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SUMMARY JULY 26th 2011

7/26/2011
7.26.2011

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

On July 25th, NATO aircraft flew 111 sorties, including 54 strike sorties. Some of the key hits included:
In the vicinity of Brega: 1 Military Facility, 5 Armoured Vehicles, 2 Tanks, 11 Light Military Vehicles.
In the vicinity of Tripoli: 2 Command and Control Nodes, 2 Anti-Aircraft Weapon, 3 Multiple Rocket Launchers, 1 Military Vehicle.
In the vicinity of Waddan:1 Ammunition Storage Facility.
In the vicinity of Zlitan: 3 Command and Control Nodes, 1 Military Armoured Vehicle Storage Facility, 2 Armed Vehicles.
In the vicinity of Al Khums: 1 Military Vehicle Storage Facility.
In the vicinity of Gharyan: 2 Armoured Fighting Vehicles.

NATOpress NATO Press
#NATO press briefing on #Libya at 14:00 (Brussels time) will be streamed live via the web with #Arabic interpretation – goo.gl/pV2xK

HodaAbdelHamid Hoda Abdel-Hamid
Middle East Libyan lawyers build case against Gaddafi
Lawyers in the Libyan city of Misurata are attempting to build a case against the government of Muammar Gaddafi for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
They have already uncovered documents that reportedly show security forces were told to starve the population of the city and target mosques.

Mobile phone footage of security forces shelling a minaret appears to corroborate that evidence.
Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel-Hamid reports from Misurata, Libya.
My latest report from #Misrata #Libya aje.me/p7C68or:
english.aljazeera.net/video/middleeast/...

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

Hominoid
Zintan Land mines hope this helps also looking for another from Zliten
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAVkJBH0CPk&fea...

At 6m40s view inside 4×4 mines stacked up this was near Zliten
www.youtube.com/watch?v=453xVVCva84&fea...

The Portuguese authorities have expelled 3 Libyan diplomats after 48 hours have passed today. Also the Portuguese recognized the TNC

UN: Gadhafi-held part of Libya facing shortages
AP
TRIPOLI, Libya — The part of Libya under Moammar Gadhafi’s control is wracked by shortages in fuel, food and cash despite a veneer of normalcy, according to a U.N. fact-finding mission.

“Although the mission observed aspects of normalcy in Tripoli, members identified pockets of vulnerability where people need urgent humanitarian assistance,” Humanitarian Coordinator Laurence Hart said about the U.N. mission, which concluded Sunday.

“There are also concerns over the unsustainable food supply chain for the public distribution systems, especially as Ramadan approaches and the conflict persists,” the U.N. said. Following a dawn to dusk fast, families during Ramadan are accustomed to large feasts after sundown.
Banks are also restricting the amount of cash people can withdraw, the U.N. said, after many Libyans withdrew their savings at the start of the crisis.
Full art.:
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/7...

TeleGeography
Misurata rebels given mobile network by man behind ‘Free Libyana’

According to TheRegister.co.uk, UAE-based telecoms executive Ousama Abushagur – a Libyan national who was raised in Alabama – has assisted rebel forces in the implementation of a second mobile network, this time in the country’s third largest city, Misurata. As previously reported by TeleGeography’s CommsUpdate, in April 2011 Abushagur coordinated the construction of an independent mobile network in Eastern Libya, after rebels were cut off from the country’s centralised infrastructure. ‘Free Libyana’ was supplied with the necessary telecoms equipment by UAE telecoms giant Etisalat, which stepped in when Chinese telecoms manufacturer Huawei rejected Abushagur’s approach; an unnamed Libyan businessman based in the UAE bankrolled the project. The original network was rolled out by a team of international telecoms engineers – three Libyans and four Westerners – who flew to Egypt before crossing the border into Libya and commencing work in the rebel-held capital Benghazi.
This time engineers arrived by fishing boat, having endured a 30-hour boat trip from Malta. The engineers brought in equipment from Malta, and integrated it into a solitary Ericsson base station – one of the few still standing after the recent hostilities. Backhaul to the Free Libyana network is not possible at present – as the rebels do not actually hold the intervening land – and therefore relies on a satellite uplink. As a result, users need to be registered manually with the network, which in turn allows the operator to restrict connectivity to genuine locals, rather than government sympathisers that have been left behind. Like ‘Free Libyana’, the Misurata network does not charge users for domestic calls, having been funded entirely by donations solicited by Abushagur, mainly from fellow Libyan expatriates.
Source:
www.telegeography.com/products/commsupd...

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Voice of Free #Libya – Misrata station (Arabic only) – 1449kHz AM | Internet stream | (Broadcasting live at ustre.am/xacW)

Novinite
‘Rebel’ Libyan Non Grata Consul Still in Bulgaria
Libya’s Consul General in Sofia, Ibrahim al-Furis, declared persona non grata Monday, is still in the country.
The news was reported Tuesday by the Bulgarian TV channel bTV.
The Consul remains inside the Embassy despite the expiration of the 24 hours deadline to leave Bulgaria. Now, it is the turn of the law enforcement authorities to take the matter in their hands, diplomats have commented for bTV.
He was declared declared as unwanted person 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”.
Source:
www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=130584

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Portugal: Authorities expelled 3 #Gaddafi regime diplomats today & recognized the #NTC as sole legitimate representative of #Libya n people

Libya Free Forever.
Gadafi can live in any minefield in Tobruk Brega or any minefield in Nafusa mountain.

inglesi Piers Scholfield
by ChangeInLibya
Photo – leaving #Misrata, Monday morning yfrog.com/gz2hngzj

Michael
twitpic.com/5vmjm9 – This is the Tripoli Municipal Sewage Treatment Facility. For God’s sake, don’t target it!

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
ZLITEN: Freedom fighters at Izdo, on the eastern outskirts of Zliten – 21/07/2011 #libya fb.me/WQnWlFT7
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuF5huvKawA

moi a table
Thinking that #Women of #Libya are not getting the media coverage they deserve. Call for all journos to consider this question. #Feb17

Hominoid:
Libya As FFs slowly press toward Tripoli, they are discovering ever more extensive mine fields laid by forces loyal to Libyan leader in and around civilian areas. The number of mines unearthed by the FFs is quickly growing from hundreds to thousands, as opposition fighters move into towns abandoned by retreating Gaddafi troops.

“Over the past weeks NATO has witnessed an increase in indiscriminate mining and the escalating use of force by pro-Gaddafi forces,” in both Brega, east of Tripoli, and the western mountains, said a NATO official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of alliance ground rules.

Opposition forces battling to enter the oil refinery at Brega have been slowed by mines. Col. Ahmed Banni, Libya’s Transitional National Transitional military leader, told reporters that FFs deactivated thousands of land mines last week to secure a possible route into Brega.

FF military commanders at Kabaw in the western mountains say five days ago they watched Gaddafi troops laying mines around towns of Ghazaya, Tikut and Ruwas near the Tunisian border.

Libya Free Forever.
check Aljufrah 27.98398,16.912165, big ammu and weapons storage place.thanks

A Free Libyan
Overnight, #Nalut experience some missile attacks by G forces. Reports of up to 75 missiles hit the town. #Libya #Feb17

Ahmed Sanalla
#Epic #FF from #Misrata has leg amputated but still refuses to give up..rejoins his brothers on front lines yfrog.com/keufzwj #Libya

Free Libya Podcast, national reconciliation & forgiveness..will you forgive but not forget?
bit.ly/pQlbOq #Libya #Feb17 #Freedom
www.youtube.com/FLPodcast

It seems Free #Libya has a new TV channel Libyaawalan.tv…

A Free Libyan
Reports that FFs are in the process of dismantling many mines outside of #Alassaba. #Libya #Feb17

Libya.elHurra
More than 100 GRAD rockets have fallen on #Nalut in the last 24 hours. Thankfully, no reports of injury #Libya

Five-year-old Malak will be leaving Malta tomorrow for the US where she will be fitted with a prosthetic leg after she lost her limb when a rocket was fired into her Misurata home in Libya.
Malak Al Shami arrived here last Tuesday with her parents, Mostafa Mohammed and Safia, on the Al Entisar, a Korean fishing vessel used by the I Go Aid foundation to ferry food and medical provisions to Libya since the war broke out in February.
Malak, a name which means angel, was carried off the ship by her father holding a flag of the Libyan National Transitional Council – a symbol of condemnation of the Gaddafi government.
Read more:
feb17.info/news/young-libya-war-casualt...

‘Libya will be free’..we will fight to the death youtu.be/2bO2Yqn7d8A #Libya #Feb17 #Tripoli #gaddaficrimes #Freedom
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bO2Yqn7d8A&fea...

AJE: “#Gaddafi cuts access to oil and water” & electricity — t.co/b6bRMF0 Rebels say they could cut water 2 west but will not…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kggKKPmNgVs&fea...

wheelertweets James Wheeler
Meleud Qresh, a 30 yr old injured #Libyan freedom fighter from Kikla, in his Tunis hospital room last night (July 25). twitpic.com/5w3neu

Sumayyah
Green=Prosperity, Black=Dark days of Italian occupation. Red=Bloodshed of martyrs. Crescent/star=Islam

libyanandproud
Today is “Bash Pro #Gaddafi Troll” day ! Get your list here : @eggcollector or eggcollector.tumblr.com

Richard
Given the knowledge that #Gaddafi is using the million zombie marches as a facade for resupplying his troops, @NATO really needs to find a non-lethal (because some of them are civillian zombies) way of stopping. them. If you can think of nothng may I suggest carpet bombing the convoy and road ahead with clear plastic caltrops – with hollow spikes hard and sharp enough to penetrate truck tyres. ideally they will be barbed to make removal from tyre difficult but will contain a solvent to destroy them in a couple of days.

MOD
HMS Sutherland supporting Libya operations
Royal Navy Type 23 Duke class frigate HMS Sutherland has been re-tasked to NATO to support Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR, the mission to protect the people of Libya and enforce the UN-mandated arms embargo

En route to Sutherland’s new tasking, the ship’s 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.”

Full art.:
www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/...

My Sinchew
Women bakers prepare for free Libya’s first Ramadan

BENGHAZI, July 26, 2011 (AFP) – Civil war or not, every year the holy Muslim month of Ramadan must be respected and in Libya’s rebel stronghold of Benghazi women bakers are working overtime to meet demand.
Dozens of women knead dough into shape, making sweets and salty pies, at the iconic Al-Harabi bakery, undaunted by the unrelenting war, sweltering temperatures, power-cuts and tight budgets.
Ramadan, when devout Muslims fast from dawn to dusk, is due to begin on August 1.
Throughout the month, families get together to break the fast with lavish meals that must include olive and cheese pies and special Ramadan sweets.
“We had no money but I had free time so I started working here,” said Iman al-Jihani, 22, a medicine student who also volunteers two nights per week in the surgery department of Benghazi’s Al-Jalaa hospital.
At the bakery she earns a monthly salary of 275 Libyan dinars (around 230 dollars) which is paid on time — unlike her policeman father whose salary is always late.
Jihani’s salary helps relieve the pressure of feeding five mouths at home.
For Ghada Ali, 20, working at the bakery is a matter of survival.
Her father and two brothers are off fighting in Brega and Misrata, two front lines west of Benghazi, leaving Ali to care for her sick mother and three sisters.

Full art.:
www.mysinchew.com/node/61165

Libya Nalut Shelled yet again in the early hours of this morning.

septimius
Breaking the latest tour bus is to a FLYING camels farm hit by #NATO No camels will be seen but its an excuse to get a report! #Libya #Rixos

Karl Stagno-Navarra
#HMS Albion, afloat command platform for the Royal Navy’s Amphibious Task Force arrives in #Malta

Libya.elHurra
Flag of Free Libya in the University of BaniWalid. االله أكبر الله أكبر #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=123OaT…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=123OaTOW57Q

BBC
UK reviews Gaddafi exit solution

Col Gaddafi must relinquish power but may not have to leave Libya, Foreign Secretary William Hague has suggested.
He said Britain’s preference was for the Libyan leader to leave the country, but it was a “question for Libyans”.

He went on: "What is absolutely clear, as Alain (Juppe) has said, is that whatever happens, Gaddafi must leave power. He must never again be able to threaten the lives of Libyan civilians nor to destabilise Libya once he has left power.
“Obviously him leaving Libya itself would be the best way of showing the Libyan people that they no longer have to live in fear of Gaddafi.
“But as I have said all along, this is ultimately a question for Libyans to determine.”
Full art.:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14282757

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gaddafi is planting landmines at random, an indication that he is not going back to the area he plants the mines in.

CNN
Libya’s Zlitan becoming a front-line city
Zlitan is about 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of the opposition-held port city of Misrata, and the front line between the rebels and pro-regime forces is somewhere in between the two cities. Smoke rising on the horizon and the rumble of artillery in the east suggested that by Monday, the fighting had moved closer to the city limits.
“It’s continuous bombing, morning day and night,” said Fathi Amar, who who stood armed with a radio and camouflage uniform at the entrance to the burning storage center.
Full art.:
edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/07/25...

FreeLibyan
1550 Landmines dismantled so far @ the outskirts of #Alassaba city 25km S of #Ghryan. Thanks 2 #Brazil #Belgium 4selling landmines 2 Gaddafi

Hominoid
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Efforts to find a deal to end the civil war in Libya intensified on Tuesday, with a U.N. special envoy heading for Tripoli and Western powers signaling that Muammar Gaddafi could stay in the country if he gives up power.

U.N. envoy Abdul Elah al-Khatib, who visited the rebels in Benghazi on Monday, is looking for a “political process” that will end a war that has failed to dislodge Gaddafi despite months of rebel attacks backed by NATO bombing raids.

There will be no political solution found, Gaddafi will not give up without destroying every thing he can. The only solution is to arm the revolutionary forces, to give them a chance to win in outright conflict.

Also coordination with NATO aircraft and helicopters on the battlefield would help the push towards the capitol, as we saw at the start of this war when France Britain and the US attacked the rebellion forces were very close to Sirte in a few days.

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
I posted 11 photos on Facebook in the album “Witness to War – Tim Hetherington’s final photos” fb.me/1bXaRDfMj
or:
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.15254...

Misrata hospital: 6 freedom fighters from the Zliten front just arrived in a bad but not critical condition

Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
If Gadhafi & sons stay in Libya once relinquish power in tripoli then they will face court trial by Libyans like Mubarak by Egyptians now!!

JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
Sounds of #NATO jets flying over #tripoli for a while now. #Libya

CIL:
BREAKING:
LibyaTV: #Qatroun (South) freedom fighters have forced Gaddafi forces to retreat and arrested over 15 of them #libya

4libya
#Gaddafi forces use human shields in attack on #Qualeesh 7/25. They took civilian men&women from their homes in G controled towns 1/3 #Libya

Then forced the civilians (human shields) 2 go forward in front of G forces as they attack FF positions When they got close to FF 2/3

3/3The they fled informing Freedom Fighters they were forced 2 assist #Gaddafi Then after 4 hour battle FF forced G soldiers back 2KM #Libya

Sirtawi
#Sirte’s Local Council Rep @NTC said earlier Pro-Gs, who live in area not even on map, will meet 2moro in #Sirte to show their loyalty.

omar
Video: #Misrata Freedom fighters Feel Confident in Western Advance in #Libya youtu.be/4ydYXm9WCQY #Feb17 #NTDTV
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ydYXm9WCQY&fea...

BERNAMA
Russian Presidential Envoy, Italy FM To Discuss Libya Situation
ROME, July 26 (Bernama) — Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini and Russian Presidential Representative for Africa Mikhail Margelov, who will arrive in the Italian capital on Tuesday, will discuss the situation in Libya, spokesman for the Italian Foreign Ministry Maurizio Massari told Russian news agency Itar-Tass on Monday.

He noted that the interlocutors will discuss the prospects for the development of events in Libya and the ways to settle the armed conflict, in which Italian and Russian diplomats are the mediators.

“Finally Rome and Moscow have an identical position on many aspects of the situation in Libya,” Massari said, recalling about the recent meetings and contacts with members of Muammar Gaddafi’s government and the Transitional National Council of the rebels in Benghazi that were held in the capitals of both countries.

“High-ranking officials from Russia and Italy will have the first meeting devoted completely to the Libyan dossier that is a perfect opportunity to share their positions on the recent events,” the spokesman said.
Read more here:
www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/newsworld...

Libyan
Rida Mazagri, Libyan doctor who grew up in #Tripoli, lived in Charleston, WV was kidnapped March 16 in Ajdabiya hospital by #Gaddafi forces
please keep him in your prayers

Daily Star
U.N.: Gadhafi-held part of Libya facing shortages
TRIPOLI: The part of Libya under Moammar Gadhafi’s control is wracked by shortages in fuel, food and cash despite a veneer of normalcy, according to a U.N. fact-finding mission.
In a statement issued late Monday, the United Nations said its weeklong mission to the country had identified lack of fuel, rising food prices, a strained medical system, and a cash crunch as some of the problems besetting Gadhafi’s government.
“Although the mission observed aspects of normalcy in Tripoli, members identified pockets of vulnerability where people need urgent humanitarian assistance,” Humanitarian Coordinator Laurence Hart said about the U.N. mission, which concluded Sunday.
Read more:
www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2...

Patriots of Misrata
A Russian Emergencies Ministry aircraft will deliver humanitarian aid to Tripoli on Tuesday. The plane carrying 36.2 tons of canned milk, baby food, sugar and rice took off from an airport near Moscow on Tuesday morning

AMAZIGH IDENTITY IN LIBYA AFTER THE REVOLUTION
This is a short report on Al-Jazeera Chennel about tamazight culture development and updates after the revolution in Libya supported by interviews with local people from Jadu in Nafusa Mountain. Also this report shows how they teach children Tamazight language in Jadu. Minister of Culture visited Jadu and commented on the situation nowadays that free Libya has multi-culture and as Amazigh in the past were forced by Ghaddafi followers to not use this language and culture.
Tanemmirt
Video:
libyatadreft.com

Free Libyia
Eating a slice of mille-feuille….nothing beats the mille-feuille in Libya, esp the ones in the bakery near Suq Almuthalit in BenAshoor

freeourlibya
Monday:
#Misrata: Today FF in western Misrata killed 65 mercenaries & captured 25. also looted 3 rocket launchers, 2 106mm cannons & 5 vehicles .

Older footage mercs:
G is using them from Mali, Niger, Darfur . It’s been proven many times over before , eg t.co/vSmZrEI .
www.youtube.com/watch?v=84RUQg3Gz9c&fea...

Lisa
Gaddafi forces Are Hanging prisoners in #Abusleem ! #Feb17 #Libya”

Libyan
Revolutionary group heading to #Brega, suddenly winds pick up and blow the sand. a mine field appears. Divine intervention. #Libya #Feb17

NATO NATO
At 14:00 Brussels today #NATO press briefing on #Libya. Now available in French and #Arabic goo.gl/fnsC1

Richard
Expect #Russian humanitarian flight to #Tripoli will include new surface to air #missiles able to hit #NATO planes.

Abeidi
Libya,AlAhram newspaper,Cairo Egypt refuses any support2Gardaffi regime.Iam sorry I didn’t see this in actions all talk, G TV still running

Misuratayouth
a phone call from one of the Tripoli revolutionary confirms the death of the right wing of Qaddafi the… fb.me/1aGZpDgQ8
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYsj5eeYCbY

Le Figaro
Rencontre discrète Tunisie/Libye
Le ministre libyen des Affaires étrangères Abdelati Obeidi a rencontré aujourd’hui à Tunis son homologue tunisien Mohamed Moudli Kéfi.

La rencontre a duré plus d’une demie heure et a été entourée d’une grande discrétion, le ministère tunisien ne souhaitant communiquer ni sur la visite, ni sur le contenu des discussions.

Au sortir de l’entretien, qui a eu lieu au ministère des Affaires étrangères, M. Obeidi interrogé par les journalistes s’est abstenu de tout commentaire et a refusé de se laisser prendre en photo.

Le chef de la diplomatie libyenne dont la visite n’avait pas été annoncée était arrivé samedi du Caire et devait quitter Tunis mercredi, a-t-on appris de source diplomatique.

Read more:
www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2011/07/26/9...

Journal Matro
AP
La partie de la Libye contrôlée par Kadhafi confrontée à des pénuries, selon l’ONU

TRIPOLIS, Libya – La partie de la Libye se trouvant sous le contrôle de Moammar Kadhafi est confrontée à une pénurie de carburant, de nourriture et d’argent liquide, selon une mission de l’ONU envoyée sur place.
Dans un communiqué publié lundi soir, les Nations unies ont précisé que leur mission, qui a duré une semaine, avait identifié plusieurs problèmes auxquels doit faire face le gouvernement de Moammar Kadhafi: pénurie de carburant, hausse des prix des aliments, services médicaux mis à rude épreuve et contraction des liquidités.
More:
www.journalmetro.com/monde/article/9263...

libyanandproud
#Libya Orphans ,Widows ,or Amputees should be asked what the fate of #Gaddafi should be, after all they r the majority now ! #Feb17

Regine
People in Zliten are told by g- forces that 4000 french soldiers have captured misurata and are coming to take zliten(bbc).#gadafficrimes

Libya.elHurra
#NATO warns Gaddafi forces over the radio, in English & Arabic against harming Libyan civilians #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=h9Hxa-…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Hxa-_PzT4

wheelertweets James Wheeler
@
@wheelertweets Qalaa’s Suleiman Grada is a #Nafusa Mtns hero. He’s also a living testament to the life & legacy of Zintan’s Mohammed Madani.

Tripolitano
Cure for diabetes! Go to #Tripoli. Low fat diet, loss of appetite= weight loss. Some1 I know is nearly cured. True story, not a joke!

UPDATES:
Associated Press
A UN fact finding mission in Libya has concluded that the part of the country still under Gaddafi’s control is wracked by shortages in fuel, food and cash despite a veneer of normalcy. In a statement issued late Monday, the United Nations said its weeklong mission to the country had identified lack of fuel, rising food prices, a strained medical system, and a cash crunch as some of the problems besetting Gaddafi’s government.

Reuters
A UN special envoy is heading to Tripoli for peace talks, now that Western powers have signaled that Gaddafi could stay in Libya.

Libya.elHurra
Gaddafi forces leave behind their dead & injured in #Gawalesh, in eastern #Nafusa Mt. #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=Z3U8iY…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3U8iY5tZxM

youngamazigh
free libyans destroy a gaddafi bust and photos at the libyan embassy in bulgaria! the libyan freedom flag was raised! youtube.com/watch?v=LCtCuD…
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCtCuD8_G64&fea...

Tripolitano
For every act of evil from #Gaddafi, there r 10 acts of humanity,care and kindness from da rest of the world. Good will prevail

Euronews:
Plusieurs dizaines d’habitantes de Benghazi, en Libye, ont participé aux sessions d’entrainement destinées à former les rebelles dans le conflit qui les oppose aux forces armées de Mouammar Khadafi.
Video :
military training of women in Benghazi tinyurl.com/3kzx3af
or:
fr.euronews.net/nocomment/2011/07/26/li...

Spiegel online
Tribal Rivalries Complicate Libyan War

The rebels in western Libya have captured the Nafusa Mountains and are only 80 kilometers from Tripoli, but have been unable to advance further. Meanwhile long-simmering tribal hostilities are complicating the situation, as rival groups clash and old resentments flare up. The inter-tribal conflict adds to a growing sense that the uprising against Gadhafi is turning into a civil war.

The situation in Libya is made more difficult by the fact that it is a tribal society, not a nation state like

its neighbors.
Most Libyans may be strongly opposed to Gadhafi, and yet there are still important tribes that largely support him, including the Warfalla, the Tarhuna and Gadhafi’s own tribe, the Gadhadhfa. And despite the rebels’ official claims to the contrary, this conflict is also a war among tribes.

The rebels were so successful in the mountains because most of the tribes there are hostile to Gadhafi. The Berbers in the western part of the mountains, the country’s original inhabitants, have liberated their traditional areas in recent months. Under Gadhafi, they were prohibited from speaking their own language. Most of the rebels in the eastern part of the mountains are Arabs, members of the Zintan tribe and its allies.
Full report:
www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,15...

Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Egypt Military Council allowing Gadhafi men to sell around $15 billion worth of Libyan people invest & assets in egypt dat should be frozen!

NATOpress NATO Press
Original audio recording of the #NATO press briefing on #Libya – goo.gl/yQ5yq

BBCKimGhattas Kim Ghattas
Strong reax from Libyans to idea floated by UK/US/France

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
“Have they gotten to Tripoli yet?” #saif #libya fb.me/TK12IiXV
or:
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=286231&i...

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Back in the 60s, we were all brothers.. no one cared about ‘tribes’.. then G came and made families/people hate each other..!!

The media is playing into Gaddafi’s hands now… regurgitating his stories about tribalism and crap.. disgusting

Hominoid
Libya Misrata short on fuel after rocket attack

Misrata, the third largest city of Libya held by the rebels, run short of fuel on Monday in the aftermath of a fire in a storage tank hit by a rocket.

Thick columns of black smoke coming from the fuel depot. Most gas stations have closed. Long lines of cars formed at the few pumps “This created a panic”

Priority is given to vehicles used by the rebels on the front line emergency services. "The supply was perfect in recent days. The tyrant’s regime bombed the oil depot, it created panic, "says Soufayis bin Ismail, who waited three hours to get gas.

Misrata, a city of half a million people to 200 km east of Tripoli, is cut off from other rebel cities by road but managed to get supplies by sea forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi are always within rocket range, thirty or forty miles, they pounded the Mediterranean port regularly, but most of the shots do little damage.

Only one tank was hit Sunday by a rocket but the other deposits are inaccessible.

Libye Libre
A #Brega peu de journalistes. 45000 mines ralentissent considérablement les opposants qui déminent tous les jours, parfois à mains nues.

H
Why r people obsessing about #gadafi staying in #Libya ??He’s probably laughing his face off coz he knows there’s no chance he’d want 2 stay

Anaya
WHY NOT #LIBYA FOR #GADDAFI?
1)Trial, victims attending.
2) Jail, so he can rot seeing free Libya without him
3) 3)be… forgotten

Le Vif
Libye: l’OTAN “revisite” certains objectifs militaires si Kadhafi continue à les utiliser

(Belga) L’Otan a admis mardi viser à plusieurs reprises certains objectifs militaires libyens s’ils continuent à être utilisés par les forces du dirigeant Mouammar Kadhafi pour réprimer sa population.
“Nous revisitons régulièrement des sites si nous avons des renseignements qu’ils servent encore à des fins militaires”, a affirmé le porte-parole de l’opération “Unified Protector”, le colonel Roland Lavoie, lors d’un point de presse retransmis par vidéo-conférence depuis le quartier général de l’Otan à Naples (sud de l’Italie).
Source and read more:
levif.rnews.be/fr/news/belga-politique/...

Michelle I love this little man. Damn the people who paralyzed him. #libya twitpic.com/5vm4lx

Went to airport. They told me to come back at 4:00 to confirm seat on the next. Plane. To. Benghazi. Inshallah don’t fail me now.

don’t wanna jinx anything, but it looks like after 1 week of trying, I’m finally going to get to ________. thank you, ________.

Just talked to 1 of the Sfax-Misrata 96hr boat hell survivors. Survivor is right word to describe them. At one point water was in the boat

Waves so high my friend said he was sure he was going to die. said it was scariest experience of his life. 82 y/o man lost consciousness 3×.

&, there was a dead body also being transported on the boat. said boat was like 1 of the boat refugees try to said to Italy on.

said passengers so desperate after 3 days of living on the boat, waiting 4 it to leave that they did not care how sketchy the boat appeared.

Ppl ran out of $/could not afford 2 return 2 Tunis or get hotel. Even now, there R ppl still living on docked boat waiting 4 Thurs big boat

can’t afford bus fare b/t Gabes & Sfax. Powers that B R aware of situ. Person who rented boat had good intentions & now knows boat isnt safe

Ahmed
#Nafousa Mountains: FF have removed up to 1550 mines in 3 days, placed randomly by #Gaddafi forces on the outskirts of #Al-Assabah..#Libya

Ahram Online
‘We are thirsty for capacity-building,’ young Libyan journalists report from Cairo

After more than four decades of virtually no freedom of press, Libya’s young journalists start the daunting task of building strong and capable local media

Twenty-one young Libyan journalists, including three females, recently attended the Capacity Building and the Development of Knowledge for Young Libyan Journalists and Citizen Journalism workshop; a five-day Cairo-hosted event that aims to build emerging Libyan journalists’ capacity.

Al Mesmary is a freelance photographer from Benghazi. Before the revolution she faced strenuous difficulties just to be able to flash her camera. “Before 17 February I was not allowed to go out and take pictures. And when I why, I was given the cold shoulder,” commented Al Mesmary before adding “Now I can go wherever I want and take as many pictures as I please.”

“After the internet and phone connections were cut my friends and I went to the office where I worked as an engineer. After asking the owner’s permission, who is quite a helpful guy, we used the company’s two-way satellite to send out news from Benghazi. As things progressed we decided to go from virtual to tangible, and so the Bela Hoddod newspaper was born,” explained Najm.
Read full art. Here:
english.ahram.org.eg/News/17373.aspx

kapitalis

Le Pam revient en Tunisie et se rédeploie en Afrique du Nord

En Tunisie, le Pam est entrain d’aider ses quelques 42.000 rapatriés Tunisiens en provenance de la Libye, plus de 55.000 réfugiés libyens et quelque 3.000 travailleurs étrangers migrants touchés par le conflit en Libye, à travers des distributions de vivres et de transferts monétaires.
Read more here:
www.kapitalis.com/fokus/62-national/507...

Abeidi
Libya,Benghazi news of arrival of sums of cash money printed n d UK. I suggest we change currency cuz I hate2see his ugly face in our notes

Kate_ForcesNews Kate Gerbeau
Just been to Oxfordshire to interview former British Ambassador to Libya Oliver Miles. On tonight’s BFN.

Anaya
Photo de #Kadhafi et sa femme, sans commentaire facebook.com/photo.php?pid=…
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=263239&i...

Abeidi
Libya,Leading causes of death in the world is heart diseases&cancer. In Libya Gardafi causes both plus Grad rockets and ??? chemical weapons

Rianovosti
Libye: Moscou envoie de l’aide humanitaire à Tripoli
Un avion du ministère russe des Situations d’urgence transportant de l’aide humanitaire s’est envolé pour Tripoli, a annoncé mardi à RIA Novosti le service de presse du ministère.

“Un Il-76 avec à bord 36,2 tonnes d’aide humanitaire a décollé de l’aérodrome de Ramenskoïe (dans la banlieue de Moscou) à destination de Tripoli ", a indiqué le service de presse avant de préciser que l’avion acheminerait des produits laitiers, des aliments pour enfants, du sucre et du riz.

La semaine dernière, la Russie a envoyé une aide analogue à Benghazi, ville libyenne contrôlée par les insurgés.
Source:
fr.rian.ru/world/20110726/190262574.html

colinsummers Colin Summers
The last check point at Gwalesh/Nafusa was quiet last night. Land mines in Gaddafi controlled Asaba are the next obstacle.

Anaya
For Ramadan, a pastry in #Benghazi is preparing cakes with the colors of the revolution. #Libya

libyanandproud
Clashes in #Azizya between local Freedom fighters and #Gaddafi forces. Azizya is 40km south of #Tripoli (direction #Ghiryan)

channel 4 news
Pragmatism rules in Libyan stalemate

As the Foreign Secretary, Wlliam Hague, offers the prospect of Colonel Gaddafi being allowed to stay in Libya if he steps down as leader, Anthony Tucker-Jones reports on the shifting political sands.

Pragmatism seems to be increasingly the name of the game over securing a settlement in conflict-torn Libya. Britain and France are now saying the fate of Colonel Gaddafi is a matter for the Libyans to decide.

“Gaddafi must leave power,” said Mr Hague. “What happens to Gaddafi is ultimately a question for the Libyans.”
Nonetheless, both the British and the French while wanting to show flexibility, appear to be adopting a best-of-both-worlds approach.
Source and read more:
www.channel4.com/news/pragmatism-rules-...

Shabab
Can Gaddafi really stay in Libya and cede all power?

David Cameron was very clear, in statements in February and March, that Muammar Gaddafi must quit and go into exile. Hillary Clinton insisted in April that the Libyan leader must “step down and leave Libya“. But it gradually became evident no country wanted the responsibility or trouble of hosting him – even so-called “pariah” regimes in Sudan, Zimbabwe, and Belarus. The international criminal court’s indictment of Gaddafi for alleged war crimes made exile an even less plausible option. The foreign secretary, William Hague, has reluctantly recognised this reality.

Although some rebel spokesmen have expressed dismay at the perceived softening of Britain’s position, they do not speak with once voice on Gaddafi (or much else). Mustafa Abdel Jalil, leader of the Benghazi-based government-in-waiting, said recently that Gaddafi could remain if he accepted the rebels’ conditions, including the ceding of all military and political power. But others in the rebel camp strongly disagree, arguing that he will not do so and that his continued presence in Libya would be both disruptive and untenable.
Read more here:
shabablibya.org/news/can-gaddafi-really...

dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi criminals are targeting homes in #Tripoli & stealing TVs, electrical equipment, carpet even tins of food. Confirmed

rcolebourn Richard Colebourn
Rebel commander in #Misrata on Hague’s comments on Gaddafi: “For us, there is no place for him in Libya. This is the opinion of all Libyans”

Rue 89
La Liberte
La Suisse armerait-elle en douce les rebelles libyens ?

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).
Story here:
www.rue89.com/2011/07/25/la-suisse-arme...

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

Aisha Gaddafi’s husband, Ahmed AbuMinyar Gaddafi killed in Mizdah, near Sabha, by #Zintan thuwar. t.co/vBlkhz5 #libya
or:
almukhtar-17-2.blogspot.com/2011/07/blo...

SMILE:
Khiria:
My uncle got into an argument with his wife so he called to tell her that she is a traitor and that he was going to call NATO & give them the coordinates of their house.

Phlox

Gadaffi is a megalomaniac, this is an incurable mental illness. Craving power over being liked. What he’s done before he’ll do again. #Libya

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gaddafi fuel supplies in #Tripoli 32.896345 N, 13.215777 E & 32.851903 N, 13.235622 E #Libya #Feb17 @NATO

#Nafusa: #Gaddafi forces heavily bombed #Nalut with grad rockets and missiles last night. #Libya #Feb17

#Sirte: #Gaddafi’s home town underground bunkers and military storage 31°9’38"N 16°34’23"E #Libya #Feb17 @NATO

#Denmark OIL TANKER “NORD GAINER” now arriving in port #Benghazi #Libya. #Feb17

Clashes in #Azizya between local #Freedomfighters and #Gaddafi forces. #Libya #Feb17

This afternoon’s press conference on #NATO and #Libya, in English, French and Arabic. t.co/8YwblnU #Fen17

#Liberia CARGO SHIP “SIDER PINK” 33.12751˚/27.28987˚ en route to dest. #AlKhums #Libya. #Feb17 @NATO

#Gaddafi OIL TANKER “AISHA” now anchored in port #Taher #Algeria. Dest. listed as #Fujairah #UAE for anchorage. #Libya #Feb17

Misuratayouth
wave the libyan flag and we will wave back allah akbar allah akbar fb.me/WV8mjarv
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX6Rfd0iCQc

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
At the #Rixos If you say one thing that the Pro-Gads don’t like a gaggle of goons knock on your door to threaten you and colleagues

Nusaiba
5 Days till Ramadan. #countdown

dovenews Libyan™
An importnt Gaddafi official wll be buried in #AlHani graveyard 2day, the person was killd in #Alfalah area, we dont know the name. #Tripoli

Sky News Newsdesk
Reuters: Libyan Prime Minister says Gaddafi’s leadership is not up for negotiation

Marj: A car caught fire today and exploded in Marj (east of Benghazi) – maybe a G attack – no confirmation #libya
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=286315&i...

dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi forces attacked oil tanks with missiles on Sunday. #Misrata

The oil tank is still on fire for nearly 2 days. #Misrata

BBCWorld BBC Global News
#Libya will not hold talks on ending war with rebels until #Nato air strikes stop, PM Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmudi says – Reuters

libyanandproud
#Gaddafi government makes a bank transfer to Luay Grayw known Baghdadi Aid and new LibyaOil Maroc GM . More details soon .

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
NALUT: #Gaddafi Army forced 16 year old boy to join up and fight the rebels. He was shot twice in battle. #Feb17 #LIbya bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…
or BBC:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14186310

dovenews Libyan™
#FF listened/Spied on Gaddafi commanders ordering their soldiers to flatten #Suq #Althulta. #Zlitan #Misrata Confirmed

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
Plus ca change…Libyan PM met UN envoy. Says no negotiation over future of Gadhafi, no negotiations whatsoever, w/out ceasefire 1st. #Libya

FreeLibyan
Helpless #UN propose 2 from #NTC ,2 from #Gaddafi, 2+2=4 new NTC 4 18m. This step preceeded by ceasefire X off 1973 1970,shd I continue! NO

Portugal turns the Libyan Embassy over to the NTC, via LibyaAlHurra.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “EFENDI BABA” now anchored in port #Benghazi #Libya. #Feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Tripoli: 2 of Hassan Alkbeer (head of #Gaddafi’s revolutionary guard) sons were killed & a 3rd injured after #Freedomfighter mission #Libya

Gaddafi forces attacked #SouqAlthultah in #Zlitan with tanks killing 12 people. #Libya #Feb17

Feb17

SHORT NEWS:
Reuters
Misrata:
Rebel-held Misrata was running short of fuel on Monday as a fire raged at a storage depot hit by a rocket from Libyan government forces.
More than a day after the strike late on Sunday, thick plumes of black smoke still rose into the sky and choked much of the city, sparking panic-buying by civilians and risking shortages for the rebel forces holding the cut-off town.
Most petrol stations closed, leaving drivers facing lengthy queues in the summer heat at the few that stayed open, with priority given to vehicles used by rebels on the frontline and by the emergency services. “Patience is good, thank God,” said motorist Ismail Mohammed. “We have long queues for petrol now but most people haven’t said anything.”

Russia:
A Russian Emergencies Ministry aircraft will deliver humanitarian aid to the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Tuesday, a ministry spokesman said. The Ilyushin Il-76 plane carrying 36.2 tons of canned milk, baby food, sugar and rice took off from an airport near Moscow on Tuesday morning.
The shipment is the fourth planeload of humanitarian aid sent by Russia to Libyans affected by fighting between forces loyal to Libyan strongman Col. Muammar Gaddafi and rebel forces.

AP
UN:
A U.N. fact-finding mission says the part of Libya under Moammar Gadhafi’s control is beset by food, cash and fuel shortages despite a veneer of normalcy.
The United Nations issued a statement late on Monday saying its weeklong mission to Libya has identified fuel shortages, rising food prices and a strained medical system as some of the challenges facing the government.

BBC
Type 23 frigate:
A Plymouth-based frigate is being sent to Libya as part of the Nato mission to protect civilians. The Type 23 frigate will assist to uphold the United Nations arms embargo as well as protecting people in Libya. Warships have been blockading Libyan ports as part of Nato operations against Col Muammar Gaddafi and his forces.

Reuters
UN envoy:
The U.N. envoy to Libya and the Benghazi-based rebel council discussed on Monday ideas for ending the civil war, but said a firm initiative had yet to take shape. With a diplomatic push to end the conflict gathering steam, Abdul Elah al-Khatib told Reuters after the meeting that he would head to Tripoli on Tuesday to canvass government views.
“We did not put a plan in front of them. We discussed the views and ideas on how we can trigger a political proccess … to achieve a political solution,” he said.

AP
NATO:
NATO says it will continue bombing the Libyan regime’s armed forces as long as needed, and the country’s leader, Moammar Gadhafi, cannot “wait us out.”Spokeswoman Carmen Romero said Tuesday that, as long as Gadhafi’s forces threaten civilians, NATO will continue air operations over Libya.

Reuters
Mahmoud Jibril:
Senior rebel official Mahmoud Jibril said Monday he had made clear his side would reject any initiative that did not involve removing Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi from power as a first step to peace.

Reuters
Bulgaria:
Bulgaria will proceed with plans to expel Libya’s consul after Libyan rebel forces denied he had joined their ranks in the TNC, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. The foreign ministry asked consul Ibrahim al-Furis to leave Bulgaria on Monday, prompting him to storm the embassy with a small group of diplomats and staff, and to declare that it had joined the rebels. The ministry declined to give the reason for the expulsion.
“We will proceed with the expulsion once he leaves the embassy,” a foreign ministry spokeswoman said.

Reuters
NATO deadlines:
Deadlines are approaching for the NATO-led alliance, whose mandate for military action expires on September 27. Hopes have also been expressed that some agreement could be reached before the holy month of Ramadan begins at the start of August.
Britain and France, two of the main backers of the campaign to end Gadhafi’s four decades in charge of the North African oil-producing nation, held talks in London at which they called once more for Gadhafi to leave power. British Foreign Secretary William Hague and his French counterpart Alain Juppe also said that it was up to the Libyan people to decide their own future.

NATO:
Lavoie said pro-Gadhafi forces were increasingly occupying facilities that once held a civilian purpose. These included stables, farm buildings, commercial and industrial warehouses, factories, and food processing plants.
“By occupying and misusing these facilities, the regime has transformed them into military installations, from which it commands and conducts attacks … rendering them valid and necessary military objectives for NATO,” Lavoie said.

Foxnews:
The rebel leadership claims Qaddafi will always be in charge as long as he remains close to his Tripoli power base and pulls the military’s strings. For his part, Qaddafi is offering to relinquish some powers and assume an honorary title on the condition that he has immunity from prosecution. The International Criminal Court says he has a case to answer for crimes against his own people.

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
NATO spksprsn:Qadhafi regime organized press tour to Zlitan,allegations were made.We have no evidence to suggest allegations are founded.

Libya tv:
2 sons of the General Hussein AlKabear, head of Gaddafi revolutionary guard were killed & 3 others were injured in an RPG attack in Tripoli.

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
NATO spokesperson:targets in Zlitan 7/25 were “command/control node and vehicle storage facility containing military vehicles”

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Singapore OIL TANKER “WARWICK” has now departed port #Benghazi #Libya. #Feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Turkey CARGO SHIP “EFENDI BABA” now anchored in port #Benghazi #Libya. #Feb17

#Gaddafi OIL TANKER “AISHA” now departing port #Taher #Algeria supposedly for #UAE. #Libya #Feb17

#Malta CARGO SHIP “SESTRI STAR”, #Turkey CARGO SHIP “EFENDI BABA” & #Denmark OIL TANKER “NORD GAINER” anchored in #Benghazi #Libya. #Feb17

WELL, WELL……
Earlier reports that 2 sons of Hasan Alkabeer (who was killed in #Zawiya) sons in fact alive & in #Tunisia. #Libya #Feb17

STRANGE: #Gaddafi CARGO SHIP “FARWA” now departing #Taher #Algeria. Dest. listed as #Fujairah #UAE for anchorage. #Libya

#Gaddafi “FARWA” following OIL TANKER “AISHA” at same time to same dest in #UAE. FARWA carried weapons to #Algeria from #Slovenia. #Libya

#Singapore OIL TANKER “WARWICK” has now departed port #Benghazi #Libya. #Feb17

Are the earlier reports of the deaths of the sons of Hasan Alkabeer a cover story? For what?????

BBCWorld BBC Global News
#Libya’s Col #Gaddafi says ‘millions will march on Misrata, freeing it house-by-house’ in speech played to ‘one-million-march’ in al-Khums

dovenews Libyan™
List of 84 ppl were abducted by Gaddafi forces goo.gl/b7emK we ask the the British Red Cross to help freeing them. @icrc_english

LIBTRIP LIBYA TRIPOLI
Breaking News: one of Hassan Al-Kabir (#Gaddafi inner circle) was killed in last night attacked by #NATO on #Babalazazia. #Libya

CLARIFICATION:
The Revolutionary Guard Corps (Liwa Haris al-Jamahiriya) or Jamahiriyyah Guard is a Libyan paramilitary elite unit that plays the role of key protection force of the regime of Muammar al-Gaddafi. Composed of 3,000 men hand-picked from Gaddafi’s tribal group in the Surt region, the Guard is well armed, being provided with T-54 and T-62 tanks, APCs, MRLs, SA-8 and ZSU-23-4 SAMs taken from the army inventory. As of 2011, its commander was Hasan al-Kabir al-Gaddafi, a cousin of Libya’s ruler, Muammar Gaddafi.

Could that be the important person the burial place is prepared for, the one we didn’t have a name of……..
OR….
could the burial place be prepared for Senussi?
I , for one, wouldn’t be at all surprised if old footage or an imposter shows up on state tv today or tomorrow. Would be typical g propaganda…….
Something like: “ We’re going to show you that he is still alive”, preferably followed by a report of the ff’s that were caught when the attack took place….
Creating chaos and confusion all around, that way they keep the troops also on their toes…….

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Abdula AlSanusi was killed, confirmed by his relatives. #Libya #Feb17

FromJoanne Joanne
#NATO WARNS GADDAFI it WILL bomb FORMER civilian facilities incl factories agricultural sites etc used by G forces 2launch attacks #Libya

mojoworking
hoping the boys in #Tripoli are planning the ultimate RPG – Rid the People of Gaddafi!

Free Libyia
STOP CALLING THE BUNCH OF MURDERERS AND WAR CRIMINALS A GOVERNMENT #Libya

dovenews Libyan™
#FF “Abdula AlSanusi was killed, confirmed by his relatives, we challenge the tyrant to show him on his TV”. NO old videos

Karl Stagno-Navarra
#UN special envoy to #Libya on his way to #Malta for talks with government

THANKU4THEANGER
Zawiya: There are 6,000 persons from Zawiya kidnapped and currently in Tripoli prisons

DerekHenryFlood Derek Henry Flood
Under fire from Q snipers in Qwaleesh today. Terrifying. I assume they were long range Draganovs. Time to go.

ALERT:
Khiria
Muftah Assaid (#Gaddafi’s sec. of labor) on a recruiting mission to #Mali 8000 ‘laborers’ heading for #Tripoli, #Libya

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gaddafi again today had another barkfest. Clear indications of Parvo. #Libya #Feb17

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Tripoli: AlHadba FFs operation leads to severe injury of Abdel Qader AlKhuny a renowned Pro G #Feb17 #libya Allahu Akbar

Tripoli: Tajura FFs op leads to severe injury of Brigadier General Melud key security official responsible for quelling Tajura #libya#Feb17

Tripoli: Mohamed Murad Nashnush,Rumdan AlGheziwy & Mohamed Alsherif (known as Al3amitcho) are Pro G informers who have caused the kidnap of many Zawyit Dahmani youth and harm to their families

Via AlShahed: List of Pro G thugs in Egypt and Tunisia in Arabic #Feb17 #libya yfrog.com/h73eqgxj

Tripoli: Gaddafi security have killed the martyr Hisham Fakrun in Bu Sleem area who worked in media #Feb17 #libya

Ahrar TV :
Zintan FFs with Beni Walid FFs clashed with a group of G forces in AlHamada Hamra area south of Zintan with a large no. of G forces killed. Also a key Officer Ahmeed Abdel Salam Ahmeed was killed. Eight 4×4s and no. of G forces captured

Zletin:Families suspected of supporting Feb17 have been kicked out of their homes w/ some homes burnt down. Some families as a result are staying in cemeteries for shelter

Zawiya: There are 6,000 persons from Zawiya kidnapped and currently in Tripoli prisons

Parameters of negotiation process are being set now. A military breakthrough is required urgently to prevent dilution of #Feb17

Negotiation will lead to some form of power sharing or political survival of elements of G regime with sacrifice of accountability of atrocity culprits

FFs in difficult position. Not allowed to import heavy weapons whilst Gaddafi smuggles mercenaries and weaponry at will #Feb17 #libya

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Zliten: Reports of gunfights, possible infighting w/I #Gaddafi forces following #NATO bombing a short time ago.

Libya FF needed Charge Line Mine Clearing(Vehicle) equipments fr neutralizing mines very quick url9.de/e0K fr t tripoli battle #Qatar

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Head of Equality & Justice Movement reported seen in #Sabha. #Libya #Feb17 @NATO

Of bullets and blackboards: Libya’s war-weary children hope for return to the classroom

BENGHAZI, Libya, 26 July 2011 – Aisha and Aya in Benghazi, Hassan in Al-Bayda and Haya from Nalut all tell me the same thing: They want to go back to school. In fact, virtually every child I speak with in Libya expresses hope for a return to the classroom as soon as possible.
Since the outbreak of conflict here five months ago, most of the country’s schools have closed, leaving the education of nearly 2 million children under the age of 18 in flux – and an academic year lost.
The prolonged school closures reflect the devastating toll wrought by armed conflict in Libya, with teachers turned soldiers, children kept indoors by parents wary of stray bullets and shelling, and a lack of available funds to pay for salaries and supplies. In some schools, children who once filled the corridors and playgrounds with laughter and excitement have been replaced by occupying military forces or displaced families seeking refuge.
From Brega to Benghazi, from Misrata to Tripoli, classrooms are shuttered or otherwise unavailable to the children for whom they were built.
Read more here:
www.unicef.org/infobycountry/laj_59380....

ProudLibyan
More schools and universities should teach students critical thinking. #Libya

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
400 members of Justice & Equality Movement headed to #Sabha reported in civilian cars so as not to draw @NATO attention. #Libya #Feb17

LibyaNewDay
Pro-Gaddafi Ittihad player Za’biyah at #Tunis airport. Man claims Za’biyah attacks old man b/c he doesn’t want G. youtube.com/watch?v=89tUmv… #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=89tUmvdjloM&sns=fb

BBC
Lockerbie bomber seen on TV rally

The man convicted of blowing up a plane over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988 has appeared at a rally broadcast by Libyan state television.
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was released from prison in Scotland almost two years ago on health grounds.
Introducing him at a televised rally of members of Megrahi’s tribe, the presenter said his conviction was the result of a conspiracy.
He said his release had been a victory against oppression.
The 1988 bombing of the US airliner, flying from London to New York, killed 270 people.
More here:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-14300687...

FreeBenghazi
LibyaFM : “A Tripoli hero confirms the death of #Sanusi on Libya FM” t.co/QilHtmZ #Libya #Tripoli

Thuwar says he’s part of team of 6 that killed #Sanusi. 1:24-1:39 “We found out where they meet & found RPGs” #Libya

1:56-3:33 We executed the OP at 10am. Our focus was Abdullah #Sanusi so can’t name the others who were present #libya

4:04 (Your comrade) said #Sanusi died immediately. 4:10-4:27 Yes, we witnessed it. He was killed instantly #Libya

Aisha Gaddafi’s husband, Ahmed AbuMinyar Gaddafi killed in Mizdah, near Sabha,

It says there’s a similarity. Yesterday, Zintan FF said they killed him. & in Youm7 say they have ID&phone
PLEASE READ:
www.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=461928&Se...

FreeBenghazi
Since yesterday, over 100GRAD rockets fallen on Nalut. Pictures of destruction wrecked by the bombing #Libya facebook.com/media/set/?set…
or:
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.26161...

GRAPHIC: Pictures of boy who was killed by Gaddafi shelling last wk & his injured siblings; by #Nalut Hospital. #Libya
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.16974...

Tunisia: Ali, just out of the OR & under anaesthesia,repeatedly calls for #Libya & #Misrata. He lost both legs, Jul25
www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2605...

anitamcnaught Anita McNaught
ALJAZEERA:
#Gadaffi often tries to blame #NATO for strikes on infrastructure – but it is G-forces doing the raids. youtu.be/kggKKPmNgVs
or:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kggKKPmNgVs&fea...

Reuters:
NATO accused Gaddafi of hiding army installations in civilian areas making them military targets & misleading inter journalists by showing them bogus strike areas

PLEASE READ:
ORIGINAL:
www.libya.tv/category/news
Below is the translation:

According to our sources in the city of Jafra out Bmoktortehma large truck carrying a large number of munitions and military equipment as they cover the equipment with watermelons so avoid coalition aircraft bombed them.

the rebels Alzentan with rebels in the Bani Walid monitor a company affiliated to al-Gaddafi Hamada red south Alzentan near the Jafra was fighting with and killing a large number of them, also killed in that attack, a senior officer called Ahmaid Abdul Salam Ahmaid, and the sheep of the rebels Many of the military equipment including eight four-wheel drive vehicles and captured a number of elements of the batallions

REUTERS:
Misurata city suffered from a lack of fuel on Monday as a fire raged in a warehouse hit a missile launched by the battalions.

FreePressTV FreePress
#Libya fighting street to street in #Zilten youtu.be/6Fg7XTOZX1M #misrata #triploi #benghazi #ksa #nato #facebook #youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fg7XTOZX1M&fea...

Tripolitano
#Libya #Tunis border shut by libyan Gov every night from 8pm to 8am. Anything to make life difficult for libyans gaddafi has done it.

Shabab
Reuters:
Libya’s Misrata struggles to clean up unexploded ordnance
MISRATA, Libya, July 26 (Reuters) – Street fighting in Libya’s third city of Misrata ended months ago with rebel victory, but those battles are still claiming fresh victims.
While young fighters commute out to the front line to battle pro-Gaddafi forces – now many km (miles) out of town – unexploded ordnance still littering the streets is a risk to city residents, especially the young.
“The biggest problem here is cluster bombs. These cluster bombs are small in size and are brightly coloured and children always see things that are easy to spot,” said Ali al-Hish of the city’s ordnance disposal committee.

Fifteen-year-old Mohammed Diab recollects an encounter with a mortar shell in April that changed his life.
“We heard a mortar hit the wall out in the street, then I took it out with my hand and brought it into our garden where it exploded in my hand,” he said quietly.
“I didn’t imagine it would explode as it had already exploded in the wall.”
It blew off all four fingers and half the palm of his left hand, but he was discharged from hospital after only five days to make room for wounded fighters from the front.

Doctors told him he might receive a false hand — once the conflict in Libya ends and Misrata returns to normality.
Read full art.:
Shabab link:
shabablibya.org/news/libyas-misrata-str...

THANKU4THEANGER
TNC must realise that FFs will not accept any form of survival of G regime regardless of foreign pressure for settlement

TNC might accept unpopular negotiations partly due to unfulfilled financial pledges by contact group countries

Ahrar TV reports Muftah Tenijra leader of the Gaddafi Eagles Brigade killed after being injured in AlKhirb battle

ALERT:
dovenews Libyan™
Khameas Gaddafi withdrew 12 million Euro from the Libyan Central Bank. This is Libyan money thy keep stealing. #Gaddafi & #Sons #R #Thieves

#FF have dismantled approx 1550 land mine near #Alasabah in the last 3 days. #Nafusa #Libya #MadDogGaddafi

Oh I forgot 2 add some of Gaddafi’s hair, 2 grad missiles, 200 gold bars & 2 Africa U leaders in the mixer & Voala = This Road Map Born Dead

FromJoanne Joanne
Proposal of letting Gaddafi STAY in #Libyahas NO value" #Shammam said after speaking with #AbdulJalil "Let #Gaddafi and family go to hell

FromJoanne Joanne
#NATO Says #Gaddafi forces OCCUPYING former Stables Agricultural facilities Warehouses Factories Food processing plants NATO will HIT #Libya

Several reports more mercs being hired:
FromJoanne Joanne
#TRIPOLI General Muftah AlSaid left #Libya via #Tunis to #MALI 2bring 8000 Mali MERCENARIES 2TRIPOLI as Laborers but R hired 2KILL Cont.

#TRIPOLI General Muftah Alsaid (العميد مفتاح الصيد) current position with Gaddafi Regime: Under Secretary Ministry of Labor #TRUSTEDSOURCE

FromJoanne Joanne
#NATO #Lavoie Says it Has hit a Concrete factory near #BREGA where Regime Forces were HIDINGand firing multi-barrel rocket launchers #Libya

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
After Benghazi/#Tripoli visit, UN Special Envoy to #Libya says “both sides remain far apart on reaching agreement on a political solution”

Nu Bari
How many people need to die in #LIbya before the world says enough?! This is not a game! Innocent people are dying at the hands of murderers

Nu Bari
Yaseen, a father of six was gunned down in Selmani area of Benghazi today by a SNIPER!!!!! This is getting old! #Libya #Anothersadstory

A Free Libyan
BREAKING – #Gmata – Heavy increase of G troops following the death of a FF. They increased from East of Qasr Khayr up to (cont)#Libya #Feb17

BREAKING – #Gmata – all the way to alNagaza, essentially putting huge pressure on al’Alous. (cont) #Libya #Feb17

BREAKING – #Gmata – They did this as they banned the family from hosting the martyr’s funeral (cont) #Libya #Feb17

BREAKING – #Gmata – In return, the people did the funeral anyway and threw stones at the troops to fend them off.

BREAKING – #Gmata – The troops did try to ruin the funeral by dispersing them, but they fought back with stones

For those who know #Gmata, troops increased there from althamaneyn up to al’awejaat. God protect and help those lions..#Libya #Feb17

Last night was the confrontation. This morning was the increased security presence.

We heard horror stories from G trolls in Uk, France, Germany, Switzerland etc, etc, but Canada also has them:

G trolls in Ottawa:
Libyan Duda
I hear that #Gaddafitrolls are still causing problems for #FreeLibyans in Ottowa #Canada

#Gaddafitrolls r showing up at #FreeLibya fundraisers in Ottowa #Canada to collect ‘info’ #Libyansrnotscaredanymore !

#Canada expelled 5 #Libyan diplomats for “inappropriate” behavior – embassy in #Ottowa still operational

When I lived in #Canada I remember how the major cities were so infested by #libyantrolls

When will #Harper do the right thing and expel the #Libyan ambassador?

I had to stop myself from speaking Arabic in public places so that my #Libyan accent couldn’t b detected

Canada only expelled 5 diplomats (don’t know how many are there, but doubt its only 5) Ambassador came back in March

BRITISH PRESS IMPROVEMENT:
Anonymous Watcher
BBC Radio Four News are now calling the FF “Anti-Gaddafi Fighters” and “Anti-Gaddafi Coalition”. Improvement.

Zlitniya
Zliten :Pro Gaddafis are threatening medics&their teams,including going2their homes&reporting them.some nurses r armed #Libya #Feb17 v FB

Gaddafi reinforcements reach forces stationed in and around BirGhanam

FreeLibyan
but, I personally wd nt mind special quick operation in #Tripoli by @UN S forces with #Libyan army involved to capture the murderers.

N_Benghazi .
Here’s the shirt business for sandwiches I was telling you about yfrog.com/h3521haj

WESSIM
BBC Arabic in Al-Gaa Ammunition Bunkers , west Libya – YouTube youtu.be/eoB4CbVc1Ys #libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoB4CbVc1Ys&fea...

Alex
We r efficiently killing #Gaddafi ’s top Commanders & flunkies – the most dangerous job #Libya 2day – is to work 4 or be close 2 the tyrant.

sabha17feb ثوار 17 فبراير سبها
راجل والرجال قليل fb.me/HzcJrvTD

20min France
reuters
L’armée libyenne s’embusque dans des installations civiles, accuse l’Otan
L’Otan a accusé mardi Mouammar Kadhafi de dissimuler des installations militaires en Libye dans des secteurs habités par des civils, ce qui accroît le risque de victimes civiles dans le conflit en cours.

L’alliance atlantique a estimé que le numéro un libyen cherchait ainsi à discréditer la volonté affichée par les Occidentaux de protéger les populations et d’éviter toute perte civile durant les raids aériens, menés sous mandat de l’Onu.
Installations civiles
«Les forces fidèles à Kadhafi occupent de plus en plus des installations qui avaient naguère une raison d’être civile», a déclaré le colonel canadien Roland Lavoie, porte-parole militaire de l’Otan, au cours d’un point de presse à Bruxelles.

Selon lui, l’armée régulière libyenne s’est installée dans d’anciennes écuries, dans des bâtiments agricoles, des entrepôts, des usines ou encore dans des conserveries.
Read more:
www.20minutes.fr/ledirect/762656/armee-...

septimius
When will this joke of “we can only report what we are shown” going to STOP ?

Alex
We have better supply & logistics than #Gaddafi – we have disrupted hs fuel supply – ostracized his friends – & demoralized his mercenaries

sabha17feb ثوار 17 فبراير سبها
على القذافي حرية + تعبير = ثورة17 فبراير. خطاب + مايكروفون =جنون ألقذافي. متشي موزا + ثريا = طابور خامس. طلب حق +… fb.me/sub9f1sC

dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi soldier said on Libya.tv “they provide us with drugs, alcohol & its like going to party & not war”

fieldproducer Neal Mann
I have to say having been to a fair few Al-Megrahi had the usual look of disinterest which is common at a pro-government rally #Libya

Oya
Clashes between FF and ProGaddafis in #Asbaa #Libya

Alex
We R winning war the tyrant declared upon #Libya people – #Brega is essentially ours – We are @ gates of #Zliten – & soon #Gharyan will fall

Libya United 1944
all we really need is a few guys from the #UK #SAS 2 teach a hand full of FFs 2 carry out 1 small mission!

LibyaNewMedia
By putting the Lockerbie bomber on TV, is Gaddafi sending the message that terrorists are heroes? Encouraging new ones? #Libya

Oya
#Morocco recognized the #TNC as the only legitimate gov in #Libya

KC_Tripolitania KC
Mass arrests & heavy presence of #Gaddafi forces in #Gmata after protests following torture & murder of 2 #FFs

camilo
#Rixos journos in #tripoli hotel arrest must make a move or report or leave. U r been used as human shield

A Free Libyan
100% confirmed now. #Gmata is experiencing a huge presence of G troops + arrests. See my tweets for why. 2 bro’s Tort.+killed.

Reuters
Italy, Libya rebels agree to security cooperation
ROME, July 26 (Reuters) – Italy has agreed to help Libya’s rebel government develop its security apparatus, Italian interior minister Roberto Maroni said on Tuesday after meeting his counterpart from the rebel movement.
Maroni said in a statement he “welcomed the prospect of developing relations in the security sector”, and said Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) had asked Italy to help train its police force.
Source & read more.:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLD...

septimius
MUST READ detailed analysis on how Gaddafi manipulated international media!!!

THIS IS A MUST READ:
The Lawless and Lesser Libyan Endeavour

Following reports in Russian press, that emerged yesterday, 14 July 2011, quoting the Kremlin’s special envoy to Libya, Mikhail Margelov, on an alleged suicidal plan by Gaddafi’s regime, which would see to the destruction of Tripoli in the event that opposition fighters from surrounding cities managed to infiltrate the capital, a Gaddafi regime official has been quick to deny any such allegations claiming that the alleged Russian source, Mikhail Margelov, himself has since denied making any such claim. As reassuring as this may arguably seem, Gaddafi’s repeated denial of military operations to date has only proven to be affirmation of the contrary. This coincides with yet another televised voice recording by Gaddafi; jam-packed with threats and obnoxiousness. Sadly, in comparison to recent similarly revolting claims and threats aimed at Europe, Gaddafi’s latest outburst seems to have gone unnoticed. This would not be the first bombshell that commentators and analysts, politicians and activists seem to bypass. However, Misrata, among tens of other Libyan cities and towns, is a live witness to Gaddafi’s motives. The human cost of Gaddafi’s desperately orchestrated continuous indiscriminate military assault on Libya’s civilian population has been completely overshadowed by socioeconomic and geopolitical smokescreens adamant on portraying a balanced armed conflict between two equal sides. These sides have been portrayed as being equally culpable for alleged human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The fact that there would be no armed conflict were it not for Gaddafi’s full scale military provocation that came as a response to peaceful pro-democracy protests in mid February.

Hours of independently verifiable footage, from Libya’s frontlines, has become abundantly available in recent months. Horrific images of the human cost caused by Gaddafi’s delusional megalomania. Yet, somehow, barely any shocking images are being relayed to the world. Amid speculative debate over costs to Tax Payers, and avoiding the repeated mistake of previous, though entirely dissimilar, military interventions, public opinion has notably been left out of touch with the pending humanitarian plight of people in Libya and their unquestionably just cause. Gaddafi’s state media has been consistently referenced. World renowned broadcasters, including the BBC, have gone as far as to show actual-footage from Gaddafi’s channels, whilst reiterating to their diverse audiences the exact message intended by Gaddafi’s dubious PR. Most notably, Gaddafi’s stage-managed and vastly resources alleged mass march in Tripoli’s Green Square on 1 July. The BBC saw it reasonable, impartial and necessary to inform its viewers of alleged mass support for Gaddafi in Tripoli, without any independent verification, presumably attended by Tripoli residents that happen to be Libyan. This however was far from the truth; as numerous amateur videos uploaded to YouTube by members of the crowd revealed shortly after the demo ended. On the contrary, spontaneous mass demonstrations that took to the streets in Misrata and Benghazi, among other liberated cities, on 6 July, in response to Gaddafi’s fabrication and intimidation, did not even get a brief mention on the global media stage. One cannot help but ask how such an partial and

imbalanced portrayal could possibly be allowed by the supposedly impartial free press? If anything, global spectators are being alluded into reassessing their stance on Libya’s popular uprising based on repeated images of regime-assembled-conditioned-crowds waving Green flags and Gaddafi’s pictures rivalled by handfuls of “rag tag armed rebels” driving pickup trucks in the middle of nowhere.

Many mainstream media outlets were spoon fed links to online independent Libyan news sources that emerged since the start of the revolution. Hardly any utilisation of images or video resources from these sites has been ensued by mainstream media; to produce documentaries or use as to investigate in special reports. Gaddafi’s series of PR stunts recently featured the alleged tragic death of the family of Khwaildy Elhimaidi, a high-ranking military official, by a NATO airstrike. Images of the victims’ corpses have become banner fronts in anti-NATO and pro-Gaddafi demos in and outside of Libya. However, early reports from Libyan sources, of Gaddafi keeping families of high-ranking officials under house arrest to deter them from defections, and using their residences as disseminated weapons depots to stifle NATO efficiencies, were never echoed by international media nor have they been addressed in the aftermath of such alleged tragic deaths. Once again, this has granted Gaddafi undeserved PR leverage, especially during the absence of any holistic coverage of damage and death caused by Gaddafi on a daily basis. Indeed, thousands of Libyan children been injured and killed by Gaddafi’s vicious offensive. However, images of these innocent victims are not being exposed to the world. Gaddafi’s sheer evil, and relentless manipulation of events, is not being countered with any decisive effect.

One of the latest growing trends in media coverage has been the emphasis on arguably vague reports issued by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch about alleged retaliation by Libyan opposition towards captured Gaddafi troops; or even alleged civilian Gaddafi supporters. Somehow, despite these reports not being conclusive by any means, and merely forming only part of the range of such reports issued on Libya, which mostly reaffirm the scale of Gaddafi’s systematic violations of international law, the media seems adamant to convince the world that the wrongs of Libya’s opposition are on a par with those of Gaddafi. Sadly, even where isolated violations are committed by specific individuals among the lines of Libya’s opposition fighters, the scale of these violations is exaggerated to the point of overshadowing Gaddafi’s malicious and systematic conduct in the eyes of the press; and the public that naturally follow. The media’s choice of words is also an arguable point of distortion. Libya’s pro-democracy protestors, whom were eventually forced in to fighting for their safety and survival, were branded rebels from day one. However, an exception to this stereotyping emerged after over four months in to the armed conflict, when France was reported to have armed Libyan “civilians” in the Nafousa Mountain. It is very odd indeed, that it took France to arm Libya’s allegedly armed rebels for the media to brand Libya’s, by then, opposition fighters as “civilians”.

Terminology trivia aside, Gaddafi is responsible for the demise of more human lives, from all around the world, than even the largest terrorist organisations of our time. Nevertheless, Gaddafi still seems to exploit the media; as he did throughout the past 4 decades. Unfortunately, Gaddafi’s wave of audio messages is not gaining a fraction of the attention some of his terrorist counterparts gained in recent times. If Libyans continue to be deprived of their nations assets, which have allegedly been frozen under UNSCR 1970, then Libya’s

liberated cities, which currently form the majority of Libyan cities, will begin to destabilise. As Libya’s liberated populations fail to sense any material benefit for the immense sacrifice many of their loved ones have selflessly and courageously made, the revolution could soon face the risk of being starved both economically and logistically due to the lack of financial and political authority, and morally due to the escalation of presupposed erroneous media convictions. Could that be the day Gaddafi gains the moral high ground?

This post, with the exception of the images featured on this blog, was sent as an open letter, via email, to over 50 international news agencies on Friday 15 July 2011 at 10:27 AM GMT.
Source:
unboundcore.blogspot.com/2011/07/day-ga...

Just wondering who influences the media at home with regards to what they can and can’t report………
Seems a lot of effort has been put into avoiding reporting the pro democracy side altogether….
Who would want to avoid doing that and why? …………….
This is not only due to the Gaddafi propaganda apparatus…………

BBC
By James Reynolds
Libya air strike aftermath questions

Nato sometimes takes more than a day to announce the results of its strikes.
The Libyan government has not taken us to any sites recently hit in the capital. This suggests to some that Nato has struck some valuable targets.
But on Monday morning, the government decided that it wanted to show foreign journalists the results of three particular Nato air strikes outside Tripoli.
We were driven two hours along the coast to the city of Zlitan – not far from the front line near rebel-held Misrata.

‘People trapped’
We arrived in Zlitan and were taken to a compound of four huge warehouses. One of the buildings was on fire – part of its ceiling had been blown away in an overnight air strike.
Libyan officials insisted that the warehouse contained nothing but bags of flour.

Libyan officials pressed ahead with their tour. They took us to a second bomb site. They told us that it was a lung disease clinic.

We saw pieces of medical equipment on top of the wreckage – including fresh notepaper, an old microscope, and what appeared to be public health leaflets and pages of medical notes.
Officials told us that the air strike happened at seven in the morning and killed 7 people. But we were not able to find out the names of the dead. Nor were we taken to hospital to see their bodies.

Khaled Mohammed, wearing a blue shirt with dried blood stains, told me that he arrived shortly after the air strike happened.
“Injured people… nurses down… blood,” he noted through a government interpreter.
Officials told us that three people were still trapped underneath the wreckage. We were unable to get a clear idea as to whether or not the officials believed that the missing people were alive or dead.

Bulldozing wreckage
The few minutes of the rescue effort that we were able to see differed from those that I have seen in other parts of the world.
Bulldozers drove through the wreckage without appearing to check whether or not they were coming up against any bodies or survivors.
In the short time that we were there, we did not come across the distinctive smell of dead bodies decomposing in the heat. Nor did we see rescuers stop and listen for shouts from any survivors in the wreckage.
Full story:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14287072

LibyanDuda
In the meantime Egyption embassy in Tripoli, Libyans are charged 700 LD for a visa to #Egypt! Brothers my backside!!!

ALJAZEERA
Libyan rebels fight for resources
See boobytrap mines fixed by Gadaffi troops to oil facility in SE.

Rebel 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.

Video:
english.aljazeera.net/video/africa/2011...

sabha17feb ثوار 17 فبراير سبها
مؤتمر باريس الأول (معاً من أجل ليبيا ) fb.me/14nhzanGA

Anaya
#Gaddafi had sued three Moroccan journalists who had criticized the lack of democracy in 2010 #Libya

Reminder:
July 22:
#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

ANOTHER SET UP BY STATE TV?
Sarah LFFR
#Senussi “live” on #GanfoodTV !!!!

he is “live” on GanfoodTV but don’t know if it’s a true live xD

Khalifa Leebee
Shakeir is interviewing 3 ppl claiming to be the ppl that planned to attack Senussi and company in Hai Alandelus. This is so weird.

Shakeir is interviewing the prisoners in the presence of Abdula Senussi.

Senussi en direct(d’après la State TV) sur la state TV #Libye

Is Abdula Senussi dead or alive? Someone claiming to be Abdula Senussi is being interviewed by Shakeir.

Libyan
Apparently, " #Senussi died insantly" – according to #Tripoli’s revolutionaries who escaped to #Tunisia

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Rumours flying around: Death of Abdallah Senussi in a clinic in Tripoli and the killing of Aisha Gaddafi’s husband by Zintan fighters #libya

He’s dead then he’s not, he’s dead then he’s shows up in TV like a devil ! #Libya #Senussi

bousuwa
SHIT Abdalla el Senussi is still alive on State TV

HZM
just seen Senussi live on Ganfood TV.

I have just seen Senussi on TV. need to confirm date.
I can see no evidence to point out to the date of the interview.

Rayan ☾✰
OMG! He’s alive? Wait that’s better I want him to be tortured #Senussi #LibyaStateTV

everybody was shouting “Senussi live Senussi on TV”

Mike
What? I thought he was dead. Senussi

Khalifa
The 3 ppl being interviewed by Shakeir are said to be members of a Jahadist Group. An Imam, An Army Officer and a contractor.

I HAVE A SIMPLE QUESTION:
WAS SENUSSI IN THE KITCHEN WHERE ( AS WE WERE TOLD BY STATE TV), A VERY SMALL EXPLOSION TOOK PLACE?
Remember, according to g tv there never was an attack…………
Think about it………….
And today, all of a sudden, oops, it wasn’t a small kitchen explosion, but a full scale attack AND they “found” the people who did it? And those people haven’t been killed or tortured yet either?
How inconsitent can you get?
Come on, pull the other one……..

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gaddafi fuel supplies in #Tripoli 32.896345 N, 13.215777 E & 32.851903 N, 13.235622 E #Libya #Feb17 @NATO

#Sirte: #Gaddafi’s home town underground bunkers and military storage 31°9’38"N 16°34’23"E #Libya #Feb17 @NATO

BACK TO SCAREMONGERING BY PRESS AGAIN:

Les Etats-Unis mettent en garde contre de possibles attentats d’Al-Qaïda
WASHINGTON — Les Etats-Unis ont mis en garde mardi contre d’éventuels attentats d’Al-Qaïda, demandant aux pays de maintenir leur “vigilance à un niveau élevé”.
Le département d’Etat américain “s’attend à un regain de violence contre les Américains après la mort de Ben Laden en mai 2011”, déclare l’administration dans un communiqué.
“Des enquêtes en cours suggèrent qu’Al-Qaïda et des organisations alliées continuent de préparer des attentats contre des cibles américaines dans plusieurs régions, notamment en Europe, Asie, Afrique et Moyen-Orient”.
AFP
More here:
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/A...

Why is the press stirring the Al Qaida theory up again and again?
Who stands to win by this? There is a reason, there always is……….

‘One man lies, a hundred repeat it as true.’ Chinese proverb confirmed on Twitter.

Nesrine Libya ☾✰
(The United Libyan Arab States ) it sounds goooood!! #libya

septimius
Last time I checked Journalism didnt mean sitting on a tour bus being spoon fed news just to regurgitate it with a disclaimer! #Rixos #Libya

PJCrowley Philip J. Crowley
The question is not whether #Qaddafi is accountable to the #ICC, but who turns him in. It’s better for the rule of law if #Libya does it.

Ms.F
#Rixos Journalist: if you really cared about divulging the truth about #Libya then leave.All u r doing is funding the massacre of Libyans.

JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
#Libya state TV urgent reporting #NATO strikes in #Tripoli . didnt hear booms, but there was a lot of jet activity earlier

Libya Free Forever.
A #child from #Misurata 15yr old lost his two hands w a cluster bomb gift from #Gadafi. #Gadaficrimes #Libya twitpic.com/5we462

A #Man from #Misurata #Gadafi thugs kidnapped his wife & 7 kids #Gadaficrimes. twitpic.com/5wdp74

A #child from #Misurata 15yr old lost his two hands w a cluster bomb gift from #Gadafi. #Gadaficrimes #Libya twitpic.com/5we462

MyFreeLibya
Interviewed hajj mustafa today…video is gunna be a while, he says in these next two days they will start getting the money promised #Feb17

He says two schools of thought in the NTC…divided in some points, such as the the role of the NTC when Gaddafi falls #LIbya #Feb17

JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
#Lockerbie bomber seen on #Libya state TV today, attending his tribe’s gathering in #Tripoli in support of #Gaddafi

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” M.Mead

SUMMARY JULY 27th 2011

7/27/2011
7.27.2011

“Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit” NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/oCJ16

NATO:
On July 26th, NATO aircraft flew 134 sorties, including 46 strike sorties. Some of the key hits included:
In the vicinity of Brega: 5 Military Vehicles, 1 Tank, 1 Military Facility.
In the vicinity of Tripoli: 1 Military Facility, 4 Anti-Aircraft Systems.
In the vicinity of Waddan: 1 Ammunition Storage Facility.
In the vicinity of Zlitan: 1 Military Ammo Supply Node, 2 Military Facility, 4 Military Supply Vehicles.
In the vicinity of Misratah: 4 Military Supply Vehicles .

UKMilOps Maj Gen Nick Pope
Overnight Sunday to Monday, RAF aircraft maintained a close watch on regime forces mustered near Gharyan and Zlitan. #Libya

A tank and another military vehicle were spotted near Gharyan; both were destroyed. #Libya

At Zlitan, NATO surveillance assets had identified seven buildings in use by the regime as military command and logistics facilities. #Libya

This included two being used to maintain Qadhafi’s tank force, and all were successfully attacked by our aircraft. #Libya

Patrols also continued over Brega where RAF jets destroyed another of Qadhafi’s storage facilities, as well as an additional 5 armed trucks.

On Tuesday, RAF aircraft successfully targeted five military facilities in and around Al Khums. #Libya

In the early hours of this morning, Tornado GR4s conducted a further precision strike on a regime barracks and command centre in Tripoli.

dovenews Libyan™
BREAKING! #UK to recognize the #NTC officially as the legitimate government for the Libyans & to deport #Gaddafis diplomats from the country

FreeLibyan
Thats wt we been asking for. say THANKS to #UK, GOVT & PPL.

I think #UK recognition NOW s like sending #Gaddafi 2 checkout 2 confirm his booking in 1 of hotels somewhere in #Africa if any vacancy left

LibyaUnited1944 Libya United 1944
@WilliamJHague LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!!! #Libya salutes u, Mr Cameron, HRH & ALL the people of the UK that support the cause of the Libyan people!

SkyNewsBreak Sky News Newsdesk
Sky Sources: United Kingdom to expel all Libyan embassy staff

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
UK officially recognised TNC & to expel all Pro G staff at London embassy. Mahmud AlNaku3 has been appointed as TNC’s Rep
Mahmud AlNaku3 has been appointed as Libya’s & TNC’s new Ambassador in London. It will be EPIC at the embassy! Allahu Akbar
Finally after 5 months the Independence flag will be flying from the Libya London Embassy balcony. Soon in Martyr Sq in Tripoli #feb17#Libya
To all UK protesters Libyan & non Libya who protested every day for months … your perseverance has been rewarded. Allah Akbar #feb17#Libya
According to source the 6 Pro G staff been given 15 days to leave UK. Might mean flag & new ambassador have to wait till then #feb17 #Libya

FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
Gaddafi forces in #Ghazya continue to bombard Marabah crossing (between #Nalut & Wazin) where thuwar are positioned. #Libya

HodaAbdelHamid Hoda Abdel-Hamid
by hominoid555
Head of #TNC giving presser now. Says #TNC has named a new envoy to the #UK. #Libya

#Abduljalil calls on #Gaddafi lay down arms ahead of #Ramadan. Says opp. fighters dont want to fight at that time, unless they r obliged.

Strong of int. recognition of #TNC calls #Gaddafi and supporters dissidents. call on G supporters to join the #libyanrevolution

#AbdulJalil has a 400.000 USD bounty on his head by #Gaddafi

#Libya current embassy staff in #UK asked to leave embassy within 48h. Not seen as legitimate representatives anymore.

rcolebourn Richard Colebourn
Spoke to a few #Misrata residents watching Hague’s announcement on Al-Jaz. Asked me what it meant. One offered services as Ambass if needed

BBC
William Hague news conference on Libya
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14307110

Upstream Online
Kenya’s Oilibya cuts off Gaddafi
Muammar Gaddafi’s travails in Libya have spread to Kenya where an oil company under his control has agreed to no longer fund the embattled leader of the North African nation.
Oilibya, which sells Libyan oil in Kenya, is turning off the taps on any payments to the Libyan government which owns its parent company, Oil Libya Kenya.
Sanctions against Gaddafi’s regime by the US and other nations have, eventually, led the East African offshoot to put a hold on any kick-backs which may make their way to the dictator.
Oilibya managing director, Rida Hassan Elamir, was quoted in various media as writing in a statement yesterday: “Recently to comply with the sanctions, the company’s shareholders have given categorical instructions that all affiliates are to comply with all local and international regulations required of them and are not to remit any funds to the shareholder, Libya Oil Kenya Holdings Limited.”
“We have therefore complied with this position not to remit any sums including dividends and service

fees to our shareholder during the current circumstances and we are in no way making available any funds or economic resources available to a designated person, entity or body under sanctions.”
The situation in Libya and ensuing sanctions against the Gaddafi regime have also affected Oilibya with Elamir adding: "Some of our business partners with international ownership have been required to temporarily suspend our relationship.”
Oilibya, which took over the Kenyan business of ExxonMobil in 2006, has a network of over 60 service stations in the East African country, vying for business alongside established players like Total and Caltex as well as independent Petro.
Source:
www.upstreamonline.com/live/article2683...

hominoid
Libya Gaddafi troops continue shelling the prodemocracy fighters that are stationed near to the border crossing Wazin to Tunisia

LIBYA TRIPOLI
#UK set to formally recognise Transitional National Council (#NTC) as #Libya’s legitimate government. Go and kill yourself #Gaddafi
There are six staff members who work at the #Libyan embassy in #London. #Libya
NAMES:
Exclusive: Names of 6 #Libyan diplomats #UK: Khaled Benshaban, Tarek Al-Obide, Mokhtar Elamin, Hasan Toumi, Fathi S.M. Hariba,Taher Shawesh

BBCWorld BBC Global News
UK foreign secretary says Britain will only deal with National Transitional Council as legitimate representatives of #Libya’s people

foreignoffice Foreign Office (FCO)
WilliamJHague: Our decision also reflects the responsibilities that the #NTC has taken on in the areas under its control. #Libya .WilliamJHague: #NTC is a focal point for people throughout #Libya who want a better future for their country

LIBYA TRIPOLI
Now is the turn for #Gaddafi TV JANA news agency in the #UK to be closed and staff expelled. #Libya
#UK to unfreeze the #Libyan assets. what a great step for the #Libyan people against #Gaddafi
The reason it hasn’t been done already is b/c #UK was worried about thousands #Libyan students who receive financial support from #Libya

Ceedat
Man from #misrata outside embassy in #Uk shouted “Get out rats.. you murdered my bro-in-law. Thank-you #UK and #US”

FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE:
Libyan Charge d’Affaires to be expelled from UK
All remaining Libyan diplomats are being expelled. The Libyan Ambassador was expelled in May.
The Foreign Office confirmed that the Libyan Charge d’Affaires has been called to the FCO and is being informed that he and the remaining Libyan diplomats in the UK are being expelled.
Foreign Secretary William Hague said:

Foreign Secretary William Hague said:

“What we are doing in Libya is necessary, legal and right. We could not and did not turn a blind eye when Qadhafi turned his forces against innocent civilians, shelled peaceful protestors and targeted victims crammed in hospitals. The international community’s actions have saved thousands of lives. We have averted massive slaughter in Benghazi. And we have protected innocent Libyans across the country.

When I visited Benghazi I saw for myself how close Qadhafi’s forces came and what was possible after they had been stopped. My visit allowed a window into a Libya free from Qadhafi – where the legitimate aspirations of the people are welcomed not repressed, and where debate, a free media and civil society are encouraged not crushed.

The UK is committed to supporting the Libyan people. We are a strong and true friend. Britain has lead implementation of UNSCR 1973 from the front – providing key aircraft including Typhoons, Tornados and Apaches. We have led political support to the NTC – bringing together an unprecedented international coalition at the London Conference and providing practical assistance since. Our office in Benghazi is now our largest in North Africa after Cairo, and led by one of the Foreign Office’s most senior diplomats. UK teams have helped build command and control capacity as well as assist the NTC in their post-Qadhafi planning. And we have provided communications equipment, support for

the emerging free media and widespread support for the police. We have provided substantial humanitarian assistance and support to clear mines. We are already helping communities return to normal life and we are continuing to advise the NTC as they look beyond Qadhafi. The Libyan people can be assured that we will remain on their side for as long as it takes.

At the latest Libya Contact Group in Istanbul the international community sent an unequivocal message to Qadhafi: that he had no legitimacy and there was no future for Libya with him in power. As part of this it decided “to deal with the National Transitional Council (NTC) as the legitimate governing authority in Libya”. This was a significant development, and today I will outline the action that the UK will now take in response.

The Prime Minister and I have decided that the United Kingdom recognises and will deal with the National Transitional Council as the sole governmental authority in Libya. This decision reflects the NTC’s increasing legitimacy, competence and success in reaching out to Libyans across the country. Through its actions the NTC has shown its commitment to a more open and democratic Libya – something that it is working to achieve through an inclusive political process. This is in stark contrast to Qadhafi, whose brutality against the Libyan people has stripped him of all legitimacy.

The NTC is a focal point for people throughout Libya who want a better future for their country. Our decision also reflects the responsibilities that the NTC has taken on in the areas under its control. It means we will deal with the NTC on the same basis as other governments around the world..

In line with this decision we therefore summoned the Libyan Charge d’Affaires here to the FCO this morning and informed him that he and other regime diplomats from the Qadhafi regime must leave the UK. We no longer recognise them as the representatives of the Libyan Government, and are inviting the NTC to appoint a new Libyan diplomatic envoy to take over the Libyan Embassy in London.

In line with UNSCRs 1970 & 1973, the UK continues to explore how to unfreeze assets to support the NTC. At the request of the Arabian Gulf Oil Company, a Libyan oil company, the UK is ready to make available £91 million of the Company’s assets in the UK.

AGOCO is operating under the control of the NTC and we are assured that its activities will not benefit any listed entity under the sanctions. We will issue licences for the use of its frozen funds to meet its basic needs. This will help to ensure that the crucial provision of fuel is maintained. We will work hard with our international partners in the coming weeks to unfreeze further Libyan assets frozen in the UK for the benefit of the Libyan people, including stocks of Libyan currency and other assets of the Libyan Central Bank, in line with UNSCRs 1970 and 1973. We are also discussing with partners what funds we can make available for the benefit of the Libyan people to alleviate the hardships they face.

I am conscious that the Libyan students in the UK whose expenses have been paid by the Libyan People’s Bureau will be concerned about what this decision means for them. I want to reassure them that we are working closely with the NTC and the relevant banks and will do all we can to make sure that they and their families will continue to receive the funds to which they are entitled.

This decision marks another step towards a better, democratic future for Libya – a future that does not include Qadhafi. The momentum has shifted against him and those around him. There is steady progress across the board, in particular around Misrata, Brega and Jebel Nafusa where the opposition is driving Qadhafi’s forces back. Reports suggest that morale amongst the regime’s forces is low. Economic sanctions are restricting his ability to wage war on Qadhafi’s own people.

I am making this announcement today to reflect the facts on the ground and increase our support for those fighting and working for a better future in Libya. We will sustain our actions for as long as is necessary. Our recent decision to deploy an additional four Tornados to Libya is a concrete illustration of this. This was the united international message from the Contact Group in Istanbul.

What I have announced today will allow us to give further assistance to the people of Libya and underline the message to the Qadhafi regime that their legitimacy has come to an end."
Source:
www.fco.gov.uk/en/news/latest-news/?vie...

Ghazi
Great day in London at last the green rag will fall and free #Libya will be reborn in the heart of Britain, I’m excited and happy

LibyaNewDay
Libyan embassy flag in #London about to be changed NOW. #NTC

Abe
NTC must be challenged. Not having other influences in place while a governing body made up of 80% old regime is dangerous.

FromJoanne Joanne
FLASH UK EXPELLED ALL OF GADDAFI REGIME DIPLOMATS Summoned this morning 8 #Libya Embassy staff got 3 days to LEAVE UK
FLASH UK William Hague invited #NTC #Libya 2 appoint a New Envoy to take over Libya embassy in #Britain @Guma_el_gamaty Yr desk is waiting
#MahmudAlnakooa is the New libyan ambassador in London after UK recognize NTC
SKYNEWS Sources Some Libyan staffexpelled from #London Libya embassy say they will go to #Benghazi because they support rebels.

TELEGRAPH
Britain expels all staff from Libyan embassy in London
Britain has expelled the remaining staff at the Libyan embassy in Britain as William Hague announces recognition of Libyan rebels.

There are believed to be eight staff at the Libyan People’s Bureau of the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in Knightsbridge. Acting charge d’Affairs Khaled Benshaban and the other staff will be given a few days to leave the country.

Mr Hague said Britain is unfreezing assets worth £91 million belonging to an oil company now controlled by the NTC, to help it provide for the material needs of civilians in liberated areas of the country.
Dominic Grieve, the Attorney General, had blocked earlier attempts to fund the opposition with frozen funds on the grounds that Britain continued to maintain diplomatic relations with Libya.
The British embassy in Tripoli was shuttered after the Nato bombing campaign against the regime was launched in mid-March.
Five embassy staff described as fanatical regime loyalists were expelled within weeks.
After the British embassy was vandalised in May, Omar Jelban, the ambassador was expelled.
Two more operatives were thrown out a month later.
The remaining staff have largely been involved in issuing visas and other consular activities.
Full art.:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...

Joanne
Please can u check spelling of his name there is no trace of "Mahmud Alnakoou " on internet Odd especially since he = a journalist

SPELLING:
MAHMOUD AL-NAKOU
Mahmoud Al-Nakou a Libyan author living in exile in London

Libya: neither tribal nor Islamist
Libyans want democracy, justice and freedom. This revolution is for all, and won’t fall to extremists
The freedom fighters who have been met with the most brutal, inhumane and criminal antics of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi come from all sections of Libyan society. Gaddafi has tried to win over some Libyans by promising them immense riches, on one occasion even physically showering them with bundles of cash. However, the people now control the major part of Libya – with new groups, tribes and leaders disavowing their links with Gaddafi and announcing their stand alongside the revolution virtually every hour.

The fear expressed by some international commentators that Libya will fall into the hands of extremists is totally unfounded. The very nature of Libyan society will not allow it. There is little doubt that Islam as a faith, culture and identity runs strongly through our heritage and tradition, but violence and extremism are foreign. Indeed, Gaddafi had to bring hordes of mercenaries from other African countries to carry out orders that Libyan police and army refused. Rather, it is the Turkish model of government that most Libyans aspire to; where Islamic ethics and values enrich endeavours to achieve democracy, justice, freedom and development.
The west should welcome this region’s transformation to an open, democratic environment, and should not impede the people’s aspirations. Our hope, too, is that once Libya comes to hold its first free and fair elections, the outcome will be fully respected across the world, come what may.
Gaddafi’s last gambit is to play the tribal card. In his last couple of speeches, he promised various tribes riches and lands, using the old divide and rule tactic. Various commentators have made the mistake of believing that Libya is a tribal society. It is not, and one needn’t look any further than the revolution to see nobody is standing out or standing apart from the Libyan youth who have led the people in their march towards a free Libya.
Full art. by Mahmoud Al-Nakou here:
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/f...

Joanne
#FFFLASHHH UK is UN-FREEZING ASSETS worth £91 million belonging to an oil Company now controlled by the NTC #Libya

Among other things, #UK recognising #TNC means no more VISAs issued to Journalist to go to #Rixos #Tripoli

LIVE ON ALGEZEERA NOW #NTC PM Mustapha #Jalil IN BENGHZI #Libya

LIVE ON ALGEZEERA NOW #MustaphaJalil IN BENGHZI #Libya says FF dont want to fight in #Ramadan but will if gaddafi keeps shelling them

Reuters
TIMELINE-British-Libyan ties
July 27 (Reuters) – Britain is to recognise the rebel National Transitional Council as Libya’s sole legitimate government and will expel remaining Libyan diplomats from the country, Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Wednesday.
Here is a timeline of British-Libyan relations in the last 25 years: t.co/ak4bVZa
or:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLD...

Telegraph
Libyan embassy: the most controversial embassy to the Court of St James
No embassy to the Court of St James has a more fraught recent record than the Libyan People’s Bureau that was shut on Wednesday on the Foreign Secretary’s orders.
Some missions, like the US embassy, court controversy by running up Congestion Charge fees. Others, notably the Eritrean outpost in Islington, operate as little more than revenue operations for the regime at home. Some, most recently the Ivory Coast, change hands at the fall of the regime.
But the Libyan mission – officially a revolutionary outpost designated as a People’s Bureau – has been a site of tragedy and bitter power struggles for more than thirty years.

MI5 files show that the security service believed they had “conclusive evidence” that the Libyan embassy, where Mr Koussa was the ambassador, was “directing operational and intelligence gathering activities against Libyan dissidents.”
The 1980s cycle of violence outside the embassy did not let up with the exclusion of the ambassador. Eventually the regime cabled the embassy officials to use violence against the protests in 1984.
On April 17, shots fired from the window of No 5 St James’s Square killed Wpc Yvonne Fletcher and injured 11 others.
Read full art.:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...

Joanne
#FLASH UK will also unfreeze 91 million pounds of assets held in Britain for the #NTC held OIL company #AGOCO

LIBYA TRIPOLI
In early hours of this morning Tornado GR4s conducted a further precision strike on a regime barracks command centre in #Tripoli

HodaAbdelHamid Hoda Abdel-Hamid
#Abduljalil calls on #Gaddafi lay down arms ahead of #Ramadan. Says opp. fighters dont want to fight at that time, unless they r obliged.

LIBYA TRIPOLI
twitpic.com/5wm2cm – Fathi S.M. Hariba (Middle) is a diplomat who was expelled too, although he defected

Zlitniya
Khamis #Gaddafi telling his troops thermally leave #Misrata till they ‘liberate’ it youtube.com/watch?v=PCFl6E…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCFl6E1ndUk&fea...

Tim
UK expellling all remaining 8 Libyan Embassy staff. Will allow NTC to replace them Official recognition of NTC as representing Libya.

Aisha
Sky Sources. Some Libyan staffexpelled from London embassy say they will go to Benghazi because they support rebels.” #Libya
i knw for sure that there r some embassy staff that truly support #Feb17 so hopefully theyl n treated fairly :)

iyad_
“Situation for residents is getting worse day by day.” #Tripoli

“Gunfire has become normal at night, much like NATO bombings have…” #Tripoli

“Severe fuel shortage, food prices are very high.” #Tripoli

“There’s a self-imposed night curfew as no one leaves their homes after dark.” #Tripoli

“Young men are being picked up by Gaddafi’s men almost every night; taken to unknown locations.”

“If they don’t find the person in question, they arrest any member of the family instead.”

septimius
Gadhafi’s son-in-law NOT killed. Dead guy just had a similar name. #Libya bit.ly/qqXppI" #Nafusa
almukhtar-17-2.blogspot.com/2011/07/blo...

HodaAbdelHamid Hoda Abdel-Hamid
#AbdulJalil has a 400.000 USD bounty on his head by #Gaddafi

FreeBenghazi
Destruction to homes in Wazin caused by Gaddafi forces shelling. #Libya v #nalut17feb facebook.com/media/set/?set…
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.26198...

LIBYA TRIPOLI
#UK will further unfreeze more assets in coming weeks for #NTC to be used for #Libyan. #Libya

Abeidi
Libya, Hague, I loved this expression so much,“The Libyan people can be assured that we will remain on their side for as long as it takes”

Libya94
William Hague makes me re-think my anti-conservative ways … Hmm
Omg can’t believe this!! I’m going to London this weekend insha Allah and hopefully will be able to see the beautiful tri-coloured flag :D

Miss B
Can’t imagine how amazing it will be to see free #Libya(n) flag hanging outside the embassy in London instead of the green rag.
Congratulations free #Libya(n)’s everywhere! Gaddafi-regime following staff in the #Libya(n) embassy in the UK are being expelled :D

Alive.In
#Libya Rebel Checkpoint in Zintan l.alive.in/tu (Jul 27) #feb17
Video:
alive.in/libya/2011/07/27/rebel-checkpo...

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

REUTERS:
Britain is to expel all Libyan embassy staff, according to a foreign office spokesman. “We can confirm that the Libyan charge d’affaires has been called to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and is being informed that he and the remaining Libyan diplomats in the UK are being expelled,” the spokesman

AP:
The UK is officially recognizing the NTC as the sole legitimate representative of the Libyan people.

AFP:
Libyan expats have become to first to form a political party in Benghazi. “We call ourselves the New Libya Party because everything was destroyed,” said co-founder Ramadan Ben Amer, 53. It is an offshoot of an online news website that he helped launch in late February to support the revolution.
“Gaddafi says he has built Libya brick by brick but, especially Benghazi, he has destroyed it brick by brick,” Ben Amer – who is now a resident of the UAE – told AFP hours before presenting his party at the Uzu Hotel.
He said 2000 people had joined the party so far. He added that they have some 20,000 supporters living in the US, Canada and Germany

billneelyitv Bill Neely
Hague says fuel supplies mr difficult 4 #Gaddafi regime but can’t say how decisive that is. But fuel also v hard for rebels=stalemate

And they call that reporting? Where do those journo’s go to school these days?

septimius
So does that mean that #Journalists will stop calling Gaddafi & his thugs " #Libya Gov’t" ?? #Feb17

misrati_free Feb17
Fresh off the boat from Misurata, sand from the City of Heroes now on proud display in our office. twitpic.com/5wl9eq

Mostafa
I wish to learn too much to fit in one lifetime

NEWS 24
1st political party formed in Benghazi
Benghazi – Libyan expats on Tuesday became the first to take a stab at forming a political party in Benghazi, headquarters of the widely recognised National Transitional Council and stronghold of rebels fighting to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

“We call ourselves the New Libya Party because everything was destroyed,” said Ramadan Ben Amer, 53, a co-founder of the party, which is the offshoot of an online news website that he helped launch in late February to support the revolution.

Source and more:
www.news24.com/Africa/News/1st-politica...

Washington Post
Land mines slow Libyan rebels’ march toward Tripoli
KIKLAH, Libya — First Milad Saadi and his men pray. Then they walk into a minefield.
Saadi carries a poker; it looks like a car antenna. The sappers have an old metal detector, the kind used to look for lost coins at the beach, but they don’t use it much; the batteries are weak.
They wear no body armor, no helmets. They dig in the dust with their hands.
Twenty paces from the roadside, they find their first land mine, then a second, a third. They twist off the plungers that would trigger the devices and toss the bland, beige, deadly disks into a blue bucket. The mines are the size of a doughnut.
In less than an hour, they have found 125 Brazilian-made T-AB-1 antipersonnel mines.
“Stick around, we will find a thousand in this field today,” said Bashir Ghourish, a member of the seven-man de-mining team from nearby Zintan.
Full art.:
www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-eas...

Free Libyia
So the new NTC UK ambassador is from Zintan…..he already gets my approval, but I’m going to have to do some detective work.

libyanandproud
Nakou has my vote ! Has my vouching ! He has a nephew that died in abusleem and another relative in a babazizya attempt !

Sarah LFFR
#AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar #Libya #Uk #17feb

UN
Parties to Libyan conflict remain deeply divided on political solution – UN envoy
Parties to the crisis in Libya remain deeply divided on how to reach a political solution to the conflict that has raged since February when an uprising flared up in a bid to oust the ruling regime, the United Nations envoy for the North African country, Abdul Ilah Al-Khatib, said today.
“The Special Envoy said it is clear from the discussions in Tripoli today and in Benghazi yesterday with representatives of the Libyan Transitional National Council, that both sides remain far apart on reaching agreement on a political solution,” according to a note to reporters issued by the office of the spokesperson of the Secretary-General.
The two sides, however, reaffirmed to Mr. Khatib – the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy – their desire to continue to engage with the UN in the search for a solution.
In his meeting with Libya’s Prime Minister Baghdadi Al-Mahmoud in Tripoli today, Mr. Khatib once again urged the authorities there to engage in a political process that leads to a political solution that meets the legitimate demands and aspirations of the Libyan people.
Mr. Mahmoud reiterated previously stated positions regarding the NATO air strikes, and against the stepping down of Libyan leader Muammar al-Qadhafi, according to the note.
Libya has been engulfed by fighting since a pro-democracy movement opposed to the regime of Mr. Qadhafi emerged in February following similar protests in Tunisia, Egypt and other countries across North Africa and the Middle East.
Source:
www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=3...

EMIRATES 24 NEWS:
Check out Gaddafi’s ‘safest car in the world’
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has always been internationally recognised for his vibrant fashion sense, sleeping in Bedouin tents wherever he goes, wearing huge provocative buttons, being guarded by heavily armed women, just to name a few.
However, a report on Yahoo! Now features a car he designed for himself, which Libya claims is the safest vehicle on earth.
The Saroukh el-Jamahiriya, which means Libyan rocket, is a five-seater saloon with the nose and tail of a rocket and powered by a 230bhp V6. Launched at a conference called the Organisation of African Unity and organised by Colonel Gaddafi in 2009, the Libyan Rocket comes with airbags, an electronic defense system and collapsible bumpers that supposedly help out in a crash…
The report quotes Dukhali Al-Meghareff, chairman of the Libyan Arab Domestic Investment company which produced the prototype, as saying, “The leader spent so many hours of his valuable time thinking of an effective solution. It is the safest car produced anywhere.”
Source and pic:
www.emirates247.com/news/check-out-gadd...

FreeLibyan
From religious P of view, #Ramadan is not one of the #four sacred months. Indeed, many fights in our history occured during #Ramadan.

somaia
No reaction yet from #Tripoli on the #UK move 2 expel their diplomats & hand ovr #Libya embassy 2 #TNC – expect reax l8r 2day

Channel 4
HAGUE’S LIBYA MOVE LESS THAN IT APPEARS.
Is there less than meets the eye to William Hague’s statement on recognising the National Transitional Council (NTC) in Libya as the government?
It is “political recognition” but not legal recognition. So it doesn’t open the door for Britain to hand over the hundreds of millions of pounds worth of assets the Gaddafi regime has in this country to the NTC – though that has been the ardent wish of the Government for some time.
For now, all the Attorney General feels comfortable authorising is the handing over of assets belonging to the oil company, Agoco, worth £91m to the Benghazi alternative government.
Read more:
blogs.channel4.com/gary-gibbon-on-polit...

Press changed tune now : from “ rebels” to “ alternative government”

Guardian
Gaddafi can’t be left in Libya, says international criminal court

ICC contradicts William Hague’s suggestion that Muammar Gaddafi could be allowed to remain in Libya under peace plan
The international criminal court has dismissed suggestions by Britain and France that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi could be allowed to remain in Libya as part of negotiated deal to remove him from power, insisting that a new government would be obliged to arrest the dictator under warrants issued by the court.
Source and more:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/26/ga...

Journo’s don’t seem to understand political double speak at all, their reporting would be far more interesting if they did……..

MOD UK
HMS Sutherland begins boarding operations off Libya

HMS Sutherland deployed a team of Royal Marines and Royal Navy sailors to search the merchant vessel in international waters close to Libya, enforcing the current arms embargo, preventing the flow of illegal weapons and munitions into the hands of pro-Gaddafi forces, ultimately to protect Libyan civilians.
Commander Roger Readwin, commanding officer of HMS Sutherland, said:
“Sutherland’s Royal Marine and Royal Navy boarding teams provide a vital capability, enforcing internationally mandated embargoes to support the overall aim of protecting Libyan citizens.
“HMS Sutherland is able to quickly insert multiple specialist teams by high-speed boat whilst simultaneously providing close surveillance of the vessel and her crew using our state-of-the-art sensors and Lynx helicopter.”

Petty Officer Jones, of the Royal Navy boarding team, said:
“We work very closely with the Royal Marine boarding teams in order to secure a ship, allowing us to search it safely and thoroughly. We always work professionally together and combined, give Sutherland a formidable asset ready to go at a moment’s notice.”
Full report here:
www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/...

NYT
Britain Expels Pro-Qaddafi Diplomats and Recognizes Rebels

LONDON — Offering new support to the rebels based in eastern Libya, Britain said on Wednesday that it was extending formal diplomatic recognition and would expel all remaining Libyan diplomats still loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
The British government ordered the Libyan ambassador to leave the country in May, and it was not immediately clear how many pro-Qaddafi envoys remained.
“We are a strong and true friend” of the Libyan people, Foreign Secretary William Hague told a news conference in London. “We will remain on their side for as long as it takes.”

“We will deal with the T.N.C. on the same basis as other governments around the world,” Mr. Hague said, referring to the Benghazi administration by its initials. “We no longer recognize” pro-Qaddafi diplomats as representatives of Libya, he said.
Full art.:
www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/world/africa...

AlArabiya: The deadline 4 Moamer Qaddafi 2 step dn & remain in the country has expired: Chief of Libya’s rebel Transitional National Council

ALJAZEERA
Expelled Misrata families return home
In the Libyan city of Misrata, families claim they were expelled by Gaddafí
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=97OVmyfl9HE&fea...

Anaya
Les hélico français volent très bas en #Libye et peuvent prendre l’initiative de la cible , ce qui a causé des frictions. Le Monde 27/7
L’engagement des hélicos français est de haute intensité… au contact des forces de #Kadhafi quasiment les yeux dans les yeux. LeMonde 27/7

FreeLibyan
Moment of greatness & Nobly #FF 2 injured #Gaddafi soldier,im comin dont worry,I ll rescue u,wait 4 me,be strong,coming youtube.com/watch?v=0mGRAg…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mGRAgbxMbg&fea...

Ossama
Mustafa Abdul Jalil confirmed that within the next week the people will recive their monthly wages. #Libya #feb17

Mainland Europe does real reporting , read below:

Liberation France
Dans la cellule des soudards de Kadhafi
Reportage
Réputés cruels, les mercenaires africains détenus à Zintan semblent en réalité complètement perdus dans ce conflit.
Ils seraient, selon les rumeurs qui courent au sein de la rébellion, des combattants sanguinaires, des pilleurs et des violeurs. Les mercenaires africains, recrutés par Muammar al-Kadhafi dans les premiers jours du conflit, auraient semé la terreur, massacrant civils et combattants sans distinction. Quinze d’entre eux sont aujourd’hui détenus à Zintan, dans une madrasa transformée en prison. Interrogés par Libération sans la présence de leurs gardiens, ils ressemblent plus à de pauvres hères perdus dans une guerre à laquelle ils n’ont rien compris qu’à des tueurs déterminés à écraser la rébellion.
«Roi de l’Afrique». Ils viennent principalement du Mali, du Tchad et du Niger. Deux sont soudanais, un est algérien. Agés de 14 à 41 ans, tous vivent depuis au moins un an en Libye. Cinq y sont même nés. Ils habitaient à Tripoli, la capitale, Obari ou Sebha, deux villes du Sud fidèles au Guide. Ils travaillaient comme peintres en bâtiment, vendeurs ambulants, chauffeurs ou bergers. Avant la révolution et la guerre civile, la Libye comptait entre 1,5 et 2,5 millions de migrants, sur un total de 6,5 millions d’habitants. Depuis, plus de 600 000 d’entre eux ont fui le pays, selon l’Organisation internationale pour les migrations. Les combattants détenus à Zintan disent, eux, être restés volontairement. «Des officiers de Kadhafi sont venus à Obari et nous ont affirmé que la France, la Grande-Bretagne et des terroristes d’Al-Qaeda avaient attaqué la Libye. Ils nous ont dit qu’il fallait soutenir le pays et qu’en échange, on obtiendrait des papiers libyens et un salaire de 1 000 dinars environ 590 euros, ndlr par mois. Cela m’a paru normal d’obéir», explique Mohamed (1), 26 ans. Issa, un Soudanais de 31 ans, n’a pas non plus hésité avant de s’engager dans les forces loyalistes. «Les gens de ma génération n’ont connu que Kadhafi au pouvoir. Pour nous, il est le roi de l’Afrique. Quand j’ai su que l’Otan avait attaqué, j’ai voulu que ça s’arrête. Je n’avais pas compris que la révolution avait été initiée par des Libyens, je pensais que des étrangers étaient responsables.»
Avant d’intégrer l’armée, seul un des détenus de Zintan savait se servir d’une arme. «Les officiers nous avaient dit qu’on aurait une formation de quinze jours, mais ce n’est jamais arrivé», explique Issa. Tous se voient en revanche attribuer une kalachnikov et une carte militaire avec le numéro de série de l’arme. Selon eux, les officiers leur ont affirmé qu’ils seraient affectés à la surveillance des check-points. «Nous étions environ 250, essentiellement des Algériens et des Tchadiens, divisés en groupes de cinq. Mais nous ne sommes restés que deux jours à un check-point de Tripoli avant d’être envoyés au front», explique Ali, Tchadien de 31 ans qui vivait à Tripoli.
Source:
www.liberation.fr/monde/01012350553-dan...

FreeLibyan
Appeal to @NATO from civilians of #Mazda City. #Gaddafi forces besieging the city NOW & threateing families. ppl r so scared @NATOpress @UN

Anonymous Watcher
Outside Libyan embassy in London. Loads of press. Libyans turning up. #Libya #Feb17 #London #Presstorm

meshelmay
Graffiti inside former gaddafi brigade hdqts mentions #Tunisia #Egypt #Yemen #Palestine #Libya #Freedom twitpic.com/5wnbjh

sabha17feb ثوار 17 فبراير سبها
خـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــبر عــــــــــــــــــــاجل خاص.ومؤكد .لصفحة: أخر أخبار الجبهة الشرقية(( مدينة… fb.me/11hzDR1dk

ღ.¸¸Libeeya¸¸.ღ
Not for long! twitpic.com/5wnfpd #Gaddafi-era flag still flying for now at #libya embassy in London

Send pic asap when real Libya flag is up:)

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
TNC must realise their best bargaining chip is the determinatn of Libyans to get rid of Gaddafi no matter how long or hard it is#feb17#libya

libyanproud libyanandproud
#Gaddafi forces are surrounding #Mizda. #Feb17 #Libya

DerekHenryFlood Derek Henry Flood
Thought the NATO air cavalry was finally coming thru 4 Nalut. Turns out it was just the Tunisian airforce buzzing overhead. Better than nada

TSA
Le porte-parole du ministère des Affaires étrangères répond au chef militaire des rebelles libyens

Le porte parole du ministère des Affaires étrangères Amar Belani a qualifié dans une déclaration exclusive à TSA ce mercredi 27 juillet les accusations du chef militaire des rebelles libyens Abdelfattah Younes d « spécieuses qui traduisent un acharnement insensé contre l’Algéri ». « Nous ne comptons plus réagir à ce genre de déclarations spécieuses qui traduisent un acharnement insensé contre l’Algérie », a déclaré M. Belani.
Dans un entretien au quotidien saoudien Al Chark El Awsat de lundi dernier, le chef militaire des rebelles libyens, Abdelfattah Younes a persisté dans les accusations du CNT concernant le soutien de l’Algérie au régime de Mouammar Kadhafi. « Le bateau chargé d’armes que nous avons découvert a transité par l’Algérie qui a été avertie par l’OTAN, l’Union européenne (…) pour cesser de soutenir »Kadhafi, a t il dit. L’Algérie a démenti qu’un bateau transportant des armes pour Kadhafi ait transité par l’un de ses ports.

M. Younes a affirmé au même journal que son mouvement disposait de preuves sur le soutien de l’Algérie au régime de Kadhafi. « Évidemment, on ne dit pas n’importe quoi. Nous avons des preuves et des documents. Après la libération de la Libye, nous allons rendre publiques ces preuves », a t il dit.

Pour Amar Belani, ces déclarations du CNT visent à faire pression sur l’Algérie pour qu’elle change de position sur la crise libyenne. « Ces déclarations finiront immanquablement par porter le discrédit sur leurs auteurs ; il est clair pour nous que ces gesticulations insignifiantes entrent dans le cadre d’une tactique de diversion et de pression mais elles ne nous feront pas dévier de notre position constante en faveur d’une solution politique à la crise libyenne dans le cadre des efforts menés actuellement par l’Union africaine et par l’Organisation des Nations Unies », a expliqué le porte parole du MAE.

L’Algérie n’a jamais été totalement favorable à une solution militaire, même si elle a soutenu les dispositions de l’ONU sur l’intervention d’une coalition internationale. Elle défend depuis le début de la crise une solution politique, portée par l’Union africaine. « Tous les acteurs s’accordent à dire aujourd’hui qu’il n’existe pas d’autre solution en dehors de la solution politique et que la campagne militaire est dans l’impasse, selon l’avis même de hauts responsables militaires de certains pays membres du groupe de contact sur la Libye », indique le porte mparole du ministère des Affaires étrangères.

Il a rappelé que « depuis le début de cette crise, l’Algérie a résolument inscrit ses efforts dans une dynamique de paix en participant activement à l’élaboration de la feuille de route africaine ». Cette feuille de route, a t il poursuivi, « garde toute sa pertinence et sa validité et notre pays continuera à s’engager dans cette voie car seule une solution politique est à même de permettre la satisfaction des aspirations légitimes du peuple libyen et la préservation de l’unité et de l’intégrité territoriale de ce pays frère et voisin »

Source:
www.tsa-algerie.com/diplomatie/le-porte...

MAROCAMAZIGH
Libye : Sans Kaddafi, la culture berbère revit

Le soulèvement dans l’ouest de la Libye n’a pour eux qu’une signification : liberté. Sans risquer de finir emprisonnés, les Berbères de cette région peuvent désormais apprendre leur langue, la parler et découvrir leur culture.
« Azoul (bonjour). Je vais vous apprendre la langue de vos grands-parents. » C’est avec ces mots que Sara Aboud a commencé son premier cours de berbère aux enfants de Yefren. Des mots qui envoyaient en prison du temps où Mouammar Kaddafi régnait sur les montagnes de l’ouest libyen, et qui aujourd’hui signifient liberté.
Depuis que les villages berbères du Djebel Nefoussa se sont délivrés du joug de Mouammar Kaddafi, la culture berbère explose : radio, journaux, associations, musées, chansons, cours de langue amazigh.
Partout sur les murs, ces dessins géométriques colorés et ce signe symbolisant les Amazighs, un nom donné aux Berbères dans la région : deux demi-cercles reliés par un trait pour illustrer la connexion de l’âme avec le ciel et la terre.
« Avant, nous étions considérés comme des citoyens de seconde zone. Nous sommes à l’origine de ce pays, nous avons maintenant le droit de marcher la tête haute », s’enflamme Taghrid Aboud, une jeune fille au foyer de 22 ans.
Connaître leur histoire
Parler ou écrire en public, lire ou imprimer en langue amazigh, tout cela était simplement interdit par le leader libyen. Mouammar Kaddafi n’a jamais accordé sa confiance à ce peuple présent dans le pays avant la conquête arabe du VIIe siècle et connu pour sa résistance militaire à l’occupation italienne au début du XXe siècle.
Au fil des années, l’alphabet, la langue berbère, parlée en cachette par peur de se retrouver en prison, et la culture, nullement enseignée, se sont perdus. « Beaucoup de gens ne connaissent pas leur propre histoire », déplore Sara Aboud, une historienne de 27 ans.

Alors dans ces villages, pas une minute à perdre pour faire renaître cette identité oubliée.
À Jado ou à Yefren, les enfants ont désormais plusieurs cours d’amazigh par semaine. « Aujourd’hui, le plus important, c’est qu’ils apprennent la langue » pour la perpétuer, poursuit Sara Aboud, qui assure l’enseignement.
À 14 ans, Salah Kafu est assidu depuis le premier jour. « Pour moi, cela signifie construire l’avenir. Nous allons apprendre notre langue et nos enfants apprendront à leur tour. »
Et tout le monde suit. Même les adultes reprennent leur cahier d’écolier. Dans un ancien bâtiment des services secrets reconverti en musée, un peintre de Yefren multiplie les inscriptions amazighs sur des fresques. Mouammar Kaddafi, lui, y est représenté en rat ou en vampire. « Je ne peux plus m’arrêter d’écrire ! J’ai l’impression de renaître », lance l’artiste de 47 ans sous couvert d’anonymat.
Pour faire renaître sa culture, Mazigh Buzukhar s’attèle, lui, à retranscrire les contes transmis oralement. Son activisme lui avait coûté trois mois de prison, avant qu’il soit libéré par les rebelles. Aujourd’hui, il est libre d’aller enregistrer des histoires de princes et de princesses empreintes de sagesse auprès des personnes âgées gardiennes de la tradition.
« Il est important de collecter les contes et légendes amazighs. Durant mille quatre cents ans, notre littérature a été orale. Nous avons besoin de la préserver pour les générations futures », raconte le jeune homme de 29 ans.
« Nos sangs se sont mêlés »
Aujourd’hui, à Yefren, les documents officiels sont écrits en arabe et en berbère. Le plus grand souhait du peuple amazigh ? Voir sa langue reconnue langue officielle dans une Libye sans Kaddafi.
Pendant la révolte, Arabes et Berbères se sont libérés ensemble, côte à côte dans les montagnes, loin des divisions que le leader libyen s’est ingénié à créer pendant quarante-deux ans. « Les sangs arabe et amazigh se sont mêlés sur les champs de bataille contre ce tyran. Nous avons le même combat, nous sommes frères. Ce sont des choses qui vont nous lier pendant les cinquante prochaines années », pressent Salim Ahmed, le présentateur d’une émission de radio à Jado, qui diffuse des programmes dans les deux langues.
Pourtant, des années de propagande ne s’effacent pas d’un coup. Une certaine rivalité existe entre villages arabes et berbères. On parle même de racisme. À Zenten, les Arabes reprochent aux Berbères de ne pas donner assez d’eux-mêmes dans les combats.
« Ce sont des gens biens », admet Ibrahim al-Zentani, un ingénieur de 30 ans. « Mais ils aiment se mettre en avant. Ce ne sont pas de bons combattants. Ils ne donnent pas assez de sang pour la révolution », dénonce-t-il.
source: jeuneafrique

SEVERAL REPORTS THAT:
FFs have reached the gate of Brega + the centre of the city + have taken the airport and the Industrial area.

ABC NEWS:
Libyan students destitute as funds dry up

Libyan students living in Australia fear they will be left destitute because their country’s assets have been frozen.
The Libyan government had been supporting dozens of its citizens who are studying in Australia.
But the conflict in Libya means most of the regime’s funds have been frozen, including the bursary paid to Libyan students living overseas.
Many of the students came to Australia with their families and now fear they will be left homeless and unable to support themselves.
A small group of them have held a protest on the steps of State Parliament in Melbourne.
Spokesman Ishmael Elefrjani says they would like the Australian Government to release the money that is currently frozen.
“We need just to release the frozen money,” he said.
“Most of us have families and we don’t want to be homeless. We don’t want to keep our kids without food.”

He says if the funds cannot be released, they will appeal to the Government for short-term financial assistance.
The students met the Libyan ambassador in Wollongong in recent weeks.
They were told the funds supporting their living expenses will dry up next month.
“He said they can pay up until August, but then we don’t have any money to give you,” Mr Elefrjani said.
“So now there is a negotiation between the Libyan embassy and the Australian Government to try and sort out this problem.”
Mr Elefrjani says most of the students fear they will face persecution and uncertainty if they return to Libya.
“We organised some demonstrations over here and our speech, our photos, everything was reported over there,” he said.
“If that situation is still there in Libya, we cannot go home.”
Source:
www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-27/libyan-s...

DerekHenryFlood Derek Henry Flood
Put up a couple snaps from my misadventure in Qwaleesh yesterday.
the-war-diaries.com/?p=1713

Joanne
MrHague said he was working with NTC Libya banks would do “all we can” to ensure #Libya students in the #UK continue to receive their funds

Keith
Guess where I am twitpic.com/5wnb35

More press and police than Libyans at Libyan embassy in London

Jolly scenes outside London embassy? yfrog.com/ke619ypj

You have not missed much here yfrog.com/h8o3uzuj

And another shot from outside the embassy yfrog.com

Ahmed
my passport needs to be renewed, glad i didn’t sent it in to London embassy now #Libya will wait a few days

Joanne
#FLASH Gaddafi London Embassy Staff: Charge d’Affaires; #KhaledBenshaban got 3DAYS2LEAVE Others will b decided on “caseBYcase basis” #Libya

REUTERS
WRAPUP 2-New pressure on Gaddafi on foreign and rebel front

• UK recognises Libyan rebels, frees assets
• ICC says justice must be done, whatever deals struck
• Rebels withdraw offer for Gaddafi to stay in Libya
  (Recasts, adds rebels withdraw offer)
  Link here:
  af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL6...

Reuters
INTERVIEW-Fuel, cash shortages threaten Tripoli life
GENEVA, July 27 (Reuters) – With little fuel and a shortage of banknotes, life in the Libyan capital is getting harder despite Tripoli avoiding some of the heavy bombardment seen in other parts of the country, a senior U.N. official said.
“What we have seen in Tripoli is the lack of fuel and the lack of cashflow are having a serious impact,” Laurence Hart, humanitarian coordinator for the United Nations, told Reuters by telephone from Cairo on Tuesday.
Hart, who led a one-week mission to Tripoli, said his team was able to move around without any restrictions, and officials were eager to provide information about the impact of sanctions, including at the central bank and the national oil company.
For the bank, one big problem was printing money or keeping up the supply.
“One boat that was carrying banknotes from the UK was prevented from coming in,” he said, adding that he believed NATO had turned it back.
“And then there is a problem that people have been running to the banks to withdraw their money, their savings. So now what they’ve put in place is a limited amount of cash withdrawal, which is around $175 per week per account holder.”
Link here:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL6...

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Gaddafi channels were happy yesterday saying that France & UK “offer for G to stay in Libya” means they’re losing hope – today = big slap

Alex
“If for any reason this supply line Tunisia coastal Rd should be closed down, because it gets into the hands of the anti-government forces, that will constitute an immediate problem,” Hart said.

Even if the supply route remained open, it was unclear how long the situation in #Tripoli was sustainable, he said.” #Libya
Link:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL6...

Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا” goo.gl/aM65o

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gaddafi CARGO SHIP “EL HUSSAIN” remains anchored in #Mostaghanem #Algeria. #Libya #Feb17

Anaya
Le #Maroc devrait reconnaître le Conseil National de Transition de #Libye.

BREAKING – #MOROCCO:The country is preparing to expel all #Gaddafi diplomats in the country. (RABAT). #Libya #feb17

Free Libyia
I’m loving British people today, university dean gave me holiday for Eid, passed my UK driving test and they kicked G scum out of Embassy:)

Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
My story today is about Libya’s tragic story of more than 400 children known as the “AIDS Children” .. in 7pm bulletin هذا المساء

LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING NEWS: SOURCE:Fierce clashes in #Brega NOW!!! ALLAH AKBAR! #Libya #feb17

PLZ EVERYONE NOW IS TIME TO PRAY FOR OUR FFs in Brega. Allah Unsar Althowar!!

Who owns the Daily Mail?

Lord Rothermere. Mr Cameron’s sorry retreat over Gaddafi
David Cameron, so gung-ho in advocating military intervention in Libya, was unequivocal about what the outcome must be. ‘To end the suffering of the Libyan people’, he said in March, ‘Gaddafi and his clique must leave.’
This week, after more than four months of bombing by RAF jets, Gaddafi remains stubbornly in power, and the Prime Minister is staging a humbling retreat.
Read more here:
www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2019...

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Philippines CARGO SHIP “HOPI PRINCESS” now anchored in port #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17

WATCHING: #Gaddafi OIL TANKER “ANWAAR LIBYA” has been in port #Tripoli #Libya since start of revolution. Moving w/I port now. Departing?

#StVincentGrenadines CARGO SHIP “LADY HALUOM” now approaching dest. #Misrata #Libya. #Feb17

SierraLeone CARGO SHIP “ALAA 1” now in port #Benghazi #Libya. #Feb17

#Misrata / #Benghazi FERRY “375699000” now nearing port Benghazi #Libya. #Feb17

Cambodia CARGO SHIP “MIA” en route to dest. #Tobruk #Libya from #Egypt. ETA: 2011-07-27 00:00 (UTC). #Feb17

Turkey CARGO SHIP “DENIZ YILDIZI S” 35.679˚/21.78317˚en route to dest. #Tripoli #Libya w/ gifts to #Gaddafi from #Istanbul. #Feb17

#Denmark OIL TANKER “NORD GAINER” remains anchored in port #Benghazi #Libya. #Feb17

Malta CARGO SHIP “SEA DREAM” 37.9807˚/24.59798˚ en route from #Istanbul #Turkey to dest. #Tripoli #Libya. #Feb17

Gaddafi CARGO SHIP “EL HUSSAIN” remains anchored in #Mostaghanem #Algeria. #Libya #Feb17

While I hate quoting anything from PressTV: TNC disowns Libyan envoy to #Bulgaria t.co/KyCLQM6 #Libya #Feb17

FALSE ALARM: #Gaddafi OIL TANKER “ANWAAR LIBYA” remains in port #Tripoli #Libya where it has been since start of revo. Changed position.

LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING NEWS: Violent clashes between the FFs and mercenaries now in Mizdah . الله أكبر ….اشتباكات عنيفة بين… fb.me/H6yhPTMT

Robert Rowley
Violent clashes reported between #Freedomfighters and #Gaddafi mercenaries now in #Mizdah. #Libya #Feb17

libyanandproud
#Nafusa : #NATO bomb military assets in #Bader and #Jawsh , #Feb17 #Libya

Damages caused by #Gaddafi troops shelling on #Wazen town near to the #Tunisian border gate (Dehiba). #Libya #feb17 fb.me/MuVJ1l77
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=188303&id=119666044789936

rcolebourn Richard Colebourn
yfrog.com/ki8q51j The bravest pizza guys in the world? 10,000 slices a day sent to fighters on three frontlines in #Misrata #Libya

A MUST READ FROM THE GUARDIAN:
Libyan rebel forces rescue 100 hostages from behind enemy lines
Rebel forces in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata have announced the rescue from behind enemy lines of 105 civilians kidnapped by pro-Gaddafi forces.
Commanders said the rescue of families on Sunday was planned in co-ordination with Nato.
The captives were seized in the Ghiran district of Misrata on 24 April while fierce fighting raged in the city.
Art student Hawa Ahmed, 20, said she was woken that morning by government soldiers banging at her door.
“They told us we had 10 minutes to leave, we had no time to take anything,” she said.
The troops said they had orders to evacuate the city and ordered families into their own cars. Ahmed’s mother and father were not at home so she, her younger sister and brother were taken in her uncle’s car.
“We drove out of the city, there were nine people in our car,” she said. “The soldiers were very rude, shouting at us. They gave us no food, no water.”
The journey ended 50 miles south at the small desert village of Garara Qataf, where the army told them to find their own accommodation.
Local families took them in but conditions were crowded, with 24 people sharing the house Ahmed was assigned, and 50 in a neighbouring property.
Men in the group were subjected to interrogations by government troops, who also set up checkpoints at either end of the village.
“They called us in many times, asking us pointless questions,” said one of the kidnapped men, Amran Jusef, 55.
“When Nato planes came all the Gaddafi soldiers would run and hide, they would run away from their vehicles. One group hid in the mosque.”
Back in Misrata, the missing were assumed to have been kidnapped but nothing more was known. City officials say more than 1,000 people have been abducted from Misrata’s suburbs by government troops.
Please continue reading here:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/27/li...

FreeBenghazi
#ICRC revisits #Nalut. Inspected water&electricity sources, 2see how2 overcome problems faced by both utilities #Libya facebook.com/media/set/?set…
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.19674...

FromJoanne Joanne
#Turkey is sending #NTC #Benghazi a further 18,000 tonnes of oil in addition to the 10,000 tonnes already supplied #Libya

Joanne
#London #UK based #Libya Tweeps should all GO to #Libya #EMBASSY and WELCOME new #NTC Diplomatic Staff and SING the Libyan National Anthem !

dhdfisher Daniel Fisher BBC
Libyan diplomats expelled from London. Could be interesting in Tripoli

dhdfisher Daniel Fisher BBC
BBC WTV off the air in the Rixos

NO SURPRISE REALLY:)

FreeBenghazi
Nalut Red Crescent will organise iftar (break-of-fast) meals this Ramadan & has permission2 collect donations #libya facebook.com/pages/Libyan-R…
www.facebook.com/pages/Libyan-Red-Cresc...

Hominoid
Libya Misrata post G troops surrounded the city of Mizdah with military vehicles and demanded that they hand over 20 people, mostly FFs from the tribe of Alguentarar. The men did not come out, but remained in the town and stopped anyone from leaving the town and defend it. They are determined to fight and die for the honour and the nation.

Gaddafi daughter’s war crimes lawsuit against NATO dismissed – Times LIVE t.co/fzdn4Kr

Libya Misrata post G troops surrounded the city of Mizdah with military vehicles and demanded that they hand over 20 people, mostly FFs from the tribe of Alguentarar. The men did not come out, but remained in the town and stopped anyone from leaving the town and defend it. They are determined to fight and die for the honour and the nation.

Libya Brega heavy fighting around the airport area four wounded so far.

Libya Mizdah clashes between the FFs and G troops near the gate, in order to cut off the only supply route to Tripoli.

Libya Misrata Clashes today on the Western Front of Misurata led to two martyrs, and the six wounded among the FFs and more than fifteen people in the ranks of al-Gaddafi. Five SUV cars mounted with cannons 14.5 anti-aircraft and a car mounted with a rocket launcher were captured
Names of the martyrs:
1 – Muhammad Ali Gala
2 – Abdul Rahman Othman Cheramit

Via ثوار 17 فبراير سرت

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Brega: Over 20 Gaddafi soldiers incl some doctors & engineers escaped from #Brega to Maradah today maps.google.com/maps?q=29.2145… and surrendered to FF

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
New #Rixos rule. Foreign journalists must display press ID’s at all times, even in lobby of hotel we’re confined to in #Tripoli.

hominoid
Libya South Brega violent clashes between the FFs and G troops, with support of NATO aircraft.

Guma_el_gamaty : Khaled Bin Shabaan has three days to leave the #UK! #Libya #feb17

Libye libre
Les 15 hélicoptères français iront-ils à Tripoli prochainement pour atteindre les derniers soutiens de Kadhafi ?
Leur engagement est de haute intensité selon les spécialistes.
Aux côtés des rebelles, “les seuls qui vont au contact des forces de Kadhafi quasiment les yeux dans les yeux sont les militaires des hélicoptères français”.
Les 15 appareils français peuvent, dans les zones définies par l’OTAN, tirer de leur propre initiative. Ce point a provoqué des frictions. Les 5 hélicoptères britanniques reçoivent leurs ordres du centre des opérations aériennes sur des cibles pré identifiées uniquement.
Mais il y a un risque certain, celui de voir un hélicoptère tomber.
Au dessus de Brega, les hélicoptères ont été la cible de tirs très intenses de tout type mais aussi de missiles sol-air portable.

Les hélicoptères français volent à moins de 50 mètres du sol, parfois extrêmement bas.
Les hélicoptères britanniques volent à plusieurs kilomètres d’altitude, comme les avions de chasse.
Les réactions de Kadhafi aux attaquent se raréfient.
Résumé article LeMonde 27/7 de NAthalie Guibert (la partie traitant de la spécificité des hélicoptères français)

( NOTE: Above report is incorrect where Apaches is concerned:
Service ceiling: 21,000 ft (6,400 m) minimum loaded ( Apaches))

Free Libyia
My uncle who is a high profile lawyer, told us from very early on that there was no way Seif could say no to his dad :/ ever

Sarah LFFR
Breaking : #Misarata Freedom Fighters are kicking ass on the western and southern front !

Sarah LFFR
Katiba’s pics – That was their restaurant in the Katiba . #Benghazi #Libya twitpic.com/5wq32t

plemochoe
Now that the US, UK and most major nations have recognized the TNC as the sole legitimate governing authority in Libya…
It’s time to talk nomenclature, for real this time. First off: the free Libyan fighters are NOT REBELS. Get that, AP?

From now on, the Gaddafi regime is just that – the Gaddafi regime. It’s not “Libya”. They aren’t even “loyalists”

No objection to journos speaking of “the Benghazi government” if they also refer to “the isolated Tripoli enclave”

Gaddafi’s forces are just that – the Gaddafi forces. Or the FORMER regime. Everything about Gaddafi is “former”

…except asshole, murderer, kook, pizza face – those are all CURRENT terms of address for Gaddafi

Of course we can’t expect Rixos journos to update their terms because we now know they receive

threats from G goons

So don’t tolerate one more time, if they talk about “the rebels” or say that “Libya” did this or that when they mean Gaddafi

For 5 months the wire services have propped Gaddafi up because he makes good copy. Everybody

loves killer nutbag dictators

But every good story comes to an end – now the UNTOLD stories suppressed by Gaddafi’s money are pressing at the door

Like the G-man who wrote “O Misrata I was forced” on his hand and then went out to die – there are thousands of such stories

Stories of secret heroism – and many stories of people who couldn’t see anything but the numbers on the money in front of them

The inside dope on Gaddafi’s crazy family (who have been oddly silent lately). Stories of just how crazy he was/is

The only commercial potential left in the Gaddafi story is the ending. Pull the curtain back – before it comes down.

Sarah LFFR
I have been told that the power won’t be cut again since this Sat & since 01.08 : calls won’t be free anymore and Madar will work. #Benghazi

CIL pic:
Paul the octopus: Libya edition.
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=287214&i...

Anaya
Here : twitpic.com/4ylptk He said himself “I’m in a place NATO can’t touch me!”

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
@libyangovtinfo Please stop bugging me. I was talking to my girlfriend and i could hear one of your employees breathing heavily #Rixos

Smiffy’s Wife
Just realised wretched green rag will be removed from Embassy and replaced with the FF flag. Oh how long have I wished for that. #libya

Sarah LFFR
On rapporte des affrontements entre les #GF & les #FF à #Mizdah en ce moment #Libye

MDaLibyan
goo.gl/oqrfK independence flag over libyan embassy in canberra/Australia as of 22jul2011
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQSqjx6IBJw&fea...

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Pic of crowd at Libya Embassy in London now. Apparently Flag will change on Friday. #feb17 #Libya yfrog.com/h7agdbgj

Tarik
Does anyone else have the feeling that starting from Monday,everyday will be a Friday ? ;) #ArabSpring #Libya #Syria #Yemen#Egypt

balintszlanko Balint Szlanko
Going back to Libya on Friday. Tunis and then down to the Nafusa mountains. This twitter’s now bilingual.

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Misrata: Misrata’s fighters say they seized 5 4×4s (technicals) and multiple GRAD launchers – killed 15 G soldiers today

KC_Tripolitania KC
Prime Minister David Cameron sends his early greetings to Muslims observing the fast during Ramadan- Number 10 t.co/Znng9mL #UK

Ramadan message from First Minister of Wales to Muslims observing Ramadan bit.ly/p4TUMc #Wales #Islam #Ramadan #Fasting

hominoid
Libya Misrata The FFs in the south of the city of Misurata are fighting with G troops FFs killed more than 15 soldiers and seizing (2) Jeep vehicles and the number (2) Toyota fully equipped, and the destruction of (2) launchers and the wounding of one the FF.

Libya Ajdabiya Ten wounded FFs at hospital with suspected cases of asphyxia caused by the use of mustard gas. to be confirmed

FromJoanne Joanne
ESCAPED FROM #TRIPOLI BY Pro Gaddafi TRUCK aka defecters The STORY HERE : scribd.com/doc/61032568/T… #Libya
www.scribd.com/doc/61032568/TripoliEsca...

NickClarkAlJaz Nick Clark
#Libya: Doha newsroom awaits with not v baited breath for Gadaffi Foreign Ministry presser. Should have started 2 hours ago. Newshour 18G!

FromJoanne Joanne
Despicable beyond words and imagination “MALE #RAPE used as Tool of War in many countries” on @AJELive now

Mr Mahmoud El-Nakou, the new Libyan ambassador to the UK, seen here in the first pro-revolution demonstration in the UK. Dated February 17th. All those who know him describe him as one of the best men for the job. Inshallah he will use his position to serve Libyans in the UK, unlike his predecessors who only served a tyrant.
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=287253&i...

BREAKING: #NATO have bombed #Gaddafi forces on the gates of the city of #Mizdah, Huge losses on Gaddafi side.

FreeBenghazi Libya.elHurra
Sanusi’s appearance last night on Gaddafi TV Eng subs. All but confirms his death #Libya v @freedomgrouptv facebook.com/video/video.ph…
www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1438...

ZONE MILITAIRE
Libye : L’Otan bombardera des sites civils utilisés par les forces loyalistes

D’où l’affirmation faite par l’amiral Mike Muellen, le 25 juillet, lors d’un conférence de presse donnée avant son départ en retraite. « Nous sommes, de manière générale, dans une impasse », a-t-il reconnu. Toutefois, il a souligné que les frappes de l’Otan « ont considérablement amoindri » le potentiel des forces loyalistes et qu’elles ont constitué, sur ces dernières, une « pression supplémentaire ».
« A long terme, je pense que c’est une stratégie qui fonctionnera (et permettra) de chasser Kadhafi du pouvoir » a-t-il estimé. En fait, l’espoir d’une conclusion rapide de l’affaire passe par une éventuelle révolution de palais à Tripoli, laquelle serait fatale au colonel Kadhafi.
Et cela est une option probable. En effet, aux dires d’un prisonnier des forces loyalistes cité par l’agence Reuters, les soldats pro-Kadhafi auraient le moral en berne et seraient épuisés après plus de quatre mois de frappes aériennes.

Read full story here:
www.opex360.com/2011/07/27/libye-lotan-...

Sarah LFFR
Guma_el_gamaty on Alarabiya now #Libya #17feb

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gaddafi mines retreived by #Freedomfighters should be saved. After Gaddafi is gone use to heavily mine borders w/ #Chad & #Algeria #Libya

Feb17
MSNBC
Journalist Clare Gillis, who was detained in Libya for six weeks, is due to testify about her experiences before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal says Gillis is scheduled to appear Wednesday at a hearing about legislation to enhance the U.S. diplomatic ability to locate missing Americans abroad, and advocate for their humane treatment and release.

Reuters
Life in Tripoli is getting harder due to a shortage of fuel, food and money. There are fears that there will be no chance of harvesting crops in the area this year or perhaps next year. Coupled with a lack of animal vaccines and fertilisers, that could cause a “serious food crisis”, a UN humanitarian coordinator said.

FromJoanne Joanne
With the money of the UnFrozen assets in UK #NTC will be able to Keep the LIGHTS on in #Benghazi and pay much needed salaries #Libya Via AJE

dhdfisher Daniel Fisher BBC
Libyan deputy FM says in supporting the rebels they are flogging a dead horse

JUST BROKEN @AJELive #TRIPOLI RESPONSE to UK recognision of #NTC and expelling diplomats “IRRESPONSIBLE AND ILLEGAL” #Libya

Reuters: Libyan government says expulsions of Libyan diplomats from UK are irresponsible and illegal

Khiria
#UK expels all #Gaddafi diplomats at the Libyan embassy today! Hopefully #Canada will follow! #Libya #Feb17

Mr Mahmoud alNakou
WilliamsJon Jon Williams
So will new #Libya NTC ambassador in UK get usual pageantry associated with appointment of new Heads of Mission at Court of St James? 1/2

Much pageantry for new ambassadors – horse-drawn carriage ride to Buckingham Palace to present credentials to Queen. Watch this space! 2/2

( NOTE: seen the fact that Mr. Al- Nakou is probably appointed as “envoy” for now, for political reasons, I wouldn’t have thought so, but I’m not a BBC foreign editor)
Depends if he has been appointed as ambassador OR envoy.
Ambassador: yes, envoy : no

NorthAndrew Andrew North
But unlike UK, no pro-Gaddafi Libyan diplomats still in US. So Libyan embassy in DC is waiting to be re-claimed

Joanne
monster walls around gaddafi’s former compound. #libya twitpic.com/5wrsj0 R they replacing bombed Wall [arts of BabAlAzizyah ?

POSTCARDS FOR LIBYA:
Please PARTICIPATE:
Welcome!
Postcards can make a difference!
Along with supplies, the refugees from Libya need to know they are important, not alone and the whole world cares about them.
Your postcard will bring a much needed smile to Libyan children and hospital patients in Tunisia. They are all victims of the war in Libya.
Love heals all wounds.
Thank you!
postcardsforlibya.org

hominoid
RAW, LIbya, Rocket launcher fails and give the rebels a fright but end u… youtube.com/watch?v=CqWCWQ… via @youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqWCWQw_3Ag&fea...

Hominoid
Note NATO does warn every time it bombs a target and does not bomb in the presence of civilians the ordinance is not delivered

And a new complaint against NATO, On Thursday, two lawyers, one Belgian and one French
Almost a joke
Brussels legal actions against NATO on behalf of victims of the bombings as part of the war in Libya.

The offensive by NATO against Libya, which began five months ago causes inevitable civilian casualties.

According to the Libyan authorities, seven people have been killed Monday in a raid by NATO against a small hospital in Zliten,150 km east of Tripoli.

NATO has warned on Tuesday that it would bombard any civil or industrial or agricultural building in Libya that is being used for military purposes by the troops of Gaddafi, taking “extreme care” to avoid civilian casualties.

Do you think these people stand a chance of winning, and do you think that individuals should bring cases against the defunct Libyan government, for all the people that were killed in the protests, at the start of this conflict.

Hope they have some god insurance

Mizdah The international coalition forces bombed a convoy of military battalions at the gate of the tyrant Mizdah and cause heavy losses

Nafusa photo diary
Published by Ivan LaBianca
Ivan LaBianca is a Norwegian-American freelance photojournalist. This is his first experience working in a war zone.
Curious about the facts and the people behind worldwide headlines, young Norwegian-American photographer Ivan LaBianca travelled to the Nafusa Mountains. LaBianca came back with a very personal photo diary which portrays both the war and the determination of the people of the Mountains. “It was only later, while reviewing my pictures, that I was able to allow myself to see the true magnitude of the tragedy.”
MUST SEE AND READ:
english.libya.tv/2011/06/27/nafusa-phot...

Miss B
Dear UK Gov/new head of #Libya(n) embassy, pls make flag-changing ceremony on weekend! Want 2 bake revolution cupcakes on.fb.me/oIWtdw
or:
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2099680...

FromJoanne Joanne
I just saw some happy Libyan faces in front of the #Libya Embassy in London on @AJELive

AJE
More on the planned rebel offensive in the western mountains:
A Reuters correspondent reports seeing at least 20 heavily armed trucks moving in the direction of the town of Nalut.
Another group of about 30 pickup trucks, camouflaged with mud, were seen congregating further east.
“We are reinforcing the position around Nalut and we will attack Ghezaia tomorrow or the next day for sure. We plan to
take it,” Omar Fakkan, a rebel commander, told Reuters.
He said that forces from several rebel-held towns in the mountains were gathering in Nalut in preparation for the attack.
More here:
blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/libya

Libyan rebels preparing an to attack to seize the town of Gzaah near the border with Tunisia

hominoid
Khalid Khuwaildi .. Raises another lawsuit against NATO

Ahmed
#Nalut: Hospital has an injured 16 year old boy who was fighting as part of Gaddafis forces..says he forced to fight..#Libya #gaddaficrimes

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
Libyan diplomat slams UK decision to close London embassy:its illegal, irresponsible,“stain on forehead of Britain…flogging a dead horse”

hominoid
Tripoli A fire broke out half an hour ago in the area of Mansheya and ambulances were seen. cause unknown

(via FB) Reports of up to 150 G troops surrendering themselves to FF in vicinity of #Brega. #Libya #Feb17

NorthAndrew Andrew North
US could follow UK and allow NTC to take over #Libya embassy in Wash DC. Am told US officials ‘reviewing’ NTC’s ‘official request’

hominoid
Martyrs Day Misurata 27 \ 7 \ 20 111 – Muhammad Ali Gala 2 – Hamza Mustafa Alati 3 – Abdul Rahman Othman Cheramit 4 – Sufian Isa RIP

I only know they sent mine sweepers god bless Qatar

FreeLibyan
#Gaddai forces @ N border of #Nalut r under airstrikes now. we know from who & we thank them too. Thanks @NATO

HodaAbdelHamid Hoda Abdel-Hamid
#Gaddafi calls on pple of #Zliten to march & liberate west. mountains. gives choice to “traitors” in #Zintan: give up or pay consequence

AlArabiya_Eng Al Arabiya English
Qaddafi says ready for ‘sacrifice’ to defeat rebels #Alarabiya

hominoid
Lightning innovations of rebels in Nalut invented this machine to deliver supplies to them at the top of the mountain
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxQzMhM2irk&fea...

LIBYA_WIN
I am starting to lose hope for the detained youth of #Tripoli-I’m affraid hardly any of them will live. What the heck does #NTC even do?

CNN
Ivan Watson

Diplomatic hopes for Libyan peace appear to fade Tripoli, Libya(CNN) — Britain’s decision to expel Moammar Gadhafi’s diplomats from London ensures that the bloody test of wills in Libya will grind on for weeks, if not months to come.
First, the United States joined the growing list of countries officially declaring the rebel council based in Benghazi the “legitimate governing authority for Libya.”

Meanwhile, the Tripoli regime has been staging large rallies in support of its embattled leader. Enthusiastic, flag-waving crowds thronged the central squares of different regime-controlled towns and cities.
State TV provided blanket coverage of the events, labeling them “million man marches.”
The size of the rallies has been the subject of heated debate between foreign journalists and government officials. But there is no question that Tripoli has been shoring up popular support for the man who has ruled this country for more than 40 years. Government officials argue that the rallies prove Gadhafi is the democratic choice of the Libyan people, a position that the rebels have fought and bled to refute.

A senior muslim cleric told CNN that in the month to come, loyalist soldiers could break their daily Ramadan to better fight against what the regime calls “the colonialist, crusader aggression.”
Ramadan begins in just a few days. Expect Libya’s holy month to be a bloody one.
Read full story:
edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/07/27...

FromJoanne Joanne
GaddafiStateTV: Sheikh Ali Al-Gaddafi issued a #Fatwa which says Gaddafi soldiers are allowed to eat and drink during #Ramadan #Libya

Libya Free Forever.
This man is looking for 8 missing people, help him #Gadaficrimes #Libya twitpic.com/5wdp74

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
A friend of mine told me today Gaddafi will never enter 2 places: Heaven and Zintan : )

OLD SENUSSI APPEARANCE YESTERDAY?

FreeBenghazi
1) GaddafiTV claims it’s live interview. Yet Sanusi says regime’s reconsidering alliances w West.No alliances survive today
2) He doesn’t debunk or even refer2 reports that he was killed Jul20 after FF fired 2 RGPs into Sheraton Hotel in Tripoli.

Most likely it wasn’t live:)

Sirtawi
Again, we are here to promote the fact that the city of #Sirte does not entirely support the tyrant #Gaddafi. #Libya #Feb17

JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
#Libya deputy FM says the regime will try to fight the #UK decision in British & Intl courts.

FromJoanne Joanne
#FF Commander OmarFakkan We r reinforcing our position around #Nalut & will attack #Ghezaia in next 2 days We plan to take it #Libya Nafusa

#TNC Official "There is NO Damage to #OIL facilities & Fields/equipment/ installations R ready 4Production. The problem is SECURITY #Libya

Enas
There was a campaign of arrests of FF yesterday in several places in western cities ,one of these cities
in #Zawit AlDahmani #Tripoli

either was a lot of arrests in #Surman with a state of chaos in the city and #Libya

Gaddafi forces had terrorised the citizens,in #Surman #Libya

and when they did not find the person to be detained, took any of a relative instead of them , confirmed #Surman #Libya

Guardian
Libyan diplomats leave London as anti-Gaddafi protesters celebrate

Outside the Libyan People’s Bureau in Knightsbridge, central London, the all-green Gaddafi-era flag was still hanging limply from a pole attached to the first-floor balcony.
But, by lunchtime, as news spread of William Hague’s announcement that the incumbent diplomats were to be removed, a growing crowd of exiled anti-Gaddafi Libyans began to gather, waving the green, white and red revolutionary flag and launching into loud chants whenever a TV camera was pointed their way. Some even ventured to ask the police guarding the mission if they might be allowed access to the balcony to replace the green standard with their own version. No, not just yet, came the polite reply.
There was certainly no immediate sign of an exodus of staff. Five diplomatic-plated cars were parked outside the mission, a pair of spacious if slightly shabby four-storey Victorian buildings near Hyde Park Corner. A couple of staff scurried in and out. For a short while, a face at a second-floor window glumly watched the protesters and media assembled below.A member of the anti-Gaddafi opposition from the early days, Al-Nakou has become a well-known writer and journalist, and has commented extensively in the Arabic press in support of the rebels’ uprising. In February, he wrote an opinion piece in the Guardian outlining a vision of post-Gaddafi Libya where “transparency, democracy, pluralism, freedom and fairness prevail”.
Relations with the west, he said, had to be based on “mutual recognition, shared and common interests and parity, not the old ways of a relationship built on corrupt dealings, fear and abuse.”
“Hundreds of thousands of Libyans have studied and lived in the UK, Europe and the US in the decades since oil was discovered, and those highly educated individuals yearn for a productive, co-operative and collaborative relationship with the west,” wrote Al-Nakou.
“Make no mistake, post-Gaddafi Libya will require a healthy link with western governments and companies to benefit from their technology, skills and expertise, while the west needs our immense natural and mineral riches.”
Read full art.:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/27/li...

NATO bombs the Great Man-Made River

It is a war crime to attack essential civilian infrastructure. 95% of Libya is desert and 70% of Libyans depend on water which is piped in from the aquifers under the southern desert. The water pipe infrastructure is probably the most essential civilian infrastructure in Libya. Key to its continued function, particularly in time of war, is the Brega pipe factory which enables leaks and breaks in the system to be repaired.
NATO has admitted that its jets attacked the pipe factory on 22 July, claiming in justification that it was used as a military storage facility and rockets were launched from there.
More:
humanrightsinvestigations.org/2011/07/2...

NOTE:
NATO was justified in bombing, there was plenty of evidence from local sources what was happening there……….

Iman Libya
Came back from waiting for ex-libyan ambassador to leave the embassy in UK, being the WIMP he is he decided not to leave till we went home

appparently we have to wait till next week for the TNC to officially move in :s.

I was just there at the embassy and the police officer said the guy had till sat to leave, and so on mon its ours

I’m just expecting an invite for the housewarming party, always curious to go inside :)

LIBYAN
The world will be shocked when we publish the accurate numbers of the killed, injured and permanently disabled Libyans by #Gadafi’s forces.

FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT:

AISHA:
Aisha #Gaddafi holds Maj General rank in her daddys Army. She is a legitimate target herself. #Libya #Feb17”

Typical BBC reaction, no background checking done of course:
WilliamsJon Jon Williams
Suspect the new NTC #Libya ambassador might not last long enough for his carriage ride to the Palace given his performance on @BBCNewsnight!

New NTC “ambassador” to UK tells #Newsnight not been in #Libya for 33 years & never a diplomat. Am sure that will give FCO real confidence!

Does Mr. Johnson have any idea regarding the libyan situation over the past 42 years?

Abdul Helal
#Mizda is under siege and people are banned from leaving. There is sporadic fight between #FF and #Gaddafi forces #libya #Nafusa #Feb17

ABOUT EARLIER RUMORS MUSTARD GAS:
ChangeInLibya
Checked.. incorrect reports. They said there were cases of “choking” in Ajdabiya hospital. Mustard gas wouldn’t cause that.

Choking could be due to heat exhaustion or fumes of oil that Gaddafi forces are burning near Brega

NOTE:
Remember mustard gas rumors a few months ago?
Was later diagnosed as heat exhaustion by doctors in hospital.
Could be the same thing OR as CIL says the burning oil fumes.

omar
#Gaddafi and the #Rixos Journalists yfrog.com/kla0nzyj #Libya #Feb17

FreeLibyan
Today; as usual & despite 1973 mandate, #Misrata Update : 4 civilians killed, 14 injured @ #Dafnia & 2 @ #Abdalraeouf.

Ghazi
Mahmoud Nakkou a good man and a known figure of Libyan community in UK, needs support of knowledgeable Libyans to fulfil his duties as amb

Oil tanker to leave Zuetina after loading Libyan crude for rebels
The oil tanker Captain X Kyriakou is due to leave the Libyan rebel-held port of Zuetina Monday after loading 800,000 barrels of crude oil, the second oil sale by the Transitional National Council since April, a TNC official said.

Mazin Ramadan, an adviser to the TNC’s oil and finance department, told Platts that the buyer was Vitol and the sale would help to meet part of the debt owed by the rebels to the Swiss-based trading house for the supply of refined product.

“The oil tanker should leave once the 800,000 barrels are lifted,” Ramadan said. “The shipment is going to Vitol. We owe them $500 million and the shipment will pay part of what we owe them.”

The tanker arrived at the Zuetina oil terminal on Sunday to load crude oil held in storage at the Mediterranean port, which lies just west of the rebel capital of Benghazi.

The rebels have been unable to produce oil from the key Sarir and Mesla oil fields in the east because of damage caused by attacks launched by Qadhafi loyalists in early April against the key producing fields of Sarir and Mesla.

A TNC official said the installations were not damaged and oil production could resume immediately once the fields are deemed to be secure.

“There is no damage to the oil facilities and fields and all the equipment and installations are ready for production. Our main problem is security. We can start pumping once security is guaranteed,” he said.
Full art.:
www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSF...

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam

Mahmud Al-Nacua, New Libyan Ambo to London says he hasn’t ‘been in Libya for 33 years.’

New Ambo: His family house in Zintan was bulldozed by Gaddafi years ago, no one was allowed to rebuild it, ruins still there

That’s because he’s 2 brothers were killed by Gaddafi, one in AbuSelim Prison Massacre. There’s no way he could have stayed.

GavinLeeBBC Gavin Lee
When he laughed, I laughed. Funny that.. yfrog.com/kjgpenrj

SENUSSI: old footage used.( as expected)

ORIGINAL TEXT:
بعد أنباء عن إصابته..عبدالله السنوسي يظهر على تلفزيون القذافي
ظهر رئيس المخابرات السابق للنظام القذافي عبدالله السنوسي على شاشة الجماهيرية التابع للقذافي أمس الثلاثاء، بعد أنباء عن مقتله في هجوم الخميس بطرابلس.
وقال عبدالله السنوسي في برنامج يقدمه يوسف شاكير كل ليلة ويدعى عشم الوطن إنه يستغرب من التحالفات التي نشأت بين الغرب الصليبي حسب قوله وبين القاعدة والتطرف الإسلامي.
وأضاف السنوسي أن التحالف والقاعدة المتطرفين في المناطق الشرقية في ليبيا يقاتل في خندق واحد وهم من يعطون الإحداثيات للناتو عن أماكن تواجد قوات القذافي والمدنيين، حسب وصفه.
وأوضح أن ليبيا تفكر في تغير تحالفها من جديد إذ كان الغرب يتحالف مع هؤلاء، مشيرا إلى أن المظاهرة المليونية التي خرجت في طرابلس قادرة على أن تحمي نفسها من الذين يحاولون التطاول عليها.
واستغرب السنوسي من الذين يأمون المسلمين في المناطق المحررة، وهم يقاتلون تحت راية الصليبيين الذين يقاتلون المدنيين في ليبيا.
الجدير بالذكر أن برنامج شاكير تحاور مع الذين خططوا عملية الخميس الماضي التي نفدت خلال اجتماع لمسؤولين في حي الاندلس بطرابلس ، وكان من بينهم نجل العقيد معمر القذافي.
واعترف الذين تم القبض عليهم وهم أمام وخطيب مسجد وضباط في كتائب القذافي وشخص آخر بأنهم قاموا بنتفيذ هذه العملية ولم يوضحوا أسباب قيامهم بها.
يشار إلى أن السنوسي لم يتحدث عن العملية التي نفذها ثوار مدينة طرابلس يوم الخميس الماضي والتي أسفرت بحسب مصادر إعلامية عن إصابة عبد الله السنوسي والحارس الشخصي للقذافي منصور ضو والمهدي أمبيرش.
قورينا الجديدة

This is the link:
qurynanew.com/?p=5208

This is the translation:
After news of his injury .. Abdullah Sanusi Gadhafi appears on TV

The back of former intelligence chief of the Gaddafi regime Abdullah Sanusi on the screen of the mass of the Gaddafi on Tuesday, after news of his death in Thursday’s attack in Tripoli.
He said Abdullah Sanusi – in a program provided by Yusuf Shakir every night and called Asham home – it’s strange alliances that have arisen between the Crusader West, according to him, and between Al Qaeda and Islamic extremism.
Sanusi added that the coalition and al-Qaeda extremists in the eastern regions of Libya, fought in the same trench as they give the coordinates of the NATO forces on the whereabouts of al-Qadhafi and civilians, according to the recipe.
He explained that Libya is considering the change as a new alliance of the West was allied with them, pointing out that the demonstration millions that came out in Tripoli able to protect itself from those who are trying to bully them.
He was surprised Sanusi who Yamun Muslims in the liberated areas, who are fighting under the banner of the Crusaders, who are fighting civilians in Libya.
It is worth mentioning that the program Shakir dialogue with those who planned the process which ran out last Thursday at a meeting of officials in the district of Al-Andalus, Tripoli, and was including the son of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
He acknowledged those who have been arrested and are in front of the mosque imam and the officers in the Brigades, al-Qadhafi and someone else that they have Bntiv this process did not explain the reasons for doing it.
It is noteworthy that Sanusi did not talk about the process carried out by the rebel city of Tripoli on Thursday that resulted – according to media sources – the injury Abdullah Sanusi and the bodyguard of Gaddafi and the Mahdi Mansour Daou Emberesh.
Cyrene new

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Moldova CARGO SHIP “MAR BIANCO” now anchored in port #Tripoli #Libya after resupplying international war criminal #Gaddafi. #Feb17

Moldova FERRY “M V FEHIM BEY” has departed #Misrata #Libya for dest. #Benghazi. #Feb17

ANOTHER RAT ABANDONING THE #GADDAFI SHIP: #Turkey CARGO SHIP “SEREN AYANOGLU” now departing port #Tripoli

If #NATO cannot beat a 4th rate piece of dogshit like #Gaddafi then NATO should be disbanded. #Libya #Feb17 @NATO

Aisha #Gaddafi holds Maj General rank in her daddys Army. She is a legitimate target herself. #Libya #Feb17

#Nafusa #Freedomfighters declared today that they are readying themselves to take the town of #Ghazaya within next 2 days. #Libya

#Gaddafi OIL TANKER “AISHA” 37.27914˚/10.39277˚ now entering #GulfeDeTunis. Last port was in #Algeria, no dest. listed. #Libya

Believed that #Gaddafi OIL TANKER “AISHA” will make it’s way to port #Tripoli #Libya w/ contraband from #Slovenia, #Algeria & #Tunisia @NATO

#NATO hit #Gaddafi forces located North of #Takut, near #Kasarah aprox. 1 hour ago. #Libya #Feb17
(approx.23.30 hrs. local)

#Tanzania CARGO SHIP “AMAL” now en route from #Misrata #Libya to #Benghazi. #Feb17
28 minutes ago

Telegraph The Telegraph
US reviews Libya rebel request to open Washington embassy tgr.ph/oGbWwO
or:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...

Abeidi
Libya, Brega, at the moment the National Army entered the residential area and Najem Sata university in Brega.Victory is sooner than u think

AC Tripolis
Rauch Fruit Juices before the crisis 1,75 LD/l now 4 LD/l Nutella up from 4 LD to 11 LD steep price rise #Libya

Free Libyia
The fact that I’ll have to look up the manifestos of different political parties+candidates in an election in Libya is out of this world:D

REUTERS
Libya rebels say plan attack on western mountain town
A Reuters correspondent saw at least 20 heavily armed trucks moving in the direction of Nalut, close to the border. Another group of some 30 trucks, camouflaged with mud, congregated further east and were preparing to join the assault.

Hospital sources said four rebels were killed Wednesday on the front line near Zlitan and 10 wounded. Four rebels were wounded on the front line near Bani Walid to the south west of Misrata.
Full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTR...

wheelertweets James Wheeler
Alhaddy, an injured FF from #Misrata #Libya, in front of Tunis hospital with friends on July 26. Both legs amputated. twitpic.com/5wtewz
I was so glad when he called out to me from the lawn. The 1st time I met him, he was in bed, in pain, with only a loin cloth.

BBCNewsnight BBC Newsnight
Libya’s new ‘opposition’ UK ambassador tells #newsnight says he hopes he can get into the embassy next week.

Libya’s new ‘opposition’ UK ambassador tells #newsnight it is ‘impossible’ for Gadaffi to stay in Libya.

libyanandproud
Ghiryan : Between 1500 – 3500 arrested in Ghiryan since #Feb17 . Ghiryan Population = 200’000 . Via Ghiryan FB

JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
Dep FM told reporters today the #UK & #France support of rebels is “flogging a dead horse”. #Libya

Enas:
For every time ,when i read the comments under #BBC’s reports about #Libya I get sick

wheelertweets James Wheeler
I was with New #Libya Party co-founder Mabruk today in Tunis b4 he flew back to the US. Optimistic & progressive.

Khalifa
#gadhafi always says that he is not the President of #Libya so the NTC should move into Tripoli and form a government. He should not object.

INDEPENDENT:
Lights are on, but nobody’s is in, insists regime receptionist

“There is nobody here,” insisted the receptionist at the Libyan People’s Bureau in Knightsbridge. Behind the drawn net curtains upstairs, grand chandeliers could be seen glowing in every room – and one diplomat kept peeking sheepishly at the growing press pack – and anti-Gaddafi protesters – outside. After a while he vanished, perhaps to pack his bags ahead of the embassy staff’s expulsion by Britain’s Foreign Office.
“The embassy is not receiving visitors this afternoon,” chuckled one of the two policemen guarding the locked front doors. There are understood to be eight Libyan diplomats still in London, led by the Acting Charge d’affairs Khaled Benshaban.
Art.:
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/...

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together”.

Vincent van Gogh


SUMMARY JULY 28th 2011

7/28/2011
7.28.2011

YOUNIS AND NAFUSA MOUNTAIN OFFENSIVE EDITION

NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – goo.gl/Ok4vR

A Free Libyan
VIDEO – #Sabha Protests – Check it out!! – youtube.com/watch?v=748hJq… #Libya #Feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=748hJqd5ww0&feature=player_embedded#at=134

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
BATTLE IN VALLEY BELOW NAFUSA WELL UNDERWAY

Battle raging for Al Jawsh now. Although many gaddafi troops already believed to have retreated towards coast.

This is a multi-front operation. Fighters from the mountains heading to Al Jawsh, Tiji, Badr, and Ghezaia.

#LIBYA this is biggest operation by the opposition in this part of Libya so far

#LIBYA live coverage of the latest on #AJE

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
New battle starts post.ly/2f4tV

Fighters entering battle t.co/P78lXPc

I am wearing my flak jacket. Unbearably hot.

#LIBYA Grads being fired back by Gaddafi forces.

#LIBYA Just seen a body of opposition fighter on back of truck leaving Al Jawsh. But no idea yet of overall casualty figures.

#LIBYA Grads came in close to our truck. Temporarily retreated, but mainly to catch our breath.

#LIBYA Just seen four Gaddafi prisoners captured – all Libyans – not injured. Taken on edge of Badr.

#LIBYA opp forces are on edge of Badr, but still battles in al Jawsh. They say they are “cleaning it”

Audioboo: Latest boo.fm/b423997

Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
by ChangeInLibya
Breaking news Libya heavy fighting now by FF 2 liberate AlGazaya & Tkut towns near Nalut west mountain if FF win they get closer 2 tripoli!

Breaknews says:
BREAKING: @Libyatv : Caller Eyewitness: #Ghazaya has been Liberated.

BREAKING NEWS: #FFs have full control of the gate to the town of Badr!

Via FB:
BREAKING NEWS: Takout has been libearated from the Tyrant #Gaddafi, and the independance flag is raised! Allah Akbar!!
تم تحرير بلدة تكوت من كتائب الطاغية ورفع علم الإستقلال فوق القصر الأثري للبلدة وتم إزالة مجموعة من الألغام التي زرعتها الكتائب …. الله أكبر يا تريس الله أكبر الله اكبر

Via FB:
BREAKING NEWS: Western Mountain #FFs have fully liberated the town of Jawsh
ثوار جبل نفوسة يحرورون مدينة جوش بالكامل

Nalut Feb17 Media Committee:
Libyan national army in Nalut freed Alhawamad village and Takut Twon. The libyan flag with its three colours is over the castle of Takut.

Nalut Feb17 Media Committee: Libyan national army has looted a lot of weapons Ammos from Gaddafi forces and captured ten of them.

Liberation of Ghazaya and the FFs are in the area of 40 on the outskirts of Az Zawiah
تحرير الغزايا والتوار الان في منطقة الاربعين على مشارف الزاوية والكتائب محاصرة في منطقة الفار الله

#Nalut Feb17 Media Committee: Seven #Gaddafi soldiers were captured by the national army of #Nalut.

#Nalut Feb17 Media Committee: Many landmines were dug up in #Takut town by the national army of #nalut.

Nalut Feb17 Media Committee:
Gaddafi forces cannot face the national army of nalut in the fighting zone, so in revenage, they have been shelling #Nalut city by grad rockets from a distance since the early morning..

FromJoanne Joanne
#NAFUSA FF HAVE 2TakeOut GaddafiForces in #GHAZAIA its where GF bombard #Marabah crossing betwn #Nalut & Wazin where FF R positioned #Libya

NAFUSA NEW FF OFFENSIVE Map around #Ghezaia goo.gl/WePK6 #Libya

#Ghazaya Nafusa Both sides The FF and #gaddafi troops have been MASSING troops in ths area in past few days its going 2b a BIG BATTLE #Libya

hominoid
Libya Ghazaya was liberated FF forces move on to (Tkoic) not a good translation

Libyan rebels launch assault in western mountains t.co/0qL4zQh via @youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RGaeeXeyJQ&fea...

libyanandproud
Please note , today’s offensive is not an offensive or push towards #Tripoli , the offensive is to stop shelling of #Nafusa .

NAVY NEWS:
Frigate HMS Sutherland is now busy conducting boarding operations off the coast of Libya.
The Type 23 has been called away from the Response Force Task Group to become the primary surface combatant in support of the NATO Operation Unified Protector.

Sutherland has already carried out her first boarding operation, under the auspices of UN Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973, and sent her highly-capable team of Royal Marines and Royal Navy sailors to search a merchant vessel in international waters close to Libya.
Royal Marine Lt Viggars, the Officer Commanding Sutherland’s Royal Marines Boarding Team, said: “In a highly-demanding sea state, my lads swiftly – but safely – boarded the suspect vessel and conducted a thorough search.
“Once we had satisfied ourselves that they were not in breach of the embargo, my Marines and Royal Navy teams disembarked as professionally as they arrived.
Full report and beautiful pics:
www.navynews.co.uk/archive/news/item/511

Joanne:
#GHEZAYA Nafusa I just saw images off masses of FreedomFighters on the road The aim is to OPEN a Main Supply route from Tunisia into #Libya

#GHAZZYA #Heavy weapons went first then the lighter armed Volunteer FF followed #Libya

#Ghazaya around 4000 Gaddafi forces are said to be located in the area #Libya

FOOTAGE of Leaving for BATTLE OF #GHZAYA this Morning t.co/j2awxWs #Libya #Nalut
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRN63t2xOok&fea...

#Battle 4 #Ghazaya Area of CURRENT Fighting Close Up Maps Nafusa goo.gl/MIhqa & goo.gl/TFgxr & #Libya
or:
wikimapia.org/#lat=31.9556578&lon=11.3310242&z=11&l=0&m=b
and:
wikimapia.org/#lat=31.8921336&lon=11.2039948&z=11&l=0&m=m

Its confirmed that village of #alJawsh is liberated and FF Are surrounding #Ghazaya right now Shelling is heard #Libya via #Tunisia media

FromJoanne Joanne
#GOODNEWS #SIRTE #NTC representative Hassan Drouey says that Pro Gaddafi sentiment make up only 10% of the locals of Sirte now #Libya

Reuters
REFILE-WRAPUP 2-Libyan rebels move on western town

“We have started attacking Ghezaia with rockets and tanks,” rebel spokesman Mohammed Maylud said.
Ghezaia is a town near the Tunisian border which has been in government hands since the conflict began.
At a checkpoint outside the nearby rebel-held town of Nalut, they sounded optimistic as the fighting began.
“We are confident we can beat Gaddafi now, we have captured more weapons from the Libyan army, mostly AK-47s,” said Mohammed Ahmed, 20, a market trader turned fighter.
Basim Ahmed, a fighter coming back from the front, said rebels had taken control of parts of three villages and many government troops had fled, but this was not possible to verify.
As sustained bombardments could be heard in the distance, an ambulance raced to Nalut hospital. A rebel with a gunshot wound to the shoulder was brought into the emergency room, where he lay semi-conscious.
Minutes later a commotion could be heard in the parking lot. A government soldier who had been captured was led to a hospital bed a few feet away from the rebel. He was missing a hand and was barefoot.
Read full art. Here:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLD...

hominoid
Al Jazeera: Nizar Kawan The control of the area Ghazaya .. This will open the vast areas of expansion towards other cities

U.S. State Department said that it had received a formal request from the Transitional National Council for the reopening of the Libyan embassy in Washington.

Mark Toner, said ministry spokesman, "we are consulting with the Transitional National Assembly on

several topics. This includes diplomatic representation and ratification of the diplomats. Council could legally appoint diplomats and the reopening of the embassy, of course, with our approval."

The border crossing Wazin Dhehiba now closed July 28 after heavy clashes between insurgents and forces pro-Gaddafi in the region Ghazaya.

The closure was in fear that one of two parties in the conflict enter the Tunisian territory.

Libya After the liberation of Ghazaya and the FFs are on the outskirts of Az Zawiah.

FromJoanne Joanne
#UAE have set up a 30 bed Field hospital in anticipation of todays casualties #Tunisia #Libya

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
A street in Zawiya… after Gaddafi forces destroyed the city #libya fb.me/1cZ7UZqgP
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=288606&id=137199749688243

anitamcnaught Anita McNaught
Opp forces now fighting G-forces in #Jalu region. Fighting began 2 days ago with raids on #Ajdabiya road. Now raging on Awjilah-Zaltan road

libyanandproud
#Nafusa : #Zintan freedom fighters are reinforcing #Gwaleesh / #Asabaa front to prevent any advance by #Gaddafi forces . #Feb17 #Libya

The Dictator
#Misrata: queues for petrol back to normal after attack on fuel tanks a few days ago caused a bit of a strain.

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS

Just after dawn – fighters lined up. yfrog.com/h3ijnwyxj ##LIBYA ##AJE

The order is given – heading into battle yfrog.com/h3bsmxjj ##LIBYA ##AJE

FromJoanne Joanne
6000 ppl crossed #RasJedir Border wednesd Officials Diplomats crossed INTO Tunisia +African Refugees
FM #AbdelaatiLaabidi Returned 2 #Libya

hominoid
Libya Jadu Martyred brother, Said Abu Bakr Muhammad Nuh Rahibat 37 years old after chest injury. RIP

This battle being fought by FFs in the mountain extends at a distance of about 150 km. The FFs are in control of the situation.

LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
These are the mines found in Takout Western Mountains fb.me/MKhSOR7x
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=189414&id=119666044789936

FromJoanne Joanne
#Brega Minefields FFdeal with them any way they see fit some saying they simply open fire on them with their assault rifles #Libya

libyanandproud
#Nafusa : Raising the flag in #Takut after liberation today . #Feb17 #Libya twitpic.com/5×4ctf

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
I posted 6 photos on Facebook in the album “LIBERATION OF TEKUT, Nafousa #libya” fb.me/vn1tDY9D

Mike
Gaddafi: My ppl love me they will die for me and I will push them to the front line. I have bulldozers

alihashem_AJA Ali Hashem
Gen. Abdulfatah Yunis is under arrest, i dont know why but this piece of news was confirmed to me by sources in Benghazi. #libya #feb17
He was arrested today morning by a military force headed by Gen. Jala Dogheili in benghazi. #libya #feb17

grafixel
Interesting turn of events (once confirmed): why would #Libya FF arrest one of their generals?

PatrioticLibyan
Sources report that Gen. Abdel Fatah Yunis was arrested in Ajdabiya yesterday. Word on the street is that he’s been accused of treason.

Baysontheroad:
#LIBYA opp fighters say they did not retreat from Al Jawsh. It was “a strategic withdrawal”

#LIBYA opp fighters have all pulled out of Al Jawsh. They say they were targeted by snipers.#Nafusa #LIBYA Fighters say in the town they were prevented from fighting back because of “human shields”

I have now accurate info about battles on other front. Lots of rumours about fall of Ghezaia, but nothing concrete.

Correction: I have NO accurate news of battles on other fronts. Heat is getting to my typing!

My only way to Ghezaia would be back up the mountain, and over 2 hours drive.

FreeBenghazi
#Nafusa Mt spokesperson, AbuBakr AlRajabani said #AlHawwamd was liberated after 15min battle with Gaddafiforces

One thuwar from AlRajaban was martyred. His name is still not known. شهيد ان شاء الله #Libya v @nalut17feb

Thuwar reached outskirts #Ghazaya. Gaddafiforces stationed in 2nd AlKisara have surrendered to freedom fighters #libya v @nalut17feb

mine clearing is done by some very brave middle-aged men, all volunteers, w little or now equipment.

Takut liberated from Gaddafiforces; free flag flying over the ancient palace. Some planted mines removed.

Reports Gaddafiforces have fled to #Tunisia, some r trapped in Um AlFar, northwest of Nalut, negotiating their surrdener

Message from @nalut17feb: “Special greetings from #Nalut residents2 thuwar in capital,Tripoli &all thuwar in Nafusa. Victory is near” #Libya

Message from @nalut17feb: “God sees sons of Libya cooperating w brothers in Nafusa. See unity in newly born #Libya by sons of Feb17” #Libya

FromJoanne Joanne
Got private confirmation from some1 via #NTC #MustafaAbdulJaleel ordered #Younis arrrest Decision wasnt taken lightly but aft investigation

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
Just after dawn – fighters lined up. yfrog.com/h3ijnwyxj ##LIBYA ##AJE

Just after dawn – fighters lined up. – moby.to/a4kfhh

#LIBYA Opp spokesmen now claim Ghezaia and Takhut in their hands.

Joanne
#Wazin Border crossing is closed because the Tunisian army Fears that either FF or Gaddafi troops entering #Tunisia #Libya

I got another report wessim which says #Tunisia closed its wazem border to prevent Libyan warring parties crossing their border

The whole border road into Nafusa is dangerous now no families would dare drive along it Would be suicide

#Libya n rebels celebrate #British recognition in #London Euronews youtube.com/watch?v=I58imx…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I58imxxESf8&fea...

Gen Abdulfatah Younis was first so called Killed nr #Brega Now said2b arrested in #Benghazi #AbdelFatahYounis Interview t.co/hjqFzgX

www.twitlonger.com/show/bvtai7

FLASH #NTC Ordered Gen Younis to b detained after FF investigated him He was blocking advance in #BREGA

Ahmed
no its not a rumor..called source in Benghazi..who is in the Liberation army…he has been arrested..confusion all round..

Urgent: General Abdel Fattah Younes arested by rebels for secret contacts with Qaddafi

A source in Benghazi just informed MEtransparent of the arrest, at 4:00 am this Thursday morning of General Abdel Fattah Younes at Bregha, where the rebels are fighting a fierce battle against Qaddafi forces. A force composed of 80 military vehicles proceeded to arrest General Younes who did not put any resistance. The battalions led by Younes sided with the rebels.
The arrest order was given by the Transitional National Council of Benghazi on the basis of information about younes recent secret contacts with the Qaddafi government.
General Younes, born in 1944, was Libya’s minister of interior, and head of Libyan Special Forces, until the Februrary revolution. Following confirmation that Younis had defected to the side of the rebels, he was declared commander-in-chief of the rebel armed forces.
Link:
www.middleeasttransparent.com/spip.php?...

Libye Libre
Seules les ambulances ont le droit de traverser la frontière #Libye #Tunisie à Wazin du fait des combats.

LibyaTrueStory Rachel Beth Anderson
Bullets, the new accessory in #Misrata, take your pick. ishtaproductions.com/wp-content/gal… #Libya #Feb17 (image gallery update)
ishtaproductions.com/wp-content/gallery...

Dima_
Last night I spoke to a colleague who returned from Misrata. My God ! The horror stories he had to tell about #GaddafiCrimes #Libya

Gen. Younis:
Rabiade
its a rumour spread by gaddafi thugs till NTC will confirmed it in a press conference. It´s like the rumour that Younis was dead.

Libya
somehow don’t believe it…could be just a rumor just divide people…

Dima_
My next story is on the blackouts in Eastern Libya. Gaddafi shut down natural gas supplies ==> electricity down!

LibyaNewMedia
Arresting Younes doesn’t seem to make any sense. I’m worried that he is the victim of an internal power struggle.

LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
I just watched AJA corespondant from Bengahzi didnt talk about it! Hope it isnt true!! :(

Libyan Duda
Abdelfatah #Younis has been arrested & taken 2 #Benghazi for foul play & treason charges #feb17 #Libya #SayNo2Defectors

Carole
I don’t believe it. I think Gen. Younis is a great man, there is no way he is pro-G. This is a smear campaign.

Libya In Me
Aljazeera reporter claiming that Younis got arrested but no one else is saying it…

Libya United 1944
2 Martyrs today in the Nafousa offensive near Badr.

Carol
To all people talking about General Younis, just calm down. I do not believe he was arrested and there is no way he is pro-G. Let’s wait.

REUTERS:
Revolutionaries have said they plan to launch a major offensive on the town of Ghezaia near the Tunisian border in the next day or two. A Reuters correspondent saw at least 20 heavily armed trucks moving in the direction of Nalut, close to the border. Another group of around 30 pickup trucks camouflaged with mud, congregated further east, and were preparing to join the assault.

Jazeera English
Attorneys have filed a civil lawsuit in Belgium accusing NATO of killing 13 civilians, including 3 children, by bombing a residence in Libya.
Marcel Ceccaldi, a Paris-based lawyer, said Thursday he also has asked the Brussels District Court to send two experts to Libya to assess the physical and psychological damages of the attack near Tripoli in June so that he can determine what monetary compensation to seek from NATO

Dima_
Rebels are surrounded in Sahel oil field today south of Brega. Gaddafi troops attacked earlier. Rebels sending backups from the South #libya

tripolicouncil Tripoli-council
Save Little Angels | ONG fb.me/NXt8UwUU
www.savelittleangels.com/index.html

libyanandproud
Call to Freedom Fighter : we are fighting for #LIBYA not Younis ! Victory is #Nafusa more important than Younis News ! #Feb17 #Libya

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

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
Some Gaddafi troops to have headed right (the coast) yfrog.com/kgmpjyj ##LIBYA ##AJE

#LIBYA If Gaddafi troops have been pushed well away from Ghezaia, it would mean border area with Tunisia can no longer be shelled.

Ahmed
#Gaddafi is no more..why would Gen #Younis still work with him..He is not stupid.! people in #Brega are saying one thing & #Benghazi another

RESPONSE GENERAL YOUNIS:
ARABIC:
www.thawralibya.com/imm-news/instnews/2...

TRANSLATION:
Major General Abdul Fateh mocked Younes, Head of the General Staff of the Army of the liberation of Libya’s anti-organized Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, of false news and rumors, which claimed his arrest earlier in the day.

Yunus said in a telephone conversation with the site (Revolution of Libya) from his place on the Eastern Front that the usual system is trying to Gaddafi, to mislead public opinion, the Libyan and the international community by raising false news and false, stressing that it is still in position in the service of the Libyan people and the revolution glorious to overthrow Gaddafi.

Younis added: “They are trying to falsify the truth and shuffling papers, but the Libyan people the Great Do not be fooled by such nonsense, which aimed to interfere with our work in the leadership of the rebels and the army down to the expected victory, God willing.

Several sites, electronic newspapers had picked up, unfortunately, in the earlier news is correct that it was AD at dawn today at four in the morning the arrest of Major General Abdul-Fattah Younis, commander of rebel forces, in the region, “Brega”. For link in Arabic www.thawralibya.com/imm-news/instnews/2...

Reuters
Austria looking at ways to free up Libya money

VIENNA, July 28 (Reuters) – Austria wants to unfreeze up to 1.2 billion euros ($1.7 billion) of Libyan assets to transfer to rebels opposing Muammar Gaddafi but needs legal documents from Benghazi in order to do this, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
“Politically speaking, we want to do it and if there is a legal basis then we will do it,” Alexander Schallenberg said.
He said Austria needed the National Transitional Council to provide certification that the institution it had founded in Benghazi was a legally valid central bank “identical to the one in Tripoli.”
The money belonged to the Libyan central bank before it was frozen and is now in legal limbo. Austria would like the rebels to be able to use it to pay for expenses such as wages, Schallenberg said.

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA Reports: Abdel Fatah Younis arrested. On #AJE now

Reuters
WRAPUP 3-Libyan rebels fight for western town

“The revolutionaries (rebels) closed the crossing this morning after violent fighting broke out in Ghezaia,” Ali, who lives on the Tunisian side of the border some 17 km (10 miles) from the town, told Reuters by telephone.
“We are hearing loud explosions in Ghezaia right now. We can also see smoke rising.”
At a checkpoint outside nearby Nalut, young rebel fighters sounded optimistic as the fighting began, chanting “God is greatest” as they sped in jeeps to and from the front.
“We can beat Gaddafi now, we have captured more weapons from the Libyan army, mostly rockets and AK-47s,” said Mohammed Ahmed, 20, a market trader turned fighter.
Basim Ahmed, a fighter coming back from the front, said rebels had taken control of parts of three villages and many government troops had fled, but this was not possible to verify.
Tunisian television reported that Tunisian security forces had closed the Dehiba border crossing.

Full art.:
af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLD...

Globe and Mail
As Libya settles into stalemate, the West grasps for a way out

The British government has kicked Moammar Gadhafi’s diplomats out, and invited rebel envoys to take their place. Canadian officials have joined France and Britain in accepting the idea that the dictator could stay in the country, as long as he cedes power.
Western nations are grasping for ways to end the Libyan conflict before the stalemate settles into a long siege.

But despite a glimmer of hope from the advances of western rebels, eastern rebels aren’t seen as able to take Tripoli. If Col. Gadhafi doesn’t take a way out, the mission will settle into a long siege, waiting for his dwindling oil to run out, until lights go out and businesses shut in Tripoli, and people under the control of his security services take the risk of rising, Mr. Joshi said. “But that’s a drawn-out process, and very messy.”
Art.:
www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/as-l...

About author Mr. Joshi:
I am a doctoral student of international relations at Harvard University’s Department of Government, and an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London . I am interested in security studies, military affairs, South Asia and the Middle East. I’m particularly interested in the the foreign and security policies of India, and civil-military relations.

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Portugal has officially recognized the National Transitional Council as the sole legitimate representative of the Libyan people #libya

Reuters
Libyan rebels fight for western town

(Reuters) – Rebels in Libya’s Western Mountains launched an offensive Thursday against Muammar Gaddafi’s troops, as Portugal followed Britain in granting diplomatic recognition to the opposition.

The first dead and wounded from the fresh offensive were brought to Nalut, the nearest rebel town. Hospital sources said they received two dead rebels and 18 wounded, as well as nine wounded Gaddafi soldiers, during the morning.
“We have started attacking Ghezaia with rockets and tanks,” rebel spokesman Mohammed Maylud said of a town near the Tunisian border, held by the government since the conflict began and from which it controls a wide area on plains below the mountains.
“The revolutionaries (rebels) closed the crossing this morning after violent fighting broke out in Ghezaia,” Ali, who lives on the Tunisian side of the border some 17 km (10 miles) from the town, told Reuters by telephone.
Art.:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/28/us-l...

KC_Tripolitania KC
The supposed arrest of opposition General Abdul Fatah Younis is being mentioned on #AJE now- #NTC will hold press conference to elaborate

LibyaAlHurraTV
Getting word from #Benghazi Media Center that they confirmed the arrest of #Younis with #NTC. Reason for arrest unknown at this time. #Libya

Mister Nice
arrest of general Abdel fatah younis is false.

alihashem_AJA Ali Hashem
Military source in Benghazi told us the story i tweeted about Gen. Younis #libya #feb17

hominoid
National army of nalut found a lot of weapons and ammo inside the houses of local people in Gazaya village. There are no families in Gazaya

dovenews Libyan™
BREAKING! #FF are surrounding Gaddafi forces in Aum Alfar village. #Libya

BREAKING! #FF are freeing Alwatya gate near Bader junction in the northern area.

Hominoid
Libya Nalut Hospital 2 dead 18 wounded and 9 G thugs wounded so far today.

holmescnn Michael Holmes
Libyan rebels in west claim big successes in offensive today. 5 towns captured, 6th surrounded say cmmdrs.

Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi lookalike seen on libyan TV

BBC
Libya rebels ‘capture key supply route town of Ghazaya’

Libyan rebels say they have seized a strategically important town near the Tunisian border after heavy fighting with Col Muammar Gaddafi’s forces.
A rebel spokesman said they had attacked Ghazaya in Libya’s western mountains with rockets and tanks early in the morning.
Government troops had been using the town as a base from which to bombard rebel supply routes from Tunisia.
Libya’s civil war has remained largely deadlocked over the past few months.
The rebels control most of eastern Libya from their base in Benghazi and the western port city of Misrata, while Col Gaddafi retains much of the west, including the capital, Tripoli.
The uprising against Col Gaddafi’s 42-year rule began five months ago.
Nato continues to enforce a UN-backed no-fly zone over the country.

Source:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-1432175...

libyanandproud
#Nafusa : Reports suggest that umalfarr has been liberated ! #Feb17 #Libya

ibn
Ghzaya and Tikuit are free, we have Gaddafi forces on the run. Lots of mines have been found, we’re combing the captured territory right now

FreeBenghazi
Tony Birtley saying that members of the 17Brigade surrounded Younis home in Benghazi. #Libya #ALJazeera

Tony Birtley saying that Younis is accused of delaying with Gaddafi figures in Italy. #Libya #ALJazeera

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA Al Jawsh not in opposition hands. They have completely withdrawn, and no plans to retake it today, they say.
#LIBYA Some fighters say the snipers/shooting in al Jawsh was not from soldiers, but pro-gaddafi civilians.

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Today’s Nafousa offensive: 5 freedom fighters were martyred. Injuries still to be confirmed – however most are superficial. #libya #feb17
number of martyrs comes from the zintan military council

live2Tripoli
Battles rage on as FF from #Cabao, #Nalut and other towns/cities of #JabalNafusa have freed #Algezaia. #libya #feb17

Yes #Algezaia has been freed!! #AllahuAkbar #AllahuAkbar Clashes now at OmAlfar. #JabalNafusa

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Confusion on the situation regarding Abdul Fatah Younis, nobody seems sure, we will wait for NTC to make a statement

Nafusa: 20 Gaddafi soldiers arrested and dozens of vehicles destroyed by FF today. Many casualties on G side.

dovenews Libyan™
Fake Rumors that Abdul Fatah Younis was arrested by NTC, this is not true & Gaddafi is trying to create public division goo.gl/Kh8by
carolv27.tumblr.com/post/8170635126/tel...

hominoid
Libya The gas pipeline to Algeria was closed by the FFs and they vowed to block off the oil pipeline to Algeria forever.

Sarah LFFR
#Nafusa : On rapporte que umalfarr aurait été libéré. #AllahuAkbar

Tweeting Tripoli
Exclusive: Images of Bab Al-Azizya compound show the damage on the western side wall hit by @NATO rockets: t.co/DnfFKRD #feb17 #Libya
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.17222...

POSTCARDS FOR LIBYA PLZ RT:
Send postcards to #Libya’s child refugees in #Tunisia, seriously injured + in need of support t.co/XRZQ9rv
postcardsforlibya.org

moi a table
#AbdalFatah Younes ties with G ppl have been known to all including #NTC since the beginning. Might want to question the timing of all this.

live2Tripoli
Confirmed AbdalFatah is indeed under TNC’s special security custody. Insh’allah khair….

Guardian
Libya fighting puts Misrata’s nurses on hospital frontline – in pictures

Female medical staff, normally subordinate to men in the clinical pecking order, are taking lead roles in treating the wounded – and in the process, quietly waging a war to keep their newfound equality after the conflict ends
Link:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/j...

Joanne
#Nafisu JamesBay; Its been a BIG battle with some success #Ghazaia and #Takut said to be in FF hands #AlJawsh will b attacked in next 2 hrs

Ghazi
Situation at #Libya’s embassy in London right now, green rag still up, hopefully next week goes down twitpic.com/5x72c4

Miss B
I shared my love for origami with the #Libya(n) refugee children in #Tunisia, they were overjoyed #AidTrip flic.kr/p/a7P7E8
www.flickr.com/photos/befroggled/598430...

Sarah LFFR
What a good day for our #FreedomFighters :) #AllahuAkbar may god protect them ! #GaddafisEnd #Libya #17feb

evanchill Evan Hill
AJE’s team in Benghazi confirms Gen. Abdel Fatah Younis, Libyan rebel military commander, was arrested this morning. Updates to follow.

Anaya
WARNING!!! disturbing rumors may destabilize the freedom fighters! Suggestion no tweet about #Younes arrest until confirmation by NTC

septimius
In other news….5 Freedom FIghters got killed in #Nafusa today and at least 18 wounded..regardless of where younis is #Libya

libyanandproud
#Nafusa : Reports suggest that umalfarr has been liberated ! #Feb17 #Libya

moi a table
#TrueOrFalse – the fact that so many people give the #Younes #RumourDuJour so much credit is worrying.

live2Tripoli
People don’t forget the Jabal. I know this news about Abdalfatah is disturbing, but be mindful and watchful. The truth will come in time.

libyanandproud
Small Map of locations where battles occurred today via (nalut fb) #Feb17 #Libya twitpic.com/5×6yl2

moi a table
#AJE coming up live on Younes arrest…. lets see what this #RumourDuJour brings – but don’t forget awesome #Nafusa victory today! #Libya

live2Tripoli
The news regarding Abdalfatah Yunis still needs to be confirmed. Look out for news from @AJEnglish and @AJArabic

Where is NTC statement?

ღ.¸¸Libeeya¸¸.ღ
Just yday an exG TV presenter was talking about G’s PR. They get ‘eye witnesses’ to call AJA etc & start a rumour, only to falsify it later.

Daily Arabic #Libya news on “ليبيا” goo.gl/aM65o

Isabelle Madesclaire
A precious map #Tripoli, useful for times to come twitpic.com/4whkoh/full carte détaillée de Tripoli, pourra être utile #Libya #Libye
twitpic.com/4whkoh/full

libertad
#libye Né en 1944, le général Younes était ministre de l’Intérieur et commandant des Forces Spéciales jusqu’à sa démission en Février 2011

ღ.¸¸Libeeya¸¸.ღ
We’ll achieve our freedom. Slowly but surely we’re getting there alhamdulilah. Rabi y7mee w yunsor thuwarna alab6aal #Feb17 #prayforLibya

live2Tripoli
You’re going to hear a lot of news about #JabalNafusa these coming hours. I think its best to wait for reports from respected sources.

Anaya
Si l’arrestation du Gén. #Younes est une rumeur de l’ennemi, bravo, elle a presque effacé pendant un moment la grande victoire à AlGhazaya !

live2Tripoli
Anyone know if we can trace that rumour about Abdalfatah Yunis? Strange the way it appeared while #JabalNafusa is heated. #Libya #feb17

Joanne
#Ghazaya was bombard by FF tanks and long-range guns all #Wednesday night in preparation for the attack today #Libya

Libya NFSL
News of Abdelfatah Yunis arrest is false, Gaddafi rumor mill working hard! Please check your news b4 spreading rumors! #Libya #Feb17

Anaya
L’attaque victorieuse menée par l’opposition sur AlGhazaya aujourd’hui a été bien menée, organisation bien élaborée, coordination excellente

Joanne
Ghezaia FF say abt 500 FF R taking part in Batle today and about 700 Regime troops are inside #Ghezaia #

live2Tripoli
FF have entered the entrance to #Badr and battles are on going. #AllahuAkbar These moments are surreal, We’ve been wait for a while for them

BBC
Key figures in Libya’s rebel council

Amid the popular Libyan uprising against Col Muammar Gaddafi, residents of towns and cities in the areas of eastern Libya controlled by rebels have formed an interim administration.
According to its website, the body currently has 31 members representing the various regions and cities of Libya. Some have been named, while those representing Ajdabiya, Kufra, Ghat, Nalut, Misrata, Zintan and Zawiya will remain anonymous. Five seats on the council are held by women and five by young people.
Link:
feb17.info/news/key-figures-in-libyas-r...

BBC Arabic, now live MR.Nakou!

FromJoanne Joanne
BREAKING #NTC Mohammed al-Rijali says : Abdel Fattah #Younes was taken from his operations room near front to #Benghazi for Interrogation

Miss B
Photo : Resistance locked in our minds – from the #Libya(n) refugee school in #Tunisia flic.kr/p/a7PFoQ #Aidtrip #Feb17
www.flickr.com/photos/befroggled/598441...

Reuters
Captured Libyan soldiers say army morale is low

• Soldiers say officers use threats to make them fight
• Report could provide boost to rebels
  By Michael Georgy
  NALUT, Libya, July 28 – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s army is so demoralised that officers have to threaten soldiers and their families with death to force them to fight, government forces captured by rebels told Reuters on Thursday.
  “I don’t want to fight to any more. I don’t want blood,” said one soldier who was wounded after rebels launched an offensive on Thursday on government-controlled towns and villages below Libya’s Western Mountains.
  “But a senior officer looked me straight in the eye and warned me and other men in my unit. He said, ‘either you go to the front and stay there or we will kill you’.”
  His story, told from his hospital bed in the rebel-held mountain town of Nalut, could not be independently verified but several other captured soldiers and pro-Gaddafi militiamen gave similar accounts of the state of the army.
  “The army does not want this. The whole world is against the Libyan army. How can we win?” said another soldier named Hassan. Rebel fighters were in the hospital room while he talked, but did not appear to be monitoring the soldier’s conversation.
  Blood dripped from a stump on Hassan’s forearm. His hand had been blown off in an attack during the offensive to try to capture the locally strategic town of Ghezaia, which has been held by Gaddafi throughout the five-month conflict.
  Read more:
  af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFLD...

DJ Meddi
General Abdel Fatah Younis Has not been arrested by the #NTC in #Benghazi, #Libya… Not a good look for #AJE to follow on rumors

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mojo
NATO Ships delivering Humanitarian Assistance 27 JULY: 1 Aircrafts delivering Humanitarian Assistance 27 JULY: 12 #libya

AJE
Libya opposition arrests senior leader

General Abdel Fatah Younis, the chief of staff of the rebel forces in Libya, has been arrested by the National Transition Council.
He is being held at an undisclosed military garrison in Benghazi. The reason behind the former minister of interior’s arrest on Thursday has not been made public.
Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley reporting from Benghazi quoted unconfirmed reports as saying he was arrested for dealing with and smuggling arms to Gaddafi loyalists.
“He spent 40 years as one of Gaddafi’s right hand men as minister of defence and in charge of the special forces. So when he came over five months ago to the opposition cause it was quite a coup. But some people have had their doubts about… his loyalties…
Some of his men have come back from the front line demanding his release. This is an ugly situation in the making,” our correspondent said.
Video and more:
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...

Could be false accusations by g regime to cause delay, strange timing today………

AlArabiya_Eng: Rebels take Umm al-Far near Tunisia border

Libya rebel representative to France officially instated, he tells AFP #Alarabiya

Sam
Abdel Fatah Younis #Libya rebel commander arrested in Benghazi by rebel intelligence. He was fmr G general and rowed with rival Hifter

SKY
Gaddafi ’Isn’t Running Out Of Oil’, says MOD
Suggestions Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will soon run out of oil are wide of the mark, according to intelligence being handed to Britain’s military chiefs.

Sky News understands daily MoD reports on the oil situation give a markedly different view of just how long the loyalists can keep fighting.
One source told Sky: "Essentially they say ‘Contrary to what you may have read elsewhere, there is no prospect of Gaddafi running out of oil for military purposes any time soon.
“Just because the people can’t fill their tanks doesn’t mean Gaddafi can’t fill his."
An article in The Economist in June cited the fact that drivers in Tripoli faced queues of more than a mile and prices 50 times that in the eastern city of Benghazi as evidence of dwindling stocks – yet loyalist forces have maintained the tempo of their anti-rebel campaign.
A fortnight ago, US intelligence reports claimed that the Gaddafi regime would soon face major cash and oil shortages.
Certainly there is a shortage of hard currency available to the loyalist government, and increasingly they have been forced to issue credit notes instead of cash to pay debts.
And the rebel push into the Nafusa mountains places at risk the flow of crude oil to the loyalist al Zawiyah refinery.
Read more:
news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16...

NPR
Libyan Diplomat Takes On A New, Yet Familiar, Role
Now that the U.S. has recognized the rebel government in Libya, the Transitional National Council, as it is known, wants access to the country’s frozen assets. The rebel representative in Washington, D.C., also wants his office back; until earlier this year, Ali Aujali was the Libyan ambassador, but he hasn’t been able to get back into his office for months.
Aujali gave up many of the perks of diplomatic life when he broke from Moammar Gadhafi’s regime. The embassy was closed and its bank accounts frozen. Aujali lost his diplomatic credentials and couldn’t pay some of his staff or drivers, but those are the least of his worries.
“Yeah, we are OK, I can’t complain,” Aujali says. “People are dying in Libya, and I can’t complain if I don’t have the same, you know, facilities I used to have. I have to wait for a taxi to get picked up, for example, which sometimes is not always available. I have no driver; I used to have one.”
And he hasn’t been able to get into the embassy at the Watergate since April. But Aujali is more optimistic about that, now that the U.S. has recognized the Transitional National Council as the legitimate government of Libya.
Story and audio:
www.npr.org/2011/07/27/138610081/libyan...

NYT
Plan Would Keep Qaddafi in Libya, but Out of Power

WASHINGTON — With Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi showing no signs, so far, of yielding to Western demands, diplomats from the United States, Britain and France have adopted a new tactic in recent days: offering the besieged leader the opportunity to remain in Libya if he dissolves the government and steps aside.
But the offer, conveyed by American diplomats to Libyan government officials during a July 16 meeting in Tunis, came with a huge caveat: rebels based in eastern Libya would have to agree. The rebels have expressed mixed views on that possibility, and they seemed to reject it on Wednesday. Reuters reported that Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, the rebel leader, told reporters in Benghazi, Libya: “This offer is no longer valid.”
More:
www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/world/africa...

Xinhuanet
Italy, France stresses common stance on Libyan situation

ROME, July 27 (Xinhua) — Italian Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa met here on Wednesday with his French counterpart Gerard Longuet to discuss global military cooperation and the developments of the NATO-led operations in Libya, which both countries are actively involved.
La Russa and Longuet said that their countries shared a common stance on the future of Libya and on the need to launch the negotiation phase between the opposition Transitional National Council (TNC) and Gaddafi’s regime.
“We have always supported a unified position that may speed up the diplomatic, political and military process so as to reach as quickly as possible a post-Gaddafi phase. This is why it is crucial that we allies keep a common stance and show unity,” said La Russa at thejoint press conference.
Longuet stressed that it was essential to launch talks between the TNC and Gaddafi’s regime in order to reach a political solution that may pave the way to the birth of a new Libya without Gaddafi.
Referring to the duration of the NATO operations, Longuet argued that it would be “counterproductive to show impatience by setting a limit today”.
“Time and patience are determining factors for the success of the mission in Libya. The stakes are too high and we have all invested a lot in a positive outcome, " he added.
Full story:
news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/20...

Le point
AFP
Libye: nouvelle offensive rebelle dans l’Ouest, près de la frontière tunisienne

Les rebelles libyens, tout en continuant de marquer des points sur le terrain diplomatique, ont déclenché jeudi une offensive sur la ville d’Al-Ghazaya, près de la frontière tunisienne, au sud-ouest de Tripoli.
“Les rebelles ont lancé une offensive mercredi sur Al-Ghazaya”, ont annoncé à un correspondant de l’AFP des sources militaires et hospitalières à Zenten, centre névralgique de la rébellion dans l’ouest de la Libye.
C’est à partir d’Al-Ghazaya, à une dizaine de kilomètres de la frontière tunisienne, que les forces loyales au dirigeant Mouammar Kadhafi ont intensifié ces derniers jours leurs tirs de roquettes Grad sur Nalout, cité aux mains des insurgés à 230 km à l’ouest de Tripoli.
Cette région montagneuse du Nefoussa est le théâtre depuis plusieurs mois de combats entre la rébellion, qui y a déclenché début juillet une offensive majeure, espérant notamment avancer vers la capitale libyenne, et les forces fidèles au colonel Kadhafi.
De son côté, l’Otan maintient une forte pression sur les loyalistes avec toujours des dizaines de raids aériens quotidiens.
Story:
www.lepoint.fr/monde/libye-nouvelle-off...

The Canadian
agoracosmopolitan.com
Libya: Obama and NATO play Americans and the world

US White House has been a sanctuary of terror specialists advising the rulers to use the military to pursue US hidden agendas. Bulks of American politicians are corrupt people having got illegal nexus with oil-arms merchants. Sept-11 has not benefited any Muslim in the world, but on the contrary ruined

not just Muslims but Muslim nations, starting from Islamic Afghanistan.

Right from the Sept-11, the CIA has been actively creating subversive terror networks in Muslim nations, especially in oil rich Mideast in order to advance its goals and ensure energy security by talking about “threat to security”. NATO Fascists and the terrorists propped up in Libya by the same NATO led by USA-UK terror twins to destabilize Libya for shipping its oil resources and steal its foreign bank deposits and gold reserves are allies against Muslims and for illegal resources, jointly attacking Libyan people and properties. NATO air-forces have bombed food go-downs threatening food security of Libya.

The rebel terrorists consider themselves as US patriots and betray Libya. They shamelessly call themselves defenders of so-called democracy. After creating these rebel betrayers, the NATO rogues have also “recognized” them to advance US interests.

It is an irony of civilization that the rebel terrorists in Libya, trained by the CIA-NATO fascist terror gangs, are talking in terms of giving permission to Libyan President Col. Moammar Qaddafi to say on in his country. It is not just a crude joke on part of the Obama regime for instigating the anti-Libyan betrayers to destabilize their nation and help CIA to loot Libyan oil resources and steal Libya’s bank deposits abroad. Obama is eager to take away major chunk of Libyan deposits and gold reserves to cushion an ailing US finances and economy. .
Full art.:
www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/intrnati...

France Soir
Libye : Kadhafi est “prêt au sacrifice”

Mouammar Kadhafi profite de l’enlisement du conflit libyen pour multiplier les menaces sur les rebelles, qui lui ont fixé un ultimatum, pour qu’il quitte le pouvoir. Pendant ce temps-là, à Londres, la Grande Bretagne invite l’organe politique de la rébellion à s’installer à l’ambassade du pays.

Le conflit libyen s’enlise. Alors que la Libye est en proie à un conflit qui dure depuis plusieurs mois et que la communauté internationale poursuit son intervention militaire pour venir en aide aux rebelles, Mouammar Kadhafi poursuit ses vindictes à l’égard de l’Otan.
Le dirigeant libyen a défié, à nouveau, mercredi, l’Alliance atlantique et les rebelles, affirmant qu’il était « prêt au sacrifice pour défaire l’ennemi », dans un message sonore à ses partisans à Zalten (120 km à l’ouest de Tripoli).
« Nous n’avons pas peur. Nous les défions. Nous payerons le prix avec nos vies, nos femmes et nos enfants » s’est exclamé le Guide libyen, dans un message diffusé par la télévision libyenne. Il a, par ailleurs, demandé vivement à ses partisans de « marcher sur Al-Abal Al-Gharbi », une région montagneuse au sud-ouest de Tripoli, sous le contrôle des rebelles.
Link to full art.:
www.francesoir.fr/actualite/internation...

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Despite rumors, #AlJosh is NOT liberated. #Libya #Feb17

sabha17feb ثوار 17 فبراير سبها
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NPR
Reporting In Libya And Dodging Bullets, Bombs

For several months, opposition troops have squared off against Moammar Gadhafi’s forces on the ground in Libya. But for the most part, there’s been only incremental movement along the front lines.
“Some of the areas that are left, we suspect have maybe have a bit more loyalty — or mixed loyalties — to the Gadhafi government than what was predicted by the people who expected this to be a quick war,” says New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers. “So what’s left now in front of these opposition forces often looks difficult. … So what we see as we head into what may be a Ramadan lull is something that potentially looks like [a] stalemate.”
Chivers, who covers the war in Libya for The Times, has spent the past several months traveling with anti-Gadhafi forces on the front lines. He recently wrote that the rebels “present a portrait of a guerrilla force that acts less like a coherent structure than a network of pickup fighting clubs.”
Full art.:
www.npr.org/2011/07/28/138603244/report...

libyanandproud
#Nafusa : #kikla is being shelled with Grads ! #

Free Libyia
Liberation of Ghazaya in Nafusa is a big victory for our Freedom Fighters. But G goons being the sore losers they are, wanted a distraction

libyanandproud
In other News : #Nalut will not be shelled today from #Ghazaya and will have electricity after FF liberated Rways

dovenews Libyan™
#US is considering to open a Libyan embassy lead by #NTC to represent the Libyan people. #Libya #NTC #US

Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Key Libyan western mountain villages liberated today by FF. This eliminates missile attacks by G and allows refuges to return from Tunisia!

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Free Libyia
I personally think the Younis episode and subsequent speculation was set up by G goons so FF gains in Nafusa today were overshadowed :/

CNN
Libyan rebels claim successes in offensive near Tunisia

Rebels in western Libya are claiming big successes after a major offensive was launched early Thursday.
Rebel commanders say their forces have captured five towns and surrounded a sixth in the plains below the Nafusa mountain range.
Hundreds of rebels moved from their mountain positions at dawn, heavier weapons leading the way with lighter armed fighters following, initially encountering fierce resistance from the loyalists of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Col. Jumma Ibrahim, spokesman for the Military Council for the western mountain region, said several major battles had taken place before the towns were secured.
Source:
news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/28/libyan-re...

BBC
New Libyan ambassador to London welcomes UK recognition
Help
The UK has recognised the National Transitional Council as Libya’s “sole governmental authority” after similar moves by France and the US.
Tripoli has condemned the UK for recognising the rebels as Gaddafi-regime diplomats are expelled.
Mahmoud al-Naku, who has been nominated by the rebels as their new ambassador to London, has welcomed the move as an “important step”.
“We feel that British government are doing their best to help the Libyan people,” he said.
Video:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14320581

Abeidi
Libya, Benghazi, loyalty must be to the country not to a figure we all serve our revolution.

Ahmed
Hopefully there will be a statement from #NTC & military council regarding the farce that occurred today in #Benghazi, arrest of Gen #Younis

Reuters
Factbox – International recognition of Libya’s rebel movement

(Reuters) – Portugal on Thursday followed Britain in granting recognition to Libya’s rebel National Transitional Council (NTC).
Portugal said it supported "the Libyan people’s aspirations in the construction of a free and democratic

society" in a Foreign Ministry statement.
Libya’s rebel NTC has declared itself the sole legitimate representative of the Libyan people and has formed an interim government while it conducts military operations aimed at removing Muammar Gaddafi.
At least 30 countries have now recognised the NTC as legitimately representing the Libyan people.
Others have implicitly recognised the Council as a political force, for example, by visiting its leaders in its Benghazi stronghold, or hosting them for talks, but have stopped short of full recognition.
RECOGNITION OF NTC AS REPRESENTING LIBYAN PEOPLE
Albania
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Britain
Bulgaria
Canada
Croatia
Denmark
France
Gambia
Germany
Italy
Japan
Jordan
Kuwait
Latvia
Luxembourg
Maldives
Malta
Montenegro
Netherlands
Panama
Portugal
Qatar
Senegal
Slovenia
Spain
Turkey*
United Arab Emirates
United States
RECOGNITION AS OF NTC LEGITIMATE POLITICAL FORCE
China**
Russia***
Sources: Reuters, official government websites
(Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)
Source & more:
uk.reuters.com/article/2011/07/28/uk-li...

dovenews Libyan™
There is BIG difference between, CONFIRMED & UNCONFIRMED, as for those who dont know the mean just buy yourself an #Oxford Dictionary!

Ahmed
Its quite amazing the effect #Gaddafi Inc still has on people in ‘liberated’ areas..rumors are spread, and a General is arrested on hearsay

UPI.com
Gadhafi could flee Tripoli

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is considering leaving Tripoli for a more secure location away from the fighting, U.S. intelligence says.
Gadhafi “doesn’t feel safe anymore” in Tripoli, the nation’s capital, because of regular airstrikes by NATO aircraft and battlefield gains of rebel troops, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Officials said they don’t believe Gadhafi will flee the country.
“NATO’s efforts to reduce the Libyan regime’s capability to command and control military forces are having an effect,” a senior defense official said in the Journal report. “It is becoming increasingly difficult for him to operate inside Tripoli.”
Link:
www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/06/24/Gadh...

Guardian
Libyan students in UK assured funds for tuition and living secure
William Hague’s announcement that the UK will do “all we can” to maintain crucial funding for Libyans pursuing academic qualifications in the UK prompted relief among the country’s large student community.
The vast majority of Libyans studying in Britain are sponsored by the Libyan government and, until now, have had their tuition fees and living costs covered by money paid through the Libyan People’s Bureau in London.
On Wednesday the foreign secretary (below) said the UK authorities had put off expelling the diplomats loyal to Muammar Gaddafi until it had been established that the students would not see their financial support crumble. “I want to reassure them that we are working closely with Libya’s national transitional council and the relevant banks and will do all we can to make sure that they and their families will continue to receive the funds to which they are entitled,” he said.
The Foreign Office, which has put the total number of UK-based Libyan students and dependants at around 8,000, was adamant that arrangements had been made to ensure that money for students would remain ringfenced.
Read full art. Here:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/27/li...

Gen Younis:
dovenews Libyan™
AlJ English said “UNCONFIRMED” not very professional to broadcast unconfirmed reports. Some broadcasters fall 4 Gaddafis tricks

dovenews Libyan™
There is BIG difference between, CONFIRMED & UNCONFIRMED, as for those who dont know the mean just buy yourself an #Oxford Dictionary!

dovenews Libyan™
#FF have freed #Um #AlFar, #AlGhazya, #Alhamawod & #Takoot. #Nafusa #Libya

3 #FF & 7 Gaddafi forces were killed, some Gaddafi forces have escaped to Tunisia & some others to #Teji where surrounded by #FF. #Nafusa

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Sahil oil field: This strategic oil field was captured ~10 days ago during the attack on Brega – G forces tried & failed to recapture today

BREAKING: FREEDOM FIGHTERS are in full control of the Sahil oil field ~100km south of Brega after G forces tried to attack it #libya #feb17

The National Transitional Council will hold a press conference later today, in the next couple of hours re: Abdelfatah Younis & Brega #libya

somaya
Damn, people just like to grab on to rumors and not put some logical sense into it. I mean, God gave you a brain for a reason..

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
G forces are said to be surrounding Mizdah residents and some clashes took place but nothing since then

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA To clarify al jawsh situation. Opp fighters entered it, and thought they had control. At the time, they said they were “clearing”

#LIBYA suddenly there was sustained shooting. Some say Gaddafi snipers using human shields, some say armed pro-Gaddafi civilians.

LIBYA all opposition fighters left Al Jawsh and are based nearby.

#LIBYA for the record, I did not enter Al Jawsh, but was on outskirts for much of day.

fighters withdrawing from Al Jawsh yfrog.com/kkthdbxj ##LIBYA ##AJE

dovenews Libyan™
by librev2011
BREAKING! #FF have arrested the people who assassinated Younis & investigation had started. via Libya.tv

FreeBenghazi
Heard #Younis arrested from some1 who works on AJ floor,Benghazi.Then JamesBay’s twt(but he’s in Nafusa),then AlManara&LibyaAlyoum
But it doesn’t matter cos Younis is one man. &this revolution is a tsunami that will wash away all who try2 stand against it.
then a series of contradictory reports. It doesn’t matter whether or not the rumours/reports are true cos Younis is one man.
Bcos this revolution’s a tsunami that will wash away all who try2 stand against it. the #Libya’n thuwar proved exactly that today.

NALUT:
There were 5 martyrs today
Martyrs from Nalut:
Hossam Mohammed Al-Raqkobe, Mohammed Ahmed Yahia Al-Mekadami, AbdullahMoussa Rani الله يرحمهم
3 were from Nalut, one each from Al-Hawwamd & Al-Rajaban
Martyred today:
Munther Mohammed Daou,from AlHawwamd.

Holding Gaddafi accountable & optimistic about future Nafusa
Vid.:
www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2036...

Aiman
41 years of hard work, fuelling tensions between the Arab & Amazigh communities in Nafusa were eradicated in one sweep today. #GiveUpGaddafi

hominoid
Libya Zliten In the past two days more than 65 G troops have been killed in clashes on the outskirts of the town.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Gen Younis had been watched for some time prior for working w/ #Gaddafi leaders/ blocking advance in #Brega #Libya

Confirmed: Gen Younis arrested this morning in #Benghazi per order #NTC #MustafaAbdulJaleel. Reported now under house arrest.

EVIDENCE NATO PRECISION STRIKES.
Tweeting Tripoli
Exclusive: Evidence of NATO’s precision strikes on Military targets to avoid collateral damage
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.17225...

Joint Mine Action Coordination Team – Libya (JMACT)

To present a coordinated mine action response to the explosive remnants of war threat in Libya, the United Nations and international NGOs have partnered to form the Joint Mine Action Coordination Team. The JMACT works with mine action actors on the ground, providing coordination, prioritizing clearance tasks, mobilizing resources and liaising with the appropriate authorities and the international community active in Libya.

Fighting in Libya since 15 February 2011 has led to significant explosive remnants of war contamination that threatens to increase the number of deaths and injuries of civilians and aid workers as well as jeopardize the delivery of life-saving humanitarian aid. The ongoing conflict is creating a deadly topography in homes, communities and workplaces with a lethal collection of unexploded ordnance, abandoned ammunition and newly laid landmines.
Link:
www.mineaction.org/overview.asp?o=3994&...

Libya In Me
Life at the courthouse, Benghazi #Libya
yfrog.com/gy371psj
yfrog.com/h8qqvfqj

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Reports from #Tripoli: Long-range missiles ready for launch are believed to be directed towards @Brega.

moi a table
Worrying reports coming out of #Zawiyah – Large number of people kidnapped (000’s) in last 3 days – Hospitals full with casualties #Libya

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Nafusa: 12 FF injuries in Jawsh battles today – reports that the city is still surrounded but not under FF control yet

REUTERS
Libyan rebel military chief recalled from front-sources

(Reuters) – Libyan rebel officials have recalled Abdel Fattah Younes, who is leading the rebels’ military campaign against Muammar Gaddafi, from the front line, rebel sources said on Thursday.
It was not immediately clear why Younes, Gaddafi’s former security minister who defected to the rebel side in February, was being questioned. But rumours circulated that he was suspected of having had secret talks with Gaddafi’s government.
A rebel source said Younes was recalled from Brega early on Thursday, but could not say why.
A senior member of the rebel National Transitional Council confirmed Younes was in Benghazi but said he had returned from the front line unhappy with the situation on the ground, and officials were trying to persuade him to return.
Younes’ home in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi was strongly guarded by soldiers who had blocked the street and were not letting anyone in, a Reuters witness said. (Reporting by Rania El Gamal in Benghazi; editing by David Lewis)
Source:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/28/liby...

AlArabiya_Eng:
#Libya Opposition representative to #France officially instated, he tells AFP #Alarabiya”

Soliman
90% confirmed Abdulftah Youns was killed today morning #libya #17feb

Free Libyia
It looks like I’m going to have to downsize on the number of people I’m following……if I wanted to hear that kind of stuff I’ll watch BBC

Libyan
ABDEL FATAH YOUNIS confirms he has NOT been arrested via phone interview with Libyan press. #Libya #Feb17

live2Tripoli
The control of Jawsh is similar to that of Tikuit. Where FF entered and retreated. It’s clear those victory is near. #Libya #feb17

BBCWorld BBC Global News
#Libya rebel military chief Abdel Fattah Younes recalled from front line on suspicion his family have ties to #Gaddafi regime, rebels say

septimius severus
TNC sells second cargo of crude, tanker headed toward Sardinia. Oil from storage tanks, not fresh production

shaimaa
the very last pic I took in #Benghazi .. me n the big boyz! #Libya #TwitPict twitpic.com/5x9lc0

Revolutionaries capture Ghezaia
Libyan revolutionaries said today they had captured the town of Ghezaia in the western Nafusa mountains from Muammar Gaddafi’s forces, hours after launching a military offensive.
Reuters could not confirm the report as revolutionaries said the area around Ghezaia could be mined. But looking through binoculars from a ridge near Nalut, reporters could see no sign of Gaddafi’s forces in the town.
“Gaddafi’s forces left the areas when the attack started,” said revolutionary fighter Ali Shalback. “They fled towards the Tunisian border and other areas. We don’t know where they are but there are pockets of Gaddafi’s forces in the area.
Another fighter, 20-year-old Mahmoud Salem, said he had been into Ghezaia earlier and Gaddafi’s soldiers had gone. “They fled in about 40 white vehicles when we started to attack with tanks and AK-47s. They ransacked some houses and left behind some missiles, AK-47s and ammunition.”
Short URL: english.libya.tv/?p=8460
english.libya.tv/2011/07/28/revolutiona...

Aljazeera : Libyan TNC denied Gen. Younis capture.

Abeidi
Libya, Benghazi, UNCONFIRMED news General Younis has killed by some unknown people. Ya Allah protect Benghazi and Libya

Abdul
Very strange rumors flying around today, ff’s must be on a roll!

G wants to distract and create chaos.

BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
Unfortunately old guard ppl like Mohammed Fannoush are asking new #Libya journalists not to critique them bc "it helps #gaddafi "

IMPORTANT:
moi a table
PLS RT & warn #Zawiyah residents to delete any #Feb17 info from phones (flags, text messages etc.) VVV Important #Libya

dovenews Libyan™
BREAKING! Abdul Fatah Younis, Naser Almadkoor & Mahammed Kameais were assassinated. via Libya.tv

LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING: LIBYA TV: Abdel Fatah Younis has been KILLED :(

Hominoid:
Benghazi / Libya Revolution site / private

Major General Abdul Fateh Younes, Head of the General Staff of the Army of the liberation of Libya. Accuses Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, of false news and rumors which claimed his arrest earlier in the day.

Yunus said in a telephone conversation with the site (Revolution of Libya) from his place on the Eastern Front that Gaddafi is trying to mislead public opinion of Libya and the international community by raising false news and stressing that he is still in his position in the service of the Libyan people and the revolution to overthrow Gaddafi.

Younis added They are trying to falsify the truth and shuffling papers, but the Libyan people will not be fooled by such nonsense, which aimed to interfere with our work in the leadership of the rebels and the army.

Several sites, and on-line newspapers had picked up the story it was said at dawn today at four in the morning that the arrest of Major General Abdul-Fattah Younis commander of rebel forces in the area of Brega.

BREAKING: LIBYA ALAHRAR: ABDEL FATAH YOUNIS HAS BEEN ASSASINATED!

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Great military operation today by Nafusa FFs with excellent gains. FFs well organised & prepared. More to come soon inshallah #feb17 #Libya

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
I suggest everyone stops talking about Abdulfatah Younis and wait for the NTC press conference. #libya #rumors

Reactions to Gen Younis:

I’m watching Libya alahrar now and there’s nothing?

SOMETHING VERY FISHY IS GOING ON ABOUT ABDEL FATAH YOUNIS

No such news on Libya Alahrar and I’m watching it RIGHT NOW what the xxxx?

What so he died and all they gave him was 2 seconds on the breaking ticker?..

What on earth is going on in #Libya?

It was on for a minute and then went

How can you have something this important & not even mention it on program?

this whole thing stinks……

TNC give answers!!!!!

on ticker,Yeah I’m seeing it now.

Libya TV definitely has to have been hacked. You can’t have that as urgent news on a live broadcast and not talk about it. #mental

Smells like a whole shoal of fish if you ask me

WATCH LIBYA ALAHRAR NOW!

Yes ان لله وان اليه راجعون لا حول ولا قوة الا بالله They sound very upset!! :( But i think there is something fishy going on

I’m watching and they don’t even bother to mention it on the program… right…

Absolutely NOTHING and the presenters aren’t even mentioning it

We just waiting for the press conference from #Bengahzi & about the Breaking news, it was broadcasted on Libya.tv

It showing the breaking news on Libya.tv now

No further comments on the breaking news, just waiting for the press conference from #Benghazi.

actually i just heard this now, that AFyounes is killed in unknown circumstances, and the source now is a member in the TNC #Libya Al Ahrar TV breaking news ticker announcing assassination of General Abdul Fattah #Younes was up for a short time b4 being removed

Libya Al-Ahrar reporting the assassination of General Abdul Fattah Younes and two aides #Libya #feb17

But what I don’t understand is why the presenters are not saying anything???? weird

From day 1 – There have been so many false rumours about Gen #Younes – No point in believing anything – until #NTC statement #Libya

Abdul Jaleel to make a statement shortly via @Aljazeera

I just saw it…….it was a brief 2 second caption, Younis has been assassinated. Ina ila Allah wa ena elihi rajee3oon

I am now going to watch Libya.tv online for my self – there is something extremely fishy going on in #Libya. May Allah expose the liars

What is clear that Gen. Younes’ status is unclear, detained or killed, the man is no longer head of the Libyan liberation army #libya #feb17

This is startting to get RIDICULOUS #Libya

I HATE that channel, they put it on as breaking news then continued the show normally?!

Something tells me all of this is the work of #Gaddafi, starting rumours, then assassinating him – all to create internal tension in #NTC

#BREAKING – #NTC to hold press conf. on Abdel Fatah Younis amid several rapidly changing reports about his status. #feb17 #benghazi #libya

acarvin Andy Carvin
Talked to contact in Benghazi. Story about Younis being dead is a rumor going around, NOT confirmed yet. Waiting for NTC presser.

What the hell is going on?

Lots of rumours flying around about Younis having been killed. Friend in #Benghazi says some heading2 Younis’ house2 burn it down #Libya

do you think maybe libya alahrar does not have confirmed information thats why its not talking. i mean libya alahrar is not that trustworthy

#Libya Al Ahrar breaking news banner: Abdel Fatah Younis and 2 aides assasinated

OMG, the caller just asked about the news that Younis on the channel, presenter said all will become clear in the news in a few minutes?

Curiouser and Curiouser. #Libya #AbdulFatahYounis

To think I thought today was going to be a slow news day apart from the Tunisia border offensive

Maybe we should take out some old footage of Younes, play it on Libya AlAhrar and give Gaddafi a taste of his own medicine?

Whether he was killed or not, fight will goes on until we cut the head of the snake

I HATE @Libyatvarabic.. it’s so unprofessional!!!

Some details emerging on the story of Gen Abdel Fattah Yunis. Assassins caught in #Benghazi. Unclear how much of the story is fact/fiction.

What a shock !!! why why why Gen.younis, whyyyy??

OMG General Younis and #NTC are giving me such a head ache Why cant NTC do a PRESSER ???? #Libya @NTC_of_Libya Younis been assasinated ?

I smell conspiracy”

#PrayForLibya #PrayForLibya #PrayForLibya #PrayForLibya #PrayForLibya #PrayForLibya #PrayForLibya #PrayForLibya #PrayForLibya

Are you hearing this from Al Hurra too?
BREAKING: Criminals who assassinated Abdel Fatah Younis have been arrested

that was also via Libya AlAhrar (Libya TV)

It was the bloody FF that arrested him in the first place…in a morning raid…Gaddafi style..Gaddafi is loving this..

This story is so strange.

Ali Hashem said: What is clear that Younes’ status is unclear, detained or killed, bt he is no longer head of the Libyan liberation army!!!

Another interesting thing is that @AJALive ToniBirtley reported that #NTC Jaleel himself had ordered #Younis to be detained

I don’t know guys, I don’t know what’s going on there…I don’t know what to think.

HodaAbdelHamid Hoda Abdel-Hamid
VERY confused situation in #Benghazi. Rumours and denials and rumours again…

People need to relax and think logically about this. Whatever the real news is and prepare for all outcomes.

things are not clear anymore

presenters r in Qatar. They know less than we do. Aja had news about Younis interrogated by 4 judges.

I can confirm it is 100% he was killed today afternoon

Confusion all around, even typing gets difficult now:
I think its best not to comment on suspected deaths of anyone until confirmed by those in NYC. Rumors hurt more than help

NYC? you mean NTC?

(Unconfirmed) Libya Alahrar: #FF caught the people who killed younis and two others today.

#NTC NEED TO SORT THIS #YOUNES MEDIA MESS ASAP – IF HIS ARREST HAS BEEN ACTUATED BY RIVALRY – THIS WILL F*** A GREAT DAY 4 #FF! #Libya

EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY IS MOURNING HIS DEATH, BUT I THINK THERE IS SOMETHING FISHY GOING ON!!

BREAKING! #FF have arrested the people who assassinated Younis & investigation had started. via Libya.tv

Chaos chaos and more chaos today on twitter over Younis, yet not one official word

Press conference starting up on aljazeera mubashr. Watch if you have it. #libya #feb17

Arrested, died, alive, coming out for press conference….lord am confused!

Yunis is neither better nor more human than the Freedom Fighters that gave their lives for our FREEDOM ! RIP ALL OUR FALLEN !

This feels like the 6th sequel to khamis’ death still waiting on real news

Aljazeera Mubasher live from Benghazi NOW – People are preparing for NTC press conference #libya

OK and now we wait for the news… #libya #feb17

jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Lots of rumors about Abdul Fatah Younis. Every source says sth; can’t confrim anything. #NTC speaks soon about it. #libya

BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
press conference now about #younis will tweet it momentarily #libya

Press Conference LIVE t.co/TtqY07S #AbdelFattahYounis #Libya

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
In regards #Younis, one thing is clear, #Gaddafi misinformation is at work. While we watch the Younis news what is Gaddafi doing? #Libya

dovenews Libyan™
#FF have arrested 10 Gaddafi forces & their commander. #Nafusa

..Gen Younis was arrested this morning by some ‘FF’, if he was killed, then he died in their custody..revenge will be on the cards…

Younis arrest is #Gadafi response to #US #Britain recognition of NTC #Feb 17 #Libya

Ahmed
FF from Brega will pull back…that front will stall..Alebdatt tribe which is the tribe of Gen #Younis, is the biggest tribe in the east…

Upset :( just had a farewell message from my #Libya(n) family in Tunisia. They called &told me they’re going back to Zintan tonight

live2Tripoli
On a different note, #Tripoli is in high spirit. Very high moral. Amazing. #Libya #feb17

wheelertweets James Wheeler
Injured #Libyan FF Saddag Al-Haddad from #Misrata: 5 mins ago: 1st time out of hospital in 100 days. Insisted on a pic:) twitpic.com/5xa3tb

FreeLibya. BREAKING: major battle in beer leghnum between #Zawiya FF and #Gadaffi brigades to secure the area. Results to be confirmed. #Libya #Feb17

Tripolitanian Libyan
Apparently Press Conf still on, prob last minute discussions going on with NTC – keeping my eye on AJM

FreeLibyan
After 2day progress in #Nafousa,I think now any talk about #stalemate s senseless & only exists in the mind of whoever says it #PrayForLibya

Dicey Lee ✔
#Libya – “The mines were laid in Brega, are planted according to a certain grid you can clear them easily if u knew their pattern.” #Feb17

AJA: group of rebels is surronded by #Gaddafi forces south of #Brega; other fighters are preparing attempt to break through to them #Libya

Reuters dice que Abdul Fatah Yunes sólo ha sido retirado del frente no asesinado n cualquier caso hay divisiones en #Bengasi #Libia

A doctor describes the scene at Ajdabiya hospital; “It was a disaster. There were many cases of amputations.” #Feb17

Gaddafi Libya tv, also reporting that abdel fateh younis has been assisinated

BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
conference still hasnt begun..

Iman
Woaaah this thing is getting more darker as more details emerge #younis inna lellah w enna elayhy raje3on #libya #feb17

hominoid
Libya Clashes at Bir Al Ghadam FFs trying to push towards Zawiya.

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
BREAKING: Fighters in Brega had a breakthrough today – clashes getting much closer to the main industrial area and the airport/port

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
Waiting on the NTC press conference which is due to begin shortly, to find out exactly what went on today #Libya #Benghazi

Hajer
patience is a virtue

BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
I have a #Libyana cellphone number now! w00t #libya mobile black market…

BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
Planning to shoot a story about the #Benghazi #carclub tonight with @Serajelalem #libya

dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi TV cut broadcasting on a supposedly a pro Gaddafi rally when fight broke out with Anti Gaddafi protesters. #AbuSaleam #Tripoli

BSyria
God be with our Libyan brothers and sisters

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Gaddafi OIL TANKER “ALHANI” 49.6538˚/-3.851867˚ en route from #NorthSea to #Lagos #Nigeria. #Libya #Feb17

#Panama CARGO SHIP “MSC BROOKE” has departed #Misrata #Libya. #Feb17

#StVincentGrenadines CARGO SHIP “KOUROSH PIONEER” en route to dest. #Tripoli #Libya from #Odessa #Ukraine #Feb17 @NATO

#StVincentGrenadines CARGO SHIP “KOUROSH PIONEER” 35.57932˚ / 21.21003˚ #Libya #Feb17 @NATO

#Liberia OIL TANKER “KOUROS” now arriving at port #Benghazi #Libya. #Feb17

#Egypt CARGO SHIP “RAS MOHAMED” listed dest. #Zarzis #Tunisia, now nearing actual dest. of #Benghazi #Libya. #Feb17

#Moldova FERRY “M V FEHIM BEY” has departed #Benghazi #Libya for dest. #Malta. #Feb17

Russell
The Libyan National Transitional Council (CNT) Thursay has sent ambassadors to France and Britain, both countries leading the operation against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. The rebellion is thus seen to increase its political legitimacy. In Paris, Mansour Saif Al-Nasr, 63, announced his appointment by the CNT to the French government. In London, NACU Mahmud, 74, was also appointed to represent the rebellion in Europe the rebels have inflicted another blow to the Gaddafi regime by seizing two towns near the Tunisian border.

Aziz
Press conference now on AJA

dovenews Libyan™
NTC Conference is starting now

Free libya
#NTC press conference now on #LibyaAlAhrar TV… AbdulJalil about to start talking Tune in #Libya

Libya In Me
Mustafa Abdul Jalil doesn’t look too happy :-/

Ahmed Misrata
Quick grab your seats!

acarvin Andy Carvin
A very grim looking Abdul Jalil takes the stage at #TNC press conference. #libya

Libyan Duda
#MustafaAbdulJaleel doesn’t look good, Rabi yester

alihashem_AJA Ali Hashem
Mustafa Abduljaleel head of NTC is to start a press conference in Tibitsi hotel in Benghazi to address the nation on Gen. Younes controversy

S. Al.
#Libya #Feb17 #TNC PressConf: abdul Jaleel looks pissed and quite shaken

acarvin Andy Carvin
Audience erupts with dismay when Jalil announced the death of Maj Gen Younis, commander of opposition forces. #libya

NTC Abdul Jalil: We confirm that General Abdulfatah Younis has passed away today. His friends Mohammed Khamis & Naser too.

jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
“Abdul Fatah younis dead” #Libya TNC

dovenews Libyan™
BREAKING! Abdul Fatah Younis, Naser Almadkoor & Mahammed Kameais were assassinated. via NTC Conference

NTC statement : While our #FF R achieving victories military and politically Gaddafi has promised to threatening our leaders including
Abdul Fatha Yunis when broadcasted on his TV that ppl will hear good news.

STRANGE:
BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
just heard strange story from #libya friend who’s father was w/ #younis on frontlines 4am 50 cars arrived and #younis disappeared w them
Strange #TNC #Jalil states #younis is dead but no body, colleague tells me #younis disappeared from #frontline at 4am this morning
BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
so here is the full version: at 4am few dozen cars arrived at the front where #younis was staying, to arrest him and take him to #benghazi
later some of #younis men went to speak with the #NTC #jalil etc about what happened, #NTC claims they did not send anyone to arrest #younis
now #jalil states #younis is dead, though he has no body so no way to confirm, many questions

remain for #NTC but will they answer #libya
Still trying to confirm the accuracy of the #fullyounis account but source was at front and his father was stationed with #younis at time
also #fullyounis account connects ALL #benghazi rumors in one reasonable claim about #younis situation #libya

Ali
Libya revolution website (Thawrat Libya) announces the death of Abdulfatah Younes in “suspicious circumstances”. #libya #feb17
Gen. Younes’ obit link:
aja says that Abdulfatah Younes is under custody and he was interrogated by a committee of four.
Abdulfatah Younes is killed along with other officers says Mustafa Abduljaleel.
Abdulfatah Younes was summoned before his death to face a committee but he never appeared in front of it.

jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
#BREAKING, Head of #TNC Abdul Jalil: “#Gaddafi regime continues to threaten our revolution and its symbols.” #Libya

CIL
NTC Abdul Jalil: We confirm that General Abdulfatah Younis has passed away today. His friends Mohammed Khamis & Naser too.
NTC Abdul Jalil: Gaddafi’s state TV channels mentioned our general Abdulfatah Younis by name over the last week #libya
NTC Abdul Jalil: They said that “listeners will hear good news about AFY” and today he was shot by a group of gunmen #libya
NTC Abdul Jalil: This happened after the General was called by the NTC to a meeting to discuss the situation in Brega #libya
NTC Abdul Jalil: General abdulfatah younis did not make the meeting and the gunman is under custody right now #libya
NTC Abdul Jalil: We declare: 1) A period of 3 days to honor Mr Abdelfatah younis 2) That everyone behind the assassination will be caught
NTC Abdul Jalil: 3) That this is the last warning for all armed groups still operating in Benghazi trying to cause problems for revolution
NTC Abdul Jalil: Anyone that fires a single shot from his weapons in free areas will be arrested and reprimanded. #libya

NTC Abdul Jalil: I hereby give my heartfelt condolences to Mr Younis’ family and the Obeidat (his extended family) #libya #feb17
Mustafa Abdul Jalil looks extremely upset – he said that this will not change anything for the revolution or AFY family’s stance #libya RIP

Who needs more proof than this? Gaddafi’s channels mentioned Abdulfatah by name and he was shot today.. Nice one #Nilesat.. close them!

عاجل: استشهاد عبدالفتاح يونس القائد العسكري للثوار #Libya The martyrdom of Abdulfatah Younis one of the ground leaders of the FF

NTC’s Jalil: Refrain from engaging in rumors being spread by #Gaddafi regime. #Libya

Evan
Jalil, rebel chairman, leaves press conference without taking questions. #Libya

somaya
Mixed emotions and feeling in Benghazi right now… #RIP #Libya

acarvin Andy Carvin
How did they lose them? RT @jenanmoussa: Head of #TNC Abdul Jalil: " We will put all efforts to find the bodies of deceased." #Libya

libyanfsl
Condolences to all #FF in #Libya on the passing away of Gen. Abdelfatah & his two companions, #feb17goeson

Libya In Me
What doesn’t make sense is that the bodies haven’t been found and they’re only relying on the reports of those arrested.

John
#Nilesat is now criminally complicit in murder unless it rectifies its ways IMMEDIATELY.

Evan
Tarik Yousef of Georgetown/Dubai School of Govt, tells AJE he discounts completely the idea that Gaddafi loyalists could kill Younis. #Libya

dovenews Libyan™
#FF have captured one of the attackers & still looking for the rest.

Noor
2 bombs heard in Tripoli – AJE

JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
3 loud explosions in #Tripoli and NATO jets still circling over head. #Libya

dovenews Libyan™
BREAKING! Sound of gun shots outside of the hotel where conference was held.

JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
4th explosion rocks #Tripoli #Libya

Seraj
strange, Younis called for investigation, then he’s assassinated, I think NTC found out & either offed him or took somewhere “private”

BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
my gut tells me my colleagues story connects the various rumors in benghazi today into one cohesive narrative

alihashem_AJA Ali Hashem
Abdulfatah Younes is killed along with other officers says Mustafa Abduljaleel. #libya #feb17

Abdulfatah Younes was summoned before his death to face a committee but he never appeared infron of it. #libya #feb17

Loyalists to late gen younes told me that abduljaleel’s version of the death isn’t accurate

Loyalists told me gen younes was executed by a group of rebels while facing the committee

Libya In Me
Sounds of cars honking in celebration of the martyrdom of Younis

#Nafusa: Freedom Fighters push forward, attempt to remove remaining #Gaddafi forces in advance towards #tripoli english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/20… #libya

ALJAZEERA
General Abdel Fatah Younes, the chief of staff of the rebel forces, has been killed in an “ambush”, says NTC head.
The head of the Libyan rebels’ military campaign against Muammar Gaddafi has been shot dead by assailants, the top rebel leader has said.
Libyan rebel leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said on on Thursday that Abdel Fattah Younes was killed by assailants after he had been summoned before a judicial committee that was looking into the military operations.
The head of the armed cell that killed Younes has been arrested, Jalil said, without giving any further details.
There were reports of gunfire outside the hotel in Benghazi following the press conference.
Sources claimed Younis may have been in contact with the other side all along and his arrest was ordered by the National Transition Council in Benghazi earlier on Thursday.
Soldiers in armored vehicles detained him outside the town of Brega where rebel troops are involved in heavy fighting against Gaddafi soldiers.
Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley, reporting from Benghazi earlier, quoted unconfirmed reports as saying Libya’s former minister of interior was arrested for dealing with and smuggling arms to Gaddafi loyalists. Younis defected to the rebel side in February.
“He spent 40 years as one of Gaddafi’s right hand men as minister of defence and in charge of the special forces. So when he came over five months ago to the opposition cause it was quite a coup. But

some people have had their doubts about… his loyalties…
Some of his men have come back from the front line demanding his release. This is an ugly situation in the making," our correspondent said.
Meanwhile, Libyan opposition fighters in the western mountains have launched attacks on several government-controlled towns, hoping to push out loyalist troops and open a route to the border.
The attacks began around dawn as rebels descended from around the towns of Nalut and Jadu in an attempt to expel forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi from the Nafusa mountain foothills.
By midday local time, rebels had taken and lost the town of al-Jawsh and reached the outskirts of Ghazaya, a significant base for Gaddafi’s troops near the Tunisian border.
Four rebels were killed and 10 injured, while 18 loyalist troops were captured, according to opposition sources.
Al Jazeera’s James Bays, who approached al-Jawsh with the rebel advance, said fighters initially took the town and moved on but were caught by a surprise counterattack.
Despite hitting al-Jawsh with artillery fire and attempting to clear out Gaddafi’s troops, some regime forces apparently remained in town, while others fired Grad rockets after the rebels entered.
Farther west, Ghazaya had been bombard by rebel tanks and “long-range guns” throughout Wednesday night in preparation for the attack, an opposition source said.
The fight for Ghazaya continued into Thursday afternoon, and rebels claimed to have seized the nearby town of Takut. A rebel spokesman in Jadu claimed rebels had taken Ghazaya, but that claim was not confirmed by other sources.
Hundreds of trucks carrying hundreds of fighters were involved in the operation at al-Jawsh, Bays said.
It appeared to be the largest attack by opposition fighters in the Nafusa Mountains since the conflict began.
Full art.:
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...

BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
@
@acarvin i wouldn’t want to speculate within the narrative, wouldn’t be good journalism, right? but seems adds up to NTC detention/killing

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
TNC confirms Abdel Fattah Younes, rebel military commander, assassinated w/2 colonels in Benghazi. Meanwhile 3 airstrikes in #tripoli

Ahmed
The prophet died and Islam wasn’t over , so guys chill out and We got many Thuwar , and Allah is with us , Allah yar7em Abdelfatah Younis!!

dhdfisher Daniel Fisher BBC
Libyans in Tripoli all believe General Abd-al-Fattah Yunus was killed by Al-Qaeda

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Freedom Fighters never die

DJ Meddi
Could Khalifa Hefter be behind the Death of Abdel Fattah Younis?
The news always depicted him as his rival so it just made me wonder #Hefter

THINK:
Anyone notice that Jalil said “Wafa2” (Death) instead of “Isstishhad” (Martyrdom) regarding Abdel Fatah Younis

iyad_
Suffice it to say, the NTC/Abduljalil’s prudence is exemplary. #Libya

Anyone who has any reports about #Yunus’s death, think about what you are sharing. Personally, I will tweet about it no more

A Free Libyan
G believes he can deal a physical blow to FFs, but he will never destroy their determination to achieve their goal of freedom. #Libya

Just Ahmed
Remember how much we have achieved so far! Libya isn’t free. ut we are! we have liberated our minds from being slaves of #gaddafi.

Joanne
Which Libyans U mean yr Rixos Caretakers ? @dhdfisher Libyans in Tripoli all believe General AbdelFattahYunes was killed by Al-Qaeda #Libya

dhdfisher Daniel Fisher BBC
correction: of course not all libyans just the ones we meet here .

Iyad
who is Ahmad Bouminyar?
I just got a report that he was killed in Zintan fighting earlier today. Any confirmation?
I should have checked my email earlier. Got a report 3 hours ago with two confirmations…
First report said that Ahmad Bouminyar, Gaddafi’s cousin & son in law, was killed in Zintan fighting earlier today.
Second report said that Abdulfattah Yunus was “arrested”.
almukhtar-17-2.blogspot.com/2011/07/blo...
Got a third report now
From Tripoli. Says that two nights ago, an operation by Tripoli FFs managed to kill an unnamed “senior Gaddafi official”.
The more information I receive about this, the more fishy it seems. Prudence is golden in such situations
Suffice it to say, the NTC/Abduljalil’s prudence is exemplary.
Long live #Libya and down with #Gaddafi and may the eyes of the tyrants and their willing slaves never find rest. #ArabSpring

libyanandproud
Freedom Fighters were victorious in their biggest offensive in #Nafusa today ! #Feb17 #Libya

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Libya Alhurra broadcasting live from the courthouse – atmosphere is calm and people are speaking on stage

DerekHenryFlood Derek Henry Flood
Nalut offensive was BIG. Went in with a column of T60s at 6:30am. Entered Takut after it was partially cleared. Back in Djerba relaxing!

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
After today’s victories in Nafusa and Misrata; Mahmoud Al-Werfaly on Libya Alahrar is asking everyone to march on Brega & liberate it #libya

Tomorrow (Friday) is going to be a big day – I promise you that much. #Brega #Tripoli #Misrata #Zintan #Nalut #Yefren #Mizdah #Sabha #Libya

They seized vehicles and advanced slightly more into Tuesday market on the way to Zliten – inshallah getting there soon!

Smiffy’s Wife
Lots of Gadaffi trolls on twitter this evening. Feeling courageous perhaps ?

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
They are being paid because they work for the security services. Ordinary Libyans in Gaddafi areas do not have internet.

BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
latest #younis news there was a shooting at #tibesti hotel according to security for british journalists here in #benghazi

a car was shot up outside #Tibesti hotel, however @alivein #libya reporter Nsser says all is quiet now

young canadian freelancer here told me he witnessed a man pull out a gun inside #tibesti however no shooting inside hotel #

Our reporter @serajelalem just went to the courthouse to judge the mood and will be updating me by phone stay tuned #benghazi

apparently a “major general” of a “rival tribe” within the #TNC began an argument at #tibesti and this resulted in the shooting #libya

hoping to get some comment from the citizens and not just the people on stage ;)

source at #tibesti confirms shooting and fistfights inside and outside hotel, #younis brothers want to speak w #jalil but not allowed #libya

JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
One govt employee in #Tripoli reacted to #younis assassination saying wow w/big smile.another said “cautiously happy”#libya

jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
#Libya(ns) are wise. They have paid a big price to reach here. I am sure they will overcome this inshallah

Alex
In war soldiers die – & generals die – today we lost a brave and wise General – we also lost 6 brave and noble #Nafusa soldiers. #Libya

English Libya TV
Revolutionary military chief shot dead

The head of the Libyan revolutionary’s military campaign against Muammar Gaddafi was shot dead by assailants yesterday, said the National Transitional Council (NTC) Chairman
Abdel Fattah Younes was part of the group involved in the 1969 coup that brought Gaddafi to power, and was interior minister before he defected and took a senior position in the revolution in February.
“We received news today that … Younes and two of his bodyguards were shot at after he was called in to appear before a judical committee investigating military issues,” NTC leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil told reporters in the revolutionary stronghold of Benghazi.
Some involved in the revolution were never comfortable with an army leader who had until recently been so close to Gaddafi, and Younes had been involved in a dispute over the leadership of the revolutionary forces.

Jalil said Younes was shot before appearing in front of the judicial committee and the head of the armed cell that killed him had been arrested.
It was not clear where Younes and his bodyguards had been killed or how Jalil had learned of their deaths, but Jalil said all efforts were being made to find their bodies.
Shortly afterwards, gunmen burst into the grounds of the hotel where Jalil was speaking and fired bursts of shots in the air, a Reuters reporter said.
Short URL: english.libya.tv/?p=8466

Telegraph
Arab Spring future in the balance, William Hague warns
The future of the Arab Spring remains in the balance, according to William Hague, who has warned “We are going to be working at this for the rest of our lives”.
Mr Hague, the foreign secretary, who on Wednesday expelled the remaining staff of the Libyan embassy as Britain granted political recognition to the country’s opposition, said that the democratic gains made during the six-month series of revolutions risk being for naught thanks to sectarian violence and struggling economies.
“We mustn’t expect each country to be neatly done in six months. It’s not a computer game that comes to an end when you get bored,” he said in an interview with The Times.
He said the future of Egypt would decide the extent to which democracy would flow across the region, calling it “the single most important piece of the jigsaw in the whole Arab Spring”.
Mr Hague spoke amid increasingly frantic diplomatic moves five months into a bombing campaign against the Libyan dictatorship. The foreign secretary said Britain could free up frozen funds for the Libyan opposition.
Link:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...

Arabiya: demonstrations in #Benghazi calling for Revenge of Abd alfatah Younis’ killing.

THIS IS A
MUST READ:
Telegraph
Don’t just recognise the Libyan ‘rebels’ – arm them
By Malcolm Rifkind

Libya’s insurgents have been “rebels” for too long. It was never an appropriate term: rebellion implies an uprising against a legitimate government, and Gaddafi never had much legitimacy. He used the army to grab power 40 years ago, and has imposed a cruel terror on the Libyan people ever since.
Now, the dictator has been stripped of even the veneer of legitimacy. Britain has joined other Western and Arab governments in booting out his diplomats, and recognising the insurgents as the interim government until elections can be held.

Some might wonder whether this is premature. Isn’t Gaddafi still in power? Doesn’t he control the capital, Tripoli? Aren’t the insurgents confined to Benghazi and the east?

But why, the critics ask, is the campaign taking so long, given that the insurgents have Nato’s formidable air power behind them? There are two main reasons. First, the Americans have been ambivalent: while they have deployed substantial assets, they have not led the campaign, or used all the air power at their disposal. Second, the campaign has been severely constrained by the UN resolution that sanctioned it, which only allows the use of air power for the protection of civilians. This has enabled Nato to destroy Gaddafi’s tanks and heavy weapons on the open road, but has been of limited use when the fighting is in towns and cities.

Throughout the conflict, the British Government has been robust: indeed, I can fault its approach in only one respect. We are, so far, refusing to provide weapons and training to the insurgents. There is, of course, an arms embargo in force. However, its effect was modified by a UN resolution that authorised Nato to use “all necessary measures” to protect civilians. The French, the Qataris and others have duly provided military supplies to the insurgents, but we have been overly cautious and refused. Now we have recognised the insurgents as the legitimate government, I hope that the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary will reconsider: it would greatly shorten the conflict, and ensure Gaddafi’s early departure.
Please read full art.:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...

Carol
If #Younis was a traitor and was killed by the NTC, G is happy. If he was a martyr, killed by G-troops in an ambush, G is happy.

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
We lost a general but we gained 3 towns. May god bless #feb17 nd keep us united

Zlitniya
#Zliten: 2more martyrs today in battlefront Allah yarhamhum RIP #Libya #Feb17

PRESSER from this afternoon NTC:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj1FXGtPct4&fea...

MAIL ONLINE
Libyan rebel leader assassinated: Abdel Fattah Younis shot dead

The Libyan rebel military leader Abdel Fattah Younis has been shot dead, along with two of his aids it has emerged.
The head of the rebels’ military campaign against Muammar Gaddafi was killed by assailants in the de facto rebel capital Benghazi earlier today.
Libyan rebel leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil, head of the rebels’ National Transitional Council, told a press conference that rebel security had arrested the head of the group behind the killing.
He also revealed rebel security had arrested Younis and two of his aides earlier today from their operations room near the rebels’ eastern front.
Security officials said at the time that Younis was to be questioned about suspicions his family still had ties to Moammar Gaddafi’s regime.
He had defected from Gaddafi’s regime early in the uprising, which began in February, where he had served as interior minister.
Abdel-Jalil said that Younis had been summoned for questioning regarding “a military matter.” He said Younis and his two aides were shot before they arrived for questioning.
Abdel-Jalil called Younis “one of the heroes of the 17th of February revolution,” a name marking the date of early protests against Gaddafi’s regime.
Full art.:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-201998...

BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
General #younis cousin is coming to the courthouse now to deliver a message that his tribe will fight 4 #Libya until the last man #benghazi

BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
General #younis cousin is coming to the courthouse now to deliver a message that his tribe will fight 4 #Libya until the last man #benghazi

JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
The #Tripoli press corps has given up on this press conf happening tonight, not officially canceled.. its 2am almost. #Libya

CIL
Tripoli FFs love Ramadan #feb17 #Libya

Friday is the FF’s favourite day #feb17 #Libya

And Ramadan is the FF’s favourite month #feb17 #Libya

Tripolitanian Libyan
Younis’ brigade, one of the few with full military training, is continuing to fight in Brega (may seem obvious, but Gaddafi TV is BSing…)
I heard only his closest friends, about 5 to 10 came back to Benghazi, his brigade is still fighting there

Strangest part of day was encountering US intel officers who appeared to be coordinating airstrikes on Ghazaya. Not thrilled to see me.

You knew they were there, lol

plemochoe
#libya Free Libyan Gen. Abdul Fattah Younes has been assassinated, with other FF officers

#libya The Goons should have a field day with this; but in fact it could be their undoing.

#libya Khalifa Hifter has been and is the main field commander. He has NOT been killed, and he is orchestrating the drive on Tripoli

#libya Actually remarkable that Gaddafi hasn’t sprung more sleeper units and things like that, since every defected officer was once his

#libya Now I’m getting backwash about Khalifa. As some more senior tweeps have said below: watch what you say.

#libya At any rate the TNC has not been assassinated. Free Libya is not a military government. Other officers – whatever their names – go on

#libya And really only a Goon would think that a national liberation movement depends on one man or three men

#libya And FWIW, even a CIA agent here and there fighting with the FF will not corrupt the rightness of their cause

#libya Do you trust the TNC or not? Is NATO playing by their rules at their invitation, or not?

#libya Do you trust your friends, or not? On the other side we have someone who definitely does not. A word to the wise.

#libya The news of TNC successes on the ground was eclipsed by the Younus story. That was the point. Thanks, Associtraitor Press

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Nafusa: Ghazaya, Hawamed, Takuit & Rwayis liberated with Badr, Jawsh and Tiji in our sights. Allahu Akbar! #feb17 #Libya
Feb17 is bulletproof

Tasbeeh
I’ve heard from many #Libya sources that many of the journos are lazy, sloppy. One fellow journo said they try to be “frontline war heros”.
Another called them “frontline attention-seekers”, said many journos don’t even investigate the claims made by the FFs or regime. #Libya
This might account for the severe discrepancies in stories coming from different news agencies. #Libya #journalism
I appreciate the work of journos in #Libya, but the battlefield isn’t a playground, not a tourist attraction. This war isn’t just a “story”.
The responsibility of journos is to INFORM, and as gatekeepers of information, they also get to choose what to report, what not to.
How important is it for the public to be involved in every single field advance of the #FFs? Not important. And not that interesting either.
I personally dislike tweeting about strategies or location of the #FF. What good does it do us to know that? #Libya
So that’s why I appreciate those like @TonyBirtley who take time to investigate stories before rushing to report on them. #Libya
It’s imp. to rmmbr that journos are working under v. stressful conditions & time restrictions; that doesn’t excuse shoddy reporting.

Almanara: #Zawiya FF Destroy large number of #Gaddafi vehicles & Kill 18 & capture 3 2 FF were also killed. #Libya

A Free Libyan
Ahrar TV put on a prayer for AFY, one of Libya’s heroes and a true lion. Allah yarham kul alshuhada. #Libya #Feb17

tonybirtley tony birtley
exchange of gunfire in benghazi after announcement of killing of Abdel Fattah Younis. bullets hit Tibesty hotel. The killing is big shock

questions remain about the general’s death and about TNCs delaying in announcing it and the scant details it has released.

TNC says it is hunting other assailants of General Younes. Promised tough line on armed groups not under the umbrella of armed forces.

explosions reported in Benghazi as aftermath of announcement of Gen Abdel Fattah Younes. great uncertainty here

february 17th brigade say Fattah younes was negotiating with Gaddafi regime. also claimed he was sending weapons to gadaffi foces

has the opposition fight lost momentum. where is it heading? difficult to see

Libya In Me
Huge Friday prayer announced for tomorrow at Al-Tahrir Square, Benghazi

Zeinobia
guys take care of your revolution now more than any time

ProudLibyan
On a more positive side, yesterday despite the bad news of General Younis’s death, there have been significant victories in Nafusa region.

A Free Libyan
Hopefully a glorious and victorious Friday for our Freedom Fighters tomorrow. #Libya #Feb17

libyaoutreach Libya Outreach
Song from the ppl of Algeria to the ppl of #Libya Chanson d’Algérie Pour le peuple en Libyeأغنية من الجزائر لشعب ليبيا youtube.com/watch?v=-s4R_M…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s4R_Mo_VZc&fea...

AC360 Anderson Cooper 360°
THIS JUST IN: Eman al-Obeidy arrived in the United States late Wednesday night. #Libya #AC360

Khiria
Tobruk’s farewell to Gen. Abdul Fatah Younes: youtu.be/4SsCbFzNKtk #RIP #Libya #Feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SsCbFzNKtk&fea...

Ghazi
RIP Gen. Abdul Fatah Younes #Libya #NLA #Feb17 twitpic.com/5xfq7m

libyanandproud
Freedom Fighters today liberated some of the only towns stopping a full advance on #tripoli ! #Feb17 #Libya

Ahmed
#Benghazi citizens gather in Tahrir square after the death of Gen Abdul Fatah #Younis, may he rest in peace.. youtu.be/KPrgpS5kHqg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPrgpS5kHqg&feature=youtu.be



SUMMARY JULY 29th 2011

7/29/2011
7.29.2011


NATOpress NATO Press
Operational Media Updates: Summary of activities for Operation Unified Protector of the past 24 hours #NATO #Libya – t.co/nDHYCQN

NYT
Death of Rebel Leader Stirs Fears of Tribal Conflict

BENGHAZI, Libya — The top rebel military commander was killed Thursday, and members of his tribe greeted the announcement with gunfire and angry threats. The violent outburst stirred fears that a tribal feud could divide the forces struggling to topple the Libyan dictator, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
General Younes, a former officer and interior minister in the Qaddafi government, had long been a contentious figure among the rebels, some of whom doubted his loyalty. He had been summoned to Benghazi for questioning by a panel of judges, and members of his tribe — the Obeidi, one of the largest in the east — evidently blamed the rebel leadership for having some role in the general’s death.
The specter of a violent tribal conflict within the rebel ranks touches on a central fear of the Western nations backing the Libyan insurrection: that the rebels’ democratic goals could give way to a tribal civil war over Libya’s oil resources. Colonel Qaddafi has often warned of such a possibility as he has fought to keep power, while the rebel leaders have argued that their cause transcends Libya’s age-old tribal divisions.
Rumors about General Younes and intertribal tensions started picking up here in the rebels’ de facto capital early Thursday evening with reports that a group of four judges working for the rebel council had summoned General Younes for questioning. The war effort he led has stalled out for months along immobile battle lines on the eastern front.
Mr. Abdul Jalil confirmed that General Younes had been summoned for questioning by the judges, though he declined to say why. He said only that General Younes had been “released on his own recognizance,” rather than either accused or exonerated of anything.
Mr. Abdul Jalil said that an armed gang had killed General Younes and the other two officers, and that at least one of the gang members had been captured. He declined to name the killer, or to say whether the gang had been working for Colonel Qaddafi, rebels who did not trust General Younes or some other tribal group or faction.
Kareem Fahim contributed reporting from Tunis.
Read full art.:
www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/world/africa...

Ghazi
To hell with “Tribalism”, stop raising this issue out of its context, I am a Libyan and I don’t need a “tribe” to prove it

Khiria
The fight to get rid of #Gaddafi will continue!
Everyday people die in #Libya and it saddens me that less people will celebrate the huge victory with us. #RIP #Feb17

libyazasvobodu libyazasvobodu
CTV: “Abd al-Fatah Younis’ assassination left a power vacuum in rebel-held Benghazi.” A POWER VACUUM? WTH is she talking about… #

grafixel
many western media reporting now that #AbdulFattahYounes was first detained by FF and then killed. conclusion suggested: easy. #Libya

Yes we can
#benghazi, ppl still out in demo in different places in city angry for #younis assassination, n determined to eradicate any sleeping cells

Sahnoona
by OnlyOneLibya
لا للفتــن مـن أجــل الوطـن Instead of spreading random rumors, we gotta do something helpful! at least Pray or donate or anything. #Libya

grafixel guess what
there is good and bad news. many of both

Libyan & Proud
We have 2 control our emotions, act wisely & responsibly. Libya is united, our goals clear, our determination ever present

Lebeeya
A lot on my mind…..

Nafissa
Some people make things happen, some watch while things happen, and some wonder “What happened?” Which type of person are you?

SMILE:
jay
Im glad I got that solid gold cap on my molar this year. Money in the bank.

ALJAZEERA
Abdul Hakim, the cousin of slain rebel military leader Abdel Fatah Younes, has told the Reuters news agency that his family received a call from Younes around 10am on Thursday morning. Younes said he was returning to Benghazi, Hakim said.
He said they had received Younes’s body yesterday – it had been shot and burned.
The bodies of Younes and his two aides are reportedly in Benghazi’s central courthouse square for Friday prayers. They had been missing and reportedly burned beyond recognition after the Thursday attack.
A security officer in Benghazi, Fadlallah Haroun, has told the AP news agency that three badly burned bodies were found on Thursday. Two of those found were dead, while the third was unconscious. One of the bodies was “known to be Younis,” the AP reported. This account has not been reported by other sources.
The head of the Libyan rebels’ military campaign against Muammar Gaddafi has been shot dead by assailants, the top rebel leader has said.
Libyan rebel leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said on Thursday that Abdel Fattah Younes was killed by assailants after he had been summoned before a judicial committee that was looking into the military operations.
Al Jazeera also speaks to Dr. Osama Kubbar of the Libya Information Centre to analysis the situation.
Link:
blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/libya

Transcript: Jalil’s remarks on Younes’s death

With all grief and sadness, we announce the death of Major General Abdel Fattah Younes Faraj, chief of the general staff of the Libyan army, and his two comrades, Colonel Mohammed Khamis and Major Nasser Mathkour.
I will read the statement of the National Council in this regard:
At a time when our revolutionaries are achieving victory and progress on all fronts against the dictator’s forces, and at a time of increasing international recognition of our revolution and the National Council as the sole legitimate ruling authority, when economic and financial conditions have been improved to resolve the current crisis, the isolated dictator regime continues threatening our revolution and vows to harm it, its symbols and heroes.
During the last few days, the regime has mentioned by name one of the heroes of February 17 revolution, General Abdel Fattah Younes, threatening him through its media and saying that good news will be heard about him soon. Some of the regime’s defected media announced the same news through other TV channels.

Today, we learned that Major General Abdel Fattah Younes Faraj and his two companions were shot by gunmen after he was summoned to appear before a judicial committee to investigate military affairs. But the deceased did not appear before this committee, because of the procedures that happened to him, which are under investigation.
The head of the armed group, one of them that actually carried out the assassination, was arrested.
Based on the foregoing, the National Council declares the following:
First, we will hold a three-day mourning period for our martyrs.
Second, we will intensify efforts to find those criminals and the bodies of the martyrs.
Third, this is a final warning to the individuals who are armed inside the cities, we will not allow armed militias within the city limits. They have one of two choices: They have to join the front, or they have to join the national security forces inside the cities.
All efforts will be taken to arrest any individual who is bearing arms within the city limits.
I wish to extend condolences to friends and colleagues and to all of you because of the death of General Abdel Fatah Younes and Colonel Khamis and Major Nasser.
And condolences to all the Libyans and all the tribes, especially the tribe of Obeidat that have paid heavily with more than 40 martyrs and in excess of 500 injured at the front.
We urge everyone to unify and we urge everyone to refrain from paying attention to any of these rumours and activities that the Gaddafi regime wishes to initiate within our ranks.
I ask the Obeidat tribe for its understanding of the situation, and all the other tribes that are here to support the Obeidat tribe and support everyone after these accidents, and to remember that ending the regime of Muammar Gaddafi is our foremost objective.
It’s our goal and there is no going back. These events will not turn the Obeidat tribe away from the revolution. Relatives of the dead, relatives of the martyrs and some of these tribes are here, and we all ask the Allah the almighty to give his mercy upon all of them.
Al Jazeera
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...

Czech Foreign Minister
Karel Schwarzenberg has been quoted in the Pravo newspaper with a particularly blunt assessment of the Libyan rebels:
“I may like them, but unless they control the whole country, I will not recognise them officially.”

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
I AM IN GHEZAIA. HERE & TAKHUT FIRMLY IN REBEL HANDS

#LIBYA Just interviewed TNC Defence ‘minister’ Omar Harriri in Ghezaia. Says this is important victory.

#LIBYA Harriri says by taking Ghezaia and Takhut, we have “protected our back”

#LIBYA Harriri says opp forces will soon move towards Tiji and Badr. And possibly towards the coast.

#LIBYA I asked Harriri about death of Abdel Fatah Younis. He said he had little info, because he had been in Nefusa.

#LIBYA Harriri says Younis was patriot and a martyr. Hopes he was not killed by anyone from opposition side.

#LIBYA clips from interview with Harriri coming up on #AJE

Audioboo: On way to Takhut boo.fm/b424996

JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
No official #NATO reaction to Younis killing… say its not for them to comment since their mandate is to “protect civilians” #Libya

Sun
Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.

Carol
Work hard. Be kind. I became Libyan on Feb17th and will not feel free until Gaddafi is gone. Help me send cards to the Libyan kids in refugee camps in Tunisia!

Breaknews via FB:
MAJOR GENERAL ABDEL FATAH YOUNIS R.I.P
WHETHER OR NOT YOU WERE WORKING FOR GADDAFI :(

Reports coming out that Younis’s body has been found in an area called Qatarah

Inshallah we r more unit as free Libyans, Inshallah we r more determind to defeat Gaddafi, Inshallah no friction between people in Benghazi

Al Jawsh/Tiji They are regrouping an will atack soon! Gazaya has been Libearted. Brega with new comander will take soon

No news on Qatran.And Zliten they were fghting in Souq AlThalath and r soo close! :)

hominoid
Anybody knows about these bunkers? 30°03’46.12"N, 16°33’45.39"E Rumors say Gaddafi stores long range Scud missiles there.

Libya Benghazi Turkey announces the training of 32 staff at the airport on Aviation Security.

People Daily:
Algeria security services investigate arms smuggled from Libya: media

Algerian security services are investigating the origin of smuggled arms from Libya to Algeria, local media reported Thursday.

The local Arabic daily ElKhabar newspaper on Thursday quoted a security source as saying that army forces have intercepted 218 pieces of weapons, which arm dealers and militants attempted to smuggle from Libya.

The source specified that the Algerian security services, who are tracking down arm traffickers operating along the eastern border with Libya to the African Sahel region and the Algerian Sahara, have managed to identify the Libyans who participated in selling weapons to extremist militants and traffickers.

Investigators are due to find out the origin of the seized arms, which include light and heavy machine guns, pistols and sniper rifles, remote explosive devices, tens of thousands of machine guns bullets, as well as RPG rocket launchers and a significant amount of powerful explosives.

The source added that most of the seized weapons of arrested smugglers and terrorists on the border with Libya and Niger were likely looted from army camps in eastern Libya.

Source:Xinhua
Link:
english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/90855/...

Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Khaled Shaaban expelled diplomat libyan embassy london with Othman Hadairi r trying 2 sell things and take ££ to G police is monitoring!!

shaimaa
funeral held for Abdel Fatah Younis in #Benghazi

Guardian:
Abdul Fatah Younis ambush killing blamed on pro-Gaddafi forces

The Libyan rebels’ chief of army staff, Abdel Fatah Younis, has been killed in an assassination by pro-Gaddafi agents, according to the rebel authorities.
The president of the ruling National Transitional Council, Abdul Mustafa Jalil, made the dramatic announcement of the death of Younis at a chaotic late-night press conference at a hotel in Benghazi.
He told reporters that Younis had been called back from the frontline near Brega to Benghazi for questioning on the progress of the campaign, and suggested he had been killed by “pro-Gaddafi” forces on the route early in the morning.
But questions remain over the lack of detail over how Younis died or who killed him. The general usually travels inside an armoured car in a multi-vehicle convoy with 30 armed guards, posing problems for any potential assassination team.
The rumours were still swirling late on Thursday night, with armed men declaring their support for Younis appearing on the streets of Benghazi, claiming they would use force to free him from NTC custody.
Soldiers loyal to Jalil from the 17 Brigade, Benghazi’s elite unit, had surrounded Younis’s house in the late afternoon.
Read full art. Here:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/29/ab...

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

LA Times:
In Libya minefields, ill-equipped rebel teams defuse devices

Reporting from Ajdabiya, Libya—
He searches for land mines, but he has no body armor or protective mask, no metal detector, no steel-toed boots. He wears dress shoes. His tools are a metal prod and an old rake.

Salem Barassi is a weathered former police officer, 67 and long retired. He’s one of dozens of volunteers who clear mines at Libya’s fighting fronts, using their bare hands to lift hundreds of small antipersonnel mines laid by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi.

Every morning, Barassi tiptoes into minefields outside the eastern Libyan oil city of Port Brega.

Prodding the sand with his probe and clearing debris with the rake, he inches forward, taking tiny, measured steps.

When the probe strikes a buried object, Barassi stoops to clear away the sand. Several times a day, he uncovers a Brazilian-made mine, constructed of tan plastic, that’s small enough to hold in the palm of his hand. Each mine is stamped, in English: “High Explosive.”
Read more:
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/...

CNN:
Alleged Libyan rape victim comes to U.S. to stay
Eman al-Obeidy, who caught the world’s attention in March when she publicly accused members of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s forces of gang-raping her, has relocated to the United States.
After spending 54 days in a U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees facility in Romania, Obeidy arrived in New York late Wednesday night, then boarded a flight to the destination where she will reside.
She told CNN she is excited and happy to be in the United States, and passed her thanks to the U.S. government and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, adding that she hopes to meet her someday.
Other than her brief conversation with a CNN producer, she said she is not ready to speak to the media.
Read more:
edition.cnn.com/2011/US/07/29/us.libya....

Sarah:
#Zliten :GFs using civilian buildings(homes,mosque,school,Hosp)2house GF &ammo;&2fire;frm.also using ambulances&bin;trucks as transport

#Zliten: 2more martyrs today in battlefront Allah yarhamhum

#Zliten FF media:we thank #NATO 4their help 2Zliten &all;#Libya We confirm NO civillian casualties in #Zliten #Libya #Feb17

#Zliten :today GF prevented families from leaving the city via Ka’am checkpoint (west Zliten) unless they had prior permission v ZlitenMedia

#Zliten :GF r bombing civilian buildings(after #NATO has shelled)2give impression that NATO is bombing civilians

Zliten : #NATO strikes 1military facility,1ammunition storage facility,2military supply vehicles

Alex
This MAP shows the great territorial gains of #FF @ #Brega – On the east Benghazi sidethey have liberated New Brega & most of industrial port district – & are now @ the Airport district is on west Tripoli side
egyptday1.blogspot.com/2011/07/jmrasor-... #Libya

Libyan Duda
#Benghazi :Sheikh in Friday Sermon asked #FFs in #Tripoli to carry out operations like the one in AlAndulus on a nightly basis. #feb17

moi a table
The decentralised command of the fronts in #Libya, so problematic b4, might prove to be a blessing in disguise in wake of Gen. Younes death.

Emirates24
Norway quits Nato’s Libya mission ahead of schedule
Norway will fly its last combat mission in Libya on Saturday, two days before the official end of its role in the Nato-led air war, an alliance official told AFP.
Norway, one of eight Nato members that have conducted air strikes in the four-month-old operation, was the first to set an end-date for its participation when it decided last month to withdraw on August 1.
“The last day Norwegian aircraft will fly on July 30,” the Nato official said.
“We appreciate and respect the decisions of all contributing nations to provide what they can to the mission,” the official said. “Norway has done a great deal but, at the end of the day, the mission continues.”
A Norwegian military spokesman, Colonel Petter Lindqvist, refused to confirm that Saturday would be

the last flight.
“We are redeploying our mission on August 1,” Lindqvist said. “Exactly when we are flying our last mission won’t be publicised for security reasons. We fly our last sorties over the next few days.”
Link:
www.emirates247.com/news/world/norway-q...

GOOD QUESTION:
Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
How did Pro-Gs on Twitter from Tripoli know what had happened to #Younes 2 hours before it was announced in #Benghazi? #Libya

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
At Friday prayers in #Benghazi, rebels vowing vengeance for Younis’ death, pledging support for TNC leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil. #Libya

DJ Meddi
Helping #Libya’s Forgotten Civilians in #Atlanta Friday, July 29 • 7:00pm – 10:30pm #FundRaiser on.fb.me/oDGCjK
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=189643334427840

Tripolitanian Libyan
#Libya: #Gaddafi TV claims that #Gaddafi forces have take Dafniya, Misrata’s airport and Misrata’s dock. Rebels in #Misrata chuckled….

alihashem_AJA Ali Hashem
Whatever the circumstances #feb17 revolution should continue, it was never about indiviuals whoever they are its about the people of #Libya

tonybirtley tony birtley
the bodies of Abdel fattah Younes and two aides said to have been burned after being killed. one of many strange aspects to this story

TNC giving very few details about Younes’ killing or why he was to be questioned. rumour and conspiracy theories are surfacing.
I interviewed Fattah Younes four months ago. no hiding his respect for the Old Gadaffi. But not the new Gaddafi killing his own people.
Said he could not be the one to apprehend Gadaffi. his friend who he served for 40 years. Many on rebel side questioned his loyalties.
some fearing violent backlash over killing. gunfire, explosions heard in Benghazi during night. Some Younes soldiers returned from front

LibyaNewMedia LibyaNewMedia
Revolutionaries say they’ve captured the commander responsible for shelling Nalut & are treating him in Nalut hospital. Picture available.

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA a lot of activity, Nr Takhut, amid reports of Gaddafi counter-attack.

#Libya Ghezaia fighters t.co/1VZnJmp
yfrog.com/ki1rtycj

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Freedom fighters now control the area north of Ghezaya as well. This completely secures #Wazin & #Nalut – more updates on that later. #libya

Germany invite the transitional council to nominate a representative to take over the Libyan embassy in Germany #Libya #Germany

Ahmed
The body of Genreal Abdul Fatah #Younis brought into Tahrir Square #Benghazi draped in Liberation flag… yfrog.com/ke9qbfpj via AJA

HodaAbdelHamid Hoda Abdel-Hamid
looking at all the demos around the #MEast is heartening.Message is loud and clear.Leaders who answer w weapons destroyed their own legacy.

TFI News:
Libye " Kadhafi n’est pas une cible " pour le Chef d’état-major français
La mort du colonel Mouammar Kadhafi n’est pas un objectif pour mettre un terme à la guerre en Libye, a déclaré vendredi le chef d’état-major des armées françaises, l’amiral Edouard Guillaud.

Interrogé sur France Inter, il a assuré n’avoir “jamais reçu d’ordre” de cibler le dirigeant libyen. “Ce n’est pas la façon dont les démocraties mènent et règlent les conflits armés”, a-t-il dit, avant d’ajouter qu’une opération du type de celle menée par les Etats-Unis début mai contre le chef d’Al-Qaïda Oussama ben Laden, si elle était envisagée, prendrait du temps.
Source:
lci.tf1.fr/filnews/monde/libye-kadhafi-...

Czech Republic:
The Czech Republic will not recognise rebels opposing Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as Libya’s official government until they control the entire country, Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg was quoted on Friday as saying. Schwarzenberg said the ministry will keep contact with the rebel National Transitional Council through an unofficial ambassador in the rebel-held eastern city of Benghazi.

AP:
A security officer in Benghazi, Fadlallah Haroun, has told the AP news agency that three badly burned bodies were found on Thursday. Two of those found were dead, while the third was unconscious. One of the bodies was “known to be Younis,” the AP reported. This account has not been reported by other sources.

Independent Africa;
McCain tells Libyan rebels: end abuses or risk US support
One of Washington’s most influential senators has warned Libya’s opposition administration that they risk alienating US and international support unless they take “decisive action” to halt human rights abuses by rebel fighters.
The Republican Senator John McCain’s stark message emerged the day after the British Government recognised the Transitional National Council based in Benghazi as the legitimate representatives of Libya and ordered the Tripoli regime’s diplomats to leave the UK.
Yesterday the opposition sought to take over the Libyan embassy and consulate in London, and declared that Mahmoud Nacua, described as a 74-year-old poet, will become the new ambassador. TNC officials also urged that billions of pounds in frozen Libyan assets abroad should be turned over to the Benghazi administration.
n a letter to Mahmoud Jibril, the TNC’s head of foreign affairs, seen by The Independent, Senator McCain stated: “I urge you to investigate recently documented abuses, hold people accountable as necessary, and ensure that opposition military forces are abiding by the principles of justice and human rights.”
The former presidential candidate went on to stress: “As you surely know, the critics of the TNC, both in the United States and across the world, are eager to seize on any transgression to stoke opposition to the Council and to the Libyan people’s fight for freedom.”
Senior British Tories have long been close to Mr McCain and David Cameron, then leader of the opposition, broke diplomatic convention by backing the Senator in the presidential race in a fulsome speech in 2008.
While Mr McCain has remained a supporter of military operations, President Barack Obama is facing rising criticism from both Democrats and Republicans in Congress over the four-month long bombing campaign which has so far failed to remove Colonel Gaddafi from power.
In his letter to the TNC, dated 20th July, Senator McCain, writing as “your friend and supporter” pointed out “recent documentation of human rights abuses committed by opposition figures in the western Libyan towns of al-Awaniya, Rayayinah, Zawiyat al-Bagul, and al-Qawalish”. He continued: " According to Human Rights Watch, a highly credible international non-governmental organisation, rebel fighters and supporters have damaged property, burned some homes, looted from hospitals, homes and shops, and beaten some individuals alleged to have supported government forces.
“I am confident you are aware of these allegations…. It is because the TNC holds itself to such high democratic standards that it is necessary for you and the Council to take decisive action to bring any human rights abuses to an immediate halt.”
Read more and source:
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa...

Reuters
Gen. Younes:
Mourners brought a coffin carrying the body of Libyan rebel military commander Abdel Fattah Younes into the main square of Benghazi on Friday, his nephew told Reuters. ”We got the body yesterday here (in Benghazi), he had been shot with bullets and burned,” Younes’s nephew, Abdul Hakim, said as he followed the coffin through the square of the main rebel-held town.

Benghazi:
A tanker carrying around 35,000 tonnes of fuel reached Benghazi and was berthed at the rebel-held port on Friday morning, satellite tracking data showed. Traders said the Kouros had arrived the previous evening and was most likely carrying diesel from floating storage in Malta. Traders also said that the tanker had been chartered by trading house Vitol as part of an agreement to help market crude oil for Libya’s NTC.

Relatives of Gen. Younes:
Relatives of slain Libyan rebel military commander Abdel Fattah Younes vowed allegiance on Friday to the rebels’ political leader in the fight against Muammar Gaddafi.
“A message to Mustafa Abdel Jalil: We will walk with you all the way,” his nephew Mohammed Younes told a crowd of mourners in the main square of the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, with other family members beside him. ”Libya first, until God gives us victory or chooses us as martyrs.”

Anaya
Dernière mission de combat aviation norvégienne en #Libye. Selon l’Otan, cela n’affectera pas le rythme de l’opération bit.ly/puX4JA

Sarah LFFR
#Benghazi : InshAllah from tomorrow there won’t be problem with electricity anymore here.

LibyanFreedom
“Libya first, until God gives us victory or chooses us as martyrs.” – AFYounis’ nephew

A Free Libyan
AJA — FFs made progress towards #Brega yesterday after clearing some minefields. Roughly around 2KM. Getting there. #Libya

A Free Libyan
With every drop of blood, the determination and spirit of the revolution only gets stronger. #RIP to all #Feb17 martyrs. #Libya

KC_Tripolitania KC
The Imam today encouraged and reminded the revolutionaries the importance of unity and show of strength in the face of evil. #Libya

live2Tripoli
My message to journalists, the Libyan people have done so much to unite, please don’t ruin that for them. Some press will wake…
at any chance to bring controversy to the table. Not considering Libya to be a nation reborn. The Libyan people have made it clear…
They want to unite, but bringing the news of anything that touches the ears, is like a child in a candy shop. It really gets absurd at times
May god have mercy on AbdalFatah Yunis and all our people in this matter. When one dies it’s asof all have died. Treat this as such.

jd2folife
were the rebels pushed back on the southern front????

HodaAbdelHamid Hoda Abdel-Hamid
they weren’t pushed back an inch. w checked. G supp. were claiming otherwise.

ChangeInLibya
The NTC have more questions to answer but I have no doubt that Gaddafi’s thugs are behind this. This’ll only make FF stronger

Glorianne
He also send loyalist to kill ex Libyan UN Ambassador last month in Italy but were intercepted, G is a bad loser

Mustafa
by ChangeInLibya
Beautiful words spoken now in Friday prayers now in Benghazi.I needed to hear them! #Libya #17feb

live2Tripoli
The man speaking in #Benghazi now, giving me serious goosebumps. Speaking well. #Libya #feb17

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Final prayers on the body of Abdelfatah Younis now at Benghazi’s freedom square. #libya #feb17

Benghazi’s Friday sermon: wow. #libya

blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Impressive display of unity in Benghazi today, given all the scuttlebutt about Younes’s killing. Nephews/sons pledging to fight on.

N_Benghazi .
The sheikh is really speaking from his heart, you can’t plan this kind of effect and emotion. mashaAllah. #Libya

ChangeInLibya
BREAKING: ABDELFATAH YOUNIS’ SON: It is the duty of every Libyan to get payback for my father & I tell NTC’s Abdul Jalil: We’re with you

I think he was directing his speech at Gaddafi and his henchmen – We’ll get payback for my father’s death from his killers

All the nephews and sons of Abdelfatah Younis pledged to fight on with the NTC and said they’re #Libya’s children just like everyone else.

live2Tripoli
This is unprecedented, the things happening in #Benghazi now….People talking about their dead, under #Muammar that would never happen #Libya

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
At Friday prayers in #Benghazi, rebels vowing vengeance for Younis’ death, pledging support for TNC leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil. #Libya

ChangeInLibya
Libya Alahrar has a habit of cutting the live feed at the worst moments #bloodyadverts #benghazi

Libya NFSL
A sign of unity & strength of #Feb17 today in Benghazi #Libya

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Benghazi: A new elite special forces unit is being formed, in Abdelfatah Younis’ honor. #Libya #feb17
Benghazi: Military spokesperson asking everyone not in the National Liberation Army to sign up and unite with the others.

Sumayyah
“The revolution will continue….Because you are with the truth and Allah brings victory to the truth” t.co/Yg3pjcd #Libya #Feb17
www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2623...

jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Great 2 see people in #Benghazi united toegether,pledging 2 go on with revolution.Things don’t always go well,imp. 2 keep on walking.

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Jalu (an important oil town in the desert south of Ajdabiya) ws attacked by G forces. They lost 20 soldiers + vehicles then retreated #libya

All areas in the East extending all the way to #Brega are well defended & under FF control but G forces still try to attack thru open desert
Benghazi: Aljazeera: Fighters at Brega advanced 2kilometers closer to the city yesterday after clearing more of the minefields #libya
Benghazi: Reuters: A tanker carrying around 35,000 tonnes of fuel reached #Benghazi from floating storage in #Malta. #libya #feb17

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
Curiouser and curiouser. UK Foreign Office condemns Younis killing,wants investigation but DOES NOT accuse Gadhafi regime of the attack…

Cil:
Not curious at all. Hooray for sensationalism.

hominoid
Libya 70% is now under FF control.

Check this out:
Libya Images from Nalut Offensive
t.co/cPehzA7
or:
the-war-diaries.com/?p=1726

Aljazeera:
James Bay
Gen. Younes
News Bulletin – 09:35 GMT update
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8INmubiFWQ&fea...

TWITTER FACTS:
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
FACT: FFs control 70% of Libya, FACT: G forces not had a single military gain in 2 months, Fact: Top 3 G ICC wanted criminals

FACT: Freedom Fighters never SURRENDER

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
In the valley: New boo by baysontheroad bit.ly/octYH2
or:
audioboo.fm/boos/425060

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Tomorrow is the 30th of July… Egyptian courts are meant to decide YET AGAIN on whether to keep #Gaddafi’s channels on #Nilesat or not to.
Egypt and Nilesat better make the right decision tomorrow once & for all – the channels are getting us killed #Nilesat

jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
Body of Abdul fatah Younis obviously found. His body burned after killed. Funeral in #benghazi now; words all supporting revolution. #libya

Ms.F
“We are with the truth” for this reason we will win. For this reason we will defeat Gaddafi. #libya #Feb17 Sheik #Benghazi

Nasr:
Ahmed Bukhattala (commander of Ubaid-ibn-aljarrah brigade) was arrested in #Benghazi in connection w/ AFY assassination Wed evening. #Libya

Ahmed #GaddafEddam conveys a message from #Gaddafi to the secretary of Sudanese Ppl Congress Party Mr. Hasan Atturabi who is visiting #Cairo

RUMORS AND EVENTS IN BENGHAZI ON JULY 28 2011

WRITTEN BY DIMA KHATIB:

Younes is.. Dead !!

It was quite an eventful night after an eventful day.

Rumours started circulating early morning on Thursday about Rebel Army Commander Abdul Fattah Younes having been arrested !!

- Arrested? By whom, I asked?
- By the Transitional National Council ..
- Aren’t they on the same side?
- Yes, I was told, but.. there are issues !

It did not sound too good. Nobody would confirm to us the rumours which were growing stronger by the hour.

It was clear something was indeed happening.. and by the time we got a confirmed source telling us that Abdul Fattah Younes had indeed been arrested and called in for questioning, the rumours had gone in a different direction. They were saying the man has been killed, some going as far as saying : he was executed for his treason!

Treason?? What does that mean? That he was still working for Gaddafi

Now that is indeed a very very serious accusation. Younes is one of the so-called “Free Officers” who accompanied Muammar Gaddafi in his 1969 “Al Fateh Revolution”. He is considered one of his long-time closest comrades. He was his Interior Minister – since 2009 – when he defected in February 2011 at the start of the revolution because of Gaddafi’s repression of protesters. He commanded a battalion based in Benghazi, the Special Forces known as Battalion 32.

We spent long hours waiting for the TNC to issue a statement amid growing rumours about Younes’ fate, about some rebel troops having retreated from the Brega frontline, about special forces deploying in Benghazi and much more. And finally TNC head Mustapha Abdul Jalil showed up.

He said Younes was killed, he was a martyr, alluding to Gaddafi being behind this assasination.

No body though !

NO BODY??

I asked a TNC member how they knew he was killed if they had no body. He said : we have witnesses who saw the killing.

Shortly after the statement by Abdul Jalil things started going crazy at Tibesty Hotel where we all were. Gunshots were heard just outside the hotel, two young men were screaming in the lobby : so you made him a traitor, so you made him an agent?

The hotel lobby was packed with journalists and others who had attended the official statement reading by Abdul Jalil. I don’t know where Abdul Jalil was but I did not see him leave, unless he had left through a backdoor, which is possible.

The shooting continued for a while, we all hid away from the entrance of the hotel lobby. A colleague of mine outside happened to be speaking on the phone when his camera was taken away from him by the same people that were shooting. He said they arrived in a car and they were all armed.

So we, unarmed people stayed inside the hotel while armed people were outside the hotel. They were arguing and gunshots continued. A hotel window was smashed.

That was around 11.30pm local Benghazi time.

About an hour later or more, another shooting took place. 20-30 people tried to storm into the hotel, but were stopped by security. The hotel lobby was evacuated. People on the street were chanting angrily : The martyrs’ blood will not go in vain !

Things got calm soon afterwards. Crowds slowly pulled away from the street across the hotel.

Someone I know claims to have spoken to Younes by phone just before he was killed. He said to me that Younes’ body had been burned. He also claimed that Younes told him it was salafists (radical islamists) who had come for him with the NTC arrest warrant. This person claimed Younes was “arrested” and taken back to Benghazi just as he was planning to enter Brega and that Younes decided not to fight it, went along with it. Younes was allegedly hoping to enter Brega and pray there on Friday.

Others are saying that Younes was working for Gaddafi, was giving wrong coordinates to NATO, had stacked weapons somewhere without telling anyone about it. These were allegedly the probable reasons for the TNC’s arrest order. He was supposedly going to be questioned in Benghazi.

We are told he was killed outside Qar Younes Camp before the questioning. But even this information is contradictory with other information.

Whatever the truth may be, this is certainly a big blow to the revolutionaries and an automatic victory for Gaddafi, whether or not he was involved in setting it up. We are talking about the rebel’s top military commander being assasinated by we-don’t-know-whom. It is a big thing. People were really shocked in Benghazi.

Younes is from El Oubaidat Tribe, a huge tribe in Eastern Libya. We saw a tribesman sitting next to Abdul Jalil during his official statement. But we don’t know how the tribe might react, although Abdul Jalil said that he and the tribes agreed that the focus now should be on Gaddafi, meaning any differences can be dealt with later.

The last thing this revolution needs is division. Let’s see how the next few hours unfold. It looks quiet in Benghazi for now as I am heading to the Friday prayer in Courthouse Square, the local version of “Tahrir Square”.
You can read more from Dima on her site:
Source:
www.dimakhatib.com/2011/07/night-in-ben...

Return_of_libya ليبيا تعــــــود
BREAKING: Libya Ahrar Tv: Clashes are ongoing now between #FFs and #Gaddafi forces in Tiji, Allah Akbar!!
Clashes between the FFs and the mercenaries in the towns of Sahqeeqa and Oams … مصادمات بين الثوار و المرتزقة…

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
BREAKING: CLASHES between FF and Gaddafi forces in both Tiji and Badr #nafousa #libya #feb17

Nafousa: A brigade of freedom fighters is also trying to control Wamis, an important area in the desert on the way to Mizdah #libya

Gaddafi is using electricity cuts as a form of repression. Fashloom & Tajoura: ~6 hrs of electricity a day / Bab Al Aziziya disco: 24hrs…

hominoid
Libya Nafusa there are also clashes in the villages of Sahqeeqa and Oams These are the last small villages under G control.

Maryle
With 5 crucial towns taken and zlitan on the brink, Qaddafi faces military collapse in the west, FF r less than an hours drive from tripoli

HodaAbdelHamid Hoda Abdel-Hamid
Al Ghezaya and Takhut under opp. control. Good news for people in #Dehiba and #Wazin. significant victory in #Jebel Nafussa

LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Breaking_ليبيا_News: BREAKING: #FFs of #Tripoli have burnt down houses belonging to #Gaddafi forces. #Libya #feb17

PRESSTORM
Investigative Analysis: The Arab Tyrant Manual Examined
Written by: alexa11 on July 29, 2011.
Co-Authored by Iyad El-Baghdadi

Everyone knows the biggest difference between Syrian and Libyan revolution is that United Nations are protecting Libyan freedom fighters while keeping Gadaffi from harming his people. Syrian (brave an increasingly desperate) dictator Assad, has several security services and army helping him to massacre the Syrian people.
I was following the Egypt revolution in February 2011 on Twitter, worrying about @Sandmonkey when he went missing for a few hours allegedly arrested by police, when I started noticing tweets about the revolution starting in Libya, land of crazy Gadaffi. Like everyone else, given Gadaffi’s reputation I was skeptical a revolution will actually start in Libya. When I saw videos of tens of charred corpses of Libyan soldiers who refused to shoot Libyan people and pictures of the underground prisons I knew those were crimes against humanity and I had to help by retweeting relevant information.
I watched Libya al-Hurra TV the night when Mohammad Nabbous, described as the “face of citizen journalism in Libya” was killed while reporting in Benghazi.
I was there with the Libyan twitter revolutionaries through all of Libyan revolution, retweeting.
Iyad El-Bagdadi, an amazing tweeter who understands history and politics in the Arab world has put

together, based on his tweets and other comments the Arab Tyrant’s Manual: a list of repressive reactions, lies and crimes of the Arab dictators. Libya learned from Egypt and Syria learned from Libya’s experience as to what they can do to their people.
PLEASE READ THIS:
www.presstorm.com/2011/07/investigative...

VOA
Libyan Rebels Say Military Chief Shot Dead
Libya’s rebel leadership council says its top military commander, Abdel Fattah Younes, and two of his aides have been shot dead by unknown assailants.
Jalil never clearly indicated who he thought was behind the attack. But he called on rebel forces to ignore “efforts to break our unity” by leader Moammar Gadhafi’s government. He also warned of “armed criminal gangs” in rebel-held cities, saying they needed to join the fight against Gadhafi or risk being arrested by security forces.

Hours earlier, the rebels said they had detained Younes on suspicion his family may still have ties to Gadhafi’s inner circle.
Read more here:
www.voanews.com/english/news/Libyan-Reb...

Christian Science Monitor
Kurt Volker
Afghanistan and Libya point NATO to five lessons
Washington
Whether it is a matter of weeks or months, Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi will probably fall from power, and opposition forces will likely gain control of most of Libya.
It is a brutal irony: In Libya, NATO made a half-thought-through effort, with the US in the back seat, and may inadvertently succeed. In Afghanistan, with eight years of hard work, massive US leadership, and more than 150,000 troops on the ground, NATO has made little lasting impact and is beginning a retreat without a clear victory. It’s a strange and troubling outcome – and a bad one for NATO – on all counts.
Full art. here:
www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/20...

BBC
Libya rebel chief Younes’ killing: Unanswered questions
Mystery surrounds the circumstances of the killing of Libya’s rebel military commander, Gen Abdel Fattah Younes, a day after he and two aides were shot.
Rebel leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil said they had been killed by gunmen after Gen Younes was recalled from the front.
He said the ringleader of the attack had been held but he gave no details about his identity or the motive.
Hundreds of mourners carried a coffin containing the general’s body into Benghazi’s main square.
“We got the body yesterday here in Benghazi, he had been shot and burned,” Gen Younes’ nephew, Abdul Hakim, said as he followed the coffin in the square.
Full art. Here:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14338212

Washington Post
William Booth
Abdul Fattah Younis, Libyan rebel military commander, is killed
Although details remained murky, Younis’s death could shake international support for the opposition and rattle the divided rebel coalition, which this month gained U.S. recognition as Libya’s sole governing authority, while also strengthening Gaddafi’s resolve.
Younis was cheered when he defected, but he had many enemies. The general was distrusted by many rebels and dogged by accusations that he was still working for Gaddafi. But the Tripoli regime also hated him for what it viewed as his betrayal.
In Washington, a senior administration official said the White House was aware of the reports of Younis’s death and was working to gather details.
Read story here:
www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-eas...

MyFreeLibya
News just coming of injured in Zintan from the Shgayga front (SE from Zintan) #Libya #Feb17

Zintan is going now to pay their respects to the Obaydat tribe (younis’) not sure if i can video, but will try…#Libya #Feb17

BLOOMBERG
By Alessandra Migliaccio
Eni Cuts Output Target, Sees Quarterly Profit Drop on Libya
Eni SpA (ENI), Italy’s largest energy producer, cut its full-year production targets and said second- quarter profit missed analyst estimates because of the ongoing halt to Libyan oil output.
Adjusted net income declined 14 percent to 1.44 billion euros ($2.06 billion) from 1.67 billion euros a year earlier, the Rome-based company said today in a statement. That was below the 1.6 billion-euro average estimate in a Bloomberg survey of 16 analysts. Output in the second-quarter declined 15 percent to 1.49 million barrels of oil equivalent a day.
Read more here:
www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-29/eni-c...

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Natural gas is by far the biggest electricity generation method for Tripoli but get this: Nafousa FF haven’t cut gas line
They cut the oil pipelines going to Zawiya and Zwara refineries but left the natural gas lines so that people get power

BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
news today, explosions/gunfire late last night may be prisnbreak late last night, 80 prisoners escaped 60recaptured #libya #tnc #younis

dovenews Libyan™
Medical & military supply arrived to #FF in #Brega’s front-line.

The body of Abdula Fatah Younis was found 40km away from #Bengahzi, his body & the body of his 2 colleagues were buried after Friday prayer.

Rumors that Younis was in talks with Gaddafi gov have been denied by NTC.

Gaddafi forces have suffered massive losses in their fight with #FF in #Tiji. #Nafusa #Libya

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Nafousa: A brigade of freedom fighters is also trying to control Wamis, an important area in the desert on the way to Mizdah #libya #feb17

hominoid
Libya Brega Last know fighting at the airport and industrial zone. Just looked at map and onece these are taken they can move
To Ras lanuf but the fight will not be easy as in the industrial zone is the oil complex a massif area, which must not be damaged.

The French Foreign Ministry today the appointment of Mansour Seif El-Nasr a representative of the National Transitional Libya in Paris, noting that this reflects the close relationship between France and Libya. The French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said in a press conference that “This appointment reflects our commitment towards the new Libya”, recalling that France was the first to recognize the Transitional National Assembly as the sole representative of the Libyan people. He added that this development also comes within the framework of international recognition of the Transitional National Assembly, which is increasing day after day, noting that French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, the Libyan envoy will meet at the beginning of next month to discuss the situation in Libya

dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafi is working on the strife technique to stop our revolution. #GaddafiWillEndSoon en Sha Allah

Abeidi
#Libya,#Brega seemingly the east frontline will go on stalemate till the cleansing process finished in the back.

Missy Ryan
What to watch : role of Khalifa Heftar following Younes death #Libya #NTC … and continued reaction of Obeidi tribe

Tweeting Tripoli
Gaddafi have recruited 100s of Internet mercenaries who are calling them selves “Gaddafi Electronic Army”.

Jonny_Hallam
Can’t agree it is 100s but lots of pro-g come to #Rixos to use internet and there are dozens of PCs in Minder rooms

Mike
Does anyone know the tags for these ‘electronic army’ agents?

Jonny Hallam
The Lib Gov staff I spoke to working at #Rixos genuinely believe what they are saying. it is not that they know one thing
and say something different. They genuinely think and agree with what they put on TV.

Mary
Libyan Youth Movement
Gen AbdulFattah Younis
At these tough times we ask our Libyan brothers and sisters to refrain from speculation as nobody knows exactly what happened. We must continue in our struggle for freedom. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of Gen Younis may god have mercy on his soul.
Victory is near god willing.

WilliamsJon Jon Williams
Foreign reporters’ mobile phones “blocked” in Tropoli. No outgoing calls for those at Rixos. Coincidence? Sinister? Intriguing…

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
Opposition flag on Takhut castle yfrog.com/kg875duj

Entering Ghezaia yfrog.com/gy97235795j ##LIBYA ##AJE

dovenews Libyan™
#Atif is a 30 yr old man who was released from Gaddafi’s prison & I will be tweeting his experience in Gaddafi’s prison.

#Atif: I was arrested at the beginning of the uprising in #Tripoli’s martyr square, Gaddafi soldier hit me with his AK 47 & when I tried

to move he stabbed me with the dagger, I went unconscious & I woke up in the hospital, female Dr said the stab nearly reached your heart

after 2 days Gaddafi forces came to the hospital, pulled out the oxygen mask & the intravenous drip, Dr said "He needs to stay his condition

is very serious, they pushed her & she fell, they tied my hands & legs ….#Atif started crying….they tied me like an animal

, I went unconscious for 8 days until I woke up in prison with about 130 other imprisons guys, one said to me "you were dead we kept you

near the water" all guys were tired by their hands & legs, Gaddafi forces come & take us one by one, they put their AK47 through the rope

& carry us upstairs like sheep, thn they start to torture us, one Gaddafi solider put the green flag on top of the dagger of the AK &

said this is the flag you dont like, you like the stripy instead & thn he started stabbing my backside until it started to bleed

I have had 3 operations. end. That tweet was from #Atif one of the youth who was imprisoned & tortured by Gaddafi

dovenews Libyan™
Many young ppl are suffering every day in Gaddafi’s prisons, one can only imagines what goes on in these prisons. May Allah be with them

He was talking live on the phone to libya.tv also they showed many horrific images, peeled skin, body covered with bruises

hominoid
Libya Nafusa 3 dead and a number of wounded in today’s clashes

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
FF Graffiti in London : ) Found it in a random park #feb17 #Libya yfrog.com/klvewhqj

MSNBC
Libyan who returned from Britain finds the rebel’s life tough
NALUT, Libya — Encouraged by promises of economic and political reform, Libyan Bashir Firgani put some money together and returned home after 18 years in Britain to set up a tourism business on the coast.
But he soon concluded that success would never be possible without ties to Muammar Gaddafi’s sons and other members of the
ruling elite. Nothing had changed.

Four months later uprisings which erupted in the Arab world inspired Firgani to pour his cash into Libya’s revolution. He bought two pick-up trucks for a small group of rebels which he now leads and took up arms.
“This is the most important investment in my life,” said Firgani, 39.

Despite the risks, Firgani thinks he made the right decision. Gaddafi had made his life difficult even when he lived in Britain, long before the revolt, he said.
“People would realize I am a Libyan and you could just tell they immediately associated me with Gaddafi and terrorism and the Pam Am bombing. Eventually it really bothered me,” Firgani said.
Full art.:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43945194/ns/world_...

JAVIER
#Nalut’s hospital has received 2 dead and 4 wounded at 5:00 pm from the fighting around Tiji #Nafusa #Libya

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Zintan: #Freedomfighters defeated #Gaddafi feces stationed in #SaneAldhuab after liberating #Oams. #Libya #Feb17

Global regina
Canadian surveillance planes join propaganda war; urge Gadhafi forces to go home
CATANIA, Italy – Canada has joined an air war of a different kind in the skies over Libya, one where persuasion and sometimes insults are the weapons.
Canadian CP-140 Aurora surveillance planes recently started broadcasting propaganda messages aimed

at forces loyal to Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi.
It’s a psychological warfare operation, or PSYOPS, initially started by the Americans but now overseen by NATO – the kind of mission western militaries are reluctant to talk about openly.
The Canadian broadcasts are relatively benign in comparison to some of the harsher messages NATO has aimed at Gadhafi’s troops, in which women’s voices are telling them to stop “killing the children.”

“For your safety return to your family and your home,” says the message, which can be heard over unencrypted frequencies the military uses to broadcast basic information.
“The Gadhafi regime forces are violating United Nations resolution 1973.”

The Libyans have apparently yelled back telling the “Yankee pigdogs” to go home. On at least one occasion last week, an Arabic sounding voice challenged the broadcasts.
“Who are you talking to?” the voice asked.
“Anyone who will listen,” replied the other voice who had read the message.
Gadhafi’s regime has tried to jam the transmissions.
Full art.:
www.globalregina.com/Canadian+surveilla...

Washington Post
Undaunted by civil war a lone Libyan swimmer pays his way to Shanghai to compete at worlds
SHANGHAI — Libyan swimmer Sofyan Elgidi finished last in his heat in the 100-meter butterfly at the world championships Friday. To him, getting here was all that mattered.
Elgidi is the only swimmer representing his country in Shanghai. Because of the turmoil in his country, the 19-year-old has no coach or team manager with him.
“I’m basically here by myself,” he told The Associated Press after his swim in the morning preliminaries. “It’s very hard, but it has to be done. That’s all I can say. You’ve got to get through. You can’t let anything stop you.”
Elgidi finished in 58.38 seconds, more than six seconds behind the top qualifier for the semifinals, Tyler McGill of the United States. He ended up in 57th place out of 66 starters.
“Anything for swimming,” he said. “This is my first world championships.”
His thoughts, however, haven’t strayed far from his family in Libya. He said his uncles and two of his grandparents are in Tripoli. He doesn’t speak to them often. The last time he was in the country was November, months before the government protests began.
“They’re not saying anything basically,” he said. “They can’t say anything because they’re monitored on the phones.”
Full story:
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/libyan-sw...

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
I have not been to al Jawsh today, but Jadu media centre say nothing happened today. Opposition fighters remain outside village.

To explain, Jadu Media Centre is the opposition town’s official spokesperson unit. Most towns in TBC area have one.

Here as in other wars, I source all info. All claims, nothing is truth until seen with own eyes!

CORRECTION: Earlier post should have read TNC, Transitional National Council.

Guardian
Gaddafi is stronger than ever in Libya
The fact Gaddafi has survived the rebellions and Nato bombing undermines the simplistic view of a hated tyrant clinging on
Link:
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/j...

FreeLibyan:
This is the #General responsible for shelling #Nalut & surrounding towns 24/7/5months. he s getting treated by kin twitpic.com/5xsr92

News: #Gaddafi forces using locals of #Bader & #Tiji as human shields. #PFFF

Meanwhile,youths r still dying n #Nafousa W no @NATO Guys plz give a shout W me 4 #NATO 2 protect our bro.I got breathless calling them no R

FromJoanne Joanne
Obituary Abdel Fattah #Younes أغتيال اللواء عبدالفاتح يونس youtube.com/watch?v=T_v6cz… #Algezeera #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_v6czxqd44&amp

#Gharyan channel just announced the birth of a child named :) “Abdel-Fattah #Younis” #Nafusa #Libya

BENGHAZI Footage of Gen #Younis Funeral youtube.com/watch?v=ZuYanK… #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuYanKReF1I&fea...

Younis must hv gathered considerable wealth while being best friends of #MuammarGaddafi 40 yrs = #hellofallot of $$$$

LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING: The defeat of the tyrant’s troops in the area of Zwet Althweb near #Mizda. Allah Akbar!! #Libya #feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Reports that #Freedomfighters have removed #Gaddafi trash in the area of #ZwetAlthweb near #Mizda. #Libya #Feb17

NAMES G INFORMANTS & HENCHMEN:
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Breaking: List with full names of Tripoli Gaddafi informers & henchmen including their mobile & ID numbers #Feb17 #Libya is.gd/pkDR1t
www.17022011libya.com/vb/showthread.php?t=7509

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Fathi AlAgha one of Saif Gaddafi’s right hand men is now in Ramada Plaza Hotel in the capital of Tunisia #Feb17 #Libya

LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
FIGHTING IN BER ALGHANAM NOW!! ALLAH AKBAR!!

It is Aprox 80KMs South of Tripoli

cencio4 David Cenciotti
That’s a news: Italian Typhoon no longer taking part in Operation Unified Protector in Libya. Due to total lack of air threat?

LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
Inshallah last Push to #Tripoili prior to #Ramadan in the fronts expected, Inshallah in #Tripoli by begining of Ramadan!! #Libya #feb17

AP
Yahoo News:
By RAMI Al-SHAHEIBI

Officer accuses fellow rebels in Libya killing
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — The commander of the Libyan rebels’ military was killed by fellow rebels while in custody after he was arrested by the opposition’s leadership on suspicion of treason, witnesses said Friday, indicating a potentially major split in the ranks of the movement battling Moammar Gadhafi.
The National Transitional Council, the rebels’ leadership body, has said it is investigating the killing. It blamed unidentified “gunmen” and has made no confirmation that Younis had been arrested. It has said only that Younis was gunned down on route to Benghazi, where he had been summoned to discuss “a military matter.”
But a rebel special forces officer under Younis’ command told The Associated Press that Younis was taken before dawn on Wednesday from his operations room at Zoueitina, just east of the main front with Gahdafi’s forces.
Fighters from a rebel faction known as the February 17 Martyr’s Brigade came to the operations room and demanded Younis come with them for interrogation, said the officer, Mohammed Agoury, who said he was present at the time.
Agoury said he tried to accompany his commander, “but Younis trusted them and went alone.”
“Instead, they betrayed us and killed him,” he said.
Younis’ body was found on Thursday, dumped outside Benghazi, along with the bodies of two colonels who were his top aides. They had been shot and their bodies burned.

An officer with the rebels’ internal security forces — the official security force of the National Council — told AP that the council ordered Younis’ arrest after a letter arose earlier this week connecting the commander to Gadhafi. But he suggested the killing had not been authorized by the council and was instead an act of vengeance by rebels.
He said Younis was brought back to the Benghazi area Wednesday and held at a military compound until Thursday, when he was summoned to the Defense Ministry for questioning.

As they left the compound, two men from the security team escorting the detainees opened fire from their car on Younis with automatic weapons, said the officer, who was at the compound and saw the shooting. He said the two men were members of the February 17 Martyrs Brigade.
“The men’s leader was shouting ’Don’t do it!’ but they shot Younis and his two aides, and took their bodies in their car and drove away,” the officer said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the events.

Agoury said the Martyrs Brigade had an agenda against Younis, because while with the regime he was involved in the bloody crackdown that crushed the LIFG.
“They don’t trust anyone who was with Gadhafi’s regime, they wanted revenge,” said Agoury.
A member of the Martyr’s Brigade said his group had evidence that Younis was a “traitor.” He told the AP that “the evidence will come out in a few days.” The brigade member spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared reprisals.
On Thursday, before the commander’s death was announced, rebel military spokesman Mohammed al-Rijali had said Younis was taken to Benghazi for “interrogation” on suspicion his family might still have ties to Gadhafi regime.

Thousands marched in Younis’ funeral procession on Friday, as men draped the rebel tricolor flag over his coffin and carried it to a cemetery, where he was buried.
Younis’ son, Ashraf, broke down, crying and screaming as they lowered the body into the ground.
“We want Moammar to come back! We want the green flag back!” he shouted at the crowd, betraying his frustration with the months of chaos in the country and a desire for a return to normalcy.
Younis’ deputy Col. Suleiman Mahmoud has taken over the military’s duties in Benghazi.

AP correspondent Hadeel al-Shalchi in Cairo contributed to this report.
Please read full story:http://news.yahoo.com/officer-accuses-fellow-rebels-libya-killing-154937968.html

IMPORTANT:
United4Libya LIBYAN

(chargé d’affaires) Khaled Sha’ban wants to put pro #Gaddafi families in the libyan government buildings in London, so they will obstract and …….

. delay the transition of the libyan people’s posessions back to us. So plz take abit of your time to help us prevent that.

#FF – Elthwar are gathering now infront of our embassy at hide park corner and the caltural affairs building at sw7 1nh .

I looked for some news about above tweets from United Libya and stumbled upon this, unconfirmed of course, for completion I posted it below f.y.i.:

Mitkanti Osama
imp point!! before London expelled the #libyan embassy staff! a full staff was coming from libya and everyone of them is a #werffelli 1/y
The full compliment was selected from werfella in order to come and run the embassy on behalf of Gaddafi!! THIS NEWS IS 100% VERIFIED! 2/Y

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Reports of cars in different locations in #Tunisia w/both #Gaddafi “flag” & Freedom Flag. #Libya #Feb17

#Misrata: Report of 4 martyrs after #Freedomfighters repelled an attack on the SW front. #Gaddafi forces suffer heavy casualties. #Libya

#Tripoli: Reports that #Gaddafi staging a fake anti protest tomorrow in attempt to get those against him into streets to purge. #Libya

URGENT:

dovenews Libyan™
ALERT! False anti #Gaddafi rally tomrw led by G forces pretending 2 be #FF, so genuine anti G protesters go out 2 be arrestd/killd.

ALERT! The rally will be led by Gaddafi thugs pretending to be #FF, we might even see the cars he has painted with the indp flag.

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
PLEASE warn TRIPOLI FFs tomorrow is NOT Zero Hour. It’s a TRAP!!!!! #Feb17 #Libya

Gaddafi trying to pre-empt Tripoli ‘s rise by falsely creating a zero hour to trap FFs tomorrow. It’s a trap #Feb17

100% confirmed: PLZ RT! Warn TRIPOLI FFs tomorrow is NOT zero hour. It’s a TRAP set up by Gaddafi security to trap protesters #Feb17 #Libya

Very Important: Reda Bin Musa 13 yr ex political prisoner & anti- Gaddafi activist who left Tripoli 2 days ago says on Ahrar TV G Security falsely spreading word Zero hour in Tripoli is tmw. If you can plz warn FFs of this possibility and to be extremely cautious tmw if they eventually decide to go out #Feb17

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Gaddafi & his security in Tripoli panicking & desperate because of the progress in Nafusa and recent Hay AlAndalus Operation #Feb17 #Libya

Gaddafi position is dire. Progress in Nafusa w/ daring Hay AlAndalus op & other ops in Tripoli is causing panic amongst Pro G #Feb17 #Libya

Tweeting Tripoli
Confirmed from people in the Electricity company. Tripoli has 2 more weeks B4 the big blackout. Not looking forward to it. #feb17 #Libya

hominoid
Libya Photos of today`s fights near to Al-Majabrah village 29/07/2011 facebook.com/media/set/?set…
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.26317...

Nalut Feb17 Media Committee
Breaking news
Violent clashes between our freedom fighters and Gaddafi troops by Grad launchers and Tanks in the area between Alhawwamd village. specifically at post-junction that leads to Majabrah village.
Today`s clashes resulted in two martyrs one is from Alhawwamd village and a martyr from Nalut city named (Haitham Salem Al-taleb) in addition to a number of our fighters got simple wounds. Thanks Allah.

US urges Libyan rebels to show unity
WASHINGTON — The United States pressed Libyan opposition leaders Friday to shore up any cracks in their front against Moammar Gadhafi’s regime, after the mysterious killing of a top rebel commander raised the spectre of infighting among the forces hoping to replace four decades of dictatorship

Libya Brega Heavy attack by G troops at dawn this morning was repelled.

Liby Tripoli FFs plant car bomb 2 Gaddafi scum killed.

Libya more than a thousand land mines found in the Port area of Brega

Misurata Center for Documentation of the martyrs media – the martyrs of the city of Misurata for this here on Friday 07/29/2011
1 – Abdul Hadi Bayou
2 – Sheikh Ahmed bin Hmida
3 – Osama bin Ismail
4 – Mahmoud Almhrk
We ask God Almighty to make them martyrs of him and have mercy mercy

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
After the death of Abdelfatah Younis… Gaddafi: “There’s still 5 million of them left!” fb.me/125fjAIw5
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=289774&id=137199749688243

BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
now the oil minister apparently claims #younis killed by rogue rebel fighters #libya #benghazi

well to be fair, we knew yesterday that this is what happened, but #TNC wasn’t admitting directly #libya #benghazi

Today received a rumor/report from a friend that a hospital staffer reports #younis arrived shot in the back late morning yesterday

allegedly #younis had been shot in the back and was taken by family to his home at approximately 1pm #libya

some rumors circulating that former prisoners from #abusalim prison killed #younis yesterday #libya #benghazi

have not spoken to anyone who claims to have seen #younis body only the coffin was visible today at the #courthouse #benghazi #libya

its important to know whats being said in order to find the true story lots of confusing reports now #younis #libya

furthermore, the “rumors” when collated together provided a reasonable narrative that seems to match the “known facts” #younis

the hospital rumor is not something that i can judge the veracity of #younis #libya

with regard to #younis rumors we have to take a line from @colbertreport and attempt to judge the “truthiness” of them

one man’s rumor.., pls don’t be a troll. i am in benghazi attempting to provide transparency on the street dialogue

this is exactly the point of my tweets, we need to know all the “rumors” to attempt to cull an accurate narrative

the question ppl in #libya need answered is who/why/how notsomuch what/where/when #younis

most likely explanation is that a trusted group infiltrated rebels and betrayed this, the question is

how/why/who

we need to know which way the winds are blowing, rumors have as much strength as facts sometimes

I am not calling it a “report” i am calling it a “rumor” however much of #libya war has started as rumors

we should not increase ignorance and complacency we need truth and facts to keep us safe and seek progress #libya

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Trust me FFs in Tripoli have not used force yet. Zero Hour will surprise the world & there is nothing Gaddafi can do about it #Feb17 #Libya

Tripolitanian Libyan
We are now firmly in control of another border town, Ghezaia (north of Wazin) all the way to another town, Tukut. #Libya #Feb17 #Nafusa

Stay strong, stay united, #Libya.

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
Opp. fighters celebrating in Ghezaia yfrog.com/kf717yej ##LIBYA ##AJE

tonybirtley tony birtley
no senior members of NTC at Abdel Fattah Younes’ funeral. why?

younes’ men convinced islamists within opposition forces responsible for murder of Abdel Fattah. concerns his death will provoke backlash

claims that Abdel Fattah was arrested three days ago, not one, by islamists within opposition. he was killed and body burned. his men, angry

Abdel fattah’s death poses questions about the make up of a post Gadaffi Libya. secular or Islamist? divisions may start to appear

david_bachmann_ AC Tripolis
Yesterday my office in #Tripoli has been attacked by bandits trying to loot for the second time in three weeks.Police came within 15 min.

EU sanctions really biting now: Very difficult to bring European goods into Libya: Ports sanctioned, banks sanctioned, no e-mail #Libya

Oil,sugar,rice,water often difficult to find in Tunisia-all bought by #Libyans for bringing it over the border.Tunisians slightly irritated

Trucks full of Melons driving into #Libya from Tunisa

KC_Tripolitania KC
It started in Benghazi. It will end in Tripoli. The Zero Hour is coming. Tripoli is yet to use force. #Benghazi #Tripoli #Libya #Feb17

Triploli scream
I posted a new photo to Facebook fb.me/M9uHWaEE
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=587356&id=196059987096192

Miss B
Even after #Gaddafi leaves it will be a long long way until #Libya’s rebuilt. & the only thing that will rebuild it is a united spirit.

Met a friend of mine who was in #Benghazi the 2nd time it was attacked. He walks around like he’s going to be shot. Mental exhaustion.

LibyaAlHurraTV
#Tawasil aid org’s Facebook Page hacked by Pro-#Gaddafi loyalists facebook.com/pages/Tawasil-… Please report page to FB. #Libya

SecularLibya
Brega is finished – matter of time. But now with Islamists killing AFY, it is all up in the air. #NATO must be disappointed.

alJazeera: “#Feb17 Martyrs Brigade act as a semi-official internal security force for the rebels”. These Salafis MUST be arrested.

Do NOT trust BBC’s narrative that AFY was “distrusted”. This is an ideological murder where the Islamists want to eliminate seculars.

#NTC must arrest all Salafis & Islamists in #Feb17 Martyr & take their weapons and disband them. They want to take over Free #Libya by force

There is no doubt that Salafi Islamists (not Al-Q) who have infiltrated internal security killed AFY Mirrors Iran.

Mwattin Leebi
Apparently #Gaddafi, as usual, has announced Ramadan before sighting of the moon for #Libya will start this coming Sunday 31st July.

FromJoanne Joanne
To some TRANSPARENCY is just a WORD

Sarah LFFR
If you push a bit, will fall down – Uncle’s house . #Benghazi #gaddaficrimes #Libya twitpic.com/5xvhg4

Uncle’s house pics – a wall riddled with bullet, why ? #Benghazi #Libya #17feb twitpic.com/5xv9jl

“Our problem is not with practising Islam but that we don’t know what it means to practise Islam.”

live2Tripoli
#FF before the early attack on Thursday youtube.com/watch?v=kVP7L5… #JabalNafusa #Libya #Feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVP7L5H6J2k&fea...

PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
Reuters: U.N. Security panel that has been deadlocked 4 months is prepared to release #Libyan assets frozen to purchase humanitarian aid

Al Arabiya News
Libya rebels admit colleagues killed their star military leader. By Mustapha Ajbaili
Libyan rebel leader Abdel Fattah Younis was killed and his body was dumped outside Benghazi by fellow rebels who were sent to summon him for questioning over alleged links to Col. Muammar Qaddafi, rebel finance minister Ali Tarhouni said.

Mr. Tarhouni said a rebel leader who was asked to fetch General Younis from the frontline near the oil town of Brega had been arrested and had confessed that his subordinates had carried out the killing. The men who fired the shots remained at large.
“It was not him. His lieutenants did it,” Mr. Tarhouni told reporters in the rebel-held eastern city of Benghazi. The suspects were not identified.

Meanwhile, Colonel Qaddafi’s spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, said that the assassination of General Younis was undertaken by Al Qaeda.

“By this act, Al-Qaeda wanted to mark out its presence and its influence in this region,” Mr. Ibrahim said.

Libya’s National Transitional Council said it formed a committee to probe the assassination of General Younis, chief of the rebel army fighting to oust Mr. Qaddafi.

“The NTC has appointed an investigative committee and we will publish all the facts of this investigation,” said Mr. Torhuni, who handles economic affairs.

He said General Younis’s bullet-ridden body and partly burned body was found overnight in a field of the suburbs of Benghazi but that the NTC had received news of the crime on Thursday when the head of the group behind the killing confessed.

“He had the air of a cinema actor, sure of himself, well suited to his uniform,” an AFP photographer said of the grey-haired but still athletic general.

But his “conversion” was not welcomed everywhere with open arms, as some continued to look upon the former regime insider with real suspicion.

(Mustapha Ajbaili, Managing Editor of Al Arabiya English, can be reached at: [email protected])
Full art.: english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/07/...

IvanCNN Ivan Watson

Two loud airstrikes in #Tripoli in last 10 minutes. The jets are flying.

JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
explosion shook our #tripoli hotel… smaller ones felt earlier. #Libya

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
Boom! That last airstrike shook the building. #Tripoli #Libya

JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
We were taken to Bou Salim, a poor neighborhood of #Tripoli – people were friendly & hospitable. #Libya

jamal
#Brega the Free Libyan Army has now (30/07/11) entered the industrial area. source: satellite phone call from Brega الله اكبر ولله الحمد

somaya kalla
I know exactly what you’re saying. you know it’s bad when I am at loss for both english & libee curse words.. s7eega inshallah

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
Musa Ibrahim accuses Al Qaeda of arresting and shooting dead Abdul Fattah Younis, then burning his body. #Libya

BREAKING:
air strikes a couple of minutes ago on Tripoli at Gaddafi’s compound and further south towards the capital

dhdfisher Daniel Fisher BBC
3 strikes shake the Rixos

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
Next film for #Rixos movie night will be "LIVE FROM BAGHDAD’. minders take note!

Tell BagdadBrian!

Khiria
If a psychologist read all my tweets, I’m sure I’d get diagnosed with some sort of mood disorder. #GaddafiCrimes

FreeLibyanman FreeLibyan
#Zintan FF we captured 7 vehicles in special op @ #Alhwamed.no 1 of us sustained even a minor superfacial injury LOL :D youtube.com/watch?v=OO-Sep…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO-SepXuR-I&fea...

Khiria
Those appeasing #Gaddafi are like “ones who feed a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last”—Winston Churchill #Libya

wheelertweets James Wheeler
Tunis Tissue Art: #Misrata FF Issa Al Shebbah (in the Abu Almour group) made this poignant sketch yesterday. #Libya twitpic.com/5xqpr9

Before the revolution, 27 yr old Issa was a kitchen designer, using his clever creativity on 3D software, not napkins.

Kadega & Zinab Shabba (mother & daughter). At Tunis hospital now, as I’m writing, from #Misrata #Libya 4 care 4 Kadega. t.co/3ifN1dj

Sammy Ali Amr: #Libyan from Australia killed by a #Gaddafi merc this month in Qwaleesh. Lived in

Sydney. Born 1970. Now buried in #Zintan.

An Australian citizen. Came back to visit his brother & join the fight. Was in #Tunisia a week & then #Libya for 12 days.

Spoke to Sammy Ali Amr’s injured brother Riad this evening in Tunisia. He wants to make sure the Australian govt knows.

Sammy & Misbah Sassi had the chance to run away. Before they were shot dead. But they refused. Stood their ground. #libya

LIBYAN
We are young revolution that will face many challenges to come, the first one just passed with few drawback.

SecularLibya
The low-lifes of #Feb17 Martyrs Brigade should be at the fronts getting martyred. Why R they in Benghazi killing the opposition? #Libya

dhdfisher Daniel Fisher BBC
Nato hitting Tripoli multiple times tonight

Libyan
#Libya’s #NTC has launched a full investigation into the assassination of the late General Abdel Fatah Younis. ##Feb17

30 Jul. 2011
NATO silences Qadhafi’s terror broadcasts
Statement by the Spokesperson for NATO Operation Unified Protector, Colonel Roland Lavoie, regarding air strike in Tripoli
A few hours ago, NATO conducted a precision air strike that disabled three ground-based Libyan state TV satellite transmission dishes in Tripoli. The strike, performed by NATO fighter aircraft using state-of-the art precision guided munitions, was conducted in accordance with the UN Security Council Resolution 1973, with the intent of degrading Qadhafi’s use of satellite television as a means to intimidate the Libyan people and incite acts of violence against them.
Our intervention was necessary as TV was being used as an integral component of the regime apparatus designed to systematically oppress and threaten civilians and to incite attacks against them. Qadhafi’s increasing practice of inflammatory broadcasts illustrates his regime’s policy to instill hatred amongst Libyans, to mobilize its supporters against civilians and to trigger bloodshed.
In light of our mandate to protect civilian lives, we had to act. After due consideration and careful planning to minimize the risks of casualties or long-term damage to television transmission capabilities, NATO performed the strike and we are now in the process of assessing its effect. Striking specifically these critical satellite dishes will reduce the regime’s ability to oppress civilians while at the same time preserve television broadcast infrastructure that will be needed after the conflict.
NATO will continue to take appropriate measures to enforce the UN mandate and to protect the lives of the people of Libya.
(This statement is also available in video on the NATO website)

MUST READ ( Arabic):
Morale of G troops low and ff’s take control of five towns
www.al-sharq.com/articles/more.php?id=2...

SUMMARY JULY 30th 2011

7/30/2011
7.30.2011

“I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.”

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

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
NATO’s bombing of Libyan state TV satellite dishes doesn’t seem to have made any impact on TV channel reception in #Tripoli

dhdfisher Daniel Fisher BBC
Libyan state tv still broadcasting despite NATO airstrikes

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA Some explosions heard at frontline near Al Jawsh a while ago. Quiet now.

#LIBYA Aircraft, presumably NATO, heard overheard near Al Jawsh.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Malta CARGO SHIP “PURKI” en route to port #Benghazi #Libya ETA: 2011-07-31 14:00 (UTC). #Feb17

#Tripoli: 10 meter Satellite dish 32°51’43.15"N, 13°16’55.19"E is still up next to #Libya State TV building @NATO bombed last month.

#Misrata: Report of 4 martyrs after #Freedomfighters repelled an attack on the SW front. #Gaddafi forces suffer heavy casualties. #Libya

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Amazing: LPC: Everyone in Tripoli will be fasting Ramadan only when Benghazi declares it. Allahu Akbar. Libya is one #feb17 #Libya

Nasr
#NileSat is still up. But #NATO just knocked out a few dishes.

Perhaps this will make it easier for the #EGYPT ians to take off #NileSat

tonybirtley tony birtley
war is tough. try breakfast at Benghazi’s Tibesty hotel. anyone had worse?

ღ.¸¸Libeeya¸¸.ღ
So Gaddafi regime won’t give up on the ‘alqaeda in the east’ story, & media won’t stop reporting their every word #pathetic #Libya #feb17

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Gaddafi’s channels are still up and running on Nilesat – maybe more dishes need to be taken out

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
So let me get this right… after a week of threats to Younis on Gaddafi State TV.. He gets killed by “AlQaeda” according to Gaddafi?
Does that make Gaddafi the supreme commander of AlQaeda or something? #logic
If Egyptian courts don’t make the Nilesat/Gaddafi State TV decision today then I hope NATO take down every last transmitter. #libya

Free Libyia
Well, we are the Christian Crusaders, so Gaddafi being head of Al Qaeda has some logic to it ;)

Kathleen
Can’t the UN charge NileSat of violating 1973? NileSat should have just pulled the plug on G’s TV MONTHS ago.

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Mahmoud Shammam NTC’s media minister is having a press conference right now – Urged media to be responsible and only report facts not rumors

I don’t usually agree with Mahmoud Shammam but his press conference pretty much nailed it today. #libya #rumors

Shammam: No one is above the law. An independent panel will be formed. They can question anyone in NTC or #FreeLibya #libya

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
2 daytime thumps shake #Tripoli. Apparent air strikes shortly after noon local time…unusual time for NATO to bomb. Jets overhead.

FromJoanne Joanne
#NILESAT Court case in #Cairo was due to have started an hour ago but #Libya Lawyers are Still waiting for the session to start #Libya

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
I hope the NTC come out and say the full truth about Younis. Even if it implicates leading figures. At least out of respect for FF/martyrs
This has wasted way too much precious time and it’s distracting us from the real criminal and tyrant – the person #feb17 is about #libya
:( I got a bad throat, head, stomach… 6 months of little to no sleep and stress… La ilaha illa allah

Aljazeera
NATO
NATO bombed three satellite dishes in Tripoli early on Saturday morning in an attempt to put state television off the air, but the channel has continued to broadcast.
NATO at first distributed a press release video to journalists titled “NATO silences Qadhafi’s terror broadcasts” but later changed that to “NATO strikes Libyan state TV satellite facility”.

Aljazeera:
A special forces member under the command of the Libyan rebels’ slain military chief has accused a rebel faction in the
killing.
Mohammed Agoury told the AP news agency on Friday that he was present when a group of rebels from a faction known as the February 17 Martyrs’ Brigade came to Younes’s operations room and took
him away for interrogation.

Aljazeera:
Supporters of the anti-Gaddafi opposition fights are still struggling to figure out why Abdel Fattah Younes, the rebel military leader, was assassinated on Thursday. “It is a mystery for us because we don’t know why he was called in for questioning and we were shocked because we trusted him,” said Mahmud Mabruk, a 50-year-old taxi driver.

“We were shocked he was assassinated because he is an important leader for us,” Farah Dorbak, 51, told the AFP news agency as he headed into Al-Hiwary cemetery to pay his last respects to Younes. “This is a dishonest betrayal to him, our country and the revolution. It is all Gaddafi’s fault.”

The circumstances of Thursday’s killing of Younes, a former Libyan interior minister and a linchpin of Gaddafi’s regime before his defection in February, remained murky on Friday, even as rebels pointed the finger of blame at Libya’s leader.

“Gaddafi’s channels said there would be a surprise for Benghazi this Thursday – I am afraid this is what they meant,” said Mustafa Bayu, 55. “Gaddafi can kill anyone. He’s been at it for 42 years.”

“He was a big asset for us because he worked for Gaddafi for so long that he knew what his

troops have, how they move," said Mohammed al-Reibi, 21, an aerospace engineer.

Others said the death would encourage the opposition’s efforts. “This will give rebels in Brega even more more push to go forward and get revenge for this,” said a former soldier who fought for Gaddafi in Chad

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
Last nite’s #Tripoli airstrikes explained. NATO says it bombed Libyan state TV satellite dishes to “silence Gadhafi’s terror broadcasts”

david_bachmann_ AC Tripolis
Checkpoints along the road from Tripoli – Ras Ajdir dramatically decreased #Libya
These days first German trade mission to #Benghazi – arrived with Transal Military Plane #Libya
Tunis Carthage airport: Full of #Libya n cars parked everywhere – no parking space left.

NATO
NATO said on Saturday it had bombed three ground-based Libyan state television satellite transmission dishes in Tripoli in order to silence “terror broadcasts” by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
“Our intervention was necessary as TV was being used as an integral component of the regime apparatus designed to systematically oppress and threaten civilians and to incite attacks against them,” NATO spokesman Colonel Roland Lavoie said in a video statement distributed by the alliance’s press service.
He said the effectiveness of the strike was being assessed.
Following the statement, Libyan state television, monitored by Reuters in London, was still on the air.

State tv:
Libyan television continued to broadcast, and early on Saturday was showing a repeat of a political talk show from the previous evening.

G spox:
Libya’s government spokesman said on Friday that forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi had killed at least 190 rebels in fighting in the west of the country since Wednesday.
Moussa Ibrahim also said that al Qaeda was responsible for the death of rebel military chief Abdel Fattah Younes, whose death on Thursday dealt a blow to the rebels and Western forces seeking to remove Gaddafi.
The rebels claimed to have taken several towns in a fresh offensive in the west. A rebel minister earlier on Friday said that Younes had been killed by militia fighters allied to the rebellion.

Reuters:
Rebels have encircled Muammar Gaddafi’s last stronghold in Libya’s Western Mountain region and hope to seize it soon, a commander said on Saturday.
Rebel tanks fired at Tiji, where an estimated 500 government troops are stationed, and the blasts could be heard from the nearby town of Hawamid, which was captured on Thursday in a new offensive against the army.
“We have Tiji surrounded and we hope to take it by the end of the day,” rebel commander Nasir al Hamdi, a former colonel in Gaddafi’s police force, told Reuters as gunfire crackled in the distance and he surveyed a battleground scattered with tank shell casings and government anti-aircraft bullets.

Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
Gaddafi troops bombing Jalo, South of Ajdabia, with Grad, since 11am. Jalo is very important, has lots of oil wells around it #libya

Joanne
Please NOTE #NILESAT VERDICT they got was from an Egyptian COURT & according 2LAW Gaddafi DefenseLawyers will use ALL delay tactics #Libya

jenanmoussa Jenan Moussa
#libya tv broadcasting from #Qatar actually has a black banner on upper side of screen, in mourning of Abdul Fatah Younis.

LIBYA TRIPOLI
Two explosions heard in #Tripoli by #NATO I’d daytime. #libya

Lebeeya
The less said, the more rumors started #NTC

Tripolitano
Inmarsat and iridium phone more safe for FFs to use in #tripoli

Tripolitano
Vey important news from tripoli: more arrests last few days. With many related to usage of Thuraya phones. Guys pls use different locations
I know 4 a fact #gaddafi could locate thuraya users. This was before NATO hit infrastructure. Not sure now. H/ever never use it from ur home

hominoid
Libya Heavy shelling on the city of Jalu south of Ajdabiya.

FromJoanne Joanne
Aft 2day session #LibyaLawyers will go2 #Nilesat 2ShutDown14Channels if in 30 days theyDONTcomply they can file a noncompliance &JAIL theCEO

Tripolitano
I’ve given up on #Egypt judicial system. They can appeal again and drag it for months

Gihan
#London: Staff members covered their faces from the press Wednesday as they exited the Libyan Embassy in London. yfrog.com/kk2rkpvj

Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Khaled Shaaban expelled diplomat libyan embassy london with Othman Hadairi r trying 2 sell things and take ££ to G police is monitoring!!

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

ProudLibyan
A phone call from Benghazi now 2 Libya TV.Things R stable & calm not like what Gaddafi TV falsely reporting about mass chaos after Y. death

ProudLibyan
I commend the TNC on their transparency, yesterday and today’s press conferences are very important and will allay concerns.

Do not despair,Libya will be fine.Our martyrs make Libya’s future more secure not less so.I promise u we will overcome, #Libya will be free!

Tripolitano
#Gaddafi been threatening #Younis 4 mnths.Unfortunately he was successful.only blame #NTC 4 lack of more protection of key figures.

Hominoid:
Channel Libby – Clashes in the south of Misurata and G troops bombing west of the city.
Killed fifteen Killed 15 G troops at least, and wounded dozens after violent clashes erupted

between the FFs and G troops in the axis south of the city of Misurata. G troops continued its bombardment randomly in the area of Naima west of Misurata.

Telegraph:
Nato airstrikes hit Libyan state TV as regime taunts Britain

“A few hours ago Nato conducted a precision air strike that disabled three ground-based Libyan state TV satellite transmission dishes in Tripoli,” said Colonel Roland Lavoie, Nato spokesman.
But Libyan television continued to broadcast, and early on Saturday was showing a repeat of a political talk show from the previous evening.

Several explosions had shaken Tripoli late on Friday evening and state television said then that air strikes had hit civilian targets, though this was impossible to verify.
Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said: "It is a nice slap to the face of the British that the council that they recognised could not protect its own commander of the army.
“By this act, al Qaeda wanted to mark out its presence and its influence in this region.
“The other members of the National Transitional Council knew about it but could not react because they are terrified of al Qaeda.”

Read more:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/afri...

Oya
#NATO strikes short time ago on #Gaddafi’s compound and other centers that belong to the Libyan regime in Bab BinGhashir area #Libya

ProudLibyan
Mahmoud Shamam: The TNC did not summon General Younis to investigate him at all prior to his death.

Nasr
1 To threaten media w/ law suites over rumors is meaningless. If you don’t like rumors come out with facts.

2 Fact #1: #Younis was #Gaddafi’s right arm for >41 yrs Fact #2: #Younis never gained full trust of FF #NTC #Benghazi #Libya

3 Fact #3: #Younis had lead #Gaddafi’s military campaign to crush the most serious rebellion against the regime in E. Libya; killed many.

4 Fact #4: AFY’s defection has been half-hearted; he was virtually forced to defect by circumstances; he was trapped by FF

5 Fact #5: while leading FF in #Ajdabiya & #Brega he has demonstrated such obvious incompetence further raising suspicion abt his loyalty.

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
I’m yet to see any evidence that the ‘Tribes’ are as coherent a fighting force for #Gaddafi as is claimed.

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
For decades, Gaddafi made us fast Ramadan and have our Eid AGAINST THE ARAB WORLD (on diff days) – this year, it will be different iA #libya

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
Government officials say they won’t take foreign press to see aftermath of NATO bombing of state TV. #Libya

FreeLibyan
#ICC wanted #Gaddafi killed #Americans, #brits #french #Germans & many other nationalists, YET he finds #Western Journalists 2 defend him.!!

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
#Tripoli says 3 technicians from Libyan Broadcasting Authority killed & 15 journalists wounded by NATO pre-dawn bombing of Libyan state TV

Libye Libre
En #Tunisie, l’afflux de réfugiés venus de #Libye se poursuit. Ex. le 25/7 plus de 6 000 arrivants. rfi.my/p2ofG2

WESSIM
amomentofsilence : For all those who gave their lives for Arab Spring #Tunisie #Tunisia #Egypt #Libya #Syria #Yemen

Gihan
NYtimes:Libyan freedom fighters in Umm al-Far searched for soldiers loyal to Colonel Qaddafi #JabelNafousa #Libya yfrog.com/kjxk5wxj

Swami
#Libya Al Ahrar TV reports that Eastern #Brega (residential part of Brega) is liberated by FFs.

Oya
#Brega is liberated waiting for further confirmtion #Libya #FF are inside #Brega

Libye Libre
Dans certains autres messages diffusés par l’OTAN, des voix féminines demandent “d’arrêter de tuer les enfants” #Libye bit.ly/qyIAlp

Benghazidoc
#benghazi the Islamist militia group that killed #yunis intends to kill all #Gaddafi loyalists even those who had defected!

BBC
Islamist militia ‘shot Libya rebel Abdel Fattah Younes’

An Islamist militia was behind the killing of Libyan rebel commander Gen Abdel Fattah Younes, who was shot dead on Thursday, a rebel minister has said.
Ali Tarhouni said Gen Younes was killed by members of the Obaida Ibn Jarrah Brigade, a group linked to the rebels.
Full art.:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14352662

FromJoanne Joanne
BREAKING Part1 #Cairo court decided to releave itself from viewing th Discontinuance of Gaddafi lawyers and sent it to AnotherCircuit #Libya

FLASH #Cairo Court sent discontinuance Papers of GLawyers to another circuit 2b viewed next month A BLOW blow to G LAWYERS #Nilesat #Libya

IvanCNN Ivan Watson
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

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
#LIBYA we had lucky escape near Cabao. Tank shell came in just feet from us. All are safe, uninjured.

FromJoanne Joanne
200 Gaddafi troops vehicles are reported to be heading to #Jalo from the West .. #libya #feb17

baysontheroad:
#LIBYA Gaddafi forces in Tiji are firing at Opp positions overlooking them with tanks, and Grad.

Tweeting Tripoli
What gives a Muslim, a Christian, or any other religion extremist group the right to speak/act on behalf of God? #feb17 #Libya

Benghazidoc
#Libya is not fighting to free itself from 42 years of extremist dictator rule just to succumb to another form of extremism.

sabha17feb ثوار 17 فبراير سبها
طحلب سبهاوي www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1322467... http://fb.me/zIrdyDe8

FromJoanne Joanne
Gaddafi Lawyers started a COMMOTION but SECURITY THREW THEMOUT Libya Lawyers now awaiting the verdict judge in deliberation #Libya #NILESAT

Benghazidoc
The people in #Benghazi and elsewhere in #Libya are angry and will not forgive this group. #yunis’s death will be avenged.

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Gen. Younis’ tribe of Elebdeeat fully behind #Feb17 & NTC. Claims of Yunis’s son supporting #Gaddafi false. #Libya #Feb17

#Gaddafi forces have placed snipers on roof buildings in #Tiji. #Libya

#Nilesat has 30 DAYS to comply with #Cairo verdict & #Egypt law to take off 14 #Gaddafi State TV channels. #Libya #Feb17

#Gaddafi has appealed court order for #Nilesat to shut #Gaddafi State TV, #Egypt court will hear appeal on August 8th. #Libya #Feb17

#Misrata: #Freedomfighters repelled major offensive by #Gaddafi trash on Western front. 7 dead, 30 injured so far #Libya #Feb17

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Confirmed: All occupied cities in Libya will be fasting with Benghazi & celebrating Eid with Benghazi as a great act of unity with #Feb17

Tripoli: Last night there were clashes in Ghut AlShaal between the Freedom Fighters and G forces. Allahu Akbar

Misrata: At least 15 G forces killed & many injured in clashes in Qararet Qatf on Southern front with much weaponry gained #Feb17 #Libya

NTC has requested all citizens to seek the Hilal & report sighting to the closest court. First Ramadan in freedom in 42 years

Don’t forget people prayers are answered at the breaking of the fast. Make it a good one : ) #Feb17 #Libya

Heroes of Nafusa on the march before liberating Ghazaya, Takuit, Um Alfar & Alhawamid on 28 July youtu.be/bbKXfW3yvDU #Feb17 #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbKXfW3yvDU&fea...

Unconfirmed reports of G forces shelling Jalu now #Feb17 #Libya

People of Sabha and Zletin are suffering with little media attention. May Allah be with them #Feb17 #Libya

Unconfirmed reports of good progress in Brega #Feb17 #Libya

Mustafa Abdel Jalil press conference to begin shortly #Feb17 #Libya

Mustafa Abdel Jalil : An investigation committee will be formed by Benghazi DA to investigate General Younis’s death #Feb17 #Libya

Mustafa Abdel Jalil : Recall of General Younis’s from Ajdabiya was based on decision by executive committee of NTC #Feb17 #Libya

Mustafa Abdel Jalil : TNC has ordered promotion of all martyrs to rank higher than at time of martydom & provide financial assistance accordingly

Mustafa Abdel Jalil: We confirm there is no orgnaisation in Libya under auspices of AlQaeda. We can not deny that there are pockets working for Gaddafi in liberated areas

Mustafa Abdel Jalil: Reports of mistakes in Brega front were delivered to TNC executive committee for investigation as the part of the TNC responsible for this. So Judiciary committee was formed to investigate these claims. I was not personally aware of the exact details around of this decision to issue the warrant. However investigation will reveal these details

Mustafa Abdel Jalil: Based on initial reports this morning Feb 17 Martyr brigade not involved in assassination of General Younis. However, all details will be revealed by the investigation

Mustafa Abdel Jalil: According to my reports so far Fawzy Bu Katf and his colleagues having nothing to do with this issue

Mustafa Abdel Jalil: Faway Bu Katak was sent on a mission by TNC and there is no truth to rumours of his arrest

Mustafa Abdel Jalil: Tribe of Abedat of Gen. Younis fully behind #Feb17 & TNC. Claims of Yunis’s son supporting Gaddafi false.#Feb17 #Libya

Mustafa Abdel Jalil: Interior ministry has been given edict to ensure all armed groups brought under the ministry’s auspices

Mustafa Abdel Jalil: General Younis died as result of shots to head and chest and the bodies had limited burns that did not effect identification

Mustafa Abdel Jalil: at 11.45 Gen Yunis & colleagues was ambushed on way back to Benghazi. Gun men have been identified but not arrested yet but we promise to do so. Head of brigade responsible for bringing in Yunis is currently under arrest and investigation

Mustafa Abdel Jalil: Arrest warrant was issued 5 days ago. On Wednesday evening at 11pm the warrant of arrest was implemented and within 12 hours he was martyred.

Mustafa Abdel Jalil: The warrant based on reports of issues with logistical supply of wepaons, food and comms but not to the extent they would lead to assassination

Mustafa Abdel Jalil: The martydom of Gen Yunis and his 2 colleagues has effected us all. It will be a driving force that will increase our resolution of our troops on the fighting fronts

Mustafa Abdel Jalil: There are militias working for Gaddafi in liberated areas and we are working on discovering these cells

Mustafa Abdel Jalil: on Thursday at 4.30 am I ordered the arrest warrant of General Yuinis to be canceled due to the sensitive military situation and because I believed order was not issued via the proper person

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Tripoli FFs have successfully spread the word amongst each other that today’s call for zero hour by G security was a trap. #Feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Freedomfighters continue to liberate #Zliten. 3 #Gaddafi tanks, 23 cannon . #Libya #Feb17

Globewriter.com
Libyan Spokesman Musa Ibrahim loses a hair every time he lies.
He should be bald in a matter of hours.
Source:
globewriter.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/li...

BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
friend of @alivein team members brother killed today in #misrata #libya hard night ahead --

waiting more news, man killed went to #misrata w friend of mine just last week, killed in action after just few days at front #libya

Jonny_Hallam Jonny Hallam
BREAKING from MENA: on 8.8.11- Egyptian Court will hear #Gaddafi appeal against stopping State TV on #Nilesat. #Libya #Feb17
Legal arguments continue. Today, Higher Admin Court said they would hear #Gaddafi appeal to the judgement on the 8th of August.
StateTV Lawyers are appealing. If judgement is upheld they go off the air. If STV win appeal closure order will be overturned
all this according to the Middle East News Agency out of Cairo.
They have 30 days to comply. So I see no reason why they would pull the plug earlier than 30 days.

BREAKING: #VOFL #Libyan Opposition Radio says new Rebel Commander appointed: Maj Gen Sulayman Mahmud Al-Ubaydi. #Misrata #Feb17
Voice of Free Libya says #SULAYMAN was one of the first officers who abandoned #Gaddafi after #Feb17 (source #VOFL 1300gmt Today)

Jonny Hallam
Sunny day in London, BBQ on the go, ice cold beer, and chatting with girlfriend about anything we like. a privilege to have this #Freedom.

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Decision delayed… decision appealed.. decision appealed.. court date pushed back… paperwork missing.. #egypt #nilesat #useless

wheelertweets James Wheeler
A casual moment in a Tunis hospital last nite with Suleiman, my youngest Ajdabiya friend, captured by his dad. #Libya twitpic.com/5yb8hs

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Clashes reported on Brega front. … Allahu Akbar #Feb17 #Libya

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Reports of heavy #Gaddafi forces casualties in #Zliten. #Libya

#Freedomfighters were 6 km away from #AlJawsh yesterday, then pulled back to about 5 km away from #Shakshook #Libya #Feb17

THANKU4THEANGER
Epic clashes taking place on Zletin front today.9 martyrs, 35 injured with heavy G forces casualties & more than 40 G forces captured

FOOD ANYONE?
Tasnim
After a long hiatus, the Libyan Food Blog is back. Ramadan Mubarak everyone. tinyurl.com/3c4tu5z
libyanfood.blogspot.com/2011/07/ramadan...

FreeLibyan
If #Egypt & #Tunisian Revolution were entirely successful as they think, #Libyan revolution wd ve achieved its goals long time ago #Facts

libyanandproud
Breaking : #misrata #nafusa #zintan are kicking ass !

One4All4One
#boycottNilesat #boycottNilesat #boycottNilesat #boycottNilesat #boycottNilesat #boycottNilesat #boycottNilesat

Libya NFSL
Sheikh Sadek Gheriani addressing Libyan people with Mohamed Ehwas on Libya TV now libya.tv #Libya

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
Have to remember that Gaddafi TV has several trans sites all across Tripoli area, as sites come down = less coverage

#Turkey CARGO SHIP “BORA METE” 35.75813˚/29.10113˚ en route #Mersin to dest. #Tripoli #Libya. WOULD SOMEONE SINK THIS THING PLEASE? @NATO

Never forget our Martyrs – A Tribute to Libya’s Revolutionary Heroes
FEB 17 MARTYRS
feb17martyrs.com

EH172
Strange!! I am listening to Tataouine radio in my car in north England, can anybody explain? It’s 87.6 FM #Libya #tunisia

( note fyi: can happen, weather permitting on rare occasion. Called: Sporadic E layer propagation)

FreeBenghazi
Thuwar captured over 40 Gaddafiforces after entering Zliten, who r now receiving treatment in #Misrata hospital #Libya

Nusaiba
Looks like its official… Ramadan’s on Monday!!! Ahhhhh goose bumps Kool sana wa intom tyibeen my fav tweepers. Ramadan Kareem!

N_Benghazi .
Younes’ death (Allah yar7ama) is a new source of motivation for the Freedom Fighters. Thuwwar in Brega say their victory is dedicated to him

Sarah LFFR
Et on rapporte que des hommes de #Gaddafi sont violemment touchés à #Zliten .

Tweeting Tripoli
Heartbreaking story of a protester tortured in Gaddafi’s prison who was captured in February (Arabic): youtube.com/watch?v=vrfMFj… #feb17 #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrfMFjOXAGU

Sultan Al Qassemi
One of Al Jazeera’s top journalists: Washington Bureau Chief, Abderrahim Foukara discusses the Arab Spring bit.ly/o3uz05 Audio

Reuters:
Libyans face Ramadan of shortages, fear as war drags on
By Mussab Al Khairallah and Missy Ryan
MISRATA/TRIPOLI (Reuters) – In rebel-held Misrata, the vegetable market is half empty; shoppers fret over shortages and soaring prices. A few miles away in Zlitan, controlled by Muammar Gaddafi, Libyans worry about sanctions and NATO strikes.
As Libya’s civil war churns on into Ramadan with no end in sight, Libyans on both sides of the

conflict say shortages, high prices, rising summer temperatures and worry about loved ones fighting on distant fronts could mar the Muslim fasting month.
Misrata’s market is just a collection of makeshift stalls, built after the original market was destroyed in fighting. Given that Misrata is marooned in the Gaddafi-held west and only able to bring in supplies by sea, locals are resigned to shortages.
“Dates do not have a long shelf life. Our best dates are in the south,” said Mohammed Abu Zreeba of the high-energy fruit popular among Muslims breaking the dawn-to-dusk fast.
“This is far from us and cannot reach us by sea. Cars and transportation cannot get here.”
Read story here:
af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE7...

BBC:
Tripoli market bustles in spite of war
By James Reynolds
The government keeps a close eye on the foreign reporters who report from Libya’s capital. We all stay in the same hotel, we’re not allowed to go into town on our own.
We’re often taken by our escorts/translators to pro-Gaddafi rallies, where we’re free to interview the colonel’s supporters. But getting an idea of what ordinary daily life is like is much more difficult.
On the Friday before the start of Ramadan, we’re driven to the Abu Saleem part of town and given an hour to walk around the marketplace. We do so free from escorts and translators.
Even so, those who oppose Col Gaddafi may still feel too intimidated to speak freely – in this city, public criticism of the leader is unwise.

Full art.:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14354094

SF Gate
Qaddafi Forces Use Tanks in Assault on Rebel Stronghold Misrata
Bloomberg
July 30 (Bloomberg) — Armed forces loyal to the regime of Muammar Qaddafi assaulted the Libyan city of Misrata, a rebel stronghold, using tanks and artillery as the siege for control in the North African country enters a fifth month.

Government forces attacked the line around the village of Dafniya west of Misrata, in the heaviest attacks in a month, said Sedek Shalbad, commander of the rebel Hatin Brigade. Misrata’s Mujema Aleiadat hospital reported 10 rebel fighters dead and more 50 wounded by 3 p.m. local time and said it had also treated a wounded government soldier.
Read more:
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/07/29/bloomberg1376-LP5JZ66JTSE801-06L4HDREO28D6E3QGL2R1IM76J.DTL

Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Those who behind the sad killing of Gen Abdulfatah Yunus will be held accountable & punished according to rule of law. No one is above law!!

Mariam Addarrat
it’s Monday inshaa Allah. Our mosque just announced Taraweeh prayers at 10:20 on Sunday.

Guma_el_gamaty Guma El-Gamaty
Nilesat helped Gadhafi against Libyan people showed no regard for human life! What do we do with it after G is gone? buy it & close it down!

Yefrenia
Year to come in the history books, my great grand children will read them and thank all the brave souls, freedom fighters of the #ArabSpring

Sarah LFFR
Postcards4Libya address / endereco/ adresse: “Postcards for Libya” Ennasr1 Code postal: 2037 Ariana P. Box 267 Tunis, Tunisia”

BaghdadBrian Brian Conley
I wish the neighbors wouldnt fire off valuable ammunition to honor those killed in combat #libya #benghazi #misrata

Rianovosti:
Gaddafi threatens assassination of Italy’s Berlusconi – paper

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has sworn to assassinate Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Corriere della Sera reported on Saturday.
According to the newspaper, Berlusconi learned of the assassination plot through “reliable sources,” though the prime minister did not elaborate which sources.
Berlusconi said Gaddafi was not referring to his “political death,” but to his physical death, the paper added.
“Because that’s what he Gaddafi decided, he swore to this himself,” Berlusconi was quoted as saying.
Art.:
en.rian.ru/world/20110730/165470805.html

libyaoutreach Libya Outreach
Father: " Even though I feel Malaak may never be the same after the attack, I’m so happy she will be able to walk and run again one day."

Dima_Khatib Dima Khatib أنا ديمة
Ramadan is knocking our doors .. toc toc toc .. here I come, in the midst of your revolutions. It will be a revolutionary Ramadan !!!

FreeLibya. 1/2 In regards to the tweet I posted a week ago about the Libyan woman who received an anonymous phone call from Libya informing her her
2/2 husband had died turned out to be a lie. Her husband is still alive and Gaddafiforces thought they’d be funny & prank call the poor lady

N_Benghazi .
The NTC presser was a show of transparency and strength; this revolution is bigger than one man, that we can overcome what G throws at us.

MaLak
Libya will celebrate #Eid in a NEW FREE Libya, inshallah #libya #feb17

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
99.9% free areas of #Libya will be fasting on Monday. Gaddafi might decide to be different as usual though. #feb17

Tripolitanian Libyan
Gaddafi forces terrorizing civilians in #Zliten have been resupplying from the south. #Libya
Libyan
Revolutionaries pushing forward in #Brega, surrounded #Tiji and clashing w/ #Gaddafi terrorists in #Zliten. #Libya #Feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#NATO has dropped flyers on #Gaddafi forces stationed in #Tiji & #Badr informing them to surrender. #Libya #Feb17

#Gaddafi OIL TANKER “ALHANI” 40.32372˚/-11.18833˚ en route to dest. #Lagos #Nigeria. #Libya #Feb17

#Zliten: Fierce fighting happening now in area of #Azdoa. #Libya #Feb17

AL-MARYS AL YOUM
Reuters
Rebels attack last Qadhafi Western Mountain stronghold
HAWAMID, Libya – Rebels have encircled Muammar Qadhafi’s last stronghold in Libya’s Western Mountain region and hope to seize it soon, a commander said on Saturday.
Rebel tanks fired at Tiji, where an estimated 500 government troops are stationed, and the blasts could be heard from nearby Hawamid, a town 200km southwest of Tripoli, which was captured on Thursday in a new offensive against the army.
“We have Tiji surrounded and we hope to take it by the end of the day,” rebel commander Nasir al Hamdi, a former colonel in Qadhafi’s police force, told Reuters as gunfire crackled in the distance and he surveyed a battleground scattered with tank shell casings and anti-aircraft bullets.
Despite inferior firepower and little experience, rebels captured several towns and villages where government forces had been dug in along plains below the Western Mountains this week.
Read more here:
www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/481859

LibyaNewMedia

Heavy fighting at the western front of Misrata near Zlitan. So far the casualties among revolutioanries are 12 dead & 70 wounded. #Libya

Sarah LFFR
Uncle’s friend from #Tripoli : "When #NATO is bombing #Tripoli we feel very fine. But when they don’t, we can’t sleep.. " #Libya #17Feb

ALJAZEERA:
Tony Britley
Libyan rebels confirm Younes arrest warrant
The Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) had issued a warrant for the arrest of its top

general, who was killed by gunmen after he had been held and questioned by their investigators regarding “a military matter”, the head of the council says.
Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the head of the NTC, said that the warrant had been signed by Ali Essawi, his deputy, and that after Abdel Fattah Younes, the commander of the rebel armed forces, had been questioned on Thursday he had been released.
Jalil, speaking at a press conference on Saturday, said that it was following Younes’ release that two men killed the general and two of his aides.
Jalil said that the men fled with the bodies in a car, and had later burned them.
He stressed that the throats of the men had not been cut, apparently suggesting that the killing was not the work of Islamists, Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley, who was at the press conference in Benghazi, reported.
“Jalil inferred that this was the work of pro-Gaddafi agents seeking to create divisions within the opposition,” Birtley said.
Jalil also announced that there would be a clampdown on informal armed groups who have not been fighting under the banner of the opposition armed forces.
“The time has come to disband these brigades. Anybody who refuses to take part in this decree will be tried with the full measure of the law,” Jalil said.
Ali Tarhouni, the NTC’s oil minister, said that members of the armed groups in Benghazi could either join the rebel armed forces at the frontlines, join the Benghazi security services or lay down their arms.
Inconsistencies
Birtley reported that there were inconsistencies between the various accounts of the death coming from the NTC.
“For example, shortly before Jalil’s press conference, the media information minister said that the general had been recalled to Benghazi just to discuss the situation on the frontline. He made no mention of a warrant,” Birtley said.

The NTC earlier announced that it had formed an “investigative committee” to probe the assassination of Younes and the two aides, after a special forces officer and opposition minister said fellow rebels had been responsible for murdering them.
The killing of the general has created a power vacuum at the top of the military hierarchy and raised questions about divided allegiances within the opposition.
Tarhouni had earlier claimed that a rebel militia leader who had been asked to fetch Younes from the front line near the town of Brega had been arrested and had confessed that his subordinates carried out the killing
Conflicting accounts of death

A spokesman for Gaddafi said al-Qaeda was responsible for Younes’ death, while a rebel special forces officer said the perpetrators were members of the February 17th Martyrs’ Brigade, one of the many ad-hoc units that have formed during the uprising.
Jalil had called Younes “one of the heroes of the 17th of February revolution” at a late-night press conference on Thursday, during which he announced the killing.
Jalil did not say Gaddafi’s forces were directly responsible for Younes’ killing at the time, but said Gaddafi was seeking to break the unity of rebel forces.
Younes, a longtime aide and interior minister to Gaddafi, defected on February 20 and helped the mostly unarmed protesters in Benghazi overthrow the regime’s military garrison there.
By Saturday, several sources were placing blame for the killing, with some accusing Gaddafi.
“By this act, al-Qaeda wanted to mark out its presence and its influence in this region”, Gaddafi spokesman Moussa Ibrahim told reporters. “It is al-Qaeda that has the power in the east.”
But Mohammed Agoury, a member of the rebel special forces, told the AP news agency that he was present when a group of rebels from the February 17th Brigade came to Younes’ operations room before dawn on Wednesday and took him away for interrogation.
Younes had been summoned to appear before a judicial inquiry convened by the NTC to investigate a “military affair,” Jalil said on Thursday.
Sources said Younes was suspected of somehow collaborating with Gaddafi’s regime.
Agoury said he tried to accompany his commander, but Younes “trusted them and went alone”.
“Instead, they betrayed us and killed him,” he said.
Abdul Hakim, a nephew of Younes, said that Younes’ body was returned to his family on Thursday, burned and bearing bullet wounds.
Source and read full report:
english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/...

Aljazeera:
Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel Hamid reports that there was “intense fighting” this afternoon on the western front, in an area called Souk al-Talat on the outskirts of Zliten.

She says that rebels pushed forward but were then forced back into defensive positions. They say that Gaddafi’s forces there have been resupplied from the south

AFP
In a new audio message, broadcast on state television, Muammar Gaddafi has vowed to “never abandon” the fight against the rebels and NATO. He has warned that his enemies would be “defeated thanks to the courage of the Libyan people”, AFP reports.

LIBYA TRIPOLI
Please keep up updated about #Gaddafi speech which he’s holding now.

JomanaCNN jomana karadsheh
walked for a bit around #Tripoli ’s old city- more shops shuttered compared to my last visit in May. Not sure if its because its sat? #Libya

Soliman Albrassi
I believe all libyans will follow Benghazi in deciding when Rmadan start? #Libya #17feb

LIBYA TRIPOLI
What on earth left for #Gaddafi to say? Probably the same old story. We Hate You #Gaddafi, We Want #libya to Be Free

Khaled Benshaban (#Gaddafi expelled diplomat) has left the #UK today, destination is #libya to join his Master

MUST WATCH AND LISTEN:
SHOKABT BENGHAZI
SONGS OF THE LIBYAN REVOLUTION:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5F0ehMu6Q4&fea...

N Mustafa
Ramadan Kareem.Our prayers are with the fighters in #Libya who will undoubtedly continue with their mission to free our country from Gadafi

“when everything changes, change everything” ISLAM ONLINE
NATO bombs Libyan TV to stop Gaddafi propaganda
Libyan NTC forms committee to probe commander’s killing
Islamonline.net – News Agencies
The Libyan National Transitional Council has formed an “investigative committee” to probe the assassination of the head of their armed forces and two of his aides after a special forces officer and opposition minister said fellow rebels killed them.
Abdel Fattah Younes and his aides were shot dead and their bodies reportedly burned by gunmen on Thursday, raising questions about divided allegiances within the opposition.
The NTC oil minister Ali Tarhouni said that a rebel militia leader who had been asked to fetch Younes from the front line near the town of Brega had been arrested and had confessed that his subordinates carried out the killing. “The NTC has appointed an investigative committee and we will publish all the facts of this investigation,” Tarhouni was cited as saying.
“The head of the militia is imprisoned now,” Tarhouni said, adding that some of the perpetrators were yet to be incarcerated and that their motive remained unclear. “We don’t know who they work for.”
Al Qaeda blamed for Younes’ death
Younes laid to rest
TV still on air despite bombing
Unfreezing fund for Libyan aid
Link to full art.:
www.islamonline.net/cs/ContentServer?pa...=locale%3Den&c=IOLArticle_C&childpagename=IslamOnline/IslamOnlineLayout&p=News&pagename=IslamOnlineWrapper&cid=1278408859487

LA TIMES
In Libya minefields, ill-equipped rebel teams defuse devices
None of the soldiers or volunteers knew how to operate the vehicle, Mohammed says. Finally, he found a farmer who used his knowledge of harvesting machines to figure out how to drive the contraption.

To locate plastic mines, the teams use volunteers who rely on their hands, eyes and nerves. Col. Agouri, an engineer trained by the army to clear mines, says he and Col. Mohammed have provided rudimentary training to volunteers.

The Brazilian-made T-AB-1 mines don’t look particularly sinister. They are smooth and round, with a toy-like appearance that attracts children. But they can kill a child or adult, and can easily shear off a leg or hand. They are banned by the 1997 treaty.

After mines are cleared, signs are placed to warn civilians. For illiterates, photos of mines are posted.

Barassi, who retired after 39 years as a police officer, says he couldn’t sleep after he heard of civilians maimed by the mines. He drove 150 miles from his home to the mine team headquarters in Ajdabiya to volunteer.

“I can’t be a police officer anymore, but I can still help save lives,” he says. “It means a lot to me to be able to serve my people.”
David Zuchhino
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/...

Reuters
UPDATE 4-Libyan TV still on air despite NATO bombing
By Missy Ryan and David Brunnstrom
(Reuters) – NATO said on Saturday it had bombed three satellite dishes in Tripoli to stop “terror broadcasts” by Muammar Gaddafi, but Libyan state TV remained on air and condemned what it said was the targeting of journalists.
NATO has been bombing Libyan targets since March, when it intervened under a U.N. mandate to protect civilians from Gaddafi’s forces as he fights a revolt against his 41-year rule.
In a video statement titled “NATO silences Gaddafi’s terror broadcasts”, NATO official Colonel Roland Lavoie said NATO had disabled the ground-based satellites in a precision airstrike.
Libyan state television continued to broadcast, however, and the Libyan Broadcasting Corporation issued a statement saying three employees were killed and 15 wounded in the strike.
Read more:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/30/liby...

FreeLibyan
Please see how #FF struggling to dismantle #Brazilian #Belgium #Chinase #Landmines. youtube.com/watch?v=H3yz_B… via @youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3yz_B6vkjM&fea...

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Brega: Unconfirmed: #Freedomfighters have entered industrial district, next is #Bisher. #Libya #Feb17

Unconfirmed via FB Breaking : #FF in control of the industrial city of #Brega right now.

Libya Free Forever.
#Gadafi live now on #state Tv #GadafiCrimes #Libya

#Gadafi #Tarhunah women crawl &crawl, #Gadafi101fordummies

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
I can not describe how ready Tripoli ’s FFs are … It will be EPIC #Feb17 #Libya

Anaya
Longuet French Def M: “We say to #Gaddafi we will not relax our pressure, and we say to his opponents that we will not abandon them” #Libya

septimius
Slowly but surely normality is returning to #Nalut, #Nafusa (Families celebrating latest triumphs) م youtube.com/watch?v=wFrg-G… #Libya #Feb17
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFrg-Gipgz4&fea...

hominoid
Libya Rubbish left behind after the retreat in the Tuesday market area of zliten youtube.com/watch?v=xnL9cB…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnL9cBPRb_w&fea...

Libya Zliten Fierce fighting in Azdoa 3km east of the centre 32°28’12"N 14°35’0"E

Nafusa home-made rocket launcher.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJZ_PLTRuw&fea...

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Looks like good news from Brega … #Feb17 #Libya

wheelertweets James Wheeler
#Libya: Abd Alkareem Salem Alziany with his daughter Nateer visiting a Tunis hospital on July 21. He’s the FF who found twitpic.com/5yf2gq

Sarah LFFR
I love Ramadan .. But this one will be EPIC inshAllah :) Ramadan of Freedom inshAllah ! Ramadan Kareem ! #Ramadan2011 #Libya

The National
By Tracey Shelton

Libyan rebels said yesterday the death of their chief military commander has only strengthened their resolve, as mystery continued to shroud the murder.
Gen Abdel Fattah Younis was killed on Thursday en route from his command post on the front line near Brega to the rebel capital Benghazi.
He was killed only hours after an announcement that he had been detained for questioning by his own forces on suspicion that his family still had ties to Col Muammar Qaddafi. “We have lost a major leader in Libya and it is a big loss to all of the fighters,” Misurata’s military spokesperson Ibrahim Beatelmal said.
Full art.:
feb17.info/news/the-death-of-general-yo...

FromJoanne Joanne
#NTC officially announced that on Monday, #August 1 is the first day of the holy month of #Ramadan It also happens to be my #Birthday #Libya

hominoid
Libya Mass retreat of G troops from the Tuesday Market area with FFs in chase.

Souffian Tripoli
I think that #NTC should start going over to “elevator pitch” when They communicate via the Media. #Libya ( shine, short & sharp) 2the point

Haitham
Its really sad to see FIFA still uses Gaddafi’s green flag as the Libyan flag !!!! Fifa its red , black , green , and a star with a crescent

Anaya
Le Conseil National de Transition a annoncé le début du #Ramadan pour lundi, dans toute la #Libye

Tasbeeh
Former Libyan Ambassador to the US Ali Aujali will be speaking in a Town Hall forum @ the Chinese Cultual Center in Irvine today @ 7:30

Mimi
The purpose of an army is to protect and defend its Nation pop, that’s why I call G goons “militia” since long. Please, do the same. #Libya

LPC
Fathi Alagha, one of Saif’s right hand men was seen in Tunisia yesterday.

hominoid
AJA: 14 Rebel fighters killed in action today in Misrata

Arab Charter of Rights and Freedoms
The Charter was produced by the amalgamation of the following three documents:
UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
US Bill of Rights
This or a similar Charter of Rights and Freedoms should be put to national referendum BEFORE a Constitution is drawn up for the state. The authors of the Constitution will be bound to the Articles of

this Charter.
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms deals with fundamental human rights of the Person, while a Constitution deals with the structure and composition of the State.
Comments leading to the improvement of this document or otherwise are welcome.

Article 1. Guarantee of Rights and Freedoms – This Arab Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms, as noted herein, of all Arabs, citizens, and residents of Arab states equally.
Article 2. Fundamental Freedoms – Every person has the following inalienable fundamental freedoms:
(a) Freedom of speech;
(b) Freedom of and from religion;
© Freedom of conscience, thought, belief, and opinion;
(d) Freedom of expression, criticism, communication, and mass publishing;
(e) Freedom of the press;
(f) Freedom of and from association;
(g) Freedom of peaceful assembly; and
(h) Freedom to privately practice and observe one’s religion alone or in community with others, or to change one’s religion or belief.
Written by Mohseni
Read more:
arabcharter.wordpress.com

Zlitniya
Fantastic reports of #FF advances on #Zliten front v @ZlitenFree Inshallah #Zliten and all #Libya will b free soon :)

nonye
hi. I have been reading all ur tweets abt #libya and we in #Nigeria feel happy abt u. And keep it up. May God bless U

Feb 17 voices
AJA: Rebels advanced west into #Zliten, captured unspecified material and 10 soldiers (6 said to be mercenaries), then withdrew. #Libya

Oya
Breakng: clashes between #FF and #G forces next to #Zliten bridge so close to the city center #Libya

inglesi Piers Scholfield
Audioboo: Is all as it seems in Tripoli? @m_madi on @bbcnewshour audioboo.fm/boos/426148-is… #feb17 #Libya
audioboo.fm/boos/426148-is-all-as-it-se...

Joanne
Ok Back to #Brega… The good news is that FF are inside the industrial area and are said to even have full control now ! #Libya

Syrian Sunny Boy
I only need to imagine that Bashar #Assad locked in same cell with #Gadafi and listening to him, then I know that there’s justice on earth!

Tunesia live.net
France is preparing to send a medical aid mission to Benghazi
The French government announced that they will send a team to Benghazi to assess the medical needs there, and that comes after the visit of the Health Minister in the transitienal counsel Naji Barakat to Paris recently where he met high french offecials to discuss the health situation in the areas controled by the rebals, the french mission is supposed to stay in Benghazi until the 3rd of August.
The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated “ the first goal of this mission will be meeting the medical needs of Benghazi hospital where many of foreign doctors have left the country”

France also works on providing the medical equipment of Benghazi hospital. Plus it helps in running the hospital since last March, when the French air strikes stopped the pro-qadhafi troops from entering

Benghazi. France have already sent huminitarian and medical missions to help the hospital and the citizens, and the new mission is supposed to study the situation on the ground to send extra medical supplies and to expand the coopration between the two sides.

The statement also says “ the French experts will also discuss the identification of key pathways of coopration with Libya in the health section”
Source: Libya.tv
www.tunisia-live.net/2011/07/30/5590

wheelertweets James Wheeler
A cardiology resident from Tripoli is going to #Kikla to volunteer @ the hospital. Leaving Tunis to help meet the need. Proud of him. #libya

Hospitals n Tataouine & #Libya’s #Nafusa Mtns need surgeons much mor than medical specialists. But visiting surgeons dont stay long. Problem

Some docs stay long enuf overall but skip from town 2 town like tourists. Surgeons esp need to stay awhile at the same place

#Libya: Abd Alkareem Salem Alziany with his daughter Nateer visiting a Tunis hospital on July 21. He’s the FF who found twitpic.com/5yf2gq

.the elderly Khalifa in his Kikla shelter & helped carry him 6 kms to the hospital, after #Gaddafi mercs had shot him 3×..

.on July 7. Abd Alkareem’s father, Kalifa’a neighbor, was killed the same day. He found Kalifa when he went to ask him about

..his father’s whereabouts. #Gaddafi forces refused to give back his father Salem’s body unless he surrendered himself.

Ayman: 23 yr old FF from Sabratah #Libya injured in training accident at Zintan on June 28. Photo on July 28 in Tunis. t.co/hvVPxVw
Doctors didnt think Ayman would live. But he did, and he’s been getting better all month, tho still in bad shape. #feb17

Under those bedsheets, Ayman’s torso is wounded terribly. His face is unharmed but not shown for his family’s safety.
Do you see the rag doll ends of Ayman’s legs? If that sight doesn’t move people to action, I don’t know what will.
Tunisia is going all out to patch up wounded FFs from #Libya. But look at Ayman. He needs more than patchwork.

Emo
We hoped Egypt’d participate in the Nato mission in #Libya. They turned to be the biggest friend of Gaddafi. #Nilesat is my proof.

USA today
U.N. to consider unfreezing fund for Libyan aid
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. committee monitoring sanctions against Libya will consider requests from Moammar Gadhafi’s government and the rebel government in Benghazi to unfreeze funds to pay for medicine and other urgent humanitarian needs for the Libyan people, the committee chairman said Friday.

Portugal’s U.N. Ambassador Jose Filipe Moraes Cabral said the rival governments have sent letters, which have been circulated to the 15 council nations, seeking funds so they can buy humanitarian items.
He told reporters there appears to be a consensus among the council members that this was a legitimate exception to the sanctions regime.
“Everyone is concerned,” Moraes Cabral said. “But obviously to unfreeze the assets we must have concrete requests from both sides.”
He said as soon as these proposals are received they will be expedited as quickly as possible.
Moraes Cabral said that if there is “an agreement in principle of both sides” for the use of frozen funds to meet the humanitarian needs of the Libyan people “without any discrimination and through a totally transparent process … it would obviously, I believe, help the committee in approving quickly the concrete requests that we may receive.”
Full art.:
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-07-30-...

The Weekly Standard
With the Sabratha Brigade in Libya
REUTERS / Chris Helgren
Colonel Bashir sits on a mat in the shade of a concrete block building, part of a group cutting out small white circles from copy paper. The men, who are half his forty-something years and wearing a mixture of American sportswear (Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, and Lacoste shirts) and dun-colored camouflage, glue the little circles onto paper spray-painted with big black circles. These are targets. Bashir, a compact, self-contained former colonel in Muammar Qaddafi’s army, is giving sniper training to Urwah Company of the Sabratha Brigade here at their base, a sun-baked Jafara Valley gravel company donated by its owner.
Colonel Bashir made a daring escape into Tunisia and back into free Libya at the Dehiba crossing in June to join this group. He now goes back and forth through free-Libyan held areas regularly. This valley lies below the 1,800-foot-high tablelands known as the Western Mountains, about 50 miles from the most important town in the area, Gharyan, still held by Qaddafi’s forces. We are at the eastern terminus of free Libyan territory here, about 60 miles from Dehiba.
Read more here:
www.weeklystandard.com/articles/sabrath...

Miami Herald
Libya and Syria offering US no easy answers
By BRADLEY KLAPPER
AP
WASHINGTON — Five months after President Barack Obama told him to leave Libya, Moammar Gadhafi is pressing on against NATO-backed rebel forces, flaunting his remaining power in the face of Western nations fearful of combatting him with greater force. And four months after Obama offered Syria’s leader an ultimatum to lead reform or leave, Bashar Assad’s crackdown on dissent rages on.
Through intervention or engagement, the U.S. is stuck with inconclusive results in both countries. And while American officials are loath to compare the civil war in Libya to the civil unrest in Syria, they say neither conflict makes for easy solutions. The unclear endgame in each is constraining the actions of everyone involved – including the United States.
More here:
www.miamiherald.com/2011/07/30/2337894_...=twtuser

Kristen
Talked to Teri today. She says “It’s kind of weird being bombed by your own country.”

ProudLibyan
We reflect on his death, learn from it, &it looks like lessons have been learned, now we have 2 concentrate on our unfinished job, Gaddafi!

Libyan
It’s extremely important for all militias stationed in #Benghazi (about 47 of them) to all fall under the same umbrella of command, ie #NLA
It’s dangerous to let these armed militias have semi-autonomous status.
#Jalil (Head of NTC) was 100% justified to say they must all join National Liberation Army or be dealt with according to law. #Libya

ACCOUNT HACKED:
Account hacked by pro-Gaddafi thugs: @ freelibyanews

Sarah LFFR
Source sûr : Les révolutionnaires ont avancé dans #Brega et ont libéré des familles. #Libye #17Feb

Confirmed source : #FreedomFighters advanced in #Brega today and have liberated families.

Des Grant
BREAKING :Zliten, Gadaffi forces have moved en-mass to west and north west , heavy fighting . Could be a retreat.

The Dictator
#Misrata: f fighters have advanced quite far into #Zliten, it’s not certain yet whether they’ll retreat or carry on to liberate whole city.

A Free Libyan
Reports FFs managed to defeat the G troops in #Jalu today. #Libya #Feb17

RRowleyTucson Robert Rowley
#Zliten: #Freedomfighters have taken Zliten bridge 7km from city center. 14 Freedomfighter dead, #Gaddafi trash: over 100 dead. #Libya

Abdul
#FFs flag in #Takut after liberation two days ago taken by my cam #Gadaffi #17Feb #libya #benghazi yfrog.com/kjo8ywj

The Dictator
#Misrata: f. fighters have attacked G forces in Zliten to counter their aggressive offensive yesterday and this morning in Thulatha Market.

#Misrata: f fighters have taken over a school in Zliten used as a base and arms storage centre by G forces. #Libya #Feb17

Soknia
FFs take 3rd housing complex in Brega

LIBYA TRIPOLI
List of #Gaddafi old friends who helped him in his coup against King Idris in 1969.
#Libya twitpic.com/5ygbdd via @twitpic

Telegraph
Libya: ‘The only sure way to finish this Nato campaign is to arm the opposition’
By Richard Dannatt
Gen Abdel Fattah Younes’s murder in Benghazi on Thursday sums up the ambiguity of the conflict in Libya: he had defected from the Gaddafi regime to the National Transitional Council but strong suspicions lingered that he had not cut all his links with Tripoli.
With a foot in both camps, his body finished up in a grave — maybe, it emerged on Saturday, courtesy of an Islamist group.

Libyans chant and fire weapons at the funeral of Gen Abdel Fattah Younes on Friday (AP)
Four months into the Nato-led intervention, it is entirely legitimate to ask whether Gen Younes’s fate symbolises the track that Libya is following. If so, how did it all come to this? And where do we go from here?
So our government reacted. UN Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973 were passed in New York and a Nato operation — initially under the reluctant leadership of the United States — began, with the limited aim of protecting the Libyan people.
However, limited aims invariably have limited outcomes, especially when there are only limited means available to deliver the ambition.

So our government reacted. UN Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973 were passed in New York and a Nato operation — initially under the reluctant leadership of the United States — began, with the limited aim of protecting the Libyan people.
However, limited aims invariably have limited outcomes, especially when there are only limited means available to deliver the ambition.

Read more:
feb17.info/news/libya-the-only-sure-way...

Joanne
#MISRATA #ZLITEN GREAT BATTLE started at 11am @ Souq Thalatha lasting 5 hrs VICTORY for FF but at great cost 14 Martyrs 69 Injured #Libya

FromJoanne Joanne
I hear reports that ppl in #Tripoli are going 2 abide to the official Ramadan #aug1day and not the mickeymouse 1 of gaddafi tomorrow

ProudLibyan
A friend from Benghazi has reassured me things R fine,the city is much safer,the TNC is more organized & security is much better & improving

Joanne
#Misrata and #Zliten FF and #NATO too fought for Souq #Thalatha and WON Gaddafi Forces left in panic dropping LOADS of weapons !

ProudLibyan
Remember this thing is our goal! goo.gl/KF3fi #Libya

A Free Libyan
Wefaq Libya – 14 named dead. 69 injured. Also notes info on progress, see their FB page for full details (written in Arabic).#Libya

#Zliten AJA report today- FF r not in full control of city but have reinforced their position INSIDE city.plan2advance2 #khums then

Nadia
Tripoli is a virtual prision. What is the point in arresting and punishing the only people you can get your hands on? Cowards. #Libya

Head of operation commander of the “17 February” brigade #Ismail _Salaby ; on Libya Alahrar TV : " #Brega will be ours in 4 days",

Sarah LFFR
Power still on since de morning.. :) I hope it will continue .. #Benghazi #Libya

Mwattin
My father personally knows Mr Nakua, new NTC ambassador to the UK, he says he is a very honourable and honest man; a great appointment.

CNN
CNN’s Michael Holmes reports from Libya on the rebels’ fight to win any battle in any town they can.
Libyan Rebels fight to win any battle: Takut
edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/201...

guess what
Seems all parties in #Libya at least agree on start of Ramadan

Woman tells crimes Gaddafi t.co/IxhKlRh via @youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1RTsCdRKz8&fea...

Enes
#Benghazi #Libya #Feb17 @BBCBreaking shame this never got any mention the way #Gaddafi’s did. youtube.com/watch?v=mGyrSE…
or;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGyrSE_7Ok8&fea...

plemochoe
Reuters quotes Omar Mukhtar, age 20 in their story. I guess that explains the FF victory!!

#libya The Associated Press has a new Libya story in USA Today, and as usual it is full of lies and bullshit.

#libya Just for shits and giggles, let’s deconstruct the AP’s latest offering, “No easy answers for U.S. involvement in Libya, Syria”.

First, it’s an unsigned piece of reporting. Next, it says that GADDAFI is “pressing on” 5 mo. after OBAMA told him to leave.

Pardon me, but Gaddafi is hanging on, not pressing on. And US involvement ENDED apart minimal cooperation with the NATO effort

The US is said to be “stuck” with “inconclusive results” in Libya. Yes, it would have been nice to win quicker.

But we are “stuck” with being on the right side – obviously – and we are sticking with it, so it’s not quite a defeat, is it, AP?

Then AP gets to the real point, the use of the “Q” word: “Libya’s war has become a quagmire.” A quagmire in the desert?

How is the Revolution a quagmire? Gaddafi has used every dirty trick in the book and has been pushed back at every turn.

The Libyan Revolution after 5 months is CHEAP, HOME-GROWN and SUCCESSFUL. Debate that, you AP liars.

The NATO intervention has been somewhat costly but as a field exercise it is valuable to the Western powers.

Anyway the AP-USA Today article doesn’t criticize NATO. It allows uninformed Americans to imagine fantasies.

The idea is to get Americans to grumble from their couches, “The US should get out of Libya!” But the US cannot do that…

..for the simple reason that the US is not “in” Libya to begin with.

The AP invariably goes for these canned “metaphor” stories, implying that if the Revolution was really popular it would be over

instead of noting the way in which Gaddafi uses $150 billion to fight off untrained citizens who offer their lives 4 freedom

“Metaphor” story? “(Younis’) death raised the specter of a troubling split within rebel forces…” VERY metaphorical

But of course that “specter” was dispelled within hours as it became obvious that the TNC was still in control

And then there are the out-and-out lies: “The government’s grip on Tripoli seems secure.” Oh, of course.

Certainly, Associated Press, there have been no reports of fighting in Tripoli!! Only every night.

And of course the legendary Rixos journalists are allowed to roam Tripoli to verify the “government’s grip” on it. Loooool

The rest of this serious article had to do with a harebrained comparison between Libya and Syria.

The Associated Press are motivated liars. What their connection with Gaddafi is, I don’t know, but they are pro-Gaddafi, period.

Of course, part of the problem could be that they simply re-cook other reportage spiced up with “metaphors”

And another part of it could be that USA Today is a newspaper for people who like color pictures – so whatever AP puts up is OK

libya I gave the title of the lying AP article but I never link to AP or Reuters.

Telegraph This editorial is completely contradicted by facts on the ground. The FF have advanced on all fronts

The New Yorker article about Younis is typical New Yorker – a piece of armchair gossip, out of date before published

The Telegraph editorial argues that Western recognition of the TNC = partition. Ridiculous.

#libya I respectfully submit that someone who doesn’t recognize the abbreviation “FF” re Libya has some reading to do

**************************************** ALShahed FB:
within the past hour, G forces have launched 7 rockets in an attack on Misrata.

Sarah
#Zliten update 30 July

#zliten FF advancing from Misrata entered Zliten.captured cars&GF;.14martyrs&83injured;. AJA report www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv2SrK-ZII8&sns=tw

#Zliten AJA report today- FF r not in full control of city but have reinforced their position INSIDE city.plan2advance2 #khums in the next few days, then #Tripoli

#Zliten :FF advanced from more than1position.FF passed AthfeerMsq in Ezdu &SuqAlThalath;centre.Fierce fighting.Many GF fled&killed;#Zliten :in advances today FF captured tanks,cars,rocket launchers &military;personnel vehicles

#Zliten :some reports that FF are 5km from Zliten centre

#Zliten :morale of inhabitants is high and they r ready to merge with FF advancing from #Misrata

#Zliten :continuous #NATO shelling of Al Jum’a over past 2days.many GF killed &several;families fled.

Zliten NATO hits 3mil fac,1C&Cnode;,1armoured fighting vehicle,5armed vehicles,1fire control radar,1ammunition storage facility

#Zliten :LibyaAlahrarTV report that #Gaddafi militia r retreating from city centre&established;new positions in Ghweelat.they hv human shields

MyFreeLibya
Video: Interviewing Mustafa Abduljaleel..important points about future of #Libya without Gaddafi and NTC’s… tumblr.com/xuy3sucac4

Sabha17
Almanara blogspot
almanaramedia.blogspot.com/2011/07/blog...

WalkerSkyNews:
Gaddafi’s dep foreign minister says towns of al gazzaya and hawamid are not under rebel control #Libya
Khalid kaim says rebels gained control of #nafusa towns for a matter of hours #Libya

The Dictator
Heard about 7 loud, consecutive thuds around an hour ago, and now NATO jets in the air. Most aggressive in a while apparently.

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
#Epiclibyanman bearing gifts : ) #Feb17 #Libya yfrog.com/kfr74haj

We trust the organic anarchy of the Internet. The press is gonna love that one. Last words of a dying establishment.

#Libyan State TV says Ramadan will start in #Libya on Monday 1st August.

Tripoli residents hearing stories of khamis soldiers attacking civilians, and raping women. “It’s so painful to live in Tripoli” one said.

Where is NIZ?
Tripolitano
I got worrying news of more abductions in last few days and tracking of sat phones. I hope they r safe.

PATRIOTS OF MISRATA
#Libya Loud explosions heard in some areas in #Misaratah caused #Gaddafi’s forces have launched rockets in an attack on #Misratah

Gihan
#Libya Loud explosions heard in some areas in #Misaratah caused #Gaddafi’s forces have launched rockets in an attack on #Misratah

jamal tripoli
30/07/11 FF in Misrata captured 40 G mercenaries during a failed G forces attack on Sooq Al Thlat.FF chased em out all the way into zliten

wheelertweets James Wheeler
@
@wheelertweets Its high time to make medical visas & treatment abroad for injured #Libyans an international priority, especially the EU & US

The UN, US, UK, EU & TNC have done nothing tangible about medical visas, prosthetics or complex surgery for injured #Libyans.

The Dictator
#Misrata: shelling in residential area earlier resulted in 2 deaths and 5 injuries as well as damage to properties.

Libyans Revolt
Unconfmd:Reports that #Zlitan centre completely controlled by #FF and government forces retreated to its Western borders near ’Ka’am’ #feb17

Mary :)
Missiles rained down on rebel heads Brigades tyrant in Brega youtube.com/watch?v=HeJXvX… via @youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeJXvXE2xWU&fea...

LIBYA TRIPOLI
Watch two #USA citizens (Most probably paid) on a fact finding (peaceful) mission to #Libya youtube.com/watch?v=pPUve5…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPUve5qZOSI&fea...

Naive, just stupid or simple-minded?
They must have been paid handsomely if they aren’t any of the above……….

Enas Er
Urgent #Jalo: #ABOBAKERYUNIS is trying to kill his city his people #JALO by sending 300 car2kill them

this just happend today few houre ago in #Jalo

Jalo’s citezens r very creative&have been ready for this moment for so long each time #katayeb come
They dug a trench around the city of #Jalo,

Jalo:as they filled the firetrucks with gasoline to sprayed the #Gaddafibattalions and they couldn’t get in
all that news confirmed #Jalo

Jalo: this time #FF’sJalo could prevent #Gaddafi’s forces 2 let in but we need more attention

according to what I’ve got from there,AbobakerYouns from time 2 time sent elkateb to tahgm 3la Jalo,the last one fewhrs ago

MUST READ:
OP-ED NEWS
Thanks to Ultimate Sacrifices, Pop Culture-Media Scene Springs to Life in Libya
By Tawfik Mansurey
The media scene in Benghazi, Eastern and parts of Western Libya has flourished since the beginning of the revolution with now, in Benghazi alone, nearly 200 independent newspapers circulating, while many radio and TV stations are on the airwaves. The music realm has also seen a flow of talent from rappers, rock to heavy metal bands. Poets and public speakers are once again rediscovering their voices.
There is a sense of poetic justice to it; after decades of suppressed feelings and thoughts through the mechanism of fear in Gadhafi’s police state, the people are back on stage once more and expressing their pop culture after 42 long years of captivity behind the walls of tyranny and idiocy.
I now nostalgically recall my time with the 17th of February Media Centre. The centre was the first media centre to spring to life during the revolution and respond to the unimaginable events which took place on February 17th 2011 in Libya; the centre played a major role and overcome all the odds to help save the Eastern part of Libya from the seething wrath and revenge of one of the most atrocious regimes of the modern era.
How couldn’t the Media Centre succeed with men like Mohamed Nabbous, Kais Al-hilali and Rami al Kaleh, who paid the ultimate price and sacrificed their lives so that their peoples’ message would reach the international community.
I don’t think I’ll ever forget the 21st of February, which was the day after Gadhafi’s Compound (al-Fadeel Army Base) in Benghazi and Benina airport had been taken over by the people through their sheer determination and will to either live with dignity or die.
In fact, all the cities and villages in the East had rid themselves of Gadhafi’s brigades and his hired foreign mercenaries in a matter of just four days. Four days of bloodshed where hundreds of protestors were gunned down in cold blood and thousands of others were seriously injured.
Benghazi was in a state of shock at the enormity of what had taken place and how the psychotic Gadhafi would retaliate. I recall trying to figure out how I could help, as I knew the revolution must continue as Gadhafi would return with a vengeance and many people would be subjected to his torture and sadism — death would be a blessing.
I walked downtown to Omer ben Allas St and found people with slips of card-boarded paper with informative slogans from taking care of public property to keeping the city clean. I met a friend of mine, Essam al-Faitouri, in the middle of the street with his two young kids holding a sign informing people that public property in Benghazi now belonged to the people and it was our duty to protect it.
I walked around town not sure what to think. I had no idea who was in charge or if anybody was in charge at all. One thing I knew for sure was that we could not surrender.
Later that evening, I went to the main courthouse which is now known as Freedom Square, and I found many people protesting there. It was electrifying, people were expressing themselves publicly in the streets after a 42 year crackdown on freedom of speech.

However, there was an underlying sense of fear and tension as people followed the news and tried to find out what Gadhafi’s next move would be. Stories of mass killings, rape and torture by Gadhafi’s brigades and foreign mercenaries were rife and everyone was anxious and fearful.

By a stroke of luck, I found a student of mine — my job prior to the revolution was also acting as the director of International House Benghazi, an English language school. As I stood and chatted with my student in front of the burned out building of Gadhafi’s internal security, he informed me of the establishment of the 17th of February Media Centre upstairs.
I was taken upstairs. Although all the walls in the room were black and charred, the centre was buzzing with life and activity. Many of the people were familiar faces and I let out a sigh of relief that there was some sort of organization to all this chaos and madness.
The second floor of the internal security building had about 10 rooms. As I walked up the stairs, to my left was a square shaped corridor which lead to a room where people were writing anti-Gadhafi slogans on placards, while others were drawing mainly caricature pictures of Gadhafi and his sons.
Further to the left of the square-shaped corridor was a room covered by a makeshift curtain. Inside was a rectangular table full of young men working tirelessly into the night on computers, whose main job was to take videos from the people and put them online so that the world could see the sheer brutality and excessive use of force used by the regime to quell and silence the peaceful protestors. Further inside were three other rooms which had been turned into studios where young rappers and rock bands were busy singing their new tunes.
On the right of the stairs, there was a long corridor with many offices that were also full of people working through the late hours of the night, from journalists and radio announcers to administrative staff who ran the whole operation.
What an irony that the burned out building of Gadhafi’s internal security – which previously was the Supreme Court building — was to be the podium where the truth of Gadhafi’s crimes against humanity would be transmitted for all the world to see.
The Media Centre soon became a hub for foreign correspondents — as it had internet access, journalists could also find out the latest news, receive previously prepared CD’s documenting the atrocities committed, even hook up with translators and drivers to arrange any trips to the front lines.
It didn’t take my friends long to take advantage of my English skills and soon I found a new job writing humorous placards with anti-Gadhafi slogans and political statements to be used by protestors.
Each passing day something new would come up. My job evolved and soon I was testing would-be translators and then arranging for them to work with the many national correspondents from all the major media sources from Aljazeera, BBC, CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times and many more. At the same time, we were all following the news concerning the revolution in Libya.
One correspondent from the BBC clearly described it as a roller-coaster ride of events. That was exactly the way people felt during those difficult times. One minute your spirits were up and the next you were paralysed with fear and horror over what would happen if Gadhafi’s reign of terror were to
return.
We all grew up together in those first critical weeks of the revolution. We also developed a bond of

brotherhood in the shadows of that burned out building and accomplished the impossible by focusing the world’s attention on the plight of the Libyan people.
The 17th of February Media Centre has now been moved to the building just behind the main courthouse, but that spirit of giving that it began with is still present there today. Through the voluntary work of the men and women of Libya it continues to be a beacon of light in the valley of darkness.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those men and women who have participated in the success of the 17th of February Media Centre in presenting the true picture of the Libyan people to the world.
We pray for the souls of our dear friends and colleagues Mohamed Nabbous, Kais al-Hilali, and Rami al-Kaleh who, through their selfless efforts and sacrifice, lead their people to the road of freedom and dignity — Rest in Peace.

************************************* “I’ll go anywhere as long as it’s forward.” – David Livingstone


SUMMARY JULY 31st 2011

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Trying to gather the facts, just receiving reports of activity there. Will update with facts as soon we get the full story. #Benghazi

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Via Shabab:
Libya rebels fight rumours about general’s death

BENGHAZI, Libya — Libyan rebels sought to stamp out rumours by providing details on the assassination of army chief General Abdel Fatah Yunis while tightening security in their eastern stronghold of Benghazi.
National Transitional Council Chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil said on Saturday that Yunis had been summoned from the front by a committee of four judges with the knowledge of the NTC’s executive committee, the rebels’ de facto government.
“The recall of General Fatah Yunis from Ajdabiya was based on a warrant that was issued with the knowledge of the executive committee” of the NTC, he told reporters.
“I don’t know why this arrest (warrant) was issued and we don’t know who was present at the meeting when the decision was made… or on what basis the decision was made,” he added.
Jalil last Thursday announced that Yunis had been killed by an armed group after being summoned to answer questions over military matters.
Yunis was a linchpin of Colonel Moamer Kadhafi’s regime before defecting to rebels fighting to oust the strongman since February.
Benghazi has since become a whirlpool of rumours and reports on the motives behind the general’s assassination and on the identity of those responsible for his arrest.
Jalil said Yunis died from shots fired at the chest and head and that his body had been only partially

burned enabling his positive identification.

He ordered all brigades — or katibas — operating in the city of Benghazi to disband and come under the fold of the interior ministry to boost security and unity in the rebel stronghold.
Military spokesman Colonel Ahmed Omar Bani said that the judges who summoned Yunis for questioning did not have the authority do so and that the minister of defence had written a letter recalling the arrest warrant.
He refused to identify suspects arrested in connection with the assassination on the basis that they are innocent until proven guilty.
“When the full truth is known it will be put to the people and the whole world,” he said, adding that in the meantime he “will cut the road to those trying to start up rumours among the revolutionaries.”
Mahmud Shammam, who handles media for the rebels, slammed foreign and local journalists over their coverage of the general’s assassination, saying that “irresponsible news” was being published.
Bani said there was a security breach in Benghazi on Thursday in reference to a prison break for which he blamed members of a “fifth column”, zealous defenders and informants of Kadhafi’s regime. Some of the escapees remain at large.
In Zuwaytina, the Union of Revolutionary Forces late Saturday dismissed reports that Yunis was a traitor killed by his own people for providing strategic military information to Kadhafi’s regime.
“Anybody can say anything but all this big talk needs proof. The chief of staff was always with us from the beginning,” said Fawzi Bukatif, spokesman of the Union of Revolutionary Forces and head of the February 17 brigade.
The Union of Revolutionary Forces, which was formed on July 13, provides a unified command structure for fighters from volunteer brigades, who now fall under the authority of the rebels’ ministry of defence.
He condemned the general’s assassination as a “cowardly act” and said that Yunis’s arrest and assassination took place without the knowledge nor consent of the Union of Revolutionary Forces.
“We have no relation with the arrest of Yunis or everything that happened… whatever happened was not by our orders,” he said, adding that brigades not affiliated with the Union of Revolutionary Forces arrested Yunis.
Bukatif said that the Obeida Ibn al-Jarah brigade, which an NTC member mentioned earlier as a potential culprit, was not part of the rebel body and no longer fighting on the front, which lies near the strategic oil hub Brega.
He added that Mustafa Rubaa — who belongs to the Union of Revolutionary Forces “as an individual” but not as part of a brigade — was detained for his role in the arrest of Yunis.
The villa of the assassinated general in Benghazi was surrounded by checkpoints and no traffic was allowed on the coastal city’s main highway before dawn Sunday as AFP received unconfirmed reports of clashes.
South of Benghazi, rebels reported an attack by pro-Kadhafi forces on the southern oasis town of Jalo but said that it had been successfully repelled.

Kadhafi’s regime meanwhile accused NATO of killing three journalists in an air strike on state television on Saturday and said that the murder of the rebels’ army chief proved Al-Qaeda was

instigating the country’s armed revolt.
Deputy foreign minister Khaled Kaaim said early Sunday the Kadhafi regime was in contact with members of the NTC.
“There are contacts with Mahmud Jibril (number two in the NTC), and (Ali) Essawy (in charge of external relations), (religious leader Ali) Sallabi and others,” Kaaim told a news conference in the capital.
The deputy minister denied rumours about recent contacts between the regime and Yunis.
BENGHAZI, Libya — Libyan rebels sought to stamp out rumours by providing details on the assassination of army chief General Abdel Fatah Yunis while tightening security in their eastern stronghold of Benghazi.
National Transitional Council Chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil said on Saturday that Yunis had been summoned from the front by a committee of four judges with the knowledge of the NTC’s executive committee, the rebels’ de facto government.
“The recall of General Fatah Yunis from Ajdabiya was based on a warrant that was issued with the knowledge of the executive committee” of the NTC, he told reporters.
“I don’t know why this arrest (warrant) was issued and we don’t know who was present at the meeting when the decision was made… or on what basis the decision was made,” he added.
Jalil last Thursday announced that Yunis had been killed by an armed group after being summoned to answer questions over military matters.
Yunis was a linchpin of Colonel Moamer Kadhafi’s regime before defecting to rebels fighting to oust the strongman since February.
Benghazi has since become a whirlpool of rumours and reports on the motives behind the general’s assassination and on the identity of those responsible for his arrest.
Jalil said Yunis died from shots fired at the chest and head and that his body had been only partially burned enabling his positive identification.
He ordered all brigades — or katibas — operating in the city of Benghazi to disband and come under the fold of the interior ministry to boost security and unity in the rebel stronghold.
Military spokesman Colonel Ahmed Omar Bani said that the judges who summoned Yunis for questioning did not have the authority do so and that the minister of defence had written a letter recalling the arrest warrant.
He refused to identify suspects arrested in connection with the assassination on the basis that they are innocent until proven guilty.
“When the full truth is known it will be put to the people and the whole world,” he said, adding that in the meantime he “will cut the road to those trying to start up rumours among the revolutionaries.”
Mahmud Shammam, who handles media for the rebels, slammed foreign and local journalists over their

coverage of the general’s assassination, saying that “irresponsible news” was being published.
Bani said there was a security breach in Benghazi on Thursday in reference to a prison break for which he blamed members of a “fifth column”, zealous defenders and informants of Kadhafi’s regime. Some of the escapees remain at large.

In Zuwaytina, the Union of Revolutionary Forces late Saturday dismissed reports that Yunis was a traitor killed by his own people for providing strategic military information to Kadhafi’s regime.
“Anybody can say anything but all this big talk needs proof. The chief of staff was always with us from the beginning,” said Fawzi Bukatif, spokesman of the Union of Revolutionary Forces and head of the February 17 brigade.
The Union of Revolutionary Forces, which was formed on July 13, provides a unified command structure for fighters from volunteer brigades, who now fall under the authority of the rebels’ ministry of defence.
He condemned the general’s assassination as a “cowardly act” and said that Yunis’s arrest and assassination took place without the knowledge nor consent of the Union of Revolutionary Forces.
“We have no relation with the arrest of Yunis or everything that happened… whatever happened was not by our orders,” he said, adding that brigades not affiliated with the Union of Revolutionary Forces arrested Yunis.
Bukatif said that the Obeida Ibn al-Jarah brigade, which an NTC member mentioned earlier as a potential culprit, was not part of the rebel body and no longer fighting on the front, which lies near the strategic oil hub Brega.
He added that Mustafa Rubaa — who belongs to the Union of Revolutionary Forces “as an individual” but not as part of a brigade — was detained for his role in the arrest of Yunis.
The villa of the assassinated general in Benghazi was surrounded by checkpoints and no traffic was allowed on the coastal city’s main highway before dawn Sunday as AFP received unconfirmed reports of clashes.
South of Benghazi, rebels reported an attack by pro-Kadhafi forces on the southern oasis town of Jalo but said that it had been successfully repelled.
Kadhafi’s regime meanwhile accused NATO of killing three journalists in an air strike on state television on Saturday and said that the murder of the rebels’ army chief proved Al-Qaeda was instigating the country’s armed revolt.
Deputy foreign minister Khaled Kaaim said early Sunday the Kadhafi regime was in contact with members of the NTC.
“There are contacts with Mahmud Jibril (number two in the NTC), and (Ali) Essawy (in charge of external relations), (religious leader Ali) Sallabi and others,” Kaaim told a news conference in the capital.
The deputy minister denied rumours about recent contacts between the regime and Yunis.
Source-Dominique Soguel for AP

LibyanYouthMovement
Reports of activity on Shari3 Trablus (#Tripoli Street) in #Benghazi now next to Ir7aba area. #libya #feb17 #gaddaficrimes

Aforementioned activity lasted only two minutes or so. Things there are now calm with the occasional gun shot fire being heard. #Benghazi

BENGHAZI VIDEO’S:
Video 1
t.co/xQpgk5Y skirmishes earlier this morning in Benghazi between the sa’ika brigade and ‘Nida #Libya’ a group still loyal to gaddafi
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Video 2
t.co/WXjvYfG second video, skirmishes this morning, between Sa’ika brigade and ‘Nida Libya’ #Libya
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Nida Libya were said to be taking orders from Hamza Tarhouni and are still loyal to Gaddafi (5th column) #Libya #Benghazi

Via Libyan Youth Movement
Algerian regime shows itself to be a true friend to Qaddafi

Algeria’s military, which in practice rules the country, is working to blight the “Arab spring” and curb the growth of democracy in the Maghreb. This includes substantial help to Col Muammar Qaddafi in neighbouring Libya.
Algeria’s opposition Socialist Forces Front recently accused the regime of operations meant to destabilise the transitional democratic government in Tunisia, and also of undermining the Libyan resistance.
The United States “is working to ascertain the veracity of these claims about Libya which have only just come to light”, a US State Department official told Reuters on Friday. “If true, this would likely constitute a violation of UN Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973.”
In fact, however, there is already plenty of evidence to substantiate the claim of Algeria’s involvement in defending Col Qaddafi’s regime.

In the last two weeks, Algeria has denied accusations that a Libyan ship offloaded armaments destined for Col Qaddafi’s troops at the Algerian port of Djen Djen, 267 kilometres east of Algiers.
But Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) said the ship, sailing under a Libyan flag, arrived at Djen Djen on July 19 and then the shipment was conveyed across the border into Libya.
Algeria’s support for Col Qaddafi has been thorough and systematic since the Libyan troubles began.
Diplomats from Algiers have worked at the UN, the EU and the Arab League to preclude or limit the internationalisation of the Libyan crisis. Algeria and Syria are the only two Arab countries that opposed the UN’s imposition of a no-fly zone over parts of Libya.
The Algerian authorities contend that the Libyan rebels have close links with Al Qaeda in the Maghreb, and Algeria has neither recognised the NTC nor asked Col Qaddafi to step down. Instead, the Algerian government has endorsed an African Union peace plan that would leave Col Qaddafi and his sons in power.
It should be noted that Abdulhafidh Ghoga, the vice president of Libya’s NTC, has denounced the duplicity of the Algerian regime, which he has accused of backing Col Qaddafi militarily and politically.
The NTC asserted that Chad, Mali, Niger and Kenya were all sending armed forces to support Col Qaddafi and that “there is evidence that the government of Algeria is taking part in this”.
And the Algerian opposition in exile in Europe has alleged that there are Algerian armed forces in Libya. Shamsuddin Abdulmollah, an NTC spokesman, reported that 15 Algerian mercenaries had been captured in western Libya.
There is further corroboration that Algeria has sent proxy forces to help Col Qaddafi. Mario Diaz-Balart, a Republican in the US Congress, has exhorted colleagues to give “serious attention” to evidence that combatants from the Algerian-backed Western Saharan Polisario Front are among the forces fighting for the Libyan regime.
Edward Gabriel, a former US ambassador to Morocco, has said that “hundreds of Polisario mercenaries are being paid $10,000 (Dh36,700) each by Qaddafi” to fight in Libya.
In April the French foreign minister, Alain Juppé, challenged the Algerian regime about its connection to an arsenal that Col Qaddafi’s troops had left on the battlefield, which was discovered by French military advisers to Libya’s rebels.
At times Algerian involvement in Libya has been explicit. When the Algerian parliamentarian Saddek Bouguettaya attended a meeting in Tripoli of Libyan tribes supporting Col Qaddafi on May 8, he described Col Qaddafi’s efforts to remain in power as “valiant and praiseworthy” and condemned Nato for its “bombing of the civilian population”.
Mr Bouguettaya is a member of the central committee of Algeria’s ruling National Liberation Front (FLN) and a loyalist of Abdelaziz Belkhadem, the FLN’s secretary general and the personal representative of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
It should be noted that Mr Belkhadem called the Libyan rebels “agents of foreign powers who receive orders from the West”. In addition, Daho Ould Kablia, Algeria’s interior minister, affirmed on a recent talk show that “future relations with Libya would be strained in case the rebels take over power in Tripoli”.

These declarations all indicate that Mr Bouguettaya was not voicing his own opinion, but was articulating the regime’s open support for Col Qaddafi.
These reckless declarations by high-ranking Algerian officials have agitated Washington. Many US congressmen cannot fathom why Algeria would support Col Qaddafi while Nato has made its intentions to topple the Libyan dictator so clear.
What many observers fail to take into account is that the Algerian government fears an uprising similar to those in Tunisia and Egypt, or what is taking place in Syria and Yemen.
Those in power in Algiers remember the October 1988 riots that threatened the military-backed regime, which has mismanaged the country since independence in 1962.
Col Qaddafi still clings to power despite Nato air strikes, hundreds of casualties, frozen assets and a five-month arms embargo. Rebels now advance toward Tripoli. Perhaps Col Qaddafi’s best exit strategy would be through Algiers.
Dr Abdelkader Cheref is an Algerian assistant professor of comparative literature and cultural studies at the University of Connecticut

Source: The National

The brigade ‘Nida Libya’ pretended to belong to the revolutionaries, but were in fact a pro gaddafi militia,
These loyalists had released 100s of captured gaddafi soldiers from prisons in benghazi taking orders off Gaddafi ‘state’ TV #Libya

The Gaddafi regiment was subdued and arrested, upon entry to their camp the revolutionaries had found cutting edge technology #Libya

The fighting resulted in death of 17 people from the revolutionaries and 27 from Gaddafi’s 5th Column #Libya #Benghazi

Getting early reports on great news from Brega this morning, we will hopefully have a report for you this afternoon #Libya #Brega
1 hour ago

Heavy fighting ongoing in the Zliten area as FF are on the outskirts just 5km from the centre of the town #Libya #Zliten #Misrata

France says it is committed to striking Muammar Gaddafi’s military assets for as long as needed for

him to quit power #Libya #France

France also called on the citizens of Tripoli to rise against him. #Libya #France #Tripoli

French FM: "We say to Gaddafi that we will not ease our pressure and to his opponents that we will not abandon them #Libya #France

“Things have to move more in Tripoli… the population must rise up,” he added. #Libya #France #Tripoli

Press conference begins in Benghazi covering this mornings events #Libya #Benghazi

Building that was attacked by security forces was occupied by armed groups not associated with armed defense or national security #Libya

These armed groups used the turmoil following death of General Younis, attacking prisons and releasing prisoners..#Benghazi

We gave them warnings to submit & disarm, following negations they refused..We then surrounded the place and gave them warnings #Benghazi

We gave them a time frame to submit and a safe passage, they refused..so we engaged them..Exchanges of fire took place..#Benghazi

Upon entering the compound at 8am..we found some of prisoners who escaped from the prisons, they were armed #Benghazi

we had our suspicions about this armed group..we found a large quantity of explosives, that was used in previous car explosions #Benghazi

This armed Militia called themselves Yousf Shakeer Brigade..They were receiving instructions from him..using Gaddafi TV station

we gave plenty of time to disarm & surrender, we sent some of their relatives to them, they refused..their ferocity surprised us #Benghazi

We took looses in this operation, engagement proved that the people we were facing we well trained..25 escapes from prisons #Benghazi

we found 25 escapees from the prisons there, who were from GF in the south..We will continue to defend the Liberated areas #Benghazi

This operation is related to operations In Brega..Our martyrs blood will not go in vain (inshala) #Benghazi

Via Libyan Youth Movement

Libya freedom fighters overrun rogue faction

Four dead and six wounded as main opposition army overruns base of rogue branch, and scrambles to dispel rumours

A battle between Libya’s main opposition and a rogue faction inside the movement’s armed forces has raised fears of infighting caused by the yet unexplained murder of one of its chief commanders.
Libya’s opposition said on Sunday its forces had overrun the base of a pro-regime faction after five hours of fighting near the opposition stronghold Benghazi, according to spokesman Mahmoud Shamam.
Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley, reporting from Benghazi, said the battle was launched to subdue elements of Muammar Gaddafi’s forces that had been operating as a “fifth column” within the opposition ranks.
“According to sources here there is no connection with the attack and the death of Abdel-Fattah Younes,” said Birtley, who added that documents were found on the defeated faction that linked it to Gaddafi.
‘Unity intact’
Shamam said fighting broke out early on Sunday and left four dead and six wounded. The main rebel force is now in control of the al-Nidaa Brigade’s base on the western outskirts of Benghazi, the de facto capital of Libya’s opposition-held east.
“It was a long battle and it took many hours because they were heavily armed,” he said.
“In the end we arrested 31 of them. We lost four people,” said Shamam, who added the group of fighters were rounded up for their role in organising a prison break in Benghazi earlier in the week.
The fighting followed Thursday’s killing of chief rebel commander Younes under mysterious circumstances.
Some reports claimed Sunday’s clashes pointed sharp rifts within the campaign to unseat Gaddafi nearly six months after the start of the uprising.
Al Jazeera’s Birtley disagreed: “I’m not sure there are huge divisions, but there are some cracks. The NTC (opposition National Transitional Council) is taking great steps to suggest their unity is intact and they are seaking with one voice.”
Gaddafi defiant
Meanwhile, the Gaddafi regime said on Sunday it was in contact with members of the opposition

National Transitional Council (NTC).
In the Libyan capital, Tripoli, Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaaim denied rumours of recent contacts with Younes.
“He was in contact with the government during his visit in Italy two months ago. Since then we had no contact with him despite the fact that we still have contact with other members of NTC but not with Abdel Fattah,” Kaaim said.
Gaddafi, meanwhile, on Saturday night renewed his pledge “never to abandon” the battle, in an audio tape on state television despite NATO air strikes earlier that day on the broadcaster’s headquarters in Tripoli.
Libya’s enemies would be “defeated in the face of the resistance and courage of the Libyan people,” he said in a speech following the strikes, which Tripoli said killed three journalists.
France calls on Libyans

Also on Sunday, France said it was committed to striking Gaddafi’s military assets for as long as needed for him to leave power and called on Libyans in Tripoli to rise against him.
“We say to Gaddafi that we will not ease our pressure and to his opponents that we will not abandon them,” French Defence Minister Gerard Longuet was quoted as saying by the newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche.
“Things have to move more in Tripoli … the population must rise up,” he added.
With their bombing campaign dragging on unresolved, France and Britain have been forced to accept that Gaddafi may stay in Libya if he quits power under a ceasefire, despite calls for international justice.
“We are signed up for the duration and are thereby facilitating a negotiated settlement” between Gaddafi’s regime and the opposition forces backed by France and Britain, Longuet said in the interview published on Sunday.
Source Al Jazeera

Zlitniya
As Sheikh Winees said a few weeks back-give #Gaddafi ppl a chance.To limit casualties.however,in fighting be fierce #fair

LibyanYouthMovement
This milita attached the house of General Younis following his death, trying to create divisions in the city..#Benghazi

This militia attacked the house of General Younis following his death, trying to create divisions in the city..#Benghazi

We are interrogating them about the death of General Younis. It is not clear if they had a direct hand in the assassination #Benghazi

Today’s operation by #NTC forces prove that #FreeLibya is up to it!!

We are working into integrating all Brigades under the Liberation army and National security wing #Benghazi

Rukaya
if bloody nilesat actually lived up to it’s word, last nights prison release wouldn’t have happened. Arghhh!

dovenews Libyan™
NTC acts very responsibly & professionally & we are glad to see that. Not like the Ex Mad Dog, where he barks with nonsense whatever he goes

LibyanYouthMovement
This armed militia was a Gaddafi militia, they were not hiding this fact nor denying it. It’s the only brigade related to G so far #Benghazi

It is still not clear how deeply involved they were in the assassination of General Younis. #Benghazi

This armed militia used the aftermath of the assassination to carry out their operations, attacking prisons, and arming prisoners

This militia wanted to destroy the Feb17 revolution, by creating anarchy in the city and other liberated areas #Benghazi

The details of exchanges were aired Live on Gaddafi TV, they knew exactly what was going on, receiving instructions from them

The Militia was formed from remnants of the ‘Lijan Thawria’ working for a couple of months, pretended 2 be part of a certain tribe #Benghazi

As they took refuge behind this Tribe..we couldn’t attack them so we monitored them. This tribe totally denounced this grouping. #Benghazi

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

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LibyaAlHurra
It appears that Revolutionaries used tanks in #Benghazi to surround the 5th column group’s camp and bring them under control. #Libya
The pro-#Gaddafi 5th column group operating in the #Benghazi events of 31 July is called “Nida Libya”. #Libya #Feb17

Zlitniya
#Zliten :reports that #khamis #Gaddafi was in Zliten&fled when FF advanced.his militia followed him leaving behind many weapons! :) #Libya

libyanandproud
Arab Tyrants wish their people a Bloody Ramadan ! #Syria #Hama #Misratta #Benghazi #Nafusa #Libya
Libya United 1944
Something is happening @ Raj Jdeer border crossing between #Tunisia & #Libya ppl being blocked from approaching border from Tunisian side.

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Breaking: NTC press conference: An armed group at a metal factory in Fewihat were responsible for releasing of Pro G prisoners from a military prison in Benghazi taking advantage of the turmoil around assasination of Gen Yunis’.

They were warned to surrender but refused despite many efforts. At 3 am they began firing leading to injury of a number NTC interior ministry forces.

At 8am the factory was successfully secured by NTC forces. Esacpees were found from the military prison who were armed by those who helped them escape.

Investigations ongoing. #Libya #Feb17

NTC Press conference: The Pro G cell discovered is called the Shakeer Brigade and took orders from the Gaddafi TV presenter Shakeer via TV.

NTC Press conference: 35 were captured in today’s operation. Majority were from Gaddafi forces from South of Libya

Breaking: It’s now proven Yusuf Shakeer has been using Gaddafi TV to give instructions to Pro G 5th column in liberated areas

ALJAZEERA:

ZLITAN:
There has been intense fighting in Libya between opposition fighters and Gaddafi forces on the outskirts of Zlitan. At least 13 rebel fighters have been killed, and more than 50 others wounded. It is believed to be one of bloodiest days of fighting in months.

AL-NIDAA- BRIGADE:
The information minister of Libya’s rebel movement says its forces have overrun the base of a rival faction after five hours of fighting. Mahmoud Shamam says the clashes broke out around 3 am on Sunday and left four rebels dead and six wounded.
The main rebel force was now in control of the al-Nidaa Brigade’s base on the western outskirts of Benghazi, the de facto capital of Libya’s rebel-held east. The fighting followed Thursday’s killing of chief rebel commander Abdel-Fattah Younis in yet unexplained circumstances.
The slaying and Sunday’s clashes point to sharp divisions within the rebel movement nearly six months after the start of the uprising against Moammar Gadhafi’s rule. Younis was Gadhafi’s interior minister before defecting to the rebel side.

BENGHAZI:
Four rebels were killed in clashes with a pro-Gaddafi group in the rebel capital of Benghazi overnight, rebel spokesman Mahmud Shamman told AFP on Sunday.
“It was a long battle and it took many hours because they were heavily armed,” he said.
“In the end we arrested 31 of them. We lost four people,” said the spokesman, who added the group were rounded up for their role in organising a prison break in Benghazi earlier in the week

FRANCE:
France says it is committed to striking Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi’s military assets for as long as needed for him to quit power and called on Libyans in Tripoli to rise against him.
We say to Gaddafi that we will not ease our pressure and to his opponents that we will not abandon them," French Defence Minister Gerard Longuet was quoted as saying by the newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche.
“Things have to move more in Tripoli… the population must rise up,” he added

ROGUE FACTION:
A battle between Libya’s main opposition and a rogue faction inside the movement’s armed forces has raised fears of infighting caused by the yet unexplained murder of one of its chief commanders.
Libya’s opposition said on Sunday its forces had overrun the base of a pro-regime faction after five hours of fighting near the opposition stronghold Benghazi, according to spokesman Mahmoud Shamam

Village of JOSH:
Libyan rebels on Sunday took the village of Josh at the foot of the Nafusa mountain range in the west of the country, AFP journalists said.
“We took Josh this morning and are now heading west. Now we’re fighting to take Tiji further down the valley,” Juma Brahim, head of the rebel fighters’ operational command in the Nafusa region, told AFP.
The AFP team could hear heavy gunfire but was unable to report on the number of casualties, but they saw six ambulances pass with sirens wailing.

libyanandproud
Freedom Fighters in #Zintan , #Nafusa , #Misratta , #Zliten and #Brega are about to give #Gaddafi a special Ramadan Greeting ! #Feb17 #Libya

LINK TO LIBYA TV:
www.libya.tv

dovenews Libyan™
Press conference in Benghazi covering this mornings events

We were watching Gaddafi sleeper cells in Bengahzi, we have found a group of Gaddafi sleeper cells, we gave them 5 hrs to surrender

They refused & started firing, with no choice we had to engage & it was fierce fight which show clearly these trained Gaddafi forces

We have found weapons & some Gaddafi prisons. This is the same group responsible for firing on Younis house to create division among #FF

We have lost 3 #FF & 8 were injured in this raid

This operation is related to operations In #Brega. Our martyrs blood will not go in vain (en sha #Allah) #Benghazi

dovenews Libyan™
Egypt can shut Gaddafi TVs down. NILESAT is part of the crime & they should be held responsible for broadcasting Gaddafi’s killing orders
How #THICK does one has to be to follow Gaddafis orders????? I guess no brain at all

LA TIMES:
Ramadan brings back bitter memories for many Libyans
For some it was the moment the revolution began: in 1984, when Kadafi, in an extraordinary display of brutality, held 11 public executions during the Muslim holy month

By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Benghazi, Libya—
Each year, when the holy month of Ramadan arrives, Ibrahim Shwehdi is gripped by ineffable sadness. A month of reflection and mercy is, for him, an occasion of grief and loss.

It was during Ramadan in 1984, just before Libyans sat down at sunset to break the daily fast, that Shwehdi’s brother Sadiq Hamed Shwehdi was hanged before a crowd at a Benghazi basketball arena.

The execution was televised live, and people across eastern Libya watched in horror as thousands in the arena cheered.

It was unthinkable for a Muslim leader, even one as repressive as Moammar Kadafi, to stage a public execution during Ramadan, a month of prayer, charity and fasting. Yet Kadafi ordered 11 public executions of dissidents around the country during Ramadan.

As this year’s Ramadan arrives, Libyans who have rebelled against Kadafi are still outraged by those executions 27 years ago. With Kadafi’s security forces driven from eastern Libya in February, this is the first Ramadan in 41 years that Shwehdi, 62, and others here will spend free from Kadafi’s autocratic rule.
As this year’s Ramadan arrives, Libyans who have rebelled against Kadafi are still outraged by those executions 27 years ago. With Kadafi’s security forces driven from eastern Libya in February, this is the first Ramadan in 41 years that Shwehdi, 62, and others here will spend free from Kadafi’s autocratic rule.

Yet there is no rejoicing in Shwehdi’s cramped third-floor walk-up apartment, where he has set up a small shrine to the martyred brother who had taken up arms against Kadafi’s regime all those years ago.

“All Libyans despise Kadafi, but no one despises him like our family; he has ruined us,” Shwehdi said in lightly accented English.
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Bob Dane
#Gaddafi is looking to hire NY public-relations rep to scrub his homicidal image…the Arab tyrant hasn’t found any takers. – NYPost #Libya

James Miller;
The Gadhafi regime said on Sunday it was in contact with members of the rebel National Transitional Council as the rebels tried to quash rumours about the mysterious death of their army chief”
This is Gaddafi propaganda meant to sow disunity and mistrust of the NTC.
You can bet no one is in contact with Gaddafi except perhaps to ask where he would like his ashes thrown away.
There is no “serious rivalry in the NLA or NTC,,
The al-Nidaa Brigade was discovered to be a turncoat brigade. – a pro Gaddafi mole brigade – they discovered much equipment they had been using for sabotage there , they found pro-Gaddafi prisoners who had been released and had fount them with weapons.
This is a major success for the FF.
This is not “rivalry”. This is good news – -the end of a sleeper cell or brigade that has caused much

damage in Benghazi for months – now Benghazi will be unified.
In you face Gaddafi and Gaddafi propagandists- All NLA is one force about to wipe you out of existence. .

France Defence Minister:
France’s defence minister vowed on Saturday to keep up its aerial bombardment of Muammar Gaddafi’s troops in Libya as it readies to withdraw the conflict’s only aircraft carrier for maintenance.
Defence Minister Gerard Longuet said France would move its Rafale fighter jets to NATO’s Sicily base from its aircraft carrier in Corsica, giving it closer access to Tripoli.
France said in June it would withdraw its Charles de Gaulle carrier, which has been at sea for 18 months, for maintenance in the autumn.
“We are displaying our capacity to endure,” Longuet told Le Journal du Dimanche in comments to be published in Sunday’s newspaper. “We are telling Gaddafi that we will not let up on our pressure and to his opponents that we will not abandon them.”
Without giving a timeframe for the conflict, Longuet said military constraints should not impede diplomacy, and there was no future for Libya with Gaddafi.
“We have two priorities in mind — to organize the continued aerial operation and to economise the resources used,” he said.

libyanandproud
#Bashar and #Gaddafi worst nightmares are the 30 Friday Prayers Equivalents : Taraweeh prayers every night in Ramadan . #Feb17

JAVIER
returning from second day of fighting around #Tiji lots of Grads 2 death in the opposition forces until 12:30 pm #Nafusa #Libya
Gaddafi forces shelling Qabao, 1 Grad started a big fire in a field many were falling around we had to go back #Tiji #Nafusa #Libya

1 home-made weapon used today in the battle in #Tiji it’s called BMP head of a real BMP in a pick-up truck yfrog.com/kl5szquj

Opposition forces very near #Tiji may be less than 10 km fighting around a construction site used as

military position by G army

this could be the final push to clear the last Gaddafi forces around #Nafusa General offensive against

#Tiji #Badr and #Jawsh #LIBYA

short video rockets being fire by opposition forces against G forces in #Tiji #Nafusa #Libya twitvid.com/ZAZ4E
or:
www.twitvid.com/ZAZ4E

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Video: Clashes between TNC forces and Pro G column called “Libya calling” in Alrehba area inbenghazi is.gd/8iEsbW #Feb17 #Libya
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDsCwj8XQy4

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
NTC press conf: 60 prisoner were already recaptured the day before the factory operation. Only a few escapees on the run left #Feb17 #Libya

NTC press conf: There has been good progress in Brega. Expect some good news soon #Feb17 #Libya

Tripoli: Around 450 students were killed in the Military Police college in Salah AlDeen by Abdallah Senusi orders earlier in #Feb17 #Libya

Tripoli: 2 months ago 20 protesters were freed from Salah AlDeen detention location. The remaining 180 protesters were killed #Feb17

Confirmed: 55,000 to 60,000 prisoners in Tripoli including 200 women #Feb17 #Libya

TNC security forces have done a fantastic job over past 2 days in discovering & apprehending this large Pro G cell in Benghazi

Juma Alwerfali of the Yusef Shakeer Pro G 5th column cell arrested near AlHeta restaurant in the Eastern area of Libya as he was trying to escape to Egypt with a suitcase full of money

Ghezaya, Takuit, Rawyis, Hawamed already liberated & today Jawsh controlled by FFs with G forces in Badr & Tiji surrounded #Feb17

Nafusa: In today’s operations 2 martyrs from Rehibat, 2 from Jadu & 2 from Tripoli. RIP #Feb17 #Libya

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
From every Libyan to our brothers in Syria – we’re with you and we feel your pain. May God protect you. #RamadanMassacre #Syria #Libya RT

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Misrata story: FFs heard the sound of heavy fire one night at G forces positions. FFs were surprised as there was no attack by the FFs. The next day following an offensive they captured a G soldier and asked him about the firing the night before. The soldier said they heard Takbeer so loud so they started firing randomly out of sheer fear. The FFs were not even there. Allahu Akbar #Feb17 #Libya

dovenews Libyan™
Gaddafis rumors in #Tripoli: Dont talk abut Gaddafi while ur phone is on standBy, G thugs can listn 2 u, switchOFF & take battry out. HaHa
Gaddafis rumors in #Tripoli: Dont watch Libya.tv, Aljazeera or AlArabiya because Gaddafi thugs can find out & arrest u. #Ha ha ha ha ha ha
2morrow is #Ramadan so #RamadanKaream to every one Muslims & non Muslims! #Libya #Ramadan

BREAKING: RAS EJDEER: A group of G supporters attckd the Tunisian side of the border crossing & destroyed some equipment

#FF hv advanced towards #Tiji & they hv reached the German company construction site despite Gaddafi forces continuous grad missile attck

ShababLibya LibyanYouthMovement
We found some foreigners from Morocco, Mali and Algeria amongst them..and POW that escaped from attacks on the prisons. #Benghazi

This militia was armed with rifles, hand grenades, large quantity of explosives & other equipment. #Benghazi

Free Libya Now
Free #Libya Ministry of Interior, consolidated all armed brigades operating in #Benghazi under 1 banner. Gadafi allies discovered eliminated

NEW YORK POST:
Khadafy looking to hire a NY PR rep to clean up image

What’s a mad dictator surrounded by rebels to do? Put out a press release, of course.
Libyan strongman Moammar Khadafy is looking to hire a New York public-relations rep to scrub his homicidal image, asking for help to counter the fallout of a civil war that threatens to topple his brutal regime.
The loopy leader wants a flack to head daily press briefings and spread the good word on the tyrant’s “moral” and “legal” claims to power — all while rebel forces battle to end Khadafy’s 42 years of terror.
This according to a pitch letter an official in Tripoli e-mailed to New York and London agencies this month.

Ali Darwish of the Libyan Ministry of Information asked prospective reps to “present our just and fair case to the world” and claim the moral high ground.
“We have good moral, political and legal logic supporting our position as the legitimate, sovereign and popular government of Libya. We also have proofs sic in written, audio and video forms to take our case forward.”
But in the tradition of Khadafy’s wacky truth-twisting, Darwish claims NATO attacks, which began in March in response to the regime slaughtering protesters, resulted from bad spin.
“Libya has been under an unjustified media and p.r. attack which led to NATO’s military involvement,” says the e-mail.
The teetering government seeks to move quickly but without being exposed for mounting the campaign.
“We can formalise any deal with your organisation through a third party to help move things forward fast,” said the missive, using British English spelling.
The request is legit, according to an official with the Libyan Mission on East 48th Street, who said the e-mail came from a central government group in Tripoli called the Peoples Media Center.
“The government is trying to have the support of people outside the country,” said Dia Abubaker Alhutmany.

Darwish responded with a request for more information by sending The Post a list of pro-Khadafy links.
So far, the Arab tyrant hasn’t found any takers.
“I highly doubt any p.r. firm will positively respond to this request,” said Ronn Torossian of 5WPR, who called the pitch “very unorthodox.”

Click to see pic.:
Source:
www.nypost.com/p/news/international/sym...

SMILE:
Question
If a girl from Iceland and a guy from Cuba have a kid, will the kid be an icecube?

( only funny if you’re bored, I know)

Free Libya Now
Libyan National Army advances towards Zlitin center, stationed 9 km east of bridge on the coastal highway connecting Tripoli to Misurata.

Abeidi
Libya,#Benghazi,very significant number of 5th column has killed in Benghazi however still some of them@large their real nameالطابور الخامج

BBC:
the BBC are looking for British Libyans travelling to Nafusa Mountains during Ramadan as part of a documentary they’re making.
Any volunteers?
Plz contact BBC.

Germany says orders expulsion of Libyan (Gaddafi) diplomat

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s foreign ministry said on Sunday it had, after consulting German security officials, ordered the expulsion of a senior Libyan diplomat because of his allegiance to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The foreign ministry confirmed a report in the German news magazine Focus that it had declared Hisham al-Sharif ‘persona non grata’ and ordered him and his family to leave Germany.
Focus said that Gaddafi’s government had designated Sharif as its charge d’affaires in Berlin on July 22.
On Wednesday Britain expelled the entire staff of Libya’s London embassy and asked Libyan rebels to provide representatives in London.
Source Reuters

sabha17feb ثوار 17 فبراير سبها
Werffalla ant Sabha again… why??? fb.me/1cZx62NrN

Misuratayouth
Celebrating rallys in Benghazi after captureing and defeating the hidden cells of Qaddafi

Guardian:
Misrata rebel forces seize arms after routing pro-Gaddafi troops
Chris Stephen

While Libyan factions in Benghazi clash over control of army bases in the city, opposition forces further west have broken through government lines at Misrata, routing pro-Gaddafi units and seizing tanks, heavy artillery and rocket launchers.
Fierce fighting outside the besieged city that began with a government offensive on Saturday ended in what rebel commanders say was a rout, as opposition fighters advanced nine miles.

The collapse of government units was so complete that the rebels came upon a treasure trove of heavy artillery, tanks, armoured vehicles and small arms at an abandoned school complex outside the nearby town of Zlitan.

Rebel spokesman Mahmoud Shammam told reporters in the opposition capital that the clashes broke out when rebel forces attacked a militia that had helped around 300 Gaddafi loyalists break out of jail on Friday. Rebel forces surrounded the barracks in which the militia, which calls itself the Nida Brigade, had sheltered.
At least six rebels were killed in the clashes, he said, which involved rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns.

In Misrata, rebels arriving at the abandoned arsenal found the keys still in the ignitions of trucks holding grad multiple-barrelled rocket launchers, enabling them to hook them to the heavy guns and drive them back across the lines.
“They just left these behind, they left grad trucks, they left some cars, they left weapons,” said Abdullah Maiteed, of the rebel Arise Brigade, stationed on the main Tripoli-Misrata highway. “We nailed them.”
Four of the huge 155mm guns, the largest battlefield artillery weapon in use among most armies, were seen by the Guardian driving back from the frontline late on Saturday night. Each was towed by multiple-barrelled grad rocket launcher, the cabs of the tan-coloured trucks still bearing the graffiti of the Gaddafi forces.

Full art.:
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/31/mi...

Grafixel
the trolls eating each other RT @ mathaba2: Attention #Libya @ GloPeaceLibya are unintelligent spy account attempting to get users info. Don’t pass any info to anyone ever on Twitter.

Sharon
Zintan sorted out accommodations, permit to pass rebel checkpoints to front line, driver/translator, etc. Ramadan begins tomorrow.

somaia
Zliten: GF hiding weapons & manpower in homes,mosques&buildings used 4 education.many educational establishments bombed by #NATO

dhdfisher Daniel Fisher BBC
Why have i been got up at past midnight for a Rixos press conference?

quote of the night was “freedom of speech and democracy are not for us”

Free Libya Now
#Breaking: #Gadafi spokesman Yousef Shakir identifies the brigades attacked in #Benghazi today by #Free Libyan Army as part of Gadafi allies
#Breaking: Yousef Shakir #Gadafi spokesman identifies captured Brigade leaders as loyal to #Gadafi, brigade is suspected to have killed AFY

The Disbanding of an Armed Military Group, Loyal to Gaddafi (الإجهاز على تشكيل مسلح موالي للقذافي ببنغازي )
by FreedomGroup, News in English on Sunday, July 31, 2011 at 8:42am
Clashes between a group of freedom fighters with support from commandos/special forces, and a group known as “The Call” (النداء), on Sunday. Three were killed and were wounded from the Free National Army. Five were wounded from the “The Call” group which included members of Gaddafi’s revolutionary committee (اللجان الثوري ) which is located in the area of Al-Rhaba (الرحبة ) and 24 of them were captured.

A security source told New Quryna during a telephone call – that this group may have been involved in the assignation in the Major General Abdel Fattah Younes, confirming that this group had previously been causing a lot of trouble in Benghazi.

The source explained that this group had assassinated Colonel Omar Al-Warfali ( عمر الورفل ) front of his home, tried to poison the water supply, and was responsible for the bombings that had occurred in the city, previously. In addition, they had threatened a number of officials.

The source added that the group had tried to create discord and had thrown a bomb during the funeral wake for Major General Abdel-Fattah, near his home. They were also involved in the smuggling (sic) of prisoners in the city, early Thursday morning.

According to the source, the security authorities in Benghazi, had been watching the group, “The Call”, because suspcious had fallen on them that they had been communicating with Gaddafi supporters. He confirmed that once the suspicions were proven, they were surrounded by a Brigade of freedom fighters at 2 a.m. They were asked to surrender and were given an hour and half to do so.

The source said that after the deadline expired, no member of the group surrendered. They then opened fire on them. The freedom fighters had received orders to attack them and clashes continued for 5 hours.

He confirmed that 7 from “The Call” group – who were approximately 100 in number – surrendered. When the camp was raided, they found a number of mercenaries who have been smuggled from the prison last Thursday. They also found communications equipment and money in foreign currency, which is the (U.S) dollar.

Translation of الإجهاز على تشكيل مسلح موالي للقذافي ببنغازي qurynanew.com/?p=5833
Source:
www.facebook.com/note.php?created&&note...

Free Libya Now
UK to continue to support Libyan bombing campaign for “as long as is required” to enforce UN resolutions. Via #AJE

TNC, despite Gadafi propaganda is full throttle towards liberating Libya from #Gadafi tyranny, uniting Libyans under 1 banner for Free Libya

TIMES OF OMAN
AFP
Tripoli must rise against Kadhafi: French minister

Tripoli: France said Sunday it is committed to striking Libyan ruler Moamer Kadhafi’s military assets for as long as needed for him to quit power and called on Libyans in Tripoli to rise against him.

“We say to Kadhafi that we will not ease our pressure and to his opponents that we will not abandon them,” French Defence Minister Gerard Longuet was quoted as saying by the newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche.

“Things have to move more in Tripoli… the population must rise up,” he added.
With their bombing campaign dragging on unresolved, France and Britain have been forced to accept that Kadhafi may stay in Libya if he quits power under a ceasefire, despite calls for international justice.

“We are signed up for the duration and are thereby facilitating a negotiated settlement” between Kadhafi’s regime and the rebels backed by France and Britain, Longuet said in the interview published Sunday.

France last week was the first to openly suggest Kadhafi could stay under a negotiated settlement. Britain denied the joint position was a climb-down after it had repeatedly called for him to quit the country.

“France and Britain are not alone” in the NATO-coordinated campaign, “but it is true France would like its European Union partners — Spain, Germany, Poland and northern European nations — to get more involved alongside it,” Longuet said.

“The more of us there are showing that nothing can happen with Kadhafi in power, the more we will manage to isolate him totally, and the quicker this war will end.”
Source:
www.timesofoman.com/innercat.asp?detail...

HodaAbdelHamid Hoda Abdel-Hamid
seems that opp. fighters got closer to #Zliten today. at eastern gate. still confirming.

SMILE:
I am Nobody. Nobody is Perfect. Therefore, I am Perfect.

hominoid555 russell renshaw
Libya T72 tanks firing near industrial area Brega youtube.com/watch?v=8Byz5j… via @youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Byz5jNbi-s&fea...

Tanks in video may well have been SO-152

LIBYA_BREAKNEWS أسامة
BREAKING NEWS: FFs have full control of #Brega! عاجل تمت السيطره بالكامل على مدينة البريقه الله أكبر

G SPIES AND PROPAGANDISTS:
Gaddafi spy & propaganda on Facebook PLZ check ur “common friends” walls & inform clean ones only. tinyurl.com/3wqhqo5 Libya Feb17 or:
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1000023...

Hominoid
Libya Misrata Wefaq Libya Extremely violent clashes at the Western Front line and the number of injuries is increasing plus a continuous bombardment from these cowards who can’t afford a direct confrontation with the Freedom Fighters

ALJAZEERA:
Opposition forces in Libya continue to fight government troops on several fronts, after a fresh offensive in the country’s west.

Intense fighting has been reported from the villages of Bada, al-Josh, Tiji and on the outskirts of Zlitan.

Dead and injured fighters from Zlitan are being taken to a hospital in Misrata, where nurses work around the clock to try and save as many lives as possible.
Video:
Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel Hamid reports from Misrata, western Libya.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmwnst2BN2E&fea...

Hominoid
LONDON (Reuters) – British Defence Secretary Liam Fox said his country would participate in the military campaign against Libya as long as necessary to implement the UN resolution aimed at protecting civilians.

He told BBC Radio (my. Me. CNN) broadcast on Sunday, "there is only one message should be send to the system (Libya), which we have the military capability and resolve to follow up and implementation of UN Resolution No. 1973 as long as there is a need for it. "

The UK and other countries in the NATO bombing of the Libyan army and government targets since March, when NATO’s intervention under a UN mandate to protect civilians from the forces

BREAKING NEWS: Heavy fighting between FFs and Gaddafi around the main army camp in Tiji. تدور الآن اشتباكات بين… fb.me/t4we9jzq
Source:
www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=194303&i...

Nalut Feb17 Media Committee
Five wounded, four from Tripoli city and one from Al kalaa city. and one martyr from Nalut city.

hominoid
“very fluid situation” as far as the fighting near Zliten is concerned
killed in fighting near Zliten at 14, with more than 20 wounded, citing hospital sources.

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Video: Jawsh liberated today 31st July 2011.
Sign reads: Tiji up ahead. #libya #feb17 goo.gl/jp8wo
or:
www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1015...

Omar Hariri:
death of AF Yunes really painful he was my friend but we will not stop the fighting Gaddafi want to divided us #Nafusa #Libya

javier
surprising encounter today: 1 guy who claim to be Tripoli sniper like Juba in Iraq he claim to have killed 9 G followers

he has an special sniper rifle and used to be a pharmacist who practices shooting as sport before the revolution

he arrived in #Nafusa 1 week ago “in Tripoli I used to shoot with a muffler” I don’t know if it’s true but this is his statement

Hominoid
Qaddafi regime says it is in contact with Libya rebels, same old bullcrap

Misurata: 15 martyrs in the battles of Tuesday market, the rebels break into a camp of al-Gaddafi

Misrata Zliten Some familes have been freed today from the Tuesday Market area, dispute a heavy contra attack by G troops

baysontheroad JAMES BAYS
Battle raging in valley. Opp have taken Al Jawsh,but Gaddafi side now bombarding it.

Al Jawsh appears to be in hands of opp fighters. From top of mountin, I saw it being shelled by Gaddafi forces

#LIBYA Just been to frontline near Tiji. Town effectively surrounded. Opp fighters approaching from several directions.

#LIBYA several opp fighters dead. In Cabao hospital, four injured. But no overall figures.

Audio report from earlier finally being sent. Pls treat as a snapshot from a few hours ago.

Audioboo: Frustration boo.fm/b426582

Audioboo: Battle raging boo.fm/b426639

ChangeInLibya Mhalwes
Last day before Ramadan, and inshallah the last day for Gaddafi forces in Tiji, Brega and Zliten. #libya #feb17 #ameen

4everLibya
Ongoing heavy battle in #Tiji betwn FFs and proG. #libya #Feb17

Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Good progress reported in Tiji #Feb17 #Libya Allahu Akbar..
List of Gaddafi informers & goons in Ajelat in AlZeramqa area is.gd/Vm8SMr #Feb17 #Libya
www.17022011libya.com/vb/showthread.php...

People of Syria, Free Libyans and #Feb17 are with you always. Your revolution is bulletproof … Allahu Akbar #Hama #Deraa

NAME:
Thanku4theAnger THANKU4THEANGER
Breakng: Man overseeing Gaddafi ’s electronic warfare is Khaled Bazilia who lives in Hay Andalus near AlArusy Mosque in Tripoli

yfrog.com/h3s7mgxj
or:
www.tweetdeck.com/twitter/Thanku4theAng...