came on 4 2 hrs this afternoon & again 2 hrs this evening.
Alex
We will need more than #MusaIbrahim ’s reassurances – to convince us that all is well in #Gaddafi land – except 4 the occasional exploding #Tripoli kitchen #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
w00t they did it again. flag drop on #Tripoli’s university bridge: img269.imageshack.us/img269/2973/li… youtube.com/watch?v=hkWMOF… #feb17 #Libya #flagdrop
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkWMOFrEbiI
Alex
Unless #Gaddafi can produce #Saif #AbdullahAlSenussi & #MansourDaw alive – within 24 hours – We can assume they r dead or seriously injured!
HR groups – say #Gaddafi must be held to account – but if we can sideline him & save lives of #FF – especially those on the front lines & in #Tripoli death camps – & still get real freedom and democracy – lets do it – & worry about him later.
It’s all theoretical in any event – Gaddafi is too mad to agree to the new #UN peace plan – which excludes his family from any political participation – but senior regime members may see this option as preferable to imminent ruin or death at the hands of #FF once Tripoli falls – & act to preserve their economic and personal interests over those of the Gaddafi family.
No one wants a mass murdering war criminal to escape justice – & I don’t doubt that #FF will win this war if this peace plan,like others before it, never proceeds – but at what cost in #FF lives – 15.000+ #Libya people are dead already & 30.000 youth are imprisoned in in extreme danger in Tripoli death camps.
#Libya
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Libyan Duda
#Gaddafi has been a terrorist before #Alqaeda & #OBL
hominoid
Libya Misrata Morale is low among troops fighting for Muammar Gaddafi on the front west of Misrata and many are reluctant to fight back against rebel attacks, a recently-wounded loyalist soldier.
The soldier said he was shot in the left thigh two or three days ago by rebel fighters on the front line that has been pushed amid heavy fighting and bombardment to around 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Misrata.
That puts the front around 6 kilometers east of Zlitan, the largest city remaining between the rebels and the capital Tripoli 160 km away.
Libyan
Stay strong, #Norway.
Libyan Duda
Sec General of @libyanfsl exiled for 32 years returns 2 #Libya ابراهيم صهد في ليبيا بعد تغييب نظام القذافي لمعارضيه youtube.com/watch?v=wIdqxe…
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bousuwa
Libyan Youth Movement Amazing Fundraising Effort today by Libyan Women of Benghazi raising 107,000 dinars in 2 hours #Libya
MUST READ:
Shabab:
Tripoli Persists; Accounts from a Libyan Doctor
July 22, 2011
Posted in News, Uncategorized | 18:24
A Libyan doctor (whose name will remain anonymous for the safety of his family) relates his experiences in Tripoli since the start of the uprising after safely leaving the city on July 7th, 2011.
LYM was able to speak to him and gather his eyewitness accounts and personal impressions of the city.
After leaving Tripoli, a city under strict control of the Gaddafi regime, the doctor describes how surprisingly difficult it was to adjust to his new found freedom to speak freely and access the internet without the fear of being traced and hunted down by the regime.
With the start of the protests in Benghazi, the doctor explains that he was in the Eastern stronghold working on a research project with his team and had to return immediately to Tripoli on the 19th of February to avoid any danger. Needless to say, he didn’t realize danger would follow them to Tripoli.
On the evening of February 20th, 2011 at 10:00 pm, internal security of the city were told to turn in their guns claiming that Gaddafi had fled to Venezuela. Until 2 am that evening, hundreds of activists believing the allegations to be true gathered in the “Green Square”. Shortly thereafter, regime forces armed with machine guns opened fire on the protesters killing hundreds. When the doctor and his colleagues boarded ambulances with the intention of aiding the wounded activists; they were denied permission by the regime and prevented from doing so.
Furthermore, anti-regime activists and anyone suspected by the regime of dissent in Tripoli were being arrested and imprisoned prior to the 19th of February and daily ever since. If a pursued individual was not located, regime forces arrested one of their family members in their place.
The doctor, expecting that medical attention would be required after the brutal onslaught of the regime on unarmed civilians, took his post at the Tripoli Medical Center.
He recalls seeing horrific wounds inflicted by anti-aircraft bullets and countless dead bodies, “I even saw a body with a bullet wound straight through the skull, half of it was gone”.
When asked about the availability of everyday basic necessities in the city, the doctor explains that although things may be available their prices have seen dramatic inflation.
For example, the price of flour, which would normally cost 5 dinars, is ten times its normal price at 50 dinars. Fuel for stoves also increased from 1.5 dinars to 30 dinars.
Fuel lines apart from being extremely long (he quoted that one can expect to wait five days and nights before buying fuel) are also extremely dangerous as tensions rise due to the restrictions enforced on regular residents in contrast with the utter lack of regulation of those working for the regime. He relates a tragic story of a man who had waited in line for fuel for days and expressed his frustration upon seeing Gaddafi loyalists cut the line. Gaddafi soldiers seized him and violently assaulted him. At one point he was pushed onto the adjacent road, run over, and killed by oncoming traffic before he was able
to get up or move out of harm’s way. An uproar erupted from others waiting in line, neighbours, and residents of the area who took part in anti-regime protests in response to this incident.
Communications and Media
The propagation of information through the use of telephones was made impossible due to the regime’s efforts to instill fear in the population and monitor any potential dissidents by tapping the phone lines. The doctor explained that news was still able spread like wildfire in Tripoli primarily via word of mouth. “If the residents of Tripoli don’t know of an event within hours of its occurrence; they would have heard it by the next day for sure”. The residents of Tripoli are well aware of the activity within the city-which he describes to be frequent and widespread-and within the nation.
With respect to the pro-Gaddafi protests (Million Man March for Gaddafi held on July 1st, 2011) just days before the doctor was able to leave the city, he reports that one of his relatives who was working near the square described the crowd as insignificant. The numbers he says were greatly exaggerated as well as the visuals plastered on Libyan State TV, “the Green Square was broadcast to be a lot wider than it truly is. Besides, a few thousand protesters are nothing against the millions who stand against Gaddafi”.
Façade of Normalcy
The doctor relates how the city is wearing a façade of normalcy, “Tripoli looks normal but it’s not”. The residents of Tripoli are scared and depressed by the actions of Gaddafi’s regime but resolute that his end is near, “it is only a matter of time before Gaddafi is gone”.
Schools are not operating normally; some principals, risking their own safety, have asked their students not to return. Al-Fateh University professors attempted –without success-to delay or prevent students from returning to school by postponing exams.
Continuous gunshot fire is heard every night from1 am until 5 am as regime soldiers fire shots into the air not only disseminating fear in Tripoli residents but harming anyone who is unfortunate enough to be outdoors at the time as falling outside who may potentially be hit by a falling bullet. The doctor describes how one of his friend’s brothers was struck on his shoulder narrowly missing his heart by a falling bullet while sitting in his car one evening.
He describes that even with Gaddafi’s iron fist of control over the city fortified with checkpoints set up throughout the city, people are doing their best to resist and aid the revolution. Confidential arrangements are being made including the collection of money and equipment in preparation for activity to come.
Media War
When asked if the residents of Tripoli were avid viewers of new independent media in Libya including the Libya Al-Ahrar channel based in Doha, Qatar he responded that although people are viewing independent media they are still weary of the regime. The doctor explained how Al Jazeera was strictly banned in the city; when a few doctors were found viewing the channel in a staff lounge of one hospital, the regime removed all televisions from that hospital.Anyone viewing independent media, like Libya Al-Ahrar and Al Jazeera, even at home, risks being discovered by the regime and arrested.
Neighbourhood Watch
The doctor also describes personal incidents where extended family members were reported to regime officials by their neighbours. “My cousins were reported by their neighbours to be harbouring weapons and anti-regime sentiments.The regime sent soldiers to their home twice to investigate finding nothing”. Residents are weary of watchful neighbours.
Treating the Enemy
The doctor’s descriptions of his experiences in hospitals reveal disturbing truths. He admits that he had to in hospitals of Tripoli where injured Gaddafi soldiers were treated; having to treat men who had just returned from the frontlines where they has just been terrorizing Libyan civilians. “It was difficult to be in such a situation but it was a humanitarian need and we treated them”. He was struck to find that some of them were very young suffering from severe injuries like missing limbs and explained how doctors would grant some cases with medical leave so that they did not have to return to the front line.
Call for Medical Expertise
Due to the shortage of specialized doctors, many patients are having limbs amputated to avoid the spread of infection. The doctor stressed a shortage of vascular surgeons and neurosurgeons and calls for more assistance from doctors with this specialization in order to provide better more effective treatment to patients.
Upon completing his work outside Libya the doctor plans on returning to the capital to continue in the struggle to liberate the country.
Account collected and written by Ayat Mneina.
Mike
Musa Ibrahim denies rebels responsible for Sheraton attack yesterday. Was a kitchen explosion. Green egg in the microwave?
Free Libyia
@NATO @NATOpress The civilians of Al Qatroun, near Sabha, South Libya are under direct attack from Gaddafi forces.
Niz_FGM Niz
22/7/11 – #Tripoli Update with short video clip…. Zaweeyat Al Dahmani District asserts itself!!
Tripoli Update 22/7/11
by The Free Generation Movement – حركة جيل الاحرار on Friday, July 22, 2011 at 7:50pm
Zaweyat Al Dahmani District has seen an increase in armed activity against Katiba forces. Recently, explosives were used on a targeted attack on a Toyato Tundra truck…the vehicle of choice for Tripoli Katiba.A few days ago, groups allied to the Free Generation Movement took up positions in the district and used sniper techniques to target trucks terrorising the neighbourhood.The below short clip shows one such truck with bullet holes along one side, parked in Zaweyat Al Dahmani. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w6t1YLf640
Free Libyia
Al Qatroun, South Libya is in danger of becoming another Zawiya. G forces surround town, cut off electricity, FFs lack weaponry. Rabi yester
bencnn benwedeman
Many “terror” experts sing from the same sheet. It’s a huge echo chamber that emits much noise, scant wisdom. #Norway
Lisa
#Feb17 I’m lv you all but I’m praying for #Libya and safety of the #FreedomFighters tonight!! Much love to Libya n prayers to #Oslo
Niz_FGM Niz
23/7/11 – Heavy #NATO bombing rocks the capital, #Tripoli – appears to be coming from central districts.
SUMMARY JULY 23rd 2011
7/23/2011
7.23.2011
NATO
23 Jul. 2011
Operational Media Update for 22 July 2011
Air Operations
Since the beginning of the NATO operation (31 March 2011, 06.00GMT) a total of 16,156 sorties, including 6,086 strike sorties*, have been conducted.
Sorties conducted 22 JULY: 128
Strike sorties conducted 22 JULY: 46
*Strike sorties are intended to identify and engage appropriate targets, but do not necessarily deploy munitions each time.
Key Hits 22 JULY:
In the vicinity of Al Khums: 1 Military Storage Facility.
In the vicinity of Brega: 1 Military Storage Facility, 4 Armed Vehicles.
In the vicinity of Tripoli: 1 Command and Control Node.
In the vicinity of Waddan: 1 Military Storage Facility.
In the vicinity of Zintan: 3 Anti-Aircraft Guns.
In the vicinity of Zlitan: 1 Military Storage Facility, 2 Tanks, 2 Anti-Aircraft Guns, 1 Armed Vehicle.
Arms Embargo Activities
A total of 17 ships under NATO command are actively patrolling the Central Mediterranean.
23 Vessels were hailed on 22 JULY to determine destination and cargo. 1 boarding (no denials) was conducted.
A total of 1883 vessels have been hailed, 181 boardings and 9 denials have been conducted since the beginning of arms embargo operations.
Arms Embargo Activities
A total of 17 ships under NATO command are actively patrolling the Central Mediterranean.
23 Vessels were hailed on 22 JULY to determine destination and cargo. 1 boarding (no denials) was conducted.
A total of 1883 vessels have been hailed, 181 boardings and 9 denials have been conducted since the beginning of arms embargo operations.
International Humanitarian Assistance Movements as recorded by NATO
Total of Humanitarian Movements**: 601(air, ground, maritime)
Ships delivering Humanitarian Assistance 22 JULY: 0
Aircrafts delivering Humanitarian Assistance 22 JULY: 6
NOAH
Mea culpa:
Seeing all the knee-jerk reactions from certain quarters in the media blaming the Oslo attack on jihadists, I would ordinarily be noting how much of a commentary on the weak standards in journalism today it is. And how narrow some people can be in their thinking. But I have a problem, when news of the attack first came across the wire I reacted in that same way. My very first thought was a jihadist attack like this would damage the Arab Spring movements across the mideast & North Africa. It angered me.
I didn’t just think it, I posted a message expressing that. True I’m not a journalist but I still have as much responsibility to be clear thinking, rational and true to my expressed beliefs. I still have the responsibility to seek truth and to not let my prejudices and preconceived ideas cloud my search for that truth. I’ve become so emotionally invested in the fight for liberty in Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and elsewhere, almost to the point of feeling paternalistic about it.
It shows how emotionalism can sometimes cloud ones better self. While it’s true that we must not allow ourselves to be numbed to the struggle and suffering of others, it’s equally true that we must not allow ourselves to get so emotionally involved as to become reactionary. In so doing, blinding ourselves to truth and letting our baser instincts rule our actions.
I have a lot to think about.
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
Moussa Ibrahim denies unconfirmed reports any senior officials hurt in a rebel attack in #tripoli thurs.says its kitchen explosion.#Libya
at least 6 loud explosions rocked #Tripoli shortly before 230am local
Air strikes in central #Tripoli have been rare in recent weeks. these strikes rattled the windows of hotel where journos staying #Libya
#Libya state TV reports “crusader aggressors” (NATO) have struck civilian &military sites in #Tripoli
IvanCNN Ivan Watson
At least 5 airstrikes just rocked central #Tripoli. Jets still flying overhead. #Libya
dhdfisher Daniel Fisher BBC
7 explosions hit Tripoli. Probable target Gadaffi compound. Blast wave felt in rixos hotel
Niz_FGM Niz
23/7/11 – Heavy #NATO bombing rocks the capital, #Tripoli – appears to be coming from central districts.
Reuters Reuters Top News
FLASH: Norwegian police say at least 80 killed in shootings at Utoeya
Adrian I am so happy to be alive. I got shot in my sholder at Utøya, but this is nothing compared to the proper who have lost their love ones.
LIBYANVOICE
At least seven strong explosions were heard in Tripoli n d early hours of Saturday morning including d area surrounding bab elazizia
It is 47.2 C now in some parts of #Tripoli the #Libyan capital.
It is absolutely warm today :-S just like an oven feeling in #Tripoli
FreeBenghazi
Thuwar car hit by Gaddafi rocket Jul21, Zliten. Over 5 martyred that day.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyzeeB5CWd0
LWB
What happened in #Norway just reminds us like Oklahoma, that muslims have nothing to do with terror! Terror has no skin nor religion. #Sad
#libyan people sends their warm condolences to the #Norwegians for what has happened to them. #Libya
libyanandproud
Exclusive : Picture showing a soldier Helping Mutassim #Gaddafi escape #Brega twitpic.com/5ui2ti #Feb17 #Libya LOL !
Zlitniya
Libya Al Ahrara TV: Guest says FF 1km from Zliten Bridge
Alexb
#Egypt will not telecast #Gaddafi STV speech to them on 23rd – what can their revolution learn – from a dictator worse than their own #Libya
libyanandproud
#Zliten : Explosion In one of the administrative building in the city heard this morning , source unknown
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Gaddafi picture torn from magazine, left by retreating fighters on outskirts of #Zliten: twitpic.com/5u37av #Feb17
FURURE FOR LIBYA
Libyan TNC Official Spokesman: “Freedom Fighters had cut off the oil production pipeline in Al-Burayqah”
Speaking during a telephone contact from Benghazi, Abd-al-Hafiz Ghawqah, the Libyan Transitional National Council’s (TNC) vice chairman and its official spokesman denied that delegations sent by Al-Qadhafi in the past days to several countries had any connection with the meeting held under the name of the “federalism for unity”.
On the participation of the foreign alliance’s forces in several fronts with the revolutionaries, he explained that “the alliance forces are playing an important role by attacking several military positions and heavy weapons but it is the revolutionaries who are leading the attacks in the battlefield without coordinating or making arrangements with the alliance forces that are providing them with air cover. But the NATO forces’ bombardments of military targets are prompting us to advance toward liberating the cities because they disrupted the ranks of the forces loyal to Al-Qadhafi.”
The TNC spokesman described the clashes in Al-Burayqah (eastern Libya) “as resolved and under the revolutionaries’ control”, saying Al-Qadhafi’s dispatch of his forces again to the city which the revolutionaries had captured earlier would not affect the latter’s advance and pointed out that Al-Qadhafi had previously massed 6,000 soldiers during his siege of Misratah (208 km east of Tripoli) but was unable to occupy even a single street. He added that the revolutionaries have cut off the oil production pipeline in Al-Burayqah which extends from south of the city to Sirte (Al-Qadhafi’s hometown), adding that the revolutionaries were encircling the city from all sides but their advance was being slowed down by the mines planted haphazardly by Al-Qadhafi’s regiments
Reuters
WRAPUP 2-Libya wants more talks with U.S. and rebels
- Gaddafi government open to more U.S. contacts
- United Nations plan would begin with ceasefire
- Airstrike near Brega reported to kill six
By Missy Ryan
TRIPOLI, Libya, July 23 (Reuters) – Libyan representatives are ready to hold more talks with the United States and with rebels hoping to push Muammar Gaddafi from power, but Gaddafi will not bow to demands he quit, a government spokesman said.
Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said senior Libyan officials had a `productive dialogue’ with U.S. counterparts last week in a rare meeting that followed the Obama administration’s recognition of the rebel government that hopes to end Gaddafi’s 41-year rule.
Full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLD...
Joanne
#ZLITEN Souq alThalatha 16 FF Martyrsand 126 injured in 2 last days battle for Zliten #Libya
Joanne
Libya ambassador to #Malta makes u-turn: “unequivocally with Libyan people in their legitimate struggle 4freedom and democracy”.
FREE DOWNLOADS of Awesome Libyan MUSIC from “Band section” #LibyanYouthMovement FB t.co/4iH37k3 #Libya
www.facebook.com/LibyanYouthMovement?sk...
United States is Investigating reports that a ship carrying weapons for #Libya Gaddafi’s forces was allowed to dock in #Algeria
TRIPOLI Yesterday City center only had 2 hrs electricity in afternoon 2 hrs in the evening with GIBLY U need 2Close ALL doors/windows #Libya
#Al Khums Electricity outage apart from 2 hrs yesterday @Nato bombed the General People’s Committee Secretariat yesterday evening #Libya
No wonder FF Having difficulty entering #BREGA col. #Bani estimates 400 thousand mines have been planted by Gaddafi F #GaddafiCrimes #Libya
Extreme #TRIPOLI heat My heart shivers when I I think of the poor packed tight #Gaddafi Held Innocent Prisoners without ventilation #Libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Situation in the South of Libya is dire – Reports that city of Qatrun, liberated by FF a few weeks ago is back under Gaddafi control
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Thermometer well over 40 degrees in #Misrata today, with searing hot wind whipping up the dust.
Rebel fighters rescued several #Misrata families from #Zliten this week, where they had been held by #Gaddafi forces since early May.
Senior rebel commander: fighters captured 19 Gaddafi soldiers during advance on #Zliten Wednesday, 9 more Friday. #Misrata
libyanandproud
We will never Forget what you did to #Zawiya ! youtu.be/KcDvarMoje0 #Feb17 #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcDvarMoje0&fea...
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
@NATO jets heard overhead today.. sound of a distant explosion at abt noon #Tripoli time after several strikes overnight. #Libya
Karl Stagno-Navarra
I said it yesterday and will say it again today: WE ARE ALL NORWEGIAN!
septimius
I’m no #expert, but aren’t mines as well as being a weapon of cowards, a sign of giving up the initiative of attcking?
libyanandproud
#Birghanam : Two #Zintan FF guarding a checkpoint were injured due to mortar attack by #Gaddafi forces . #Feb17 #Libya
LA TIMES
Police in Libya rebel capital pivot from oppressor to protector
The police force in Benghazi, the Libyan rebel stronghold, is 6,000 poorly trained and woefully equipped men struggling to establish law and order in the middle of a revolution
Reporting from Benghazi, Libya—
Officer Sharif Ganasi was working the 4 p.m.-to-midnight shift, cruising the trash-strewn streets of Benghazi, alert for drunks and carjackers.
His new black police uniform was too tight and too hot. He was drenched with sweat, his bulky body crammed into the tiny driver’s seat of a white Hyundai compact. His hand-held radio kept cutting out.
“We could use better equipment,” he said as he guided car 23 through evening traffic in the de facto capital of Libya’s rebels.
Ganasi doesn’t carry a gun or a badge. He rarely arrests anyone. Mostly he reports suspicious activities so that police headquarters can dispatch officers who actually do have guns.
Such is the marginalized world of Benghazi’s finest: 6,000 poorly trained and woefully equipped men struggling to establish law and order in the middle of a revolution.
Read full art here:
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/...
feb17
REUTERS AFRICA
Wounded Gaddafi soldier says morale of troops is low
Morale is low among troops fighting for Muammar Gaddafi on the front west of Misrata and many are reluctant to fight back against rebel attacks, a recently-wounded loyalist soldier told Reuters on Friday.
“Most of them are exhausted, especially as we approach the month of Ramadan,” said the soldier, who spoke on condition his name and his hometown not be mentioned for fear of reprisals against his family. “They don’t want to fight during Ramadan.”
“They want everything to settle and we’re all Libyan brothers,” he added. “We don’t want to harm each other.”
The soldier said he was shot in the left thigh two or three days ago by rebel fighters on the front line that has been pushed amid heavy fighting and bombardment to around 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Misrata.
“There is no organisation or planning,” he said in a quiet voice. “Most times we withdraw.”
“They didn’t allow us to watch media channels,” he said. “We were only allowed to watch Libyan (state) television.”
“I was told (the rebels) were criminal gangs who mutilated bodies.”
The soldier said he had expected to be treated badly when he was wounded and captured.
“I was treated with respect,” he said. “I did not expect to be treated this well.”
Full art.:
feb17.info/news/wounded-gaddafi-soldier...
Dima
Al Jamahiriya TV : Gaddafi will be addressing “the people of Egypt” on Egypt’s July 23 revolution #libya #egypt
MisrataPatriots PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
West#Libya, FFs army largely consists of defectors,who have taken dangerous decision 2break with Gadhafi regime youtu.be/jVsxzJM0Ubo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVsxzJM0Ubo&feature=youtu.be
Niz_FGM Niz
22/7/11 -Last nights heavy bombing in #Tripoli targeted the Bab Alazaziyah complex of the defunct regime.Sources tell us of huge fireballs
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Not many tweeps left at the Rixos… or most of them seem to be quiet… are the Gaddafi regime’s threats and expulsions paying off? #libya
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
On Thursday afternoon, RAF aircraft patrolling near Zlitan identified and destroyed a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun. #Libya
During the night, @britisharmy Apache helicopters launched a strike mission from HMS Ocean, while other NATO aircraft provided overwatch.
Two buildings being used by regime troops at Al Khums were damaged by Hellfire missiles. #Libya
This strike was followed up by NATO fixed wing aircraft in the early hours of Friday morning. #Libya
RAF jets hit 6 ammunition storage facilities near Zlitan & a building being used as a base for rocket launchers threatening Misratah. #Libya
On Friday afternoon, RAF armed reconnaissance patrols successfully engaged one of Qadhafi’s tanks and an armed truck, near Zlitan. #Libya
Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011 was an English singer-songwriter, known for her powerful contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of various musical genres including R&B, soul, and jazz. She received extensive publicity over her substance abuse and mental health issues. Winehouse died on 23 July 2011; police have described the cause of her death as “unexplained”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Winehouse
Steen
4 #amywinehouse neil young-needle and the damage done youtube.com/watch?v=_uBjpy…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uBjpyOLjsc
Nareser
Famine in East Africa, Libya, Norway, Amy Winehouse! My heart goes out to all these people!
Wybius
90 dead in Norway, Amy Winehouse dead, and what is happening in Libya? How many dead?
Ossama
#Tripoli: From the early hours of this morning #NATO has targeted #Gaddafi sites, and 7 explosions were heard and smoke was seen rising.
#TRIPOLI Man on Libya AlAhrar CONFIRMS Abduallah Senussi + Mansour Daw dead Children are in Coma in AlKhadraHospital goo.gl/Q2hZP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q_Iv-EdA34
In western #Libya, the free #Libyan national army largely consists of defectors…: t.co/1vlsqvc #Libya #feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJvuukddwl8&fea...
BREAKING #NALUT: 6 Martys from the Thowar Tarabulus Battalion this morning in Nalut, will provide u with more details as and when i get it
Misurata: women prepare various kinds of food for freedom fighters on frontline..
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.22250...
TRIPOLI FRIEND: Never seen hot day as today since born.. It is 49 C now in some areas of city, may god bless Libyaand long live free Libya
Jabel Nafousa: Message to #Gaddafi t.co/q0vx7kW #Libya #feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxyUYNVRDVM&fea...
According to sources the group of #FFs who carried out the operation which killed Abdullah Sanusi maneged to flee to #Tunisia.
Joanne
#TRIPOLI Musa #Ibrahim says Libyan Officials but not the HIDING COWARD #Gaddafi himself would be willing to hold meetings with rebels #Libya
Libia: potenti esplosioni a Tripoli
(ANSA) – TRIPOLI, 23 LUG – Almeno sette potenti esplosioni hanno scosso il centro della capitale libica, Tripoli. Le deflagrazioni hanno scosso in particolare il settore della residenza di Muammar Gheddafi al centro della citta’, gia’ obiettivo di decine di raid Nato. Al momento non ci sono notizie ufficiali su morti e feriti ne’ tantomeno su quali fossero gli obiettivi di questo raid.
www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/topnew...
Reuters
US checks reports of ship carrying arms for Libya
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is investigating reports that a ship carrying weapons for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces was allowed to dock in Algeria, which would be considered a violation of U.N. resolutions, a State Department official said on Friday.
The United States called on Algeria, if it was aware of the shipment, to stop it from reaching Gaddafi’s forces.
Libyan opposition sources expressed concern about the ship, saying it was sailing under a Libyan flag, carrying weapons, and arrived on July 19 at the port of Djen Djen in Algeria, from where the cargo was being taken over the border into Libya.
“We have heard reports that a ship carrying arms to Gaddafi’s regime was recently permitted to dock in Algeria and that these weapons are currently being transported overland into neighboring Libya,” the State Department official told Reuters.
“The United States government is working to ascertain the veracity of these claims, which have only just come to light. If true, this would likely constitute a violation of U.N. Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973.”
read more:
af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE7...
Sarah LFFR
La nuit dernière d’intense bombardement à #Tripoli qui visaient Bab Alazaziyah . #Libye #GaddafisEnd #17feb
Bloomberg
Germany to Give 100 Million-Euro Loan to Libya Council, FAZ Says
Germany plans to provide a loan of as much as 100 million euros ($143 million) to Libya’s Transitional National Council, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported, without saying where it obtained the information.
Source:
www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-23/germa...
inglesi Piers Scholfield
#Misrata man rescued from #Gaddafi territory: the people and fighters of #Zliten are ready and waiting for the rebels to arrive. #Feb17
SecularLibya
Heinz: #NATO is working on RasLanuf & Bishr. 200 GFs did a counter attack in Zlitan from Khums and were met by helis. #Libya #Feb17
Iman
My seven your old sister: when I got to libya can I climb on top of an enemy tank #libya #feb17 #kids I want to too amira :)
omar
Video: Freedom fighters entered #SukThulatha #Zliten after fierce battle & over 5 martyrs #Misrata #Libya #Feb17 youtu.be/QyzeeB5CWd0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyzeeB5CWd0&fea...
Nesrine Libya ☾✰
a good paint i saw today at my college exhibition twitpic.com/5ukf4o
Joanne
#Libya Gibly usually blows 2 to 3 days Sand gets through teeniest hole I used Wet towels in front of windows and doors and STILL found sand
#Libya When Gibly blows the heat is oppressive Unbearable Sometimes U cant see more then 25 Mtrs Everybody hates the gibly Its depressing
Souffian Tripoli
Daily News on #Tripoli #Trables #Libya goo.gl/r9L0i
hominoid
Libya Breaking News – Nalut Six Martyrs from Tripoli pro democracy fighters in Nalut city this early morning….more updates coming soon.
BBC
Libya: Show of support for Gaddafi in Sirt
Sirte is Col Gaddafi’s hometown. It’s also his heartland. For this reason, the Libyan government invited us to have a look.
It wanted to show us that – in this part of the country at least – the leader still has plenty of support.
We arrived in Sirte in time for an early evening rally in support of Col Gaddafi. Several thousand people gathered in the centre of the city. Many wore green baseball caps or waved green flags (green is the colour of those who support the colonel).
One young boy sat on the curb and diligently coloured his right forearm with a green felt-tip pen.
“Write the truth now,” one man told us. “Hundreds of thousands of people,” he said, pointing towards the crowd.
Many demonstrators carried pictures of Col Gaddafi. Behind the stage, there was a picture of a young man who had been killed in the past few months of conflict.
“He is a martyr,” another man told me approvingly.
Full art.:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-1426213...
TRIPOLI Posters around town promise High Wages FREE Car An Apartment if u sign up for 6 months with 32nd Khamis Gaddafi Brigade #Libya
FromJoanne Joanne
TAP Reports HUGE clouds of Smoke seen over #TRIPOLI from #Tunisia #Libya Border Tunisia army reinforced Again its presence in border area
Soliman Albrassi
another friend from Birmingham has died yesterday in Al Briqa, may Allah accept his soul & grant him the heaven #libya #17feb
Joanne
#TRIPOLI Trash Strewn Streets Many Stores Restaurants shuttered up Massive Construction Projects MallsHousing projects R Abandoned #Libya
Tweeting Tripoli
These people walked 10s of kilometers to participate in an Anti-Gaddafi march in Benghazi: img16.imageshack.us/img16/4420/mil… #feb17 #Libya
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Tribune de Geneve:
Libye: les pro-Kadhafi reprennent la ville de Katron
Conflit libyen | Katron, ville-oasis du sud-ouest de la Libye a été reprise par les forces de Kadhafi. Les partisans du leader libyens sont entrés dans la ville jeudi, forçant les rebelles à battre en retraite.
AFP
Les rebelles libyens ont perdu le contrôle de la ville-oasis de Katroun dans le sud-ouest après une attaque des forces loyales au dirigeant Mouammar Kadhafi, a indiqué samedi un membre de la tribu locale des Toubous.
“La semaine dernière, nous avons été attaqués deux fois par l’armée de Kadhafi”, avait expliqué il y a quelques jours Mohammed Sidi, l’un des dirigeants de la tribu Toubou, qui s’était rendu à Benghazi pour obtenir de l’aide.
Source:
www.tdg.ch/actu/monde/libye-pro-kadhafi...
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Rebel on phone to friend in Paris: “send my regards to Sarkozy!” he yells “I hope Cameron gets over his little problem” he tells us. #Libya
feb17
NEWS IN SHORT:
Libya
Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said senior Libyan officials had a `productive dialogue’ with U.S. counterparts last week in a rare meeting that followed the Obama administration’s recognition of the rebel government that hopes to end Gaddafi’s 41-year rule.
“We believe other meetings in the future … will help solve Libyan problems,” Ibrahim told reporters in Tripoli on Friday. “We are willing to talk to the Americans more.
AP
A Libyan rebel spokesman insisted Friday that Moammar Gadhafi stand trial at the international war crimes tribunal, despite growing Western consensus that the longtime dictator be allowed to stay in his homeland if he relinquishes power.
NATO jet planes, meanwhile, struck the capital Tripoli near Gadhafi’s headquarters at Bab al-Aziziyah in the early hours of the morning Saturday.
ALJAZEERA
The Libyan capital was rocked by a series of explosions, thought to be the result of NATO airstrikes, early on Saturday, the Reuters news agency reported.
Four blasts rocked the hotel were international media were based and a fifth was heard slightly further off, the agency quoted witness as saying.
There was no official word on what were the p
REUTERS
A Libyan official said six guards were killed in an airstrike on Friday on a pipeline production plant just south of Brega in eastern Libya.
“This will be a major setback to future projects and a great problem to the maintenance activity,” Abdul Hakim el-Shwehdi, managing director of Libya’s state al-Nahr company which runs the country’s giant irrigation project, told reporters in Tripoli.
REUTERS
The United States is investigating reports that a ship carrying weapons for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces was allowed to dock in Algeria, which would be considered a violation of U.N. resolutions, a State Department official said on Friday.
The United States called on Algeria, if it was aware of the shipment, to stop it from reaching Gaddafi’s forces.
Libyan opposition sources expressed concern about the ship, saying it was sailing under a Libyan flag, carrying weapons, and arrived on July 19 at the port of Djen Djen in Algeria, from where the cargo was being taken over the border into Libya.
“We have heard reports that a ship carrying arms to Gaddafi’s regime was recently permitted to dock in Algeria and that these weapons are currently being transported overland into neighboring Libya,” the State Department official told Reuters.
“The United States government is working to ascertain the veracity of these claims, which have only just come to light. If true, this would likely constitute a violation of U.N. Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973.”
AP
Huge clouds of smoke from NATO-led raids over western Libya could be seen in neighboring Tunisia and the official TAP news agency says the Tunisian army is reinforcing the border area to ensure there is no spillover into its territory.
TAP quoted military sources Friday as saying that NATO raids over the Al-Assa zone, just a dozen kilometers (7 miles) from Tunisia, are dropping bombs on arms depots and military sites belonging to brigades of Moammar Gadhafi.
TAP quotes its sources, who aren’t identified, as saying that reinforcements in the Libyan region of nearby Ghazaya could mean new attacks against the border post of Wazen-Dhehiba, which has been under rebel control since April 29.
Rebels use the post to get food supplies and medical help.
Le Point France
REUTERS
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – La Libye est prête à tenir davantage de discussions avec les Etats-Unis et les rebelles, mais Mouammar Kadhafi ne se pliera pas aux demandes de départ du pouvoir, a déclaré un porte-parole du gouvernement à Tripoli.
Moussa Ibrahim a qualifié de “dialogue productif” la rencontre entre des responsables libyens et des émissaires américains la semaine dernière en Tunisie, peu après la reconnaissance par Washington des insurgés, qui veulent mettre fin aux 41 ans de règne du guide libyen.
“De nouvelles rencontres, à l’avenir, contribueront à la résolution des problèmes libyens”, a déclaré le porte-parole vendredi soir à Tripoli. “Nous voulons parler davantage aux Américains”.
Des avions de l’Otan ont bombardé la capitale libyenne dans la nuit, faisant des dégâts et des victimes, selon la télévision d’Etat libyenne, qui n’a pas fourni de détails.
Read more here:
www.lepoint.fr/fil-info-reuters/tripoli...
Ahmed
#Pray4Tripoli #Pray4Brega #Pray4Misrata #Pray4Zliten #Pray4Ajdabiya #Pray4Tarhuna #Pray4Zawiya #Pray4Libya #AllahuAkbar #Libya #Feb17
And PRAY FOR NORWAY
IOL NEWS
Libyan rebels slowed by mines
Benghazi – Hundreds of thousands of mines and a fierce counter-attack by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi are slowing rebel efforts to seize two towns that are blocking their advance on Tripoli, rebels said on Thursday.
Colonel Ahmed Bani, a rebel military spokesperson, said he expected a breakthrough in Brega in a few days, and in the western town of Zlitan within two days, after rebels advanced to the edge of the town.
“We are advancing slowly and clearing the mines… but we know that at the end, we will enter it (Brega),” he told Reuters in an interview in the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi.
“The fall of Brega is the end of the regime.”
Bani estimated that 400 000 mines had been planted around Brega and said the rebels, mostly volunteers with no military experience, were working to clear them with almost no help from experts. Gaddafi’s forces have pushed back the rebels by filling trenches with petrol and setting them ablaze.
Read full art.:
www.iol.co.za/news/africa/libyan-rebels...
British Forces News:
The Ministry of Defence has released its latest pictures of NATO airstrikes on enemy targets in Libya.
Apache attack helicopters launched by HMS Ocean targeted military installations in and around Al Khums.
The targets were a vehicle check point, two large military sheds, and a group of buildings which were being used by regime forces.
RAF jets also conducted a surgical strike on the military Identification Friend or Foe antenna at Tripoli airport.
Latest video of Libya strikes by UK forces released bfbs.com/news/worldwide/latest-video-li...
bfbs.com/news/worldwide/latest-video-li...
OPED NEWS
The Youth of Libya, Finally Free to Speak Out
For 42 plus years the youth of Libya have been stuffed into little green boxes by the Gaddafi regime, indoctrinated into angry, pseudo-revolutionary rhetoric, taught to glorify the State, Muammar Gaddafi and his family, told whom to love, whom to hate, what to think. And when Gaddafi’s little Green Book materialized from his psyche in 1975 and was promoted by the State as quasi-Holy Writ, that became the central focus of all officially-approved educational and intellectual life in Libya, and youth of all ages, not to mentions adults, could only criticize it and the Colonel at their peril, peril to the point of imprisonment, torture or even death. Poetry, art and literature NOT subservient to the State were as welcome in Libya as they are under any paranoid one-party or one-family autocratic state, in other words, NOT AT ALL.
Now, however, as the winds of change and revolution sweep over Libya, with more-or-less half the country already permanently free of Gaddafi’s patronizing control, censorship and repression, the youth and young adults of Libya have been, even since the earliest, dangerous days, expressing themselves, and they will continue to speak out, strongly and forcefully.
So meet just a few of these critical thinkers, writers and artists now, compliments of YouTube:
Libyan Youth Rap for Freedom:
Check out link:
www.opednews.com/articles/The-Youth-of-...
Tore
I, like most #Norwegians am in shock now. But Libyas horror is still ongoing. My thoughts go also to #Libyanpeople
Independent Malta
What, if anything, can the EU do to improve humanitarian conditions in Libya?
by david casa.jpg
In raw number terms, the European Union is collectively the largest provider of humanitarian aid to Libya, disbursing over €135 million since the rebellion against Gaddafi broke out just over five months ago. €80 million of this came directly from the EU budget, managed by the European Commission, and the rest from individual member states. This is bolstered by the work of large humanitarian organisations like the International Committee of the Red Cross (and the Red Crescent) and others such as Médicins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the International Medical Corps (IMC), which maintain large medical teams in post-conflict zones like Misurata.
From the start of the conflict one of the major concerns for the EU, after mobilising the necessary resources, was humanitarian access – that is, ensuring that the aid gets to where it is needed. With the situation on the ground prone to sudden change and bitter fighting in now rebel-held cities like Misurata ongoing, delivering aid was frought with deadly risks. According to the Commission, however, the situation has gradually improved.
Some 15,000 have so far perished in the fight to oust the Gaddafi family from power and many more have been injured. While conflict will always have its casualties, humanitarian aid will save those not killed in battle from succumbing to their injuries, to disease, or to starvation. In this the EU is at the forefront, and Malta is also playing its part in its historic role as the ‘nurse of the Mediterranean’. Though slower to action than we may have wished, we were among the first to recognise that this was a time for selflessness not selfishness and from this we should draw, even if it proves our only reward, a measure of pride.
Read full art.:
www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsite...
Libya Free Forever.
Monatov and #Gadafi, very funny, PROUD
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFP2rz71N9Q&fea...
Just smile:
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Here’s a funny #Google+ joke I found: j.mp/qTxkuR
LibyaLiberty Now Beard Free
To be paid in pasta. “Awesome!” said Libyans. RT@feb17libya: Italy announces 350-mln-euro aid package to Libya rebels
jemimah_knight Jamillah Knowles
As a journalist of only 18 years…I don’t think I have ever seen a year like this for news…
Feb17
The Peoples Daily Online
Italy announces 350-mln-euro aid package to Libya rebel
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini met here on Friday with Libya rebels’ Transitional National Council (TNC) deputy prime minister Ali al-Isawi on the Libyan crisis developments and aid package that Italy was ready to offer.
Frattini, talking at a joint press conference, announced that the Italian government was ready to allocate a 350-million-euro (about 494 million U.S. dollars) fund in financial aid and oil provisions to help assist the TNC and Benghazi’s population.
“It’s a matter of days and these funds will be transferred to Libya for humanitarian ends. The agreement has already been signed by both parties,” Frattini said, recalling that Italy had recently approved a decree which unfreezes several Libyan assets and investments in the country in favor of the TNC.
Ali Al-Isawi briefed on the progresses of the TNC’s operations in the Libyan conflict, including an attack on Thursday night against a command center of Gaddafi’s regime in Tripoli where his son Saif Al Islam was and which injured a high-level member of the government.
“Also Tripoli’s population is ready to join us against the oppressive regime,” said Al-Isawi, who added that the rebel forces were also conquering the area of Brega and the mountainous region surrounding Tripoli.
Source:
feb17.info/news/italy-announces-350-mln...
_madi
( check out the archive)
Photo: Painting the Mataba on Flickr. Volunteers paint the former regime headquarters in Yifrin in the… tumblr.com/xxw3ntn4iv
nafusa.tumblr.com/post/7970856871/paint...
inglesi Piers Scholfield
#Misrata man rescued from #Gaddafi territory: the people and fighters of #Zliten are ready and waiting for the rebels to arrive. #Feb17
Told us most men from #Zliten fighting for #Gaddafi were forced.. & were told that they would face 4,000 French soldiers on the frontline.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
MansurAlDaw reported in very critical condition after yesterdays attack.
UNCONFIRMED: Death of Maj. Gen. Hadi Emberesh moments ago after being attacked in the neighborhood of #HaiAlAndalus #Tripoli
Death of #Gaddafi Maj. Gen. Hadi Emberesh Thursday after attack in the neighborhood of #HaiAlAndalus #Tripoli #Libya #feb17
dovenews Libyan™
#Gaddafi wants to talk about him staying in power…..He needs new batteries for his hearing aid! I am sure @NATO will drop him some!
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
CNN BUSTED Fake video of front line in #Libya egyptday1.blogspot.com/2011/07/cnn-bu… #feb17
egyptday1.blogspot.com/2011/07/cnn-bust...
(This is the Ben Wedeman vid.)
MyFreeLibya
Hairdressers Without Borders #Demand&Supply #Libya flic.kr/p/a5UXdq
www.flickr.com/photos/myfreelibya/59628...
BEN ALI
BREAKING! Gaddafi’s General #Alhadi #Ambayrish was killed immediately after the #FF attack in Tripoli last Thursday. via #Libya.tv
dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafis spokesperson Mussa Ibrahim “Gaddafi would not leave his position nor Libya” Yeah very “productive dialogue” I can see that
MyFreeLibya
Watch out for a view of tripoli…#Moment4Life when passed over it on our way to #Benghazi rubiconmango.com/post/7972998746
www.rubiconmango.com/post/7972998746
libyanandproud
I would like to thank all the non libyan tweeps who have stood by us ! You guys are a motivation ! #Feb17 #Libya
dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi keeps saying he wont talk to us Libyans but he is ready to talk to the #US…. I dont even know what he wants to talk about??
somaia
Alhadi imberish is confirmed death acc 2 #libya alahrar . Great
dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi is ready to hold more talks with the #US and with rebels but Gaddafi will not bow to demands he quit, Gaddafi’s spokesman said.
The Daily Telegraph Australia
NATO warplanes hit Libyan capital ‘command centre’
NATO-led war planes struck the Libyan capital, with the alliance saying they hit a military command centre and the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, saying civilians were targetted.
At least seven powerful explosions were heard around 2:20am local time as state television quoted a military official as saying NATO warplanes “are currently bombing civilian sites in the capital Tripoli.”
In Brussels, an Atlantic alliance official said “NATO can confirm that we targetted military objectives in Tripoli this morning,” and that the the seven strikes were on a command and control node.
Two more explosions were heard in the same area at about midday.
The attack came after rebel forces said they lost 16 fighters east of Tripoli and that they infiltrated the capital and attacked a regime command post where a son of the strongman was among officials targetted.
“Yesterday in Tripoli, there was an attack on an operations centre of top regime officials, including Seif al-Islam Gaddafi,” National Transitional Council vice president Ali Essawy said after a meeting in Rome with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini.
“One person was left seriously injured,” he said, identifying the person as a high-ranking security official.
Mr Frattini said the “rocket attack against an operations centre” probably in a Tripoli hotel was aimed at “top officials… including Gaddafi’s son Seif, and the head of the secret service, Abdullah al-Senussi.”
Full art.:
www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking...
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Libyan pilots show their skill by landing an aeroplane on an unmarked highway near Zintan serving as a runway facebook.com/video/video.ph… #libya
www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1267...
Ali Abunimah
Of 294 attempted terrorist attacks in Europe in 2009, precisely one is attributed to “Islamists” dangardner.ca/index.php/arti… #oslo
www.dangardner.ca/index.php/articles/it...
Alex
#NTC have not yet moved into the official #Libya Embassy in #Washington – previously #Gaddafi controled – still waiting final State Dept OK
Hanan
#Jordan plane lands in Benina airport in #Benghazi to pick up injured people.
Yefrenia
When Im older my grand children will think im so ancient…was born last century,alive during ArabSpring & read Gaddafis greenbook in school
Libya rebels report loss of southern town
Libyan rebel fighters have lost control of the southwestern oasis town of Qatrun after an attack by forces loyal to Libya Moammar Qaddafi, a member of the local Toubou tribe told AFP on Saturday.
At least two people are thought to have been killed and eight wounded in the attack.
But Lino said Qaddafi’s forces had been camped on the north side of the town and rebels in the south, with an estimated 20,000 civilians trapped between the two.
-AFP/NOW Lebanon
Source:
www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.a...
chris
Christian terrorism has now killed more people in Europe this year than Islamic. Wonder if the media will reflect that?
LibyaNewMedia
Condolences to the families & friends of the victims in Norway. Feeling the pain as a human being; must be so much worse for the relatives.
Alex
Gen #HadiEmberesh –Rep 2 have died following Thurs attack in #HaiAlAndalus – #MansurAlDaw condition ‘serious’ – #Saif safe? #Tripoli #Libya
Ossama
BREAKING: #Washington: The #Pentagon: Victory for #FFs in #Libya is the first priority!! #feb17
Market Watch
Technical woes may delay Libya oil restart
LONDON (MarketWatch) — As speculation mounts that the Libyan conflict is inching closer to an end, oil-industry experts say its production could be held back by insecurity risks, war damage and the waxy texture of its high-quality crude.
Due to looting in the oil and gas fields, “even when there is peace, for a return to normal work, it will take time,” Shokri Ghanem, Libya’s de facto oil minister, said in an interview earlier this year before defecting in May.
Read full art.:
www.marketwatch.com/story/technical-woe...
feb17voices Feb 17 voices
Clarification: Souq al Thulata, while AJA referred to it as a ‘city’ is actually an area within #Zliten.
AlluCemif
#Gaddafi’s TV regularly posts official news in French in Youtube. I wont give the link, I have some mercy on my followers
KC_Tripolitania KC
BREAKING: #Gaddafi ranting on Libya State TV – he has a ‘message for Egypt’ ! #GaddafiSpeech #New #Libya #Egypt
Ahmed
#Gaddafi giving a history lesson to Egyptians about the history of #Egypt..because they want to be talked at by him..#laughatgaddafi
LIBYA TRIPOLI
Nowadays we hear more than we see #Gaddafi, we want to see him! #Libya
Wales Online
Tributes paid to Welsh RAF man killed on Libya duty in Italy
AN RAF man killed in a road accident in southern Italy was named yesterday.
Senior Aircraftman James Smart, 22, from No 2 (Mechanical Transport) Squadron, was part of a 10-vehicle convoy that was delivering vital equipment to UK Forces at Gioia del Colle on Wednesday in support of Operation Ellamy in Libya.
He was sent to Italy with the squadron which is within No 85 (Expeditionary Logistics) Wing, deployed from Royal Air Force Wittering on July 17.
SAC Smart was born in Chester and his family home was in Wrexham.
His family paid tribute to the RAF man: “James ‘Smarty’ was a small man with a big heart, no one could have had a better son. He was a much loved brother, uncle and friend.
“He brought joy and happiness to everyone who met him. He was proud to serve his country and died doing something he loved.
“He will be sadly missed by all his family and friends, and he has left a big hole in all of our lives.
“Good night, God bless, James.”
Full art.:
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2...
ALJA:
Qatar sent military & humanitarian supplies to Benghazi, including two field hospitals.
Massin
#Gaddafi the final symbol of “Arab Nationalism” … GET LOST ! #Libya will be free and prosperous by ALL #Libyans
LIBYA TRIPOLI
Does not #Gaddafi run out of words?! I guess I’m wrong again. #Libya
Ahmed
#Gaddafi talking about Arab nationalism, imperialism, colonialism…Forming political parties is committing treason against your country
AFP
Libye : les femmes espèrent prendre leur place..
Elles sont quasiment invisibles et pourtant, elles aussi participent à la rebellion. Les femmes libyennes tentent, après le soulèvement contre Kadhafi, de faire leur propre révolution. Mais les conservatismes sont bien présents et les mentalités mettront du temps à changer. Durée: 02:05
Video:
www.dailymotion.com/video/xk2z4c_libye-...
LIBYANVOICE
Tripoli FF promised more attacks on gadafi forces& top officials as Ramadan approaches they determined r 2continue 2fight thumps up 4 FF
G
#Gaddafi speaking live now to the Egyptian ppl for the 59th anniversary of the 23rd of July revolution.
libyanandproud
Woof Woof #GaddafiEgyptRant
libyanandproud
Woof Woof Woof Awoooooooo Awooof ! #GaddafiEgyptRant
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#AlQatroun (south of #Sabha) is under siege and continuous bombing by #Gaddafi forces – no media attention.
Norway:
benghazi’s bunny♥
RT @kellyoxford: So apparently, a massacre by a Christian extremist makes him a madman, but a massacre by a Muslim makes him a terrorist.
VOA NEWS
Libya Needs Long-Term Humanitarian Assistance, Aid Groups Say
As fighting continues in Libya between rebels and forces loyal to leader Moammar Gadhafi, ordinary citizens are caught in the middle. Aid groups say the humanitarian situation in Libya has stabilized to a degree in recent weeks, but that entire cities and towns remain at risk for reliable food supplies and other basic services. Relief agencies are looking to the long term in assessing Libya’s humanitarian needs.
At the Islamic Relief USA call center just outside of Washington, the staff takes donations of humanitarian aid money for the Middle East over the telephone.
The non-profit aid group operates a dozen food-distribution points along the Tunisian border, where Libyan families and foreign migrants have gathered in refugee camps.
Video:
www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/nor...
FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
Financial aid distribute in #Nalut for first time since Feb17.Each family received $30Tunisian #Libya
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.26007...
Abeidi
Libya, Benghazi, Just to change your mood have some laugh from Jokes from Benghazi in Libyan slang. youtube.com/watch?v=Vk9qYt…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk9qYtPAt8U
AFP
Arabic-web-Many roads to defection in western.
In western Libya, the rebel army largely consists of defectors, people who have taken the dangerous decision to break with Moamer Kadhafi’s regime. Braving the myriad security services and their vast network of informers built up over four decades in power, individuals ranging from regular army officers to youngsters studing
www.dailymotion.com/video/xk2xkz_arabic...
anonyma
I wish people would stop instrumentalising people’s deaths for whatever causes & pay respect to their lives instead.
Ossama
There r thousands of armed FFs in #Tripoli ready to pounce and start a revolution in the capital. #Libya #feb17
3 deaths and many more injured in an operation in #Tripoli where they boby traped a Gaddafi Viechle in Souq Aljuma NOW!
A trench dug by soldiers of the tyrant in #Breqa and filled it with oil to burn it: t.co/m3hjPKx #Libya #feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecQhPGu8a50&fea...
Libya Free Forever.
There are many types of missiles one of them is ANTI satellite>>>>>one to Nilesat #Gadaficrimes #Libya
septimius_sever septimius severus
Demonstration in #Beda (East #Libya) supporting #Feb17 مظاهرة البيضاء 22 7 2011 youtube.com/watch?v=At7Fop…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=At7FopKM9C4&fea...
The War Diaries
Jebel Nafusa Imagery
Nalut- It’s hot as Hades here today but then where is it not that hot? Wilting from the temperatures with the local Nalutis, I am putting up a few snaps from my Blackberry to kill some time and illustrate part of my world. Welcome…
Photo’s here:
the-war-diaries.com/?p=1690
Hayat
Libya is filled with #GaddafiCrimes and so is #Africa, #Europe, and even #America. Down with #Gaddafi! Kill him more seriously!
FreeBenghazi
6 thuwar from #Tripoli Brigade, based in #Nalut, martyred this morning in car accident in AlMarabah #Libya الله يرحمهم v
LIBYA_WIN
#Libya #Tripoli #Gaddafi regime promising the further empovirished people of this besieged city all kinds of wealth for joining #Brigades
AP
Le Nouvel Observateur
Alger dément tout transit d’armes vers la Libye
ALGER (AP) — Le ministère algérien des Affaires étrangères a “catégoriquement” démenti samedi les informations faisant état du transit d’une cargaison d’armes par le port de Djen-Djen (360km à l’est d’Alger) en direction de la Libye.
Dans une déclaration au journal électronique Tout sur l’Algérie (TSA), le porte-parole Amar Belani a accusé des membres du Conseil national de transition libyen (CNT, opposition) d’avoir distillé ces informations. Certains “ne reculent devant aucune turpitude ou manoeuvre perfide de désinformation pour tenter, vainement je dois préciser, de mettre la pression diplomatique sur notre pays”, a accusé M. Belani.
Depuis le début de la guerre civile en Libye, Alger est régulièrement accusée par le CNT de soutenir le régime de Moammar Kadhafi à travers la fourniture d’armes et l’envoi de mercenaires. Lors d’une visite début juin à Alger, le général Carter Ham, patron du Commandement militaire américain pour l’Afrique (AFRICOM), avait démenti les accusations du CNT, affirmant que l’Algérie a toujours oeuvré pour “prévenir et empêcher qu’il y ait des mercenaires ou bien un mouvement de personnes et d’armements dans la région”. AP
Source:
tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualite/monde...
FreeBenghazi
#Nalut Council will not be publishing names of 6 martyrs who died today, to protect their families in #Tripoli
Shabab
Libya wants more talks as NATO strikes hit capital
(Reuters) – Libya is ready to hold more talks with the United States and with rebels trying to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, but the Libyan leader will not bow to demands he quit, a government spokesman said.
Moussa Ibrahim said Libyan officials had a “productive dialogue” with U.S. counterparts last week in a rare meeting that followed American recognition of the rebel government that hopes to end Gaddafi’s 41-year rule.
“Other meetings in the future … will help solve Libyan problems,” the spokesman told reporters in Tripoli late on Friday. “We are willing to talk to the Americans more.”
He said Gaddafi would not leave his position nor Libya.
Hours later NATO planes bombed targets in the capital, causing damage and casualties, Libyan state television said, without giving details.
Rebel leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said Gaddafi must agree publicly to stand down before any talks could begin.
Ibrahim said Libyan officials – but not Gaddafi himself – would be willing to hold further meetings with rebels, who now control roughly half of Libya, only on the government’s terms.
“Nations do not negotiate with armed gangs,” he said. Gaddafi is urging Libyans to persuade rebels to disarm and rejoin the loyal fold — and to fight them if they don’t.
Full art.:
shabablibya.org/news/libya-wants-more-t...
AlluCemif
Dont like when journos say " #Libya " wants instead of #Gaddafi wants & I dont like when journos say “government” instead of Gaddafi regime
septimius_
Support LIBYAN FLAG: add a #PicBadge to your image – picbadges.com/1913327
www.picbadges.com/libyan-flag/1913327
hominoid
Libya Three minesweepers have been repaired and are now on their way to Brega to help with the clean-up.
hominoid
Libya Misrata Liberation Army in an attack with the rebels Misurata and Zliten. On the western Front of Misurata, they stormed the al-Gaddafi troops, resulting in the defeat the enemy and drove them back for a distance of not less than 15 miles and killed a number of mercenaries and captured several others and destroying some of the mechanisms God is great. – Libya Revolution Feb 17 2011
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Tunis Hospital, 1 hr ago: Khaled Massaoud. 22 yr old #Libyan FF from #Zintan. Shot in upper jaw yesterday at Bir Ghanam twitpic.com/5unyii
The xrays show the tip of that AK47 bullet stopped about a centimeter from his brain. Hopefully he’ll be okay after surgery.
Libyano Tripoliano
Thank you #Qatar. #Libya
Press TV
Ongoing war in Libya taking heavy toll
Ajdabiyah has treated more than one thousand three hundred patients from the ongoing battle in Brega since fighting erupted between Revolutionary forces and Loyalists to Muammar Gaddafi.
It’s proximity to the National Transitional Council’s nerve center Benghazi has made it a compulsory stop for the injured returning from front line duty. Medics do what they can in gloomy conditions, patients tell tales of suffering and bravery.
The ongoing problems in Libya are not only taking a toll on soldiers needing running repairs, but its emergency services too. The paramedics, quietly contemplate their chaotic and often bloody daily routine.
And this is what loyalists should fear. The origin of new military vehicles leaving Benghazi port baring the Qatari flag remains to be seen, however, they were greatly received as they snaked off into the night.
In another convoy, more troops ready themselves to deploy ahead of revolutionary artillery positions as the conflict escalates. With Gaddafi loyalists dug into positions in the industrial area of the city and behind streets littered with minefields, more effort is needed
But for the lucky ones who survive war, it is a source of employment through troubling times, but everyone eventually returns home.
Source:
www.presstv.com/detail/190428.html
AJA: NATO struck a weapons depot this morning in #Brega; meanwhile rebels repelled attack by #Gaddafi forces from the North. #Libya
AJA: Rebels in #Zliten entered a city called Sooq Al Thultha (phonetic); had to withrdaw after heavy resistance from #Gaddafi forces. #Libya
Libya Medical Relief
Thanks to all who donated to Malak appeal. The fundraising dinner in London on 17th July 2011, raised £29700 pounds in funds. Our Libyan brothers and sisters in Ireland donated £2600 to the fund. Total funds raised from the appeal is £32300. Pledges of six thousand pounds are to be received in the coming days.
AJA: Rebels were able to damage 3 GRAD rocket launchers and clear 120 mines in #Brega #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#NATO struck a weapons depot this morning in #Brega. #Libya #feb17
Hayat Libya
Life in #Tripoli :No power or fuel, suffocating heat, sounds of bombing and gunfire, threats, mass arrests, inflation, all scarce
AlluCemif
Reuters repeating state TV parrot fashion youtube.com/watch?v=qEemfH…. And in recent article wrote “Libya wants” instead of “G regime wants”#Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEemfHJ32po
BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
power cut twice today. wonder how #benghazi supplies will hold out in coming months #libya
It’s not the people, it’s the govenments that try to keep us all divided…..
Look at photo below:
Christians protecting muslims praying..I saw the tatooed crosses on several of them. yfrog.com/h4n52qqj
Hayat
Prisoners in #Tripoli will dehydrate or simply die from the lack of ventilation in the heat wave hitting #Libya these days. Allah help them!
septimius severus
I would love to hear Mousa Ibrahim excuse for this!another kitchen explosives!! #Tripoli youtube.com/watch?v=3w6t1Y…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w6t1YLf640&fea...
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “BANU GENC” 35.36252˚/29.73126˚now en route from #Mersin Turkey to dest. #Tripoli #Libya. #feb17
FreeBenghazi
Pictures of today’s funeral for 5 of the 6 martyrs, from the Tripoli Brigade. انشالله شهادة. الله يرحمهم #Nalut #Libya facebook.com/media/set/?set…
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.26006...
KC_Tripolitania KC
#AlQatroun city (south of #Sabha) is under siege and continuous bombing by #Gadafi forces – no media attention. Suffering in silence. #Libya
AFP
via
Shabab
Libyan women fight for freedom on the home front
ZINTAN, Libya — Libyan men have had to reassess how they view the fairer sex since the start of the uprising, and when the dust settles the role of women in the north African country may well have changed for ever.
The women of Libya — especially in the Nafusa Mountains — were among the protesters before the fighting started, and since then they have readied their sons and husbands for battle and nursed the wounded.
Meanwhile, they are also fighting for their own emancipation in the new Libya they are helping their men to forge.
Women do not exchange glances on the streets of the conservative Arab city of Zintan at the foot of the Nafusa range in western Libya. Behind walls daubed with graffiti proclaiming a “Free Libya,” they move like black phantoms, hidden behind the full veil of the niqab.
At home, the arrival of an unfamiliar male guest sparks panic, and the ladies of the house scatter like bees. In times of war, they spend most of their time cloistered within four walls.
However, the ladies of Libya have felt the winds of change at their backs.
They were chanting “Down with Kadhafi” at the start of the insurrection, alongside the men, calling for veteran strongman Moamer Kadhafi to go.
“I’ve rallied with plenty of young women, even some pregnant ones. The men were so impressed they fired their Kalashnikovs in our honour! That showed them we were equal, and changed their opinion of us,” says Afaf Abusaa, a 20-year-old technology student.
With the men away at the battlefield, the women secure the home front with housework and by providing moral support.
“Men have seen the women nurse the wounded, do volunteer work and cook for the fighters. They’ve seen mothers tell their sons: ‘Go and fight. I will support you.’ They hadn’t expected that,” says Hana Akra, a 24-year-old medical intern.
Full art.:
shabablibya.org/news/libyan-women-fight...
Wife Sm My 5 yr old has told every single Egyptian we’ve met from man on street to housekeeper that he hates “Gadafni” & he lives next door in Libya
Hayat
#GaddafiTranslated: You #Egypt ians should never have given up #Mubarak! He was the best! Begged me for money to fix your trains! #Libya
Libya In Me
I am really feeling bad for the NTC, the amount of worries & struggles they have to deal with is unbelievable…
How are they expected to do anything without any money? There is too much pressure on them and not enough money to do anything :(
The electricity is off wayyyy more than often these two days because they’re lacking fuel and supplies in keeping it on.
We’ve gotten aid from Qatar and it has arrived but keeping electricity on needs constant fuel
So far many of the countries that offered aid in form of money, have yet to do so. What are they waiting for?
Ahmed
#Tripoli: #FF blew up a truck belonging to #Gaddafi forces over a bridge in Souq Aljuma, killing 3 of them & injuring others..#Libya #Feb17
FreeLibya. Painting libya flags on little girl’s nails, what did i get myself into…
Free Libyia
Asking Gaddafi officials to take part in a future gov’t of Libya is like the Allies letting Nazis play a role in transition Germany 1946.
Abdul
On his way 2 #tunis 4 trtmnt, #FF from #yefren just told me that he was using donkeys 2 supply #yafren with weapons during the time of siege
BenghaziChron
Beautiful images of Benghazi.
benghazichronicles.tumblr.com
Tripolitano
brace yourselves for another night of action. I think Drones filming more precise targets b4 strike.
LWB
Elhadi Imberish is also in ICU words are that he is “cerebrally dead” in other terms, he’s finished any way!!
Frajj Abu ghalia is in ICU after he has bleeded much yesterday in the evening!! God is great!!!!!!
Niz_FGM Niz
23/7/11 – Strange aircraft with flashing coloured lights flying over #tripoli. No noise and slow flying. Drones? #NATO
Yup, sure sounds like a drone!
ENGLISH LIBYA TV:
NTC insists Gaddafi faces trial
A Libyan revolutionary spokesman insisted yesterday that Muammar Gaddafi stand trial at the international war crimes tribunal, despite growing Western consensus that the longtime dictator be allowed to stay in his homeland if he relinquishes power.
NATO jet planes, meanwhile, struck the capital Tripoli near Gaddafi’s headquarters at Bab al-Aziziyah in the early hours of the morning today.
Several bright flashes and loud explosions split the night at around 2:30 a.m. local time while jets could be heard circling overhead.
NATO bombing raids and other military operations began this spring to protect civilians against the Gaddafi regime, but Gaddafi has managed to keep his grip on the capital, Tripoli, to the frustration of Western leaders.
NATO planes struck a factory near the embattled oil city of Brega yesterday killing six guards, Gaddafi officials said.
The plant, located 10 kilometers south of the strategic oil installation, builds the huge pipes that carry water from underground aquifers deep in the south to the coast as part of the Great Man Made River irrigation project.
“Major parts of the plant have been damaged,” said Abdel-Hakim el-Shwehdy, head of the company running the project. “There could be major setback for the future projects.”
At least 70 percent of Libyans survive on the water carried through the pipes to the coast in the project, according to government figures.
“Most Libyans drink from the Great Manmade River, most Libyan land is farmed from the water, so any harm against this vital project is a harm against all Libyans,” warned Gaddafi spokesman Moussa Ibrahim. “We believe this a very dangerous development in NATO’S attacks.”
Washington, Paris and Rome have all proclaimed their acceptance of the idea that Gaddafi remain in Libya on the condition that he give up power and the Libyan people grant their approval.
In Rome, National Transitional Council (NTC) vice executive chairman Ali al-Issawi met with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini.
Asked how the so-called “leave Gaddafi in Libya option” squares with the warrant for his arrest by the International Criminal Court, al-Issawi told reporters that there was “no contradiction between the two.”
“The first principle is that Gadhafi should step down,” al-Issawi said after a meeting with Frattini. “After that you can talk about the details.”
“We would like Gadhafi to be taken to the ICC,” al-Issawi said, referring to the Hague-based tribunal.
Al-Issawi’s office essentially serves as a Cabinet for the NTC, the Benghazi-based anti-Gaddafi front that was recently recognized by Washington as Libya’s legitimate government.
Frattini noted that Libya isn’t among the signatory countries to an agreement obligating arrest for such warrants, and he stressed that while “impunity (for Gaddafi) would be a mistake, it has to be the Libyans to decide” Gaddafi’s fate. Whatever that decision is, “we’ll respect it,” the foreign minister added.
Whether Western support to allow Libyans to keep Gaddafi in his country once out of power indicates waning desire to drive him out of Tripoli is unclear. There have been fears the civil warfare could end in a kind of stalemate, with the revolutionaries in charge mainly in eastern Libya and Gaddafi’s forces entrenched in Tripoli.
Al-Issawi said that a blast at a Tripoli hotel two nights ago where several top members of the regime, including Gadhafi’s son Saif al-Islam, were meeting was caused by a rocket launched from within the city.
“This is a good signal that people inside Tripoli are organizing” against Gaddafi, Frattini told reporters.
The revolutionary spokesman said the attack “severely wounded” Abdullah Mansour, apparently a high official in Gadhafi’s inner circle.
A Tripoli-based opposition group called the Free Generation Movement said in a statement that three rocket-propelled grenades were used to attack the hotel.
However, Gaddafi spokesman, Ibrahim, denied any attack had occurred, saying it was only an accident turned into a propaganda ploy by the NTC.
“There was no attack yesterday whatsoever, there was an explosion near the Sheraton caused by a (cooking) gas cylinder,” said. “It was a kitchen explosion that was immediately turned into an attack to boost (rebel) morale.”
Libya, a major supplier of oil and natural gas to Italy, was Rome’s biggest trading partner before the outbreak of civil war, and al-Issawi assured Frattini that Italy would regain that rank in Libya’s future.
“We invite all the Italian companies in Libya to restart their activities,” al-Issawi told reporters.
Among those eager to return to full operations is Italian energy company Eni, which the Gaddafi government has banned from operating in Libya due to Italy’s participation in the NATO attacks.
Frattini delivered some good news to the NTC. He said that within days, the first tranche of €350 million ($503 million) in cash and fuel would be transferred to Benghazi to help civilians there, while Italy and other countries wait for U.N. sanctions officials to free up billions of dollars in frozen Gaddafi regime assets.
Short URL: english.libya.tv/?p=8125
english.libya.tv/2011/07/23/ntc-insists...
ENGLISH LIBYA TV:
UN envoy: No role for Gaddafi in transition
A U.N. peace envoy is suggesting a ceasefire in Libya, to be followed by the immediate creation of a transitional authority made up equally of the Gaddafi’s government and revolutionaries and excluding Muammar Gaddafi or his sons, a senior European diplomat said.
The authority would appoint a president, control the police, armed forces and security services and would supervise a round-table reconciliation process, leading to elections to a national assembly which would write a constitution, the diplomat said.
The diplomat, who asked for his name and location to be withheld, was outlining ideas he said were being canvassed by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s special envoy to Libya, Abdul Elah al-Khatib.
Khatib, a Jordanian senator, is seeking a political solution to a conflict that erupted in February between Gaddafi’s forces and revolutionaries based in the east. He has visited both sides several times.
Gaddafi has been holding on to power in the face of revolutionary attacks aimed at ending his 41-year rule and has rejected suggestions that he quit, as demanded by the revolutionaries.
Gaddafi yesterday ruled out talks with the revolutionaries, casting doubt on a flurry of diplomatic efforts to end the conflict.
The European diplomat said that under Khatib’s transition proposal, Gaddafi would have to step down, but rather than being a precondition it would be part of the process.
As soon as the transitional authority was created and Gaddafi no longer had control of the security forces, Libyans in Tripoli would no longer fear him and at that point his rule would in effect end, the diplomat said.
He added Gaddafi would only accept such a transition if he had guarantees on his personal fate, and so would not immediately be handed to the world court at The Hague, which has issued a warrant for his arrest for crimes against humanity allegedly committed by his security forces.
Gaddafi and his sons would be excluded from the transitional authority, the diplomat said, since the revolutionaries would never accept such a role for Gaddafi family members.
Khatib could not immediately be reached for comment. But on July 11 he told reporters at the United Nations he had told Gaddafi officials a body with representatives from all political parties, regions and tribes was needed to manage a transition.
The United Nations has said Khatib had put those ideas to Gaddafi’s prime minister and foreign minister.
France said earlier this week that Gaddafi could stay in Libya if he gave up power, an apparent softening of the West’s stance in a new effort to find a diplomatic end to the war.
The United States says Gaddafi must quit, but whether he remained in Libya after that would be up to the Libyan people.
Gaddafi officials have said departure was not up for negotiation and yesterday the revolutionaries said that no one seriously expected talks to end the crisis.
Short URL: english.libya.tv/?p=8067
english.libya.tv/2011/07/23/un-envoy-no...
Regine
massacre made by a christian, muslim, other relig or none believer is an act of terror & have nothing to do w religion . Just twisted minds
REUTERS
Special Report -How fuel smuggling keeps Gaddafi machine running
By Lamine Chikhi, Christian Lowe and Emma Farge
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 licence. Asked where the fuel comes from, he replied: “The gasoline is Algerian, and it’s available now.”
Full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTR...
LibyaLiberty Now Beard Free
“Damn!” said media,reshelving stock footage of group prayer/flag burning mobs.
RT@Firas_Atraqchi Media Reacts:Oslo Terror Suspect not Muslim
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Zliten: #SouqAlThultha is a ghost town, most youth joined & retreated w/ #Freedomfighters on Wednesday when #FF entered town #Libya #feb17
LIBYANVOICE
gadafi must ve been under effect of drugs ….& other stuff when he spoke today cause he said only 8 people were killed n libya so far
Aisha
I doubt a Free Libya will have any relations with Algeria after all the support they have been giving Gaddafi .
KC_Tripolitania KC
‘If we surrender we will bring shame to the entire Arab World’ – #GaddafiSpeech #New #Libya #Feb17 #ToLaughOrNotToLaughThatIsTheQu estion
Free Libyia
When everything gets too much, I think about Ali Badi from Misrata, this young man is a true #INSPIRATION mashallah goo.gl/Cc15C :’)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYJUUJLs5tY&fea...
LIBYAN
I know at one point I will love #Qatar as much as I love #Libya, Thank you #Qatar
Rukaya
#Mussolini #Hitler = #Gaddafi’s idols. #Machiavelli – The prince = His guidebook.
Gihan
امدادات تصل بنغازى اليوم 23 يوليو قادمه من قطر Supplies reached Benghazi today from Qatar- Thanks Gatar youtu.be/J8HnNN4IYy8 #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8HnNN4IYy8&fea...
somaia
On behalf of #Libya & all Libyans our condolences to the people of #Norway.
Des Grant
When all this is over, all the Tweeters here should meet in Libya and raise a glass to the new Libya and remember those lost
Niz_FGM Niz
23/7/11 – just back from Bab AlAzaziyah. Regime scrambling to fix collapsed wall of compound. #Tripoli
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: #Freedomfighters blew up #Gaddafi forces car in #SidiKhalifa area, near People’s Pharmacy. No reports of injuries #Libya #feb17
Souffian Tripoli
Dr. Jibrel : the international youth are closer to each other via Internet then before and exchange info very quickly. #Libya
Abdul
Life is getting back to normal in #Zintan grocery, gas and sheep market. #Libya #Nafusa yfrog.com/h49ohcpwj
HodaAbdelHamid Hoda Abdel-Hamid
it was so hot today that even the frontlines around #Misrata were relatively quiet.
Libyan Duda
Incredible moment for all of #Libya — Revolution Capital Benghazi – moment the green flags were taken down youtube.com/watch?v=U82W56… #Feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U82W56dvNnM&fea...
Reuters
Gaddafi criticises Egyptian, Tunisian revolutions
TRIPOLI, July 23 (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi criticised on Saturday the popular uprising in neighbouring Egypt that forced Hosni Mubarak from power this year as the Libyan leader battles rebels who have claimed swathes of the country.
Gaddafi, who has stayed in power despite four months of NATO-led air strikes and a rebel campaign against his 41-year rule, questioned the value of the popular movements in Egypt, and in Libya’s western neighbour, Tunisia.
“Why did you undertake the revolution? Answer me, why did you undertake the revolution?” Gaddafi said in an audio address to Egyptians on the anniversary of the 1952 coup that ended Egypt’s monarchy and paved the way for the late Gamal Abdel Nasser to take power.
“Tunisia and Egypt, what did you accomplish with these revolutions? Substitution of one government regime for another?” asked Gaddafi, who came to power in a 1969 coup inspired by Nasser’s pan-Arab ideals.
“After you looted, destroyed and damaged the country, you want a new president?”
Gaddafi defended Mubarak, hospitalised since April and due to stand trial on charges of abuse of power and killing protestors, and suggested Egyptians had been hasty in pushing him from power without a clear alternative.
Read full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/tunisiaNews/idAF...
Sultan Al Qassemi
Gaddafi to Egyptians: “Hosni Mubarak should be honoured — it would have even been better if he had remained president of Egypt” via Reuters
libyanandproud
#Khums : #Gaddafi security have a prison compound made of containers in khums, each container holds 30+ ! #Feb17 #Libya #GaddafiCrimes
libyanandproud
Nilesat will not shut them down , the vampires are also trying to start airing another G channel called alsa3a(the hour)
benghazi’s bunny♥
Can the mainstream media stop calling the Norwegian terrorist a mad man? Call him what he is: a #terrorist. #Norway #Oslo
Niz_FGM Niz
24/7/11 – Massive hits in Ein Zara District, #Tripoli.Very likely External Security HQ or nearby farms where ammunition is said to be stored
S. Al.
Heard some funny stories about bust-ups and general shenanigans at petrol stations in #Libya
A guy gave his wife driving lessons so she could join the smaller women’s queue and fill the tank up in much quicker time. #Libya
#Libya: He had only given her lessons on how to drive forward, turn corners, etc. So as her turn approached, she needed to reverse to get…
#Libya #Petrol: Around the car in front and wait at a gas pump. She hadn’t learnt how to reverse, and as she tried doing so accidentally
#Libya #Petrol: Smashed into the car behind her. The woman in that car gets out and starts shouting and screaming & making a scene
#Libya #Petrol: the husbands of both wives were nearby and went to see the commotion. When it transpired that the woman was only a learner
#Libya #Petrol: a huge fuss was kicked and the two men were on the verge of fighting, until harass al-thawry came and diffused the situation
KC_Tripolitania KC
#NATO bombing #Tripoli now. #Libya #Feb17
AlluCemif
NATO is not attacking #Tripoli right now. Attacking #Gaddafi & Co
Asma
Islam and terrorism shouldn’t be put in the same sentence, unless you’re saying that Islam is AGAINST terrorism.
TF1
01h32
Libye : nouvelles explosions à Tripoli et ses banlieues
Des explosions ont retenti dans la nuit de samedi à dimanche à Tripoli et dans ses banlieues Est survolées par des avions, au lendemain de raids aériens de l’Otan. Deux détonations ont retenti à 00H50 dans le secteur de la résidence du colonel Mouammar Kadhafi dans le centre de Tripoli, suivies par d’autres dans les banlieues est et sud-est de la capitale.
Une colonne de fumée a été vue peu après au dessus de la résidence de Bab Al-Aziziya, qui a été la veille la cible de raids de l’Otan. Samedi à la mi-journée, deux nouvelles détonations avaient retenti dans le même secteur qui avait été déjà la cible de dizaines de raids de l’Otan depuis le début en mars de l’opération militaire internationale en Libye.
L’Otan a confirmé samedi avoir mené sept raids à Tripoli, tous dans la même zone, indiquant avoir touché un centre de contrôle et de commandement.
Source:
lci.tf1.fr/filnews/monde/libye-nouvelle...
AlluCemif
1/2 Membre du CNT a confirmé aujourd’hui qu’1 officiel du cercle intime de #Kadhafi a été grièvement blessé par 1 tir de roquette à #Tripoli
2/2 L’attaque a eu lieu dans un endroit où de hauts fonctionnaires de #Kadhafi se réunissaient, dont Saif Al Islam.
Miss B #Gaddafi has truly destroyed & disrupted the lives of so many people. I hope we will all be compensated with freedom & something better soon
AlluCemif
Young woman frm Benghazi said today “What a suffring here! But for the 1st time I’m feeling the world. And I love the world”
libyanandproud
#Nafusa : #BirGhanam : #Gaddafi forces are shelling positions in BirGhanam . #Feb17 #Libya
Libyan
Residents of #Tripoli, #Zwara, etc., worried that electricity will stay off during hot month of Ramadan, cooking food will be difficult.
LA TIMES
Captured Kadafi soldiers tell rebels they have doubts
Reporting from Yafran, Libya—
Moammar Kadafi’s frontline soldiers are well-fed and well-supplied, even down to the occasional single-serving bottle of Jim Beam.
And many of his troops remain convinced that they are battling foreign extremists seeking to take over Libya.
But some recently captured soldiers are haunted by doubts.
“We talk about whether the war is right,” said a prisoner from a town near the coastal city of Zawiya who was wounded in the frontline town of Kikla in the western mountains of Libya. He spoke on condition that his name not be published for fear of endangering his family.
“We have been talking about whether what we do is right or wrong. But we don’t have any choice.”
Rebels who recently scoured houses in Kikla found abandoned assault rifles that were new and well-maintained, a dismaying indicator of how well-supplied Kadafi forces are.
They also said they found identity papers of fighters from other countries, including Niger, evidence of Kadafi’s recruitment of foreign mercenaries to fight Libyan rebels.
Military leaders, he said, “told us that we were going to fight Al Qaeda, Afghans, Algeria, and that they were using local civilians as human shields.”
Now that he’s seen that they were actually fighting Libyans, he said, he will stay “with his brothers until everything is over.”
Full art. Here:
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/...
IvanCNN Ivan Watson
Warplanes overhead. A couple of distant airstrikes at 1 AM #Tripoli
REUTERS
Airstrike hits Libyan capital just after midnight
Tripoli:
The explosion appeared to have taken place near Bab al-Aziziyah, the sprawling compound of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
At least two more rumbling blasts could be heard in the east of the city.
Source:
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/AL...
Zlitniya
Zliten:Mass arrests by GF in Zliten centre & SuqAlThalath.Those arrested range btwn 16-85 years w no reason for arrest #Libya
Zliten:NATO hit a military headquarter in the city early sat morning
Zliten(midnight Saturday):several NATO strikes including 2places GF were using to plan killing civilians,demolishing homes&displacing fam’s
dhdfisher Daniel Fisher BBC
Several more blasts felt around 1am in Tripoli further away than last night.
Ms.F
Tripoli: NATO airstrikes on Ayen Zara, 4 explosions heard #Libya #gaddaficrimes #Feb17
#Zliten: Reports of #NATO airstrikes on a number of locations used by #Gaddafi forces one of them being Alhamea military barracks..#Libya
LibyaNewMedia
Immigration, integration, intolerance…if there are problems in these fields, let’s all solve them together in a constructive fashion.
MyFreeLibya
Hectic day…Meeting representatives from different tribes here in Tibisti hotel…#Libya #Feb17 video of our arrival
www.rubiconmango.com/post/7972998746
There seems to be an overwhelming feeling in Zintan and Misrata that they are under represented.. Demands made and assurances presented
SUMMARY JULY 24th 2011
7/24/2011
7.24.2011
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/vMfE3
NATO
On July 23, NATO aircraft flew 125 sorties, including 56 strike sorties. Some of the key hits included:
In the vicinity of Brega: 1 Military Storage Facility, 1 Multiple Rocket-Launcher, 1 Command and Control Node, 1 Armored Vehicle.
In the vicinity of Al Khum: 1 Military Storage Facility
In the vicinity of Tripoli: 2 Command and Control Nodes, 2 Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher, 1 Anti Aircraft Gun.
In the vicinity of Waddan: 1 Military Storage Facility.
In the vicinity of Zintan: 1 Artillery Piece.
In the vicinity of Zlitan: 4 Military Storage Facilities, 1 Tank.
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
RAF aircraft yesterday used precision guided weapons to breach the walls of Colonel Qadhafi’s command complex in central Tripoli.
Qadhafi has for decades hidden from the Libyan people behind these walls. #Libya
The vast Bab Al Aziziyah compound is not just his personal residence, but more importantly is also the main headquarters for his regime.
Successive NATO strikes on Qadhafi’s command complex in past weeks have inflicted extensive damage on the military facilities within. #Libya
Early on Saturday morning, RAF Tornado and Typhoon aircraft, supported by allied aircraft, struck the high perimeter walls of the compound.
Paveway bombs scored direct hits in 13 places on both the outer and inner perimeter walls along the western side of Bab Al Aziziyah. #Libya
As ever, particular care was taken to ensure no civilian traffic on nearby roads was endangered. #Libya
Shortly afterwards, other RAF jets on patrol near Zlitan successfully struck four buildings. #Libya
NATO confirmed these were used as a command & control centre & staging post for regime troops mustered for attacks on the people of #Libya
During Saturday night RAF aircraft were able to conduct a precision strike on a large ammunition stockpile. #Libya
HMS Ocean launched her Army Apache helicopters against military positions between Zlitan and Al Khums. #Libya
These military positions were successfully engaged using Hellfire missiles. #Libya
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
Huge #gaddafi poster unveiled in #tripoli green sq fri.gov says its world record breaking. #Libya yfrog.com/kj4rzfj
KC_Tripolitania KC
#Nalut still under attack: #Gaddafi forces fired 70 GRAD rockets which landed in and around #Nalut at dawn today #Feb17 Jabal #Nafusa #Libya
#Gaddafi forces fired 6 GRAD rockets in the Southern part of #Misrata today – killing 2 civilians and injuring others. #Libya #Feb17
The eastern part of #Misrata was under indiscriminate and intense GRAD bombing in the early hours of today by #Gaddafi forces.
BBC
Defiance on streets of Tripoli, Libya
After more than four months of Nato bombing raids in Libya there in no end in sight in the conflict between Col Gaddafi’s forces and those opposed to his rule.
After more than four months of Nato bombing raids in Libya there in no end in sight in the conflict between Col Gaddafi’s forces and those opposed to his rule.
The rebels may have a lot of support in towns such as Benghazi and Misrata, but in the capital Tripoli tens of thousands are willing to take to the streets to show that their loyalties lie with their leader.
James Reynolds reports from Tripoli
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14259323
Mushu
No matter where you lay your eyes, you’ll see martyrs’ names written on every wall and corner around the city. So many lives lost. #Benghazi
4libya
In several ways #Gaddafi state TV is used by Qaddafi regime as a tool to kill innocent #Libya-n ppl & Nilesat is complicite in their murder.
Ossama
REPORTS: The death of al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi in #Tunisia from his wounds after an armed attack he suffered in #Tripoli on Thursday. #Libya
Prisoners from the #Gaddafi’s battalions were arrested in #Brega, see how the #FFs treated them with dignity 17/7/2011:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3FMslIMoPw&fea...
When Kufra was liberated from Gaddafi mercenaries which invaded it back in May
The convoy, which took off from #Kufra to #Brega via #Benghazi, I had talked about yesterday: t.co/X1NRSwQ #Libya #feb17 MUST WATCH!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdntEFADcuY&fea...
The liberation of the village #Khourguidh east of #Brega: سيطرة الثوار على قرية خورقيدة في الجهة الشرقية للبريقة١
www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1678...
#NALUT: Renewed indiscriminate shelling with Grad rockets and missles on the city and its suburbs last night and this morning
AJA:
NATO has been striking Gaddafi forces in Zliten from this morning to this very moment!!
MARKET WATCH
Technical woes may delay Libya oil restart
LONDON (MarketWatch) — As speculation mounts that the Libyan conflict is inching closer to an end, oil-industry experts say its production could be held back by insecurity risks, war damage and the waxy texture of its high-quality crude.
The concerns come as rebels are making headway on the military and diplomatic fronts in their goal to topple of Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi.
But any stumbling block to the resumption of Libya’s highly-sought oil exports are likely to support
crude prices going forward. The shipments’ interruption in February already brought chaos to markets, leading to an acrimonious dispute between producers and an emergency stockpile drawdown by consumers.
Once Gadhafi is gone, it would be incorrect “to expect a return to the prior status quo in Libya — either politically or in the context of the oil market,” Barclays Bank said in a recent note. The London bank warned a power vacuum could lead to chaos and insecurity and hinder the oil industry.
www.marketwatch.com/story/technical-woe...
Gaddafi wants more talks as NATO strikes hit capital.
(Reuters) – Libya is ready to hold more talks with the United States and with rebels trying to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, but the Libyan leader will not bow to demands he quit, a government spokesman said.
Moussa Ibrahim said Libyan officials had a “productive dialogue” with U.S. counterparts last week in a rare meeting that followed American recognition of the rebel government that hopes to end Gaddafi’s 41-year rule.
“Other meetings in the future … will help solve Libyan problems,” the spokesman told reporters in Tripoli late on Friday. “We are willing to talk to the Americans more.”
He said Gaddafi would not leave his position nor Libya.
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/23/us-l...
AP
Tunisia reinforcing border with Libya
TUNIS, Tunisia — Huge clouds of smoke from NATO-led raids over western Libya could be seen in neighboring Tunisia and the official TAP news agency says the Tunisian army is reinforcing the border area to ensure there is no spillover into its territory.
TAP quoted military sources Friday as saying that NATO raids over the Al-Assa zone, just a dozen kilometers (7 miles) from Tunisia, are dropping bombs on arms depots and military sites belonging to brigades of Moammar Gadhafi.
TAP quotes its sources, who aren’t identified, as saying that reinforcements in the Libyan region of nearby Ghazaya could mean new attacks against the border post of Wazen-Dhehiba, which has been
under rebel control since April 29.
Rebels use the post to get food supplies and medical help.
www.sacbee.com/2011/07/22/3787815/tunis...
Ossama
BREAKING: 6 rockets fell this morning on the southern part of #Misurata which martyred a man and a woman and others injured. #Libya #feb17
Today a high raanking delegate has arrived to #Benghazi today, but they have not released any info on who that delegate is. #Libya
The #FFs today arrested a #Gaddafi spy in the city #Ajdabiya,at the beginning of the revolution he fled to the city of ‘Mareg’. #Libya
#FFs of #Fashloum and Ben Ashoura are using #Grenades in their operations: They destroyed a car and Chekpoint today. #Libya #feb17
FFs of #Tripoli today were unfortuantly unsucsefull in another operation targeting Faraj BouGaliah. #Libya #feb17
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
No comment #gaddafi #messedup fb.me/15AokSTMx
It is so HOT today in Benghazi, you literally melt when you walk outside
cjchivers C.J. Chivers
The NYT Coverage of the Amazigh Revival in Libya… – ..has been briefly held, understandably, to make space… tumblr.com/x1q3o8o7bn
cjchivers.com/post/7996101395/the-nyt-c...
Mushu
My aunt and her two daughters made 275 sandwiches to be sent to the #FreedomFighters while the electricity was off.
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Kufra: The people of Kufra, despite the hardships, sent a large convoy of food/aid to Benghazi then to the FF in Brega to thank them #libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Zliten via AJA: FF from Misrata have some 300 local Zliten FF fighting with them. They captured 19 G soldiers (& 1 general) yesterday #libya
DIMA blog:
Libya
I did not expect I’d end up in revolutionary Libya. It occured to me out of the blues while I was in Egypt that I could go to neighbouring Libya too. Al Jazeera welcomed the idea.. and here I am. You will find here everything I have written and will write about Libya, including my Al Jazeera stories, regardless of the language
www.dimakhatib.com/p/francais_14.html
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
FRESH CLASHES ON NEFUSA FRONTLINE NR QWALEESH
Press Solidarity
reports that Gaddafi forces surrounded Hay al Andalus and Hay al Islami in Tripoli today and carried out large scale inspection of homes.
Gaddafi forces were shelling the town of Bir Ghanam this morning.
Reuters
Gaddafi criticized the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings on Saturday. “Why did you undertake the revolution? Answer me, why did you undertake the revolution?” Gaddafi said in an audio address to Egyptians on the anniversary of the 1952 coup that ended Egypt’s monarchy and paved the way for the late Gamal Abdel Nasser to take power. “Tunisia and Egypt, what did you accomplish with these revolutions? Substitution of one government regime for another?” he asked. He also defended Mubarak, saying that he should be honoured and that it would have been better if he had remained as president of Egypt.
Feb17
Several large explosions were heard in Tripoli overnight. NATO is believed to have targeted a security headquarters and Gaddafi’s compound.
Feb17
Video: NATO targeting Gaddafi forces in Zliten
Video
www.libyafeb17.com/2011/07/video-nato-t...
Derek Henry Flood
It is so hot in Nalut today, can barely function. Talked of offensive has yet to materialize.
Posted a few interesting picks from my Blackberry of this world I am temporarily inhabiting.
Qaddafists rocketed Nalut all night long in two hour intervals. Kept waking up with surges of adrenalin as ground shook. Not great.
Met with head of Nalut military council. No pre-Ramadan offensive unless NATO softens Qaddafist targets 1st. Too many anti tank mines laid,
Washington Post
U.S. struggles to free money for Libyan rebels
Despite its decision to grant diplomatic recognition to Libya’s rebels, the Obama administration is struggling to find ways to provide them with the $34 billion in frozen Libyan assets held in U.S.-controlled bank accounts, officials say.
Administration officials held at least two meetings this past week to explore ways to release the money, which the opposition Transitional National Council says it urgently needs to pay salaries and buy critical supplies. But the funds are ensnared in a thicket of legal regulations.
So far, State and Treasury department officials have identified only a small fraction of the vast Libyan holdings — estimated by some officials to be as little as a few hundred million dollars — that can be quickly freed, according to current and former officials familiar with the talks.
Read full art.:
www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-s...
Skeptic
it seems that main purpose of Gaddafi mercenaries is 2 prevent Libyan soldiers frm defecting/deserting lat.ms/psFl8v
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/...
Anything you’d like to tell Mussa Abrahim?
His private email address is: musa1274@hotmail.com
DHF
Who will fall first: Murdoch or Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi?
Kanaloni
by LY_NeverForget
The pain & damage that G has done to #Libya over 42 years, only #Libyans are truly aware of.
To rid themselves of this powerful evil & defend themselves against a rich heavily armed tyrant, #Libyans looked for help from anywhere.
FINANZ NACHRICHTEN GERMANY
Nationaler Übergangsrat in Libyen erhält 100 Millionen Euro Darlehen von Bundesregierung
Die Bundesregierung hat dem libyschen Nationalen Übergangsrat ein Darlehen in Höhe von bis zu 100 Millionen Euro für zivile und humanitäre Zwecke zur Verfügung gestellt. Es fehle an Mitteln, um notwendige Strukturen aufzubauen und Versorgungsengpässe zu beheben, begründete Außenminister Guido Westerwelle (FDP) am Sonntag die Entscheidung. Besonders die Menschen im Osten Libyens würden unter der Notlage leiden.
Gleichzeitig lägen aufgrund internationaler Sanktionen eingefrorene Gaddafi-Milliarden auch in Deutschland. “Diese Mittel gehören dem libyschen Volk, können aber zur Zeit nicht genutzt werden”, so Westerwelle. “Um das zu ändern, geben wir jetzt 100 Millionen Euro als Darlehen an den Nationalen Übergangsrat. Die Rückzahlung garantiert der von Deutschland und seinen Partnern als legitime Vertretung des libyschen Volkes angesehene Übergangsrat aus dem gesperrten libyschen Vermögen, sobald es der Sicherheitsrat für eine rechtmäßige libysche Regierung wieder frei gegeben haben wird”, fügte der FDP-Politiker hinzu.
Source:
www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-20...
Enough Gaddafi
#Algeria currently dealing w/ tenuous relationship w/ #Morocco to its west & looking at tenuous future relationship w/ #Libya to its east
libyanandproud
#Ghiryan : Clashes between Freedom Fighters and #Gaddafi forces on AbuRshada road resulted in FF loss: 1 Martyr ,12 Captured.
#Nafusa : #Nalut : #Gaddafi forces continued their Shelling on Nalut and suburbs over last night and this morning. #Feb17 #Libya
Via Shabab
Germany to loan $144 million to Libya’s rebel council for rebuilding, humanitarian use
July 24, 2011
BERLIN – Germany said Sunday that it is loaning Libya’s rebel leadership €100 million ($144 million) to help with the country’s rebuilding and humanitarian needs.
The Foreign Ministry said it is granting urgently needed funding as a loan because frozen assets related to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi cannot yet be released.
The situation in Libya is difficult because of a lack of funding “to build up the necessary structures and overcome supply shortages — from medical care to food,” Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said. “Particularly in eastern Libya, people are suffering more and more from this.”
The money will be paid back from frozen Gadhafi assets once the U.N. Security Council has released them to Libya’s new government, Westerwelle added. Germany has said it froze “several billion” euros (dollars).
Germany is not participating in NATO airstrikes on Libyan government military targets and abstained in the U.N. vote authorizing a no-fly zone.
However, it has called for Gadhafi to go, and Westerwelle announced during a visit last month to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi that Germany was recognizing the rebels’ National Transitional Council as Libya’s legitimate representative.
Source- AP via Winnipeg Free Press
libyanandproud
#Misrata : #Gaddafi forces shelled Sharqiya area with grads this morning . #Feb17 #Libya
Skeptic
#Gaddafi #Tunisia #fuel refining: "arrangements r under way 2 ship crude oil still held in storage tanks in regime-controlled Mellitah & Ras Lanuf, on the north coast of Libya, 2 As-Suhayrah, a port in Tunisia. The shipments wld follow the coastline 2 avoid sailing through international waters, which
may bring an interdiction from Nato ships patrolling the area.The source said the crude wld B refined in Tunisia’s 30,000 barrels a day (b/d) Bizerte refinery, in the north of the country, & re-imported in2 Libya." bit.ly/oKwIcc
The Freedom Group Daily is out! bit.ly/fGJIFt
borzou
Ghadhafi admonishes #Tunsians & #Egyptians 4 rising up, urges them to establish Jamahiri system based on delusional Green Book: #feb17
Ghadhafi claims 18 million Libyans, claims parts of #Egypt up to Nile as part of #Libya. #feb17
Ghadhafi calls for establishment of single #African state, (presumably with him as its leader) #libya #feb17
Prime Minister denies reports that a Libyan missile targeted Malta
Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi denied the report published on it-Torċa that the mystery explosion heard in Dingli in June was a missile on its way to Malta.
Such reports are only aimed by the Labour Party to instil fear among the Maltese and are insensitive at a time when Maltese nationals have suffered from the current situation in Libya.
Discussing issues and events that took place over the past week, the Prime Minister spoke about the Euro area leaders meeting that discussed the euro debt crisis and hailed the breakthrough deal reached. He said that this agreement sent a positive message to the financial markets.
The Prime Minister also referred to the killings in Norway and expressed his solidarity with the Norwegian population.
Referring to the recently-held PN General Council, the Prime Minister said that he is currently working on changes that will make the Party more reachable and closer to the people.
Quilliam
Both far-right and Islamist extremists want to divide our societies along religious/cultural lines. We must resist them both.
cjchivers C.J. Chivers
Reading the Refuse of a Revolution… – …to try to determine how many heat-seeking, shoulder-fired… tumblr.com/x1q3oa2zvn
cjchivers.com/post/7998471203/reading-t...
BREGA
Skeptic
Which countries sold #Gaddafi 400,000 land #mines ? I still cant believe this figure
libyanandproud
" Letter to the Killer of My Father " (AR) youtu.be/u3XdYCpkDYQ #Feb17 #Libya
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3XdYCpkDYQ&fea...
Skeptic
I doubt this youtu.be/1q_Iv-EdA34 , could still b Saif propaganda abt deaths of Senussi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q_Iv-EdA34&fea...
The Daily Beast
BEHIND LIBYA’S FRONTLINES:
t fifty kilometers from the frontier lies the barracks of Jweibya, halfway between the Arab city of Zintan and the Berber city of Nalut. At the very beginning of the war, Gadddafi’s first defeated battalion left 200 tanks like these behind them, here, as they fled. Except that there is one thing in particular about these tanks that left the insurgents perplexed when they took possession of them. All of them are lacking the same firing pin normally necessary to function. What happened?
Read more:
www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2011/07...
Tweeting Tripoli
With all the landmines Gaddafi have planted around Libya, I would say tourism would have to wait a bit :(
EH172
JUST KILL THE Fxxxxx @UKMilOps: Qadhafi has for decades hidden from the Libyan people behind these walls. #Libya
Anaya
Que fait la #tunisie des mercenaires de #kadhafi qui sont arrêtés et envoyés a la frontière tunisienne ?
UK looks to send ‘Lusty’ to Libya
By Tim Ripley
UK military planners are preparing plans to deploy the Royal Navy’s (RN’s) remaining Invincible-class aircraft carrier, HMS Illustrious , to the Mediterranean Sea with a squadron of attack helicopters embarked to sustain strike operations against Libya into 2012.
At least one of the RN’s new Type 45 Daring-class destroyers is expected to be deployed on the type’s first combat mission to accompany HMS Illustrious if the plans are approved by the UK National Security Council. Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado GR.4 and Eurofighter Typhoon squadrons are also expected to start being rotated in September if NATO extends its Libya mission for a third 90-day period.
UK Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox hinted during a speech to the Royal United Services Institute in London on 13 July that preparations are under way to allow the country’s armed forces to rotate the contingent supporting the NATO campaign in Libya, saying that the length of operations there could not be predicted.
Source:
www.janes.com/products/janes/defence-se...
Skeptic
it worries me they anticipate strikes into 2012 while NTC says it will probably b over by summers end
Anaya
1/3 – Le slogan des pro #Kadhafi est intéressant au plan de la hiérarchie : "ALLAH, MOAMMAR, LA LIBYE ET C’EST TOUT "
2/3 – Ce slogan lui donne un statut de prophète, en tt cas placé devant la patrie. #Libye
3/3 – “… et c’est tout” renvoie à l’autisme dans lequel il a plongé son pays. On ne veut pas des autres…
Anaya
1/3 – The slogan of the pro #Gaddafi is interesting in terms of hierarchy: "ALLAH, MUAMMAR, LIBYA AND THAT’S ALL
2/3 – This slogan gives him the status of a prophet, anyway it is placed before the country. #Libya
3/3 – “… and that’s all” refers to the autism in which he has plunged his country. We do not want the others …
Hanan
A home in Yefren fb.me/174SoiH8B #Libya
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=283756&i...
Aiman
For the first time in 42 years, #Gaddafi will not be able to play politics with the timing of Ramadan. Not in free #Libya at least.
libyanandproud
NOTE : The #NATO strike seen from #Tunisia was on Alwitya , not #Tripoli . #Feb17 #Libya
PUZZLE SOLVED:
The Malta Independent Online:
First official delegation to Benghazi
The Maltese government’s first official delegation to Benghazi last Sunday, led by Foreign Minister Tonio Borg, held a series of high-level talks with the Libyan National Transitional Council.
Malta had recognised Benghazi as the “sole legitimate interlocutor of the Libyan people” at the beginning of June and last Sunday’s visit was the first of a series that Maltese ministers will be paying to Benghazi, where Malta will also be opening a representation office.
Discussions are underway with the Benghazi Attorney General regarding Libya´s frozen assets in Malta and for a line of credit to be opened against those assets for the purchase of medicine and foodstuffs.
DerekHenryFlood Derek Henry Flood
Source tells me Qaddafists are laying loads of anti tank mines on Ghazaya/Takut plain & that’s why they need airpower to help w offensive.
Zintan : Forward Zintan FF team launched a surprise attack on #Gaddafi forces in Hamada killing 4 and captured 8 vehicles.
hominoid
Libya Zintan The FFs this morning attacked G troops after they were spotted by a guard, they killed four, including an officer of Sirte
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
FRESH CLASHES ON NEFUSA FRONTLINE NR QWALEESH
I CAN SEE SMOKE & EXPLOSIONS AS GADDAFI TROOPS TRY TO ADVANCE
Audioboo: Qwaleesh latest boo.fm/b420576
Opposition fighters report that while they are under missile and mortar attack, “civilians” appear to be approaching from Gaddafi lines.
Qwaleesh latest post.ly/2cAJ1
Just sent audio report on latest. Live TV report from frontline on #AJE in a few minutes
Cannot see these “civilians” from my position. Gaddafi troops in disguise? People fleeing? Human shields? It is not clear which.
Qwaleesh latest: New boo by baysontheroad bit.ly/nIUkKF
#LIBYA NATO planes heard overheard around Qwaleesh.
#LIBYA fighter: Gaddafi troops advancing from 2 directions, from Assaba and through desert from south. He says woman civilians seen on road
#LIBYA Bombardment of Qwaleesh has eased for now. Fighters believe Gaddafi’s army have stopp ed their advance.
(17.00 hrs local)
Reuters
WRAPUP 1-Blasts rock Tripoli, NATO targets Gaddafi compound
*Gaddafi government open to more U.S. contacts
- United Nations plan would begin with ceasefire
By Missy Ryan
TRIPOLI, July 24 (Reuters) – Explosions rocked central Tripoli for the second night in a row and Britain said weeks of NATO bombardment had inflicted extensive damage on Muammar Gaddafi’s heavily-fortified compound.
Full art.:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/24/liby...
#Gaddafi cn say thank u 2 #Saudi Arabia 4 funding Al #Qaeda ! As long as AQ exists, dictators lk G cn accuse any freedom fighter of being AQ
Trending “ blamethemuslims” on twitter:
Caused a lot of misunderstanding, why don’t people read the thought behind it first?
A lot of people took it as racist, it wasn’t meant to be racist at all, other people understood it:
Sanum
I started the #blamethemuslims trend to highlight how ridiculous it is to blame Muslims for every problem in the world.
ArabObserver
#blameIgnorance should be trending instead of #blamethemuslims
ღ.¸¸Libeeya¸¸.ღ
MEDIA’s first reaction was to #blamethemuslims
justimage
Can whoever is educating next generation of “terrorism experts” please include European history in next semester’s syllabus?
Thomas
Talk about a hash tag gone wrong. #blamethemuslims is not about blaming the muslims. It’s about blaming the media for blaming the muslims.
Hamad
Almost all tweets in #blamethemuslims are positive. No one is blaming Muslims. This hash-tag is miss-understood. Read twitpic.com/5v535d
twitpic.com/5v535d
khadiijah
I found who started #BlameTheMuslims, and his aim is not to hate, it’s to show how stupid people r when they blame muslims for everything
Ruwayda
#blamethemuslims — an attempt to show the Media’s bias towards Muslims. It wasn’t started out of spite or hate.
Majik™
#blamethemuslims? No blame your parents for raising you with such ignorance towards other religions.
Charlamagne
#blamethemuslims is yet another example of why Twitter needs a special font for sarcasm.
Sanum
in May, there was a bomb scare at Kings Cross Station in London. the IRA was to blame. everyones first reaction? #blamethemuslims
Sanum:
1) I’m a Muslim.
2) I’m FEMALE.
3) I started #blamethemuslims
4) I don’t hate muslims
5) Read my TL the last 24 hours
6) Have a lovely day.
Someone had a solution to the problem:
LibyaLiberty Now Beard Free
Hmmm..#BlameTheMuslims & #BabyMakingSongs R both trending-they could be combined to #BlameTheMuslimBabyMakingSongs,to nip problem in the bud
Back to Libya tweets now:
Souffian Tripoli
#FF Never underestimate Gaddafi troops. If you don’t underestimate Gaddafi troops, your one step ahead of them. #Libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Gaddafi forces are heavily mining Brega, Zliten and areas north of the Nafousa mtn and Gheryan… desperate to slow FF advance #libya #feb17
Freedom ~ Syria ♡
:‘) just spoke to all my family in #Tunisia, they’re going back to Zintan on Friday, inshallah will visit them there asap #Libya #AidTrip
REUTERS:
Algeria denies reports of arms ship for Gaddafi
(Reuters) – Algeria denied charges that a Libyan ship offloaded weapons for Muammar Gaddafi’s troops at one of its ports.
“The foreign ministry denies categorically these allegations,” the official APS news agency quoted a spokesman for the foreign ministry as saying late Saturday.
Libyan opposition sources said the ship, sailing under a Libyan flag, arrived on July 19 at the port of Djen Djen from where the cargo was being taken over the border into Libya.
The United States voiced concern and urged Algeria, if it was aware of the shipment, to stop it from reaching Gaddafi’s forces.
Source and more here:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/24/us-l...
What a surprise! Did anybody expect a different answer?
Can someone please take a photo?
Prisoners from the al-Gaddafi in Brega 20 711 t.co/Csssrsz via @youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbPyKSpcA_4&fea...
Swami
#Zliten via AJA: FFs control 1/3 of Souq Al Thulata #Libya
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Khalifa Omar Massaoud: 75 yr old man from #Kikla (Zaret) #Libya. Shot in his shelter & left 4 dead by 3 #Gaddafi twitpic.com/5v5lei
.African mercenaries with AK47s on July 7. His neighbor (another elderly unarmed man) was killed by these same mercenaries.
.Mr Massaoud was found lying in blood in his shelter by his neighbor’s son, who ran to get help. He & another man carried
Mr Massaoud 6 kms on foot to the #Kikla hospital. He was transferred later that day to #Yefren, where he spent 4 days.
.Mr Massaoud spent 1 day in Tataouine & then arrived at this Tunis hospital on July 12. I took this photo on July 14.
hominoid
The FFs say they have chased the bulk of Gaddafi’s forces from Brega in the east and are poised to advance. Finally some news of Brega !
Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا” goo.gl/aM65o
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#LIBYA: #Gaddafi forces are trying to enter #Kikla with civilians waving white flags in front – while firing Grads into Kikla from Meska.
Hasnt eased at Kikla. Gaddafi forces r firing into Kikla from Meska & trying to enter w/ white flag waving civilians in front
The ‘civilians’ in front of the Gaddafi forces are likely just masquerading as civilians…
Correction: Gaddafi forces are trying to enter Qwaleesh, not Kikla, and firing Grads at both Qwaleesh and Kikla.
bencnn benwedeman
Greenwald: "Of 294 terror attacks attempted or executed on Euro soil in ’09 as counted by EU, grand total of 1 perpetrated by “Islamists”
FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
#Qalaa thuwar test out tank gained, along w other weapons, from fleeing Gaddafiforces. #Libya www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvoNvrk0sCw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvoNvrk0sCw
libyanandproud
AbdAlatti Obedi (#Gaddafi FM) departs #Cairo heading to #Tunisia after 3 day talks with #Egyptian authorities . #Feb17 #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “BANU GENC” 34.58041˚/25.98396˚ en route to dest. #Tripoli #Libya Speed/Course: 8.2 kn/263˚. #feb17 @NATO
Mohamed
guess it’s time we all unite, #Egypt #Syria #Tunisia #Libya #Bahrain #Yemen #Spain #Greece #globalrevolution
Libya In Me
Words of gold given by one of Libya’s bravest men…(Arabic) youtube.com/watch?v=SUfBMP… #Libya #Feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUfBMPfk9Nc
Libya_Awake_United
7 days, 8 nights in a row & finally a resident of #tripoli filled his car with gas the car will serve 4 families. 1/2
His color turned blackish red from the heat & allergy all over his skin.Wanted to shower find no water,no electricity to fill water tank 2/2
Nothing compared to what’s happening in front-lines … But just a view of The besieged Tripoli.
libyanandproud
#Wigh base in southern #Libya has fallen to #Gaddafi forces. #Feb17 #Libya
KC_Tripolitania KC
Tripoli: : The day Freedom Fighters attacked Government meeting at HayAlandalus, #Gaddafi forces killed 100+ prisoners #Libya’
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Reports of #Gaddafi forces dressing as civilians & waving white flags at front of armed advancing G forces in multiple towns. #Libya #feb17
Reuters
Se oyen explosiones Trípoli mientras OTAN ataca complejo Gaddafi
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Explosiones remecieron el centro de Trípoli por segunda noche consecutiva, mientras Gran Bretaña dijo el domingo que semanas de bombardeos de la OTAN generaron grandes daños a la fortificada residencia del líder libio Muammar Gaddafi.
El líder de Libia se aferra al poder pese a los cuatro meses de ataques aéreos de la OTAN y un largo
conflicto con rebeldes que piden terminar con su mandato de 41 años, quienes han capturado vastas extensiones del país norafricano.
Las explosiones remecieron a Trípoli cerca de las 01.00 horas de la madrugada del domingo, un día después de que la OTAN lanzara ataques sobre lo que dijo era un comando militar en la capital libia.
Full art.:
es-us.noticias.yahoo.com/se-oyen-explos...
As reported few days ago, seems confirmed now:
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi reported dead in #Tunisia from wounds he received in #Tripoli on Thursday. #Libya #feb17
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Cyprus CARGO SHIP “CAMELIA” has now departed port #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Zliten: #Freedomfighters have made good advance,19 #Gaddafi forces captured youtu.be/RyFB_ISY-DQ #Libya #feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyFB_ISY-DQ&fea...
FreeBenghazi
Reinforcement joined Gaddafiforces in #Nalut. Planting mines in Takut & Badr, and cut off electricity, water, telecom #Libya v @nalut17feb
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Libya OIL TANKER “AL AGAILA” remains anchored in port #Singapore. #feb17
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Arada area last night: 8 #Gaddafi troops were shot at by #Freedomfighters in #AlHishan Crossings. All FF escaped. #Libya #feb17
#Malta OIL TANKER “SESTRI STAR” now anchored in port #Benghazi #Libya. #feb17
Omar A
please pray for #Zawiya’s poet #RabeChraire, arrested back in March, the last we heard he’s being badky tortured
Libya In Me
Name: Asedeeq Ali Al-Aroosy. Born in 1967, married & has a son & daughter. Martyrdom was his only goal. Zawiya. Feb17Martyrs.com/?p=517
Reem
Sometimes you find strength in pain, sometimes frustration, sometimes inspiration and sometimes it kills everything beauitiful inside you
Libya In Me
Name: Khalifa Al-Haji. A UK resident who left his wife & children to fight in Zintan where he was martyred. Feb17Martyrs.com/?p=513 #Libya
Aiman Amer
#Gaddafi and the five stages of grief. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression & acceptance youtube.com/watch?v=9r4Q3Q… (In Arabic)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r4Q3QVkurU&fea...
BentBenghazi G
#Gaddafi forces looting shops in #Brega tiny.cc/9wvqq #libya #feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ibaZ04jusM&fea...
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
by libyanproud
been waiting for a press conf in #Tripoli since 3p local (4hrs ago)… #Libya
libyanandproud
#Nafusa : #Gwaleesh : Attack involved bus of #Gaddafi forces(civ clothes) wielding guns, when heard gun Shots they ran away
libyanandproud
CORRECTION : #Ghiryan clashes i tweeted earlier results are: 1 Martyr and 1 FF captured . Not 12 FF Captured ! #Feb17 #Libya
Skeptic
It looks like there is big G offensive towards Nafusa frm 2 directions, pre-emptive move against impending FF offensive on Gharyan!
AFP
KADHAFI COUNTER – ATTACK REPULSED, TRIPOLI BOMBED
Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi launched a counter-offensive on rebels in the southwest on Sunday but were repulsed, after NATO warplanes blitzed military targets in the capital.
An AFP correspondent reported that rebels repelled an attack aimed at recapturing the desert hamlet of Gualish on the road to Tripoli which loyalist forces lost to the insurgents in fierce fighting earlier this month.
Rebels in Gualish said they had prevented regime forces from getting within a kilometre (less than a mile) of the hamlet, and that they had been sent reinforcements from Zintan, the main rebel base in western Libya.
Before launching their counter-attack, loyalist forces sent dozens of civilians into the hamlet to announce their imminent arrival, rebel witnesses told AFP.
An AFP correspondent within earshot reported that two hours of intense fighting then took place.
In the capital itself, Kadhafi’s compound again came under NATO air attack.
Full art.:
my.news.yahoo.com/nato-bombs-tripoli-ka...
Hominoid
Dubai – Arab
Part 1
He Libyan dissident d. Mohammad Yousuf Maqrif, the founder of the National Front for the Salvation of Libya, previously, for “Arab” that “all data indicate that the system to the disappearance, and that the end will be bloody Gaddafi.”
Maqrif said in an interview with “Arab” that the crisis in Libya “has reached a stage there can be no political solution with them, and that the only solution is to eliminate the al-Gaddafi, and there is consensus on the need to get rid of it.”
He stressed that Gaddafi “was not going to leave his position by force but by force, and that the Libyan case is now before the historic moment is extraordinary, and that the will of the Libyan National is determined to get rid of the Qaddafi regime.”
He said that “Gaddafi imagined that he was born to rule Libya and remain under his control, though some tribes did not raise arms against Gaddafi for various reasons.”
He stressed that “the attitude of the Algerian regime’s shameful and condemnable, and that no mediation between Gaddafi and the Libyan people now, and that the Libyan people Mehr freedom with blood.”
Part 2
He stated that the “arbitrary actions made me opposed to the Qadhafi regime and declared a separatist for the Libyan regime and joining the opposition in 1980, and we found the possibility of the formation of opposition in Libya, so we have issued a statement of the establishment of the National Front for Salvation, which was than the overthrow Gaddafi.”
He stated that “Gaddafi Ajriah even eliminate his opponents, and that later his opponents abroad since 1981, the brothers were arrested and issued a ruling in absentia to death.”
On the international intervention in Libya, he said that “the international community realized that there is a people subjected to genocide, moved so as not to find himself in trouble.”
Libya Gaddafi, sent a number of his senior officials, to carry out the sale of all investments held by Libya in Egypt
Defense News
Belgium Probes Arms Sales to Kadhafi Regime
BRUSSELS – Belgium’s regional government of Wallonia came under fire Feb. 21 for authorizing the sale of weapons to Libya in 2009, prompting a probe into whether the arms were used against protesters.
The governments of the French-speaking region asked the Belgian ambassador in Tripoli to ask Libyan authorities how the weapons have been used, said Christopher Barzal, spokesman for Wallonia’s regional leader Rudy Demotte.
Wallonia gave an export license to Liege-based FN Herstal for the sale of 367 F2000 assault rifles, 367 P90 submachine guns, 367 Five-Seven handguns, 20 Minimi light machine guns, 22,000 rifle grenades and 1.134 million rounds of ammunition for these weapons, for a total value of 6.9 million euros.
The license also authorized the sale of 2,000 FN 303, a compressed-air gun that fires projectiles which, according to the firm’s website, can be used to stop a “hostile but unarmed individual or group” among other things.
The sale of these so-called “less-lethal” weapons was valued at 5.3 million euros.
The final use certificate states that the weapons are for the exclusive use of the Libyan army’s 32nd elite forces battalion for a mission to protect “humanitarian aid convoys to Darfur”, Barzal said.
The Belgian Human Rights League expressed fears that the weapons could have been used by the regime of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi to repress anti-government protests, but it admitted it had no proof.
“The probability is very low, but we have asked the ambassador to verify urgently,” Barzal said.
The European Union lifted an arms embargo on Libya in 2004.
In Belgium’s decentralized political system, the regions are responsible for approving licenses for arm exports.
Source;
www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=5768641
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Increasing number of ships w/ destinations in #Libya turning off transponders, listing false or no dest. Tracing any way. #feb17
libyanfsl Libya NFSL
NATO airstrikes on Gaddafi forces near Alasaba’a, explosions heard from as far as Gheriyan and smoke can be seen from more than 20 km away
BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
sitting on the internet in #benghazi at a cafe called “Friends” with the same logo as the TV show.
hominoid
Libya Zintan and the Berber city of Nalout. Has 200 tanks left in the defeat of the army of Gaddafi.Libya FFs on Sunday repelled an attack aimed at recapturing the desert hamlet of Gualish on the road to Tripoli,
libyanandproud
#NATO bombs #Gaddafi positions in direction of #Miska and #Alassabaa ! #Feb17 #Libya
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
Smoke trail from missile fired by Opposition fighters in Qwaleesh – moby.to/y9t76q
Opp field commander calling the shots. One hand on binos, other on radio. yfrog.com/kgc17gaj ##LIBYA ##AJE
Libya counsel in Bulgaria announced his defection and the digestion of his Team and supporting #feb17 rev. And Libyan #nct #Libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Nafousa: Reports that Mustafa Abdul Jalil, NTC leader is in the mountain on a surprise visit – overseeing aid & humanitarian support #libya
Abdul
#Gwalish is getting more #FF supply to defeat the counter #Gaddafi attack #libya #Nafusa yfrog.us/1gu77bz
yfrog.com/1gu77bz
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Alassaba: #Gaddafi mercs raiding houses & arresting civilians on the slightest suspicion. #Libya #feb17
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
Reinforcements from Zintan, but we only saw them in any numbers 2 and a half hours after attack started. yfrog.com/kkr1mmij ##LIBYA
FreeLibyanman FreeLibyan
just had Phon call W #FF frm #Alassaba, #Gaddafi mercenaries raiding houses & arresting civilians 4 da slightest suspicion @NATO must help
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Misrata: Freedom fighters at the southern front close to Bani Walid captured 2 Gaddafi soldiers & freed over 20 families held hostage
Benghazi: Quryna, a local newspaper reports that injured freedom fighters from Qatrun’s battles are being treated at a local hospital #libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Libyan consulate #AbrahimFaweris in the Libyan embassy in #Bulgaria has defected. #Libya #feb17
FreeBenghazi
Thuwar rescue 24families held captive near BaniWalid, capture 2 Gaddafi soldiers & gained weapons. No casualties from the thuwar #Libya
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Bulgaria: The Libyan consul in Bulgaria just declared that he is no longer representing the Libyan regime live on air via @LibyaTV #libya
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
Audioboo: Audio update from frontline at Qwaleesh. Pictures running on #AJE boo.fm/b420733 #aje #libya
SHIP that caused USA to contact Algeria:
Ossama
BREAKING: Reports that the ship that docked in #Algeria full of weapons originated from a country which recognised the #NTC… #Croatia.
The boat was croation and the weapons were uploaded onto the ship from Croatia
libyanandproud
#Nafusa : #Nalut : Recon teams report #Gaddafi vehicle convoy moving from #Tiji towards Nalut . #Feb17 #Libya @NATO
LIBYA_BREAKNEWS Ossama
BREAKING: REPORTS: Children’s school in #Fashloum, #Tripoli being used as safeplace for weaponry! PLZ NOTIFY @NATO #Libya
Ossama
Plz spread this FB page for all our Martyrs of the revolution: post and put photos of people u know who have martyred: facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pa…
www.facebook.com/pages/RIP-to-all-the-M...
dovenews Libyan™
BREAKING! Reports that Abdula AlSansui has died. via #Libya.tv
UPDATE: BREAKING! Reports that #Abdula #AlSanusi has died at the oil medical clinic in #Gharghor in #Tripoli. via #Libya.tv
Hominoid
Libya Somewhere in the city of Misurata was probably in one of the buildings Tripoli Street was found the body of a young man fighting for Gaddafi, they found him dead, and noted he did not use a single shot from his gun, and then found a surprise in his hand which he wrote before his death: O Misurata to give an example to those soldiers who are fighting imposed by force brothers they died their blood did not contaminate the blood of their fellow citizens Allah’s mercy and the mercy of vast and go about our people in Libya are suffering from injustice and oppression.
Libya FFs seize a military car belongs to Gadffi forces full of weapons and ammunition, the driver was arrested in the northern axis of Al brega. A clam situation for the third day due to mines being removed.
Libya G troops tried to enter Brega from the south, but were stooped. FFs after clash arrested 9 and the rest fled.
Ossama
BREAKING: FFs are NOW attacking #Gaddafi forces who are stationed on the border of Alosabah.
libyanandproud
#Ghiryan : Anti #Gaddafi protesters in the city arrested by Gaddafi Mercs and Sahban brigade, most were later helped escape .
Something big developing on front South of #Misrata, that could significantly impact other fronts, i’m waiting 4 more info
Ossama
#Zintan channel: Mustafa Abdul Jalil left #Zintan safe after a quick inspection visit to the city and its living circumstances. #Libya
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
WOW These Rebel pilots have balls. crazy landing on narrow road “Terrain ahead pull up” #Nafusa #Feb17 youtube.com/watch?v=Q-mZu7…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-mZu7e5D3M
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Gaddafi forces are massing in Ghezaya and Tekut (north of #Nalut) – perhaps preparing for an attack on Wazin or Nalut itself #libya #feb17
Ossama
#Tripoli: Power cuts getting worse and worse everyday in Souq AlJuma etc, people are wondering how they will be able to fast with this!
Ossama
BREAKING: FFs said that Gaddafi forces are using ambulances to smuggle weapons from #Sirte to forces located in industrial area of #Brega
The operations of dismantling mines are still continuous in relatively quiet day today interspersed with some intermittent shelling by FF
Abdul
Heavy shelling in #Gwalish right now #Gaddafi is trying to retake #qwalish. He’s been defeated as we speak #Grad missiles hitting everywhere
Mohammad
Video: 24 happy families after being freed by #Misratah FF #feb17 youtube.com/watch?v=MdbWD7…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdbWD7XPh9U&sns=em
National Journal
National Security Insiders Support Decision to Recognize Libya’s Rebels
Most call for releasing some of Qaddafi-linked frozen funds to the rebels.
Libyan anti-regime protesters show machine guns and ammunition confiscated from soldiers in Benghazi in February.
National Journal’s National Security Insiders strongly support the Obama administration’s decision to formally recognize Libya’s opposition government as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people. Most said they support funneling some of the billions of dollars in frozen regime funds to the rebels for whatever they need in the fight to overthrow Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi—although some cautioned against arming the rebels directly.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced recently that the U.S. decided to formally recognize Libya’s Transitional National Council as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people. Thirty-eight out of 54 respondents (70 percent) said this was the right decision, given the Obama administration’s investment in the military operation and significant contact with the rebel government over the course of several months. “Now that the United States has committed to regime change in Libya, it makes little sense not to,” one Insider said.
“Since the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant against Qaddafi for crimes against humanity, he can no longer be considered the legitimate head of state of Libya,” another Insider said. “Moreover, the 33-member Transitional National Council has a broad base of support and backs political freedoms. Its legitimacy is further enhanced by the absence of competitive anti-Qaddafi resistance group.” Or as another Insider said: “We’ve recognized worse!”
Poll result and read more here:
www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurit...
dovenews
BREAKING! #Zintan #FF have captured #Albotama gate south #Mizdah
Ossama
#TRIPOLI: Security forces who defected say that #Gaddafi has laid mines in some places of Tripoli, including Burj AlFatah, Saray AlHamra etc
IvanCNN Ivan Watson
Libyan State TV confirms fighting on Nafusa front in Qualish. Accuses rebels of attacking civilian convoy going to Qualish #Libya
m_madi Mohamed Madi
Photo: Yifrin youth hostel on Flickr. Pro-Gaddafi graffiti in Yifrin’s youth hostel. This one reads:… tumblr.com/xxw3ohp4y3
Photo: Nafusa street art on Flickr. tumblr.com/xxw3ohndxu
Photo: Tamazight art on Flickr. I think this says Libya but I’m not sure. tumblr.com/xxw3ohmtcz
WAPO JOURNO
BoothWilliam William Booth
Fighting at Qawlish in #Libya western mtns: families from Gaddafi-held town approach frontline, government troops behind them, rockets fired
IvanCNN Ivan Watson
Libyan State TV confirms fighting on Nafusa front in Qualish. Accuses rebels of attacking civilian convoy going to Qualish #Libya
Bint:
Why would a civilian in his right mind go to a frontline out of free will? Either forced or they are soldiers in civilian disguise
So yet again Gaddafi forces are using civilians as human shields. Such cowards, have to resort to dirty tactics.
Gaddafi forces know that they can never defeat the FFs in a fair match, so have to resort to cowardly tactics such as using human shields
Abdul
We heard from SEVERAL other journo’s that these people were NOT civilians, they were troops DISGUISED as civilians.
Have some journos been instructed by their headquarters to tow the line with their reporting?
Very strange that the independent journos, and also AlArabiya and Aljazeera are reporting with almost an opposing view……..
Why are these journo’s just regurgitating all these rubbish lies from G regime?
A regime that only yesterday , on tv, stated that there have only been 8 people killed in total sofar in the uprising and that this is being investigated……..
It just makes you think…….
Orders from the top at home or scared of regime?
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA Opposition repelled Gadaffi, but not a great day for them. Appear not to have learned lessons of last attack on Qwaleesh 12 days ago.
#LIBYA opp forces again had poor defences at Qwaleesh, bad comms, and very delayed reinforcements.
No longer a case of no weapons, when mortars & missiles arrived, they prevailed. Problem one of comms, organisation and ultimately command
Skeptic
#Albotama gate is captured, Supplies frm #Algeria cant reach #Tripoli anymore via #Mizdah → #Gharyan ! This is huge achievement 4 FFs!
Coordinates of Albotama, South of Mizdah bit.ly/p58U9V
Main reason 4 liberating #Gharyan is as jumping point 2 #Tripoli, now that supplies frm #Algeria frm S r blocked at #Albotama, S of #Mizdah
FFs captured Albotama bc it is junction 2 roads going 2 Mizdah – Tripoli 2 North & Bani Walid – Sirte 2 West!
Now i get it: #Nafusa FFs frm #Albotama will at some point link with those advancing on #Bani Walid frm #Misrata, 2 cut all #Gaddafi routes!
Reports abt advance on #Albotama & on #Bani #Walid r pieces in puzzle, but now the NTC strategy is clear!
NTC trying 2 cut all routes used by Gaddafi in a huge area of Tripolitania/Fezzan!
After liberating #Bani Walid, #Misrata FFs will link with those at #Albotama & isolate vast areas of Libya frm Gaddafi!
If u look on map, imagine 1 circular line running frm #Albotama to #Bani #Walid, that is the new front being prepared by Ffs
So i was right in my prediction that something big was developing South of Misrata! Gaddafi caught totally by surprise!
If they can create new front between Albotama & Bani Walid, it will b very difficult 4 Gaddafi 2 use Tripoli-Sabha & Tripoli-Sirte routes
Gaddafi will b cut off frm his forces in Sirte/Brega & Sabha region, once the new Albotama/Bani Walid front is formed!
New front S of Nafusa will b deadly blow 4 Gaddafi!
FFs spearhead not far frm Bani Walid!
If it is created, new front South of Gharyan should cut the arms of Gaddafi stretching frm Tripoli 2 Sirte/Brega & Sabha region!
So now Gaddafi will b desperately trying 2 keep Zawiya, his only connection 2 outside world via Tunisia, after losing Algeria & Sabha routes
The newly created unified command under NTC defense minister is designed 2 coordinate such large fronts like the new one being formed!
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Nafousa: Pictures of Mustafa Abdul Jalil’s visit to Cabao today to discuss aid/financial support facebook.com/media/set/?set… #libya #feb17 #ntc
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.23890...
LOOK AT THIS!
Tweeting Tripoli
NATO precision, a Tank hit by a rocket and a roman ruins meters away not touched: flickr.com/photos/nafusa/… #feb17 #Libya
www.flickr.com/photos/nafusa/5971317590...
Sarah LFFR
Freedom fighter to #Libya’s expats: “We will free this beloved country, and you can help us rebuild it.” :)”
libyanandproud
BREAKING : #Nafusa : #Mizda : MIZDA IS LIBERATED !!!! Not only butma . ALL OF MIZDA !!
Tripolitano
LibyaAhrar tv yet again reports news that Abdullah Al Sanussi died in hospital in #Tripoli. Oil company hospital
ChangeInLibya
Rumours flying around: Death of Abdallah Senussi in a clinic in Tripoli and the killing of Aisha Gaddafi’s husband by Zintan fighters
septimius_
So, am I supposed to believe that Gaddafi will send his daughter’s husband to the front line? Really? #notbuyingit
Ahmed
His death was reported by them before..after the initial attack…I have no idea how credible their reports are this time..we wait
bousuwa
He Might had much of alcohol that made him man enough to go to the front line #LIBYA
Free Libyia The Zintan Council is in Benghazi and the head of the NTC is in Zintan…Mashallah 3ala Libyan Unity ♥#Libya♥ #OneLibya #Feb17
Gaddafi used to make us paint shop fronts green… not anymore #libya fb.me/HjYZqmsG
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=284313&id=137199749688243
Freedom fighters recovering from injuries they sustained in Brega #libya #hospital fb.me/TVtSYLF0
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=284314&id=137199749688243
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
by ChangeInLibya
#Gaddafi OIL TANKER “LPG/C AISHA2” 34.1167°/022.4237° dest. #Malta but now headed E passing #Derna #Libya. #feb17
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “EFENDI BABA” en route to dest. #Benghazi #Libya ETA: 2011-07-26 00:15 (UTC). #feb17
AJA: FF reports they r 7km from Zliten bridge and correspondent relays that FFs say they control 30% of #Zliten
Mariam
I want to open a Dulux paint concession in Free Libya :-)
Afrique en Ligne
Libye-Kadhafi: La Libye est victime d’un complot colonialiste
Actualités-Libye – Le leader libyen Mouammar Kadhafi a déclaré que ce qui se passe en Libye est un complot colonialiste visant à envahir ce pays et occuper les sources de pétrole pour ensuite occuper l’Egypte, la Tunisie et la presqu’île arabique. Le guide Kadhafi a ajouté, dans un discours adressé, samedi soir, au peuple égyptien à l’occasion de l’anniversaire de la révolution du 23 juillet dirigée par le défunt leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, que « les allégations selon lesquelles la Libye a tué par balles son propre peuple sont infondées’ affirmant qu’il s’agit ’ d’un stratagème pour justifier l’occupation du pays, sous le prétexte de protéger les civils ».
‘Ils vous ont dit que les morts en Libye sont par milliers. Nous leurs disons où sont ces milliers de morts ? Où ont-ils été enterrés ? Où sont leurs cartes d’identité ? Quels sont leurs noms ? Où sont leurs familles? Et comment ont-ils disparu si vite?’ », a-t-il indiqué.
Il a ajouté que ‘le peuple libyen n’a aucun problème et que ce qui se passe en Libye est une agression extérieure avec des mercenaires recrutés par la France pour déstabiliser le pays’.
Aussi le leader Kadhafi a-t-il fait observer que le peuple libyen résistera de toutes ses forces à cette campagne néocoloniale, affirmant : «nous n’abdiquerons pas. Nous mourons debout. Nous défendrons l’Afrique qui nous soutient et défend la nation islamique et l’Islam face à cette croisade reconnue par le président français lui-même ».
www.afriquejet.com/afrique-du-nord/liby...
ALJAZEERA:
Libya_ A STATE OF TERROR
LONG VIDEO:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UodjAs8mEPs&fea...
WESSIM
Donate to UNICEF’s Libya Crisis Children’s Appeal j.mp/leTFb9 #Libya #feb17
www.unicef.org.uk/landing-pages/Libya
Anaya
Journalistes à #Tripoli tellement tenus qu’on ne peut connaître résultat de l’attentat de vendredi. Rumeurs:Senoussi et Daw y seraient morts
Abeidi
Libya, Libya Alhurar, killing of Ahmeed Bo Maniar Aisha’s Husband.الله لا يرده
Danya
Stop the bloodbath in #LIBYA … #Gaddafi needs to go.
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gaddafi OIL TANKER “LPG/C AISHA2” has since Feb of this year been anchored in area W off coast of #Malta. #Libya #feb17
somaya
Goosebumps seeing head of the #Zintan council speaking to #Benghazi crowd, as ppl are chanting about unity. Aww I see ppl I know :)
N_Benghazi .
If Aisha Gaddafi’s husband is really dead then he is epitomizing the phrase “in a better place”. Anything is better than that household.
Haitham
Allah Akbarr , 7maid ,3aysha al gaddafi’s husband , and major in one of brigades gt killed , even abdulla snussi is dead , g’s right hand !!
septimius
At this rate some plastic surgeon is going to be very busy soon! #Rumour #Libya
Free Libyia
My my my so many reports of Gaddafi clan deaths today, i’m sure Satan is happy for so many to be joining him in Hell……..:S
Abeidi
Libya,I love to believe that A. Sanossi has died but i won’t beleive it until I see his corpse onTV or real picture cuz it might be a trick
Free Libyia
Appaprently Aisha Gaddafi’s husband is dead according to Benghazi Tahrir Sq speaker on @libyatv ………
Sarah LFFR
Fam. from Tripo : “In #Tripoli the price for a chicken reached 19dinars (when it was ~ 5)& the price for fruit juice 5dinars(was ~1.5)”
libya17feb
Mansour Kikhia was killed years ago, he was brought to #Tripoli in an Egyptian ceremonies(Marasim) Car. This information is from Abubakir Ibrahim Bileil Imsalati who has passed away years ago and was a colonal in the Intelligence Office and was also the manager of the Investigation Committees.
Ahmed Sanalla
Saif #Gaddafi standing on a roof of car..holding a rifle.Promising supporters weapons to kill the cowards youtu.be/FRhkpJww9vo #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRhkpJww9vo&fea...
AJE
Libya
Libyan opposition forces have repelled an offensive by government troops in the town of Qwalish.
Sunday’s attack was aimed at recapturing the strategic desert town, southwest of the capital Tripoli.
Witnesses said dozens of civilians were sent to the area just before the attack. Opposition fighters seized control of the region earlier this month.
septimius
Dear @NTC_of_Libya I know we are in a war and stuff but surely somebody can deal with THE media a bit better….PLZ… #LiBYA
Assessing and the problems of tracing the assets of dictators:
Time Magazine Business
Dictators Inc.
Among the first demands of Libya’s rebels when the revolt erupted in Benghazi in February was for Europe and the U.S. to freeze all assets of Muammar Gaddafi and his family members, who are worth billions, according to estimates by officials who defected. Just a few of those now frozen assets: an office building in London’s West End, 3% of the British publisher Pearson, a stake in Italy’s Juventus football club and a 7,000-hectare spread on Spain’s Costa del Sol.
Full art.:
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,91...
Several reports:
Gaddafi using primary schools in Tripoli, specifically in Fashloum, as safe places for hidind and storing weaponry.
Armchair Arab
so have FF freed mizdah? Or did they attack and withdraw to zintan?
According to military council they attacked and withdrew
Beautiful:
Brega: Strong wind storm uncovers thousands of landmines in brega , revolutionaries were able see them and remove them with ease .
TRUE THEN?
CIL
BREAKING: Zintan MILITARY COUNCIL: We cannot confirm or deny that it was Aisha G’s husband but a VIP was killed with large # of his guards
BREAKING: Zintan MILITARY COUNCIL: THE OPERATION took place in the valleys SOUTH OF MIZDAH – on the road to SABHA
BREAKING: Zintan MILITARY COUNCIL: The freeodm fighters that carried out the operation returned safely after seizing 8 4×4 vehicles
BREAKING: Zintan MILITARY COUNCIL: The operation was a joint op between Zintan/Nafousa FF and Bani Walid freedom fighters
Zintan military council: We denied news of Mizdah gate control earlier for safety reasons – till our FF returned safely to Zintan
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Misrata front lines..! fb.me/11NtkQhEO
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=284362&id=137199749688243
killing them with their own weapons #libya fb.me/18Je4fT46
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=284363&id=137199749688243
somaya
Gaddafi, don’t mess with Zintan or you’re death bed awaits you next. Na7nu lam nasta5dam al quwa ba3d! love using his own words against him
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
CORRECTION: Earlier reported tanker “LPG/C AISHA2” as a #Gaddafi ship, ship is in the hands of the #NTC & was in #Benghazi in April. #Libya
libyanandproud
BREAKING : Libyan Freedom Fighters kicked #Gaddafi ass today on all fronts ! #Feb17 #Libya
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Unconfirmed: #Zintan #Freedomfighters carried out an operation killing Lieutenant Ahmaid Abuzintaya (Aisha #Gaddafi’s husband) #Libya
Mustafa AbdeJalil said that Gadhafi &his family could remain in Libya as part of political solution to the conflict on.wsj.com/qmKeaF
ZINTAN, Libya—Libyan opposition leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said Sunday that Col. Moammar Gadhafi and his family could remain in Libya as part of a political solution to the five-month-old conflict, provided they give up power and rebel leaders can determine where in Libya and under what conditions they remain.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal during an unannounced visit to Libya’s rebel-controlled western mountains, Mr. Jalil confirmed reports from other rebel officials in recent days that Qatar has stepped up the flow of military aid to rebels in recent days.
Source:
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111...
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Freedom fighters in #Qwaleesh prevented an attack from #Gaddafi forces but suffered from lack of communication equipment. #Libya @NATO
Joanne
Saturday’s #NATO strikes targeted BabAl Azizyah WALLS hitting Guard Towers because they were securing the command and control centre #Libya
Zlitniya
Zliten update on Al Aan TV: youtube.com/watch?feature=…
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_em...
Yefrenia
“We don’t die for our friends, we live for them” …. #Feb17 freedom fighter urges his friends to take cover from sh twitpic.com/5vck66
“If we had met some other time, some other way…we would have had real fun”… #Feb17 freedom fighters …war brings pe twitpic.com/5vciv8
SMILE:
septimius_
Gaddafi’s nightmare! Electronic rats !!! #Libya #Feb17 twitpic.com/5vccyu
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
UNCONFIRMED: reports of Free Libyan Army jets participating in attacks against #Gaddafi mercenaries in #Brega during an 8 hrs window. #Libya
MisrataPatriots PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
Video: Pro-democracy leader Mr. Mustafa Abduljaleel in Zintan on 24 07 2011, Jabel-Nafousa youtu.be/aVuo6Zog-us #Libya #feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVuo6Zog-us&fea...
شحنة خمور كانت متجهة لكتائب الطاغية وتمت مصادرتها A shipment of wine destined to Gaddafi troops was confiscated youtu.be/Hh_e19rxoSs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh_e19rxoSs&feature=youtu.be
Sarah LFFR
by ChangeInLibya
One of the huge beautiful fresco on the airport road – “We have a dream” #Benghazi #Libya #17feb twitpic.com/5vdwmt
Libya In Me
by ChangeInLibya
My uncle’s picture in Benghazi’s Al-Tahrir Square a.k.a courthouse (bottom big picture) #Libya #Feb17 yfrog.com/gy29576261j
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Misrata: 1 freedom fighter succumbed to injuries he sustained 4 days ago & 15 people were injured due to shelling from G forces today #libya
libyanandproud
#Gumatta : Gumatta FF have killed three high profile #Gaddafi security chiefs in Gumatta ! #Feb17 #Libya via @ZlitenFree
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
A bakery very close to the Brega front lines making bread and delivering messages of support to the FF #libya fb.me/162TeMlC2
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=284370&id=137199749688243
MyFreeLibya Rubicon Moad
Just came back from an epic day at Marj…hopefully will upload my interview series…got some decent ones internet permitting #Feb17
Confirmed reports that southern passage to Giryan has been captured by Zintan FF…Allah Akbur…Before ramadan Inshallah!
Unconfirmed reports that Aisha’s husband has been killed as well…from multiple sources in Zintan council, but not akeed #Libya
#Gumatta : Gumatta FF have killed three high profile #Gaddafi security chiefs in Gumatta ! #Feb17 #Libya via @ZlitenFree
We can all leave messages for wounded FF’s at
www.facebook.com/pages/Wounded-Lions-of...
SUMMARY JULY 25th 2011
7/25/2011
7.25.2011
When you start treating people like people, they become people. Paul Vitale
NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/OnyST
UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
In the early hours of Sunday morning, RAF aircraft conducted a precision strike on the Central Organisation for Electronic Research. #Libya
Ostensibly an engineering academy, the COER has in reality long been a cover for the regime’s nefarious activities. #Libya
Until Qadhafi’s 2003 renunciation of weapons of mass destruction, the COER was responsible for his long-range missile development programme.
NATO surveillance revealed that the building was still being used by his security apparatus to repress the civilian population. #Libya
On Sunday morning, RAF jets successfully attacked two staging posts near Zlitan being used to muster tanks, rocket artillery and ammunition.
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
NATO have targeted #Gaddafi’s security apparatus in Tripoli.
Central Organisation for Electronic Research, NATO claim it is a cover for regime activities. Designed long range missiles.
Sunday 24 July. early morning at the Central Organisation for Electronic Research Buildings, Tripoli.
septimius_
Dear #journalist, feel free to use #Gaddafi hard earned title of “WANTED Criminal by @IntlCrimCourt” anytime you want! #Libya
inglesi Piers Scholfield
Time to leave #Misrata. I’ll tweet links to our final pieces from back home. It’s been a great few weeks.
“The soil of #Misrata is irrigated with the blood of its people,” one fighter told me. The people here deserve a better future
HodaAbdelHamid Hoda Abdel-Hamid
its 9am in #Misrata. Hearing explosions in the surroundings..will check on the whereabouts
BRITISH FORCES NEWS
RAF warplanes strike at heart of Gaddafi regime
RAF Tornado and Typhoon jets have blasted the walls of Colonel Gaddafi’s command complex in Tripoli.
The operation early in the early hours of Saturday morning saw Paveway guided bombs smash into the outer and inner perimeter walls at the Bab Al Aziziyah compound in 13 different places.
Major General Nick Pope, the Chief of the Defence Staff’s Communications Officer, said: “Gaddafi has for decades hidden from the Libyan people behind these walls. The vast Bab Al Aziziyah compound is not just his personal residence, but more importantly is also the main headquarters for his regime, with command and control facilities and an army barracks all part of the same fortified site. “
He said the strike was a significant blow as the walls have “for so long been such an unwelcome symbol to the people of Tripoli of Gaddafi’s despotic rule.”
In further RAF air strikes UK warplanes on patrol near Zlitan successfully struck four buildings which NATO surveillance missions had confirmed were being used as a command and control centre and a staging post for regime troops being mustered for attacks on the people of Libya.
Armed reconnaissance patrols continued in the area throughout the day, and during Saturday night RAF aircraft were able to conduct a precision strike on a large ammunition stockpile.
At sea HMS Ocean launched her Army Apache helicopters against a number of military positions between Zlitan and Al Khums, which were successfully engaged using Hellfire missiles.
Source:
www.bfbs.com/news/worldwide/raf-warplan...
hominoid
Islamabad, July 25 Pakistan continue to extend support to Libyan dictator WHY ??? Just to get up the nose of the USA
Abdurrahaman Shalgam, one of the highest-ranking Libyan defectors, told Corriere della Sera TV he believed Gaddafi was negotiating for asylum with either another African country or Belarus.
""He is maneuvering for three things — to leave the country, to have money and to be shielded from the International Criminal Court,"" said Shalgam, who still serves as Libya’s ambassador to the United Nations.
""He is maneuvering to go to another African country or even Belarus because the president there is his friend. I think that he will leave Libya in a few weeks, in two or three weeks at the most.""
BBC
Libya unrest: Ramadan to slow anti-Gaddafi rebels
“We won’t arm cowboys”.
When Osama, a Libyan rebel commander, heard those words he knew all hope that the US was going to tip the balance on the ground in their favour had disappeared.
This, he said, came from an American government representative during a meeting in Benghazi not long after Nato’s air campaign began.
“The truth is, they’re worried about getting their weapons back,” Osama told me at his headquarters in the besieged port city of Misrata, which has been surrounded and rocketed by Col Gaddafi’s forces for months now.
“So, we’re fighting with weapons from the 1970s though we’re doing pretty well with them," he said.
Next week, Libya will begin observing the holy month of Ramadan.
The European leaders that galloped into this conflict, despite reservations from some of their senior military advisers, expected it to be over by now.
Two things have slowed it down for the rebels.
‘Widespread atrocities’
“Ramadan will be tough,” Osama tells me.
A trip to the front line on a busy day shows you how tough. I met 23-year-old Abu Bakr in a ditch as he made his way towards the neighbouring town of Zletin.
He had an AK-47 over his arm and a broad grin across his face. Before he spent his days shooting at Libyan soldiers, he was at the local university studying archaeology and tourism.
He had been on the front line for three weeks. “Right now I’m learning how to use the Kalashnikov and an RPG rocket-propelled grenade,” he said.
Misrata is the middle class at war. The fighters are businessmen, university students, farmers and shopkeepers. They fight hard and they do not run
In Misrata they pride themselves on their behaviour on the front line. I saw captured Gaddafi troops being treated well in rebel-run hospitals, and I was invited to visit them at their prisoner of war camps after they had been processed. Everyone has been fighting for their freedom, but it is their freedom.
This war is best summed up by the young men I met who had come from the UK to fight for the nation of their fathers but who were too scared of being tagged as Islamist radicals back home to allow me to name or formally interview them. For that reason I will not even say where in the UK they come from.
Read full art.:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14...
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NOVINITE
Libyan Diplomat Declared Persona Non Grata in Bulgaria
Libya’s Adviser on Consular Affairs at the Libya Embassy in Bulgaria has been declared persona non grata, according to a statement of the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry.
On Monday, a diplomatic note was handed to the interim head of the Libiyan Embassy in Sofia declaring Ibrahim al-Furis a persona non grata in Bulgaria pursuant to Article 9 of the Vienna Convention.
Under Article 9 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a receiving state may “at any time and without having to explain its decision, notify the sending State that the head of the mission or any member of the diplomatic staff of the mission is persona non grata or that any other member of the staff of the mission is not acceptable”.
Al-Furis is to leave the country within 24 hours.
Source:
www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=130555
Ibrahim al-Furis, took down the symbols of the regime of Libyan leader and waved the flag of the revolution in the Embassy in Sofia. BTV
Read:
www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n255599
HumphreyCheung Humphrey Cheung
VIDEO:
Video: I filmed this back in early June 2011 in Zintan. This wounded Ghaddafi mercenary tells us that he… tumblr.com/x053oxubg9
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hominoid
Libya Mustafa Abdul Jalil announced that Qatar is going to build an airport in Jebel Nefoussa at Nalut.
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
These are starting to show up all over Tripoli, as well as tanks… pic from: Hay al Andalus roundabout #libya fb.me/TwnqinUd
Oh yes, I’m an idiot – the source said it’s andalsi roundabout so I assumed it’s from hay l’andalus.. blah!
Freelibyan:
actually I think this is Sidi AlIndelsi roundabout. but you are right they are popping up every where in tripoli
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES
Anissa Haddadi:
Libya: Algeria accused of supplying Gaddafi once again
Over the week endAlgeria was forced to deny charges that a Libyan ship offloaded weapons for Muammar Gaddafi’s troops at one of its ports.
“The foreign ministry denies categorically these allegations,” the official APS news agency quoted a spokesman for the foreign ministry as saying late on Saturday.
Libyan opposition sources said the ship, sailing under a Libyan flag, arrived on July 19 at the port of Djen Djen from where the cargo was being taken over the border into Libya.
Soon after the allegations emerged, a U.S. State Department official has been quoted telling Reuters: “The United States government is working to ascertain the veracity of these claims, which have only just come to light.”
Then on Friday, another State Department official this time said that the United States was investigating reports that “a ship carrying weapons for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces was allowed to dock in Algeria, which would be considered a violation of U.N. resolutions.”
“We have heard reports that a ship carrying arms to Gaddafi’s regime was recently permitted to dock in Algeria and that these weapons are currently being transported overland into neighbouring Libya,” the State Department official told Reuters.
“If true, this would likely constitute a violation of U.N. Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973.”
Read full art.:
uk.ibtimes.com/articles/186217/20110725...
baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
Out on frontlines. Fighters say there was NATO strike on a Gaddafi tank at Bir Ghanem
Express Tribune
ISLAMABAD BACKS QADDAFI:
While the US pressurises Pakistan to recognise the Libyan rebels-led Transitional International Council (TIC), the Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi is seeking Islamabad’s assistance to overcome the challenges his authority faces in Tripoli.
A senior official of the Libyan ministry of foreign affairs is due to arrive in Islamabad on July 27 with a special message from Qaddafi for President Asif Ali Zardari, a highly informed source told The Express Tribune. The special envoy will also meet Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar.
Islamabad backs Qaddafi
Tripoli has appreciated Islamabad’s position that the US-led armed intervention in Libya is beyond the UN mandate.
Islamabad has told Washington that it would only recognise a government in Libya that controls Tripoli.
Pakistan has so far refused to accord recognition to ‘a state-less Transitional International Council’ as the legitimate authority in Libya and maintains that it still considered Qaddafi’s government as the lawful regime in Tripoli.
Here is the full story:
tribune.com.pk/story/216816/foreign-pol...
Skeptic
#Gaddafi can thank #Pakistan 4 supporting #Taliban, #Al Qaeda & hiding #Bin #Laden, as long as AQ exists, he can say FFs r part of it!
Why have majority of govs in predominantly Muslim countries refused 2 recognize NTC of Libya ?
International Business Times
Libya: Gaddafi’s New Weapon: Fatwa Put on Nato to Force Ceasefire?
A Saudi Muslim scholar appeared on state-run Libyan satellite television on Monday to call for a fatwa (religious ruling) by key scholars in Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries calling on the rebels in Libya to put their arms down and talk peace with the regime of Muammar Gaddafi.
Hamoud bin Nafei Al Anzi, a mosque preacher in the central Saudi town of Alasiah, criticised prominent Muslim scholars and the Arab league for joining the fight against Gaddafi five months ago.
Anzi, who is visiting Tripoli, Gaddafi’s stronghold, said he was in Libya on a personal mission and that he does not represent Saudi government views.
“I appeal for all our Moslem scholars and intellects to issue a fatwa for those who are fighting the government and their own people to put their arms down and join their brothers on the negotiating table…if you (rebels) have any demands, then sit at the negotiating table and discuss them…please do not resort to weapons to resolve your disputes…I acknowledge there are mistakes but mistakes must not be tackled by bigger mistakes…for God’s sake, stop the bloodshed.”
Anzi, said he had been taken by Libyan officials and scholars to sites bombed by NATO warplanes in Tripoli, Misrata and other towns.
Read full art.:
uk.ibtimes.com/articles/186157/20110725...
LibyanLion
VIDEO – youtube.com/watch?v=ZDJkUr… – FFs using their tank as reinforcement, when pickup trucks get attacked. #Libya #Feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDJkUrYArvM&fea...
FF effort to remove mines still continues with success in #Brega.
hominoid
Libya Field commander: al-Gaddafi has mined the buildings and houses in zliten
Nov 23, 1941 War Last Week— British Blow Off Lid In Libya As Nazis Gain On Reds . news.google.com/newspapers?id=…
or:
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Libya Ajdabiya that the rebels were able to arrest the three cars with six members of G forces who tried to infiltrate through Ajdabiya to Brega to carry out acts of sabotage, be mentioned that the cars four-wheel-drive and were loaded with arms and ammunition.
Source: Channel Libya satellite
Dima
#Feb17 is a real revolution with real courageous revolutionaries giving up even their lives for their freedom. I salute them #Libya
I came all the way to Libya because I needed to see it for myself, I needed to understand. It is not an easy situation for any Arab
IvanCNN Ivan Watson
#Tripoli resident told me power outages started week+ ago. Black outs last 3-4 hours at a time. #Libya
TIMES OF MALTA
Many roads to defection in regime-held western Libya
In mainly government-held western Libya, the rebel army largely consists of defectors – people who for differing reasons took the dangerous decision to break with Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
Braving the myriad security services and their vast network of informers built up over four decades in power, individuals ranging from regular army officers to youngsters, studying overseas, have rallied to the armed revolt.
When the youth of the south-western hilltown of Zintan began demonstrating, Col Juma Brahim, usually based in the capital Tripoli, was in his hometown on leave.
“I saw these youths cry out against Col Gaddafi. It was magic. In the beginning, I simply watched, I didn’t demonstrate. I just watched but my heart was with them,” Col Brahim, 50, said.“One day, my nephew asked me for a gun. I went to my grandmother’s place to look for an old World War II rifle.”
Full art.:
www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2011...
CIL PHOTO
The view from Zintan
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MOD Defence News
RAF strikes Gaddafi targets in Tripoli
A Military Operations news article
25 Jul 11
RAF aircraft bombed a key intelligence building in Tripoli and breached the walls of Colonel Gaddafi’s command complex this weekend, and inflicted further losses on pro-Gaddafi forces massed at Zlitan and Gharyan.
In the early hours of Sunday morning, 24 July, RAF Tornado and Typhoon aircraft conducted a precision strike on the Central Organisation for Electronic Research (COER). Major General Nick Pope, the Chief of the Defence Staff’s Communications Officer, said:
“Ostensibly an engineering academy, the COER has, in reality, long been a cover for the regime’s nefarious activities. Up until Colonel Gaddafi’s renunciation of weapons of mass destruction in 2003, the COER was responsible for his long-range missile development programme.
“Intensive surveillance by NATO over the past weeks revealed that the building was still being actively used by his security apparatus to repress the civilian population, and was thus a wholly legitimate target.”
Also on Sunday morning, other RAF jets successfully attacked two staging posts near Zlitan being used to muster tanks, rocket artillery and ammunition. Later that afternoon, an armed reconnaissance patrol located and destroyed a regime main battle tank near Gharyan, on the edge of the Djebel Nafousa, south of Tripoli.
On Saturday, 23 July, RAF aircraft used precision guided weapons to breach the walls of Colonel Gaddafi’s command complex in central Tripoli.
General Pope said:
“Gaddafi has for decades hidden from the Libyan people behind these walls. The vast Bab al-Aziziya compound is not just his personal residence, but, more importantly, is also the main headquarters for his regime, with command and control facilities and an army barracks all part of the same fortified site.
“Successive NATO strikes in past weeks have inflicted extensive damage on the military facilities within.
“In the early hours of Saturday morning, RAF Tornado and Typhoon aircraft, supported by allied aircraft, struck the high perimeter walls of the compound, which have for so long been such an unwelcome symbol to the people of Tripoli of Gaddafi’s despotic rule.
“Paveway guided bombs scored direct hits in thirteen different places on both the outer and inner perimeter walls along the western side of Bab al-Aziziya. As ever, particular care was taken to ensure no civilian traffic on nearby roads was endangered.”
Also on Saturday, RAF jets on patrol near Zlitan successfully struck four buildings which NATO surveillance missions had confirmed were being used as a command and control centre and a staging post for regime troops being mustered for attacks on the people of Libya.
Armed reconnaissance patrols continued in the area throughout the day, and, during Saturday night, RAF aircraft were able to conduct a precision strike on a large ammunition stockpile. In addition, HMS Ocean launched her Army Apache helicopters against a number of military positions between Zlitan and Al Khums, which were successfully engaged using Hellfire missiles.
On Thursday afternoon, 21 July, RAF aircraft patrolling near Zlitan identified and destroyed a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun. During the night, British Army Apache helicopters once again launched a strike mission from HMS Ocean, while other NATO aircraft provided overwatch.
Two buildings being used by regime troops at Al Khums were damaged by Hellfire missiles. This strike was followed up by NATO fixed-wing aircraft in the early hours of Friday morning; RAF jets hit six ammunition storage facilities near Zlitan, and a large building that was being used as a base for multiple rocket launchers threatening Misurata.
In addition, one deployed rocket launcher and two armed trucks were destroyed.
On Friday afternoon, 22 July, further RAF armed reconnaissance patrols successfully engaged one of Gaddafi’s tanks and another armed truck, again near Zlitan.
“Throughout these operations, NATO tanker and surveillance assets provided essential support, including RAF VC10, Tristar, Sentry and Sentinel aircraft.”
At sea, the frigate HMS Iron Duke has been relieved on station by her sister ship HMS Sutherland. HMS Bangor continues to provide NATO’s maritime task group with a vital mine countermeasures capability, ready to respond to any attempts by the regime to again lay mines off Misurata port.
Since the start of military operations to enforce UNSCR 1973, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and Army Air Corps precision strikes have destroyed over 710 regime targets engaged in the repression of the Libyan people.
UK missions over Libya are undertaken as part of NATO’s Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR, to enforce UNSCR 1973 and protect Libyan civilians at risk of attack.
UK forces currently deployed on this operation include:
• RAF Tornado and Typhoon aircraft based at Gioia del Colle in Italy
• RAF VC10 and Tristar air-to-air refuelling tankers, based in Sicily, Cyprus and the UK
• RAF Sentry and Sentinel surveillance aircraft, based in Sicily and Cyprus
• HMS Ocean (helicopter carrier)
• HMS Sutherland (Type 23 frigate)
• HMS Bangor (Sandown class minehunter)
• Royal Fleet Auxiliary Fort Rosalie
• British Army Apache attack helicopters
• Fleet Air Arm Sea King helicopters (Airborne Surveillance and Area Control role).
RAF air transport aircraft provide extensive logistic support to the deployed bases in Italy, Sicily and the Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus.
Source:
www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/...
Another G troll:
moi a table
#BadTiming – Pro-G troll @GloPeaceLibya trying to start a rumour on #NTC chief #Jalil fleeing to Turkey, just as reports show him in #Nafusa
Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
Being neutral with Arab revolutions would be like watching a movie silently. I can’t just watch! I would be as good as dead, as a journalist
RIANOVOSTI
A SECRET PLAN FOR MUAMMAR GADDAFI
The ruling five of the future Libya
International mediators, including Russia, have persuaded the warring parties to discuss the political future of Libya. This is what the guest from Tripoli discussed with his Russian colleague, Sergei Lavrov during his visit to Moscow. According to our information, the Libyan government and the rebels have agreed in principle to establish a kind of united transitional ruling council. It should include two reputable politicians from each side; these four will elect a fifth, a neutral, though influential figure that will head this transitional body.
The African Union and the United Nations — the main mediators in the settlement — suggested this scenario, and Russia supported it. On July 20, Lavrov had an urgent conversation with the Secretary-General’s special envoy to Libya, Abdel-Elah Al-Khatib from Jordan. Having visited Tripoli two weeks ago, he was pessimistic about the prospects of a settlement. He formed this impression following talks with the Libyan prime minister and the foreign minister.
But since then, the positions of the conflicting parties have improved. The Libyans have developed a desire for peace. The main task of the mediators is to help achieve this. It would be great if other international players did not interfere with these efforts. Unfortunately, it seems that among the NATO countries taking part in the war, there are those who would like it to continue until the complete annihilation of Gaddafi himself, and his regime.
Here is the full art.:
en.rian.ru/analysis/20110725/165375215....
Abeidi
Libya, Brega watchthe morals FFsave life of G man inBrega telling him sweetheart don’t worry will save urlife(EMOTIONAL) youtube.com/watch?v=J7NYzZ…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7NYzZOyRpg
To stay sane you sometimes need something to smile:
VIDEO:
Gadaffi Family Party after electionحفلات عائلة القدافي
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD6Jkw6-4O0&NR=1
DalaiLama
If you use violence, you may get temporary satisfaction. But the nature of violence is unpredictable – it gives rise to unexpected results
Feb17
ANTON HAMMERL
The family of Anton Hammerl, a South African and UK-based photojournalist killed in Libya in early April, will be holding a memorial service on 08 September in London.
Gaddafi’s forces shot Hammerl “in an extremely remote location in the Libyan desert” on 05 April. The crime was witnessed by American journalists Clare Morgana Gillis and James Foley, who were with Hammerl and were abducted by pro-Gaddafi loyalists following the shooting. For weeks, the Libyan authorities had assured their South African counterparts that Hammerl was alive and being detained in an undisclosed location.
However, when Gillis and Foley were released, they told Hammerl’s family that they had seen the photojournalist get shot and that it was highly unlikely that he had survived his injuries. His remains have yet to be located and returned to his family in the UK.
The memorial service, set for 08 September at 3pm, will take place at St Bride’s Church on Fleet Street (EC4Y 8AU) in London.
Bulgaria
A Libyan diplomat has been given 24 hours to leave Bulgaria, the Foreign Ministry in Sofia confirmed on July 25 2011.
The diplomat is Ibrahim Alfouirs, who has been declared persona non grata and has been ordered to leave Bulgaria under Article 9 of the Vienna Convention.
The note was handed to the embassy at 9am on July 25, meaning that Alfouirs has until the same time on July 26 to leave.
Article 9 specifies: “The receiving State may at any time and without having to explain its decision, notify the sending State that the head of the mission or any member of the diplomatic staff of the
mission is persona non grata or that any other member of the staff of the mission is not acceptable.
“In any such case, the sending State shall, as appropriate, either recall the person concerned or terminate his functions with the mission. A person may be declared non grata or not acceptable before arriving in the territory of the receiving State.
“If the sending State refuses or fails within a reasonable period to carry out its obligations under paragraph 1 of this article, the receiving State may refuse to recognise the person concerned as a member of the mission,” Article 9 says.
Libya’s embassy has five diplomats, according to the list on the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry’s website. Headed by charge d’affaires Mohamed Milad, there were four other staff, all listed as counsellors, including Alfouirs, listed as counsellor (consular affairs).
Bulgaria is a supporter of the UN Security Council-mandated mission in Libya and is supporting Nato operations against the Muammar Gaddafi regime. On June 28, Bulgaria – simultaneously with Croatia – announced that it was recognising the Transitional National Council, founded in Benghazi in February, as legitimate representatives of the Libyan people.
NEW YORK TIMES
In Libya’s West, Signs of Growing Frustration with NATO
By C.J. Chivers
One of the consistent experiences of reporting alongside opposition fighters in Libya is feeling the delineation between what the rank and file have to say of the NATO bombing campaign and the statements of the officials in the Transitional National Council, the de facto rebel authority.
Those closer to the fighting or who live in harm’s way, however, have a richer take. They, too, express gratitude for NATO’s early work in the war, when Col.
Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces were stopped by airstrikes from overrunning the rebels in the east and crushing the uprising in Benghazi. But they also express deep and sometimes agonized frustration at the pace and target selection of the air support, and talk often of what they perceive to be NATO half-stepping and incompetence. You hear these complaints in Misurata, where the city’s residents faced sustained shelling, and which is still shelled or struck with rockets intermittently to this day.
Full art.:
atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/in-l...
The nonsense Gaddafi makes up is utterly unbelievable:
ANOTHER G TRICK TO CREATE CHAOS:
Report: Head of rebel forces army in Libya killed
Published July 24th, 2011 – 16:36 GMT
According to press reports on Sunday, Major General Abdel Fattah Younes, head of the rebel forces army in Libya, was killed in the fighting in Brega area some 10 days ago in what was described as “mysterious circumstances.”
Younes, who served as Secretary of the General People’s Committee for Public Security and a number of other important positions joined the rebels at the beginning of the crisis. Earlier this month, Younes expected that Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi will use poisonous gas against opposition fighters, to prevent their progress in the direction of the oil city of Brega.
It is worth mentioning that there were differences between some rebel leaders and Younes as some rebels claimed he was responsible for killing and injuring hundreds of people in front of Italy’s consulate in Benghazi in 2006. This incident was related to a protest against he publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.
I found art. here:
www.albawaba.com/main-headlines/report-...
ABOVE IS UTTER LIES!!!!!!!
LIBIA: MOSCA, REGIME TRATTA PER USCITA DI SCENA DI GHEDDAFI
(AGI) Mosca – Il regime libico e’ pronto a trattare sulla possibile uscita di scena di Muammar Gheddafi: lo sostiene una fonte del ministero degli Esteri russo, secondo cui l’ipotesi e’ stata discussa nel colloquio della settimana scorsa tra il capo della diplomazia russa, Serghei Lavrov, e il collega libico, Abdul Ati al-Obeidi. “La possibilita’ di dimissioni di Gheddafi e’ stata presa in dettagliata considerazione, soprattutto alla luce dei recenti contatti (di Tripoli) con gli americani e i francesi”, ha spiegato la fonte .
Source:
www.agi.it/rubriche/ultime-notizie-page...
LIBYA TRIPOLI
In case you still have not seen it? A Hammer with (#LIBYA) plate Number in #London #UK flic.kr/p/9rRvjE
www.flickr.com/photos/jamiekitson/55434...
Twitter Gift Giveaway! Let’s save #Libya.
Or at least try. This is legit, yo.
The war in Libya, despite what media coverage might indicate, is ongoing. While words like “stalemate” and “stand-off” become reoccurring elements of the scant coverage, people continue to die, sometimes from injuries that need the most basic of medical attention. Refugee camps like the Tunisian Remada Camp are operating with minimal resources to accommodate the large numbers of war refugees and conditions are absolutely deplorable.
So here’s a way you can help withOUT money (though that would would help a lot, too). Hope Relief, a 501 (k) non-profit based here in the U.S., has been running several relief campaigns and doin’ good work inside AND outside of Libya, including in Tunisian refugee camps and with Libyans abroad who once relied of government funding to provide for schooling and other expenses. I know some of the people behind this org and they are all sorts of awesome.
HERE’S what you have to do:
abudai.tumblr.com/post/8030535393
Last week there was some confusion about number of mines at BREGA.
Rumor had it there were 400.000, which did seem an unbelievably high number.
I suspect someone needs to check their numbers before tweeting:)
AFP
Libye: les rebelles de Brega freinés par un terrain truffé de mines
Selon M. Zawahi, un prisonnier a indiqué que “plus de 45.000 mines” avaient été posées par les troupes du régime autour de la ville côtière, située à 800 km à l’est de Tripoli et à 240 km au sud-ouest de Benghazi, la “capitale” des rebelles dans l’est du pays.
Le colonel Ahmed Omar Bani, porte-parole militaire, affirme pour sa part que des experts des insurgés estiment à plus de “40.000” le nombre de mines effectivement posées au hasard dans et autour de Brega.
Read art. Here:
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/A...
Yesterday Derek tweeted:
DerekHenryFlood Derek Henry Flood
fog of war is thick here. Q is supposedly threatening to retake border tomorrow. 200 rebel technicals said 2 b 10k out of Nalut. Lots of ??
Today he tweets:
Very loud thuds out of town..getting closer. Can’t get anyone 2 drive us there. Frustrating. Arghh…
Ahmed
#Brega: Reports of #NATO airstrikes on 2 APC belonging to #Gaddafi forces & more intensive strikes Yday by NATO in & around #Brega..#Libya
Noah
The Wall Street Journal has really taken a nose dive since Murdoch acquired it. It’s getting more and more like FoxNews each day.
The Himalayan
Gaddafi compound under attack from NATO bombs
Reuters
TRIPOLI: Explosions rocked central Tripoli for the second night in a row and Britain said weeks of NATO bombardment had inflicted extensive damage on Muammar Gaddafi’s heavily-fortified compound.
Libya’s leader is clinging to power despite a four-month-old NATO air campaign and a lengthening conflict with rebels seeking an end to his 41-year rule and who have seized large swathes of the North African country.
The explosions hit Tripoli at about 1 a.m. Sunday, a day after NATO launched strikes on what it said was a military command site in Tripoli.
Major General Nick Pope, chief of the defense staff’s communications officer, said Royal Air Force aircraft struck the high perimeter walls of Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziyah complex.
“Gaddafi has for decades hidden from the Libyan people behind these walls. The vast Bab al-Aziziyah compound is not just his personal residence, but more importantly is also the main headquarters for his
regime, with command and control facilities and an army barracks," Pope said Sunday.
“Successive NATO strikes in past weeks have inflicted extensive damage on the military facilities within.”
Gaddafi’s foreign minister, Abdelati Obeidi, left Cairo on Sunday after a three-day visit without making any comments.
“Obeidi met with a number of Egyptian officials and personalities to discuss the latest developments in Libya and ways to resolve the crisis in peaceful ways,” a Libyan embassy official said without giving details. He was headed for Tunis.
Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said Friday Libyan representatives were ready to hold more talks with the United States and the rebels, but Gaddafi would not quit.
Ibrahim said senior Libyan officials had a “productive dialogue” with U.S. counterparts last week in a rare meeting that followed U.S. recognition of the rebel government.
“We believe other meetings in the future … will help solve Libyan problems,” Ibrahim told reporters in Tripoli. “We are willing to talk to the Americans more.”
Source and full story:
www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?...
Independent
RAF BOMBS GADDAFI INTELLIGENCE SITE
British jets have bombed a key intelligence building being used by the forces of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, the Ministry of Defence said today.
The attack on the Central Organisation for Electronic Research building in Tripoli came in the early hours of Sunday morning and involved RAF Tornado and Typhoon aircraft.
COER is described by the Libyan authorities as an engineering academy, but the MoD insisted that it was a “wholly legitimate” target as it had in fact long been used as a cover for the “nefarious activities” of the Gaddafi regime.
Until Libya gave up its weapons of mass destruction programme in 2003, COER was used in the development of long-range missiles, and recent surveillance indicated it was still being used by Gaddafi’s security apparatus, said the MoD.
Source and read more:
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa...
LIBYANVOICE
i miss my mom i miss my mom i miss my mom i miss my mom i miss my mom i miss my mom i miss my mom i miss my mom i miss my mom gadafi go now
ali libyan
Qatar did more than both of our neighbours, nothing special from our neighbours to be honest
mahmoud
The tenacity of the fight in #Libya ‘s youth is only eclipsed by the cowardliness of Gaddafi’s lackeys destroying their country, ppl &future
Great news and confirmed. Ali Maria Gaddafi’s ambassador in Cairo (the pervert) is being kicked out of egypt #libya
(reminder of the sex scandal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxqWNR863XU )
Abdul
Please RT: archive.org/details/Shahee… (Shaheed Sadiq Shwehdi) Images of public execution in Benghazi (!) 1984 during RAMADAN
www.archive.org/details/ShaheedSadiqShw...
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Thank you #Qatar for all your help to the Libyan people when other Arab countries just stood by and watched, or helped G against us #libya
CHECK THIS OUT:
Daily News on #Tripoli #Trables #Libya goo.gl/r9L0i
or:
tweetedtimes.com/#!/search/Tripoli/en
Reuters
WRAPUP 1-U.N. envoy to meet Libya rebels over peace plan
- Gaddafi government open to more U.S. contacts
- United Nations plan would begin with ceasefire
- Libya foreign minister leaves Cairo after talks
By Rania El Gamal
BENGHAZI, July 25 (Reuters) – The U.N. envoy to Libya will discuss with rebel leaders on Monday informal plans for a negotiated end to the war as Western powers ramp up diplomatic and military pressure on Muammar Gaddafi to step down.
Abdul Elah al-Khatib arrived in the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi on Monday, rebels said, as a diplomatic push to end the conflict gathers steam.
In an apparent further sign of moves towards a political solution, a senior rebel leader was quoted as saying that Gaddafi and his family could remain in Libya provided they gave up power.
Full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/cameroonNews/idA...
The final string is taking a little longer than anticipated. #TryingToBePatient
dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi’s plan to #Tripoli: goo.gl/DqK8R
FromJoanne Joanne
FYI #AISHA Gaddafi married her Cousin Ahmed alGaddafi #alQahsi in 2006 His Rank= #ArmyColonel. Aisha holds Rank of #LieutenantGeneral #Libya
#Gaddafi will NOT even ENTERTAIN the thought of CEASE FIRE in #RAMADAN a Well known Fact = #Gaddafi couldnt care LESS about RELIGION #Libya
#TRIPOLI FF using Fishermen Explosives #Jawlatina 2Attack Sec police and checkpoints Katiba trucks #binAshour eo areas goo.gl/Nms3t
Senussi reported dead might be true but Aisha s husband not …Think they have confused names
#BREGA FF Captured up to 20 regime troops since July18 One of them claimed G Troops sown “over 45 000 mines” around #Brega #Libya
Abeidi
Libya,weapons sent to our FF from Benghazi to Brega by the look of them they r the ones which were received recently youtube.com/watch?v=qxip3j…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxip3jE8FzU
The Dictator
Been stuck on a boat since the last time I tweeted. Tide was too high, now back at Gabes until it’s safe to leave to #Misrata..
Met a woman on the boat who escaped from Zliten after being kidnapped by Gaddafi brigades, she broke down in tears telling me her story.
She lived in Kirzaz, #Misrata. The whole family was kidnapped including 2 children under the age of 3, taken first to Tawargha..
then to Sirte where they escaped but were caught again and taken to Zliten. She could barely speak, I’ll blog about her story.
Chivers:
NIDO, the Battlefield’s New Pejorative.
A few days ago, a rebel field commander in Libya, discussing the pace of fighting along the several small fronts in his country’s west, allowed himself a knowing chuckle. “When we talked about NATO,” he said, “we used to call it NATO. Now we call it NIDO.”
NIDO is a brand of powdered milk, often fed to toddlers.
This commander’s insult summarized a feeling now often heard among the armed men opposed to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. After the war in Libya settled a late-spring slog that has seen only incremental progress through mid-summer, it was perhaps inevitable: NATO’s vaunted air power, in the minds of many rebel fighters, has not lived up to its billing.
There are any number of reasons for this. Some — the number and types of aircraft committed to the war, the absence of controllers on the ground to select targets and direct strikes — flow from particular decisions made in foreign capitals. Others follow unrealistic expectations, including that the mere appearance of air power should have scattered the Qaddafi army and broken the Qaddafi family’s will. The Qaddafi military, most everyone now acknowledges, has fought harder than most anyone predicted back in March.
Read more:
cjchivers.com/post/8043366570/nido-the-...
rcolebourn Richard Colebourn
A rebel commander in #Misrata says they are keen to secure city and surroundings against rockets and attack by Gaddafi before moving forward
freelibya
TARGETS FOR NATO WOULD BE:
have few locations nTripoli got them from confidential source &sent them to Gen Hafter last week 2 forward 2 NATO will send 2 u
@NATO few others will follow twitpic.com/5vmhxw
@NATO more to come twitpic.com/5vmi96
@NATO Libya 2 more to follow twitpic.com/5vmimv
@NATO libya one more to follow twitpic.com/5vmj1l
@NATO last one I have just to let u know I spoke to Gen Hafter last week and gave them to him by email twitpic.com/5vmjm9
anitamcnaught Anita McNaught
Fighting #Brega at complete standstill, according 2 our mil. sources. Landmines insuperable. Rebel forces possibly not much more than 700.
UN Libya Envoy Abdul-Elah al-Khatib back #Benghazi meeting with TNC. UN proposal will get nowhere if includes Gadaffi. TNC/NATO remain firm.
rcolebourn Richard Colebourn
Smoke from burning fuel depot over city of #Misrata #Libya. Hit by a rocket fired by Col Gaddafi’s forces yfrog.com/khpjtkj
BRITISH FORCES NEWS
HMS SUTHERLAND HEADS FOR LIBYAN WATERS
Another British warship is on its way to Libya to strengthen NATO’s mission to protect civilians and humanitarian aid shipments.
The Type 23 Duke Class frigate HMS Sutherland has been temporarily switched from the Cougar deployment and the Responsive Force Task Group.
She is cutting her way through the Mediterranean to support fellow Royal Navy and NATO units off the coast of Libya.
Her Commanding Officer Commander Roger Readwin said: ”My fighting clan of highly trained and capable sailors has been busy today putting our systems and drills through their paces in preparation for this important mission. We look forward to working with our NATO allies to deliver part of the Royal Navy’s contribution to the Operation.
“I would also like to extend my sincere gratitude to the families and friends of Sutherland, for their continued loyal support which once again will be very much appreciated.”
HMS Sutherland will assist in enforcing the arms embargo, help protect civilians under threat of attack and ultimately support the current mandate given by UN Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973; she will also guard against threats to the flow of vital humanitarian assistance.
The vessel left the UK in April as part of the Responsive Force Task Group that includes HMS Albion and HMS Ocean. Since then she has supported operations and exercises off Libya and in the Mediterranean, Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf.
Source:
www.bfbs.com/news/worldwide/hms-sutherl...
ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Lots of so-called “anti-imperialists” love to bitch about Libya just because they hate NATO. I wish it ws YOUR family getting killed by Gdfi
LOOK at what Gaddafi did to Misrata before you cry against NATO
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or:
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LOOK at what Gaddafi did to Zawiya… go back through Sky news’ reports from Zawiya in early march.. what happened to all those people?
Zawiya was imprisoned, destroyed, killed… even the graves of dead fighters were dug up by Gaddafi troops, just to cover up the atrocities
All of this happened before NATO got involved…. wake up for a minute and try to understand that it’s not all about NATO in #Libya
People who paint Gaddafi as a victim or #feb17 revolution as a conspiracy should try to spend a day in #Nalut or #Misrata before they speak
So if you hate NATO jst because it’s NATO and have no clue about what happened in Libya pre-NATO, then by all means shut up & move on #libya
#Zawiya was pummelled for weeks using #Gaddafi jets, artillery, tanks, rockets, mortars… then it fell to G forces. All before NATO #mar19
Oh and another thing.. the so called Arab nations that are the first to complain about NATO involvement.. where were you when we needed you?
MisrataPatriots PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
Reuters:#Turkey has delivered its 1st cargo of fuel to aid east Libya as part of multi-million$ free oil supply deal with FFs gov #Libya
Penny: Compiled by Mo Nabbous channel :
www.libyauprisingarchive.com/index.html
Libyan Duda
Correction: #Libyan diplomat not ambassador to #Bulgaria has announced resignation
Fissa
MY 24 terrifying BLOGS about the Libyan uprising since 15 Feb ( when i was in Libya) till today:
In memory of LIBYA’S MARTYR and my FATHER, who I love and miss dearly.
Father, in life I loved you dearly; in death I love you still. It broke my heart to lose you, but you didn’t go alone, a big part of me went with you. Your blood- that was viciously sucked by Gaddafi’s thugs shall be a pledge and an oath to honor by being the daughter you’d forever be proud of. I will never say “Good-bye” but will always say I can hardly wait to see you.
With all my love today, always and forever your daughter NAFISSA
Read Fissa’s blog here:
nafissa82.blogspot.com
Tehran Times
Leading Defector Predicts Gaddafi will Quit Libya
A former Libyan foreign minister who has defected to the opposition said on Thursday he believed Muammar Gaddafi realized he could no longer stay in Libya and may leave within a few weeks.
""He is maneuvering to go to another African country or even Belarus because the president there is his friend. I think that he will leave Libya in a few weeks, in two or three weeks at the most.""
Source:
www.turkishweekly.net/news/120001/leadi...
AP
Rebel flag flies over Libyan Embassy in Bulgaria
SOFIA, Bulgaria—The Libyan Embassy to Bulgaria has gone over to the rebel side following the Bulgarian government’s decision to expel a senior diplomat there.
Bulgaria announced Monday that it would move to expel Ibrahim Al-Furis, the embassy’s chief of consular affairs, for activities inconsistent with his diplomatic status — a phrase often used to refer to espionage.
Source:
www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articl...
libyanandproud
#Tripoli : #Gaddafi security rounding up local Divers . Reports suggest they’re arrested or used 2 recover lost weapons. #Feb17 #Libya
ALzintan Channel
Wounded Prisoners at a Hospital in Zintan fb.me/XvZ0aR8r
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkGGnA1YuNI
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Malta CARGO SHIP “SEA DREAM” now in #Istanbul #Turkey en route for dest. #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17
#Gaddafi CARGO SHIP “ALMARWA” now departing #Tartous #Syria for unknown/unlisted dest. #Libya #Feb17
Slate Afrique
Seif al Islam Kadhafi va-t-il succéder à son père?
Mouammar Kadhafi pourrait se retirer au profit de son fils Seif al Islam. C’est une option vers laquelle se dirigent les négociations avec le Guide libyen.
En Libye, les bombes et les missiles continuent de pleuvoir sur Tripoli mais le régime de Kadhafi résiste encore. Mieux, il a enclenché au cours des derniers jours une offensive diplomatique destinée à déstabiliser la coalition internationale et à saper les efforts du Conseil national de transition (CNT), qui cherche à gagner plus de soutien international.
Signe de l’évolution de la situation et du quasi-enlisement sur le front militaire, la France ne semble plus opposée à ce que le Guide suprême reste en Libye. Mais, comme l’a précisé le ministre des Affaires étrangères, Alain Juppé, «à condition qu’il se retire du pouvoir». Ce à quoi les proches de Kadhafi s’empressent de répondre que ce dernier «n’a aucune responsabilité politique et qu’il ne peut donc abandonner un pouvoir qu’il ne possède pas».
Dialogue de sourds? Pas si sûr! Car tout le monde est bien conscient de la nécessité de faire en sorte que celui qui a régné sur la Libye durant près de quarante-deux ans puisse se retirer de la scène politique sans perdre la face.
Source:
www.slateafrique.com/17341/guerre-libye...
Ahmed
A new baby is born to #Misrata family just hours before a #Gaddafi rocket slams into their home.
Ben Wedeman CNN
youtu.be/I3O71h2XvNo
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3O71h2XvNo&fea...
Libyan People’s Petition for a Safe, Secure, and Sovereign Libya
The Petition
We the free people of Libya, categorically
reject any proposed peace plans, which place in jeopardy the security of the
Libyan people, by allowing members of the Gaddafi family and senior regime
officials, the opportunity to reside in Libya as a condition of a sustained
peace proposal.
The safety, security, and sovereignty of Libya and its people, is non-negotiable. We, as free people, have a responsibility to
act according to the best interests of Libya. Therefore, we categorically
oppose any plans, which would risk the lives of millions, by granting members
of the Gaddafi family and senior members of its tyrannical regime any means to
continue their repeated aggression and indiscriminate attacks on innocent
civilians and the targeted destruction of cities and their infrastructures
Therefore, we categorically unequivocally and manifestly reject and refuse the creation of a new National Transitional Council containing members of the Gaddafi government.
Source:
www.ipetitions.com/petition/futurelibya
Yefrenia
A channel 4 news reporter returned to Zawiya after Gaddafi seized control again, he went bk to Zawiya hospital & all the staff have changed.
LibyaLiberty Now Beard Free
Then you’d better run. RT@Libya_SOS #libya #REBELS ARE KILLERS
Les insurgés de Zenten unis contre Kadhafi
Les habitants des villes rebelles du Djebel Nefoussa unissent leurs forces pour repousser les Kadhafistes, malgré de profonds clivages entre populations berbères et arabes.
La ville de 45 000 habitants, à 145 kilomètres au sud-ouest de Tripoli, est perchée dans les montagnes du Djebel Nefoussa. Ce massif quasi désertique s’étend en arc de cercle de Nalout, près de la frontière avec la Tunisie, jusqu’à Gharyane, à une cinquantaine de kilomètres au sud-ouest de Tripoli. Au nord, il s’interrompt brusquement, pour laisser place à la plaine, qui s’étend vers la Méditerranée.
Read full art.:
www.ouest-france.fr/actu/actuDet_-Les-i...
Le Qotidien Mutations
Visite en Chine: Une intervention de Paul Biya fâche des diplomates
Les chancelleries française et américaine y voient une condamnation des frappes de l’Otan en Libye. C’est deux petites phrases apparemment anodines, mais qui ont fait mouche. Depuis la fin de la semaine dernière, une bonne partie de la communauté diplomatique accréditée au Cameroun est en émoi, quand certains ne crient pas au scandale, à la trahison. D’autres, plus radicaux encore, en appellent à des actions coercitives contre le Cameroun dont le président vient porter un sérieux coup de canif au concept de «diplomatie de neutralité» souvent vanté par nos autorités.
Full art. here:
quotidien.mutations-multimedia.com/inde...=com_content&view=article&id=2852:visite-en-chine-une-intervention-de-paul-biya-fache-des-diplomates&catid=54:politique&Itemid=439
Alertnet
Reuters
Turkey starts fuel deliveries to east Libya
- First cargo arrived late last week
- Supplies worth at least $10 million
- Rebels in talks to fix future supply deals
By Humeyra Pamuk and Emma Farge
Read more and source:
www.trust.org/alertnet/news/turkey-star...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> READ HERE
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Somaia
Confirmed Mansour Daw & AbdAllah Snussi R still alive Daw only had minor injuries & Snussi not a scratch source relatives of Daw #Libya
Ahmed
#NTC chariman: That proposal had a time limit and that limit has now passed..#Gaddafi and sons must leave #Libya
NATOpress NATO Press
#NATO press briefing on #Libya on 26 July at 14:00 will be broadcast in #Arabic via live web streaming – goo.gl/Zbm0l
BenghaziBlahzi
been away from net, back in #benghazi in time 4 Ibrahim Sahad’s return 2 #Libya from a 32 year hiatus. thank u #feb17 heroes
Death Surrounds Gaddafi
Justice is word painfully carved in every single Libyan person’s mind and heart. The definition of the word or how justice could be served is individually coined now in Libya, though people agree on one thing and this thing is to punish Gaddafi and sons for what they did and still doing to the Libyan people.
The individualism in imagining the kind of justice preferred comes from the personal pain suffered under the brutality of the Gaddafi regime, but the collectivity comes from sharing tragedies and unimaginable atrocities throughout the 42 years under this dictatorship. What kind of end Gaddafi and sons will face to relinquish the thirst for justices Libyans seek remains to be seen. One thing is for sure, justice is coming very very soon.
With the latest news of the brave attack on Gaddafi’s inner circle on Friday and the death of two of his strong supporters, Alhadi Imbairish, and his chief intelligence, AbdAllah Sunwsi, people were ecstatic to hear this news. For people in Libya it is a bitter-sweet victory as they would like to see these people put to trial to answer for all the crimes committed on behalf of Gaddafi and sons. This operation targeted Gaddafi ‘s inner circle and it was a huge blow to his security forces proving the that organized military resistance exist inside Tripoli. Gaddafi continues to insist that “his people love him” and the people of Tripoli showed him what kind of love they have for him.
Last night, callers were cheerful and hopeful that Gaddafi’s end is near. They were sure that he is starting to see, feel, and smell death around him. They were proud of our Freedom Fighter on all fronts and prayed to God to protect them and grant them victory over Gaddafi’s hired forces. Callers shared poems that spoke of bright future for Libya and hoped for an end to Gaddafi during the month of Ramadan, so they can enjoy a blissful fasting.
Tonight’s show, broadcasts live at 10pm Libya time (20:00 GMT) will be an open conversation for people to share the latest events and developments.
Source:
english.libya.tv/2011/07/25/death-surro...
hominoid
It has been said that NATO are working on Ras Lanuf and Bishr. could this signal that there will be a move forward by FFs ?
Rue89
La Liberté
La caisse métallique de couleur olive est posée négligemment sur le sol caillouteux. Sur une étiquette blanche figure le nom du fabricant des 400 cartouches M80 qu’elle contient : Ruag Ammotec, filiale du groupe d’armement basé à Thoune (canton de Berne) et propriété de la Confédération helvétique. Ces munitions suisses pour fusils mitrailleurs et mitrailleuses, les rebelles libyens du front de l’ouest les
utilisent contre les troupes loyales au colonel Mouammar Kadhafi.
C’est la télévision suisse alémanique qui, mercredi soir, dans l’émission « Rundschau », a révélé la découverte étonnante en Libye du journaliste indépendant Kurt Pelda. En montant vers la ligne de front, le reporter a d’abord découvert plusieurs boîtes de cartouches estampillées « Ruag ».
Avant de tomber au milieu d’un arsenal hétéroclite sur la fameuse boîte métallique portant, côté pile, le nom du fabricant bernois, et côté face, celui du destinataire des munitions : le Qatar, via une société zougoise, FGS Frex, à Oberägeri (centre de la Suisse).
Full art. here:
www.rue89.com/2011/07/25/la-suisse-arme...
World Oil Online
World Oil News Center
Libyan rebel leader urges Spanish oil firms to return
Libyan rebel leader Mahmud Jibril called for all Spanish firms, including oil company Repsol, to return to Libya, after a majority of Spanish energy companies cut production and operations in the war torn region.
Libya’s National Transitional Council website operated by the rebels quoted Jibril as saying “the strong bilateral relations with Spain are very important for us, Spanish companies like Repsol are very important for our oil fields plus Spanish companies are helping us in rebuilding the infrastructure of the country.”
The company is the mouthpiece of the rebel forces battling Moammar Gaddafi’s regime.
Repsol has had a presence in Libya since the 1970s. In recent months, Repsol cut its oil production in half and evacuated all its nationals and experts from the country after the uprising against Gaddafi over five months ago.
Source:
www.worldoil.com/Libyan_rebel_leader_ur...
Souffian Tripoli
Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا” goo.gl/aM65o
Any salt needed perhaps?
PRAVDA :
NATO war crime: Libya water supply
A NATO terrorist attack has hit a water pipes factory in al-Brega, murdering six guards, this being the factory which makes pipes for the great man-made irrigation system across the desert which brings water to seventy per cent of Libyan homes, according to sources in Libya. The factory was hit after the water supply network was destroyed on Friday.
July 22 2011. A date for humanity to remember. NATO hit the Libyan water supply pipeline. It will take months to repair. Then on Saturday they hit the pipeline factory producing pipes to repair it.
Since when is a water pipes factory in al-Brega a legitimate target to impose a no-fly zone to protect civilians? Sine when is the water supply pipeline itself a legitimate target?
More of this art.:
english.pravda.ru/news/world/23-07-2011...
Reuters
Factbox: Latest developments in Libyan conflict
(Reuters) – Following are the latest political and military developments in the Libyan crisis:
- Explosions rocked the Libyan capital Tripoli early on Sunday, according to Reuters witnesses.
- Muammar Gaddafi, battling rebels seeking to end his 41-year rule, on Saturday criticized the popular uprising in neighboring Egypt that forced Hosni Mubarak from power this year.
- Libya said on Saturday it was ready to hold more talks with the United States and with rebels but Gaddafi will not bow to demands to quit.
- NATO said it conducted 125 air sorties on Saturday, 56 of them strike sorties that aim to identify and hit targets, but do not always deploy munitions.
- NATO said key targets hit on Saturday included:
- One military storage facility, one multiple rocket-launcher, one command and control node, one armored vehicle in the vicinity of Brega;
- One military storage facility in the vicinity of Al Khum;
Source:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/24/us-l...
Gaddafi forces were slaughtering unarmed protesters in front of Tripoli Museum with snipers there on Feb 19th. Non stop gunfire #libya
FreeLibyan
G. #Younis to #MENA Journal; #Gaddafi forces control only west gate of #Brega.When we launch our final attack,we gonna liberate it n hours.
MUST READ:
HAVEERU DAILY
AFP
Libyan rebels in Brega shift focus to demining
Libyan rebels fighters stop by a round about before heading towards Brega, on the outskirt of Ajdabiya.
BENGHAZI, Libya, July 25, 2011 (AFP) – Libyan rebels say demining efforts outside the eastern oil hub Brega are being hampered by a lack of specialised kit, and that fighting against Moamer Kadhafi’s forces has lost some intensity.
“We have no choice. We have to clear the sand of mines,” Mohammed Zawawy, a spokesman for the Union of Revolutionary Forces in Ajdabiya, told AFP.
Zawawi said the rebels have so far cleared some 200 mines in the Brega area, and that they do not know if the claim of 45,000 mines laid is an accurate representation of the scope of the problem or merely a scare tactic.
But military spokesman Colonel Ahmed Omar Bani said the insurgency’s expert engineers calculate that more than “40,000” mines have indeed been spread at random in and around Brega.
“We have some experts and tools to clear the land of mines, but a lot of our troops are doing it manually, without tools,” he said.
Zawawy said intercepted radio chatter suggests that the morale of the embattled strongman’s forces is sagging in the absence of an easy way out.
“We listen to all their conversations. Radio chatter suggests they are down, disappointed, and that they don’t want to fight but are sometimes forced to because Kadhafi has sent troops to shoot anyone who retreats and left groups of fighters without cars so they can’t get away.”
Rebel military officials are currently preventing journalists from getting close to Brega for security reasons, making it difficult to verify claims of shifts in the balance of power there.
Read more here:
www.haveeru.com.mv/english/details/37416
Nahla
Our Footsteps Towards Freedom Will Never Fade Away! #Feb17
Al BAWABA
Libya: Rebel chief dismisses death reports
Major General Abdel Fattah Younes, Chief of Staff of rebel forces in Libya has dismissed recent rumors about his injury or death. The former Muammar Gaddafi aide mocked these rumors and accused Gaddafi regime of distributing this false information in order to influence the morale of the rebels.
According to Younes, the rebel forces have been making great progress on the ground during firefights against Gaddafi’s battalions. Maj. Gen. Abdul-Fattah said the battle for the strategic oil city of Brega is a decisive battle for Gaddafi regime, which is defended by all its military forces to prevent it from falling completely in the hands of the rebels. Younes, who was the interior minister in the Government of Libya before defecting the Gaddafi regime added that the rebels actually control all entrances to Brega except the Western entrance, pointing out that the battle will be resolved during the upcoming hours. Younes said the operation of NATO is progressing well and is “excellent.” He praised the close cooperation with the rebels to weaken Gaddafi regime militarily.
Younes was quoted assaying on Tuesday “The lightly armed rebels wish to overthrow Gaddafi and finish (the task) before the holy month of Ramadan.” However, he stressed he could not speculate on the specific date of the completion of the military campaign.
Source:
www.albawaba.com/main-headlines/libya-r...
Misuratayouth
may allah bless him and a very special message for girls to avoid makeup and to all libyan to follow allah’s order… fb.me/XPnZREQJ
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDNhcT9aA98
Abdul
#zintan & #warfalla #FF attacked checkpoint near #Mizda, killed 4 and captured dozen of #Gaddafi troops. Way from #Hamada 2 #Zintan is clear
Khiria
I’ve said this before and will say it again… #Zawia left a hole in everyone’s heart #heartbreaking
USAmbNATO Ivo Daalder
Still true today:
50 years ago, President John Kennedy made clear in a speech that any attack on Berlin was an attack on NATO
On Libya :
WilliamJHague says UK-France share resolve that Gaddafi must leave power. Political solution must be Libyan…
Dutch Johnson
#Libya tweeps, these missiles are for air defense and are useless against towns. #Fear #Tripoli yfrog.com/kk2orsjj
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Moldova CARGO SHIP “HAJ-SAYED” now departing port #Tobruk #Libya. #Feb17
#Panama CARGO SHIP “MSC BROOKE” now departing #Benghazi #Libya. Dest. not listed but suspected #Misrata. #Feb17
UKinLibya UK in Libya
foreignoffice: French Foreign Minister Juppe says on #Libya UK and France allied from the start – committed to same aim #feb17
FreeLibyan
#Hamza on #Gaddafi Tv; Clear sms threatening #Tunisia Govt & ppl 2 face 5m suicidal & attack by #Gaddafi army on.fb.me/nJBm4P
www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1246...
pdanaharbbc Paul Danahar
Out of Mid East for 10 days unless Col Gaddafi goes, in which case back sooner…..
Malta Today
UN special envoy to Libya Abdul Khatib to address Maltese ambassadors
United Nations special envoy to Libya, Adul Elah al-Khatib is expected in Malta this week, and will address Maltese diplomats during the annual ambassadors’ meeting in Valletta.
Khatib is U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s special envoy to Libya, will be the special guest of Foreign Minister Tonio Borg who has summoned all his ambassadors from around the world for their annual meeting.
The meeting this year is said to be entirely focused on the ongoing crisis in Libya, and the proposed diplomatic solutions to it.
Borg – who has been in contact with Khatib since his appointment as special envoy – visited Benghazi last week and held talks with the leaders of the Transitional National Council led by Mahmoud Jalil.
Tonio Borg was given a very warm welcome in Benghazi by Maltese-flag waving Libyans who accompanied him through the streets of Benghazi and paid homage to the fallen rebels who stood up to Gaddafi troops at the beginning of the uprising last February.
More and source;
maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/un-spec...
foreignoffice Foreign Office (FCO)
On #ArabSpring @WilliamJHague says we will continue to support people of the region in support of their legitimate aspirations
libyanandproud
#Tripoli : The nights electricity is cut on SugAlJumaa #Gaddafi forces wake up to many independence flags
Libya Misurata the cornerstone of the Libyan Revolution
Hassan said Shobaki correspondent Al-Jazeera in an interview with the Misurata Free site: "Misurata will always be in my mind and in my mind a lot, and outstanding natural beauty, its people and its people good people of the Arab peoples of the finest I’ve seen in my life.
Via Misrata Post
Libya feb17
#Tripoli Call: Yesterday in Bint Thowra school after the girls finished their final school they decorated a classroom inside the school with independence flag and distributed leaflets which they had received from fellow Freedom fighters from outside the school. Yesterday night at 3 am Gaddafi forces went into the school arrested the security guard and smashed every glass window and computer screen in the school. The school is now occupied by G forces and no girl was harmed; only the security guard got beaten and then returned to his place, in the same school now Gaddafi forces have put old detained freedom fighters. They were brought to the school in two mini buses.
Libya Free Forever.
Amar Howidi was arrested leaving to Tunisia w his family, hiding weapons in their cloths&35000 Euro. #FF #Libya
Libyan Duda
Adnan Mraja BenAija martyred on the front line in #Brega 7/19 “To Allah we belong and to him we shall return” #Feb17 twitpic.com/5vr7uw
#Libyans are paying for freedom with the lives of their sons, brothers & fathers #Feb17
Just can’t get enough— زيد تحدى (Zeed Tahadda) t.co/dmxLKf8 via @youtube #FreeLibya #Feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DSopUJlMXQ&fea...
somaia
Resident in Tripoli has told me that local ppl turn off house lights @ nite 2 help the FF move arnd w/out being seen by Pro-G
Hominoid
Libya Mount Nefoussa: Alzentan Another widow today in the funeral Alzentan Shahid Abdul-Karim Moussa Ali Moussa, who passed away in Tunisia, of wounds suffered in battle died on 6.6.2011 ask God to accept him as a martyr RIP #braveman
Telegraph
Germany makes £88 million available to Libyan rebels
Germany has said it was making available to the Libyan rebel National Transitional Council up to 100 million euros (£88 million) in loans for civilian and humanitarian purposes.
“Because of Colonel Gaddafi’s war against his own people the situation in Libya is extremely difficult,” German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in a statement issued in Berlin.
“There is a lack of means to build up the necessary structures and to relieve supply shortages, all the way from medical equipment to food. People are suffering more and more as a result, particularly in eastern Libya.”
Gaddafi said late on Saturday in an audio message broadcast on state television that the unrest that has swept his country since a popular uprising erupted mid-February was a “colonial plot.” He did not elaborate.
“They lie to you and say, ‘Libya kills its people with bullets, that is why we have come to protect civilians’,” Kadhafi said, referring to the Nato air campaign which was mandated by the United Nations with the aim of protecting civilians in Libya.
“Only eight people have been killed and an inquiry is under way to determine who killed them. There are no protests and no gunfire. Show us where the thousands of people (reportedly killed) are buried,” Kadhafi said.
Read full story:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...
libyanandproud
#Tripoli : Garbage and Trash filling the streets of tripoli (real trash not proG) even more than before #Feb17 #Libya
libyanandproud
#Nafusa : #Alassaba’a: #NATO bombed targets in and around alassaba’a today . #Feb17 #Libya
libyanandproud
#Tripoli : Hadba electricity was cut from 10:00 am till 20:00 . #Feb17 #Libya
wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: Friends drove thru Wazin last night at 11pm en route from Zintan to Tunis. #Gaddafi forces were firing Grads from Gaziah.
libyanandproud
#Zintan clearing mines , #Gaddafi forces Place 7 AntiPersonnel mines on top of Antitank mine. youtu.be/OAVkJBH0CPk #Feb17 #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAVkJBH0CPk&fea...
Tripoli Youth
#Tripoli call: afternoon brigades in AlFalah area were bombed by NATO
ksnavarra Karl Stagno-Navarra
#RAF #Tornado makes emergency landing in #Malta. Some 15,000 sorties have flown over #Malta in #Libya ops since Feb
Anaya
British PM’S advisor for the fight against terrorism was yesterday in Algiers, when Algeria is accused of helping #Gaddafi
Hominoid
Found sky news what realy happend in Zawiyah part 1 They will pay it made me cry.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZWl2lcYUVM&fea...
Gaddafi Regime Denies Massacre In Zawiyah, But Sky News Has Evidence It … t.co/51Ts2Tt we will never forget
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3yRp4aRtys&fea...
Zawia Libya on Mar6th from Channel 4 news…الزاوية ليبيا t.co/dAcy4h2 via @youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhhV1d7Rs14&fea...
Reuters
WRAPUP 2-UN envoy, rebels say no Libya peace plan yet
- Gaddafi government open to more U.S. contacts
- United Nations plan would begin with ceasefire
- Libya foreign minister leaves Cairo after talks (Adds Khatib comments, Zlitan attack, casualties)
By Rania El Gamal
BENGHAZI, July 25 (Reuters) – The U.N. envoy to Libya and the Benghazi-based rebel council discussed ideas on Monday for ending the civil war, but said a firm initiative had yet to take shape.
Full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/cameroonNews/idA...
“Whoever fights monsters should be careful not to become one in the process.” #Libya #Feb17 twitpic.com/5ve1az
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Cleaning up the #Libya embassy in #Bulgaria youtu.be/LCtCuD8_G64 #Feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCtCuD8_G64&fea...
A Free Libyan
Exchange of missiles reported on the #Zliten front. Casualties on both sides. #Libya #Feb17
hominoid
Libya Yefren hospital suffering a severe shortage of essential needs.
ShahrazadKablan Shahrazad Kablan
I would say that, the soil of Libya is irrigated with the blood of its people. All Libyans deserve a better future
#Freedom Fighters will not stop in #Ramadan. As #Misrata, #Zintan, #Brega, and #Tripoli Freedom Fighters..
No to #Gaddafi and sons staying Libya. Freedom Fighters will go all the way. Nothing less than Gaddafi’s head.
Freedom from #Gaddafi & sons first, everything else will fall in place later. We Libyans can detemine kind of system we want later
Ossama
#Libya TV: The ministry did not say why Al-Furis was expelled. #Bulgaria is supporting the #UN Security Council-mandated mission in #Libya.
Eyewitness Libya – reporting on the effects of the conflict on women and children
Ibrahim El Mayet, Libyan British Relations Council and Dr Amna Tillisi, Consultant Obstetrician for Libya Medical Relief report on the effects of the conflict on women and children.
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M35Y4hUb4y0
Libya Free Forever.
1/2 #NATO observed movement of #23tanks& 10 4×4 driving to S #Libya to get ammu #NATO destroyed thats location 3days #Gadafithugstupidity
2/2 before. the artillery left the location and run out of fuel. all the thugs left in 4 cars and left their artillery behind.
MOOOONLIGHT:
Facts about Mustard Gas
Rabta Chemical Weapons Production Facility at Ain Er Rabta, Libya
Posted June 30, 2011 by bigenoughlie in Weapons of War.
Location: 32 09’51.39″N,12 51’46.91″E (Ain er Rabta, Libya)
85.4 km @ 201.96 degrees South of Tripoli, Libya
Source and more:
SOURCE www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/libya/...
bigenoughlie.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/r...
#Zaif house #Tripoli and his GFs #Libya #GadafiCrimes dailymotion.com/video/xeevd7_m…
or:
www.dailymotion.com/video/xeevd7_miss-n...
The Dictator
Boat hasn’t left, the tide’s still too high apparently. We get told tomorrow if it’ll leave, otherwise we wait for another boat.
Apparently out of 400, 150 of us want to carry on. A lot of people got sea sick, some were really scared, I thought it was okay..
Just got news that the weather’s looking good and we might be leaving Gabes to #Misrata today. Pray the tides stay calm!!
IamLibya
NATO IS SAVING LIVES. GADDAFI IS KILLING LIVES. DON’T GET IT TWISTED #Libya #Feb17
Moooonlight:
CHECK IMPORTANT GADAFI THUGS TO FF
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2465692...
libyanandproud
Adm. Mullen: "We are generally in a stalemate in #Libya but strategy will work to remove #Gaddafi " #Feb17 #Libya #ihatelazyheadlines
A Free Libyan
Exchange of missiles reported on the #Zliten front. Casualties on both sides. #Libya #Feb17
LibyanYouthMovement
goo.gl/yBVoY A flight from a makeshift air strip near Zintan carries local council members to Benghazi, as Tripoli is seen from above
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6Wa1XrwmwY
WldSougAlJumaa
Father of good friend died 3 nights ago in #Gatrun defending the city? Allah Yirhamhum #Libya #GaddafiWeWillNeverGiveUpUhaveN oChance
BentBenghazi G
Gaddafi thugs in Canada calling the wives of freedomfighters who have gone to Libya to fight, telling them their husbnds died
Anaya
Le #Qatar va construire un aéroport international dans les montagnes #Nafusa et une piste d’atterrissage dans #Nalut #Libye
Abe
Ok. I just led an aid convoy in an ambulance across Ireland, France + a bit of Italy in 3 days. Rest. We need it. Ouch. LibyanEmergencyAid.com
Anita McNaught
But the media has no access to opposition fighter frontlines in this latest ‘Brega push’ either. Info. patchy and garbled.
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Kheder from #Misrata. 1 of many discharged injured #Libyan FFs. In the lobby of a Tunis hospital 4 an xray appt. July 21 twitpic.com/5vr9vb
France24
Gridlock, fighting continues at strategic base
South of Tripoli, in the hamlet of Goualich, Libyan rebels fought off a Sunday counter-offensive from the Libyan army. FRANCE 24 special envoys reported from the ground
After several days of calm near the hamlet of Goualich, roughly one-hundred kilometers south of Tripoli, the fighting started again Sunday between rebels and forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. This time, the soldiers backing the Libyan regime struck first.
The casualty toll after a day of clashes speaks to the inability of each side to get a leg up on the other: two minor injuries for the rebels and no ground gained by anyone.
On Saturday, the rebels had already managed to fight off a counter-offensive from pro-regime forces, thus maintaining the status quo.
For the pro-Gaddafi forces, too, Goualich is a bastion that must be defended. While our special envoys were reporting from the ground on Sunday, pro-Gaddafi forces were in the midst of the counter-offensive they had launched an hour earlier. They started out on foot before using heavy artillery.
“Today, they started advancing toward us, dressed in civilian clothes and carrying green flags,” one Libyan rebel told FRANCE 24. “But these are soldiers, I’m sure of it. We knew it was a trap, so we started to shoot and they fled.”
A correspondent from Agence France-Presse on the ground reported having spoken to several witnesses who said the pro-Gaddafi forces had indeed sent civilians in before the attack in order to convince the rebels to surrender.
Full story and video:
www.france24.com/en/20110725-libya-figh...
LIBYANVOICE
Naser Eltobooli managed 2get big ammount of$ out of libya using it 2buy communication devices & keep gadafi TV channels working
GADDAFI OFFICIALS IN EGYPT TO SELL INVESTMENTS:
By contrast, Gaddafi’s officials, according to Abdel Moneim al-Honi, Gaddafi’s former ambassador to the Arab League, have sent a delegation to Cairo to sell billions of dollars of investments held in Egypt.
Al-Honi, who now speaks for the NTC, said that the delegation included Mohamed al-Huweij, Gaddafi’s Minister of Economics and 3 other ministers.
Apparently they are hoping to return from Egypt with millions of dollars in cash to fund Gaddafi’s war effort against Opposition forces.
In another audio broadcast on state TV on Saturday, Gaddafi described the uprising against him as a “colonial plot” and denied all human rights allegations that he had brutally suppressed or killed thousands of protesters.
Commenting on the UN mandate giving NATO leave to take action to “protect civilians”, Gaddafi said, “They lie to you and say, ‘Libya kills its people with bullets, that is why we have come to protect civilians’ “.
“Only eight people have been killed,” he added, “And an inquiry is under way to determine who killed them. There are no protests and no gunfire. Show us where the thousands of people reportedly killed are buried.”
There is also a report that Libya state TV stated over the weekend said that Aisha Gaddafi’s husband had died, though how and under what circumstances, is not yet clear.
Aisha Gaddafi is Colonel Gaddafi’s “blond” lawyer daughter, known for her love of designer clothes and sometimes disparagingly referred to as the “Claudia Schiffer of North Africa”.
Source:
www.petercliffordonline.com/libya-2
Daily Arabic #Tripoli news on “طرابلس” goo.gl/1FXb4
MUST READ
Septimius:
Daily Kos
How Many Libyans has NATO Killed?
One member of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC), the rebels political body, said to me off-the-record that he disagreed with foreign military intervention in principle. “Of course I don’t like it and don’t encourage it, but this was our only choice. I know NATO comes with its own agenda, I know NATO is calling the shots now. After we get rid of Gaddafi, we will have to deal with the consequences of NATO intervention.”
Read full art.:
www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/24/99819...
dovenews Libyan™
It fascinates me that people still looking for war crime’s evidence committed by Gaddafi….
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “EFENDI BABA” now approaching dest. #Benghazi #Libya. #Feb17
#Malta CARGO SHIP “SESTRI STAR” remains anchored in port #Benghazi #Libya. #Feb17
#MarshallIslands CARGO SHIP “NAVISION IVORY” now anchored just outside port #Benghazi #Libya. #Feb17
Gaddafi OIL TANKER “BADR” now en route to dest. #JebelDhanna #UAE. #Libya #Feb17
LibyaNewMedia
I have been preoccupied by the Oslo attacks in the last couple of days. It feels like something I tried to escape has caught up with me.
Ossama
Maj. Gen. Abdel Fattah Younes: Battle of #Brega fateful and decisive and we will capture it whole. #Libya #feb17
Joanne
#UpYRSgaddafi #Turkey ’s #TPIC + #TPAO shipped 2FUEL Cargoes worth +/- $10 million of 5,000 tonnes of diesel to #Benghazi E #Libya more2come
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Freedomfighters in #Zliten have found boxes of chemical bombs. #Libya #Feb17 @NATO
dovenews Libyan™
The weapons ship to #Algeria explains the meeting which took place in #Tunisia abut a month ago with Saif’s thugs & some Algerian officials
Alex
Given de-mining delays – & small number of #Gaddafi troops left in city – #FF contingent at #Brega has been reduced to under 1000 #Libya
Ossama
BREAKING:FFs Zliten found boxes of Chemical Bombs, fears r now raisd that Gaddafi will use weapons of mass destruction just to stay in power
FromJoanne Joanne
#FRANCE24 ’s #MatthieuMabin reports from #Goualich #Qawalesh #Gawaleesh #Gwaleesh Gualish #Libya goo.gl/6Yf8I Nefusa Nefoussa #Libya
www.france24.com/en/20110725-libya-figh...
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Sabha area: 30 bunkers: “Wagon Wheels” 27.641983N 14.416337E #Libya #Feb17 @NATO
Ossama
Landmines in #Libya: Technical Briefing Note | #Human #Rights #Watch: hrw.org/en/news/2011/0…
www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/07/19/landmine...
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Tunis Now: Riding in a taxi with Salem, an injured #Libyan FF. Doctor wanted him admitted tonite 4 surgery tomorrow. But hospital was full.
MUST WATCH:
FromJoanne Joanne
#BREGA JUST LOOK @THIS ! Long Convoy of Freedom Fighters #Libyan National Army heading to #Brega through the sandstorm goo.gl/QVbDl
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa7QBQHmGTA&fea...
Libya’s women find revolution gives them chance to play role in society
Libyan men have had to reassess how they view the opposite sex since the start of the uprising, and when the dust settles the role of women in the north African country may well have changed for good.
The women of Libya, especially in the Nafusa Mountains, were among the protesters before the fighting started, and since then they have readied their sons and husbands for battle and nursed the wounded.
Meanwhile, they are also fighting for their own emancipation in the new Libya they are helping their men to forge.
Women do not exchange glances on the streets of the conservative city of Zintan, at the foot of the Nafusa range in western Libya. At home, the arrival of an unfamiliar male guest sparks panic, and the ladies of the house scattered like bees. In times of war, they spend most of their time cloistered within four walls.
Winds of change
However, women have felt the winds of change at their backs.
They were chanting “Down with Qaddafi” at the start of the insurrection, alongside the men, calling for Colonel Muammar Qaddafi to go.
Afaf Abusaa, 20, a technology student, said: “I’ve rallied with plenty of young women, even some pregnant ones. The men were so impressed they fired their Kalashnikovs in our honour! That showed them we were equal, and changed their opinion of us,” said.
With the men away at the battlefield, the women secure the home front with housework and by providing moral support.
Hana Akra, 24, a medical intern, said: “Men have seen the women nurse the wounded, do volunteer work and cook for the fighters. They’ve seen mothers tell their sons, ‘Go and fight. I will support you.’ They hadn’t expected that.”
A route towards emancipation
Women in Libya have come to see the revolution as a route towards their own emancipation, a way to break free from the jobs reserved for them: nurse, secretary or teacher, trades that leave time to take care of the family.
Not they could see a future in which they are not overlooked for a position because a man, albeit a less qualified one, has applied for the same job.
They hope that in the new Libya, their parents will allow them to select their own husbands, that their fathers and brothers will stop bossing them around and forbidding them from actively choosing their own path through life.
Najiah Hamza, 26, a medical student, said: “Society is very conservative here. Women don’t really have the chance to control their own destiny. We are always told: ’Don’t say this, don’t do that.’ I hope the revolution helps us.”
Salma Abu Rawi, 20, said her parents refused to let her marry her childhood sweetheart because he wasn’t from Zintan, while Ms Abusaa said she would rather not have to wear the veil after she is married.
Ms Akra said she has to fight to become a surgeon, a profession reserved for men. “A woman must break the glass ceiling.”
Women’s rights groups are popping up in Zintan, where there is talk of changing the laws on divorce and allowing women to participate in politics.
Anya Ali Abud, 23, a pharmacist, said: “The revolution gave us a chance to play a role” in society.
Source:
www.asafeworldforwomen.org/war-zones/pc...
Libya Free Forever.
Muhammed Alshaikh hit by RBG missile #Misurata #GadafiCrimes twitpic.com/5vsqws
IvanCNN Ivan Watson
Zlitan largely deserted,shops mostly closed. Heard artillery, saw smoke from airstrikes. Minders claimed NATO warships were shelling #Libya
Bk from Gadhafi-controld town of Zlitan,close to front line. Shown aftermath of NATO airstrikes. Gov’t claims 8 dead at bombed clinic
Our Zlitan reports soon to come. Meanwhile, hearing more gunfire than usual in central #Tripoli tonite. Natives restless? #Libya
Libya Free Forever.
1/2 #Muhammed AlHowaig went to London and to Egypt to sell #Gadafi investments in billions to support his war against #FF #Feb17 #Libya
2/2 Muahmmed AlHowaig lives in E Janzour opposite to Alramlah Martyr school. ALHowaig fortune is >1.5 billions #Gadaficurroption.
Zletin civilians were taken to #Ka’am to be human shields
#ALJ reporter talked about #Misurata #FF #Feb17 youtube.com/watch?v=5cTvKL…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cTvKL6p1Cw&fea...
dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi’s TVs continue to insult Libyan women & accusing them of prostitution, yet his TVs are still broadcasting on #Nilesat. Free #Egypt??
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
we are expecting #UN sec gen envoy to #Libya to arrive here in #Tripoli on Tuesday after his visit today to #benghazi
Skeptic
Saif’s media machine is desperately trying 2 turn the tide, i wonder how many digital mercenaries he has, how much he pays them?
We must stop Saifs propaganda machine! That monkey is still dangerous!
FromJoanne Joanne
Major General Abdel Fattah Younes says: #Gaddafi regime spread FALSE INFO of my Injury&Death trying to influence the morale of FF #Libya
Remember, G regime takes journo’s there and tell them what “happened”. Journos just regurgitate that.
Atlas Info. Fr
L’OTAN bombarde un dispensaire dans l’est de Tripoli : 7 morts
L’OTAN a bombardé, lundi, un dispensaire à Zliten (est de Tripoli) faisant au moins sept morts, ont dénoncé les autorités libyennes. Les autorités ont conduit des journalistes accrédités à Zliten où ils ont pu voir un bâtiment complètement détruit, avec le croissant rouge à l’entrée et des produits pharmaceutiques, un brancard, des gants, des bouteilles d’oxygène éparpillées. Dans l’après-midi, les secours s’activaient en quête d’éventuels survivants. Dans une autre zone, les journalistes ont constaté que des dépô ts de produits alimentaires étaient endommagés, et le 4e était en flammes. Les journalistes ont vu des centaines de sacs de riz, des tomates, de l’huile végétale partir en fumée.
Source:
www.atlasinfo.fr/L-OTAN-bombarde-un-dis...
BREGA:
NFSL mourns the loss of Martyr Adnan AbuNeiaja Al-Baraasi, who died in the battle to free Brega #Feb17 #LIbya #NFSL t.co/jyVPMFZ
www.libyanfsl.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9...
Alex
LIBERATED! In an impressive commando style operation – #Misrata #FF in a convoy of 300 gun mounted vehicles – (cont) tl.gd/bv3hgb
LIBERATED! In an impressive commando style operation – #Misrata #FF in a convoy of 300 gun mounted vehicles – rescued 24 #Misrata families – from Gararat Al Katif – a village located on a road between #BaniWalid & #Misrata – about 80 kilometres south of #Misurata
The families had fled Misrata during the Regime bombings – and were incarcerated in “horrendous” conditions by G mercenaries who fled as soon as they saw the 300 vehicle #FF convoy approaching – though 2 were caught by #FF
The families were overjoyed to be liberated and all safely returned to #Misrata – without a single #FF or family casualty.
www.scribd.com/doc/60895851/July-24-Fre...
Abeidi
Libya, Brega, I have been told the FFs are struggling&suffering from booby traps everywhere even corpse, guns, toilets and doors are mined
Nusaiba ( aid worker) tweets:
What’s Happening On The Other Side
“ I asked 4 Strength..
& Allah gave me difficulties 2 make me strong
I asked for Wisdom..
& Allah gave me problems 2 solve
I asked 4 Courage..
& Allah gave me obstacles 2 overcome
I asked for Love..
& Allah gave me troubled people 2 help
I asked for Favours..
& Allah gave me Opportunities
‘’Maybe I received nothing I wanted..But I received everything I needed.’’
♥ AlHaMdUlElAh ♥
Niz_FGM Niz
25/7/11 – Sorry for the lack of updates. Rolling blackouts across #Tripoli and illness are hampering our work.
Libya Free Forever.
Where is Gumata? FF needs help there. G forces are leaving to #Gumata now
#NTC Justice & Media ministers have just stated in #Benghazi Tahrir square that the only end to the #Libyan conflict is to end it militarily
#NTC Justice & Media ministers..Time for talking is over, final battle is looming closer..#Gaddafi only understands power & we will use it
Tweeting Tripoli
NATO have made many holes in the western part of Bab Al-Azyzia compound, but the holes were closed by large cement blocks. #feb17 #Libya
Fadwa
This is why we were able 2 liberate our city “Shabab #Benghazi praying infront of th kateeba despite what was happening tinyurl.com/3o5oaj4”
www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1145...
FromJoanne Joanne
Libya’s Lawyers Building a Case 4 war crimes against Gaddafi Al Jazeera’s HodaAbdelHamid reports from #Misrata #Libya twitter.com/#!/HaithaM9B
Gihan
AFP: Gaddafi’s regime accused Nato of killing at least 7 pple in a raid on a medical clinic &destroying stocks of food Zliten #Libya #Feb17
Tweeting Tripoli
The number of checkpoints visibly increased all over Tripoli. I traveled across Tripoli from West to East.
I checked today, there is no surface to surface missile launcher in Sidi Mendelsee square in Tajoura. Either moved or bombed,
#NTC chairman: "1.#Gaddafi will surrender, 2.He will flee #Libya, or 3.He will be killed or captured by one of his bodyguards or by FF.”
#NTC chairman: #FFs would continue their offensive during #Ramadan, which begins early next month. #Libya #Feb17
Obz
#ChangeTheWorld #ChangeTheWorld #ChangeTheWorld #ChangeTheWorld #ChangeTheWorld #ChangeTheWorld #ChangeTheWorld #ChangeTheWorld
FEB17:
MUST READ:
By: Kirsten Russell
The Boy from Mizdah
Dad’s assignment in Tripoli was to establish and direct a farm school for Libyan boys. During most of 1952 he labored to open the school, ordering school supplies and equipment, supervising construction work on the school building, writing lesson plans and reference materials, and selecting students from scattered coastal and desert communities.
On November 1, 1952, 32 teenage boys arrived by bus, truck, camel, donkey, or foot to attend the new farm school. Some had started walking three days earlier. At least half of the student body came barefoot, and many of the boys came wearing rags. But all arrived with their heads held high and their eyes aglow.
Shortly after the school opened, medical examinations revealed that two students suffered from advanced cases of trachoma.
Read the story here:
feb17.info/news/the-boy-from-mizdah
Source: AmericanDiplomacy.org
Khiria
#GaddafiCrimes: #Gaddafi granted citizenship to so many non-Libyans who have only committed crimes in our name. #Libya #Feb17
Joanne
@NATO WARNING Radio Message to Gaddafi mercenaries goo.gl/CS6gq #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY_lDfIQMxI&fea...
Please read:
DIMA blog:
Kids as young as 3 might not be able to say a full sentence or tell you a story, but they know how to say that phrase.
They also know how to say : “Muammar itlaa barra.. tawwa” , which means : Muammar leave.. now !
Children, women, men, old, young, middle-aged .. everyone repeats those phrases with such passion and such determination.
asked one middle-aged lady: “So does that mean you wanted him before?” She explained to me that although he had killed, tortured and imprisoned anyone who would criticise him, they did not mind him so much, up to the point when the first demos kicked off in Eastern Libya and were brutally crushed. She said that the turning point for her was when she saw what she describes as “foreign mercenaries” spreading fear in Benghazi’s streets. She said she was shivering in her home as she saw them coming down the street, armed. “My brother who used to be with Gaddafi and a member of his popular committees, had to go downstairs with others to the building’s entrance to protect the women and children from any harm”, she said. Then she continued with clear anger and pain: “Honestly when the rape started, that was already way too much for us to take. We can take the killing and opression, but we can’t take anything that touches our family honour, our women, our girls.”
Continue here:
www.dimakhatib.com/2011/07/maash-nibbou...
FromJoanne Joanne
#Nafusa IMPORTANT Yesterday GForces tried Retaking #Qawalish using HumanShields but FF Managed 2push them back2 #Asabeah by evening #Libya
This is a must read:
Désespéré, le régime de Kadhafi fait appel aux volontaires
Les unités militaires libyennes s’efforcent de trouver de nouvelles recrues après des mois de combats contre les forces révolutionnaires.
Pressées sur tous les fronts, les forces fidèles à Mouammar Kadhafi se tournent vers les médias pour tenter de renforcer leurs effectifs.
Les forces du régime ont récemment lancé une opération de recrutement par le biais d’encarts dans la presse, d’annonces à la radio et de spots à la télévision. Ces annonces demandent des volontaires pour lutter dans les rangs de l’armée de Kadhafi, et proposent une prime mensuelle de 1 000 dinars en plus du salaire régulier.
Les nouvelles recrues seront formées pendant une période allant de six mois à un an. En plus des primes en liquide, le régime offre l’éducation et les soins de santé pour les volontaires et leurs familles, ainsi qu’un accès à des prêts, des logements et la garantie d’un emploi à l’issue de cette formation.
Dans le même temps, la 32ème brigade renforcée, dirigée par Khamis Kadhafi, a ouvert ses portes à de nouveaux soldats. L’armée a en effet fait savoir que les volontaires bénéficieront de trois mois de formation et d’une prime de 300 dinars. Cette annonce ajoute que les recrues auront le droit de quitter l’armée après six mois.
Read more here:
www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/fr...
A Free Libyan
#Misrata FFs on the West gained a lot of ammo/equipment today. Additionally, reports of many G troops killed + captured. #Libya #Feb17
JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
1 of 3 Admiral Mike Mullen praised #NATO ops in #Libya ,but says plenty of challenges associated with regime forces remain.
Mullen said in briefing- no surprise regime forces have adjusted to opposition tactics #Libya
Adm Mullen re #Libya said today “we are generally in a stalemate”.. but said more pressure has been brought on regime forces.
KC_Tripolitania KC
RIP :’((( Tripoli : #Fashloom : 4 Brothers from Fashloom were hung in #AbuSaleem Prison yesterday ! #Feb17 #Libya"
WODKA FOR G TROOPS:
Ahmed
#Gaddafi forces getting wasted on the front lines..truck captured by #FF, the proper way to fight! youtu.be/Hh_e19rxoSs #Libya #Feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh_e19rxoSs&fea...
jamal tripoli
#Nalut: G using cover of “peaceful” civilians marches to transport arms & avoid NATO Strikes.1500 mercenaries are now @ eastern gate. #libya
wheelertweets James Wheeler
Kheder from #Misrata. 1 of many discharged injured #Libyan FFs. In the lobby of a Tunis hospital 4 an xray appt. July 21 twitpic.com/5vr9vb
Najib Mahesha, 19. Injured #Libyan FF from #Misrata. In his Tunis hospital room tonite, July 25. Hit by #Gaddafi RPG t.co/bDJ7bT2
.on July 6 in Naeema (4 kms past Dafniya). The RPG busted his right arm, went thru his chest, and came out his left side.
Part of his lung was removed.. After initial treatment in #Misrata, Najib was shipped 20 hrs to Benghazi, where he languished
.for 12 days, during which his bandages were changed just twice. He was flown here to Tunis last Friday, July 22.
So frustrating & shameful that injured #Misrata FFs like Najib are still going to Benghazi. We should put a stop to it.
Emad Abu Shahma (FF from #Misrata, shot in April) told me tonight at his Tunis hospital that he’s engaged & was supposed to marry in June.
MORE EGGS:
eggcollector Sllort Ifaddag
346+5=351: svetovid , pangallion , james00049 , warfortcct , 45Zoroastro
RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gaddafi fuel supplies in #Tripoli 32.896345 N, 13.215777 E & 32.851903 N, 13.235622 E #Libya #Feb17 @NATO
Tripolitano
#Gaddafi thugs broke into ppl houses in many parts of #Ghiryan in da past few days. Lookin 4 arms & abducting youth. Showin no respect 2any1
Misuratayouth
the death of Abdullah Asonousi was confirmed today on Libya alahrar TV and by other sources he is one of the most… fb.me/RrAty4ua
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=284226&id=125370887540919
Ibn
youth dressed in classical #libyan clothing. #libya #feb17 twitpic.com/5vul15
ilibico
حماه مسائية 24-7 2011 هدية من ثوار حماه الى ثوار ليبيا youtube.com/watch?v=7QP0rC… #Hama #Syria chanting for #Libya very moving scene,thanks Syria
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QP0rCIasCk&fea...
Lisa
#Feb17 I’m saying good night to #Libya! I’m praying for ur well deserved freedom tonight n safety of #FreedomFighters…bravest men on earth
Tripolitano
#Misrata FFs were in #Zliten late sunday early Mon. Then retreated. Hence the Gov organized trip for journalists to prove town still under G
Tripolitano
I asked a FF from Misrata : how r u going to fight during Ramadan? He said we are already fasting these days
“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence”